- Seek Yahweh while he may be found.
Call on him while he is near. - He gives power to the weak.
He increases the strength of him who has no might. - The grass withers,
the flower fades;
but the word of our God stands forever. - Arise, shine; for your light has come,
and Yahweh’s glory has risen on you! - “For my thoughts are not your thoughts,
and your ways are not my ways,” says Yahweh. - You will keep whoever’s mind is steadfast in perfect peace,
because he trusts in you. - Sing to Yahweh, for he has done excellent things! Let this be known in all the earth!
- For Yahweh is our judge.
Yahweh is our lawgiver.
Yahweh is our king.
He will save us. - This also comes out from Yahweh of Armies, who is wonderful in counsel, and excellent in wisdom.
- Wash yourselves. Make yourself clean.
Put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes.
Cease to do evil. - For I, Yahweh your God, will hold your right hand,
saying to you, ‘Don’t be afraid.
I will help you.’ - Learn to do well.
Seek justice.
Relieve the oppressed.
Defend the fatherless.
Plead for the widow. - But now, Yahweh, you are our Father.
We are the clay and you our potter.
We all are the work of your hand. - I heard the Lord’s voice, saying, “Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?”
Then I said, “Here I am. Send me!” - Yes, in the way of your judgments, Yahweh, we have waited for you.
Your name and your renown are the desire of our soul. - For as the heavens are higher than the earth,
so are my ways higher than your ways,
and my thoughts than your thoughts. - I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, your transgressions,
and, as a cloud, your sins.
Return to me, for I have redeemed you. - Surely he has borne our sickness
and carried our suffering;
yet we considered him plagued,
struck by God, and afflicted. - I, even I, am he who comforts you.
Who are you, that you are afraid of man who shall die,
and of the son of man who will be made as grass? - Who has worked and done it,
calling the generations from the beginning?
I, Yahweh, the first, and with the last, I am he. - Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Behold, the virgin will conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.
- Until the Spirit is poured on us from on high,
and the wilderness becomes a fruitful field,
and the fruitful field is considered a forest. - Even to old age I am he,
and even to gray hairs I will carry you.
I have made, and I will bear.
Yes, I will carry, and will deliver. - In that day you will say, “Give thanks to Yahweh! Call on his name! Declare his doings among the peoples! Proclaim that his name is exalted!”
- Since you have been precious and honored in my sight,
and I have loved you,
therefore I will give people in your place,
and nations instead of your life.
Yahweh, you are my God. I will exalt you! I will praise your name, for you have done wonderful things, things planned long ago, in complete faithfulness and truth.But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceful, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy. And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.Next verse!With image