Study Desk

They still come every day looking for me and want to learn my ways. They act just like a nation that does what is right, that obeys the commands of its God. They ask me to judge them fairly. They want God to be near them.

Then your light will shine like the dawn, and your wounds will quickly heal. Your God will walk before you, and the glory of the Lord will protect you from behind.

It is your evil that has separated you from your God. Your sins cause him to turn away from you, so he does not hear you.

We have done many wrong things against our God; our sins show we are wrong. We know we have turned against God; we know the evil things we have done:

sinning and rejecting the Lord , turning away from our God, planning to hurt others and to disobey God, planning and speaking lies.

People in faraway lands are waiting for me. The great trading ships will come first, bringing your children from faraway lands, and with them silver and gold. This will honor the Lord your God, the Holy One of Israel, who does wonderful things for you.

The sun will no longer be your light during the day nor will the brightness from the moon be your light, because the Lord will be your light forever, and your God will be your glory.

The Lord God has put his Spirit in me, because the Lord has appointed me to tell the good news to the poor. He has sent me to comfort those whose hearts are broken, to tell the captives they are free, and to tell the prisoners they are released.

He has sent me to announce the time when the Lord will show his kindness and the time when our God will punish evil people. He has sent me to comfort all those who are sad

You will be called priests of the Lord ; you will be named the servants of our God. You will have riches from all the nations on earth, and you will take pride in them.

The Lord makes me very happy; all that I am rejoices in my God. He has covered me with clothes of salvation and wrapped me with a coat of goodness, like a bridegroom dressed for his wedding, like a bride dressed in jewels.

The earth causes plants to grow, and a garden causes the seeds planted in it to grow. In the same way the Lord God will make goodness and praise come from all the nations.

You will never again be called the People that God Left, nor your land the Land that God Destroyed. You will be called the People God Loves, and your land will be called the Bride of God, because the Lord loves you. And your land will belong to him as a bride belongs to her husband.

As a young man marries a woman, so your children will marry your land. As a man rejoices over his new wife, so your God will rejoice over you.

His people will be called the Holy People, the Saved People of the Lord , and Jerusalem will be called the City God Wants, the City God Has Not Rejected.

From long ago no one has ever heard of a God like you. No one has ever seen a God besides you, who helps the people who trust you.

"But as for you who left the Lord , who forgot about my holy mountain, who worship the god Luck, who hold religious feasts for the god Fate,

So this is what the Lord God says: "My servants will eat, but you evil people will be hungry. My servants will drink, but you evil people will be thirsty. My servants will be happy, but you evil people will be shamed.

Your names will be like curses to my servants, and the Lord God will put you to death. But he will call his servants by another name.

People in the land who ask for blessings will ask for them from the faithful God. And people in the land who make a promise will promise in the name of the faithful God, because the troubles of the past will be forgotten. I will make those troubles go away.