Isaiah 44:2 BSB — MannaFest

Isaiah 44:2

This is the word of the LORD, your Maker, who formed you from the womb and who will help you: “Do not be afraid, O Jacob My servant, Jeshurun, whom I have chosen.

BSB

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ASV

Thus saith Jehovah that made thee, and formed thee from the womb, who will help thee: Fear not, O Jacob my servant; and thou, Jeshurun, whom I have chosen.

KJV

Thus saith the Lord that made thee, and formed thee from the womb, which will help thee; Fear not, O Jacob, my servant; and thou, Jesurun, whom I have chosen.

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Commentary

3 voices

Jerome

Commentary on Isaiah (420)

(Chapter 44, verse 1 and 2) Now listen, my servant Jacob, and Israel, whom I have chosen. Thus says the Lord, your maker and shaper from the womb, your helper. Do not fear, my servant Jacob, and you, whom I have chosen. LXX: But now hear, Jacob my servant, and Israel whom I have chosen. I am the Lord your God, who created you and formed you from the womb; you will still have my help. Do not fear, my servant Jacob, and beloved Israel whom I have chosen.

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The Church Fathers1 voice

Jerome

Commentary on Isaiah (420)

Do not fear their cruelty, my servant Jacob, whom I have chosen. He is also called Israel; Isurun in Hebrew, and the others, the most upright or the straightest. Only the LXX called him the most beloved, combining it with their own, Israel. Specifically, according to the Hebrews and the faith of the scriptures, Israel is called the upright one of God. But a man who sees God is not in the elements, but in the sound of his voice. And the book of Genesis is called εὐθεῖς, that is, the book of the righteous: Abraham, Isaac, and Israel.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

The sense is similar to that in Isa 1:2, "I have nourished and brought up children." Jesurun--A diminutive term of endearment applied to Israel. The full title of affection was Israelun; contracted it became Jeshurun, with an allusion to the Hebrew root, jashar, "upright," "perfect" (see on Isa 42:19, note on "He that is perfect") [GESENIUS], (De 32:15).

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Original language & word study

14 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
כֹּה־	koh-	thus	H3541 →
אָמַ֨ר	'a.Mar	he says	H559 →
יְהוָ֥ה	Yah.weh	Yahweh	H3068 →
עֹשֶׂ֛ךָ	'o.Se.kha	[who] made you	H6213 →
וְיֹצֶרְךָ֥	ve.yo.tzer.Kha	and [who] formed you	H3335 →
מִבֶּ֖טֶן	mi.Be.ten	from [the] womb	H990 →
יַעְזְרֶ֑ךָּ	ya'.ze.Re.ka	he will help you	H5826 →
אַל־	'al-	may not	H408 →
תִּירָא֙	ti.Ra'	you be afraid	H3372 →
עַבְדִּ֣י	'av.Di	O servant my	H5650 →
יַֽעֲקֹ֔ב	ya.'a.Ko	Jacob	H3290 →
וִישֻׁר֖וּן	vi.shu.Run	and Jeshurun	H3484 →
בָּחַ֥רְתִּי	ba.Char.ti	[whom] I have chosen	H977 →
בֽוֹ׃	vo	<in> it

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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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
Jeremiah 1:5
“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I set you apart and appointed you as a prophet to the nations.”
leads to
- Psalms 139:16
  Your eyes saw my unformed body; all my days were written in Your book and ordained for me before one of them came to be.
- Isaiah 49:1
  Listen to Me, O islands; pay attention, O distant peoples: The LORD called Me from the womb; from the body of My mother He named Me.
- Galatians 1:15–16
  But when God, who set me apart from my mother’s womb and called me by His grace, was pleased
- Psalms 71:5–6
  For You are my hope, O Lord GOD, my confidence from my youth.
- Romans 8:29
  For those God foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn among many brothers.
Through
Isaiah 43:1
Now 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…
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…

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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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Where the connections lead

Commentary

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About Isaiah