Isaiah 41:14 BSB — MannaFest

Isaiah 41:14

Do not fear, O worm of Jacob, O few men of Israel. I will help you,” declares the LORD. “Your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel.

BSB

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ASV

Fear not, thou worm Jacob, and ye men of Israel; I will help thee, saith Jehovah, and thy Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel.

KJV

Fear not, thou worm Jacob, and ye men of Israel; I will help thee, saith the Lord, and thy redeemer, the Holy One of Israel.

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Commentary

5 voices

Jerome

Commentary on Isaiah (420)

(Verses 13-14) For I, the Lord your God, took hold of your hand, saying to you: Do not fear, I have helped you. Do not fear, words of Jacob, you who are dead from Israel. I have helped you, says the Lord, and your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel. LXX: For I am the Lord your God, who holds your right hand, who says to you, 'Do not fear, O Jacob, O little Israel.' I have helped you, says God, who redeems you, the Holy One of Israel.

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The Church Fathers1 voice

Jerome

Commentary on Isaiah (420)

I say to you, Do not be afraid: I have helped you; do not fear, worm of Jacob, who are dead from Israel, or as the LXX says, very few from Israel. But the worm which is said in Hebrew, Tholath, is called the chorus of the Apostles because of their humility and contempt, imitating the Savior, who speaks in the psalm: I am a worm, and not a man: the reproach of men, and the despising of the people (Psalm 22:7).

The Nineteenth Century3 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

Fear not, thou worm Jacob - In the rabbinical commentary on the five books of Moses, Yelamedenu, it is asked, Why are the Israelites called a worm? To signify, that as the worm does not smite, that is, gnaw the cedars, but with its mouth, which is very tender, yet it nevertheless destroys the hard wood; so all the strength of the Israelites is in prayer, by which they smite the wicked of this world, though strong like the cedars, to which they are compared, Eze 31:3.

Charles Spurgeon

1834–1892

The New Park Street Pulpit, Sermon No. 157: “Thy Redeemer” (lightly modernized text, CCEL edition) (1857)

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Original language & word study

13 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
אַל־	'al-	may not	H408 →
תִּֽירְאִי֙	ti.re.'I	you be afraid	H3372 →
תּוֹלַ֣עַת	to.La.'at	O worm of	H8438 →
יַֽעֲקֹ֔ב	ya.'a.Ko	Jacob	H3290 →
מְתֵ֖י	me.Tei	O men of	H4962 →
יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל	Yis.ra.'El	Israel	H3478 →
אֲנִ֤י	'a.Ni	I	H589 →
עֲזַרְתִּיךְ֙	'a.zar.tiKh	I will help you	H5826 →
נְאֻם־	ne.'um-	[the] utterance of	H5002 →
יְהוָ֔ה	Yah.weh	Yahweh	H3068 →
וְגֹאֲלֵ֖ךְ	ve.go.'a.Lekh	and [is] redeemer your	H1350 →
קְד֥וֹשׁ	ke.Do.osh	[the] holy [one] of	H6918 →
יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃	Yis.ra.'El	Israel	H3478 →

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

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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
Psalms 19:14
May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be pleasing in Your sight, O LORD, my Rock and my Redeemer.
leads to
- Psalms 104:34
  May my meditation be pleasing to Him, for I rejoice in the LORD.
- Psalms 51:15
  O Lord, open my lips, and my mouth will declare Your praise.
- Psalms 119:108
  Accept the freewill offerings of my mouth, O LORD, and teach me Your judgments.
- 1 Peter 2:5
  you also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
- Psalms 66:18–20
  If I had cherished iniquity in my heart, the Lord would not have listened.
Through
Isaiah 54:5
For your husband is your Maker—the LORD of Hosts is His name—the Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer; He is called the God of all the earth.
leads to
- Ephesians 5:25–27
  Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave Himself up for her
- Hosea 2:19–20
  So I will betroth you to Me forever; I will betroth you in righteousness and justice, in loving devotion and compassion.
Through
Psalms 22:6
But I am a worm and not a man, scorned by men and despised by the people.
leads to
- Isaiah 53:3
  He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows, acquainted with grief. Like one from whom men hide their faces, He was despised, and we esteemed Him not.

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PersonPatriarchsJacobThe heel-grasping supplanter reshaped at Peniel into 'Israel, he who strives with God' — father of the twelve tribes.

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About Isaiah