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46:1Bel has bowed down; Nebo stoops; / Their idols are on beasts and cattle; / The things which you carry are a burden, / A load for a weary beast.
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46:2They stoop and have bowed down together; / They are not able to escape the burden; / But they themselves have gone into captivity.
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46:3Listen to Me, O house of Jacob, / And all the remnant of the house of Israel, / You who have been borne from birth, / Who have been carried from the womb,
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46:4Even unto old age, I am He; / Even unto your gray-haired years, I will bear you. / I have made and I will carry, / And I will bear and deliver.
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46:5To whom will you liken Me, / And with whom will you make Me equal / And compare Me, that we should be considered alike?
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46:6Those who lavish gold from the purse / And weigh silver in scales / And hire a goldsmith, and he makes a god - / They bow down and even worship it;
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46:7They lift it up on their shoulder; they carry it / And set it in its place, and it stands. / It will not move from its place; / Someone even cries out to it, and it does not answer, / Nor save him from his distress.
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46:8Remember this and stand fast; / Put this in your heart, O transgressors.
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46:9Remember the former things of old, / That I am God and there is no one else; / I am God and there is no one like Me,
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46:10Who declares the end from the beginning / And things which have not been done from ancient times, / Saying, My counsel will stand, / And all My desire I will accomplish;
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46:11Who calls for a bird of prey from the east, / And from a distant land a man to be My counselor. / Indeed, I have spoken; surely I will bring it to pass. / I have purposed; surely I will do it.
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46:12Listen to Me, O hardhearted ones, / Who are far from righteousness.
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46:13I will bring My righteousness near - it is not far off; / And My salvation will not delay; / And I will give salvation in Zion, / And to Israel My glory.
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47:1Come down and sit in the dust, / O virgin daughter of Babylon; / Sit on the ground where there is no throne, / O daughter of the Chaldeans; / For you will no longer be called / Tender and delicate.
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47:2Take millstones and grind meal; / Remove your veil; / Strip off your flowing skirt; uncover your thigh; / Cross over the rivers.
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47:3Your nakedness will be uncovered; / Your shame will also be seen; / I will take vengeance and will not spare any man.
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47:4Our Redeemer, Jehovah of hosts is His name, / The Holy One of Israel.
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47:5Sit in silence and go in darkness, / O daughter of the Chaldeans; / For you will no longer be called / The queen of kingdoms.
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47:6I was angry with My people; / I profaned My inheritance, / And I have delivered them up into your hand. / You have not shown any mercy to them; / You have made your yoke / Very heavy upon the elderly.
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47:7You have said, I will be / A queen forever; / You did not put these things into your heart; / You did not remember the end of them.
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47:8And now hear this, O lover of pleasure, / Who dwells securely / And says in your heart, / I am, and there is none besides me; / I will not dwell as a widow, / And I will not know loss of children.
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47:9But these two things will come upon you / Suddenly, in one day: / Loss of children and widowhood; / In full measure they will come upon you / In spite of the multitude of your sorceries; / In spite of the great power of your spells.
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47:10And you felt secure in your wickedness; / You said, No one sees me. / Your wisdom and your knowledge / Have seduced you, / And you said in your heart, / I am, and there is none besides me.
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47:11But evil will come upon you, / And you will not know its origin; / Disaster will fall upon you / Which you cannot expiate for; / Desolation will come upon you suddenly, / About which you do not know.
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47:12Stand now with your enchantments / And the multitude of your sorceries, / With which you have labored from your youth; / Perhaps you can profit; / Perhaps you will inspire terror.
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47:13You are wearied with the multitude of your counsels. / Let the astrologers, who gaze at the stars, / Who predict according to the new moons, / Stand up and save you from what is coming upon you.
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47:14Indeed, they are like stubble; / Fire consumes them; / They cannot deliver themselves / From the power of the flame; / There is no coal for warming themselves, / Nor the light of a fire to sit before.
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47:15So will those with whom you have labored be to you, / Those who have traded with you from your youth; / Each one will wander off in his own direction; / There will be no one to save you.
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48:1Hear this, O house of Jacob, / Who are called by the name of Israel; / And who came out from the waters of Judah, / Who swear by the name of Jehovah / And make mention of the God of Israel, / But not in truth nor in righteousness.
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48:2For they call themselves after the holy city / And lean upon the God of Israel; / Jehovah of hosts is His name.
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48:3I have declared the former things from the beginning; / And they went out from My mouth, and I let them hear them; / I did them suddenly, and they came to pass.
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48:4Because I knew that you are obstinate, / And your neck is an iron sinew, / And your forehead bronze;
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48:5Therefore I declared them to you long ago; / Before things came to pass I let you hear; / Lest you should say, My idol has done them, / And my graven image and my molten image commanded them.
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48:6You have heard; look at all this. And will you not declare it? / From this time I will let you hear new things / And hidden things which you have not known.
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48:7They have been created now, and not long ago; / And before this day you have not even heard them; / Lest you should say, Indeed, I knew them.
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48:8You also have not heard and have not known; / Your ears were not even open from that time; / For I knew that you would deal very treacherously / And would be called a transgressor from the womb.
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48:9For My name's sake I will defer My anger, / And for the sake of My praise I will restrain it for you, / In order not to cut you off.
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48:10Indeed, I have refined you but not like silver; / I have tried you in the furnace of affliction.
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48:11For My own sake, yes, for My own sake, I will do it, / For how can My name be profaned? / And I will not give My glory to another.
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48:12Listen to Me, O Jacob, / And Israel, whom I called; / I am He; I am the First, / I am also the Last.
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48:13Indeed, My hand laid the foundations of the earth, / And My right hand spread out the heavens; / When I call to them, / They stand together.
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48:14Assemble yourselves, all of you, and hear! / Who among them has declared these things? / Jehovah loves him; he will do His pleasure / On Babylon, and His arm will be upon the Chaldeans.
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48:15I, even I, have spoken; indeed, I have called him; / I have brought him, and his way will prosper.
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48:16Draw near to Me and listen to this: / From the beginning I have not spoken in secret; / From the time it took place, I was there. / And now the Lord Jehovah / Has sent me and His Spirit.
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48:17Thus says Jehovah, your Redeemer, / The Holy One of Israel, / I am Jehovah your God, / Who teaches you to do that which is profitable, / Who leads you in the way that you should go.
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48:18If only you had hearkened to My commandments! / Then your peace would have been like a river, / And your righteousness like the waves of the sea,
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48:19And your seed would have been like the sand, / And the offspring of your bowels like the gravel; / His name would not have been cut off / Or destroyed before Me.
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48:20Come out from Babylon; / Flee from the Chaldeans; / With a voice of shouting declare; / Let them hear this, / Send it out unto the end of the earth; / Say, Jehovah has redeemed / His servant Jacob.
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48:21And they did not thirst / When He led them through the dry places; / He caused water to flow / From the rock for them; / And He split the rock, / And the waters gushed out.
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48:22There is no peace, says Jehovah, for the wicked.
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49:1Listen to me, O coastlands, / And hearken, you peoples from afar. / Jehovah has called me from the womb; / From the bowels of my mother He has made mention of my name.
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49:2And He has made my mouth like a sharp sword; / He has concealed me in the shadow of His hand, / And He has made me a polished arrow; / He has hidden me in His quiver.
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49:3And He said to me, You are My servant, / Israel, in whom I will be glorified.
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49:4But I said, I have labored in vain; / I have used up my strength for nothing and vanity; / Yet surely the justice due to me is with Jehovah, / And my recompense with my God.
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49:5And now says Jehovah, / Who formed Me from the womb to be His Servant, / To bring Jacob back to Him, / So that Israel would be gathered to Him; / And I will be glorified in the sight of Jehovah, / And My God will be My strength.
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49:6He says, It is too small a thing that You would be My Servant / To raise up the tribes of Jacob / And bring back the preserved of Israel; / I will also set You as a light of the nations / That You may be My salvation unto the ends of the earth.
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49:7Thus says Jehovah, / The Redeemer of Israel, his Holy One, / To the despised One, the One abhorred by the nation, / The One subjected to tyrants, / Kings will see and arise, / And princes will bow down; / Because of Jehovah, who is faithful, / The Holy One of Israel, who has chosen You.
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49:8Thus says Jehovah, / In an acceptable time I have answered You, / And in a day of salvation I have helped You; / And I will preserve You and give You for a covenant of the people, / To restore the land, to apportion the desolate inheritances,
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49:9To say to the prisoners, Come forth, / To say to those who are in darkness, Show yourselves. They will feed along the roads, / And their pasture will be on all the bare heights;
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49:10They will not hunger or thirst; / Neither the scorching heat nor the sun will strike them; / For He who has compassion on them will lead them / And will guide them beside the springs of water;
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49:11And I will make all My mountains into a road, / And My highways will be raised up.
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49:12Indeed, these will come from a distance, / And indeed these will come from the north and the west, / And these from the land of the Sinim.
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49:13Give a ringing shout, O heavens, and exult, O earth, / And break forth into shouting, O mountains; / For Jehovah has comforted His people / And will have compassion on His afflicted ones.
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49:14But Zion has said, Jehovah has forsaken me, / And the Lord has forgotten me.
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49:15Can a woman forget her nursing child, / That she would not have compassion on the son of her womb? / Even though they may forget, / Yet I will not forget you.
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49:16Indeed, I have engraved you upon the palms of My hands; / Your walls are continually before Me.
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49:17Your children make haste; / Your destroyers and those who lay you waste / Will go forth from you.
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49:18Lift up your eyes and look around; / All of these gather themselves together and come to you. / As I live, declares Jehovah, / You will put all of them on like an ornament / And gird yourself with them like a bride.
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49:19For your waste and desolate places / And your devastated land - / For you will be too constricted now because of its inhabitants, / And those who swallowed you up will be far away.
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49:20The children of whom you were bereaved / Will yet say in your ears, / This place is too constricted for me; / Make room for me that I may dwell here.
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49:21Then you will say in your heart, / Who has borne these for me, / Since I have been bereaved of children and am barren, / An exile and driven about? / And who brought these up? / Indeed, I was left alone; / From where did these come?
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49:22Thus says the Lord Jehovah, / Indeed, I will lift up My hand to the nations, / And unto the peoples I will lift up My banner; / And they will bring your sons in their arms, / And they will carry your daughters on their shoulders.
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49:23And kings will be your foster fathers; / And their princesses will be those who nurse you; / They will bow down to you with their faces toward the earth / And lick the dust of your feet; / And you will know that I am Jehovah; / Those who wait on Me will not be ashamed.
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49:24Can the booty be taken from the strong man, / Or the lawful captives be delivered?
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49:25Surely, thus says Jehovah, / Even the captive may be taken from the strong man, / And the booty may be released from the tyrant; / For I will strive with those who strive with you, / And I will save your children;
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49:26And I will feed those who oppress you with their own flesh; / And they will be drunk with their own blood as with sweet wine; / Then all flesh will know / That I am Jehovah your Savior / And your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.
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