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1 Keep silence before me, O islands; and let the people renew [their] strength: let them come near; then let them speak: let us come near together to judgment.
2 Who raised up the righteous [man] from the east, called him to his foot, gave the nations before him, and made [him] rule over kings? he gave [them] as the dust to his sword, [and] as driven stubble to his bow.
3 He pursued them, [and] passed safely; [even] by the way [that] he had not gone with his feet.
4 Who has wrought and done [it], calling the generations from the beginning? I the LORD [Yahweh], the first, and with the last; I [am] he.
5 The isles saw [it], and feared; the ends of the earth were afraid, drew near, and came.
6 They helped every one his neighbor; and [every one] said to his brother, Be of good courage.
7 So the carpenter encouraged the goldsmith, [and] he that smooths [with] the hammer him that smote the anvil, saying, It [is] ready for the sodering: and he fastened it with nails, [that] it should not be moved.
8 But you, Israel, [are] my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham my friend.
9 [You] whom I have taken from the ends of the earth, and called you from the chief men of it, and said to you, You [are] my servant; I have chosen you, and not cast you away.
10 Fear you not; for I [am] with you: be not 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.
11 Behold, all they that were incensed against you will be ashamed and confounded: they will be as nothing; and they that strive with you will perish.
12 You will seek them, and will not find them, [even] them that contended with you: they that war against you will be as nothing, and as a thing of nought.
13 For I the LORD [Yahweh] your God will hold your right hand, saying to you, Fear not; I will help you.
14 Fear not, you worm Jacob, [and] you men of Israel; I will help you, says the LORD [Yahweh], and your redeemer, the Holy One of Israel.
15 Behold, I will make you a new sharp threshing instrument having teeth: you will thresh the mountains, and beat [them] small, and will make the hills as chaff.
16 You will fan them, and the wind will carry them away, and the whirlwind will scatter them: and you will rejoice in the LORD [Yahweh], [and] will glory in the Holy One of Israel.
 - WIND OF GOD
17 [When] the poor and needy seek water, and [there is] none, [and] their tongue fails for thirst, I the LORD [Yahweh] will hear them, I the God of Israel will not forsake them.
18 I will open rivers in high places, and fountains in the midst of the valleys: I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water.
19 I will plant in the wilderness the cedar, the shittah tree, and the myrtle, and the oil tree; I will set in the desert the fir tree, [and] the pine, and the box tree together:
20 That they may see, and know, and consider, and understand together, that the hand of the LORD [Yahweh] has done this, and the Holy One of Israel has created it.
21 Produce your cause, says the LORD [Yahweh]; bring forth your strong [reasons], says the King of Jacob.
22 Let them bring [them] forth, and show us what will happen: let them show the former things, what they [be], that we may consider them, and know the latter end of them; or declare us things for to come.
23 Show 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 behold [it] together.
24 Behold, you [are] of nothing, and your work of nought: an abomination [is he that] chooses you.
25 I have raised up [one] from the north, and he will come: from the rising of the sun will he call upon my name: and he will come upon princes as [upon] morter, and as the potter treads clay.
26 Who has declared from the beginning, that we may know? and beforetime, that we may say, [He is] righteous? yes, [there is] none that shows, yes, [there is] none that declares, yes, [there is] none that hears your words.
27 The first [will say] to Zion, Behold, behold them: and I will give to Jerusalem one that brings good tidings.
28 For I beheld, and [there was] no man; even among them, and [there was] no counselor, that, when I asked of them, could answer a word.
29 Behold, they [are] all vanity; their works [are] nothing: their molten images [are] wind and confusion.