Isaiah 43:4

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

Since thou wast precious in Mine eyes, Thou wast honoured, and I have loved thee, And I appoint men in thy stead, And peoples instead of thy life.

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  • Exod 19:5-6 : 5 `And now, if ye really hearken to My voice, then ye have kept My covenant, and been to Me a peculiar treasure more than all the peoples, for all the earth `is' Mine; 6 and ye -- ye are to Me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation: these `are' the words which thou dost speak unto the sons of Israel.'
  • Gen 12:2 : 2 And I make thee become a great nation, and bless thee, and make thy name great; and be thou a blessing.
  • Deut 32:9-9 : 9 For Jehovah's portion `is' His people, Jacob `is' the line of His inheritance. 10 He findeth him in a land -- a desert, And in a void -- a howling wilderness, He turneth him round -- He causeth him to understand -- He keepeth him as the apple of His eye. 11 As an eagle waketh up its nest, Over its young ones fluttereth, Spreadeth its wings -- taketh them, Beareth them on its pinions; -- 12 Jehovah alone doth lead him, And there is no strange god with him. 13 He maketh him ride on high places of earth, And he eateth increase of the fields, And He maketh him suck honey from a rock, And oil out of the flint of a rock; 14 Butter of the herd, and milk of the flock, With fat of lambs, and rams, sons of Bashan, And he-goats, with fat of kidneys of wheat; And of the blood of the grape thou dost drink wine!
  • 1 Pet 1:7 : 7 that the proof of your faith -- much more precious than of gold that is perishing, and through fire being approved -- may be found to praise, and honour, and glory, in the revelation of Jesus Christ,
  • 1 Pet 2:9 : 9 and ye `are' a choice race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people acquired, that the excellences ye may shew forth of Him who out of darkness did call you to His wondrous light;
  • Rev 3:9 : 9 lo, I make of the synagogue of the Adversary those saying themselves to be Jews, and are not, but do lie; lo, I will make them that they may come and bow before thy feet, and may know that I loved thee.
  • Deut 7:6-8 : 6 for a holy people `art' thou to Jehovah thy God; on thee hath Jehovah thy God fixed, to be to Him for a peculiar people, out of all the peoples who `are' on the face of the ground. 7 `Not because of your being more numerous than any of the peoples hath Jehovah delighted in you, and fixeth on you, for ye `are' the least of all the peoples, 8 but because of Jehovah's loving you, and because of His keeping the oath which He hath sworn to your fathers, hath Jehovah brought you out by a strong hand, and doth ransom you from a house of servants, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.
  • Deut 14:2 : 2 for a holy people `art' thou to Jehovah thy God, and on thee hath Jehovah fixed to be to Him for a people, a peculiar treasure, out of all the peoples who `are' on the face of the ground.
  • Deut 26:18 : 18 `And Jehovah hath caused thee to promise to-day to become His people, a peculiar treasure, as He hath spoken to thee, and to keep all His commands;
  • Ps 112:9 : 9 He hath scattered -- hath given to the needy, His righteousness is standing for ever, His horn is exalted with honour.
  • Ps 135:4 : 4 For Jacob hath Jah chosen for Himself, Israel for His peculiar treasure.
  • Isa 63:9 : 9 In all their distress `He is' no adversary, And the messenger of His presence saved them, In His love and in His pity He redeemed them, And He doth lift them up, And beareth them all the days of old.
  • Jer 31:3 : 3 From afar Jehovah hath appeared to me, With love age-during I have loved thee, Therefore I have drawn thee `with' kindness.
  • Hos 11:1 : 1 Because Israel `is' a youth, and I love him, Out of Egypt I have called for My Son.
  • Mal 1:2 : 2 I have loved you, said Jehovah, And ye have said, `In what hast Thou loved us?'
  • Mal 3:17 : 17 And they have been to Me, said Jehovah of Hosts, In the day that I am appointing -- a peculiar treasure, And I have had pity on them, As one hath pity on his son who is serving him.
  • John 5:44 : 44 how are ye able -- ye -- to believe, glory from one another receiving, and the glory that `is' from God alone ye seek not?
  • John 16:27 : 27 for the Father himself doth love you, because me ye have loved, and ye have believed that I from God came forth;
  • John 17:23 : 23 I in them, and Thou in me, that they may be perfected into one, and that the world may know that Thou didst send me, and didst love them as Thou didst love me.
  • John 17:26 : 26 and I made known to them Thy name, and will make known, that the love with which Thou lovedst me in them may be, and I in them.'
  • Titus 2:14 : 14 who did give himself for us, that he might ransom us from all lawlessness, and might purify to himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works;

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