Isaiah 43:11

THE MESSAGE

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
I—I am the Lord.Besides me, there is no Savior.

Hebrew Names Version
I, even I, am the LORD; and besides me there is no savior.

King James Version
I, even I, am the Lord ; and beside me there is no saviour.

English Standard Version
I, I am the Lord , and besides me there is no savior.

New American Standard Bible
"I, only I, am the LORD, And there is no savior besides Me.

New Century Version
I myself am the Lord ; I am the only Savior.

Amplified Bible
"I, [only] I, am the LORD, And there is no Savior besides Me.

World English Bible
I, even I, am Yahweh; and besides me there is no savior.

Geneva Bible (1587)
I, euen I am the Lorde, and beside me there is no Sauiour.

Legacy Standard Bible
I, even I, am Yahweh,And there is no savior besides Me.

Berean Standard Bible
I, yes I, am the LORD, and there is no Savior but Me.

Contemporary English Version
I alone am the Lord ; only I can rescue you.

Complete Jewish Bible
I, yes I, am Adonai ; besides me there is no deliverer.

Darby Translation
I, I [am] Jehovah; and besides me there is no saviour.

Easy-to-Read Version
I myself am the Lord , and there is no other Savior.

George Lamsa Translation
I, even I, am the LORD; and besides me there is no lord.

Good News Translation
"I alone am the Lord , the only one who can save you.

Lexham English Bible
I myself am Yahweh, and there is no savior besides me!

Literal Translation
I, I am Jehovah; and there is no Savior besides Me.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
I am only the LORDE, and without me is there no Sauioure.

American Standard Version
I, even I, am Jehovah; and besides me there is no saviour.

Bible in Basic English
I, even I, am the Lord; and there is no saviour but me.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
I, even I, am the LORD; and beside Me there is no saviour.

King James Version (1611)
I, euen I am the Lord, and beside me there is no Sauiour.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
I am, euen I am the only Lord, and beside me there is no sauiour.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
I am God; and beside me there is no Saviour.

English Revised Version
I, even I, am the LORD; and beside me there is no saviour.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Y am, Y am the Lord, and with out me is no sauyour.

Update Bible Version
I, even I, am Yahweh; and besides me there is no savior.

Webster's Bible Translation
I, [even] I, [am] the LORD; and besides me [there is] no savior.

New English Translation
I, I am the Lord , and there is no deliverer besides me.

New King James Version
I, even I, am the LORD, And besides Me there is no savior.

New Living Translation
I, yes I, am the Lord , and there is no other Savior.

New Life Bible
I, even I, am the Lord. There is no one who saves except Me.

New Revised Standard
I, I am the Lord , and besides me there is no savior.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
I - I, am Yahweh, - And there is none besides me ready to save:

Douay-Rheims Bible
I am, I am the Lord: and there is no saviour besides me.

Revised Standard Version
I, I am the LORD, and besides me there is no savior.

Young's Literal Translation
I -- I [am] Jehovah, And besides Me there is no saviour.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"I, even I, am the LORD, And there is no savior besides Me.

Contextual Overview

⁸Get the blind and deaf out here and ready— the blind (though there's nothing wrong with their eyes) and the deaf (though there's nothing wrong with their ears). Then get the other nations out here and ready. Let's see what they have to say about this, how they account for what's happened. Let them present their expert witnesses and make their case; let them try to convince us what they say is true. "But you are my witnesses." God 's Decree. "You're my handpicked servant So that you'll come to know and trust me, understand both that I am and who I am. Previous to me there was no such thing as a god, nor will there be after me. I, yes I, am God . I'm the only Savior there is. I spoke, I saved, I told you what existed long before these upstart gods appeared on the scene. And you know it, you're my witnesses, you're the evidence." God 's Decree. "Yes, I am God. I've always been God and I always will be God. No one can take anything from me. I make; who can unmake it?"

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Isaiah 43:3, Isaiah 12:2, Isaiah 45:21, Isaiah 45:22, Deuteronomy 6:4, Hosea 1:7, Hosea 13:4, Luke 1:47, Luke 2:11, John 10:28-30, Acts 4:12, Titus 2:10, Titus 2:13, Titus 3:4-6, 2 Peter 3:18, 1 John 4:14, 1 John 5:20, 1 John 5:21, Jude 1:25, Revelation 1:11, Revelation 1:17, Revelation 1:18, Revelation 7:10-12

Reciprocal: Exodus 6:2 - I am the Lord Exodus 12:12 - I am the Lord Exodus 14:13 - see the Deuteronomy 32:12 - no strange Deuteronomy 33:26 - none 1 Samuel 2:2 - none beside 2 Kings 5:15 - now I know Psalms 3:8 - Salvation Isaiah 37:16 - thou art Isaiah 43:25 - even I Isaiah 44:6 - beside Isaiah 45:15 - O God Isaiah 63:8 - so he Jeremiah 3:23 - in the Lord Jeremiah 14:8 - saviour Malachi 3:6 - I am John 5:23 - all men Acts 5:31 - a Saviour Acts 13:23 - raised Colossians 1:17 - he 1 Timothy 1:1 - God

Cross-References

Genesis 33:10
Jacob said, "Please. If you can find it in your heart to welcome me, accept these gifts. When I saw your face, it was as the face of God smiling on me. Accept the gifts I have brought for you. God has been good to me and I have more than enough." Jacob urged the gifts on him and Esau accepted.

Leviticus 20:24
"I've told you, remember, that you will possess their land that I'm giving to you as an inheritance, a land flowing with milk and honey. I am God , your God, who has distinguished you from the nations. So live like it: Distinguish between ritually clean and unclean animals and birds. Don't pollute yourselves with any animal or bird or crawling thing which I have marked out as unclean for you. Live holy lives before me because I, God , am holy. I have distinguished you from the nations to be my very own.

1 Samuel 9:7
Saul said, "If we go, what do we have to give him? There's no more bread in our sacks. We've nothing to bring as a gift to the holy man. Do we have anything else?"

1 Samuel 25:27
To Fight God's Battles Samuel died. The whole country came to his funeral. Everyone grieved over his death, and he was buried in his hometown of Ramah. Meanwhile, David moved again, this time to the wilderness of Maon. There was a certain man in Maon who carried on his business in the region of Carmel. He was very prosperous—three thousand sheep and a thousand goats, and it was sheep-shearing time in Carmel. The man's name was Nabal (Fool), a Calebite, and his wife's name was Abigail. The woman was intelligent and good-looking, the man brutish and mean. David, out in the backcountry, heard that Nabal was shearing his sheep and sent ten of his young men off with these instructions: "Go to Carmel and approach Nabal. Greet him in my name, ‘Peace! Life and peace to you. Peace to your household, peace to everyone here! I heard that it's sheep-shearing time. Here's the point: When your shepherds were camped near us we didn't take advantage of them. They didn't lose a thing all the time they were with us in Carmel. Ask your young men—they'll tell you. What I'm asking is that you be generous with my men—share the feast! Give whatever your heart tells you to your servants and to me, David your son.'" David's young men went and delivered his message word for word to Nabal. Nabal tore into them, "Who is this David? Who is this son of Jesse? The country is full of runaway servants these days. Do you think I'm going to take good bread and wine and meat freshly butchered for my sheepshearers and give it to men I've never laid eyes on? Who knows where they've come from?" David's men got out of there and went back and told David what he had said. David said, "Strap on your swords!" They all strapped on their swords, David and his men, and set out, four hundred of them. Two hundred stayed behind to guard the camp. Meanwhile, one of the young shepherds told Abigail, Nabal's wife, what had happened: "David sent messengers from the backcountry to salute our master, but he tore into them with insults. Yet these men treated us very well. They took nothing from us and didn't take advantage of us all the time we were in the fields. They formed a wall around us, protecting us day and night all the time we were out tending the sheep. Do something quickly because big trouble is ahead for our master and all of us. Nobody can talk to him. He's impossible—a real brute!" Abigail flew into action. She took two hundred loaves of bread, two skins of wine, five sheep dressed out and ready for cooking, a bushel of roasted grain, a hundred raisin cakes, and two hundred fig cakes, and she had it all loaded on some donkeys. Then she said to her young servants, "Go ahead and pave the way for me. I'm right behind you." But she said nothing to her husband Nabal. As she was riding her donkey, descending into a ravine, David and his men were descending from the other end, so they met there on the road. David had just said, "That sure was a waste, guarding everything this man had out in the wild so that nothing he had was lost—and now he rewards me with insults. A real slap in the face! May God do his worst to me if Nabal and every cur in his misbegotten brood aren't dead meat by morning!" As soon as Abigail saw David, she got off her donkey and fell on her knees at his feet, her face to the ground in homage, saying, "My master, let me take the blame! Let me speak to you. Listen to what I have to say. Don't dwell on what that brute Nabal did. He acts out the meaning of his name: Nabal, Fool. Foolishness oozes from him. "I wasn't there when the young men my master sent arrived. I didn't see them. And now, my master, as God lives and as you live, God has kept you from this avenging murder—and may your enemies, all who seek my master's harm, end up like Nabal! Now take this gift that I, your servant girl, have brought to my master, and give it to the young men who follow in the steps of my master.

2 Kings 8:8
The king ordered Hazael, "Take a gift with you and go meet the Holy Man. Ask God through him, ‘Am I going to recover from this sickness?'"

2 Kings 20:12
Shortly after this, Merodach-Baladan, the son of Baladan king of Babylon, having heard that the king was sick, sent a get-well card and a gift to Hezekiah. Hezekiah was pleased and showed the messengers around the place—silver, gold, spices, aromatic oils, his stockpile of weapons—a guided tour of all his prized possessions. There wasn't a thing in his palace or kingdom that Hezekiah didn't show them.

Psalms 76:11
Do for God what you said you'd do— he is, after all, your God. Let everyone in town bring offerings to the One Who Watches our every move. Nobody gets by with anything, no one plays fast and loose with him.

Proverbs 17:18
It's stupid to try to get something for nothing, or run up huge bills you can never pay.

Proverbs 18:16
A gift gets attention; it buys the attention of eminent people.

Proverbs 19:6
Lots of people flock around a generous person; everyone's a friend to the philanthropist.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

I, even I, am the Lord,.... Jehovah, the self-existing, eternal, and immutable Being; this is doubled for the confirmation of it, and to exclude all others:

and besides me there is no Saviour; either in a temporal or spiritual sense; the gods of the Heathens could not save them out of their present troubles, and much less save them with an everlasting salvation; none but God can do this, and this is a proof that Christ is God, since none but God can be a Saviour.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

I, even I, am the Lord - The repetition of the pronoun ‘I’ makes it emphatic. The design is, to affirm that there was no other being to whom the name ‘Yahweh’ pertained. There was no other one who had the attributes which the name involved; there was, therefore, no other God. On the meanins of the word Yahweh, see the note at Isaiah 1:2.

And beside me there is no Saviour - There is no one who can deliver from oppression, and captivity, and exile, such as the Jews suffered in Babylon; there is no one but he who can save from sin, and from hell. All salvation, therefore, must come from God; and if we obtain deliverance from temporal ills, or from eternal death, we must seek it from him.