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“Keep silent before me, islands, and let the peoples renew their strength. Let them come near, then let them speak. Let’s meet together for judgment. See also: Isaiah 1:18Habakkuk 2:20Zechariah 2:13Who has raised up one from the east? Who called him to his feet in righteousness? He hands over nations to him and makes him rule over kings. He gives them like the dust to his sword, like the driven stubble to his bow. See also: Isaiah 45:12 Samuel 22:43Isaiah 41:25He pursues them and passes by safely, even by a way that he had not gone with his feet. See also: Isaiah 57:2Job 5:24Who has worked and done it, calling the generations from the beginning? I, the LORD, the first, and with the last, I am he.” See also: Isaiah 48:12Revelation 22:13Revelation 1:17The islands have seen, and fear. The ends of the earth tremble. They approach, and come. See also: Ezekiel 26:15-16Joshua 5:1Psalms 66:3Everyone helps his neighbor. They say to their brothers, “Be strong!” See also: Isaiah 44:12Isaiah 35:4Isaiah 40:19So the carpenter encourages the goldsmith. He who smooths with the hammer encourages him who strikes the anvil, saying of the soldering, “It is good;” and he fastens it with nails, that it might not totter. See also: Isaiah 40:19-20Daniel 3:1-7Judges 18:24“But you, Israel, my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the offspring of Abraham my friend, See also: James 2:23Deuteronomy 14:22 Chronicles 20:7you whom I have taken hold of from the ends of the earth, and called from its corners, and said to you, ‘You are my servant. I have chosen you and have not cast you away.’ See also: 1 Samuel 12:22Psalms 94:14Deuteronomy 7:6-7Don’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. See also: Joshua 1:9Isaiah 43:1-2Romans 8:31Behold, all those who are incensed against you will be disappointed and confounded. Those who strive with you will be like nothing, and shall perish. See also: Exodus 23:22Isaiah 45:24Revelation 3:9You 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 nonexistent thing. See also: Psalms 37:35-36Job 20:7-9Isaiah 17:14For I, the LORD your God, will hold your right hand, saying to you, ‘Don’t be afraid. I will help you.’ See also: Isaiah 41:10Psalms 73:23Psalms 63:8Don’t be afraid, you worm Jacob, and you men of Israel. I will help you,” says the LORD. “Your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel. See also: Isaiah 43:14Psalms 22:6Isaiah 54:5Behold, I have made you into a new sharp threshing instrument with teeth. You will thresh the mountains, and beat them small, and will make the hills like chaff. See also: Micah 4:132 Corinthians 10:4-5Zechariah 4:7You will winnow them, and the wind will carry them away, and the whirlwind will scatter them. You will rejoice in the LORD. You will glory in the Holy One of Israel. See also: Jeremiah 51:2Isaiah 45:24-25Isaiah 61:10-11The poor and needy seek water, and there is none. Their tongue fails for thirst. I, the LORD, will answer them. I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them. See also: Isaiah 55:1Isaiah 44:3Isaiah 30:19I will open rivers on the bare heights, and springs in the middle of the valleys. I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water. See also: Isaiah 35:6-7Psalms 107:35Isaiah 58:11I will put cedar, acacia, myrtle, and oil trees in the wilderness. I will set cypress trees, pine, and box trees together in the desert; See also: Isaiah 55:13Isaiah 37:31-32Isaiah 35:1that they may see, know, consider, and understand together, that the LORD’s hand has done this, and the Holy One of Israel has created it. See also: Job 12:9Isaiah 43:21Isaiah 44:23Produce your cause,” says the LORD. “Bring out your strong reasons!” says the King of Jacob. See also: Job 23:3-4Job 38:3Micah 6:1-2“Let them announce 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 to come. See also: Isaiah 45:21Isaiah 46:10Isaiah 48:14Declare 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. See also: Isaiah 42:9John 13:19Jeremiah 10:5Behold, you are nothing, and your work is nothing. He who chooses you is an abomination. See also: 1 Corinthians 8:4Psalms 115:8Isaiah 41:29“I have raised up one from the north, and he has come, from the rising of the sun, one who calls on my name, and he shall come on rulers as on mortar, and as the potter treads clay. See also: Isaiah 41:2Isaiah 10:62 Samuel 22:43Who has declared it from the beginning, that we may know? and before, that we may say, ‘He is right’? Surely, there is no one who declares. Surely, there is no one who shows. Surely, there is no one who hears your words. See also: Isaiah 41:22Isaiah 44:7Isaiah 45:21I am the first to say to Zion, ‘Behold, look at them;’ and I will give one who brings good news to Jerusalem. See also: Isaiah 40:9Isaiah 52:7Isaiah 44:28When I look, there is no man, even among them there is no counselor who, when I ask, can answer a word. See also: Isaiah 63:5Daniel 4:7-8Isaiah 59:16Behold, all of their deeds are vanity and nothing. Their molten images are wind and confusion. See also: Jeremiah 5:13Isaiah 41:24Habakkuk 2:18
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Notes in English 19th-century Catholic commentary by Fr. George Leo Haydock, shown as published.
These notes keep the polemics of their time: some speak harshly of the Jewish people or of other Christians. The Church teaches otherwise today. The Jewish people may not be blamed for the death of Christ (Nostra Aetate 4; Catechism 597–598), and Christians of other communities are our brothers and sisters in the Lord (Unitatis Redintegratio 3). Christian unity
Isaiah 41:1
Ver. 1. Islands, near Asia, whose conversion Isaias often predicts, (C.) as he does that of all nations. H. --- God continues to prove his divinity, (C.) expostulating with idolaters, whose conversion is insinuated, and among the rest that of Britain, which is the most renowned island in Europe. Bristow, anot. 11. W.
↑ 1Isaiah 41:2
Ver. 2. Just one. Sept. "justice." Christ, (Eus. S. Jer.) Abraham, (Chal. Grot.) or Cyrus, whose conquests were effects of God's providence. v. 10. C. xlv. ---
Kings. Cyrus liberated Persia, conquered Babylon and all Asia.
↑ 2Isaiah 41:3
Ver. 3. Feet. His march and victories shall be so rapid, like those of Alexander.
Dan. viii. 5.
↑ 3Isaiah 41:4
Ver. 4. Beginning. Disposing all things, as the conquests of Cyrus, announced so long before by name, evince. --- Last. Alpha and Omega. Apoc. i. 8. and xxii.
13.
↑ 4Isaiah 41:5
Ver. 5. Islands. People of Asia Minor. Gen. x. 5. C. --- The Babylonians made a league with the most potent king Crœsus, to oppose the young conqueror.
Xen. B. i.
↑ 5Isaiah 41:7
Ver. 7. Moved. Thus the nations conspire against Cyrus (C.) and the Messias.
H.
↑ 7Isaiah 41:10
Ver. 10. Upheld thee. Cyrus shall gain the victory, and give thee liberty.
↑ 10Isaiah 41:14
Ver. 14. Dead. Though you were in the grave, I could protect you. Captivity is often represented under this idea. C. --- You who are despised, fear not, since Christ will protect and reward you.
W.
↑ 14Isaiah 41:15
Ver. 15. Chaff. Cambyses perished on the mountains of Judea, (H.) and the Machabees gained many victories over the Syrians. Mic. iv. 13. Ezec. xxxix. C.
--- They are here meant, as their exploits resembled those of Cyrus. Houbigant.
↑ 15Isaiah 41:18
Ver. 18. Waters. The captives shall be refreshed in the deserts. C. xxxv. 6. and xliii. 20. C.
↑ 18Isaiah 41:19
Ver. 19. The thorn. In Hebrew, the shitta or settim, a tree resembling the whitethorn. Ch. S. Jer.
--- A fragrant shade shall speedily rise up. Bar. v. 6. C.
↑ 19Isaiah 41:21
Ver. 21. Thing. Add "strong," forte, (H.) any good proof of idolatry.
↑ 21Isaiah 41:23
Ver. 23. Good. The prescience and power of God prove his divinity. Can idols produce any thing similar? C. --- None can tell what will happen, unless God reveal it. W.
↑ 23Isaiah 41:24
Ver. 24. Work. All that you can do or promise. Heb. "your work is worse than a viper."
↑ 24Isaiah 41:25
Ver. 25. Sun. Cyrus had a Persian for his father, and a Mede for his mother; thus uniting both nations, (C.) so that he was styled a mule by an ancient oracle. Eus. præp. ix. 41. --- These countries lay to the north-east of Judea. C.
↑ 25Isaiah 41:26
Ver. 26. Just, or "the just one," (H.) that we may recognise Cyrus at once. ---
Your words. He addresses the idols. You cannot dive into futurity. C.
↑ 26Isaiah 41:28
Ver. 28. I. Isaias, (M.) or God, (H.) pronounces sentence against the speechless idols. M.
↑ 28License: Notes by Fr. George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), from the Douay-Rheims Bible with Haydock's commentary (first ed. Thomas Haydock, Manchester/Dublin, 1811–1814; New York: Edward Dunigan & Brother, 1859); New Testament notes compiled with Fr. Benedict Rayment. Public domain. Digital text: "The Haydock Bible", Internet Archive (archive.org/details/TheHaydockBible), uploaded 2011 under the Public Domain Mark. · Credits and licenses