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the earth, and my right hand hath spanned the the desolations of Israel: I will also giue thee for
heaues: when I cal them, they stand vp together. a light of the Gentiles, that thou maiest bee my
14 All you, assemble your selues, and heare: which saluation vnto the ende of the worlde. 7 Thus
among them hath declared these thinges? The sayeth the Lord the redeemer of Israel, and his
Lord hath loued him: he wil doe his will in Babel, Holie one, to him that is despised in soule, to a
and his arme shalbe against the Chaldeans. 15 I, nation that is abhorred, to a seruaunt of rulers,
euen I haue spoken it, and I haue called him: Kinges shall see, and arise, and princes shall
I haue brought him, and his way shall prosper. worship, because of the Lord, that is faithfull: and
16 Come neere vnto me: heare ye this: I haue not ye Holy one of Israel, which hath chosen thee.
spoken it in secret from the beginning: from the 8 Thus sayeth the Lord, In an acceptable time
time that the thing was, I was there, and now the haue I heard thee, and in a day of saluation haue I
Lord God and his Spirit hath sent me. 17 Thus helped thee: and I will preserue thee, and wil giue
saith the Lord thy redeemer, the Holy one of thee for a couenant of ye people, that thou maiest
Israel, I am the Lord thy God, which teach thee raise vp the earth, and obtaine the inheritance
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to profite, and lead thee by the way, that thou of the desolate heritages: That thou maiest say
shouldest goe. 18 Oh that thou haddest hearkened to the prisoners, Goe foorth: and to them that
to my commandements! then had thy prosper- are in darkenesse, Shewe your selues: they shall
itie bene as the floude, and thy righteousnesse feede in the waies, and their pastures shall bee
as the waues of the sea. 19 Thy seede also had in all the toppes of the hilles. 10 They shall not
beene as the sande, and the fruite of thy body like be hungrie, neither shall they be thirstie, neither
the grauell thereof: his name should not haue shall the heat smite them, nor the sunne: for he
bene cut off nor destroied before me. 20 Goe that hath compassion on them, shall leade them:
yee out of Babel: flee yee from the Chaldeans, euen to the springs of waters shall he driue them.
with a voice of ioy: tel and declare this: shewe 11 And I will make all my mountaines, as a way,
it foorth to the ende of the earth: say yee, The and my paths shalbe exalted. 12 Beholde, these
Lord hath redeemed his seruant Iaakob. 21 And shall come from farre: and loe, these from the
they were not thirstie: hee led them through the North and from the West, and these from the land
wildernesse: hee caused the waters to flowe out of Sinim. 13 Reioyce, O heauens: and bee ioyfull,
of the rocke for them: for he claue the rocke, and O earth: brast foorth into praise, O mountaines:
the water gushed out. 22 There is no peace, sayeth for God hath comforted his people, and will haue
the Lord, vnto the wicked. mercie vpon his afflicted. 14 But Zion saide,
The Lord hath forsaken me, and my Lord hath
49 forgotten me. 15 Can a woman forget her childe,
1 Hear yee me, O yles, and hearken, yee people and not haue compassion on the sonne of her
from farre. The Lord hath called me from the wombe? though they should forget, yet wil I
wombe, and made mention of my name from my not forget thee. 16 Behold, I haue grauen thee
mothers bellie. 2 And hee hath made my mouth vpon the palme of mine hands: thy walles are
like a sharpe sworde: vnder the shadowe of his euer in my sight. 17 Thy builders make haste:
hande hath he hid mee, and made me a chosen thy destroiers and they that made thee waste, are
shafte, and hid me in his quiuer, And sayd vnto departed from thee. 18 Lift vp thine eies round
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me, Thou art my seruaunt, Israel, for I will be about and behold: all these gather themselues
glorious in thee. 4 And I said, I haue labored in together and come to thee: as I liue, sayeth the
vaine: I haue spent my strength in vaine and Lord, thou shalt surely put them all vpon thee
for nothing: but my iudgement is with the Lord, as a garment, and girde thy selfe with them like
and my woorke with my God. 5 And now sayeth a bride. 19 For thy desolations, and thy waste
the Lord, that formed me from the wombe to places, and thy land destroied, shall surely be
be his seruaunt, that I may bring Iaakob againe now narow for them that shall dwell in it, and
to him (though Israel be not gathered, yet shall they that did deuoure thee, shalbe farre away.
I bee glorious in the eyes of the Lord: and my 20 The children of thy barennesse shall say againe
God shall be my strength) And hee sayde, It is a in thine eares, The place is straict for mee: giue
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small thing that thou shouldest be my seruaunt, place to me that I may dwell. 21 Then shalt thou
to raise vp the tribes of Iaakob, and to restore say in thine heart, Who hath begotten mee these,