Lexicon :: Strong's H589 - 'ănî

My heart staggers;

horror terrifies me.

He has turned my last glimmer of hope[fn]

into sheer terror.

I am not angry.

If only there were thorns and briers for me to battle,

I would trample them

and burn them to the ground.

Or let it take hold of my strength;

let it make peace with me —

make peace with me.

“I dug wells and drank water in foreign lands.[fn]

I dried up all the streams of Egypt

with the soles of my feet.”

What can I say?

He has spoken to me,

and he himself has done it.

I walk along slowly all my years

because of the bitterness of my soul.

Indeed, it was for my own well-being

that I had such intense bitterness;

but your love has delivered me

from the Pit of destruction,

for you have thrown all my sins behind your back.

Do not fear, for I am with you;

do not be afraid, for I am your God.

I will strengthen you; I will help you;

I will hold on to you with my righteous right hand.

For I am the LORD your God,

who holds your right hand,

who says to you, “Do not fear,

I will help you.

“Do not fear, you worm Jacob,

you men[fn] of Israel.

I will help you” —

this is the LORD’s declaration.

Your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel.

The poor and the needy seek water, but there is none;

their tongues are parched with thirst.

I will answer them.

I am the LORD, the God of Israel. I will not abandon them.

“I am the LORD. That is my name,

and I will not give my glory to another

or my praise to idols.

“The past events have indeed happened.

Now I declare new events;

I announce them to you before they occur.”

“When you pass through the waters,

I will be with you,

and the rivers will not overwhelm you.

When you walk through the fire,

you will not be scorched,

and the flame will not burn you.

“For I am the LORD your God,

the Holy One of Israel, and your Savior.

I have given Egypt as a ransom for you,

Cush and Seba in your place.

“Because you are precious in my sight

and honored, and I love you,

I will give people in exchange for you

and nations instead of your life.

“Do not fear, for I am with you;

I will bring your descendants from the east,

and gather you from the west.

“You are my witnesses” —

this is the LORD’s declaration —

“and my servant whom I have chosen,

so that you may know and believe me

and understand that I am he.

No god was formed before me,

and there will be none after me.

“I alone declared, saved, and proclaimed —

and not some foreign god[fn] among you.

So you are my witnesses” —

this is the LORD’s declaration —

“and[fn] I am God.

“Also, from today on I am he alone,

and none can rescue from my power.

I act, and who can reverse it? ”

I am the LORD, your Holy One,

the Creator of Israel, your King.

“The people I formed for myself

will declare my praise.

This is what the LORD, the King of Israel and its Redeemer, the LORD of Armies, says:

I am the first and I am the last.

There is no God but me.

Who, like me, can announce the future?

Let him say so and make a case before me,

since I have established an ancient people.

Let these gods declare[fn] the coming things,

and what will take place.

Remember these things, Jacob,

and Israel, for you are my servant;

I formed you, you are my servant;

Israel, you will never be forgotten by me.[fn]

“I will give you the treasures of darkness

and riches from secret places,

so that you may know that I am the LORD.

I am the God of Israel, who calls you by your name.

“I am the LORD, and there is no other;

there is no God but me.

I will strengthen[fn] you,

though you do not know me,

“so that all may know from the rising of the sun to its setting

that there is no one but me.

I am the LORD, and there is no other.

“I form light and create darkness,

I make success and create disaster;

I am the LORD, who does all these things.

“Heavens, sprinkle from above,

and let the skies shower righteousness.

Let the earth open up

so that salvation will sprout

and righteousness will spring up with it.

I, the LORD, have created it.

“I made the earth,

and created humans on it.

It was my hands that stretched out the heavens,

and I commanded everything in them.

For this is what the LORD says —

the Creator of the heavens,

the God who formed the earth and made it,

the one who established it

(he did not create it to be a wasteland,

but formed it to be inhabited) —

he says, “I am the LORD,

and there is no other.

“I have not spoken in secret,

somewhere in a land of darkness.

I did not say to the descendants of Jacob:

Seek me in a wasteland.

I am the LORD, who speaks righteously,

who declares what is right.