Isaiah 44 - 45
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"But now hear, b O Jacob my servant,
Israel whom I have chosen!
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Thus says the Lord who made you,
c who formed you from the womb and will help you:
d Fear not, O Jacob my servant,
e Jeshurun whom I have chosen.
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f For I will pour water on the thirsty land,
and streams on the dry ground;
I will pour my Spirit upon your offspring,
and my blessing on your descendants.
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They shall spring up among the grass
g like willows by flowing streams.
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h This one will say, 'I am the Lord's,'
another will call on the name of Jacob,
and another will write on his hand, 'The Lord's,'
and name himself by the name of Israel."
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Thus says the Lord, the King of Israel
and i his Redeemer, the Lord of hosts:
j "I am the first and I am the last;
besides me there is no god.
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k Who is like me? Let him proclaim it.
Let him declare and set it before me,
since I appointed an ancient people.
Let them declare what is to come, and what will happen.
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Fear not, nor be afraid;
have I not told you from of old and declared it?
l And you are my witnesses!
m Is there a God besides me?
There is no n Rock; I know not any."
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o All who fashion idols are nothing, and the things they delight in do not profit. Their witnesses neither see nor know, that they may be put to shame.
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p Who fashions a god or casts an idol that is profitable for nothing?
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q Behold, all his companions shall be put to shame, and the craftsmen are only human. Let them all assemble, let them stand forth. They shall be terrified; they shall be put to shame together.
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p The ironsmith takes a cutting tool and works it over the coals. He fashions it with hammers and works it with his strong arm. He becomes hungry, and his strength fails; he drinks no water and is faint.
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The carpenter stretches a line; he marks it out with a pencil. He shapes it with planes and marks it with a compass. r He shapes it into the figure of a man, with the beauty of a man, to dwell in a house.
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s He cuts down cedars, or he chooses a cypress tree or an oak and lets it grow strong among the trees of the forest. He plants a cedar and the rain nourishes it.
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Then it becomes fuel for a man. He takes a part of it and warms himself; he kindles a fire and bakes bread. Also he makes a god and worships it; he makes it an idol and falls down before it.
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Half of it he burns in the fire. Over the half he eats meat; he roasts it and is satisfied. Also he warms himself and says, "Aha, I am warm, I have seen the fire!"
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And the rest of it he makes into a god, his idol, and falls down to it and worships it. t He prays to it and says, "Deliver me, for you are my god!"
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They know not, nor do they discern, for he has shut their eyes, so that they cannot see, and their hearts, so that they cannot understand.
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No one considers, nor is there knowledge or discernment to say, "Half of it I burned in the fire; I also baked bread on its coals; I roasted meat and have eaten. And shall I make the rest of it an u abomination? Shall I fall down before a block of wood?"
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v He feeds on w ashes; a deluded heart has led him astray, and he cannot deliver himself or say, "Is there not x a lie in my right hand?"
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Remember these things, O Jacob,
and Israel, for you are y my servant;
I formed you; you are my servant;
z O Israel, you will not be forgotten by me.
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a I have blotted out your transgressions like a cloud
and your sins like mist;
return to me, for I have redeemed you.
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b Sing, O heavens, for the Lord has done it;
shout, O c depths of the earth;
break forth into singing, O mountains,
O forest, and every tree in it!
For the Lord has redeemed Jacob,
d and will be glorified in Israel.
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Thus says the Lord, e your Redeemer,
f who formed you from the womb:
g "I am the Lord, who made all things,
h who alone stretched out the heavens,
who spread out the earth by myself,
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who frustrates the signs of liars
and makes fools of diviners,
i who turns wise men back
and makes their knowledge foolish,
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j who confirms the word of his servant
and fulfills the counsel of his messengers,
who says of Jerusalem, 'She shall be inhabited,'
k and of the cities of Judah, 'They shall be built,
and I will raise up their ruins';
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l who says to the deep, 'Be dry;
I will dry up your rivers';
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who says of m Cyrus, 'He is n my shepherd,
and he shall fulfill all my purpose';
saying of Jerusalem, 'She shall be built,'
o and of the temple, 'Your foundation shall be laid.'"
Isaiah 45
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Thus says the Lord to p his anointed, to Cyrus,
q whose right hand I have grasped,
to subdue nations before him
and r to loose the belts of kings,
to open doors before him
that gates may not be closed:
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"I will go before you
and s level the exalted places,
t I will break in pieces the doors of bronze
and cut through the bars of iron,
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u I will give you the treasures of darkness
and the hoards in secret places,
that you may know that it is I, the Lord,
the God of Israel, v who call you by your name.
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For the sake of my servant Jacob,
and Israel my chosen,
v I call you by your name,
w I name you, though you do not know me.
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x I am the Lord, and there is no other,
besides me there is no God;
y I equip you, though you do not know me,
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z that people may know, from the rising of the sun
and from the west, that there is none besides me;
I am the Lord, and there is no other.
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I form light and create darkness,
I make well-being and a create calamity,
I am the Lord, who does all these things.
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b "Shower, O heavens, from above,
and c let the clouds rain down righteousness;
let the earth open, that salvation and righteousness may bear fruit;
let the earth cause them both to sprout;
I the Lord have created it.
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d "Woe to him who strives with him who formed him,
a pot among earthen pots!
e Does the clay say to him who forms it, 'What are you making?'
or 'Your work has no handles'?
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Woe to him who says to a father, 'What are you begetting?'
or to a woman, 'With what are you in labor?'"
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Thus says f the Lord,
the Holy One of Israel, and the one who formed him:
g "Ask me of things to come;
will you command me h concerning my children and i the work of my hands?
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j I made the earth
and created man on it;
it was my hands k that stretched out the heavens,
and l I commanded all their host.
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m I have stirred him up in righteousness,
n and I will make all his ways level;
o he shall build my city
p and set my exiles free,
not for price or reward,"
says the Lord of hosts.
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Thus says the Lord:
q "The wealth of Egypt and the merchandise of Cush,
and the Sabeans, men of stature,
shall come over to you r and be yours;
they shall follow you;
they shall come over in chains and bow down to you.
They will plead with you, saying:
'Surely God is in you, and there is no other,
no god besides him.'"
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s Truly, you are a God who hides himself,
O God of Israel, the Savior.
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t All of them are put to shame and confounded;
the makers of idols go in confusion together.
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But Israel is saved by the Lord
with everlasting salvation;
u you shall not be put to shame or confounded
to all eternity.
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v For thus says the Lord,
who created the heavens
(he is God!),
who formed the earth and made it
(he established it;
he w did not create it empty,
x he formed it to be inhabited!):
"I am the Lord, and there is no other.
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y I did not speak in secret,
in a land of darkness;
I did not say to the offspring of Jacob,
z 'Seek me in vain.'
I the Lord speak a the truth;
I declare what is right.
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b "Assemble yourselves and come;
draw near together,
you survivors of the nations!
c They have no knowledge
who d carry about their wooden idols,
e and keep on praying to a god
that cannot save.
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f Declare and present your case;
let them take counsel together!
Who told this long ago?
Who declared it of old?
Was it not I, the Lord?
And there is no other god besides me,
a righteous God g and a Savior;
there is none besides me.
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"Turn to me and be saved,
h all the ends of the earth!
For I am God, and there is no other.
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i By myself I have sworn;
from my mouth has gone out in j righteousness
a word that shall not return:
k 'To me every knee shall bow,
every tongue shall swear allegiance.'
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l "Only in the Lord, it shall be said of me,
are righteousness and m strength;
to him shall come and be ashamed
n all who were incensed against him.
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In the Lord all the offspring of Israel
shall be justified and shall glory."
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Isaiah 41:8
But you, Israel, my servant, Jacob, whom I have chosen, the offspring of Abraham, my friend.
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Isaiah 44:24
Thus says the Lord, your Redeemer, who formed you from the womb: "I am the Lord, who made all things, who alone stretched out the heavens, who spread out the earth by myself.
Isaiah 49:15
Can a woman forget her nursing child, that she should have no compassion on the son of her womb? Even these may forget, yet I will not forget you.
Psalms 71:6
Upon you I have leaned from before my birth; you are he who took me from my mother's womb. My praise is continually of you.
Jeremiah 1:5
"Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to the nations."
Galatians 1:15
But when he who had set me apart before I was born, and who called me by his grace.
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Isaiah 43:5
Fear not, for I am with you; I will bring your offspring from the east, and from the west I will gather you.
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Deuteronomy 32:15
But Jeshurun grew fat, and kicked; you grew fat, stout, and sleek; then he forsook God who made him and scoffed at the Rock of his salvation.
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Joel 2:28
And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh; your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, and your young men shall see visions.
John 7:38
Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, 'Out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.'
Acts 2:18
Even on my male servants and female servants in those days I will pour out my Spirit, and they shall prophesy.
Isaiah 35:6
Then shall the lame man leap like a deer, and the tongue of the mute sing for joy. For waters break forth in the wilderness, and streams in the desert.
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Psalms 1:3
He is like a tree planted by streams of water that yields its fruit in its season, and its leaf does not wither. In all that he does, he prospers.
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Isaiah 14:1
For the Lord will have compassion on Jacob and will again choose Israel, and will set them in their own land, and sojourners will join them and will attach themselves to the house of Jacob.
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Isaiah 43:14
Thus says the Lord, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: "For your sake I send to Babylon and bring them all down as fugitives, even the Chaldeans, in the ships in which they rejoice.
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Isaiah 48:12
Listen to me, O Jacob, and Israel, whom I called! I am he; I am the first, and I am the last.
Revelation 1:8
"I am the Alpha and the Omega," says the Lord God, "who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty."
Isaiah 41:4
Who has performed and done this, calling the generations from the beginning? I, the Lord, the first, and with the last; I am he.
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Isaiah 41:26 - 27
Who declared it from the beginning, that we might know, and beforehand, that we might say, "He is right"? There was none who declared it, none who proclaimed, none who heard your words.
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Isaiah 43:10
You are my witnesses," declares the Lord, "and my servant whom I have chosen, that you may know and believe me and understand that I am he. Before me no god was formed, nor shall there be any after me.
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Isaiah 45:5
I am the Lord, and there is no other, besides m...
Deuteronomy 4:35
To you it was shown, that you might know that t...
Deuteronomy 4:39
Know therefore today, and lay it to your heart,...
Deuteronomy 32:39
'See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no...
1 Samuel 2:2
There is none holy like the Lord ; there is non...
Joel 2:27
You shall know that I am in the midst of Israel...
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Isaiah 30:29
You shall have a song as in the night when a holy feast is kept, and gladness of heart, as when one sets out to the sound of the flute to go to the mountain of the Lord, to the Rock of Israel.
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Isaiah 41:24
Behold, you are nothing, and your work is less than nothing; an abomination is he who chooses you.
Isaiah 41:29
Behold, they are all a delusion; their works are nothing; their metal images are empty wind.
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Isaiah 40:19 - 20
An idol! A craftsman casts it, and a goldsmith overlays it with gold and casts for it silver chains.
Isaiah 41:6 - 7
Everyone helps his neighbor and says to his brother, "Be strong!
Isaiah 46:6 - 7
Those who lavish gold from the purse, and weigh out silver in the scales, hire a goldsmith, and he makes it into a god; then they fall down and worship!
Habakkuk 2:18
What profit is an idol when its maker has shaped it, a metal image, a teacher of lies? For its maker trusts in his own creation when he makes speechless idols!
Jeremiah 10:3 - 5
For the customs of the peoples are vanity. A tree from the forest is cut down and worked with an axe by the hands of a craftsman.
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Isaiah 45:16
All of them are put to shame and confounded; the makers of idols go in confusion together.
Psalms 115:8
Those who make them become like them; so do all who trust in them.
Isaiah 42:17
They are turned back and utterly put to shame, who trust in carved idols, who say to metal images, "You are our gods.
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Isaiah 44:10
Who fashions a god or casts an idol that is profitable for nothing?
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Psalms 115:5 - 7
They have mouths, but do not speak; eyes, but do not see.
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Isaiah 40:20
He who is too impoverished for an offering chooses wood that will not rot; he seeks out a skillful craftsman to set up an idol that will not move.
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Isaiah 45:20
Assemble yourselves and come; draw near together, you survivors of the nations! They have no knowledge who carry about their wooden idols, and keep on praying to a god that cannot save.
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Deuteronomy 27:15
"'Cursed be the man who makes a carved or cast metal image, an abomination to the Lord, a thing made by the hands of a craftsman, and sets it up in secret.' And all the people shall answer and say, 'Amen.'
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Hosea 12:1
Ephraim feeds on the wind and pursues the east wind all day long; they multiply falsehood and violence; they make a covenant with Assyria, and oil is carried to Egypt.
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Job 13:12
Your maxims are proverbs of ashes; your defenses are defenses of clay.
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Psalms 144:8
Whose mouths speak lies and whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood.
Romans 1:25
Because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen.
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Isaiah 42:19
Who is blind but my servant, or deaf as my messenger whom I send? Who is blind as my dedicated one, or blind as the servant of the Lord ?
Isaiah 42:1
Behold my servant, whom I uphold, my chosen, in whom my soul delights; I have put my Spirit upon him; he will bring forth justice to the nations.
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Isaiah 49:15
Can a woman forget her nursing child, that she should have no compassion on the son of her womb? Even these may forget, yet I will not forget you.
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Isaiah 43:25
I, I am he who blots out your transgressions for my own sake, and I will not remember your sins.
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Isaiah 49:13
Sing for joy, O heavens, and exult, O earth; break forth, O mountains, into singing! For the Lord has comforted his people and will have compassion on his afflicted.
Isaiah 55:12
For you shall go out in joy and be led forth in peace; the mountains and the hills before you shall break forth into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.
Psalms 69:34
Let heaven and earth praise him, the seas and everything that moves in them.
Jeremiah 51:48
Then the heavens and the earth, and all that is in them, shall sing for joy over Babylon, for the destroyers shall come against them out of the north, declares the Lord.
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Psalms 63:9
But those who seek to destroy my life shall go down into the depths of the earth.
Hosea 2:21 - 22
And in that day I will answer, declares the Lord, I will answer the heavens, and they shall answer the earth.
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Isaiah 49:3
And he said to me, "You are my servant, Israel, in whom I will be glorified.
Isaiah 55:5
Behold, you shall call a nation that you do not know, and a nation that did not know you shall run to you, because of the Lord your God, and of the Holy One of Israel, for he has glorified you.
Isaiah 60:9
For the coastlands shall hope for me, the ships of Tarshish first, to bring your children from afar, their silver and gold with them, for the name of the Lord your God, and for the Holy One of Israel, because he has made you beautiful.
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Isaiah 43:14
Thus says the Lord, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: "For your sake I send to Babylon and bring them all down as fugitives, even the Chaldeans, in the ships in which they rejoice.
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Isaiah 44:2
Thus says the Lord who made you, who formed you from the womb and will help you: Fear not, O Jacob my servant, Jeshurun whom I have chosen.
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Isaiah 42:5
Thus says God, the Lord, who created the heavens and stretched them out, who spread out the earth and what comes from it, who gives breath to the people on it and spirit to those who walk in it:
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Isaiah 42:5
Thus says God, the Lord, who created the heavens and stretched them out, who spread out the earth and what comes from it, who gives breath to the people on it and spirit to those who walk in it:
Isaiah 45:12
I made the earth and created man on it; it was my hands that stretched out the heavens, and I commanded all their host.
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Isaiah 19:3
And the spirit of the Egyptians within them will be emptied out, and I will confound their counsel; and they will inquire of the idols and the sorcerers, and the mediums and the necromancers.
Isaiah 19:14
The Lord has mingled within her a spirit of confusion, and they will make Egypt stagger in all its deeds, as a drunken man staggers in his vomit.
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2 Chronicles 36:22
Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremiah might be fulfilled, the Lord stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, so that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom and also put it in writing:
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Jeremiah 32:15
For thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: Houses and fields and vineyards shall again be bought in this land.
Jeremiah 32:44
Fields shall be bought for money, and deeds shall be signed and sealed and witnessed, in the land of Benjamin, in the places about Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, in the cities of the hill country, in the cities of the Shephelah, and in the cities of the Negeb; for I will restore their fortunes, declares the Lord.
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Isaiah 11:15
And the Lord will utterly destroy the tongue of the Sea of Egypt, and will wave his hand over the River with his scorching breath, and strike it into seven channels, and he will lead people across in sandals.
Isaiah 51:10
Was it not you who dried up the sea, the waters of the great deep, who made the depths of the sea a way for the redeemed to pass over?
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Isaiah 45:1
Thus says the Lord to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have grasped, to subdue nations before him and to loose the belts of kings, to open doors before him that gates may not be closed:
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2 Samuel 5:2
In times past, when Saul was king over us, it was you who led out and brought in Israel. And the Lord said to you, 'You shall be shepherd of my people Israel, and you shall be prince over Israel.'
Psalms 78:72
With upright heart he shepherded them and guided them with his skillful hand.
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Isaiah 45:13
I have stirred him up in righteousness, and I will make all his ways level; he shall build my city and set my exiles free, not for price or reward," says the Lord of hosts.
2 Chronicles 36:22 - 23
Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremiah might be fulfilled, the Lord stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, so that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom and also put it in writing:
Ezra 1:1 - 3
In the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremiah might be fulfilled, the Lord stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, so that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom and also put it in writing:
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Isaiah 44:28
Who says of Cyrus, 'He is my shepherd, and he shall fulfill all my purpose'; saying of Jerusalem, 'She shall be built,' and of the temple, 'Your foundation shall be laid.'
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Isaiah 41:13
For I, the Lord your God, hold your right hand; it is I who say to you, "Fear not, I am the one who helps you.
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Job 12:21
He pours contempt on princes and loosens the belt of the strong.
Isaiah 45:5
I am the Lord, and there is no other, besides me there is no God; I equip you, though you do not know me.
Isaiah 22:21
And I will clothe him with your robe, and will bind your sash on him, and will commit your authority to his hand. And he shall be a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem and to the house of Judah.
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Isaiah 40:4
Every valley shall be lifted up, and every mountain and hill be made low; the uneven ground shall become level, and the rough places a plain.
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Psalms 107:16
For he shatters the doors of bronze and cuts in two the bars of iron.
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Jeremiah 50:37
A sword against her horses and against her chariots, and against all the foreign troops in her midst, that they may become women! A sword against all her treasures, that they may be plundered!
Jeremiah 51:13
O you who dwell by many waters, rich in treasures, your end has come; the thread of your life is cut.
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Isaiah 43:1
But now thus says the Lord, he who created you, O Jacob, he who formed you, O Israel: "Fear not, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by name, you are mine.
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Isaiah 45:3
I will give you the treasures of darkness and the hoards in secret places, that you may know that it is I, the Lord, the God of Israel, who call you by your name.
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Isaiah 62:2
The nations shall see your righteousness, and all the kings your glory, and you shall be called by a new name that the mouth of the Lord will give.
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Isaiah 44:8
Fear not, nor be afraid; have I not told you from of old and declared it? And you are my witnesses! Is there a God besides me? There is no Rock; I know not any.
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Job 12:21
He pours contempt on princes and loosens the belt of the strong.
Isaiah 22:21
And I will clothe him with your robe, and will bind your sash on him, and will commit your authority to his hand. And he shall be a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem and to the house of Judah.
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Isaiah 37:20
So now, O Lord our God, save us from his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that you alone are the Lord.
Malachi 1:11
For from the rising of the sun to its setting my name will be great among the nations, and in every place incense will be offered to my name, and a pure offering. For my name will be great among the nations, says the Lord of hosts.
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Isaiah 41:23
Tell us what is to come hereafter, that we may know that you are gods; do good, or do harm, that we may be dismayed and terrified.
Amos 3:6
Is a trumpet blown in a city, and the people are not afraid? Does disaster come to a city, unless the Lord has done it?
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Deuteronomy 32:2
May my teaching drop as the rain, my speech distill as the dew, like gentle rain upon the tender grass, and like showers upon the herb.
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Psalms 85:11
Faithfulness springs up from the ground, and righteousness looks down from the sky.
Hosea 10:12
Sow for yourselves righteousness; reap steadfast love; break up your fallow ground, for it is the time to seek the Lord, that he may come and rain righteousness upon you.
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Ecclesiastes 6:10
Whatever has come to be has already been named, and it is known what man is, and that he is not able to dispute with one stronger than he.
Isaiah 10:15
Shall the axe boast over him who hews with it, or the saw magnify itself against him who wields it? As if a rod should wield him who lifts it, or as if a staff should lift him who is not wood!
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Isaiah 64:8
But now, O Lord, you are our Father; we are the clay, and you are our potter; we are all the work of your hand.
Romans 9:20
But who are you, O man, to answer back to God? Will what is molded say to its molder, "Why have you made me like this?
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Ezekiel 39:7
And my holy name I will make known in the midst of my people Israel, and I will not let my holy name be profaned anymore. And the nations shall know that I am the Lord, the Holy One in Israel.
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Isaiah 41:23
Tell us what is to come hereafter, that we may know that you are gods; do good, or do harm, that we may be dismayed and terrified.
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Jeremiah 31:9
With weeping they shall come, and with pleas for mercy I will lead them back, I will make them walk by brooks of water, in a straight path in which they shall not stumble, for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn.
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Isaiah 29:23
For when he sees his children, the work of my hands, in his midst, they will sanctify my name; they will sanctify the Holy One of Jacob and will stand in awe of the God of Israel.
Isaiah 64:8
But now, O Lord, you are our Father; we are the clay, and you are our potter; we are all the work of your hand.
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Jeremiah 27:5
It is I who by my great power and my outstretched arm have made the earth, with the men and animals that are on the earth, and I give it to whomever it seems right to me.
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Isaiah 42:5
Thus says God, the Lord, who created the heavens and stretched them out, who spread out the earth and what comes from it, who gives breath to the people on it and spirit to those who walk in it:
Isaiah 44:24
Thus says the Lord, your Redeemer, who formed you from the womb: "I am the Lord, who made all things, who alone stretched out the heavens, who spread out the earth by myself.
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Genesis 2:1
Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.
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Isaiah 41:2
Who stirred up one from the east whom victory meets at every step? He gives up nations before him, so that he tramples kings underfoot; he makes them like dust with his sword, like driven stubble with his bow.
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Isaiah 45:2
I will go before you and level the exalted places, I will break in pieces the doors of bronze and cut through the bars of iron.
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Isaiah 44:28
Who says of Cyrus, 'He is my shepherd, and he shall fulfill all my purpose'; saying of Jerusalem, 'She shall be built,' and of the temple, 'Your foundation shall be laid.
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Isaiah 49:25
For thus says the Lord : "Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken, and the prey of the tyrant be rescued, for I will contend with those who contend with you, and I will save your children.
Isaiah 51:14
He who is bowed down shall speedily be released; he shall not die and go down to the pit, neither shall his bread be lacking.
Isaiah 52:3
For thus says the Lord : "You were sold for nothing, and you shall be redeemed without money.
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Isaiah 43:3
For I am the Lord your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior. I give Egypt as your ransom, Cush and Seba in exchange for you.
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Isaiah 14:2
And the peoples will take them and bring them to their place, and the house of Israel will possess them in the Lord 's land as male and female slaves. They will take captive those who were their captors, and rule over those who oppressed them.
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Isaiah 57:17
Because of the iniquity of his unjust gain I was angry, I struck him; I hid my face and was angry, but he went on backsliding in the way of his own heart.
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Isaiah 42:17
They are turned back and utterly put to shame, who trust in carved idols, who say to metal images, "You are our gods.
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Isaiah 54:4
Fear not, for you will not be ashamed; be not confounded, for you will not be disgraced; for you will forget the shame of your youth, and the reproach of your widowhood you will remember no more.
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Isaiah 42:5
Thus says God, the Lord, who created the heavens and stretched them out, who spread out the earth and what comes from it, who gives breath to the people on it and spirit to those who walk in it:
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Genesis 1:2
The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.
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Psalms 115:16
The heavens are the Lord 's heavens, but the earth he has given to the children of man.
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Isaiah 48:16
Draw near to me, hear this: from the beginning I have not spoken in secret, from the time it came to be I have been there." And now the Lord God has sent me, and his Spirit.
Deuteronomy 30:11
For this commandment that I command you today is not too hard for you, neither is it far off.
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Jeremiah 29:13 - 14
You will seek me and find me, when you seek me with all your heart.
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Isaiah 45:23
By myself I have sworn; from my mouth has gone out in righteousness a word that shall not return: 'To me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall swear allegiance.
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Isaiah 41:1
Listen to me in silence, O coastlands; let the peoples renew their strength; let them approach, then let them speak; let us together draw near for judgment.
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Isaiah 44:18 - 19
They know not, nor do they discern, for he has shut their eyes, so that they cannot see, and their hearts, so that they cannot understand.
Isaiah 48:5 - 7
I declared them to you from of old, before they came to pass I announced them to you, lest you should say, 'My idol did them, my carved image and my metal image commanded them.
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Isaiah 46:1
Bel bows down; Nebo stoops; their idols are on beasts and livestock; these things you carry are borne as burdens on weary beasts.
Isaiah 46:7
They lift it to their shoulders, they carry it, they set it in its place, and it stands there; it cannot move from its place. If one cries to it, it does not answer or save him from his trouble.
Jeremiah 10:5
Their idols are like scarecrows in a cucumber field, and they cannot speak; they have to be carried, for they cannot walk. Do not be afraid of them, for they cannot do evil, neither is it in them to do good.
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Isaiah 44:17
And the rest of it he makes into a god, his idol, and falls down to it and worships it. He prays to it and says, "Deliver me, for you are my god!
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Isaiah 41:22
Let them bring them, and tell us what is to happen. Tell us the former things, what they are, that we may consider them, that we may know their outcome; or declare to us the things to come.
Isaiah 41:26
Who declared it from the beginning, that we might know, and beforehand, that we might say, "He is right"? There was none who declared it, none who proclaimed, none who heard your words.
Isaiah 43:9
All the nations gather together, and the peoples assemble. Who among them can declare this, and show us the former things? Let them bring their witnesses to prove them right, and let them hear and say, It is true.
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Isaiah 43:11
I, I am the Lord, and besides me there is no savior.
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Isaiah 11:12
He will raise a signal for the nations and will assemble the banished of Israel, and gather the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth.
Isaiah 43:5 - 6
Fear not, for I am with you; I will bring your offspring from the east, and from the west I will gather you.
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Genesis 22:16
And said, "By myself I have sworn, declares the Lord, because you have done this and have not withheld your son, your only son.
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Isaiah 45:19
I did not speak in secret, in a land of darkness; I did not say to the offspring of Jacob, 'Seek me in vain.' I the Lord speak the truth; I declare what is right.
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Romans 14:11
For it is written, "As I live, says the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to God.
Philippians 2:10
So that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth.
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Isaiah 26:4
Trust in the Lord forever, for the Lord God is an everlasting rock.
Isaiah 44:8
Fear not, nor be afraid; have I not told you from of old and declared it? And you are my witnesses! Is there a God besides me? There is no Rock; I know not any.
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Isaiah 26:4
Trust in the Lord forever, for the Lord God is an everlasting rock.
Isaiah 44:8
Fear not, nor be afraid; have I not told you from of old and declared it? And you are my witnesses! Is there a God besides me? There is no Rock; I know not any.
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Isaiah 41:11
Behold, all who are incensed against you shall be put to shame and confounded; those who strive against you shall be as nothing and shall perish.
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