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ULT ISA Chapter 44

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44 “And now, listen, Jacob my servant,

and Israel, whom I have chosen him.”

2 Thus says Yahweh,

your maker and your fashioner from the womb, he helps you:

“May you not fear, Jacob, my servant,

and Jeshurun, I have chosen him.

3 For I will pour water on the thirsty

and streams on the dry ground;

I will pour my Spirit on your seed

and my blessing on your offspring.

4 And they will sprout in between the grass,

like willows by courses of water.

5 This one will say, ‘I am to Yahweh,’

and this one will call himself by the name of Jacob,

and this one will write on his hand, ‘To Yahweh,’

and by the name of Israel he will surname himself.”

6 Thus says Yahweh,

the King of Israel and his Redeemer, Yahweh of Armies:

“I am the first, and I am the last;

and there is no God except me.

7 And who is like me? Let him call out,

and let him declare it and array it for me.

From my establishing a people of eternity,

and they will arrive, and what things will come,

let them declare for themselves.

8 May you not fear, and may you not be afraid.

Did I not make you hear from then and declare it?

And you are my witnesses.

Is there a God except me?

For there is no rock, I know none.”

9 The fashioners of an idol, all of them are emptiness,

and their desired things do not benefit.

And their witnesses, they, they do not see,

and they do not know, so they have shame.

10 Who would form a god

or cast an idol without it benefiting?

11 Behold, all of his companions will have shame,

and the craftsmen, they are from mankind.

Let them gather themselves, all of them; let them stand.

They will fear; they will have shame together.

12 The craftsman of iron has a tool,

and he works over the coal,

and he forms it with hammers,

and he works it with the arm of his strength.

He also hungers, and there is no strength;

he does not drink water, and he tires.

13 The craftsman of wood stretches out a line;

he marks it with ochre.

He makes it with chisels,

and he marks it with a compass.

And he makes it like the form of a man,

like the beauty of mankind, to dwell in a house.

14 He cuts down cedars for it,

or he takes a cypress or an oak

and secures it for himself among the trees of the forest;

he planted a pine tree and the rain made it grow.

15 And it is for man to burn,

and he takes from them and is warm.

Indeed, he kindles and bakes bread;

indeed, he makes a god and bows down,

he makes it an idol and prostrates himself to it.

16 Half of it, he burns in the fire;

on half of it he eats meat,

he roasts a roast, and has enough.

Indeed, he is warm, and he says,

“Ah! I am warm; I have seen the fire.”

17 And its remnant, he makes into a god, into his idol;

he prostrates himself to it and bows down,

and he prays to it and says,

“Deliver me, for you are my god.”

18 They do not know, and they do not understand,

for one has plastered their eyes from seeing,

their hearts from considering.

19 And none sets to his heart,

and there is no knowledge and no understanding to say,

“Half of it, I burned in the fire,

and I also baked bread on its coals;

I roasted flesh and ate.

And shall I make its remainder into an abomination?

Shall I prostrate myself to the product of a tree?”

20 He grazes on ashes; a deceived heart turns him aside,

so he does not deliver his soul,

and he does not say,

“Is not falsehood in my right hand?”

21 “Remember these things, Jacob,

and Israel, for you are my servant.

I formed you; you are a servant to me.

Israel, you will not be forgotten by me.

22 I have wiped away your transgressions like a cloud,

and like a cloud your sins.

Return to me,

for I have redeemed you.”

23 Sing, heavens, for Yahweh has done this;

shout, depths of the earth!

Break forth, mountains, into a joyful shout,

the forest and every tree in it!

For Yahweh has redeemed Jacob,

and he will glorify himself in Israel.

24 Thus says Yahweh, your Redeemer

and your fashioner from the womb:

“I am Yahweh, the maker of all,

the one having stretched out the heavens by myself,

the one having beaten out the earth—who was with me?—

25 the one thwarting the signs of liars,

and he discredits diviners;

the one turning back the wise,

and he makes their knowledge foolish,

26 the one raising up the word of his servant,

and he completes the counsel of his messengers,

the one saying of Jerusalem, ‘It will be inhabited,’

and of the cities of Judah, ‘They will be built,

and I will raise up its desolations’;

27 the one saying to the deep, ‘Be dry,

and your currents, I will dry up,’

28 the one saying of Cyrus, ‘My shepherd,

and he will complete all of my desire,’

and saying to Jerusalem, ‘You will be built,’

and to the temple, ‘You will be founded.’