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“But now listen, Jacob, My servant, And Israel, whom I have chosen:
Isaiah 44:1 · New American Standard Bible
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  • WEB Yet listen now, Jacob my servant, and Israel, whom I have chosen.
  • KJV Yet now hear, O Jacob my servant; and Israel, whom I have chosen:
  • BSB But now listen, O Jacob My servant, Israel, whom I have chosen.
  • NKJV “Yet hear now, O Jacob My servant, And Israel whom I have chosen.
  • NLT “But now, listen to me, Jacob my servant, Israel my chosen one.

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Quick answer

God calls Jacob His servant and Israel His chosen to listen now. It renews His gracious address to the people He has set His love upon.

Overview

After judgment, God again speaks tenderly, naming Israel as His chosen servant. The summons to 'listen now' signals fresh assurance. This election by grace, not merit, anticipates the New Testament truth that God's people are chosen in Christ before the foundation of the world.

Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 16

  • Isa 41:8“But you, Israel, my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the offspring of Abraham my friend,
  • Jer 30:10Therefore don’t you be afraid, O Jacob my servant, says Yahweh; neither be dismayed, Israel: for, behold, I will save you from afar, and your offspring from the land of their captivity. Jacob shall return, and shall be quiet and at ease, and no one shall make him afraid.
  • Rom 11:5–6Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace.
  • Ps 105:6you offspring of Abraham, his servant, you children of Jacob, his chosen ones.
  • Jer 46:27–28“But don’t you be afraid, Jacob my servant, neither be dismayed, Israel; for, behold, I will save you from afar, and your offspring from the land of their captivity. Jacob will return, and will be quiet and at ease. No one will make him afraid.
  • Heb 3:7–8Therefore, even as the Holy Spirit says, “Today if you will hear his voice,
  • Jer 4:7A lion has gone up from his thicket, and a destroyer of nations; he is on his way, he has gone out from his place, to make your land desolate, that your cities be laid waste, without inhabitant.
  • Deut 7:6–8For you are a holy people to Yahweh your God. Yahweh your God has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples who are on the face of the earth.
  • Ps 105:42–43For he remembered his holy word, and Abraham, his servant.
  • Ps 81:11–13But my people didn’t listen to my voice. Israel desired none of me.
  • Isa 48:16–18“Come near to me and hear this: “From the beginning I have not spoken in secret; from the time that it happened, I was there.” Now the Lord Yahweh has sent me, with his Spirit.
  • Isa 55:3Turn your ear, and come to me. Hear, and your soul will live: and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David.
  • Isa 42:23Who is there among you who will give ear to this? Who will listen and hear for the time to come?
  • 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.
  • Gen 17:7I will establish my covenant between me and you and your offspring after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God to you and to your offspring after you.
  • Luke 13:34“Jerusalem, Jerusalem, that kills the prophets, and stones those who are sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children together, like a hen gathers her own brood under her wings, and you refused!

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Christ at the center

Isaiah sees him most clearly: the virgin's son Immanuel, the child on David's throne, the shoot from Jesse, the light to the nations, and above all the Suffering Servant pierced for our transgressions (ch. 53).

How Isaiah 44:1 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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