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All ye, assemble yourselves, and hear; which among them hath declared these things? The LORD hath loved him: he will do his pleasure on Babylon, and his arm shall be on the Chaldeans.

Mine hand also hath laid the foundation of the earth, and my right hand hath spanned the heavens: when I call unto them, they stand up together.

Hearken unto me, O Jacob and Israel, my called; I am he; I am the first, I also am the last.

For mine own sake, even for mine own sake, will I do it: for how should my name be polluted? and I will not give my glory unto another.

Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction.

For my name"s sake will I defer mine anger, and for my praise will I refrain for thee, that I cut thee not off.

Yea, thou heardest not; yea, thou knewest not; yea, from that time that thine ear was not opened: for I knew that thou wouldest deal very treacherously, and wast called a transgressor from the womb.

They are created now, and not from the beginning; even before the day when thou heardest them not; lest thou shouldest say, Behold, I knew them.

Thou hast heard, see all this; and will not ye declare it? I have shewed thee new things from this time, even hidden things, and thou didst not know them.

I have even from the beginning declared it to thee; before it came to pass I shewed it thee: lest thou shouldest say, Mine idol hath done them, and my graven image, and my molten image, hath commanded them.

Because I knew that thou art obstinate, and thy neck is an iron sinew, and thy brow brass;

I have declared the former things from the beginning; and they went forth out of my mouth, and I shewed them; I did them suddenly, and they came to pass.

For they call themselves of the holy city, and stay themselves upon the God of Israel; The LORD of hosts is his name.

Hear ye this, O house of Jacob, which are called by the name of Israel, and are come forth out of the waters of Judah, which swear by the name of the LORD, and make mention of the God of Israel, but not in truth, nor in righteousness.

For this God is our God for ever and ever: he will be our guide even unto death.

Mark ye well her bulwarks, consider her palaces; that ye may tell it to the generation following.

Walk about Zion, and go round about her: tell the towers thereof.

Let mount Zion rejoice, let the daughters of Judah be glad, because of thy judgments.

According to thy name, O God, so is thy praise unto the ends of the earth: thy right hand is full of righteousness.

We have thought of thy lovingkindness, O God, in the midst of thy temple.

As we have heard, so have we seen in the city of the LORD of hosts, in the city of our God: God will establish it for ever. Selah.

Thou breakest the ships of Tarshish with an east wind.

Fear took hold upon them there, and pain, as of a woman in travail.

They saw it, and so they marvelled; they were troubled, and hasted away.

For, lo, the kings were assembled, they passed by together.

God is known in her palaces for a refuge.

Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth, is mount Zion, on the sides of the north, the city of the great King.

Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised in the city of our God, in the mountain of his holiness.

Moreover I have given to thee one portion above thy brethren, which I took out of the hand of the Amorite with my sword and with my bow.

And Israel said unto Joseph, Behold, I die: but God shall be with you, and bring you again unto the land of your fathers.