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18 I will open rivers on the barren heights, and fountains in the middle of the valleys; I will make the desert into a pool of water, and the dry land into flowing springs of water. 19 I will plant the cedar in the wilderness, and the acacia, and the myrtle, and the olive tree; I will place in the desert plain the cypress, elm, and boxwood together— 20 that they may see and know, and consider and understand together, that the hand of YHWH has done this, and the Holy One of Israel has created it.” 21 “Bring near your? case,” says YHWH; “Put forth your? arguments,” says the King of Jacob. 22 “Let them approach, and declare to us what will happen. The former things, what were they? Declare it, that we may set it in our heart and know the last things; or declare to us the coming things. 23 Declare the things to come hereafter, that we may know if you? are gods; yes, do good or do evil, that we may look and see together. 24 Behold, you? are nothing, and your? work is worthless—an abomination is he who chooses you?! 25 I have roused one from the north, and he has come from the rising of the sun; he calls on My name, and he comes in against princes like they were mortar, and like the potter treads the clay. 26 Who has declared this from the beginning, that we might know, and from before the face, that we may say, ‘He is right? Surely, no one declared it; surely, no one proclaimed it; surely no one heard your? words. 27 First to Zion—behold, behold them!—And to Jerusalem, I will give one bringing news. 28 For I looked, and there was no man; among them, and no one was counseling, that I might ask them, and they could answer a word. 29 Behold, all of them are delusion; their works are nothing, their molten images are wind and emptiness. Isaiah 41:18-29, Berean Literal Bible. Public domain.
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