Isaiah 41 (NET)

Isaiah 41:1¹“Listen to me in silence, you coastlands! Let the nations find renewed strength! Let them approach and then speak; let us come together for debate.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 1:18Hab 2:20Zech 2:13Ps 46:10Isa 41:6-7Isa 11:11Isa 34:1Job 38:3Job 40:7-10Joel 3:10-11

Isaiah 41:2²Who stirs up this one from the east? Who officially commissions him for service? He hands nations over to him, and enables him to subdue kings. He makes them like dust with his sword, like windblown straw with his bow.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 45:12 Sam 22:43Ezra 1:2Isa 40:24Isa 41:25Isa 46:112 Chr 36:23Isa 45:132 Kgs 13:7Gen 11:31

Isaiah 41:3³He pursues them and passes by unharmed; he advances with great speed.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 57:2Job 5:24

Isaiah 41:4⁴Who acts and carries out decrees? Who summons the successive generations from the beginning? I, the Lord, am present at the very beginning, and at the very end—I am the one.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 48:12Rev 22:13Rev 1:17Isa 44:6-7Isa 46:10Isa 41:26Isa 43:10Rev 1:8Acts 17:26Deut 32:7-8

Isaiah 41:5⁵The coastlands see and are afraid; the whole earth trembles; they approach and come.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ezek 26:15-16Josh 5:1Ps 65:8Ps 66:3Ps 67:7Exod 15:14Gen 10:5Josh 2:10

Isaiah 41:6⁶They help one another; one says to the other, ‘Be strong!’Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Sam 4:7-9Dan 3:1-7Isa 35:4Isa 40:19Isa 44:12Acts 19:24-28Joel 3:9-111 Sam 5:3-5

Isaiah 41:7⁷The craftsman encourages the metalsmith, the one who wields the hammer encourages the one who pounds on the anvil. He approves the quality of the welding, and nails it down so it won’t fall over.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 40:19-20Dan 3:1-7Isa 44:12-15Isa 46:6-7Jer 10:3-5Jer 10:9Judg 18:17-18Judg 18:24

Isaiah 41:8⁸“You, my servant Israel, Jacob, whom I have chosen, offspring of Abraham my friend,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jas 2:232 Chr 20:7Deut 14:2Exod 19:5-6John 15:14-15Isa 44:21Isa 51:2Isa 29:22Isa 44:1-2Ps 33:12

Isaiah 41:9⁹you whom I am bringing back from the earth’s extremities, and have summoned from the remote regions— I told you, ‘You are my servant.’ I have chosen you and not rejected you.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Sam 12:22Ps 94:14Deut 7:6-7Jas 2:5Josh 24:2-41 Cor 1:26-29Rom 11:1-2Isa 41:2Isa 41:8Isa 43:5-6

Isaiah 41:10¹⁰Don’t be afraid, for I am with you! Don’t be frightened, for I am your God! I strengthen you— yes, I help you— yes, I uphold you with my victorious right hand!Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Josh 1:9Isa 43:1-2Rom 8:31Deut 31:6-8Phil 4:13Isa 40:29-312 Cor 12:9Isa 41:13-14Ps 27:1Ps 63:8

Isaiah 41:11¹¹Look, all who were angry at you will be ashamed and humiliated; your adversaries will be reduced to nothing and perish.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 23:22Isa 45:24Rev 3:9Acts 16:39Isa 54:17Acts 13:8-11Dan 4:35Exod 11:8Isa 49:26Isa 29:8

Isaiah 41:12¹²When you will look for your opponents, you will not find them; your enemies will be reduced to absolutely nothing.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 37:35-36Job 20:7-9Isa 17:14

Isaiah 41:13¹³For I am the Lord your God, the one who takes hold of your right hand, who says to you, ‘Don’t be afraid, I am helping you.’Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 41:10Ps 73:23Ps 63:8Ps 109:31Isa 42:62 Tim 4:17Isa 45:1Deut 33:26-29Isa 43:6Isa 51:18

Isaiah 41:14¹⁴Don’t be afraid, despised insignificant Jacob, men of Israel. I am helping you,” says the Lord, your Protector, the Holy One of Israel.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 43:14Isa 54:5Ps 22:6Jer 50:34Job 25:6Ps 19:14Job 19:25Gal 3:13Isa 44:24Isa 44:6

Isaiah 41:15¹⁵“Look, I am making you like a sharp threshing sledge, new and double-edged. You will thresh the mountains and crush them; you will make the hills like straw.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Mic 4:132 Cor 10:4-5Zech 4:7Hab 3:12Isa 21:10Isa 28:27Ps 18:42

Isaiah 41:16¹⁶You will winnow them and the wind will blow them away; the wind will scatter them. You will rejoice in the Lord; you will boast in the Holy One of Israel.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jer 51:2Isa 45:24-25Isa 61:10-11Hab 3:18Jer 15:7Jer 9:23-241 Cor 1:30-311 Sam 2:1-2Isa 12:6Isa 17:13

Isaiah 41:17¹⁷The oppressed and the poor look for water, but there is none; their tongues are parched from thirst. I, the Lord, will respond to their prayers; I, the God of Israel, will not abandon them.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 55:1Isa 30:19Isa 44:3Matt 5:6Isa 42:16Isa 61:1Ps 34:6Ps 72:12-13Gen 28:15Heb 13:5-6

Isaiah 41:18¹⁸I will make streams flow down the slopes and produce springs in the middle of the valleys. I will turn the wilderness into a pool of water and the arid land into springs.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 35:6-7Ps 107:35Isa 58:11Isa 30:25Ezek 47:1-8Isa 43:19-20Rev 7:17Isa 44:3Isa 32:2Isa 49:9-10

Isaiah 41:19¹⁹I will make cedars, acacias, myrtles, and olive trees grow in the wilderness; I will make evergreens, firs, and cypresses grow together in the arid rift valley.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 55:13Isa 37:31-32Isa 35:1Isa 60:13Isa 60:21Isa 61:11Ezek 17:22-24Isa 27:6Ezek 47:12Isa 32:15

Isaiah 41:20²⁰I will do this so people will observe and recognize, so they will pay attention and understand that the Lord ’s power has accomplished this, and that the Holy One of Israel has brought it into being.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Job 12:9Isa 43:21Isa 44:23Ps 109:27Exod 9:162 Thess 1:10Isa 43:7-13Isa 45:6-8Eph 2:6-10Isa 66:18

Isaiah 41:21²¹“Present your argument,” says the Lord. “Produce your evidence,” says Jacob’s king.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Job 23:3-4Job 38:3Mic 6:1-2

Isaiah 41:22²²“Let them produce evidence! Let them tell us what will happen! Tell us about your earlier predictive oracles, so we may examine them and see how they were fulfilled. Or decree for us some future events!Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 45:21Isa 44:7Isa 46:10Isa 48:14Isa 42:9Isa 43:9-12John 13:19John 16:14

Isaiah 41:23²³Predict how future events will turn out, so we might know you are gods. Yes, do something good or something bad, so we might be frightened and in awe.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 42:9John 13:19Jer 10:5Isa 44:7-8Isa 45:3Isa 45:7-8Isa 46:7Isa 46:9-10

Isaiah 41:24²⁴Look, you are nothing, and your accomplishments are nonexistent; the one who chooses to worship you is disgusting.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Cor 8:4Ps 115:8Isa 41:29Jer 10:14Jer 10:8Deut 27:15Deut 7:26Isa 37:19Isa 44:9-10Isa 66:24

Isaiah 41:25²⁵I have stirred up one out of the north and he advances, one from the eastern horizon who prays in my name. He steps on rulers as if they were clay, like a potter treading the clay.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 41:22 Sam 22:43Isa 10:6Isa 44:28-45:6Isa 46:10-11Mic 7:10Zech 10:5Ezra 1:2-3Isa 21:2Isa 45:13

Isaiah 41:26²⁶Who decreed this from the beginning, so we could know? Who announced it ahead of time, so we could say, ‘He’s correct’? Indeed, none of them decreed it. Indeed, none of them announced it. Indeed, no one heard you say anything!Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 41:22Isa 44:7Isa 45:21Hab 2:18-20Isa 43:9

Isaiah 41:27²⁷I first decreed to Zion, ‘Look, here’s what will happen!’ I sent a herald to Jerusalem.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 40:9Isa 52:7Isa 44:28Isa 48:3Nah 1:15Ezra 1:1-2Isa 41:4Isa 43:10Isa 44:6Isa 48:12

Isaiah 41:28²⁸I look, but there is no one, among them there is no one who serves as an adviser, that I might ask questions and receive answers.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 63:5Dan 2:10-11Dan 4:7-8Dan 5:8Isa 40:13-14Isa 50:2Isa 59:16

Isaiah 41:29²⁹Look, all of them are nothing, their accomplishments are nonexistent; their metal images lack any real substance.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jer 5:13Isa 41:24Hab 2:18Isa 44:9-20Jer 10:2-16Ps 115:4-8Ps 135:15-18