20 Listen! I am standing at the door, knocking; if you hear my voice and open the door, I will come in and eat with you, and you with me.(A)

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Fifth Vision: The Lampstand and Olive Trees

The angel who spoke with me came again and wakened me, as one is wakened from sleep.(A)

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40 Then he came to the disciples and found them sleeping, and he said to Peter, “So, could you not stay awake with me one hour?(A) 41 Stay awake and pray that you may not come into the time of trial;[a] the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.”(B)

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  1. 26.41 Or into testing

17 This was to fulfill what had been spoken through the prophet Isaiah, “He took our infirmities and bore our diseases.”(A)

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18 As he was speaking to me, I fell into a trance, face to the ground; then he touched me and set me on my feet.(A)

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He was despised and rejected by others;
    a man of suffering[a] and acquainted with infirmity,
and as one from whom others hide their faces[b]
    he was despised, and we held him of no account.(A)

Surely he has borne our infirmities
    and carried our diseases,
yet we accounted him stricken,
    struck down by God, and afflicted.(B)
But he was wounded for our transgressions,
    crushed for our iniquities;
upon him was the punishment that made us whole,
    and by his bruises we are healed.(C)

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  1. 53.3 Or a man of sorrows
  2. 53.3 Or as one who hides his face from us

14 Just as there were many who were astonished at him[a]
    —so marred was his appearance, beyond human semblance,
    and his form beyond that of mortals—(A)

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  1. 52.14 Syr Tg: Heb you

I gave my back to those who struck me
    and my cheeks to those who pulled out the beard;
I did not hide my face
    from insult and spitting.(A)

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26 My child, give me your heart,
    and let your eyes observe[a] my ways.(A)

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  1. 23.26 Or delight in

Psalm 119

The Glories of God’s Law

Happy are those whose way is blameless,
    who walk in the law of the Lord.(A)

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10 I am the Lord your God,
    who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.
    Open your mouth wide, and I will fill it.(A)

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Lift up your heads, O gates!
    and be lifted up, O ancient doors,
    that the King of glory may come in!(A)
Who is the King of glory?
    The Lord, strong and mighty,
    the Lord, mighty in battle.(B)
Lift up your heads, O gates!
    and be lifted up, O ancient doors,
    that the King of glory may come in!(C)
10 Who is this King of glory?
    The Lord of hosts,
    he is the King of glory. Selah

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40 It was like this with me: by day the heat consumed me and the cold by night, and my sleep fled from my eyes. 41 These twenty years I have been in your house; I served you fourteen years for your two daughters and six years for your flock, and you have changed my wages ten times.(A)

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20 So Jacob served seven years for Rachel, and they seemed to him but a few days because of his love for her.

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