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Isaiah 41

Israel Encouraged

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aCoastlands, listen to Me  bin silence, And let the peoples  cgain new strength;  dLet them come forward, then let them speak;  eLet us come together for judgment.

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aWho has aroused one from the east Whom He  bcalls in righteousness to His  1feet? He  cdelivers up nations before him And subdues kings. He makes them like  ddust with his sword, As the wind-driven  echaff with his bow.

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"He pursues them, passing on in safety, By a way he had not been  1traversing with his feet.

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aWho has performed and accomplished it, Calling forth the generations from the beginning? ` bI, the LORD, am the first, and with the last.  cI am He.' "

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The  acoastlands have seen and are afraid; The  bends of the earth tremble; They have drawn near and have come.

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Each one helps his neighbor And says to his brother, "Be strong!"

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So the  acraftsman encourages the  bsmelter, And he who smooths metal with the hammer encourages him who beats the anvil, Saying of the soldering, "It is good"; And he fastens it with nails,  cSo that it will not totter.

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"But you, Israel,  aMy servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, Descendant of  bAbraham My  cfriend,

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You whom I have  1 ataken from the ends of the earth, And called from its  bremotest parts And said to you, `You are  cMy servant, I have  dchosen you and not rejected you.

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`Do not  afear, for I am with you; Do not anxiously look about you, for I am your God. I will strengthen you, surely  bI will help you, Surely I will uphold you with My righteous  cright hand.'

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"Behold,  aall those who are angered at you will be shamed and dishonored;  bThose who contend with you will be as nothing and will perish.

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aYou will seek those who quarrel with you, but will not find them, Those who war with you will be as nothing and non-existent.

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"For I am the LORD your God,  awho upholds your right hand, Who says to you, ` bDo not fear, I will help you.'

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"Do not fear, you  aworm Jacob, you men of Israel; I will help you," declares the LORD, " 1and  byour Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel.

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"Behold, I have made you a new, sharp threshing sledge with double edges;  aYou will thresh the  bmountains and pulverize them, And will make the hills like chaff.

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"You will  awinnow them, and the wind will carry them away, And the storm will scatter them; But you will  brejoice in the LORD, You will glory in the Holy One of Israel.

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"The  1afflicted and needy are seeking  awater, but there is none, And their tongue is parched with thirst; I, the LORD,  bwill answer them Myself, As the God of Israel I  cwill not forsake them.

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"I will open  arivers on the bare heights And springs in the midst of the valleys; I will make  bthe wilderness a pool of water And the dry land fountains of water.

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"I will put the cedar in the wilderness, The acacia and the  amyrtle and the  1olive tree; I will place the  ajuniper in the desert Together with the box tree and the cypress,

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That  athey may see and recognize, And consider and gain insight as well, That the  bhand of the LORD has done this, And the Holy One of Israel has created it.

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1Present your case," the LORD says. "Bring forward your strong arguments," The  aKing of Jacob says.

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 aLet them bring forth and declare to us what is going to take place; As for the  bformer events, declare what they were, That we may consider them and know their outcome. Or announce to us what is coming;

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 aDeclare the things that are going to come afterward, That we may know that you are gods; Indeed,  bdo good or evil, that we may anxiously look about us and fear together.

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Behold,  ayou are of  1no account, And  byour work amounts to nothing; He who chooses you is an  cabomination.

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"I have aroused  aone from the north, and he has come; From the rising of the sun he will call on My name; And he will come upon rulers as upon  bmortar, Even as the potter treads clay."

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Who has  adeclared this from the beginning, that we might know? Or from former times, that we may say, "He is right!"? Surely there was  bno one who declared, Surely there was no one who proclaimed, Surely there was no one who heard your words.

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aFormerly I said to Zion, `Behold, here they are.' And to Jerusalem, `I will give a  bmessenger of good news.'

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"But  awhen I look, there is no one, And there is no  bcounselor  1among them Who, if I ask, can  cgive an answer.

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"Behold, all of them are  1false; Their  aworks are  bworthless, Their molten images are  cwind and emptiness.



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