Isaiah - Ferrar Fenton Bible Translation page 462

ISAIAH. ODE 14, Boox II. CH. 42.

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IO II I2 All their heroes are netted,-·~e.nd go to the dungeons. Are plundered with none to release, Give up !’ Who among you will hearken to this ? Will attend, and will hear, and turn back P Who gave jacob to robbers? T0 the plunderers, Israel? Did not the Loan give them both? They offended, and wished not His paths, They went and obeyed not His Laws ; S0 on them He poured fury and rage, And His warrior’s great might,

And lit fire around, but they cared not; They bumt,-—·but they laid not to heart. But now, says THE LIFE Who created you, jacob, Fear not! You are mine; I restore you, and call by My name. I am with you when crossing the Sea, And the Rivers shall not overwhelm ; You shall walk in the tire unscorched And the flame not be burning to you; For I am your still L1vrNG GOD, Your Saviour whom Israel loved. I will make Mitzer your ransom, For you exchange Geba and Kush, Since dear in My sight, I have honoured and loved, And I give men and nations instead of your life. Fear not, because I am with you ;—— I will bring up your race from the East, And I from the West will collect. I will say to the North, Give to ME, And order the South not to hide. My sons I will bring from afar, And My daughters from ends of the earth All called by My Name, by My power created ;——·· Whom I` formed, yes, and made. Come out! you blind People with eyes, And you deaf, in possession of ears; Collect all the Heathen together, And Nations adjacent to you: Who told you of this? and declared in advance ? Honest witnesses let them produce : I will listen, if they speak the truth. says the LORD ; ‘ With My servants, whom I have picked out, For they knew and they trusted to Me, And perceived that I only exist; That no GOD before Me was formed, And that after Me none will have Lutz ! I only, I only, have the LIFE I only inform, and can save, and foretell l Not some stranger with you, that I only am GOD- I existed before Time itself, So none can snatch out of My hand ; What I effect,—who can subvert? ’ 462