(A)A voice cries:[a]
(B)“In the wilderness prepare the way of the Lord;
    (C)make straight in the desert a highway for our God.

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  1. Isaiah 40:3 Or A voice of one crying

(A)You keep him in perfect peace
    whose mind is stayed on you,
    because he trusts in you.
Trust in the Lord forever,
    for the Lord God is an everlasting rock.

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21 (A)who through him are believers in God, (B)who raised him from the dead and (C)gave him glory, so that your faith and hope are in God.

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12 so that we who were the first to hope in Christ might be (A)to the praise of his glory. 13 In him you also, when you heard (B)the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and believed in him, (C)were sealed with the (D)promised Holy Spirit,

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Let (A)the redeemed of the Lord say so,
    whom he has (B)redeemed from trouble[a]
and (C)gathered in from the lands,
    from the east and from the west,
    from the north and from the south.

Some (D)wandered in desert wastes,
    finding no way (E)to a city to dwell in;
hungry and thirsty,
    their soul (F)fainted within them.
Then they (G)cried to the Lord in their trouble,
    and he delivered them from their distress.
He led them by (H)a straight way
    till they reached (I)a city to dwell in.
(J)Let them thank the Lord for his steadfast love,
    for his wondrous works to the children of man!

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  1. Psalm 107:2 Or from the hand of the foe

My soul (A)clings to you;
    your right hand (B)upholds me.

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10 Hear, O daughter, and consider, and incline your ear:
    forget your people and your father's house,
11     and the king will desire your beauty.
Since he is your (A)lord, (B)bow to him.

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With him is (A)an arm of flesh, (B)but with us is the Lord our God, to help us and to fight our battles.” And the people took confidence from the words of Hezekiah king of Judah.

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and the woman fled into the wilderness, where she has a place prepared by God, in which she is to be nourished for (A)1,260 days.

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19 (A)my little children, (B)for whom I am again in the anguish of childbirth until Christ (C)is formed in you!

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But he said to me, (A)“My grace is sufficient for you, for (B)my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that (C)the power of Christ may rest upon me. 10 (D)For the sake of Christ, then, (E)I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities. For (F)when I am weak, then I am strong.

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Likewise, my brothers, (A)you also have died (B)to the law (C)through the body of Christ, so that you may belong to another, to him who has been raised from the dead, (D)in order that we may bear fruit for God.

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23 For this very night (A)there (B)stood before me (C)an angel of the God (D)to whom I belong and (E)whom I worship, 24 and he said, ‘Do not be afraid, Paul; (F)you must stand before Caesar. And behold, (G)God has granted you all those who sail with you.’ 25 So take heart, men, for I have faith in God that it will be exactly as I have been told.

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23 (A)One of his disciples, whom Jesus loved, was reclining at table (B)at Jesus' side,[a]

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  1. John 13:23 Greek in the bosom of Jesus

48 Nathanael said to him, “How (A)do you know me?” Jesus answered him, “Before Philip called you, when you were under the fig tree, I saw you.” 49 Nathanael answered him, (B)“Rabbi, (C)you are the Son of God! You are the (D)King of Israel!” 50 Jesus answered him, “Because I said to you, ‘I saw you under the fig tree,’ do you believe? You will see greater things than these.” 51 And he said to him, “Truly, truly, I say to you,[a] you will see (E)heaven opened, and (F)the angels of God ascending and descending on (G)the Son of Man.”

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  1. John 1:51 The Greek for you is plural; twice in this verse

11 (A)Its heads give judgment for a bribe;
    (B)its priests teach for a price;
    (C)its prophets practice divination for money;
(D)yet they lean on the Lord and (E)say,
    “Is not the Lord in the midst of us?
    (F)No disaster shall come upon us.”

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He strove with the angel and prevailed;
    he wept and sought his favor.
(A)He met God[a] at Bethel,
    and there God spoke with us—

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  1. Hosea 12:4 Hebrew him

“Go and proclaim in the hearing of Jerusalem, Thus says the Lord,

“I remember the devotion of (A)your youth,
    your love (B)as a bride,
(C)how you followed me in the wilderness,
    (D)in a land not sown.

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20 (A)The children of your bereavement
    will yet say in your ears:
(B)‘The place is too narrow for me;
    make room for me to dwell in.’
21 Then you will say in your heart:
    ‘Who has borne me these?
(C)I was bereaved and barren,
    exiled and put away,
    but who has brought up these?
Behold, I was left alone;
    from where have these come?’”

22 Thus says the Lord God:
“Behold, I will lift up my hand to the nations,
    (D)and raise my signal to the peoples;
(E)and they shall bring your sons in their arms,[a]
    and your daughters shall be carried on their shoulders.
23 (F)Kings shall be your foster fathers,
    and their queens your nursing mothers.
(G)With their faces to the ground they shall bow down to you,
    and (H)lick the dust of your feet.
Then you will know that I am the Lord;
    (I)those who wait for me (J)shall not be put to shame.”

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  1. Isaiah 49:22 Hebrew in their bosom

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