Isaiah 45:4

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Summary

For Jacob my servant's sake, and Israel mine elect, I have even called thee by thy name: I have surnamed thee, though thou hast not known me.

Jacob

I have even

Isaiah 45:1

Isaiah 44:28

Though

Bible References

Jacob

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

For I [am] Yahweh, your God, the holy one of Israel, your savior. I give you Egypt [as] ransom, Cush and Seba in place of you.

"But now hear, Jacob my servant, and Israel, whom I have chosen.

And now if you will carefully listen to my voice and keep my covenant, you will be a treasured possession for me out of all the peoples, {for all the earth is mine},

Israel [is] a sheep scattered, lions drove [them] away. [The] first who devoured it [was] the king of Assyria, and now [at] the end Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, gnawed its bones."

And unless those days had been shortened, {no human being would be saved}. But for the sake of the elect, those days will be shortened.

And if the Lord had not shortened the days, {no human being would be saved}. But for the sake of the elect, whom he chose, he has shortened the days.

But [it is] not as if the word of God had failed. For not all those [who are descended] from Israel [are truly] Israel,

What then? What Israel was searching for, this it did not obtain. But the elect obtained [it], and the rest were hardened,

I have even

Thus says Yahweh to his anointed one, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have grasped to subjugate nations before him, and I uncover [the] loins of kings to open doors before him, and [the] gates shall not be shut:

who says of Cyrus, 'My shepherd,' and he shall carry out all my wishes; and saying of Jerusalem, 'It shall be rebuilt,' and [the] temple, 'It shall be founded.'"

Though

For [as I] was passing through and observing carefully your objects of worship, I even found an altar on which was inscribed, 'To an unknown God.' Therefore what you worship without knowing [it], this I proclaim to you--

But at that time [when you] did not know God, you were enslaved to the things which by nature are not gods.

that you were at that time apart from Christ, alienated from the citizenship of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of promise, not having hope, and without God in the world.

not in lustful passion, just as also the Gentiles who do not know God;