He has given help to Israel, his servant, that he might remember mercy,
Parallel translations
- KJV He hath holpen his servant Israel, in remembrance of his mercy;
- BSB He has helped His servant Israel, remembering to be merciful,
- NKJV He has helped His servant Israel, In remembrance of His mercy,
- NASB “He has given help to His servant Israel, In remembrance of His mercy,
- NLT He has helped his servant Israel and remembered to be merciful.
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Quick answer
God has helped Israel, remembering his mercy. He keeps his covenant faithfulness to his people.
Overview
Mary praises God for coming to the aid of Israel his servant in mercy. The events surrounding Jesus' birth fulfill God's long-standing covenant promises. God's saving help to Israel opens the way for blessing to all nations through Christ.
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Cross-references · 13
- Ps 98:3He has remembered his loving kindness and his faithfulness toward the house of Israel. All the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.
- Mic 7:20You will give truth to Jacob, and mercy to Abraham, as you have sworn to our fathers from the days of old.
- Isa 44:21Remember these things, Jacob and Israel; for you are my servant. I have formed you. You are my servant. Israel, you will not be forgotten by me.
- Isa 49:14–16But Zion said, “Yahweh has forsaken me, and the Lord has forgotten me.”
- Isa 46:3–4“Listen to me, house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house of Israel, that have been carried from their birth, that have been carried from the womb.
- Jer 31:20Is Ephraim my dear son? is he a darling child? for as often as I speak against him, I do earnestly remember him still: therefore my heart yearns for him; I will surely have mercy on him,” says Yahweh.
- Jer 33:24–26“Don’t consider what this people has spoken, saying, ‘The two families which Yahweh chose, he has cast them off?’ Thus they despise my people, that they should be no more a nation before them.”
- Luke 1:70–75(as he spoke by the mouth of his holy prophets who have been from of old),
- Isa 63:7–16I will tell of the loving kindnesses of Yahweh and the praises of Yahweh, according to all that Yahweh has given to us, and the great goodness toward the house of Israel, which he has given to them according to his mercies, and according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses.
- Zeph 3:14–20Sing, daughter of Zion! Shout, Israel! Be glad and rejoice with all your heart, daughter of Jerusalem.
- Jer 31:3Yahweh appeared of old to me, saying, “Yes, I have loved you with an everlasting love. Therefore I have drawn you with loving kindness.
- Zech 9:9–11Rejoice greatly, daughter of Zion! Shout, daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your King comes to you! He is righteous, and having salvation; lowly, and riding on a donkey, even on a colt, the foal of a donkey.
- Isa 54:6–10For Yahweh has called you as a wife forsaken and grieved in spirit, even a wife of youth, when she is cast off,” says your God.
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