Commentaries:
Adam Clarke
Keep silence before me, O islands "Let the distant nations repair to me with new force of mind" - , Septuagint. For hacharishu , be silent, they certainly read in their copy hachadishu , be renewed; which is parallel and synonymous with yechalephu coach , "recover their strength;" that is, their strength of mind, their powers of reason; that they may overcome those prejudices by which they have been so long held enslaved to idolatry. A MS. has har , upon a rasure. The same mistake seems to have been made in this word, Zephaniah 3:17. For yacharish beahabatho , silebit in directions sua , as the Vulgate renders it; which seems not consistent with what immediately follows, exultabit super te in laude ; the Septuagint and Syriac read yachadish beahabatho , "he shall be renewed in his love." elai , to me, is wanting in one of De Rossi' s MSS. and in the Syriac.
Other Adam Clarke entries containing Isaiah 41:1:
Psalms 115:4
Isaiah 58:11
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