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ISAIAH
- 12I, even I, am He that comforteth you:
- Who art thou, that thou art afraid of man that shall die,
- And of the son of man that shall be made as grass;
- 13And hast forgotten the Lord thy Maker,
- That stretched forth the heavens,
- And laid the foundations of the earth;
- And fearest continually all the day
- Because of the fury of the oppressor,
- As he maketh ready to destroy?
- And where is the fury of the oppressor?
- 14He that is bent down shall speedily be loosed;
- And he shall not go down dying into the pit,
- Neither shall his bread fail.
- 15For I am the Lord thy God,
- Who stirreth up the sea, that the waves thereof roar;
- The Lord of hosts is His name.
- 16And I have put My words in thy mouth,
- And have covered thee in the shadow of My hand,
- That I may plant the heavens,
- And lay the foundations of the earth,
- And say unto Zion: 'Thou art My people.'
- 17Awake, awake,
- Stand up, O Jerusalem,
- That hast drunk at the hand of the Lord
- The cup of His fury;
- Thou hast drunken the beaker, even the cup of staggering,
- And drained it.
- 18There is none to guide her
- Among all the sons whom she hath brought forth;
- Neither is there any that taketh her by the hand
- Of all the sons that she hath brought up.
- 19These two things are befallen thee;
- Who shall bemoan thee?
- Desolation and destruction,
- And the famine and the sword;
- How shall I comfort thee?
- 20Thy sons have fainted, they lie at the head of all the streets,
- As an antelope in a net;
- They are full of the fury of the Lord,
- The rebuke of thy God.
- 21Therefore hear now this, thou afflicted,
- And drunken, but not with wine;
- 22Thus saith thy Lord the Lord,
- And thy God that pleadeth the cause of His people:
- Behold, I have taken out of thy hand
- The cup of staggering;
- The beaker, even the cup of My fury,
- Thou shalt no more drink it again;
- 23And I will put it into the hand of them that afflict thee;
- That have said to thy soul:
- 'Bow down, that we may go over';
- And thou hast laid thy back as the ground,
- And as the street, to them that go over.
- 52Awake, awake,
- Put on thy strength, O Zion;
- Put on thy beautiful garments,
- O Jerusalem, the holy city;
- For henceforth there shall no more come into thee
- The uncircumcised and the unclean.
- 2Shake thyself from the dust;
- Arise, and sit down, O Jerusalem;
- Loose thyself from the bands of thy neck,
- O captive daughter of Zion.
- 3For thus saith the Lord:
- Ye were sold for nought;
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