44:1 “Now, listen, Jacob my servant,
Israel whom I have chosen!”
44:2 This is what the Lord, the one who made you, says –
the one who formed you in the womb and helps you:
“Don’t be afraid, my servant Jacob,
Jeshurun, 1 whom I have chosen!
43:10 You are my witnesses,” says the Lord,
“my servant whom I have chosen,
so that you may consider 2 and believe in me,
and understand that I am he.
No god was formed before me,
and none will outlive me. 3
1 sn Jeshurun is a poetic name for Israel; it occurs here and in Deut 32:15; 33:5, 26.
1 tn Or “know” (KJV, NAB, NASB, NIV, NRSV).
2 tn Heb “and after me, there will not be”; NASB “there will be none after Me.”