Isaiah 41:1

Hold a feast to me, you⌃ islands: for the princes shall renew their strength: let them draw near and speak together: then let them declare judgment.

LXX2012 (US English)

In The King James Version

Keep silence before me, O islands; and let the people renew their strength: let them come near; then let them speak: let us come near together to judgment.

In Context

2Who raised up righteousness from the east, and called it to his feet, so that it should go? shall appoint it an adversary of Gentiles, and shall dismay kings, and bury their swords in the earth, and cast forth their bows and arrows as sticks?

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Cross References

Job 23:3Who would then know that I might find him, and come to an end of the matter?

Job 38:3Gird your loins like a man; and I will ask you, and do you answer me.

Isaiah 8:9Know, you⌃ Gentiles, and be conquered; listen you⌃, even to the extremity of the earth: be conquered, after you⌃ strengthened yourselves; for even if you⌃ should again strengthen yourselves, you⌃ shall again be conquered.

Isaiah 34:1Draw near, you⌃ nations; and listen, you⌃ princes; let the earth hear, and they that are in it; the world, and the people that are therein.

Isaiah 41:21Your judgment draws near, says the Lord God; your counsels have drawn near, says 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 →

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