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ISAIAH
- And I will make an everlasting covenant with you,
- Even the sure mercies of David.
- 4Behold, I have given him for a witness to the peoples,
- A prince and commander to the peoples.
- 5Behold, thou shalt call a nation that thou knowest not,
- And a nation that knew not thee shall run unto thee;
- Because of the Lord thy God,
- And for the Holy One of Israel, for He hath glorified thee.
- 6Seek ye the Lord while He may be found,
- Call ye upon Him while He is near;
- 7Let the wicked forsake his way,
- And the man of iniquity his thoughts;
- And let him return unto the Lord, and He will have compassion upon him,
- And to our God, for He will abundantly pardon
- 8For My thoughts are not your thoughts,
- Neither are your ways My ways, saith the Lord.
- 9For as the heavens are higher than the earth,
- So are My ways higher than your ways,
- And My thoughts than your thoughts.
- 10For as the rain cometh down and the snow from heaven,
- And returneth not thither,
- Except it water the earth,
- And make it bring forth and bud,
- And give seed to the sower and bread to the eater;
- 11So shall My word be that goeth forth out of My mouth:
- It shall not return unto Me void,
- Except it accomplish that which I please,
- And make the thing whereto I sent it prosper.
- 12For ye shall go out with joy,
- And be led forth with peace;
- The mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing,
- And all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.
- 13Instead of the thorn shall come up the cypress,
- And instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle;
- And it shall be to the Lord for a memorial,
- For an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off.
- 56Thus saith the Lord:
- Keep ye justice, and do righteousness;
- For My salvation is near to come,
- And My favour to be revealed.
- 2Happy is the man that doeth this,
- And the son of man that holdeth fast by it:
- That keepeth the sabbath from profaning it,
- And keepeth his hand from doing any evil.
- 3Neither let the alien,
- That hath joined himself to the Lord, speak, saying:
- 'The Lord will surely separate me from His people';
- Neither let the eunuch say:
- 'Behold, I am a dry tree.'
- 4For thus saith the Lord
- Concerning the eunuchs that keep My sabbaths,
- And choose the things that please Me,
- And hold fast by My covenant:
- 5Even unto them will I give in My house
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