Isaiah 43:13 - Yes, before the day was I am he; and there is no one who can deliver out of my hand. I will work, and who can hinder it?" -- American Standard Improved Version.
John 10:28 - and I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, and no one shall snatch them out of my hand. -- World English.
Some present these two verses together, evidently with the thought that since Jehovah is quoted as saying "there is no one who can deliver out of my hand" in Isaiah 43:13, and Jesus said "no one shall snatch them out of my hand" in John 10:28, this is alleged to prove to Jesus of John 10:28 is Jehovah of Isaiah 43:13.
Actually, it is not clear that Isaiah 43:13 is actually talking about the same thing that Jesus spoke of in John 10:28. In Isaiah 43:13, Jehovah may not have been speaking of the sheep that He was to give to the "one shepherd" (Ezekiel 34:23; 37:24; John 10:16) that he was to appoint over his sheep. (Ezekiel 34:2-24) .
Matthew Poole states concerning Isaiah 43:13:
There is none, none of those which are called gods, that can deliver out of my hand; that can save them whom I will destroy. Therefore they are impotent, and consequently no gods.
I will work, and who shall let it? nor can they hinder me in any other work which I resolve to do.
John Gill states, however, regarding Isaiah 43:13:
and there is none can deliver out of my hand: either such whom the Lord determines to punish, or such whom he resolves to save; none can snatch them out of his hands, there they are safe:
Regardless, Jesus stated:
John 10:28 - I give eternal life to them. They will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand.
John 10:29 - My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all. No one is able to snatch them out of my Father's hand. -- World English.
Jesus acknowledges that his sheep are given to him from someone else, his God and Father (Ephesians 1:3). Jesus stands in the strength of his God, Jehovah. (Micah 5:4) Thus it is because no one can snatch these sheep out of the Father's hand, that no one can snatch them out the hand of the one whom Jehovah appointed to be the "one shepherd" over His sheep. -- See Ezekiel 34:2–24.
Rather than claiming to be Jehovah, Jesus was actually claiming to be the one foretold whom his God, Jehovah (Micah 5:4) was set up as the "one shepherd" of Jehovah's sheep.
There is definitely nothing in these scriptures that presents Jehovah as being more than one person, or that Jesus is Jehovah, etc.
See also our study:
The One Shepherd
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