21 (A)Declare and present your case;
Indeed, let them consult together.
(B)Who has announced this long ago?
Who has long since declared it?
Is it not I, the Lord?
And there is (C)no other God besides Me,
A righteous God and a (D)Savior;
There is none except Me.
22 (E)Turn to Me and (F)be saved, all the ends of the earth;
For I am God, and there is no other.
23 (G)I have sworn by Myself;
The (H)word has gone out from My mouth in righteousness
And will not turn back,
That to Me (I)every knee will bow, every tongue will (J)swear allegiance.

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He says, “It is too [a]small a thing that You should be My Servant
To raise up the tribes of Jacob and to restore the (A)protected ones of Israel;
I will also make You a (B)light [b]of the nations
So that My salvation may [c]reach to the (C)end of the earth.”
This is what the Lord, the (D)Redeemer of Israel and its Holy One,
Says to the [d](E)despised One,
To the One abhorred by the nation,
To the Servant of rulers:
(F)Kings will see and arise,
Princes will also (G)bow down,
Because of the Lord who is faithful, the Holy One of Israel who has chosen You.”

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 49:6 Lit light
  2. Isaiah 49:6 Or to
  3. Isaiah 49:6 Lit be
  4. Isaiah 49:7 Lit despised of soul

10 But the Lord desired
To (A)crush Him, [a](B)causing Him grief;
If He renders [b]Himself as a guilt (C)offering,
He will see (D)His [c]offspring,
He will prolong His days,
And the [d]good (E)pleasure of the Lord will prosper in His hand.
11 As a result of the [e]anguish of His soul,
He will [f](F)see it and be satisfied;
By His (G)knowledge the Righteous One,
My Servant, will justify the many,
For He will (H)bear their wrongdoings.
12 Therefore, I will allot Him a (I)portion with the great,
And He will divide the plunder with the strong,
Because He poured out His [g](J)life unto death,
And was (K)counted with wrongdoers;
Yet He Himself (L)bore the sin of many,
And interceded for the wrongdoers.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 53:10 Lit He made Him sick
  2. Isaiah 53:10 Lit His soul
  3. Isaiah 53:10 Lit seed
  4. Isaiah 53:10 Or will of
  5. Isaiah 53:11 Or trouble
  6. Isaiah 53:11 DSS see light; LXX also has light
  7. Isaiah 53:12 Lit soul

God Is Awesome

The (A)pronouncement of (B)Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite:

A (C)jealous and avenging God is the Lord;
The Lord is (D)avenging and [a]wrathful.
The Lord takes (E)vengeance on His adversaries,
And He reserves wrath for His enemies.
The Lord is (F)slow to anger and great in power,
And the Lord will by no means leave the guilty unpunished.
In the (G)gale and the storm is His way,
And (H)clouds are the dust beneath His feet.
He (I)rebukes the sea and dries it up;
He dries up all the rivers.
(J)Bashan and Carmel wither,
The blossoms of Lebanon wither.
Mountains (K)quake because of Him,
And the hills (L)come apart;
Indeed the earth is (M)upheaved by His presence,
The (N)world and all the inhabitants in it.
(O)Who can stand before His indignation?
Who can endure the (P)burning of His anger?
His (Q)wrath gushes forth like fire,
And the (R)rocks are broken up by Him.
The Lord is (S)good,
A stronghold in the day of trouble,
And (T)He knows those who take refuge in Him.
But with an (U)overflowing flood
He will make a complete end of [b]its site,
And will pursue His enemies into (V)darkness.

Whatever you (W)devise against the Lord,
He will make a (X)complete end of it.
Distress will not rise up twice.

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Footnotes

  1. Nahum 1:2 Lit a possessor of wrath
  2. Nahum 1:8 I.e., Nineveh’s

16 “For God so (A)loved the world, that He (B)gave His (C)only Son, so that everyone who (D)believes in Him will not perish, but have eternal life. 17 For God (E)did not send the Son into the world (F)to judge the world, but so that the world might be saved through Him. 18 (G)The one who believes in Him is not judged; the one who does not believe has been judged already, because he has not believed in the name of (H)the only Son of God. 19 And this is the judgment, that (I)the Light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the Light; for (J)their deeds were evil. 20 (K)For everyone who does evil hates the Light, and does not come to the Light, so that his deeds will not be exposed. 21 But the one who (L)practices the truth comes to the Light, so that his deeds will be revealed [a]as having been performed in God.”

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Footnotes

  1. John 3:21 Lit that they have been

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