Isaiah 41:3
He pursues them, going on safely, hardly touching the path with his feet.
BSB
ASV
He pursueth them, and passeth on safely, even by a way that he had not gone with his feet.
KJV
He pursued them, and passed safely; even by the way that he had not gone with his feet.
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 not visited the regions of the Euphrates and westward until he visited them for conquest. So the gospel conquests penetrated regions where the name of God was unknown before.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
The walk8
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
Through
Isaiah 57:2Those who walk uprightly enter into peace; they find rest, lying down in death.
leads to
And I heard a voice from heaven telling me to write, “Blessed are the dead—those who die in the Lord from this moment on.” “Yes,” says the Spirit, “they will rest from their labors,…
Now we know that if the earthly tent we live in is dismantled, we have a building from God, an eternal house in heaven, not built by human hands.
There the wicked cease from raging, and there the weary find rest.
“Sovereign Lord, as You have promised, You now dismiss Your servant in peace.
before the dust returns to the ground from which it came and the spirit returns to God who gave it.
Through
Job 5:24You will know that your tent is secure, and find nothing amiss when inspecting your home.
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The LORD will guard you from all evil; He will preserve your soul.
no evil will befall you, no plague will approach your tent.
if you are pure and upright, even now He will rouse Himself on your behalf and restore your righteous estate.
