mkjv - Isaiah:44:6-23

mkjv@Isaiah:44:6 @ So says Jehovah, the King of Israel, and His redeemer Jehovah of hosts; I [am] the first, and I [am] the last; and besides Me [there is] no God.

mkjv@Isaiah:44:7 @ And who, as I, shall call, and shall declare it and set it in order for Me, since I placed the people of old? And the things that are coming, and shall come, let them declare to them.

mkjv@Isaiah:44:8 @ Fear not, nor be afraid; have I not told you and made you hear since then? So you [are] My witnesses. Is there a God besides Me? Yea, [there is] none. I have not known a Rock.

mkjv@Isaiah:44:9 @ Those who make a graven image [are] all of them vanity; and the things in which they delight shall not help; and they [are] their own witnesses. They do not see nor know, that they may be ashamed.

mkjv@Isaiah:44:10 @ Who has formed a god, or melted a graven image that is good for nothing?

mkjv@Isaiah:44:11 @ Behold, all his companions shall be ashamed; and the craftsmen; they [are] from men. They shall assemble; all of them shall stand; they shall dread; they shall be ashamed together.

mkjv@Isaiah:44:12 @ He engraves iron with a tool. He works in the coals, and forms it with hammers, and works it with the strength of his arms. Then, he is hungry, and his strength fails; he drinks no water, and is weak.

mkjv@Isaiah:44:13 @ He fashions wood, and stretches a line; he marks it out with a pencil; he shapes it with carving tools, and he marks it out with the compass, and makes it after the figure of a man, according to the beauty of a man, to sit [in the] house.

mkjv@Isaiah:44:14 @ He cuts down cedars, and takes cypress and oak, which he makes the trees of the forest strong for him; he plants a tree, and the rain makes [it] grow.

mkjv@Isaiah:44:15 @ And it shall be for a man to burn; for he will take some of it and warm himself. Yes, he kindles [it] and bakes bread; yes, he makes a god and worships; he makes it a graven image and falls down to it.

mkjv@Isaiah:44:16 @ He burns part of it in the fire; with part of it he eats flesh; he roasts roast and is satisfied; yea, he warms [himself], and says, Aha, I am warm, I have seen the fire.

mkjv@Isaiah:44:17 @ And the rest of it he makes into a god, his graven image; he falls down to it and worships, and prays to it, and says, Deliver me! for you [are] my god.

mkjv@Isaiah:44:18 @ They have not known nor understood; for He has shut their eyes so that they cannot see; [and] their hearts so that they cannot understand.

mkjv@Isaiah:44:19 @ And none thinks within his heart, nor [is there] knowledge nor understanding to say, I have burned part of it in the fire; yea, also I have baked bread on the coals of it; I have roasted flesh and eaten; and shall I make the rest of it an abomination? Shall I fall down to the stock of a tree?

mkjv@Isaiah:44:20 @ He feeds on ashes; a deceived heart has turned him aside, so that he cannot deliver his soul, nor say, [Is there] not a lie in my right hand?

mkjv@Isaiah:44:21 @ Remember these, O Jacob and Israel; for you [are] My servant; I have formed you; you [are] My servant; O Israel, you shall not be forgotten by Me.

mkjv@Isaiah:44:22 @ I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, your transgressions, and, as a cloud, your sins; return to Me; for I have redeemed you.

mkjv@Isaiah:44:23 @ Sing, O heavens; for the LORD has done [it]. Shout, lower parts of the earth. Break out into singing, O mountains, O forest, and every tree in it. For the LORD has redeemed Jacob, and glorified Himself in Israel.