Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

“But you, Israel, My servant,
Jacob whom I have chosen,
Descendant of Abraham My friend,

King James Version

But thou, Israel, art my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham my friend.

Holman Bible

But you, Israel, My servant,
Jacob, whom I have chosen,
descendant of Abraham, My friend

International Standard Version

"But as for you, Israel, my servant, Jacob, whom I've chosen, the offspring of my friend Abraham

A Conservative Version

But thou, Israel, my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham my friend,

American Standard Version

But thou, Israel, my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham my friend,

Amplified


“But you, Israel, My servant,
Jacob whom I have chosen,
The offspring of Abraham My friend,

Bible in Basic English

But as for you, Israel, my servant, and you, Jacob, whom I have taken for myself, the seed of Abraham my friend:

Darby Translation

But thou, Israel, my servant, Jacob, whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham, my friend

Julia Smith Translation

And thou, Israel, my servant Jacob whom I chose thee, the seed of Abraham my beloved:

King James 2000

But you, Israel, are my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the descendant of Abraham my friend.

Lexham Expanded Bible

But you, Israel, my servant, Jacob, whom I have chosen, you, the {offspring} of Abraham my {friend},

Modern King James verseion

But you, Israel, are My servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham, My friend;

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

And thou Israel, my servant; Jacob, my elect seed of Abraham my beloved,

NET Bible

"You, my servant Israel, Jacob whom I have chosen, offspring of Abraham my friend,

New Heart English Bible

"But you, Israel, my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham my friend,

The Emphasized Bible

But, thou, Israel, my Servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, - The seed of Abraham my loving one;

Webster

But thou, Israel, art my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham my friend.

World English Bible

"But you, Israel, my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham my friend,

Youngs Literal Translation

-- And thou, O Israel, My servant, Jacob, whom I have chosen, Seed of Abraham, My lover,

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
But thou, Israel
ישׂראל 
Yisra'el 
Usage: 2505

עבד 
`ebed 
Usage: 800

יעקב 
Ya`aqob 
Usage: 349

the seed
זרע 
Zera` 
Usage: 229

of Abraham
H85
אברהם 
'Abraham 
Usage: 175

Context Readings

God Helps Israel

7 The craftsman strengthens the goldsmith, and he who smooths with the hammer him who strikes the anvil, saying of the soldering, "It is good"; and they strengthen it with nails so that it cannot be moved. 8 “But you, Israel, My servant,
Jacob whom I have chosen,
Descendant of Abraham My friend,
9 you whom I took from the ends of the earth, and called from its farthest corners, saying to you, "You are my servant, I have chosen you and not cast you off";

Cross References

2 Chronicles 20:7

Did you not, our God, drive out the inhabitants of this land before your people Israel, and give it forever to the descendants of Abraham your friend?

James 2:23

and the Scripture was fulfilled that says, "Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness"--and he was called a friend of God.

Isaiah 44:1-2

"But now hear, O Jacob my servant, Israel whom I have chosen!

Deuteronomy 10:15

Yet the LORD set his heart in love on your fathers and chose their offspring after them, you above all peoples, as you are this day.

Deuteronomy 14:2

For you are a people holy to the LORD your God, and the LORD has chosen you to be a people for his treasured possession, out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth.

Psalm 135:4

For the LORD has chosen Jacob for himself, Israel as his own possession.

Isaiah 44:21

Remember these things, O Jacob, and Israel, for you are my servant; I formed you; you are my servant; O Israel, you will not be forgotten by me.

Exodus 19:5-6

Now therefore, if you will indeed obey my voice and keep my covenant, you shall be my treasured possession among all peoples, for all the earth is mine;

Leviticus 25:42

For they are my servants, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt; they shall not be sold as slaves.

Deuteronomy 7:6-8

"For you are a people holy to the LORD your God. The LORD your God has chosen you to be a people for his treasured possession, out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth.

Psalm 33:12

Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD, the people whom he has chosen as his heritage!

Psalm 105:6

O offspring of Abraham, his servant, children of Jacob, his chosen ones!

Psalm 105:42-45

For he remembered his holy promise, and Abraham, his servant.

Isaiah 29:22

Therefore thus says the LORD, who redeemed Abraham, concerning the house of Jacob: "Jacob shall no more be ashamed, no more shall his face grow pale.

Isaiah 43:1

But now thus says the LORD, he who created you, O Jacob, he who formed you, O Israel: "Fear not, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by name, you are mine.

Isaiah 48:12

"Listen to me, O Jacob, and Israel, whom I called! I am he; I am the first, and I am the last.

Isaiah 49:3

And he said to me, "You are my servant, Israel, in whom I will be glorified."

Isaiah 51:2

Look to Abraham your father and to Sarah who bore you; for he was but one when I called him, that I might bless him and multiply him.

Isaiah 63:16

For you are our Father, though Abraham does not know us, and Israel does not acknowledge us; you, O LORD, are our Father, our Redeemer from of old is your name.

Jeremiah 33:24

"Have you not observed that these people are saying, 'The LORD has rejected the two clans that he chose'? Thus they have despised my people so that they are no longer a nation in their sight.

Matthew 3:9

And do not presume to say to yourselves, 'We have Abraham as our father,' for I tell you, God is able from these stones to raise up children for Abraham.

John 8:33-44

They answered him, "We are offspring of Abraham and have never been enslaved to anyone. How is it that you say, 'You will become free'?"

John 15:14-15

You are my friends if you do what I command you.

Romans 4:12-13

and to make him the father of the circumcised who are not merely circumcised but who also walk in the footsteps of the faith that our father Abraham had before he was circumcised.

Romans 9:4-8

They are Israelites, and to them belong the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the worship, and the promises.

Galatians 3:19

Why then the law? It was added because of transgressions, until the offspring should come to whom the promise had been made, and it was put in place through angels by an intermediary.

Galatians 4:22-31

For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by a slave woman and one by a free woman.

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