Isaiah 41:8

— And thou, O Israel, My servant, Jacob, whom I have chosen, Seed of Abraham, My lover,

Young's Literal Translation

In The King James Version

But thou, Israel, art my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham my friend.

In Context

7And strengthen doth an artisan the refiner, A smoother [with] a hammer, Him who is beating [on] an anvil, Saying, 'For joining it [is] good,' And he strengtheneth it with nails, it is not moved!

9Whom I have taken hold of, from the ends of the earth, And from its near places I have called thee, And I say to thee, My servant Thou [art], I have chosen thee, and not rejected thee.

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Cross References

Leviticus 25:42'For they [are] My servants, whom I have brought out from the land of Egypt: they are not sold [with] the sale of a servant;

Deuteronomy 10:15only in thy fathers hath Jehovah delighted — to love them, and He doth fix on their seed after them — on you, out of all the peoples as [at] this day;

1 Chronicles 16:13O seed of Israel, His servant, O sons of Jacob, His chosen ones!

Psalms 33:12O the happiness of the nation whose God [is] Jehovah, Of the people He did choose, For an inheritance to Him.

Psalms 105:42For He hath remembered His holy word, With Abraham His servant,

Psalms 136:21And He gave their land for inheritance, For to the age [is] His kindness.

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 41:2-10

Idolatry Exposed. ( b. c. 708.) 1 Keep silence before me, O islands; and let the people renew their strength: let them come near; then let them speak: let us come near together to judgment. 2 Who raised up the righteous man from the east, called him to his foot, gave the nations before him, and made him rule over kings? he gave them as the dust to his sword, and as driven stubble to his bow. 3 He pursued them, and passed safely; even by the way that he had not gone with his feet. 4 Who hath wrought and done it,… Read the whole commentary →

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