Yes, there will be an abundance of flowers
    and singing and joy!
The deserts will become as green as the mountains of Lebanon,
    as lovely as Mount Carmel or the plain of Sharon.
There the Lord will display his glory,
    the splendor of our God.

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14 His head and his hair were white like wool, as white as snow. And his eyes were like flames of fire.

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19 and they are not connected to Christ, the head of the body. For he holds the whole body together with its joints and ligaments, and it grows as God nourishes it.

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18 Christ is also the head of the church,
    which is his body.
He is the beginning,
    supreme over all who rise from the dead.[a]
    So he is first in everything.

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Footnotes

  1. 1:18 Or the firstborn from the dead.

15 Instead, we will speak the truth in love, growing in every way more and more like Christ, who is the head of his body, the church. 16 He makes the whole body fit together perfectly. As each part does its own special work, it helps the other parts grow, so that the whole body is healthy and growing and full of love.

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22 God has put all things under the authority of Christ and has made him head over all things for the benefit of the church.

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20 Teach these new disciples to obey all the commands I have given you. And be sure of this: I am with you always, even to the end of the age.”

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20 For where two or three gather together as my followers,[a] I am there among them.”

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Footnotes

  1. 18:20 Greek gather together in my name.

The Lord’s Compassion on Israel

14 O Lord, protect your people with your shepherd’s staff;
    lead your flock, your special possession.
Though they live alone in a thicket
    on the heights of Mount Carmel,[a]
let them graze in the fertile pastures of Bashan and Gilead
    as they did long ago.

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Footnotes

  1. 7:14 Or surrounded by a fruitful land.

He loves the city of Jerusalem
    more than any other city in Israel.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. 87:2 Hebrew He loves the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob. See note on 44:4.

24 Your procession has come into view, O God—
    the procession of my God and King as he goes into the sanctuary.

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26 Then the man said, “Let me go, for the dawn is breaking!”

But Jacob said, “I will not let you go unless you bless me.”

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