Isaiah 41

Isaiah 41:1

Keep silence before me, O ye lands; and let the people renew their strength.

I have a contestation with my people, which I would have the very heathen to be the witnesses of; come therefore, O ye foreign nations, and give ear, &c.

Isaiah 41:2

Who raised up the righteous man from the east, called him to his foot, gave the nations before him, and made him rule over kings?

Who was it, that fetched faithful Abraham from Ur of the Chaldees, and caused him to travel to the promised land, and gave him the victory over divers kings!

Isaiah 41:4

I the Lord, the first, and with the last; I am he.

I, the Lord, am he, that alters not with time and occasions: as I was to the first, so I am to the last: as I was before all things, and had my being of myself, so I give being and sustentation to all things, that shall be unto the very end.

Isaiah 41:5

The isles saw it, and feared; the ends of the earth were afraid, drew near, and came.

The nations round about were witnesses of the great works I did for my people, in their deliverance; and feared: even the ISMAIL, CHAP. XL.—XLII. remotest of them were afraid, and combined together and assembled;

Isaiah 41:6

They helped every one his neighbour; and every one said to his brother, Be of good courage.

And encouraged themselves mutually, notwithstanding, in their idolatry, as though they would make head against the true God.

Isaiah 41:7

So the carpenter encouraged the goldsmith, and he that smootheth with the hammer him that smote the anvil.

The foolish artificers agreed amongst themselves to make an idol, and one of them heartened another to the work, &c.

Isaiah 41:14

Fear not, thou worm Jacob, and ye men of Israel; I will help thee, saith the LORD, and thy redeemer, the Holy One of Israel.

Be not dismayed, O ye my despised people of the Jews: how base and despicable soever ye seem in the eyes of your enemies, the world shall see and find, that ye are dear to me, and that I will help and deliver you.

Isaiah 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.

And, however the world do now insult upon you, I will raise you up, to a power of just revenge; and will enable you to subdue your greatest and proudest enemies, so as ye shall humble them to the very dust.

Isaiah 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.

And, whereas the dry and barren wilderness may seem a just discouragement of your passage and return, I will cause that to be pleasantly planted, and coolly shaded, with variety of goodly trees, of all growths and statures.

Isaiah 41:24

An abomination is he that chooseth you.

He, that maketh choice of such gods as ye are, to worship and adore, shall be no other than an abomination unto the true God.

Isaiah 41:25

I have raised up one from the north, and he shall come: from the rising of the sun shall he call upon my name; and he shall come upon princes as upon morter, and as the potter treadeth clay.

I will, in the fulness of time, raise up a Messiah, who shall call mine elect out of all coasts of the world, to my holy service; and he shall, by his mighty power, subdue those great potentates of the earth, who have opposed themselves to him.