ISA-41:1 Keep silence before me, O islands; and let the people 
renew [their] strength: let them come near; then let them speak: 
let us come near together to judgment.



ISA-41:2 Who raised up the righteous [man] from the east, called 
him to his foot, gave the nations before him, and made [him] 
rule over kings? he gave [them] as the dust to his sword, [and] 
as driven stubble to his bow.



ISA-41:3 He pursued them, [and] passed safely; [even] by the way 
[that] he had not gone with his feet.



ISA-41:4 Who hath wrought and done [it], calling the generations 
from the beginning? I the LORD, the first, and with the last; I 
[am] he.



ISA-41:5 The isles saw [it], and feared; the ends of the earth 
were afraid, drew near, and came.



ISA-41:6 They helped every one his neighbour; and [every one] 
said to his brother, Be of good courage.



ISA-41:7 So the carpenter encouraged the goldsmith, [and] he 
that smootheth [with] the hammer him that smote the anvil, 
saying, It [is] ready for the soldering: and he fastened it with 
nails, [that] it should not be moved.



ISA-41:8 But thou, Israel, [art] my servant, Jacob whom I have 
chosen, the seed of Abraham my friend.



ISA-41:9 [Thou] whom I have taken from the ends of the earth, 
and called thee from the chief men thereof, and said unto thee, 
Thou [art] my servant; I have chosen thee, and not cast thee 
away.



ISA-41:10 Fear thou not; for I [am] with thee: be not dismayed; 
for I [am] thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help 
thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my 
righteousness.



ISA-41:11 Behold, all they that were incensed against thee shall 
be ashamed and confounded: they shall be as nothing; and they 
that strive with thee shall perish.



ISA-41:12 Thou shalt seek them, and shalt not find them, [even] 
them that contended with thee: they that war against thee shall 
be as nothing, and as a thing of nought.



ISA-41:13 For I the LORD thy God will hold thy right hand, 
saying unto thee, Fear not; I will help thee.



ISA-41:14 Fear not, thou worm Jacob, [and] ye men of Israel; I 
will help thee, saith the LORD, and thy redeemer, the Holy One 
of Israel.



ISA-41:15 Behold, I will make thee a new sharp threshing 
instrument having teeth: thou shalt thresh the mountains, and 
beat [them] small, and shalt make the hills as chaff.



ISA-41:16 Thou shalt fan them, and the wind shall carry them 
away, and the whirlwind shall scatter them: and thou shalt 
rejoice in the LORD, [and] shalt glory in the Holy One of Israel.



ISA-41:17 [When] the poor and needy seek water, and [there is] 
none, [and] their tongue faileth for thirst, I the LORD will 
hear them, I the God of Israel will not forsake them.



ISA-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.



ISA-41:19 I will plant in the wilderness the cedar, the shittah 
tree, and the myrtle, and the oil tree; I will set in the desert 
the fir tree, [and] the pine, and the box tree together:



ISA-41:20 That they may see, and know, and consider, and 
understand together, that the hand of the LORD hath done this, 
and the Holy One of Israel hath created it.



ISA-41:21 Produce your cause, saith the LORD; bring forth your 
strong [reasons], saith the King of Jacob.



ISA-41:22 Let them bring [them] forth, and show us what shall 
happen: let them show the former things, what they [be], that we 
may consider them, and know the latter end of them; or declare 
us things for to come.



ISA-41:23 Show the things that are to come hereafter, that we 
may know that ye [are] gods: yea, do good, or do evil, that we 
may be dismayed, and behold [it] together.



ISA-41:24 Behold, ye [are] of nothing, and your work of nought: 
an abomination [is he that] chooseth you.



ISA-41:25 I have raised up [one] from the north, and he shall 
come: from the rising of the sun shall he call upon my name: and 
he shall come upon princes as [upon] mortar, and as the potter 
treadeth clay.



ISA-41:26 Who hath declared from the beginning, that we may 
know? and beforetime, that we may say, [He is] righteous? yea, 
[there is] none that showeth, yea, [there is] none that 
declareth, yea, [there is] none that heareth your words.



ISA-41:27 The first [shall say] to Zion, Behold, behold them: 
and I will give to Jerusalem one that bringeth good tidings.



ISA-41:28 For I beheld, and [there was] no man; even among them, 
and [there was] no counsellor, that, when I asked of them, could 
answer a word.



ISA-41:29 Behold, they [are] all vanity; their works [are] 
nothing: their molten images [are] wind and confusion. 

 

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