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Rh :Behold, I make thee a new threshing-sledge
 * Having sharp teeth;
 * Thou shalt thresh the mountains, and beat them small,
 * And shalt make the hills as chaff.
 * Thou shalt fan them, and the wind shall carry them away,
 * And the whirlwind shall scatter them;
 * And thou shalt rejoice in the ,
 * Thou shalt glory in the Holy One of Israel.


 * The poor and needy seek water and there is none,
 * And their tongue faileth for thirst;
 * I the will answer them,
 * I the God of Israel will not forsake them.
 * I will open rivers on the high hills,
 * And fountains in the midst of the valleys;
 * I will make the wilderness a pool of water,
 * And the dry land springs of water.
 * I will plant in the wilderness the cedar, the acacia-tree,
 * And the myrtle, and the oil-tree;
 * I will set in the desert the cypress, the plane-tree, and the larch together;
 * That they may see, and know,
 * And consider, and understand together,
 * That the hand of the hath done this,
 * And the Holy One of Israel hath created it.


 * Produce your cause, saith the ;
 * Bring forth your reasons, saith the King of Jacob.
 * Let them bring them forth, and declare unto us
 * The things that shall happen;
 * The former things, what are they?
 * Declare ye, that we may consider,
 * And know the end of them;
 * Or announce to us things to come.
 * Declare the things that are to come hereafter,
 * That we may know that ye are gods;
 * Yea, do good, or do evil,
 * That we may be dismayed, and behold it together.
 * Behold, ye are nothing,
 * And your work a thing of nought;
 * An abomination is he that chooseth you.


 * I have roused up one from the north, and he is come,
 * From the rising of the sun one that calleth upon My name;
 * And he shall come upon rulers as upon mortar,
 * And as the potter treadeth clay.
 * Who hath declared from the beginning, that we may know?
 * And beforetime, that we may say that he is right?
 * Yea, there is none that declareth,
 * Yea, there is none that announceth,
 * Yea, there is none that heareth your utterances.
 * A harbinger unto Zion will I give: 'Behold, behold them',
 * And to Jerusalem a messenger of good tidings.
 * And I look, but there is no man;
 * Even among them, but there is no counsellor,
 * That, when I ask of them, can give an answer.
 * Behold, all of them,
 * Their works are vanity and nought;
 * Their molten images are wind and confusion.


 * Behold My servant, whom I uphold;
 * Mine elect, in whom My soul delighteth;