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Isaiah 41 📜 📕 ↷
God's Help to Israel
1 LET the islands hold their peace before me, and the Gentiles change their strength: let them come near, & then speak, let us approach to judgement together.📜💬📚
2 Who hath raised the just from the East, hath called him that he should follow him? He shall give the Gentiles in his sight, & he shall obtain kings: he shall give them as it were dust to his sword, as stubble taken violently with the wind, to his bow.📜💬📚
3 He shall pursue them, he shall pass in peace, there shall no path appear after his feet.📜💬📚
4 Who hath wrought and done these things, calling the generations from the beginning? I, the Lord, the first and the last I am.📜💬📚
5 The islands have seen, and have been afraid, the ends of the earth have been astonied, they have approached, and come near.📜💬📚
6 Every one shall help his neighbour, and shall say to his brother: Be strong.📜💬📚
7 The coppersmith striking with the hammer encouraged him that forged at that time, saying: It is good for soldering: and he strengthened it with nails, that it should not be moved.📜💬📚
8 And thou Israel my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham my friend:📜💬📚
9 in whom I have taken thee from the ends of the earth, and from the far parts thereof have called thee, and said to thee: Thou art my servant, I have chosen thee, & have not cast thee away.📜💬📚
10 Fear not, because I am with thee: decline not, because I am thy God: I have strengthened thee, and have holpen thee, and the right hand of my just one hath sustained thee.📜💬📚
11 Behold all that fight against thee shall be confounded and ashamed, they shall be as if they were not, and the men shall perish that gainsay thee.📜💬📚
12 Thou shalt seek them, and shalt not find, the men thy rebels: they shall be as if they were not: and as consumption the men that war against thee.📜💬📚
13 Because I am the Lord thy God, taking thy hand, and saying to thee: Fear not, I have holpen thee.📜💬📚
14 Fear not thou worm of Jacob, ye that are dead of Israel: I have holpen thee, saith our Lord: and thy redeemer the holy one of Israel.📜💬📚
15 I have made thee as a new threshing wain, having teeth like a saw: thou shalt thresh the mountains, and break them in pieces: and shalt make the little hills as dust.📜💬📚
16 Thou shalt fan them, and the wind shall take them away, & the whirlwind shall disperse them: and thou shalt rejoice in the Lord, in the holy one of Israel thou shalt be joyful.📜💬📚
17 The needy and the poor seek for waters, and there are none: their tongue hath been dry with thirst. I, the Lord will hear them, I, the God of Israel will not forsake them.📜💬📚
18 I will open rivers in the high hills, and fountains in the midst of plain fields: I will make the desert into pools of waters, and the land not passable into rivers of waters.📜💬📚
19 I will give into the wilderness the cedar, and the thorn, and the myrtle and the olive tree: I will set in the desert the fir tree, the elm, and the box tree together.📜💬📚
20 That they may see, and know, and recount, and understand together, that the hand of the Lord hath done this, and the holy one of Israel hath created it.📜💬📚
Meaningless Idols
21 Make your judgement approach, saith the Lord: bring hither, if perhaps you have any thing, said the King of Jacob.📜💬📚
22 Let them come, and tell us what things soever are to come: tell the former things what they have been: and we will set our heart, and shall know the later ends of them, and tell us the things that are to come.📜💬📚
23 Shew what things are to come hereafter, and we shall know that ye are gods. Do ye also good or evil, if you can: & let us speak & see together.📜💬📚
24 Behold, you are of nothing, and your work of that which is not: he is abomination that hath chosen you.📜💬📚
25 I have raised up from the North, and he shall come from the rising of the sun: he shall call upon my name, and shall bring the magistrates as mire, and as the plasterer treading clay.📜💬📚
26 Who hath shewed from the beginning, that we may know: and from the beginning that we may say: Art thou just? There is neither that sheweth, nor telleth before, nor heareth your words.📜💬📚
27 The first shall say to Sion: Lo I am present, and to Jerusalem: I will give an evangelist.📜💬📚
28 And I saw, and neither of these was there any that would consult, and being asked would answer a word.📜💬📚
29 Behold all are unjust, and their works vain: their idols are wind and vanity.📜💬📚
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