Isaiah 41:1

KJV1611 – Modern English

Keep silent before me, O islands; and let the people renew their strength: let them come near; then let them speak: let us come near together to judgment.

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  • Isa 1:18 : 18 Come now, and let us reason together, says the LORD: though your sins are as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
  • Hab 2:20 : 20 But the LORD is in His holy temple: let all the earth keep silence before Him.
  • Zech 2:13 : 13 Be silent, all flesh, before the LORD: for He is raised up out of His holy dwelling.
  • Joel 3:10-11 : 10 Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruning hooks into spears; let the weak say, I am strong. 11 Assemble yourselves and come, all you nations, and gather yourselves together round about; cause your mighty ones to come down there, O LORD.
  • Isa 41:6-7 : 6 They helped everyone his neighbor; and everyone said to his brother, Be of good courage. 7 So the carpenter encouraged the goldsmith, and he that smooths with the hammer him that struck the anvil, saying, It is ready for the soldering: and he fastened it with nails, that it should not be moved.
  • Isa 11:11 : 11 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant of his people, who are left, from Assyria, and from Egypt, and from Pathros, and from Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea.
  • Isa 34:1 : 1 Come near, O nations, to hear; and listen, O people: let the earth hear, and all that is in it; the world, and all things that come forth from it.
  • Isa 8:9-9 : 9 Associate yourselves, O you people, and you shall be broken in pieces; and listen, all you of far countries: gird yourselves, and you shall be broken in pieces; gird yourselves, and you shall be broken in pieces. 10 Take counsel together, and it shall come to nothing; speak the word, and it shall not stand: for God is with us.
  • Job 23:3-7 : 3 Oh, that I knew where I might find him, that I might come even to his seat! 4 I would present my case before him and fill my mouth with arguments. 5 I would know the words he would answer me, and understand what he would say to me. 6 Will he contend with me in his great power? No; but he would strengthen me. 7 There the righteous might dispute with him, so I would be delivered forever from my judge.
  • Job 31:35-36 : 35 Oh that one would hear me! Behold, my desire is that the Almighty would answer me, and that my adversary had written a book. 36 Surely I would take it upon my shoulder, and bind it as a crown to me.
  • Job 38:3 : 3 Gird up now your loins like a man; for I will demand of you, and you will answer Me.
  • Job 40:7-9 : 7 Gird up your loins now like a man; I will question you, and you shall answer me. 8 Will you also annul my judgment? Will you condemn me, that you may be justified? 9 Do you have an arm like God, or can you thunder with a voice like him? 10 Adorn yourself now with majesty and excellency, and array yourself with glory and beauty.
  • Ps 46:10 : 10 Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth.
  • Isa 41:21-22 : 21 Produce your cause, says the LORD; bring forth your strong reasons, says the King of Jacob. 22 Let them bring them forth, and show us what shall happen: let them show the former things, what they be, that we may consider them, and know the latter end of them; or declare to us things to come.
  • Isa 48:16 : 16 Come near to me, hear this; I have not spoken in secret from the beginning; from the time that it was, I am there: and now the Lord GOD and his Spirit have sent me.
  • Isa 49:1 : 1 Listen to me, O islands; and hear me, you people from afar; The LORD has called me from the womb; from my mother's body he has made mention of my name.
  • Isa 50:8 : 8 He is near that justifies me; who will contend with me? Let us stand together: who is my adversary? Let him come near to me.
  • Mic 6:1-3 : 1 Hear now what the LORD says; Arise, plead your case before the mountains, and let the hills hear your voice. 2 Hear, O mountains, the LORD'S dispute, and you strong foundations of the earth, for the LORD has a dispute with His people, and He will plead with Israel. 3 O my people, what have I done to you? And how have I wearied you? Testify against Me.

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