441Yet listen now, Jacob my servant,and Israel, whom I have chosen.+2This is what Yahweh who made you,and formed you from the womb,who will help you says:“Don’t be afraid, Jacob my servant;and you, Jeshurun, whom I have chosen.+3For I will pour water on him who is thirsty,and streams on the dry ground.I will pour my Spirit on your descendants,and my blessing on your offspring:+4and they will spring up among the grass,as willows by the watercourses.+5One will say, ‘I am Yahweh’s;’and another will be called by the name of Jacob;and another will write with his hand ‘to Yahweh,’and honor the name of Israel.”+6This is what Yahweh, the King of Israel,and his Redeemer, Yahweh of Armies, says:“I am the first, and I am the last;and besides me there is no God.+7Who is like me?Who will call,and will declare it,and set it in order for me,since I established the ancient people?Let them declare the things that are coming,and that will happen.+8Don’t fear,neither be afraid.Haven’t I declared it to you long ago,and shown it?You are my witnesses.Is there a God besides me?Indeed, there is not.I don’t know any other Rock.”+9Everyone who makes a carved image is vain.The things that they delight in will not profit.Their own witnesses don’t see, nor know, that they may be disappointed.+10Who has fashioned a god,or molds an image that is profitable for nothing?+11Behold, all his fellows will be disappointed;and the workmen are mere men.Let them all be gathered together.Let them stand up.They will fear.They will be put to shame together.+12The blacksmith takes an ax,works in the coals,fashions it with hammers,and works it with his strong arm.He is hungry,and his strength fails;he drinks no water,and is faint.+13The carpenter stretches out a line.He marks it out with a pencil.He shapes it with planes.He marks it out with compasses,and shapes it like the figure of a man,with the beauty of a man,to reside in a house.+14He cuts down cedars for himself,and takes the cypress and the oak,and strengthens for himself one among the trees of the forest.He plants a cypress tree,and the rain nourishes it.+15Then it will be for a man to burn;and he takes some of it, and warms himself.Yes, he burns it, and bakes bread.Yes, he makes a god, and worships it;he makes it a carved image, and falls down to it.+16He burns part of it in the fire.With part of it, he eats meat.He roasts a roast, and is satisfied.Yes, he warms himself,and says, “Aha! I am warm. I have seen the fire.”+17The rest of it he makes into a god,even his engraved image.He bows down to it and worships,and prays to it, and says, “Deliver me; for you are my god!”+18They don’t know, neither do they consider:for he has shut their eyes, that they can’t see;and their hearts, that they can’t understand.+19No one thinks,neither is there knowledge nor understanding to say,“I have burned part of it in the fire.Yes, I have also baked bread on its coals.I have roasted meat and eaten it.Shall I make the rest of it into an abomination?Shall I bow down to a tree trunk?”+20He feeds on ashes.A deceived heart has turned him aside;and he can’t deliver his soul,nor say, “Isn’t there a lie in my right hand?”+
Jerusalem to Be Restored
21Remember these things, Jacob and Israel;for you are my servant.I have formed you.You are my servant.Israel, you will not be forgotten by me.+22I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, your transgressions,and, as a cloud, your sins.Return to me, for I have redeemed you.+23Sing, you heavens, for Yahweh has done it!Shout, you lower parts of the earth!Break out into singing, you mountains, O forest, all of your trees,for Yahweh has redeemed Jacob,and will glorify himself in Israel.+24Yahweh, your Redeemer,and he who formed you from the womb says:“I am Yahweh, who makes all things;who alone stretches out the heavens;who spreads out the earth by myself;+25who frustrates the signs of the liars,and makes diviners mad;who turns wise men backward,and makes their knowledge foolish;+26who confirms the word of his servant,and performs the counsel of his messengers;who says of Jerusalem, ‘She will be inhabited;’and of the cities of Judah, ‘They will be built,’and ‘I will raise up its waste places;’+27who says to the deep, ‘Be dry,’and ‘I will dry up your rivers;’+28Who says of Cyrus, ‘He is my shepherd, and shall perform all my pleasure,’even saying of Jerusalem, ‘She will be built;’and of the temple, ‘Your foundation will be laid.’”+Footnotes (1)
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