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understanding to say, I have burned part of it in the fire; yea, also I have baked bread upon the coals
thereof; I have roasted flesh, and eaten
it:
and shall I make the residue thereof an abomination?
shall I fall down to the stock of a tree?
20
He feedeth on ashes: a deceived heart hath turned him
aside, that he cannot deliver his soul, nor say,
Is there
not a lie in my right hand?
21
Remember these, O Jacob and Israel; for thou
art
my servant: I have formed thee; thou
art
my servant: O Israel, thou shalt not be forgotten of me.
22
I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, thy
transgressions, and, as a cloud, thy sins: return unto me; for I have redeemed thee.
23
Sing, O ye
heavens; for the L
ORD
hath done
it:
shout, ye lower parts of the earth: break forth into singing, ye
mountains, O forest, and every tree therein: for the L
ORD
hath redeemed Jacob, and glorified himself
in Israel.
24
Thus saith the L
ORD
, thy redeemer, and he that formed thee from the womb, I
am
the
L
ORD
that maketh all
things;
that stretcheth forth the heavens alone; that spreadeth abroad the earth
by myself;
25
That frustrateth the tokens of the liars, and maketh diviners mad; that turneth wise
men
backward, and maketh their knowledge foolish;
26
That confirmeth the word of his servant,
and performeth the counsel of his messengers; that saith to Jerusalem, Thou shalt be inhabited; and
to the cities of Judah, Ye shall be built, and I will raise up the decayed places thereof:
27
That saith
to the deep, Be dry, and I will dry up thy rivers:
28
That saith of Cyrus,
He is
my shepherd, and
shall perform all my pleasure: even saying to Jerusalem, Thou shalt be built; and to the temple,
Thy foundation shall be laid.
CHAPTER 45
Thus saith the L
ORD
to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have holden, to subdue nations
before him; and I will loose the loins of kings, to open before him the two leaved gates; and the
gates shall not be shut;
2
I will go before thee, and make the crooked places straight: I will break
in pieces the gates of brass, and cut in sunder the bars of iron:
3
And I will give thee the treasures
of darkness, and hidden riches of secret places, that thou mayest know that I, the L
ORD
, which call
thee
by thy name,
am
the God of Israel.
4
For Jacob my servant’s sake, and Israel mine elect, I have
even called thee by thy name: I have surnamed thee, though thou hast not known me.
5
I
am
the L
ORD
, and
there is
none else,
there is
no God beside me: I girded thee, though thou
hast not known me:
6
That they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west, that
there
is
none beside me. I
am
the L
ORD
, and
there is
none else.
7
I form the light, and create darkness: I
make peace, and create evil: I the L
ORD
do all these
things.
8
Drop down, ye heavens, from above,
and let the skies pour down righteousness: let the earth open, and let them bring forth salvation,
and let righteousness spring up together; I the L
ORD
have created it.
9
Woe unto him that striveth
with his Maker!
Let
the potsherd
strive
with the potsherds of the earth. Shall the clay say to him
that fashioneth it, What makest thou? or thy work, He hath no hands?
10
Woe unto him that saith
unto
his
father, What begettest thou? or to the woman, What hast thou brought forth?
11
Thus saith
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