Isaiah 42: 10 - 44: 6
| 10Sing to the LORD a new song, |
| and his praise from the end of the earth, |
| you who go down to the sea, |
| and all that is therein, |
| the islands and their inhabitants. |
| 11Let the wilderness and its cities raise their voices, |
| with the villages that Kedar inhabits. |
| Let the inhabitants of Sela sing. |
| Let them shout from the top of the mountains! |
| 12Let them give glory to the LORD, |
| and declare his praise in the islands. |
| 13The LORD will go out like a mighty man. |
| He will stir up zeal like a man of war. |
| He will raise a war cry. |
| Yes, he will shout aloud. |
| He will triumph over his enemies. |
| 14“I have been silent a long time. |
| I have been quiet and restrained myself. |
| Now I will cry out like a travailing woman. I will both gasp and pant. |
| 15I will destroy mountains and hills, |
| and dry up all their herbs. |
| I will make the rivers islands, |
| and will dry up the pools. |
| 16I will bring the blind by a way that they don’t know. |
| I will lead them in paths that they don’t know. |
| I will make darkness light before them, |
| and crooked places straight. |
| I will do these things, |
| and I will not forsake them. |
| 17“Those who trust in engraved images, |
| who tell molten images, |
| ‘You are our gods,’ |
| will be turned back. |
| They will be utterly disappointed. |
| 18“Hear, you deaf, |
| and look, you blind, |
| that you may see. |
| 19Who is blind, but my servant? |
| Or who is as deaf as my messenger whom I send? |
| Who is as blind as he who is at peace, |
| and as blind as the LORD’s servant? |
| 20You see many things, but don’t observe. |
| His ears are open, but he doesn’t listen. |
| 21It pleased the LORD, for his righteousness’ sake, to magnify the law |
| and make it honourable. |
| 22But this is a robbed and plundered people. |
| All of them are snared in holes, |
| and they are hidden in prisons. |
| They have become captives, and no one delivers, |
| and a plunder, and no one says, ‘Restore them!’ |
| 23Who is there amongst you who will give ear to this? |
| Who will listen and hear for the time to come? |
| 24Who gave Jacob as plunder, |
| and Israel to the robbers? |
| Didn’t the LORD, he against whom we have sinned? |
| For they would not walk in his ways, |
| and they disobeyed his law. |
| 25Therefore he poured the fierceness of his anger on him, |
| and the strength of battle. |
| It set him on fire all around, but he didn’t know. |
| It burnt him, but he didn’t take it to heart.” |
| 1But now the LORD who created you, Jacob, |
| and he who formed you, Israel, says: |
| “Don’t be afraid, for I have redeemed you. |
| I have called you by your name. |
| You are mine. |
| 2When you pass through the waters, I will be with you, |
| and through the rivers, they will not overflow you. |
| When you walk through the fire, you will not be burnt, |
| and flame will not scorch you. |
| 3For I am the LORD your God, |
| the Holy One of Israel, |
| your Saviour. |
| I have given Egypt as your ransom, |
| Ethiopia and Seba in your place. |
| 4Since you have been precious and honoured in my sight, |
| and I have loved you, |
| therefore I will give people in your place, |
| and nations instead of your life. |
| 5Don’t be afraid, for I am with you. |
| I will bring your offspring from the east, |
| and gather you from the west. |
| 6I will tell the north, ‘Give them up!’ |
| and tell the south, ‘Don’t hold them back! |
| Bring my sons from far away, |
| and my daughters from the ends of the earth— |
| 7everyone who is called by my name, |
| and whom I have created for my glory, |
| whom I have formed, |
| yes, whom I have made.’” |
| 8Bring out the blind people who have eyes, |
| and the deaf who have ears. |
| 9Let all the nations be gathered together, |
| and let the peoples be assembled. |
| Who amongst them can declare this, |
| and show us former things? |
| Let them bring their witnesses, that they may be justified, |
| or let them hear, and say, “That is true.” |
| 10“You are my witnesses,” says the LORD, |
| “With my servant whom I have chosen; |
| that you may know and believe me, |
| and understand that I am he. |
| Before me there was no God formed, |
| neither will there be after me. |
| 11I myself am the LORD. |
| Besides me, there is no saviour. |
| 12I have declared, I have saved, and I have shown, |
| and there was no strange god amongst you. |
| Therefore you are my witnesses”, |
| says the LORD, “and I am God. |
| 13Yes, since the day was, I am he. |
| There is no one who can deliver out of my hand. |
| I will work, and who can hinder it?” |
| 14The LORD, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel says: “For your sake, I have sent to Babylon, and I will bring all of them down as fugitives, even the Chaldeans, in the ships of their rejoicing. 15I am the LORD, your Holy One, the Creator of Israel, your King.” |
| 16The LORD, who makes a way in the sea, |
| and a path in the mighty waters, |
| 17who brings out the chariot and horse, |
| the army and the mighty man |
| (they lie down together, they shall not rise; |
| they are extinct, they are quenched like a wick) says: |
| 18“Don’t remember the former things, |
| and don’t consider the things of old. |
| 19Behold, I will do a new thing. |
| It springs out now. |
| Don’t you know it? |
| I will even make a way in the wilderness, |
| and rivers in the desert. |
| 20The animals of the field, the jackals and the ostriches, shall honour me, |
| because I give water in the wilderness and rivers in the desert, |
| to give drink to my people, my chosen, |
| 21the people which I formed for myself, |
| that they might declare my praise. |
| 22Yet you have not called on me, Jacob; |
| but you have been weary of me, Israel. |
| 23You have not brought me any of your sheep for burnt offerings, |
| neither have you honoured me with your sacrifices. |
| I have not burdened you with offerings, |
| nor wearied you with frankincense. |
| 24You have bought me no sweet cane with money, |
| nor have you filled me with the fat of your sacrifices, |
| but you have burdened me with your sins. |
| You have wearied me with your iniquities. |
| 25I, even I, am he who blots out your transgressions for my own sake; |
| and I will not remember your sins. |
| 26Put me in remembrance. |
| Let us plead together. |
| Declare your case, |
| that you may be justified. |
| 27Your first father sinned, |
| and your teachers have transgressed against me. |
| 28Therefore I will profane the princes of the sanctuary; |
| and I will make Jacob a curse, |
| and Israel an insult.” |
| 1Yet listen now, Jacob my servant, |
| and Israel, whom I have chosen. |
| 2This is what the LORD who made you, |
| and formed you from the womb, |
| who will help you says: |
| “Don’t be afraid, Jacob my servant; |
| and you, Jeshurun, whom I have chosen. |
| 3For I will pour water on him who is thirsty, |
| and streams on the dry ground. |
| I will pour my Spirit on your descendants, |
| and my blessing on your offspring: |
| 4and they will spring up amongst the grass, |
| as willows by the watercourses. |
| 5One will say, ‘I am the LORD’s;’ |
| and another will be called by the name of Jacob; |
| and another will write with his hand ‘to the LORD,’ |
| and honour the name of Israel.” |
| 6This is what the LORD, the King of Israel, |
| and his Redeemer, the LORD of Armies, says: |
| “I am the first, and I am the last; |
| and besides me there is no God. |
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