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for the sodering: and he fastened it with nails,
that
it should not be moved.
8
But thou, Israel,
art
my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham my friend.
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.
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.
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.
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.
13
For I the L
ORD
thy God will hold thy right hand, saying unto thee, Fear not; I will help
thee.
14
Fear not, thou worm Jacob,
and
ye men of Israel; I will help thee, saith the L
ORD
, and thy
redeemer, the Holy One of Israel.
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.
16
Thou shalt fan them, and the wind shall carry them away, and the whirlwind shall scatter them:
and thou shalt rejoice in the L
ORD
,
and
shalt glory in the Holy One of Israel.
17
When
the poor and
needy seek water, and
there is
none,
and
their tongue faileth for thirst, I the L
ORD
will hear them,
I
the God of Israel will not forsake them.
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.
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:
20
That they may see, and know,
and consider, and understand together, that the hand of the L
ORD
hath done this, and the Holy One
of Israel hath created it.
21
Produce your cause, saith the L
ORD
; bring forth your strong
reasons,
saith the King of Jacob.
22
Let them bring
them
forth, and shew us what shall happen: let them shew
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.
23
Shew 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.
24
Behold,
ye
are
of nothing, and your work of nought: an abomination
is he that
chooseth you.
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
morter, and as the potter treadeth clay.
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 sheweth, yea,
there is
none that declareth, yea,
there is
none that heareth your
words.
27
The first
shall say
to Zion, Behold, behold them: and I will give to Jerusalem one that
bringeth good tidings.
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.
29
Behold, they
are
all vanity; their
works
are
nothing: their molten images
are
wind and confusion.
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