Isaiah Chapter 41
41:1 | Keep silence before me, O islands; and let the people renew [their] strength: let them come near; then let them speak: let us come near together to judgment. |
41:2 | Who raised up the righteous [man] from the east, called him to his ![]() ![]() ![]() |
41:3 | He pursued them, [and] passed safely; [even] by the way [that] he had not gone with his ![]() |
41:4 | Who hath wrought and done [it], calling the ![]() ![]() |
41:5 | The isles saw [it], and feared; the ends of the ![]() |
41:6 | They helped every one his neighbour; and [every one] said to his brother, Be of good courage. |
41:7 | So the carpenter encouraged the goldsmith, [and] he that smootheth [with] the hammer him that smote the anvil, saying, It [is] ready for the soldering: and he fastened it with nails, [that] it should not be moved. |
41:8 | But thou, ![]() ![]() |
41:9 | [Thou] whom I have taken from the ends of the ![]() ![]() |
41:10 | Fear thou not; for I [am] with thee: be not dismayed; for I [am] thy God: I will strengthen thee; ![]() |
41:11 | Behold, all they that were incensed against thee shall be ashamed and confounded: they shall be as nothing; and they that strive with thee shall perish. |
41:12 | Thou shalt seek them, and shalt not find them, [even] them that contended with thee: they that war against thee shall be as nothing, and as a thing of nought. |
41:13 | For I the LORD thy God will hold thy right hand, saying unto thee, Fear not; I will help thee. |
41:14 | Fear not, thou worm Jacob, [and] ye men of ![]() ![]() |
41:15 | Behold, I will make thee a new sharp threshing instrument having teeth: thou shalt thresh the mountains, and beat [them] small, and shalt make the hills as chaff. |
41:16 | Thou shalt fan them, and the wind shall carry them away, and the whirlwind shall scatter them: and thou shalt rejoice in the LORD, [and] shalt ![]() ![]() |
41:17 | [When] the poor and needy seek ![]() ![]() |
41:18 | I will open rivers in high places, and fountains in the midst of the valleys: I will make the wilderness a pool of ![]() ![]() |
41:19 | I will plant in the wilderness the cedar, the shittah tree, and the myrtle, and the oil tree; I will set in the desert the fir tree, [and] the pine, and the box tree together: |
41:20 | That they may ![]() ![]() |
41:21 | Produce your cause, saith the LORD; bring forth your strong [reasons], saith the ![]() |
41:22 | Let them bring [them] forth, and show us what shall happen: let them show the former things, what they [be], that we may consider them, and know the latter end of them; or declare us things for to come. |
41:23 | Show the things that are to come hereafter, that we may know that ye [are] gods: ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
41:24 | Behold, ye [are] of nothing, and your work of nought: an abomination [is he that] chooseth you. |
41:25 | I have raised up [one] from the north, and he shall come: from the rising of the ![]() |
41:26 | Who hath declared from the ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
41:27 | The first [shall say] to Zion, Behold, behold them: and I will give to ![]() |
41:28 | For I beheld, and [there was] no man; even among them, and [there was] no counsellor, that, when I asked of them, could ![]() |
41:29 | Behold, they [are] all vanity; their works [are] nothing: their molten images [are] wind and confusion. |