Fear Not, for I Am with You

41 (A)Listen to me in silence, (B)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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18 “Come now, (A)let us reason[a] together, says the Lord:
though your sins are like scarlet,
    they shall be as (B)white as snow;
though they are red like crimson,
    they shall become like wool.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 1:18 Or dispute

20 But (A)the Lord is in his holy temple;
    (B)let all the earth keep silence before him.”

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13 Be silent, all flesh, before the Lord, for he has roused himself from his holy dwelling.

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10 (A)“Be still, and know that I am God.
    (B)I will be exalted among the nations,
    I will be exalted in the earth!”

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Everyone helps his neighbor
    and says to his brother, “Be strong!”
(A)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 (B)so that it cannot be moved.

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10 (A)Beat your plowshares into swords,
    and (B)your pruning hooks into spears;
    let the weak say, “I am a warrior.”

11 (C)Hasten and come,
    all you surrounding nations,
    and gather yourselves there.
(D)Bring down your warriors, O Lord.

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Judgment on the Nations

34 Draw near, (A)O nations, to hear,
    and give attention, O peoples!
Let the earth hear, and all that fills it;
    the world, and all that comes from it.

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11 (A)In that day the Lord will extend his hand yet a second time to recover the remnant that remains of his people, (B)from Assyria, (C)from Egypt, from (D)Pathros, from (E)Cush,[a] from (F)Elam, from (G)Shinar, from (H)Hamath, and from (I)the coastlands of the sea.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 11:11 Probably Nubia

(A)“Dress for action[a] like a man;
    (B)I will question you, and you make it known to me.
Will you even put me in the wrong?
    Will you condemn me that (C)you may be in the right?
Have you (D)an arm like God,
    and can you thunder with (E)a voice like his?

10 “Adorn yourself with majesty and dignity;
    (F)clothe yourself with glory and splendor.

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  1. Job 40:7 Hebrew Gird up your loins

(A)Dress for action[a] like a man;
    I will question you, and you make it known to me.

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  1. Job 38:3 Hebrew Gird up your loins

The Indictment of the Lord

(A)Hear what the Lord says:
Arise, plead your case before the mountains,
    and let the hills hear your voice.
(B)Hear, you mountains, (C)the indictment of the Lord,
    and you enduring foundations of the earth,
for the Lord has an indictment against his people,
    and he will contend with Israel.

“O my people, (D)what have I done to you?
    (E)How have I wearied you? Answer me!

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    (A)He who vindicates me is near.
Who will contend with me?
    Let us stand up together.
Who is my adversary?
    Let him come near to me.

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The Servant of the Lord

49 Listen to me, (A)O coastlands,
    and give attention, you peoples (B)from afar.
(C)The Lord called me from the womb,
    from the body of my mother he named my name.

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16 (A)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 (B)the Lord God has sent me, and his Spirit.

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The Futility of Idols

21 Set forth your case, says the Lord;
    bring your proofs, says the King of Jacob.
22 Let them bring them, and (A)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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Be broken,[a] you peoples, and (A)be shattered;[b]
    give ear, all you far countries;
strap on your armor and be shattered;
    strap on your armor and be shattered.
10 Take counsel together, but it will come to nothing;
    speak a word, (B)but it will not stand,
    for God (C)is with us.[c]

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 8:9 Or Be evil
  2. Isaiah 8:9 Or dismayed
  3. Isaiah 8:10 The Hebrew for God is with us is Immanuel

35 Oh, that I had one to hear me!
    (Here is my signature! Let the Almighty (A)answer me!)
    Oh, that I had (B)the indictment written by my adversary!
36 Surely I would carry it on my (C)shoulder;
    I would (D)bind it on me as (E)a crown;

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Oh, (A)that I knew where I might find him,
    that I might come even to his (B)seat!
I would (C)lay my case before him
    and fill my mouth with arguments.
I would know what he would answer me
    and understand what he would say to me.
Would he (D)contend with me in the greatness of his power?
    No; he would pay attention to me.
There an upright man could argue with him,
    and I would be acquitted forever by my judge.

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