Isaiah 46:3

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Summary

Hearken unto me, O house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house of Israel, which are borne by me from the belly, which are carried from the womb:

The remnant

Borne

General references

Luke 1:54

2 Corinthians 1:10

Bible References

The remnant

If the Lord of armies had not kept some at least of us safe, we would have been like Sodom, and the fate of Gomorrah would have been ours.

For though your people, O Israel, are as the sand of the sea, only a small number will come back: for the destruction is fixed, overflowing in righteousness.

And in that day the hand of the Lord will be stretched out the second time to get back the rest of his people, from Assyria, and from Egypt, and from Pathros, and from Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the sea-lands.

It may be that the Lord your God will give ear to the words of the Rab-shakeh, whom the king of Assyria, his master, has sent to say evil things against the living God, and will make his words come to nothing: so make your prayer for the rest of the people.

Borne

And now, give ear, O Jacob my servant, and Israel whom I have taken for myself:

Give ear, O sea-lands, to me; and take note, you peoples from far: I have been marked out by the Lord from the first; when I was still in my mother's body, he had my name in mind:

It was no sent one or angel, but he himself who was their saviour: in his love and in his pity he took up their cause, and he took them in his arms, caring for them all through the years.

You have seen what I did to the Egyptians, and how I took you, as on eagles' wings, guiding you to myself.

And in the waste land, where you have seen how the Lord was supporting you, as a man does his son, in all your journeying till you came to this place.

As an eagle, teaching her young to make their flight, with her wings outstretched over them, takes them up on her strong feathers:

But it was you who took care of me from the day of my birth: you gave me faith even from my mother's breasts.

You have been my support from the day of my birth; you took me out of my mother's body; my praise will be ever of you.

And when I went past you and saw you stretched out in your blood, I said to you, Though you are stretched out in your blood, have life;

General references

His help he has given to Israel, his servant, so that he might keep in mind his mercy to Abraham and his seed for ever,

Who gave us salvation from so great a death: on whom we have put our hope that he will still go on to give us salvation;