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62 “For Zion’s sake, I will not be silent. And for Jerusalem’s sake, I will not rest, until their righteousness breaks forth as the light, their salvation as a burning lamp.”
2 And the Gentiles shall see your righteousness, and all kings your glory. And you shall be called by a new name which the Mouth of the LORD shall name.
3 You shall also be a crown of glory in the Hand of the LORD, and a royal diadem in the Hand of your God.
4 No more shall it be said to you, “Forsaken.” Nor shall it be said anymore to your land, “Desolate.” But you shall be called Hephzibah, and your land Beulah. For the LORD delights in you; and your land shall have a husband.
5 For as a young man marries a virgin, so shall your sons marry you. And as a bridegroom is glad of the bride, so shall your God rejoice over you.
6 I have set watchmen upon your walls, O Jerusalem, who shall not cease all the day and all the night, continually. You who are mindful of the LORD, do not keep silence,
7 and give him no rest until he establishes, and until he sets up Jerusalem as the praise of the world.
8 The LORD has sworn by His right Hand and by His strong Arm, “Surely, no more will I give your grain to be food for your enemies. And surely, the sons of the strangers shall not drink your wine for which you have labored.
9 “But those who have gathered it shall eat it and praise the LORD. And its gatherers shall drink it in the courts of My Sanctuary.”
10 Go through! Go through the gates! Prepare the way for the people! Cast up! Cast up the way and gather out the stones! Set up a standard for the people!
11 Behold, the LORD has proclaimed to the ends of the world, “Tell the daughter, Zion, ‘Behold, your Savior comes. Behold, His wages are with Him and His work before Him.’”
12 And they shall call them, “The Holy People, The Redeemed of the LORD.” And you shall be named, “A City Sought Out, Not Forsaken.”
63 Who is this who comes from Edom, with red garments from Bozrah? He is glorious in His apparel, and walks in His great strength. “I speak in righteousness and am mighty to save.”
2 Why is your apparel red, and your garments like him who treads in the winepress?
3 “I have trod the winepress alone, and from all people there was no one with Me. For I will tread them in My anger and tread them under foot in My wrath. And their blood shall be sprinkled upon My garments. And I will stain all My clothing.
4 “For the day of vengeance is in My Heart. And the year of My redeemed has come.
5 “And I looked, and there was no one to help. And I wondered that there was no one to uphold. Therefore, My own Arm helped Me. And My wrath itself sustained Me.
6 “Therefore, I will tread down the people in My wrath, and make them drunk in My indignation, and will bring down their strength to the earth.”
7 I will remember the mercy of the LORD, the praises of the LORD, according to all that the LORD has given us, and for the great goodness toward the House of Israel which He has given them according to His tender love, and according to His great mercies.
8 For He said, “Surely they are My people, children that will not lie.” So He was their Savior.
9 In all their troubles, He was troubled. And the Angel of His presence saved them. In His love and in His mercy, He redeemed them and He bore them and carried them, always, continually.
10 But they rebelled and grieved His Holy Spirit. Therefore, He was turned to be their enemy. He fought against them.
11 Then He remembered the old time of Moses and his people, saying, “Where is He who brought them up out of the sea with the shepherd of His sheep? Where is He who put His Holy Spirit within him?
12 “He led them by the right hand of Moses with His own glorious Arm, dividing the water before them, to make Himself an everlasting Name.
13 “He led them through the deep, as a horse in the wilderness, so that they would not stumble.”
14 As the beast goes down into the valley, the Spirit of the LORD gave them rest. So did You lead Your people, to make Yourself a glorious Name.
15 Look down from Heaven, and behold from the dwelling place of Your holiness, and of Your Glory. Where is Your zeal and Your strength, the multitude of Your mercies, and of Your compassion? They are restrained from me.
16 Doubtless, You are our Father. Though Abraham is ignorant of us and Israel does not know us, You, O LORD, are our Father, our Redeemer. Your Name is forever.
17 O LORD, why have You made us err from Your ways, hardened our heart from Your fear? Return for Your servant’s sake, for the tribes of Your inheritance.
18 The people of Your holiness have possessed it only a little while. For our adversaries have trampled down Your Sanctuary.
19 We have been as they over whom You never bore rule and upon whom Your name was not called.
64 Oh, that You would break the heavens and come down, that the mountains might melt at Your presence!
2 As the melting fire burned, the fire caused the waters to boil, (so that You might declare Your Name to Your adversaries) the people trembled at Your presence.
3 When You did terrible things, which we did not look for, You came down and the mountains melted at Your presence.
4 For since the beginning of the world, they have neither heard nor understood with the ear. Nor has the eye seen another God beside You Who does so to him who waits for Him.
5 You met him who rejoiced and did justly. They remembered You in Your ways. Behold, You are angry, for we have sinned, continually. Yet, we shall be saved.
6 For we have all been as an unclean thing, and all our righteousness as filthy cloths. And we all fade like a leaf. And our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.
7 And there is no one who calls upon Your Name, or who stirs himself up to take hold of You. For You have hidden Your Face from us, and have consumed us because of our iniquities.
8 But now, O LORD, You are our Father. We are the clay and You are our Potter. And we all are the work of Your Hands.
9 Do not be angry above measure, O LORD, or remember iniquity forever. Lo, we beg You. Behold, we are all Your people.
10 Your holy cities lie desolate. Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a desert.
11 The House of our Sanctuary, and of our glory, where our fathers praised You, is burnt up with fire. And all our pleasant things are wasted.
12 Will You hold Yourself still at these things, O LORD? Will You hold Your peace and afflict us above measure?
1 Paul, an Apostle of Jesus Christ, by the Commandment of God our Savior, and of our Lord Jesus Christ, our hope,
2 To Timothy, my natural son in the faith: Grace, mercy, and peace from God our Father, and from Christ Jesus our Lord.
3 As I urged you when I departed into Macedonia, remain in Ephesus so that you may charge some to teach no other doctrine,
4 or to consider fables and endless genealogies (which breed questions rather than godly edifying, which is by faith).
5 For the purpose of the charge is love out of a pure heart and a good conscience, and faith without hypocrisy.
6 Some have erred from such things and have turned to mindless twaddle.
7 They wish to be teachers of the Law and yet do not understand what they say or the things they affirm.
8 And we know that the Law is good if one uses it lawfully,
9 knowing this: that the Law is not given for the righteous, but for the lawless and disobedient; for the ungodly and for sinners, for the unholy and profane, for killers of fathers and mothers, for murderers,
10 for sodomites, for kidnappers, for liars, for perjurers, and anything else contrary to wholesome doctrine,
11 according to the glorious Gospel of the blessed God which was entrusted to me.
12 Therefore, I thank Him Who has made me strong - Christ Jesus our Lord. For He counted me faithful and put me in His service
13 when I had previously been a blasphemer and a persecutor and an oppressor. But I was received to mercy. For I did it ignorantly, through unbelief.
14 But the grace of our Lord was exceedingly abundant, with faith and love, which is in Christ Jesus.
15 This is a true saying and by all means worthy to be received: that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners. Of whom I am chief.
16 But, I was received to mercy for this reason: so that Jesus Christ should first show all long suffering on me, as an example to those who shall (in time) come to believe in Him unto eternal life.
17 Now, to the King everlasting, immortal, invisible; to God (Who alone is wise) be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen.
18 This commandment I commit to you, son Timothy, according to previous prophecies concerning you, so that by them you should fight a good fight,
19 having faith and a good conscience (which some have put away and, as far as faith, have made shipwreck -
20 of whom is Hymenaeus and Alexander - whom I have delivered to Satan so that they might learn not to blaspheme).
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