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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 Lamsa Bible</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="../">Lamsa</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">Lamsa Bible</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"><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/isaiah/41-1.htm#aramaic"><b>1</b></a></span>KEEP silence, O you islands; and let the people renew their strength; let them come near; then let them speak; let them come near together to judgment.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/isaiah/41-2.htm#aramaic"><b>2</b></a></span>Who has stirred up the righteous one from the east, and hastened him on? The nations shall surrender before him, and kings shall be confounded. He gave them as the dust to his sword and as driven stubble to his bow.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/isaiah/41-3.htm#aramaic"><b>3</b></a></span>He shall pursue them, then make peace; and he shall not pass that way on foot.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/isaiah/41-4.htm#aramaic"><b>4</b></a></span>Who has prepared and done it, calling the generations from the beginning? I the LORD, the first and the last; I am he.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/isaiah/41-5.htm#aramaic"><b>5</b></a></span>The islands saw it, and were afraid; and the ends of the earth were afraid, and they drew near and came.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/isaiah/41-6.htm#aramaic"><b>6</b></a></span>They helped every one his neighbor; and every one said to his brother, Be of good courage.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/isaiah/41-7.htm#aramaic"><b>7</b></a></span>The carpenter encourages the goldsmith, and he who smooths with the hammer him who strikes the anvil, saying, It is ready for the soldering; and they fasten it with nails, that it should not be moved.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/isaiah/41-8.htm#aramaic"><b>8</b></a></span>But now, Israel, you are my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the descendants of Abraham my friend, whom I have strengthened.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/isaiah/41-9.htm#aramaic"><b>9</b></a></span>I have called you from the ends of the earth and from among the prophets, and said to you, You are my servant; I have chosen you, and have not rejected you;<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/isaiah/41-10.htm#aramaic"><b>10</b></a></span>Fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God; I have strengthened you, and have also helped you, yea, I will also uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/isaiah/41-11.htm#aramaic"><b>11</b></a></span>All those that reproach you shall be ashamed and confounded; they shall be as nothing; and those who strive with you shall perish.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/isaiah/41-12.htm#aramaic"><b>12</b></a></span>You shall seek them that strive with you, but you shall not find them; they that war against you shall be as if they were nothing.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/isaiah/41-13.htm#aramaic"><b>13</b></a></span>For I am the LORD your God, the strengthener of your right hand. I have said to you, Fear not; I am your helper.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/isaiah/41-14.htm#aramaic"><b>14</b></a></span>Fear not, O you helpless men of Jacob, O you remnant of Israel! I am your helper, says the LORD, and your Saviour, the Holy One of Israel.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/isaiah/41-15.htm#aramaic"><b>15</b></a></span>Behold, I have made you as a new threshing instrument having teeth; a thing which tears and crushes to pieces; you shall thresh the mountains and beat them small, and shall make the hills as chaff.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/isaiah/41-16.htm#aramaic"><b>16</b></a></span>You shall winnow them, and the wind shall carry them away, and the whirlwind shall scatter them; and you shall rejoice in the LORD and shall glory in the Holy One of Israel.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/isaiah/41-17.htm#aramaic"><b>17</b></a></span>When the poor and needy seek water, and there is none, and their tongue is dried with thirst, I the LORD will answer them, I the God of Israel will not forsake them.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/isaiah/41-18.htm#aramaic"><b>18</b></a></span>I will open rivers in the mountains and fountains in the midst of the valleys; I will make the wilderness pools of water, and the dry land springs of water.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/isaiah/41-19.htm#aramaic"><b>19</b></a></span>I will plant in the wilderness the cedars, the acacia tree, the myrtle, and the olive tree; I will set in the desert the cypress and the pine and the box tree together;<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/isaiah/41-20.htm#aramaic"><b>20</b></a></span>That they may see and know and consider and understand that the hand of the LORD has done this and the Holy One of Israel has created it.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/isaiah/41-21.htm#aramaic"><b>21</b></a></span>Bring near your cause, says the LORD; bring near your counsels, says the King of Jacob.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/isaiah/41-22.htm#aramaic"><b>22</b></a></span>Let them come near and show us the things that are to come; show us the former things, that we may consider them, and know the latter end of them; or declare to us the things that are to come.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/isaiah/41-23.htm#aramaic"><b>23</b></a></span>Show us the wonders that are to come hereafter, that we may know that you are gods; yea, do good, or do evil, that we may relate it and behold it together.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/isaiah/41-24.htm#aramaic"><b>24</b></a></span>Behold, you are nothing, and your works are corrupt; choosing you is an abomination.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/isaiah/41-25.htm#aramaic"><b>25</b></a></span>I have stirred up one from the north, and he shall come from the rising of the sun, and shall call on my name; and the princes shall come, and shall be trodden down like mortar, and as the potter treads clay.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/isaiah/41-26.htm#aramaic"><b>26</b></a></span>Who has declared it from the beginning, that we may know? And beforetime, that we may say, He is righteous? Yea, there is none that shows, yea, there is none that declares, yea, there is none that hears your words.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/isaiah/41-27.htm#aramaic"><b>27</b></a></span>These things are the chief concern of Zion; behold, I will give to Jerusalem one that brings good tidings.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/isaiah/41-28.htm#aramaic"><b>28</b></a></span>For I beheld, and there was no man who could meditate about these things, that I might ask him, and that he might give me an answer.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/isaiah/41-29.htm#aramaic"><b>29</b></a></span>Behold, they are all nothing; their works are vanity; their images are wind and vanity.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Holy Bible From The Ancient Eastern Texts: Aramaic Of The Peshitta by George M. 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