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title: Isaiah 41
slug: kjv/isaiah-41
createdAt: 2024-08-28T03:04:48.414Z
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**1 **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.

**2 **Who raised up the righteous *man* from the east, called him to his foot, gave the nations before him, and made *him* rule over kings? he gave *them* as the dust to his sword, *and* as driven stubble to his bow.

**3 **He pursued them, *and* passed safely; *even* by the way *that* he had not gone with his feet.

**4 **Who hath wrought and done *it*, calling the generations from the beginning? I the LORD, the first, and with the last; I *am* he.

**5 **The isles saw *it*, and feared; the ends of the earth were afraid, drew near, and came.

**6 **They helped every one his neighbour; and *every one* said to his brother, Be of good courage.

**7 **So the carpenter encouraged the goldsmith, *and* he that smootheth *with* the hammer him that smote the anvil, saying, It *is* ready for the sodering: and he fastened it with nails, *that* it should not be moved.

**8 **But thou, Israel, *art* my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham my friend.

**9 ***Thou* whom I have taken from the ends of the earth, and called thee from the chief men thereof, and said unto thee, Thou *art* my servant; I have chosen thee, and not cast thee away.

**10 **Fear thou not; for I *am* with thee: be not dismayed; for I *am* thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness.

**11 **Behold, all they that were incensed against thee shall be ashamed and confounded: they shall be as nothing; and they that strive with thee shall perish.

**12 **Thou shalt seek them, and shalt not find them, *even* them that contended with thee: they that war against thee shall be as nothing, and as a thing of nought.

**13 **For I the LORD thy God will hold thy right hand, saying unto thee, Fear not; I will help thee.

**14 **Fear not, thou worm Jacob, *and* ye men of Israel; I will help thee, saith the LORD, and thy redeemer, the Holy One of Israel.

**15 **Behold, I will make thee a new sharp threshing instrument having teeth: thou shalt thresh the mountains, and beat *them* small, and shalt make the hills as chaff.

**16 **Thou shalt fan them, and the wind shall carry them away, and the whirlwind shall scatter them: and thou shalt rejoice in the LORD, *and* shalt glory in the Holy One of Israel.

**17 ***When* the poor and needy seek water, and *there is* none, *and* their tongue faileth for thirst, I the LORD will hear them, *I* the God of Israel will not forsake them.

**18 **I will open rivers in high places, and fountains in the midst of the valleys: I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water.

**19 **I will plant in the wilderness the cedar, the shittah tree, and the myrtle, and the oil tree; I will set in the desert the fir tree, *and* the pine, and the box tree together:

**20 **That they may see, and know, and consider, and understand together, that the hand of the LORD hath done this, and the Holy One of Israel hath created it. 

**21 **Produce your cause, saith the LORD; bring forth your strong *reasons*, saith the King of Jacob.

**22 **Let them bring *them* forth, and shew us what shall happen: let them shew 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 **Shew 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, and your work of nought: an abomination *is he that* chooseth you.

**25 **I have raised up *one* from the north, and he shall come: from the rising of the sun shall he call upon my name: and he shall come upon princes as *upon* morter, and as the potter treadeth clay.

**26 **Who hath declared from the beginning, that we may know? and beforetime, that we may say, *He is* righteous? yea, *there is* none that sheweth, yea, *there is* none that declareth, yea, *there is* none that heareth your words.

**27 **The first *shall say* to Zion, Behold, behold them: and I will give to Jerusalem one that bringeth good tidings.

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

**29 **Behold, they *are* all vanity; their works *are* nothing: their molten images *are* wind and confusion.