Isaiah 41:8

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““But you, O Israel, My servant, Jacob, whom I have chosen, descendant of Abraham My friend—”

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BSBPD

““But you, O Israel, My servant, Jacob, whom I have chosen, descendant of Abraham My friend—”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“But thou, Israel, art my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham my friend.”

King James Version · Public Domain
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“But thou, Israel, my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham my friend,”

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“--And thou, O Israel, My servant, Jacob, whom I have chosen, Seed of Abraham, My lover,”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Isaiah 41:8 — 24 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 1 Chronicles 16:13O offspring of His servant Israel, O sons of Jacob, His chosen ones.
  7. 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?
  8. Psalms 33:12Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD, the people He has chosen as His inheritance!
  9. Psalms 105:6O offspring of His servant Abraham, O sons of Jacob, His chosen ones.
  10. Psalms 105:42For He remembered His holy promise to Abraham His servant.
  11. Psalms 135:4For the LORD has chosen Jacob as His own, Israel as His treasured possession.
  12. Psalms 136:21and He gave their land as an inheritance, His loving devotion endures forever.
  13. Psalms 136:22a heritage to His servant Israel. His loving devotion endures forever.
  14. 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.
  15. 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!
  16. 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.
  17. Isaiah 44:1But now listen, O Jacob My servant, Israel, whom I have chosen.
  18. 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.
  19. 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.
  20. 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.
  21. Isaiah 49:3He said to Me, “You are My Servant, Israel, in whom I will display My glory.”
  22. 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.
  23. 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.
  24. 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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