This is what the LORD says;"Maintain justice and do what is right, for my salvation is close at hand and my righteousness will soon be revealed,
Blessed is the man who does this, the man who holds it fast, who keeps the Sabbath without descrating and keeps thje Sabbath without desecrating it. and keeps his hand from doing any evil.
Let no foreigner who has bound himself to the LORD say,"The LORD will surely exclude me from his people. And let not anu eunuch complain. I am only a dry tree."
For this what the LORD says: "To the eunuchs who keep my Sabbaths, who choose what pleases me. and choose what pleases me and hold fast to my covenant-
to them I woll gives within my temple and its walls a memonal and a name better than sons and daughters; I will give them an everlasting name that will not be cut off.
And foreigness who blind themselves to the LORD to serve him, to love the name of the LORD and to worship him. all who keep the Sabbath without descrating it and who hold fast to my covenant-
these I will bring to my holy mountain and give them joy in my house of prayer. Their burnt offerings and sacrifices will be accepted on my altar: for my house will be called a house of prayer for all nations"
The Sovereign LORD declares- he who gathers the exiles of Israel;"I will gathers the exiles of Israel;"I will gather still others to them besudes those already gathered,
Come, all you beasts of the field, come and devour, all you beasts of the forest! come andd evour, all you beasts of the forest!
Israel's watchmen are blind they all lack knowledge; they are all mute dogs, they cannot bark; they lie around and dream, they nlove to sleep.
They are dogs with mighty appetities, they never have enough. They are shephered who lack understanding, they all turn to their own way, each seeks his own gain.
"Come," each one cries, "let me get wine! Let us drink our fill of beer! And tomorrow will be like today, or even far better."
Isaiah 57
The rigjteous perish.and no one ponders it in his heart; and no one ponders it in heart; devout mena re taken away. and no one understands that the righteous are taken away to be spared from evil.
Those who walk uprightly enter into peace,; they find rest as they lie in death,
"But you-come here. you sons of a sorceress, you offsring of adulterers and prostitutes!
Whom are you mocking? At whom do you sneer and stick out your tongue? Are you not a brood of rebels, the offspringof liars?
You burn with lust among the oaks and under every spreading tree; you sacrifice your children in the ravines and under the overhanging crags
The idols, among the smooth stones of the ravines are your portion; they, they are your lot.Yes, to them you have poured out drink offerings and offered grain offerngs. In the light of these things, should I relent?
You have made your bed on a high and lofty hill; then you went up to offer your sacrifices.
Behind your doors and your doorposts you have put your pagan symbols, Forsaking me, you uncovered your bed, you climned into it and opened it witde, you made a pact with those whose beds you love, and you looked on their nakedness.
You went to Molech with olive oil and increased your perfumes. You sent your ambassadors far away. you descended to the grave itself!
You were wearied by all your ways. but you would not say, "It is hopeless. You \found renewal of your strength and so you did not faint.
"Whom have you so dreaded and feared that you have been false to me, and have neighter remembered me nor pondered this in your hearts? Is it not because I have long been silent that you do not fear me?
I will expose your righteousness and your works, and they will not benefit you.
When you cry out for help, let your collection of idols, save you! The wind will carry all of them off. a mere breath will blow them off, a mere breath will blpw them away. But the man who makes me his refuge will inherit the lamd and passess my holy mountain."
And it will be said:"Build up, build up, prepare the road! Remove the obstacles out of the way of my people."
For this is wat the high and lofty One says- he who lives forever, whose name is holy;"I live in a high and holymplace, but also with him who is contrite and lowly in spirit, to revive the spirit of the lowly and to revive the heart of the contrite.
I will not accuse forever, nor will I always be angry, for then the spirit of man would grow faint before me- the breath of man that I have created.
I was enraged by his sinful greed, I punished him, and hid my face in anger, yet he kept on in his willful ways.
I have seen his ways , but I will heal him, I will guide him and restore comfort to him.
vreating praise on the lips of the mourners in Israel. Peace, peace, to those far and near, says the LORD, "And I will heal them.
But the wicked are like the tossing sea, which cannot rest whose waves cast up mire and mud,
There is no peace, say my God,"for the wicked.
Isaiah 58
"Shout it aloud, do not hold nack. Raise your voice like a trumpet, Declare to my people their rebeliion and to the house of Jacob their sins.
For day after day they seek me out: they seem eager to know my ways, as it they were a nation that does what is right and hasn not forsaken the commands of its God. They ask me for just decistons and seem eager for God to come near them.
Why have we fasted, they say, and you have not seen kit? Why have we humbled ourselves, and you have not noticed?"Yet on the day of your fasting you do as you please and ezploit all your workers.
Your fasting ends in quarreling and strife, and in striking each other with wicked fists, You cannot fast as you do today and expect your voice to be heard on high.
Is this the kind of fast I have chosen. only a day for a man to humble himself? Is it only for bowing one's head like a rest and for lying on sackcloth and ashes? is that what you call a fast, a day acceptable to the LORD?
"is not this the kind of fasting I have chosen to loose the chains of injustice and untie the cords of the yoke to set the oppressed tree. and break every yoke?
Is it not to share your food with the hungry and to provide the poor wanderer with shelter- when you see the naked to clothe him and not to turna way from your own flesh and blood?
They your light will break forth like the dawn and your healing will quickly appear; then your righteousness" will quickly appear, then your righteousness will go before you, and the glory of the LORD will go before you.
Then you will call, and the LORD will answer, you will cry for help, and he will say; Here am I "If you doaway with the yoke of oppression,with the poining finger and malicious talk.
and if you spend yourselves in behalf of the hungry and satisfy the needs of the oppressed, then your light will rise in the darkness, and your rilght will become like darkness.
The LORD will guide you always, he will satisty your needs in a sunscorched land and will strengthen your frame, You will be like a well watered garden, like a spring whose waters never fall.
You people will rebuild the ancient ruins and will raise up the age old foundations you will be called Repairer of Broken Walls, Restorer of Strees with Dwelling.
"If you keep your feet from breaking the Sabbath and from doing as you please on my holy day,If you call the Sabbath a delight and the LORD 's holy day honorable, and if you honnor it by not going your own way and not doing as you please of speaking idle words.
then you will lind your joy in the LORD, and I will cause you to ride on the heights of the land and to feast on the inheriance of your father Jacob." the mouth of the LORD has spoken
Isaiah 59
Surely the am of the LORD is not too short to save, nor his ear too dull to hear.
But your iniquities have separated you from your God; your sins have hidden his face from you, so that he will not bear.
For your hands aare stained with blood, your fingers with guilt. Your lips have spoken lies, and your fongue mutters wicked things.
No one calls for hustice; no one pleads his care with integrity, no one pleads his case with integrity, They rely on empty arguments and speak lies; they conceive trouble and give birth to evil.
They hatch the eggs of vipers amd spin a spider's web, Whoever eats their eggs will die and when one is nroken, an adder is hatched.
Their cobwebs are useless for clothing; they cannot cover themselves with what they make. Their deeds are evil deeds and acts of violence are in their hands.
Their feet rush into sin; they are swift to shed innocent blood. Their thoughjts are evil thoughtsl ruin and destruction mark their ways.
The way of peace they do not know; there is no justice in their paths. They have turned thjem into crooked roads no one who walks in them will know peace.
So justice is far from us, and righteousness does not reach us. We look for light bul all is darkness for brightiness, but we walk in deep shadows.
Like the blind we grope along the wall, feeling our way like men without eyes, At midday we stumble as if it were twilight among thes trong we are like were twilight.among the strong we are like the dead.
We all growl like bears. we moan moumfully like doves, We look for justice, but find none, for deliverance, but it is far away.
For our offenses are many in wyour sight and out sins festify against us, Our offenses are ever with us. and we acknowledge our iniquitles.
rebellion and treachery against the LORD, turning our backs on our backs on our God, formenting oppression and revolt, uttering lies our hearts have conceived.
So justice is driven back, and righteousness stands at a distance, truth has stumbled in the streets, honesty cannot enter.
Truth is nowhere to be found, and whoever shuns evil becomes a prey. The LORD looked and was displeased that there was no justice.
He saw that there was no one, he was appalled that there was no one to intervene,so his own arm worked salvation for him, and hisn own righteousness sustained him.
He put on righteousness as his breastplate, and the helmet of salvation on his head; he put on the garments of vengeance and wrapped himself in zeal as in a cloak
According to wht they have done, so will he repay wrath to his enemies and retribution to his foes; he will repay the islands their due.
From the west, men will fear the name of the LORD, and from the rising of the sun, they will revere hisn glory,. For he will west, men will fear the name of the LORD, and from the rising of the sun, they will reverem his glory, For he will come like a pent-up flood that the breath of the LORD drives along
"The Redeemer will come to Zion tot hose in Jacob who repent of their sins," declares the LORD.
"As for me, this is my covenant with them," says the LORD,"My Spirit who os on you, and my words that I have put in your mouth will not depart from your mouth, or from the mouth will not depart from your mouth, or from the mouths of their descendants from this time on and forever," says the LORD.
Isaiah 60
"Arise, shine, for your light ha come and the glory of the LORD rises upon you.
See, darkness covers thee arth and thick darkness is over the peoples, but the LORD rises upom you and his glory appears over you.
Nations will come to your light, and kings to the brightness of your dawn.
"Lift up your eyes and look about you:All assemble and come to you; your sons come from afar, and your daughters are carried on the arm.
Then you will look and be radiant your heart will throb and swell with joy; the wealth on the seas will be brought to you, to you the riches of the nations will come.
Herds of camels will cover your land, young carmels will cover your land, young camels of Midian and Ephah, And all from Sheba will come, bearing gold and incense and proclaiming the rpaise of the LORD.
All Kedar's flocks will be gathered to you, the rams of Nebaioth will serve you, they will be accepted as offerings on my altar, and I will adorn my glorious temple.
"Who are these that fly along like clouds, like doves to their nests?
Surely the islands look to me; in the lead are the ships of Tarshish, bringing your sons from afar, with their silver and gold, to the honor of the LORD your God, the Holy One of Israel, for he has endowed you with splendor.
" Foreigners will rebuild your walls, and their kings will serve you .Though in anger I struck you, infavor I will show you compassion,
Your gates will always stand open, they will never be shut, day or night, so that men may bring you the wealth the nations- their kings led in triumphat procession
For the nation or kingdom that will not servem you will perish: it will be utterly ruined."The glory of Lebanon will come to you, the pine the fir and the cypress together to adom the place of my sanchtuary; and I will glonify the place of my feet.
The glory of Lebanon will come to you, the pine the fir and the cypress together, to adorn the place of my sanctuary: and I will glorify the place of my feet.
The sons of your oppressors will come bowing before you: all who call you the Cioty of the LORD, Zion of the Holy One of Israel.
"Although you have been forsaken and hated with no one traveling through, I will make you the everlasting pride and the joy of all nenerations.
You will drink the milk of nation and be nursed at royal breasts. Then you will know that I, the LORD, an your Savior, your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob,
Instead of bronze I will bring you gold, and silver in place of iron, Instead of wood I will bring you bronze, and iron in place of stones, I will make peace your governor and righteousness your ruler.
No longer will violence be heard in your land, nor ruin or destruction within your borders, but you will call your walls Salvation and your gates Praise.
The sun will no more be your light by day, nor will the brightness of the moon shine on you, for the LORD will be your everlasting light, and your God will be your glory.
Your sun will never set again, and your moon will wane no more; the LORD will be your everlasting light and your days of sorrow will end
Then will all your people be righeous and they will possess the land forever. They are the shoot I have planted, the work of my hands, for the display of my splendor
The least of you will become a thousand, the smallest a mighty nation. I am the LORD; to its time I will do this swiftly."
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