Isaiah 44
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New American Standard Bible 1995

Isaiah 44:12-14

12The 1man shapes iron into a cutting tool and does his work over the coals, 2fashioning it with hammers and working it with his strong arm. He also gets hungry and 3his strength fails; he drinks no water and becomes weary.

134Another shapes wood, he extends a measuring line; he outlines it with red chalk. He works it with planes and outlines it with a compass, and makes it like the form of a man, like the beauty of 5man, so that it may sit in a 6house.

14Surely he cuts cedars for himself, and takes a 7cypress or an oak and 8raises it for himself among the trees of the forest. He plants a fir, and the rain makes it grow.

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Notes

  1. 1. Isaiah 44:12 Is 40:19, 20; 41:6, 7; 46:6, 7; Jer 10:3-5; Hab 2:18 ↩
  2. 2. Isaiah 44:12 Lit and fashions ↩
  3. 3. Isaiah 44:12 Lit there is no strength ↩
  4. 4. Isaiah 44:13 Is 41:7 ↩
  5. 5. Isaiah 44:13 Ps 115:5-7 ↩
  6. 6. Isaiah 44:13 Judg 17:4, 5; Ezek 8:10, 11 ↩
  7. 7. Isaiah 44:14 Or holm-oak ↩
  8. 8. Isaiah 44:14 Lit makes strong ↩

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