1"Keep silent before me, islands, and let the peoples renew their strength. Let them come near, then let them speak. Let's meet together for judgment.

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Isaiah 1:18, Isaiah 1:18, Habakkuk 2:20, Habakkuk 2:20, Zechariah 2:13

2Who has raised up one from the east? Whom he called to his foot 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.

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Isaiah 45:1, Isaiah 45:1, 2 Samuel 22:43, 2 Samuel 22:43, Ezra 1:2

3He pursues them, and passes by safely, Even by a way that he had not gone with his feet.

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Isaiah 57:2, Job 5:24, Isaiah 57:2, Job 5:24

4Who has worked and done it, calling the generations from the beginning? I, the Lord, the first, and with the last, I am he."

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Revelation 22:13, Revelation 22:13, Isaiah 48:12, Isaiah 48:12, Revelation 1:17

5The islands have seen, and fear. The ends of the earth tremble. They approach, and come.

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Ezekiel 26:15, Ezekiel 26:16, Ezekiel 26:15, Ezekiel 26:16, Psalms 65:8

6Everyone helps his neighbor. They say to their brothers, "Be strong!"

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Daniel 3:1, Daniel 3:7, 1 Samuel 4:7, 1 Samuel 4:9, Isaiah 40:19

7So the carpenter encourages the goldsmith. He who smoothes 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.

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Isaiah 40:19, Isaiah 40:20, Isaiah 40:19, Isaiah 40:20, Daniel 3:1

8"But you, Israel, my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham my friend,

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James 2:23, James 2:23, Deuteronomy 14:2, 2 Chronicles 20:7, Exodus 19:5

9You whom I have taken hold of from the ends of the earth, and called from its corners, and said to you, 'You are my servant, I have chosen you and not cast you away;'

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1 Samuel 12:22, 1 Samuel 12:22, Psalms 94:14, Psalms 94:14, Deuteronomy 7:6

10Do not be afraid, for I am with you. Do not 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.

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Joshua 1:9, Joshua 1:9, Isaiah 43:1, Isaiah 43:2, Isaiah 43:1

11Behold, all those who are incensed against you will be disappointed and confounded. Those who strive with you will be like nothing, and shall perish.

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Exodus 23:22, Exodus 23:22, Isaiah 45:24, Isaiah 45:24, Revelation 3:9

12You will seek them, and won't find them, even those who contend with you. Those who war against you will be as nothing, as a non-existent thing.

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Psalms 37:35, Psalms 37:36, Psalms 37:35, Psalms 37:36, Job 20:7

13For I, the Lord your God, will hold your right hand, saying to you, 'Do not be afraid. I will help you.'

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Isaiah 41:10, Isaiah 41:10, Psalms 73:23, Psalms 73:23, Psalms 63:8

14Do not be afraid, you worm Jacob, and you men of Israel. I will help you," says the Lord, "and your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel.

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Isaiah 43:14, Isaiah 43:14, Psalms 22:6, Isaiah 54:5, Psalms 22:6

15Behold, I have made you into a new sharp threshing instrument with teeth. You will thresh the mountains, and beat them small, and will make the hills like chaff.

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Micah 4:13, Micah 4:13, 2 Corinthians 10:4, 2 Corinthians 10:5, 2 Corinthians 10:4

16You will winnow them, 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.

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Jeremiah 51:2, Jeremiah 51:2, Isaiah 45:24, Isaiah 45:25, Isaiah 61:10

17The poor and needy seek water, and there is none. Their tongue fails for thirst. I, the Lord, will answer them. I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them.

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Isaiah 55:1, Isaiah 55:1, Isaiah 30:19, Isaiah 30:19, Matthew 5:6

18I will open rivers on the bare heights, and springs in the midst of the valleys. I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water.

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Psalms 107:35, Isaiah 35:6, Isaiah 35:7, Psalms 107:35, Isaiah 35:6

19I will put cedar, acacia, myrtle, and oil trees in the wilderness. I will set fir trees, pine, and box trees together in the desert;

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Isaiah 55:13, Isaiah 55:13, Isaiah 37:31, Isaiah 37:32, Isaiah 37:31

20that they may see, know, consider, and understand together, that the hand of the Lord has done this, and the Holy One of Israel has created it.

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Job 12:9, Job 12:9, Isaiah 44:23, Isaiah 43:21, Exodus 9:16

21Produce your cause," says the Lord. "Bring forth your strong reasons," says the King of Jacob.

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Job 23:3, Job 23:4, Job 23:3, Job 23:4, Micah 6:1

22"Let them announce, and declare to us what shall happen. 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.

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Isaiah 45:21, Isaiah 45:21, Isaiah 46:10, Isaiah 44:7, Isaiah 48:14

23Declare the things that are to come hereafter, that we may know that you are gods. Yes, do good, or do evil, that we may be dismayed, and see it together.

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John 13:19, Isaiah 42:9, John 13:19, Isaiah 42:9, Jeremiah 10:5

24Behold, you are of nothing, and your work is of nothing. He who chooses you is an abomination.

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1 Corinthians 8:4, Psalms 115:8, 1 Corinthians 8:4, Psalms 115:8, Isaiah 41:29

25"I have raised up one from the north, and he has come; 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.

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Isaiah 41:2, Isaiah 41:2, 2 Samuel 22:43, Isaiah 10:6, 2 Samuel 22:43

26Who has declared it from the beginning, that we may know? 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.

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Isaiah 41:22, Isaiah 44:7, Isaiah 41:22, Isaiah 44:7, Isaiah 45:21

27I am the first to say to Zion, 'Behold, look at them;' and I will give one who brings good news to Jerusalem.

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Isaiah 40:9, Isaiah 40:9, Isaiah 52:7, Isaiah 52:7, Isaiah 48:3

28When I look, there is no man; even among them there is no counselor who, when I ask of them, can answer a word.

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Isaiah 63:5, Isaiah 63:5, Daniel 4:7, Daniel 4:8, Daniel 2:10

29Behold, all of them, their works are vanity and nothing. Their molten images are wind and confusion.

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Jeremiah 5:13, Jeremiah 5:13, Isaiah 41:24, Isaiah 41:24, Psalms 115:4