Isaiah 40 - 41
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z Comfort, comfort my people, says your God.
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a Speak tenderly to Jerusalem,
and cry to her
that b her warfare is ended,
that her iniquity is pardoned,
that she has received from the Lord's hand
double for all her sins.
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c A voice cries:
d "In the wilderness prepare the way of the Lord;
e make straight in the desert a highway for our God.
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f 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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g And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed,
and all flesh shall see it together,
h for the mouth of the Lord has spoken."
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A voice says, "Cry!"
And I said, "What shall I cry?"
i All flesh is grass,
and all its beauty is like the flower of the field.
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The grass withers, the flower fades
when the breath of the Lord blows on it;
surely the people are grass.
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j The grass withers, the flower fades,
but the word of our God will stand forever.
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Get you up to a high mountain,
O Zion, k herald of good news;
lift up your voice with strength,
O Jerusalem, herald of good news;
lift it up, fear not;
say to the cities of Judah,
"Behold your God!"
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l Behold, the Lord God comes with might,
and his arm rules for him;
m behold, his reward is with him,
and his recompense before him.
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n He will tend his flock like a shepherd;
o he will gather the lambs in his arms;
p he will carry them in his bosom,
and gently lead those that are with young.
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q Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand
and marked off the heavens with a span,
enclosed the dust of the earth in a measure
and weighed the mountains in scales
and the hills in a balance?
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r Who has measured the Spirit of the Lord,
or what man shows him his counsel?
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Whom did he consult,
and who made him understand?
s Who taught him the path of justice,
and taught him knowledge,
and showed him the way of understanding?
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Behold, the nations are like a drop from a bucket,
and are accounted t as the dust on the scales;
behold, he takes up u the coastlands like fine dust.
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Lebanon would not suffice for fuel,
nor are v its beasts enough for a burnt offering.
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w All the nations are as nothing before him,
they are accounted by him as less than nothing and emptiness.
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x To whom then will you liken God,
y or what likeness compare with him?
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y An idol! A craftsman casts it,
and a goldsmith overlays it with gold
and casts for it silver chains.
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z 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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a Do you not know? Do you not hear?
Has it not been told you from the beginning?
Have you not understood from the foundations of the earth?
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It is he who sits above the circle of the earth,
and its inhabitants are b like grasshoppers;
c who stretches out the heavens like a curtain,
and spreads them like a tent to dwell in;
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d who brings princes to nothing,
and makes the rulers of the earth as emptiness.
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Scarcely are they planted, scarcely sown,
scarcely has their stem taken root in the earth,
when he blows on them, and they wither,
e and the tempest carries them off like stubble.
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f To whom then will you compare me,
that I should be like him? says the Holy One.
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Lift up your eyes on high and see:
who created these?
g He who brings out their host by number,
calling them all by name,
by the greatness of his might,
and because he is strong in power
not one is missing.
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Why do you say, O Jacob,
and speak, O Israel,
h "My way is hidden from the Lord,
i and my right is disregarded by my God"?
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Have you not known? Have you not heard?
The Lord is j the everlasting God,
the Creator of the ends of the earth.
He does not faint or grow weary;
k his understanding is unsearchable.
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He gives power to the faint,
and to him who has no might he increases strength.
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Even youths shall faint and be weary,
and young men shall fall exhausted;
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but l they who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength;
they shall mount up with wings m like eagles;
they shall run and not be weary;
they shall walk and not faint.
Isaiah 41
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n Listen to me in silence,
o 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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p Who stirred up one from the east
whom victory meets at every q step?
r He gives up nations before him,
so that he tramples kings underfoot;
he makes them like dust with his sword,
s like driven stubble with his bow.
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He pursues them and passes on safely,
by paths his feet have not trod.
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t Who has performed and done this,
calling the generations from the beginning?
u I, the Lord, the first,
and with the last; I am he.
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v The coastlands have seen and are afraid;
the ends of the earth tremble;
they have drawn near and come.
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Everyone helps his neighbor
and says to his brother, "Be strong!"
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w The craftsman strengthens the goldsmith,
and he who smooths with the hammer him who strikes the anvil,
saying of the soldering, "It is good";
and they strengthen it with nails x so that it cannot be moved.
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But you, Israel, y my servant,
Jacob, z whom I have chosen,
the offspring of Abraham, a my friend;
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you whom I took from the ends of the earth,
and called b from its farthest corners,
saying to you, "You are y my servant,
z I have chosen you and not cast you off";
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fear not, for I am with you;
be not dismayed, for I am your God;
I will strengthen you, I will help you,
I will uphold you with c my righteous right hand.
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d 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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e You shall seek those who contend with you,
but you shall not find them;
f those who war against you
shall be as nothing at all.
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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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Fear not, you g worm Jacob,
you men of Israel!
I am the one who helps you, declares the Lord;
your h Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel.
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i Behold, I make of you a threshing sledge,
new, sharp, and having teeth;
you shall thresh j the mountains and crush them,
and you shall make the hills like chaff;
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k you shall winnow them, and l the wind shall carry them away,
and the tempest shall scatter them.
m And you shall rejoice in the Lord;
in the Holy One of Israel you shall glory.
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n When the poor and needy seek water,
and there is none,
and their tongue is parched with thirst,
I the Lord will answer them;
I the God of Israel will not forsake them.
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o I will open rivers on the bare heights,
and fountains in the midst of the valleys.
p I will make the wilderness a pool of water,
and the dry land springs of water.
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q I will put in the wilderness the cedar,
the acacia, the myrtle, and the olive.
I will set in the desert r the cypress,
the plane and the pine together,
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that they may see and know,
may consider and understand together,
that s the hand of the Lord has done this,
the Holy One of Israel has created it.
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Set forth your case, says the Lord;
bring your proofs, says the King of Jacob.
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Let them bring them, and t 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.
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t Tell us what is to come hereafter,
that we may know that you are gods;
u do good, or do harm,
that we may be dismayed and terrified.
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Behold, v you are nothing,
and your work is less than nothing;
an abomination is he who chooses you.
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w I stirred up one from the north, and he has come,
x from the rising of the sun, y and he shall call upon my name;
he shall trample on rulers as on mortar,
as the potter treads clay.
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z 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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a I was the first to say to Zion, "Behold, here they are!"
and b I give to Jerusalem a herald of good news.
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c But when I look, there is no one;
among these there is no counselor
who, when I ask, gives an answer.
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d Behold, they are all a delusion;
their works are nothing;
their metal images are empty wind.
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Isaiah 51:12
I, I am he who comforts you; who are you that you are afraid of man who dies, of the son of man who is made like grass.
Luke 2:25
Now there was a man in Jerusalem, whose name was Simeon, and this man was righteous and devout, waiting for the consolation of Israel, and the Holy Spirit was upon him.
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Hosea 2:14
Therefore, behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak tenderly to her.
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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:
Jeremiah 25:12
Then after seventy years are completed, I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation, the land of the Chaldeans, for their iniquity, declares the Lord, making the land an everlasting waste.
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Matthew 3:3
For this is he who was spoken of by the prophet Isaiah when he said, "The voice of one crying in the wilderness: 'Prepare the way of the Lord; make his paths straight.'
Mark 1:3
The voice of one crying in the wilderness: 'Prepare the way of the Lord, make his paths straight,'
Luke 3:4
As it is written in the book of the words of Isaiah the prophet, "The voice of one crying in the wilderness: 'Prepare the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.
John 1:23
He said, "I am the voice of one crying out in the wilderness, 'Make straight the way of the Lord,' as the prophet Isaiah said.
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Malachi 3:1
Behold, I send my messenger, and he will prepare the way before me. And the Lord whom you seek will suddenly come to his temple; and the messenger of the covenant in whom you delight, behold, he is coming, says the Lord of hosts.
Isaiah 57:14
And it shall be said, "Build up, build up, prepare the way, remove every obstruction from my people's way.
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Psalms 68:4
Sing to God, sing praises to his name; lift up a song to him who rides through the deserts; his name is the Lord ; exult before him!
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Luke 3:5
Every valley shall be filled, and every mountain and hill shall be made low, and the crooked shall become straight, and the rough places shall become level ways.
Isaiah 49:11
And I will make all my mountains a road, and my highways shall be raised up.
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Luke 3:6
And all flesh shall see the salvation of God.'
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Isaiah 1:20
But if you refuse and rebel, you shall be eaten by the sword; for the mouth of the Lord has spoken.
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1 Peter 1:24 - 25
For "All flesh is like grass and all its glory like the flower of grass. The grass withers, and the flower falls.
Job 14:2
He comes out like a flower and withers; he flees like a shadow and continues not.
Psalms 102:11
My days are like an evening shadow; I wither away like grass.
Psalms 103:15
As for man, his days are like grass; he flourishes like a flower of the field.
James 1:10
And the rich in his humiliation, because like a flower of the grass he will pass away.
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James 1:11
For the sun rises with its scorching heat and withers the grass; its flower falls, and its beauty perishes. So also will the rich man fade away in the midst of his pursuits.
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Isaiah 52:7
How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him who brings good news, who publishes peace, who brings good news of happiness, who publishes salvation, who says to Zion, "Your God reigns.
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Isaiah 59:16 - 17
He saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was no one to intercede; then his own arm brought him salvation, and his righteousness upheld him.
Luke 11:22
But when one stronger than he attacks him and overcomes him, he takes away his armor in which he trusted and divides his spoil.
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Isaiah 62:11
Behold, the Lord has proclaimed to the end of the earth: Say to the daughter of Zion, "Behold, your salvation comes; behold, his reward is with him, and his recompense before him.
Revelation 22:12
Behold, I am coming soon, bringing my recompense with me, to repay everyone for what he has done.
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Ezekiel 34:23
And I will set up over them one shepherd, my servant David, and he shall feed them: he shall feed them and be their shepherd.
Zechariah 11:7
So I became the shepherd of the flock doomed to be slaughtered by the sheep traders. And I took two staffs, one I named Favor, the other I named Union. And I tended the sheep.
John 10:11
I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.
John 21:15
When they had finished breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, "Simon, son of John, do you love me more than these?" He said to him, "Yes, Lord; you know that I love you." He said to him, "Feed my lambs.
Acts 20:28
Pay careful attention to yourselves and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to care for the church of God, which he obtained with his own blood.
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Matthew 18:12
What do you think? If a man has a hundred sheep, and one of them has gone astray, does he not leave the ninety-nine on the mountains and go in search of the one that went astray?
Luke 15:5
And when he has found it, he lays it on his shoulders, rejoicing.
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Numbers 11:12
Did I conceive all this people? Did I give them birth, that you should say to me, 'Carry them in your bosom, as a nurse carries a nursing child,' to the land that you swore to give their fathers?
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Proverbs 30:4
Who has ascended to heaven and come down? Who has gathered the wind in his fists? Who has wrapped up the waters in a garment? Who has established all the ends of the earth? What is his name, and what is his son's name? Surely you know!
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Romans 11:34
"For who has known the mind of the Lord, or who has been his counselor?"
1 Corinthians 2:16
For who has understood the mind of the Lord so as to instruct him?" But we have the mind of Christ.
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Job 21:22
Will any teach God knowledge, seeing that he judges those who are on high?
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Isaiah 29:5
But the multitude of your foreign foes shall be like small dust, and the multitude of the ruthless like passing chaff. And in an instant, suddenly.
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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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Psalms 50:10
For every beast of the forest is mine, the cattle on a thousand hills.
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Psalms 62:9
Those of low estate are but a breath; those of high estate are a delusion; in the balances they go up; they are together lighter than a breath.
Daniel 4:35
All the inhabitants of the earth are accounted as nothing, and he does according to his will among the host of heaven and among the inhabitants of the earth; and none can stay his hand or say to him, "What have you done?
Isaiah 41:12
You shall seek those who contend with you, but you shall not find them; those who war against you shall be as nothing at all.
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Isaiah 40:25
To whom then will you compare me, that I should be like him? says the Holy One.
Isaiah 46:5
To whom will you liken me and make me equal, and compare me, that we may be alike?
Acts 17:29
Being then God's offspring, we ought not to think that the divine being is like gold or silver or stone, an image formed by the art and imagination of man.
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Hosea 13:2
And now they sin more and more, and make for themselves metal images, idols skillfully made of their silver, all of them the work of craftsmen. It is said of them, "Those who offer human sacrifice kiss calves!
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Isaiah 40:18
To whom then will you liken God, or what likeness compare with him?
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Isaiah 46:6
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!
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.
Isaiah 44:9 - 15
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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Isaiah 40:28
Have you not known? Have you not heard? The Lord is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He does not faint or grow weary; his understanding is unsearchable.
Acts 14:17
Yet he did not leave himself without witness, for he did good by giving you rains from heaven and fruitful seasons, satisfying your hearts with food and gladness.
Romans 1:19 - 20
For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them.
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Numbers 13:33
And there we saw the Nephilim (the sons of Anak, who come from the Nephilim), and we seemed to ourselves like grasshoppers, and so we seemed to them.
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Job 9:8
Who alone stretched out the heavens and trampled the waves of the sea.
Psalms 104:2
Covering yourself with light as with a garment, stretching out the heavens like a tent.
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Job 12:21
He pours contempt on princes and loosens the belt of the strong.
Psalms 107:40
He pours contempt on princes and makes them wander in trackless wastes.
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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.
Psalms 83:13
O my God, make them like whirling dust, like chaff before the wind.
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Isaiah 40:18
To whom then will you liken God, or what likeness compare with him?
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Psalms 147:4
He determines the number of the stars; he gives to all of them their names.
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Isaiah 49:14
But Zion said, "The Lord has forsaken me; my Lord has forgotten me.
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Isaiah 49:4
But I said, "I have labored in vain; I have spent my strength for nothing and vanity; yet surely my right is with the Lord, and my recompense with my God.
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Psalms 121:4
Behold, he who keeps Israel will neither slumber nor sleep.
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Psalms 147:5
Great is our Lord, and abundant in power; his understanding is beyond measure.
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Psalms 103:5
Who satisfies you with good so that your youth is renewed like the eagle's.
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Exodus 19:4
You yourselves have seen what I did to the Egyptians, and how I bore you on eagles' wings and brought you to myself.
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Habakkuk 2:20
But the Lord is in his holy temple; let all the earth keep silence before him.
Zechariah 2:13
Be silent, all flesh, before the Lord, for he has roused himself from his holy dwelling.
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Isaiah 11:11
In that day the Lord will extend his hand yet a second time to recover the remnant that remains of his people, from Assyria, from Egypt, from Pathros, from Cush, from Elam, from Shinar, from Hamath, and from the coastlands of the sea.
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Isaiah 46:11
Calling a bird of prey from the east, the man of my counsel from a far country. I have spoken, and I will bring it to pass; I have purposed, and I will do it.
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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Judges 4:10
And Barak called out Zebulun and Naphtali to Kedesh. And 10,000 men went up at his heels, and Deborah went up with him.
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2 Chronicles 36:23
"Thus says Cyrus king of Persia, 'The Lord, the God of heaven, has given me all the kingdoms of the earth, and he has charged me to build him a house at Jerusalem, which is in Judah. Whoever is among you of all his people, may the Lord his God be with him. Let him go up.'"
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Isaiah 40:24
Scarcely are they planted, scarcely sown, scarcely has their stem taken root in the earth, when he blows on them, and they wither, and the tempest carries them off like stubble.
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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.
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Isaiah 43:10 - 11
You are my witnesses," declares the Lord, "and ...
Isaiah 44:6
Thus says the Lord, the King of Israel and his ...
Isaiah 48:12
Listen to me, O Jacob, and Israel, whom I calle...
Revelation 1:8
"I am the Alpha and the Omega," says the Lord G...
Revelation 1:17
When I saw him, I fell at his feet as though de...
Revelation 22:13
I am the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the...
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Isaiah 11:11
In that day the Lord will extend his hand yet a second time to recover the remnant that remains of his people, from Assyria, from Egypt, from Pathros, from Cush, from Elam, from Shinar, from Hamath, and from the coastlands of the sea.
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Isaiah 40:19
An idol! A craftsman casts it, and a goldsmith overlays it with gold and casts for it silver chains.
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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 44:1 - 2
But now hear, O Jacob my servant, Israel whom I have chosen!
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Deuteronomy 7:6
For you are a people holy to the Lord your God. The Lord your God has chosen you to be a people for his treasured possession, out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth.
Deuteronomy 10:15
Yet the Lord set his heart in love on your fathers and chose their offspring after them, you above all peoples, as you are this day.
Deuteronomy 14:2
For you are a people holy to the Lord your God, and the Lord has chosen you to be a people for his treasured possession, out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth.
Psalms 135:4
For the Lord has chosen Jacob for himself, Israel as his own possession.
1 Peter 2:9
But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.
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2 Chronicles 20:7
Did you not, our God, drive out the inhabitants of this land before your people Israel, and give it forever to the descendants of Abraham your friend?
James 2:23
And the Scripture was fulfilled that says, "Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness" - and he was called a friend of God.
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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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Isaiah 41:8
But you, Israel, my servant, Jacob, whom I have chosen, the offspring of Abraham, my friend.
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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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Psalms 48:10
As your name, O God, so your praise reaches to the ends of the earth. Your right hand is filled with righteousness.
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Isaiah 45:24
Only in the Lord, it shall be said of me, are righteousness and strength; to him shall come and be ashamed all who were incensed against him.
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Psalms 37:10
In just a little while, the wicked will be no more; though you look carefully at his place, he will not be there.
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Isaiah 40:17
All the nations are as nothing before him, they are accounted by him as less than nothing and emptiness.
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Psalms 22:6
But I am a worm and not a man, scorned by mankind and despised by the people.
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Isaiah 54:5
For your Maker is your husband, the Lord of hosts is his name; and the Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer, the God of the whole earth he is called.
Psalms 78:35
They remembered that God was their rock, the Most High God their redeemer.
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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Micah 4:13
Arise and thresh, O daughter of Zion, for I will make your horn iron, and I will make your hoofs bronze; you shall beat in pieces many peoples; and shall devote their gain to the Lord, their wealth to the Lord of the whole earth.
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Isaiah 2:14
Against all the lofty mountains, and against all the uplifted hills.
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Jeremiah 51:2
And I will send to Babylon winnowers, and they shall winnow her, and they shall empty her land, when they come against her from every side on the day of trouble.
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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 45:25
In the Lord all the offspring of Israel shall be justified and shall glory.
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Isaiah 44:3
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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Isaiah 35:6 - 7
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 107:35
He turns a desert into pools of water, a parched land into springs of water.
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Isaiah 35:1 - 2
The wilderness and the dry land shall be glad; the desert shall rejoice and blossom like the crocus.
Isaiah 55:12 - 13
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.
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Isaiah 60:13
The glory of Lebanon shall come to you, the cypress, the plane, and the pine, to beautify the place of my sanctuary, and I will make the place of my feet glorious.
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Job 12:9
Who among all these does not know that the hand of the Lord has done this?
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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 44:7
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.
Isaiah 45:21
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 and a Savior; there is none besides me.
Isaiah 46:10
Declaring the end from the beginning and from ancient times things not yet done, saying, 'My counsel shall stand, and I will accomplish all my purpose.
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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.
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Isaiah 45:7
I form light and create darkness, I make well-being and create calamity, I am the Lord, who does all these things.
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Isaiah 41:29
Behold, they are all a delusion; their works are nothing; their metal images are empty wind.
Psalms 115:8
Those who make them become like them; so do all who trust in them.
1 Corinthians 8:4
Therefore, as to the eating of food offered to idols, we know that "an idol has no real existence," and that "there is no God but one.
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Jeremiah 50:3
For out of the north a nation has come up against her, which shall make her land a desolation, and none shall dwell in it; both man and beast shall flee away.
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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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Psalms 44:5
Through you we push down our foes; through your name we tread down those who rise up against us.
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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.
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Isaiah 51:12
I, I am he who comforts you; who are you that you are afraid of man who dies, of the son of man who is made like grass.
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Isaiah 40:9
Get you up to a high mountain, O Zion, herald of good news; lift up your voice with strength, O Jerusalem, herald of good news; lift it up, fear not; say to the cities of Judah, "Behold your God!
Isaiah 52:7
How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him who brings good news, who publishes peace, who brings good news of happiness, who publishes salvation, who says to Zion, "Your God reigns.
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Isaiah 41:21 - 24
Set forth your case, says the Lord ; bring your proofs, says the King of Jacob.
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Isaiah 41:12
You shall seek those who contend with you, but you shall not find them; those who war against you shall be as nothing at all.
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