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Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Isaiah 41:10

Fear thou not... — The thought of the election of God gives a sense of security to His chosen.

I will strengthen thee. — The verb unites with this meaning (as in Isaiah 35:3; Psalms 89:21) the idea of attaching to one’s self, or choosing, as in Isaiah 44:14.

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See also Isaiah 41:10 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Isaiah 41:10. _Be not dismayed _- ואל תשתע veal tishta, "AND be not dismayed." The ו _vau_ is added by twenty-one of Dr. _Kennicott's_ MSS., thirty of _De Rossi's_, and one of my own, and three...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    FEAR THOU NOT - This verse is plain in its meaning, and is full of consolation. It is to be regarded as addressed primarily to the exiled Jews during their long and painful captivity in Babylon; and t...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 41 Jehovah's Challenge 1. _The address to the islands and the peoples (Isaiah 41:1)_ 2. _Jehovah's question, Cyrus and his ways predicted (Isaiah 41:2)_ 3. Nations troubled on account of Cyru...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    But Israel, who in the person of Abraham was summoned from Mesopotamia, is also a chosen instrument of Yahweh, and has nothing to fear amid these commotions. ISAIAH 41:10. RIGHT. RIGHTEOUSNESS: rend...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    FEAR THOU NOT. Reference to Pentateuch (Deuteronomy 31:6; Deuteronomy 31:8). BE NOT DISMAYED. look not around. Some codices, with Syriac, read "and be not", &c. It is this that dismays (see notes on P...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Israel is bidden "Fear not," because of its peculiar relation to Jehovah. _But thou, Israel_ In opposition to the other peoples (Isaiah 41:1). Omit "art" with R.V. _my servant_ Cf. Jeremiah 30:10 f.,...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _be not dismayed_ lit. "look not round" in terror. _I will strengthen_ The perf. tense used in the original expresses the unalterable determination of the speaker's will; Driver, Tenses, § 13. _the...

  • Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

    DISCOURSE: 925 THE WEAK BELIEVER COMFORTED Isaiah 41:10. _Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    BUT THOU, ISRAEL, &C.— The prophet here subjoins to his reproof of the nations, a consolation to the people of God, drawn from the same argument, as also he had done in the preceding section. See the...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    b. GOD'S PEOPLE SAVED TEXT: Isaiah 41:8-13 8 But thou, Israel, my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham my friend, 9 thou whom I have taken hold of from the ends of the earth, an...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness. BE NOT DISMAYE...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    41:10 dismayed, (d-11) Or 'bewildered.' it is strictly, 'to look on one another with amazement,' or as seeking help. strengthen (e-19) Others, 'choose,' comparing it with ch. 44.14....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    CYRUS GOD'S AGENT 1-7. Jehovah and the gods of the heathen compared as in a court of judgment. Jehovah has raised up Cyrus and given him victory, in order to carry out His good purposes, while the he...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    MY RIGHTEOUSNESS] i.e. faithfulness to My purpose as declared in My promises (see Isaiah 41:2). 11-14. It is impossible that the servant thus chosen and honoured can be cast off (oppressed for ever)....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS GOD PROMISES COMFORT TO HIS PEOPLE ISAIAH CHAPTER S 40 TO 48 _NORMAN HILLYER_ CHAPTER 41 KNOW WHO REALLY CONTROLS EVENTS V1 God speaks: ‘You people in distant...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    Similarly, God is ready to give his friends the strength that they need at any time. GOD WILL HELP YOU V14 So do not be afraid, Israel, small and weak as you are. I, the *Lord, will help you. I am...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    אַל ־תִּירָא֙ כִּ֣י עִמְּךָ ־אָ֔נִי אַל ־תִּש

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    CHAPTER I THE DATE OF Isaiah 40:1; Isaiah 41:1; Isaiah 42:1; Isaiah 43:1;...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    BOOK 3 THE SERVANT OF THE LORD HAVING completed our survey of the fundamental truths of our prophecy, and studied the subject which forms its immediate and most urgent interest, the deliverance of Is...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    THE LORD UPHOLDETH HIS SERVANT Isaiah 41:1-16 The conception of this passage is superb. Jehovah is represented as summoning the earth to determine whether He or some idol of the heathen is the true G...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    Having thus announced the majesty of Jehovah, the prophet proceeds to utter his general manifesto. This occupies Chapter s forty-one and forty-two. In chapter forty-one Jehovah challenges the island a...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    Fear thou not; for I [am] with thee: be not dismayed; for I [am] thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the (k) right hand of my righteousness. (k) That...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Upheld thee. Cyrus shall gain the victory, and give thee liberty._...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    I beg the Reader to pause over these blessed verses, and inquire, with me, whether it be not the Lord Jesus that is here spoken to by Jehovah, when beholding him as the Husband and Head of his Church...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    10._Fear not. _The former doctrine having had for its aim that the people should rely on God, the Prophet concludes from the numerous blessings by which the Lord manifested his love, that the people o...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 41, 42, AND 43. Chapter 41 begins the historical details which prove this. Who raised up Cyrus to overthrow idolatry? But in the midst of the havoc he made of...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    FEAR THOU NOT, FOR I AM WITH THEE,.... Not merely by his essence or power, who is every where; or by his providence supporting, preserving, observing, ordering, and overruling all things; but in a way...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Fear thou not; for I [am] with thee: be not dismayed; for I [am] thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness. Ver. 10. _Fea...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _But thou, Israel, art my servant_ Thus the Gentiles show themselves to be the servants of their idols, and own them for their gods: but thou art my people, and I am and will be thy God. _Jacob, whom...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Fear thou not, for I am with thee, with His merciful power; BE NOT DISMAYED, filled with anxiety, FOR I AM THY GOD, who freely gives His heart, His grace, His salvation, to His children; I WILL STRENG...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    The Lord's Promise of a Future Victory...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    10-20 God speaks with tenderness; Fear thou not, for I am with thee: not only within call, but present with thee. Art thou weak? I will strengthen thee. Art thou in want of friends? I will help thee...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    Which I do and will manage with righteousness, whereby I will deliver thee, and destroy thine and mine enemies, as it follows....

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Isaiah 41:10 Fear H3372 (H8799) dismayed H8159 (H8691) God H430 strengthen H553 (H8765) help H5826 ...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    GOD'S ASSURANCE OF SUCCESS TO HIS PEOPLE, WEAK THOUGH THEY ARE (ISAIAH 41:8). Isaiah 41:8 “But you Israel, my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, The seed of Abraham, the one who loved me.” He now...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    Isaiah 41:10 God can be God and fearless, but we can scarcely be creatures and fearless. Still less is it likely that sinful creatures should be fearless. It is more than the Father looks for under th...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    God enters into a controversy with those who had fallen into the worship of idols. Isaiah 41:1. _Keep silence before me, O islands; and let the people renew their strength: let them come near; then l...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    Isaiah 41:1. _Keep silence before me, O islands; and let the people renew their strength: let them come near; then let them speak: let us come near together to judgment._ God invites people to argue...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    Isaiah 41:8. _But thou, Israel, art my servant, Jacob whom l have chosen, the seed of Abraham my friend._ Let us, for the time being, forget the people to whom this message was addressed, and see whe...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Greatness of God and weakness of man. Admonition to shun idols and encouragement to trust in God. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Jacob. CONCLUSION: Jehovah is infinite, eternal and unchangeable....

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Fear thou not; for I am with thee_ “FEAR THOU NOT!” I. THE CIRCUMSTANCES IN WHICH GOD ADDRESSES HIS PEOPLE. They are poor and needy. It is necessary that God should have room in which to work. Empt...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 41:1 God alone guides history, for his glory and for the benefit of his people. ⇐ ⇔

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 41:10 YOU is the people as a whole (called “Jacob” in v. Isaiah 41:8). Unlike the terrified nations of v....

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    TWO KINDS OF HELP Isaiah 41:6. _They helped every one his neighbour, &c._ Isaiah 41:10. _Fear not; I will help thee, &c._ It is manifestly the intention of the prophet to exhibit the contrast betwee...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    SECTION II.—RECOVERY OF THE PEOPLE OF GOD FROM THEIR SIN, AND FROM THEIR BONDAGE IN BABYLON (CH. 41-48.). EXPOSITION...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Chronicles 12:18; 2 Chronicles 20:17; 2 Chronicles 32:8; 2 Corinthians 12:9;...

  • Wells of Living Water Commentary

    THE GOD OF ALL HELP Isaiah 41:8 INTRODUCTORY WORDS The Book of Isaiah is one that lives with us in every daily task and conflict. Sometimes we think that the Old Testament Scriptures are far separat...

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