Isaiah 63:15-64:1

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A Prayer of Penitence

¹⁵^(A)Look down from heaven,
And see ^(B)from Your habitation, holy and glorious.
Where are Your zeal and Your strength,
The yearning ^(C)of Your heart and Your mercies toward me?
Are they restrained?
¹⁶^(D)Doubtless You are our Father,
Though Abraham ^(E)was ignorant of us,
And Israel does not acknowledge us.
You, O Lord, are our Father;
Our Redeemer from Everlasting is Your name.
¹⁷O Lord, why have You ^(F)made us stray from Your ways,
And hardened our heart from Your fear?
Return for Your servants’ sake,
The tribes of Your inheritance.
¹⁸^(G)Your holy people have possessed it but a little while;
^(H)Our adversaries have trodden down Your sanctuary.
¹⁹We have become like those of old, over whom You never ruled,
Those who were never called by Your name.

A Prayer for Help

64 Oh, that You would ^[a]rend the heavens!
That You would come down!
That the mountains might shake at Your ^(I)presence—

Footnotes

Isaiah 64:1 tear open

Isaiah 45:1-8

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Cyrus, God’s Instrument

45 “Thus says the Lord to His anointed,
To ^(A)Cyrus, whose ^(B)right hand I have ^[a]held—
^(C)To subdue nations before him
And ^(D)loose the armor of kings,
To open before him the double doors,
So that the gates will not be shut:
²‘I will go before you
^(E)And^[b] make the ^[c]crooked places straight;
^(F)I will break in pieces the gates of bronze
And cut the bars of iron.
³I will give you the treasures of darkness
And hidden riches of secret places,
^(G)That you may know that I, the Lord,
Who ^(H)call you by your name,
Am the God of Israel.
⁴For ^(I)Jacob My servant’s sake,
And Israel My elect,
I have even called you by your name;
I have named you, though you have not known Me.
⁵I ^(J)am the Lord, and ^(K)there is no other;
There is no God besides Me.
^(L)I will gird you, though you have not known Me,
⁶^(M)That they may ^(N)know from the rising of the sun to its setting
That there is none besides Me.
I am the Lord, and there is no other;
⁷I form the light and create darkness,
I make peace and ^(O)create calamity;
I, the Lord, do all these things.’

⁸“Rain^(P) down, you heavens, from above,
And let the skies pour down righteousness;
Let the earth open, let them bring forth salvation,
And let righteousness spring up together.
I, the Lord, have created it.

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Footnotes

Isaiah 45:1 strengthened or sustained
Isaiah 45:2 Tg. I will trample down the walls; Vg. I will humble the great ones of the earth
Isaiah 45:2 DSS, LXX mountains

1 Corinthians 5

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Immorality Defiles the Church

5 It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and such sexual immorality as is not even ^[a]named among the Gentiles—that a man has his father’s ^(A)wife! ²^(B)And you are ^[b]puffed up, and have not rather ^(C)mourned, that he who has done this deed might be taken away from among you. ³^(D)For I indeed, as absent in body but present in spirit, have already judged (as though I were present) him who has so done this deed. ⁴In the ^(E)name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when you are gathered together, along with my spirit, ^(F)with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ, ⁵^(G)deliver such a one to ^(H)Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord ^[c]Jesus.

⁶^(I)Your glorying is not good. Do you not know that ^(J)a little leaven leavens the whole lump? ⁷Therefore ^[d]purge out the old leaven, that you may be a new lump, since you truly are unleavened. For indeed ^(K)Christ, our ^(L)Passover, was sacrificed ^[e]for us. ⁸Therefore ^(M)let us keep the feast, ^(N)not with old leaven, nor ^(O)with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

Immorality Must Be Judged

⁹I wrote to you in my epistle ^(P)not to ^[f]keep company with sexually immoral people. ¹⁰Yet I certainly did not mean with the sexually immoral people of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or idolaters, since then you would need to go ^(Q)out of the world. ¹¹But now I have written to you not to keep company ^(R)with anyone named a brother, who is sexually immoral, or covetous, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or an extortioner—^(S)not even to eat with such a person.

¹²For what have I to do with judging those also who are outside? Do you not judge those who are inside? ¹³But those who are outside God judges. Therefore ^(T)“put away from yourselves the evil person.”

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