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54 “Rejoice, O barren who did not bear! Break forth into joy and rejoice, you who did not labor with child! For the desolate has more children than the married wife,” says the LORD.
2 “Enlarge the place of your tents. And let them spread out the curtains of your habitations. Do not spare. Stretch out your cords and strengthen your stakes.
3 “For you shall increase on the right hand and on the left. And your seed shall possess the Gentiles and dwell in the desolate cities.
4 “Do not fear. For you shall not be ashamed. Nor shall you be confounded. For you shall not be put to shame. Indeed, you shall forget the shame of your youth and shalt not remember the reproach of your widowhood anymore.
5 “For He Who made you is your husband (Whose Name is the LORD of Hosts). And your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel, shall be called the God of the whole world.
6 “For the LORD has called you, being like a woman forsaken and afflicted in spirit, and like a young wife when you were refused,” says your God.
7 “For a little while I have forsaken you. But with great compassion I will gather you.
8 “For a moment, in anger, I hid My Face from you for a little season. But with everlasting mercy, I have had compassion on you,” says the LORD, your Redeemer.
9 “For this is to Me as the waters of Noah. For as I have sworn that the waters of Noah should go over the Earth no more, so have I sworn that I would not be angry with you or rebuke you.
10 “For the mountains shall depart. And the hills shall fall down. But My mercy shall not depart from you. Nor shall the Covenant of My Peace fall away,” says the LORD, Who has compassion on you.
11 “O you afflicted and tossed with storms, who has no comfort, behold, I will lay your stones with antimony, and lay your foundation with sapphires.
12 “And I will make your windows of emeralds and your gates of shining, your borders of pleasant stones.
13 “And all your children shall be taught about the LORD. And much peace shall be to your children.
14 “In righteousness you shall be established, be far from oppression (for you shall not fear it) and from terror (for it shall not come near you).
15 “Behold, enemies shall gather themselves, but apart from Me. Whoever shall gather himself against you, shall fall by you.
16 “Behold, I have created the blacksmith, who blows the coals in the fire. And he who brings forth an instrument for his work. And I have created the destroyer to destroy.
17 “But none of the weapons that are formed against you shall prosper. And every tongue that shall rise against you in judgment you shall condemn. This is the heritage of the LORD’s servants. And their righteousness is from Me,” says the LORD.
55 Ho, everyone who thirsts! Come to the waters! And you who have no silver, come, buy and eat! Come, I say! Buy wine and milk without silver and without money!
2 “Why do you lay out silver that is not for bread, and your labor without being satisfied? Listen diligently to Me and eat that which is good. And let your soul delight in fatness.
3 “Incline your ears and come to Me. Hear, and your soul shall live. And I will make an everlasting Covenant with you, the enduring mercies of David.
4 “Behold, I gave him as a witness to the people, for a prince and a master to the people.
5 “Behold, you shall call a nation that you do not know. And a nation that did not know you shall run to you because of the LORD your God, and the Holy One of Israel. For He has glorified you.
6 “Seek the LORD while He may be found. Call upon Him while He is near.
7 “Let the wicked forsake His ways, and the unrighteous his own imaginations, and return to the LORD, and He will have mercy upon him; and return to our God, for He is very ready to forgive.
8 “For My thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways My ways,” says the LORD.
9 “For as the heavens are higher than the Earth, so are My ways higher than your ways, and My thoughts above your thoughts.
10 “Surely as the rain comes down, and the snow from the heavens, and does not return there, but waters the earth and makes it bring forth and bud, so that it may give seed to the sower and bread to the eater,
11 “so shall My Word be that goes out of My Mouth. It shall not return to Me void, but it shall accomplish that which I will, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.
12 “Therefore, you shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace. The mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into joy. And all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.
13 “There shall grow fir trees instead of thorns, the myrtle tree shall grow instead of nettles, and it shall be to the LORD for a Name, for an everlasting sign that shall not be taken away.”
56 Thus says the LORD: “Keep judgment and do justice. For My salvation is about to come, and My righteousness to be revealed.
2 “Blessed is the man who does this, and the son of man who lays hold on it, he who keeps the Sabbath and does not pollute it and keeps his hand from doing any evil.
3 “And do not let the son of the strangers, who is joined to the LORD, speak and say, ‘The LORD has surely separated me from His people.’ Nor let the eunuch say, ‘Behold, I am a dry tree.’”
4 For thus says the LORD: “To the eunuchs who keep My Sabbaths, and choose the thing that pleases Me, and take hold of My Covenant,
5 “to them will I give in My House and within My walls, a place and a name better than that of the sons and of the daughters. I will give them an everlasting name that shall not be put out.”
6 “Also, the strangers who cling to the LORD, to serve Him, and to love the Name of the LORD, and to be His servants, everyone who keeps the Sabbath and does not pollute it and embraces My Covenant,
7 “them I will also bring to My holy mountain and make them joyful in My House of Prayer. Their Burnt Offerings and their Sacrifices shall be accepted upon My Altar. For My House shall be called a House of Prayer, for all people.”
8 The LORD God, Who gathers the scattered of Israel, says: “I will still gather to them those who are to be gathered to them.”
9 “All you beasts of the field, come to devour, all you beasts of the forest.
10 “Their watchmen are all blind. They have no knowledge. They are all dumb dogs. They cannot bark. They lie and sleep and delight in sleeping.
11 “And these greedy dogs can never have enough. And these shepherds cannot understand. They all look to their own way, everyone for his advantage, for his own purpose, saying,
12 ‘Come, I will bring wine! And we will fill ourselves with strong drink! And tomorrow shall be as today, only much more abundant!’”
57 The righteous perishes, and no man considers it in his heart. And merciful men are taken away, and no man understands that the righteous is taken away from evil.
2 Peace shall come. They shall rest in their beds whose path is straight.
3 “But you, witches’ children, come here, the seed of the adulterer and of the whore.
4 “Of whom do you make sport? Upon whom have you gaped and thrust out your tongue? Are not you rebellious children, a false seed,
5 “inflamed with idols under every green tree and sacrificing the children in the valleys under the tops of the rocks?
6 “Your portion is in the smooth stones of the river. They, they are your lot. To them have you poured a drink offering. You have offered a sacrifice. Should I delight in these?
7 “You have made your bed upon a very high mountain. You went up there, even there, to offer sacrifice.
8 “You have also set up your remembrance behind the doors and posts. For you have uncovered yourself to one other than Me, and gone up, enlarged your bed, and made a covenant between yourself and them, and loved their bed in every place where you saw it.
9 “You went to the kings with oil and increased your ointments, sent your messengers far off, and humbled yourself into Hell.
10 “You wearied yourself in your manifold journeys. You did not say, ‘There is no hope.’ You have found life by your hand. Therefore you were not grieved.
11 “And whom did you reverence or fear, seeing you have lied to Me, and have not remembered Me, or set your mind thereon? Is it not because I hold My peace, and for a long time, that you do not fear Me?
12 “I will declare your righteousness and your works, and they shall not profit you.
13 “When you cry, let those whom you have gathered together deliver you. But the wind shall take them all away. Vanity shall pull them away. But he who trusts in Me shall inherit the land and shall possess My Holy Mountain.
14 “And He shall say, ‘Cast up! Cast up! Prepare the way! Take the stumbling blocks out of the way of My people!’”
6 Children, obey your parents in the Lord. For this is right.
2 Honor your father and mother (which is the first Commandment with a promise),
3 so that it may be well with you and that you may live long on Earth.
4 And, fathers, do not provoke your children to anger. But bring them up in the training and admonition of the Lord.
5 Servants, be obedient to your masters, according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in simplicity of heart, as unto Christ;
6 not with service to the eye (as man-pleasers) but as the servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart
7 with good will, serving the Lord and not man.
8 And know that whatever good thing anyone does, that same shall he receive from the Lord, whether slave or free.
9 And masters, do the same things to them, giving up threatening and knowing that your master also is in Heaven. And there is no partiality with Him.
10 Finally, my brothers, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of His might.
11 Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the deceit of the devil.
12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against the kings, against the authorities, and against the rulers of the darkness of this world; against the spiritual forces of iniquity which are in the high place.
13 For this reason take up the whole armor of God, so that you may be able to withstand on the evil day. And having finished all things, stand fast.
14 Stand therefore, having wrapped your waist with truth, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness,
15 and your feet shod with the preparation of the Gospel of peace.
16 Above all, take the shield of Faith, with which you may quench all the fiery darts of the wicked.
17 And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the Word of God.
18 And pray always, with all manner of prayer and supplication, in the Spirit. And watch for this very thing - with all perseverance and supplication - for all Saints
19 and for me; that a Word may be given to me, so that I may open my mouth boldly to make known the secret of the Gospel,
20 for which I am an ambassador in a chain. So that therein I may speak boldly as I ought to speak.
21 And so that you may also know my affairs (and what I do) Tychicus, my dear brother and faithful minister in the Lord, shall make known to you all things.
22 I have sent him to you for this very purpose, so that you might know my affairs and that he might comfort your hearts.
23 Peace to the brothers and love with faith, from God the Father and from the Lord Jesus Christ.
24 Grace be with all those who love our Lord Jesus Christ incorruptibly. Amen.
(written from Rome to the Ephesians and sent by Tychicus.)
70 O, God, hasten to deliver me! Hasten to help me, O LORD!
2 Let those who seek my soul be confounded and put to shame. Let those who desire my hurt be turned backward and put to rebuke.
3 Let those who say, “Aha! Aha!” be turned back for a reward of their shame.
4 Let all those who seek You be joyful and glad in You; and let all who love Your salvation, say always, “God be praised!”
5 Now I am poor and needy. O, God, hasten to me. You are my Helper and my Deliverer: O LORD, do not delay.
8 He who plots to do evil, men shall call him an author of wickedness.
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