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For the sake of My name I will delay My wrath; for the sake of My praise I will restrain it, so that you will not be cut off.

Then you will say in your heart, 'Who has begotten these for me? I was bereaved and barren; I was exiled and rejected. So who has reared them? Look, I was left all alone, so where did they come from?'"

So the redeemed of the LORD will return and enter Zion with singing, crowned with unending joy. Joy and gladness will overtake them, and sorrow and sighing will flee.

For I am the LORD your God who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar-the LORD of Hosts is His name.

I will place it in the hands of your tormentors, who told you: 'Lie down, so we can walk over you.' And you made your back like the ground, and like a street to be traversed.

so He will sprinkle many nations. Kings will shut their mouths because of Him. For they will see what they have not been told, and they will understand what they have not heard.

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 her shearers is silent, so He did not open His mouth.

"For to Me this is like the days of Noah, when I swore that the waters of Noah would never again cover the earth. So I have sworn that I will not be angry with you or rebuke you.

Incline your ear and come to Me; listen, so that your soul may live. I will make an everlasting covenant with you, My loving devotion assured to David.

"For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so My ways are higher than your ways and My thoughts than your thoughts.

so My word that proceeds from My mouth will not return to Me empty, but it will accomplish what I please, and it will prosper where I send it.

Whom have you dreaded and feared, so that you lied and failed to remember Me or take this to heart? Have I not held My peace such a long time, and still you do not fear Me?

I was enraged by his sinful greed, so I struck him and hid My face in anger; yet he kept turning back to the desires of his heart.

But your iniquities have built barriers between you and your God, and your sins have hidden His face from you, so that He will not hear.

So justice is turned away, and righteousness stands at a distance. For truth has stumbled in the public square, and honesty cannot enter.

He saw that there was no man-He was amazed that there was no one to intercede; so His own arm brought salvation, and His own righteousness sustained Him.

So He will repay according to their deeds: fury to His enemies, retribution to His foes, and recompense to the islands.

So will they fear the name of the LORD from the west and His glory from the rising of the sun; for He will come like a raging flood, driven by the breath of the LORD.

Your gates will always stand open; they will never be shut, day or night, so that the wealth of the nations may be brought into you, with their kings being led in procession.

Then all your people will be righteous; they will possess the land forever; they are the branch of My planting, the work of My hands, so that I may be glorified.