Isaiah 41:2

Isaiah 41:2

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!”

Commentaries:

John Wesley's Notes

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Who - Was it not my work alone? Raised - Into being and power, stirring up his spirit, and strengthening him to the work. The man - Cyrus. The east - Persia was directly eastward, both from Judea and from Babylon. He was raised up by God in an eminent manner. And although these things were yet to come; yet the prophet speaks of them as if they were already past. And by this instance he pleads his cause against the Gentiles; because this was an evident proof of God's almighty power, and of the vanity of idols, which eminently appeared in the destruction of the Babylonians, who were a people mad upon their idols. Called him - To march after him, and under God's banner against Babylon.

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