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ISAIAH
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- And of the cities of Judah: 'They shall be built,
- And I will raise up the waste places thereof';
- 27That saith to the deep: 'Be dry, and I will dry up thy rivers';
- 28That saith of Cyrus: 'He is My shepherd,
- And shall perform all My pleasure';
- Even saying of Jerusalem: 'She shall be built';
- And to the temple: 'My foundation shall be laid.'
- 45Thus saith the Lord to His anointed,
- To Cyrus, whose right hand I have holden,
- To subdue nations before him,
- And to loose the loins of kings;
- To open the doors before him,
- And that the gates may not be shut:
- 2I will go before thee,
- And make the crooked places straight;
- I will break in pieces the doors of brass,
- And cut in sunder the bars of iron;
- 3And I will give thee the treasures of darkness,
- And hidden riches of secret places,
- That thou mayest know that I am the Lord,
- Who call thee by thy name, even the God of Israel.
- 4For the sake of Jacob My servant,
- And Israel Mine elect,
- I have called thee by thy name,
- I have surnamed thee, though thou hast not known Me.
- 5I am the Lord, and there is none else,
- Beside Me there is no God;
- I have girded thee, though thou hast not known Me;
- 6That 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;
- 7I form the light, and create darkness;
- I make peace, and create evil;
- I am the Lord, that doeth all these things.
- 8Drop down, ye heavens, from above,
- And let the skies pour down righteousness;
- Let the earth open, that they may bring forth salvation,
- And let her cause righteousness to spring up together;
- I the Lord have created it.
- 9Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker,
- As a potsherd with the potsherds of the earth!
- Shall the clay say to him that fashioned it: 'What makest thou?'
- Or: 'Thy work, it hath no hands'?
- 10Woe unto him that saith unto his father.' Wherefore begettest thou?'
- Or to a woman: 'Wherefore travailest thou?'
- 11Thus saith the Lord,
- The Holy One of Israel, and his Maker:
- Ask Me of the things that are to come;
- Concerning My sons, and concerning the work of My hands, command ye Me.
- 12I, even 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.
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