Hello, and welcome
to "His Words Are Life."
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I'm Kelly Mowrer,
and today we're going to
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continue reading
together in the Book of Isaiah,
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but let's pray before we start.
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Dear, Heavenly Father,
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thank you for this
opportunity to come
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and to listen to You
speaking to each one of us,
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may we hear these words
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not as a collection of thoughts
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that are broadly
and generally applied,
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but maybe hear them
personally as You talking to us,
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telling us of Your
love and Your will,
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and Your plans for our life.
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Please, send Your
Holy Spirit now as we read,
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thank you, amen.
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I'm reading in Isaiah Chapter
57 beginning with verse 3,
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and this is the
King James Version.
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"But draw near hither,
ye sons of the sorceress,
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the seed of the
adulterer and the whore.
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Against whom do
ye sport yourselves?
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Against whom
make ye a wide mouth,
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and draw out the tongue?
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Are ye not
children of transgression,
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a seed of falsehood?
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Enflaming yourselves with
idols under every green tree,
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slaying the
children in the valleys
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under the clefts of the rocks.
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Among the smooth
stones of the stream
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is thy portion,
they are thy lot.
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Even to them hast thou
poured a drink offering,
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thou hast
offered a meat offering?
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Should I receive
comfort in these?
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Upon a lofty and high
mountain hast thou set thy bed.
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Even thither wentest
thou up to offer sacrifice.
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Behind the doors also
and the posts hast thou
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set up thy remembrance
for thou hast discovered
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thyself to another
than me, and art gone up,
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thou hast enlarged thy bed,
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and made thee a
covenant with them,
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thou lovest their
bed where thou sawest it.
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And thou wentest to
the king with ointment,
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and didst increase thy perfumes,
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and didst send thy
messengers far off,
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and didst debase
thyself even unto hell.
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Thou art wearied in
the greatness of thy way,
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yet saidst thou
not, There is no hope.
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Thou hast found
the life of thine hand,
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therefore thou wast not grieved.
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And of whom hast thou
been afraid or feared,
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that thou hast lied,
and hast not remembered me,
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nor laid it to thy heart?
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Have not I held my
peace, even of old,
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and thou fearest me not?
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I will declare
thy righteousness,
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and thy works, for
they shall not profit thee.
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When thou criest, let
thy companies deliver thee,
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but the wind shall
carry them all away,
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vanity shall take them.
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But he that
putteth his trust in me,
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shall possess the
land, and shall inherit
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my holy mountain, and
shall say, Cast ye up,
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cast ye up, prepare the way,
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take up the stumbling-block
out of the way of my people.
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For thus saith
the high and lofty
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One that inhabited
eternity, whose name is Holy,
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I dwell in the
high and holy place,
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with him also that is of a
contrite and humble spirit,
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to revive the
spirit of the humble,
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and to revive the
heart of the contrite ones.
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For I will not contend for ever,
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neither will I be
always wroth for the spirit
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should fail before me, and
the souls which I have made.
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For the iniquity of his
covetousness was I wroth,
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and smote him. I
hid me, and was wroth,
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and he went on forwardly
in the way of his heart.
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I have seen his
ways, and will heal him.
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I will lead him
also, and restore comforts
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unto him and to his mourners.
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I create the fruit of the lips.
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Peace, peace to
hi that is far off,
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and to him that is
near, saith the Lord,
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and I will heal him.
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But the wicked are
like the troubled sea,
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when it cannot rest,
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whose waters
cast up mire and dirt.
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There is no peace,
saith my God, to the wicked."
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Continuing with
Isaiah Chapter 58
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and this is the
King James Version.
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"Cry aloud, spare not,
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lift up thy
voice like a trumpet,
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and show my people
their transgression,
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and the house of
Jacob their sins.
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Yet they seek me daily,
and delight to know my ways,
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as a nation that
did righteousness,
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and forsook not the
ordinance of their God.
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They ask of me the
ordinances of justice,
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they take delight
in approaching to God.
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Wherefore have
we fasted, say they,
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and thou seest not?
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Wherefore have we
afflicted our soul,
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and thou takest no knowledge?
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Behold, in the day of
your fast ye find pleasure,
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and exact all your labors.
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Behold, ye fast
for strife and debate,
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and to smite with
the fist of wickedness.
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Ye shall not fast
as ye do this day,
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to make your voice
to be heard on high.
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Is it such a fast
that I have chosen?
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A day for a man
to afflict his soul?
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Is it to bow down
his head as a bulrush,
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and to spread
sackcloth and ashes under him?
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Wilt thou call this a fast
and acceptable day to the Lord?
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Is not this the
fast that I have chosen?
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To loose the
bands of wickedness,
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to undo the heavy burdens,
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and to let the
oppressed go free,
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and that ye break every yoke?
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Is it not to deal
thy bread to the hungry,
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and that thou bring the poor
that are cast out to thy house?
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When thou seest the naked,
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that thou cover
Him, and that thou hide
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not thyself
from thine own flesh?
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Then shall thy light
break forth as the morning,
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and thine health
shall spring forth speedily.
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And thy righteousness
shall go before thee.
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The glory of the Lord
shall be thy rereward.
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Then shalt thou call,
and the Lord shall answer,
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thou shalt cry,
and he shall say,
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"Here I am." If thou take away
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from the midst of thee the yoke,
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the putting forth of the
finger, and speaking vanity.
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And if thou draw out
thy soul to the hungry,
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and satisfy the afflicted soul,
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then shall thy
light rise in obscurity,
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and thy darkness
be as the noonday.
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And the Lord shall
guide thee continually,
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and satisfy thy soul in drought,
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and make fat thy bones.
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And thou shalt be
like a watered garden,
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and like a spring of
water, whose waters fail not.
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And they that shall be of thee
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shall build the
old waste places.
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Thou shalt raise
up the foundations
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of many generations,
and thou shalt be called,
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The repairer of the breach,
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The restorer of
paths to dwell in.
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If thou turn away thy
foot from the Sabbath,
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from doing thy
pleasure on my holy day.
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And call the Sabbath a delight,
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the holy of the Lord, honorable,
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and shalt honor him,
not doing thine own ways,
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nor finding thine own pleasure,
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nor speaking thine own words.
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Then shalt thou
delight thyself in the Lord,
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and I will cause
thee to ride upon
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the high places of
the earth, and feed thee
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with the heritage
of Jacob thy father,
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the mouth of the
Lord hath spoken it."
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Continuing to read
in Isaiah Chapter 59
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and this is the
King James Version.
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"Behold, the Lord's
hand is not shortened,
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that it cannot save,
neither his ear heavy,
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that it cannot hear.
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But your
iniquities have separated
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between you and your
God, and your sins have hid,
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his face from you,
that he will not hear.
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For your hands are
defiled with blood,
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and your fingers with iniquity,
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your lips have spoken lies,
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your tongue hath
muttered perverseness.
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None calleth for justice,
nor any pleadeth for truth.
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They trust in
vanity, and speak lies,
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they conceive mischief,
and bring forth iniquity.
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They hatch cockatrice' eggs,
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and weave the spider's web.
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He that eateth
of their eggs dieth,
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and that which is crushed
breaketh out into a viper.
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Their webs shall
not become garments,
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neither shall they cover
themselves with their works.
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Their works are
works of iniquity,
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and the act of
violence is in their hands.
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Their feet run to evil,
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and they make haste
to shed innocent blood.
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Their thoughts are
thoughts of iniquity,
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wasting and
destruction are in their paths.
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The way of peace they know not,
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and there is no
judgment in their goings.
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They have made
them crooked paths.
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Whosoever goeth there
in shall not know peace.
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Therefore is
judgment far from us,
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neither doth
justice overtake us.
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We wait for light,
but behold obscurity,
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for brightness, but
we walk in darkness.
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We grope for the
wall like the blind,
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and we grope as
if we had no eyes.
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We stumble at
noonday as in the night,
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we are in desolate
places as dead men.
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We roar all like bears,
and mourn sore like doves.
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We look for
judgment, but there is none,
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for salvation, but
it is far off from us.
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For our transgressions
are multiplied before thee,
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and our sins testify against us.
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For our
transgressions are with us,
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and as for our
iniquities, we know them.
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In transgressing and
lying against the Lord,
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and departing away from our God,
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speaking oppression and revolt,
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conceiving and uttering from
the heart words of falsehood.
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And judgment is
turned away backward,
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and justice standeth afar off.
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For truth is
fallen in the street,
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and equity cannot enter.
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Yea, truth faileth,
and he that departeth
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from evil maketh himself a prey,
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and the Lord saw it,
and it displeased him
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and there was no judgment.
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And he saw that
there was no man,
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and wondered that
there was no intercessor.
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Therefore his arm
brought salvation unto him,
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and his
righteousness, it sustained him.
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For he put on
righteousness as a breastplate,
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and an helmet of
salvation upon his head,
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and he put on the garments
of vengeance for clothing,
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and was clad
with zeal as a cloke.
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According to their deeds,
accordingly he will repay,
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fury to his adversaries,
recompence to his enemies,
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to the islands he
will repay recompence.
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So shall they fear the
name of the Lord from the west,
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and his glory from
the rising of the sun.
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When the enemy shall come in
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like a flood, the
Spirit of the Lord
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shall lift up a
standard against him.
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And the Redeemer
shall come to Zion,
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and unto them that turn
from transgression in Jacob,
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saith the Lord. As for me,
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this is my covenant
with them, saith the Lord.
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My spirit that is upon thee,
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and my words which I
have put in thy mouth,
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shall not depart
out of thy mouth,
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nor out of the
mouth of thy seed,
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nor out of the
mouth of thy seed's seed,
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saith the Lord, from
henceforth and for ever."
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Continuing in Isaiah Chapter 60
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and this is the
King James Version.
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"Arise, shine,
for thy light is come,
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and the glory of the
Lord is risen upon thee.
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For, behold, the
darkness shall cover the earth,
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and gross darkness the people.
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But the Lord
shall arise upon thee,
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and his glory
shall be seen upon thee.
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And the Gentiles
shall come to thy light,
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and kings to the
brightness of thy rising.
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Lift up thine eyes
round about, and see.
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All they gather
themselves together,
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they come to thee, thy
sons shall come from far,
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and thy daughters
shall be nursed at thy side.
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Then thou shalt
see, and flow together,
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and thine heart shall
fear, and be enlarged,
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because the abundance of the sea
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shall be converted unto
thee, the forces of the Gentiles
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shall come unto thee.
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The multitude of
camels shall cover thee,
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the dromedaries
of Midian and Ephah,
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all they from Sheba shall come.
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They shall bring
gold and incense,
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and they shall show
forth the praises of the Lord.
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All the flocks of
Kedar shall be gathered
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together unto thee,
the rams of Nebaioth
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shall minister unto thee.
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They shall come up with
acceptance on mine altar,
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and I will glorify
the house of my glory.
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Who are these
that fly as a cloud,
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and as the doves
to their windows?
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Surely the isles
shall wait for me,
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and the ships of Tarshish first,
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to bring thy sons from far,
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their silver and
their gold with them,
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unto the name of
the Lord thy God,
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and to the Holy One of Israel,
because he hath glorified thee.
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And the sons of strangers
shall build up thy walls,
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and their kings
shall minister unto thee.
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For in my wrath I smote thee,
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but in my favor
have I had mercy on thee.
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Therefore thy gates
shall be open continually,
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they shall not be
shut day nor night,
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that men may bring unto
thee the forces of the Gentiles,
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and that their
kings may be brought.
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For the nation and
kingdom that will not serve
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thee shall perish,
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yea, those nations
shall be utterly wasted.
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The glory of Lebanon
shall come unto thee,
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the fir tree, the pine tree,
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and the box
together, to beautify the place
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of my sanctuary, and
I will make the place
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of my feet glorious.
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Thy sons also of
them that afflicted thee
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shall come bending unto thee,
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and all they that
despised thee shall bow
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themselves down at
the soles of thy feet.
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And they shall call
thee, The city of the Lord,
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The Zion of the
Holy One of Israel.
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Whereas thou hast
been forsaken and hated,
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so that no man
went through thee,
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I will make thee
an eternal excellency,
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a joy of many generations.
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Thou shalt also suck
the milk of the Gentiles,
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and shalt suck
the breast of kings.
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And thou shalt know
that I the Lord am thy Savior
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and thy Redeemer,
the mighty one of Jacob."
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Thank you for joining me today,
and please join me next time
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to read the Book of
God together. Goodbye.
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