21Produce your cause, saith the LORD; bring forth your strong reasons, saith the King of Jacob.
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Oh that I knew where I might find him! that I might come even to his seat! …
Hear ye now what the LORD saith; Arise, contend thou before the mountains, and let the hills hear thy voice. …
Gird up now thy loins like a man; for I will demand of thee, and answer thou me.
I would declare unto him the number of my steps; as a prince would I go near unto him.
Gird up thy loins now like a man: I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me. …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 21-29)The Lord, by the prophet, here repeats the challenge to idolaters to make out the pretentions of their idols: “ Produce your cause (Isa. 41:21) and make your best of it; bring forth the strongest reasons you have to prove that your idols are gods, and worthy of your adoration.” Note, There needs no more to show the absurdity of sin than to produce the reasons that are given in defence of it, for t…
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