Isaiah 41:5
Good News Translation
"The people of distant lands have seen what I have done; they are frightened and tremble with fear. So they all assemble and come.

New Revised Standard Version
The coastlands have seen and are afraid, the ends of the earth tremble; they have drawn near and come.

Contemporary English Version
Islands and foreign nations saw what I did and trembled as they came near.

New American Bible
The coastlands see, and fear; the ends of the earth tremble: they approach, they come on.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The islands saw it, and feared, the ends of the earth were astonished, they drew near, and came.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

The islands saw it, and feared, the ends of the earth were astonished, they drew near, and came.

isles

Genesis 10:5 By these were divided the islands of the Gentiles in their lands, every one according to his tongue and their families in their nations.

Ezekiel 26:15,16 Thus saith the Lord God to Tyre: Shall not the islands shake at the sound of thy fall, and the groans of thy slain when they shall be killed in the midst of thee? . . .

the ends

Exodus 15:14 Nations rose up, and were angry: sorrows took hold on the inhabitants of Philisthiim.

Joshua 2:10 We have heard that the Lord dried up the water of the Red Sea, at your going in, when you came out of Egypt: and what things you did to the two kings of the Amorrhites, that were beyond the Jordan, Sehon and Og whom you slew.

Joshua 5:1 Now when all the kings of the Amorrhites, who dwelt beyond the Jordan, westward, and all the kings of Chanaan, who possessed the places near the great sea, had heard that the Lord had dried up the waters of the Jordan before the children of Israel, till they passed over, their heart failed them, and there remained no spirit in them, fearing the coming in of the children of Israel.

Psalm 65:8 And they that dwell in the uttermost borders shall be afraid at thy signs: thou shalt make the outgoings of the morning and of the evening to be joyful.

Psalm 66:3 Say unto God, How terrible are thy works, O Lord! in the multitude of thy strength thy enemies shall lie to thee.

Psalm 67:7 May God bless us: and all the ends of the earth fear him.

Context
God's Help to Israel
4Who hath wrought and done these things, calling the generations from the beginning? I the Lord, I am the first and the last. 5The islands saw it, and feared, the ends of the earth were astonished, they drew near, and came.6Every one shall help his neighbour, and shall say to his brother: Be of good courage.…
Cross References
Joshua 5:1
Now when all the kings of the Amorrhites, who dwelt beyond the Jordan, westward, and all the kings of Chanaan, who possessed the places near the great sea, had heard that the Lord had dried up the waters of the Jordan before the children of Israel, till they passed over, their heart failed them, and there remained no spirit in them, fearing the coming in of the children of Israel.

Psalm 67:7
May God bless us: and all the ends of the earth fear him.

Isaiah 41:1
Let the islands keep silence before me, and the nations take new strength: let them come near, and then speak, let us come near to judgment together.

Isaiah 41:6
Every one shall help his neighbour, and shall say to his brother: Be of good courage.

Ezekiel 26:15
Thus saith the Lord God to Tyre: Shall not the islands shake at the sound of thy fall, and the groans of thy slain when they shall be killed in the midst of thee?

Ezekiel 26:16
Then all the princes of the sea shall come down from their thrones: and take off their robes, and cast away their broidered garments, and be clothed with astonishment: they shall sit on the ground, and with amazement shall wonder at thy sudden fall.

Ezekiel 26:18
Now shall the ships be astonished in the day of thy terror: and the islands in the sea shall be troubled because no one cometh out of thee.

Isaiah 41:4
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