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Israel Assured of God’s Help

1 “Keep asilence before Me, O coastlands,
And let the people renew their strength!
Let them come near, then let them speak;
Let us bcome near together for judgment. 
2 “Who raised up one afrom the east?
Who in righteousness called him to His feet?
Who bgave the nations before him,
And made him rule over kings?
Who gave them as the dust to his sword,
As driven stubble to his bow? 
3 Who pursued them, and passed1 safely
By the way that he had not gone with his feet? 
4 aWho has performed and done it,
Calling the generations from the beginning?
‘I, the Lord, am bthe first;
And with the last I am cHe.’ ” 
5 The coastlands saw it and feared,
The ends of the earth were afraid;
They drew near and came.
6 aEveryone helped his neighbor,
And said to his brother,
1“Be of good courage!” 
7 aSo the craftsman encouraged the bgoldsmith;
He who smooths with the hammer inspired him who strikes the anvil,
Saying,1 “It is ready for the soldering”;
Then he fastened it with pegs,
cThat it might not totter. 
8 “But you, Israel, are My servant,
Jacob whom I have achosen,
The descendants of Abraham My bfriend. 
9 You whom I have taken from the ends of the earth,
And called from its farthest regions,
And said to you,
‘You are My servant,
I have chosen you and have not cast you away:
Commentaries:
Adam Clarke
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Isaiah 41:1

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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