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12 “Hear me, O Jacob and Israel, My called. I Am, I Am the First, and I Am the Last.
13 “Surely My Hand has laid the foundation of the Earth. And My right Hand has spanned the heavens. When I call them, they stand up together.
14 “All you, assemble yourselves and hear. Who among them has declared these things? The LORD has loved him. He will do His will in Babel, and His Arm shall be against the Chaldeans.
15 “I, even I, have spoken it. And I have called him. I have brought him. And his way shall prosper.
16 “Come near to Me. Hear this! I have not spoken it in secret from the beginning. From the time that the thing was, I was there, and now the Lord God and His Spirit have sent Me!”
17 Thus says the LORD, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: “I am the LORD your God, Who teaches you to profit, and leads you by the way that you should go.
18 “Oh, that you had listened to My Commandments! Then your peace would have been as a river, and your righteousness as the waves of the sea.
19 “Also, your seed would have been as the sand, and the fruit of your body like its gravel. His name would not have been cut off or destroyed before Me.
20 “Go out from Babel. Flee from the Chaldeans with a voice of joy! Tell and declare this. Show it forth to the end of the Earth. Say, ‘The LORD has redeemed His servant, Jacob!
21 ‘And they were not thirsty! He led them through the wilderness! He caused the waters to flow out of the rock for them! For He split the rock and the water gushed out!’
22 “There is no peace for the wicked,” says the LORD.
49 “Hear Me, O isles! And listen, you people from afar! The LORD has called Me from the womb and made mention of My Name from My mother’s belly.
2 “And He has made My Mouth like a sharp sword. Under the shadow of His Hand has He hidden Me and made Me a chosen Shaft, hidden Me in His quiver,
3 “and said to Me, ‘You are My Servant, Israel, for I will be glorious in You.’
4 “And I said, ‘I have labored in vain. I have spent My strength in vain and for nothing. But My judgment is with the LORD, and My work with My God.’
5 “‘And now,’ says the LORD (Who formed Me from the womb to be His Servant, so that I may bring Jacob back to him, though Israel is not gathered. I shall still be glorious in the eyes of the LORD. And My God shall be My strength),
6 “indeed He said, ‘It is too small a thing that You should be My Servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob and to restore the desolations of Israel. I will also give You as a light to the Gentiles, so that You may be My Salvation to the ends of the world.’”
7 Thus says the LORD, the Redeemer of Israel, His Holy One, to Him Who is despised in soul, to a nation that is abhorred, to a Servant of rulers: “Kings shall see and arise. And princes shall worship because of the LORD, Who is faithful, and the Holy One of Israel, Who has chosen You.”
8 Thus says the LORD: “In an acceptable time have I heard You. And on a Day of Salvation have I helped You. And I will preserve You, and will give You as a Covenant to the people, so that You may raise up the Earth and obtain the inheritance of the desolate heritages,
9 “so that You may say to the prisoners, ‘Go forth,’ and to those who are in darkness, ‘Show yourselves.’ They shall feed along the ways. And their pastures shall be on all the tops of the hills.
10 “They shall not be hungry, nor shall they be thirsty, nor shall the heat strike them, nor the Sun. For He Who has compassion on them, shall lead them. Even by the springs of water shall He drive them.
11 “And I will make all My mountains as a way. And My paths shall be exalted.
12 “Behold, these shall come from far away. And lo, these from the North and from the West, and these from the land of Sinim.”
13 Rejoice, O heavens! And be joyful, O Earth! Burst forth into praise, O mountains! For God has comforted His people and will have mercy upon His afflicted!
14 But Zion said, “The LORD has forsaken me. And my LORD has forgotten me.”
15 “Can a woman forget her child and not have compassion on the son of her womb? Even if they should forget, yet will I not forget you.
16 “Behold, I have carved you upon the palms of My Hands. Your walls are always in My sight.
17 “Your builders hurry. Your destroyers and those who made you a wasteland, have departed from you.
18 “Lift up your eyes all around and look. All these gather themselves together and come to you, as I live,’ says the LORD. “You shall surely put them all upon you as a garment and gird yourself with them like a bride.
19 “For your desolations and your wastelands, and your destroyed land, shall surely now be too cramped for those who shall dwell in it. And those who devour you shall be far away.
20 “The children of your barrenness shall say again in your ears, ‘The place is too cramped for me. Give me a place in which I may dwell.’
21 “Then shall you say in your heart, ‘Who has begotten me these, seeing I am barren and desolate, a captive and a wanderer to and fro? And who has nourished them? Behold, I was left alone. From where have these come?’”
22 Thus says the LORD God: “Behold, I will lift up My Hand to the Gentiles, and set up My standard to the people. And they shall bring your sons in their arms. And your daughters shall be carried upon their shoulders.
23 “And kings shall be your nursing fathers. And queens shall be your nurses. They shall bow down to you with their faces toward the earth, and lick up the dust of your feet. And you shall know that I am the LORD. For those who wait for Me shall not be ashamed.
24 “Shall the prey be taken from the mighty, or the just’s captivity delivered?”
25 But thus says the LORD: “Even the captivity of the mighty shall be taken away. And the prey of the tyrant shall be delivered. For I will contend with him who contends with you. And I will save your children,
26 “and will feed those who plunder you with their own flesh. And they shall be drunk with their own blood, as with sweet wine. And all flesh shall know that I, the LORD, am your Savior and your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.”
50 Thus says the LORD: “Where is that bill of your mother’s divorcement, whom I have cast off? Or, who is the creditor to whom I sold you? Behold, you are sold for your iniquities. And your mother is forsaken because of your transgressions.
2 “Why was there no man when I came, and no one to answer when I called? Is My Hand so shortened that it cannot help? Or, have I no power to deliver? Behold, at My rebuke I dry up the sea. I make the rivers a wilderness. Their fish rot for lack of water and die of thirst.
3 “I clothe the heavens with darkness and make sackcloth their covering.”
4 The Lord GOD has given me a tongue of the learned, so that I should know how to minister a timely word to him who is weary. He will raise me up in the morning. In the morning He will awaken my ear to hear, as the learned.
5 The Lord GOD has opened my ear and I was not rebellious. Nor did I turn back.
6 I gave my back to the those who struck me and my cheeks to those who pluck out the beard. I did not hide my face from shame and spitting.
7 For the Lord GOD will help me. Therefore, I shall not be confounded. Therefore, I have set my face like a flint. And I know that I shall not be ashamed.
8 He Who justifies me is near. Who will contend with me? Let us stand together. Who is my adversary? Let him come near me.
9 Behold, the Lord GOD will help me. Who is he who can condemn me? Lo, they shall grow old as a garment. The moth shall eat them up.
10 Who is among you who fears the LORD? Let him hear the voice of His servant. He who walks in darkness and has no light, let him trust in the Name of the LORD and rely upon his God.
11 “Behold, all you who kindle a fire and are surrounded with sparks. Walk in the light of your fire and in the sparks that you have kindled. This shall you have from My Hand: You shall lie down in sorrow.”
17 This I say, therefore, and testify in the Lord: that you henceforth do not walk as other Gentiles walk (in the frivolity of their mind,
18 having their understanding darkened, and being strangers to the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardness of their heart);
19 who, having grown numb to all feeling, have given themselves over to lewdness for the working of uncleanness with all greediness.
20 But, you have not so learned Christ,
21 if indeed you have heard Him, and have been taught by Him, just as truth is in Jesus.
22 As for your past life, you are to cast off the old man who is being corrupted through deceitful desires,
23 and be renewed in the spirit of your mind.
24 And put on the new man, who has been created according to God for righteousness and true holiness.
25 Therefore, having laid aside lying, everyone speak truth to his neighbor. For we are members one of another.
26 Be angry, but do not sin. Do not let the Sun go down upon your irritation,
27 nor give place to the devil.
28 Let him who stole, steal no more. But rather, let him labor and work with his hands that which is good, so that he may have something to give to those in need.
29 Let no worthless word proceed out of your mouth, but only if it is good for edification, so that it may give grace to those who hear.
30 And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, in Whom you are sealed for the Day of Redemption.
31 Let all bitterness and fury and anger, clamor and slander, be taken from you, along with all wickedness.
32 Be kind one to another, and tender-hearted, freely forgiving one another; even as God, for Christ’s sake, freely forgave you.
69 Save me, O God, for the waters have entered even to my soul.
2 I sink in the deep mire, where there is no foothold. I have come into deep waters, and the streams run over me.
3 I am weary from crying. My throat is dry. My eyes fail while I wait for my God.
4 Those who hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head. Those who would destroy me, and are wrongfully my enemies, are mighty. Thus, I restored that which I did not take.
5 O God, You know my foolishness, and my faults are not hidden from You.
6 Do not let those who trust in You, O LORD God of Hosts, be ashamed because of me. Do not let those who seek You be confounded through me, O God of Israel.
7 For Your sake I have suffered reproach; shame has covered my face.
8 I have become a stranger to my brothers, an alien to my mother’s sons.
9 For the zeal of Your House has eaten me, and the rebukes of those who rebuked You have fallen upon me.
10 I wept and my soul fasted; but that was to my reproach.
11 I put on sackcloth also; and I became a proverb to them.
12 Those who sit in the gate speak of me; and I am the song of the drunkards.
13 But LORD, I make my prayer to You in an acceptable time, in the multitude of Your mercy. O God, hear me in the truth of Your salvation.
14 Deliver me out of the mire, so that I do not sink. Let me be delivered from those who hate me, and out of the deep waters.
15 Do not let the flood water drown me or let the deep swallow me up; and do not let the pit shut her mouth upon me.
16 Hear me, O LORD, for Your lovingkindness is good! Turn to me according to the multitude of Your tender mercies.
17 And do not hide Your face from Your servant, for I am in trouble. Hear me quickly.
18 Draw near to my soul and redeem it. Deliver me because of my enemies.
5 A wise man is strong. For a man of understanding increases his strength.
6 For with counsel you shall wage your war. And health is in a multitude of counselors.
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