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41 : 1 Listen to me in silence,O coastlands;let the peoples renew their strength;let them approach, then let them speak;let us together draw near for judgment.
41 : 2 Who stirred up one from the eastwhom victory meets at everystep?He gives up nations before him,so that he tramples kings underfoot;he makes them like dust with his sword,like driven stubble with his bow.
41 : 3 He pursues them and passes on safely,by paths his feet have not trod.
41 : 4 Who has performed and done this,calling the generations from the beginning?I, theLord, the first,and with the last; I am he.
41 : 5 The coastlands have seen and are afraid;the ends of the earth tremble;they have drawn near and come.
41 : 6 Everyone helps his neighborand says to his brother,Be strong!
41 : 7 The craftsman strengthens the goldsmith,and he who smooths with the hammer him who strikes the anvil,saying of the soldering,It is good;and they strengthen it with nailsso that it cannot be moved.
41 : 8 But you, Israel,my servant,Jacob,whom I have chosen,the offspring of Abraham,my friend;
41 : 9 you whom I took from the ends of the earth,and calledfrom its farthest corners,saying to you,You aremy servant,I have chosen you and not cast you off;
41 : 10 fear not, for I am with you;be not dismayed, for I am your God;I will strengthen you, I will help you,I will uphold you withmy righteous right hand.
41 : 11 Behold, all who are incensed against youshall be put to shame and confounded;those who strive against youshall be as nothing and shall perish.
41 : 12 You shall seek those who contend with you,but you shall not find them;those who war against youshall be as nothing at all.
41 : 13 For I, theLordyour God,hold your right hand;it is I who say to you,Fear not,I am the one who helps you.
41 : 14 Fear not, youworm Jacob,you men of Israel!I am the one who helps you, declares theLord;yourRedeemer is the Holy One of Israel.
41 : 15 Behold, I make of you a threshing sledge,new, sharp, and having teeth;you shall threshthe mountains and crush them,and you shall make the hills like chaff;
41 : 16 you shall winnow them, andthe wind shall carry them away,and the tempest shall scatter them.And you shall rejoice in theLord;in the Holy One of Israel you shall glory.
41 : 17 When the poor and needy seek water,and there is none,and their tongue is parched with thirst,I theLordwill answer them;I the God of Israel will not forsake them.
41 : 18 I will open rivers on the bare heights,and fountains in the midst of the valleys.I will make the wilderness a pool of water,and the dry land springs of water.
41 : 19 I will put in the wilderness the cedar,the acacia, the myrtle, and the olive.I will set in the desertthe cypress,the plane and the pine together,
41 : 20 that they may see and know,may consider and understand together,thatthe hand of theLordhas done this,the Holy One of Israel has created it.
41 : 21 Set forth your case, says theLord;bring your proofs, says the King of Jacob.
41 : 22 Let them bring them, andtell uswhat is to happen.Tell us the former things, what they are,that we may consider them,that we may know their outcome;or declare to us the things to come.
41 : 23 Tell us what is to come hereafter,that we may know that you are gods;do good, or do harm,that we may be dismayed and terrified.
41 : 24 Behold,you are nothing,and your work is less than nothing;an abomination is he who chooses you.
41 : 25 I stirred up one from the north, and he has come,from the rising of the sun,and he shall call upon my name;he shall trample on rulers as on mortar,as the potter treads clay.
41 : 26 Who declared it from the beginning, that we might know,and beforehand, that we might say,He is right?There was none who declared it, none who proclaimed,none who heard your words.
41 : 27 I was the first to sayto Zion,Behold, here they are!andI give to Jerusalem a herald of good news.
41 : 28 But when I look, there is no one;among these there is no counselorwho, when I ask, gives an answer.
41 : 29 Behold, they are all a delusion;their works are nothing;their metal images are empty wind.