You will leave your name for a curse to my chosen; and the Lord Yahweh will kill you. He will call his servants by another name,
Parallel translations
- KJV And ye shall leave your name for a curse unto my chosen: for the Lord GOD shall slay thee, and call his servants by another name:
- BSB You will leave behind your name as a curse for My chosen ones, and the Lord GOD will slay you; but to His servants He will give another name.
- NKJV You shall leave your name as a curse to My chosen; For the Lord God will slay you, And call His servants by another name;
- NASB “You will leave your name as a curse to My chosen ones, And the Lord God will put you to death. But My servants will be called by another name.
- NLT Your name will be a curse word among my people, for the Sovereign Lord will destroy you and will call his true servants by another name.
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Quick answer
The rebellious will leave their name as a curse, while God will give His servants a new name. It matters because it contrasts the legacy of the lost with the new identity of the redeemed.
Overview
The names of the rebellious become a byword, but God renames His servants, signaling a transformed people and a fresh start. The promise of 'another name' recalls the new-name theme of chapter 62 and points to the new identity believers receive in Christ (Revelation 2:17; 3:12). Judgment and grace stand side by side.
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- Isa 62:2The nations will see your righteousness, and all kings your glory, and you will be called by a new name, which Yahweh‘s mouth will name.
- Rom 9:26“It will be that in the place where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people,’ There they will be called ‘children of the living God.’”
- Zech 8:13It shall come to pass that, as you were a curse among the nations, house of Judah and house of Israel, so will I save you, and you shall be a blessing. Don’t be afraid. Let your hands be strong.”
- Acts 11:26When he had found him, he brought him to Antioch. For a whole year they were gathered together with the assembly, and taught many people. The disciples were first called Christians in Antioch.
- Jer 29:22A curse shall be taken up about them by all the captives of Judah who are in Babylon, saying, ‘Yahweh make you like Zedekiah and like Ahab, whom the king of Babylon roasted in the fire;’
- 1 Pet 2:9–10But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light:
- 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.
- Isa 65:22They will not build, and another inhabit. They will not plant, and another eat: for the days of my people will be like the days of a tree, and my chosen will long enjoy the work of their hands.
- Matt 21:41They told him, “He will miserably destroy those miserable men, and will lease out the vineyard to other farmers, who will give him the fruit in its season.”
- Prov 10:7The memory of the righteous is blessed, but the name of the wicked will rot.
- Isa 65:12I will destine you to the sword, and you will all bow down to the slaughter; because when I called, you didn’t answer. When I spoke, you didn’t listen; but you did that which was evil in my eyes, and chose that in which I didn’t delight.”
- Isa 66:15For, behold, Yahweh will come with fire, and his chariots will be like the whirlwind; to render his anger with fierceness, and his rebuke with flames of fire.
- 1 Th 2:16forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they may be saved; to fill up their sins always. But wrath has come on them to the uttermost.
- Matt 22:7When the king heard that, he was angry, and sent his armies, destroyed those murderers, and burned their city.
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