Isaiah 41:6

New Century Version

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

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!"

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 The Lord says, "Faraway countries, listen to me. Let the nations become strong. Come to me and speak; we will meet together to decide who is right. ² "Who caused the one to come from the east? Who gives him victories everywhere he goes? The one who brought him gives nations over to him and defeats kings. He uses his sword, and kings become like dust. He uses his bow, and they are blown away like chaff. ³ He chases them and is never hurt, going places he has never been before. ⁴ Who caused this to happen? Who has controlled history since 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 All you faraway places, look and be afraid; all you places far away on the earth, shake with fear. Come close and listen to me. ⁶ The workers help each other and say to each other, "Be strong!" ⁷ The craftsman encourages the goldsmith, and the workman who smooths the metal with a hammer encourages the one who shapes the metal. He says, "This metal work is good." He nails the statue to a base so it can't fall over. ⁸ The Lord says, "People of Israel, you are my servants. People of Jacob, I chose you. You are from the family of my friend Abraham. ⁹ I took you from places far away on the earth and called you from a faraway country. I said, ‘You are my servants.' I have chosen you and have not turned against 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

Cross-References

Ezekiel 17:10
Even if it is planted again, it will not continue to grow. It will completely dry up and die when the east wind hits it in the area where it grew.'"

Ezekiel 19:12
But it was pulled up by its roots in anger and thrown down to the ground. The east wind dried it up. Its fruit was torn off. Its strong branches were broken off and burned up.

Hosea 13:15
Israel is doing well among the nations, but the Lord will send a wind from the east, coming from the desert, that will dry up his springs and wells of water. He will destroy from their treasure houses everything of value.

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.