The Restoration of Israel

Thus says the Lord:
(A)“In a (B)time of favor I have answered you;
    in a day of salvation I have helped you;
I will keep you (C)and give you
    as a covenant to the people,
to establish the land,
    (D)to apportion the desolate heritages,

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For he says,

(A)“In a favorable time I listened to you,
    and in a day of salvation I have helped you.”

Behold, (B)now is the (C)favorable time; behold, now is the day of salvation.

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“I am the Lord; (A)I have called you[a] in righteousness;
    I will take you by the hand and keep you;
I will give you (B)as a covenant for the people,
    (C)a light for the nations,

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 42:6 The Hebrew for you is singular; four times in this verse

13 But as for me, my (A)prayer is to you, O Lord.
    At (B)an acceptable time, O God,
    in the abundance of your steadfast love answer me in your saving faithfulness.

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24 and to Jesus, (A)the mediator of a new covenant, and to (B)the sprinkled blood (C)that speaks a better word than the blood of Abel.

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(A)They shall build up the ancient ruins;
    they shall raise up the former devastations;
they shall repair the ruined cities,
    the devastations of many generations.

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12 (A)And your ancient ruins shall be rebuilt;
    you shall raise up the foundations of many generations;
you shall be called the repairer of the breach,
    the restorer of streets to dwell in.

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In the days of his flesh, (A)Jesus[a] offered up prayers and supplications, (B)with loud cries and tears, to him (C)who was able to save him from death, and (D)he was heard because of his reverence.

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Footnotes

  1. Hebrews 5:7 Greek he

12 remember (A)that you were at that time separated from Christ, (B)alienated from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers to (C)the covenants of promise, (D)having no hope and without God in the world. 13 But now in Christ Jesus you who once were (E)far off have been brought near (F)by the blood of Christ. 14 For (G)he himself is our peace, (H)who has made us both one and has broken down (I)in his flesh the dividing wall of hostility 15 by abolishing the law of commandments expressed in (J)ordinances, that he might create in himself one (K)new man in place of the two, so making peace, 16 and might (L)reconcile us both to God in one body through the cross, thereby killing the hostility. 17 And he came and (M)preached peace to you who were (N)far off and peace to those who were (O)near. 18 For (P)through him we both have (Q)access in (R)one Spirit to the Father. 19 So then you are no longer (S)strangers and aliens,[a] but you are (T)fellow citizens with the saints and (U)members of the household of God,

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Footnotes

  1. Ephesians 2:19 Or sojourners

16 (A)And I have put my words in your mouth
    (B)and covered you in the shadow of my hand,
(C)establishing[a] the heavens
    and (D)laying the foundations of the earth,
    and saying to Zion, ‘You are my people.’”

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 51:16 Or planting

26 (A)who confirms the word of his servant
    and fulfills the counsel of his messengers,
who says of Jerusalem, ‘She shall be inhabited,’
    (B)and of the cities of Judah, ‘They shall be built,
    and I will raise up their ruins’;

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(A)to the praise of his glorious grace, with which he has blessed us in (B)the Beloved.

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41 So they took away the stone. And Jesus (A)lifted up his eyes and said, “Father, I thank you that you have heard me. 42 (B)I knew that you always hear me, but I said this (C)on account of the people standing around, (D)that they may believe that you sent me.”

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(A)For you will spread abroad to the right and to the left,
    and your offspring will possess the nations
    and will people the desolate cities.

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But the Lord God helps me;
    therefore I have not been disgraced;
(A)therefore I have set my face like a flint,
    and I know that I shall not be put to shame.
    (B)He who vindicates me is near.
Who will contend with me?
    Let us stand up together.
Who is my adversary?
    Let him come near to me.
(C)Behold, the Lord God helps me;
    who will declare me guilty?
Behold, all of them will wear out like a garment;
    the moth will eat them up.

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19 “Surely your waste and your desolate places
    and your devastated land—
(A)surely now you will be too narrow for your inhabitants,
    and those who swallowed you up will be far away.

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The Lord's Chosen Servant

42 (A)Behold (B)my servant, whom I uphold,
    my chosen, (C)in whom my soul delights;
(D)I have put my Spirit upon him;
    (E)he will bring forth justice to the nations.

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(A)You keep him in perfect peace
    whose mind is stayed on you,
    because he trusts in you.

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When the earth (A)totters, and all its inhabitants,
    it is I who keep steady its (B)pillars. Selah

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Ask of me, and I will make the nations your heritage,
    and (A)the ends of the earth your possession.

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