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Isaiah 51:16
“I have put my words in your mouth, and have covered you in the shadow of my hand, that I may plant the heavens, and lay the foundations of the earth, and tell Zion, 'You are my people.”
Verse in context — Isaiah 51
The captive exile shall speedily be freed; and he shall not die [and go down] into the pit, neither shall his bread fail.
For I am Yahweh your God, who stirs up the sea, so that its waves roar: Yahweh of Armies is his name.
I have put my words in your mouth, and have covered you in the shadow of my hand, that I may plant the heavens, and lay the foundations of the earth, and tell Zion, 'You are my people.
Awake, awake, stand up, Jerusalem, that have drunk at the hand of Yahweh the cup of his wrath; you have drunken the bowl of the cup of staggering, and drained it.
There is none to guide her among all the sons whom she has brought forth; neither is there any who takes her by the hand among all the sons who she has brought up.
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