Isaiah 43:13

Literal Standard Version

Even from the day I [am] He, || And there is no deliverer from My hand, || I work, and who turns it back?

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Also, from today on I am he alone,and none can rescue from my power.I act, and who can reverse it?”

Hebrew Names Version
Yes, since the day was I am he; and there is none who can deliver out of my hand: I will work, and who can hinder it?

King James Version
Yea, before the day was I am he; and there is none that can deliver out of my hand: I will work, and who shall let it?

English Standard Version
Also henceforth I am he; there is none who can deliver from my hand; I work, and who can turn it back?"

New American Standard Bible
"Even from eternity I am He, And there is no one who can rescue from My hand; I act, and who can reverse it?"

New Century Version
"I have always been God. No one can save people from my power; when I do something, no one can change it."

Amplified Bible
"Even from eternity I am He, And there is no one who can rescue from My hand; I act, and who can revoke or reverse it?"

World English Bible
Yes, since the day was I am he; and there is none who can deliver out of my hand: I will work, and who can hinder it?

Geneva Bible (1587)
Yea, before the day was, I am, and there is none that can deliuer out of mine hand: I will doe it, and who shall let it?

Legacy Standard Bible
Even from eternity I am He,And there is none who can deliver out of My hand;I act and who can reverse it?"

Berean Standard Bible
Even from eternity I am He, and none can deliver out of My hand. When I act, who can reverse it?"

Contemporary English Version
I am God now and forever. No one can snatch you from me or stand in my way.

Complete Jewish Bible
Since days began, I have been he. No one can deliver from my hand. When I act, who can reverse it?"

Darby Translation
Yea, since the day was, I [am] HE, and there is none that delivereth out of my hand: I will work, and who shall hinder it?

Easy-to-Read Version
"I have always been God. When I do something, no one can change what I have done. And no one can save people from my power."

George Lamsa Translation
Yea, from the first day I am he; and there is none that can deliver out of my hands; what I will do, who can stop it?

Good News Translation
I am God and always will be. No one can escape from my power; no one can change what I do."

Lexham English Bible
Indeed, from this day I am the one, and no one can deliver from my hand. I perform, and who can cancel it?"

Literal Translation
Yea, from this day I am He, and no one delivers from My hand. I will work, and who will reverse it?

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And euen he am I from the begynnynge, and there is none, that can take eny thinge out of my honde. And what I do, can no man chaunge.

American Standard Version
Yea, since the day was I am he; and there is none that can deliver out of my hand: I will work, and who can hinder it?

Bible in Basic English
From time long past I am God, and from this day I am he: there is no one who is able to take you out of my hand: when I undertake a thing, by whom will my purpose be changed?

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Yea, since the day was I am He, and there is none that can deliver out of My hand; I will work, and who can reverse it?

King James Version (1611)
Yea before the day was, I am hee; and there is none that can deliuer out of my hand: I will worke, and who shall let it?

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And euen he am I who was from the beginning, and there is none that can take any thing out of my hande: I do the worke, and who shalbe able to let it?

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
even from the beginning; and there is none that can deliver out of my hands: I will work, and who shall turn it back?

English Revised Version
Yea, since the day was I am he; and there is none that can deliver out of my hand: I will work, and who shall let it?

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and Y am God fro the bigynnyng, Y my silf am, and noon is that delyuerith fro myn hoond; Y schal worche, and who schal distrie it?

Update Bible Version
Yes, since the day was, I am he; and there is none that can deliver out of my hand: I will work, and who can hinder it?

Webster's Bible Translation
Yes, before the day [was], I [am] he; and [there is] none that can deliver out of my hand: I will work, and who shall hinder it?

New English Translation
From this day forward I am he; no one can deliver from my power; I will act, and who can prevent it?"

New King James Version
Indeed before the day was, I am He; And there is no one who can deliver out of My hand; I work, and who will reverse it?"

New Living Translation
"From eternity to eternity I am God. No one can snatch anyone out of my hand. No one can undo what I have done."

New Life Bible
I am God and always will be. No one is able to take anything out of My hand. I do something, and who can change it?"

New Revised Standard
I am God, and also henceforth I am He; there is no one who can deliver from my hand; I work and who can hinder it?

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Even from To-day, I, am He, And none, out of my hand, can deliver, - I work and who reverseth?

Douay-Rheims Bible
And from the beginning I am the same, and there is none that can deliver out of my hind: I will work, and who shall turn it away?

Revised Standard Version
"I am God, and also henceforth I am He; there is none who can deliver from my hand; I work and who can hinder it?"

Young's Literal Translation
Even from the day I [am] He, And there is no deliverer from My hand, I work, and who doth turn it back?

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Even from eternity I am He, And there is none who can deliver out of My hand; I act and who can reverse it?"

Contextual Overview

⁸He brought out a blind people who have eyes, || And deaf ones who have ears. ⁹All the nations have been gathered together, || And the peoples are assembled, || Who among them declares this, || And causes us to hear former things? They give their witnesses, || And they are declared righteous, || And they hear and say, "Truth." ¹⁰You [are] My witnesses, a declaration of YHWH, || And My servant whom I have chosen, || So that you know and give credence to Me, || And understand that I [am] He, || Before Me there was no God formed, || And after Me there is none. ¹¹I [am] YHWH, || And besides Me there is no savior. ¹²I declared, and saved, and proclaimed, || And there is no stranger with you, || And you [are] My witnesses, a declaration of YHWH, || And I [am] God. ¹³Even from the day I [am] He, || And there is no deliverer from My hand, || I work, and who turns it back?

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

before: Isaiah 57:15, Psalms 90:2, Psalms 93:2, Proverbs 8:23, Micah 5:2, Habakkuk 1:12, John 1:1, John 1:2, John 8:58, 1 Timothy 1:17, Hebrews 13:8, Revelation 1:8

none: Deuteronomy 28:31, Deuteronomy 32:39, Psalms 50:22, Hosea 2:10, Hosea 5:14

I will work: Isaiah 46:10, Job 9:12, Job 34:14, Job 34:15, Job 34:29, Proverbs 21:30, Daniel 4:35, Romans 9:18, Romans 9:19, Ephesians 1:11

let it: Heb. turn it back, Isaiah 14:27

Reciprocal: Joshua 2:2 - told the king 1 Chronicles 29:12 - power Job 42:2 - thou Ecclesiastes 7:13 - who Isaiah 46:4 - even to your Lamentations 5:8 - there Zechariah 6:1 - and the Acts 5:39 - if Ephesians 3:7 - by

Cross-References

Genesis 42:38
and he says, "My son does not go down with you, for his brother [is] dead, and he by himself is left; when harm has met him in the way in which you go, then you have brought down my grey hairs in sorrow to Sheol."

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Yea, before the day was I am he,.... Before there was a day, before the first day of the creation; that is, before time was, or from all eternity, I am he that resolved upon and contrived this method of saving men; "and ever since that day was" k, as it may be rendered, I am he that have spoken of it by all the prophets, from the beginning of the world, and now it is accomplished:

and there is none can deliver out of my hand: either such whom the Lord determines to punish, or such whom he resolves to save; none can snatch them out of his hands, there they are safe:

I will work, and who shall let it? as when he wrought the work of creation, there was no opposition to it, or hinderance of him; and in providence all things are done as be pleases; so all his purposes and decrees, which are his works within him, are exactly accomplished according to his pleasure, and none can resist his will. The work of redemption is finished just according to the draught of it in his eternal mind; and when he works upon the heart of a sinner at conversion, whatever obstructions and difficulties are in the way, these are removed, and the work is begun, and carried on, and performed, until the day of Christ. The work of the Lord in his churches, and the setting up of his kingdom in the world, in a more visible and glorious manner, shall be done, and none will be able to hinder it:

who can turn it back? either his work, or his hand in working; his purposes cannot be disannulled; his power cannot be controlled; his work cannot be made void, or of no effect; he always succeeds, for he has no superior that can obstruct him.

k מיום אני הוא "ex quo dies [fuit]", Gataker; "ex quo dies esse coepit", Vatablus; "inde a tempore diei", Piscator. הוא "Hu", may be considered here as one of the names of God, who from eternity to eternity is, αυτος, "he", the same yesterday, today, and for ever.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Yea, before the day was - Before the first day, or before the beginning of time; from eternity. The Septuagint renders it correctly, Ἀπ ̓ ἀρχης Ap' archēs, and the Vulgate (Ab initio), ‘From the beginning.’

I am he - I am the same Isaiah 43:10.

I will work - I will accomplish my designs.

And who shall let it? - Margin, as Hebrew, ‘Turn it back.’ The meaning is, ‘Who can hinder it?’ And the doctrine taught here is:

1. That God is from everlasting, for if he was before time, he must have been eternal.

2. That he is unchangeably the same - a doctrine which is, as it is here designed to be used, the only sure foundation for the security of his people - for who can trust a being who is fickle, changing, vacillating?

3. That he can deliver his people always, no matter what are their circumstances.

4. That he will accomplish all his plans; no matter whether to save his people, or to destroy his foes.

5. That no one - man or devil - can hinder him. How can the feeble arm of a creature resist God?

6. That opposition to him is as fruitless as it is wicked. If people wish for happiness, they must fall in with his plans, and aid in the furtherance of his designs.