vw - Isaiah:41-42

vw@Isaiah:41:1 @ Keep silence before Me, O coastlands; and let the people renew their strength; let them come near. Then let them speak, Let us come near together for judgment.

vw@Isaiah:41:2 @ 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? Who gave them as the dust to his sword, and as driven stubble to his bow?

vw@Isaiah:41:3 @ Who pursued them and passed by in peace by the way he had not gone before by foot?

vw@Isaiah:41:4 @ Who has planned and done it, calling forth the generations from the beginning? I, Jehovah, am the First and the Last. I am He.

vw@Isaiah:41:5 @ The coastlands saw and feared. The ends of the earth were afraid, and drew near and came.

vw@Isaiah:41:6 @ They each one helped his neighbor, and said to his brother, Be strong.

vw@Isaiah:41:7 @ So the craftsman encourages the refiner, and he who smooths with the hammer, him who struck the anvil, saying of the soldering, It is good. And he makes it steady with nails so that it will not be shaken.

vw@Isaiah:41:8 @ But you, Israel, are My servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham, My friend;

vw@Isaiah:41:9 @ whom I have taken from the ends of the earth, and called you and set you apart. And I said to you, You are My servant; I have chosen you, and not cast you away.

vw@Isaiah:41:10 @ Fear not, 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.

vw@Isaiah:41:11 @ Behold, all those who were enraged against you shall be ashamed and disgraced; they shall be as nothing. And those who strive with you shall perish.

vw@Isaiah:41:12 @ You shall seek them, and shall not find them; the men striving against you shall be as nothing; at an end.

vw@Isaiah:41:13 @ For I, Jehovah your God, will hold your right hand, saying to you, Fear not; I will help you.

vw@Isaiah:41:14 @ Fear not, you worm of Jacob and men of Israel; I will help you, says Jehovah and your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel.

vw@Isaiah:41:15 @ Behold, I have made you into a new sharp threshing instrument having teeth; you shall thresh the mountains, and beat them fine, and shall make the hills like chaff.

vw@Isaiah:41:16 @ You shall winnow them, and the wind shall carry them away, and a tempest shall scatter them. And you shall rejoice in Jehovah and shall glory in the Holy One of Israel.

vw@Isaiah:41:17 @ The poor and needy seek water, and there is none; their tongue fails for thirst. I Jehovah will hear them, I the God of Israel will not abandon them.

vw@Isaiah:41:18 @ 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.

vw@Isaiah:41:19 @ 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;

vw@Isaiah:41:20 @ that they may see and know, and determine and understand together, that the hand of Jehovah has done this, and the Holy One of Israel has created it.

vw@Isaiah:41:21 @ Present your case, says Jehovah; approach to argue your defense, says the King of Jacob.

vw@Isaiah:41:22 @ Let them approach, and confess to us what shall happen; let them disclose the former things, what they are, that we may determine a finding and know the final outcome; or proclaim to us things to come.

vw@Isaiah:41:23 @ Make known the things to come after this, so that we may know that you are gods. Yes, do good, or do evil, so that we may anxiously watch it together.

vw@Isaiah:41:24 @ Behold, you are nothing, and your work is nothing. He who chooses you is an abomination.

vw@Isaiah:41:25 @ I have raised up one from the north and he shall come; from the sunrise he shall call upon My name. And he shall come against rulers as in a mortar, and as the potter tramples clay.

vw@Isaiah:41:26 @ Who has declared from the beginning, that we may know? And formerly, that we may say, He is righteous? Yea, no one declares; yea, no one proclaims; yea, no one hears your words.

vw@Isaiah:41:27 @ First I shall say to Zion, Behold! Behold them! And I will give to Jerusalem one who brings good news.

vw@Isaiah:41:28 @ For I looked, and there was no man; and of those there was no counselor, that I might ask and they could answer a word.

vw@Isaiah:41:29 @ Behold, they are all wicked; their works are nothing; their molten images are like thin air and vanity.

vw@Isaiah:42:1 @ Behold My Servant, whom I uphold; My Elect, in whom My soul delights. I have put My Spirit upon Him; He shall bring forth justice to the nations.

vw@Isaiah:42:2 @ He shall not cry out, nor lift up, nor cause His voice to be heard in the street.

vw@Isaiah:42:3 @ A bruised reed He shall not break, and a smoking wick He shall not quench; He shall bring forth justice unto truth.

vw@Isaiah:42:4 @ He shall not fail nor be discouraged, until He has established justice on the earth; and the islands shall wait for His Law.

vw@Isaiah:42:5 @ Thus says Jehovah the Mighty God, He who created the heavens and stretched them out, spreading out the earth and its offspring; Who gives breath to the people on it and spirit to those who walk on it.

vw@Isaiah:42:6 @ I, Jehovah, have called You in righteousness, and will hold Your hand, and will keep You, and give You as a covenant to the people, as a Light to the nations;

vw@Isaiah:42:7 @ to open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the prison, those who sit in darkness out of the prison house.

vw@Isaiah:42:8 @ I am Jehovah; that is My name; and My glory I will not give to another, nor My praise to graven images.

vw@Isaiah:42:9 @ Behold, the former things have come to pass, and new things I declare; before they spring forth, I proclaim them to you.

vw@Isaiah:42:10 @ Sing to Jehovah a new song; His praise from the ends of the earth, you who go down to the sea, and all that is in it; the coastlands and its inhabitants.

vw@Isaiah:42:11 @ Let the wilderness and its cities lift up their voice, the villages where Kedar dwells. Let the inhabitants of the rock sing, let them shout from the mountain tops.

vw@Isaiah:42:12 @ Give glory to Jehovah and declare His praise in the coastlands.

vw@Isaiah:42:13 @ Jehovah goes forth as a mighty man, He stirs up zeal like a man of war; He shouts, yea, roars; He shows Himself mighty against His enemies.

vw@Isaiah:42:14 @ I have continually kept silent; I have been still and refrained Myself. Now I will cry like a woman in labor; I will pant and gasp at once.

vw@Isaiah:42:15 @ I will make waste the mountains and hills, and dry up all their vegetation. And I will make the rivers coastlands, and I will dry up the pools.

vw@Isaiah:42:16 @ And I will bring the blind by a way that they knew not; I will lead them in paths they have not known; I will make darkness into light before them, and crooked places straight. I will do these things for them, and not forsake them.

vw@Isaiah:42:17 @ They have been turned back, they are greatly ashamed, those who trust in graven images and who say to the molten images, You are our gods.

vw@Isaiah:42:18 @ Hear, you deaf; and look, you blind, that you may see.

vw@Isaiah:42:19 @ Who is blind but My servant? Or deaf, as My messenger whom I sent? Who is blind as he who is perfect, and blind as Jehovahs servant?

vw@Isaiah:42:20 @ You see many things, but do not observe; opening the ears, but no one hears.

vw@Isaiah:42:21 @ Jehovah is well pleased for His righteousness sake; He will magnify the Law and make it honorable.

vw@Isaiah:42:22 @ But this is a people robbed and plundered; all of them are snared in holes, and they are hidden in prison houses. They are as prey, and no one delivers them; spoils, and no one says, Give it back!

vw@Isaiah:42:23 @ Who among you will give ear to this? Who will listen and hear for the time to come?

vw@Isaiah:42:24 @ Who gave Jacob for a spoils, and Israel to robbers? Was it not Jehovah, against whom we have sinned? For they would not walk in His ways, nor did they obey His Law.

vw@Isaiah:42:25 @ Therefore He has poured upon 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 to heart.

vw@Isaiah:43:1 @ But now thus says Jehovah who created you, O Jacob, and He who formed you, O Israel; Fear not, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by your name; you are Mine.