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King James Version

Isaiah 48:12

Hearken unto me, O Jacob and Israel, my called; I am he; I am the first, I also am the last.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Alpha;   God;   God Continued...;   Jesus, the Christ;   The Topic Concordance - Calling;   Creation;   Earth;   God;   Hearing;   Heaven/the Heavens;   Israel/jews;   Jesus Christ;   Judges;   Sending and Those Sent;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Christ Is God;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - A;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - God;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Time;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Isaiah;   Time, Meaning of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Alpha and Omega;   Election;   Micah, Book of;   Righteousness;   Servant of the Lord;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Alpha and Omega (2);   First and Last ;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - First;   Unchangeable;  

Devotionals:

- Every Day Light - Devotion for April 16;  

Parallel Translations

Legacy Standard Bible
"Hear Me, O Jacob, even Israel whom I called;I am He, I am the first, I am also the last.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Listen to Me, O Jacob, even Israel whom I called; I am He, I am the first, I am also the last.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Hearken vnto me O Iacob, and Israel whom I haue called: I am euen he that is, I am the first and the last.
Darby Translation
Hearken unto me, Jacob, and [thou] Israel, my called. I [am] HE; I, the first, and I, the last.
New King James Version
"Listen to Me, O Jacob, And Israel, My called: I am He, I am the First, I am also the Last.
Literal Translation
Listen to Me, O Jacob, and Israel My called: I am He; I am the First; surely I am the Last.
Easy-to-Read Version
"Jacob, listen to me! Israel, I called you to be my people. So listen to me! I am the Beginning, and I am the End.
World English Bible
Listen to me, O Jacob, and Israel my called: I am he; I am the first, I also am the last.
King James Version (1611)
Hearken vnto me, O Iacob, and Israel my called; I am hee, I am the first, I also am the last.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Herken vnto me o Iacob, & Israel who I haue called. I am euen he that is, I am ye first and the last.
THE MESSAGE
"Listen, Jacob. Listen, Israel— I'm the One who named you! I'm the One. I got things started and, yes, I'll wrap them up. Earth is my work, handmade. And the skies—I made them, too, horizon to horizon. When I speak, they're on their feet, at attention.
Amplified Bible
"Listen to Me, O Jacob, and Israel, whom I called; I am He, I am the First, I am the Last.
American Standard Version
Hearken unto me, O Jacob, and Israel my called: I am he; I am the first, I also am the last.
Bible in Basic English
Give ear to me, Jacob, and Israel, my loved one; I am he, I am the first and I am the last.
Update Bible Version
Listen to me, O Jacob, and Israel my called: I am he; I am the first, I am also the last.
Webster's Bible Translation
Hearken to me, O Jacob and Israel, my called; I [am] he; I [am] the first, I also [am] the last.
New Century Version
"People of Jacob, listen to me. People of Israel, I have called you to be my people. I am God; I am the beginning and the end.
New English Translation
Listen to me, O Jacob, Israel, whom I summoned! I am the one; I am present at the very beginning and at the very end.
Contemporary English Version
Israel, my chosen people, listen to me. I alone am the Lord , the first and the last.
Complete Jewish Bible
"Listen to me, Ya‘akov; Isra'el, whom I have called: I am he who is first; I am also the last.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Heare me, O Iaakob and Israel, my called, I am, I am the first, and I am the last.
George Lamsa Translation
Hearken to me, O Jacob and Israel, whom I called; I am he; I am the first, I also am the last.
Hebrew Names Version
Listen to me, O Ya`akov, and Yisra'el my called: I am he; I am the first, I also am the last.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Hearken unto Me, O Jacob, and Israel My called: I am He; I am the first, I also am the last.
New Living Translation
"Listen to me, O family of Jacob, Israel my chosen one! I alone am God, the First and the Last.
New Life Bible
"Listen to Me, O Jacob, and Israel whom I called. I am He. I am the first, and I am the last.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Hear me, O Jacob, and Israel whom I call; I am the first, and I endure for ever.
English Revised Version
Hearken unto me, O Jacob, and Israel my called: I am he; I am the first, I also am the last.
Berean Standard Bible
"Listen to Me, O Jacob, and Israel, whom I have called: I am He; I am the first, and I am the last.
New Revised Standard
Listen to me, O Jacob, and Israel, whom I called: I am He; I am the first, and I am the last.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Hearken unto me O Jacob, And Israel, my called one, - I, am, the Same I, the first, yea, I, the last:
Douay-Rheims Bible
Hearken to me, O Jacob, and thou Israel whom I call: I am he, I am the first, and I am the last.
Lexham English Bible
"Listen to me, Jacob, and Israel, whom I called: I am he. I am the first; also I am the last.
English Standard Version
"Listen to me, O Jacob, and Israel, whom I called! I am he; I am the first, and I am the last.
New American Standard Bible
"Listen to Me, Jacob, Israel whom I called; I am He, I am the first, I am also the last.
Good News Translation
The Lord says, "Listen to me, Israel, the people I have called! I am God, the first, the last, the only God!
Christian Standard Bible®
"Listen to Me, Jacob, and Israel, the one called by Me: I am He; I am the first, I am also the last.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Jacob and Israel, whom Y clepe, here thou me; Y my silf, Y am the firste and Y am the laste.
Revised Standard Version
"Hearken to me, O Jacob, and Israel, whom I called! I am He, I am the first, and I am the last.
Young's Literal Translation
Hearken to me, O Jacob, and Israel, My called one, I [am] He, I [am] first, and I [am] last;

Contextual Overview

9 For my name's sake will I defer mine anger, and for my praise will I refrain for thee, that I cut thee not off. 10 Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction. 11 For mine own sake, even for mine own sake, will I do it: for how should my name be polluted? and I will not give my glory unto another. 12 Hearken unto me, O Jacob and Israel, my called; I am he; I am the first, I also am the last. 13 Mine hand also hath laid the foundation of the earth, and my right hand hath spanned the heavens: when I call unto them, they stand up together. 14 All ye, assemble yourselves, and hear; which among them hath declared these things? The Lord hath loved him: he will do his pleasure on Babylon, and his arm shall be on the Chaldeans. 15 I, even I, have spoken; yea, I have called him: I have brought him, and he shall make his way prosperous.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Hearken: Isaiah 34:1, Isaiah 46:3, Isaiah 49:1, Isaiah 51:1, Isaiah 51:4, Isaiah 51:7, Isaiah 55:3, Proverbs 7:24, Proverbs 8:32

O Jacob: Three manuscripts and two old editions add avdi "my servant."

my called: Matthew 20:16, Romans 1:6, Romans 8:28, 1 Corinthians 1:24, 1 Peter 2:9, Revelation 17:14

I am he: Isaiah 41:4, Isaiah 44:6, Deuteronomy 32:39, Revelation 1:8, Revelation 1:11, Revelation 1:17, Revelation 1:18, Revelation 2:8, Revelation 22:13

Reciprocal: Isaiah 41:8 - thou Isaiah 41:27 - first Jeremiah 32:17 - thou Amos 3:1 - Hear John 8:58 - I am

Cross-References

Genesis 18:2
And he lift up his eyes and looked, and, lo, three men stood by him: and when he saw them, he ran to meet them from the tent door, and bowed himself toward the ground,
Genesis 19:1
And there came two angels to Sodom at even; and Lot sat in the gate of Sodom: and Lot seeing them rose up to meet them; and he bowed himself with his face toward the ground;
Genesis 23:7
And Abraham stood up, and bowed himself to the people of the land, even to the children of Heth.
Genesis 33:3
And he passed over before them, and bowed himself to the ground seven times, until he came near to his brother.
Genesis 42:6
And Joseph was the governor over the land, and he it was that sold to all the people of the land: and Joseph's brethren came, and bowed down themselves before him with their faces to the earth.
Exodus 20:12
Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.
Exodus 34:8
And Moses made haste, and bowed his head toward the earth, and worshipped.
Leviticus 19:3
Ye shall fear every man his mother, and his father, and keep my sabbaths: I am the Lord your God.
Leviticus 19:32
Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head, and honour the face of the old man, and fear thy God: I am the Lord .
1 Kings 2:19
Bathsheba therefore went unto king Solomon, to speak unto him for Adonijah. And the king rose up to meet her, and bowed himself unto her, and sat down on his throne, and caused a seat to be set for the king's mother; and she sat on his right hand.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Hearken unto me, O Jacob and Israel, my called,.... Called before out of Egypt, and now out of Babylon, and who had the name of God called upon them, and who called upon the name of the Lord; so such who are called with a holy calling, according to the purpose and grace of God, by the Spirit and grace of Christ, unto fellowship with him, to partake of his grace here, and glory hereafter, are styled "the called of Jesus Christ", Romans 1:6 and who seems to be the person here speaking, as appears from the following clause: and it may be observed, that Jacob and Israel are described here in a different manner from what they are in the beginning of the chapter, since the Lord had declared his designs of grace towards them, and that he had chosen them, and would save them for his name's sake: which they had reason to believe he could and would do, from the account which he gives of himself: and they are called upon to hearken to him, as follows,

I am he, I am the first, and I also am the last; the everlasting I AM, the immutable Jehovah, the Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, the first cause and last end of all things; phrases expressive of the self-existence, supremacy, eternity, and immutability of Christ, Revelation 1:8, and what is it that such a sovereign, eternal and unchangeable Being cannot do?

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Hearken unto me - This is a solemn call on the Jews in Babylon to attend to what he was now about to say. It is the commencement of a new part of the argument, containing the assurance that he would deliver them, and utterly destroy the Chaldeans. He begins, therefore, by asserting that he is the only true God, and that he is able to accomplish all his purposes.

My called - The people whom I have chosen, or called.

I am he - I am the same; or I am the true and only God.

I am the first - (See the notes at Isaiah 41:4; Isaiah 44:6).

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Isaiah 48:12. O Jacob - "O Jacob, my servant"] After יעקב yaakob, a MS. of Kennicott's, two of De Rossi's, and the two old editions of 1486 and 1488, add the word עבדי abdi, "my servant," which is lost out of the present text; and there is a rasure in its place in another ancient MS. The Jerusalem Talmud has the same word.

I also am the last - "I am the last"] For אף אני aph ani, "even I," two ancient MSS. and the ancient Versions, read ואני veani, "and I;" more properly.


 
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