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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Isaiah 41 Smith's Literal Translation</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/isaiah/41.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/isaiah/41-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">SLT</a> > Isaiah 41</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="../menu.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../isaiah/40.htm" title="Isaiah 40">◄</a> Isaiah 41 <a href="../isaiah/42.htm" title="Isaiah 42">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">Smith's Literal Translation</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/parallel/isaiah/41-1.htm" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Verses"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><p class="hdg">God’s Help to Israel<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/41-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Be silent to me, ye islands; and the people shall change strength: they shall draw near; then shall they speak: together we will come near for judgment.<p> <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/41-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Who raised up justice from the sunrising? he shall call him to his foot; he will give the nations before him; and he will bring down kings: he will give as the dust of his sword, as driven straw, his bow.<p> <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/41-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>He will pursue them, he will pass over in peace; the path he will not come in with his feet.<p> <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/41-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Who made and did, calling the generations from the beginning? I Jehovah, the first, and with the last; I am he.<p> <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/41-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>The isles saw, and they will be afraid; the extremities of the earth will tremble; they drew near and they will come.<p> <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/41-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>They will help a man his neighbor, and he will say to his brother, Be strong.<p> <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/41-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>And the artificer will strengthen the founder, he making smooth with the hammer, he beating the anvil, saying, It is good for the welding; he will strengthen it with nails; it shall not totter.<p> <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/41-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>And thou, Israel, my servant Jacob whom I chose thee, the seed of Abraham my beloved:<p> <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/41-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Whom I held thee fast from the extremities of the earth, and I called thee from its sides, and saying to thee, Thou my servant; I chose thee, and I rejected thee not.<p> <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/41-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Thou shalt not fear, for I am with thee: thou shalt not look around for help for I thy God will strengthen thee; also I helped thee; also I held thee up with the right hand of my justice.<p> <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/41-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Behold, all they burning with anger against thee shall be ashamed and disgraced: they shall be as nothing; and the men of thy strife shall be destroyed.<p> <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/41-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Thou shalt seek them, and shalt not find them; the man of thy contention, the men of thy war, shall be as nothing and as no more.<p> <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/41-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>For I Jehovah thy God holding thy right hand, saying to thee, Thou shalt not fear; I helped thee.<p> <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/41-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Thou shalt not fear, thou worm Jacob, ye men of Israel; I helped thee, says Jehovah, and thy redeemer the Holy One of Israel.<p> <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/41-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Behold, I set thee to a new cutting threshing sledge having mouths: thou shalt thresh the mountains, and beat small, and the hills thou shalt set as chaff.<p> <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/41-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Thou shalt winnow them, and the wind shall lift them up, and the storm shall scatter them: and thou shalt rejoice in Jehovah, and glory in the Holy One of Israel.<p> <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/41-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>The poor and the needy seeking water, and none; their tongue failing in thirst, I Jehovah will answer them; the God of Israel, I will not forsake them.<p> <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/41-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>I will open rivers upon naked hills, and fountains in the midst of the valleys: I will set the desert for a pool of water, and the dry land for goings forth of water.<p> <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/41-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>I will give in the desert the cedar, the acacia, and the myrtle, and the tree of oil; I will set in the sterile region the the elm and the box tree together.<p> <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/41-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>So that they shall see and know and attend, and consider together that the hand of Jehovah did this, and the Holy One of Israel created it.<p> <A name="22"></a><p class="hdg">Meaningless Idols<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/41-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Bring near your cause, Will say Jehovah; draw near your strong defences, will the king of Jacob say:<p> <A name="23"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/41-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>They shall draw near and announce to us what shall happen: shewed they the former things, what they were, and we will set our heart, and we shall know their latter state; or did we hear things coming?<p> <A name="24"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/41-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>Announce the things coming hereafter, and we shall know that ye are God: also will ye do good or will ye do evil, and we shall look around for help and see together.<p> <A name="25"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/41-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>Behold, ye are from nothing, and your work no more: an abomination he will choose in you.<p> <A name="26"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/41-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>I roused up from the north, and he will come: from the rising of the sun he shall call upon my name: and he shall come upon prefects as clay, and as the potter will tread down the mud.<p> <A name="27"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/41-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>Who announced from the beginning, and we shall know? and before, and we shall say, He is just; also none announcing; also none hearing; also none heard your words.<p> <A name="28"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/41-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>The first to Zion, Behold, behold them: and to Jerusalem I will give him announcing good news.<p> <A name="29"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/41-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>And I shall see, and no man; and from these, and no counselor; and I shall ask them, and they will not turn back a word.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/41-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>Behold, all of them, nothing; their works are no more: wind and emptiness are their libations.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Holy Bible Containing the Old and New Testaments; Translated Literally From The Original Tongues by Julia E. 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