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And I heard the voice of the Lord saying, "Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?" Then I said, "Here am I! Send me."

Behold, I am stirring up the Medes against them, who have no regard for silver and do not delight in gold.

The princes of Zo'an are utterly foolish; the wise counselors of Pharaoh give stupid counsel. How can you say to Pharaoh, "I am a son of the wise, a son of ancient kings"?

Therefore my loins are filled with anguish; pangs have seized me, like the pangs of a woman in travail; I am bowed down so that I cannot hear, I am dismayed so that I cannot see.

Then he who saw cried: "Upon a watchtower I stand, O Lord, continually by day, and at my post I am stationed whole nights.

I, the LORD, am its keeper; every moment I water it. Lest any one harm it, I guard it night and day;

therefore thus says the Lord GOD, "Behold, I am laying in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tested stone, a precious cornerstone, of a sure foundation: 'He who believes will not be in haste.'

And no inhabitant will say, "I am sick"; the people who dwell there will be forgiven their iniquity.

I said, In the noontide of my days I must depart; I am consigned to the gates of Sheol for the rest of my years.

Like a swallow or a crane I clamor, I moan like a dove. My eyes are weary with looking upward. O Lord, I am oppressed; be thou my security!

Who has performed and done this, calling the generations from the beginning? I, the LORD, the first, and with the last; I am He.

fear not, for I am with you, be not dismayed, for I am your God; I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my victorious right hand.

"I am the LORD, I have called you in righteousness, I have taken you by the hand and kept you; I have given you as a covenant to the people, a light to the nations,

I am the LORD, that is my name; my glory I give to no other, nor my praise to graven images.

For I am the LORD your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior. I give Egypt as your ransom, Ethiopia and Seba in exchange for you.

Fear not, for I am with you; I will bring your offspring from the east, and from the west I will gather you;

"You are my witnesses," says the LORD, "and my servant whom I have chosen, that you may know and believe me and understand that I am He. Before me no god was formed, nor shall there be any after me.

I, I am the LORD, and besides me there is no savior.

"I am God, and also henceforth I am He; there is none who can deliver from my hand; I work and who can hinder it?"

I am the LORD, your Holy One, the Creator of Israel, your King."