1.1Now listen to me, Jacob, my servant,
1.2and Israel, whom I have chosen.
2.1Thus says the Master
2.2who made you and formed you from the womb
2.3and helped you,
2.4Do not fear, Jacob, my servant,
2.5and you, Israel, whom I have chosen.
3.1For I will give water in a parched ground
3.2and streams on the dry land;
3.3I will pour my Spirit on your seed
3.4and my blessings on your offspring;
4.1and they will spring up as among the grass,
4.2as willows by the running streams.
5.1One will say, I am the Master's,
5.2and another will call himself by the name of, Jacob,
5.3and another will subscribe with his hand, To the Master,
5.4and surname himself by the name of, Israel.
Isaiah 44:1-5 6.1Thus says the Master
6.2the king of Israel and his savior,
6.3the Master of Hosts is his name,
6.4I am the 1st and I am the last;
6.5and besides me there is no God.
7.1Who is like me? Let him announce it
7.2and set it in order and declare it,
7.3since I placed the people on the land forever.
7.4Let them show the wonders that are coming.
8.1Do not fear, nor be alarmed;
8.2have I not announced to you from former time, and have declared it;
8.3you are my witnesses; there is no God besides me,
8.4nor any rock I know.
Isaiah 44:6-89.1The makers of images, all of them are vanity,
9.2and there is no profit in the works which they desire to make;
9.3they are witnesses,
9.4for they do not see, nor hear, nor know.
10.1Therefore, let them be ashamed,
10.2those who make Gods or graven and molten images that are profitable for nothing.
11.1All their craftsmen are mute children of men;
11.2let them all be gathered together, let them stand up;
11.3they will be ashamed and confounded as 1.
Isaiah 44:9-1112.1The craftsman sharpens an iron instrument,
12.2he shapes the image with a plane
12.3and fashions it with a chisel
12.4and works it with the strength of his arm;
12.5yes, he becomes hungry and also thirsty,
12.6he drinks no water and is faint.
13.1The craftsman of tree stretches out his rule;
13.2he marks it out with a line;
13.3he fashions it with planes and makes it into the likeness of a man,
13.4according to the beauty of the children of men
13.5he sets it up in the house;
14.1then he makes it to stand in the house,
14.2a piece of a tree which was cut down out of the forest,
14.3something which the rain has nourished,
15.1a thing for a man to use as fuel;
15.2they take some of it and heat the oven
15.3and bake bread;
15.4yes, they also make a God of it and bow to it;
15.5yes, they make it a graven image and bow to it.
16.1Half of it they burn in the fire;
16.2and on its coals they roast meat,
16.3and they eat and are satisfied;
16.4they also warm themselves and say,
16.5Aha, I am warm, I have seen the fire;
17.1and of the rest they make a God, even a graven image;
17.2and they worship it
17.3and pray to it and say,
17.4Deliver us for you are our God.
18.1They have not known nor understood;
18.2for the vision of their eyes is shut that they cannot see,
18.3and the understanding of their hearts, so that they cannot understand.
19.1They did not consider in their heart,
19.2nor did they know, nor did they reason saying,
19.3Half of it we burned in the fire;
19.4yes, we have also baked bread on its coals;
19.5we have roasted meat and eaten it;
19.6and from the rest of it
19.7we have made for ourselves an idol of tree and bowed to it.
20.1Their imagination is dull; they are surely gone astray,
20.2and cannot deliver themselves, nor say,
20.3Our right hand has worked falsehood.
Isaiah 44:12-2021.1Remember these things, Jacob
21.2and Israel, for you are my servant;
21.3I have formed you; you are my servant;
21.4Israel, from now on do not forget me.
22.1I have blotted out your iniquities as a thick mist,
22.2and your sins as a cloud;
22.3return to me,
22.4for I have saved you. Isaiah 44:21-22 (Isaiah 44:1-22 BRB)