Isaiah 41:28

When I look, there is no man; 2 even among them there is no counselor who, when I ask of them, can answer a word. 1

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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

27I am the first to say to Zion [Mountain ridge, Marking], ‘Behold, look at them;’ 2 and I will give one who brings good news to Jerusalem [City of peace]. 1

29Behold, all of them, their deeds are vain striving of iniquity and nothing. 2 Their molten images are wind and confusion.

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Cross References

Isaiah 50:2Why, when I came, was there no one? 2 when I called, why was there no one to answer? 1 Is my hand shortened at all, that it can’t redeem? 2 or have I no power to deliver? 1 Behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea. 2 I make the rivers a wilderness: 2 their fish stink, because there is no water, and die for thirst. 1

Isaiah 63:5I looked, and there was no one to help; 1 and I wondered that there was no one to uphold: 2 therefore my own arm brought salvation to me; 2 and my own wrath upheld me. 1

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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