Isaiah 41:1
Let the islands keep silence before me, and the nations take new strength: let them come near, and then speak, let us come near to judgment together.
Douay-Rheims 1899
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Job 23:3Who will grant me that I might know and find him, and come even to his throne?
Job 38:3Gird up thy loins like a man : I will ask thee, and answer thou me.
Psalms 46:10making wars to cease even to the end of the earth. He shall destroy the bow, and break the weapons: and the shield he shall burn in the fire.
Isaiah 8:9Gather yourselves together, O ye people, and be overcome, and give ear, all ye lands afar off: strengthen yourselves, end be overcome, gird yourselves, and be overcome.
Isaiah 34:1Come near, ye Gentiles, and hear, and hearken, ye people: let the earth hear, and all that is therein, the world, and every thing that cometh forth of it.
Isaiah 41:21Bring your cause near, saith the Lord: bring hither, if you have any thing to allege, saith the King of Jacob.
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 41:1
This chapter, as the former, in intended both for the conviction of idolaters and for the consolation of all God's faithful worshippers; for the Spirit is sent, and ministers are employed by him, both to convince and to comfort. And however this might be primarily intended for the conviction of Babylonians, and the comfort of Israelites, or for the conviction of those in Israel that were addicted to idolatry, as multitudes were, and the comfort of those that kept their integrity, doubtless it was intended both for… Read the whole commentary →