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Yet now hear, O Jacob my servant, and Israel whom I have chosen. |
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Thus saith the LORD that made thee, and formed thee, help thee from the womb: Fear not, O Jacob My servant, and thou [Israel], whom I have chosen; |
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For I will pour water on the thirsty, and floods upon the dry ground; I will pour out my spirit upon thy seed, and my blessing upon your descendants. |
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And they will spring up among the grass like willows by the water. |
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One will say, `I am the Lord 'and the other will be called the name of Jacob; and another will write with his hand, `I am the LORD, 'and surname himself by the name of Israel. |
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Thus saith the LORD the King of Israel, and his redeemer the LORD of hosts: I am the first and I am the last; apart from me there is no God, |
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for who is like me? Let him speak, and declare it in order for me [all] with the time that I appointed the ancient people, or let the herald upcoming and future. |
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Do not be afraid and do not be afraid: have not I proclaim this and foretell? And you are my witnesses. Is there a God beside me? yea, there is no do not know.
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That make a graven image are all of them vanity; and their delectable things shall not profit, and they are their own witnesses to the fact. They do not see nor do they understand, and therefore will be confounded. |
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Who has formed a god, or molten a graven image that is profitable for nothing? |
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All involved in this shall be ashamed, for artists and they are of men; let all of them get together and become; they fear, and they shall be ashamed. |
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Smith makes an iron ax and works in the coals, hammers arrange it and works it with his strong arm until he is hungry, and his strength fails, he drinks no water and is faint. |
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Carpenter [selecting a tree], holds for him a line, a pointed instrument makes it an outline, then arrange its cutter and round it, and maketh it after the image of the beauty of a person, to put it in the house. |
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He cuts down cedars, and taketh the cypress and the oak, which among the trees in the forest, plants a tree, and the rain nourishes it. |
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This is a man to burn, and [part] of it he uses the fact that it was warm, and kindles a fire and bakes bread. And he maketh a god, and worships it; he makes an idol and falls down before it. |
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He burneth part thereof in the fire; with part cooks the meat for food, roasts roast and eat your fill, and also warms himself and says' well, I warmed up; I felt the fire. " |
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And the rest of it he makes a god, his idol, worships him, falls down before it and prays to it and says, `Deliver me, for you are my god. ' |
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They have not known nor understood: for he hath shut their eyes to not see, [and] their hearts, that they can not understand. |
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And he did not take this to heart, and neither is there knowledge nor understanding to say: 'I burned half of it in the fire and on its coals baked bread, roasted meat and eaten; And the residue thereof shall I make an abomination? shall I fall down a piece of wood? ' |
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He feeds on ashes; deceived heart has him astray, and he can not deliver his soul and say, `not a lie in my right hand? '
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Remember these, O Jacob and Israel, for thou art my servant; I formed you, you are my servant, Israel, do not forget me. |
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I have blotted out thy iniquities as a mist, and your sins like a cloud; Return to Me, for I have redeemed you. |
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Sing, O heavens, for the Lord has done it. Shout, you depths of the earth; Blast away with joy, mountain, forest, and every tree in it; For the LORD has redeemed Jacob, and glorified himself in Israel. |
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Thus says the LORD, your Redeemer, who formed you from the womb: I am the Lord, Who created all things, one stretched out the heavens, and spread out the earth by His power, |
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Who frustrates the signs of false prophets and finds madness wizards, sages chases back and makes their knowledge foolish, |
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That confirms the word of his servant, and performeth the counsel of his messengers, who says of Jerusalem, Thou shalt inhabited ', and the cities of Judah, Ye shall be built, and its ruins I will raise up' |
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That abyss says, `issohni '! and I will dry up thy rivers, |
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Who says of Cyrus, My shepherd, and he shall perform all My pleasure and say to Jerusalem, `You shall be built! ' and to the temple, Thou shalt founded '! |
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