Yeshua’ti : My SALVATION …. ישע

Lord you are my Salvation. (Yeshua)

My Salvation: yeshua’ti and yish’i

Hebrew Root: ישע

Sounds like: y’shoo-ah’tee and yeesh’tee

Here’s a question that occasionally surfaces: Why write Yeshua instead of Jesus?

In Hebrew, Jesus is called Yeshua and Yeshu.

ישע

Isaiah 12:2-4

“Behold, God is my Salvation [yeshua’ti], I will trust and not be afraid; for YAH YHWH is my strength and song, and He has become my salvation/saviour [li li-y’shuah].”

Therefore you will joyously draw water from the springs of salvation [ha-y’shuah]. and on that day you will say,

“Give thanks to YHWH, call on His name. Make known His deeds among the peoples; make them remember that His name is exalted.”

King David often referred to YHWH as “my salvation”:

Psalm 62:1-2

[David:] My soul waits in silence for God alone; from Him comes my salvation [yeshua’ti].

He alone is my rock and my salvation [wi-y’shua’ti], my stronghold; I will not be greatly shaken.

Psalm 18:1-3, 46

[David:] “I love You, YHWH, my strength.”

YHWH is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer, my God, my rock, in whom I take refuge; my shield and the horn of my salvation [yish’i], my stronghold.

I call upon YHWH, who is worthy to be praised, and I am saved from my enemies…

…YHWH lives, and blessed be my rock; and exalted be the God of my salvation [yish’i].

Psalm 25:4-5

[David:] Make me know Your ways, YHWH; teach me Your paths.

Lead me in Your truth and teach me, for You are the God of my salvation [yish’i]; for You I wait all the day.

Even when David was struggling, he remembered that salvation was part of God’s plan:

Psalm 27:7-9

[David:] Hear, YHWH, when I cry with my voice, and be gracious to me and answer me.

When You said, “Seek My face,” my heart said to You, “Your face, O YHWH, I shall seek .”

Do not hide Your face from me, do not turn Your servant away in anger; You have been my help; do not abandon me nor forsake me, God of my Salvation [Elohey Yish’i]!

That feeling of abandonment wasn’t felt by David alone. Job also felt like he was abandoned by God and thought his chance for salvation had vanished from his grasp:

Job 30:15-19

[Job:] “Sudden terrors are turned upon me; they chase away my dignity like the wind, and my prosperity salvation: [yeshua’ti] has passed away like a cloud.

And now my soul is poured out within me; days of misery have seized me. At night it pierces my bones within me, and my gnawing pains do not rest.

By a great force my garment is distorted; it ties me up like the collar of my coat. He has thrown me into the mire, and I have become like dust and ashes.”

Source: https://hebrewwordlessons.com/2023/03/12/yeshuati-my-salvation/