Isaiah 41:28

So I look, And there is not, a Man! Even among these And there is none to advise,—That, when I ask them, can answer a word.

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

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

27He who is First, [can say], To Zion, Lo! there they are! And to Jerusalem, A herald of good-tidings, do I give.

29Lo! as to all of them, Vanity—nothingness, are their works, Wind and emptiness, their molten images!

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Cross References

Isaiah 50:2Wherefore, When I came in, was there no one? When I called, was there none to answer? Is mine own hand, really shortened, that it cannot redeem? Or is there not, in me, strength to deliver? Lo! by my rebuke, I dry up the sea I make rivers a desert, Their fish Stinketh, for want of water, Yea dieth, for thirst:

Isaiah 63:5Therefore looked I around, and there was none to help,—And I was astonished that there was none to uphold,—So, mine own arm brought me salvation, And mine indignation, the same upheld me;

Daniel 4:7Then came in the sacred scribes, the magicians, the Chaldeans, and the astrologers,—and, the dream, told I before them, but, the interpretation, could they not make 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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