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1 | Keep
silence before me, O islands; and let the people renew their strength: let them
come near; then let them speak: let us come near together to judgment. |
2 | Who raised up the righteous man
from the east, called him to his foot, gave the nations before him, and made
him rule over kings? he gave them as the dust to his sword, and as driven
stubble to his bow. | 3 | He
pursued them, and passed safely; even by the way that he had not gone with his
feet. | 4 | Who hath wrought
and done it, calling the generations from the beginning? I the LORD, the first,
and with the last; I am he. | 5 |
The isles saw it, and feared; the ends of the earth were afraid, drew near,
and came. | 6 | They helped
every one his neighbour; and every one said to his brother, Be of good
courage. | 7 | So the
carpenter encouraged the goldsmith, and he that smootheth with the hammer him
that smote the anvil, saying, It is ready for the sodering: and he fastened it
with nails, that it should not be moved. | 8 | But thou, Israel, art my servant, Jacob whom I have
chosen, the seed of
Abraham my friend.
James 2:23
| 9 | Thou whom I have taken from the ends of the earth, and
called thee from the chief men thereof, and said unto thee, Thou art my
servant; I have chosen thee, and not cast thee away. | 10 | Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be
not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee;
yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness. |
11 | Behold, all they that were
incensed against thee shall be ashamed and confounded: they shall be as
nothing; and they that strive with thee shall perish. | 12 | Thou shalt seek them, and shalt not
find them, even them that contended with thee: they that war against thee shall
be as nothing, and as a thing of nought. | 13 | For I the LORD thy God will hold thy right hand, saying
unto thee, Fear not; I will help thee. | 14 | Fear not, thou worm Jacob, and ye men of Israel; I will
help thee, saith the LORD, and thy redeemer, the Holy One of Israel. |
15 | Behold, I will make thee a new
sharp threshing instrument having teeth: thou shalt thresh the mountains, and
beat them small, and shalt make the hills as chaff. |
16 | Thou shalt fan them, and the wind shall carry
them away, and the whirlwind shall scatter them: and thou shalt rejoice in the
LORD, and shalt glory in the Holy One of Israel. |
17 | When the poor and needy seek water, and there is
none, and their tongue faileth for thirst, I the LORD will hear them, I the God
of Israel will not forsake them. |
18 | I will open rivers in high places, and fountains in the midst of
the valleys: I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land
springs of water. | 19 | I
will plant in the wilderness the cedar, the shittah tree, and the myrtle, and
the oil tree; I will set in the desert the fir tree, and the pine, and the box
tree together: | 20 | That
they may see, and know, and consider, and understand together, that the hand of
the LORD hath done this, and the Holy One of Israel hath created it. |
21 | Produce your cause, saith the
LORD; bring forth your strong reasons, saith the King of Jacob. |
22 | Let them bring them forth, and
shew us what shall happen: let them shew the former things, what they be, that
we may consider them, and know the latter end of them; or declare us things for
to come. | 23 | Shew the
things that are to come hereafter, that we may know that ye are gods: yea, do
good, or do evil, that we may be dismayed, and behold it together. |
24 | Behold, ye are of nothing, and
your work of nought: an abomination is he that chooseth you. | 25 | I have raised up one from the north,
and he shall come: from the rising of the sun shall he call upon my name: and
he shall come upon princes as upon morter, and as the potter treadeth clay. |
26 | Who hath declared from
the beginning, that we may know? and beforetime, that we may say, He is
righteous? yea, there is none that sheweth, yea, there is none that declareth,
yea, there is none that heareth your words. | 27 | The first shall say to Zion, Behold, behold them: and I
will give to Jerusalem one that bringeth good tidings. | 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. | 29 |
Behold, they are all vanity; their works are nothing: their molten images are
wind and confusion. |
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