Isaiah:36-41
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And it happened in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah ,
Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the fortified cities of Judah and took them .
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And the king of Assyria sent the chief of the cupbearers from Lachish to Jerusalem ,
to king Hezekiah with a great army .
And he stood by the conduit of the upper pool in the highway of the Fuller '
s Field .
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Then Eliakim ,
Hilkiah '
s son ,
who was over the house ,
and Shebna the scribe ,
and Asaph '
s son Joah ,
the recorder ,
came out to him .
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And the chief of the cupbearers said to them ,
Say now to Hezekiah ,
So says the great king ,
the king of Assyria ,
What hope [
is ]
this in which you trust ?
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I say , [
Are ]
only words of the lips wisdom and strength for war ?
Now ,
in whom do you trust ,
that you rebel against me ?
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Lo ,
you trust in the staff of this broken reed ,
on Egypt ;
on which , [
if ]
a man lean on it ,
it will go into his hand and pierce it .
So [
is ]
Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who trust in him .
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But if you say to me ,
We trust in Jehovah our God ; [
is it ]
not He whose high places and altars Hezekiah has taken away ,
and said to Judah and Jerusalem ,
You shall worship before this altar ?
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Now then ,
please exchange pledges with my master the king of Assyria ,
and I will give you two thousand horses if you are able on your part to set riders on them for you .
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How then will you turn away the face of one commander of the least of my master '
s servants ,
and put your trust on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen ?
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Have I now come up without Jehovah against this land to destroy it ?
Jehovah said to me ,
Go up against this land and destroy it .
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And Eliakim and Shebna and Joah said to the chief of the cupbearers ,
Please speak to your servants [
in ]
Aramaic ,
for we understand [
it ].
But do not speak to us [
in ]
Jewish in the ears of the people on the wall .
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But the chief of the cupbearers said ,
Has my master sent me to your master and to you to speak these words ,
and not to the men who sit on the wall ?
that they may eat their own dung and drink their own urine with you ?
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Then the chief of the cupbearers stood and cried with a loud voice [
in ]
Jewish ,
and said ,
Hear the words of the great king ,
the king of Assyria .
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So says the king ,
Do not let Hezekiah deceive you ,
for he shall not be able to deliver you .
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Nor let Hezekiah make you trust in Jehovah ,
saying ,
Jehovah will surely deliver us ;
this city shall not be delivered into the hands of the king of Assyria .
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Do not listen to Hezekiah ;
for so says the king of Assyria ,
Make a blessing with me by a present ,
and come out to me ;
and let everyone eat of his vine ,
and everyone of his fig tree ,
and everyone drink the waters [
of ]
his own cistern ,
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until I come and take you away to a land like your own land ,
a land of grain and wine ,
a land of bread and vineyards .
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Let ]
not Hezekiah persuade you ,
saying ,
Jehovah will deliver us .
Has any of the gods of the nations delivered his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria ?
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Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad ?
Where [
are ]
the gods of Sepharvaim ?
And when have they delivered Samaria out of my hand ?
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Who among all the gods of these lands that have delivered their land out of my hand ,
that Jehovah should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand ?
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But they were silent and did not answer him a word ,
for the king '
s command ,
saying ,
Do not answer him .
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Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah ,
who [
was ]
over the household ,
and Shebna the scribe ,
and Joah the son of Asaph ,
the recorder ,
came to Hezekiah [
with their ]
clothes torn and told him the words of the chief of the cupbearers .
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And it happened when king Hezekiah heard ,
he tore his clothes and covered himself with sackcloth ,
and went into the house of the LORD .
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And he sent Eliakim ,
who [
was ]
over the household ,
and Shebna the scribe ,
and the elders of the priests covered with sackcloth ,
to Isaiah the prophet ,
the son of Amoz .
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And they said to him ,
So says Hezekiah ,
This day [
is ]
a day of trouble ,
and of rebuke ,
and of blasphemy !
For the sons have come to the birth ,
and no strength to bring forth .
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It may be Jehovah your God will hear the words of the chief of the cupbearers ,
whom his master the king of Assyria has sent to reproach the living God ,
and will reprove the words which Jehovah your God has heard .
And you shall lift up [
your ]
prayer for the remnant that is left .
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So the servants of king Hezekiah came to Isaiah .
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And Isaiah said to them ,
So you shall say to your master ,
So says the LORD ,
Do not be afraid of the words which you have heard ,
with which the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed Me .
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Behold ,
I will send a blast on him ,
and he shall hear a rumor and return to his own land .
And I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land .
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So the chief of the cupbearers returned ,
and found the king of Assyria warring against Libnah .
For he had heard that he had departed from Lachish .
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And he heard concerning Tirhakah king of Ethiopia ,
He has come out to war with you .
And he heard and sent messengers to Hezekiah ,
saying ,
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So you shall say to Hezekiah king of Judah ,
saying ,
Do not let your God ,
in whom you trust ,
deceive you ,
saying ,
Jerusalem shall not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria .
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Behold ,
you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands by completely destroying them .
And shall you be delivered ?
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Have the gods of the nations delivered those whom my fathers have destroyed :
Gozan ,
and Haran ,
and Rezeph ,
and the sons of Eden who were in Telassar ?
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Where [
is ]
the king of Hamath ,
and the king of Arpad ,
and the king of the city of Sepharvaim ,
Hena ,
and Ivah ?
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And Hezekiah received the letter from the courier '
s hand ,
and read it .
And Hezekiah went up [
into ]
the house of the LORD and spread it before the LORD .
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And Hezekiah prayed to the Lord ,
saying ,
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O Jehovah of hosts ,
God of Israel ,
who dwells [
between ]
the cherubs ,
You [
are ]
He ,
God ,
You alone to all the kingdoms of the earth .
You have made the heavens and the earth .
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Bow down Your ear ,
O LORD ,
and hear ;
open Your eyes ,
O LORD ,
and see ;
and hear all the words of Sennacherib which he has sent to mock the living God .
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Truly ,
O LORD ,
the kings of Assyria have laid waste all the nations and their land ,
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and have cast their gods into the fire ,
for they [
were ]
no gods ,
but the work of men '
s hands ,
wood and stone ;
so they have destroyed them .
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And now ,
O LORD our God ,
save us from his hand ,
so that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that You [
are ]
the LORD ,
You alone .
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And Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah ,
saying ,
So says Jehovah ,
God of Israel ,
Because you have prayed to Me against Sennacherib king of Assyria ,
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this [
is ]
the word which the LORD has spoken concerning him :
The virgin ,
the daughter of Zion ,
has despised you [
and ]
laughed you to scorn ;
the daughter of Jerusalem has shaken [
her ]
head behind you .
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Whom have you mocked and blasphemed ?
And against whom have you raised [
your ]
voice and lifted up your eyes on high ?
Even against the Holy One of Israel .
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By your servants you have mocked Jehovah and have said ,
by my many chariots I have come up to the height of the mountains ,
to the sides of Lebanon ;
and I will cut down the tall cedars of it , [
and ]
its choice fir trees ;
and I will go to its greatest height ,
the forest of its Carmel .
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I have dug and drunk water ;
and with the sole of my feet I have dried up all the streams of Egypt .
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Have you not heard from afar ?
I made it from days of old ,
even I have formed it .
Now I have caused it to come ,
and you are to cause fortified cities to crash [
into ]
heaps ,
ruins .
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And their inhabitants [
were ]
short of hand ;
dismayed and ashamed .
They were as the grass of the field ,
and as the green herb , [
as ]
the grass on the housetops ,
even grain blasted before it has risen .
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But I know your sitting down ,
and your going out ,
and your coming in ,
and your rage against Me .
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Because of your raging against Me ,
and your arrogance has come up into My ears ,
therefore I will put My hook in your nose ,
and My bridle in your lips ,
and I will turn you back by the way which you came .
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And this [
shall be ]
a sign to you :
You shall eat self-sown grain [
this ]
year ;
and the second year that which springs of the same ;
and in the third year you shall sow ,
and reap ,
and plant vineyards and eat the fruit of them .
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The remnant that has escaped of the house of Judah shall again take root downward and bear fruit upward ;
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for out of Jerusalem shall go out a remnant ,
and those who escape out of Mount Zion ;
the zeal of Jehovah of hosts shall do this .
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So the LORD says this to the king of Assyria ,
He shall not come into this city nor shoot an arrow there ,
nor come before it [
with ]
shield ,
nor cast a bank against it .
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By the way that he came ,
by the same he shall return ,
and shall not come into this city ,
says the LORD .
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For I will defend this city to save it ,
for My own sake and for My servant David '
s sake .
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Then the angel of the LORD went out and struck a hundred and eighty-five thousand in the camp of Assyria .
And they rose early in the morning ,
and behold !
They [
were ]
all dead corpses .
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And Sennacherib king of Assyria departed ,
and went and returned ,
and lived at Nineveh .
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And it happened as he was worshiping [
in ]
the house of Nisroch his god ,
Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons struck him with the sword .
And they escaped [
into ]
the land of Ararat ;
and Esar-haddon his son reigned in his place .
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In those days Hezekiah was sick to death .
And Isaiah the prophet ,
the son of Amoz ,
came to him and said to him ,
So says the LORD ,
Set your house in order ,
for you shall die and not live .
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Then Hezekiah turned his face toward the wall ,
and prayed to the LORD ,
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and said ,
Remember now ,
O LORD ,
I beseech You ,
how I have walked before You in truth and with a whole heart ,
and have done the good in Your sight .
And Hezekiah wept with a great weeping .
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Then came the Word of the LORD to Isaiah ,
saying ,
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Go and say to Hezekiah :
So says Jehovah ,
the God of David your father ,
I have heard your prayer ,
I have seen your tears ;
behold ,
I will add to your days fifteen years .
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And I will deliver you and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria .
And I will defend this city .
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And this [
shall be ]
a sign to you from the LORD that the LORD will do this thing that He has spoken :
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behold ,
I will bring again the shadow of the steps ,
which has gone down in the sun dial of Ahaz ,
ten steps backward .
So the sun returned ten steps ,
by which steps it had gone down .
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The writing of Hezekiah king of Judah ,
when he had been sick and had recovered from his sickness :
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I said in the cutting off of my days ,
I shall go to the gates of the grave ;
I have numbered the rest of my years .
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I said ,
I shall not see Jah ,
Jehovah ,
in the land of the living ;
I shall look on man no more with the people of the world .
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My generation is departed and removed from me like a shepherd '
s tent ;
I have cut off my life like a weaver ;
He will cut me off from the loom ;
from day even to night You will make an end of me .
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I place [
Him ]
before me until morning , [
that ],
as a lion ,
so He breaks all my bones ;
from day even until night You make an end of me .
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Like a twittering swallow ,
so I chatter ;
I mourn as a dove ;
my eyes look weakly to the heights .
O LORD ,
I am pressed down ;
be surety for me .
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What shall I say ?
He has spoken to me ,
and He Himself has acted ;
I shall go softly all my years in the bitterness of my soul .
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O LORD ,
by these things men live ,
and in all these [
is ]
the life of my spirit ;
so You will recover me ,
and make me to live .
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Behold ,
I had great bitterness for peace ;
but You loved my soul from the pit of destruction .
You have cast all my sins behind Your back .
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For the grave cannot praise You ,
death can [
not ]
rejoice in You ;
they who go down into the pit cannot hope for Your truth .
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The living ,
the living ,
he shall praise You ,
as I [
do ]
this day ;
the father shall make Your truth known to the sons .
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For the LORD [
is ]
for my salvation ;
and we will sing my songs on the stringed instruments all the days of our life in the house of the LORD .
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For Isaiah had said ,
Let them take a cake of figs and rub [
it ]
on the ulcer ;
and he will live .
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And Hezekiah said ,
What [
is ]
the sign that I shall go up to the house of the LORD ?
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At that time Merodach-baladan ,
the son of Baladan ,
king of Babylon ,
sent letters and a present to Hezekiah ;
for he had heard that he had been sick ,
and had recovered .
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And Hezekiah rejoiced over them ,
and let them see the house of his precious things ,
the silver ,
and the gold ,
and the spices ,
and the precious ointment ,
and all the house of his armor ,
and all that was found in his treasures .
There was nothing in his house ,
nor in all his kingdom that Hezekiah did not let them see .
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Then Isaiah the prophet came to king Hezekiah ,
and said to him ,
What did these men say ?
And where did they come from to you ?
And Hezekiah said ,
They have come from a far country to me ,
from Babylon .
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Then he said ,
What have they seen in your house ?
And Hezekiah answered ,
All that [
is ]
in my house they have seen ;
there is nothing among my treasures that I have not let them see .
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Then Isaiah said to Hezekiah ,
Hear the Word of Jehovah of hosts .
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Behold ,
the days come when all that is in your house ,
and that which your fathers have laid up in store until this day ,
shall be carried to Babylon .
Nothing shall be left ,
says the LORD .
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And of your sons which shall issue from you ,
which you shall bring out ,
they shall take away ;
and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon .
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Then Hezekiah said to Isaiah ,
Good [
is ]
the word of the LORD which you have spoken .
And he said ,
For there shall be peace and truth in my days .
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Comfort ,
O comfort my people ,
says your God .
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Speak lovingly to the heart of Jerusalem ,
and cry to her that her warfare is done ,
that her iniquity is pardoned ;
for she has received of the LORD '
s hand double for all her sins .
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The voice of him who cries in the wilderness ,
Prepare the way of the LORD ,
make straight a highway in the desert for our God .
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Every valley shall be exalted ,
and every mountain and hill shall be made low ;
and the crooked places shall be made level ,
and the rough places smooth ;
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and the glory of the LORD shall be revealed ,
and all flesh shall see [
it ]
together ;
for the mouth of the LORD has spoken .
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The voice said ,
Cry !
And he said ,
What shall I cry ?
All flesh [
is ]
grass ,
and all the beauty of it [
is ]
as the flower of the field .
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The grass withers ,
the flower fades ,
because the Spirit of the LORD blows on it ;
surely the people [
is ]
grass .
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The grass withers ,
the flower fades ;
but the Word of our God shall stand forever .
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Go up for yourself on the high mountain ,
bringer of good tidings to Zion .
Lift up your voice with strength ,
O you who bring good tidings to Jerusalem ;
lift up ,
do not be afraid .
Say to the cities of Judah ,
Behold your God !
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Behold ,
the Lord Jehovah will come with a strong [
hand ],
and His arm shall rule for Him ;
behold ,
His reward [
is ]
with Him ,
and His work before Him .
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He shall feed His flock like a shepherd ;
He shall gather the lambs with His arm ,
and carry [
them ]
in His bosom , [
and ]
shall gently lead those with young .
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Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand ,
and measured out the heavens with a span ?
And who has shut up the dust of the earth in a measure ,
and weighed the mountains in scales ,
and the hills in a balance ?
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Who has directed the Spirit of the LORD ,
and what man taught Him counsel ?
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With whom did He take counsel ,
and [
who ]
instructed Him and taught Him in the path of judgment ,
and taught Him knowledge ,
and made known the way of understanding to Him ?
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Behold ,
the nations [
are ]
like a drop in a bucket ,
and are counted as the small dust of the scales ;
behold ,
He takes up the coastlands as a very little thing .
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And Lebanon [
is ]
not enough to burn ,
nor the beasts of it enough [
for ]
a burnt offering .
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All nations before Him [
are ]
as nothing ;
and to Him they are thought to be less than nothing ,
and vanity .
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To whom then will you compare God ?
Or what likeness will you compare to Him ?
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The workman melts a graven image ,
and the goldsmith spreads it over with gold ,
and casts silver chains .
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He too poor for [
that ]
offering chooses a tree that will not rot ;
he looks for a skillful workman to prepare a graven image that will not totter .
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Have you not known ?
Have you not heard ?
Has it not been told you from the beginning ?
Have you not understood [
from ]
the foundations of the earth ?
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It is ]
He who sits on the circle of the earth ,
and its people are like grasshoppers ;
who stretches out the heavens like a curtain ,
and spreads them out like a tent to dwell in ;
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who brings the rulers to nothing ;
He makes the judges of the earth as vanity .
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Yes ,
they shall not be planted ;
yes ,
they shall not be sown .
Yes ,
their stump shall not take root in the earth .
And He shall also blow on them ,
and they shall wither ,
and the tempest shall take them away like stubble .
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To whom then will you compare Me ,
or [
am ]
I equaled ?
says the Holy One .
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Lift up your eyes on high ,
and behold ,
who has created these ,
who brings out their host by number ?
He calls them all by names by the greatness of His might ,
for He is strong in power ;
not one is lacking .
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Why do you say ,
O Jacob ,
and speak ,
O Israel ,
My way is hidden from the LORD and my judgment has passed over from my God ?
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Have you not known ?
Have you not heard ,
that the everlasting God ,
Jehovah ,
the Creator of the ends of the earth ,
does not grow weak nor weary ? [
There is ]
no searching of His understanding .
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He ]
gives power to the weary ;
and to him with no vigor ;
He increases strength .
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Even the young shall faint and be weary ,
and the young men shall utterly fall ;
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but those who wait on the LORD shall renew their strength ;
they shall mount up [
with ]
wings as eagles ;
they shall run ,
and not be weary ;
they shall walk and not faint .
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Keep silence before Me ,
O coasts ;
and peoples shall renew strength ;
let them come near ;
then let them speak ;
let us come near together for judgment .
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Who raised up the righteous one from the east ,
called him to His foot ,
gave the nations before him ,
and made [
him ]
rule over kings ?
He gave them as the dust [
to ]
his sword , [
and ]
as driven stubble [
to ]
his bow .
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He pursued them ;
he passed on in peace .
He does not go [
by ]
the way of his feet .
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Who has planned and done [
it ],
calling forth the generations from the beginning ?
I ,
Jehovah , [
am ]
the first and the last ;
I [
am ]
He .
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The coastlands saw and feared ;
the ends of the earth were afraid ,
and drew near ,
and came .
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They each one helped his neighbor ,
and said to his brother ,
Be strong .
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So the artisan strengthens the refiner ,
and he smoothing [
with ]
the hammer ,
him who struck the anvil ,
saying of soldering ,
It [
is ]
good .
And he made it strong with nails ;
it will not totter .
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But you ,
Israel , [
are ]
My servant ,
Jacob whom I have chosen ,
the seed of Abraham ,
My friend ;
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whom I have taken from the ends of the earth ,
and called you from its sides .
And I said to you ,
You [
are ]
My servant ;
I have chosen you ,
and not cast you away .
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Do not fear ;
for I [
am ]
with you ;
be not dismayed ;
for I [
am ]
your God .
I will make you strong ;
yes ,
I will help you ;
yes ,
I will uphold you with the right hand of My righteousness .
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Behold ,
all those who were angered against you shall be ashamed and confounded ;
they shall be as nothing .
And those who fight with you shall perish .
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You shall seek them ,
and shall not find them ;
men warring against you shall be as nothing ,
and as ceasing .
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For I ,
Jehovah your God ,
will hold your right hand ,
saying to you ,
Do not fear ;
I will help you .
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Do not fear ,
worm of Jacob [
and ]
men of Israel ;
I will help you ,
says Jehovah ,
and your Redeemer ,
the Holy One of Israel .
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Behold ,
I make you a new sharp threshing instrument ,
a master of teeth ;
you shall thresh the mountains ,
and beat [
them ]
small ,
and shall make the hills like chaff .
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You shall winnow them ,
and the wind shall carry them away ,
and a tempest shall scatter them .
And you shall rejoice in the LORD [
and ]
shall glory in the Holy One of Israel .
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The poor and needy seek water ,
and [
there is ]
none ;
their tongue fails for thirst ,
I the LORD will hear them ,
I the God of Israel will not leave them .
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I will open rivers in high places ,
and fountains in the midst of the valleys ;
I will make the wilderness a pool of water ,
and the dry land springs of water .
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I will plant the cedar in the wilderness ,
the acacia tree ,
and the myrtle ,
and the oil tree .
I will set the fir tree in the desert , [
and ]
the pine ,
and the box tree together ;
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so that they may see ,
and know ,
and look on ,
and understand together ,
that the hand of the LORD has done this ,
and the Holy One of Israel has created it .
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Bring near your cause ,
says the LORD ;
bring out your strong [
reasons ],
says the King of Jacob .
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Let them bring [
them ]
out ,
and tell us what shall happen ;
let them reveal the former things ,
what they [
are ],
that we may look on them and know the final end of them ;
or declare to us things to come .
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Reveal the near things after this ,
so that we may know that you [
are ]
gods .
Yes ,
do good ,
or do evil ,
so that we may be amazed and see together .
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Behold ,
you [
are ]
of nothing ,
and your work of nothing .
He who chooses you is an abomination .
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I have raised up [
one ]
from the north ,
and he shall come from the sunrise ;
he will call on My name .
And he shall come [
on ]
rulers as [
on ]
mortar ,
and as the potter tramples clay .
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Who has declared from the beginning ,
that we may know ?
And beforetime ,
that we may say , [
He is ]
righteous ?
Yea ,
no one declares ;
yea ,
no one proclaims ;
yea ,
no one hears your words .
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I first [
shall say ]
to Zion ,
Behold !
Behold them !
And I will give to Jerusalem one who bears good news .
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For I looked ,
and [
there was ]
no man ;
and of these no counselor was ,
that I might ask and they could answer .
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Behold ,
they [
are ]
all evil ;
their works [
are ]
nothing ;
their images [
are ]
wind and vanity .
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Behold My Servant ,
whom I uphold ;
My Elect , [
in whom ]
My soul delights .
I have put My Spirit on Him ;
He shall bring out judgment to the nations .
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