Daily Meditation
16 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.
Today’s Reading
Isaiah
Chapter 41
Thou art my servant
1 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. 2 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. 3 He pursued them, and passed safely; even
by the way that he had not gone with his feet. 4 Who hath wrought and done it, calling
the generations from the beginning? I the Lord, the first, and with the last; I
am he. 5 The isles saw it, and feared; the ends of the earth were afraid, drew
near, and came. 6 They helped every one his neighbour; and every one said to
his brother, Be of good courage. 7 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.
8 But thou, Israel,
art my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham my friend. 9 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. 10 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. 11 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. 12 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. 13 For I the Lord thy God will hold thy right hand,saying
unto thee, Fear not; I will help thee. 14
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. 15 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. 16 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.
17 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. 18 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. 19 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: 20 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.
21 Produce your
cause, saith the Lord; bring forth your strong reasons, saith the King of
Jacob. 22 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. 23 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. 24 Behold, ye are of
nothing, and your work of nought: an abomination is he that chooseth you.
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