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¹⁵Behold, I make thee a new threshing-sledge

Having sharp teeth;

Thou shalt thresh the mountains, and beat them small,

And shalt make the hills as chaff.

¹⁶Thou shalt fan them, and the wind shall carry them away,

And the whirlwind shall scatter them;

And thou shalt rejoice in the Lord,

Thou shalt glory in the Holy One of Israel.

 

¹⁷The poor and needy seek water and there is none,

And their tongue faileth for thirst;

I the Lord will answer them,

I the God of Israel will not forsake them.

¹⁸I will open rivers on the high hills,

And fountains in the midst of the valleys;

I will make the wilderness a pool of water,

And the dry land springs of water.

¹⁹I will plant in the wilderness the cedar, the acacia-tree,

And the myrtle, and the oil-tree;

I will set in the desert the cypress, the plane-tree, and the larch together;

²⁰That they may see, and know,

And consider, and understand together,

That the hand of the Lord hath done this,

And the Holy One of Israel hath created it.

 

²¹Produce your cause, saith the Lord;

Bring forth your reasons, saith the King of Jacob.

²²Let them bring them forth, and declare unto us

The things that shall happen;

The former things, what are they?

Declare ye, that we may consider,

And know the end of them;

Or announce to us things to come.

²³Declare the things that are to come hereafter,

That we may know that ye are gods;

Yea, do good, or do evil,

That we may be dismayed, and behold it together.

²⁴Behold, ye are nothing,

And your work a thing of nought;

An abomination is he that chooseth you.

 

²⁵I have roused up one from the north, and he is come,

From the rising of the sun one that calleth upon My name;

And he shall come upon rulers as upon mortar,

And as the potter treadeth clay.

²⁶Who hath declared from the beginning, that we may know?

And beforetime, that we may say that he is right?

Yea, there is none that declareth,

Yea, there is none that announceth,

Yea, there is none that heareth your utterances.

²⁷A harbinger unto Zion will I give: 'Behold, behold them',

And to Jerusalem a messenger of good tidings.

²⁸And I look, but there is no man;

Even among them, but there is no counsellor,

That, when I ask of them, can give an answer.

²⁹Behold, all of them,

Their works are vanity and nought;

Their molten images are wind and confusion.

 

42Behold My servant, whom I uphold;

Mine elect, in whom My soul delighteth;

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