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I the Lord, I am the first and the last. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/41-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>The islands saw it, and feared, the ends of the earth were astonished, they drew near, and came. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/41-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Every one shall help his neighbour, and shall say to his brother: Be of good courage. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/41-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>The coppersmith striking with the hammer encouraged him that forged at that time, saying: It is ready for soldering: and he strengthened it with nails, that it should not be moved. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/41-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>But thou Israel, art my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham my friend: </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/41-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>In whom I have taken thee from the ends of the earth, and from the remote parts thereof have called thee, and said to thee: Thou art my servant, I have chosen thee, and have not cast thee away. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/41-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Fear not, for I am with thee: turn not aside, for I am thy God: I have strengthened thee, and have helped thee, and the right hand of my just one hath upheld thee. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/41-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Behold all that fight against thee shall be confounded and ashamed, they shall be as nothing, and the men shall perish that strive against thee. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/41-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Thou shalt seek them, and shalt not find the men that resist thee: they shall be as nothing: and as a thing consumed the men that war against thee. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/41-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>For I am the Lord thy God, who take thee by the hand, and say to thee: Fear not, I have helped thee. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/41-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Fear not, thou worm of Jacob, you that are dead of Israel: I have helped thee, saith the Lord: and thy Redeemer the Holy One of Israel. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/41-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>I have made thee as a new thrashing wain, with teeth like a saw: thou shall thrash the mountains, and break them in pieces: and shalt make the hills as chaff. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/41-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Thou shalt fan them, and the wind shall carry them away, and the whirlwind shall scatter them: and thou shalt rejoice in the Lord, in the Holy One of Israel thou shalt be joyful. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/41-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>The needy and the poor seek for waters, and there are none: their tongue hath been dry with thirst. I the Lord will hear them, I the God of Israel will not forsake them. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/41-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>I will open rivers in the high bills, and fountains in the midst of the plains: I will turn the desert into pools of waters, and the impassable land into streams of waters. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/41-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>I will plant in the wilderness the cedar, and the thorn, and the myrtle, and the olive tree: I will set in the desert the fir tree, the elm, and the box tree together: </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/41-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>That they may see and know, and consider, and understand together that the hand of the Lord hath done this, and the Holy One of Israel hath created it. </p> <p class="hdg">Meaningless Idols</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/41-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Bring your cause near, saith the Lord: bring hither, if you have any thing to allege, saith the King of Jacob. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/41-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Let them come, and tell us all things that are to come: tell us the former things what they were: and we will set our heart upon them, and shall know the latter end of them, and tell us the things that are to come. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/41-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>Shew the things that are to come hereafter, and we shall know that ye are gods. Do ye also good or evil, if you can: and let us speak, and see together. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/41-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>Behold, you are of nothing, and your work of that which hath no being: he that hath chosen you is an abomination. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/41-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>I have raised up one from the north, and he shall come from the rising of the sun: he shall call upon my name, and he shall make princes to be as dirt, and as the potter treading clay. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/41-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>Who bath declared from the beginning, that we may know: and from time of old, that we may say: Thou art just. There is none that sheweth, nor that foretelleth, nor that heareth your words. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/41-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>The first shall say to Sion: Behold they are here, and to Jerusalem I will give an evangelist. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/41-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>And I saw, and there was no one even among them to consult, or who, when I asked, could answer a word. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/41-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>Behold they are all in the wrong, and their works are vain: their idols are wind and vanity. </p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Douay-Rheims Bible<br /><br /><a href="//bereanbible.com">Section Headings Courtesy BereanBible.com<br />© 2013, 2014 Used by Permission</a><span class="p"><br /><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../isaiah/40.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Isaiah 40"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Isaiah 40" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../isaiah/42.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Isaiah 42"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Isaiah 42" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="rightbox"><div class="padright"><div id="pic"><iframe width="100%" height="860" scrolling="no" src="//biblescan.com/mpad/isaiah/41-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></div></div><div id="rightbox4"><div class="padright2"><div id="spons1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td class="sp1"><iframe src="//biblemenus.com/adframe120.htm" width="122" height="602" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe><br /><br /></td></tr></table></div></div></div> <div align="center"><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script> <script id="b817b7107f1d4a7997da1b3c33457e03"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=cb0edd8b-b416-47eb-8c6d-3cc96561f7e8&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-2'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-0' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-3'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-1' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div align="center" id='div-gpt-ad-1531425649696-0'> </div><br /><br /> <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:200px;height:200px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="3592799687"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhnm2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe><div align="center"><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span></div></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>