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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1“Be silent before Me, O islands, and let the peoples renew their strength. Let them come forward and testify; let us together draw near for judgment. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2Who has aroused one from the east and called him to his feet in righteousness? He hands nations over to him and subdues kings before him. He turns them to dust with his sword, to windblown chaff with his bow. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3He pursues them, going on safely, hardly touching the path with his feet. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4Who has performed this and carried it out, calling forth the generations from the beginning? I, the LORD—the first and the last—I am He.” |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5The islands see and fear; the ends of the earth tremble. They approach and come forward. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6Each one helps the other and says to his brother, “Be strong!” |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7The craftsman encourages the goldsmith, and he who wields the hammer cheers him who strikes the anvil, saying of the welding, “It is good.” He nails it down so it will not be toppled. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8“But you, O Israel, My servant, Jacob, whom I have chosen, descendant of Abraham My friend— |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9I brought you from the ends of the earth and called you from its farthest corners. I said, ‘You are My servant.’ I have chosen and not rejected you. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10Do not fear, for I am with you; do not be afraid, for I am your God. I will strengthen you; I will surely help you; I will uphold you with My right hand of righteousness. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11Behold, all who rage against you will be ashamed and disgraced; those who contend with you will be reduced to nothing and will perish. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12You will seek them but will not find them. Those who wage war against you will come to nothing. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13For I am the LORD your God, who takes hold of your right hand and tells you: Do not fear, I will help you. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14Do not fear, O worm of Jacob, O few men of Israel. I will help you,” declares the LORD. “Your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15Behold, I will make you into a threshing sledge, new and sharp, with many teeth. You will thresh the mountains and crush them, and reduce the hills to chaff. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16You will winnow them, and a wind will carry them away; a gale will scatter them. But you will rejoice in the LORD; you will glory in the Holy One of Israel. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17The poor and needy seek water, but there is none; their tongues are parched with thirst. I, the LORD, will answer them; I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18I will open rivers on the barren heights, and fountains in the middle of the valleys. I will turn the desert into a pool of water, and the dry land into flowing springs. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19I will plant cedars in the wilderness, acacias, myrtles, and olive trees. I will set cypresses in the desert, elms and boxwood together, |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20so that all may see and know, may consider and understand, that the hand of the LORD has done this and the Holy One of Israel has created it.” |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21“Present your case,” says the LORD. “Submit your arguments,” says the King of Jacob. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22“Let them come and tell us what will happen. Tell the former things, so that we may reflect on them and know the outcome. Or announce to us what is coming. |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23Tell us the things that are to come, so that we may know that you are gods. Yes, do something good or evil, that we may look on together in dismay. |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24Behold, you are nothing and your work is of no value. Anyone who chooses you is detestable. |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25I have raised up one from the north, and he has come—one from the east who calls on My name. He will march over rulers as if they were mortar, like a potter who treads the clay. |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26Who has declared this from the beginning, so that we may know, and from times past, so that we may say: ‘He was right’? No one announced it, no one foretold it, no one heard your words. |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27I was the first to tell Zion: ‘Look, here they are!’ And I gave to Jerusalem a herald of good news. |
| 28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28When I look, there is no one; there is no counselor among them; when I ask them, they have nothing to say. |
| 29[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 29See, they are all a delusion; their works amount to nothing; their images are as empty as the wind. |
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