Isaiah 43:21

Easy-to-Read Version

I made them, and they will sing songs of praise to me.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
The people I formed for myselfwill declare my praise.

Hebrew Names Version
the people which I formed for myself, that they might set forth my praise.

King James Version
This people have I formed for myself; they shall shew forth my praise.

English Standard Version
the people whom I formed for myself that they might declare my praise.

New American Standard Bible
"The people whom I formed for Myself Will declare My praise.

New Century Version
The people I made will sing songs to praise me.

Amplified Bible
"The people whom I formed for Myself Will make known My praise.

World English Bible
the people which I formed for myself, that they might set forth my praise.

Geneva Bible (1587)
This people haue I formed for my selfe: they shall shewe foorth my praise.

Legacy Standard Bible
The people whom I formed for MyselfWill recount My praise.

Berean Standard Bible
The people I formed for Myself will declare My praise.

Contemporary English Version
I made them my own nation, so they would praise me.

Complete Jewish Bible
the people I formed for myself, so that they would proclaim my praise.

Darby Translation
This people have I formed for myself: they shall shew forth my praise.

George Lamsa Translation
This people whom I have chosen for myself, they shall drink.

Good News Translation
They are the people I made for myself, and they will sing my praises!"

Lexham English Bible
this people whom I formed for myself, so they might make known my praise.

Literal Translation
The people that I formed for Myself shall recount My praise.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
This people haue I made for my self, and they shal shewe forth my prayse.

American Standard Version
the people which I formed for myself, that they might set forth my praise.

Bible in Basic English
Even the people whom I made to be the witnesses of my praise.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
The people which I formed for Myself, that they might tell of My praise.

King James Version (1611)
This people haue I formed for my selfe, they shall shewe foorth my praise.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
This people haue I made for my self, and they shall shewe foorth my prayse.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
my people whom I have preserved to tell forth my praises.

English Revised Version
the people which I formed for myself, that they might set forth my praise.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Y fourmyde this puple to me, it schal telle my preysyng.

Update Bible Version
the people which I formed for myself, that they might set forth my praise.

Webster's Bible Translation
This people have I formed for myself; they shall show forth my praise.

New English Translation
the people whom I formed for myself, so they might praise me."

New King James Version
This people I have formed for Myself; They shall declare My praise.

New Living Translation
I have made Israel for myself, and they will someday honor me before the whole world.

New Life Bible
The people whom I made for Myself will make known My praise.

New Revised Standard
the people whom I formed for myself so that they might declare my praise.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
A people which I have fashioned for myself, My praise, shall they record.

Douay-Rheims Bible
This people have I formed for myself, they shall shew forth my praise.

Revised Standard Version
the people whom I formed for myself that they might declare my praise.

Young's Literal Translation
This people I have formed for Myself, My praise they recount.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"The people whom I formed for Myself Will declare My praise.

Contextual Overview

¹⁴ The Lord , the Holy One of Israel, saves you, and he says, "I will send armies to Babylon for you. Many people will be captured. Those Chaldeans will be taken away in their own boats. (They are so proud of those boats.) ¹⁵ I am the Lord your Holy One. I made Israel. I am your King." ¹⁶ The Lord is making roads through the sea. He is making a path for his people, even through rough waters. The Lord says, ¹⁷ "Those who fight against me with their chariots, horses, and armies will be defeated. They will never rise again. They will be destroyed. They will be put out like the flame in a lamp. ¹⁸ So don't remember what happened in earlier times. Don't think about what happened a long time ago, ¹⁹ because I am doing something new! Now you will grow like a new plant. Surely you know this is true. I will even make a road in the desert, and rivers will flow through that dry land. ²⁰ The wild animals will thank me. The large animals and birds will honor me when I put water in the desert and make rivers flow through that dry land. I will do this to give water to my chosen people. ²¹ I made them, and they will sing songs of praise to me.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Isaiah 50:7, Isaiah 60:21, Isaiah 61:3, Psalms 4:3, Psalms 102:18, Proverbs 16:4, Luke 1:74, Luke 1:75, 1 Corinthians 6:19, 1 Corinthians 6:20, 1 Corinthians 10:31, Ephesians 1:5-12, Ephesians 3:21, Colossians 1:16, Titus 2:14, Hebrews 13:15, 1 Peter 2:9

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 32:9 - the Lord's 1 Chronicles 16:35 - that we may give Psalms 9:1 - show Psalms 79:13 - we will Psalms 135:4 - the Lord Psalms 138:8 - forsake Psalms 145:10 - and thy saints Isaiah 29:23 - the work Isaiah 41:20 - General Isaiah 43:1 - created Isaiah 43:7 - for my Isaiah 43:15 - the creator Isaiah 44:2 - that made Isaiah 45:11 - the Holy One Isaiah 49:3 - General Isaiah 55:13 - for a Jeremiah 13:11 - for a name Jeremiah 33:2 - the maker Hosea 8:14 - Maker Luke 18:43 - followed John 4:23 - the Father seeketh Acts 15:14 - to take Ephesians 1:6 - praise Ephesians 2:10 - we are 2 Thessalonians 1:10 - to be glorified Hebrews 2:10 - for 1 Peter 4:19 - a faithful

Cross-References

Genesis 43:12
Take twice as much money with you this time. Take the money that was given back to you after you paid last time. Maybe the governor made a mistake.

Genesis 43:15
So the brothers took the gifts to give to the governor. And the brothers took twice as much money with them as they took the first time. This time Benjamin went with the brothers to Egypt.

Genesis 43:27
Joseph asked them how they were doing. Then he said, "How is your elderly father you told me about? Is he still alive?"

Romans 12:17
If someone does you wrong, don't try to pay them back by hurting them. Try to do what everyone thinks is right.

Romans 13:8
You should owe nothing to anyone, except that you will always owe love to each other. The person who loves others has done all that the law commands.

Hebrews 13:5
Keep your lives free from the love of money. And be satisfied with what you have. God has said, "I will never leave you; I will never run away from you."

Hebrews 13:18
Continue praying for us. We feel right about what we do, because we always try to do what is best.

1 Peter 2:12
People who don't believe are living all around you. They may say that you are doing wrong. So live such good lives that they will see the good you do, and they will give glory to God on the day he comes.

1 Peter 3:16
But answer them in a gentle way with respect. Keep your conscience clear. Then people will see the good way you live as followers of Christ, and those who say bad things about you will be ashamed of what they said.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

This people have I formed for myself,.... The Gentiles, compared to a desert and wilderness, wild and uncultivated, distinguished from Jacob and Israel in the next verse, and the same with the chosen people before mentioned; who being chosen of God, and redeemed by Christ, are formed anew by the Spirit of Christ, made new creatures, regenerated, and transformed by the renewing of their minds, and conformed to the image of Christ, and having him formed in their souls, and principles of grace and holiness wrought in them; in consequence of which they reformed in their lives and conversation, and were also formed into a Gospel church state, and all this done by the Lord for himself, his service, and his glory. The Targum is,

"this people have I prepared for my worship:''

they shall show forth my praise; with their lips, by ascribing their formation to the power and grace of God, and even their whole salvation to it, and express their thankfulness for the same; and likewise by their actions, by a subjection to the ordinances of the Gospel, and by their lives and conversations being agreeably to it. Joseph Kimchi, as Abendana observes, interprets this people of the beasts of the field, spoken of in the preceding verse, that should honour the Lord, and here said to be formed for himself, and should show forth his praise; and which is taken notice of to aggravate the sins of the people of the Jews, who called not on the Lord, c. as in the following verses so the ants and conies are called a people not strong, and the locusts a people great and strong, Proverbs 30:25.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

This people have I formed for myself - To preserve the remembrance of my name; to transmit the knowledge of the true God to future times, and to celebrate my praise (see the notes at Isaiah 43:1).

They shall show forth my praise - They shall celebrate my goodness; or, by their restoration to their own land, they shall show manifestly that they are my people.