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39 At the same time, Merodach-Baladan, the son of Baladan, king of Babel, sent letters and a present to Hezekiah. For he had heard that he had been sick and had recovered.
2 And Hezekiah was glad for them, and showed them the house of the treasures, the silver, and the gold, and the spices, and the precious ointment, and all the house of his armor, and all that was found in his treasures. There was nothing in his house, nor in all his kingdom, that Hezekiah did not show them.
3 Then came Isaiah the Prophet to King Hezekiah, and said to him, “What did these men say? And from where have they come to you?” And Hezekiah said, “They have come to me from a far country, from Babel.”
4 Then he said, “What have they seen in your house?” And Hezekiah answered, “They have seen all that is in my house. There is nothing among my treasures that I have not shown them.”
5 And Isaiah said to Hezekiah, “Hear the Word of the LORD of Hosts,
6 ‘Behold, the days come that all that is in your house, and which your fathers have laid up in store until this day, shall be carried to Babel. Nothing shall be left,’ says the LORD.
7 ‘And your sons who shall proceed out of you, which you shall beget, they shall take away. And they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babel.’”
8 Then said Hezekiah to Isaiah, “The Word of the LORD which you have spoken is good.” And he said, “For there is peace and truth in my days.”
40 “Comfort! Comfort My people,” says your God.
2 “Speak comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry to her, so that her warfare is accomplished, and that her iniquity is pardoned. For she has received double from the LORD’s Hand for all her sins.”
3 A voice cries in the wilderness, “Prepare the way of the LORD! Make straight a path for our God in the desert!
4 “Every valley shall be exalted and every mountain and hill shall be made low. And the crooked shall be straight and the rough places level.
5 “And the Glory of the LORD shall be revealed. And all flesh shall see it together. For the Mouth of the LORD has spoken it.”
6 A voice said, “Cry!” And he said, “What shall I cry? All flesh is grass and all its beauty as the flowers of the field.
7 “The grass withers, the flower fades, because the Spirit of the LORD blows upon it. Surely, the people are grass.
8 “The grass withers, the flower fades, but the Word of our God shall stand forever.”
9 O Zion, that brings good tidings, get yourself up into the high mountain. O Jerusalem, that brings good tidings, lift up your voice with strength! Lift it up! Do not be afraid! Say to the cities of Judah, “Behold your God!”
10 Behold, the LORD God will come with power. And His Arm shall rule for Him. Behold, His reward is with Him, and His work before Him.
11 He shall feed His flock like a shepherd. He shall gather the lambs with His Arm and carry them in His Bosom and shall guide those with young.
12 Who has measured the waters in his fist, and counted heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the Earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains on a scale, and the hills in a balance?
13 Who has instructed the Spirit of the LORD, or was His counselor, or taught Him?
14 Of whom took He counsel, and who instructed Him and taught Him in the way of judgment, or taught Him knowledge, and showed to Him the way of understanding?
15 Behold, the nations are as a drop in a bucket, and are counted as the dust of the balance. Behold, He takes away the isles as a little dust.
16 And Lebanon is not sufficient for fire, nor its beasts sufficient for a Burnt Offering.
17 All nations are as nothing before Him. And they are counted to Him less than nothing and vanity.
18 To whom, then, will you liken God? Or what likeness will you set up for Him?
19 The workman melts an image, or the goldsmith beats it out in gold, or the silversmith in silver plates.
20 Do not the poor choose a tree that will not rot for an oblation? He also seeks a cunning workman to prepare an image that shall not be shaken.
21 Know you nothing? Have you not heard it? Has it not been told to you from the beginning? Have you not understood it from the foundation of the Earth?
22 He sits upon the circle of the Earth, and its inhabitants are as grasshoppers. He stretches out the heavens as a curtain, and spreads them out as a tent in which to dwell.
23 He brings the princes to nothing, makes the judges of the Earth as vanity,
24 as though they were not planted, as though they were not sown, as though their stock took no root in the Earth. For He but blew upon them and they withered. And the whirlwind will take them away as stubble.
25 “To whom now will you liken Me, that I should be like?” says the Holy One.
26 Lift up your eyes on high and behold who has created these things, and brings out their armies by number, and calls them all by names. By the greatness of His power and mighty strength nothing fails.
27 Why do you say, O Jacob, and speak, O Israel, “My way is hidden from the LORD. And my judgment is passed over by my God?”
28 Do you not know? Have you not heard that the everlasting God, the LORD, has created the ends of the Earth? He neither faints nor is weary. There is no searching of His understanding.
29 He gives strength to him who faints. And to him who has no strength, he increases power.
30 Even the youth shall faint and be weary. And the young men shall stumble and fall.
31 But those who wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength. They shall ascend with wings, as the eagles. They shall run and not be weary. And they shall walk and not faint.
41 “Keep silent before me, O islands, and let the people renew strength. Let them come near. And let them speak. Let us come together into judgment.
2 “Who raised up justice from the East and called him to His Foot, gave the nations before him and subdued the kings? He gave them as dust to his sword, as scattered stubble to his bow.
3 “He pursued them and passed safely by the way that he had not gone with his feet.
4 “Who has wrought and done it? He Who calls the generations from the beginning. I, the LORD, am the first. And with the last I am the same.
5 “The isles saw it and feared. The ends of the Earth were afraid, drew near and came.
6 “Every man helped his neighbor, and said to his brother, ‘Be strong.’
7 “So the workman comforted the refiner (he who struck with the hammer, and who struck the anvil) saying, ‘It is ready for soldering.’ And he fastened it with nails, so that it would not be moved.
8 “But you, Israel, are My servant, you, Jacob, whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham, My friend.
9 “For I have taken you from the ends of the Earth and called you before its chief and said to you, ‘You are My servant. I have chosen you and not cast you away.
10 ‘Fear not. For I am with you. Do not be afraid. For I am your God. I will strengthen you, and help you, and will sustain you with the right hand of My justice.’
11 “Behold, all those who provoke you shall be ashamed and confounded. They shall be as nothing. And those who strive with you shall perish.
12 “You shall seek them and shall not find them. The men of your strife, they shall be as nothing, and the men who war against you as a non-existent thing.
13 “For I, the LORD your God, will hold your right hand, saying to you, ‘Do not fear. I will help you.
14 ‘Do not fear, worm Jacob, you men of Israel. I will help you,’ says the LORD, and your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel.
15 “Behold, I will make you a thresher, and a new threshing sled having teeth. You shall thresh the mountains and bring them to powder, and shall make the hills as chaff.
16 “You shall fan them and the wind shall carry them away and the whirlwind shall scatter them. And you shall rejoice in the LORD, shall glory in the Holy One of Israel.
1 Paul, an Apostle of Jesus Christ, by the will of God, To the saints who are at Ephesus and to the faithful in Christ Jesus:
2 Grace be with you, and peace, from God our Father and from the Lord Jesus Christ.
3 Blessed be God, and the Father of our Lord, Jesus Christ, Who has blessed us with all spiritual blessing in the Heavenly realms in Christ,
4 as He has chosen us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love;
5 having predestined us to be adopted, through Jesus Christ, to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will,
6 to the praise of the glory of His grace, which He has freely bestowed on us in the Beloved;
7 in Whom we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His grace,
8 with which He has been abundant toward us in all wisdom and understanding;
9 and has made known to us the mystery of His will, according to His good pleasure, which He has purposed in Him.
10 That in the dispensation of the fullness of the times, He might gather together all things in Christ, both in Heaven and on Earth;
11 in Whom we also have obtained an inheritance, being predestined according to the purpose of Him who works all things according the counsel of His own will,
12 that we who first trusted in Christ, should be to the praise of His Glory;
13 in Whom also, you, having heard the Word of Truth, the Gospel of your salvation, and after having believed, were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise,
14 Who is the guarantee of our inheritance, for the redemption of that acquired possession, to the praise of His Glory.
15 Therefore, also, after I heard of the faith which you have in the Lord Jesus, and love toward all the saints,
16 I do not cease to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers,
17 that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of Glory, might give to you the Spirit of wisdom and revelation through the knowledge of Him,
18 that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened, so that you may know what the hope is of His calling, and what the riches are of His glorious inheritance in the saints,
19 and what is the exceeding greatness of His power toward us who believe, according to the working of His strength;
20 which He worked in Christ when He raised him from the dead, and set Him at His right hand in the Heavenly realms,
21 far above every principality and power and might and domination, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in the coming one.
22 And all things have been put under His feet. And He has been given headship over all things of the Church,
23 which is His body - the fullness of Him Who fills all in all.
66 Rejoice in God, all the Earth!
2 Sing forth the Glory of His Name! Make His praise glorious!
3 Say to God, “How terrible are You in Your works! Through the greatness of Your power shall Your enemies be in subjection to You.
4 “All the world shall worship You and sing to You. Sing of Your Name!” Selah.
5 Come and behold the works of God. He is terrible in His doings toward the sons of men.
6 He has turned the sea into dry land. They passed through the river on foot. We rejoiced in Him there.
7 He rules the world with His power. His eyes behold the nations. The rebellious shall not exalt themselves. Selah.
8 Praise our God, you people, and make the voice of His praise heard.
9 He holds our souls in life and does not let our feet slip.
10 For You, O God, have tested us. You have refined us as silver is refined.
11 You have brought us into the net. You put pressure upon our loins.
12 You have caused men to ride over our heads. We went into fire and into water; but You brought us out into abundance.
13 I will go into Your House with burnt offerings and will pay You my vows
14 which my lips have promised; and my mouth has spoken in my affliction.
15 I will offer to You the burnt offerings of fat rams with incense. I will prepare bullocks and goats. Selah.
16 Come and hear, all you who fear God, and I will tell you what He has done to my soul.
17 I called to Him with my mouth and He was exalted with my tongue.
18 If I regard wickedness in my heart, the LORD will not hear me.
19 But God has heard me and considered the voice of my prayer.
20 Praised God, Who has turned away neither my prayer nor His mercy. To him who excels on Neginoth: A psalm or song
25 Your father and your mother shall be glad. And she who bore you shall rejoice.
26 My son, give me your heart, and let your eyes delight in my ways.
27 For a whore is as a deep ditch. And a strange woman is as a narrow pit.
28 Also, she lies in wait, as if for a prey. And she increases the transgressors among men.
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