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the Week of Proper 9 / Ordinary 14
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Isaiah 43:21

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Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Church;   God;   Gospel;   Praise;   The Topic Concordance - Calling;   Choosing/chosen;   Curses;   Forgetting;   Israel/jews;   Transgression;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Missionaries, All Christians Should Be as;   Praise;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Election;   Exodus;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Praise;   Predestination;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Isaiah;   New;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Election;   Micah, Book of;   Righteousness;   Servant of the Lord;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Election;   People ;   Praise;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - 15 Peculiar (People), Purchased Possession;  

Encyclopedias:

- The Jewish Encyclopedia - God;   Judaism;  

Devotionals:

- Daily Light on the Daily Path - Devotion for December 14;  

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.
Easy-to-Read Version
I made them, and they will sing songs of praise to me.
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 God , your Redeemer, The Holy of Israel, says: "Just for you, I will march on Babylon. I'll turn the tables on the Babylonians. Instead of whooping it up, they'll be wailing. I am God , your Holy One, Creator of Israel, your King." 16This is what God says, the God who builds a road right through the ocean, who carves a path through pounding waves, The God who summons horses and chariots and armies— they lie down and then can't get up; they're snuffed out like so many candles: "Forget about what's happened; don't keep going over old history. Be alert, be present. I'm about to do something brand-new. It's bursting out! Don't you see it? There it is! I'm making a road through the desert, rivers in the badlands. Wild animals will say ‘Thank you!' —the coyotes and the buzzards— Because I provided water in the desert, rivers through the sun-baked earth, Drinking water for the people I chose, the people I made especially for myself, a people custom-made to praise 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 43:15
The men took the gifts, double the money, and Benjamin. They lost no time in getting to Egypt and meeting Joseph. When Joseph saw that they had Benjamin with them, he told his house steward, "Take these men into the house and make them at home. Butcher an animal and prepare a meal; these men are going to eat with me at noon."
Genesis 43:27
Joseph welcomed them and said, "And your old father whom you mentioned to me, how is he? Is he still alive?"
Romans 12:17
Don't hit back; discover beauty in everyone. If you've got it in you, get along with everybody. Don't insist on getting even; that's not for you to do. "I'll do the judging," says God. "I'll take care of it."
Romans 13:8
Don't run up debts, except for the huge debt of love you owe each other. When you love others, you complete what the law has been after all along. The law code—don't sleep with another person's spouse, don't take someone's life, don't take what isn't yours, don't always be wanting what you don't have, and any other "don't" you can think of—finally adds up to this: Love other people as well as you do yourself. You can't go wrong when you love others. When you add up everything in the law code, the sum total is love.
Hebrews 13:5
Don't be obsessed with getting more material things. Be relaxed with what you have. Since God assured us, "I'll never let you down, never walk off and leave you," we can boldly quote, God is there, ready to help; I'm fearless no matter what. Who or what can get to me?
Hebrews 13:18
Pray for us. We have no doubts about what we're doing or why, but it's hard going and we need your prayers. All we care about is living well before God. Pray that we may be together soon. May God, who puts all things together, makes all things whole, Who made a lasting mark through the sacrifice of Jesus, the sacrifice of blood that sealed the eternal covenant, Who led Jesus, our Great Shepherd, up and alive from the dead, Now put you together, provide you with everything you need to please him, Make us into what gives him most pleasure, by means of the sacrifice of Jesus, the Messiah. All glory to Jesus forever and always! Oh, yes, yes, yes.

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.


 
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