Isaiah 12

New International Version

Songs of Praise

12 In that day^(A) you will say:

“I will praise^(B) you, Lord.
    Although you were angry with me,
your anger has turned away^(C)
    and you have comforted^(D) me.
²Surely God is my salvation;^(E)
    I will trust^(F) and not be afraid.
The Lord, the Lord himself,^(G) is my strength^(H) and my defense^[a];
    he has become my salvation.^(I)”
³With joy you will draw water^(J)
    from the wells^(K) of salvation.

⁴In that day^(L) you will say:

“Give praise to the Lord, proclaim his name;^(M)
    make known among the nations^(N) what he has done,
    and proclaim that his name is exalted.^(O)
⁵Sing^(P) to the Lord, for he has done glorious things;^(Q)
    let this be known to all the world.
⁶Shout aloud and sing for joy,^(R) people of Zion,
    for great^(S) is the Holy One of Israel^(T) among you.^(U)”

Footnotes

Isaiah 12:2 Or song

Isaiah 59:15-21

New International Version

¹⁵Truth^(A) is nowhere to be found,
and whoever shuns evil becomes a prey.

The Lord looked and was displeased
    that there was no justice.^(B)
¹⁶He saw that there was no one,^(C)
    he was appalled that there was no one to intervene;^(D)
so his own arm achieved salvation^(E) for him,
    and his own righteousness^(F) sustained him.
¹⁷He put on righteousness as his breastplate,^(G)
    and the helmet^(H) of salvation on his head;
he put on the garments^(I) of vengeance^(J)
    and wrapped himself in zeal^(K) as in a cloak.
¹⁸According to what they have done,
    so will he repay^(L)
wrath to his enemies
    and retribution to his foes;
    he will repay the islands^(M) their due.
¹⁹From the west,^(N) people will fear the name of the Lord,
    and from the rising of the sun,^(O) they will revere his glory.^(P)
For he will come like a pent-up flood
    that the breath^(Q) of the Lord drives along.^[a]

²⁰“The Redeemer^(R) will come to Zion,^(S)
to those in Jacob who repent of their sins,”^(T)
declares the Lord.

²¹“As for me, this is my covenant^(U) with them,” says the Lord. “My Spirit,^(V) who is on you, will not depart from you,^(W) and my words that I have put in your mouth^(X) will always be on your lips, on the lips of your children and on the lips of their descendants—from this time on and forever,” says the Lord.

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Footnotes

Isaiah 59:19 Or When enemies come in like a flood, / the Spirit of the Lord will put them to flight

Luke 17:20-37

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The Coming of the Kingdom of God^(A)

²⁰Once, on being asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God would come,^(B) Jesus replied, “The coming of the kingdom of God is not something that can be observed, ²¹nor will people say, ‘Here it is,’ or ‘There it is,’^(C) because the kingdom of God is in your midst.”^[a]

²²Then he said to his disciples, “The time is coming when you will long to see one of the days of the Son of Man,^(D) but you will not see it.^(E) ²³People will tell you, ‘There he is!’ or ‘Here he is!’ Do not go running off after them.^(F) ²⁴For the Son of Man in his day^[b] will be like the lightning,^(G) which flashes and lights up the sky from one end to the other. ²⁵But first he must suffer many things^(H) and be rejected^(I) by this generation.^(J)

²⁶“Just as it was in the days of Noah,^(K) so also will it be in the days of the Son of Man. ²⁷People were eating, drinking, marrying and being given in marriage up to the day Noah entered the ark. Then the flood came and destroyed them all.

²⁸“It was the same in the days of Lot.^(L) People were eating and drinking, buying and selling, planting and building. ²⁹But the day Lot left Sodom, fire and sulfur rained down from heaven and destroyed them all.

³⁰“It will be just like this on the day the Son of Man is revealed.^(M) ³¹On that day no one who is on the housetop, with possessions inside, should go down to get them. Likewise, no one in the field should go back for anything.^(N) ³²Remember Lot’s wife!^(O) ³³Whoever tries to keep their life will lose it, and whoever loses their life will preserve it.^(P) ³⁴I tell you, on that night two people will be in one bed; one will be taken and the other left. ³⁵Two women will be grinding grain together; one will be taken and the other left.”^(Q) ^[36]^[c]