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• "Ye are my witnesses, saith the Lord, and my servant whom I have chosen; that ye may know and believe me, and understand that I am He. SECTION XI · ¶2190
• "I have declared, and have saved, and I alone have done wonders before your eyes: ye are my witnesses, said the Lord, that I am God. SECTION XI · ¶2191
• "For your sake I have brought down the forces of the Babylonians. I am the Lord, your Holy One and creator. SECTION XI · ¶2192
• "I have made a way in the sea, and a path in the mighty waters. I am He that drowned and destroyed for ever the mighty enemies that have resisted you. SECTION XI · ¶2193
• "Remember ye not the former things, neither consider the things of old. SECTION XI · ¶2194
• "Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert. SECTION XI · ¶2195
• "This people have I formed for myself; I have established them to shew forth my praise, etc. SECTION XI · ¶2196
• "I, even I, am He that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake, and will not remember thy sins. Put in remembrance your ingratitude: see thou, if thou mayest be justified. Thy first father hath sinned, and thy teachers have transgressed against me." SECTION XI · ¶2197
• Is. xliv: "I am the first, and I am the last, saith the Lord. Let him who will equal himself to me, declare the order of things since I appointed the ancient people, and the things that are coming. Fear ye not: have I not told you all these things? Ye are my witnesses." SECTION XI · ¶2198
• _Prophecy of Cyrus._--Is. xlv, 4: "For Jacob's sake, mine elect, I have called thee by thy name." SECTION XI · ¶2199
• Is. xlv, 21: "Come and let us reason together. Who hath declared this from ancient time? Who hath told it from that time? Have not I, the Lord?" SECTION XI · ¶2200
• Is. xlvi: "Remember the former things of old, and know there is none like me, declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure." SECTION XI · ¶2201
• Is. xlii: "Behold, the former things are come to pass, and new things do I declare; before they spring forth I tell you of them." SECTION XI · ¶2202
• "Thou hast seen 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. They are created now, and not from the beginning; I have kept them hidden from thee; lest thou shouldst say, Behold, I knew them. SECTION XI · ¶2204
• "Yea, thou knewest not; yea, thou heardest not; yea, from that time that thine ear was not opened: for I knew that thou couldst deal very treacherously, and wast called a transgressor from the womb." SECTION XI · ¶2205
• _Reprobation of the Jews and conversion of the Gentiles._--Is. lxv: "I am sought of them that asked not for me; I am found of them that sought me not; I said, Behold me, behold me, behold me, unto a nation that did not call upon my name. SECTION XI · ¶2206
• "I have spread out my hands all the day unto an unbelieving people, which walketh in a way that was not good, after their own thoughts; a people that provoketh me to anger continually by the sins they commit in my face; that sacrificeth to idols, etc. SECTION XI · ¶2207
• "These shall be scattered like smoke in the day of my wrath, etc. SECTION XI · ¶2208
• "Your iniquities, and the iniquities of your fathers, will I assemble together, and will recompense you for all according to your works. SECTION XI · ¶2209
• "Thus saith the Lord, As the new wine is found in the cluster, and one saith, Destroy it not, for a blessing is in it [and the promise of fruit]: for my servants' sake I will not destroy all Israel. SECTION XI · ¶2210
• "Therefore thus saith the Lord, Behold, my servants shall eat, but ye shall be hungry; my servants shall rejoice, but ye shall be ashamed; my servants shall sing for joy of heart, but ye shall cry and howl for vexation of spirit. SECTION XI · ¶2212
• "And ye shall leave your name for a curse unto my chosen: for the Lord shall slay thee, and call His servants by another name, that he who blesseth himself in the earth shall bless himself in God, etc., because the former troubles are forgotten. SECTION XI · ¶2213
• "For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth; and the former things shall not be remembered, nor come into mind. SECTION XI · ¶2214
• "But be ye glad and rejoice for ever in that which I create; for, behold, I create Jerusalem a rejoicing, and her people a joy. SECTION XI · ¶2215
• "And I will rejoice in Jerusalem and joy in my people; and the voice of weeping shall no more be heard in her, nor the voice of crying. SECTION XI · ¶2216
• "Before they call, I will answer; and while they are yet speaking, I will hear. The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall eat straw like the bullock; and dust shall be the serpent's meat. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain." SECTION XI · ¶2217
• Is. lvi, 3: "Thus saith the Lord, Keep ye judgment, and do justice: for my salvation is near to come, and my righteousness to be revealed. SECTION XI · ¶2218
• "Blessed is the man that doeth this, that keepeth the Sabbath, and keepeth his hand from doing any evil. SECTION XI · ¶2219
• Is. lix, 9: "Therefore for our iniquities is justice far from us: we wait for light, but behold obscurity; for brightness, but we walk in darkness. We grope for the wall like the blind; we stumble at noon day as in the night: we are in desolate places as dead men. SECTION XI · ¶2221
• "We roar all like bears, and mourn sore like doves; we look for judgment, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far from us." SECTION XI · ¶2222
• Is. lxvi, 18: "But I know their works and their thoughts; it shall come that I will gather all nations and tongues, and they shall see my glory. SECTION XI · ¶2223
• "And I will set a sign among them, and I will send those that escape of them unto the nations, to Africa, to Lydia, to Italy, to Greece, and to the people that have not heard my fame, neither have seen my glory. And they shall bring your brethren." SECTION XI · ¶2224
• "And I will cast you out of my sight, as I have cast out all your brethren, even the seed of Ephraim." (Rejected for ever.) "Therefore pray not for this people." SECTION XI · ¶2226
• Jer. vii, 4: "Trust ye not in lying words, saying, The temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord, are these." SECTION XI · ¶2228
• The Jews witnesses for God. Is. xliii, 9; xliv, 8. SECTION XI · ¶2230
• _Prophecies fulfilled._--I Kings xiii, 2.--I Kings xxiii, 16.--Joshua vi, 26.--I Kings xvi, 34.--Deut. xxiii. SECTION XI · ¶2231
• Malachi i, II. The sacrifice of the Jews rejected, and the sacrifice of the heathen, (even out of Jerusalem,) and in all places. SECTION XI · ¶2232
• Moses, before dying, foretold the calling of the Gentiles, Deut. xxxii, 21, and the reprobation of the Jews. SECTION XI · ¶2233
• Moses foretold what would happen to each tribe. SECTION XI · ¶2234
• _Prophecy._--"Your name shall be a curse unto mine elect, and I will give them another name." SECTION XI · ¶2235

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