Discovery BoxIsaiah 44:24 
Context44:24 This is what the Lord, your protector, 1 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, 2
Isaiah 65:1
Context65:1 “I made myself available to those who did not ask for me; 3
I appeared to those who did not look for me. 4
I said, ‘Here I am! Here I am!’
to a nation that did not invoke 5 my name.
1 tn Heb “your redeemer.” See the note at 41:14.
2 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.
3 tn Heb “I allowed myself to be sought by those who did not ask.”
4 tn Heb “I allowed myself to be found by those who did not seek.”
5 tn Heb “call out in”; NASB, NIV, NRSV “call on.”
