Isaiah Chapter 41

Israel Encouraged

41:1 Keep quiet before Me, O islands; and let the nations renew strength: let them approach; then let them speak: let us approach united for judgment.
41:2 Who stirred up the righteous צֶדֶק‎
Transliteration:ṣeḏeq Pronunciation:tseh’-dek the right (natural, moral or legal); also (abstractly) equity or (figuratively) prosperity:—× even, (× that which is altogether) just(-ice), (un-)right(-eous) (cause, -ly, -ness). For more info click here [one] from the east, called him to service, delivered nations גּוֹיִם‎
Hebrew Noun: Common Masculine Plural Absolute (in the sense of massing); a foreign nation; hence, a Gentile; also (figuratively) a troop of animals, or a flight of locusts:—the Gentiles, the heathen, the nations, the people. For more info click here and subjects kings to him; he makes them like dust with his sword, like driven straw with his bow.
41:3 He pursued them, and emerged unscathed; on a path where his feet had never gone.
41:4 Who has brought about and accomplished it, He who proclaimed the generations from the beginning? I YAHWEH יְהֹוָה‎
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here, am the first, and I will be with the last [generations].
41:5 The isles saw and feared; the ends of the earth trembled, they approached and came.
41:6 Each man helped his neighbor [worship idols]; and say to his brother, Be strong.
41:7 The woodworker encourages the goldsmith, the polisher encourages the hammerer, saying of the soldering, This is good: and he fastens [the idol] with nails, so that it can’t be moved.
41:8 But you, Israel, My servant, Jacobיַעֲקֹב
(/ˈdʒeɪkəb/; Modern: Yaʿaqōv (help·info), Tiberian: Yaʿăqōḇ; Arabic: يَعْقُوب, romanized: Yaʿqūb; Greek: Ἰακώβ, romanized: Iakṓb) the name Yaʿaqōv יעקב is derived from ʿaqev עָקֵב “heel”, as Jacob (later called Israel) was born grasping the heel of his twin brother Esau. for more info click here you whom I have chosen, the offspring of Abrahamאַבְרָהָם
/ˈeɪbrəhæm, -həm/; ‎‎, Modern: ʾAvraham, As recounted in the Torah, his name was originally Avram which means “High Father” – “av” (אב) “father”, “ram” (רם) “high” – with the “ha” (ה) added in mark of his covenant with God. For more info click here my friend.
41:9 you whom I have grasp from the ends of the earth, and summoned you from among all its noblemen, and said to you, you are my servant; I have chosen you, and not rejected you.
41:10 Don’t fear; because I am with you: don’t be distressed; because I am your Elohim אֱלֹהֶיךָ
Pronounced:’ĕlōhêḵā – Hebrew Noun: Common Masculine Plural Construct root word Elohim for more info on the word click here: I have strengthened you; even helped you; and even supported you with My righteousצִדְקִי‎
Pronunciation:ṣiḏqî the right (natural, moral or legal); also (abstractly) equity or (figuratively) prosperity:—× even, (× that which is altogether) just(-ice), (un-)right(-eous) (cause, -ly, -ness). For more info click here right hand.
41:11 See, all those that were angry with you will be shamed and disgraced: those who fight with you will be like nothingness and will perish.
41:12 You will seek those that struggle with you, you will seek them and not find them, the men that fight with you, they will be like nothing, and will perish.
41:13 Because I YAHWEH יְהֹוָה‎
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here your Elohim אֱלֹהֶיךָ
Pronounced:’ĕlōhêḵā – Hebrew Noun: Common Masculine Plural Construct root word Elohim for more info on the word click here will hold your right hand, saying to you, Don’t fear, I will help you.
41:14 Don’t fear, O worm of Jacobיַעֲקֹב
(/ˈdʒeɪkəb/; Modern: Yaʿaqōv (help·info), Tiberian: Yaʿăqōḇ; Arabic: يَعْقُوب, romanized: Yaʿqūb; Greek: Ἰακώβ, romanized: Iakṓb) the name Yaʿaqōv יעקב is derived from ʿaqev עָקֵב “heel”, as Jacob (later called Israel) was born grasping the heel of his twin brother Esau. for more info click here, and ya’ll men of Israel; I will help you, says YAHWEH יְהֹוָה‎
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here, and your Redeemer, the Holy Oneקָדוֹשׁ‎
Transliteration qāḏôš Pronunciation kaw-doshe’ sacred, holy, Holy One, saint, set apart For more info click here of Israel.
41:15 Look, I have made you a new sharp threshing-sledge with sharp teeth: you will thresh the mountains, and crush them to dust, and will make the hills like chaff.
41:16 you will winnow them, and the wind will carry them away, and a storm will scatter them: but you will rejoice in YAHWEH יְהֹוָה‎
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here, and will glory in the Holy Oneבִּקְדוֹשׁ‎
Pronunciation:biqḏôš – sacred, holy, Holy One, saint, set apart For more info click here of Israel.
41:17 When the poor and needy beg for water, but there is none, and their tongue withers from thirst, I YAHWEH יְהֹוָה‎
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here will answer them, the Elohim אֱלֹהַי
the or my God – Hebrew Noun: Common Masculine Plural Construct root word is Elohim for more info on the word click here of Israel I will not leave them.
41:18 I will open up rivers on the barren hilltops, and springs among the valleys: I will turn the wildernessמִדְבָּר
Transliteration: miḏbār Pronunciation; mid-bawr’ in the sense of driving; a pasture (i.e. open field, where cattle are driven); by implication, a desert; also speech (including its organs): —desert, south, speech, wilderness. For more info click here into a lake, and the parched ground into springs of water.
41:19 In the wildernessבַּמִּדְבָּר
Pronunciation; bammiḏbār in the sense of driving; a pasture (i.e. open field, where cattle are driven); by implication, a desert; also speech (including its organs): —desert, south, speech, wilderness. For more info click here I will plant the cedar, the shittah tree
שִׁטָּה
Shittah tree or the plural “shittim” was used in the Tanakh to refer to trees belonging to the genera Vachellia and Faidherbia (both formerly classed in Acacia). Faidherbia albida, Vachellia seyal, Vachellia tortilis, and Vachellia gerrardii can be found growing wild in the Sinai Desert and the Jordan River Valley.For more info click here, and the myrtle, and the olive tree; I will put in the desert the cypress, and the elm, and the box tree together:
41:20 so that they may see, and know, all may consider and understand, that the hand of YAHWEH יְהֹוָה‎
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here has done this, and the Holy Oneוּקְדוֹשׁ‎
Pronunciation:ûqḏôš – sacred, holy, Holy One, saint, set apart For more info click here of Israel has created it.

Vanity of idols

41:21 Present your case, says YAHWEH יְהֹוָה‎
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here; Produce your arguments, says the King of Jacob יַעֲקֹב
(/ˈdʒeɪkəb/; Modern: Yaʿaqōv (help·info), Tiberian: Yaʿăqōḇ; Arabic: يَعْقُوب, romanized: Yaʿqūb; Greek: Ἰακώβ, romanized: Iakṓb) the name Yaʿaqōv יעקב is derived from ʿaqev עָקֵב “heel”, as Jacob (later called Israel) was born grasping the heel of his twin brother Esau. for more info click here.
41:22 Let them bring out [their prophets], and let them tell us what will happen: Tell us the former things, what they are, so that we can reflect on them and understand their consequences; or tell us about events yet to come.
41:23 Tell us the signs that will come in the future, and then we’ll know that ya’ll are gods, and can do good or do evil  – anything,  so that we may consider them.
41:24 But see, ya’ll are made from nothing, and your deeds are nothing at all: whoever chooses you is an abomination.
41:25 I have awaken someone* A Savior will arise from the northeast. According to most commentators it was Cyrus, the benevolent king of Persia, who initiated the return to Zion in the days of Ezra. According top some , the reference is to thew Messiah, who will gather together th exiled Ten Tribes, who had inhabited mostly the northeast of Israel – From the Artscroll English Tanach from the north, and he has come: he calls out My Name from where the sun rises : He will tromp on rulers like they were mortar, like a potter treading clay.
41:26 Who [of the pagans] said anything from the start, so that we may know? From beforehand, so that we may say he was right? There is no one that tells, there is no one that informs, or is there anyone that hears your words!
41:27 When the first ones to come to Zionצִיּוֹן
LXX Σιών, also variously transliterated Sion,Tzion, Tsion, Tsiyyon Zion = “parched place” often used as a synonym for Jerusalem as well as for the Land of Israel as a whole For more info click here, [I ] will say, Look, They are here: and I will send to Jerusalemיְרוּשָׁלַם‎
Transliteration: yᵊrûšālam – Pronunciation: yer-oo-shaw-lah’-im – proper locative noun meaning “teaching of peace” or possession of peace – also called the city of David and Zion – the chief city of Palestine and capital of the united kingdom and the nation of Judah after the split For more info click here a herald with good news.
41:28 But I see there is no man; and that among them there is no counselor, who, when I ask, can give an answer.
41:29 See, all of them; their deeds are worthless and nothing: their idols are but wind and empty space.