{"meta":{"source":"Prime Bible","sourceUrl":"https://primebible.com","license":"Public domain (translation text); see citation policy at /citation-policy","organization":"501(c)(3) nonprofit — EIN 41-2531951","canonicalUrl":"https://primebible.com/dbt/isaiah/41","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-26T23:44:35.944Z"},"reference":{"translation":"DBT","book":"Isaiah","bookSlug":"isaiah","chapter":41,"testament":"OLD"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":40,"nextChapter":42,"totalChapters":66,"totalVerses":29},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"Keep 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."},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"Who 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."},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"He pursued them, he passed on in safety, by a way he had never come with his feet."},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"Who hath wrought and done it, calling the generations from the beginning? I, Jehovah, the first; and with the last, I am HE."},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"The isles saw it, and feared; the ends of the earth trembled: they drew near, and came."},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"They helped every one his neighbour, and each said to his brother, Take courage."},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"And 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."},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"But thou, Israel, my servant, Jacob, whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham, my friend"},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"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,"},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"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."},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"Lo, all that are incensed against thee shall be ashamed and confounded; they that strive with thee shall be as nothing, and shall perish."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"Thou 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."},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"For I, Jehovah, thy God, hold thy right hand, saying unto thee, Fear not; I will help thee."},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"Fear not, thou worm Jacob, ye men of Israel; I will help thee, saith Jehovah, and thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel."},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"Behold, 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;"},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"thou 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."},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"The 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."},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"I 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."},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"I will give in the wilderness the cedar, acacia, myrtle, and oleaster; I will set in the desert the cypress, pine, and box-tree together;"},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"that 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."},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"Produce your cause, saith Jehovah; bring forward your arguments, saith the King of Jacob."},{"verseNumber":22,"text":"Let 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:"},{"verseNumber":23,"text":"declare 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."},{"verseNumber":24,"text":"Behold, ye are less than nothing, and your work is of nought; an abomination is he that chooseth you. ..."},{"verseNumber":25,"text":"I 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."},{"verseNumber":26,"text":"Who 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."},{"verseNumber":27,"text":"The first, I said to Zion, Behold, behold them! and to Jerusalem, I will give one that bringeth glad tidings."},{"verseNumber":28,"text":"And 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."},{"verseNumber":29,"text":"Behold, they are all vanity, their works are nought, their molten images are wind and emptiness."}],"citation":{"inline":"Isaiah 41 (DBT)","markdown":"[Isaiah 41](https://primebible.com/dbt/isaiah/41)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* DBT. https://primebible.com/dbt/isaiah/41 (accessed 2026-05-26)."}}