Isaiah 55:4

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“Behold, I have made him a witness to the nations, a leader and commander of the peoples.”

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“Behold, I have made him a witness to the nations, a leader and commander of the peoples.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“Behold, I have given him for a witness to the people, a leader and commander to the people.”

King James Version · Public Domain
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“Behold, I have given him for a witness to the peoples, a leader and commander to the peoples.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
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“Lo, a witness to peoples I have given him, A leader and commander to peoples.”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Isaiah 55:4 — 24 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. 2 Samuel 22:44You have delivered me from the strife of my people; You have preserved me as the head of nations; a people I had not known shall serve me.
  2. Psalms 2:6“I have installed My King on Zion, upon My holy mountain.”
  3. Psalms 18:43You have delivered me from the strife of the people; You have made me the head of nations; a people I had not known shall serve me.
  4. Isaiah 9:6For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given, and the government will be upon His shoulders. And He will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
  5. Isaiah 43:10“You are My witnesses,” declares the LORD, “and My servant whom I have chosen, so that you may consider and believe Me and understand that I am He. Before Me no god was formed, and after Me none will come.
  6. Isaiah 43:12I alone decreed and saved and proclaimed— I, and not some foreign god among you. So you are My witnesses,” declares the LORD, “that I am God.
  7. Isaiah 49:8This is what the LORD says: “In the time of favor I will answer You, and in the day of salvation I will help You; I will keep You and appoint You to be a covenant for the people, to restore the land, to apportion its desolate inheritances,
  8. Jeremiah 30:9Instead, they will serve the LORD their God and David their king, whom I will raise up for them.
  9. Ezekiel 34:23I will appoint over them one shepherd, My servant David, and he will feed them. He will feed them and be their shepherd.
  10. Daniel 9:25Know and understand this: From the issuance of the decree to restore and rebuild Jerusalem, until the Messiah, the Prince, there will be seven weeks and sixty-two weeks. It will be rebuilt with streets and a trench, but in times of distress.
  11. Hosea 3:5Afterward, the people of Israel will return and seek the LORD their God and David their king. They will come trembling to the LORD and to His goodness in the last days.
  12. Micah 5:2But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, who are small among the clans of Judah, out of you will come forth for Me One to be ruler over Israel— One whose origins are of old, from the days of eternity.
  13. Matthew 2:6‘But you, Bethlehem, in the land of Judah, are by no means least among the rulers of Judah, for out of you will come a ruler who will be the shepherd of My people Israel.’”
  14. Matthew 28:18Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to Me.
  15. John 3:16For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that everyone who believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.
  16. John 10:3The gatekeeper opens the gate for him, and the sheep listen for his voice. He calls his own sheep by name and leads them out.
  17. John 10:27My sheep listen to My voice; I know them, and they follow Me.
  18. John 12:26If anyone serves Me, he must follow Me; and where I am, My servant will be as well. If anyone serves Me, the Father will honor him.
  19. John 13:13You call Me Teacher and Lord, and rightly so, because I am.
  20. John 18:37“Then You are a king!” Pilate said. “You say that I am a king,” Jesus answered. “For this reason I was born and have come into the world, to testify to the truth. Everyone who belongs to the truth listens to My voice.”
  21. Ephesians 5:24Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything.
  22. 2 Thessalonians 1:8in blazing fire, inflicting vengeance on those who do not know God and do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.
  23. 1 Timothy 6:13I charge you in the presence of God, who gives life to all things, and of Christ Jesus, who made the good confession in His testimony before Pontius Pilate:
  24. Hebrews 2:10In bringing many sons to glory, it was fitting for God, for whom and through whom all things exist, to make the author of their salvation perfect through suffering.

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