“Keep silent before me, islands, 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 near,
then let them speak.
Let’s meet together for judgment.
Who has raised up one from the east? Isa 45:12Sa 22:43Ezr 1:2Isa 40:24Isa 41:25Isa 46:112Ch 36:23Isa 45:13
Who called him to his feet in righteousness?
He hands over nations to him
and makes him rule over kings.
He gives them like the dust to his sword,
like the driven stubble to his bow.
He pursues them Isa 57:2Job 5:24
and passes by safely,
even by a way that he had not gone with his feet.
Who has worked and done it, Isa 48:12Rev 22:13Rev 1:17Isa 44:6-7Isa 46:10Isa 41:26Isa 43:10Rev 1:8
calling the generations from the beginning?
I, the LORD, the first, and with the last, I am he.”
The islands have seen, 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.
Everyone helps his neighbor. 1Sa 4:7-9Dan 3:1-7Isa 35:4Isa 40:19Isa 44:12Act 19:24-28Jol 3:9-111Sa 5:3-5
They say to their brothers, “Be strong!”
So the carpenter 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
He who smooths with the hammer encourages him who strikes the anvil,
saying of the soldering, “It is good;”
and he fastens it with nails, that it might not totter.
“But you, 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,
the offspring of Abraham my friend,
you whom I have taken hold of 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 from its corners,
and said to you, ‘You are my servant. I have chosen you and have not cast you away.’
Don’t you be afraid, 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
Don’t be dismayed, for I am your God.
I will strengthen you.
Yes, I will help you.
Yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness.
Behold, all those who are incensed against you will be disappointed and confounded. Exo 23:22Isa 45:24Rev 3:9Act 16:39Isa 54:17Act 13:8-11Dan 4:35Exo 11:8
Those who strive with you will be like nothing, and shall perish.
You will seek them, and won’t find them, Psa 37:35-36Job 20:7-9Isa 17:14
even those who contend with you.
Those who war against you will be as nothing,
as a nonexistent thing.
For I, the LORD your God, will hold your right hand, Isa 41:10Psa 73:23Psa 63:8Psa 109:31Isa 42:62Ti 4:17Isa 45:1Deu 33:26-29
saying to you, ‘Don’t be afraid.
I will help you.’
Don’t be afraid, you worm Jacob, Isa 43:14Isa 54:5Psa 22:6Jer 50:34Job 25:6Psa 19:14Job 19:25Gal 3:13
and you men of Israel.
I will help you,” says the LORD.
“Your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel.
Behold, I have made you into a new sharp threshing instrument with teeth. Mic 4:132Co 10:4-5Zec 4:7Hab 3:12Isa 21:10Isa 28:27Psa 18:42
You will thresh the mountains,
and beat them small,
and will make the hills like chaff.
You will winnow them, Jer 51:2Isa 45:24-25Isa 61:10-11Hab 3:18Jer 15:7Jer 9:23-241Co 1:30-311Sa 2:1-2
and the wind will carry them away,
and the whirlwind will scatter them.
You will rejoice in the LORD.
You will glory in the Holy One of Israel.
The poor and needy seek water, and there is none. Isa 55:1Isa 44:3Isa 30:19Mat 5:6Isa 42:16Isa 61:1Psa 34:6Psa 72:12-13
Their tongue fails for thirst.
I, the LORD, will answer them.
I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them.
I will open rivers on the bare heights, Isa 35:6-7Psa 107:35Isa 58:11Isa 30:25Ezk 47:1-8Isa 43:19-20Rev 7:17Isa 44:3
and springs in the middle of the valleys.
I will make the wilderness a pool of water,
and the dry land springs of water.
I will put cedar, acacia, myrtle, and oil trees in the wilderness. Isa 55:13Isa 37:31-32Isa 35:1Isa 60:13Isa 60:21Isa 61:11Ezk 17:22-24Isa 27:6
I will set cypress trees, pine, and box trees together in the desert;
that they may see, know, consider, and understand together, Job 12:9Isa 43:21Isa 44:23Psa 109:27Exo 9:162Th 1:10Isa 43:7-13Isa 45:6-8
that the LORD’s hand has done this,
and the Holy One of Israel has created it.
Produce your cause,” says the LORD. Job 23:3-4Job 38:3Mic 6:1-2Job 31:37Job 40:7-9
“Bring out your strong reasons!” says the King of Jacob.
“Let them announce and declare to us what will happen! Isa 45:21Isa 46:10Isa 44:7Isa 48:14Isa 42:9Isa 43:9-12Jhn 13:19Jhn 16:14
Declare the former things, what they are,
that we may consider them, and know the latter end of them;
or show us things to come.
Declare the things that are to come hereafter, Isa 42:9Jhn 13:19Jer 10:5Isa 44:7-8Isa 45:3Isa 45:7-8Isa 46:7Isa 46:9-10
that we may know that you are gods.
Yes, do good, or do evil,
that we may be dismayed,
and see it together.
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 nothing.
He who chooses you is an abomination.
“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
from the rising of the sun, one who calls on my name,
and he shall come on rulers as on mortar,
and as the potter treads clay.
Who has declared it from the beginning, that we may know? Isa 41:22Isa 44:7Isa 45:21Hab 2:18-20Isa 43:9
and before, that we may say, ‘He is right’?
Surely, there is no one who declares.
Surely, there is no one who shows.
Surely, there is no one who hears your words.
I am the first to say to Zion, ‘Behold, look at them;’ Isa 40:9Isa 52:7Isa 44:28Isa 48:3Nam 1:15Ezr 1:1-2Isa 41:4Isa 43:10
and I will give one who brings good news to Jerusalem.
When I look, there is no man, Isa 63:5Dan 2:10-11Dan 4:7-8Dan 5:8Isa 40:13-14Isa 50:2Isa 59:16
even among them there is no counselor who, when I ask, can answer a word.
Behold, all of their deeds are vanity and nothing. Jer 5:13Isa 41:24Hab 2:18Isa 44:9-20Jer 10:2-16Psa 115:4-8Psa 135:15-18
Their molten images are wind and confusion.