Isaiah 43:1
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.
Isaiah 43:2
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.
Isaiah 43:3
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.
Isaiah 43:4
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.
Isaiah 43:5
5 Fear not: for I am with thee: I will bring thy seed from the east, and
gather thee from the west;
Isaiah 43:6
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;
Isaiah 43:7
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.
Isaiah 43:8
8 Bring forth the blind people that have eyes, and the deaf that have ears.
Isaiah 43:9
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.
Isaiah 43:10
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.
Isaiah 43:11
11 I, even I, am the LORD; and beside me there is no saviour.
Isaiah 43:12
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.
Isaiah 43:13
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?
Isaiah 43:14
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.
Isaiah 43:15
15 I am the LORD, your Holy One, the creator of Israel, your King.
Isaiah 43:16
16 Thus saith the LORD, which maketh a way in the sea, and a path in the
mighty waters;
Isaiah 43:17
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.
Isaiah 43:18
18 Remember ye not the former things, neither consider the things of old.
Isaiah 43:19
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.
Isaiah 43:20
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.
Isaiah 43:21
21 This people have I formed for myself; they shall shew forth my praise.
Isaiah 43:22
22 But thou hast not called upon me, O Jacob; but thou hast been weary of
me, O Israel.
Isaiah 43:23
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.
Isaiah 43:24
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.
Isaiah 43:25
25 I, even I, am he that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake,
and will not remember thy sins.
Isaiah 43:26
26 Put me in remembrance: let us plead together: declare thou, that thou
mayest be justified.
Isaiah 43:27
27 Thy first father hath sinned, and thy teachers have transgressed against
me.
Isaiah 43:28
28 Therefore I have profaned the princes of the sanctuary, and have given
Jacob to the curse, and Israel to reproaches.
CHAPTER 44
Isaiah 44:1
1 Yet now hear, O Jacob my servant; and Israel, whom I have chosen:
Isaiah 44:2
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.
Isaiah 44:3
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:
Isaiah 44:4
4 And they shall spring up as among the grass, as willows by the water
courses.
Isaiah 44:5
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.
Isaiah 44:6
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.
Isaiah 44:7
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.
Isaiah 44:8
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.
Isaiah 44:9
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.
Isaiah 44:10
10 Who hath formed a god, or molten a graven image that is profitable for
nothing?
Isaiah 44:11
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.
Isaiah 44:12
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.
Isaiah 44:13
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.
Isaiah 44:14
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.
Isaiah 44:15
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.
Isaiah 44:16
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:
Isaiah 44:17
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.
Isaiah 44:18
18 They have not known nor understood: for he hath shut their eyes, that
they cannot see; and their hearts, that they cannot understand.
Isaiah 44:19
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?
Isaiah 44:20
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?
Isaiah 44:21
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.
Isaiah 44:22
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.
Isaiah 44:23
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.
Isaiah 44:24
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;
Isaiah 44:25
25 That frustrateth the tokens of the liars, and maketh diviners mad; that
turneth wise men backward, and maketh their knowledge foolish;
Isaiah 44:26
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:
Isaiah 44:27
27 That saith to the deep, Be dry, and I will dry up thy rivers:
Isaiah 44:28
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.
CHAPTER 45
Isaiah 45:1
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;
Isaiah 45:2
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:
Isaiah 45:3
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.
Isaiah 45:4
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.
Isaiah 45:5
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:
Isaiah 45:6
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.
Isaiah 45:7
7 I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I
the LORD do all these things.
Isaiah 45:8
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.
Isaiah 45:9
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?
Isaiah 45:10
10 Woe unto him that saith unto his father, What begettest thou? or to the
woman, What hast thou brought forth?
Isaiah 45:11
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.
Isaiah 45:12
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.
Isaiah 45:13
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.
Isaiah 45:14
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.
Isaiah 45:15
15 Verily thou art a God that hidest thyself, O God of Israel, the Saviour.
Isaiah 45:16
16 They shall be ashamed, and also confounded, all of them: they shall go to
confusion together that are makers of idols.
Isaiah 45:17
17 But Israel shall be saved in the LORD with an everlasting salvation: ye
shall not be ashamed nor confounded world without end.
Isaiah 45:18
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.
Isaiah 45:19
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.
Isaiah 45:20
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.
Isaiah 45:21
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.
Isaiah 45:22
22 Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth: for I am God,
and there is none else.
Isaiah 45:23
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.
Isaiah 45:24
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.
Isaiah 45:25
25 In the LORD shall all the seed of Israel be justified, and shall glory.
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