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    Isaiah 44

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    A man burns half a tree for supper, then kneels before what remains and asks it to save him.

    A name written on the handvv. 1–8

    Jacob is summoned as servant, Israel as chosen, and Jeshurun as one whom the LORD formed and will help. Water comes to thirsty land; the Spirit and blessing fall on descendants, who sprout like willows. Their loyalties take several curious shapes: one belongs to the LORD, one takes Jacob’s name, and one simply writes “The LORD’s” on his hand. The LORD then challenges any rival god to declare what is coming, while Israel is appointed witness to the answer.

    The block of wood and its busy afternoonvv. 9–20

    The makers of idols are reduced to their materials and their appetites. The blacksmith fashions an idol until hunger, thirst, weakness, and faintness interrupt the work; the woodworker measures and chisels another into human likeness. Then comes the chapter’s neatest piece of household arithmetic: one portion of the tree warms the maker, cooks his bread, and roasts his meat, while the remainder becomes a god. The worshipper bows to it and asks the same wood to save him, though the thing in his hand has been burning, baking, and feeding him.

    Ruins, rivers, and a named shepherdvv. 21–28

    The LORD turns back to Jacob, promising not merely to remember him but to blot out his transgressions and redeem him. The heavens, earth, mountains, forests, and trees are summoned into song for the event. Then the speaker lists the works of the one who stretches out the heavens, dries the sea, confounds diviners, confirms servants and messengers, and gives a future to ruined cities. Jerusalem will be inhabited and rebuilt; the cities of Judah will be restored; and Cyrus is called the LORD’s shepherd, with the temple foundation still to be laid.

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    1. Isa 44:1But now listen, O Jacob My servant, Israel, whom I have chosen.

    2. Isa 44:2This is the word of the LORD, your Maker, who formed you from the womb and who will help you: “Do not be afraid, O Jacob My servant, Jeshurun, whom I have chosen.

    3. Isa 44:3For I will pour water on the thirsty land, and currents on the dry ground. I will pour out My Spirit on your descendants, and My blessing on your offspring.

    4. Isa 44:4They will sprout among the grass like willows by flowing streams.

    5. Isa 44:5One will say, ‘I belong to the LORD,’ another will call himself by the name of Jacob, and still another will write on his hand, ‘The LORD’s,’ and will take the name of Israel.”

    6. Isa 44:6Thus says the LORD, the King and Redeemer of Israel, the LORD of Hosts: “I am the first and I am the last, and there is no God but Me.

    7. Isa 44:7Who then is like Me? Let him say so! Let him declare his case before Me, since I established an ancient people. Let him foretell the things to come, and what is to take place.

    8. Isa 44:8Do not tremble or fear. Have I not told you and declared it long ago? You are My witnesses! Is there any God but Me? There is no other Rock; I know not one.”

    9. Isa 44:9All makers of idols are nothing, and the things they treasure are worthless. Their witnesses fail to see or comprehend, so they are put to shame.

    10. Isa 44:10Who fashions a god or casts an idol which profits him nothing?

    11. Isa 44:11Behold, all his companions will be put to shame, for the craftsmen themselves are only human. Let them all assemble and take their stand; they will all be brought to terror and shame.

    12. Isa 44:12The blacksmith takes a tool and labors over the coals; he fashions an idol with hammers and forges it with his strong arms. Yet he grows hungry and loses his strength; he fails to drink water and grows faint.

    13. Isa 44:13The woodworker extends a measuring line; he marks it out with a stylus; he shapes it with chisels and outlines it with a compass. He fashions it in the likeness of man, like man in all his glory, that it may dwell in a shrine.

    14. Isa 44:14He cuts down cedars or retrieves a cypress or oak. He lets it grow strong among the trees of the forest. He plants a laurel, and the rain makes it grow.

    15. Isa 44:15It serves as fuel for man. He takes some of it to warm himself, and he kindles a fire and bakes his bread. He also fashions it into a god and worships it; he makes an idol and bows down to it.

    16. Isa 44:16He burns half of it in the fire, and he roasts meat on that half. He eats the roast and is satisfied. Indeed, he warms himself and says, “Ah! I am warm; I see the fire.”

    17. Isa 44:17From the rest he makes a god, his graven image. He bows down to it and worships; he prays to it and says, “Save me, for you are my god.”

    18. Isa 44:18They do not comprehend or discern, for He has shut their eyes so they cannot see and closed their minds so they cannot understand.

    19. Isa 44:19And no one considers in his heart, no one has the knowledge or insight to say, “I burned half of it in the fire, and I baked bread on its coals; I roasted meat and I ate. Shall I make something detestable with the rest of it? Shall I bow down to a block of wood?”

    20. Isa 44:20He feeds on ashes. His deluded heart has led him astray, and he cannot deliver himself or say, “Is not this thing in my right hand a lie?”

    21. Isa 44:21Remember these things, O Jacob, for you are My servant, O Israel. I have made you, and you are My servant; O Israel, I will never forget you.

    22. Isa 44:22I have blotted out your transgressions like a cloud, and your sins like a mist. Return to Me, for I have redeemed you.

    23. Isa 44:23Sing for joy, O heavens, for the LORD has done this; shout aloud, O depths of the earth. Break forth in song, O mountains, you forests and all your trees. For the LORD has redeemed Jacob, and revealed His glory in Israel.

    24. Isa 44:24Thus says the LORD, your Redeemer who formed you from the womb: “I am the LORD, who has made all things, who alone stretched out the heavens, who by Myself spread out the earth,

    25. Isa 44:25who foils the signs of false prophets and makes fools of diviners, who confounds the wise and turns their knowledge into nonsense,

    26. Isa 44:26who confirms the message of His servant and fulfills the counsel of His messengers, who says of Jerusalem, ‘She will be inhabited,’ and of the cities of Judah, ‘They will be rebuilt, and I will restore their ruins,’

    27. Isa 44:27who says to the depths of the sea, ‘Be dry, and I will dry up your currents,’

    28. Isa 44:28who says of Cyrus, ‘My shepherd will fulfill all that I desire,’ who says of Jerusalem, ‘She will be rebuilt,’ and of the temple, ‘Let its foundation be laid.’”

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    • 3Joel 2:28And afterward, I will pour out My Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your old men will dream dreams, your young men will see visions.
    • 3Acts 2:17‘In the last days, God says, I will pour out My Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your young men will see visions, your old men will dream dreams.
    • 3Isaiah 59:21“As for Me, this is My covenant with them,” says the LORD. “My Spirit will not depart from you, and My words that I have put in your mouth will not depart from your mouth or from the mouths of your children and grandchildren, from now on and forevermore,” says the LORD.
    • 3John 7:37–39On the last and greatest day of the feast, Jesus stood up and called out in a loud voice, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to Me and drink.
    • 3Proverbs 1:23If you had repented at my rebuke, then surely I would have poured out my spirit on you; I would have made my words known to you.
    • 3Revelation 21:6And He told me, “It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. To the thirsty I will give freely from the spring of the water of life.
    • 3Acts 2:39This promise belongs to you and your children and to all who are far off—to all whom the Lord our God will call to Himself.”
    • 3Zechariah 12:10Then I will pour out on the house of David and on the people of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and prayer, and they will look on Me, the One they have pierced. They will mourn for Him as one mourns for an only child, and grieve bitterly for Him as one grieves for a firstborn son.
    • 3Ezekiel 39:29And I will no longer hide My face from them, for I will pour out My Spirit on the house of Israel, declares the Lord GOD.”
    • 3Titus 3:5–6He saved us, not by the righteous deeds we had done, but according to His mercy, through the washing of new birth and renewal by the Holy Spirit.
    • 3Psalms 107:35He turns a desert into pools of water and a dry land into flowing springs.
    • 2Jeremiah 1:5“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I set you apart and appointed you as a prophet to the nations.”
    • 18Isaiah 6:9–10And He replied: “Go and tell this people, ‘Be ever hearing, but never understanding; be ever seeing, but never perceiving.’
    • 182 Corinthians 4:3–4And even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing.
    • 18John 12:39–40For this reason they were unable to believe. For again, Isaiah says:
    • 3Matthew 12:43When an unclean spirit comes out of a man, it passes through arid places seeking rest and does not find it.

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