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Isaiah 41:5
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The coasts and islands see and are afraid,the whole earth trembles.They approach and arrive.
The isles have seen, and fear; the ends of the eretz tremble; they draw near, and come.
The isles saw it, and feared; the ends of the earth were afraid, drew near, and came.
The coastlands have seen and are afraid; the ends of the earth tremble; they have drawn near and come.
The coastlands have seen and are afraid; The ends of the earth tremble; They have approached and have come.
All you faraway places, look and be afraid; all you places far away on the earth, shake with fear. Come close and listen to me.
The islands and coastlands have seen and they fear; The ends of the earth tremble; They have drawn near and have come.
The isles have seen, and fear; the ends of the earth tremble; they draw near, and come.
The yles sawe it, and did feare, & the ends of the earth were abashed, drew neere, and came.
The coastlands have seen and are afraid;The ends of the earth tremble;They have drawn near and have come.
The islands see and fear, the ends of the earth tremble. They approach and come forward.
Islands and foreign nations saw what I did and trembled as they came near.
The coastlands have seen and became afraid. The ends of the earth have trembled. They have approached, and now they have come.
The isles saw [it], and feared; the ends of the earth trembled: they drew near, and came.
People along the coast saw this, and they were frightened. Nations at the ends of the earth shook with fear. They have come near. They have arrived.
The islands saw it, and were afraid; and the ends of the earth were afraid, and they drew near and came.
"The people of distant lands have seen what I have done; they are frightened and tremble with fear. So they all assemble and come.
The coastlands have seen and are afraid; the ends of the earth tremble. They have drawn near, and they have come.
The coasts have seen and fear; the ends of the earth tremble; they have drawn near; yea, they come.
Beholde ye Iles, that ye maye feare, and ye endes of the earth, that ye maye be abasshed, draw nye, and come hither.
The isles have seen, and fear; the ends of the earth tremble; they draw near, and come.
The sea-lands saw it, and were in fear; the ends of the earth were shaking: they came near.
The isles saw, and feared; the ends of the earth trembled; they drew near, and came.
The yles saw it and feared, the ends of the earth were afraid, drew neere, and came.
The Isles sawe and did feare, and the endes of the earth were abashed, drewe nye, and came hither.
The nations saw, and feared; the ends of the earth drew nigh, and came together,
The isles saw, and feared; the ends of the earth trembled: they drew near, and came.
Ilis sien, and dredden; the laste partis of erthe were astonyed; thei camen niy, and neiyiden.
The isles have seen, and fear; the ends of the earth tremble; they draw near, and come.
The isles saw [it], and feared; the ends of the earth were afraid, drew near, and came.
The coastlands see and are afraid; the whole earth trembles; they approach and come.
The lands beyond the sea watch in fear. Remote lands tremble and mobilize for war.
The islands have seen and are afraid. The ends of the earth shake in fear and they have come.
The coastlands have seen and are afraid, the ends of the earth tremble; they have drawn near and come.
Coastlands have seen, so they fear, The ends of the earth, are in dread, - They have drawn near, and have come:
The islands saw it, and feared, the ends of the earth were astonished, they drew near, and came.
The coastlands have seen and are afraid, the ends of the earth tremble; they have drawn near and come.
Seen have isles and fear, ends of the earth tremble, They have drawn near, yea, they come.
"Far-flung ocean islands see it and panic. The ends of the earth are shaken. Fearfully they huddle together. They try to help each other out, making up stories in the dark. The godmakers in the workshops go into overtime production, crafting new models of no-gods, Urging one another on—‘Good job!' ‘Great design!'— pounding in nails at the base so that the things won't tip over.
The coastlands have seen and are afraid; The ends of the earth tremble; They have drawn near and have come.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
isles: Genesis 10:5, Ezekiel 26:15, Ezekiel 26:16
the ends: Exodus 15:14, Joshua 2:10, Joshua 5:1, Psalms 65:8, Psalms 66:3, Psalms 67:7
Reciprocal: Joshua 10:4 - and help Job 26:2 - helped Psalms 97:1 - let the multitude of isles Isaiah 24:15 - isles Isaiah 40:15 - the isles Isaiah 42:4 - and the isles Isaiah 44:11 - let them all Isaiah 45:20 - yourselves Habakkuk 2:13 - is it Matthew 22:34 - they Acts 19:28 - and cried
Cross-References
Curds from the cattle, and milk of the flock, With fat of lambs; And rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats, With the choicest wheat; And you drank wine, the blood of the grapes.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
The isles saw it, and feared,.... Not the victory which Abraham got over the kings; nor Cyrus's expedition against Babylon, and other nations, and his deliverance of the Jews; but the progress of the Gospel, through the ministry of the Apostle Paul: the idolatrous inhabitants of the Gentile nations saw great multitudes embracing and professing the Gospel; they saw their idols neglected, and their temples abandoned; they feared what would be the consequence of all this, that their old religion their fathers retained, and they were brought up in, would be abolished; and especially a panic seized the priests on this account, whose livelihood depended upon it:
the ends of the earth were afraid; for the sound of the Gospel by him, and other apostles, went into all the earth, and their words to the end of the world, Romans 10:18 meaning the inhabitants that dwelt in the furthest parts of the earth, where ignorance and idolatry wholly reigned: they drew near, and came: not to God, nor to Abraham, or Cyrus; rather to their gods, to exert themselves in the defence of their religion; or, which is best, they got together to consult what was proper to be done on such an emergency.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
The isles saw it - The distant nations (see the note at Isaiah 41:1). They saw what was done in the conquests of the man whom God in this remarkable manner had raised up; and they had had demonstration, therefore, of the mighty power of Yahweh above the power of idols.
And feared - Were alarmed, and trembled. All were apprehensive that they would be subdued, and driven away as with the tempest.
The ends of the earth - Distant nations occupying the extremities of the globe (see the note at Isaiah 40:28).
Drew near, and came - Came together for the purpose of mutual alliance, and self-defense. The prophet evidently refers to what he says in the following verses, that they formed treaties; endeavored to prepare for self-defense; looked to their idol-gods, and encouraged each other in their attempts to offer a successful resistance to the victorious arms of Cyrus.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Isaiah 41:5. Were afraid - "And they were terrified"] Three MSS. have ויחרדו vaiyecheridu, adding the conjunction ו vau, which restores the second member of the sentence to its true poetical form.
