11 Be sure that all who are enraged against you
will be ashamed and disgraced;(A)
those who contend with you
will become as nothing and will perish.
12 You will look for those who contend with you,
but you will not find them.
Those who war against you
will become absolutely nothing.
13 For I am the Lord your God,(B)
who holds your right hand,
who says to you, “Do not fear,
I will help you.
14 Do not fear, you worm Jacob,(C)
you men[a] of Israel.
I will help you”—
this is the Lord’s declaration.
Your Redeemer(D) is the Holy One of Israel.(E)
15 See, I will make you into a sharp threshing board,
new, with many teeth.
You will thresh mountains and pulverize them
and make hills into chaff.(F)
16 You will winnow them(G)
and a wind will carry them away,
a whirlwind will scatter them.
But you will rejoice in the Lord;
you will boast in the Holy One of Israel.

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Footnotes

  1. 41:14 LXX reads small number; DSS read dead ones

11 Look! All those who are angry with you shall be ashamed and humiliated;
    your opponents[a] shall be like nothing and shall become lost.
12 You shall seek them,
    but[b] you shall not find them;
your opponents[c] shall be like nothing,
    and the men of your war like nothing.
13 For I, Yahweh your God, am grasping your right hand;
    it is I who say[d] to you,
“You must not fear;
    I myself, I will help you.
14 You must not fear, O worm of Jacob;
    people of Israel,
I myself, I will help you,” declares[e] Yahweh,
    “and your redeemer is the holy one of Israel.
15 Look! I will make you into a new sharp threshing sledge,
    with[f] sharp edges.
You shall thresh and crush the mountains,
    and you shall make the hills like chaff.
16 You shall winnow them and the wind shall carry them,
    and the tempest shall scatter them.
And you yourself shall rejoice in Yahweh;
    you shall boast in the holy one of Israel.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 41:11 Literally “the men of your strife”
  2. Isaiah 41:12 Or “and”
  3. Isaiah 41:12 Literally “the men of your strife”
  4. Isaiah 41:13 Literally “the sayer”
  5. Isaiah 41:14 Literally “declaration of”
  6. Isaiah 41:15 Literally “owner of”