Isaiah 43:15
in Isaiah 43I am the LORD, your Holy One, the Creator of Israel, and your King.”
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ASV
I am Jehovah, your Holy One, the Creator of Israel, your King.
KJV
I am the Lord, your Holy One, the creator of Israel, your King.
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This verse in Isaiah 43
Commentary
10 notes on this verseA commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
I am the Lord - I am Yahweh - proved to be such, as the connection demands that we should interpret this, by sending to Babylon and bringing down your oppressors. This interposition in destroying Babylon would be a demonstration that he was Yahweh, the only true God, and their God. The Creator of Israel - (See the note at Isa 43:1). Your King - Ruling over you, and showing the right to do it by delivering you from your foes.
This site's exposition
For your sake, I will send to Babylon
on Isaiah 43:14-15
For your sake, I will send to Babylon turns the trial toward judgment on Israel's captor. Verse 15 sets four titles on one subject, I am the LORD, your Holy One, the Creator of Israel, and your King. The verse binds the covenant name to creation and to royal rule.
This site's exposition
the Creator of Israel, and your King
Barnes ties these titles to the fall of Babylon in verse 14. The overthrow of Israel's captors would prove that the LORD alone is God, and their God. He shows his right to rule as Israel's King by delivering his people from their enemies.
The record, by era
The Church Fathers1 voice
[Isaiah] predicts the defeat of the Babylonians and the enslavement of the Chaldeans. They will suffer these misfortunes because of you, he says, since they were unwilling to recognize that their victory depended on my good will and that you were made prisoners because I …
The Medieval Church2 voices
Thus says the Lord. Here he sets out the sign of his love, that he destroyed for them the Babylonians, who gloried in their ships because of the multitude of their waters: I sent, namely, my wrath: the Lord has both purposed, and done all …
"I have brought down all the runaways and the Chaldeans," that is, "For your sake I will send you to Babylon" and will make the Medes rise, in order to deliver you from captivity. And when the Babylonians fly from you in every manner, through …
The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices
), their Holy One, and therefore will make good every word he has spoken to them. He is the Creator of Israel, that made them a people out of nothing (for that is creation), nay, worse than nothing; and he is their King, that owns them as his people and presides among them.
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I am the Lord, your Holy One,.... And therefore need not doubt of the performance of those promises: the Creator of Israel, your King; and therefore both able and willing to protect them.
2 more voices on this verse
The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
A method taken to prepare the people for their deliverance, by putting them in mind of their sins, by which they had provoked God to send them into captivity and continue them there, that they might repent and seek to God for pardoning mercy,
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
The Creator - For בורא bore, “Creator,” six MSS. (two ancient) have אלהי Elohey, “God.”
How the passage was read
What the Jewish commentators add
On the verses either side of this one
Because of you, I sent [you] to Babylon Jonathan paraphrases: Because of your sins I exiled you to Babylon.
This section is reception history: how the passage was read and kept in the Jewish tradition. Where a reading parts from an essential of the Christian faith, the section says so at that point.
Texts and citation data: Sefaria; each excerpt follows its version’s licence. 5 further sources are cited on this chapter that carry no English text this site may quote or only restate the verse.
The words behind it
6 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| אֲנִ֥י | ʾani | I | H589 → | 874 times |
| יְהוָ֖ה | yahweh | [am] Yahweh | H3068 → | 6520 times |
| קְדֽוֹשְׁכֶ֑ם | kedoshekhem | holy [one] your | H6918 → | 116 times |
| בּוֹרֵ֥א | bore' | [the] creator of | H1254 → | 55 times |
| יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל | yisrael | Israel | H3478 → | 2507 times |
| מַלְכְּכֶֽם׃ ס | malkekhem | king your | H4428 → | 2525 times |
אֲנִ֥יI
ʾaniH589 →874 times
יְהוָ֖ה[am] Yahweh
yahwehH3068 →6520 times
קְדֽוֹשְׁכֶ֑םholy [one] your
kedoshekhemH6918 →116 times
בּוֹרֵ֥א[the] creator of
bore'H1254 →55 times
יִשְׂרָאֵ֖לIsrael
yisraelH3478 →2507 times
מַלְכְּכֶֽם׃ סking your
malkekhemH4428 →2525 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Isaiah 48:17Thus says the LORD your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: “I am the LORD your God, who teaches you for your benefit, who directs you in the way you should go.
it leads to
- Psalms 32:8
I will instruct you and teach you the way you should go; I will give you counsel and watch over you.
- Psalms 25:12
Who is the man who fears the LORD? He will instruct him in the path chosen for him.
- Job 22:21–22
Reconcile now and be at peace with Him; thereby good will come to you.
- Deuteronomy 8:17–18
You might say in your heart, “The power and strength of my hands have made this wealth for me.”
- Isaiah 30:20
The Lord will give you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, but your Teacher will no longer hide Himself—with your own eyes you will see Him.
- Psalms 32:8
Through
Isaiah 43:1Now this is what the LORD says— He who created you, O Jacob, and He who formed you, O Israel: “Do not fear, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by your…
it leads to
- Psalms 100:3
Know that the LORD is God. It is He who made us, and we are His; we are His people, and the sheep of His pasture.
- Isaiah 43:7
everyone called by My name and created for My glory, whom I have indeed formed and made.”
- Zechariah 13:9
This third I will bring through the fire; I will refine them like silver and test them like gold. They will call on My name, and I will answer them. I will say, ‘They…
- Psalms 100:3
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This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Albert Barnes, Notes on the Book of Isaiah; Franz Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Prophecies of Isaiah; Ishodad of Merv, COMMENTARY ON ISAIAH 43:14; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible; Theodoret of Cyrus, COMMENTARY ON ISAIAH 13:43.14 and Thomas Aquinas, Commentary on Isaiah.