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Isaiah 41:1-29 — The Helper of Israel

Isa.41.1-29

¹Keep silent before me, O coastlands , and let the peoples renew their strength. Let them approach, then let them speak; let us draw near together for judgment. ²Who has stirred up one from the east, calling him in righteousness to his feet? He hands over nations before him, and subdues kings. He makes them like dust with his sword, like driven chaff with his bow. ³He pursues them, passing on safely, by a path his feet have not traveled. ⁴Who has performed and done this, calling the generations from the beginning? I, Yahweh, am the first, and with the last, I am he. ⁵The coastlands have seen and fear; the ends of the earth tremble. They approach and come. ⁶Each one helps his neighbor, and says to his brother, 'Be strong!' ⁷The craftsman encourages the goldsmith, and 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 so that it will not totter. ⁸But you, Israel, my servant, Jacob, whom I have chosen, the offspring of Abraham, my friend; ⁹you whom I took hold of from the ends of the earth, and called from its farthest corners, saying to you, 'You are my servant, I have chosen you and not rejected you.' ¹⁰Do not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you, surely I will help you, surely I will uphold you with my righteous right hand. ¹¹Behold, all who are incensed against you will be put to shame and confounded; the men who strive with you will be as nothing and will perish. ¹²You will seek them, but you will not find them—the men who contend with you. The men who war against you will be as nothing, as a nonexistent thing. ¹³For I, Yahweh your God, hold your right hand; it is I who say to you, 'Do not fear, I will help you.' ¹⁴Do not fear, you worm Jacob, you men of Israel! I will help you, declares Yahweh; your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel. ¹⁵Behold, I make of you a threshing sledge, new, sharp, and having double edges; you will thresh the mountains and crush them, and you will make the hills like chaff. ¹⁶You will winnow them, and the wind will carry them away, and the storm will scatter them. But you will rejoice in Yahweh; you will glory in the Holy One of Israel. ¹⁷The poor and needy seek water, and there is none; their tongue is parched with thirst. I, Yahweh, will answer them; I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them. 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. ¹⁹I will put in the wilderness the cedar, the acacia, the myrtle, and the olive tree; I will set in the desert the cypress, the plane, and the pine together, ²⁰so that they may see and know, and consider and understand together, that the hand of Yahweh has done this, and the Holy One of Israel has created it. ²¹Present your case, says Yahweh; bring forward your strong arguments, says the King of Jacob. ²²Let them bring them forward and declare to us what will happen. Declare the former things, what they are, that we may consider them and know their outcome; or announce to us the things to come. 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. ²⁴Behold, you are of nothing, and your work is of nothing; an abomination is he who chooses you. ²⁵I have stirred up one from the north, and he has come; from the rising of the sun, one who calls on my name; and he will come upon rulers as upon mortar, and as the potter treads clay. ²⁶Who declared it from the beginning, that we might know? And from times past, that we might say, 'He is right'? Surely, there is no one who declares, surely, there is no one who announces, surely, there is no one who hears your words. ²⁷I was the first to say to Zion, 'Behold, here they are!' And to Jerusalem I give a herald of good news. ²⁸But when I look, there is no one; and among these there is no counselor who, when I ask them, can give an answer. ²⁹Behold, all of them are worthlessness; their works are nothing; their cast images are wind and emptiness .

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4/11/2026

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