Author: cackywalker@yahoo.com

“He will repay His enemies for their evil deeds. His fury will fall on His foes. He will pay them back even to the ends of the earth.

In the west, people will respect the name of the Lord; in the east, they will glorify Him. For He will come like a raging flood tide driven by the breath of the Lord.

‘The Redeemer will come to Jerusalem to buy back those in Israel who have turned fro their sins,’ says the Lord.

‘And this is my covenant with them,’ says the Lord. ‘My Spirit wil not leave them, and neither will these words I have given you. They will be on your lips and on the lips of your children and your children’s children forever. I, the Lord, have spoken!'” (vv. 18-21, NLT)

“Listen! The Lord’s arm is not too weak to save you, nor is His ear too deaf to hear your call. It’s your sins that have cut you off from God. Because of your sins, He has turned away and will not listen anymore.” (v. 1-2, NLT)

“Their feet run to evil, and they rush to commit. murder. They think only of sinning. Misery and destruction always follows them. They don’t know where to find peace or what it means to be just and good. They have mapped out crooked roads, and no one who follows them knows a moment’s peace.

So there is not justice among us, and we know noting about right living. we look for light but find only darkness. We look for bright skies but walk in gloom. we grope like the bling along a wall, feeling our way like people without eyes. Even as the brightest noontime, we stumble as though it were dark.”( vv. 7-10, NLT)

“The Lord looked and was displeased to find there was not justice. He was amazed to see that no one intervened to help the oppressed. So He Himself stepped in to save them with His strong arm, and His justice sustained Him. He put on righteousness as His body armor and place the helmet of salvation on His head. He closed himself with a robe of vengeance and wrapped Himself in a cloak of divine passion. ” (vv. 15b-1 7, NLT)

“Keep the Sabbath day holy. Don’t pursue your own interests on that day, but enjoy the Sabbath and speak of it with delight as the Lord’s holy day. Honor the Sabbath in everything you do that day, and don’t follow your own desires or talk idly. then the Lord will be your delight. I will give you a great honor and satisfy you with the inheritance I promised to your ancestor Jacob. I, the Lord, have spoken!” (vv. 13-14, NLT)

“This is what the Lord says,’Be just and fair to all. do what is right and good, for I am coming soon to rescue and to display My righteousness among you. Blessed are all those who are careful to do this. Blessed are those who honor my Sabbath days of rest and keep themselves from doing wrong.'” (vv. 1-2, NLT)

“‘I will also bless the foreigners who commit themselves to the Lord, who serve Him and love His name, who worship Him and do not desecrate the Sabbath day of rest, and who hold fat to My covenant. I will bring them to my holy mountain of Jerusalem and will fill them with joy in My house of prayer. I will accept their burnt offerings and sacrifices, because My Temple will be called a house of prayer for all nations. For the Sovereign Lord, who brings back the outcasts of Israel says; I will bring others, too besides my people Israel.’ ” (vv. 6-8, NLT)

“Seek the Lord while you can find Him. Call on Him now while He is near. Let the wicked change their ways and banish the very thought of doing wrong. Let them turn to the Lord that He may have mercy on them. Yes, turn to our God, for He will forgive generously.

‘My thoughts are nothing like your thoughts,’ says the Lord. ‘And My ways are far beyond anything you could imagine. For just as the heavens are higher than the earth, so My ways are higher than your ways and My thoughts are higher than your thoughts.'” (vv. 6-9, NLT)

“But it was the Lord’s good plan to crush Him and cause Him grief. Yet when His life is made an offering for sin, He will have many descendants. He will enjoy a long life, and the Lord’s good plan will prosper in His hands. When He sees all that is accomplished by His anguish, He will be satisfied. And because of His experience, My righteous servant will make it possible for many to be counted as righteous, for He will bear all their sins. I will give Him the honors of a victorious soldier, because He exposed Himself to death. He was counted among the rebels. He bore the sins of many and interceded for rebels.” (vv. 10-12, NLT)

“He was oppressed and treated harshly, yet He never said a word. He was led like a lamb to slaughter. And as a sheep is silent before the shearers, he did not open His mouth. Unjustly condemned, He was led away. No one cared that He died without descendants, that. His life was cut short in midstream. But He was struck down for the rebellion of My people. He had done no wrong and He had never deceived anyone. But He was buried like a criminal; He was put in a rich man’s grave.” (vv. 7-9, NLT)

“Who has believed our message? To whom has the Lord revealed His powerful arm? My servant grew up in the Lord’s presence like a tender green shoot, like a root in dry ground. There was nothing beautiful or majestic about His appearance, nothing to attract us to Him. He was despised and rejected – a man of sorrows, acquainted with deepest grief. We turned our backs on Him and looked the other way. He was despised, and we did not care.

Yet it was our weakness He carried; it was our sorrows that weighed Him down. And we thought His troubles were a punishment from God, a punishment for His own sins! But He was pierced for our rebellion, crushed for our sins. He was beaten so we could be whole. He was whipped so we could be healed.

All of us, like sheep, have strayed away. We have left God’s paths to follow on our own. Yet, the Lord laid on Him the sins of us all. “(vv 1-6, NLT)

“This is what the Sovereign Lord says,’Long ago My people chose to live in Egypt. Now they are oppressed by Assyria. what is this?’asked the Lord. ‘Why are My people enslaved again? Those who rule them shout in exultation. My name is blasphemed all day long. But I will reveal My name to My people, and they will come to know its power. Then at last they will recognize that I am the one who speaks to them.’

How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of the messenger who brings good news, the good news of peace and salvation, the news that the God of Israel reigns! The watchmen shout and sing for joy, for before their very eyes they see the Lord returning to Jerusalem. Let the ruins of Jerusalem break in to joyful song, for the Lord has comforted His people. He has redeemed Israel. The Lord has demonstrated His holy power before the eyes of all nations. All the ends of the earth will see the victory of our God.” (vv. 4-10, NLT)