God’s Help to Israel
“Be silent before Me, O islands, 1 Isa 1:18Hab 2:20Zec 2:13Psa 46:10Isa 41:6-7Isa 11:11Isa 34:1Job 38:3
and let the peoples renew their strength.
Let them come forward and testify;
let us together draw near for judgment.
Who has aroused one from the east Isa 45:12Sa 22:43Ezr 1:2Isa 40:24Isa 41:25Isa 46:112Ch 36:23Isa 45:13
and called him to his feet in righteousness 2?
He hands nations over to him
and subdues kings before him.
He turns them to dust with his sword,
to windblown chaff with his bow.
He pursues them, going on safely, Isa 57:2Job 5:24
hardly touching the path with his feet.
Who has performed this and carried it out, Isa 48:12Rev 22:13Rev 1:17Isa 44:6-7Isa 46:10Isa 41:26Isa 43:10Rev 1:8
calling forth the generations from the beginning?
I, the LORD—the first and the last—
I am He.”
The islands see and fear; Ezk 26:15-16Jos 5:1Psa 65:8Psa 66:3Psa 67:7Exo 15:14Gen 10:5Jos 2:10
the ends of the earth tremble.
They approach and come forward.
Each one helps the other 1Sa 4:7-9Dan 3:1-7Isa 35:4Isa 40:19Isa 44:12Act 19:24-28Jol 3:9-111Sa 5:3-5
and says to his brother, “Be strong!”
The craftsman encourages the goldsmith, Isa 40:19-20Dan 3:1-7Isa 44:12-15Isa 46:6-7Jdg 18:17-18Jdg 18:24Jer 10:3-5Jer 10:9
and he who wields the hammer
cheers him who strikes the anvil,
saying of the welding, “It is good.”
He nails it down so it will not be toppled.
“But you, O Israel, My servant, Jas 2:232Ch 20:7Deu 14:2Exo 19:5-6Jhn 15:14-15Isa 44:21Isa 51:2Isa 29:22
Jacob, whom I have chosen,
descendant of Abraham My friend—
I brought you from the ends of the earth 1Sa 12:22Psa 94:14Deu 7:6-7Jas 2:5Jos 24:2-41Co 1:26-29Rom 11:1-2Isa 41:2
and called you from its farthest corners.
I said, ‘You are My servant.’
I have chosen and not rejected you.
Do not fear, for I am with you; Jos 1:9Isa 43:1-2Rom 8:31Deu 31:6-8Php 4:13Isa 40:29-312Co 12:9Isa 41:13-14
do not be afraid, for I am your God.
I will strengthen you; I will surely help you;
I will uphold you with My right hand of righteousness.
Behold, all who rage against you Exo 23:22Isa 45:24Rev 3:9Act 16:39Isa 54:17Act 13:8-11Dan 4:35Exo 11:8
will be ashamed and disgraced;
those who contend with you
will be reduced to nothing and will perish.
You will seek them but will not find them. Psa 37:35-36Job 20:7-9Isa 17:14
Those who wage war against you will come to nothing.
For I am the LORD your God, Isa 41:10Psa 73:23Psa 63:8Psa 109:31Isa 42:62Ti 4:17Isa 45:1Deu 33:26-29
who takes hold of your right hand
and tells you: Do not fear,
I will help you.
Do not fear, O worm of Jacob, Isa 43:14Isa 54:5Psa 22:6Jer 50:34Job 25:6Psa 19:14Job 19:25Gal 3:13
O few men of Israel.
I will help you,” declares the LORD.
“Your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel.
Behold, I will make you into a threshing sledge, Mic 4:132Co 10:4-5Zec 4:7Hab 3:12Isa 21:10Isa 28:27Psa 18:42
new and sharp, with many teeth.
You will thresh the mountains and crush them,
and reduce the hills to chaff.
You will winnow them, and a wind will carry them away; Jer 51:2Isa 45:24-25Isa 61:10-11Hab 3:18Jer 15:7Jer 9:23-241Co 1:30-311Sa 2:1-2
a gale will scatter them.
But you will rejoice in the LORD;
you will glory in the Holy One of Israel.
The poor and needy seek water, but there is none; Isa 55:1Isa 44:3Isa 30:19Mat 5:6Isa 42:16Isa 61:1Psa 34:6Psa 72:12-13
their tongues are parched with thirst.
I, the LORD, will answer them;
I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them.
I will open rivers on the barren heights, Isa 35:6-7Psa 107:35Isa 58:11Isa 30:25Ezk 47:1-8Isa 43:19-20Rev 7:17Isa 44:3
and fountains in the middle of the valleys.
I will turn the desert into a pool of water,
and the dry land into flowing springs.
I will plant cedars in the wilderness, Isa 55:13Isa 37:31-32Isa 35:1Isa 60:13Isa 60:21Isa 61:11Ezk 17:22-24Isa 27:6
acacias, myrtles, and olive trees.
I will set cypresses 3in the desert,
elms and boxwood together,
so that all may see and know, Job 12:9Isa 43:21Isa 44:23Psa 109:27Exo 9:162Th 1:10Isa 43:7-13Isa 45:6-8
may consider and understand,
that the hand of the LORD has done this
and the Holy One of Israel has created it.”
Meaningless Idols
“Present your case,” says the LORD. Job 23:3-4Job 38:3Mic 6:1-2Job 31:37Job 40:7-9
“Submit your arguments,” says the King of Jacob.
“Let them come and tell us what will happen. Isa 45:21Isa 46:10Isa 44:7Isa 48:14Isa 42:9Isa 43:9-12Jhn 13:19Jhn 16:14
Tell the former things,
so that we may reflect on them and know the outcome.
Or announce to us what is coming.
Tell us the things that are to come, Isa 42:9Jhn 13:19Jer 10:5Isa 44:7-8Isa 45:3Isa 45:7-8Isa 46:7Isa 46:9-10
so that we may know that you are gods.
Yes, do something good or evil,
that we may look on together in dismay.
Behold, you are nothing 1Co 8:4Psa 115:8Isa 41:29Jer 10:14Jer 10:8Deu 27:15Deu 7:26Isa 37:19
and your work is of no value.
Anyone who chooses you is detestable.
I have raised up one from the north, and he has come— Isa 41:22Sa 22:43Isa 10:6Isa 44:28Isa 46:10-11Mic 7:10Zec 10:5Ezr 1:2-3
one from the east who calls on My name.
He will march over rulers as if they were mortar,
like a potter who treads the clay.
Who has declared this from the beginning, Isa 41:22Isa 44:7Isa 45:21Hab 2:18-20Isa 43:9
so that we may know,
and from times past,
so that we may say: ‘He was right’?
No one announced it, no one foretold it,
no one heard your words.
I was the first to tell Zion: 4 Isa 40:9Isa 52:7Isa 44:28Isa 48:3Nam 1:15Ezr 1:1-2Isa 41:4Isa 43:10
‘Look, here they are!’
And I gave to Jerusalem
a herald of good news.
When I look, there is no one; Isa 63:5Dan 2:10-11Dan 4:7-8Dan 5:8Isa 40:13-14Isa 50:2Isa 59:16
there is no counselor among them;
when I ask them,
they have nothing to say.
See, they are all a delusion; Jer 5:13Isa 41:24Hab 2:18Isa 44:9-20Jer 10:2-16Psa 115:4-8Psa 135:15-18
their works amount to nothing;
their images are as empty as the wind.