Isaiah Chapter 43 verse 5 Holy Bible
Fear not; for I am with thee: I will bring thy seed from the east, and gather thee from the west;
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Have no fear, for I am with you: I will take your seed from the east, and get you together from the west;
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Fear not, for I [am] with thee: I will bring thy seed from the east, and gather thee from the west;
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Fear not: for I am with thee: I will bring thy seed from the east, and gather thee from the west;
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Don't be afraid; for I am with you: I will bring your seed from the east, and gather you from the west;
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Be not afraid, for I `am' with thee, From the east I bring in thy seed, And from the west I gather thee.
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Isaiah 43 : 5 Bible Verse Songs
Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 5. - Fear not: for I am with thee (comp. Isaiah 41:10). I will bring thy seed from the east... from the west. The actual extent of the Jewish diaspora in Isaiah's day has been greatly exaggerated by some modern critics, who say that there were at that date "bands of Jewish exiles in the far lands of the Mediterranean, and even in China" (Cheyne). Israel had been carried captive into Mesopotamia and into Media (2 Kings 17:6; 1 Chronicles 5:26), perhaps, also, into other regions belonging at the time to Assyria, as Babylonia, Assyria Proper, Syria. Two hundred thousand Jews had been taken to Nineveh by Sennacherib ('Eponym Canon,' p. 134), and planted probably by him m outlying portions of his dominions. But such transplantation would not carry the dispersion further than Cilicia and Cyprus towards the west, Armenia towards the north, Media towards the east, and the shores of the Persian Gulf towards the south. Any scattering of the nation into regions more remote than these, as into [Egypt, Ethiopia, Elam (Isaiah 11:11), and China - if Sinim is China (Isaiah 49:12) - must have been seen by Isaiah in vision, or made known to him by revelation. It had not taken place in his day. The expression, "ends of the earth" (ver. 6), must not be pressed in Isaiah any more than in Herodotus, where the ἐσχατίαι τῆς οἰκουμέης are India, Arabia, Ethiopia, and Scythia (3:106-116).
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(5) From the east . . .--Even from Isaiah's stand-point, the dispersion of Israel might well be contemplated in all this wide extent. The Ten Tribes were already carried off to the cities of the Medes (2Kings 17:6). The Babylonian exile had its beginning under Esar-haddon (2Chronicles 33:11); others may have been found before the time of Zephaniah (Zephaniah 3:10) beyond the rivers of Ethiopia. Even in the time of Joel the slave-trade of the Ph?nicians had carried the sons of Judah and Jerusalem to the western isles of Javan, or Ionia (Joel 3:6).
