Isaiah 49:1

God's Word

Listen to me, you islands. Pay attention, you people far away. Before I was born, the Lord chose me. While I was in my mother’s womb, he recorded my name.

Cross References

Psalm 22:10

I was placed in your care from birth. From my mother’s womb you have been my God.

Isaiah 11:11

At that time the Lord will use his power again to recover what remains of his people in Assyria, Upper and Lower Egypt, Sudan, Elam, Babylonia, Hamath, and the islands of the sea.

Isaiah 24:15

Honor the Lord in the east. Honor the name of the Lord God of Israel along the coastlands.

Isaiah 33:13

Hear what I have done, you people who are far away! Acknowledge my might, you people who are near!

Isaiah 41:1

“Be silent and listen to me, you coastlands. Let the people gain new strength. Let them come near and speak. Let us come together for judgment.

Isaiah 42:12

Let them give glory to the Lord and announce his praise on the coastlands.

Isaiah 44:2

The Lord made you, formed you in the womb, and will help you. This is what the Lord says: Don’t be afraid, my servant Jacob, Jeshurun, whom I have chosen.

Isaiah 44:24

The Lord reclaimed you. He formed you in the womb. This is what the Lord says: I, the Lord, made everything. I stretched out the heavens by myself. I spread out the earth all alone.

Isaiah 45:22

Turn to me and be saved, all who live at the ends of the earth, because I am God, and there is no other.

Isaiah 45:3

I will give you treasures from dark places and hidden stockpiles. Then you will know that I, the Lord God of Israel, have called you by name.

Isaiah 46:3

Listen to me, descendants of Jacob, the few people left of the nation of Israel. I’ve carried you since your birth. I’ve taken care of you from the time you were born.

Isaiah 49:12

They will come from far away. They will come from the north and from the west, and they will come from the land of Sinim.

Isaiah 49:5

The Lord formed me in the womb to be his servant in order to bring Jacob back to him and gather Israel to him. (The Lord honors me, and my God has become my strength.)

Isaiah 51:5

My righteousness is near. My salvation is on the way. I will bring justice to people. The coastlands put their hope in me, and they wait eagerly for me.

Isaiah 52:13

My servant will be successful. He will be respected, praised, and highly honored.

Isaiah 55:3

Open your ears, and come to me! Listen so that you may live! I will make an everlasting promise  to you— the blessings I promised to David.

Isaiah 57:19

I’ll create praise on their lips: “Perfect peace to those both far and near.” “I’ll heal them,” says the Lord.

Isaiah 60:9

Certainly, the coastlands wait with hope for me. The ships from Tarshish are the first to bring your children from far away. Their silver and their gold comes with them to honor the name of the Lord your God, the Holy One of Israel, because he has honored you.

Isaiah 66:19

I will set up a sign among them and send some of their survivors to the nations: to Tarshish, Put and Lud, Meshech, Rosh, Tubal, Javan, and to the distant coastlands who have not heard of my fame or seen my glory. They will tell about my glory among the nations.

Isaiah 7:14

So the Lord himself will give you this sign: A virgin will become pregnant and give birth to a son, and she will name him Immanuel [God Is With Us].

Isaiah 9:6

A child will be born for us. A son will be given to us. The government will rest on his shoulders. He will be named: Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.

Jeremiah 1:5

“Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you. Before you were born, I set you apart for my holy purpose. I appointed you to be a prophet to the nations.”

Zephaniah 2:11

The Lord will terrify them, because he will make all the gods of the earth waste away. So every person from every coast and nation will bow to him.

Luke 1:15

As far as the Lord is concerned, he will be a great man. He will never drink wine or any other liquor. He will be filled with the Holy Spirit even before he is born.

Luke 1:31

You will become pregnant, give birth to a son, and name him Jesus.

John 10:36

why do you say that I’m dishonoring God because I said, ‘I’m the Son of God’? God set me apart for this holy purpose and has sent me into the world.

Galatians 1:15

But God, who appointed me before I was born and who called me by his kindness, was pleased

Ephesians 2:17

He came with the Good News of peace for you who were far away and for those who were near.

Hebrews 12:25

Be careful that you do not refuse to listen when God speaks. Your ancestors didn’t escape when they refused to listen to God, who warned them on earth. We certainly won’t escape if we turn away from God, who warns us from heaven.

1 Peter 1:20

He is the lamb who was known long ago before the world existed, but for your good he became publicly known in the last period of time.