| Isa. 41:1 |
Listen to Me in silence, O coastlands. / Let the people renew [their] strength; / Let them approach, then let them speak; / Let us come together for judgment. |
| Isa. 41:2 |
Who has stirred up [someone] from the east, / Called him in righteousness to His feet? / He gave up the nations before him, / And caused [him] to have dominion over kings. / He made [them] like dust with his sword, / Like driven stubble with his bow. |
| Isa. 41:3 |
He pursues them [and] passes on in safety, / He will not come on a way [known] to his feet. |
| Isa. 41:4 |
Who has wrought [this] and done [this,] / Calling the generations from the beginning? / I, Jehovah, am the first, / And with the last, I am He. |
| Isa. 41:5 |
The coastlands saw it and were afraid; / The ends of the earth trembled; / They drew near and came. |
| Isa. 41:6 |
Each one helps his neighbor, / And [each one] says to his brother, Be strong. |
| Isa. 41:7 |
So the craftsman encourages the goldsmith, / [And] he who smoothes [metal] with a hammer [encourages] him who strikes the / anvil, / Saying that the soldering is good; / And he fastens it with nails so that it should not be moved. |
| Isa. 41:8 |
But you, Israel, My servant, / Jacob, whom I have chosen, / The seed of Abraham My friend; |
| Isa. 41:9 |
You whom I have taken from the ends of the earth, / And from its extremities have called, / And said to you, You are My servant; / I have chosen you and have not cast you away. |
| Isa. 41:10 |
Do not be afraid, for I am with you; / Do not be dismayed, for I am your God. / I will strengthen you; surely I will help you; / Surely I will uphold you with the right hand of My righteousness. |
| Isa. 41:11 |
Indeed all those who were incensed against you / Will be ashamed and confounded; / The men who strive against you / Will be as nothing and will perish. |
| Isa. 41:12 |
You will seek but not find / The men who contend with you; / The men who war with you / Will be as nothing and as without existence. |
| Isa. 41:13 |
For I am Jehovah your God, / Who takes hold of your right hand, / Who says to you, Do not be afraid; / I will help you. |
| Isa. 41:14 |
Do not be afraid, you worm Jacob, / You few men of Israel; / I will help you, declares Jehovah, / Even your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel. |
| Isa. 41:15 |
Now I will make you into a sharp threshing instrument, / [One that is] new and possessing teeth. / You shall thresh the mountains and make them powder, / And you shall make the hills like chaff. |
| Isa. 41:16 |
You shall winnow them, and the wind will carry them away / And the storm wind will scatter them. / And you will rejoice in Jehovah, / You will glory in the Holy One of Israel. |
| Isa. 41:17 |
When the poor and needy seek for water, and there is none, / And their tongue is dry from thirst, / I, Jehovah, will answer them; / [As] the God of Israel I will not forsake them. |
| Isa. 41:18 |
I will open up rivers on the bare heights, / And in the midst of the valleys, springs. / I will make the wilderness into a pool of water, / And the dry land into springs of water. |
| Isa. 41:19 |
I will plant in the wilderness the cedar, / The acacia, the myrtle, and the olive tree; / I will place in the desert the fir tree, / The pine tree, and the box tree together; |
| Isa. 41:20 |
That they may see and know, / And consider and understand together, / That the hand of Jehovah has done this, / And the Holy One of Israel has created it. |
| Isa. 41:21 |
Present your case, says Jehovah; / Bring forward your arguments, says the King of Jacob. |
| Isa. 41:22 |
Let them bring forth and declare to us / What will take place; / Let them show what the former things were, / That we may consider [them,] / And may know the end of them; / Or let us hear the things that are coming. |
| Isa. 41:23 |
Declare [to us] the things that are coming afterward, / That we may know that you are gods; / Indeed do good or do evil, / That we may look at one another anxiously and be afraid together. |
| Isa. 41:24 |
You are indeed nothing, / And your work is of no consequence; / He who chooses you is an abomination. |
| Isa. 41:25 |
I have raised up one from the north and he has come; / From the rising of the sun he will call upon My name. / He will come upon rulers as [upon] mortar, / As the potter treads the clay. |
| Isa. 41:26 |
Who has declared [it] from the beginning that we may know, / And in advance that we may say, [He is] right? / Indeed there was no one who declared [it;] indeed no one who let [us] hear; / Indeed no one who heard your words. |
| Isa. 41:27 |
Formerly [I said] to Zion, Here, here they are; / And to Jerusalem, I will give someone who preaches glad tidings. |
| Isa. 41:28 |
But I looked and there was no man, / And from among these there was no counselor, / Who, when I asked, would give [Me] an answer. |
| Isa. 41:29 |
Indeed all of them are vanity; / Their works are of no consequence; / Their molten images are a wind and a waste. |