Jamieson, Fausset and Brown on Isaiah 41:23
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Isaiah41:23
23. do good ... evil--give any proof at all of your power, either to reward your friends or punish your enemies (Psa 115:2-8).
that we may be dismayed, and behold it together--Maurer translates, "That we (Jehovah and the idols) may look one another in the face (that is, encounter one another, 2Ki 14:8, 11), and see" our respective powers by a trial. Horsley translates, "Then the moment we behold, we shall be dismayed." "We" thus, and in English Version, refers to Jehovah and His worshippers.
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