Isaiah 41:1

God summons the nations to a courtroom to silently hear His case and meet Him for judgment.

Cross-references · 18

• Isa 1:18“Come now, and let us reason together,” says Yahweh: “Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow. Though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
• Hab 2:20But Yahweh is in his holy temple. Let all the earth be silent before him!”
• Zech 2:13Be silent, all flesh, before Yahweh; for he has roused himself from his holy habitation!”
• Ps 46:10“Be still, and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the nations. I will be exalted in the earth.”
• Isa 41:6–7Everyone helps his neighbor. They say to their brothers, “Be strong!”
• Isa 11:11It will happen in that day that the Lord will set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant that is left of his people from Assyria, from Egypt, from Pathros, from Cush, from Elam, from Shinar, from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea.
• Job 38:3Brace yourself like a man, for I will question you, then you answer me!
• Joel 3:10–11Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruning hooks into spears. Let the weak say, ‘I am strong.’
• Isa 34:1Come near, you nations, to hear! Listen, you peoples. Let the earth and all it contains hear; the world, and everything that comes from it.
• Job 40:7–10“Now brace yourself like a man. I will question you, and you will answer me.
• Isa 8:9–10Make an uproar, you peoples, and be broken in pieces! Listen, all you from far countries: dress for battle, and be shattered! Dress for battle, and be shattered!
• Isa 41:21–22Produce your cause,” says Yahweh. “Bring out your strong reasons,” says the King of Jacob.
• Isa 48:16“Come near to me and hear this: “From the beginning I have not spoken in secret; from the time that it happened, I was there.” Now the Lord Yahweh has sent me, with his Spirit.
• Isa 49:1Listen, islands, to me. Listen, you peoples, from afar: Yahweh has called me from the womb; from the inside of my mother he has mentioned my name.
• Job 31:35–36oh that I had one to hear me! Behold, here is my signature! Let the Almighty answer me! Let the accuser write my indictment!
• Isa 50:8He who justifies me is near. Who will bring charges against me? Let us stand up together. Who is my adversary? Let him come near to me.
• Job 23:3–7Oh that I knew where I might find him! That I might come even to his seat!
• Mic 6:1–3Listen now to what Yahweh says: “Arise, plead your case before the mountains, and let the hills hear what you have to say.

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