“I am the Lord, your Holy One, The Creator of Israel, your King.”
Parallel translations
- WEB I am Yahweh, your Holy One, the Creator of Israel, your King.”
- KJV I am the LORD, your Holy One, the creator of Israel, your King.
- BSB I am the LORD, your Holy One, the Creator of Israel, and your King.”
- NKJV I am the Lord, your Holy One, The Creator of Israel, your King.”
- NLT I am the Lord, your Holy One, Israel’s Creator and King.
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Quick answer
God identifies Himself as Israel's Holy One, Creator, and King. It anchors His people's hope in who He is.
Overview
In rapid titles God reaffirms His holiness, creative power, and royal rule over Israel. These names give weight to His promises of redemption. As Creator and King, He is the same God who reigns in Christ, the King who redeems and rules over His people forever.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 16
- Isa 43:1But now Yahweh who created you, Jacob, and he who formed you, Israel says: “Don’t be afraid, for I have redeemed you. I have called you by your name. You are mine.
- Isa 40:25“To whom then will you liken me? Who is my equal?” says the Holy One.
- Isa 30:11Get out of the way. Turn aside from the path. Cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us.”
- Isa 41:14Don’t be afraid, you worm Jacob, and you men of Israel. I will help you,” says Yahweh, “and your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel.
- Isa 41:16You will winnow them, and the wind will carry them away, and the whirlwind will scatter them. You will rejoice in Yahweh. You will glory in the Holy One of Israel.
- Isa 33:22For Yahweh is our judge. Yahweh is our lawgiver. Yahweh is our king. He will save us.
- Isa 43:7everyone who is called by my name, and whom I have created for my glory, whom I have formed, yes, whom I have made.’”
- Isa 45:11Yahweh, the Holy One of Israel, and his Maker says: “You ask me about the things that are to come, concerning my sons, and you command me concerning the work of my hands!
- Isa 48:17Yahweh, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel says: “I am Yahweh your God, who teaches you to profit, who leads you by the way that you should go.
- Isa 43:3For I am Yahweh your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior. I have given Egypt as your ransom, Ethiopia and Seba in your place.
- Rev 3:7“To the angel of the assembly in Philadelphia write: “He who is holy, he who is true, he who has the key of David, he who opens and no one can shut, and who shuts and no one opens, says these things:
- Jer 51:5For Israel is not forsaken, nor Judah, by his God, by Yahweh of Armies; though their land is full of guilt against the Holy One of Israel.
- Hab 1:12Aren’t you from everlasting, Yahweh my God, my Holy One? We will not die. Yahweh, you have appointed him for judgment. You, Rock, have established him to punish.
- Ps 74:12Yet God is my King of old, working salvation throughout the earth.
- Matt 25:34Then the King will tell those on his right hand, ‘Come, blessed of my Father, inherit the Kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world;
- Isa 43:21the people which I formed for myself, that they might declare my praise.
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