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Isaiah 41 :: New King James Version (NKJV)

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Israel Assured of God’s Help
The Final Restoration of Israel
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 41:1 - “Keep silence before Me, O coastlands,
And let the people renew their strength!
Let them come near, then let them speak;
Let us come near together for judgment.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 41:2 - “Who raised up one from the east?
Who in righteousness called him to His feet?
Who gave the nations before him,
And made him rule over kings?
Who gave them as the dust to his sword,
As driven stubble to his bow?
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 41:3 - Who pursued them, and passed safely
By the way that he had not gone with his feet?
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 41:4 - Who has performed and done it,
Calling the generations from the beginning?
‘I, the LORD, am the first;
And with the last I am He.’ ”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 41:5 - The coastlands saw it and feared,
The ends of the earth were afraid;
They drew near and came.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 41:6 - Everyone helped his neighbor,
And said to his brother,
“Be of good courage!”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 41:7 - So the craftsman encouraged the goldsmith;
He who smooths with the hammer inspired him who strikes the anvil,
Saying, “It is ready for the soldering”;
Then he fastened it with pegs,
That it might not totter.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 41:8 - “But you, Israel, are My servant,
Jacob whom I have chosen,
The descendants of Abraham My friend.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 41:9 - You whom I have taken from the ends of the earth,
And called from its farthest regions,
And said to you,
‘You are My servant,
I have chosen you and have not cast you away:
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 41:10 - Fear not, for I am with you;
Be not dismayed, for I am your God.
I will strengthen you,
Yes, I will help you,
I will uphold you with My righteous right hand.’
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 41:11 - “Behold, all those who were incensed against you
Shall be ashamed and disgraced;
They shall be as nothing,
And those who strive with you shall perish.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 41:12 - You shall seek them and not find them—
Those who contended with you.
Those who war against you
Shall be as nothing,
As a nonexistent thing.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 41:13 - For I, the LORD your God, will hold your right hand,
Saying to you, ‘Fear not, I will help you.’
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 41:14 - “Fear not, you worm Jacob,
You men of Israel!
I will help you,” says the LORD
And your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 41:15 - “Behold, I will make you into a new threshing sledge with sharp teeth;
You shall thresh the mountains and beat them small,
And make the hills like chaff.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 41:16 - You shall winnow them, the wind shall carry them away,
And the whirlwind shall scatter them;
You shall rejoice in the LORD,
And glory in the Holy One of Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 41:17 - “The poor and needy seek water, but there is none,
Their tongues fail for thirst.
I, the LORD, will hear them;
I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 41:18 - I will open rivers in desolate heights,
And fountains in the midst of the valleys;
I will make the wilderness a pool of water,
And the dry land springs of water.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 41:19 - I will plant in the wilderness the cedar and the acacia tree,
The myrtle and the oil tree;
I will set in the desert the cypress tree and the pine
And the box tree together,
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 41:20 - That they may see and know,
And consider and understand together,
That the hand of the LORD has done this,
And the Holy One of Israel has created it.
The Futility of Idols
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 41:21 - “Present your case,” says the LORD.
“Bring forth your strong reasons,” says the King of Jacob.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 41:22 - “Let them bring forth and show us what will happen;
Let them show the former things, what they were,
That we may consider them,
And know the latter end of them;
Or declare to us things to come.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 41:23 - Show the things that are to come hereafter,
That we may know that you are gods;
Yes, do good or do evil,
That we may be dismayed and see it together.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 41:24 - Indeed you are nothing,
And your work is nothing;
He who chooses you is an abomination.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 41:25 - “I have raised up one from the north,
And he shall come;
From the rising of the sun he shall call on My name;
And he shall come against princes as though mortar,
As the potter treads clay.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 41:26 - Who has declared from the beginning, that we may know?
And former times, that we may say, ‘He is righteous’?
Surely there is no one who shows,
Surely there is no one who declares,
Surely there is no one who hears your words.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 41:27 - The first time I said to Zion,
‘Look, there they are!’
And I will give to Jerusalem one who brings good tidings.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 41:28 - For I looked, and there was no man;
I looked among them, but there was no counselor,
Who, when I asked of them, could answer a word.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 41:29 - Indeed they are all worthless;[fn]
Their works are nothing;
Their molded images are wind and confusion.
NKJV Footnotes
Following Masoretic Text and Vulgate; Dead Sea Scrolls, Syriac, and Targum read nothing; Septuagint omits the first line.
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