Yesaya 43:3

43:3 For I am the Lord your God,

the Holy One of Israel, ¹  your deliverer.

I have handed over Egypt as a ransom price,

Ethiopia and Seba ²  in place of you.

Yesaya 43:11

43:11 I, I am the Lord,

and there is no deliverer besides me.

Yesaya 43:15

43:15 I am the Lord, your Holy One, ³ 

the one who created Israel, your king.”

Yesaya 46:9

46:9 Remember what I accomplished in antiquity! ⁴ 

Truly I am God, I have no peer; ⁵ 

I am God, and there is none like me,

Yesaya 49:23

49:23 Kings will be your children’s ⁶  guardians;

their princesses will nurse your children. ⁷ 

With their faces to the ground they will bow down to you

and they will lick the dirt on ⁸  your feet.

Then you will recognize that I am the Lord;

those who wait patiently for me are not put to shame.

[43:3]  ¹ sn See the note on the phrase “the Holy One of Israel” in 1:4.

[43:3]  ² sn Seba is not the same as Sheba in southern Arabia; cf. Gen 1:10; 1 Chr 1:9.

[43:15]  ³ sn See the note on the phrase “the Holy One of Israel” in 1:4.

[46:9]  ⁴ tn Heb “remember the former things, from antiquity”; KJV, ASV “the former things of old.”

[46:9]  ⁵ tn Heb “and there is no other” (so NASB, NIV, NRSV).

[49:23]  ⁶ tn Heb “your,” but Zion here stands by metonymy for her children (see v. 22b).

[49:23]  ⁷ tn Heb “you.” See the preceding note.

[49:23]  ⁸ tn Or “at your feet” (NAB, NIV); NLT “from your feet.”