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Isaiah 41:1-4 (Listen)

• Isaiah 40
• Isaiah 41
• Isaiah 42

Fear Not, for I Am with You

41 nListen to me in silence, oO coastlands;

let the peoples renew their strength;

let them approach, then let them speak;

let us together draw near for judgment.

2 pWho stirred up one from the east

whom victory meets at every qstep?1

rHe gives up nations before him,

so that he tramples kings underfoot;

he makes them like dust with his sword,

slike driven stubble with his bow.

3 He pursues them and passes on safely,

by paths his feet have not trod.

4 tWho has performed and done this,

calling the generations from the beginning?

uI, the Lord, the first,

and with the last; I am he.

Isaiah 41:25-27 (Listen)

• Isaiah 40
• Isaiah 41
• Isaiah 42

25 wI stirred up one from the north, and he has come,

xfrom the rising of the sun, yand he shall call upon my name;

he shall trample on rulers as on mortar,

as the potter treads clay.

26 zWho declared it from the beginning, that we might know,

and beforehand, that we might say, “He is right”?

There was none who declared it, none who proclaimed,

none who heard your words.

27 aI was the first to say1 to Zion, “Behold, here they are!”

and bI give to Jerusalem a herald of good news.

Isaiah 44:24-28 (Listen)

• Isaiah 43
• Isaiah 44
• Isaiah 45

24 Thus says the Lord, eyour Redeemer,

fwho formed you from the womb:

g“I am the Lord, who made all things,

hwho alone stretched out the heavens,

who spread out the earth by myself,

25 who frustrates the signs of liars

and makes fools of diviners,

iwho turns wise men back

and makes their knowledge foolish,

26 jwho confirms the word of his servant

and fulfills the counsel of his messengers,

who says of Jerusalem, ‘She shall be inhabited,’

kand of the cities of Judah, ‘They shall be built,

and I will raise up their ruins’;

27 lwho says to the deep, ‘Be dry;

I will dry up your rivers’;

28 who says of mCyrus, ‘He is nmy shepherd,

and he shall fulfill all my purpose’;

saying of Jerusalem, ‘She shall be built,’

oand of the temple, ‘Your foundation shall be laid.’”