Isaias 41:9

Filipino Cebuano Bible

9 Ikaw nga akong gikuptan gikan sa kinatumyan sa yuta, ug gitawag gikan sa mga suok niini, ug miingon kanimo: Ikaw mao ang akong alagad, gipili ko ikaw ug wala ikaw isalikway.

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whom: Isaiah 41:2, Joshua 24:2-4, Nehemiah 9:7-38, Psalms 107:2, Psalms 107:3, Luke 13:29, Revelation 5:9

called: Deuteronomy 7:7, 1 Corinthians 1:26-29, James 2:5

I have chosen: 1 Samuel 12:22, Psalms 94:14, Jeremiah 33:25, Jeremiah 33:26, Romans 11:1, Romans 11:2

Reciprocal: Genesis 12:1 - had Deuteronomy 4:37 - because Isaiah 29:22 - who redeemed Isaiah 44:21 - thou art Isaiah 45:4 - Jacob Isaiah 63:7 - mention Ezekiel 16:8 - thy time Ezekiel 20:5 - In the Zechariah 1:17 - choose Zechariah 2:12 - and shall Malachi 1:2 - I have John 6:37 - I will Acts 7:4 - came Acts 13:17 - God Romans 8:30 - Moreover Romans 11:28 - but Ephesians 1:4 - as

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Thou whom I have taken from the ends of the earth,.... Meaning not Abraham, nor his natural seed; but such who believed in Christ, who dwelt in the furthest parts of the earth, to whom the Gospel came, and by which they were laid hold upon, and apprehended by Christ as his own:

and called thee from the chief men thereof; from among the great men of the earth, out of their families, courts, and palaces: or rather called them by grace, when such personages were passed by and left; not many noble, not many mighty, being called in those times, 1 Corinthians 1:26:

and said unto thee, thou art my servant; and not only called them by the name, but made them such in reality: adding,

I have chosen thee, and not cast thee away; nor does the Lord cast away any whom he has chosen and foreknown; and therefore being thus dear to God, as all the above titles and acts of grace show, and being secured by him from perishing or being eternally lost, this should encourage them to suffer persecution patiently for his name's sake, and not be afraid of any of their enemies, as follows.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Thou whom I have taken from the ends of the earth - From Chaldea - regarded by the Jews as the remote part of the earth. Thus in Isaiah 13:5, it is said of the Medes that they came ‘from a far country, from the end of heaven’ (see the note on that place). Abraham was called from Ur of the Chaldees - a city still remaining on the east of the river Euphrates. It is probably the same place as the Persian fortress Ur, between Nesibis and the Tigris. It was visited by Mr. Wolfe, Mr. Buckingham, and by others.

And called thee from the chief men thereof - Or rather, from the extremities of the earth. The word אציל 'âtsiyl means properly “a side”; and when applied to the earth, means the sides ends, or extremities of it. In Exodus 24:11, it is rendered ‘nobles,’ from an Arabic word signifying to he deep-rooted, and hence, those who are sprung from an ancient stock (Gesenius). In this place it is evidently used in the same sense as the word (אצל 'ētsel) meaning “side,” in the sense of extremity, or end. The parallelism requires us to give this interpretation to the word. So Jerome renders it, longinquis ejus (sc. terroe). The Septuagint renders it, Ἐκ τῶν σκωπιῶν Ek tōn skōpiōn - ‘From the speculations of the earth’ (Thompson), or rather perhaps meaning from the extremity of vision; from the countries lying in the distant horizon; or from the elevated places which offered an extensive range of vision. The Chaldee renders it, ‘From the kingdoms I have selected thee.’ Symmachus renders it, Ἀπὸ τῶν ἀγκῶνων Apo tōn angkōnōn autēs - from its angles, its corners, its extremities. Some have supposed that this refers to the deliverance from Egypt, but the more probable interpretation is that which refers it to the call of Abraham from Chaldea; and the idea is, that as God had called him from that distant land, and had made him his friend, he would preserve and guard his posterity. Perhaps it may be implied that he would be favorable to them in that same country from where he had called their illustrious progenitor, and would in like manner conduct them to the land of promise, that is, to their own land.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Isaiah 41:9. And called thee from the chief men thereof - "And called from the extremities thereof"] אציל מאציליה atsil meatsileyha, signifies the arm, ascilla, ala; and is used like כנף canaph, "the wing," for any thing extended from the extremity of another, or joined on to it. It is here parallel with and synonymous to מקצות mikkatsoth, "from the ends," in the preceding member.