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Isaiah 41
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The Lord versus the Nations’ Gods

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.H2790H339H3816H2498H3581H5066H1696H7126H3162H4941
2Who 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.H5782H6664H4217H7121H7272H5414H1471H6440H7287H4428H5414H6083H2719H5086H7179H7198
3He pursues them, going on safely, hardly touching the path with his feet.H7291H5674H7965H734H935H7272
4Who has performed and done [this], calling the generations from the beginning? I, the LORD, am the first, and with the last— I am He."H6466H6213H7121H1755H7218H3068H7223H314
5The islands see and are afraid, the ends of the earth tremble. They approach and arrive.H339H7200H3372H7098H776H2729H7126H857
6Each one helps the other, and says to another, "Take courage!"H5826H376H7453H559H251H2388
7The 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.H2796H2388H6884H2505H6360H1986H6471H559H2896H1694H2388H4548H4131
8But you, Israel, My servant, Jacob, whom I have chosen, descendant of Abraham, My friend—H3478H5650H3290H977H2233H85H157
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 and not rejected you.H2388H7098H776H7121H678H559H5650H977H3988
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.H3372H8159H430H553H5826H8551H3225H6664
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.H2734H954H3637H582H7379H6
12You will look for those who contend with you, but you will not find them. Those who war against you will become absolutely nothing.H1245H4672H582H4695H4421H657
13For I, the LORD your God, hold your right hand and say to you: Do not fear, I will help you.H3068H430H2388H3225H559H3372H5826
14Do 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.H3372H8438H3290H4962H3478H5826H5002H3068H1350H6918H3478
15See, 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.H7760H2319H2742H4173H1167H6374H1758H2022H1854H7760H1389H4671
16You 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.H2219H7307H5375H5591H6327H1523H3068H1984H6918H3478
17The 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.H6041H34H1245H4325H3956H5405H6772H3068H6030H430H3478H5800
18I 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.H6605H5104H8205H4599H8432H1237H7760H4057H98H4325H6723H776H4161H4325
19I will plant cedars in the desert, acacias, myrtles, and olive trees. I will put cypress trees in the desert, elms and box trees together,H5414H4057H730H7848H1918H8081H6086H7760H6160H1265H8410H8391H3162
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.H7200H3045H7760H7919H3162H3027H3068H6213H6918H3478H1254
21"Submit your case," says the LORD. "Present your arguments," says Jacob's King.H7126H7379H559H3068H5066H6110H559H4428H3290
22"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.H5066H5046H7136H5046H7223H7760H3820H3045H319H8085H935
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 and perceive.H5046H857H268H3045H430H3190H7489H8159H7200H3162
24Look, you are nothing and your work is worthless. Anyone who chooses you is detestable.H369H6467H659H8441H977
25"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.H5782H6828H857H4217H8121H7121H8034H935H5461H2563H3335H7429H2916
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.H5046H7218H3045H6440H559H6662H5046H8085H8085H561
27I was the first to say to Zion: Look! Here they are! and I gave a herald of good news to Jerusalem.H7223H6726H2009H2009H5414H3389H1319
28When I look, there is no one; there is no counselor among them; when I ask them, they have nothing to say.H7200H376H3289H7592H7725H1697
29Look, all of them are a delusion; their works are nonexistent; their images are wind and emptiness.H205H4639H657H5262H7307H8414


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