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Keep silence before me, O islands; and let the people renew their strength: let them come near; then let them speak: let us come near together to judgment.
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Who raised up the righteous man from the east, called him to his foot, gave the nations before him, and made him rule over kings? he gave them as the dust to his sword, and as driven stubble to his bow.
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He pursued them, and passed safely; even by the way that he had not gone with his feet.
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Who hath wrought and done it, calling the generations from the beginning? I the LORD, the first, and with the last; I am he.
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The isles saw it, and feared; the ends of the earth were afraid, drew near, and came.
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They helped every one his neighbour; and every one said to his brother, Be of good courage.
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So the carpenter encouraged the goldsmith, and he that smootheth with the hammer him that smote the anvil, saying, It is ready for the sodering: and he fastened it with nails, that it should not be moved.
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But thou, Israel, art my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham my friend.
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Thou whom I have taken from the ends of the earth, and called thee from the chief men thereof, and said unto thee, Thou art my servant; I have chosen thee, and not cast thee away.
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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.
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Behold, all they that were incensed against thee shall be ashamed and confounded: they shall be as nothing; and they that strive with thee shall perish.
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Thou shalt seek them, and shalt not find them, even them that contended with thee: they that war against thee shall be as nothing, and as a thing of nought.
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For I the LORD thy God will hold thy right hand, saying unto thee, Fear not; I will help thee.
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Fear not, thou worm Jacob, and ye men of Israel; I will help thee, saith the LORD, and thy redeemer, the Holy One of Israel.
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Behold, I will make thee a new sharp threshing instrument having teeth: thou shalt thresh the mountains, and beat them small, and shalt make the hills as chaff.
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Thou shalt fan them, and the wind shall carry them away, and the whirlwind shall scatter them: and thou shalt rejoice in the LORD, and shalt glory in the Holy One of Israel.
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When the poor and needy seek water, and there is none, and their tongue faileth for thirst, I the LORD will hear them, I the God of Israel will not forsake them.
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I will open rivers in high places, and fountains in the midst of the valleys: I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water.
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I will plant in the wilderness the cedar, the shittah tree, and the myrtle, and the oil tree; I will set in the desert the fir tree, and the pine, and the box tree together:
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That they may see, and know, and consider, and understand together, that the hand of the LORD hath done this, and the Holy One of Israel hath created it.
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Produce your cause, saith the LORD; bring forth your strong reasons, saith the King of Jacob.
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Let them bring them forth, and shew us what shall happen: let them shew the former things, what they be, that we may consider them, and know the latter end of them; or declare us things for to come.
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Shew 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.
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Behold, ye are of nothing, and your work of nought: an abomination is he that chooseth you.
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I have raised up one from the north, and he shall come: from the rising of the sun shall he call upon my name: and he shall come upon princes as upon morter, and as the potter treadeth clay.
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Who hath declared from the beginning, that we may know? and beforetime, that we may say, He is righteous? yea, there is none that sheweth, yea, there is none that declareth, yea, there is none that heareth your words.
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The first shall say to Zion, Behold, behold them: and I will give to Jerusalem one that bringeth good tidings.
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For I beheld, and there was no man; even among them, and there was no counsellor, that, when I asked of them, could answer a word.
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Behold, they are all vanity; their works are nothing: their molten images are wind and confusion.
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Behold my servant, whom I uphold; mine elect, in whom my soul delighteth; I have put my spirit upon him: he shall bring forth judgment to the Gentiles.
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He shall not cry, nor lift up, nor cause his voice to be heard in the street.
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A bruised reed shall he not break, and the smoking flax shall he not quench: he shall bring forth judgment unto truth.
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He shall not fail nor be discouraged, till he have set judgment in the earth: and the isles shall wait for his law.
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Thus saith God the LORD, he that created the heavens, and stretched them out; he that spread forth the earth, and that which cometh out of it; he that giveth breath unto the people upon it, and spirit to them that walk therein:
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I the LORD have called thee in righteousness, and will hold thine hand, and will keep thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, for a light of the Gentiles;
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To open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the prison, and them that sit in darkness out of the prison house.
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I am the LORD: that is my name: and my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise to graven images.
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Behold, the former things are come to pass, and new things do I declare: before they spring forth I tell you of them.
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Sing unto the LORD a new song, and his praise from the end of the earth, ye that go down to the sea, and all that is therein; the isles, and the inhabitants thereof.
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Let the wilderness and the cities thereof lift up their voice, the villages that Kedar doth inhabit: let the inhabitants of the rock sing, let them shout from the top of the mountains.
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Let them give glory unto the LORD, and declare his praise in the islands.
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The LORD shall go forth as a mighty man, he shall stir up jealousy like a man of war: he shall cry, yea, roar; he shall prevail against his enemies.
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I have long time holden my peace; I have been still, and refrained myself: now will I cry like a travailing woman; I will destroy and devour at once.
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I will make waste mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbs; and I will make the rivers islands, and I will dry up the pools.
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And I will bring the blind by a way that they knew not; I will lead them in paths that they have not known: I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight. These things will I do unto them, and not forsake them.
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They shall be turned back, they shall be greatly ashamed, that trust in graven images, that say to the molten images, Ye are our gods.
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Hear, ye deaf; and look, ye blind, that ye may see.
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Who is blind, but my servant? or deaf, as my messenger that I sent? who is blind as he that is perfect, and blind as the LORD'S servant?
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Seeing many things, but thou observest not; opening the ears, but he heareth not.
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The LORD is well pleased for his righteousness' sake; he will magnify the law, and make it honourable.
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But this is a people robbed and spoiled; they are all of them snared in holes, and they are hid in prison houses: they are for a prey, and none delivereth; for a spoil, and none saith, Restore.
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Who among you will give ear to this? who will hearken and hear for the time to come?
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Who gave Jacob for a spoil, and Israel to the robbers? did not the LORD, he against whom we have sinned? for they would not walk in his ways, neither were they obedient unto his law.
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Therefore he hath poured upon him the fury of his anger, and the strength of battle: and it hath set him on fire round about, yet he knew not; and it burned him, yet he laid it not to heart.
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Now there were in the church that was at Antioch certain prophets and teachers; as Barnabas, and Simeon that was called Niger, and Lucius of Cyrene, and Manaen, which had been brought up with Herod the tetrarch, and Saul.
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As they ministered to the Lord, and fasted, the Holy Ghost said, Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work whereunto I have called them.
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And when they had fasted and prayed, and laid their hands on them, they sent them away.
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So they, being sent forth by the Holy Ghost, departed unto Seleucia; and from thence they sailed to Cyprus.
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And when they were at Salamis, they preached the word of God in the synagogues of the Jews: and they had also John to their minister.
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And when they had gone through the isle unto Paphos, they found a certain sorcerer, a false prophet, a Jew, whose name was Barjesus:
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Which was with the deputy of the country, Sergius Paulus, a prudent man; who called for Barnabas and Saul, and desired to hear the word of God.
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But Elymas the sorcerer (for so is his name by interpretation) withstood them, seeking to turn away the deputy from the faith.
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Then Saul, (who also is called Paul,) filled with the Holy Ghost, set his eyes on him,
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And said, O full of all subtilty and all mischief, thou child of the devil, thou enemy of all righteousness, wilt thou not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord?
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And now, behold, the hand of the Lord is upon thee, and thou shalt be blind, not seeing the sun for a season. And immediately there fell on him a mist and a darkness; and he went about seeking some to lead him by the hand.
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Then the deputy, when he saw what was done, believed, being astonished at the doctrine of the Lord.
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Now when Paul and his company loosed from Paphos, they came to Perga in Pamphylia: and John departing from them returned to Jerusalem.
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But when they departed from Perga, they came to Antioch in Pisidia, and went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and sat down.
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And after the reading of the law and the prophets the rulers of the synagogue sent unto them, saying, Ye men and brethren, if ye have any word of exhortation for the people, say on.
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Then Paul stood up, and beckoning with his hand said, Men of Israel, and ye that fear God, give audience.
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The God of this people of Israel chose our fathers, and exalted the people when they dwelt as strangers in the land of Egypt, and with an high arm brought he them out of it.
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And about the time of forty years suffered he their manners in the wilderness.
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And when he had destroyed seven nations in the land of Chanaan, he divided their land to them by lot.
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And after that he gave unto them judges about the space of four hundred and fifty years, until Samuel the prophet.
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And afterward they desired a king: and God gave unto them Saul the son of Cis, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, by the space of forty years.
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And when he had removed him, he raised up unto them David to be their king; to whom also he gave testimony, and said, I have found David the son of Jesse, a man after mine own heart, which shall fulfil all my will.
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Of this man's seed hath God according to his promise raised unto Israel a Saviour, Jesus:
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When John had first preached before his coming the baptism of repentance to all the people of Israel.
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And as John fulfilled his course, he said, Whom think ye that I am? I am not he. But, behold, there cometh one after me, whose shoes of his feet I am not worthy to loose.
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Men and brethren, children of the stock of Abraham, and whosoever among you feareth God, to you is the word of this salvation sent.
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For they that dwell at Jerusalem, and their rulers, because they knew him not, nor yet the voices of the prophets which are read every sabbath day, they have fulfilled them in condemning him.
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And though they found no cause of death in him, yet desired they Pilate that he should be slain.
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And when they had fulfilled all that was written of him, they took him down from the tree, and laid him in a sepulchre.
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But God raised him from the dead:
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And he was seen many days of them which came up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who are his witnesses unto the people.
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And we declare unto you glad tidings, how that the promise which was made unto the fathers,
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God hath fulfilled the same unto us their children, in that he hath raised up Jesus again; as it is also written in the second psalm, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee.
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And as concerning that he raised him up from the dead, now no more to return to corruption, he said on this wise, I will give you the sure mercies of David.
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Wherefore he saith also in another psalm, Thou shalt not suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.
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For David, after he had served his own generation by the will of God, fell on sleep, and was laid unto his fathers, and saw corruption:
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But he, whom God raised again, saw no corruption.
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Be it known unto you therefore, men and brethren, that through this man is preached unto you the forgiveness of sins:
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And by him all that believe are justified from all things, from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses.
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Beware therefore, lest that come upon you, which is spoken of in the prophets;
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Behold, ye despisers, and wonder, and perish: for I work a work in your days, a work which ye shall in no wise believe, though a man declare it unto you.
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And when the Jews were gone out of the synagogue, the Gentiles besought that these words might be preached to them the next sabbath.
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Now when the congregation was broken up, many of the Jews and religious proselytes followed Paul and Barnabas: who, speaking to them, persuaded them to continue in the grace of God.
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And the next sabbath day came almost the whole city together to hear the word of God.
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But when the Jews saw the multitudes, they were filled with envy, and spake against those things which were spoken by Paul, contradicting and blaspheming.
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Then Paul and Barnabas waxed bold, and said, It was necessary that the word of God should first have been spoken to you: but seeing ye put it from you, and judge yourselves unworthy of everlasting life, lo, we turn to the Gentiles.
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For so hath the Lord commanded us, saying, I have set thee to be a light of the Gentiles, that thou shouldest be for salvation unto the ends of the earth.
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And when the Gentiles heard this, they were glad, and glorified the word of the Lord: and as many as were ordained to eternal life believed.
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And the word of the Lord was published throughout all the region.
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But the Jews stirred up the devout and honourable women, and the chief men of the city, and raised persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and expelled them out of their coasts.
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But they shook off the dust of their feet against them, and came unto Iconium.
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And the disciples were filled with joy, and with the Holy Ghost.
