Isaiah 45:4 BSB — MannaFest

Isaiah 45:4

For the sake of Jacob My servant and Israel My chosen one, I call you by name; I have given you a title of honor, though you have not known Me.

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ASV

For Jacob my servant’s sake, and Israel my chosen, I have called thee by thy name: I have surnamed thee, though thou hast not known me.

KJV

For Jacob my servant’s sake, and Israel mine elect, I have even called thee by thy name: I have surnamed thee, though thou hast not known me.

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Commentary

4 voices

Jerome

Commentary on Isaiah (420)

(Verse 4) Because of my servant Jacob, and Israel my chosen one, I have called you by your name: I have likened you to myself, and you have not known me. These things, he says, I attribute to you because of my servant Jacob, and my chosen Israel, and I called you by your name, just as I called Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; and long before, I foretold you, Isaac and Josiah, so that you would not think that he is the Christ, to whom you are compared, and in whose type and image you have preceded.

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The Church Fathers1 voice

Jerome

Commentary on Isaiah (420)

(Chapter 45, Verses 1-7) Thus says the Lord to Cyrus, his anointed one, whom he has taken by the right hand to subdue nations before him and strip the loins of kings, to force gateways before him that their gates be closed no more: I will go before you, and level the mountains; I will break in pieces the doors of bronze and cut through the bars of iron.

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

Cyrus is preferred that Israel may be released. He shall have a kingdom, only that God's people may have their liberty; for their kingdom is not of this world, it is yet to come. In all this Cyrus was a type of Christ, who was made victorious over principalities and powers, and entrusted with unsearchable riches, for the use and benefit of God's servants, his elect.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

Isa 43:14). surnamed--that is, designated to carry out My design of restoring Judah (see on Isa 44:5; MAURER here, as in Isa 44:5, translates, "I have addressed thee by an honorable name." hast not known me--previous to My calling thee to this office; after God's call, Cyrus did know Him in some degree (Ezr 1:1-3).

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Original language & word study

11 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
לְמַ֙עַן֙	le.Ma.'an	for [the] sake of	H4616 →
עַבְדִּ֣י	'av.Di	servant my	H5650 →
יַעֲקֹ֔ב	ya.'a.Ko	Jacob	H3290 →
וְיִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל	ve.Yis.ra.'El	and Israel	H3478 →
בְּחִירִ֑י	be.chi.Ri	chosen one my	H972 →
וָאֶקְרָ֤א	va.'ek.Ra'	and I summoned	H7121 →
לְךָ֙	le.Kha	<to> you
בִּשְׁמֶ֔ךָ	bish.Me.kha	by name your	H8034 →
אֲכַנְּךָ֖	'a.kha.ne.Kha	I will give a title you	H3655 →
וְלֹ֥א	ve.Lo'	and not	H3808 →
יְדַעְתָּֽנִי׃	ye.da'.Ta.ni	you know me	H3045 →

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
Acts 17:23
For as I walked around and examined your objects of worship, I even found an altar with this inscription: TO AN UNKNOWN GOD. Therefore what you worship as something unknown, I now proclaim to…
leads to
- Galatians 4:8–9
  Formerly, when you did not know God, you were slaves to those who by nature are not gods.
- John 4:22
  You worship what you do not know; we worship what we do know, for salvation is from the Jews.
- John 17:3
  Now this is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom You have sent.
- John 17:25
  Righteous Father, although the world has not known You, I know You, and they know that You sent Me.
Through
Romans 11:7
What then? What Israel was seeking, it failed to obtain, but the elect did. The others were hardened,
leads to
- Romans 9:18
  Therefore God has mercy on whom He wants to have mercy, and He hardens whom He wants to harden.
- Romans 11:5
  In the same way, at the present time there is a remnant chosen by grace.
- 2 Corinthians 4:4
  The god of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers so they cannot see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.
Through
Isaiah 44:1
But now listen, O Jacob My servant, Israel, whom I have chosen.
leads to
- Isaiah 41:8
  “But you, O Israel, My servant, Jacob, whom I have chosen, descendant of Abraham My friend—

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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