Our Redeemer, whose name is the Lord of Heaven’s Armies, is the Holy One of Israel.
Parallel translations
- WEB Our Redeemer, Yahweh of Armies is his name, is the Holy One of Israel.
- KJV As for our redeemer, the LORD of hosts is his name, 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.
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Quick answer
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 44:6This is what Yahweh, the King of Israel, and his Redeemer, Yahweh of Armies, says: “I am the first, and I am the last; and besides me there is no God.
- Jer 50:33–34Yahweh of Armies says: “The children of Israel and the children of Judah are oppressed together. All who took them captive hold them fast. They refuse to let them go.
- 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 43:14Yahweh, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel says: “For your sake, I have sent to Babylon, and I will bring all of them down as fugitives, even the Chaldeans, in the ships of their rejoicing.
- Isa 49:26I will feed those who oppress you with their own flesh; and they will be drunk on their own blood, as with sweet wine. Then all flesh shall know that I, Yahweh, am your Savior, and your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.”
- Isa 54:5For your Maker is your husband; Yahweh of Armies is his name. The Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer. He will be called the God of the whole earth.
- 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.
- Jer 31:11For Yahweh has ransomed Jacob, and redeemed him from the hand of him who was stronger than he.
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