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# Chapter 41
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1. "Keep silence before Me, O coastlands,
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And let the people renew their strength!
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Let them come near, then let them speak;
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Let us come near together for judgment.
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2. "Who raised up one from the east?
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Who in righteousness called him to His feet?
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Who gave the nations before him,
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And made him rule over kings?
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Who gave them as the dust to his sword,
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As driven stubble to his bow?
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3. Who pursued them, and passed safely
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By the way that he had not gone with his feet?
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4. Who has performed and done it,
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Calling the generations from the beginning?
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'I, the Lord, am the first;
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And with the last I am He.' "
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5. The coastlands saw it and feared,
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The ends of the earth were afraid;
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They drew near and came.
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6. Everyone helped his neighbor,
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And said to his brother,
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"Be of good courage!"
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7. So the craftsman encouraged the goldsmith;
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He who smooths with the hammer inspired him who strikes the anvil,
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Saying, "It is ready for the soldering";
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Then he fastened it with pegs,
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That it might not totter.
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8. "But you, Israel, are My servant,
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Jacob whom I have chosen,
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The descendants of Abraham My friend.
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9. You whom I have taken from the ends of the earth,
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And called from its farthest regions,
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And said to you,
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'You are My servant,
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I have chosen you and have not cast you away:
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10. Fear not, for I am with you;
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Be not dismayed, for I am your God.
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I will strengthen you,
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Yes, I will help you,
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I will uphold you with My righteous right hand.'
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11. "Behold, all those who were incensed against you
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Shall be ashamed and disgraced;
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They shall be as nothing,
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And those who strive with you shall perish.
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12. You shall seek them and not find them--
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Those who contended with you.
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Those who war against you
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Shall be as nothing,
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As a nonexistent thing.
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13. For I, the Lord your God, will hold your right hand,
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Saying to you, 'Fear not, I will help you.'
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14. "Fear not, you worm Jacob,
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You men of Israel!
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I will help you," says the Lord
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And your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel.
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15. "Behold, I will make you into a new threshing sledge with sharp teeth;
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You shall thresh the mountains and beat them small,
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And make the hills like chaff.
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16. You shall winnow them, the wind shall carry them away,
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And the whirlwind shall scatter them;
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You shall rejoice in the Lord,
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And glory in the Holy One of Israel.
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17. "The poor and needy seek water, but there is none,
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Their tongues fail for thirst.
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I, the Lord, will hear them;
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I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them.
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18. I will open rivers in desolate heights,
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And fountains in the midst of the valleys;
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I will make the wilderness a pool of water,
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And the dry land springs of water.
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19. I will plant in the wilderness the cedar and the acacia tree,
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The myrtle and the oil tree;
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I will set in the desert the cypress tree and the pine
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And the box tree together,
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20. That they may see and know,
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And consider and understand together,
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That the hand of the Lord has done this,
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And the Holy One of Israel has created it.The Futility of Idols
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21. "Present your case," says the Lord.
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"Bring forth your strong reasons," says the King of Jacob.
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22. "Let them bring forth and show us what will happen;
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Let them show the former things, what they were,
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That we may consider them,
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And know the latter end of them;
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Or declare to us things to come.
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23. Show the things that are to come hereafter,
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That we may know that you are gods;
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Yes, do good or do evil,
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That we may be dismayed and see it together.
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24. Indeed you are nothing,
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And your work is nothing;
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He who chooses you is an abomination.
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25. "I have raised up one from the north,
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And he shall come;
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From the rising of the sun he shall call on My name;
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And he shall come against princes as though mortar,
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As the potter treads clay.
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26. Who has declared from the beginning, that we may know?
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And former times, that we may say, 'He is righteous'?
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Surely there is no one who shows,
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Surely there is no one who declares,
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Surely there is no one who hears your words.
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27. The first time I said to Zion,
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'Look, there they are!'
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And I will give to Jerusalem one who brings good tidings.
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28. For I looked, and there was no man;
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I looked among them, but there was no counselor,
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Who, when I asked of them, could answer a word.
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29. Indeed they are all worthless;
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Their works are nothing;
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Their molded images are wind and confusion.
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