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width="99%" valign="top">New King James Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/nkjv/kjv/isaiah/41.shtml" style=color:#001320 title=Parallel Chapters> Par ▾ </a></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"> <h3>Israel Assured of God’s Help</span></h3><div class="poetry"><p class="line"><span class="chapter-2"><span class="text Isa-41-1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/41-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>“Keep silence before Me, O coastlands,</span></span><br /><span class="text Isa-41-1">And let the people renew <i>their</i> strength!</span><br /><span class="text Isa-41-1">Let them come near, then let them speak;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-41-1">Let us come near together for judgment.</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/41-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>“Who raised up one from the east?</span><br /><span class="text Isa-41-2">Who in righteousness called him to His feet?</span><br /><span class="text Isa-41-2">Who gave the nations before him,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-41-2">And made <i>him</i> rule over kings?</span><br /><span class="text Isa-41-2">Who gave <i>them</i> as the dust <i>to</i> his sword,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-41-2">As driven stubble to his bow?</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/41-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Who pursued them, <i>and</i> passed <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[a]</a></span>safely</span><br /><span class="text Isa-41-3">By the way <i>that</i> he had not gone with his feet?</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/41-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Who has performed and done <i>it,</i></span><br /><span class="text Isa-41-4">Calling the generations from the beginning?</span><br /><span class="text Isa-41-4">‘I, the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span>, am the first;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-41-4">And with the last I <i>am</i> He.’ ”</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/41-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>The coastlands saw <i>it</i> and feared,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-41-5">The ends of the earth were afraid;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-41-5">They drew near and came.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/41-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Everyone helped his neighbor,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-41-6">And said to his brother,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-41-6"><span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[b]</a></span>“Be of good courage!”</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/41-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>So the craftsman encouraged the goldsmith;<span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[c]</a></span></span><br /><span class="text Isa-41-7">He who smooths <i>with</i> the hammer <i>inspired</i> him who strikes the anvil,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-41-7">Saying, <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[d]</a></span>“It <i>is</i> ready for the soldering”;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-41-7">Then he fastened it with pegs,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-41-7"><i>That</i> it might not totter.</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/41-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>“But you, Israel, <i>are</i> My servant,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-41-8">Jacob whom I have chosen,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-41-8">The descendants of Abraham My friend.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/41-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><i>You</i> whom I have taken from the ends of the earth,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-41-9">And called from its farthest regions,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-41-9">And said to you,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-41-9">‘You <i>are</i> My servant,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-41-9">I have chosen you and have not cast you away:</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/41-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Fear not, for I <i>am</i> with you;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-41-10">Be not dismayed, for I <i>am</i> your God.</span><br /><span class="text Isa-41-10">I will strengthen you,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-41-10">Yes, I will help you,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-41-10">I will uphold you with My righteous right hand.’</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/41-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>“Behold, all those who were incensed against you</span><br /><span class="text Isa-41-11">Shall be ashamed and disgraced;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-41-11">They shall be as nothing,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-41-11">And those who strive with you shall perish.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/41-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>You shall seek them and not find them—</span><br /><span class="text Isa-41-12"><span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[e]</a></span>Those who contended with you.</span><br /><span class="text Isa-41-12">Those who war against you</span><br /><span class="text Isa-41-12">Shall be as nothing,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-41-12">As a nonexistent thing.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/41-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>For I, the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span> your God, will hold your right hand,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-41-13">Saying to you, ‘Fear not, I will help you.’</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/41-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>“Fear not, you worm Jacob,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-41-14">You men of Israel!</span><br /><span class="text Isa-41-14">I will help you,” says the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span></span><br /><span class="text Isa-41-14">And your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/41-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>“Behold, I will make you into a new threshing sledge with sharp teeth;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-41-15">You shall thresh the mountains and beat <i>them</i> small,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-41-15">And make the hills like chaff.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/41-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>You shall winnow them, the wind shall carry them away,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-41-16">And the whirlwind shall scatter them;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-41-16">You shall rejoice in the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span>,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-41-16"><i>And</i> glory in the Holy One of Israel.</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/41-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>“The poor and needy seek water, but <i>there is</i> none,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-41-17">Their tongues fail for thirst.</span><br /><span class="text Isa-41-17">I, the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span>, will hear them;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-41-17"><i>I,</i> the God of Israel, will not forsake them.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/41-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>I will open rivers in desolate heights,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-41-18">And fountains in the midst of the valleys;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-41-18">I will make the wilderness a pool of water,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-41-18">And the dry land springs of water.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/41-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>I will plant in the wilderness the cedar and the acacia tree,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-41-19">The myrtle and the oil tree;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-41-19">I will set in the desert the cypress tree <i>and</i> the pine</span><br /><span class="text Isa-41-19">And the box tree together,</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/41-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>That they may see and know,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-41-20">And consider and understand together,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-41-20">That the hand of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span> has done this,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-41-20">And the Holy One of Israel has created it.</span></p></div> <h3> The Futility of Idols</span></h3><div class="poetry"><p class="line"><span class="text Isa-41-21"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/41-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>“Present your case,” says the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span>.</span><br /><span class="text Isa-41-21">“Bring forth your strong <i>reasons,</i>” says the King of Jacob.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/41-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>“Let them bring forth and show us what will happen;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-41-22">Let them show the former things, what they <i>were,</i></span><br /><span class="text Isa-41-22">That we may <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[f]</a></span>consider them,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-41-22">And know the latter end of them;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-41-22">Or declare to us things to come.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/41-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>Show the things that are to come hereafter,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-41-23">That we may know that you <i>are</i> gods;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-41-23">Yes, do good or do evil,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-41-23">That we may be dismayed and see <i>it</i> together.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/41-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>Indeed you <i>are</i> nothing,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-41-24">And your work <i>is</i> nothing;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-41-24"><i>He who</i> chooses you <i>is</i> an abomination.</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/41-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>“I have raised up one from the north,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-41-25">And he shall come;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-41-25">From the <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[g]</a></span>rising of the sun he shall call on My name;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-41-25">And he shall come against princes as <i>though</i> mortar,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-41-25">As the potter treads clay.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/41-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>Who has declared from the beginning, that we may know?</span><br /><span class="text Isa-41-26">And former times, that we may say, ‘<i>He is</i> righteous’?</span><br /><span class="text Isa-41-26">Surely <i>there is</i> no one who shows,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-41-26">Surely <i>there is</i> no one who declares,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-41-26">Surely <i>there is</i> no one who hears your words.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/41-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>The first time <i>I said</i> to Zion,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-41-27">‘Look, there they are!’</span><br /><span class="text Isa-41-27">And I will give to Jerusalem one who brings good tidings.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/41-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>For I looked, and <i>there was</i> no man;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-41-28">I looked among them, but <i>there was</i> no counselor,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-41-28">Who, when I asked of them, could answer a word.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/41-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>Indeed they <i>are</i> all <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[h]</a></span>worthless;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-41-29">Their works <i>are</i> nothing;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-41-29">Their molded images <i>are</i> wind and confusion.</span></p></div> <A name="footnotes"></a><div class="footnotes"><h4>Footnotes:</h4><ol><li id="fen-NKJV-18455a"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Isaiah 41:3">Isaiah 41:3</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Lit. <i>in peace</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-18458b"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Isaiah 41:6">Isaiah 41:6</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Lit. <i>Be strong</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-18459c"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Isaiah 41:7">Isaiah 41:7</span> <span class='footnote-text'><i>refiner</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-18459d"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Isaiah 41:7">Isaiah 41:7</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Or <i>The soldering is good</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-18464e"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Isaiah 41:12">Isaiah 41:12</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Lit. <i>Men of your strife</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-18474f"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Isaiah 41:22">Isaiah 41:22</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Lit. <i>set our heart on them</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-18477g"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Isaiah 41:25">Isaiah 41:25</span> <span class='footnote-text'>East</span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-18481h"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Isaiah 41:29">Isaiah 41:29</span> <span class='footnote-text'>So with MT, Vg.; DSS, Syr., Tg. <i>nothing;</i> LXX omits first line</span></li></ol></div> </span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div 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