“It is I who have declared and saved and proclaimed, And there was no strange god among you; So you are My witnesses,” declares the Lord, “And I am God.
Parallel translations
- WEB I have declared, I have saved, and I have shown; and there was no strange god among you. Therefore you are my witnesses”, says Yahweh, “and I am God.
- KJV I have declared, and have saved, and I have shewed, when there was no strange god among you: therefore ye are my witnesses, saith the LORD, that I am God.
- BSB I alone decreed and saved and proclaimed—I, and not some foreign god among you. So you are My witnesses,” declares the LORD, “that I am God.
- NKJV I have declared and saved, I have proclaimed, And there was no foreign god among you; Therefore you are My witnesses,” Says the Lord, “that I am God.
- NLT First I predicted your rescue, then I saved you and proclaimed it to the world. No foreign god has ever done this. You are witnesses that I am the only God,” says the Lord.
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Quick answer
God reminds Israel that He alone declared, saved, and proclaimed, with no foreign god among them, making them His witnesses. It bases their testimony on God's proven saving acts.
Overview
The LORD points to His track record of foretelling and delivering as evidence of His deity. No strange god shared in these works, so Israel can only witness to Him. Their role as witnesses anticipates the disciples called to testify to the saving acts of God in Christ.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 9
- Ps 81:9–10There shall be no strange god in you, neither shall you worship any foreign god.
- Isa 44:8Don’t fear, neither be afraid. Haven’t I declared it to you long ago, and shown it? You are my witnesses. Is there a God besides me? Indeed, there is not. I don’t know any other Rock.”
- Deut 32:12Yahweh alone led him. There was no foreign god with him.
- Isa 43:10“You are my witnesses,” says Yahweh, “With my servant whom I have chosen; that you may know and believe me, and understand that I am he. Before me there was no God formed, neither will there be after me.
- Isa 37:7Behold, I will put a spirit in him and he will hear news, and will return to his own land. I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land.”’”
- Isa 46:9–10Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is no other. I am God, and there is none like me.
- Isa 48:4–7Because I knew that you are obstinate, and your neck is an iron sinew, and your brow brass;
- Isa 37:20Now therefore, Yahweh our God, save us from his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that you are Yahweh, even you only.”
- Isa 37:35–36‘For I will defend this city to save it, for my own sake, and for my servant David’s sake.’”
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