LITV - Isaiah - 41

41:1  Be quiet before Me, O coasts; and let peoples renew their power. They come near; then they speak: Let us draw near together for judgment.

41:2  Who raised up the righteous one from the east? He called him to His foot; He gives nations before him, and subdues kings; He gives them as dust to his sword, as driven stubble to his bow;

41:3  He pursues them; he passes on in peace; he does not go by the way with his feet.

41:4  Who has planned and done it , calling forth the generations from the beginning? I Jehovah am the first and the last; I am He.

41:5  The coasts have seen and fear; the ends of the earth tremble; they have drawn near; yea, they come.

41:6  Each man helps his neighbor, and says to his brother, Be strong.

41:7  So the carver strengthens the refiner; and he smoothing with the hammer, him who struck the anvil, saying of the soldering, It is good. And he made it strong with nails; it will not totter.

41:8  But you Israel are My servant, Jacob whom I have chosen; the seed of My friend Abraham;

41:9  whom I have made strong from the ends of the earth, and called you from its sides; and I said to you, You are My servant. I chose you, and have not rejected you .

41:10  Do not fear, for I am with you; do not gaze about, for I am your God; I will make you strong; yea, I will help you; yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of My righteousness.

41:11  Behold, all who were provoked with you shall be ashamed and confounded; they shall be as nothing; and they who fight with you Shall perish.

41:12  You shall seek them and shall not find them; men of your strife shall be as nothing, even men of your battle as ceasing.

41:13  For I, Jehovah your God am strengthening your right hand; who says to you, Do not fear; I will help you.

41:14  Fear not, worm of Jacob, men of Israel; I will help you; states Jehovah, and your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel.

41:15  Behold! I have made you a new sharp threshing instrument, a master of teeth; you shall thresh mountains and beat them small, and shall make hills like the chaff.

41:16  You shall winnow them, and the wind will carry them away; and the tempest will scatter them. And you shall rejoice in Jehovah; you shall glory in the Holy One of Israel.

41:17  The poor and the needy seek water, and there is none; their tongue is parched for thirst. I, Jehovah will hear them; the God of Israel will not leave them.

41:18  I will open rivers in bare places, and fountains in the midst of valleys; I will make the desert for a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water.

41:19  I will plant cedar in the wilderness, acacia, and myrtle, and the oil tree; I will set fir, pine and boxwood together in the desert;

41:20  So that they may see, and know, and consider, and understand together, that the hand of Jehovah has done this; and the Holy One of Israel has created it.

41:21  Bring your cause, says Jehovah; let your strong reasons come near, says the King of Jacob.

41:22  Let them draw near and tell us what shall happen; the former things, let them reveal what they are , that we may set our heart and know their end; or declare to us the coming things.

41:23  Reveal the near things hereafter, so that we may know that you are gods. Yea, do good, or do evil, that we may gaze and see together.

41:24  Behold, you are of nothing; and your work of nothing; he who chooses you is an abomination.

41:25  I have raised up one from the north; and he shall come from the east; he will call on My name. And he shall come upon rulers as on mortar, and as a potter tramples clay.

41:26  Who has declared from the beginning, that we may know; and beforetime, that we may say, He is right? Yea, no one declares; yea, no one proclaims; yea, there is no one who hears your words.

41:27  At first to Zion, I say , Behold! Behold them! And I will give to Jerusalem one bearing tidings.

41:28  But I saw, and there was not a man; and of these, there was not a counselor, that I may ask them, and they could answer a word.

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