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Isaiah - Chapter 41

	Isa 41:1	Listen to me in silence, O coastlands; let the peoples renew their strength; let them approach, then let them speak; let us together draw near for judgment.
	Isa 41:2	Who stirred up one from the east whom victory meets at every step? [fn] He gives up nations before him, so that he tramples kings underfoot; he makes them like dust with his sword, like driven stubble with his bow.
	Isa 41:3	He pursues them and passes on safely, by paths his feet have not trod.
	Isa 41:4	Who has performed and done this, calling the generations from the beginning? I, the Lord , the first, and with the last; I am he.
	Isa 41:5	The coastlands have seen and are afraid; the ends of the earth tremble; they have drawn near and come.
	Isa 41:6	Everyone helps his neighbor and says to his brother, "Be strong!"
	Isa 41:7	The craftsman strengthens the goldsmith, and he who smooths with the hammer him who strikes the anvil, saying of the soldering, "It is good"; and they strengthen it with nails so that it cannot be moved.
	Isa 41:8	But you, Israel, my servant, Jacob, whom I have chosen, the offspring of Abraham, my friend;
	Isa 41:9	you whom I took from the ends of the earth, and called from its farthest corners, saying to you, "You are my servant, I have chosen you and not cast you off";
	Isa 41:10	fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God; I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.
	Isa 41:11	Behold, all who are incensed against you shall be put to shame and confounded; those who strive against you shall be as nothing and shall perish.
	Isa 41:12	You shall seek those who contend with you, but you shall not find them; those who war against you shall be as nothing at all.
	Isa 41:13	For I, the Lord your God, hold your right hand; it is I who say to you, "Fear not, I am the one who helps you."
	Isa 41:14	Fear not, you worm Jacob, you men of Israel! I am the one who helps you, declares the Lord ; your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel.
	Isa 41:15	Behold, I make of you a threshing sledge, new, sharp, and having teeth; you shall thresh the mountains and crush them, and you shall make the hills like chaff;
	Isa 41:16	you shall winnow them, and the wind shall carry them away, and the tempest shall scatter them. And you shall rejoice in the Lord ; in the Holy One of Israel you shall glory.
	Isa 41:17	When the poor and needy seek water, and there is none, and their tongue is parched with thirst, I the Lord will answer them; I the God of Israel will not forsake them.
	Isa 41:18	I will open rivers on the bare heights, and fountains in the midst of the valleys. I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water.
	Isa 41:19	I will put in the wilderness the cedar, the acacia, the myrtle, and the olive. I will set in the desert the cypress, the plane and the pine together,
	Isa 41:20	that they may see and know, may consider and understand together, that the hand of the Lord has done this, the Holy One of Israel has created it.
	Isa 41:21	Set forth your case, says the Lord ; bring your proofs, says the King of Jacob.
	Isa 41:22	Let them bring them, and tell us what is to happen. Tell us the former things, what they are, that we may consider them, that we may know their outcome; or declare to us the things to come.
	Isa 41:23	Tell us what is to come hereafter, that we may know that you are gods; do good, or do harm, that we may be dismayed and terrified. [fn]
	Isa 41:24	Behold, you are nothing, and your work is less than nothing; an abomination is he who chooses you.
	Isa 41:25	I stirred up one from the north, and he has come, from the rising of the sun, and he shall call upon my name; he shall trample on rulers as on mortar, as the potter treads clay.
	Isa 41:26	Who declared it from the beginning, that we might know, and beforehand, that we might say, "He is right"? There was none who declared it, none who proclaimed, none who heard your words.
	Isa 41:27	I was the first to say [fn] to Zion, "Behold, here they are!" and I give to Jerusalem a herald of good news.
	Isa 41:28	But when I look there is no one; among these there is no counselor who, when I ask, gives an answer.
	Isa 41:29	Behold, they are all a delusion; their works are nothing; their metal images are empty wind.

ESV Footnotes:

(41:2) Or whom righteousness calls to follow?
(41:23) Or that we may both be dismayed and see
(41:27) Or Formerly I said

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