Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version For I am the LORD your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior; I give Egypt for your ransom, Cush and Seba in your stead. New Living Translation For I am the LORD, your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior. I gave Egypt as a ransom for your freedom; I gave Ethiopia and Seba in your place. English Standard Version For I am the LORD your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior. I give Egypt as your ransom, Cush and Seba in exchange for you. Berean Standard Bible For I am the LORD your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior; I give Egypt for your ransom, Cush and Seba in your place. King James Bible For I am the LORD thy God, the Holy One of Israel, thy Saviour: I gave Egypt for thy ransom, Ethiopia and Seba for thee. New King James Version For I am the LORD your God, The Holy One of Israel, your Savior; I gave Egypt for your ransom, Ethiopia and Seba in your place. New American Standard Bible “For I am the LORD your God, The Holy One of Israel, your Savior; I have given Egypt as your ransom, Cush and Seba in exchange for you. NASB 1995 “For I am the LORD your God, The Holy One of Israel, your Savior; I have given Egypt as your ransom, Cush and Seba in your place. NASB 1977 “For I am the LORD your God, The Holy One of Israel, your Savior; I have given Egypt as your ransom, Cush and Seba in your place. Legacy Standard Bible For I am Yahweh your God, The Holy One of Israel, your Savior; I have given Egypt as your ransom, Ethiopia and Seba in your place. Amplified Bible “For I am the LORD your God, The Holy One of Israel, your Savior; I have given Egypt [to the Babylonians] as your ransom, Cush (ancient Ethiopia) and Seba [its province] in exchange for you. Christian Standard Bible For I am the LORD your God, the Holy One of Israel, and your Savior. I have given Egypt as a ransom for you, Cush and Seba in your place. Holman Christian Standard Bible For I Yahweh your God, the Holy One of Israel, and your Savior, give Egypt as a ransom for you, Cush and Seba in your place. American Standard Version For I am Jehovah thy God, the Holy One of Israel, thy Saviour; I have given Egypt as thy ransom, Ethiopia and Seba in thy stead. Aramaic Bible in Plain English Because I AM LORD JEHOVAH your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior. I have given Egypt in exchange for you, and Kush and Sheba for your face Brenton Septuagint Translation For I am the Lord thy God, the Holy One of Israel, that saves thee: I have made Egypt and Ethiopia thy ransom, and given Soene for thee. Contemporary English Version I am the LORD, your God, the Holy One of Israel, the God who saves you. I gave up Egypt, Ethiopia, and the region of Seba in exchange for you. Douay-Rheims Bible For I am the Lord thy God, the Holy One of Israel, thy Saviour: I have given Egypt for thy atonement, Ethiopia and Saba for thee. English Revised Version For I am the LORD thy God, the Holy One of Israel, thy saviour; I have given Egypt as thy ransom, Ethiopia and Seba for thee. GOD'S WORD® Translation I am the LORD your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior. Egypt is the ransom I exchanged for you. Sudan and Seba are the price I paid for you. Good News Translation For I am the LORD your God, the holy God of Israel, who saves you. I will give up Egypt to set you free; I will give up Ethiopia and Seba. International Standard Version "I am the LORD your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Redeemer. And I've given Egypt as your ransom, Cush and the people of Seba in exchange for you. JPS Tanakh 1917 For I am the LORD thy God, The Holy One of Israel, thy Saviour; I have given Egypt as thy ransom, Ethiopia and Seba for thee. Literal Standard Version For I—your God YHWH, | The Holy One of Israel, your Savior, | I have appointed Egypt your atonement, | Cush and Seba in your stead. Majority Standard Bible For I am the LORD your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior; I give Egypt for your ransom, Cush and Seba in your place. New American Bible For I, the LORD, am your God, the Holy One of Israel, your savior. I give Egypt as ransom for you, Ethiopia and Seba in exchange for you. NET Bible For I am the LORD your God, the Holy One of Israel, your deliverer. I have handed over Egypt as a ransom price, Ethiopia and Seba in place of you. New Revised Standard Version For I am the LORD your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior. I give Egypt as your ransom, Ethiopia and Seba in exchange for you. New Heart English Bible For I am the LORD your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior. I have given Egypt as your ransom, Ethiopia and Seba in your place. Webster's Bible Translation For I am the LORD thy God, the Holy One of Israel, thy Savior: I gave Egypt for thy ransom, Cush and Seba for thee. World English Bible For I am Yahweh your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior. I have given Egypt as your ransom, Ethiopia and Seba in your place. Young's Literal Translation For I -- Jehovah thy God, The Holy One of Israel, thy Saviour, I have appointed Egypt thine atonement, Cush and Seba in thy stead. Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context Israel's Only Savior…2When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and when you go through the rivers, they will not overwhelm you. When you walk through the fire, you will not be scorched; the flames will not set you ablaze. 3For I am the LORD your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior; I give Egypt for your ransom, Cush and Seba in your place. 4Because you are precious and honored in My sight, and because I love you, I will give men in exchange for you and nations in place of your life.… Cross References Genesis 10:7 The sons of Cush: Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah, and Sabteca. And the sons of Raamah: Sheba and Dedan. Exodus 20:2 "I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. Leviticus 11:44 For I am the LORD your God; consecrate yourselves, therefore, and be holy, because I am holy. You must not defile yourselves by any creature that crawls along the ground. Psalm 72:10 May the kings of Tarshish and distant shores bring tribute; may the kings of Sheba and Seba offer gifts. Proverbs 21:18 The wicked become a ransom for the righteous, and the faithless for the upright. Isaiah 19:20 It will be a sign and a witness to the LORD of Hosts in the land of Egypt. When they cry out to the LORD because of their oppressors, He will send them a savior and defender to rescue them. Isaiah 20:3 Then the LORD said, "Just as My servant Isaiah has gone naked and barefoot for three years as a sign and omen against Egypt and Cush, Treasury of Scripture For I am the LORD your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior: I gave Egypt for your ransom, Ethiopia and Seba for you. the Holy One Isaiah 30:11 Get you out of the way, turn aside out of the path, cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us. Isaiah 41:14 Fear not, thou worm Jacob, and ye men of Israel; I will help thee, saith the LORD, and thy redeemer, the Holy One of Israel. Isaiah 45:15,21 Verily thou art a God that hidest thyself, O God of Israel, the Saviour… I gave Exodus 10:7 And Pharaoh's servants said unto him, How long shall this man be a snare unto us? let the men go, that they may serve the LORD their God: knowest thou not yet that Egypt is destroyed? 2 Chronicles 14:9-14 And there came out against them Zerah the Ethiopian with an host of a thousand thousand, and three hundred chariots; and came unto Mareshah… Proverbs 11:8 The righteous is delivered out of trouble, and the wicked cometh in his stead. Jump to Previous Appointed Atonement Cush Egypt Ethiopia Exchange Holy Israel Price Ransom Savior Saviour Seba SteadJump to Next Appointed Atonement Cush Egypt Ethiopia Exchange Holy Israel Price Ransom Savior Saviour Seba SteadIsaiah 43 1. The Lord comforts the church with his promises.8. He appeals to the people for witness of his omnipotence 14. He foretells them the destruction of Babylon 18. And his wonderful deliverance of his people 22. He reproves the people as inexcusable (3) I gave Egypt for thy ransom . . .--Speaking after the manner of men, the prophet paints Jehovah as surrendering Egypt and other kingdoms to the arms of Cyrus, as if they were a price paid to him for liberating the Jews of Babylon. Ethiopia (Heb., C-sh) may be taken of either the Asiatic or African people that bore that name--Seba as Meroe, between the Blue and White Nile, the modern Dar Sennar. Historically, the words find a fulfilment in the conquest of Egypt by Cambyses, who carried into effect his father's plans. For the thought of the "ransom" comp. Proverbs 11:8; Proverbs 21:18, and the next verse. As a man would sacrifice any number of slaves to ransom a son, so was it in Jehovah's dealings with His people.Verse 3. - The Holy One of Israel (comp. Isaiah 41:14, 20, with the comment). Thy Saviour. He who had saved them front Pharaoh (Exodus 14:23-31), from Jabin (Judges 4.), from Midian (Judges 7.), from the Philistines (2 Samuel 8:1), from Zerah (2 Chronicles 14:9-15), from Sennacherib (Isaiah 37:36). The term is first used of God by David in 2 Samuel 22:3 and Psalm 106:21 (if that psalm be Davidical). It is also applied to God once in Jeremiah (Jeremiah 14:8), and once in Hosea (Hosea 13:4). With Isaiah, in these later chapters it is a favourite epithet, being used of God no fewer than eight times (see ver. 11; Isaiah 45:15, 21; Isaiah 47:15; Isaiah 49:26; Isaiah 60:16; Isaiah 63:8) With his eye fixed on the deliverance of Israel out of the double captivity of sin and of Babylon, he naturally had much before him this aspect of Jehovah. I gave Egypt for thy ransom, etc.; rather, I have given; that is to say, "In my counsels I have already assigned to the Persians, as compensation for their letting thee go free, the broad countries of Egypt, Ethiopia, and Seba." Even the latest date assigned by sceptical critics to "the Second Isaiah" would make this a most remarkable prophecy. Egypt was not reduced, nor was Ethiopia made tributary to Persia until several years after the death of Cyrus, whose son, Cambyses, effected the conquests about B.C. 527-6. Human foresight could not, in the lifetime of Cyrus, have predicted with any certainty what would be the result of collision between Egypt and Persia; much less could it have ventured on the improbable supposition that the remote Ethiopia would submit itself to the Achae-menisn yoke. Yet this was the result of the invasion of Cambyses, who made Egypt a Persian province, and forced the Ethiopians to submit to the payment of an annual tribute (see Herod., 3:97; 7:69). And Seba. If "Seba" is "the land of Meroe, which is enclosed between the White and Blue Niles" (Delitzsch), it may be questioned whether really this ever formed a portion of the Persian empire. But Isaiah has probably no very distinct knowledge of the geographical position of Seba, or of the relations between the Sabaeans and the rest of the Ethiopians. He couples the two together, both here and in Isaiah 45:14, as forming two portions of one nation. The subjection of the Ethiopians involves, in his eyes, the subjection of the Sabaeans. And we cannot say that he is wrong, since it is not at all clear that the Sabaeans were not generally spread through Ethiopia, or at any rate scattered in various parts of the country. Parallel Commentaries ... Hebrew Forכִּ֗י (kî) Conjunction Strong's 3588: A relative conjunction I [am] אֲנִי֙ (’ă·nî) Pronoun - first person common singular Strong's 589: I the LORD יְהוָ֣ה (Yah·weh) Noun - proper - masculine singular Strong's 3069: YHWH your God, אֱלֹהֶ֔יךָ (’ĕ·lō·he·ḵā) Noun - masculine plural construct | second person masculine singular Strong's 430: gods -- the supreme God, magistrates, a superlative the Holy קְד֥וֹשׁ (qə·ḏō·wōš) Adjective - masculine singular construct Strong's 6918: Sacred, God, an angel, a saint, a sanctuary One of Israel, יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל (yiś·rā·’êl) Noun - proper - masculine singular Strong's 3478: Israel -- 'God strives', another name of Jacob and his desc your Savior; מוֹשִׁיעֶ֑ךָ (mō·wō·šî·‘e·ḵā) Verb - Hifil - Participle - masculine singular construct | second person masculine singular Strong's 3467: To be open, wide, free, to be safe, to free, succor I give נָתַ֤תִּי (nā·ṯat·tî) Verb - Qal - Perfect - first person common singular Strong's 5414: To give, put, set Egypt מִצְרַ֔יִם (miṣ·ra·yim) Noun - proper - feminine singular Strong's 4714: Egypt -- a son of Ham, also his descendants and their country in Northwest Africa [for] your ransom, כָפְרְךָ֙ (ḵā·p̄ə·rə·ḵā) Noun - masculine singular construct | second person masculine singular Strong's 3724: A cover, a village, bitumen, the henna plant, a redemption-price Cush כּ֥וּשׁ (kūš) Noun - proper - feminine singular Strong's 3568: A son of Ham, also his descendants, also a land in the southern Nile Valley and Seba וּסְבָ֖א (ū·sə·ḇā) Conjunctive waw | Noun - proper - feminine singular Strong's 5434: Seba -- son of Cush, also his descendants and their land in your place. תַּחְתֶּֽיךָ׃ (taḥ·te·ḵā) Preposition | second person masculine singular Strong's 8478: The bottom, below, in lieu of Links Isaiah 43:3 NIVIsaiah 43:3 NLT Isaiah 43:3 ESV Isaiah 43:3 NASB Isaiah 43:3 KJV Isaiah 43:3 BibleApps.com Isaiah 43:3 Biblia Paralela Isaiah 43:3 Chinese Bible Isaiah 43:3 French Bible Isaiah 43:3 Catholic Bible OT Prophets: Isaiah 43:3 For I am Yahweh your God (Isa Isi Is) |
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