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Pray For the Peace of Jerusalem Isaiah 56 3. Let no foreigner who is bound to the Lord say, “The Lord will surely exclude me from his people.” And let no eunuch complain, “I am only a dry tree.” 4. For this is what the Lord says: “To the eunuchs who keep my Sabbaths, who choose what pleases me and hold fast to my covenant — 5. to them I will give within my temple and its walls a memorial and a name better than sons and daughters; I will give them an everlasting name that will endure forever....

Pray For the Peace of Jerusalem Isaiah 56 1. This is what the Lord says: “Maintain justice and do what is right, for my salvation is close at hand and my righteousness will soon be revealed. 2 Blessed is the one who does this— the person who holds it fast, who keeps the Sabbath without desecrating it, and keeps their hands from doing any evil.”

Pray For the Peace of Jerusalem Isaiah 55 8. “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,” declares the Lord. 9. “As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts. 10. As the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and do not return to it without watering the earth and making it bud and flourish, so that it yields seed for the sower and bread for the eater, 11. so is my word that goes out from my mouth:...

Pray For the Peace of Jerusalem Isaiah 55 6. Seek the Lord while he may be found; call on him while he is near. 7. Let the wicked forsake their ways and the unrighteous their thoughts. Let them turn to the Lord, and he will have mercy on them, and to our God, for he will freely pardon.

Pray For the Peace of Jerusalem Isaiah 55 1. “Come, all you who are thirsty, come to the waters; and you who have no money, come, buy and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without cost. 2. Why spend money on what is not bread, and your labor on what does not satisfy? Listen, listen to me, and eat what is good, and you will delight in the richest of fare. 3. Give ear and come to me; listen, that you may live. I will make an everlasting covenant with you, my faithful love promised to...

Pray For the Peace of Jerusalem Isaiah 54 1. “Sing, barren woman, you who never bore a child; burst into song, shout for joy, you who were never in labor; because more are the children of the desolate woman than of her who has a husband, ” says the Lord. 2. “Enlarge the place of your tent, stretch your tent curtains wide, do not hold back; lengthen your cords, strengthen your stakes. 3. For you will spread out to the right and to the left; your descendants will dispossess nations and settle in their desolate cities. 4. “Do not...

Pray For the Peace of Jerusalem Isaiah 53 7. He was oppressed and afflicted, yet he did not open his mouth; he was led like a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before its shearers is silent, so he did not open his mouth. 8. By oppression and judgment he was taken away. Yet who of his generation protested? For he was cut off from the land of the living; for the transgression of my people he was punished. 9. He was assigned a grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death, though he...

Pray For the Peace of Jerusalem Isaiah 53 1. Who has believed our message and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed? 2. He grew up before him like a tender shoot, and like a root out of dry ground. He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him, nothing in his appearance that we should desire him. 3 He was despised and rejected by mankind, a man of suffering, and familiar with pain. Like one from whom people hide their faces he was despised, and we held him in low esteem. 4. Surely...

Pray For the Peace of Jerusalem Isaiah 52 11. Depart, depart, go out from there! Touch no unclean thing! Come out from it and be pure, you who carry the articles of the Lord’s house. 12. But you will not leave in haste or go in flight; for the Lord will go before you, the God of Israel will be your rear guard. 13. See, my servant will act wisely; he will be raised and lifted up and highly exalted. 14. Just as there were many who were appalled at him— his appearance was so disfigured beyond that of...

Pray For the Peace of Jerusalem Isaiah 52 7. How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of those who bring good news, who proclaim peace, who bring good tidings, who proclaim salvation, who say to Zion, “Your God reigns!” 8. Listen! Your watchmen lift up their voices; together they shout for joy. When the Lord returns to Zion, they will see it with their own eyes. 9. Burst into songs of joy together, you ruins of Jerusalem, for the Lord has comforted his people, he has redeemed Jerusalem. 10. The Lord will lay bare his holy arm in...

Pray For the Peace of Jerusalem Isaiah 52 1. Awake, awake, Zion, clothe yourself with strength! Put on your garments of splendor, Jerusalem, the holy city. The uncircumcised and defiled will not enter you again. 2. Shake off your dust; rise up, sit enthroned, Jerusalem. Free yourself from the chains on your neck, Daughter Zion, now a captive. 3. For this is what the Lord says: “You were sold for nothing, and without money you will be redeemed. ” 4. For this is what the Sovereign Lord says: “At first my people went down to Egypt to live; lately,...

Pray For the Peace of Jerusalem Isaiah 51 17. Awake, awake! Rise up, Jerusalem, you who have drunk from the hand of the Lord the cup of his wrath, you who have drained to its dregs the goblet that makes people stagger. 18. Among all the children she bore there was none to guide her; among all the children she reared there was none to take her by the hand. 19. These double calamities have come upon you— who can comfort you? — ruin and destruction, famine and sword — who can console you? 20. Your children have fainted;...

Pray For the Peace of Jerusalem Isaiah 51 12. “I, even I, am he who comforts you. Who are you that you fear mere mortals, human beings who are but grass, 13. that you forget the Lord your Maker, who stretches out the heavens and who lays the foundations of the earth, that you live in constant terror every day because of the wrath of the oppressor, who is bent on destruction? For where is the wrath of the oppressor? 14. The cowering prisoners will soon be set free; they will not die in their dungeon, nor will they...

Pray For the Peace of Jerusalem Isaiah 51 9. Awake, awake, arm of the Lord, clothe yourself with strength! Awake, as in days gone by, as in generations of old. Was it not you who cut Rahab to pieces, who pierced that monster through? 10. Was it not you who dried up the sea, the waters of the great deep, who made a road in the depths of the sea so that the redeemed might cross over? 11. Those the Lord has rescued will return. They will enter Zion with singing; everlasting joy will crown their heads. Gladness and...

Pray For the Peace of Jerusalem Isaiah 51 7. “Hear me, you who know what is right, you people who have taken my instruction to heart: Do not fear the reproach of mere mortals or be terrified by their insults. 8. For the moth will eat them up like a garment; the worm will devour them like wool. But my righteousness will last forever, my salvation through all generations.”

Pray For the Peace of Jerusalem Isaiah 51 4. “Listen to me, my people; hear me, my nation: Instruction will go out from me; my justice will become a light to the nations. 5. My righteousness draws near speedily, my salvation is on the way, and my arm will bring justice to the nations. The islands will look to me and wait in hope for my arm. 6. Lift up your eyes to the heavens, look at the earth beneath; the heavens will vanish like smoke, the earth will wear out like a garment and its inhabitants die like...

Pray For the Peace of Jerusalem Isaiah 51 4. “Listen to me, my people; hear me, my nation: Instruction will go out from me; my justice will become a light to the nations. 5. My righteousness draws near speedily, my salvation is on the way, and my arm will bring justice to the nations. The islands will look to me and wait in hope for my arm. 6. Lift up your eyes to the heavens, look at the earth beneath; the heavens will vanish like smoke, the earth will wear out like a garment and its inhabitants die like...

Pray For the Peace of Jerusalem Isaiah 51 1. “Listen to me, you who pursue righteousness and who seek the Lord: Look to the rock from which you were cut and to the quarry from which you were hewn; 2. look to Abraham, your father, and to Sarah, who gave you birth. When I called him he was only one man, and I blessed him and made him many. 3. The Lord will surely comfort Zion and will look with compassion on all her ruins; he will make her deserts like Eden, her wastelands like the garden of the...

Pray For the Peace of Jerusalem Isaiah 50 10. Who among you fears the Lord and obeys the word of his servant? Let the one who walks in the dark, who has no light, trust in the name of the Lord and rely on their God. 11. But now, all you who light fires and provide yourselves with flaming torches, go, walk in the light of your fires and of the torches you have set ablaze. This is what you shall receive from my hand: You will lie down in torment.

Pray For the Peace of Jerusalem Isaiah 50 1. This is what the Lord says: “Where is your mother’s certificate of divorce with which I sent her away? Or to which of my creditors did I sell you? Because of your sins you were sold; because of your transgressions your mother was sent away. 2. When I came, why was there no one? When I called, why was there no one to answer? Was my arm too short to deliver you? Do I lack the strength to rescue you? By a mere rebuke I dry up the sea, I...