Isaiah 41:18-28

18 I will make rivers flow on barren heights, and springs within the valleys. I will turn the desert into pools of water, and the parched ground into springs.
19 I will put in the desert the cedar and the acacia, the myrtle and the olive. I will set junipers in the wasteland, the fir and the cypress together,
20 so that people may see and know, may consider and understand, that the hand of the LORD has done this, that the Holy One of Israel has created it.
21 “Present your case,” says the LORD. “Set forth your arguments,” says Jacob’s King.
22 “Tell us, you idols, what is going to happen. Tell us what the former things were, so that we may consider them and know their final outcome. Or declare to us the things to come,
23 tell us what the future holds, so we may know that you are gods. Do something, whether good or bad, so that we will be dismayed and filled with fear.
24 But you are less than nothing and your works are utterly worthless; whoever chooses you is detestable.
25 “I have stirred up one from the north, and he comes— one from the rising sun who calls on my name. He treads on rulers as if they were mortar, as if he were a potter treading the clay.
26 Who told of this from the beginning, so we could know, or beforehand, so we could say, ‘He was right’? No one told of this, no one foretold it, no one heard any words from you.
27 I was the first to tell Zion, ‘Look, here they are!’ I gave to Jerusalem a messenger of good news.
28 I look but there is no one— no one among the gods to give counsel, no one to give answer when I ask them.

Cross References 36

  • 1. S Isaiah 30:25
  • 2. Isaiah 43:19
  • 3. S 2 Kings 3:17
  • 4. S Job 38:26; S Isaiah 35:7
  • 5. S Isaiah 35:1; Isaiah 51:3
  • 6. Ex 25:5,10,13
  • 7. S Isaiah 37:24
  • 8. Isaiah 44:14
  • 9. Isaiah 60:13
  • 10. S Exodus 6:7
  • 11. S Isaiah 29:24
  • 12. Ezra 7:6; Ezra 8:31; Isaiah 50:2; Isaiah 51:9; Isaiah 59:1; Isaiah 66:14; Jeremiah 32:17
  • 13. S ver 14; Isaiah 43:3,14
  • 14. S Isaiah 4:5; Job 12:9
  • 15. S ver 1
  • 16. Isaiah 43:15; Isaiah 44:6
  • 17. ver 26; Isaiah 43:9; Isaiah 44:7; Isaiah 45:21; Isaiah 48:14
  • 18. Isaiah 43:18,26; Isaiah 46:9; Isaiah 48:3
  • 19. Isaiah 42:9; Isaiah 43:19; Isaiah 46:10; Isaiah 48:6; Isaiah 65:17; John 13:19
  • 20. Isaiah 42:9; Isaiah 44:7-8; Isaiah 45:3
  • 21. Jeremiah 10:5
  • 22. S 2 Kings 19:26
  • 23. S Isaiah 37:19; Isaiah 44:9; 1 Corinthians 8:4
  • 24. S 1 Samuel 12:21; Jeremiah 8:19; Jeremiah 10:5,8,15
  • 25. S Psalms 109:7; S Isaiah 1:13; S Isaiah 48:8; Psalms 115:8
  • 26. S Ezra 1:2
  • 27. S ver 2; Jeremiah 50:9,41; Jeremiah 51:48
  • 28. S 2 Samuel 22:43; S Isaiah 5:5; Nahum 3:14
  • 29. S ver 4
  • 30. S ver 22; Isaiah 52:6
  • 31. S 1 Kings 18:26; Habakkuk 2:18-19
  • 32. Isaiah 48:3,16
  • 33. S Isaiah 40:9
  • 34. Psalms 22:11; Isaiah 50:2; Isaiah 59:16; Isaiah 63:5; Isaiah 64:7; Ezekiel 22:30
  • 35. Isaiah 40:13-14
  • 36. S 1 Kings 18:26; Isaiah 65:12; Isaiah 66:4; Jeremiah 25:4
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