WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:01.580 Chapter 41. 00:02.920 --> 00:07.820 Keep silence before me, O islands, and let the people renew their strength. 00:08.220 --> 00:10.940 Let them come near, then let them speak. 00:11.440 --> 00:13.240 Let us come near together to judgment. 00:14.060 --> 00:18.960 Who raised up the righteous man from the east, called him to his foot, gave the 00:18.960 --> 00:21.820 nations before him, and made him rule over kings? 00:22.440 --> 00:26.400 He gave them as the dust to his sword, and as driven stubble to his bow. 00:26.400 --> 00:31.980 He pursued them, and passed safely, even by the way that he had not gone with 00:31.980 --> 00:32.500 his feet. 00:33.300 --> 00:36.520 Who hath wrought and done it, calling the generations from the beginning? 00:37.360 --> 00:42.040 I the Lord, the first, and with the last, I am he. 00:42.540 --> 00:44.860 The isles saw it, and feared. 00:45.240 --> 00:49.080 The ends of the earth were afraid, drew near, and came. 00:49.980 --> 00:53.440 They helped every one his neighbor, and every one said to his brother, 00:53.780 --> 00:54.860 Be of good courage. 00:54.860 --> 00:57.520 So the carpenter encouraged the goldsmith. 00:58.040 --> 01:02.220 And he that smootheth with the hammer, him that smote the anvil, saying, 01:02.660 --> 01:04.080 It is ready for the soldering. 01:04.540 --> 01:07.680 And he fastened it with nails, that it should not be moved. 01:09.000 --> 01:13.780 But thou, Israel, art my servant, Jacob, whom I have chosen, the seed of 01:13.780 --> 01:14.980 Abraham, my friend. 01:15.760 --> 01:19.520 Thou, whom I have taken from the ends of the earth, and called thee from the chief 01:19.520 --> 01:22.740 men thereof, and said unto thee, Thou art my servant. 01:22.740 --> 01:25.780 I have chosen thee, and not cast thee away. 01:26.680 --> 01:28.900 Fear thou not, for I am with thee. 01:29.220 --> 01:31.860 Be not dismayed, for I am thy God. 01:32.140 --> 01:36.520 I will strengthen thee, yea, I will help thee, yea, I will uphold thee with the 01:36.520 --> 01:37.660 right hand of my righteousness. 01:38.560 --> 01:43.220 Behold, all they that were incensed against thee shall be ashamed and 01:43.220 --> 01:43.780 confounded. 01:44.420 --> 01:48.320 They shall be as nothing, and they that strive with thee shall perish. 01:49.100 --> 01:53.600 Thou shalt seek them, and shalt not find them, even them that contended with thee. 01:54.260 --> 01:57.880 They that war against thee shall be as nothing, and as a thing of naught. 01:58.460 --> 02:04.460 For I, the Lord thy God, will hold thy right hand, saying unto thee, Fear not, 02:04.640 --> 02:05.720 I will help thee. 02:06.080 --> 02:09.380 Fear not, thou worm, Jacob, and ye men of Israel. 02:10.540 --> 02:14.700 I will help thee, saith the Lord and thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel. 02:16.300 --> 02:20.280 Behold, I will make thee a new, sharp, threshing instrument, having teeth. 02:21.060 --> 02:24.800 Thou shalt thresh the mountains, and beat them small, and shalt make the 02:24.800 --> 02:25.700 hills as chaff. 02:26.280 --> 02:30.840 Thou shalt fan them, and the wind shall carry them away, and the whirlwind shall 02:30.840 --> 02:31.540 scatter them. 02:31.960 --> 02:36.960 And thou shalt rejoice in the Lord, and shalt glory in the Holy One of Israel. 02:37.860 --> 02:42.080 When the poor and needy seek water, and there is none, and their tongue 02:42.080 --> 02:45.420 faileth for thirst, I, the Lord, will hear them. 02:45.960 --> 02:48.660 I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them. 02:48.660 --> 02:53.080 I will open rivers in high places, and fountains in the midst of the valleys. 02:53.560 --> 02:57.960 I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water. 02:58.460 --> 03:02.460 I will plant in the wilderness the cedar, the shittar tree, and the myrtle, 03:02.580 --> 03:03.380 and the oil tree. 03:03.960 --> 03:08.460 I will set in the desert the fir tree, and the pine, and the box tree together, 03:09.220 --> 03:14.760 that they may see, and know, and consider, and understand together, that the hand of 03:14.760 --> 03:19.120 the Lord hath done this, and the Holy One of Israel hath created it. 03:19.540 --> 03:21.800 Produce your cause, saith the Lord. 03:22.260 --> 03:25.640 Bring forth your strong reasons, saith the King of Jacob. 03:25.880 --> 03:29.100 Let them bring them forth, and show us what shall happen. 03:29.560 --> 03:33.960 Let them show the former things, what they be, that we may consider them, 03:34.100 --> 03:37.680 and know the latter end of them, or declare us things for to come. 03:38.080 --> 03:41.780 Show the things that are to come hereafter, that we may know that ye are 03:41.780 --> 03:46.940 gods, yea, do good or do evil, that we may be dismayed, and behold it 03:46.940 --> 03:47.440 together. 03:48.220 --> 03:52.800 Behold, ye are of nothing, and your work of naught, and abomination is he that 03:52.800 --> 03:53.660 chooseth you. 03:54.560 --> 03:57.660 I have raised up one from the north, and he shall come. 03:58.360 --> 04:02.680 From the rising of the sun shall he call upon my name, and he shall come upon 04:02.680 --> 04:06.540 princes as upon mortar, and as the potter treadeth clay. 04:07.300 --> 04:11.800 Who hath declared from the beginning that we may know, and before time that we may 04:11.800 --> 04:13.500 say, He is righteous? 04:14.280 --> 04:15.900 Yea, there is none that showeth. 04:16.040 --> 04:17.860 Yea, there is none that declareth. 04:18.240 --> 04:20.160 Yea, there is none that heareth your words. 04:20.820 --> 04:25.580 The first shall say to Zion, Behold, behold them, and I will give to Jerusalem 04:25.580 --> 04:27.120 one that bringeth good tidings. 04:27.660 --> 04:32.320 For I beheld, and there was no man, even among them, and there was no 04:32.320 --> 04:35.880 counsellor, that, when I asked of them, could answer a word. 04:36.400 --> 04:41.740 Behold, they are all vanity, their works are nothing, their molten images are wind 04:41.740 --> 04:42.520 and confusion.