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Isaiah 44

Isa. 44:21 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Remember
zakar (Hebrew #2142)
properly, to mark (so as to be recognized), i.e. to remember; by implication, to mention; also (as denominative from 2145) to be male
KJV usage: X burn (incense), X earnestly, be male, (make) mention (of), be mindful, recount, record(-er), remember, make to be remembered, bring (call, come, keep, put) to (in) remembrance, X still, think on, X well.
Pronounce: zaw-kar'
Origin: a primitive root
these, O Jacob
Ya`aqob (Hebrew #3290)
heel-catcher (i.e. supplanter); Jaakob, the Israelitish patriarch
KJV usage: Jacob.
Pronounce: yah-ak-obe'
Origin: from 6117
and Israel
Yisra'el (Hebrew #3478)
from 8280 and 410; he will rule as God; Jisrael, a symbolical name of Jacob; also (typically) of his posterity: --Israel.
Pronounce: yis-raw-ale'
; for thou art my servant
`ebed (Hebrew #5650)
a servant
KJV usage: X bondage, bondman, (bond-)servant, (man-)servant.
Pronounce: eh'-bed
Origin: from 5647
: I have formed
yatsar (Hebrew #3335)
((compare 3331)); to mould into a form; especially as a potter; figuratively, to determine (i.e. form a resolution)
KJV usage: X earthen, fashion, form, frame, make(-r), potter, purpose.
Pronounce: yaw-tsar'
Origin: probably identical with 3334 (through the squeezing into shape)
thee; thou art my servant
`ebed (Hebrew #5650)
a servant
KJV usage: X bondage, bondman, (bond-)servant, (man-)servant.
Pronounce: eh'-bed
Origin: from 5647
: O Israel
Yisra'el (Hebrew #3478)
from 8280 and 410; he will rule as God; Jisrael, a symbolical name of Jacob; also (typically) of his posterity: --Israel.
Pronounce: yis-raw-ale'
, thou shalt not be forgotten
nashah (Hebrew #5382)
to forget; figuratively, to neglect; causatively, to remit, remove
KJV usage: forget, deprive, exact.
Pronounce: naw-shaw'
Origin: a primitive root
t of me.
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Isa. 49:14‑15• 14But Zion said, Jehovah hath forsaken me, and the Lord hath forgotten me.
 15Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? Even these forget, but I will not forget thee. (Isa. 49:14‑15)

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Israel,
Jacob,
Servant

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Ministry on This Verse

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Remember.
Isa. 42:23• 23Who among you will give ear to this, who will hearken and hear what is to come? (Isa. 42:23)
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Isa. 46:8‑9• 8Remember this, and shew yourselves men; call it to mind, ye transgressors.
 9Remember the former things of old; for I am *God, and there is none else; I am God, and there is none like me; (Isa. 46:8‑9)
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Deut. 4:9,23• 9Only take heed to thyself, and keep thy soul diligently, lest thou forget the things that thine eyes have seen (and lest they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life; but thou shalt make them known to thy sons and to thy sons' sons),
 23Take heed to yourselves lest ye forget the covenant of Jehovah your God, which he made with you, and make yourselves a graven image, the form of anything which Jehovah thy God hath forbidden thee. (Deut. 4:9,23)
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Deut. 31:19‑21• 19And now, write ye this song, and teach it to the children of Israel; put it in their mouths, that this song may be a witness for me against the children of Israel.
 20For I shall bring them into the land which I swore unto their fathers, which floweth with milk and honey; and they will eat and fill themselves, and wax fat, and will turn unto other gods, and serve them, and despise me, and break my covenant.
 21And it shall come to pass, when many evils and troubles have befallen them, that this song shall testify against them as a witness; for it shall not be forgotten out of the mouths of their seed; for I know their imagination which they are forming already this day, before I bring them into the land which I have sworn unto them. (Deut. 31:19‑21)
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Deut. 32:18• 18Of the Rock that begot thee wast thou unmindful, And thou hast forgotten *God who brought thee forth. (Deut. 32:18)
thou art.
Isa. 44:1‑2• 1And now hear, Jacob, my servant, and Israel, whom I have chosen:
 2thus saith Jehovah, that made thee, and formed thee from the womb, who helpeth thee, Fear not, Jacob, my servant, and thou, Jeshurun, whom I have chosen. (Isa. 44:1‑2)
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Isa. 41:8‑9• 8But thou, Israel, my servant, Jacob, whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham, my friend
 9--thou whom I have taken from the ends of the earth, and called from the extremities thereof, and to whom I said, Thou art my servant, I have chosen thee and not rejected thee, (Isa. 41:8‑9)
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Isa. 43:1,7,15• 1But now thus saith Jehovah, that created thee, O Jacob, and he that formed thee, O Israel: Fear not, for I have redeemed thee, I have called thee by thy name; thou art mine.
 7every one that is called by my name, and whom I have created for my glory: I have formed him, yea, I have made him.
 15I am Jehovah, your Holy One, the Creator of Israel, your King. (Isa. 43:1,7,15)
thou shalt.
Isa. 49:15‑16• 15Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? Even these forget, but I will not forget thee.
 16Lo, I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands; thy walls are continually before me. (Isa. 49:15‑16)
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Rom. 11:28‑29• 28As regards the glad tidings, they are enemies on your account; but as regards election, beloved on account of the fathers.
 29For the gifts and the calling of God are not subject to repentance. (Rom. 11:28‑29)
• Having thus reasoned with the people, once more the prophet announces the merciful interposition of God, both in its ultimate display, which is still future, {v.28} and in its more immediate display in the raising up of an eastern monarch, who should be favorable to them. (“Isaiah 44” by F.B. Hole)
• Cyrus is named long before he was born. The statement that Jerusalem and the temple should be rebuilt clearly indicated that they should be destroyed, and this would confound the tokens of the lying diviners, who were always saying smooth and prosperous things, as other scriptures show. Judgment would fall, but mercy would in its season be shown, and the man through whom it would reach them is named. (“Isaiah 44” by F.B. Hole)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Remember these things, O Jacob, and Israel, for thou art my servant; I have formed thee: thou art my servant, Israel; thou shalt not be forgotten of me.