以赛亚书 41:12

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

與你爭競的人，你要尋找他們，卻找不著；與你交戰的人，都必如同無有，好像虛無。

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
与 你 争 竞 的 ， 你 要 找 他 们 也 找 不 着 ； 与 你 争 战 的 必 如 无 有 ， 成 为 虚 无 。

Contextual Overview

¹⁰ So don't worry, because I am with you. Don't be afraid, because I am your God. I will make you strong and will help you; I will support you with my right hand that saves you. ¹¹ "All those people who are angry with you will be ashamed and disgraced. Those who are against you will disappear and be lost. ¹² You will look for your enemies, but you will not find them. Those who fought against you will vanish completely. ¹³ I am the Lord your God, who holds your right hand, and I tell you, ‘Don't be afraid. I will help you.' ¹⁴ You few people of Israel who are left, do not be afraid even though you are weak as a worm. I myself will help you," says the Lord . "The one who saves you is the Holy One of Israel. ¹⁵ Look, I have made you like a new threshing board with many sharp teeth. So you will walk on mountains and crush them; you will make the hills like chaff. ¹⁶ You will throw them into the air, and the wind will carry them away; a windstorm will scatter them. Then you will be happy in the Lord ; you will be proud of the Holy One of Israel. ¹⁷ "The poor and needy people look for water, but they can't find any. Their tongues are dry with thirst. But I, the Lord , will answer their prayers; I, the God of Israel, will not leave them to die. ¹⁸ I will make rivers flow on the dry hills and springs flow through the valleys. I will change the desert into a lake of water and the dry land into fountains of water. ¹⁹ I will make trees grow in the desert— cedars, acacia, myrtle, and olive trees. I will put pine, fir, and cypress trees growing together in the desert.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

shalt seek: Job 20:7-9, Psalms 37:35, Psalms 37:36

them that contended with thee: Heb. the men of thy contention. they that war against thee. Heb. the men of thy war.

Reciprocal: Psalms 27:3 - war Psalms 31:17 - wicked Isaiah 29:7 - the multitude Isaiah 49:25 - I will contend Jeremiah 10:24 - lest Jeremiah 30:16 - General Zechariah 10:5 - because John 8:10 - where 1 Corinthians 1:28 - to bring

Cross-References

Genesis 37:36
Meanwhile the Midianites who had bought Joseph had taken him to Egypt. There they sold him to Potiphar, an officer to the king of Egypt and captain of the palace guard.

Genesis 39:1
Now Joseph had been taken down to Egypt. An Egyptian named Potiphar was an officer to the king of Egypt and the captain of the palace guard. He bought Joseph from the Ishmaelites who had brought him down there.

Genesis 39:20
So Potiphar arrested Joseph and put him into the prison where the king's prisoners were put. And Joseph stayed there in the prison.

Genesis 41:12
A young Hebrew man, a servant of the captain of the guard, was in the prison with us. When we told him our dreams, he explained their meanings to us. He told each man the meaning of his dream, and

Genesis 41:19
Then I saw seven more cows come out of the river that were thin and lean and ugly—the worst looking cows I have seen in all the land of Egypt.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Ver. 12 Thou shall seek them, and shalt not find them,.... They not existing, or being fled into holes and corners, to rocks and mountains, to hide themselves from the wrath of the Lamb, Revelation 6:15:

even them that contended with thee; or, "the men of thy contention" p; who contended with them, not by words and arguments, but by severe persecutions, striving thereby to hinder the progress of the Gospel, and to root Christianity out of the world:

they that war against thee shall be as nothing, and as a thing of nought: or, "the men of thy war" q; that proclaimed and carried on war against the Christians, in order to destroy them utterly; yet they, and all their efforts, came to nothing, the Gospel prevailed, and Paganism was utterly abolished; which came to pass in Constantine's time, at the opening of the sixth seal, Revelation 6:12 which is a proper comment on this text.

p אנשי מצתיך "viros jurgii tui", Montanus. q אנשי מלחמתך "viri belli tui", Vatablus; "pugnae tuae", Montanus.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Thou shalt seek them - This denotes that it would be impossible to find them, for they should cease to exist. The whole verse, with the verse following, is emphatic, repeating in varied terms what was said before, and meaning that their foes should be entirely destroyed.