“Since you have been precious and honored in my sight, and I have loved you, therefore I will give people in your place, and nations instead of your life.”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Isaiah 43 contains 28 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.