Isaiah 41:8
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)““But you, O Israel, My servant, Jacob, whom I have chosen, descendant of Abraham My friend—”
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““But you, O Israel, My servant, Jacob, whom I have chosen, descendant of Abraham My friend—”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“But thou, Israel, art my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham my friend.”
King James Version · Public Domain“But thou, Israel, my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham my friend,”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“--And thou, O Israel, My servant, Jacob, whom I have chosen, Seed of Abraham, My lover,”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Isaiah 41:8 — 24 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Exodus 19:5Now if you will indeed obey My voice and keep My covenant, you will be My treasured possession out of all the nations—for the whole earth is Mine.
- Leviticus 25:42Because the Israelites are My servants, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt, they are not to be sold as slaves.
- Deuteronomy 7:6For you are a people holy to the LORD your God. The LORD your God has chosen you to be a people for His prized possession out of all peoples on the face of the earth.
- Deuteronomy 10:15Yet the LORD has set His affection on your fathers and loved them. And He has chosen you, their descendants after them, above all the peoples, even to this day.
- Deuteronomy 14:2for you are a people holy to the LORD your God. The LORD has chosen you to be a people for His prized possession out of all the peoples on the face of the earth.
- 1 Chronicles 16:13O offspring of His servant Israel, O sons of Jacob, His chosen ones.
- 2 Chronicles 20:7Our God, did You not drive out the inhabitants of this land before Your people Israel and give it forever to the descendants of Abraham Your friend?
- Psalms 33:12Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD, the people He has chosen as His inheritance!
- Psalms 105:6O offspring of His servant Abraham, O sons of Jacob, His chosen ones.
- Psalms 105:42For He remembered His holy promise to Abraham His servant.
- Psalms 135:4For the LORD has chosen Jacob as His own, Israel as His treasured possession.
- Psalms 136:21and He gave their land as an inheritance, His loving devotion endures forever.
- Psalms 136:22a heritage to His servant Israel. His loving devotion endures forever.
- Isaiah 29:22Therefore the LORD who redeemed Abraham says of the house of Jacob: “No longer will Jacob be ashamed and no more will his face grow pale.
- Isaiah 43:1Now this is what the LORD says— He who created you, O Jacob, and He who formed you, O Israel: “Do not fear, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by your name; you are Mine!
- Isaiah 43:10“You are My witnesses,” declares the LORD, “and My servant whom I have chosen, so that you may consider and believe Me and understand that I am He. Before Me no god was formed, and after Me none will come.
- Isaiah 44:1But now listen, O Jacob My servant, Israel, whom I have chosen.
- Isaiah 44:21Remember these things, O Jacob, for you are My servant, O Israel. I have made you, and you are My servant; O Israel, I will never forget you.
- Isaiah 45:4For the sake of Jacob My servant and Israel My chosen one, I call you by name; I have given you a title of honor, though you have not known Me.
- Isaiah 48:12Listen to Me, O Jacob, and Israel, whom I have called: I am He; I am the first, and I am the last.
- Isaiah 49:3He said to Me, “You are My Servant, Israel, in whom I will display My glory.”
- Isaiah 51:2Look to Abraham your father, and to Sarah who gave you birth. When I called him, he was but one; then I blessed him and multiplied him.
- Isaiah 63:16Yet You are our Father, though Abraham does not know us and Israel does not acknowledge us. You, O LORD, are our Father; our Redeemer from Everlasting is Your name.
- Jeremiah 33:24“Have you not noticed what these people are saying: ‘The LORD has rejected the two families He had chosen’? So they despise My people and no longer regard them as a nation.
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