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Isaiah 43:10 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 10. 10Ye are my witnesses, saith the LORD, and my servant whom I have chosen: that ye may know and believe me, and understand that I am he: before me there was no God formed, neither shall there be after me.
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Role in This Section
The servant poem or servant-addressing voice states or reports “Ye are my witnesses, saith the LORD, and my servant whom I have chosen” at Isaiah 43:10 as a specific part of “Israel Serves as Witness in the Divine Court.”
Read It With
- Isaiah 43:8–13
Read Isaiah 43:10 with 43:8–13. By itself, “Ye are my witnesses, saith the LORD, and my servant whom I have chosen” can be detached from the speaker, addressee, historical horizon, poetic movement, or outcome that gives it force. The complete unit establishes: A blind and deaf people are assembled alongside nations so witnesses may know the sole savior and testify to unmatched action.
Why It Needs Context
Keep the line with Isaiah 43:8–13. The servant poem or servant-addressing voice states or reports “Ye are my witnesses, saith the LORD, and my servant whom I have chosen” at Isaiah 43:10 as a specific part of “Israel Serves as Witness in the Divine Court.” The literary form and this limit govern it: Israel Serves as Witness in the Divine Court does not authorize a Jesus-only shortcut, anti-Judaism, supersessionism, coerced suffering, abuse endurance, or claiming one identity settles every servant text.
Continue in Context
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Read Isaiah 43:8–13 — Israel Serves as Witness in the Divine CourtSources used for this context pointer
How certain is this explanation? probable
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
eBible.org and CrossWire Bible Society
USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact displayed KJV wording, verse order, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and complete thought-unit coverage.
Exact location: Isaiah 43:8–13, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM-derived repository corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Isaiah
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2
Supports: Masoretic Hebrew wording and morphology at the exact unit, without treating morphology as apparatus, lexicon, composition history, or interpretation.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Isa.xml, OSIS 43:8–13 with Hebrew/KJV versification difference checked
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