Isaiah 41 :: Young's Literal Translation (YLT)

Israel Encouraged

Isa 41:1Keep silent towards Me, O isles, And the peoples pass on to power, They come nigh, then they speak, 'Together -- to judgment we draw near.'

Isa 41:2

Isa 41:2Who stirred up from the east a righteous one? He calleth him to His foot, He giveth before him nations, And kings He causeth him to rule, He giveth them as dust to his sword, As driven stubble to his bow.

Isa 41:3

Isa 41:3He pursueth them, he passeth over in safety A path with his feet he entereth not.

Isa 41:4

Isa 41:4Who hath wrought and done, Calling the generations from the first? I, Jehovah, the first, and with the last I am He.

Isa 41:5

Isa 41:5Seen have isles and fear, ends of the earth tremble, They have drawn near, yea, they come.

Isa 41:6

Isa 41:6Each his neighbour they help, And to his brother he saith, 'Be strong.'

Isa 41:7

Isa 41:7And strengthen doth an artizan the refiner, A smoother with a hammer, Him who is beating on an anvil, Saying, 'For joining it is good,' And he strengtheneth it with nails, it is not moved!

Isa 41:8

Isa 41:8-- And thou, O Israel, My servant, Jacob, whom I have chosen, Seed of Abraham, My lover,

Isa 41:9

Isa 41:9Whom I have taken hold of, from the ends of the earth, And from its near places I have called thee, And I say to thee, My servant Thou art, I have chosen thee, and not rejected thee.

Isa 41:10

Isa 41:10Be not afraid, for with thee I am, Look not around, for I am thy God, I have strengthened thee, Yea, I have helped thee, yea, I upheld thee, With the right hand of My righteousness.

Isa 41:11

Isa 41:11Lo, all those displeased with thee, They are ashamed and blush, They are as nothing, yea, perish Do the men who strive with thee.

Isa 41:12

Isa 41:12Thou seekest them, and findest them not, The men who debate with thee, They are as nothing, yea, as nothing, The men who war with thee.

Isa 41:13

Isa 41:13For I, Jehovah thy God, Am strengthening thy right hand, He who is saying to thee, 'Fear not, I have helped thee.'

Isa 41:14

Isa 41:14Fear not, O worm Jacob, ye men of Israel, I helped thee, an affirmation of Jehovah, Even thy redeemer, the Holy One of Israel.

Isa 41:15

Isa 41:15Lo, I have set thee for a new sharp threshing instrument, Possessing teeth, thou threshest mountains, And beatest small, and hills as chaff thou makest.

Isa 41:16

Isa 41:16Thou winnowest them, and a wind lifteth them up, And a whirlwind scattereth them, And thou -- thou rejoicest in Jehovah, In the Holy One of Israel dost boast thyself.

Isa 41:17

Isa 41:17The poor and the needy are seeking water, And there is none, Their tongue with thirst hath failed, I, Jehovah do answer them, The God of Israel -- I forsake them not.

Isa 41:18

Isa 41:18I open on high places rivers, And in midst of valleys fountains, I make a wilderness become a pond of water, And a dry land become springs of water.

Isa 41:19

Isa 41:19I give in a wilderness the cedar, Shittah, and myrtle, and oil-tree, I set in a desert the fir-pine and box-wood together.

Isa 41:20

Isa 41:20So that they see, and know, And regard, and act wisely together, For the hand of Jehovah hath done this, And the Holy One of Israel hath prepared it.

Isa 41:21

Isa 41:21Bring near your cause, saith Jehovah, Bring nigh your mighty ones, saith the king of Jacob.

Isa 41:22

Isa 41:22They bring nigh, and declare to us that which doth happen, The first things -- what they are declare ye, And we set our heart, and know their latter end, Or the coming things cause us to hear.

Isa 41:23

Isa 41:23Declare the things that are coming hereafter, And we know that ye are gods, Yea, ye may do good or do evil, And we look around and see it together.

Isa 41:24

Isa 41:24Lo, ye are of nothing, and your work of nought, An abomination -- it fixeth on you.

Isa 41:25

Isa 41:25I have stirred up one from the north, And he cometh, From the rising of the sun he calleth in My name, And he cometh in on prefects as on clay, And as a potter treadeth down mire.

Isa 41:26

Isa 41:26Who hath declared from the first, and we know? And beforetime, and we say, 'Righteous?' yea, there is none declaring, Yea, there is none proclaiming, Yea, there is none hearing your sayings.

Isa 41:27

Isa 41:27First to Zion, Behold, behold them, And to Jerusalem one proclaiming tidings I give,

Isa 41:28

Isa 41:28And I see that there is no man, Yea, of these that there is no counsellor, And I ask them, and they return word:

Isa 41:29

Isa 41:29'Lo, all of them are vanity, Nought are their works, Wind and emptiness their molten images!'

The Young's Literal Translation was translated by Robert Young, who believed in a strictly literal translation of God's word. This version of the Bible is in the public domain.

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Israel Encouraged

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