Isaiah 41:13-20

English Standard Version

¹³For 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.”

¹⁴Fear not, you ^(A)worm Jacob,
    you men of Israel!
I am the one who helps you, declares the Lord;
    your ^(B)Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel.
¹⁵^(C)Behold, I make of you a threshing sledge,
    new, sharp, and having teeth;
you shall thresh ^(D)the mountains and crush them,
    and you shall make the hills like chaff;
¹⁶^(E)you shall winnow them, and ^(F)the wind shall carry them away,
    and the tempest shall scatter them.
^(G)And you shall rejoice in the Lord;
    in the Holy One of Israel you shall glory.

¹⁷^(H)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.
¹⁸^(I)I will open rivers on the bare heights,
    and fountains in the midst of the valleys.
^(J)I will make the wilderness a pool of water,
    and the dry land springs of water.
¹⁹^(K)I will put in the wilderness the cedar,
    the acacia, the myrtle, and the olive.
I will set in the desert ^(L)the cypress,
    the plane and the pine together,
²⁰that they may see and know,
    may consider and understand together,
that ^(M)the hand of the Lord has done this,
    the Holy One of Israel has created it.