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The Book of Isaiah, Chapter 42, Verse 9

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I [am] the LORD: that [is] my name: and my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise to graven images.
King James Version
Behold, the former things are come to pass, and new things do I declare: before they spring forth I tell you of them.
American Standard Version
Behold, the former things are come to pass, and new things do I declare; before they spring forth I tell you of them.
New English Translation
Look, my earlier predictive oracles have come to pass; now I announce new events. Before they begin to occur, I reveal them to you.”
World English Bible
Behold, the former things have happened, and I declare new things. I tell you about them before they come up."
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Sing unto the LORD a new song, [and] his praise from the end of the earth, ye that go down to the sea, and all that is therein; the isles, and the inhabitants thereof.
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Let the wilderness and the cities thereof lift up [their voice], the villages [that] Kedar doth inhabit: let the inhabitants of the rock sing, let them shout from the top of the mountains.
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Let them give glory unto the LORD, and declare his praise in the islands.
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The LORD shall go forth as a mighty man, he shall stir up jealousy like a man of war: he shall cry, yea, roar; he shall prevail against his enemies.
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I have long time holden my peace; I have been still, [and] refrained myself: [now] will I cry like a travailing woman; I will destroy and devour at once.
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I will make waste mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbs; and I will make the rivers islands, and I will dry up the pools.
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And I will bring the blind by a way [that] they knew not; I will lead them in paths [that] they have not known: I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight. These things will I do unto them, and not forsake them.
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They shall be turned back, they shall be greatly ashamed, that trust in graven images, that say to the molten images, Ye [are] our gods.
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Hear, ye deaf; and look, ye blind, that ye may see.
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Who [is] blind, but my servant? or deaf, as my messenger [that] I sent? who [is] blind as [he that is] perfect, and blind as the LORD'S servant?