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In the Lord all the descendants of Israel Shall be justified, and shall glory.’ ”
Isaiah 45:25 · New King James Version
Parallel translations
  • WEB All the offspring of Israel will be justified in Yahweh, and will rejoice!
  • KJV In the LORD shall all the seed of Israel be justified, and shall glory.
  • BSB In the LORD all descendants of Israel will be justified and will exult.
  • NASB “In the Lord all the offspring of Israel Will be justified and will boast.”
  • NLT In the Lord all the generations of Israel will be justified, and in him they will boast.

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All the offspring of Israel will be justified in Yahweh and will rejoice. God's people are declared righteous through him.

Overview

The chapter closes with the promise that God's people are 'justified in Yahweh' — counted righteous through their relationship to him, not their own works. This forensic language of justification blossoms in Paul's gospel: believers are justified in Christ. It is a ground for joy, for our right standing rests securely in God.

Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 27

  • 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.
  • 1 Cor 6:11Such were some of you, but you were washed. But you were sanctified. But you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and in the Spirit of our God.
  • Gal 3:27–29For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ.
  • Acts 13:39and by him everyone who believes is justified from all things, from which you could not be justified by the law of Moses.
  • Isa 65:23They will not labor in vain, nor give birth for calamity; for they are the offspring of Yahweh’s blessed, and their descendants with them.
  • Isa 45:24They will say of me, ‘There is righteousness and strength only in Yahweh.’” Even to him shall men come; and all those who raged against him shall be disappointed.
  • Rom 5:1Being therefore justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ;
  • Rom 3:24–25being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus;
  • Isa 45:17Israel will be saved by Yahweh with an everlasting salvation. You will not be disappointed nor confounded to ages everlasting.
  • Rom 5:18–19So then as through one trespass, all men were condemned; even so through one act of righteousness, all men were justified to life.
  • Rom 8:30Whom he predestined, those he also called. Whom he called, those he also justified. Whom he justified, those he also glorified.
  • Rom 8:1There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who don’t walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.
  • 1 Cor 1:31that, according as it is written, “He who boasts, let him boast in the Lord.”
  • Ps 64:10The righteous shall be glad in Yahweh, and shall take refuge in him. All the upright in heart shall praise him!
  • Rom 9:6–8But it is not as though the word of God has come to nothing. For they are not all Israel, that are of Israel.
  • Isa 61:9Their offspring will be known among the nations, and their offspring among the peoples. All who see them will acknowledge them, that they are the offspring which Yahweh has blessed.”
  • 1 Chr 16:13you offspring of Israel his servant, you children of Jacob, his chosen ones.
  • Ps 22:23You who fear Yahweh, praise him! All you descendants of Jacob, glorify him! Stand in awe of him, all you descendants of Israel!
  • Isa 45:19I have not spoken in secret, in a place of the land of darkness. I didn’t say to the offspring of Jacob, ‘Seek me in vain.’ I, Yahweh, speak righteousness. I declare things that are right.
  • Rom 4:16For this cause it is of faith, that it may be according to grace, to the end that the promise may be sure to all the offspring, not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all.
  • Jer 9:23–24Yahweh says, “Don’t let the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his might. Don’t let the rich man glory in his riches.
  • Rom 8:33–34Who could bring a charge against God’s chosen ones? It is God who justifies.
  • Isa 65:9I will bring offspring out of Jacob, and out of Judah an inheritor of my mountains. My chosen will inherit it, and my servants will dwell there.
  • Phil 3:3For we are the circumcision, who worship God in the Spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh;
  • 2 Cor 5:21For him who knew no sin he made to be sin on our behalf; so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
  • 2 Cor 10:17But “he who boasts, let him boast in the Lord.”
  • Gal 6:14But far be it from me to boast, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.

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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 45:25 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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