Isaiah 41:14–20

¹⁴The Lord says,

“Small and weak as you are, Israel,

don’t be afraid; I will help you.

I, the holy God of Israel, am the one who saves you.

¹⁵I will make you like a threshing board,

with spikes that are new and sharp.

You will thresh mountains and destroy them;

hills will crumble into dust.

¹⁶You will toss them in the air;

the wind will carry them off,

and they will be scattered by the storm.

Then you will be happy because I am your God;

you will praise me, the holy God of Israel.

¹⁷“When my people in their need look for water,

when their throats are dry with thirst,

then I, the Lord, will answer their prayer;

I, the God of Israel, will never abandon them.

¹⁸I will make rivers flow among barren hills

and springs of water run in the valleys.

I will turn the desert into pools of water

and the dry land into flowing springs.

¹⁹I will make cedars grow in the desert,

and acacias and myrtles and olive trees.

Forests will grow in barren land,

forests of pine and juniper and cypress.

²⁰People will see this and know

that I, the Lord, have done it.

They will come to understand

that Israel’s holy God has made it happen.”