Isaiah 41:1-7 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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The Conquering Career of Cyrus Claimed by Yahweh as Evidence of His Power.

Isaiah 41:5 is probably an insertion made to connect Isaiah 41:4 with Isaiah 41:6 f. after Isaiah 41:6 f. for which see Isaiah 40:19 had been wrongly interpolated here. Yahweh calls the nations to listen while He, as though they might be in a court of justice, puts forward His claim. He it is who has raised up Cyrus, and caused nations to bow before him: He who ordains the whole course of history.

Isaiah 41:1. renew. strength: accidental repetition from Isaiah 40:31, replacing some such phrase as await my argument.

Isaiah 41:2. whom... foot: render, whom victory (righteousness often bears this sense) attends wherever he goes. Read at the end, His sword makes them like dust, his bow like driven chaff.

Isaiah 41:3. So swift his march that he seems not to touch the road with his feet.

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Isaiah 41:1-7

1 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.

2 Who raised up the righteousa 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.

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

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

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

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

7 So the carpenter encouraged the goldsmith,c 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.