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of the earth: I have not said to the seed of Ja- 4 Even to your old age I am the same, and
cob: Seek me in vain. I am the Lord that speak to your grey hairs I will carry you: I have made
justice, that declare right things. you, and I will bear: I will carry and will save.
20 Assemble yourselves, and come, and draw 5 To whom have you likened me, and made
near together, ye that are saved of the Gentiles: me equal, and compared me, and made me like?
they have no knowledge that set up the wood of 6 You that contribute gold out of the bag, and
their graven work, and pray to a god that cannot weigh out silver in the scales: and hire a gold-
save. smith to make a god: and they fall down and
21 Tell ye, and come, and consult together: worship.
who hath declared this from the beginning, who 7 They bear him on their shoulders and carry
hath foretold this from that time? Have not I him, and set him in his place, and he shall stand,
the Lord, and there is no God else besides me? and shall not stir out of his place. Yea, when
A just God and a saviour, there is none besides they shall cry also unto him, he shall not hear:
me. he shall not save them from tribulation.
22 Be converted to me, and you shall be saved, 8 Remember this, and be ashamed: return, ye
all ye ends of the earth: for I am God, and there transgressors, to the heart.
is no other. 9 Remember the former age, for I am God,
23 I have sworn by myself, the word of justice and there is no God beside, neither is there the
shall go out of my mouth, and shall not return: like to me:
24 For every knee shall be bowed to me, and 10 Who shew from the beginning the things
every tongue shall swear. that shall be at last, and from ancient times the
25 Therefore shall he say: In the Lord are my things that as yet are not done, saying: My coun-
justices and empire: they shall come to him, and sel shall stand, and all my will shall be done:
all that resist him shall be confounded. 11 Who call a bird from the east, and from a
26 In the Lord shall all the seed of Israel be far country the man of my own will, and I have
justified and praised. spoken, and will bring it to pass: I have created,
and I will do it. Hear me, O ye hardhearted, who
are far from justice.
Chapter 46 12 I have brought my justice near, it shall not
be afar off: and my salvation shall not tarry. I
Bel is broken, Nebo is destroyed: their idols will give salvation in Sion, and my glory in Israel.
are put upon beasts and cattle, your burdens
of heavy weight even unto weariness.
2 They are consumed, and are broken to- Chapter 47
gether: they could not save him that carried
them, and they themselves shall go into captiv- Come down, sit in the dust, O virgin daughter
ity. of Babylon, sit on the ground: there is no throne
3 Hearken unto me, O house of Jacob, all the for the daughter of the Chaldeans, for thou shalt
remnant of the house of Israel who are carried no more be called delicate and tender.
by my bowels, are borne up by my womb. 2 Take a millstone and grind meal: uncover