OLD TESTAMENT

Isaiah 41:1

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“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.

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Verse 1. Islands, near Asia, whose conversion Isaias often predicts, ( Calmet.) as he does that of all nations. Bible.—God continues to prove his divinity, ( Calmet.) expostulating with idolaters, whose conversion is insinuated, and among the rest that of Britain, which is the most renowned island in Europe. Bristow, anot. 11. Worthington.

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