Isaiah 41:12

World English Bible (2000)

You will seek them, and won't find them, even those who contend with you. Those who war against you will be as nothing, as a non-existent thing.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 37:35-36 : 35 I have seen the wicked in great power, spreading himself like a green tree in its native soil. 36 But he passed away, and behold, he was not. Yes, I sought him, but he could not be found.
  • Job 20:7-9 : 7 yet he shall perish forever like his own dung. Those who have seen him shall say, 'Where is he?' 8 He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found. Yes, he shall be chased away like a vision of the night. 9 The eye which saw him shall see him no more, neither shall his place any more see him.
  • Isa 17:14 : 14 At evening, behold, terror! Before the morning, they are no more. This is the portion of those who plunder us, and the lot of those who rob us.

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  • Isa 41:10-11
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    10Don't you be afraid, for I am with you. Don't be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you. Yes, I will help you. Yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness.

    11Behold, all those who are incensed against you will be disappointed and confounded. Those who strive with you will be like nothing, and shall perish.

  • 19They will fight against you; but they will not prevail against you; for I am with you," says Yahweh, "to deliver you."

  • Lev 26:37-38
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    37They will stumble over one another, as it were before the sword, when no one pursues: and you will have no power to stand before your enemies.

    38You will perish among the nations, and the land of your enemies will eat you up.

  • 15Behold, they may gather together, but not by me: whoever shall gather together against you shall fall because of you.

  • 13For I, Yahweh your God, will hold your right hand, saying to you, 'Don't be afraid. I will help you.'

  • Ps 21:8-9
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    8Your hand will find out all of your enemies. Your right hand will find out those who hate you.

    9You will make them as a fiery furnace in the time of your anger. Yahweh will swallow them up in his wrath. The fire shall devour them.

  • 21I will make you a terror, and you shall no more have any being; though you are sought for, yet you will never be found again, says the Lord Yahweh.

  • 25Destruction comes; and they shall seek peace, and there shall be none.

  • 11But Yahweh is with me as an awesome mighty one: therefore my persecutors shall stumble, and they shall not prevail; they shall be utterly disappointed, because they have not dealt wisely, even with an everlasting dishonor which shall never be forgotten.

  • 7You shall chase your enemies, and they shall fall before you by the sword.

  • 20I will make you to this people a fortified bronze wall; and they shall fight against you, but they shall not prevail against you; for I am with you to save you and to deliver you, says Yahweh.

  • 22Those who hate you shall be clothed with shame. The tent of the wicked shall be no more."

  • 16Therefore all those who devour you shall be devoured; and all your adversaries, everyone of them, shall go into captivity; and those who despoil you shall be a spoil, and all who prey on you will I give for a prey.

  • 40They shall also bring up a company against you, and they shall stone you with stones, and thrust you through with their swords.

  • 12I will declare your righteousness; and as for your works, they shall not profit you.

  • Isa 47:14-15
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    14Behold, they shall be as stubble; the fire shall burn them; they shall not deliver themselves from the power of the flame: it shall not be a coal to warm at, nor a fire to sit before.

    15Thus shall the things be to you in which you have labored: those who have trafficked with you from your youth shall wander everyone to his quarter; there shall be none to save you.

  • 12They will wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east; they will run back and forth to seek the word of Yahweh, and will not find it.

  • 17I will set my face against you, and you will be struck before your enemies. Those who hate you will rule over you; and you will flee when no one pursues you.

  • 12They shall call its nobles to the kingdom, but none shall be there; and all its princes shall be nothing.

  • 21For now you are nothing. You see a terror, and are afraid.

  • Deut 7:23-24
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    23But Yahweh your God will deliver them up before you, and will confuse them with a great confusion, until they be destroyed.

    24He will deliver their kings into your hand, and you shall make their name to perish from under the sky: no man shall be able to stand before you, until you have destroyed them.

  • 5But the multitude of your foes will be like fine dust, and the multitude of the ruthless ones like chaff that blows away. Yes, it will be in an instant, suddenly.

  • 22You shall not fear them; for Yahweh your God, he it is who fights for you."

  • 24Behold, you are of nothing, and your work is of nothing. He who chooses you is an abomination.

  • 5They shall be as mighty men, treading down muddy streets in the battle; and they shall fight, because Yahweh is with them; and the riders on horses will be confounded.

  • 12For that nation and kingdom that will not serve you shall perish; yes, those nations shall be utterly wasted.

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    41You have also made my enemies turn their backs to me, that I might cut off those who hate me.

    42They looked, but there was none to save; even to Yahweh, but he didn't answer them.

  • 14Yahweh will fight for you, and you shall be still."

  • 9Let your hand be lifted up above your adversaries, and let all of your enemies be cut off.

  • 6You shall not seek their peace nor their prosperity all your days forever.

  • 17All the nations are like nothing before him. They are regarded by him as less than nothing, and vanity.

  • 28Then will they call on me, but I will not answer. They will seek me diligently, but they will not find me;

  • 12If it will make no peace with you, but will make war against you, then you shall besiege it:

  • 5There they were in great fear, where no fear was, for God has scattered the bones of him who encamps against you. You have put them to shame, because God has rejected them.

  • 25Yahweh will cause you to be struck before your enemies; you shall go out one way against them, and shall flee seven ways before them: and you shall be tossed back and forth among all the kingdoms of the earth.

  • 5Do you seek great things for yourself? Don't seek them; for, behold, I will bring evil on all flesh, says Yahweh; but your life will I give to you for a prey in all places where you go.

  • 7In the greatness of your excellency, you overthrow those who rise up against you. You send forth your wrath. It consumes them as stubble.

  • 26They shall not take of you a stone for a corner, nor a stone for foundations; but you shall be desolate for ever, says Yahweh.

  • 11Yahweh, your hand is lifted up, yet they don't see; but they will see your zeal for the people, and be disappointed. Yes, fire will consume your adversaries.

  • 19All those who know you among the peoples shall be astonished at you: you have become a terror, and you shall nevermore have any being.

  • 17Your children make haste; your destroyers and those who made you waste shall go forth from you.

  • 14The dead shall not live. The deceased shall not rise. Therefore have you visited and destroyed them, and caused all memory of them to perish.

  • 9It will happen in that day, that I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem.

  • 9What do you plot against Yahweh? He will make a full end. Affliction won't rise up the second time.