Isaiah:41

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* Be quiet before Me , O coasts ; and let peoples renew their power . They come near ; then they speak : Let us draw near together for judgment . * Who raised up the righteous one from the east ? He called him to His foot ; He gives nations before him , and subdues kings ; He gives them as dust to his sword , as driven stubble to his bow ; * He pursues them ; he passes on in peace ; he does not go by the way with his feet . * Who has planned and done it , calling forth the generations from the beginning ? I Jehovah am the first and the last ; I am He . * The coasts have seen and fear ; the ends of the earth tremble ; they have drawn near ; yea , they come . * Each man helps his neighbor , and says to his brother , Be strong . * So the carver strengthens the refiner ; and he smoothing with the hammer , him who struck the anvil , saying of the soldering , It is good . And he made it strong with nails ; it will not totter . * But you Israel are My servant , Jacob whom I have chosen ; the seed of My friend Abraham ; * whom I have made strong from the ends of the earth , and called you from its sides ; and I said to you , You are My servant . I chose you , and have not rejected you . * Do not fear , for I am with you ; do not gaze about , for I am your God ; I will make you strong ; yea , I will help you ; yes , I will uphold you with the right hand of My righteousness . * Behold , all who were provoked with you shall be ashamed and confounded ; they shall be as nothing ; and they who fight with you Shall perish . * You shall seek them and shall not find them ; men of your strife shall be as nothing , even men of your battle as ceasing . * For I , Jehovah your God am strengthening your right hand ; who says to you , Do not fear ; I will help you . * Fear not , worm of Jacob , men of Israel ; I will help you ; states Jehovah , and your Redeemer , the Holy One of Israel . * Behold ! I have made you a new sharp threshing instrument , a master of teeth ; you shall thresh mountains and beat them small , and shall make hills like the chaff . * You shall winnow them , and the wind will carry them away ; and the tempest will scatter them . And you shall rejoice in Jehovah ; you shall glory in the Holy One of Israel . * The poor and the needy seek water , and there is none ; their tongue is parched for thirst . I , Jehovah will hear them ; the God of Israel will not leave them . * I will open rivers in bare places , and fountains in the midst of valleys ; I will make the desert for a pool of water , and the dry land springs of water . * I will plant cedar in the wilderness , acacia , and myrtle , and the oil tree ; I will set fir , pine and boxwood together in the desert ; * So that they may see , and know , and consider , and understand together , that the hand of Jehovah has done this ; and the Holy One of Israel has created it . * Bring your cause , says Jehovah ; let your strong reasons come near , says the King of Jacob . * 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 . * 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 . * Behold , you are of nothing ; and your work of nothing ; he who chooses you is an abomination . * 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 . * Who has declared from the beginning , that we may know ; and beforetime , that we may say , He is right ? Yea , no one declares ; yea , no one proclaims ; yea , there is no one who hears your words . * At first to Zion , I say , Behold ! Behold them ! And I will give to Jerusalem one bearing tidings . * 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 answer a word . * Behold , they are all evil ; their works are nothing ; their images are wind and vanity .

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