Isaiah 41

1“Keep silent before me, islands, and let the peoples renew their strength. Let them come near, then let them speak. Let’s meet together for judgment.Cross-references: Job 23:3 · Job 31:35 · Job 38:3 · Job 40:7 · Ps 46:10 · Isa 1:18 · +12 more

2Who has raised up one from the east? Who called him to his feet in righteousness? He hands over nations to him and makes him rule over kings. He gives them like the dust to his sword, like the driven stubble to his bow.Cross-references: Gen 11:31 · Gen 12:1 · Gen 14:14 · Gen 17:1 · 2Sam 22:43 · 2Ki 13:7 · +10 more

3He pursues them and passes by safely, even by a way that he had not gone with his feet.Cross-references: Job 5:24 · Isa 57:2

4Who has worked and done it, calling the generations from the beginning? I, Yahweh, the first, and with the last, I am he.”Cross-references: Deut 32:7 · Isa 40:12 · Isa 40:26 · Isa 41:26 · Isa 42:24 · Isa 43:10 · +14 more

5The islands have seen, and fear. The ends of the earth tremble. They approach, and come.Cross-references: Gen 10:5 · Ex 15:14 · Josh 2:10 · Josh 5:1 · Ps 65:8 · Ps 66:3 · +2 more

6Everyone helps his neighbor. They say to their brothers, “Be strong!”Cross-references: 1Sam 4:7 · 1Sam 5:3 · Isa 35:4 · Isa 40:19 · Isa 44:12 · Dan 3:1 · +2 more

7So the carpenter encourages the goldsmith. He who smooths with the hammer encourages him who strikes the anvil, saying of the soldering, “It is good;” and he fastens it with nails, that it might not totter.Cross-references: Judg 18:17 · Judg 18:24 · Isa 40:19 · Isa 44:12 · Isa 46:6 · Jer 10:3 · +2 more

8“But you, Israel, my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the offspring of Abraham my friend,Cross-references: Ex 19:5 · Lev 25:42 · Deut 7:6 · Deut 10:15 · Deut 14:2 · 2Chr 20:7 · +21 more

9you whom I have taken hold of from the ends of the earth, and called from its corners, and said to you, ‘You are my servant. I have chosen you and have not cast you away.’Cross-references: Deut 7:6 · Josh 24:2 · 1Sam 12:22 · Neh 9:7 · Ps 94:14 · Ps 107:2 · +9 more

10Don’t you be afraid, for I am with you. Don’t be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you. Yes, I will help you. Yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness.Cross-references: Gen 15:1 · Deut 20:1 · Deut 31:6 · Deut 33:27 · Josh 1:9 · 1Chr 12:18 · +39 more

11Behold, all those who are incensed against you will be disappointed and confounded. Those who strive with you will be like nothing, and shall perish.Cross-references: Ex 11:8 · Ex 23:22 · Isa 29:8 · Isa 40:17 · Isa 41:24 · Isa 41:29 · +9 more

12You will seek them, and won’t find them, even those who contend with you. Those who war against you will be as nothing, as a nonexistent thing.Cross-references: Job 20:7 · Ps 37:35 · Isa 17:14

13For I, Yahweh your God, will hold your right hand, saying to you, ‘Don’t be afraid. I will help you.’Cross-references: Deut 33:26 · Ps 63:8 · Ps 73:23 · Ps 109:31 · Isa 41:10 · Isa 42:6 · +4 more

14Don’t be afraid, you worm Jacob, and you men of Israel. I will help you,” says Yahweh. “Your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel.Cross-references: Deut 7:7 · Job 19:25 · Job 25:6 · Ps 19:14 · Ps 22:6 · Isa 43:14 · +18 more

15Behold, I have made you into a new sharp threshing instrument with teeth. You will thresh the mountains, and beat them small, and will make the hills like chaff.Cross-references: Ps 18:42 · Isa 21:10 · Isa 28:27 · Mic 4:13 · Hab 3:12 · Zech 4:7 · +1 more

16You will winnow them, and the wind will carry them away, and the whirlwind will scatter them. You will rejoice in Yahweh. You will glory in the Holy One of Israel.Cross-references: 1Sam 2:1 · Ps 1:4 · Isa 12:6 · Isa 17:13 · Isa 25:1 · Isa 45:24 · +10 more

17The poor and needy seek water, and there is none. Their tongue fails for thirst. I, Yahweh, will answer them. I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them.Cross-references: Gen 28:15 · Ex 17:3 · Ex 17:6 · Judg 15:18 · Ps 22:15 · Ps 34:6 · +26 more

18I will open rivers on the bare heights, and springs in the middle of the valleys. I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water.Cross-references: Ps 46:4 · Ps 78:15 · Ps 105:41 · Ps 107:35 · Isa 12:3 · Isa 30:25 · +12 more

19I will put cedar, acacia, myrtle, and oil trees in the wilderness. I will set cypress trees, pine, and box trees together in the desert;Cross-references: Ps 92:13 · Isa 27:6 · Isa 32:15 · Isa 35:1 · Isa 37:31 · Isa 51:3 · +7 more

20that they may see, know, consider, and understand together, that Yahweh’s hand has done this, and the Holy One of Israel has created it.Cross-references: Ex 9:16 · Num 23:23 · Job 12:9 · Ps 109:27 · Isa 43:7 · Isa 43:21 · +5 more

21Produce your cause,” says Yahweh. “Bring out your strong reasons!” says the King of Jacob.Cross-references: Job 23:3 · Job 31:37 · Job 38:3 · Job 40:7 · Mic 6:1

22“Let them announce and declare to us what will happen! Declare the former things, what they are, that we may consider them, and know the latter end of them; or show us things to come.Cross-references: Isa 42:9 · Isa 43:9 · Isa 44:7 · Isa 45:21 · Isa 46:10 · Isa 48:14 · +2 more

23Declare 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.Cross-references: Isa 42:9 · Isa 44:7 · Isa 45:3 · Isa 45:7 · Isa 46:7 · Isa 46:9 · +3 more

24Behold, you are nothing, and your work is nothing. He who chooses you is an abomination.Cross-references: Deut 7:26 · Deut 27:15 · Ps 115:8 · Isa 37:19 · Isa 41:29 · Isa 44:9 · +6 more

25“I have raised up one from the north, and he has come, from the rising of the sun, one who calls on my name, and he shall come on rulers as on mortar, and as the potter treads clay.Cross-references: 2Sam 22:43 · Ezra 1:2 · Isa 10:6 · Isa 21:2 · Isa 41:2 · Isa 44:28 · +6 more

26Who has declared it from the beginning, that we may know? and before, that we may say, ‘He is right’? Surely, there is no one who declares. Surely, there is no one who shows. Surely, there is no one who hears your words.Cross-references: Isa 41:22 · Isa 43:9 · Isa 44:7 · Isa 45:21 · Hab 2:18

27I am the first to say to Zion, ‘Behold, look at them;’ and I will give one who brings good news to Jerusalem.Cross-references: Ezra 1:1 · Isa 40:9 · Isa 41:4 · Isa 43:10 · Isa 44:6 · Isa 44:28 · +7 more

28When I look, there is no man, even among them there is no counselor who, when I ask, can answer a word.Cross-references: Isa 40:13 · Isa 50:2 · Isa 59:16 · Isa 63:5 · Dan 2:10 · Dan 4:7 · +1 more

29Behold, all of their deeds are vanity and nothing. Their molten images are wind and confusion.Cross-references: Ps 115:4 · Ps 135:15 · Isa 41:24 · Isa 44:9 · Jer 5:13 · Jer 10:2 · +1 more