Isaiah - Ferrar Fenton Bible Translation page 458
The Books of the Prophets
ISAIAH.
Om 5, Bomc II.
Cu. 40.
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Who planned the design for the Loma P
Who taught Him ?——He will be repaid.
Who advised and instructed 7
Who taught Him to judge ?
And who taught to Him knowledge ?
Who trained in the sciences path?
Why! Nations are drops from a pail,
He regards them like dust on a scale;
Like atoms the Islands lifts up!
Nor can Lebanon serve for a tire,
Nor its cattle be lit for a gift!
All Races are naught before Him ;
To -Him.are·thought empty and light.
To whom will you then liken God?
And by what Image represent Him ?
The- Artist devises the form,
And the Founder o’erlays it with gold;
And the Silversmith furnishes chains.
The poor take up timber not rotten,
And, seeks for a carver with skill ;
To hx up an unmoving shape.
But can you not reason or hear?
Have you not been told from the first?
Have you never known from the products of earth.
How above the earth’s circuit HE sits,
With her dwellers spread on her like flies?
Who scattered like pebbles the suns,
And spread them a Tent for their home?
He who brings nobles to nothing,
Makes the Earth’s Rulers weak,
Unstable and fruitless, not rooted in earth,
And they wither if only HE blows,
And the whirlwind, bears off as if chaff l
Then what is My form and My shape?
Asks the Holy.
Lift your eyes up and look!
Who for these hasvarranged?
Who leads outtheir armies by number ?
Who calls every one byhis name?
Asks their number, their power and strength?
Not the greatest one lingers behind l
Why does Israel complain 2
Why do you murmur }acob?
And why declare Israel,
My path the Loxnhides,
My course is neglected of GOD?
Have you then never known,
Or heard Gon ETERNAL,
The LIFE, who made Earth’s bounds,
Never faints or is weary
In His foreseeing plans ?
To the weak he gives strength,
To the feeble gives power,
While the youths faint and fail,
And the strong shake and fall.
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