The Forty-Fourth Chapter of Isaiah, Part 1

Yet now, My chosen servant, hear,
The Lord hath to His Israel said,
Who form'd thee from the womb is near,
To help, and save the souls He made.

Jacob, receive the word Divine,
Bid all thy fears and doubts depart;
Jeshurun, I have called thee Mine,
My servant, and My son thou art.

On every soul that thirsts for grace,
I will the living water shower,
I will on all thy gasping race
The fulness of My Spirit pour.

The grace shall on thy sons descend,
Through all succeeding ages flow,
And all who on My truth depend,
The' indwelling Comforter shall know.

The holy seed shall soon spring up,
(Water'd each moment from above,)
In tender awe, and blooming hope.
And flowery joy, and ripen'd love.

Fast by the streams of paradise,
With never-fading verdure fair,
The trees of righteousness shall rise,
And fruit unto perfection bear.

In different states the ransom'd race
Their still-increasing faith shall show,
The babes shall rise from pardoning grace,
And into youths and fathers grow.

The least shall say, the Lord's I am,
He bought with blood this soul of mine:
Another shall the blessing claim,
While wresthng with the Man Divine.

Prevalent now with God and man,
Sinners shall all My grace assert,
Jacob shall the new name obtain,
And Israel be, when pure in heart.

Thus saith the Lord of earth and heaven,
The King of Israel and his God,
Who hath for all a ransom given,
And bought a guilty world with blood:

ill am from all eternity,
To all eternity I am:
There is none other God but Me,
Jehovah is My glorious name.

The Rise and End, the First and Last,
The Alpha and Omega I;
Who could like Me ordain the past,
Or who the things to come descry?

Where is the wise, foreknowing man,
Who hath to Me My model show'd,
Prescribed the great, eternal plan,
Or boldly taught the omniscient God?

Stand forth the self-instructed seers,
(Who ransack time's dark, burden'd womb,)
Foretell the' events of distant years,
And show mankind the things to come.

Foolish is all their strife, and vain
To' invade the property Divine;
Tis Mine the work undone to' explain,
To call the future now is Mine.

Fear not, My own peculiar race,
I have to thee My counsel show'd,
The word of sure prophetic grace,
And told thee all the mind of God.

Ye are My witnesses, to you
My name and nature is made known,
Ye only can your seal set to,
That I am God, and God alone.