Isaiah 44

1Yet listen now, Jacob my servant, and Israel, whom I have chosen.Cross-references: Gen 17:7 · Deut 7:6 · Ps 81:11 · Ps 105:6 · Ps 105:42 · Isa 41:8 · +10 more

2This is what Yahweh who made you, and formed you from the womb, who will help you says: “Don’t be afraid, Jacob my servant; and you, Jeshurun, whom I have chosen.Cross-references: Deut 32:15 · Deut 33:5 · Ps 46:5 · Ps 71:6 · Isa 41:10 · Isa 41:14 · +16 more

3For I will pour water on him who is thirsty, and streams on the dry ground. I will pour my Spirit on your descendants, and my blessing on your offspring;Cross-references: Ps 63:1 · Ps 78:15 · Ps 107:35 · Prov 1:23 · Isa 32:2 · Isa 32:15 · +22 more

4and they will spring up among the grass, as willows by the watercourses.Cross-references: Lev 23:40 · Job 40:22 · Ps 1:3 · Ps 92:13 · Ps 137:1 · Isa 58:11 · +5 more

5One will say, ‘I am Yahweh’s.’ Another will be called by the name of Jacob; and another will write with his hand ‘to Yahweh,’ and honor the name of Israel.”Cross-references: Ex 13:9 · Deut 26:17 · Neh 9:38 · Ps 116:16 · Jer 50:5 · Mic 4:2 · +5 more

6This is what Yahweh, the King of Israel, and his Redeemer, Yahweh of Armies, says: “I am the first, and I am the last; and besides me there is no God.Cross-references: Deut 4:35 · Deut 4:39 · Deut 6:4 · Deut 32:39 · Isa 33:22 · Isa 37:16 · +26 moreExamined: Arianism →

7Who is like me? Who will call, and will declare it, and set it in order for me, since I established the ancient people? Let them declare the things that are coming, and that will happen.Cross-references: Gen 17:7 · Deut 32:8 · Isa 41:4 · Isa 41:22 · Isa 41:26 · Isa 43:9 · +5 more

8Don’t fear, neither be afraid. Haven’t I declared it to you long ago, and shown it? You are my witnesses. Is there a God besides me? Indeed, there is not. I don’t know any other Rock.”Cross-references: Gen 15:13 · Gen 28:13 · Gen 46:3 · Gen 48:19 · Gen 49:1 · Lev 26:1 · +40 moreExamined: Mormonism →

9Everyone who makes a carved image is vain. The things that they delight in will not profit. Their own witnesses don’t see, nor know, that they may be disappointed.Cross-references: Deut 27:15 · Judg 10:14 · 1Ki 18:26 · Ps 97:7 · Ps 115:8 · Ps 135:18 · +26 more

10Who has fashioned a god, or molds an image that is profitable for nothing?Cross-references: 1Ki 12:28 · Isa 41:29 · Jer 10:5 · Dan 3:1 · Dan 3:14 · Hab 2:18 · +2 more

11Behold, all his fellows will be disappointed; and the workmen are mere men. Let them all be gathered together. Let them stand up. They will fear. They will be put to shame together.Cross-references: Judg 6:29 · Judg 16:23 · 1Sam 5:3 · 1Sam 6:4 · 1Ki 18:19 · 1Ki 18:40 · +12 more

12The blacksmith takes an ax, works in the coals, fashions it with hammers, and works it with his strong arm. He is hungry, and his strength fails; he drinks no water, and is faint.Cross-references: Ex 32:4 · Ex 32:8 · Isa 40:19 · Isa 41:6 · Isa 46:6 · Jer 10:3 · +1 more

13The carpenter stretches out a line. He marks it out with a pencil. He shapes it with planes. He marks it out with compasses, and shapes it like the figure of a man, with the beauty of a man, to reside in a house.Cross-references: Gen 31:19 · Gen 31:30 · Gen 31:32 · Gen 35:2 · Ex 20:4 · Deut 4:16 · +9 more

14He cuts down cedars for himself, and takes the cypress and the oak, and strengthens for himself one among the trees of the forest. He plants a cypress tree, and the rain nourishes it.Cross-references: Isa 40:20 · Jer 10:3 · Hos 4:12 · Hab 2:19

15Then it will be for a man to burn; and he takes some of it and warms himself. Yes, he burns it and bakes bread. Yes, he makes a god and worships it; he makes it a carved image, and falls down to it.Cross-references: Judg 2:19 · 2Chr 25:14 · Isa 44:10 · Isa 45:20 · Rev 9:20

16He burns part of it in the fire. With part of it, he eats meat. He roasts a roast and is satisfied. Yes, he warms himself and says, “Aha! I am warm. I have seen the fire.”

17The rest of it he makes into a god, even his engraved image. He bows down to it and worships, and prays to it, and says, “Deliver me, for you are my god!”Cross-references: 1Ki 18:26 · Isa 36:19 · Isa 37:38 · Isa 45:20 · Dan 3:17 · Dan 3:29 · +3 more

18They don’t know, neither do they consider, for he has shut their eyes, that they can’t see, and their hearts, that they can’t understand.Cross-references: Ps 81:12 · Ps 92:6 · Prov 2:5 · Prov 28:5 · Isa 1:3 · Isa 6:9 · +23 more

19No one thinks, neither is there knowledge nor understanding to say, “I have burned part of it in the fire. Yes, I have also baked bread on its coals. I have roasted meat and eaten it. Shall I make the rest of it into an abomination? Shall I bow down to a tree trunk?”Cross-references: Ex 7:23 · Deut 27:15 · Deut 32:46 · 1Ki 11:5 · 1Ki 11:7 · 2Ki 23:13 · +6 more

20He feeds on ashes. A deceived heart has turned him aside; and he can’t deliver his soul, nor say, “Isn’t there a lie in my right hand?”Cross-references: 1Ki 22:20 · Job 15:2 · Job 15:31 · Ps 102:9 · Prov 15:14 · Isa 28:15 · +18 more

21Remember these things, Jacob and Israel, for you are my servant. I have formed you. You are my servant. Israel, you will not be forgotten by me.Cross-references: Deut 4:9 · Deut 4:23 · Deut 31:19 · Deut 32:18 · Isa 41:8 · Isa 42:23 · +8 more

22I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, your transgressions, and, as a cloud, your sins. Return to me, for I have redeemed you.Cross-references: Neh 4:5 · Job 37:11 · Ps 51:1 · Ps 51:9 · Ps 103:12 · Ps 109:14 · +19 more

23Sing, you heavens, for Yahweh has done it! Shout, you lower parts of the earth! Break out into singing, you mountains, O forest, all of your trees, for Yahweh has redeemed Jacob, and will glorify himself in Israel.Cross-references: Ps 69:34 · Ps 96:11 · Ps 98:7 · Ps 148:7 · Isa 26:15 · Isa 42:10 · +18 more

24Yahweh, your Redeemer, and he who formed you from the womb says: “I am Yahweh, who makes all things; who alone stretches out the heavens; who spreads out the earth by myself;Cross-references: Job 9:8 · Job 26:7 · Job 31:15 · Ps 71:6 · Ps 78:35 · Ps 104:2 · +31 moreExamined: Jehovah's Witnesses →

25who frustrates the signs of the liars, and makes diviners mad; who turns wise men backward, and makes their knowledge foolish;Cross-references: Ex 9:11 · 2Sam 15:31 · 2Sam 16:23 · 2Sam 17:23 · 1Ki 22:11 · 1Ki 22:22 · +19 more

26who confirms the word of his servant, and performs the counsel of his messengers; who says of Jerusalem, ‘She will be inhabited;’ and of the cities of Judah, ‘They will be built,’ and ‘I will raise up its waste places;’Cross-references: Ex 11:4 · Ex 12:29 · 1Ki 13:3 · 1Ki 18:36 · Ezra 2:70 · Neh 1:3 · +30 more

27who says to the deep, ‘Be dry,’ and ‘I will dry up your rivers,’Cross-references: Ps 74:15 · Isa 11:15 · Isa 42:15 · Isa 43:16 · Isa 51:15 · Jer 50:38 · +3 more

28who says of Cyrus, ‘He is my shepherd, and shall perform all my pleasure,’ even saying of Jerusalem, ‘She will be built;’ and of the temple, ‘Your foundation will be laid.’”Cross-references: 2Chr 36:22 · Ezra 6:3 · Ps 78:71 · Isa 14:32 · Isa 42:15 · Isa 45:1 · +6 more