Isaiah 41
21 Bring your cause, says Jehovah; let your strong reasons come near, says the King of Jacob.
22 Let them draw near and tell us what shall happen; the former things, let them reveal what they are, that we may set our heart and know their end; or declare to us the coming things.
23 Reveal the near things hereafter, so that we may know that you are gods. Yea, do good, or do evil, that we may gaze and see together.
24 Behold, you are of nothing; and your work of nothing; he who chooses you is an abomination.
25 I have raised up one from the north; and he shall come from the east; he will call on My name. And he shall come upon rulers as on mortar, and as a potter tramples clay.
26 Who has declared from the beginning, that we may know; and before,
that we may say, He is right? Yea, no one declares; yea, no one
proclaims; yea, there is no one who hears your words.
27 At first to Zion, I say, Behold! Behold them! And I will give to Jerusalem one proclaiming good news.
28 But I saw, and there was not a man; and of these, there was not a counselor, that I may ask them, and they could return a word.
29 Behold, they are all evil; their works are nothing; their images are wind and vanity.
Isaiah 42
1 ¶ Behold My Servant; I will uphold Him; My Elect in whom My soul delights! I have put My Spirit on Him; He shall bring forth justice to the nations.
2 He shall not cry, nor lift up, nor cause His voice to be heard in the street.
3 A bruised reed He shall not break, and a smoking wick He shall not quench; He shall bring forth justice to truth.
4 He shall not fail nor be crushed until He has set justice in the earth; and the coasts shall wait for His Law.
5 ¶ So says Jehovah God, creating the heavens and stretching them out;
spreading out the earth and its offspring, giving breath to the people
on it, and spirit to those walking in it.
6 I, Jehovah, have called You in righteousness, and will hold Your
hand, and will keep You, and give You for a covenant of the people, for
a Light of the nations;
7 to open blind eyes, to lead out the prisoner from the prison; those who sit in darkness from the prison.
8 I am Jehovah; that is My name; and I will not give My glory to another, nor My praise to engraved images.
9 Behold, the former things have come to pass, and I declare new things before they happen, I cause you to hear.
10 Sing a new song to Jehovah; His praise from the end of the earth,
you who go to sea, and all that is in it; the coasts and their people.
11 Let the wilderness and its cities lift up, the villages where Kedar
lives. Let those dwelling in the rock sing; let them shout from the top
of the mountains.
12 They give glory to Jehovah and declare His praise in the coastlands.
13 ¶ Jehovah shall go out as a warrior; and He shall stir up His zeal
like a man of war; He shall shout, yea, roar; He shall act mightily on
His enemies.
14 I have forever kept silence; I have been quiet and refrained Myself;
I will groan like a woman in travail; I will pant and gasp at once.
15 I will make mountains and hills become a waste, and dry up all their
plants. And I will make the rivers coastlands, and I will dry up pools.
16 And I will make the blind go by a way that they did not know. I will
make them go in paths they never knew. I will make darkness go into
light before them, and crooked places a level place. I do these things
to them and do not forsake them;
17 they are turned back; they are ashamed with shame, those trusting in the carved image, who say to cast images, You are our gods.
18 ¶ O deaf ones, hear! And O blind ones, look to see!
19 Who is blind but My servant? Or deaf, as My messenger whom I send? Who is blind as he who is at peace, and blind as Jehovah's servant?
20 You see many things, but do not observe; your ears are open, but not any hears.
21 Jehovah is delighted for His righteousness' sake; He will magnify the Law and make it honorable.
22 But it is
a people robbed and spoiled; they shall all be snared in holes; they
were hidden in prison houses. They were for spoil, and no one delivers;
a prey, and no one says, Return!
23 Who among you will give ear to this, will listen and hear for the time to come?
24 Who gave Jacob to the plunderer, and Israel to the robbers? Did not
Jehovah, He against whom we have sinned? For they willed not to walk in
His ways, and they did not obey His Law.
25 And He poured on him the fury of His anger, and the strength of
battle; and it has set him on fire all around, yet he did not know; and
it burned him, yet he did not lay it on his heart.
Isaiah 43
1 ¶ But now so says Jehovah who formed you, O Jacob; and He who made
you, O Israel: Fear not, for I have redeemed you; I called you by your name; you are Mine.
2 When you pass through the waters, I will be
with you; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow you. When you
walk in the fire, you shall not be burned, nor shall the flame kindle
on you.
3 For I am Jehovah your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior. I gave Egypt for your atonement; Ethiopia and Seba instead of you.
4 Since you were precious in My eyes, you are honored, and I love you;
and I give men instead of you; and peoples instead of your soul.
5 Fear not, for I am with you; I will bring your seed from the east, and I will gather you from the west.
6 I will say to the north, Give up! And to the south, Do not hold back!
Bring My sons from afar, and bring My daughters from the ends of the
earth;
7 everyone who is called by My name, and I have created him for My glory; I have formed him; yea, I have made him.
8 ¶ Bring out the blind people, yet there are eyes; and the deaf, yet there are ears to him.
9 Let all the nations be assembled, and let the peoples be gathered.
Who among them can declare this and cause us to hear former things? Let
them give their witnesses, that they may be justified. Or let them hear
and say, It is true.
10 You are My witnesses, says Jehovah; and My servant whom I have elected; that you may know and believe Me, and understand that I am He. Before Me there was no God formed; nor shall any be after Me.
11 I, I am Jehovah; and there is no Savior besides Me.
12 I declared, and I saved, and I proclaimed; and there is not an alien god among you. And you are My witnesses, says Jehovah, and I am God.
13 Yea, from this day I am He, and no one delivers from My hand. I will work, and who will reverse it?
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