The Lord # 40
40. We can see that the Lord is called the Holy One of Israel from the following passages.
The angel said to Mary, “The Holy One that is born from you will be called the Son of God.” (Luke 1:35)
I saw in visions, and behold, a Watcher, a Holy One, coming down from heaven. (Daniel 4:13, 23)
God will come from Teman and the Holy One from Mount Paran. (Habakkuk 3:3)
[Thus says Jehovah, the Holy One of Israel, and Israel’s Maker.] (Isaiah 45:11)
Thus says Jehovah, the Redeemer of Israel, Israel’s Holy One. (Isaiah 49:7)
I am Jehovah your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior. (Isaiah 43:1, 3)
As for our Redeemer, Jehovah Sabaoth is his name, the Holy One of Israel. (Isaiah 47:4)
Thus says Jehovah your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel. (Isaiah 43:14; 48:17)
Jehovah Sabaoth is his name, and your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel. (Isaiah 54:5)
They tested God and the Holy One of Israel. (Psalms 78:41)
They have abandoned Jehovah and have angered the Holy One of Israel. (Isaiah 1:4)
They said, “Make the Holy One of Israel cease from our presence.” Therefore thus said the Holy One of Israel... (Isaiah 30:11-12)
... those who say, “Let him hasten his work so that we may see; let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw near and arrive.” (Isaiah 5:19)
On that day they will rely on Jehovah, the Holy One of Israel, in truth. (Isaiah 10:20)
Shout and rejoice, daughter of Zion, because the Holy One of Israel is great in your midst. (Isaiah 12:6)
The God of Israel has said, “On that day people will look back to their Maker, and their eyes will look toward the Holy One of Israel.” (Isaiah 17:7)
The meek will increase their joy in Jehovah, and the poor of the people will rejoice in the Holy One of Israel. (Isaiah 29:19; 41:16)
Nations will run to you because of Jehovah your God and because of the Holy One of Israel. (Isaiah 55:5)
The islands will trust in me to bring your children from afar for the name of Jehovah Sabaoth and the Holy One of Israel. (Isaiah 60:9)
Their land is full of sin against the Holy One of Israel. (Jeremiah 51:5)
There are many other instances elsewhere.
The Holy One of Israel means the Lord in his divine human nature, since the angel Gabriel said to Mary, “The Holy One that is born from you will be called the Son of God” (Luke 1:35). As for Jehovah and the Holy One of Israel being one and the same even though they are given different names, this is quite clear from the passages just cited where it says that Jehovah is the Holy One of Israel.
Jeremiah 18
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The word which came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,
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Arise, and go down to the potter's house, and there I will cause thee to hear my words.
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Then I went down to the potter's house, and behold, he wrought a work on the wheels.
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And the vessel that he made of clay was marred in the hand of the potter: so he made it again another vessel, as it seemed good to the potter to make it.
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Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
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O house of Israel, cannot I do with you as this potter? saith the LORD. Behold, as the clay is in the potter's hand, so are ye in my hand, O house of Israel.
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At what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up, and to pull down, and to destroy it;
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If that nation against which I have pronounced, shall turn from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do to them.
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And at what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to build and to plant it;
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If it shall do evil in my sight, that it obey not my voice, then I will repent of the good, with which I said I would benefit them.
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Now therefore come, speak to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I frame evil against you, and devise a device against you: return ye now every one from his evil way, and make your ways and your doings good.
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And they said, There is no hope: but we will walk after our own devices, and we will every one do the imagination of his evil heart.
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Therefore thus saith the LORD; Ask ye now among the heathen, who hath heard such things: the virgin of Israel hath done a very horrible thing.
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Will a man leave the snow of Lebanon which cometh from the rock of the field? or shall the cold flowing waters that come from another place be forsaken?
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Because my people hath forgotten me, they have burned incense to vanity, and they have caused them to stumble in their ways from the ancient paths, to walk in paths, in a way not cast up;
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To make their land desolate, and a perpetual hissing; every one that passeth by it shall be astonished, and wag his head.
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I will scatter them as with an east wind before the enemy; I will show them the back, and not the face, in the day of their calamity.
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Then said they, Come, and let us devise devices against Jeremiah; for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let us smite him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words.
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Give heed to me, O LORD, and hearken to the voice of them that contend with me.
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Shall evil be recompensed for good? for they have digged a pit for my soul. Remember that I stood before thee to speak good for them, and to turn away thy wrath from them.
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Therefore deliver their children to the famine, and pour out their blood by the force of the sword; and let their wives be bereaved of their children, and be widows; and let their men be put to death; let their young men be slain by the sword in battle.
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Let a cry be heard from their houses, when thou shalt bring a troop suddenly upon them: for they have digged a pit to take me, and hid snares for my feet.
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Yet, LORD, thou knowest all their counsel against me to slay me: forgive not their iniquity, neither blot out their sin from thy sight, but let them be overthrown before thee; deal thus with them in the time of thy anger.
