Isaiah 63:16 BSB — MannaFest

Isaiah 63:16

Yet You are our Father, though Abraham does not know us and Israel does not acknowledge us. You, O LORD, are our Father; our Redeemer from Everlasting is Your name.

BSB

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ASV

For thou art our Father, though Abraham knoweth us not, and Israel doth not acknowledge us: thou, O Jehovah, art our Father; our Redeemer from everlasting is thy name.

KJV

Doubtless thou art our father, though Abraham be ignorant of us, and Israel acknowledge us not: thou, O Lord, art our father, our redeemer; thy name is from everlasting.

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Commentary

3 voices

Jerome

Commentary on Isaiah (420)

(Verse 16) For you are our Father, though Abraham does not know us, and Israel does not acknowledge us. You, O Lord, are our Father, our Redeemer from of old is your name. LXX: For you are our Father, because Abraham does not know us, and Israel does not acknowledge us. But you, Lord our Father, free us: from the beginning your name is upon us. For you are our father, the creator of all, says he.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

Abraham - He who was our father after the flesh, though he be dead, and so ignorant of our condition. Redeemer - This is urged as another argument for pity; because their Father was their Redeemer. From everlasting - Thou hast been our Redeemer of old.

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

Our Redeemer; thy name is from everlasting “O deliver us for the sake of thy name” - The present text reads, as our translation has rendered it, “Our Redeemer, thy name is from everlasting.” But instead of מעולם meolam, from everlasting, an ancient MS. has למען lemaan, for the sake of, which gives a much better sense.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

4:12); now at last they renounce this, to trust in God alone as their Father, notwithstanding all appearances to the contrary. Even though Abraham, our earthly father, on whom we have prided ourselves, disown us, Thou wilt not (Isa 49:15; Isaac is not mentioned, because not all his posterity was admitted to the covenant, whereas all Jacob's was;

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Original language & word study

16 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
כִּֽי־	ki-	for	H3588 →
אַתָּ֣ה	'a.Tah	you	H859 →
אָבִ֔ינוּ	'a.Vi.nu	[are] father our	H1 →
כִּ֤י	ki	for	H3588 →
אַבְרָהָם֙	'av.ra.Ham	Abraham	H85 →
לֹ֣א	lo'	not	H3808 →
יְדָעָ֔נוּ	ye.da.'A.nu	he knows us	H3045 →
וְיִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל	ve.Yis.ra.'El	and Israel	H3478 →
לֹ֣א	lo'	not	H3808 →
יַכִּירָ֑נוּ	ya.ki.Ra.nu	he acknowledges us	H5234 →
אַתָּ֤ה	'a.Tah	you	H859 →
יְהוָה֙	Yah.weh	O Yahweh	H3068 →
אָבִ֔ינוּ	'a.Vi.nu	[are] father our	H1 →
גֹּאֲלֵ֥נוּ	go.'a.Le.nu	[is] redeemer our	H1350 →
מֵֽעוֹלָ֖ם	me.'o.Lam	from long ago	H5769 →
שְׁמֶֽךָ׃	she.Me.kha	name your	H8034 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Malachi 2:10
Do we not all have one Father? Did not one God create us? Why then do we break faith with one another so as to profane the covenant of our fathers?
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.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Malachi 2:11
  Judah has broken faith; an abomination has been committed in Israel and in Jerusalem. For Judah has profaned the LORD’s beloved sanctuary by marrying the daughter of a foreign god.
Through
Isaiah 44:6
Thus says the LORD, the King and Redeemer of Israel, the LORD of Hosts: “I am the first and I am the last, and there is no God but Me.
leads to
- Isaiah 41:4
  Who has performed this and carried it out, calling forth the generations from the beginning? I, the LORD—the first and the last—I am He.”
- Isaiah 43:10–11
  “You are My witnesses,” declares the LORD, “and My servant whom I have chosen, so that you may consider and believe Me and understand that I am He. Before Me no god was formed,…
- Revelation 1:8
  “I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, who is and was and is to come—the Almighty.
- Revelation 22:13
  I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End.”
- Isaiah 44:8
  Do not tremble or fear. Have I not told you and declared it long ago? You are My witnesses! Is there any God but Me? There is no other Rock; I know not one.”
Through
Isaiah 64:8
But now, O LORD, You are our Father; we are the clay, and You are the potter; we are all the work of Your hand.
leads to
- Ephesians 2:10
  For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance as our way of life.

About Isaiah

The Prophet Isaiah — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain

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Where the connections lead

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06About Isaiah

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

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About Isaiah