Isaiah 41:21 (GNV)

Passage

Stand to your cause, saith the Lord: bring forth your strong reasons, saith ye King of Iaakob.

Nearby Context

Isaiah 41:19 I will set in the wildernesse the cedar, the shittah tree, and the mirre tree, and the pine tree, and I will set in the wildernesse the firre tree, the elme and the boxe tree together.

Isaiah 41:20 Therefore let them see and knowe, and let them consider and vnderstande together that the hand of the Lord hath done this, and the holy one of Israel hath created it.

Isaiah 41:21 Stand to your cause, saith the Lord: bring forth your strong reasons, saith ye King of Iaakob.

Isaiah 41:22 Let them bring foorth, and let them tell vs what shall come: let them shew the former things what they be, that wee may consider them, and knowe the latter ende of them: either declare vs things for to come.

Isaiah 41:23 Shewe the things that are to come hereafter, that we may know that you are gods: yea, doe good or doe euill, that we may declare it, and beholde it together.

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "stand", "cause", "saith", "lord", "bring", "forth", "strong", and "reasons". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "stand" and "cause", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 20's "Therefore let them see and knowe and..." into verse 22's "Let them bring foorth and let them...", so "stand" and "cause" belong inside that flow. In Isaiah context, the local focus is the Holy One of Israel, judgment and restoration, the servant of the LORD, and Zion's hope.

A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "stand" and "cause" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.