44:2 This is what the Lord, the one who made you, says –
the one who formed you in the womb and helps you:
“Don’t be afraid, my servant Jacob,
Jeshurun, 1 whom I have chosen!
44:24 This is what the Lord, your protector, 2 says,
the one who formed you in the womb:
“I am the Lord, who made everything,
who alone stretched out the sky,
who fashioned the earth all by myself, 3
46:3 “Listen to me, O family of Jacob, 4
all you who are left from the family of Israel, 5
you who have been carried from birth, 6
you who have been supported from the time you left the womb. 7
1 sn Jeshurun is a poetic name for Israel; it occurs here and in Deut 32:15; 33:5, 26.
2 tn Heb “your redeemer.” See the note at 41:14.
3 tn The consonantal text (Kethib) has “Who [was] with me?” The marginal reading (Qere) is “from with me,” i.e., “by myself.” See BDB 87 s.v. II אֵת 4.c.
4 tn Heb “house of Jacob”; TEV “descendants of Jacob.”
5 tn Heb “and all the remnant of the house of Israel.”
6 tn Heb “from the womb” (so NRSV); KJV “from the belly”; NAB “from your infancy.”
7 tn Heb “who have been lifted up from the womb.”