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-“Why was there no man when I came? When I called, {why} was there none to answer? Is My hand so short that it cannot ransom? Or have I no power to deliver? Behold, I dry up the sea with My rebuke, I make the rivers a wilderness; Their fish stink for lack of water And die of thirst.

Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the LORD/; Awake as in the days of old, the generations of long ago. Was it not You who cut Rahab in pieces, Who pierced the dragon?

Thus says your Lord, the LORD/, even your God Who contends for His people, “Behold, I have taken out of your hand the cup of reeling, The chalice of My anger; You will never drink it again.

Thus He will sprinkle many nations, Kings will shut their mouths on account of Him; For what had not been told them they will see, And what they had not heard they will understand.

“O afflicted one, storm-tossed, {and} not comforted, Behold, I will set your stones in antimony, And your foundations I will lay in sapphires.

-“How blessed is the man who does this, And the son of man who takes hold of it; Who keeps from profaning the sabbath, And keeps his hand from doing any evil.”

Let not the foreigner who has joined himself to the LORD/ say, “The LORD/ will surely separate me from His people.” Nor let the eunuch say, “Behold, I am a dry tree.”

For thus says the LORD/, “To the eunuchs who keep My sabbaths, And choose what pleases Me, And hold fast My covenant,

“Also the foreigners who join themselves to the LORD/, To minister to Him, and to love the name of the LORD/, To be His servants, every one who keeps from profaning the sabbath And holds fast My covenant;

‘Why have we fasted and You do not see? {Why} have we humbled ourselves and You do not notice?’ Behold, on the day of your fast you find {your} desire, And drive hard all your workers.

-“Those from among you will rebuild the ancient ruins; You will raise up the age-old foundations; And you will be called the repairer of the breach, The restorer of the streets in which to dwell.