Isaiah 41:28

And I see that there is no man, || Indeed, of these that there is no counselor, || And I ask them, and they return word:

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

For I beheld, and there was no man; even among them, and there was no counsellor, that, when I asked of them, could answer a word.

In Context

27First to Zion, || Behold, behold them, || And to Jerusalem I give one proclaiming tidings,

29“Behold, all of them [are] vanity, || Their works [are] nothing, || Their molten images [are] wind and emptiness!”

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Cross References

Isaiah 50:2Why have I come, and there is no one? I called, and there is none answering, || Has My hand been at all short of redemption? And is there not power in Me to deliver? Behold, by My rebuke I dry up a sea, || I make rivers a wilderness, || Their fish stink, for there is no water, || And die with thirst.

Isaiah 63:5And I look attentively, and there is none helping, || And I am astonished that there is none supporting, || And My own arm gives salvation to Me. And My wrath—it has supported Me.

Daniel 4:7Then coming up are the scribes, the enchanters, the Chaldeans, and the soothsayers, and the dream I have told before them, and its interpretation they are not making known to me.

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 41:22-29

Idolatry Exposed. ( b. c. 708.) 21 Produce your cause, saith the Lord ; bring forth your strong reasons, saith the King of Jacob. 22 Let them bring them forth, and show us what shall happen: let them show the former things, what they be, that we may consider them, and know the latter end of them; or declare us things for to come. 23 Show the things that are to come hereafter, that we may know that ye are gods: yea, do good, or do evil, that we may be dismayed, and behold it together. 24 Behold, ye are of nothing,… Read the whole commentary →

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