Hello and welcome
to His Words Are Life
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I'm Kelly Mowrer and thank
you for joining with me today
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to read the word of God.
Let's pray before we start.
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Dear Heavenly Father, thank you
for this book that becomes to us
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a light showing us the wise and
safe way to conduct our lives,
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the principles that you would
have us to live by that will
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smooth the path before us. Help
us now today, please, as we read
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in the book of Isaiah to hear
the words and to see how you
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would have them applied in each
of our lives. We love you so
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much and thank you for loving
us. Amen. We're reading in
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Isaiah chapter 38, picking
up with verse 17 and this is the
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King James Version. Hezekiah is
speaking. He's been ill and God
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is going to restore him,
add 15 years to his life,
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and we're in the
middle of Hezekiah's speech.
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Behold, for peace I had great
bitterness but thou hast in love
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to my soul delivered it from the
pit of corruption: for thou hast
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cast all my sins behind
thy back. For the grave cannot
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praise thee, death cannot
celebrate thee: They that go
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into the pit cannot hope for thy
truth. The living, the living,
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he shall praise thee, as I
do this day: the father to the
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children shall make know they
truth. The Lord was ready to
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save me: therefore we will
sing my songs to the stringed
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all the days of our life in the
house of the Lord. For Isaiah
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had said, Let them take a
lump of figs, and lay it for a
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plaster upon the boil, and he
shall recover. Hezekiah also had
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said, What is the sign that
I shall go up to the house of
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the Lord? Continuing in Isaiah
chapter 39. This is the King
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James Version. At that
time Merodachbaladan, the son of
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Baladan, king of Babylon,
sent letters and a present to
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Hezekiah: for he had heard
that he had been sick and was
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recovered. And Hezekiah was glad
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of them, and shewed them the
house of his precious things,
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the silver, and the gold,
and the spices, and the precious
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ointment, and all the house
of his armour, and all that was
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found in his treasures: there
was nothing in his house, nor
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in all his dominion,
that Hezekiah shewed them not.
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Then came Isaiah the prophet
unto king Hezekiah, and said
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unto him, What said these men?
and from whence came they unto
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thee? And Hezekiah said, They
are come from a far country unto
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me, even from Babylon. Then said
he, What have they seen in thine
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house? And Hezekiah answered,
All that is in mine house have
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they seen: there is nothing
among my treasures that I have
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not shewed them. Then said
Isaiah to Hezekiah, Hear the
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word of the Lord of hosts:
Behold, the days come, that all
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that is in thine house, and that
which thy fathers have laid up
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in store until this day, shall
be carried to Babylon: nothing
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shall be left, saith the Lord.
And of thy sons that shall issue
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from thee, which thou shalt
beget, shall they take away;
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and they shall be eunuchs
in the palace of the king of
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Babylon. Then said Hezekiah
to Isaiah, Good is the word of
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the Lord which thou hast spoken.
He said moreover, For there
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shall be peace and truth in
my days. Continuing with Isaiah
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chapter 40. This is
the King James Version.
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Comfort ye, comfort ye my
people, saith your God. Speak
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ye comfortably to Jerusalem,
and cry unto her, that her
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warfare is accomplished, that
her iniquity is pardoned: for
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she hath received of the Lord's
hand double for all her sins.
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The voice of him that crieth in
the wilderness, Prepare ye the
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way of the Lord, make straight
in the desert a highway for our
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God. Every valley shall be
exalted, and every mountain and
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hill shall be made low: and the
crooked shall be made straight,
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and the rough places plain:
And the glory of the Lord shall
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be revealed, and all flesh shall
see it together: for the mouth
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of the Lord hath spoken it.
The voice said, Cry. And he said
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What shall I cry? All flesh
is grass, and all the goodliness
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thereof is as the flower of the
field: The grass withereth, the
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flower fadeth: because the
spirit of the Lord bloweth upon
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it: surely the people is grass.
The grass withereth, the flower
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fadeth: but the word of
our God shall stand forever.
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O Zion, that bringest good
tidings, get thee up into the
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high mountain; O Jerusalem,
that bringest good tidings, lift
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up thy voice with strength; lift
it up, be not afraid; say unto
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the cities of Judah, Behold your
God! Behold the Lord God will
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come with strong hand, and his
arm shall rule for him: behold,
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his reward is with him, and
his work is before him. He shall
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feed his flock like a shepherd:
he shall gather the lambs with
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his arm, and carry them in
his bosom, and shall gently lead
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those that are with young.
Who hath measured the waters
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in the hollow of his hand, and
meted out heaven with the span,
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and comprehended the dust
of the earth in a measure, and
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weighed the mountains in scales,
and the hills in a balance?
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Who hath directed the
Spirit of the Lord, or being his
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counsellor hath taught
him? with whom to seek counsel
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who instructed him, and taught
him in the path of judgment, and
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taught him knowledge,
and shewed to him the way of
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understanding? Behold,
the nations are as a drop of a
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bucket, and are counted as
the small dust of the balance:
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behold, he taketh up the
isles as a very little thing.
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And Lebanon is not sufficient
to burn, nor the beasts thereof
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sufficient for a burnt offering.
All nations before him are as
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nothing; and they are counted
to him less than nothing, and
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vanity. To whom then will ye
liken God? or what likeness will
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ye compare unto him?
The workman melteth a graven
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image, and the goldsmith
spreadeth it over with gold,
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and casteth silver chains. He
that is so impoverished that he
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hath no oblation chooseth a tree
that will not rot; he seeketh
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unto him a cunning workman
to prepare a graven image, that
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shall not be moved. Have ye not
known? have ye not heard? hath
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it not been told you from
the beginning? have ye not
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understood from the foundations
of the earth? It is he that
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sitteth upon the circle of
the earth, and the inhabitants
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thereof are as grasshoppers;
that stretcheth out the heavens
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as a curtain, and spreadeth
them out as a tent to dwell in:
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That bringeth the princes to
nothing; he maketh the judges
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of the earth as vanity. Yea,
they shall not be planted; yea,
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they shall not be sown: yea,
their stock shall not take root
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in the earth: and he shall also
blow upon them, and they shall
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wither, and the whirlwind
shall take them away as stubble.
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To whom then will ye liken me,
or shall I be equal? saith the
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Holy One. Lift up your eyes
on high, and behold who hath
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created these things,
that bringeth out their host by
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number: he calleth them all
by names by the greatness of his
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might, for that he is strong
in power; not one faileth.
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Why sayest thou, O Jacob, and
speakest, O Israel, My way is
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hid from the Lord, and my
judgment is passed over from my
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God? Hast thou not known?
hast thou not heard, that the
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everlasting God, the Lord,
the Creator of the ends of the
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earth, fainteth not, neither
is weary? there is no searching
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of his understanding. He giveth
power to the faint; and to them
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that have no might he increaseth
strength. Even the youths shall
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faint and be weary, and the
young men shall utterly fall:
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But they that wait upon the Lord
shall renew their strength; they
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shall mount up with wings as
eagles; they shall run, and not
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be weary; and they
shall walk, and not faint.
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Continuing in Isaiah Chapter 41
This is the King James Version
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Keep silence before me, O
islands; and let the people
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renew their strength: let them
come near; then let them speak:
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let us come near together
to judgment. Who raised up the
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righteous man from the east,
called him to his foot, gave
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the nations before him, and made
him rule over kings? he gave
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them as dust to his sword, and
as driven stubble to his bow.
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He pursued them, and passed
safely; even by the way that he
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had not gone with his feet.
Who hath wrought and done it,
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calling the generations from the
beginning? I the Lord, the first
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and with the last; I am he. The
isles saw it, and feared; the
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ends of the earth were afraid,
drew near, and came. They helped
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every one his neighbour; and
every one said to his brother,
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Be of good courage. So
the carpenter encouraged the
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goldsmith, and he that smootheth
with the hammer him that smote
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the anvil saying, It is ready
for sodering: and he fastened
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with nails, that it should not
be moved. But thou, Israel, art
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my servant, Jacob whom I have
chosen, the seed of Abraham my
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friend. Thou whom I have taken
from the ends of the earth, and
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called thee from the chief
men thereof, and said unto thee,
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Thou art my servant; I have
chosen thee, and not cast thee
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away. Fear thou not; for I am
with thee: be not dismayed; for
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I am thy God: I will strengthen
thee; yea, I will help thee; yea
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I will uphold thee with the
right hand of my righteousness.
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Behold, all they that were
incensed against thee shall be
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ashamed and confounded: they
shall be as nothing; and they
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that strive with thee shall
perish. Thou shalt seek them,
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and shall not find them;
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even them that contended with
thee: they that war against thee
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shall be as nothing, and as a
thing of nought. For I the Lord
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thy God will hold thy right
hand, saying unto thee, Fear
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not; I will help thee. Fear not,
thou worm Jacob, and ye men of
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Israel; I will help thee, saith
the Lord, and they redeemer,
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the Holy One of Israel. Behold,
I will make thee a new sharp
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threshing instrument having
teeth: thou shalt thresh the
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mountains, and beat them small,
and shalt make the hills as
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chaff. Thou shalt fan them, and
the wind shall carry them away,
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and the whirlwind shall scatter
them: and thou shalt rejoice
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in the Lord, and shalt glory in
the Holy One of Israel. When the
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poor and needy seek water, and
there is none, and their tongue
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faileth for thirst, I the Lord
will hear them, I the God of
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Israel will not forsake
them. I will open rivers in high
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places, and fountains in
the midst of the valleys: I will
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make the wilderness a pool of
water, and the dry land springs
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of water. I will plant in
the wilderness the cedar, the
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shittah tree, and the myrtle,
and the oil tree; I will set in
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the desert the fir tree, and the
pine, and the box tree together:
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That they may see, and know,
and consider, and understand
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together, that the hand of
the Lord hath done this, and the
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Holy One of Israel hath created
it. Produce your cause, saith
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the Lord; bring forth your
strong reasons, saith the King
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of Jacob. Let them bring them
forth, and shew us what shall
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happen: let them shew the
former things, what they be,
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that we may consider them, and
know the latter end of them; or
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declare us things for to come.
Shew the things that are to
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come hereafter, that we may know
that ye are gods: yea, do good,
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or do evil, that we may
be dismayed, and behold it
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together. Behold, ye are
of nothing, and your work of
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nought: an abomination is he
that chooseth you. I have raised
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up one from the north, and he
shall come: from the rising of
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the sun shall he call upon
my name: and he shall come upon
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princes as upon mortar, and
as the potter treadeth clay.
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Who hath declared from the
beginning, that we may know?
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and beforetime, that we may
say, He is righteous? yea, there
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is none that sheweth, yea, there
is none that declareth, yea,
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there is none that heareth your
words. The first shall say to
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Zion, Behold, behold them:
and I will give to Jerusalem one
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that bringeth good tidings. For
I beheld, and there was no man;
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even among them, and there
was no counsellor, that, when I
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asked of them, could answer
a word. Behold, they are all
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vanity; their works are nothing:
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