Isaiah 41
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[an error occurred while processing this directive]New American Standard Bible 1995
1[an error occurred while processing this directive]1"Coastlands, listen to Me in silence, And let the peoples gain new strength; Let them come forward, then let them speak; Let us come together for judgment.
2[an error occurred while processing this directive]2"Who has aroused one from the east Whom He calls in righteousness to His feet? He delivers up nations before him And subdues kings. He makes them like dust with his sword, As the wind-driven chaff with his bow.
3[an error occurred while processing this directive]3"He pursues them, passing on in safety, By a way he had not been traversing with his feet.
4[an error occurred while processing this directive]4"Who has performed and accomplished it, Calling forth the generations from the beginning? 'I, the LORD, am the first, and with the last. I am He.'"
5[an error occurred while processing this directive]5The coastlands have seen and are afraid; The ends of the earth tremble; They have drawn near and have come.
6[an error occurred while processing this directive]6Each one helps his neighbor And says to his brother, "Be strong!"
7[an error occurred while processing this directive]7So the craftsman encourages the smelter, And he who smooths metal with the hammer encourages him who beats the anvil, Saying of the soldering, "It is good"; And he fastens it with nails, So that it will not totter.
8[an error occurred while processing this directive]8"But you, Israel, My servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, Descendant of Abraham My friend,
9[an error occurred while processing this directive]9You whom I have taken from the ends of the earth, And called from its remotest parts And said to you, 'You are My servant, I have chosen you and not rejected you.
10[an error occurred while processing this directive]10'Do not fear, for I am with you; Do not anxiously look about you, for I am your God. I will strengthen you, surely I will help you, Surely I will uphold you with My righteous right hand.'
11[an error occurred while processing this directive]11"Behold, all those who are angered at you will be shamed and dishonored; Those who contend with you will be as nothing and will perish.
12[an error occurred while processing this directive]12"You will seek those who quarrel with you, but will not find them, Those who war with you will be as nothing and non-existent.
13[an error occurred while processing this directive]13"For I am the LORD your God, who upholds your right hand, Who says to you, 'Do not fear, I will help you.'
14[an error occurred while processing this directive]14"Do not fear, you worm Jacob, you men of Israel; I will help you," declares the LORD, "and your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel.
15[an error occurred while processing this directive]15"Behold, I have made you a new, sharp threshing sledge with double edges; You will thresh the mountains and pulverize them, And will make the hills like chaff.
16[an error occurred while processing this directive]16"You will winnow them, and the wind will carry them away, And the storm 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]17"The afflicted and needy are seeking water, but there is none, And their tongue is parched with thirst; I, the LORD, will answer them Myself, As the God of Israel I will not forsake them.
18[an error occurred while processing this directive]18"I will open rivers on the bare heights And springs in the midst of the valleys; I will make the wilderness a pool of water And the dry land fountains of water.
19[an error occurred while processing this directive]19"I will put the cedar in the wilderness, The acacia and the myrtle and the olive tree; I will place the juniper in the desert Together with the box tree and the cypress,
20[an error occurred while processing this directive]20That they may see and recognize, And consider and gain insight as well, 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," the LORD says. "Bring forward your strong arguments," The King of Jacob says.
22[an error occurred while processing this directive]22Let them bring forth and declare to us what is going to take place; As for the former events, declare what they were, That we may consider them and know their outcome. Or announce to us what is coming;
23[an error occurred while processing this directive]23Declare the things that are going to come afterward, That we may know that you are gods; Indeed, do good or evil, that we may anxiously look about us and fear together.
24[an error occurred while processing this directive]24Behold, you are of no account, And your work amounts to nothing; He who chooses you is an abomination.
25[an error occurred while processing this directive]25"I have aroused one from the north, and he has come; From the rising of the sun he will call on My name; And he will come upon rulers as upon mortar, Even as the potter treads clay."
26[an error occurred while processing this directive]26Who has declared this from the beginning, that we might know? Or from former times, that we may say, "He is right!"? Surely there was no one who declared, Surely there was no one who proclaimed, Surely there was no one who heard your words.
27[an error occurred while processing this directive]27"Formerly I said to Zion, 'Behold, here they are.' And to Jerusalem, 'I will give a messenger of good news.'
28[an error occurred while processing this directive]28"But when I look, there is no one, And there is no counselor among them Who, if I ask, can give an answer.
29[an error occurred while processing this directive]29"Behold, all of them are false; Their works are worthless, Their molten images are wind and emptiness.
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Isaiah 40
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