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!
44:24 This is what the Lord, your protector, 2 says,
the one who formed you in the womb:
“I am the Lord, who made everything,
who alone stretched out the sky,
who fashioned the earth all by myself, 3
49:1 Listen to me, you coastlands! 4
Pay attention, you people who live far away!
The Lord summoned me from birth; 5
he commissioned me when my mother brought me into the world. 6
1 sn Jeshurun is a poetic name for Israel; it occurs here and in Deut 32:15; 33:5, 26.
2 tn Heb “your redeemer.” See the note at 41:14.
3 tn The consonantal text (Kethib) has “Who [was] with me?” The marginal reading (Qere) is “from with me,” i.e., “by myself.” See BDB 87 s.v. II אֵת 4.c.
3 tn Or “islands” (NASB, NIV); NLT “in far-off lands.”
4 tn Heb “called me from the womb.”
5 tn Heb “from the inner parts of my mother he mentioned my name.”