New King James Version
Isaiah 41:21
21“Present your case,” says the Lord. “Bring forth your strong reasons,” says the King of Jacob.
Isaiah 41:21 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Produce your cause, saith the Lord; bring forth your strong reasons, saith the King of Jacob.
- New International Version (NIV)“Present your case,” says the Lord. “Set forth your arguments,” says Jacob’s King.
- English Standard Version (ESV)Set forth your case, says the Lord; bring your proofs, says the King of Jacob.
- New Living Translation (NLT)“Present the case for your idols,” says the Lord. “Let them show what they can do,” says the King of Israel.
Context of Isaiah 41:21
19I will plant in the wilderness the cedar and the acacia tree, The myrtle and the oil tree; I will set in the desert the cypress tree and the pine And the box tree together, 20That 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. “Present your case,” says the Lord. “Bring forth your strong reasons,” says the King of Jacob. 22“Let them bring forth and show us what will happen; Let them show the former things, what they were, That we may consider them, And know the latter end of them; Or declare to us things to come. 23Show the things that are to come hereafter, That we may know that you are gods; Yes, do good or do evil, That we may be dismayed and see it together.
Read all of Isaiah 41Isaiah 41:21 word by word
קָרְב֥וּ רִֽיבְכֶ֖ם יֹאמַ֣ר יְהוָ֑ה הַגִּ֙ישׁוּ֙ עֲצֻמ֣וֹתֵיכֶ֔ם יֹאמַ֖ר מֶ֥לֶךְ יַעֲקֹֽב׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Isaiah 41:21
- Job 23:3Oh, that I knew where I might find Him, That I might come to His seat!
- Job 31:37I would declare to Him the number of my steps; Like a prince I would approach Him.
- Job 38:3Now prepare yourself like a man; I will question you, and you shall answer Me.
- Job 40:7“Now prepare yourself like a man; I will question you, and you shall answer Me:
- Micah 6:1Hear now what the Lord says: “Arise, plead your case before the mountains, And let the hills hear your voice.
Commentaries on Isaiah 41:21
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 21Bring forth your strong reasons "Produce these your mighty powers" - "Let your idols come forward which you consider to be so very strong. "Hieron. in loc. I prefer this to all other interpretations of this place; and to Jerome's own translation of it, which he adds immediately after, Afferte, si quid forte habetis. "Bring it forward, if haply ye have any thing." The false gods are called upon to come forth and appear in person; and to give evident…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 21Produce your cause - This address is made to the same persons who are referred to in Isaiah 41:1 - the worshippers of idols; and the prophet here returns to the subject with reference to a further argument on the comparative power of Yahweh and idols. In the former part of the chapter, God had urged his claims to confidence from the fact that he had raised up Cyrus; that the idols were weak and feeble compared with him; and from the fact that it was his…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 21-29Verses 21-29 There needs no more to show the folly of sin, than to bring to notice the reasons given in defence of it. There is nothing in idols worthy of regard. They are less than nothing, and worse than nothing. Let the advocates of other doctrines than that of salvation through Christ, bring their arguments. Can they tell of a cure for human depravity? Jehovah has power which cannot be withstood; this he will make appear. But the certain knowledge of…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 21the King of Jacob: See Isaiah 6:5; 43:15; 44:6.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 2121. A new challenge to the idolaters (see Is 41:1, 7) to say, can their idols predict future events as Jehovah can (Is 41:22-25, &c.)? your strong reasons--the reasons for idol-worship which you think especially strong.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Isaiah 41
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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