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ULT ISA Chapter 41

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41 “Be silent before me, coastlands,

and let the peoples renew their strength.

Let them approach, then let them speak;

let us draw near together for judgment.

2 Who has awakened righteousness from the rising of the sun,

calling it to his foot?

He gives nations to his face,

and he tramples kings.

He makes them like dust with his sword,

like driven straw with his bow.

3 He pursues them, he passes through in peace,

he does not enter a path with his feet.

4 Who has worked and done this,

summoning generations from the beginning?

I, Yahweh, with the first and with the lasts,

I am he.”

5 The coastlands have seen and are afraid;

the ends of the earth tremble;

they approach and come.

6 A man helps his neighbor,

and he says to his brother, “Be strong.”

7 And the craftsman strengthens the metalworker,

the one smoothing with a hammer, the one striking the anvil,

saying about the soldering, “It is good.”

And they strengthen it with nails, that it may not be moved.

8 “But you, Israel, my servant,

Jacob, whom I have chosen,

the seed of Abraham my friend,

9 whom I am seizing you from the ends of the earth,

and I have called you from its extremities

and said to you, ‘You are my servant,’

I have chosen you and not rejected you.

10 May you not fear, for I am with you.

May you not look around, for I am your God.

I will strengthen you, indeed, I will help you,

indeed, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness.

11 Behold, they will have shame and be humiliated,

all of the ones having been kindled against you.

They will be like nought, and they will perish,

the men of your contention.

12 You will seek them, but you will not find them,

the men of your quarrel.

They will be like nought and like nothing,

the men of your battle.

13 For I, Yahweh, am your God,

holding your right hand,

the one saying to you, ‘May you not fear;

I, I will help you.’

14 May you not fear, worm of Jacob,

men of Israel, I, I will help you”

—the declaration of Yahweh

and your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel.

15 “Behold, I am making you into a sharp, new sledge,

a master of edges;

You will thresh the mountains and crush them,

and you will make the hills like chaff.

16 You will winnow them, and the wind will carry them away,

and the whirlwind will scatter them.

But you, you will be glad in Yahweh,

you will boast in the Holy One of Israel.”

17 “The poor and needy are seeking water, but there is none.

Their tongue is parched from thirst.

I, Yahweh, I will answer them;

the God of Israel, I will not forsake them.

18 I will open streams on the bare heights,

and in the midst of the valleys, fountains.

I will make the wilderness into a pool of waters,

and the dry land, into springs of waters.

19 I will set in the wilderness the cedar,

the acacia, and the myrtle and the tree of oil.

I will put in the Arabah the cypress,

the plane, and the box tree together,

20 that they may see and know

and set to heart and consider together

that the hand of Yahweh has done this,

and the Holy One of Israel has created it.

21 “Bring near your case,” says Yahweh.

“Bring forth your arguments,” says the King of Jacob.

22 “Let them bring forth and declare to us what will happen.

The former, what are they? Let them declare,

and let us set to our heart, and let us know their end.

Or the coming ones, make us hear.

23 Declare the signs of the afterward,

and let us know that you are gods.

Indeed, do good or do evil,

and let us look around and let us see together.

24 Behold, you are less than nought,

and your work is less than nothing!

He who chooses you is an abomination.

25 I have awakened one from the north, and he comes.

From the rising of the sun, he calls upon my name,

and he will come upon rulers like mud

and as a potter treads clay.

26 Who has declared from the beginning, that we might know?

And from before, that we might say, ‘Right’?

Indeed, none is declaring. Indeed, none is making hear.

Indeed, none is hearing your words.

27 The first to Zion, ‘Behold, behold them!’

And I sent a herald to Jerusalem.

28 For I looked, but there was no man,

and from these, indeed, none was counseling.

And I asked them, but they did not return a word.

29 Behold, all of them are iniquity;

their deeds are nothing;

their images are wind and emptiness.