As for our redeemer, the LORD of hosts is his name, the Holy One of Israel.
Parallel translations
- WEB Our Redeemer, Yahweh of Armies is his name, is the Holy One of Israel.
- BSB Our Redeemer—the LORD of Hosts is His name—is the Holy One of Israel.
- NKJV As for our Redeemer, the Lord of hosts is His name, The Holy One of Israel.
- NASB Our Redeemer, the Lord of armies is His name, The Holy One of Israel.
- NLT Our Redeemer, whose name is the Lord of Heaven’s Armies, is the Holy One of Israel.
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Our Redeemer is Yahweh of Armies, the Holy One of Israel. The judge of Babylon is the redeemer of his people.
Overview
This brief confession, interjected amid the judgment, names the one who overthrows Babylon: 'our Redeemer, Yahweh of Armies, the Holy One of Israel.' Babylon's fall is Israel's redemption. The title Redeemer (go'el, the kinsman who buys back) points to Christ, who redeems his people by paying the price himself.
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Cross-references · 8
- Isa 44:6Thus saith the LORD the King of Israel, and his redeemer the LORD of hosts; I am the first, and I am the last; and beside me there is no God.
- Jer 50:33–34Thus saith the LORD of hosts; The children of Israel and the children of Judah were oppressed together: and all that took them captives held them fast; they refused to let them go.
- Isa 41:14Fear not, thou worm Jacob, and ye men of Israel; I will help thee, saith the LORD, and thy redeemer, the Holy One of Israel.
- Isa 43:14Thus saith the LORD, your redeemer, the Holy One of Israel; For your sake I have sent to Babylon, and have brought down all their nobles, and the Chaldeans, whose cry is in the ships.
- Isa 49:26And I will feed them that oppress thee with their own flesh; and they shall be drunken with their own blood, as with sweet wine: and all flesh shall know that I the LORD am thy Saviour and thy Redeemer, the mighty One of Jacob.
- Isa 54:5For thy Maker is thine husband; the LORD of hosts is his name; and thy Redeemer the Holy One of Israel; The God of the whole earth shall he be called.
- Isa 43:3For I am the LORD thy God, the Holy One of Israel, thy Saviour: I gave Egypt for thy ransom, Ethiopia and Seba for thee.
- Jer 31:11For the LORD hath redeemed Jacob, and ransomed him from the hand of him that was stronger than he.
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