I WILL OPEN RIVERS IN HIGH PLACES

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Fear thou not; for I am with thee: 

be not dismayed; for I am thy God: 

I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; 

yea, I will uphold thee with the right 

hand of my righteousness. Behold, all they 

that were incensed against thee shall be 

ashamed and confounded: they shall 

be as nothing; and they that strive with 

thee shall perish.  Thou shalt seek them, 

and shalt not find them, even them that 

contended with thee: they that war against 

thee shall be as nothing, and as a thing 

of nought.  For I the LORD thy God will 

hold thy right hand, saying unto thee, 

Fear not; I will help thee.  Fear not, thou 

worm Jacob, and ye men of Israel; I will 

help thee, saith the LORD, and thy 

redeemer, the Holy One of Israel.

Behold, I will make thee a new sharp 

threshing instrument having teeth: 

thou shalt thresh the mountains, and beat 

them small, and shalt make the hills as chaff.

Thou shalt fan them, and the wind 

shall carry them away, and the whirlwind 

shall scatter them: and thou shalt rejoice 

in the LORD, and shalt glory in the Holy 

One of Israel.  When the poor and needy seek 

water, and there is none, and their tongue faileth 

for thirst, I the LORD will hear them, I the God 

of Israel will not forsake them.  I will open rivers

in high places, and fountains in the midst 

of the valleys: I will make the wilderness a 

pool of water, and the dry land springs of water.

I will plant in the wilderness the cedar, 

the shittah tree, and the myrtle, and the 

oil tree; I will set in the desert the fir tree, 

and the pine, and the box tree together:

That they may see, and know, and consider, 

and understand together, that the hand of 

the LORD hath done this, and the Holy One 

of Israel hath created it.

ISAIAH 41: 10-19