Then David blessed the Lord in the presence of all the assembly; David said, “Blessed are you, O Lord, the God of our ancestor Israel, forever and ever.
Isaiah 63:16 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 For you are our father, though Abraham does not know us and Israel does not acknowledge us; you, O Lord, are our father; our Redeemer from of old is your name. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Doubtless thou art our Father, though Abraham be ignorant of us, and Israel acknowledge us not: thou, O LORD, art our Father, our redeemer; thy name is from everlasting. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition For [surely] You are our Father, even though Abraham [our ancestor] does not know us and Israel (Jacob) does not acknowledge us; You, O Lord, are [still] our Father, our Redeemer from everlasting is Your name. American Standard Version (1901) For thou art our Father, though Abraham knoweth us not, and Israel doth not acknowledge us: thou, O Jehovah, art our Father; our Redeemer from everlasting is thy name. Common English Bible You are surely our father, even though Abraham doesn’t know us, and Israel doesn’t recognize us. You, LORD, are our father; your reputation since long ago is that of our redeemer. Catholic Public Domain Version For you are our Father, and Abraham has not known us, and Israel has been ignorant of us. You are our Father, O Lord our Redeemer. Your name is beyond all ages. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version For thou art our father: and Abraham hath not known us, and Israel hath been ignorant of us. Thou, O Lord, art our father, our Redeemer: from everlasting is thy name. |
Then David blessed the Lord in the presence of all the assembly; David said, “Blessed are you, O Lord, the God of our ancestor Israel, forever and ever.
Their children come to honor, and they do not know it; they are brought low, and it goes unnoticed.
Then you shall say to Pharaoh, ‘Thus says the Lord: Israel is my firstborn son.
The living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing; they have no more reward, and even the memory of them is lost.
Hear, O heavens, and listen, O earth, for the Lord has spoken: I reared children and brought them up, but they have rebelled against me.
Therefore thus says the Lord, who redeemed Abraham, concerning the house of Jacob: “No longer shall Jacob be ashamed; no longer shall his face grow pale.
Do not fear, you worm Jacob, you maggot Israel! I will help you, says the Lord; your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel.
But you, Israel, my servant, Jacob, whom I have chosen, the offspring of Abraham, my friend;
Thus says the Lord, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: For your sake I will send to Babylon and break down all the bars, and the shouting of the Chaldeans will be turned to lamentation.
Thus says the Lord, the King of Israel, and his Redeemer, the Lord of hosts: I am the first, and I am the last; besides me there is no god.
Thus says the Lord, the Holy One of Israel and its Maker: Will you question me about my children or command me concerning the work of my hands?
Look to Abraham your father and to Sarah, who bore you, for he was but one when I called him, but I blessed him and made him many.
For your Maker is your husband; the Lord of hosts is his name; the Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer; the God of the whole earth he is called.
You shall suck the milk of nations; you shall suck the breasts of kings, and you shall know that I, the Lord, am your Savior and your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.
who caused his glorious arm to march at the right hand of Moses, who divided the waters before them to make for himself an everlasting name,
There is no one who calls on your name or attempts to take hold of you, for you have hidden your face from us and have delivered us into the hand of our iniquity.
Yet, O Lord, you are our Father; we are the clay, and you are our potter; we are all the work of your hand.
For a child has been born for us, a son given to us; authority rests upon his shoulders, and he is named Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
I thought how I would set you among my children and give you a pleasant land, the most beautiful heritage of all the nations. And I thought you would call to me, “My Father,” and would not turn from following me.
Truly the hills are a delusion, a tumult on the mountains. Truly in the Lord our God is the salvation of Israel.
With weeping they shall come, and with consolations I will lead them back; I will let them walk by brooks of water, in a straight path where they shall not stumble, for I have become a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn.
Yet the number of the people of Israel shall be like the sand of the sea, which can be neither measured nor numbered, and in the place where it was said to them, “You are not my people,” it shall be said to them, “Children of the living God.”
A son honors his father and a servant his master. If then I am a father, where is the honor due me? And if I am a master, where is the respect due me? says the Lord of hosts to you, O priests, who despise my name. You say, “How have we despised your name?”
Have we not all one father? Has not one God created us? Why then are we faithless to one another, profaning the covenant of our ancestors?
“Pray, then, in this way: Our Father in heaven, may your name be revered as holy.
You are indeed doing what your father does.” They said to him, “We are not illegitimate children; we have one Father, God himself.”
“You are children of the Lord your God. You must not lacerate yourselves or shave your forelocks for the dead.
Do you thus repay the Lord, O foolish and senseless people? Is not he your father who created you, who made you and established you?