Isaiah 41:21 NLT,NIV,ESV

F.B. Meyer's 'Through the Bible' Commentary - Isaiah 41:17-29

What the Lord’s Hand Does for the Needy Isaiah 41:17-29 Life is not easy for any of us, if we regard external conditions only; but directly we learn the divine secret, rivers flow from bare heights, fountains arise in sterile valleys, and the desert blooms like the forest-glade. To the ordinary eye there might appear no outward change in the forbidding circumstance; but faith’s eye always beholds a very paradise of beauty where other eyes see only straitened circumstances and a trying lot.... read more

G. Campbell Morgan

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 41:1-29

Having thus announced the majesty of Jehovah, the prophet proceeds to utter his general manifesto. This occupies chapters forty-one and forty-two. In chapter forty-one Jehovah challenges the island and the people to come near to judgment, that is, to consider what He has to say. He declares that He, and He alone has raised up the one from the East whose progress is victorious. The confederacy of the people against Cyrus is described, and then the prophet declares Jehovah's purpose of peace for... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 41:21-24

Yahweh’s Challenge To The Gods of the Nations (Isaiah 41:21-24 ). Isaiah 41:21-23 “Produce your cause,” says Yahweh. “Bring forth your strong reasons,” says the King of Jacob. “Let them bring them forth and declare to us what will happen. Declare the former things, what they are, That we may consider them and know the latter end of them, Or show us things that are to come. Declare the things that are to come hereafter, That we may know that you are gods.” Yahweh now lays down His challenge to... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 41:21-29

Isaiah 41:21-Joel : . Yahweh’ s Challenge to the Gods of the Nations.— The nations are bidden to produce their case and bring forward their champions— their idols (so emend “ strong reasons” ). Let the idols show that in days gone by they have foreseen the antecedents of present developments, or explain the events now happening and about to happen. They remain dumb, and Yahweh taunts them with their impotence. He has raised up Cyrus; who among them had foreseen the event? Not one; how patent,... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Isaiah 41:21

Produce your cause: the prophet having pleaded God’s cause against the idolatrous Gentiles, whom he challenged to a dispute, Isaiah 41:1, he now reneweth the challenge, and gives them liberty and invitation to speak whatsoever they can on the behalf of their idols. Bring forth your strong reasons, to prove the divinity of your idols. read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Isaiah 41:1-29

In the forty-first chapter of Isaiah in the first part of the chapter, God begins His predictions concerning Cyrus who was not yet born. A man who was not to be born for a hundred and fifty years. But God begins to talk about him. How he's going to raise him up. How he's going to prosper him. How he's going to give him a kingdom and subdue nations before him. As we progress in our study tonight, we'll find that God actually names him. "In order to prove that I'm really God, there's no one else... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Isaiah 41:1-29

Isaiah 41:1 . Keep silence before me, oh islands. Commentators here refer us to the time of our Saviour’s birth, for the isles of Chittim designate the Roman power. In the Augustan age, the temple of Janus for the third time was shut, in commemoration of peace throughout the world, and when the stormy shouts of war were heard no more. Thus, when the fulness of time was come, providence prepared the way, by peace and concord, for the Saviour’s advent. Christian doctors seem agreed, that... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Isaiah 41:21

Isaiah 41:21Produce your causeHeaven’s appeal to the reason of the sinnerThe text implies--I.THAT THE SINNER HAS SOME REASONS FOR THE EVIL COURSE HE PURSUES. II. THAT THESE REASONS HE IS BOUND TO STATE BEFORE HIS MAKER. “Bring forth your reasons.” Why bring them forth? 1. The question of a sinful course of conduct is a public question. The sinner has no right to say that his conduct concerns no one but himself. 2. Because it is the only way of exposing their moral absurdity. They will scarcely... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Isaiah 41:21

Isa 41:21 Produce your cause, saith the LORD; bring forth your strong [reasons], saith the King of Jacob. Ver. 21. Produce your cause, saith the Lord. ] He had dealt with the heathens, and convinced them; now have at their gods: and their best proofs are called for. Bring forth your strong reasons. ] Heb., Your bony arguments, argumenta trabalia; but, alas! they had none such. Saith the king of Jacob. ] Not the God of Jacob; for that was now the matter in question, whether he were God, or... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Isaiah 41:21

Produce: Heb. Cause to come near, Job 23:3, Job 23:4, Job 31:37, Job 38:3, Job 40:7-1 Samuel :, Micah 6:1, Micah 6:2 Reciprocal: Job 5:1 - and to which Job 13:3 - I desire Isaiah 1:18 - and let us Isaiah 41:1 - let the people Isaiah 43:9 - who among Isaiah 45:20 - yourselves Isaiah 50:8 - let us Jeremiah 12:1 - talk Acts 24:25 - he 1 Peter 3:15 - a reason 2 Peter 1:19 - a more read more