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10Fear not, for I am with you. Be not frightened, for I am your God. I strengthen you and I help you. I uphold you with My victorious right hand. 11All who contend with you shall be shamed and dishonoured. They who strive with you shall become as nothing and shall perish. 12You may seek, but you will not find those who struggle with you. Those who battle against you shall be less than nothing. 13For I the Eternal am your God, who grasped your right hand, who says to you: Have no fear, I will be your help. 14Fear not, O worm Jacob, O people of Israel: I will help you —declares the Eternal —I, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel.

15I will make of you a threshing board, a new thresher, with many spikes. You shall thresh mountains to dust, and make hills like chaff. 16You shall winnow them and the wind shall carry them off. The whirlwind shall scatter them. But you shall rejoice in the Eternal, and glory in the Holy One of Israel.

17The poor and the needy seek water, and there is none. Their tongue is parched with thirst. I, the Eternal, will respond to them. I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them. 18I will open up streams on the bare hills, and fountains amid the valleys. I will turn the desert into ponds, the arid land into springs of water. 19I will plant cedars in the wilderness, acacias and myrtles and oleasters. I will set cypress trees in the desert, box trees and elms as well— 20that people may see and know, consider and comprehend, that the Eternal’s hand has done this, that the Holy One of Israel has brought it about.