rsv Isaiah:41:1-21
rsv@Isaiah:41:1 @ Listen to me in silence, O coastlands; let the peoples renew their strength; let them approach, then let them speak; let us together draw near for judgment.
rsv@Isaiah:41:2 @ Who stirred up one from the east whom victory meets at every step? He gives up nations before him, so that he tramples kings under foot; he makes them like dust with his sword, like driven stubble with his bow.
rsv@Isaiah:41:3 @ He pursues them and passes on safely, by paths his feet have not trod.
rsv@Isaiah:41:4 @ Who has performed and done this, calling the generations from the beginning? I, the LORD, the first, and with the last; I am He.
rsv@Isaiah:41:5 @ The coastlands have seen and are afraid, the ends of the earth tremble; they have drawn near and come.
rsv@Isaiah:41:6 @ Every one helps his neighbor, and says to his brother, "Take courage!"
rsv@Isaiah:41:7 @ The craftsman encourages the goldsmith, and he who smooths with the hammer him who strikes the anvil, saying of the soldering, "It is good"; and they fasten it with nails so that it cannot be moved.
rsv@Isaiah:41:8 @ But you, Israel, my servant, Jacob, whom I have chosen, the offspring of Abraham, my friend;
rsv@Isaiah:41:9 @ you whom I took from the ends of the earth, and called from its farthest corners, saying to you, "You are my servant, I have chosen you and not cast you off";
rsv@Isaiah:41:10 @ fear not, for I am with you, be not dismayed, for I am your God; I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my victorious right hand.
rsv@Isaiah:41:11 @ Behold, all who are incensed against you shall be put to shame and confounded; those who strive against you shall be as nothing and shall perish.
rsv@Isaiah:41:12 @ You shall seek those who contend with you, but you shall not find them; those who war against you shall be as nothing at all.
rsv@Isaiah:41:13 @ For I, the LORD your God, hold your right hand; it is I who say to you, "Fear not, I will help you."
rsv@Isaiah:41:14 @ Fear not, you worm Jacob, you men of Israel! I will help you, says the LORD; your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel.
rsv@Isaiah:41:15 @ Behold, I will make of you a threshing sledge, new, sharp, and having teeth; you shall thresh the mountains and crush them, and you shall make the hills like chaff;
rsv@Isaiah:41:16 @ You shall winnow them and the wind shall carry them away, and the tempest shall scatter them. And you shall rejoice in the LORD; in the Holy One of Israel you shall glory.
rsv@Isaiah:41:17 @ When the poor and needy seek water, and there is none, and their tongue is parched with thirst, I the LORD will answer them, I the God of Israel will not forsake them.
rsv@Isaiah:41:18 @ I will open rivers on the bare heights, and fountains in the midst of the valleys; I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water.
rsv@Isaiah:41:19 @ I will put in the wilderness the cedar, the acacia, the myrtle, and the olive; I will set in the desert the cypress, the plane and the pine together;
rsv@Isaiah:41:20 @ that men may see and know, may consider and understand together, that the hand of the LORD has done this, the Holy One of Israel has created it.
rsv@Isaiah:41:21 @ Set forth your case, says the LORD; bring your proofs, says the King of Jacob.
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