~~~~~ "But now listen, O Jacob~ put your name here ~ MY servant, and Israel, whom I have chosen: Thus says the LORD who made you and made you, and formed you from the womb, who will help you, don't fear O Jacob~ put your name here ~ My servant; and you Jeshurun, whom I have chosen. For I will pour out My Spirit on your offspring, and My blessing on your descendants; and they will spring up among the grass, like poplar trees by streams of water. This one will say, "I am the LORD'S; and that one will call on the name of Jacob; and another will write on his hand; 'Belonging to the LORD,' and will name Israel's name with honor.
"Thus says the Lord, the 'King of Israel, and His Redeemer, the LORD of Hosts: 'I'm the first and I am the last, and there is no God besides Me. 'Who is like Me? Let him proclaim and declare it; Yes, let him recount it to Me in order, from the time that I established the ancient nation, the people. I let them declare to those the things that are coming, and the events that are going to take place. Don't tremble as well as don't be afraid; have I not long since announced it to you and declared it too? And you're My witnesses. Is there any God beside Me, or is there any other Rock? I know of none.'"
Those who fashion a graven image, idol; are all of them futile, and their precious things are of no profit; even their own witnesses fail to see or know, so that they will be put to shame. Who has fashioned a god or cast an idol to no profit? Behold all his companions will be put to shame, for the craftsmen themselves are mere men. Let them assemble themselves, let them stand up, let them tremble, let them together be put to shame. The man shapes iron into a cutting tool and does his work over the coals, fashioning it with hammers and working it with his strong arm. He also gets hungry and his strength fails; he drinks no water and becomes weary. Another shapes wood, he extends a measuring line; he outlines it with red chalk. He works it with planes and outlines it with a compass, and makes it like the form of a man, like the beauty of man, so that it may sit in a house. Surely he cuts cedars for himself, and takes a cypress, or oak and raises it for himself among the trees of the forest. He plants a fir, and the rain makes it grow. The it becomes something for a man to burn, so he takes one of them and warms himself; he also makes a fire to bake bread. He also makes a god and worships it; he makes it a graven image and falls down before it. Half of it he burns in the fire; over this half he eats meat as he roasts a roastand is satisfied. He also warms himself and says, "Aha! I am warm, I've seen the fire."
But the reset of it he makes into a god, his graven image. He falls down before it and worships; he also prays to it and says, "Deliver me, for you are my god."
They don't know, nor do they understand, for He has smeared over their eyes so that they can't see and their hearts so that they cannot comprehend. No one recalls, or returns, nor is there knowledge or understanding to say; "I've burned half of it in the fire and also have baked break over it's coals. I roast meat and eat it. Then I make the rest of it into an abomination, I fall down before a block of wood!" He feeds on ashes; a deceived heart has turned him aside. And e cannot deliver himself, nor say; "Is there not a lie in my first hand?"
"Remember these things, O Jacob~ put your name here ~ , and Israel, for you are My servant; and I have formed you, you're My servant, O Israel, you will not be forgotten by Me. I have wiped out your transgressions like a thick cloud and your sins like a heavy, or cloud. Return to Me, My Servant, for I have redeemed you!" Shout for joy, O heavens, for the LORD has done IT! Shout joyfully, you lower parts of the earth; break forth into a should of joy, you mountains, O forest, and every tree in it; for the LORD has redeemed Jacob; ~ put your name here ~ and in Israel, He Shows forth His Glory!
Thus says the LORD; your Redeemer, and the one who formed you from the womb, " I, the LORD, am the maker of all things, stretching out the heavens by Myself, and spreading out the earth all alone, causing the omens of boasters to fail, making fools out of diviners, causing wise men to draw back and turning their knowledge into foolishness, confirming the word of His servant , and performing the purpose of His messengers. "It is I who says of Jerusalem, "she shall be inhabited!" And of the cities of Judah: "They shall be built." And I will raise up her ruins again.
It is I who says to the depth of the sea, "Be dried up!" And I will make your rivers dry.
It is I who says of Cyrus; 'He is My shepherd! And he will perform all My desire.' And he declares of Jerusalem, "She will be built," and of the temple, 'Your foundation will be laid.'"
