Isaiah 41:20

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18 I will open ^arivers in desolate heights,
And fountains in the midst of the valleys;
I will make the ^bwilderness a pool of water,
And the dry land springs of water.

19 I will plant in the wilderness the cedar and the acacia tree,
The myrtle and the oil tree;
I will set in the ^adesert the cypress tree and the pine
And the box tree together,

20 ^aThat they may see and know,
And consider and understand together,
That the hand of the Lord has done this,
And the Holy One of Israel has created it.

The Futility of Idols

21 “Present your case,” says the Lord.
“Bring forth your strong reasons,” says the ^aKing of Jacob.

22 “Let^a them bring forth and show us what will happen;
Let them show the ^bformer things, what they were,
That we may¹ consider them,
And know the latter end of them;
Or declare to us things to come.

Commentaries:

Adam Clarke

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Isaiah 41:20

And consider - The verb yasimu , without leb added, cannot signify to apply the heart, or to attend to a thing, as Houbigant has observed; he therefore reads yashshemu , they shall wonder. The conjecture is ingenious; but it is much more probable that the word leb is lost out of the text; for all the ancient versions render the phrase to the same sense, as if it were fully expressed, yasimu leb ; and the Chaldee renders it paraphrastically, yet still retaining the very words in his paraphrase, vishavvun dechalti al lebehon , "that they may put my fear in their heart." See also Isaiah 41:22, where the same phrase is used.

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