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ISAIAH
43.9
- That trust in graven images,
- That say unto molten images:
- 'Ye are our gods.'
- 18Hear, ye deaf,
- And look, ye blind, that ye may see.
- 19Who is blind, but My servant?
- Or deaf, as My messenger that I send?
- Who is blind as he that is whole-hearted,
- And blind as the Lord's servant?
- 20Seeing many things, thou observest not;
- Opening the ears, he heareth not.
- 21The Lord was pleased, for His righteousness' sake,
- To make the teaching great and glorious.
- 22But 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.'
- 23Who among you will give ear to this?
- Who will hearken and hear for the time to come?
- 24Who gave Jacob for a spoil, and Israel to the robbers?
- Did not the Lord?
- He against whom we have sinned,
- And in whose ways they would not walk,
- Neither were they obedient unto His law.
- 25Therefore He poured upon him the fury of His anger,
- And the strength of battle;
- And it set him on fire round about, yet he knew not,
- And it burned him, yet he laid it not to heart.
- 43But 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.
- 2When 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.
- 3For I am the Lord thy God,
- The Holy One of Israel, thy Saviour;
- I have given Egypt as thy ransom,
- Ethiopia and Seba for thee.
- 4Since thou art precious in My sight, and honourable,
- And I have loved thee;
- Therefore will I give men for thee,
- And peoples for thy life.
- 5Fear not, for I am with thee;
- I will bring thy seed from the east,
- And gather thee from the west;
- 6I will say to the north: 'Give up',
- And to the south: 'Keep not back,
- Bring My sons from far,
- And My daughters from the end of the earth;
- 7Every one that is called by My name,
- And whom I have created for My glory,
- I have formed him, yea, I have made him.'
- 8The blind people that have eyes shall be brought forth,
- And the deaf that have ears.
- 9All the nations are gathered together,
- And the peoples are assembled;
- Who among them can declare this,
- And announce to us former things?
- Let them bring their witnesses, that they may be justified;
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