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Isaiah 40

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Comfort, comfort my people, says your God.

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Speak tenderly to Jerusalem, and cry to her that her warfare is ended, that her iniquity is pardoned, that she has received from the LORD's hand double for all her sins.

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A voice cries: "In the wilderness prepare the way of the LORD, make straight in the desert a highway for our God.

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Every valley shall be lifted up, and every mountain and hill be made low; the uneven ground shall become level, and the rough places a plain.

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And the glory of the LORD shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together, for the mouth of the LORD has spoken."

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A voice says, "Cry!" And I said, "What shall I cry?" All flesh is grass, and all its beauty is like the flower of the field.

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The grass withers, the flower fades, when the breath of the LORD blows upon it; surely the people is grass.

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The grass withers, the flower fades; but the word of our God will stand for ever.

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Get you up to a high mountain, O Zion, herald of good tidings; lift up your voice with strength, O Jerusalem, herald of good tidings, lift it up, fear not; say to the cities of Judah, "Behold your God!"

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Behold, the Lord GOD comes with might, and his arm rules for him; behold, his reward is with him, and his recompense before him.

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He will feed his flock like a shepherd, he will gather the lambs in his arms, he will carry them in his bosom, and gently lead those that are with young.

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Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand and marked off the heavens with a span, enclosed the dust of the earth in a measure and weighed the mountains in scales and the hills in a balance?

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Who has directed the Spirit of the LORD, or as his counselor has instructed him?

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Whom did he consult for his enlightenment, and who taught him the path of justice, and taught him knowledge, and showed him the way of understanding?

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Behold, the nations are like a drop from a bucket, and are accounted as the dust on the scales; behold, he takes up the isles like fine dust.

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Lebanon would not suffice for fuel, nor are its beasts enough for a burnt offering.

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All the nations are as nothing before him, they are accounted by him as less than nothing and emptiness.

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To whom then will you liken God, or what likeness compare with him?

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The idol! a workman casts it, and a goldsmith overlays it with gold, and casts for it silver chains.

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He who is impoverished chooses for an offering wood that will not rot; he seeks out a skilful craftsman to set up an image that will not move.

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Have you not known? Have you not heard? Has it not been told you from the beginning? Have you not understood from the foundations of the earth?

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It is he who sits above the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers; who stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them like a tent to dwell in;

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who brings princes to nought, and makes the rulers of the earth as nothing.

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Scarcely are they planted, scarcely sown, scarcely has their stem taken root in the earth, when he blows upon them, and they wither, and the tempest carries them off like stubble.

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To whom then will you compare me, that I should be like him? says the Holy One.

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Lift up your eyes on high and see: who created these? He who brings out their host by number, calling them all by name; by the greatness of his might, and because he is strong in power not one is missing.

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Why do you say, O Jacob, and speak, O Israel, "My way is hid from the LORD, and my right is disregarded by my God"?

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Have you not known? Have you not heard? The LORD is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He does not faint or grow weary, his understanding is unsearchable.

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He gives power to the faint, and to him who has no might he increases strength.

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Even youths shall faint and be weary, and young men shall fall exhausted;

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but they who wait for the LORD shall renew their strength, they shall mount up with wings like eagles, they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and not faint.

Isaiah 41

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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.

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Who stirred up one from the east whom victory meets at every step? He gives up nations before him, so that he tramples kings under foot; he makes them like dust with his sword, like driven stubble with his bow.

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He pursues them and passes on safely, by paths his feet have not trod.

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Who has performed and done this, calling the generations from the beginning? I, the LORD, the first, and with the last; I am He.

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The coastlands have seen and are afraid, the ends of the earth tremble; they have drawn near and come.

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Every one helps his neighbor, and says to his brother, "Take courage!"

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The craftsman encourages the goldsmith, and he who smooths with the hammer him who strikes the anvil, saying of the soldering, "It is good"; and they fasten it with nails so that it cannot be moved.

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But you, Israel, my servant, Jacob, whom I have chosen, the offspring of Abraham, my friend;

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you whom I took from the ends of the earth, and called from its farthest corners, saying to you, "You are my servant, I have chosen you and not cast you off";

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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 with my victorious right hand.

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Behold, all who are incensed against you shall be put to shame and confounded; those who strive against you shall be as nothing and shall perish.

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You shall seek those who contend with you, but you shall not find them; those who war against you shall be as nothing at all.

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For I, the LORD your God, hold your right hand; it is I who say to you, "Fear not, I will help you."

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Fear not, you worm Jacob, you men of Israel! I will help you, says the LORD; your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel.

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Behold, I will make of you a threshing sledge, new, sharp, and having teeth; you shall thresh the mountains and crush them, and you shall make the hills like chaff;

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You shall winnow them and the wind shall carry them away, and the tempest shall scatter them. And you shall rejoice in the LORD; in the Holy One of Israel you shall glory.

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When the poor and needy seek water, and there is none, and their tongue is parched with thirst, I the LORD will answer them, I the God of Israel will not forsake them.

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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.

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I will put in the wilderness the cedar, the acacia, the myrtle, and the olive; I will set in the desert the cypress, the plane and the pine together;

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that men may see and know, may consider and understand together, that the hand of the LORD has done this, the Holy One of Israel has created it.

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Set forth your case, says the LORD; bring your proofs, says the King of Jacob.

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Let them bring them, and tell us what 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.

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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.

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Behold, you are nothing, and your work is nought; an abomination is he who chooses you.

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I stirred up one from the north, and he has come, from the rising of the sun, and he shall call on my name; he shall trample on rulers as on mortar, as the potter treads clay.

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Who declared it from the beginning, that we might know, and beforetime, that we might say, "He is right"? There was none who declared it, none who proclaimed, none who heard your words.

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I first have declared it to Zion, and I give to Jerusalem a herald of good tidings.

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But when I look there is no one; among these there is no counselor who, when I ask, gives an answer.

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Behold, they are all a delusion; their works are nothing; their molten images are empty wind.

Isaiah 42

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Behold my servant, whom I uphold, my chosen, in whom my soul delights; I have put my Spirit upon him, he will bring forth justice to the nations.

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He will not cry or lift up his voice, or make it heard in the street;

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a bruised reed he will not break, and a dimly burning wick he will not quench; he will faithfully bring forth justice.

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He will not fail or be discouraged till he has established justice in the earth; and the coastlands wait for his law.

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Thus says God, the LORD, who created the heavens and stretched them out, who spread forth the earth and what comes from it, who gives breath to the people upon it and spirit to those who walk in it:

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"I am the LORD, I have called you in righteousness, I have taken you by the hand and kept you; I have given you as a covenant to the people, a light to the nations,

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to open the eyes that are blind, to bring out the prisoners from the dungeon, from the prison those who sit in darkness.

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I am the LORD, that is my name; my glory I give to no other, nor my praise to graven images.

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Behold, the former things have come to pass, and new things I now declare; before they spring forth I tell you of them."

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Sing to the LORD a new song, his praise from the end of the earth! Let the sea roar and all that fills it, the coastlands and their inhabitants.

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Let the desert and its cities lift up their voice, the villages that Kedar inhabits; let the inhabitants of Sela sing for joy, let them shout from the top of the mountains.

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Let them give glory to the LORD, and declare his praise in the coastlands.

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The LORD goes forth like a mighty man, like a man of war he stirs up his fury; he cries out, he shouts aloud, he shows himself mighty against his foes.

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For a long time I have held my peace, I have kept still and restrained myself; now I will cry out like a woman in travail, I will gasp and pant.

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I will lay waste mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbage; I will turn the rivers into islands, and dry up the pools.

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And I will lead the blind in a way that they know not, in paths that they have not known I will guide them. I will turn the darkness before them into light, the rough places into level ground. These are the things I will do, and I will not forsake them.

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They shall be turned back and utterly put to shame, who trust in graven images, who say to molten images, "You are our gods."

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Hear, you deaf; and look, you blind, that you may see!

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Who is blind but my servant, or deaf as my messenger whom I send? Who is blind as my dedicated one, or blind as the servant of the LORD?

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He sees many things, but does not observe them; his ears are open, but he does not hear.

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The LORD was pleased, for his righteousness' sake, to magnify his law and make it glorious.

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But this is a people robbed and plundered, they are all of them trapped in holes and hidden in prisons; they have become a prey with none to rescue, a spoil with none to say, "Restore!"

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Who among you will give ear to this, will attend and listen for the time to come?

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Who gave up Jacob to the spoiler, and Israel to the robbers? Was it not the LORD, against whom we have sinned, in whose ways they would not walk, and whose law they would not obey?

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So he poured upon him the heat of his anger and the might of battle; it set him on fire round about, but he did not understand; it burned him, but he did not take it to heart.

Isaiah 43

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But now thus says the LORD, he who created you, O Jacob, he who formed you, O Israel: "Fear not, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by name, you are mine.

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When you pass through the waters I will be with you; and through the rivers, they shall not overwhelm you; when you walk through fire you shall not be burned, and the flame shall not consume you.

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For I am the LORD your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior. I give Egypt as your ransom, Ethiopia and Seba in exchange for you.

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Because you are precious in my eyes, and honored, and I love you, I give men in return for you, peoples in exchange for your life.

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Fear not, for I am with you; I will bring your offspring from the east, and from the west I will gather you;

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I will say to the north, Give up, and to the south, Do not withhold; bring my sons from afar and my daughters from the end of the earth,

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every one who is called by my name, whom I created for my glory, whom I formed and made."

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Bring forth the people who are blind, yet have eyes, who are deaf, yet have ears!

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Let all the nations gather together, and let the peoples assemble. Who among them can declare this, and show us the former things? Let them bring their witnesses to justify them, and let them hear and say, It is true.

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"You are my witnesses," says the LORD, "and my servant whom I have chosen, that you may know and believe me and understand that I am He. Before me no god was formed, nor shall there be any after me.

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I, I am the LORD, and besides me there is no savior.

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I declared and saved and proclaimed, when there was no strange god among you; and you are my witnesses," says the LORD.

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"I am God, and also henceforth I am He; there is none who can deliver from my hand; I work and who can hinder it?"

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Thus says the LORD, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: "For your sake I will send to Babylon and break down all the bars, and the shouting of the Chalde'ans will be turned to lamentations.

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I am the LORD, your Holy One, the Creator of Israel, your King."

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Thus says the LORD, who makes a way in the sea, a path in the mighty waters,

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who brings forth chariot and horse, army and warrior; they lie down, they cannot rise, they are extinguished, quenched like a wick:

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"Remember not the former things, nor consider the things of old.

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Behold, I am doing a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it? I will make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert.

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The wild beasts will honor me, the jackals and the ostriches; for I give water in the wilderness, rivers in the desert, to give drink to my chosen people,

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the people whom I formed for myself that they might declare my praise.

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"Yet you did not call upon me, O Jacob; but you have been weary of me, O Israel!

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You have not brought me your sheep for burnt offerings, or honored me with your sacrifices. I have not burdened you with offerings, or wearied you with frankincense.

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You have not bought me sweet cane with money, or satisfied me with the fat of your sacrifices. But you have burdened me with your sins, you have wearied me with your iniquities.

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"I, I am He who blots out your transgressions for my own sake, and I will not remember your sins.

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Put me in remembrance, let us argue together; set forth your case, that you may be proved right.

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Your first father sinned, and your mediators transgressed against me.

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Therefore I profaned the princes of the sanctuary, I delivered Jacob to utter destruction and Israel to reviling.

Isaiah 44

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"But now hear, O Jacob my servant, Israel whom I have chosen!

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Thus says the LORD who made you, who formed you from the womb and will help you: Fear not, O Jacob my servant, Jeshu'run whom I have chosen.

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For I will pour water on the thirsty land, and streams on the dry ground; I will pour my Spirit upon your descendants, and my blessing on your offspring.

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They shall spring up like grass amid waters, like willows by flowing streams.

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This one will say, 'I am the LORD's,' another will call himself by the name of Jacob, and another will write on his hand, 'The LORD's,' and surname himself by the name of Israel."

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Thus says the LORD, the King of Israel and his Redeemer, the LORD of hosts: "I am the first and I am the last; besides me there is no god.

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Who is like me? Let him proclaim it, let him declare and set it forth before me. Who has announced from of old the things to come? Let them tell us what is yet to be.

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Fear not, nor be afraid; have I not told you from of old and declared it? And you are my witnesses! Is there a God besides me? There is no Rock; I know not any."

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All who make idols are nothing, and the things they delight in do not profit; their witnesses neither see nor know, that they may be put to shame.

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Who fashions a god or casts an image, that is profitable for nothing?

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Behold, all his fellows shall be put to shame, and the craftsmen are but men; let them all assemble, let them stand forth, they shall be terrified, they shall be put to shame together.

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The ironsmith fashions it and works it over the coals; he shapes it with hammers, and forges it with his strong arm; he becomes hungry and his strength fails, he drinks no water and is faint.

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The carpenter stretches a line, he marks it out with a pencil; he fashions it with planes, and marks it with a compass; he shapes it into the figure of a man, with the beauty of a man, to dwell in a house.

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He cuts down cedars; or he chooses a holm tree or an oak and lets it grow strong among the trees of the forest; he plants a cedar and the rain nourishes it.

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Then it becomes fuel for a man; he takes a part of it and warms himself, he kindles a fire and bakes bread; also he makes a god and worships it, he makes it a graven image and falls down before it.

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Half of it he burns in the fire; over the half he eats flesh, he roasts meat and is satisfied; also he warms himself and says, "Aha, I am warm, I have seen the fire!"

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And the rest of it he makes into a god, his idol; and falls down to it and worships it; he prays to it and says, "Deliver me, for thou art my god!"

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They know not, nor do they discern; for he has shut their eyes, so that they cannot see, and their minds, so that they cannot understand.

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No one considers, nor is there knowledge or discernment to say, "Half of it I burned in the fire, I also baked bread on its coals, I roasted flesh and have eaten; and shall I make the residue of it an abomination? Shall I fall down before a block of wood?"

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He feeds on ashes; a deluded mind has led him astray, and he cannot deliver himself or say, "Is there not a lie in my right hand?"

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Remember these things, O Jacob, and Israel, for you are my servant; I formed you, you are my servant; O Israel, you will not be forgotten by me.

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I have swept away your transgressions like a cloud, and your sins like mist; return to me, for I have redeemed you.

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Sing, O heavens, for the LORD has done it; shout, O depths of the earth; break forth into singing, O mountains, O forest, and every tree in it! For the LORD has redeemed Jacob, and will be glorified in Israel.

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Thus says the LORD, your Redeemer, who formed you from the womb: "I am the LORD, who made all things, who stretched out the heavens alone, who spread out the earth--Who was with me? --

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who frustrates the omens of liars, and makes fools of diviners; who turns wise men back, and makes their knowledge foolish;

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who confirms the word of his servant, and performs the counsel of his messengers; who says of Jerusalem, 'She shall be inhabited,' and of the cities of Judah, 'They shall be built, and I will raise up their ruins';

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who says to the deep, 'Be dry, I will dry up your rivers';

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who says of Cyrus, 'He is my shepherd, and he shall fulfil all my purpose'; saying of Jerusalem, 'She shall be built,' and of the temple, 'Your foundation shall be laid.'"

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