Isaiah 41:28
For I beheld, and there was no man; even among them, and there was no counsellor, that, when I asked of them, could answer a word.
KJV
Et vidi, et non erat neque ex istis quisquam qui iniret consilium, et interrogatus responderet verbum.
Vulgate
ἀπὸ γὰρ τῶν ἐθνῶν ἰδοὺ οὐδείς, καὶ ἀπὸ τῶν εἰδώλων αὐτῶν οὐκ ἦν ὁ ἀναγγέλλων· καὶ ἐὰν ἐρωτήσω αὐτοὺς πόθεν ἐστέ, οὐ μὴ· ἀποκριθῶσίν μοι.
LXX
And when I look, there is no man: even among them there is no counsellor, that, when I ask of them, can answer a word.
ASV
וְ/אֵ֨רֶא֙ וְ/אֵ֣ין אִ֔ישׁ וּ/מֵ/אֵ֖לֶּה וְ/אֵ֣ין יוֹעֵ֑ץ וְ/אֶשְׁאָלֵ֖/ם וְ/יָשִׁ֥יבוּ דָבָֽר
Hebrew
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In the original Hebrew
8 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
Historic Christian voices
2 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Cross-references
- Isa 50:2 — Wherefore, when I came, was there no man? when I called, was there none to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it cannot redeem? or have I no power to deliver? behold, at my rebuke I dry up the
- Isa 59:16 — And he saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was no intercessor: therefore his arm brought salvation unto him; and his righteousness, it sustained him.
- Isa 63:5 — And I looked, and there was none to help; and I wondered that there was none to uphold: therefore mine own arm brought salvation unto me; and my fury, it upheld me.
- Isa 63:5 — And I looked, and there was none to help; and I wondered that there was none to uphold: therefore mine own arm brought salvation unto me; and my fury, it upheld me.
- Rev 5:3 — And no man in heaven, nor in earth, neither under the earth, was able to open the book, neither to look thereon.