Isaiah, starting at chapter 43
{43:1} But now thus says Yahweh who created you, Jacob, and he who
formed you, Israel: Don't be afraid, for I have redeemed you; I have
called you by your name, you are mine. {43:2} When you pass through
the waters, I will be with you; and through the rivers, they shall not
overflow you: when you walk through the fire, you shall not be burned,
neither shall the flame kindle on you. {43:3} For I am Yahweh your
God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior; I have given Egypt as your
ransom, Ethiopia and Seba in your place. {43:4} Since you have been
precious in my sight, [and] honorable, and I have loved you; therefore
will I give men in your place, and peoples instead of your life.
{43:5} Don't be afraid; for I am with you: I will bring your seed from
the east, and gather you from the west; {43:6} I will tell the north,
Give up; and to the south, Don't keep back; bring my sons from far,
and my daughters from the end of the earth; {43:7} everyone who is
called by my name, and whom I have created for my glory, whom I have
formed, yes, whom I have made. {43:8} Bring forth the blind people who
have eyes, and the deaf who have ears. {43:9} Let all the nations be
gathered together, and let the peoples be assembled: who among 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, It
is truth. {43:10} You are my witnesses, says Yahweh, and 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 shall there
be after me. {43:11} I, even I, am Yahweh; and besides me there is no
savior. {43:12} I have declared, and I have saved, and I have shown;
and there was no strange [god] among you: therefore you are my
witnesses, says Yahweh, and I am God. {43:13} Yes, since the day was I
am he; and there is none who can deliver out of my hand: I will work,
and who can hinder it? {43:14} Thus says Yahweh, your Redeemer, the
Holy One of Israel: For your sake I have sent to Babylon, and I will
bring down all of them as fugitives, even the Chaldeans, in the ships
of their rejoicing. {43:15} I am Yahweh, your Holy One, the Creator of
Israel, your King. {43:16} Thus says Yahweh, who makes a way in the
sea, and a path in the mighty waters; {43:17} who brings forth the
chariot and horse, the army and the mighty man (they lie down
together, they shall not rise; they are extinct, they are quenched as
a wick): {43:18} Don't remember the former things, neither consider
the things of old. {43:19} Behold, I will do a new thing; now shall it
spring forth; shall you not know it? I will even make a way in the
wilderness, and rivers in the desert. {43:20} The animals of the field
shall honor me, the jackals and the ostriches; because I give waters
in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert, to give drink to my
people, my chosen, {43:21} the people which I formed for myself, that
they might set forth my praise. {43:22} Yet you have not called on me,
Jacob; but you have been weary of me, Israel. {43:23} You have not
brought me of your sheep for burnt offerings; neither have you honored
me with your sacrifices. I have not burdened you with offerings, nor
wearied you with frankincense. {43:24} You have bought me no sweet
cane with money, neither 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. {43:25} I, even I, am he who blots out your
transgressions for my own sake; and I will not remember your sins.
{43:26} Put me in remembrance; let us plead together: set you forth
[your cause], that you may be justified. {43:27} Your first father
sinned, and your teachers have transgressed against me. {43:28}
Therefore I will profane the princes of the sanctuary; and I will make
Jacob a curse, and Israel a reviling.
{44:1} Yet now hear, Jacob my servant, and Israel, who I have
chosen: {44:2} Thus says Yahweh who made you, and formed you from the
womb, who will help you: Don't be afraid, Jacob my servant; and you,
Jeshurun, whom I have chosen. {44:3} For I will pour water on him who
is thirsty, and streams on the dry ground; I will pour my Spirit on
your seed, and my blessing on your offspring: {44:4} and they shall
spring up among the grass, as willows by the watercourses. {44:5} One
shall say, I am Yahweh's; and another shall call [himself] by the name
of Jacob; and another shall subscribe with his hand to Yahweh, and
surname [himself] by the name of Israel. {44:6} Thus says Yahweh, the
King of Israel, and his Redeemer, Yahweh of Armies: I am the first,
and I am the last; and besides me there is no God. {44:7} Who, as I,
shall call, and shall declare it, and set it in order for me, since I
established the ancient people? and the things that are coming, and
that shall happen, let them declare. {44:8} Don't fear, neither be
afraid: haven't I declared to you of old, and shown it? You are my
witnesses. Is there a God besides me? Indeed, there is not. I don't
know any Rock. {44:9} Those who fashion an engraved image are all of
them vanity; and the things that they delight in shall not profit; and
their own witnesses don't see, nor know: that they may be
disappointed. {44:10} Who has fashioned a god, or molten an image that
is profitable for nothing? {44:11} Behold, all his fellows shall be
disappointed; and the workmen, they are of men: let them all be
gathered together, let them stand up; they shall fear, they shall be
put to shame together. {44:12} The smith [makes] an axe, and works in
the coals, and fashions it with hammers, and works it with his strong
arm: yes, he is hungry, and his strength fails; he drinks no water,
and is faint. {44:13} The carpenter stretches out a line; he marks it
out with a pencil; he shapes it with planes, and he marks it out with
the compasses, and shapes it after the figure of a man, according to
the beauty of a man, to dwell in a house. {44:14} He cuts down cedars
for himself, and takes the cypress and the oak, and strengthens for
himself one among the trees of the forest: he plants a fir tree, and
the rain nourishes it. {44:15} Then shall it be for a man to burn; and
he takes of it, and warms himself; yes, he kindles it, and bakes
bread: yes, he makes a god, and worships it; he makes it an engraved
image, and falls down to it. {44:16} He burns part of it in the fire;
with part of it he eats flesh; he roasts roast, and is satisfied; yes,
he warms himself, and says, Aha, I am warm, I have seen the fire.
{44:17} The residue of it he makes a god, even his engraved image; he
falls down to it and worships, and prays to it, and says, Deliver me;
for you are my god. {44:18} They don't know, neither do they consider:
for he has shut their eyes, that they can't see; and their hearts,
that they can't understand. {44:19} None calls to mind, neither is
there knowledge nor understanding to say, I have burned part of it in
the fire; yes, also I have baked bread on the coals of it; I have
roasted flesh and eaten it: and shall I make the residue of it an
abomination? shall I fall down to the stock of a tree? {44:20} He
feeds on ashes; a deceived heart has turned him aside; and he can't
deliver his soul, nor say, Is there not a lie in my right hand?
{44:21} Remember these things, Jacob, and Israel; for you are my
servant: I have formed you; you are my servant: Israel, you shall not
be forgotten by me. {44:22} I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, your
transgressions, and, as a cloud, your sins: return to me; for I have
redeemed you. {44:23} Sing, you heavens, for Yahweh has done it;
shout, you lower parts of the earth; break forth into singing, you
mountains, O forest, and every tree therein: for Yahweh has redeemed
Jacob, and will glorify himself in Israel. {44:24} Thus says Yahweh,
your Redeemer, and he who formed you from the womb: I am Yahweh, who
makes all things; who stretches forth the heavens alone; who spreads
abroad the earth (who is with me?); {44:25} who frustrates the signs
of the liars, and makes diviners mad; who turns wise men backward, and
makes their knowledge foolish; {44:26} 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 the waste places of it; {44:27}
who says to the deep, Be dry, and I will dry up your rivers; {44:28}
Who says of Cyrus, [He is] my shepherd, and shall perform all my
pleasure, even saying of Jerusalem, She shall be built; and of the
temple, Your foundation shall be laid.
{45:1} Thus says Yahweh to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand
I have held, to subdue nations before him, and I will loose the loins
of kings; to open the doors before him, and the gates shall not be
shut: {45:2} I will go before you, and make the rough places smooth; I
will break in pieces the doors of brass, and cut in sunder the bars of
iron; {45:3} and I will give you the treasures of darkness, and hidden
riches of secret places, that you may know that it is I, Yahweh, who
call you by your name, even the God of Israel. {45:4} For Jacob my
servant's sake, and Israel my chosen, I have called you by your name:
I have surnamed you, though you have not known me. {45:5} I am Yahweh,
and there is none else; besides me there is no God. I will gird you,
though you have not known me; {45:6} that they may know from the
rising of the sun, and from the west, that there is none besides me: I
am Yahweh, and there is no one else. {45:7} I form the light, and
create darkness; I make peace, and create evil. I am Yahweh, who does
all these things. {45:8} Distil, you heavens, from above, and let the
skies pour down righteousness: let the earth open, that it may bring
forth salvation, and let it cause righteousness to spring up together;
I, Yahweh, have created it. {45:9} Woe to him who strives with his
Maker--a potsherd among the potsherds of the earth! Shall the clay ask
him who fashions it, "What are you making?" or your work, "He has no
hands?" {45:10} Woe to him who says to a father, "What have you become
the father of?" or to a woman, "With what do you travail?" {45:11}
Thus says Yahweh, the Holy One of Israel, and his Maker: Ask me of the
things that are to come; concerning my sons, and concerning the work
of my hands, command you me. {45:12} I have made the earth, and
created man on it: I, even my hands, have stretched out the heavens;
and all their host have I commanded. {45:13} I have raised him up in
righteousness, and I will make straight all his ways: he shall build
my city, and he shall let my exiles go free, not for price nor reward,
says Yahweh of Armies. {45:14} Thus says Yahweh: "The labor of Egypt,
and the merchandise of Ethiopia, and the Sabeans, men of stature,
shall come over to you, and they shall be yours. They shall go after
you. In chains they shall come over; and they shall fall down to you.
They shall make supplication to you: 'Surely God is in you; and there
is none else, there is no other god. {45:15} Most assuredly you are a
God who hid yourself, God of Israel, the Savior.'
{45:16} They shall be disappointed, yes, confounded, all of them;
they shall go into confusion together who are makers of idols. {45:17}
[But] Israel shall be saved by Yahweh with an everlasting salvation:
you shall not be disappointed nor confounded world without end.
{45:18} For thus says Yahweh who created the heavens, the God who
formed the earth and made it, who established it and didn't create it
a waste, who formed it to be inhabited: I am Yahweh; and there is no
one else. {45:19} I have not spoken in secret, in a place of the land
of darkness; I didn't say to the seed of Jacob, Seek you me in vain:
I, Yahweh, speak righteousness, I declare things that are right.
{45:20} Assemble yourselves and come; draw near together, you who have
escaped from the nations: they have no knowledge who carry the wood of
their engraved image, and pray to a god that can't save. {45:21}
Declare you, and bring [it] forth; yes, let them take counsel
together: who has shown this from ancient time? who has declared it of
old? Haven't I, Yahweh? and there is no God else besides me, a just
God and a Savior; there is no one besides me. {45:22} Look to me, and
be you saved, all the ends of the earth; for I am God, and there is
none else. {45:23} By myself have I sworn, the word is gone forth from
my mouth [in] righteousness, and shall not return, that to me every
knee shall bow, every tongue shall swear. {45:24} Only in Yahweh, it
is said of me, is righteousness and strength; even to him shall men
come; and all those who were incensed against him shall be
disappointed. {45:25} In Yahweh shall all the seed of Israel be
justified, and shall glory.
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