Isaiah 41 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 soldering:
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.
25 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.
26 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.
27 The first shall say to Zion, Behold,
behold them: and I will give to Jerusalem one that
bringeth good tidings.
28 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.
29 Behold, they are all vanity; their works are
nothing: their molten images are wind and
confusion.
Isaiah 42 1 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.
2 He shall not cry, nor lift up, nor cause his
voice to be heard in the street.
3 A bruised reed shall he not break, and the
smoking flax shall he not quench: he shall bring forth
judgment unto truth.
4 He shall not fail nor be discouraged, till he
have set judgment in the earth: and the isles shall wait
for his law.
5 ¶ 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:
6 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;
7 To open the blind eyes, to bring out the
prisoners from the prison, and them that sit in
darkness out of the prison house.
8 I am the LORD: that is my name: and my glory will I
not give to another, neither my praise to graven images.
9 Behold, the former things are come to pass, and
new things do I declare: before they spring forth I tell
you of them.
10 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.
11 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.
12 Let them give glory unto the LORD, and declare his
praise in the islands.
13 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.
14 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.
15 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.
16 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.
17 ¶ 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.
18 Hear, ye deaf; and look, ye blind, that ye may
see.
19 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?
20 Seeing many things, but thou observest not;
opening the ears, but he heareth not.
21 The LORD is well pleased for his righteousness' sake; he
will magnify the law, and make it honourable.
22 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.
23 Who among you will give ear to this? who
will hearken and hear for the time to come?
24 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.
25 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.
Romans 9 1 I say the truth in
Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness
in the Holy Ghost,
2 That I have great
heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart.
3 For I could wish
that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my
kinsmen according to the flesh:
4 Who are
Israelites; to whom pertaineth the adoption, and
the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law,
and the service of God, and the promises;
5 Whose are
the fathers, and of whom as concerning the flesh Christ came,
who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen.
6 Not as though the
word of God hath taken none effect. For they are
not all Israel, which are of Israel:
7 Neither, because
they are the seed of Abraham, are they all
children: but, In Isaac shall thy seed be called.
8 That is, They
which are the children of the flesh, these are not
the children of God: but the children of the promise are
counted for the seed.
9 For this is
the word of promise, At this time will I come, and Sarah
shall have a son.
10 And not only this;
but when Rebecca also had conceived by one, even
by our father Isaac;
11 (For the
children being not yet born, neither having done any
good or evil, that the purpose of God according to
election might stand, not of works, but of him that
calleth;)
12 It was said unto
her, The elder shall serve the younger.
13 As it is
written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.
14 What shall we
say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? God
forbid.
15 For he saith to
Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I
will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.
16 So then it is
not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of
God that sheweth mercy.
17 For the
scripture saith unto Pharaoh, Even for this same purpose
have I raised thee up, that I might shew my power in
thee, and that my name might be declared throughout all
the earth.
18 Therefore hath
he mercy on whom he will have mercy, and whom he
will he hardeneth.
19 Thou wilt say
then unto me, Why doth he yet find fault? For who hath
resisted his will?
20 Nay but,
O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall
the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why
hast thou made me thus?
21 Hath not the
potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one
vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?
22 What if
God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his
power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels
of wrath fitted to destruction:
23 And that he
might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels
of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory,
24 Even us, whom he
hath called, not of the Jews only, but also of the
Gentiles?
25 As he saith also
in Osee, I will call them my people, which were not my
people; and her beloved, which was not beloved.
26 And it shall
come to pass, that in the place where it was said
unto them, Ye are not my people; there shall they
be called the children of the living God.
27 Esaias also
crieth concerning Israel, Though the number of the
children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, a remnant
shall be saved:
28 For he will
finish the work, and cut it short in
righteousness: because a short work will the Lord make
upon the earth.
29 And as Esaias
said before, Except the Lord of Sabaoth had left us a
seed, we had been as Sodoma, and been made like unto
Gomorrha.
30 What shall we
say then? That the Gentiles, which followed not after
righteousness, have attained to righteousness, even the
righteousness which is of faith.
31 But Israel,
which followed after the law of righteousness, hath not
attained to the law of righteousness.
32 Wherefore?
Because they sought it not by faith, but as it
were by the works of the law. For they stumbled at that
stumblingstone;
33 As it is
written, Behold, I lay in Sion a stumblingstone and rock
of offence: and whosoever believeth on him shall not be
ashamed.
Romans 10 1 Brethren, my heart's
desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that they might
be saved.
2 For I bear them
record that they have a zeal of God, but not according to
knowledge.
3 For they being
ignorant of God's righteousness, and going about to
establish their own righteousness, have not submitted
themselves unto the righteousness of God.
4 For Christ is
the end of the law for righteousness to every one that
believeth.
5 For Moses
describeth the righteousness which is of the law, That
the man which doeth those things shall live by them.
6 But the
righteousness which is of faith speaketh on this wise,
Say not in thine heart, Who shall ascend into heaven?
(that is, to bring Christ down from above:)
7 Or, Who shall
descend into the deep? (that is, to bring up Christ again
from the dead.)
8 But what saith
it? The word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and
in thy heart: that is, the word of faith, which we
preach;
9 That if thou
shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt
believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the
dead, thou shalt be saved.
10 For with the
heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the
mouth confession is made unto salvation.
11 For the
scripture saith, Whosoever believeth on him shall not be
ashamed.
12 For there is no
difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the same
Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him.
13 For whosoever
shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.
14 How then shall
they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how
shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard?
and how shall they hear without a preacher?
15 And how shall
they preach, except they be sent? as it is written, How
beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of
peace, and bring glad tidings of good things!
16 But they have
not all obeyed the gospel. For Esaias saith, Lord, who
hath believed our report?
17 So then faith cometh
by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.
18 But I say, Have
they not heard? Yes verily, their sound went into all the
earth, and their words unto the ends of the world.
19 But I say, Did
not Israel know? First Moses saith, I will provoke you to
jealousy by them that are no people, and by
a foolish nation I will anger you.
20 But Esaias is
very bold, and saith, I was found of them that sought me
not; I was made manifest unto them that asked not
after me.
21 But to Israel he
saith, All day long I have stretched forth my hands unto
a disobedient and gainsaying people.
Romans 11 1 I say then, Hath God
cast away his people? God forbid. For I also am an
Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of
Benjamin.
2 God hath not cast
away his people which he foreknew. Wot ye not what the
scripture saith of Elias? how he maketh intercession to
God against Israel, saying,
3 Lord, they have
killed thy prophets, and digged down thine altars; and I
am left alone, and they seek my life.
4 But what saith
the answer of God unto him? I have reserved to myself
seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to the
image of Baal.
5 Even so then at
this present time also there is a remnant according to
the election of grace.
6 And if by grace,
then is it no more of works: otherwise grace is no
more grace. But if it be of works, then is it no
more grace: otherwise work is no more work.
7 What then? Israel
hath not obtained that which he seeketh for; but the
election hath obtained it, and the rest were blinded
8 (According as it
is written, God hath given them the spirit of slumber,
eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should
not hear;) unto this day.
9 And David saith,
Let their table be made a snare, and a trap, and a
stumblingblock, and a recompence unto them:
10 Let their eyes
be darkened, that they may not see, and bow down their
back alway.
11 I say then, Have
they stumbled that they should fall? God forbid: but rather
through their fall salvation is come unto the
Gentiles, for to provoke them to jealousy.
12 Now if the fall
of them be the riches of the world, and the
diminishing of them the riches of the Gentiles; how much
more their fulness?
13 For I speak to
you Gentiles, inasmuch as I am the apostle of the
Gentiles, I magnify mine office:
14 If by any means
I may provoke to emulation them which are my
flesh, and might save some of them.
15 For if the
casting away of them be the reconciling of the
world, what shall the receiving of them be,
but life from the dead?
16 For if the
firstfruit be holy, the lump is also holy:
and if the root be holy, so are the
branches.
17 And if some of
the branches be broken off, and thou, being a wild olive
tree, wert graffed in among them, and with them partakest
of the root and fatness of the olive tree;
18 Boast not
against the branches. But if thou boast, thou bearest not
the root, but the root thee.
19 Thou wilt say
then, The branches were broken off, that I might be
graffed in.
20 Well; because of
unbelief they were broken off, and thou standest by
faith. Be not highminded, but fear:
21 For if God
spared not the natural branches, take heed lest he
also spare not thee.
22 Behold therefore
the goodness and severity of God: on them which fell,
severity; but toward thee, goodness, if thou continue in his
goodness: otherwise thou also shalt be cut off.
23 And they also,
if they abide not still in unbelief, shall be graffed in:
for God is able to graff them in again.
24 For if thou wert
cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature, and
wert graffed contrary to nature into a good olive tree:
how much more shall these, which be the natural branches,
be graffed into their own olive tree?
25 For I would not,
brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery,
lest ye should be wise in your own conceits, that
blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the
fulness of the Gentiles be come in.
26 And so all
Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come
out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away
ungodliness from Jacob:
27 For this is
my covenant unto them, when I shall take away their sins.
28 As concerning
the gospel, they are enemies for your sakes: but
as touching the election, they are beloved for the
fathers' sakes.
29 For the gifts
and calling of God are without repentance.
30 For as ye in
times past have not believed God, yet have now obtained
mercy through their unbelief:
31 Even so have
these also now not believed, that through your mercy they
also may obtain mercy.
32 For God hath
concluded them all in unbelief, that he might have mercy
upon all.
33 O the depth of
the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how
unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past
finding out!
34 For who hath
known the mind of the Lord? or who hath been his
counsellor?
35 Or who hath
first given to him, and it shall be recompensed unto him
again?
36 For of him, and
through him, and to him, are all things: to whom be
glory for ever. Amen.
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