Isaiah Chapter 44

• Isaiah 44:1
  Isaiah.
• Isaiah 44:2
  Yet listen now, Jacob my servant, and Israel, whom I have chosen.
• Isaiah 44:3
  This is what the LORD who made you, and formed you from the womb, who will help you says: “Don’t be afraid, Jacob my servant; and you, Jeshurun, whom ...
• Isaiah 44:4
  For I will pour water on him who is thirsty, and streams on the dry ground. I will pour my Spirit on your descendants, and my blessing on your offspri...
• Isaiah 44:5
  and they will spring up among the grass, as willows by the watercourses.
• Isaiah 44:6
  One will say, ‘I am the LORD’s.’ Another will be called by the name of Jacob; and another will write with his hand ‘to the LORD,’ and honor the name o...
• Isaiah 44:7
  This is what the LORD, the King of Israel, and his Redeemer, the LORD of Armies, says: “I am the first, and I am the last; and besides me there is no ...
• Isaiah 44:8
  Who is like me? Who will call, and will declare it, and set it in order for me, since I established the ancient people? Let them declare the things th...
• Isaiah 44:9
  Don’t fear, neither be afraid. Haven’t I declared it to you long ago, and shown it? You are my witnesses. Is there a God besides me? Indeed, there is ...
• Isaiah 44:10
  Everyone who makes a carved image is vain. The things that they delight in will not profit. Their own witnesses don’t see, nor know, that they may be ...
• Isaiah 44:11
  Who has fashioned a god, or molds an image that is profitable for nothing?
• Isaiah 44:12
  Behold, all his fellows will be disappointed; and the workmen are mere men. Let them all be gathered together. Let them stand up. They will fear. They...
• Isaiah 44:13
  The blacksmith takes an ax, works in the coals, fashions it with hammers, and works it with his strong arm. He is hungry, and his strength fails; he d...
• Isaiah 44:14
  The carpenter stretches out a line. He marks it out with a pencil. He shapes it with planes. He marks it out with compasses, and shapes it like the fi...
• Isaiah 44:15
  He cuts down cedars for himself, and takes the cypress and the oak, and strengthens for himself one among the trees of the forest. He plants a cypress...
• Isaiah 44:16
  Then it will be for a man to burn; and he takes some of it and warms himself. Yes, he burns it and bakes bread. Yes, he makes a god and worships it; h...
• Isaiah 44:17
  He burns part of it in the fire. With part of it, he eats meat. He roasts a roast and is satisfied. Yes, he warms himself and says, “Aha! I am warm. I...
• Isaiah 44:18
  The rest of it he makes into a god, even his engraved image. He bows down to it and worships, and prays to it, and says, “Deliver me, for you are my g...
• Isaiah 44:19
  They don’t know, neither do they consider, for he has shut their eyes, that they can’t see, and their hearts, that they can’t understand.
• Isaiah 44:20
  No one thinks, neither is there knowledge nor understanding to say, “I have burned part of it in the fire. Yes, I have also baked bread on its coals. ...
• Isaiah 44:21
  He feeds on ashes. A deceived heart has turned him aside; and he can’t deliver his soul, nor say, “Isn’t there a lie in my right hand?”
• Isaiah 44:22
  Remember these things, Jacob and Israel, for you are my servant. I have formed you. You are my servant. Israel, you will not be forgotten by me.
• Isaiah 44:23
  I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, your transgressions, and, as a cloud, your sins. Return to me, for I have redeemed you.
• Isaiah 44:24
  Sing, you heavens, for the LORD has done it! Shout, you lower parts of the earth! Break out into singing, you mountains, O forest, all of your trees, ...
• Isaiah 44:25
  The LORD, your Redeemer, and he who formed you from the womb says: “I am the LORD, who makes all things; who alone stretches out the heavens; who spre...
• Isaiah 44:26
  who frustrates the signs of the liars, and makes diviners mad; who turns wise men backward, and makes their knowledge foolish;
• Isaiah 44:27
  who confirms the word of his servant, and performs the counsel of his messengers; who says of Jerusalem, ‘She will be inhabited;’ and of the cities of...
• Isaiah 44:28
  who says to the deep, ‘Be dry,’ and ‘I will dry up your rivers,’
• Isaiah 44:29
  who says of Cyrus, ‘He is my shepherd, and shall perform all my pleasure,’ even saying of Jerusalem, ‘She will be built;’ and of the temple, ‘Your fou...