Isaiah 54:5

The people's Maker is their husband, Yahweh of Armies, the Holy One and Redeemer, God of the whole earth. It matters because God binds Himself to His people in an intimate, redeeming, universal relationship.

Cross-references · 19

• Hos 2:19–20I will betroth you to me forever. Yes, I will betroth you to me in righteousness, in justice, in loving kindness, and in compassion.
• Eph 5:25–27Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it;
• 2 Cor 11:2–3For I am jealous over you with a godly jealousy. For I married you to one husband, that I might present you as a pure virgin to Christ.
• 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.
• Ezek 16:8“‘“Now when I passed by you, and looked at you, behold, your time was the time of love; and I spread my skirt over you, and covered your nakedness: yes, I swore to you, and entered into a covenant with you,” says the Lord Yahweh, “and you became mine.
• Rom 3:29–30Or is God the God of Jews only? Isn’t he the God of Gentiles also? Yes, of Gentiles also,
• John 3:29He who has the bride is the bridegroom; but the friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him, rejoices greatly because of the bridegroom’s voice. This, my joy, therefore is made full.
• Ps 45:10–17Listen, daughter, consider, and turn your ear. Forget your own people, and also your father’s house.
• Zech 14:9Yahweh will be King over all the earth. In that day Yahweh will be one, and his name one.
• Eph 5:32This mystery is great, but I speak concerning Christ and of the assembly.
• 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.
• Jer 3:14“Return, backsliding children,” says Yahweh; “for I am a husband to you. I will take one of you from a city, and two from a family, and I will bring you to Zion.
• Jer 51:19The portion of Jacob is not like these, for he is the former of all things; including the tribe of his inheritance: Yahweh of Armies is his name.
• Isa 6:3One called to another, and said, “Holy, holy, holy, is Yahweh of Armies! The whole earth is full of his glory!”
• Luke 1:32He will be great, and will be called the Son of the Most High. The Lord God will give him the throne of his father, David,
• Jer 10:16The portion of Jacob is not like these; for he is the former of all things; and Israel is the tribe of his inheritance: Yahweh of Armies is his name.
• Rev 11:15The seventh angel sounded, and great voices in heaven followed, saying, “The kingdom of the world has become the Kingdom of our Lord, and of his Christ. He will reign forever and ever!”
• Isa 48:2(for they call themselves citizens of the holy city, and rely on the God of Israel; Yahweh of Armies is his name):
• Isa 51:15For I am Yahweh your God, who stirs up the sea, so that its waves roar: Yahweh of Armies is his name.

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