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For I am Adonai your God, who stirs up the sea, who makes its waves roar — Adonai -Tzva'ot is my name.

Your children lie helpless at every street corner, like an antelope trapped in a net; they are full of Adonai 's fury, the rebuke of your God.

this is what your Lord Adonai says, your God, who defends his people: "Here, I have removed from your hand the cup of drunkenness, the goblet of my fury. You will never drink it again.

How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of him who brings good news, proclaiming shalom, bringing good news of good things, announcing salvation and saying to Tziyon, "Your God is King!"

Adonai has bared his holy arm in the sight of every nation, and all the ends of the earth will see the salvation of our God.

You need not leave in haste, you do not have to flee; for Adonai will go ahead of you, and the God of Isra'el will also be behind you.

In fact, it was our diseases he bore, our pains from which he suffered; yet we regarded him as punished, stricken and afflicted by God.

For your husband is your Maker, Adonai -Tzva'ot is his name. The Holy One of Isra'el is your Redeemer. He will be called the God of all the earth.

For Adonai has called you back like a wife abandoned and grief-stricken; "A wife married in her youth cannot be rejected," says your God.

You will summon a nation you do not know, and a nation that doesn't know you will run to you, for the sake of Adonai your God, the Holy One of Isra'el, who will glorify you."

Let the wicked person abandon his way and the evil person his thoughts; let him return to Adonai , and he will have mercy on him; let him return to our God, for he will freely forgive.

There is no shalom, says my God, for the wicked.

"Oh yes, they seek me day after day and [claim to] delight in knowing my ways. As if they were an upright nation that had not abandoned the rulings of their God, they ask me for just rulings and [claim] to take pleasure in closeness to God,

Rather, it is your own crimes that separate you from your God; your sins have hidden his face from you, so that he doesn't hear.

rebelling and denying Adonai , turning away from following our God, talking about oppression and revolt, uttering lies which our hearts have conceived.

The coastlands are putting their hope in me, with the ‘Tarshish' ships in the lead, to bring your children from far away, and with them their silver and gold, for the sake of Adonai your God, the Holy One of Isra'el, who glorifies you.

"No more will the sun be your light by day, nor will moonlight shine on you; instead Adonai will be your light forever and your God your glory.

to proclaim the year of the favor of Adonai and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all who mourn,

but you will be called cohanim of Adonai , spoken of as ministers to our God. You will feed on the wealth of nations, and revel in their riches.

I am so joyful in Adonai ! My soul rejoices in my God, for he has clothed me in salvation, dressed me with a robe of triumph, like a bridegroom wearing a festive turban, like a bride adorned with her jewels.