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Isaiah 46

Isa. 46:3 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Hearken
shama` (Hebrew #8085)
to hear intelligently (often with implication of attention, obedience, etc.; causatively, to tell, etc.)
KJV usage: X attentively, call (gather) together, X carefully, X certainly, consent, consider, be content, declare, X diligently, discern, give ear, (cause to, let, make to) hear(-ken, tell), X indeed, listen, make (a) noise, (be) obedient, obey, perceive, (make a) proclaim(-ation), publish, regard, report, shew (forth), (make a) sound, X surely, tell, understand, whosoever (heareth), witness.
Pronounce: shaw-mah'
Origin: a primitive root
unto me, O house
bayith (Hebrew #1004)
a house (in the greatest variation of applications, especially family, etc.)
KJV usage: court, daughter, door, + dungeon, family, + forth of, X great as would contain, hangings, home(born), (winter)house(-hold), inside(-ward), palace, place, + prison, + steward, + tablet, temple, web, + within(-out).
Pronounce: bah'-yith
Origin: probably from 1129 abbreviated
of 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 all the remnant
sh'eriyth (Hebrew #7611)
a remainder or residual (surviving, final) portion
KJV usage: that had escaped, be left, posterity, remain(-der), remnant, residue, rest.
Pronounce: sheh-ay-reeth'
Origin: from 7604
of the house
bayith (Hebrew #1004)
a house (in the greatest variation of applications, especially family, etc.)
KJV usage: court, daughter, door, + dungeon, family, + forth of, X great as would contain, hangings, home(born), (winter)house(-hold), inside(-ward), palace, place, + prison, + steward, + tablet, temple, web, + within(-out).
Pronounce: bah'-yith
Origin: probably from 1129 abbreviated
of 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'
, which are borne
`amac (Hebrew #6006)
a primitive root; to load, i.e. impose a burden (or figuratively, infliction)
KJV usage: be borne, (heavy) burden (self), lade, load, put.
Pronounce: aw-mas'
Origin: or mamas {aw-mas'}
d by me from the belly
beten (Hebrew #990)
the belly, especially the womb; also the bosom or body of anything
KJV usage: belly, body, + as they be born, + within, womb.
Pronounce: beh'-ten
Origin: from an unused root probably meaning to be hollow
, which are carried
nasa' (Hebrew #5375)
a primitive root; to lift, in a great variety of applications, literal and figurative, absol. and rel. (as follows)
KJV usage: accept, advance, arise, (able to, (armor), suffer to) bear(-er, up), bring (forth), burn, carry (away), cast, contain, desire, ease, exact, exalt (self), extol, fetch, forgive, furnish, further, give, go on, help, high, hold up, honorable (+ man), lade, lay, lift (self) up, lofty, marry, magnify, X needs, obtain, pardon, raise (up), receive, regard, respect, set (up), spare, stir up, + swear, take (away, up), X utterly, wear, yield.
Pronounce: naw-saw'
Origin: or nacah (Psalm 4 : 6 (7)) {naw-saw'}
from the womb
racham (Hebrew #7356)
compassion (in the plural); by extension, the womb (as cherishing the fetus); by implication, a maiden
KJV usage: bowels, compassion, damsel, tender love, (great, tender) mercy, pity, womb.
Pronounce: rakh'-am
Origin: from 7355
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Ex. 19:4• 4Ye have seen what I did unto the Egyptians, and how I bare you on eagles' wings, and brought you unto myself. (Ex. 19:4)
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Psa. 71:6,18• 6By thee have I been holden up from the womb: thou art he that took me out of my mother's bowels: my praise shall be continually of thee.
 18Now also when I am old and grayheaded, O God, forsake me not; until I have showed thy strength unto this generation, and thy power to every one that is to come. (Psa. 71:6,18)

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Israel,
Jacob,
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Ministry on This Verse

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Hearken.
Isa. 44:1,21• 1Yet now hear, O Jacob my servant; and Israel, whom I have chosen:
 21Remember these, O Jacob and Israel; for thou art my servant: I have formed thee; thou art my servant: O Israel, thou shalt not be forgotten of me. (Isa. 44:1,21)
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Isa. 48:1,17‑18• 1Hear ye this, O house of Jacob, which are called by the name of Israel, and are come forth out of the waters of Judah, which swear by the name of the Lord, and make mention of the God of Israel, but not in truth, nor in righteousness.
 17Thus saith the Lord, thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel; I am the Lord thy God which teacheth thee to profit, which leadeth thee by the way that thou shouldest go.
 18O that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments! then had thy peace been as a river, and thy righteousness as the waves of the sea: (Isa. 48:1,17‑18)
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Isa. 51:1,7• 1Hearken to me, ye that follow after righteousness, ye that seek the Lord: look unto the rock whence ye are hewn, and to the hole of the pit whence ye are digged.
 7Hearken unto me, ye that know righteousness, the people in whose heart is my law; fear ye not the reproach of men, neither be ye afraid of their revilings. (Isa. 51:1,7)
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Psa. 81:8‑13• 8Hear, O my people, and I will testify unto thee: O Israel, if thou wilt hearken unto me;
 9There shall no strange god be in thee; neither shalt thou worship any strange god.
 10I am the Lord thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt: open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it.
 11But my people would not hearken to my voice; and Israel would none of me.
 12So I gave them up unto their own hearts' lust: and they walked in their own counsels.
 13Oh that my people had hearkened unto me, and Israel had walked in my ways! (Psa. 81:8‑13)
the remnant.
Isa. 1:9• 9Except the Lord of hosts had left unto us a very small remnant, we should have been as Sodom, and we should have been like unto Gomorrah. (Isa. 1:9)
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Isa. 10:22• 22For though thy people Israel be as the sand of the sea, yet a remnant of them shall return: the consumption decreed shall overflow with righteousness. (Isa. 10:22)
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Isa. 11:11• 11And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant of his people, which shall be left, from Assyria, and from Egypt, and from Pathros, and from Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea. (Isa. 11:11)
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Isa. 37:4• 4It may be the Lord thy God will hear the words of Rabshakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master hath sent to reproach the living God, and will reprove the words which the Lord thy God hath heard: wherefore lift up thy prayer for the remnant that is left. (Isa. 37:4)
borne.
Isa. 44:1‑2• 1Yet now hear, O Jacob my servant; and Israel, whom I have chosen:
 2Thus saith the Lord that made thee, and formed thee from the womb, which will help thee; Fear not, O Jacob, my servant; and thou, Jesurun, whom I have chosen. (Isa. 44:1‑2)
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Isa. 49:1‑2• 1Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The Lord hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name.
 2And he hath made my mouth like a sharp sword; in the shadow of his hand hath he hid me, and made me a polished shaft; in his quiver hath he hid me; (Isa. 49:1‑2)
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Isa. 63:9• 9In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them: in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; and he bare them, and carried them all the days of old. (Isa. 63:9)
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Ex. 19:4• 4Ye have seen what I did unto the Egyptians, and how I bare you on eagles' wings, and brought you unto myself. (Ex. 19:4)
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Deut. 1:31• 31And in the wilderness, where thou hast seen how that the Lord thy God bare thee, as a man doth bear his son, in all the way that ye went, until ye came into this place. (Deut. 1:31)
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Deut. 32:11‑12• 11As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings:
 12So the Lord alone did lead him, and there was no strange god with him. (Deut. 32:11‑12)
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Psa. 22:9‑10• 9But thou art he that took me out of the womb: thou didst make me hope when I was upon my mother's breasts.
 10I was cast upon thee from the womb: thou art my God from my mother's belly. (Psa. 22:9‑10)
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Psa. 71:6• 6By thee have I been holden up from the womb: thou art he that took me out of my mother's bowels: my praise shall be continually of thee. (Psa. 71:6)
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Ezek. 16:6‑16• 6And when I passed by thee, and saw thee polluted in thine own blood, I said unto thee when thou wast in thy blood, Live; yea, I said unto thee when thou wast in thy blood, Live.
 7I have caused thee to multiply as the bud of the field, and thou hast increased and waxen great, and thou art come to excellent ornaments: thy breasts are fashioned, and thine hair is grown, whereas thou wast naked and bare.
 8Now when I passed by thee, and looked upon thee, behold, thy time was the time of love; and I spread my skirt over thee, and covered thy nakedness: yea, I sware unto thee, and entered into a covenant with thee, saith the Lord God, and thou becamest mine.
 9Then washed I thee with water; yea, I throughly washed away thy blood from thee, and I anointed thee with oil.
 10I clothed thee also with broidered work, and shod thee with badgers' skin, and I girded thee about with fine linen, and I covered thee with silk.
 11I decked thee also with ornaments, and I put bracelets upon thy hands, and a chain on thy neck.
 12And I put a jewel on thy forehead, and earrings in thine ears, and a beautiful crown upon thine head.
 13Thus wast thou decked with gold and silver; and thy raiment was of fine linen, and silk, and broidered work; thou didst eat fine flour, and honey, and oil: and thou wast exceeding beautiful, and thou didst prosper into a kingdom.
 14And thy renown went forth among the heathen for thy beauty: for it was perfect through my comeliness, which I had put upon thee, saith the Lord God.
 15But thou didst trust in thine own beauty, and playedst the harlot because of thy renown, and pouredst out thy fornications on every one that passed by; his it was.
 16And of thy garments thou didst take, and deckedst thy high places with divers colors, and playedst the harlot thereupon: the like things shall not come, neither shall it be so. (Ezek. 16:6‑16)
• {v.3-4} In contrast to the Babylonian gods that had to be borne on the backs of weary beasts so ineffectually, here is One who would support and carry, from their birth to the gray hairs of old age, those who trusted Him; One who would never let them down but deliver them. (“Isaiah 46” by F.B. Hole)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Hearken unto me, house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house of Israel, ye who have been borne from the belly, who have been carried from the womb: