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Daily Reading

    Isaiah 40:1-48:22

    C Bible Chapter 4040:1 Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God.
    40:2 Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that
    her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned: for
    she hath received of the LORD'S hand double for all her sins.

    40:3 The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye
    the way of the LORD, make straight in the desert a highway for
    our God.

    40:4 Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill
    shall be made low: and the crooked shall be made straight, and
    the rough places plain:

    40:5 And the glory of the LORD shall be revealed, and all flesh
    shall see it together: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken
    it.

    40:6 The voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry? All
    flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the
    flower of the field:

    40:7 The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: because the spirit
    of the LORD bloweth upon it: surely the people is grass.

    40:8 The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our
    God shall stand for ever.

    40:9 O Zion, that bringest good tidings, get thee up into the
    high mountain; O Jerusalem, that bringest good tidings, lift up
    thy voice with strength; lift it up, be not afraid; say unto
    the cities of Judah, Behold your God!

    40:10 Behold, the Lord GOD will come with strong hand, and his
    arm shall rule for him: behold, his reward is with him, and
    his work before him.

    40:11 He shall feed his flock like a shepherd: he shall gather
    the lambs with his arm, and carry them in his bosom, and
    shall gently lead those that are with young.

    40:12 Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand,
    and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust
    of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales,
    and the hills in a balance?

    40:13 Who hath directed the Spirit of the LORD, or being his
    counsellor hath taught him?

    40:14 With whom took he counsel, and who instructed him, and
    taught him in the path of judgment, and taught him knowledge,
    and shewed to him the way of understanding?

    40:15 Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are
    counted as the small dust of the balance: behold, he taketh up
    the isles as a very little thing.

    40:16 And Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, nor the beasts
    thereof sufficient for a burnt offering.

    40:17 All nations before him are as nothing; and they are
    counted to him less than nothing, and vanity.

    40:18 To whom then will ye liken God? or what likeness will ye
    compare unto him?

    40:19 The workman melteth a graven image, and the goldsmith
    spreadeth it over with gold, and casteth silver chains.

    40:20 He that is so impoverished that he hath no oblation
    chooseth a tree that will not rot; he seeketh unto him a
    cunning workman to prepare a graven image, that shall not be
    moved.

    40:21 Have ye not known? have ye not heard? hath it not been
    told you from the beginning? have ye not understood from the
    foundations of the earth?

    40:22 It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and
    the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth
    out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent
    to dwell in:

    40:23 That bringeth the princes to nothing; he maketh the judges
    of the earth as vanity.

    40:24 Yea, they shall not be planted; yea, they shall not be
    sown: yea, their stock shall not take root in the earth: and he
    shall also blow upon them, and they shall wither, and the
    whirlwind shall take them away as stubble.

    40:25 To whom then will ye liken me, or shall I be equal? saith
    the Holy One.

    40:26 Lift up your eyes on high, and behold who hath created
    these things, that bringeth out their host by number: he
    calleth them all by names by the greatness of his might, for
    that he is strong in power; not one faileth.

    40:27 Why sayest thou, O Jacob, and speakest, O Israel, My way
    is hid from the LORD, and my judgment is passed over from my
    God?

    40:28 Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, that the
    everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the
    earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? there is no searching
    of his understanding.

    40:29 He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no
    might he increaseth strength.

    40:30 Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young
    men shall utterly fall:

    40:31 But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their
    strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall
    run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.

    C Bible Chapter 4141:1 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.
    41:2 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.

    41:3 He pursued them, and passed safely; even by the way
    that he had not gone with his feet.

    41:4 Who hath wrought and done it, calling the generations
    from the beginning? I the LORD, the first, and with the last; I
    am he.

    41:5 The isles saw it, and feared; the ends of the earth were
    afraid, drew near, and came.

    41:6 They helped every one his neighbour; and every one said
    to his brother, Be of good courage.

    41:7 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.

    41:8 But thou, Israel, art my servant, Jacob whom I have
    chosen, the seed of Abraham my friend.

    41:9 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.

    41:10 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.

    41:11 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.

    41:12 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.

    41:13 For I the LORD thy God will hold thy right hand, saying
    unto thee, Fear not; I will help thee.

    41:14 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.

    41:15 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.

    41:16 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.

    41:17 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.

    41:18 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.

    41:19 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:

    41:20 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.

    41:21 Produce your cause, saith the LORD; bring forth your
    strong reasons, saith the King of Jacob.

    41:22 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.

    41:23 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.

    41:24 Behold, ye are of nothing, and your work of nought: an
    abomination is he that chooseth you.

    41:25 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.

    41:26 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.

    41:27 The first shall say to Zion, Behold, behold them: and I
    will give to Jerusalem one that bringeth good tidings.

    41:28 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.

    41:29 Behold, they are all vanity; their works are nothing:
    their molten images are wind and confusion.

    C Bible Chapter 4242:1 Behold my servant, whom I uphold; mine elect, [in whom] my soul delighteth; I have put my spirit upon him: he shall bring forth judgment to the Gentiles.
    42:2 He shall not cry, nor lift up, nor cause his voice to be
    heard in the street.

    42:3 A bruised reed shall he not break, and the smoking flax
    shall he not quench: he shall bring forth judgment unto truth.

    42:4 He shall not fail nor be discouraged, till he have set
    judgment in the earth: and the isles shall wait for his law.

    42:5 Thus saith God the LORD, he that created the heavens, and
    stretched them out; he that spread forth the earth, and that
    which cometh out of it; he that giveth breath unto the people
    upon it, and spirit to them that walk therein:

    42:6 I the LORD have called thee in righteousness, and will hold
    thine hand, and will keep thee, and give thee for a covenant of
    the people, for a light of the Gentiles;

    42:7 To open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the
    prison, and them that sit in darkness out of the prison
    house.

    42:8 I am the LORD: that is my name: and my glory will I not
    give to another, neither my praise to graven images.

    42:9 Behold, the former things are come to pass, and new things
    do I declare: before they spring forth I tell you of them.

    42:10 Sing unto the LORD a new song, and his praise from the
    end of the earth, ye that go down to the sea, and all that is
    therein; the isles, and the inhabitants thereof.

    42:11 Let the wilderness and the cities thereof lift up their
    voice
    , the villages that Kedar doth inhabit: let the
    inhabitants of the rock sing, let them shout from the top of
    the mountains.

    42:12 Let them give glory unto the LORD, and declare his praise
    in the islands.

    42:13 The LORD shall go forth as a mighty man, he shall stir up
    jealousy like a man of war: he shall cry, yea, roar; he shall
    prevail against his enemies.

    42:14 I have long time holden my peace; I have been still, and
    refrained myself: now will I cry like a travailing woman; I
    will destroy and devour at once.

    42:15 I will make waste mountains and hills, and dry up all
    their herbs; and I will make the rivers islands, and I will dry
    up the pools.

    42:16 And I will bring the blind by a way that they knew not;
    I will lead them in paths that they have not known: I will
    make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight.
    These things will I do unto them, and not forsake them.

    42:17 They shall be turned back, they shall be greatly ashamed,
    that trust in graven images, that say to the molten images, Ye
    are our gods.

    42:18 Hear, ye deaf; and look, ye blind, that ye may see.

    42:19 Who is blind, but my servant? or deaf, as my messenger
    that I sent? who is blind as he that is perfect, and
    blind as the LORD'S servant?

    42:20 Seeing many things, but thou observest not; opening the
    ears, but he heareth not.

    42:21 The LORD is well pleased for his righteousness' sake; he
    will magnify the law, and make it honourable.

    42:22 But this is a people robbed and spoiled; they are all
    of them snared in holes, and they are hid in prison houses:
    they are for a prey, and none delivereth; for a spoil, and none
    saith, Restore.

    42:23 Who among you will give ear to this? who will hearken
    and hear for the time to come?

    42:24 Who gave Jacob for a spoil, and Israel to the robbers? did
    not the LORD, he against whom we have sinned? for they would
    not walk in his ways, neither were they obedient unto his law.

    42:25 Therefore he hath poured upon him the fury of his anger,
    and the strength of battle: and it hath set him on fire round
    about, yet he knew not; and it burned him, yet he laid it not
    to heart.

    C Bible Chapter 4343:1 But now thus saith the LORD that created thee, O Jacob, and he that formed thee, O Israel, Fear not: for I have redeemed thee, I have called [thee] by thy name; thou [art] mine.
    43:2 When thou passest through the waters, I will be with
    thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee:
    when thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned;
    neither shall the flame kindle upon thee.

    43:3 For I am the LORD thy God, the Holy One of Israel, thy
    Saviour: I gave Egypt for thy ransom, Ethiopia and Seba for
    thee.

    43:4 Since thou wast precious in my sight, thou hast been
    honourable, and I have loved thee: therefore will I give men
    for thee, and people for thy life.

    43:5 Fear not: for I am with thee: I will bring thy seed from
    the east, and gather thee from the west;

    43:6 I will say to the north, Give up; and to the south, Keep
    not back: bring my sons from far, and my daughters from the
    ends of the earth;

    43:7 Even every one that is called by my name: for I have
    created him for my glory, I have formed him; yea, I have made
    him.

    43:8 Bring forth the blind people that have eyes, and the deaf
    that have ears.

    43:9 Let all the nations be gathered together, and let the
    people be assembled: who among them can declare this, and shew
    us former things? let them bring forth their witnesses, that
    they may be justified: or let them hear, and say, It is
    truth.

    43:10 Ye are my witnesses, saith the LORD, and my servant whom
    I have chosen: that ye 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 the LORD; and beside me there is no
    saviour.

    43:12 I have declared, and have saved, and I have shewed, when
    there was no strange god among you: therefore ye are my
    witnesses, saith the LORD, that I am God.

    43:13 Yea, before the day was I am he; and there is none
    that can deliver out of my hand: I will work, and who shall let
    it?

    43:14 Thus saith the LORD, your redeemer, the Holy One of
    Israel; For your sake I have sent to Babylon, and have brought
    down all their nobles, and the Chaldeans, whose cry is in the
    ships.

    43:15 I am the LORD, your Holy One, the creator of Israel,
    your King.

    43:16 Thus saith the LORD, which maketh a way in the sea, and a
    path in the mighty waters;

    43:17 Which bringeth forth the chariot and horse, the army and
    the power; they shall lie down together, they shall not rise:
    they are extinct, they are quenched as tow.

    43:18 Remember ye not the former things, neither consider the
    things of old.

    43:19 Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth;
    shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness,
    and rivers in the desert.

    43:20 The beast of the field shall honour me, the dragons and
    the owls: because I give waters in the wilderness, and rivers
    in the desert, to give drink to my people, my chosen.

    43:21 This people have I formed for myself; they shall shew
    forth my praise.

    43:22 But thou hast not called upon me, O Jacob; but thou hast
    been weary of me, O Israel.

    43:23 Thou hast not brought me the small cattle of thy burnt
    offerings; neither hast thou honoured me with thy sacrifices. I
    have not caused thee to serve with an offering, nor wearied
    thee with incense.

    43:24 Thou hast bought me no sweet cane with money, neither hast
    thou filled me with the fat of thy sacrifices: but thou hast
    made me to serve with thy sins, thou hast wearied me with thine
    iniquities.

    43:25 I, even I, am he that blotteth out thy transgressions
    for mine own sake, and will not remember thy sins.

    43:26 Put me in remembrance: let us plead together: declare
    thou, that thou mayest be justified.

    43:27 Thy first father hath sinned, and thy teachers have
    transgressed against me.

    43:28 Therefore I have profaned the princes of the sanctuary,
    and have given Jacob to the curse, and Israel to reproaches.

    C Bible Chapter 4444:1 Yet now hear, O Jacob my servant; and Israel, whom I have chosen:
    44:2 Thus saith the LORD that made thee, and formed thee from
    the womb, which will help thee; Fear not, O Jacob, my
    servant; and thou, Jesurun, whom I have chosen.

    44:3 For I will pour water upon him that is thirsty, and floods
    upon the dry ground: I will pour my spirit upon thy seed, and
    my blessing upon thine offspring:

    44:4 And they shall spring up as among the grass, as willows
    by the water courses.

    44:5 One shall say, I am the LORD'S; and another shall call
    himself by the name of Jacob; and another shall subscribe
    with his hand unto the LORD, and surname himself by the
    name of Israel.

    44:6 Thus saith the LORD the King of Israel, and his redeemer
    the LORD of hosts; I am the first, and I am the last; and
    beside me there is no God.

    44:7 And who, as I, shall call, and shall declare it, and set it
    in order for me, since I appointed the ancient people? and the
    things that are coming, and shall come, let them shew unto
    them.

    44:8 Fear ye not, neither be afraid: have not I told thee from
    that time, and have declared it? ye are even my witnesses.
    Is there a God beside me? yea, there is no God; I know not
    any.

    44:9 They that make a graven image are all of them vanity; and
    their delectable things shall not profit; and they are their
    own witnesses; they see not, nor know; that they may be
    ashamed.

    44:10 Who hath formed a god, or molten a graven image that is
    profitable for nothing?

    44:11 Behold, all his fellows shall be ashamed: and the workmen,
    they are of men: let them all be gathered together, let them
    stand up; yet they shall fear, and they shall be ashamed
    together.

    44:12 The smith with the tongs both worketh in the coals, and
    fashioneth it with hammers, and worketh it with the strength of
    his arms: yea, he is hungry, and his strength faileth: he
    drinketh no water, and is faint.

    44:13 The carpenter stretcheth out his rule; he marketh it out
    with a line; he fitteth it with planes, and he marketh it out
    with the compass, and maketh it after the figure of a man,
    according to the beauty of a man; that it may remain in the
    house.

    44:14 He heweth him down cedars, and taketh the cypress and the
    oak, which he strengtheneth for himself among the trees of the
    forest: he planteth an ash, and the rain doth nourish it.

    44:15 Then shall it be for a man to burn: for he will take
    thereof, and warm himself; yea, he kindleth it, and baketh
    bread; yea, he maketh a god, and worshippeth it; he maketh it
    a graven image, and falleth down thereto.

    44:16 He burneth part thereof in the fire; with part thereof he
    eateth flesh; he roasteth roast, and is satisfied: yea, he
    warmeth himself, and saith, Aha, I am warm, I have seen the
    fire:

    44:17 And the residue thereof he maketh a god, even his graven
    image: he falleth down unto it, and worshippeth it, and
    prayeth unto it, and saith, Deliver me; for thou art my god.

    44:18 They have not known nor understood: for he hath shut their
    eyes, that they cannot see; and their hearts, that they
    cannot understand.

    44:19 And none considereth in his heart, neither is there
    knowledge nor understanding to say, I have burned part of it in
    the fire; yea, also I have baked bread upon the coals thereof;
    I have roasted flesh, and eaten it: and shall I make the
    residue thereof an abomination? shall I fall down to the stock
    of a tree?

    44:20 He feedeth on ashes: a deceived heart hath turned him
    aside, that he cannot deliver his soul, nor say, Is there not
    a lie in my right hand?

    44:21 Remember these, O Jacob and Israel; for thou art my
    servant: I have formed thee; thou art my servant: O Israel,
    thou shalt not be forgotten of me.

    44:22 I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, thy transgressions,
    and, as a cloud, thy sins: return unto me; for I have redeemed
    thee.

    44:23 Sing, O ye heavens; for the LORD hath done it: shout, ye
    lower parts of the earth: break forth into singing, ye
    mountains, O forest, and every tree therein: for the LORD hath
    redeemed Jacob, and glorified himself in Israel.

    44:24 Thus saith the LORD, thy redeemer, and he that formed thee
    from the womb, I am the LORD that maketh all things; that
    stretcheth forth the heavens alone; that spreadeth abroad the
    earth by myself;

    44:25 That frustrateth the tokens of the liars, and maketh
    diviners mad; that turneth wise men backward, and maketh
    their knowledge foolish;

    44:26 That confirmeth the word of his servant, and performeth
    the counsel of his messengers; that saith to Jerusalem, Thou
    shalt be inhabited; and to the cities of Judah, Ye shall be
    built, and I will raise up the decayed places thereof:

    44:27 That saith to the deep, Be dry, and I will dry up thy
    rivers:

    44:28 That saith of Cyrus, He is my shepherd, and shall
    perform all my pleasure: even saying to Jerusalem, Thou shalt
    be built; and to the temple, Thy foundation shall be laid.

    C Bible Chapter 4545:1 Thus saith the LORD to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have holden, to subdue nations before him; and I will loose the loins of kings, to open before him the two leaved gates; and the gates shall not be shut;
    45:2 I will go before thee, and make the crooked places
    straight: I will break in pieces the gates of brass, and cut in
    sunder the bars of iron:

    45:3 And I will give thee the treasures of darkness, and hidden
    riches of secret places, that thou mayest know that I, the
    LORD, which call thee by thy name, am the God of Israel.

    45:4 For Jacob my servant's sake, and Israel mine elect, I have
    even called thee by thy name: I have surnamed thee, though thou
    hast not known me.

    45:5 I am the LORD, and there is none else, there is no
    God beside me: I girded thee, though thou hast not known me:

    45:6 That they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the
    west, that there is none beside me. I am the LORD, and
    there is none else.

    45:7 I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and
    create evil: I the LORD do all these things.

    45:8 Drop down, ye heavens, from above, and let the skies pour
    down righteousness: let the earth open, and let them bring
    forth salvation, and let righteousness spring up together; I
    the LORD have created it.

    45:9 Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker! Let the
    potsherd strive with the potsherds of the earth. Shall the
    clay say to him that fashioneth it, What makest thou? or thy
    work, He hath no hands?

    45:10 Woe unto him that saith unto his father, What begettest
    thou? or to the woman, What hast thou brought forth?

    45:11 Thus saith the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, and his
    Maker, Ask me of things to come concerning my sons, and
    concerning the work of my hands command ye me.

    45:12 I have made the earth, and created man upon 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 direct
    all his ways: he shall build my city, and he shall let go my
    captives, not for price nor reward, saith the LORD of hosts.

    45:14 Thus saith the LORD, The labour of Egypt, and merchandise
    of Ethiopia and of the Sabeans, men of stature, shall come over
    unto thee, and they shall be thine: they shall come after thee;
    in chains they shall come over, and they shall fall down unto
    thee, they shall make supplication unto thee, saying, Surely
    God is in thee; and there is none else, there is no God.

    45:15 Verily thou art a God that hidest thyself, O God of
    Israel, the Saviour.

    45:16 They shall be ashamed, and also confounded, all of them:
    they shall go to confusion together that are makers of idols.

    45:17 But Israel shall be saved in the LORD with an
    everlasting salvation: ye shall not be ashamed nor confounded
    world without end.

    45:18 For thus saith the LORD that created the heavens; God
    himself that formed the earth and made it; he hath established
    it, he created it not in vain, he formed it to be inhabited: I
    am the LORD; and there is none else.

    45:19 I have not spoken in secret, in a dark place of the earth:
    I said not unto the seed of Jacob, Seek ye me in vain: I the
    LORD speak righteousness, I declare things that are right.

    45:20 Assemble yourselves and come; draw near together, ye that
    are
    escaped of the nations: they have no knowledge that set up
    the wood of their graven image, and pray unto a god that
    cannot save.

    45:21 Tell ye, and bring them near; yea, let them take counsel
    together: who hath declared this from ancient time? who hath
    told it from that time? have not I the LORD? and there is
    no God else beside me; a just God and a Saviour; there is
    none beside me.

    45:22 Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth:
    for I am God, and there is none else.

    45:23 I have sworn by myself, the word is gone out of my mouth
    in righteousness, and shall not return, That unto me every
    knee shall bow, every tongue shall swear.

    45:24 Surely, shall one say, in the LORD have I righteousness
    and strength: even to him shall men come; and all that are
    incensed against him shall be ashamed.

    45:25 In the LORD shall all the seed of Israel be justified, and
    shall glory.

    C Bible Chapter 4646:1 Bel boweth down, Nebo stoopeth, their idols were upon the beasts, and upon the cattle: your carriages [were] heavy loaden; [they are] a burden to the weary [beast].
    46:2 They stoop, they bow down together; they could not deliver
    the burden, but themselves are gone into captivity.

    46:3 Hearken unto me, O house of Jacob, and all the remnant of
    the house of Israel, which are borne by me from the belly,
    which are carried from the womb:

    46:4 And even to your old age I am he; and even to hoar
    hairs will I carry you: I have made, and I will bear; even I
    will carry, and will deliver you.

    46:5 To whom will ye liken me, and make me equal, and compare
    me, that we may be like?

    46:6 They lavish gold out of the bag, and weigh silver in the
    balance, and hire a goldsmith; and he maketh it a god: they
    fall down, yea, they worship.

    46:7 They bear him upon the shoulder, they carry him, and set
    him in his place, and he standeth; from his place shall he not
    remove: yea, one shall cry unto him, yet can he not answer,
    nor save him out of his trouble.

    46:8 Remember this, and shew yourselves men: bring it again to
    mind, O ye transgressors.

    46:9 Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and
    there is none else; I am God, and there is none like me,

    46:10 Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient
    times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel
    shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure:

    46:11 Calling a ravenous bird from the east, the man that
    executeth my counsel from a far country: yea, I have spoken
    it, I will also bring it to pass; I have purposed it, I
    will also do it.

    46:12 Hearken unto me, ye stouthearted, that are far from
    righteousness:

    46:13 I bring near my righteousness; it shall not be far off,
    and my salvation shall not tarry: and I will place salvation in
    Zion for Israel my glory.

    C Bible Chapter 4747:1 Come down, and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon, sit on the ground: [there is] no throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans: for thou shalt no more be called tender and delicate.
    47:2 Take the millstones, and grind meal: uncover thy locks,
    make bare the leg, uncover the thigh, pass over the rivers.

    47:3 Thy nakedness shall be uncovered, yea, thy shame shall be
    seen: I will take vengeance, and I will not meet thee as a
    man.

    47:4 As for our redeemer, the LORD of hosts is his name, the
    Holy One of Israel.

    47:5 Sit thou silent, and get thee into darkness, O daughter of
    the Chaldeans: for thou shalt no more be called, The lady of
    kingdoms.

    47:6 I was wroth with my people, I have polluted mine
    inheritance, and given them into thine hand: thou didst shew
    them no mercy; upon the ancient hast thou very heavily laid thy
    yoke.

    47:7 And thou saidst, I shall be a lady for ever: so that thou
    didst not lay these things to thy heart, neither didst
    remember the latter end of it.

    47:8 Therefore hear now this, thou that art given to
    pleasures, that dwellest carelessly, that sayest in thine
    heart, I am, and none else beside me; I shall not sit as a
    widow, neither shall I know the loss of children:

    47:9 But these two things shall come to thee in a moment in
    one day, the loss of children, and widowhood: they shall come
    upon thee in their perfection for the multitude of thy
    sorceries, and for the great abundance of thine enchantments.

    47:10 For thou hast trusted in thy wickedness: thou hast said,
    None seeth me. Thy wisdom and thy knowledge, it hath perverted
    thee; and thou hast said in thine heart, I am, and none else
    beside me.

    47:11 Therefore shall evil come upon thee; thou shalt not know
    from whence it riseth: and mischief shall fall upon thee; thou
    shalt not be able to put it off: and desolation shall come upon
    thee suddenly, which thou shalt not know.

    47:12 Stand now with thine enchantments, and with the multitude
    of thy sorceries, wherein thou hast laboured from thy youth; if
    so be thou shalt be able to profit, if so be thou mayest
    prevail.

    47:13 Thou art wearied in the multitude of thy counsels. Let now
    the astrologers, the stargazers, the monthly prognosticators,
    stand up, and save thee from these things that shall come
    upon thee.

    47:14 Behold, they shall be as stubble; the fire shall burn
    them; they shall not deliver themselves from the power of the
    flame: there shall not be a coal to warm at, nor fire to
    sit before it.

    47:15 Thus shall they be unto thee with whom thou hast laboured,
    even thy merchants, from thy youth: they shall wander every
    one to his quarter; none shall save thee.

    C Bible Chapter 4848:1 Hear ye this, O house of Jacob, which are called by the name of Israel, and are come forth out of the waters of Judah, which swear by the name of the LORD, and make mention of the God of Israel, [but] not in truth, nor in righteousness.
    48:2 For they call themselves of the holy city, and stay
    themselves upon the God of Israel; The LORD of hosts is his
    name.

    48:3 I have declared the former things from the beginning; and
    they went forth out of my mouth, and I shewed them; I did
    them suddenly, and they came to pass.

    48:4 Because I knew that thou art obstinate, and thy neck is
    an iron sinew, and thy brow brass;

    48:5 I have even from the beginning declared it to thee;
    before it came to pass I shewed it thee: lest thou shouldest
    say, Mine idol hath done them, and my graven image, and my
    molten image, hath commanded them.

    48:6 Thou hast heard, see all this; and will not ye declare
    it? I have shewed thee new things from this time, even hidden
    things, and thou didst not know them.

    48:7 They are created now, and not from the beginning; even
    before the day when thou heardest them not; lest thou shouldest
    say, Behold, I knew them.

    48:8 Yea, thou heardest not; yea, thou knewest not; yea, from
    that time that thine ear was not opened: for I knew that thou
    wouldest deal very treacherously, and wast called a
    transgressor from the womb.

    48:9 For my name's sake will I defer mine anger, and for my
    praise will I refrain for thee, that I cut thee not off.

    48:10 Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have
    chosen thee in the furnace of affliction.

    48:11 For mine own sake, even for mine own sake, will I do
    it: for how should my name be polluted? and I will not give
    my glory unto another.

    48:12 Hearken unto me, O Jacob and Israel, my called; I am he;
    I am the first, I also am the last.

    48:13 Mine hand also hath laid the foundation of the earth, and
    my right hand hath spanned the heavens: when I call unto
    them, they stand up together.

    48:14 All ye, assemble yourselves, and hear; which among them
    hath declared these things? The LORD hath loved him: he will
    do his pleasure on Babylon, and his arm shall be on the
    Chaldeans.

    48:15 I, even I, have spoken; yea, I have called him: I have
    brought him, and he shall make his way prosperous.

    48:16 Come ye near unto me, hear ye this; I have not spoken in
    secret from the beginning; from the time that it was, there
    am I: and now the Lord GOD, and his Spirit, hath sent me.

    48:17 Thus saith the LORD, thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel;
    I am the LORD thy God which teacheth thee to profit, which
    leadeth thee by the way that thou shouldest go.

    48:18 O that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments! then had
    thy peace been as a river, and thy righteousness as the waves
    of the sea:

    48:19 Thy seed also had been as the sand, and the offspring of
    thy bowels like the gravel thereof; his name should not have
    been cut off nor destroyed from before me.

    48:20 Go ye forth of Babylon, flee ye from the Chaldeans, with a
    voice of singing declare ye, tell this, utter it even to the
    end of the earth; say ye, The LORD hath redeemed his servant
    Jacob.

    48:21 And they thirsted not when he led them through the
    deserts: he caused the waters to flow out of the rock for them:
    he clave the rock also, and the waters gushed out.

    48:22 There is no peace, saith the LORD, unto the wicked.



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