Presents pamphlet #6441
The Book of
Isaiah
Chapter 41
Isaiah 41:1 Keep silence before me, O islands; and
let the people renew their strength: let them come near; then let them
speak: let us come near together to judgment.
2 Who raised up the righteous man from the east,
called him to his foot, gave the nations before him, and made him rule
over kings? he gave them as the dust to his sword, and as driven stubble
to his bow.
3 He pursued them, and passed safely; even by the
way that he had not gone with his feet.
4 Who hath wrought and done it, calling the generations
from the beginning? I the LORD, the first, and with the last; I am he.
5 The isles saw it, and feared; the ends of the
earth were afraid, drew near, and came.
6 They helped every one his neighbour; and every
one said to his brother, Be of good courage.
7 So the carpenter encouraged the goldsmith, and
he that smootheth with the hammer him that smote the anvil, saying, It
is ready for the sodering: and he fastened it with nails, that it should
not be moved.
8 But thou, Israel, art my servant, Jacob whom
I have chosen, the seed of Abraham my friend.
9 Thou whom I have taken from the ends of the earth,
and called thee from the chief men thereof, and said unto thee, Thou art
my servant; I have chosen thee, and not cast thee away.
10 Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed;
for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I
will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness.
11 Behold, all they that were incensed against
thee shall be ashamed and confounded: they shall be as nothing; and they
that strive with thee shall perish.
12 Thou shalt seek them, and shalt not find them,
even them that contended with thee: they that war against thee shall be
as nothing, and as a thing of nought.
13 For I the LORD thy God will hold thy right hand,
saying unto thee, Fear not; I will help thee.
14 Fear not, thou worm Jacob, and ye men of Israel;
I will help thee, saith the LORD, and thy redeemer, the Holy One of Israel.
15 Behold, I will make thee a new sharp threshing
instrument having teeth: thou shalt thresh the mountains, and beat them
small, and shalt make the hills as chaff.
16 Thou shalt fan them, and the wind shall carry
them away, and the whirlwind shall scatter them: and thou shalt rejoice
in the LORD, and shalt glory in the Holy One of Israel.
17 When the poor and needy seek water, and there
is none, and their tongue faileth for thirst, I the LORD will hear them,
I the God of Israel will not forsake them.
18 I will open rivers in high places, and fountains
in the midst of the valleys: I will make the wilderness a pool of water,
and the dry land springs of water.
19 I will plant in the wilderness the cedar, the
shittah tree, and the myrtle, and the oil tree; I will set in the desert
the fir tree, and the pine, and the box tree together:
20 That they may see, and know, and consider, and
understand together, that the hand of the LORD hath done this, and the
Holy One of Israel hath created it.
21 Produce your cause, saith the LORD; bring forth
your strong reasons, saith the King of Jacob.
22 Let them bring them forth, and shew us what
shall happen: let them shew the former things, what they be, that we may
consider them, and know the latter end of them; or declare us things for
to come.
23 Shew the things that are to come hereafter,
that we may know that ye are gods: yea, do good, or do evil, that we may
be dismayed, and behold it together.
24 Behold, ye are of nothing, and your work of
nought: an abomination is he that chooseth you.
25 I have raised up one from the north, and he
shall come: from the rising of the sun shall he call upon my name: and
he shall come upon princes as upon morter, and as the potter treadeth clay.
26 Who hath declared from the beginning, that we
may know? and beforetime, that we may say, He is righteous? yea, there
is none that sheweth, yea, there is none that declareth, yea, there is
none that heareth your words.
27 The first shall say to Zion, Behold, behold
them: and I will give to Jerusalem one that bringeth good tidings.
28 For I beheld, and there was no man; even among
them, and there was no counsellor, that, when I asked of them, could answer
a word.
29 Behold, they are all vanity; their works are
nothing: their molten images are wind and confusion.
To study the Bible is the noblest of all pursuits;
to understand it, the highest of all goals.
We pray that with the guidance of the Holy
Spirit, you accomplish both.
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