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- ¶ BUT now thus says the LORD, who created you, O Jacob, and he who formed you, O Israel: Fear not;
for I have saved you, I have called you by your name because you are mine.
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- When you shall pass through the sea, I will be with you;
and through the rivers, they shall not overwhelm you; when you walk through the fire, you shall not be burned; neither shall the flame kindle upon you.
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- For I am the LORD your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Saviour;
I gave Egypt for your sake, and Ethiopia and Sheba for you.
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- Because you are precious in my sight, you have been honorable and I have loved you;
therefore I have given men for your sake and nations for your life.
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- Fear not;
for I am with you; I will bring your descendants from the east, and gather you from the west;
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- I will say to the north, Give up;
and to the south, Keep not back; bring my sons from afar, and my daughters from the ends of the earth;
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- Even every one who is called by my name;
for I have created him for my glory, I have formed him and I have made him.
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- ¶ Bring forth the blind people who have eyes, and the deaf who have ears.
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- Let all the peoples be gathered together and let all the nations be assembled;
who among you can declare this and show us the former things? Let them bring forth their witnesses that they may be justified; or let them hear and say, It is truth.
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- You are my witnesses, says the LORD, and my servants whom I have chosen;
that you may know and believe me and understand that I am he; before me there was no God created, neither shall there be after me.
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- I, even I, am the LORD;
and besides me there is no lord.
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- I have declared that I have saved, and I have proclaimed that there is no strange god among you;
therefore you are my witnesses, says the LORD, that I am God.
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- Yea, from the first day I am he;
and there is none that can deliver out of my hands; what I will do, who can stop it?
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- ¶ Thus says the LORD, your Saviour, the Holy One of Israel: For your sake I have sent to Babylon and have brought back all the fugitives and the Chaldeans who glory in their ships.
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- I am the LORD, your Holy One, the Creator of Israel, your King.
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- Thus says the LORD, who has made a way in the sea and a path in the mighty waters;
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- Who brings forth the chariots and horses and a mighty army;
they shall lie down together, they shall not rise, they are extinguished like a flickering lamp:
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- Remember not the former things, neither consider the things of old.
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- Behold, I will do a new thing;
now it shall spring forth and you shall know it. I will even make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert.
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- The beasts of the field shall glorify me, the jackals and the ostriches, because I give waters in the wilderness and rivers in the desert to provide drink to my people, my chosen.
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- This people whom I have chosen for myself, they shall drink.
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- ¶ But you have not called me, O Jacob;
for I have called you, O Israel.
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- You have not brought me lambs of your burnt offerings;
neither have you honored me with your sacrifices. I have not burdened you with request offerings, nor wearied you with demands for incense.
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- You have bought me no sweet cane with money, neither have you filled me with the fat of your sacrifices;
but you have burdened me with your sins, you have wearied me with your iniquities.
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- I, even I, am he who blots out your transgressions for my own sake and will not remember your sins any more.
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- Put me in remembrance;
let us plead together; that you may be justified.
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- Your first father has sinned, and your rulers have transgressed against me.
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- Your princes have profaned the sanctuary;
therefore I have given Jacob to the curse and Israel to reproaches.
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