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8 ) But you, Israel, are my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham my friend.
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9 ) You whom I have taken from the ends of the earth, and called you from the chief men thereof, and said unto you, You are my servant, I have chosen you, and not cast you away.
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10 ) Fear you not, for I am with you: be not dismayed, for I am your God: I will strengthen you, yea, I will help you, yea, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness.
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11 ) Behold, all they that were incensed against you shall be ashamed and confounded: they shall be as nothing, and they that strive with you shall perish.
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12 ) You shall seek them, and shall not find them, even them that contended with you: they that war against you shall be as nothing, and as a thing of nothing.
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13 ) For I the LORD your God will hold your right hand, saying unto you, Fear not, I will help you.
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14 ) Fear not, you worm Jacob, and all of you men of Israel, I will help you, says the LORD, and your redeemer, the Holy One of Israel.
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15 ) Behold, I will make you a new sharp threshing instrument having teeth: you shall thresh the mountains, and beat them small, and shall make the hills as chaff.
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16 ) You shall fan them, and the wind shall carry them away, and the whirlwind shall scatter them: and you shall rejoice in the LORD, and shall glory in the Holy One of Israel.
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17 ) When the poor and needy seek water, and there is none, and their tongue fails for thirst, I the LORD will hear them, I the God of Israel will not forsake them.
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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.
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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:
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20 ) That they may see, and know, and consider, and understand together, that the hand of the LORD has done this, and the Holy One of Israel has created it.