Isaiah 30:8-14

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⁸Go now, write it on a tablet^(A) for them,
    inscribe it on a scroll,^(B)
that for the days to come
    it may be an everlasting witness.^(C)
⁹For these are rebellious^(D) people, deceitful^(E) children,
    children unwilling to listen to the Lord’s instruction.^(F)
¹⁰They say to the seers,^(G)
    “See no more visions^(H)!”
and to the prophets,
    “Give us no more visions of what is right!
Tell us pleasant things,^(I)
    prophesy illusions.^(J)
¹¹Leave this way,^(K)
    get off this path,
and stop confronting^(L) us
    with the Holy One^(M) of Israel!”

¹²Therefore this is what the Holy One^(N) of Israel says:

“Because you have rejected this message,^(O)
    relied on oppression^(P)
    and depended on deceit,
¹³this sin will become for you
    like a high wall,^(Q) cracked and bulging,
    that collapses^(R) suddenly,^(S) in an instant.
¹⁴It will break in pieces like pottery,^(T)
    shattered so mercilessly
that among its pieces not a fragment will be found
    for taking coals from a hearth
    or scooping water out of a cistern.”

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Isaiah 30:15-17

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¹⁵This is what the Sovereign^(A) Lord, the Holy One^(B) of Israel, says:

“In repentance and rest^(C) is your salvation,
    in quietness and trust^(D) is your strength,
    but you would have none of it.^(E)
¹⁶You said, ‘No, we will flee^(F) on horses.’^(G)
    Therefore you will flee!
You said, ‘We will ride off on swift horses.’
    Therefore your pursuers will be swift!
¹⁷A thousand will flee
    at the threat of one;
at the threat of five^(H)
    you will all flee^(I) away,
till you are left^(J)
    like a flagstaff on a mountaintop,
    like a banner^(K) on a hill.”

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Romans 8:31-39

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More Than Conquerors

³¹What, then, shall we say in response to these things?^(A) If God is for us,^(B) who can be against us?^(C) ³²He who did not spare his own Son,^(D) but gave him up for us all—how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things? ³³Who will bring any charge^(E) against those whom God has chosen? It is God who justifies. ³⁴Who then is the one who condemns?^(F) No one. Christ Jesus who died^(G)—more than that, who was raised to life^(H)—is at the right hand of God^(I) and is also interceding for us.^(J) ³⁵Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?^(K) Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword?^(L) ³⁶As it is written:

“For your sake we face death all day long;
we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.”^[a]^(M)

³⁷No, in all these things we are more than conquerors^(N) through him who loved us.^(O) ³⁸For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons,^[b] neither the present nor the future,^(P) nor any powers,^(Q) ³⁹neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God^(R) that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.^(S)

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Footnotes

Romans 8:36 Psalm 44:22
Romans 8:38 Or nor heavenly rulers

Luke 12:35-40

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Watchfulness^(A)^(B)

³⁵“Be dressed ready for service and keep your lamps burning, ³⁶like servants waiting for their master to return from a wedding banquet, so that when he comes and knocks they can immediately open the door for him. ³⁷It will be good for those servants whose master finds them watching when he comes.^(C) Truly I tell you, he will dress himself to serve, will have them recline at the table and will come and wait on them.^(D) ³⁸It will be good for those servants whose master finds them ready, even if he comes in the middle of the night or toward daybreak. ³⁹But understand this: If the owner of the house had known at what hour the thief^(E) was coming, he would not have let his house be broken into. ⁴⁰You also must be ready,^(F) because the Son of Man will come at an hour when you do not expect him.”