Isaiah 41
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Lutheran reading notes
In Isaiah chapter 41, the prophetic message continues to reveal themes of judgment, repentance, messianic hope, and restoration. Lutheran interpretation often emphasizes the contrast between divine law, which exposes sin, and the promise of grace through God's future redemption. The chapter illustrates both warning and hope within God's covenant relationship.
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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.
Isaiah 41:1 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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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. {the righteous...: Heb. righteousness}
Isaiah 41:2 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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He pursued them, {and} passed safely; {even} by the way {that} he had not gone with his feet. {safely: Heb. in peace}
Isaiah 41:3 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Who hath wrought and done {it}, calling the generations from the beginning? I the LORD, the first, and with the last; I {am} he.
Isaiah 41:4 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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The isles saw {it}, and feared; the ends of the earth were afraid, drew near, and came.
Isaiah 41:5 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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They helped every one his neighbour; and {every one} said to his brother, Be of good courage. {Be...: Heb. Be strong}
Isaiah 41:6 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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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. {goldsmith: or, founder} {him...: or, the smiting} {saying...: or, saying of the soder, It is good}
Isaiah 41:7 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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But thou, Israel, {art} my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham my friend.
Isaiah 41:8 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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{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.
Isaiah 41:9 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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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.
Isaiah 41:10 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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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. {they that strive...: Heb. the men of thy strife}
Isaiah 41:11 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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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. {them that...: Heb. the men of thy contention} {they...: Heb. the men of thy war}
Isaiah 41:12 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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For I the LORD thy God will hold thy right hand, saying unto thee, Fear not; I will help thee.
Isaiah 41:13 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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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. {men: or, few men}
Isaiah 41:14 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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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. {teeth: Heb. mouths}
Isaiah 41:15 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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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.
Isaiah 41:16 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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{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.
Isaiah 41:17 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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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.
Isaiah 41:18 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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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:
Isaiah 41:19 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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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.
Isaiah 41:20 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Produce your cause, saith the LORD; bring forth your strong {reasons}, saith the King of Jacob. {Produce: Heb. Cause to come near}
Isaiah 41:21 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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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. {consider...: Heb. set our heart upon them}
Isaiah 41:22 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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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.
Isaiah 41:23 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Behold, ye {are} of nothing, and your work of nought: an abomination {is he that} chooseth you. {of nothing: or, worse than nothing} {of nought: or, worse than of a viper}
Isaiah 41:24 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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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.
Isaiah 41:25 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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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.
Isaiah 41:26 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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The first {shall say} to Zion, Behold, behold them: and I will give to Jerusalem one that bringeth good tidings.
Isaiah 41:27 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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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. {answer: Heb. return}
Isaiah 41:28 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Behold, they {are} all vanity; their works {are} nothing: their molten images {are} wind and confusion.
Isaiah 41:29 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.