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    "content": "Isaias, Chapter 41 — 29 verses (Douay-Rheims)",
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  "citation": "Isaias 41 (Douay-Rheims)",
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    {
      "verse": 1,
      "text": "Let the islands keep silence before me, and the nations take new strength: let them come near, and then speak, let us come near to judgment together.",
      "citation": "Isaias 41:1 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 2,
      "text": "Who hath raised up the just one from the east, hath called him to follow him? he shall give the nations in his sight, and he shall rule over kings: he shall give them as the dust to his sword, as stubble driven by the wind, to his bow.",
      "citation": "Isaias 41:2 (Douay-Rheims)"
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    {
      "verse": 3,
      "text": "He shall pursue them, he shall pass in peace, no path shall appear after his feet.",
      "citation": "Isaias 41:3 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 4,
      "text": "Who hath wrought and done these things, calling the generations from the beginning? I the Lord, I am the first and the last.",
      "citation": "Isaias 41:4 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 5,
      "text": "The islands saw it, and feared, the ends of the earth were astonished, they drew near, and came.",
      "citation": "Isaias 41:5 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 6,
      "text": "Every one shall help his neighbour, and shall say to his brother: Be of good courage.",
      "citation": "Isaias 41:6 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 7,
      "text": "The coppersmith striking with the hammer encouraged him that forged at that time, saying: It is ready for soldering: and he strengthened it with nails, that it should not be moved.",
      "citation": "Isaias 41:7 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 8,
      "text": "But thou Israel, art my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham my friend:",
      "citation": "Isaias 41:8 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 9,
      "text": "In whom I have taken thee from the ends of the earth, and from the remote parts thereof have called thee, and said to thee: Thou art my servant, I have chosen thee, and have not cast thee away.",
      "citation": "Isaias 41:9 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 10,
      "text": "Fear not, for I am with thee: turn not aside, for I am thy God: I have strengthened thee, and have helped thee, and the right hand of my just one hath upheld thee.",
      "citation": "Isaias 41:10 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 11,
      "text": "Behold all that fight against thee shall be confounded and ashamed, they shall be as nothing, and the men shall perish that strive against thee.",
      "citation": "Isaias 41:11 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 12,
      "text": "Thou shalt seek them, and shalt not find the men that resist thee: they shall be as nothing: and as a thing consumed the men that war against thee.",
      "citation": "Isaias 41:12 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 13,
      "text": "For I am the Lord thy God, who take thee by the hand, and say to thee: Fear not, I have helped thee.",
      "citation": "Isaias 41:13 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 14,
      "text": "Fear not, thou worm of Jacob, you that are dead of Israel: I have helped thee, saith the Lord: and thy Redeemer the Holy One of Israel.",
      "citation": "Isaias 41:14 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 15,
      "text": "I have made thee as a new thrashing wain, with teeth like a saw: thou shalt thrash the mountains, and break them in pieces: and shalt make the hills as chaff.",
      "citation": "Isaias 41:15 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 16,
      "text": "Thou shalt fan them, and the wind shall carry them away, and the whirlwind shall scatter them: and thou shalt rejoice in the Lord, in the Holy One of Israel thou shalt be joyful.",
      "citation": "Isaias 41:16 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 17,
      "text": "The needy and the poor seek for waters, and there are none: their tongue hath been dry with thirst. I the Lord will hear them, I the God of Israel will not forsake them.",
      "citation": "Isaias 41:17 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 18,
      "text": "I will open rivers in the high hills, and fountains in the midst of the plains: I will turn the desert into pools of waters, and the impassable land into streams of waters.",
      "citation": "Isaias 41:18 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 19,
      "text": "I will plant in the wilderness the cedar, and the thorn, and the myrtle, and the olive tree: I will set in the desert the fir tree, the elm, and the box tree together:",
      "citation": "Isaias 41:19 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 20,
      "text": "That they may see and know, and consider, and understand together that the hand of the Lord hath done this, and the Holy One of Israel hath created it.",
      "citation": "Isaias 41:20 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 21,
      "text": "Bring your cause near, saith the Lord: bring hither, if you have any thing to allege, saith the King of Jacob.",
      "citation": "Isaias 41:21 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 22,
      "text": "Let them come, and tell us all things that are to come: tell us the former things what they were: and we will set our heart upon them and shall know the latter end of them, and tell us the things that are to come.",
      "citation": "Isaias 41:22 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 23,
      "text": "Shew the things that are to come hereafter, and we shall know that ye are gods. Do ye also good or evil, if you can: and let us speak, and see together.",
      "citation": "Isaias 41:23 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 24,
      "text": "Behold, you are of nothing, and your work of that which hath no being: he that hath chosen you is an abomination.",
      "citation": "Isaias 41:24 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 25,
      "text": "I have raised up one from the north, and he shall come from the rising of the sun: he shall call upon my name, and he shall make princes to be as dirt, and as the potter treading clay.",
      "citation": "Isaias 41:25 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 26,
      "text": "Who hath declared from the beginning, that we may know: and from time of old, that we may say: Thou art just. There is none that sheweth, nor that foretelleth, nor that heareth your words.",
      "citation": "Isaias 41:26 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 27,
      "text": "The first shall say to Sion: Behold they are here, and to Jerusalem I will give an evangelist.",
      "citation": "Isaias 41:27 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 28,
      "text": "And I saw, and there was no one even among them to consult, or who, when I asked, could answer a word.",
      "citation": "Isaias 41:28 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 29,
      "text": "Behold they are all in the wrong, and their works are vain: their idols are wind and vanity.",
      "citation": "Isaias 41:29 (Douay-Rheims)"
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