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Keep it in mind!</p><p class="line2">Remember this, you guilty ones.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/46-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Remember the things I have done in the past.</p><p class="line2">For I alone am God!</p><p class="line2">I am God, and there is none like me.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/46-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Only I can tell you the future</p><p class="line2">before it even happens.</p><p class="line1">Everything I plan will come to pass,</p><p class="line2">for I do whatever I wish.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/46-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>I will call a swift bird of prey from the east—</p><p class="line2">a leader from a distant land to come and do my bidding.</p><p class="line1">I have said what I would do,</p><p class="line2">and I will do it.</p><p class="b"/><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/46-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>“Listen to me, you stubborn people</p><p class="line2">who are so far from doing right.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/46-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>For I am ready to set things right,</p><p class="line2">not in the distant future, but right now!</p><p class="line1">I am ready to save Jerusalem<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">a</span></a></p><p class="line2">and show my glory to Israel.</p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="fn">a</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">46:13 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="it">Zion.</span><br></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><em>Holy Bible</em>, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. 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