Holy Scripture

Isaiah 41:1

A church father on this verse
“Scripture correctly says: Be renewed, O islands. For we are surrounded by the waves of sin, like islands in the sea of this world. Therefore, these islands were renewed by the coming of the Lord through the forgiveness of sins, that is, men were immersed in the water as if placed in the midst of the sea like islands,…”
Ambrose of Milan, 4th c. — The Interrogation of Job and David, Book 2, Chapter 9

Source: Septuagint

Original

1Hold a feast to me, ye islands: for the princes shall renew their strength: let them draw nigh and speak together: then let them declare judgment.

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In context

— Isaiah 41:1 —

2Who raised up righteousness from the east, and called it to his feet, so that it should go? shall appoint it an adversary of Gentiles, and shall dismay kings, and bury their swords in the earth, and cast forth their bows and arrows as sticks?

3And he shall pursue them; the way of his feet shall proceed in peace.

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