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 49:1

Ideal Israel Delivers the Exiles

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 

[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.

[49:1]  ³ tn Or “islands” (NASB, NIV); NLT “in far-off lands.”

[49:1]  ⁴ tn Heb “called me from the womb.”

[49:1]  ⁵ tn Heb “from the inner parts of my mother he mentioned my name.”