Berean Standard Bible
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1Who has believed our message? And to whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed?
The Pioneer Translation RenderingRendered from the original Hebrew
Isaiah 53:1
The Suffering Servant
Who has believed what we have heard? And to whom has the arm of Jehovah been revealed?
"Jehovah" renders the Tetragrammaton YHWH as required by PT convention. The word "שְׁמֻעָתֵנוּ" (shemu'atenu) means "our report" or "what we have heard" — rendered as "what we have heard" to preserve the communal testimony sense. "זְרוֹעַ" (zeroa') means "arm," a concrete image of Jehovah's active power and intervention, retained literally rather than softened to an abstraction.
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1Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed?
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1◄T4T alternative rendering — the text between these markers is an alternative translation or explanatory expansion. Translators choose the option that best fits their target language.Who will believe what we will tell them about God’s servant?/Hardly anyone will believe what we will tell them about God’s servant.►T4T alternative rendering — the text between these markers is an alternative translation or explanatory expansion. Translators choose the option that best fits their target language. [RHQ] ◄T4T alternative rendering — the text between these markers is an alternative translation or explanatory expansion. Translators choose the option that best fits their target language.Who will see what Yahweh does by his great power?/Very few people will see what Yahweh does by his great power.►T4T alternative rendering — the text between these markers is an alternative translation or explanatory expansion. Translators choose the option that best fits their target language. [MTY, RHQ]
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Who has believed our message? And to whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed?
Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed?
Berean Standard Bible
King James Version
Translation for Translators
T4T was designed as a tool for Bible translators, not as a devotional text. It makes implicit meaning explicit and flags figurative language with abbreviations. Gold [brackets] indicate translation notes. ◄Triangles► mark alternative renderings.Read more about how to read T4T →BSB and T4T shown with Greek annotations — · Why we show the Greek →
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Who has believed our message? And to whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed?
Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed?
◄T4T alternative rendering — the text between these markers is an alternative translation or explanatory expansion. Translators choose the option that best fits their target language.Who will believe what we will tell them about God’s servant?/Hardly anyone will believe what we will tell them about God’s servant.►T4T alternative rendering — the text between these markers is an alternative translation or explanatory expansion. Translators choose the option that best fits their target language. [RHQ] ◄T4T alternative rendering — the text between these markers is an alternative translation or explanatory expansion. Translators choose the option that best fits their target language.Who will see what Yahweh does by his great power?/Very few people will see what Yahweh does by his great power.►T4T alternative rendering — the text between these markers is an alternative translation or explanatory expansion. Translators choose the option that best fits their target language. [MTY, RHQ]
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מִ֥י any מִי mîy an interrogative pronoun of persons, as H4100 (מָה) is of things, who? (occasionally, by a peculiar idiom, of things); also (indefinitely) whoever; often used i הֶאֱמִ֖ין hence אָמַן ʼâman a primitive root; (Isaiah 30:21; interchangeable with H541 (אָמַן), to go to the right hand) properly, to build up or support; to foster as a parent or nurse; f לִשְׁמֻעָתֵ֑נוּ bruit שְׁמוּעָה shᵉmûwʻâh feminine passive participle of H8074 (שָׁמֵם); something heard, i.e. an announcement bruit, doctrine, fame, mentioned, news, report, rumor, tidings. וּזְר֥וֹעַ arm זְרוֹעַ zᵉrôwaʻ or (shortened) זְרֹעַ; and (feminine) זְרוֹעָה; or זְרֹעָה; from H2232 (זָרַע); the arm (as stretched out), or (of animals) the foreleg; figuratively, force arm יְהוָ֖ה Jehovah יְהֹוָה Yᵉhôvâh from H1961 (הָיָה); (the) self-Existent or Eternal; Jehovah, Jewish national name of God Jehovah, the Lord. Compare H3050 (יָהּ), H3069 (יְהֹוִה). עַל above עַל ʻal properly, the same as H5920 (עַל) used as a preposition (in the singular or plural often with prefix, or as conjunction with a particle following); above, over, ־ מִ֥י any מִי mîy an interrogative pronoun of persons, as H4100 (מָה) is of things, who? (occasionally, by a peculiar idiom, of things); also (indefinitely) whoever; often used i נִגְלָֽתָה appear גָּלָה gâlâh a primitive root; to denude (especially in a disgraceful sense); by implication, to exile (captives being usually stripped); figuratively, to reveal [phrase] ad ׃
Who has believed our message? And to whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed?
Functional Faith Reading
The Hebrew behind "the arm of the LORD" is zero'a Yahweh — a vivid, embodied image of Jehovah's executive power reaching into history. The word zero'a appears throughout the Hebrew scriptures as the force by which Yahweh acts decisively, most memorably in the exodus accounts where the outstretched arm delivered Israel from Egypt.
Standard readings often spiritualize this arm into an abstraction or collapse it immediately into a proof-text for incarnation, skipping past the question Isaiah actually asks — why does so few recognize it when it arrives?
The Functional Faith reading holds the tension Isaiah builds. The arm of Jehovah is not Jehovah himself descending, but the Father's supreme agent — sent with the Father's full authority, carrying the Father's full purpose, the way an outstretched arm carries the intention of the whole body without being the body. The Pioneer is that arm: the Father's power made visible and followable in creaturely form.
The question cuts practically: recognition requires willingness. The message was not hidden — it was resisted. Walking the Way begins with the honest acknowledgment that most people, including religious people, will not see what is being revealed.
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When Jehovah's arm is extended toward you, what is it in you that makes you look away?
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