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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge: Isaiah 41

Chapter 41

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.

silence

49:1 Psalms 46:10 Habakkuk 2:20 Zechariah 2:13

let the people

6,7,21,22 8:9,10 Job 38:3 40:7 Joel 3:10,11

let us

1:18 Job 23:3-7 31:35,36 40:8-10 Micah 6:1-3

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.

Who raised

25 45:13 46:11 Genesis 11:31 12:1-3 17:1 Hebrews 11:8-10

the righteous man

Heb. righteousness.

gave

15 45:1 Genesis 14:14,15 Ezra 1:2 Hebrews 7:1

as the

15,16 2 Samuel 22:43 2 Kings 13:7

as driven

40:24

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

safely

Heb. in peace.

57:2 Job 5:24

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

hath

26 40:12,26 42:24

calling

44:7 46:10 48:3-7 Deuteronomy 32:7,8 Acts 15:18 17:26

I the Lord

43:10 44:6 48:12 Revelation 1:11,17 2:8 22:13

with the

46:3,4 Matthew 1:23 28:20

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

isles

Genesis 10:5 Ezekiel 26:15,16

the ends

Exodus 15:14 Joshua 2:10 5:1 Psalms 65:8 66:3 67:7

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

helped

40:19 44:12 1 Samuel 4:7-9 5:3-5 Daniel 3:1-7 Acts 19:24-28

of good courage

Heb. strong.

35:4 Joel 3:9-11

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.

the carpenter

40:19 44:12-15 46:6,7 Jeremiah 10:3-5,9 Daniel 3:1-7

goldsmith

or, founder. him that smote the anvil. or, the smiting. saying, It is ready for the soldering. or, saying of the solder, It is good. that it.

40:20 46:7 Judges 18:17,18,24

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

thou

43:1 44:1,2,21 48:12 49:3 Exodus 19:5,6 Leviticus 25:42 Deuteronomy 7:6-8 10:15 Deuteronomy 14:2 Psalms 33:12 105:6,42-45 135:4 Jeremiah 33:24

the seed

Matthew 3:9 John 8:33-44 Romans 4:12,13 9:4-8 Galatians 3:19 4:22-31

my friend

2 Chronicles 20:7 John 15:14,15 James 2:23

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.

whom

2 Joshua 24:2-4 Nehemiah 9:7-38 Psalms 107:2,3 Luke 13:29 Revelation 5:9

called

Deuteronomy 7:7 1 Corinthians 1:26-29 James 2:5

I have chosen

1 Samuel 12:22 Psalms 94:14 Jeremiah 33:25,26 Romans 11:1,2

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.

Fear

13,14 12:2 43:1,5 44:2 51:12,13 Genesis 15:1 Deuteronomy 20:1 31:6-8 Joshua 1:9 2 Chronicles 20:17 32:8 Psalms 27:1 46:1,2,7,11 Luke 1:13,30 2:10,11 Romans 8:31

for I am thy God

52:7 60:19 1 Chronicles 12:18 Psalms 147:12 Hosea 1:9 Zechariah 13:9 John 8:54,55

I will strengthen

40:29-31 Deuteronomy 33:27-29 Psalms 29:11 Zechariah 10:12 2 Corinthians 12:9 Ephesians 3:16 Philippians 4:13

I will uphold

Psalms 37:17,24 41:12 63:8 145:14

the right

Psalms 65:5 89:13,14 99:4 144:8,11

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.

all they

45:24 49:26 54:17 60:12-14 Exodus 11:8 23:22 Zechariah 12:3 Acts 13:8-11 Acts 16:39 Revelation 3:9

as nothing

24,29 40:17 Daniel 4:35

they that strive with thee

Heb. the men of thy strife.

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.

shalt seek

Job 20:7-9 Psalms 37:35,36

them that contended with thee

Heb. the men of thy contention. they that war against thee. Heb. the men of thy war.

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

will hold

43:6 45:1 51:18 Deuteronomy 33:26-29 Psalms 63:8 73:23 109:31 2 Timothy 4:17

Fear

Verse 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.

thou worm

Job 25:6 Psalms 22:6

men

or, few men.

Deuteronomy 7:7 Matthew 7:14 Luke 12:32 Romans 9:27

saith

43:14 44:6,24 47:4 48:17 49:7,26 54:5,8 59:20 60:16 63:16 Job 19:25 Psalms 19:14 Jeremiah 50:34 Galatians 3:13 Titus 2:14 Revelation 5:9

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.

I will make

21:10 28:27 Habakkuk 3:12

teeth

Heb. mouths. thou shalt.

Psalms 18:42 Micah 4:13 Zechariah 4:7 2 Corinthians 10:4,5

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.

shalt fan

17:13 Psalms 1:4 Jeremiah 15:7 51:2 Matthew 3:12

thou shalt rejoice

12:6 25:1-3 45:24,25 61:10,11 1 Samuel 2:1,2 Jeremiah 9:23,24 Habakkuk 3:18 Luke 1:46,47 Romans 5:11 1 Corinthians 1:30,31 Philippians 3:3 *Gr:

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.

the poor

61:1 66:2 Psalms 68:9,10 72:12,13 102:16,17 Matthew 5:3

seek

55:1 Exodus 17:3,6 Psalms 42:2 63:1,2 Amos 8:11-13 Matthew 5:6 John 4:10-15 John 7:37-39 Revelation 21:6 22:17

their tongue

Psalms 22:15 Lamentations 4:4 Luke 16:24

I the Lord

30:19 Judges 15:18,19 Psalms 34:6 50:15 102:17 107:5,6 2 Corinthians 12:9

I the God

42:16 Genesis 28:15 Psalms 94:14 Hebrews 13:5,6

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.

12:3 30:25 32:2 35:6,7 43:19,20 44:3 48:21 49:9,10 58:11 Psalms 46:4 78:15,16 105:41 107:35 Ezekiel 47:1-8 Joel 3:18 Zechariah 14:8 Revelation 7:17 22:1

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:

plant

27:6 32:15 37:31,32 51:3 55:13 60:21 61:3,11 Psalms 92:13,14 Ezekiel 17:22-24 47:12

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.

43:7-13,21 44:23 45:6-8 66:18 Exodus 9:16 Numbers 23:23 Job 12:9 Psalms 109:27 Ephesians 2:6-10 2 Thessalonians 1:10

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

Produce

Heb. Cause to come near.

Job 23:3,4 31:37 38:3 40:7-9 Micah 6:1,2

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.

and shew

42:9 43:9-12 45:21 48:14 John 13:19 16:14

consider them

Heb. set our heart upon them.

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.

that we may know

42:9 44:7,8 45:8 46:9,10 John 13:19 Acts 15:18

do good

45:7 46:7 Jeremiah 10:5

Behold, ye are of nothing, and your work of nought: an abomination is he that chooseth you.

ye are

29 44:9,10 Psalms 115:8 Jeremiah 10:8,14 51:17,18 1 Corinthians 8:4

of nothing

or, worse than nothing. of nought. or, worse than of a viper. an abomination.

66:24 Deuteronomy 7:26 27:15 Revelation 17:5

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.

I have

Jehovah here, by the mouth of the prophet, predicts the victories of Cyrus over the Chaldeans and their allies, at least 150 years before the event, as one instance of his foreknowledge and invincible power. Media lay north of Babylon, and Persia eastward; and Cyrus commanded the forces of both these nations; and, by his wonderful success, he trampled down mighty monarchs as mortar, and as the potter treads the clay.

raised

21:2 44:28 45:1-6,13 46:10,11 Jeremiah 51:27-29

shall he call

Ezra 1:2,3

come upon

2 10:6 2 Samuel 22:43 Micah 7:10 Zechariah 10:5

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.

declared

22 43:9 44:7 45:21 Habakkuk 2:18-20

righteous

Verse 27

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

first

4 43:10 44:6 48:12 Revelation 2:8

I will give

40:9 44:28 52:7 Ezra 1:1,2 Nahum 1:15 Luke 2:10,11 Romans 10:15

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.

I beheld

63:5 Daniel 2:10,11 4:7,8 5:8

answer

Heb. return.

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

they are all

24 44:9-20 Psalms 115:4-8 135:15-18 Jeremiah 10:2-16 Habakkuk 2:18

wind

Jeremiah 5:13