Study Desk

Who among you fears the Lordand listens to his servant?Who among you walks in darkness,and has no light?Let him trust in the name of the Lord;let him lean on his God.

Your children have fainted;they lie at the head of every streetlike an antelope in a net.They are full of the Lord’s fury,the rebuke of your God.

This is what your Lord says—the Lord, even your God,who defends his people—“Look, I have removed from your handthe cup that causes staggering;that goblet, the cup of my fury.You will never drink it again.

For this is what the Lord God says:“At first my people went down to Egypt to reside there,then Assyria oppressed them without cause.

How beautiful on the mountainsare the feet of the herald,who proclaims peace,who brings news of good things,who proclaims salvation,who says to Zion, “Your God reigns!”

The Lord has displayed his holy armin the sight of all the nations;all the ends of the earth will seethe salvation of our God.

For you will not leave in a hurry,and you will not have to take flight;because the Lord is going before you,and the God of Israel is your rear guard.

Yet he himself bore our sicknesses,and he carried our pains;but we in turn regarded him stricken,struck down by God, and afflicted.

Indeed, your husband is your Maker—his name is the Lord of Armies—and the Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer;he is called the God of the whole earth.

For the Lord has called you,like a wife deserted and wounded in spirit,a wife of one’s youth when she is rejected,”says your God.

so you will summon a nation you do not know,and nations who do not know you will run to you.For the Lord your God,even the Holy One of Israel,has glorified you.”

Let the wicked one abandon his wayand the sinful one his thoughts;let him return to the Lord,so he may have compassion on him,and to our God, for he will freely forgive.

This is the declaration of the Lord God,

There is no peace for the wicked,”says my God.

They seek me day after dayand delight to know my ways,like a nation that does what is rightand does not abandon the justice of their God.They ask me for righteous judgments;they delight in the nearness of God.”

But your iniquities are separating youfrom your God,and your sins have hidden his face from youso that he does not listen.

transgression and deception against the Lord,turning away from following our God,speaking oppression and revolt,conceiving and uttering lying words from the heart.

Yes, the coasts and islands will wait for mewith the ships of Tarshish in the lead,to bring your children from far away,their silver and gold with them,for the honor of the Lord your God,the Holy One of Israel,who has glorified you.

The sun will no longer be your light by day,and the brightness of the moon will not shine on you.The Lord will be your everlasting light,and your God will be your splendor.

The Spirit of the Lord God is on me,