Isaiah 41:6

THE MESSAGE

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Each one helps the other,and says to another, “Take courage!”

Hebrew Names Version
They help everyone his neighbor; and [every one] says to his brother, Be of good courage.

King James Version
They helped every one his neighbour; and every one said to his brother, Be of good courage.

English Standard Version
Everyone helps his neighbor and says to his brother, "Be strong!"

New American Standard Bible
Each one helps his neighbor And says to his brother, "Be strong!"

New Century Version
The workers help each other and say to each other, "Be strong!"

Amplified Bible
They each help his neighbor And say to his brother [as he fashions his idols], "Be of good courage!"

World English Bible
They help everyone his neighbor; and [every one] says to his brother, Be of good courage.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Euery man helped his neighbour, and saide to his brother, Be strong.

Legacy Standard Bible
Each one helps his neighborAnd says to his brother, "Be strong!"

Berean Standard Bible
Each one helps the other, and says to his brother, "Be strong!"

Contemporary English Version
Worshipers of idols comfort each other, saying, "Don't worry!"

Complete Jewish Bible
Every one helps his fellow workman, everyone says to his brother, "Be strong!"

Darby Translation
They helped every one his neighbour, and [each] said to his brother, Take courage.

Easy-to-Read Version
"Workers help each other. They encourage each other to be strong.

George Lamsa Translation
They helped every one his neighbor; and every one said to his brother, Be of good courage.

Good News Translation
The skilled workers help and encourage each other.

Lexham English Bible
Each one helps his neighbor; he says to his brother, "Take courage!"

Literal Translation
Each man helps his neighbor, and says to his brother, Be strong.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Euery man hath exorted his neghboure, and brother, and bydden him be stronge.

American Standard Version
They help every one his neighbor; and every one saith to his brother, Be of good courage.

Bible in Basic English
They gave help everyone to his neighbour; and everyone said to his brother, Take heart!

JPS Old Testament (1917)
They helped every one his neighbour; and every one said to his brother: 'Be of good courage.'

King James Version (1611)
They helped euery one his neighbour, and euery one sayd to his brother, Be of good courage.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Euery man helped his neighbour, and sayd to his brother, be strong.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
every one judging for his neighbor and that to assist his brother: and one will say,

English Revised Version
They helped every one his neighbour; and every one said to his brother, Be of good courage.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Ech man schal helpe his neiybore, and schal seie to his brother, Be thou coumfortid.

Update Bible Version
They help every one his neighbor; and [every one] says to his brother, Be of good courage.

Webster's Bible Translation
They helped every one his neighbor; and [every one] said to his brother, Be of good courage.

New English Translation
They help one another; one says to the other, ‘Be strong!'

New King James Version
Everyone helped his neighbor, And said to his brother, "Be of good courage!"

New Living Translation
The idol makers encourage one another, saying to each other, "Be strong!"

New Life Bible
Every one helps each other, and says to his brother, "Be strong!"

New Revised Standard
Each one helps the other, saying to one another, "Take courage!"

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Every man, to his neighbour, giveth help, - And to his brother, saith Take courage!

Douay-Rheims Bible
Every one shall help his neighbour, and shall say to his brother: Be of good courage.

Revised Standard Version
Every one helps his neighbor, and says to his brother, "Take courage!"

Young's Literal Translation
Each his neighbour they help, And to his brother he saith, `Be strong.'

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Each one helps his neighbor And says to his brother, "Be strong!"

Contextual Overview

¹ "Quiet down, far-flung ocean islands. Listen! Sit down and rest, everyone. Recover your strength. Gather around me. Say what's on your heart. Together let's decide what's right. ²"Who got things rolling here, got this champion from the east on the move? Who recruited him for this job, then rounded up and corralled the nations so he could run roughshod over kings? He's off and running, pulverizing nations into dust, leaving only stubble and chaff in his wake. He chases them and comes through unscathed, his feet scarcely touching the path. ⁴ "Who did this? Who made it happen? Who always gets things started? I did. God . I'm first on the scene. I'm also the last to leave. ⁵"Far-flung ocean islands see it and panic. The ends of the earth are shaken. Fearfully they huddle together. They try to help each other out, making up stories in the dark. The godmakers in the workshops go into overtime production, crafting new models of no-gods, Urging one another on—‘Good job!' ‘Great design!'— pounding in nails at the base so that the things won't tip over. ⁸"But you, Israel, are my servant. You're Jacob, my first choice, descendants of my good friend Abraham. I pulled you in from all over the world, called you in from every dark corner of the earth, Telling you, ‘You're my servant, serving on my side. I've picked you. I haven't dropped you.' Don't panic. I'm with you. There's no need to fear for I'm your God. I'll give you strength. I'll help you. I'll hold you steady, keep a firm grip on you.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

helped: Isaiah 40:19, Isaiah 44:12, 1 Samuel 4:7-9, 1 Samuel 5:3-5, Daniel 3:1-7, Acts 19:24-28

of good courage: Heb. strong, Isaiah 35:4, Joel 3:9-11

Reciprocal: Genesis 11:3 - they said one to another Psalms 64:5 - encourage Isaiah 41:1 - let the people Isaiah 45:20 - yourselves Isaiah 46:1 - Bel Isaiah 46:6 - lavish Jeremiah 9:5 - weary Jeremiah 10:4 - fasten Jeremiah 23:14 - in the Jonah 1:7 - every

Gill's Notes on the Bible

They helped everyone his neighbour,.... By advice and counsel, by the best arguments they could make use of, to withstand the new religion, and defend the old one; to prevent the embracing the one, and relinquishing the other:

and everyone said to his brother, be of good courage: or, "be strong" m; they strengthened one another's hands in their idolatrous worship, encouraged each other to oppose the prevailing doctrine; urging, that the craft of some was in danger, and the religion of them all at stake, and their gods like to fall into contempt. An instance of this may be seen in Demetrius the craftsman at Ephesus, when the Gospel mightily prevailed there, who stirred up the workmen of the same craft with himself and the like, suggesting the loss of their business, and the dishonour reflected on their goddess Diana, should the apostle go on as he did; by which we may judge how it was, more or less, in other parts of the world; see Acts 19:20.

m חזק "fortis esto, vel sis strenuus", Vatablus.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

They helped every one his neighbor - The idolatrous nations. The idea is, that they formed confederations to strengthen each other, and to oppose him whom God had raised up to subdue them. The prophet describes a state of general consternation existing among them, when they supposed that all was in danger, and that their security consisted only in confederation; in increased attention to their religion; in repairing their idols and making new ones, and in conciliating the favor and securing the aid of heir gods It was natural for them to suppose that the calamities which were coming upon them by the invasion of Cyrus were the judgments of their gods, for some neglect, or some prevailing crimes, and that their favor could be secured only by a more diligent attention to their service, and by forming new images and establishing them in the proper places of worship. The prophet, therefore, describes in a graphic manner, the consternation, the alarm, and the haste, everywhere apparent among them, in attempting to conciliate the favor of their idols, and to encourage each other. Nothing is more common, than for people, when they are in danger, to give great attention to religion, though they may greatly neglect or despise it when they are in safety. Men fly to temples and churches and altars in the times of plague and the pestilence; and as regularly flee from them when the calamity is overpast.

Be of good courage - Margin, as Hebrew, ‘Be strong.’ The sense is, Do not be alarmed at the invasion of Cyrus. Make new images, set them up in the temples, show unusual zeal in religion, and the favor of the gods may be secured, and the dangers be averted. This is to be understood as the language of the idolatrous nations, among whom Cyrus, under the direction of Yahweh, was carrying his conquests and spreading desolation.