Isaiah 41 :: Darby Translation (DBY)

Israel Encouraged

Isa 41:1Keep silence before me, islands; and let the peoples renew their strength: let them come near; then let them speak: let us draw near together to judgment.

Isa 41:2

Isa 41:2Who raised up from the east him whom righteousness calleth to its foot? He gave the nations before him, and caused him to have dominion over kings; he gave them as dust to his sword, as driven stubble to his bow.

Isa 41:3

Isa 41:3He pursued them, he passed on in safety, by a way he had never come with his feet.

Isa 41:4

Isa 41:4Who hath wrought and done it, calling the generations from the beginning? I, Jehovah, the first; and with the last, I am HE.

Isa 41:5

Isa 41:5The isles saw it, and feared; the ends of the earth trembled: they drew near, and came.

Isa 41:6

Isa 41:6They helped every one his neighbour, and each said to his brother, Take courage.

Isa 41:7

Isa 41:7And the artizan encouraged the founder, he that smootheth with the hammer him that smiteth on the anvil, saying of the soldering, It is good; and he fasteneth it with nails, that it be not moved.

Isa 41:8

Isa 41:8But thou, Israel, my servant, Jacob, whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham, my friend

Isa 41:9

Isa 41:9-- thou whom I have taken from the ends of the earth, and called from the extremities thereof, and to whom I said, Thou art my servant, I have chosen thee and not rejected thee,

Isa 41:10

Isa 41:10-- Fear 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.

Isa 41:11

Isa 41:11Lo, all that are incensed against thee shall be ashamed and confounded; they that strive with thee shall be as nothing, and shall perish.

Isa 41:12

Isa 41:12Thou shalt seek them, and shalt not find them -- them that contend with thee; they that war against thee shall be as nothing, and as a thing of nought.

Isa 41:13

Isa 41:13For I, Jehovah, thy God, hold thy right hand, saying unto thee, Fear not; I will help thee.

Isa 41:14

Isa 41:14Fear not, thou worm Jacob, ye men of Israel; I will help thee, saith Jehovah, and thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel.

Isa 41:15

Isa 41:15Behold, I have made of thee a new sharp threshing instrument having double teeth: thou shalt thresh and beat small the mountains, and shalt make the hills as chaff;

Isa 41:16

Isa 41:16thou shalt fan them, and the wind shall carry them away, and the whirlwind shall scatter them; and thou shalt rejoice in Jehovah, thou shalt glory in the Holy One of Israel.

Isa 41:17

Isa 41:17The afflicted and the needy seek water, and there is none; their tongue faileth for thirst: I, Jehovah, will answer them, I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them.

Isa 41:18

Isa 41:18I will open rivers on the bare heights, and fountains in the midst of the valleys; I will make the wilderness into a pool of water, and the dry land into water-springs.

Isa 41:19

Isa 41:19I will give in the wilderness the cedar, acacia, myrtle, and oleaster; I will set in the desert the cypress, pine, and box-tree together;

Isa 41:20

Isa 41:20that they may see, and know, and consider, and understand together, that the hand of Jehovah hath done this, and the Holy One of Israel hath created it.

Isa 41:21

Isa 41:21Produce your cause, saith Jehovah; bring forward your arguments, saith the King of Jacob.

Isa 41:22

Isa 41:22Let them bring them forward, and declare to us what shall happen: shew the former things, what they are, that we may give attention to them, and know the end of them; -- or let us hear things to come:

Isa 41:23

Isa 41:23declare the things that are to happen hereafter, that we may know that ye are gods; yea, do good, or do evil, that we may be astonished, and behold it together.

Isa 41:24

Isa 41:24Behold, ye are less than nothing, and your work is of nought; an abomination is he that chooseth you. ...

Isa 41:25

Isa 41:25I have raised up one from the north, and he shall come, -- from the rising of the sun, he who will call upon my name; and he shall come upon princes as on mortar, and as the potter treadeth clay.

Isa 41:26

Isa 41:26Who hath declared it from the beginning, that we may know? and beforetime, that we may say, It is right? Indeed, there is none that declareth; no, none that sheweth; no, none that heareth your words.

Isa 41:27

Isa 41:27The first, I said to Zion, Behold, behold them! and to Jerusalem, I will give one that bringeth glad tidings.

Isa 41:28

Isa 41:28And 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.

Isa 41:29

Isa 41:29Behold, they are all vanity, their works are nought, their molten images are wind and emptiness.

In 1867, John Nelson Darby translated the New Testament from Greek into English. Further revisions were done in 1872 and 1884. Darby’s work was first published as The Holy Scriptures: A New Translation from the Original Languages by J. N. Darby. After Darby’s death in 1882, some of his students worked together to produce the complete Darby Bible based on the Masoretic Hebrew text, Darby’s German (Elberfelder), and the French (Pau) translations. In 1890, the first complete Darby Bible was published in English. This translation of the Bible is in the public domain.

Isaiah 41 :: Darby Translation (DBY)

Israel Encouraged

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