Later text
Isaiah 43:14BSB
Thus says the LORD your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: "For your sake, I will send to Babylon and bring them all as fugitives, even the Chaldeans, in the ships in which they rejoice.
Intertextuality Pair
Isaiah 43:14 → Genesis 1
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Earlier text
Significance
Isaiah 43:14-15 identifies the LORD as both "your Redeemer" (גֹּאֲלֲכֶם, go'alkhem) and "the Creator of Israel" (בּוֹרֵא יִשְׂרָאֵל, bore Yisra'el), fusing redemption and creation language. The verb בָּרָא (bara) links directly to Genesis 1:1 where God "created" the heavens and the earth. By applying this creation vocabulary to the Babylonian deliverance, Isaiah presents the exile's end not merely as a political event but as a new act of creation — the same God who spoke the cosmos into existence will now speak Israel's restoration into being. The Creator's power over chaos at the beginning guarantees His power to bring order out of the chaos of exile.
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