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Scriptural Text [& Editorial]
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Commentary & Explanation
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Footnotes ~ References ~ JST
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CHAPTER 43
To Israel the Lord says: I am thy God; I will gather thy seed; beside me
there is no Savior; ye are my witnesses.
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1 BUT now thus saith the LORD
that created thee, O Jacob, and he that formed thee, O Israel, Fear not: for
I have aredeemed thee, I have called thee by thy
name; thou art mine.
2 When thou passest through the
awaters, I will be with thee; and through the
rivers, they shall not overflow thee: when thou walkest through the
bfire, thou shalt not be cburned; neither
shall the flame kindle upon thee.
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3 For I am the LORD thy God, the
aHoly One of Israel, thy bSaviour: I gave
cEgypt for thy dransom, Ethiopia
and eSeba for thee.
4 Since thou wast aprecious in my
sight, thou hast been honourable, and I have loved thee: therefore will I
give men for thee, and people for thy life.
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5 aFear not: for I am with
thee: I will bbring thy seed from the east, and gather thee
from the west;
6 I will say to the anorth,
bGive up; and to the south, Keep not back: bring my sons
from far, and my daughters from the ends of the earth;
7 Even every one that is called by my name: for
I have acreated him for my
glorya, I have formed him; yea, I
have made him.
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7a for my glory As it states in the
Pearl of Great Price, Moses 1:39, 'This is my work and my glory to bring to
pass the immortality and eternal life of man.' And thus it is for his glory
that man was created to the end that he might be saved unto eternal life and
immortality and live with that God that so created him.
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8 ¶ Bring forth the blind people that have eyes, and the deaf that have ears.
9 Let all the nations be gathered together, and let the people be assembled: who among them can declare this, and shew us former things? let them bring forth their witnesses, that they may be justified: or let them hear, and say, It is truth.
10 aYe are my
bwitnesses, saith the LORD, and my servant whom I have
cchosen: that ye may know and dbelieve
me, and understand that I am he: before me there was no God formed,
neither shall there be after me.
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11 I, even I, am the LORD; and
abeside me there is no
bsaviour.
12 I have declared, and have saved, and I have shewed, when there was no strange god among you: therefore ye are my witnesses, saith the LORD, that I am God.
13 Yea, before the day was I am he; and
there is none that can deliver out of my hand: I will work, and who
shall alet it?
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14 ¶ Thus saith the LORD, your
aredeemer, the Holy One of Israel; For your sake I have
sent to Babylon, and have brought down all their nobles, and the Chaldeans,
whose cry is in the ships.
15 I am the LORD, your Holy One, the creator
of Israel, your aKing.
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16 Thus saith the LORD, which
amaketh a way in the sea, and a path in the mighty
waters;
17 Which bringeth forth the chariot and horse, the
army and the power; they shall alie down together, they
shall not rise: they are extinct, they are bquenched as
tow.
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18 ¶ Remember ye not the former things, neither consider the things of old.
19 Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring
forth; shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the
awilderness, and brivers in the
desert.
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20 The beast of the field shall honour me, the
adragons and the owls: because I give waters in the
wilderness, and rivers in the desert, to give drink to my people, my
chosen.
21 This apeople have I formed for
myself; they shall shew forth my praise.
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22 ¶ But thou hast not called upon me, O Jacob; but thou hast been weary of me, O Israel.
23 Thou hast not brought me the
asmall cattle of thy burnt offerings; neither hast thou
honoured me with thy sacrifices. I have not caused thee to serve with an
offering, nor wearied thee with incense.
24 Thou hast bought me no asweet
cane with money, neither hast thou filled me with the fat of thy sacrifices:
but thou hast bmade me to serve with thy sins, thou hast
cwearied me with thine iniquities.
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25 I, even I, am he that
ablotteth out thy btransgressions for
mine own csake, and will not remember thy sins.
26 Put me in remembrance: let us plead together:
adeclare thou, that thou mayest be justified.
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27 Thy afirst father
[Adam] hath sinned,
and thy teachers have transgressed against me.
28 Therefore I have aprofaned the
bprinces of the sanctuary, and have given Jacob to the
curse, and Israel to reproaches.
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