Study Desk

Surely it was for my welfare that I had great bitterness; but you have held back my life from the pit of destruction, for you have cast all my sins behind your back.

The grass withers, the flower fades; but the word of our God will stand forever.

but those who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength, they shall mount up with wings like eagles, they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and not faint.

But you, Israel, my servant, Jacob, whom I have chosen, the offspring of Abraham, my friend;

You shall seek those who contend with you, but you shall not find them; those who war against you shall be as nothing at all.

But when I look there is no one; among these there is no counselor who, when I ask, gives an answer.

Who is blind but my servant, or deaf like my messenger whom I send? Who is blind like my dedicated one, or blind like the servant of the Lord ?

He sees many things, but does not observe them; his ears are open, but he does not hear.

But this is a people robbed and plundered, all of them are trapped in holes and hidden in prisons; they have become a prey with no one to rescue, a spoil with no one to say, "Restore!"

So he poured upon him the heat of his anger and the fury of war; it set him on fire all around, but he did not understand; it burned him, but he did not take it to heart.

But now thus says the Lord , he who created you, O Jacob, he who formed you, O Israel: Do not fear, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by name, you are mine.

Yet you did not call upon me, O Jacob; but you have been weary of me, O Israel!

You have not bought me sweet cane with money, or satisfied me with the fat of your sacrifices. But you have burdened me with your sins; you have wearied me with your iniquities.

But now hear, O Jacob my servant, Israel whom I have chosen!

But Israel is saved by the Lord with everlasting salvation; you shall not be put to shame or confounded to all eternity.

They stoop, they bow down together; they cannot save the burden, but themselves go into captivity.

But evil shall come upon you, which you cannot charm away; disaster shall fall upon you, which you will not be able to ward off; and ruin shall come on you suddenly, of which you know nothing.

Hear this, O house of Jacob, who are called by the name of Israel, and who came forth from the loins of Judah; who swear by the name of the Lord , and invoke the God of Israel, but not in truth or right.

See, I have refined you, but not like silver; I have tested you in the furnace of adversity.

But I said, "I have labored in vain, I have spent my strength for nothing and vanity; yet surely my cause is with the Lord , and my reward with my God."