Isaiah 44:2

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!

Isaiah 44:24

The Lord Empowers Cyrus

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 

Isaiah 46:3

46:3 “Listen to me, O family of Jacob, ⁴ 

all you who are left from the family of Israel, ⁵ 

you who have been carried from birth, ⁶ 

you who have been supported from the time you left the womb. ⁷ 

Isaiah 49:1

Ideal Israel Delivers the Exiles

49:1 Listen to me, you coastlands! ⁸ 

Pay attention, you people who live far away!

The Lord summoned me from birth; ⁹ 

he commissioned me when my mother brought me into the world. ¹⁰ 

[44:2]  ¹ sn Jeshurun is a poetic name for Israel; it occurs here and in Deut 32:15; 33:5, 26.

[44:24]  ² tn Heb “your redeemer.” See the note at 41:14.

[44:24]  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.

[46:3]  ³ tn Heb “house of Jacob”; TEV “descendants of Jacob.”

[46:3]  ⁴ tn Heb “and all the remnant of the house of Israel.”

[46:3]  ⁵ tn Heb “from the womb” (so NRSV); KJV “from the belly”; NAB “from your infancy.”

[46:3]  ⁶ tn Heb “who have been lifted up from the womb.”

[49:1]  ⁴ tn Or “islands” (NASB, NIV); NLT “in far-off lands.”

[49:1]  ⁵ tn Heb “called me from the womb.”

[49:1]  ⁶ tn Heb “from the inner parts of my mother he mentioned my name.”