Isaiah 41
41"Be silent before Me, islands! And let peoples renew their strength. Let them approach, then let them testify; let us come together for the trial.H2790H339H3816H2498H3581H5066H1696H7126H3162H49412Who has stirred him up from the east? He calls righteousness to his feet. 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.H5782H6664H4217H7121H7272H5414H1471H6440H7287H4428H5414H6083H2719H5086H7179H71983He pursues them, going on safely, hardly touching the path with his feet.H7291H5674H7965H734H935H72724Who has performed and done [this], calling the generations from the beginning? I, the LORD, am the first, and with the last— I am He."H6466H6213H7121H1755H7218H3068H7223H3145The islands see and are afraid, the ends of the earth tremble. They approach and arrive.H339H7200H3372H7098H776H2729H7126H8576Each one helps the other, and says to another, "Take courage!"H5826H376H7453H559H251H23887The craftsman encourages the metalworker; the one who flattens with the hammer [supports] 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.H2796H2388H6884H2505H6360H1986H6471H559H2896H1694H2388H4548H41318But you, Israel, My servant, Jacob, whom I have chosen, descendant of Abraham, My friend—H3478H5650H3290H977H2233H85H1579I 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 and not rejected you.H2388H7098H776H7121H678H559H5650H977H398810Do 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.H3372H8159H430H553H5826H8551H3225H666411Be 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.H2734H954H3637H582H7379H612You will look for those who contend with you, but you will not find them. Those who war against you will become absolutely nothing.H1245H4672H582H4695H4421H65713For I, the LORD your God, hold your right hand and say to you: Do not fear, I will help you.H3068H430H2388H3225H559H3372H582614Do not fear, you worm Jacob, you men of Israel: I will help you— the LORD's declaration. Your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel.H3372H8438H3290H4962H3478H5826H5002H3068H1350H6918H347815See, I will make you into a sharp threshing board, new, with many teeth. You will thresh mountains and pulverize [them], and make hills like chaff.H7760H2319H2742H4173H1167H6374H1758H2022H1854H7760H1389H467116You will winnow them and a wind will carry them away, and a gale will scatter them. But you will rejoice in the LORD; you will boast in the Holy One of Israel.H2219H7307H5375H5591H6327H1523H3068H1984H6918H347817The poor and the needy seek water, but there is none; their tongues are parched with thirst. I, the LORD, will answer them; I, the God of Israel, do not forsake them.H6041H34H1245H4325H3956H5405H6772H3068H6030H430H3478H580018I will open rivers on the barren heights, and springs in the middle of the plains. I will turn the desert into a pool of water and dry land into springs of water.H6605H5104H8205H4599H8432H1237H7760H4057H98H4325H6723H776H4161H432519I will plant cedars in the desert, acacias, myrtles, and olive trees. I will put cypress trees in the desert, elms and box trees together,H5414H4057H730H7848H1918H8081H6086H7760H6160H1265H8410H8391H316220so 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.H7200H3045H7760H7919H3162H3027H3068H6213H6918H3478H125421"Submit your case," says the LORD. "Present your arguments," says Jacob's King.H7126H7379H559H3068H5066H6110H559H4428H329022"Let them come and tell us what will happen. Tell us the past events, so that we may reflect on it and know the outcome. Or tell us the future.H5066H5046H7136H5046H7223H7760H3820H3045H319H8085H93523Tell us the coming events, then we will know that you are gods. Indeed, do [something] good or bad, then we will be in awe and perceive.H5046H857H268H3045H430H3190H7489H8159H7200H316224Look, you are nothing and your work is worthless. Anyone who chooses you is detestable.H369H6467H659H8441H97725"I have raised 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.H5782H6828H857H4217H8121H7121H8034H935H5461H2563H3335H7429H291626Who 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.H5046H7218H3045H6440H559H6662H5046H8085H8085H56127I was the first to say to Zion: Look! Here they are! and I gave a herald of good news to Jerusalem.H7223H6726H2009H2009H5414H3389H131928When I look, there is no one; there is no counselor among them; when I ask them, they have nothing to say.H7200H376H3289H7592H7725H169729Look, all of them are a delusion; their works are nonexistent; their images are wind and emptiness.H205H4639H657H5262H7307H8414
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