New English Translation
Isaiah 46:4
4Even when you are old, I will take care of you, even when you have gray hair, I will carry you. I made you and I will support you; I will carry you and rescue you.
Isaiah 46:4 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)And even to your old age I am he; and even to hoar hairs will I carry you: I have made, and I will bear; even I will carry, and will deliver you.
- New International Version (NIV)Even to your old age and gray hairs I am he, I am he who will sustain you. I have made you and I will carry you; I will sustain you and I will rescue you.
- English Standard Version (ESV)even to your old age I am he, and to gray hairs I will carry you. I have made, and I will bear; I will carry and will save.
- New King James Version (NKJV)Even to your old age, I am He, And even to gray hairs I will carry you! I have made, and I will bear; Even I will carry, and will deliver you.
Context of Isaiah 46:4
2Together they bend low and kneel down; they are unable to rescue the images; they themselves head off into captivity. 3“Listen to me, O family of Jacob, all you who are left from the family of Israel, you who have been carried from birth, you who have been supported from the time you left the womb. Even when you are old, I will take care of you, even when you have gray hair, I will carry you. I made you and I will support you; I will carry you and rescue you. 5To whom can you compare and liken me? Tell me whom you think I resemble, so we can be compared! 6Those who empty out gold from a purse and weigh out silver on the scale hire a metalsmith, who makes it into a god. They then bow down and worship it.
Read all of Isaiah 46Isaiah 46:4 word by word
וְעַד־זִקְנָה֙ אֲנִ֣י ה֔וּא וְעַד־שֵיבָ֖ה אֲנִ֣י אֶסְבֹּ֑ל אֲנִ֤י עָשִׂ֙יתִי֙ וַאֲנִ֣י אֶשָּׂ֔א וַאֲנִ֥י אֶסְבֹּ֖ל וַאֲמַלֵּֽט׃ סRead the interlinear
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Cross-references for Isaiah 46:4
- Isaiah 41:4Who acts and carries out decrees? Who summons the successive generations from the beginning? I, the Lord, am present at the very beginning, and at the very end – I am the one.
- Isaiah 43:13From this day forward I am he; no one can deliver from my power; I will act, and who can prevent it?”
- Psalms 92:14They bear fruit even when they are old; they are filled with vitality and have many leaves.
- Psalms 102:26They will perish, but you will endure. They will wear out like a garment; like clothes you will remove them and they will disappear.
- Malachi 2:16“I hate divorce,” says the Lord God of Israel, “and the one who is guilty of violence,” says the Lord who rules over all. “Pay attention to your conscience, and do not be unfaithful.”
- Malachi 3:6“Since, I, the Lord, do not go back on my promises, you, sons of Jacob, have not perished.
- Romans 11:29For the gifts and the call of God are irrevocable.
- Hebrews 1:12and like a robe you will fold them up and like a garment they will be changed, but you are the same and your years will never run out.”
- Hebrews 13:8Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever!
- James 1:17All generous giving and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or the slightest hint of change.
- Psalms 48:14For God, our God, is our defender forever! He guides us!
- Psalms 71:18Even when I am old and gray, O God, do not abandon me, until I tell the next generation about your strength, and those coming after me about your power.
Commentaries on Isaiah 46:4
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 4And even to your old age, I am he - Or rather, I am the same. I remain, unchangeably, with the same tenderness, the same affection, the same care. In this the care of God for his people surpasses that of the most tender parent, and the most kind nourisher of the young. The care of the parent naturally dies away as the child reaches manhood, and he is usually removed by death before the son or daughter that excited so much solicitude in infancy and…Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 44. old age--As "your"--"you"--"you," are not in the Hebrew, the sentiment is more general than English Version, though of course it includes the Jews from the infancy to the more advanced age of their history (Is 47:6). I am he--that is, the same (Psa 102:27; Joh 8:24; He 13:8). I will bear ... carry--Not only do I not need to be borne and carried Myself, as the idols (Is 46:1).Read the comment
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Commentaries on Isaiah 46
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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