Isaiah 41:3

Easy-to-Read Version

He chases armies and is never hurt. He goes places he has never been before.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
He pursues them, going on safely,hardly touching the path with his feet.

Hebrew Names Version
He pursues them, and passes on safely, even by a way that he had not gone with his feet.

King James Version
He pursued them, and passed safely; even by the way that he had not gone with his feet.

English Standard Version
He pursues them and passes on safely, by paths his feet have not trod.

New American Standard Bible
"He pursues them, passing on in safety, By a way he had not been traversing with his feet.

New Century Version
He chases them and is never hurt, going places he has never been before.

Amplified Bible
"He (Cyrus) pursues them and passes along safely, By a way his feet had not traveled before.

World English Bible
He pursues them, and passes on safely, even by a way that he had not gone with his feet.

Geneva Bible (1587)
He pursued them, and passed safely by the way that he had not gone with his feete.

Legacy Standard Bible
He pursues them, passing on in peace,By a way he had not come with his feet.

Berean Standard Bible
He pursues them, going on safely, hardly touching the path with his feet.

Contemporary English Version
He goes after them so quickly that his feet barely touch the ground— he doesn't even get hurt.

Complete Jewish Bible
He pursues them, passing on unscathed, hardly touching the path with his feet.

Darby Translation
He pursued them, he passed on in safety, by a way he had never come with his feet.

George Lamsa Translation
He shall pursue them, then make peace; and he shall not pass that way on foot.

Good News Translation
He follows in pursuit and marches safely on, so fast that he hardly touches the ground!

Lexham English Bible
He pursues them and passes on in peace; he does not enter the path with his feet.

Literal Translation
He pursues them; he passes on in peace; he does not go by the way with his feet.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
He foloweth vpon them, and goeth safely himself, and cometh in no footpath with his fete.

American Standard Version
He pursueth them, and passeth on safely, even by a way that he had not gone with his feet.

Bible in Basic English
He goes after them safely, not touching the road with his feet.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
He pursueth them, and passeth on safely; the way with his feet he treadeth not.

King James Version (1611)
He pursued them, and passed safely; euen by the way, that hee had not gone with his feete.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
He foloweth vpon them, and goeth safely him selfe, & that in a way where before his foote had not troden.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And he shall pursue them; the way of his feet shall proceed in peace.

English Revised Version
He pursueth them, and passeth on safely; even by a way that he had not gone with his feet.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
He schal pursue hem, he schal go in pees; a path schal not appere in hise feet.

Update Bible Version
He pursues them, and passes on safely, even by a way that he had not gone with his feet.

Webster's Bible Translation
He pursued them, [and] passed safely; [even] by the way [that] he had not gone with his feet.

New English Translation
He pursues them and passes by unharmed; he advances with great speed.

New King James Version
Who pursued them, and passed safely By the way that he had not gone with his feet?

New Living Translation
He chases them away and goes on safely, though he is walking over unfamiliar ground.

New Life Bible
He goes after them and is safe as he passes, on paths he has not gone on before.

New Revised Standard
He pursues them and passes on safely, scarcely touching the path with his feet.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
He pursued them passed along safely, - Upon the path of his own feet, entered he not?

Douay-Rheims Bible
He shall pursue them, he shall pass in peace, no path shall appear after his feet.

Revised Standard Version
He pursues them and passes on safely, by paths his feet have not trod.

Young's Literal Translation
He pursueth them, he passeth over in safety A path with his feet he entereth not.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"He pursues them, passing on in safety, By a way he had not been traversing with his feet.

Contextual Overview

¹ The Lord says, "Faraway countries, be quiet and listen to me! Nations be brave. Come to me and speak. We will meet together and decide who is right. ² Who woke up the man who is coming from the east? He called Justice to march with him. He uses his sword to crush nations. He uses his bow and conquers kings— they run away like straw blown by the wind. ³ He chases armies and is never hurt. He goes places he has never been before. ⁴ Who was able to make all this happen? Who controlled the lives of everyone from the beginning? I, the Lord , am the one. I was here at the beginning, and I will be here when all things are finished. ⁵ People along the coast saw this, and they were frightened. Nations at the ends of the earth shook with fear. They have come near. They have arrived. ⁶ "Workers help each other. They encourage each other to be strong. ⁷ One worker cuts wood to make a statue. He encourages the man who works with gold. Another worker uses a hammer and makes the metal smooth. Then he encourages the man at the anvil. This last worker says, ‘This work is good; the metal will not come off.' Then he nails the statue to a base so that it will not fall over. And it never moves!" ⁸ The Lord says, "You, Israel, are my servant. Jacob, I chose you. You are from the family of my friend, Abraham. ⁹ You were in a faraway country, but I reached out to you. I called you from that faraway place. I said, ‘You are my servant.' I chose you, and I have not rejected you.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

safely: Heb. in peace, Isaiah 57:2, Job 5:24

Reciprocal: Genesis 14:14 - armed Genesis 14:15 - smote Isaiah 42:16 - lead Hebrews 7:1 - the slaughter Revelation 16:12 - that the

Cross-References

Genesis 41:4
The seven sick cows ate the seven healthy cows. Then Pharaoh woke up.

Genesis 41:20
The thin, sick cows ate the first healthy cows,

Genesis 41:21
but they still looked thin and sick. You couldn't even tell they had eaten the healthy cows. They looked as thin and sick as they did in the beginning. Then I woke up.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

He pursued them, and passed safely..... Went on in his work, pursued his great design in subduing the souls of men, and bringing them to the obedience of Christ; and though he had so many enemies, he "passed on safely"; God did not suffer them to set upon him, to do him any harm, even though he was exposed to perils by sea and land, by thieves and robbers, by his own countrymen and Heathens, in city and country, and even by false brethren; see Acts 18:10, it is in the future tense, "he shall pursue them, he shall pass safely" i; or in peace:

even by the way that he had not gone with his feet; travelling in foreign parts, in distant countries, in tracks of land unknown unto him; where he had never been before, even from Jerusalem round about to Illyricum, fully preaching the Gospel of Christ, Romans 15:19.

i ירדפם "persequetur", V. L. Pagninus, Montanus; "transibit", V. L. Pagninus, Montanus.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

He pursued them - When they were driven away. He followed on, and devoted them to discomfiture and ruin.

And passed safely - Margin, as Hebrew, ‘In peace.’ That is, he followed them uninjured; they had no power to rally, he was not led into ambush, and he was safe as far as he chose to pursue them.

Even by the way that he had not gone with his feet - By a way that he had not been accustomed to march; in an unusual journey; in a land of strangers. Cyrus had passed his early years on the east of the Euphrates. In his conquests he crossed that river, and extended his march beyond even the river Halys to the western extremity of Asia, and even to Egypt and the Red Sea. The idea here is, that he had not traveled in these regions until he did it for purposes of conquest - an idea which is strictly in accordance with the truth of history.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Isaiah 41:3. And passed safely - "He passeth in safety"] The preposition seems to have been omitted in the text by mistake; the Septuagint and Vulgate seem to have had it in their copies; εν ειρηνη, to pace, בשלום beshalom, "prosperously." It is so in one of De Rossi's MSS.