Isaiah 49:8-15

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⁸The Lord said:
At the right time, I answered you;
    on a day of salvation, I helped you.
    I have guarded you,
    and given you as a covenant to the people, to restore the land,
    and to reassign deserted properties,
⁹    saying to the prisoners, “Come out,”
    and to those in darkness, “Show yourselves.”
Along the roads animals^[a] will graze;
    their pasture will be on every treeless hilltop.
¹⁰They won’t hunger or thirst;
    the burning heat and sun won’t strike them,
    because one who has compassion for them will lead them
    and will guide them by springs of water.
¹¹I will turn all my mountains into roads;
    my highways will be built up.
¹²Look! These will come from far away.
    Look! These from the north and west,
    and these from the southland.^[b]

¹³Sing, heavens! Rejoice, earth!
Break out, mountains, with a song.
The Lord has comforted his people,
and taken pity on those who suffer.

Compassion for Zion

¹⁴But Zion says, “The Lord has abandoned me;
    my Lord has forgotten me.”
¹⁵Can a woman forget her nursing child,
    fail to pity the child of her womb?
        Even these may forget,
        but I won’t forget you.

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Footnotes

Isaiah 49:9 Heb lacks animals.
Isaiah 49:12 Heb Sinim

Psalm 145:8-19

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⁸    “The Lord is merciful and compassionate,
    very patient, and full of faithful love.
⁹    The Lord is good to everyone and everything;
    God’s compassion extends to all his handiwork!”
¹⁰All that you have made gives thanks to you, Lord;
    all your faithful ones bless you!
¹¹They speak of the glory of your kingdom;
    they talk all about your power,
¹²    to inform all human beings about God’s power
    and the majestic glory of God’s kingdom.
¹³Your kingdom is a kingship that lasts forever;
    your rule endures for all generations.
The Lord is trustworthy in all that he says,
    faithful in all that he does.^[a]
¹⁴The Lord supports all who fall down,
    straightens up all who are bent low.
¹⁵All eyes look to you, hoping,
    and you give them their food right on time,
¹⁶    opening your hand
    and satisfying the desire of every living thing.
¹⁷The Lord is righteous in all his ways,
    faithful in all his deeds.
¹⁸The Lord is close to everyone who calls out to him,
    to all who call out to him sincerely.
¹⁹God shows favor to those who honor him,
    listening to their cries for help and saving them.

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Footnotes

Psalm 145:13 LXX, DSS (11QPs^a), Syr; MT lacks these lines, but they correspond to the nun line in the alphabetic acrostic poem.

John 5:19-29

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Work of the Father and the Son

¹⁹Jesus responded to the Jewish leaders, “I assure you that the Son can’t do anything by himself except what he sees the Father doing. Whatever the Father does, the Son does likewise. ²⁰The Father loves the Son and shows him everything that he does. He will show him greater works than these so that you will marvel. ²¹As the Father raises the dead and gives life, so too does the Son give life to whomever he wishes. ²²The Father doesn’t judge anyone, but he has given all judgment to the Son ²³so that everyone will honor the Son just as they honor the Father. Whoever doesn’t honor the Son doesn’t honor the Father who sent him.

²⁴“I assure you that whoever hears my word and believes in the one who sent me has eternal life and won’t come under judgment but has passed from death into life.

²⁵“I assure you that the time is coming—and is here!—when the dead will hear the voice of God’s Son, and those who hear it will live. ²⁶Just as the Father has life in himself, so he has granted the Son to have life in himself. ²⁷He gives the Son authority to judge, because he is the Human One.^[a] ²⁸Don’t be surprised by this, because the time is coming when all who are in their graves will hear his voice. ²⁹Those who did good things will come out into the resurrection of life, and those who did wicked things into the resurrection of judgment.