Isaiah 41:21

21 “Present your case,” says the LORD. “Set forth your arguments,” says Jacob’s King.

Isaiah 41:21 in Other Translations

21 Produce your cause, saith the LORD; bring forth your strong reasons, saith the King of Jacob.

21 Set forth your case, says the LORD; bring your proofs, says the King of Jacob.

21 “Present the case for your idols,” says the LORD . “Let them show what they can do,” says the King of Israel.

21 "Set out your case for your gods," says God. "Bring your evidence," says the King of Jacob.

21 Produce your cause, saith Jehovah; bring forth your strong reasons, saith the King of Jacob.

21 "Present your case," says the LORD. "Bring forward your best arguments," says Jacob's king.

21 "Submit your case," says the Lord. "Present your arguments," says Jacob's King.

21 The LORD says to the nations and their gods, "State your case." Jacob's King says to them, "Prove your case to me.

Isaiah 41:21 Meaning and Commentary

Isaiah 41:21

Produce your cause, saith the Lord
The Lord having comforted his people under their afflictions and persecutions from their enemies in the first times of Christianity, returns to the controversy between him and the idolatrous Heathens, and challenges them to bring their cause into open court, and let it be publicly tried, that it may be seen on what side truth lies: bring forth your strong reasons, saith the King of Jacob;
or King of saints, the true Israel of God, who acknowledge the Lord as their King and their God, and whom he rules over, protects and defends; and this title is assumed for the comfort of them, that though he is King over all the nations of the world, yet in an eminent and peculiar sense their King; and he does not style himself the God of Jacob, though he was, because this was the thing in controversy, and the cause to be decided, whether he was the true God, or the gods of the Gentiles; and therefore their votaries are challenged to bring forth the strongest reasons and arguments they could muster together, in proof of the divinity of their idols; their "bony" arguments, as the word ^F24 signifies; for what bones are to the body, that strong arguments are to a cause, the support and stability of it.

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FOOTNOTES:

F24 (Mkytwmue) (Mue) os.

Isaiah 41:21 In-Context

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.

Cross References

• 1. S ver 1
• 2. Isaiah 43:15; Isaiah 44:6