אָֽנֹכִ֫י

Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear to my cry for help; do not be deaf to my weeping. For I am a foreigner dwelling with You, a stranger like all my fathers.

“Be still and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted over the earth.”

“Hear, O My people, and I will speak, O Israel, and I will testify against you: I am God, your God.

When the earth and all its dwellers quake, it is I who bear up its pillars. Selah

I am the LORD your God, who brought you up out of Egypt. Open wide your mouth, and I will fill it.

When he calls out to Me, I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble. I will deliver him and honor him.

May my meditation be pleasing to Him, for I rejoice in the LORD.

For I am poor and needy; my heart is wounded within me.

I am a stranger on the earth; do not hide Your commandments from me.

I am lowly and despised, but I do not forget Your precepts.

I rejoice in Your promise like one who finds great spoil.

Let the wicked fall into their own nets, while I pass by in safety.

I observed and took it to heart; I looked and received instruction:

Surely I am the most ignorant of men, and I lack the understanding of a man.

Then I said: “Woe is me, for I am ruined, because I am a man of unclean lips dwelling among a people of unclean lips; for my eyes have seen the King, the LORD of Hosts.”

Here am I, and the children the LORD has given me as signs and symbols in Israel from the LORD of Hosts, who dwells on Mount Zion.

Then the lookout shouted: “Day after day, my lord, I stand on the watchtower; night after night I stay at my post.

I, yes I, am the LORD, and there is no Savior but Me.

I alone decreed and saved and proclaimed—I, and not some foreign god among you. So you are My witnesses,” declares the LORD, “that I am God.

I, yes I, am He who blots out your transgressions for My own sake and remembers your sins no more.

Thus says the LORD, your Redeemer who formed you from the womb: “I am the LORD, who has made all things, who alone stretched out the heavens, who by Myself spread out the earth,

It is I who made the earth and created man upon it. It was My hands that stretched out the heavens, and I ordained all their host.

I will raise up Cyrus in righteousness, and I will make all his ways straight. He will rebuild My city and set My exiles free, but not for payment or reward, says the LORD of Hosts.”

Remember what happened long ago, for I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is none like Me.

“Can a woman forget her nursing child, or lack compassion for the son of her womb? Even if she could forget, I will not forget you!

Indeed, this is what the LORD says: “Even the captives of the mighty will be taken away, and the plunder of the tyrant will be retrieved; I will contend with those who contend with you, and I will save your children.

The Lord GOD has opened My ears, and I have not been rebellious, nor have I turned back.

“I, even I, am He who comforts you. Why should you be afraid of mortal man, of a son of man who withers like grass?

For I am the LORD your God who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar—the LORD of Hosts is His name.

“O afflicted city, lashed by storms, without solace, surely I will set your stones in antimony and lay your foundations with sapphires.

Behold, I have created the craftsman who fans the coals into flame and forges a weapon fit for its task; and I have created the destroyer to wreak havoc.

As a mother comforts her son, so will I comfort you, and you will be consoled over Jerusalem.”

“And I, knowing their deeds and thoughts, am coming to gather all nations and tongues, and they will come and see My glory.

“Ah, Lord GOD,” I said, “I surely do not know how to speak, for I am only a child!”

But the LORD told me: “Do not say, ‘I am only a child.’ For to everyone I send you, you must go, and all that I command you, you must speak.

Get yourself ready. Stand up and tell them everything that I command you. Do not be intimidated by them, or I will terrify you before them.

I had planted you like a choice vine from the very best seed. How could you turn yourself before Me into a rotten, wild vine?

“Return, O faithless children,” declares the LORD, “for I am your master, and I will take you—one from a city and two from a family—and bring you to Zion.

Then I said, ‘How I long to make you My sons and give you a desirable land, the most beautiful inheritance of all the nations!’ I thought you would call Me ‘Father’ and never turn away from following Me.

Raise a signal flag toward Zion. Seek refuge! Do not delay! For I am bringing disaster from the north, and terrible destruction.

Hear, O earth! I am bringing disaster on this people, the fruit of their own schemes, because they have paid no attention to My word and have rejected My instruction.

Has this house, which bears My Name, become a den of robbers in your sight? Yes, I too have seen it, declares the LORD.

…which I commanded your forefathers when I brought them out of the land of Egypt, out of the iron furnace, saying, ‘Obey Me, and do everything I command you, and you will be My people, and I will be your God.’