23:044:001 Yet now hear, O Jacob my servant; and Israel,
whom I have
chosen:
23:044:002 Thus saith the lord that made thee,
and formed thee from the
womb,
which will help thee; Fear not, O Jacob, my servant;
and
thou,
Jesurun, whom I have chosen.
23:044:003 For I will pour water upon him that is
thirsty, and floods
upon
the dry ground: I will pour my spirit upon thy
seed, and
my
blessing upon thine offspring:
23:044:004 And they shall spring up as among the grass,
as willows by the
water
courses.
23:044:005 One shall say, I am the LORD’s; and
another shall call himself
by
the name of Jacob; and another shall subscribe with
his
hand
unto the lord, and surname himself by the name
of Israel.
23:044:006 Thus saith the lord the King of Israel,
and his redeemer the
lord
of hosts; I am the first, and I am the last; and beside
me
there is no God.
23:044:007 And who, as I, shall call, and shall declare
it, and set it in
order
for me, since I appointed the ancient people? and the
things
that are coming, and shall come, let them shew unto
them.
23:044:008 Fear ye not, neither be afraid: have
not I told thee from that
time,
and have declared it? ye are even my witnesses.
Is there
a
God beside me? yea, there is no God; I know not any.
23:044:009 They that make a graven image are all of
them vanity; and
their
delectable things shall not profit; and they are their
own
witnesses; they see not, nor know; that they may be
ashamed.
23:044:010 Who hath formed a god, or molten a graven
image that is
profitable
for nothing?
23:044:011 Behold, all his fellows shall be ashamed:
and the workmen,
they
are of men: let them all be gathered together,
let them
stand
up; yet they shall fear, and they shall be ashamed
together.
23:044:012 The smith with the tongs both worketh in
the coals, and
fashioneth
it with hammers, and worketh it with the strength
of
his arms: yea, he is hungry, and his strength
faileth: he
drinketh
no water, and is faint.
23:044:013 The carpenter stretcheth out his rule;
he marketh it out with
a
line; he fitteth it with planes, and he marketh it
out with
the
compass, and maketh it after the figure of a man,
according
to the beauty of a man; that it may remain in the
house.
23:044:014 He heweth him down cedars, and taketh the
cypress and the oak,
which
he strengtheneth for himself among the trees of the
forest:
he planteth an ash, and the rain doth nourish it.


