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Isaiah 47:4

"My people say, ‘God saves us. His name is the Lord All-Powerful, the Holy One of Israel.'"

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - God Continued...;   Pride;   Thompson Chain Reference - Redeemer;   The Topic Concordance - God;   Name;   Redemption;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Babylon;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Babylon;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Isaiah;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Election;   Micah, Book of;   Righteousness;   Servant of the Lord;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Babylon ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Zion;  

Encyclopedias:

- The Jewish Encyclopedia - Ge'ullah;   Salvation;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
The Holy One of Israel is our Redeemer;The Lord of Armies is his name.
Hebrew Names Version
Our Redeemer, the LORD of hosts is his name, the Holy One of Yisra'el.
King James Version
As for our redeemer, the Lord of hosts is his name, the Holy One of Israel.
English Standard Version
Our Redeemer—the Lord of hosts is his name— is the Holy One of Israel.
New American Standard Bible
Our Redeemer, the LORD of armies is His name, The Holy One of Israel.
New Century Version
Our Savior is named the Lord All-Powerful; he is the Holy One of Israel.
Amplified Bible
Our Redeemer [will do all this], the LORD of hosts is His name, The Holy One of Israel.
World English Bible
Our Redeemer, Yahweh of hosts is his name, the Holy One of Israel.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Our redeemer, the Lorde of hostes is his Name, the holy one of Israel.
Legacy Standard Bible
Our Redeemer, Yahweh of hosts is His name,The Holy One of Israel.
Berean Standard Bible
Our Redeemer-the LORD of Hosts is His name-is the Holy One of Israel.
Contemporary English Version
I am the Lord All-Powerful, the holy God of Israel. I am their Savior.
Complete Jewish Bible
Our Redeemer! Adonai -Tzva'ot is his name, the Holy One of Isra'el!
Darby Translation
Our Redeemer, Jehovah of hosts is his name, the Holy One of Israel. …
George Lamsa Translation
As for our Saviour, the LORD of hosts is his name, the Holy One of Israel.
Good News Translation
The holy God of Israel sets us free— his name is the Lord Almighty.
Lexham English Bible
Our redeemer, Yahweh of hosts is his name, the holy one of Israel.
Literal Translation
Our Redeemer; Jehovah of Hosts is His name, the Holy One of Israel.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
saieth oure redemer, which is called the LORDE of hoostes, the holy one of Israel.
American Standard Version
Our Redeemer, Jehovah of hosts is his name, the Holy One of Israel.
Bible in Basic English
Says the Lord who takes up our cause; the Lord of armies is his name, the Holy One of Israel.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Our Redeemer, the LORD of hosts is His name, The Holy One of Israel.
King James Version (1611)
As for our redeemer, the Lord of hostes is his Name, the Holy one of Israel.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Our redeemer is called the Lorde of hoastes, the holy one of Israel.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Thy deliverer is the Lord of hosts, the Holy One of Israel is his name.
English Revised Version
Our redeemer, the LORD of hosts is his name, the Holy One of Israel.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Oure ayen biere, the Lord of oostis is his name, the hooli of Israel.
Update Bible Version
Our Redeemer, Yahweh of hosts is his name, the Holy One of Israel.
Webster's Bible Translation
[As for] our Redeemer, the LORD of hosts [is] his name, the Holy One of Israel.
New English Translation
says our protector— the Lord who commands armies is his name, the Holy One of Israel.
New King James Version
As for our Redeemer, the LORD of hosts is His name, The Holy One of Israel.
New Living Translation
Our Redeemer, whose name is the Lord of Heaven's Armies, is the Holy One of Israel.
New Life Bible
The One Who bought us and saves us, the Lord of All is His name, the Holy One of Israel.
New Revised Standard
Our Redeemer—the Lord of hosts is his name— is the Holy One of Israel.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Our Redeemer, Yahweh of hosts, is his name! The Holy One of Israel.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Our redeemer, the Lord of hosts is his name, the Holy One of Israel.
Revised Standard Version
Our Redeemer--the LORD of hosts is his name--is the Holy One of Israel.
Young's Literal Translation
Our redeemer [is] Jehovah of Hosts, His name [is] the Holy One of Israel.
THE MESSAGE
Our Redeemer speaks, named God -of-the-Angel-Armies, The Holy of Israel: "Shut up and get out of the way, daughter of Chaldeans. You'll no longer be called ‘First Lady of the Kingdoms.' I was fed up with my people, thoroughly disgusted with my progeny. I turned them over to you, but you had no compassion. You put old men and women to cruel, hard labor. You said, ‘I'm the First Lady. I'll always be the pampered darling.' You took nothing seriously, took nothing to heart, never gave tomorrow a thought. Well, start thinking, playgirl. You're acting like the center of the universe, Smugly saying to yourself, ‘I'm Number One. There's nobody but me. I'll never be a widow, I'll never lose my children.' Those two things are going to hit you both at once, suddenly, on the same day: Spouse and children gone, a total loss, despite your many enchantments and charms. You were so confident and comfortable in your evil life, saying, ‘No one sees me.' You thought you knew so much, had everything figured out. What delusion! Smugly telling yourself, ‘I'm Number One. There's nobody but me.' Ruin descends— you can't charm it away. Disaster strikes— you can't cast it off with spells. Catastrophe, sudden and total— and you're totally at sea, totally bewildered! But don't give up. From your great repertoire of enchantments there must be one you haven't yet tried. You've been at this a long time. Surely something will work. I know you're exhausted trying out remedies, but don't give up. Call in the astrologers and stargazers. They're good at this. Surely they can work up something!
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Our Redeemer, the LORD of hosts is His name, The Holy One of Israel.

Contextual Overview

1 "Fall down and sit in the dirt, Virgin Daughter Babylon. You have no throne, so sit on the ground, daughter of the Chaldeans. You are not the ruler now. You are no longer the beautiful young princess that people said you were. 2 Get the millstones ready and grind the grain into flour. Take off your veil and fancy clothes. Lift your skirt and get ready to cross the rivers. 3 Men will see your naked body and use you for sex. I will make you pay for the bad things you did, and I will not let anyone help you. 4 "My people say, ‘God saves us. His name is the Lord All-Powerful, the Holy One of Israel.'" 5 "So Babylon, sit down and shut up. Daughter of the Chaldeans, go into the dark prison. You will no longer be ‘The Queen of the Kingdoms.' 6 "I was angry with my people. They were mine, but I turned against them. I let you punish them, but you showed them no mercy. Even for those who were old you made the work hard.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

our redeemer: Isaiah 41:14, Isaiah 43:3, Isaiah 43:14, Isaiah 44:6, Isaiah 49:26, Isaiah 54:5, Jeremiah 31:11, Jeremiah 50:33, Jeremiah 50:34

Reciprocal: Genesis 48:16 - Angel 2 Samuel 6:2 - whose name Psalms 19:14 - redeemer Isaiah 48:2 - The Lord Isaiah 51:15 - The Lord Jeremiah 10:16 - The Lord Jeremiah 46:18 - saith Jeremiah 51:19 - the Lord Amos 4:13 - The Lord Revelation 3:7 - he that is holy

Cross-References

Genesis 12:10
During this time there was not enough food in the land, so Abram went down to Egypt to live.
Genesis 15:13
Then the Lord said to Abram, "You should know this: Your descendants will live in a country that is not their own. They will be strangers there. The people there will make them slaves and be cruel to them for 400 years.
Genesis 43:1
The famine was very bad in that country.
Genesis 46:34
You tell him, ‘We are shepherds. All our lives we have been shepherds, and our ancestors were shepherds before us.' Then Pharaoh will allow you to live in the land of Goshen. Egyptians don't like shepherds, so it is better that you stay in Goshen."
Deuteronomy 26:5
Then there before the Lord your God you will say: ‘My ancestor was a wandering Aramean. He went down into Egypt and stayed there. When he went there, he had only a few people in his family. But in Egypt he became a great nation—a powerful nation with many people.
Psalms 105:23
Then Israel came to Egypt. Jacob lived there in Ham's country.
Isaiah 52:4
The Lord God says, "First, my people went down to Egypt and became slaves. Then Assyria made them slaves.
Acts 7:6
"This is what God said to him: ‘Your descendants will live in another country. They will be strangers. The people there will make them slaves and mistreat them for 400 years.
Acts 7:11
But all the land of Egypt and of Canaan became dry. It became so dry that food could not grow, and the people suffered very much. Our people could not find anything to eat.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

As for our Redeemer,.... Or, "saith our Redeemer", as it may be supplied e: or, "our Redeemer" will do this; inflict this punishment on Babylon, even he who has undertook our cause, and will deliver us from the Babylonish yoke, and return us to our land: these are the words of the Lord's people, expressing their faith in the things foretold of Babylon, and in their own deliverance:

the Lord of hosts is his name; and therefore able to redeem his people, and destroy his enemies, being the Lord of armies above and below, and having all at his command:

the Holy One of Israel; the sanctifier of them, their covenant God, and therefore will save them, and destroy their enemies, being hateful to him, because unholy and impure.

e "[Inquit] viudex noster", Junius Tremellius "hoc dicit", Piscator.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

As for our Redeemer - This verse stands absolutely, and is not connected with the preceding or the following. It seems to be an expression of admiration, or of grateful surprise, by which the prophet saw Yahweh as the Redeemer of his people. He saw, in vision, Babylon humbled, and, full of the subject, he breaks out into an expression of grateful surprise and rejoicing. ‘O! our Redeemer! it is the work of our Saviour, the Holy One of Israel! How great is his power! How faithful is he! How manifestly is he revealed! Babylon is destroyed. Her idols could not save her. Her destruction has been accomplished by him who is the Redeemer of his people, and the Holy One of Israel.’ Lowth regards this verse as the language of a chorus that breaks in upon the midst of the subject, celebrating the praises of God. The subject is resumed in the next verse.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Isaiah 47:4. Our Redeemer - "Our Avenger"] Here a chorus breaks in upon the midst of the subject, with a change of construction, as well as sentiment, from the longer to the shorter kind of verse, for one distich only; after which the former subject and style are resumed. Isaiah 45:16.


 
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