Isaiah 41:28

When I look, there is no one, not one among them who can give good advice, 1 who, when I ask, can answer a word. 1

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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 first said to Zion, “Look here they are;” I sent a herald to Jerusalem. 1

29Look, all of them are nothing, 1 and their deeds are nothing; their cast metal figures are wind and emptiness.

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Cross References

Isaiah 50:2Why did I come but there was no one there? Why did I call but no one answered? 1 Was my hand too short to ransom you? Was there no power in me to rescue you? 1 Look, at my rebuke I dry up the sea; I make the rivers a desert; 1 their fish die for lack of water and rot. 1

Isaiah 63:5I looked, and there was no one to help. I wondered that there was none to help, 1 but my own arm brought victory for me, and my strong anger drove me on. 1

Daniel 4:7Then came the magicians, those who claimed to speak with the dead, the wise men, and the astrologers. I told them the dream, but they could not interpret it for 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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