19 For the people (A)shall dwell in Zion at Jerusalem;
You shall (B)weep no more.
He will be very gracious to you at the sound of your cry;
When He hears it, He will (C)answer you.

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20 (A)Your sun shall no longer go down,
Nor shall your moon withdraw itself;
For the Lord will be your everlasting light,
And the days of your mourning shall be ended.

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24 “It shall come to pass
That (A)before they call, I will answer;
And while they are still speaking, I will (B)hear.

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15 (A)Call upon Me in the day of trouble;
I will deliver you, and you shall glorify Me.”

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Then you shall call, and the Lord will answer;
You shall cry, and He will say, ‘Here I am.

“If you take away the yoke from your midst,
The [a]pointing of the finger, and (A)speaking wickedness,

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  1. Isaiah 58:9 Lit. sending out of

17 for the Lamb who is in the midst of the throne (A)will shepherd them and lead them to [a]living fountains of waters. (B)And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.”

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  1. Revelation 7:17 NU, M fountains of the waters of life

Keep Asking, Seeking, Knocking(A)

(B)“Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For (C)everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened. (D)Or what man is there among you who, if his son asks for bread, will give him a stone? 10 Or if he asks for a fish, will he give him a serpent? 11 If you then, (E)being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask Him!

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Confidence and Compassion in Prayer

14 Now this is the confidence that we have in Him, that (A)if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. 15 And if we know that He hears us, whatever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we have asked of Him.

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21 (A)Blessed are you who hunger now,
For you shall be (B)filled.[a]
(C)Blessed are you who weep now,
For you shall (D)laugh.

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  1. Luke 6:21 satisfied

He will (A)swallow up death forever,
And the Lord God will (B)wipe away tears from all faces;
The rebuke of His people
He will take away from all the earth;
For the Lord has spoken.

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(A)‘Call to Me, and I will answer you, and show you great and [a]mighty things, which you do not know.’

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  1. Jeremiah 33:3 inaccessible

I will bring forth descendants from Jacob,
And from Judah an heir of My mountains;
My (A)elect shall inherit it,
And My servants shall dwell there.

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16 ‘Therefore thus says the Lord:

(A)“I am returning to Jerusalem with mercy;
My (B)house (C)shall be built in it,” says the Lord of hosts,
“And (D)a surveyor’s line shall be stretched out over Jerusalem.” ’

17 “Again proclaim, saying, ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts:

“My cities shall again [a]spread out through prosperity;
(E)The Lord will again comfort Zion,
And (F)will again choose Jerusalem.” ’ ”

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  1. Zechariah 1:17 Or overflow with good

“In those days and in that time,” says the Lord,
“The children of Israel shall come,
(A)They and the children of Judah together;
(B)With continual weeping they shall come,
(C)And seek the Lord their God.
They shall ask the way to Zion,
With their faces toward it, saying,
‘Come and let us join ourselves to the Lord
In (D)a perpetual covenant
That will not be forgotten.’

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12 Therefore they shall come and sing in (A)the height of Zion,
Streaming to (B)the goodness of the Lord
For wheat and new wine and oil,
For the young of the flock and the herd;
Their souls shall be like a (C)well-watered garden,
(D)And they shall sorrow no more at all.

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So I wept much, because no one was found worthy to open [a]and read the scroll, or to look at it.

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  1. Revelation 5:4 NU, M omit and read

20 Now (A)to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly (B)above all that we ask or think, (C)according to the power that works in us,

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26 And so all Israel will be [a]saved, as it is written:

(A)“The Deliverer will come out of Zion,
And He will turn away ungodliness from Jacob;

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  1. Romans 11:26 Or delivered

Now why do you cry aloud?
(A)Is there no king in your midst?
Has your counselor perished?
For (B)pangs have seized you like a woman in [a]labor.

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  1. Micah 4:9 childbirth

37 ‘Thus says the Lord God: (A)“I will also let the house of Israel inquire of Me to do this for them: I will (B)increase their men like a flock.

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28 The voice of those who flee and escape from the land of Babylon
(A)Declares in Zion the vengeance of the Lord our God,
The vengeance of His temple.

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For there shall be a day
When the watchmen will cry on Mount Ephraim,
(A)‘Arise, and let us go up to Zion,
To the Lord our God.’ ”

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12 “For thus says the Lord:

(A)‘Your affliction is incurable,
Your wound is severe.

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The Good News of Salvation

61 “The (A)Spirit of the Lord God is upon Me,
Because the Lord (B)has anointed Me
To preach good tidings to the poor;
He has sent Me (C)to [a]heal the brokenhearted,
To proclaim (D)liberty to the captives,
And the opening of the prison to those who are bound;
(E)To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord,
And (F)the day of vengeance of our God;
(G)To comfort all who mourn,
To [b]console those who mourn in Zion,
(H)To give them beauty for ashes,
The oil of joy for mourning,
The garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness;
That they may be called trees of righteousness,
(I)The planting of the Lord, (J)that He may be glorified.”

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  1. Isaiah 61:1 Lit. bind up
  2. Isaiah 61:3 Lit. appoint

24 Therefore thus says the Lord God of hosts: “O My people, who dwell in Zion, (A)do not be afraid of the Assyrian. He shall strike you with a rod and lift up his staff against you, in the manner of (B)Egypt.

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