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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1"Be silent before me, coasts and islands! And let peoples renew their strength. Let them approach; let them testify; let's come together for the trial. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2Who has stirred up someone from the east? In righteousness he calls him to serve. The LORD hands nations over to him, and he subdues kings. He makes them like dust with his sword, like wind-driven stubble 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 and done this, calling the generations from the beginning? I am the LORD, the first and with the last--I am he." |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5The coasts and islands see and are afraid, the whole earth trembles. They approach and arrive. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6Each one helps the other, and says to another, "Take courage!" |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7The craftsman encourages the metalworker; the one who flattens with the hammer encourages the one who strikes the anvil, saying of the soldering, "It is good." He fastens it with nails so that it will not fall over. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8But you, 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 to you: You are my servant; I have chosen you; I haven't 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 help you; I will hold on to you with my righteous right hand. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11Be sure that all who are enraged against you will be ashamed and disgraced; those who contend with you will become as nothing and will perish. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12You will look for those who contend with you, but you will not find them. Those who war against you will become absolutely nothing. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13For I am the LORD your God, who holds your right hand, who says to you, 'Do not fear, I will help you. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14Do not fear, you worm Jacob, you men of Israel. I will help you'--this is the LORD's declaration. Your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15See, I will make you into a sharp threshing board, new, with many teeth. You will thresh mountains and pulverize them and make hills into chaff. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16You will winnow them and a wind will carry them away, a whirlwind will scatter them. But you will rejoice in the LORD; you will boast in the Holy One of Israel. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17The poor and the needy seek water, but there is none; their tongues are parched with thirst. I will answer them. I am the LORD, the God of Israel. I will not abandon them. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18I will open rivers on the barren heights, and springs in the middle of the plains. I will turn the desert into a pool and dry land into springs. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19I will plant cedars, acacias, myrtles, and olive trees in the wilderness. I will put juniper trees, elms, and cypress trees together in the desert, |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20so that all may see and know, consider and understand, that the hand of the LORD has done this, the Holy One of Israel has created it. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21"Submit your case," says the LORD. "Present your arguments," says Jacob's King. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22"Let them come and tell us what will happen. Tell us the past events, so that we may reflect on them and know the outcome, or tell us the future. |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23Tell us the coming events, then we will know that you are gods. Indeed, do something good or bad, then we will be in awe when we see it. |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24Look, you are nothing and your work is worthless. Anyone who chooses you is detestable. |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25"I have stirred up one from the north, and he has come, one from the east who invokes my name. He will march over rulers as if they were mud, like a potter who treads the clay. |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26Who told about this from the beginning, so that we might know, and from times past, so that we might say, 'He is right'? No one announced it, no one told it, no one heard your words. |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27I was the first to say to Zion, 'Look! Here they are!' And I gave Jerusalem a herald with 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] | 29Look, all of them are a delusion; their works are nonexistent; their images are wind and emptiness. |
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