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    "chapter": 41
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    "n": 41,
    "bookSlug": "isaiah",
    "bookCode": "ISA",
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    "paragraphs": [{
        "n": 1,
        "refId": "ISA-41:1",
        "verseRef": "Isa.41.1",
        "text": "Keep silence before me, O islands; and let the peoples renew their strength: let them come near; then let them speak; let us come near together to judgment."
      },{
        "n": 2,
        "refId": "ISA-41:2",
        "verseRef": "Isa.41.2",
        "text": "Who hath raised up one from the east, whom he calleth in righteousness to his foot? he giveth nations before him, and maketh him rule over kings; he giveth them as the dust to his sword, as the driven stubble to his bow."
      },{
        "n": 3,
        "refId": "ISA-41:3",
        "verseRef": "Isa.41.3",
        "text": "He pursueth them, and passeth on safely, even by a way that he had not gone with his feet."
      },{
        "n": 4,
        "refId": "ISA-41:4",
        "verseRef": "Isa.41.4",
        "text": "Who hath wrought and done it, calling the generations from the beginning? I, Jehovah, the first, and with the last, I am he."
      },{
        "n": 5,
        "refId": "ISA-41:5",
        "verseRef": "Isa.41.5",
        "text": "The isles have seen, and fear; the ends of the earth tremble; they draw near, and come."
      },{
        "n": 6,
        "refId": "ISA-41:6",
        "verseRef": "Isa.41.6",
        "text": "They help every one his neighbor; and [every one] saith to his brother, Be of good courage."
      },{
        "n": 7,
        "refId": "ISA-41:7",
        "verseRef": "Isa.41.7",
        "text": "So the carpenter encourageth the goldsmith, [and] he that smootheth with the hammer him that smiteth the anvil, saying of the soldering, It is good; and he fasteneth it with nails, that is should not be moved."
      },{
        "n": 8,
        "refId": "ISA-41:8",
        "verseRef": "Isa.41.8",
        "text": "But thou, Israel, my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham my friend,"
      },{
        "n": 9,
        "refId": "ISA-41:9",
        "verseRef": "Isa.41.9",
        "text": "thou whom I have taken hold of from the ends of the earth, and called from the corners thereof, and said unto thee, Thou art my servant, I have chosen thee and not cast thee away;"
      },{
        "n": 10,
        "refId": "ISA-41:10",
        "verseRef": "Isa.41.10",
        "text": "Fear thou not, for I am with thee; be not dismayed, for I am thy God; I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness."
      },{
        "n": 11,
        "refId": "ISA-41:11",
        "verseRef": "Isa.41.11",
        "text": "Behold, all they that are incensed against thee shall be put to shame and confounded: they that strive with thee shall be as nothing, and shall perish."
      },{
        "n": 12,
        "refId": "ISA-41:12",
        "verseRef": "Isa.41.12",
        "text": "Thou shalt seek them, and shalt not find them, even them that contend with thee: they that war against thee shall be as nothing, and as a thing of nought."
      },{
        "n": 13,
        "refId": "ISA-41:13",
        "verseRef": "Isa.41.13",
        "text": "For I, Jehovah thy God, will hold thy right hand, saying unto thee, Fear not; I will help thee."
      },{
        "n": 14,
        "refId": "ISA-41:14",
        "verseRef": "Isa.41.14",
        "text": "Fear not, thou worm Jacob, and ye men of Israel; I will help thee, saith Jehovah, and thy Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel."
      },{
        "n": 15,
        "refId": "ISA-41:15",
        "verseRef": "Isa.41.15",
        "text": "Behold, I have made thee [to be] a new sharp threshing instrument having teeth; thou shalt thresh the mountains, and beat them small, and shalt make the hills as chaff."
      },{
        "n": 16,
        "refId": "ISA-41:16",
        "verseRef": "Isa.41.16",
        "text": "Thou shalt winnow them, and the wind shall carry them away, and the whirlwind shall scatter them; and thou shalt rejoice in Jehovah, thou shalt glory in the Holy One of Israel."
      },{
        "n": 17,
        "refId": "ISA-41:17",
        "verseRef": "Isa.41.17",
        "text": "The poor and needy seek water, and there is none, and their tongue faileth for thirst; I, Jehovah, will answer them, I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them."
      },{
        "n": 18,
        "refId": "ISA-41:18",
        "verseRef": "Isa.41.18",
        "text": "I will open rivers on the bare heights, and fountains in the midst of the valleys; I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water."
      },{
        "n": 19,
        "refId": "ISA-41:19",
        "verseRef": "Isa.41.19",
        "text": "I will put in the wilderness the cedar, the acacia, and the myrtle, and the oil-tree; I will set in the desert the fir-tree, the pine, and the box-tree together:"
      },{
        "n": 20,
        "refId": "ISA-41:20",
        "verseRef": "Isa.41.20",
        "text": "that they may see, and know, and consider, and understand together, that the hand of Jehovah hath done this, and the Holy One of Israel hath created it."
      },{
        "n": 21,
        "refId": "ISA-41:21",
        "verseRef": "Isa.41.21",
        "text": "Produce your cause, saith Jehovah; bring forth your strong reasons, saith the King of Jacob."
      },{
        "n": 22,
        "refId": "ISA-41:22",
        "verseRef": "Isa.41.22",
        "text": "Let them bring forth, and declare unto us what shall happen: declare ye the former things, what they are, that we may consider them, and know the latter end of them; or show us things to come."
      },{
        "n": 23,
        "refId": "ISA-41:23",
        "verseRef": "Isa.41.23",
        "text": "Declare the things that are to come hereafter, that we may know that ye are gods: yea, do good, or do evil, that we may be dismayed, and behold it together."
      },{
        "n": 24,
        "refId": "ISA-41:24",
        "verseRef": "Isa.41.24",
        "text": "Behold, ye are of nothing, and your work is of nought; an abomination is he that chooseth you."
      },{
        "n": 25,
        "refId": "ISA-41:25",
        "verseRef": "Isa.41.25",
        "text": "I have raised up one from the north, and he is come; from the rising of the sun one that calleth upon my name: and he shall come upon rulers as upon mortar, and as the potter treadeth clay."
      },{
        "n": 26,
        "refId": "ISA-41:26",
        "verseRef": "Isa.41.26",
        "text": "Who hath declared it from the beginning, that we may know? and beforetime, that we may say, [He is] right? yea, there is none that declareth, yea, there is none that showeth, yea, there is none that heareth your words."
      },{
        "n": 27,
        "refId": "ISA-41:27",
        "verseRef": "Isa.41.27",
        "text": "[I am the] first [that saith] unto Zion, Behold, behold them; and I will give to Jerusalem one that bringeth good tidings."
      },{
        "n": 28,
        "refId": "ISA-41:28",
        "verseRef": "Isa.41.28",
        "text": "And when I look, there is no man: even among them there is no counsellor, that, when I ask of them, can answer a word."
      },{
        "n": 29,
        "refId": "ISA-41:29",
        "verseRef": "Isa.41.29",
        "text": "Behold, all of them, their works are vanity [and] nought; their molten images are wind and confusion."
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