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Isaiah 41 Bible study: I will help you
"Everyone helps his neighbor" (41:6), and the craftsman fastens his work with nails "that it might not totter" (41:7). Then the LORD says to Israel, "I will help you" (41:10) and "will hold your right hand" (41:13), with the same two Hebrew verbs. What they make has to be fastened; the LORD holds his people.
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“Don’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.”
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“In Isaiah 41:7, the craftsman fastens his work with nails so that it won't totter.”
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What's really going on
"Let’s meet together for judgment"
The chapter opens with a summons to judgment. The LORD speaks: "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" (41:1). Then he asks, "Who has worked and done it, calling the generations from the beginning?" (41:4), and answers it himself: "I, the LORD, the first, and with the last, I am he" (41:4) (tap first). At 41:21 the summons comes again: "Produce your cause,” says the LORD. “Bring out your strong reasons!” says the King of Jacob" (41:21) (tap cause). Here is what almost everyone misses: in Hebrew the two verbs of 41:1, nagash in Let them come near and qarav in Let’s meet together, come back in 41:21, where Produce is qarav and Bring out is nagash. The WEB has the King of Jacob only here.
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The rest of Isaiah 41 is waiting in Favor
- Helped and held
- A worm made a threshing instrument
- "Declare the things that are to come"
- The first and the last, in Isaiah
- Water in the wilderness, in a psalm and in Job
- 14 questions as you read
- 13 more Hebrew words
- A short check at the end
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The Hebrew word behind it
עָזַרazarsay a-ZAR
Brown-Driver-Briggs: "help, succour". Strong's: "to surround, i.e. protect or aid". The chapter has it four times. First in the workshop: "Everyone helps his neighbor" (41:6), just before the carpenter and the goldsmith go to work (41:7). Then the LORD, three times: "Yes, I will help you" (41:10), "I will help you" (41:13), and "I will help you" (41:14). Each of the LORD's three stands in a verse that also says Don’t be afraid. Isaiah has the verb 12 times, and the chapter on Isaiah 31 studies it in 31:3.
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Isaiah 41 Bible study questions
- 1In this chapter people tell one another, "Be strong!" (41:6), and the LORD tells his people, "Don’t be afraid. I will help you" (41:13). When you need courage, whose words do you reach for first?
- 2Three times the LORD tells Israel not to be afraid, and each time he says *I will help you* in the same verse (41:10, 41:13, 41:14). Which of the three verses speaks to you most this week, and why?
- 3The LORD calls Jacob a worm and then says he has made him a new threshing instrument (41:14-15). Why do you think he says both?
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