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Book of Isaiah, Chapter 41

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Chapter 41 of Isaiah—New World Translation (NWT)

  1. ¶ “Attend to me in silence, YOU islands;[a]1 and let national groups2 themselves regain power. Let them approach.3 At that time let them speak. Let us come up close together for the judgment4 itself.
  2. ¶ “Who has roused up [someone] from the sunrise?5 [Who] proceeded in righteousness to call him to His feet, to give before him the nations, and to make [him] go subduing even kings?6 [Who] kept giving [them] like dust to his sword, so that they have been driven about like mere stubble with his bow?7
  3. [Who] kept pursuing them, kept peacefully passing along on his feet over the path [by which] he did not proceed to come?
  4. Who has been active8 and has done [this], calling out the generations from the start?9
    ¶ “I, Jehovah, the First One;10 and with the last ones I am the same.”11
  5. ¶ The islands12 saw and began to fear. The very extremities of the earth began trembling.13 They drew near and kept coming.
  6. They went helping each one his companion, and one would say to his brother: “Be strong.”14
  7. So the craftsman went strengthening the metalworker;15 the one doing the smoothing out with the forge hammer him that is hammering away at the anvil, saying regarding the soldering: “It is good.” Finally one fastened it with nails that it could not be made to totter.16
  8. ¶ “But you, O Israel, are my servant,17 you, O Jacob, whom I have chosen,18 the seed[b] of Abraham19 my friend;[c]20
  9. you, whom I have taken hold of from the extremities of the earth,21 and you, whom I have called even from the remote parts of it.22 And so I said to you, ‘You are my servant;23 I have chosen you,24 and I have not rejected you.25
  10. Do not be afraid, for I am with you.26 Do not gaze about, for I am your God.[d]27 I will fortify you.28 I will really help you.29 I will really keep fast hold of you with my right hand30 of righteousness.’31
  11. ¶ “Look! All those getting heated up against you will become ashamed and be humiliated.32 The men in a quarrel with you will become as nothing and will perish.33
  12. You will search for them, but you will not find them, those men in a struggle with you.34 They will become as something nonexistent and as nothing,35 those men at war with you.
  13. For I, Jehovah your God, am grasping your right hand,36 the One saying to you, ‘Do not be afraid.37 I myself will help you.’38
  14. ¶ “Do not be afraid, you worm39 Jacob, YOU men[e] of Israel.40 I myself will help you,”[f] is the utterance of Jehovah, even your Repurchaser,41 the Holy One of Israel.
  15. “Look! I have made you a threshing sledge,42 a new threshing instrument having double-edged [teeth]. You will tread down the mountains and crush [them]; and the hills you will make just like the chaff.43
  16. You will winnow44 them, and a wind itself will carry them away,45 and a windstorm itself will drive them different ways.46 And you yourself will be joyful in Jehovah.47 In the Holy One of Israel you will boast about yourself.”48
  17. ¶ “The afflicted ones and the poor ones are seeking for water,49 but there is none. Because of thirst50 their very tongue has become dry.51 I myself, Jehovah, shall answer them.52 I, the God of Israel,[g] shall not leave them.53
  18. Upon bare hills I shall open up rivers, and in the midst of the valley plains, springs.54 I shall make the wilderness into a reedy pool of water, and the waterless land into sources of water.55
  19. In the wilderness I shall set the cedar tree, the acacia and the myrtle and the oil tree.56 In the desert plain[h] I shall place the juniper tree, the ash and the cypress at the same time;57
  20. in order that people may see and know and pay heed and have insight at the same time, that the very hand of Jehovah has done this, and the Holy One of Israel has himself created it.”58
  21. ¶ “Bring YOUR controversial case59 forward,” says Jehovah. “Produce YOUR arguments,”60 says the King of Jacob.61
  22. “Produce and tell to us the things that are going to happen. The first things—what they were—do tell, that we may apply our heart and know the future of them. Or cause us to hear even the things that are coming.62
  23. Tell the things that are to come afterward, that we may know that YOU are gods.[i]63 Yes, YOU ought to do good or do bad, that we may gaze about and see [it] at the same time.64
  24. Look! YOU are something nonexistent, and YOUR achievement is nothing.65 A detestable thing is anyone that chooses YOU.66
  25. ¶ “I have roused up [someone] from the north, and he will come.67 From the rising of the sun68 he will call upon my name. And he will come upon deputy rulers as [if they were] clay69 and just as a potter that tramples down the moist material.
  26. ¶ “Who has told anything from the start, that we may know, or from times past, that we may say, ‘He is right’?70 Really there is no one telling. Really there is no one causing [one] to hear. Really there is no one that is hearing any sayings of YOU men.”71
  27. ¶ There is one first, [saying] to Zion: “Look! Here they are!”72 and to Jerusalem I shall give a bringer of good news.73
  28. ¶ And I kept seeing, and there was not a man; and out of these there was also no one that was giving counsel.74 And I kept asking them, that they might make a reply.
  29. Look! All of them are something nonexistent.[j] Their works are nothing. Their molten images are wind[k] and unreality.75

FOOTNOTES

  1. ^ Or, “coastlands,” that is, of the Mediterranean Sea.
  2. ^ Or, “offspring.”
  3. ^ Or, “lover.”
  4. ^ “Your God.” Heb., ʼElo·heyʹkha.
  5. ^ Or, “males.” Heb., methehʹ.
  6. ^ “You,” fem. sing., referring to “worm.”
  7. ^ “The God of Israel.” Heb., ʼElo·hehʹ Yis·ra·ʼelʹ.
  8. ^ Or, “the Arabah.” See De 1:1 ftn, “Plains.”
  9. ^ Lit., “that gods you are.” Heb., ki ʼelo·himʹ ʼat·temʹ.
  10. ^ “Something nonexistent,” by a slight correction in agreement with 1QIsaTSy; M, “hurtfulness; something hurtful.”
  11. ^ “Wind.” Heb., ruʹach. See Ge 1:2 ftn, “Force.”

REFERENCES

  1. ^ Is 49:1
  2. ^ Ps 108:3
  3. ^ Is 41:21
  4. ^ Mc 6:1
  5. ^ Is 44:28; 46:11; Re 16:12
  6. ^ Ps 110:6; Is 45:1
  7. ^ Is 40:24
  8. ^ Ps 90:16; 111:3; Jn 5:17
  9. ^ De 32:8; Ac 17:26
  10. ^ Is 43:10; 44:6; 48:12; Re 1:8
  11. ^ Is 46:4; Ml 3:6; Jm 1:17
  12. ^ Ge 10:5
  13. ^ Ps 65:8; 66:3; 67:7
  14. ^ 1Sa 4:9; Jl 3:10
  15. ^ Is 44:12; 46:6
  16. ^ Is 40:20
  17. ^ Ex 19:5; Le 25:42
  18. ^ De 7:6; Ps 33:12
  19. ^ Mt 3:9; Heb 2:16
  20. ^ 2Ch 20:7; Jm 2:23
  21. ^ Ps 107:3
  22. ^ Mt 24:31
  23. ^ Is 43:10
  24. ^ 1Sa 12:22
  25. ^ Ps 94:14; Je 33:26; Ro 11:2, 26
  26. ^ De 20:1; Jos 1:9; Ps 46:1; Ro 8:31
  27. ^ Ps 147:12; Is 60:19; Heb 8:10
  28. ^ De 33:27; Ps 29:11; Zc 10:12
  29. ^ Ps 37:40; 115:9; 121:2
  30. ^ Ps 63:8
  31. ^ Ps 65:5; 89:14
  32. ^ Ex 11:8; Ps 86:17; Is 45:24; Re 3:9
  33. ^ Is 40:17; 60:12
  34. ^ Is 54:17
  35. ^ Ps 37:10, 36
  36. ^ Ps 73:23; 109:31; Is 42:6; 45:1
  37. ^ Is 41:10
  38. ^ De 33:29
  39. ^ Jb 25:6; Ps 22:6
  40. ^ De 7:7
  41. ^ Ps 19:14; Is 43:14; 47:4
  42. ^ Mc 4:13; Hab 3:12
  43. ^ Ps 18:42
  44. ^ Mt 3:12
  45. ^ Ps 1:4
  46. ^ Is 17:13
  47. ^ Es 9:22; Is 25:9
  48. ^ Is 12:6; Je 9:24
  49. ^ Ps 63:1; Is 55:1; Am 8:11; Re 22:17
  50. ^ De 28:48; Ps 22:15; La 4:4
  51. ^ Lu 16:24
  52. ^ Ps 34:6; Is 30:19
  53. ^ Ge 28:15; Ps 94:14; Is 42:16; Heb 13:5
  54. ^ Ps 46:4; Is 30:25; Jl 3:18
  55. ^ Ps 107:35
  56. ^ Is 32:15; 55:13; 60:21
  57. ^ Is 51:3
  58. ^ Ps 109:27; Eze 39:28
  59. ^ Jb 23:4; Is 43:9
  60. ^ Jb 38:3; Is 50:8; Mc 6:2
  61. ^ De 33:5; Is 49:26; 60:16
  62. ^ Is 42:9; 46:10; 48:5
  63. ^ Is 44:6; 46:9; Je 16:20
  64. ^ Is 46:7; Je 10:5
  65. ^ Ps 115:8; Is 44:10; Je 10:14; 51:18; 1Co 8:4
  66. ^ De 7:26; 27:15
  67. ^ Is 44:28; 45:1; Je 51:28
  68. ^ Is 46:11; Re 16:12
  69. ^ 2Sa 22:43; Is 10:6; Mc 7:10; Zc 10:5
  70. ^ Is 43:9; 44:7; 45:21
  71. ^ Ps 115:6; Hab 2:18
  72. ^ Is 43:10; 44:7
  73. ^ Ezr 1:1; Is 40:9; Na 1:15; Ro 10:15
  74. ^ Is 63:5; Je 5:13; Da 2:10
  75. ^ Ps 115:4; Is 44:9; Je 10:5; Hab 2:18; 1Co 8:4

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Comments

  1. David yakubuDavid yakubu
    Oct 29, 2022 08:05 GMT

    When i do read some comments and seeing that its the same people that are supposed to be called believers but are talking ill of other denominations, it hurts. Let us all remember that We should judge not

    1. jonas smithjonas smith
      Apr 23, 2023 02:57 GMT

      The bible tells us to test the spirits. Satan disguises himself as angel of light. So yes some denomination are not teaching the truth. You are responsible for judging which ones are not. You have to judge the truth at all times. this is what the bible teaches

  2. THTH
    Apr 7, 2021 00:20 GMT

    The NWT is a very good translation. Dr. Jason David BeDuhn PhD attests to that in his book Truth in Translation. drive.google.com/...5p16melHzg8/view

    1. James LernerJames Lerner
      Jul 20, 2024 09:48 GMT

      The NWT is Satanic filth to its very core.

      The JW Cult is Satanic to its very core.

      Praise Yahweh I will never be a victim of JW brainwashing. If I burn in Hell for eternity or I am ultimately annihilated so be it

      May Yahweh's curse rest on the Watchtower Society and its Satanic leadership

    2. jim mcleodjim mcleod
      Aug 22, 2021 06:16 GMT

      NWT is a false translation that takes away from the deity of Jesus !

  3. SlightlyChaoticSlightlyChaotic
    Jan 30, 2021 16:33 GMT

    Thank you for taking the time to provide this service. I like seeing the NASB on your web page in the same format as I read on paper. On other sites, the text area is smaller, and so I have to keep scrolling down to read and sometimes I lose the context. So I really appreciate the format.

    As far as the NWT, you are certainly free to do whatever you think best with your own web pages. I'd suggest that you make a note anytime you have a translation that is associated with only one denomination or church, for example:
    New World Translation (Jehovah's Witness version).

    In Jesus' parable of the wheat and the tares. the main idea seems to be that you can't easily distinguish between God's people and not-God's people on this earth, so our Lord's response is to wait until they are shown to be the kind of people they are inside. But the NWT seems like false teaching to me. So I think the warning passages from Jesus' apostles are more applicable, as in 2 Peter 3:15-16, when he talks about Paul's writings:
    "There are some things in them that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do the other Scriptures."
    And we also have the positive exhortations, as in 2 Timothy 2:15:
    "Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth."

    1. BroderickBroderick
      Jan 31, 2021 00:57 GMT

      Your suggestion regarding the denominational flagging is duly noted. But I can’t help but wonder, wouldn’t a Catholic also want “Protestant versions” marked as well?

      As for the parable, I’m pretty sure the slaves were convinced in their own minds that they could tell the tares from the wheat. After all, aren’t they the ones who identified the problem in the first place? But the master obviously thought otherwise.

      Furthermore, even at the time when Jesus himself was walking the earth, not everybody who claimed fellowship actually followed him causing John to inquire at Mark 9:39, “Teacher, we saw someone casting out demons in Your name, and we tried to prevent him because he was not following us.” But Jesus said, “Do not hinder him . . . for he who is not against us is for us.”

  4. Joshua HarderJoshua Harder
    Dec 11, 2020 17:48 GMT

    Hello, question.. why have you included the NWT with other legitimate bible translations? Or why have you not atleast included a warning to readers? Don't you fear that someone could be influenced by the Watchtower's intentional heresies? Thank you.

    1. KevinKevin
      Jul 11, 2021 17:45 GMT

      en.m.wikipedia.org/..._Holy_Scriptures

      See the section critical review

    2. ChrisChris
      Jan 8, 2021 07:15 GMT

      Please site these intentional heresies. I am well versed in the watch tower outline and agree they are in many ways incorrect but i also bet i can point many out from EVERY established or main denomination. There is much to learn from them all as one who drinks milk?

      Judge not lest ye be judged, that is not to pass judgement on you either brother.

      I debate with scripture. I don't hold it to be true that Michael is Y'Shua HaMeshiach but I also firmly hold it to be true that our G-d and Heavenly Father are not the word encarnate and only begotten son.

      I love not seeing "lord" which i relate to baal. I feel the catholic church is a satanic establishment and I am aware a freemason started the hovies but there are evil in high places and our fight is also with principalities.

      What i'm saying is that in my darkest hours, those two were some of if not the only ones who would bring a Bible and eucharist and pray with me.

      We all fall short of the glory of G-d.

      Don't forget the NWT was recognized as the most accurate translation on Jeopardy.

      Lastly, this is different I noted than the NWT i have read and am very familiar with. Pull up the watchtower page and compare. I truly look forward to getting this one!

  5. julietjuliet
    Aug 17, 2022 09:36 GMT

    the sky is blue

  6. mercymercy
    Aug 12, 2022 21:23 GMT

    i am Mercy, the sky is blue what else do you need

    1. mercymercy
      Aug 12, 2022 21:25 GMT

      i am so sorry, it was a big mistake

  7. God is able to do all thingsGod is able to do all things
    May 17, 2021 17:59 GMT

    Jesus how much love calling yo name

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