Audience Involvement

Do not fear, for I am with you; do not be afraid, for I am your God.  I will strengthen you, I will also help you, I will alsouphold you with My righteous right hand.  Isaiah 41:10  NASB Also – Let’s make sure we understand the context.  Isaiah 41:8 provides it.  “But you, Israel, My servant, Jacob whom I…

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“Do not fear, for I am with you; do not anxiously look about you, for I am your God. I will strengthen you, surely I will help you, surely I will uphold you with My righteous right hand.” Isaiah 41:10  NASB Uphold– We are back to intensive interpretation.  “Surely,” (ʾap) is a word of force.  We saw it in the first…

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“Do not fear, for I am with you; do not anxiously look about you, for I am your God. I will strengthen you, surely I will help you, surely I will uphold you with My righteous right hand.” Isaiah 41:10  NASB Help– The verb is an old friend, in fact, so old that it takes us back to the first “helper.”…

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“Do not fear, for I am with you; do not anxiously look about you, for I am your God. I will strengthen you, surely I will help you, surely I will uphold you with My righteous right hand.”  Isaiah 41:10  NASB Strengthen– This verb, ʾāmēṣ, is a Pi’el perfect.  That means in this case it is an intensive, active,…

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“Do not fear, for I am with you; do not anxiously look about you, for I am your God. I will strengthen you, surely I will help you, surely I will uphold you with My righteous right hand.” Isaiah 41:10  NASB Anxiously look about– The Dictionary of Biblical Languages with Semantic Domains offers the following: שָׁתַע(šā·ṯǎʿ): v.— LN 25.251–25.269 (qal) be…

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“Do not fear, for I am with you; do not anxiously look about you, for I am your God. I will strengthen you, surely I will help you, surely I will uphold you with My righteous right hand.”  Isaiah 41:10  NASB With you– It’s important to know that God has not given up on us.  “I am with you,”…

The Promise (1)

“Do not fear, for I am with you; do not anxiously look about you, for I am your God. I will strengthen you, surely I will help you, surely I will uphold you with My righteous right hand.” Isaiah 41:10  NASB Fear– Actually, I’m not afraid in the usual sense of the word.  I’m not even afraid to die. …

Anxiously look about

“Do not fear, for I am with you: Do not anxiously look about you, for I am your God,” Isaiah 41:10 Anxiously look about – Hebrew is a language that often uses parallel expressions to emphasize a point.  This is God’s version of a double-take.  God starts us off with a command about giving up…

Strengthen

“Do not fear, for I am with you; do not anxiously look about you, for I am your God.  I will strengthen you, surely I will help you, surely, I will uphold you with My righteous right hand” .   Isaiah 41:10  Strengthen – The Hebrew word is ames.  The verb is found 41 times in…