Isaiah Chapter 41 verse 21 Holy Bible
Produce your cause, saith Jehovah; bring forth your strong reasons, saith the King of Jacob.
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Put forward your cause, says the Lord; let your strong argument come out, says the King of Jacob.
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Produce your cause, saith Jehovah; bring forward your arguments, saith the King of Jacob.
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Produce your cause, saith the LORD; bring forth your strong reasons, saith the King of Jacob.
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Produce your cause, says Yahweh; bring forth your strong reasons, says the King of Jacob.
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Bring near your cause, saith Jehovah, Bring nigh your mighty ones, saith the king of Jacob.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerses 21-29. - JEHOVAH'S CONTROVERSY WITH THE NATIONS AND THEIR IDOL-GODS. The argument is now taken up from vers. 1-4. Jehovah and his worshippers are on the one side; the idol-gods and their votaries on the other. The direct challenge, however, is given by Jehovah himself to the idols: 1. What predictions of their own can they bring forward as proofs of supernatural knowledge? 2. What indications can they give of power either to do good or to do evil (vers. 22, 23)? If they can do neither, they are vanity (ver. 24). Jehovah has both reared up Cyrus he and he only - and has announced the good tidings to his people (vers. 25-27). No such announcement has been made by the idol-gods; they are therefore mere "wind and confusion" (vers. 28, 29). Verse 21. - Produce your cause. The nations had been told to "draw near" - to "keep silence" while God spoke - and "then to speak" (ver. 1). Now the time for them to speak is come, and they are challenged to "produce" and plead "their cause." Your strong reasons; literally, your bulwarks, or defences. Saith the King of Jacob. The king and tutelary god of the nation, Israel, really holding the position that the idol-gods were regarded as holding towards the peoples that worshipped them. The "kingly" character of the idol-gods was indicated in such names as Moloch (equivalent to "king"), Melkarth (equivalent to "king of the city"), Adrammelech (equivalent to "glorious king"), Baal (equivalent to "lord"), Adonis (equivalent to "my lord"), etc.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(21) Produce your cause.--The scene of Isaiah 41:1 is reproduced. The worshippers of idols, as the prophet sees them in his vision hurrying hither and thither to consult their oracles, are challenged, on the ground not only of the great things God hath done, but of His knowledge of those things. The history of Herodotus supplies some striking illustrations. Cr?us and the Cum?ans, and the Phocaeans, and the Athenians are all sending to Delphi, or consulting their seers, as to this startling apparition of a new conqueror.Your strong reasons.--Literally, bulwarks, or strongholds. So we speak of impregnable proofs.
