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God’s Servant Will Set Everything Right

42"Take a good look at my servant. I'm backing him to the hilt. He's the one I chose, and I couldn't be more pleased with him. I've bathed him with my Spirit, my life. He'll set everything right among the nations.H5650H8551H972H5315H7521H5414H7307H3318H4941H1471 2He won't call attention to what he does with loud speeches or gaudy parades.H6817H5375H6963H8085H2351 3He won't brush aside the bruised and the hurt and he won't disregard the small and insignificant, but he'll steadily and firmly set things right.H7533H7070H7665H3544H6594H3518H3318H4941H571 4He won't tire out and quit. He won't be stopped until he's finished his work—to set things right on earth. Far-flung ocean islands wait expectantly for his teaching."H3543H7533H7760H4941H776H339H3176H8451

The God Who Makes Us Alive with His Own Life

5GOD's Message, the God who created the cosmos, stretched out the skies, laid out the earth and all that grows from it, Who breathes life into earth's people, makes them alive with his own life:H559H410H3068H1254H8064H5186H7554H776H6631H5414H5397H5971H7307H1980 6"I am GOD. I have called you to live right and well. I have taken responsibility for you, kept you safe. I have set you among my people to bind them to me, and provided you as a lighthouse to the nations,H3068H7121H6664H2388H3027H5341H5414H1285H5971H216H1471 7To make a start at bringing people into the open, into light: opening blind eyes, releasing prisoners from dungeons, emptying the dark prisons.H6491H5787H5869H3318H616H4525H3427H2822H3608H1004 8I am GOD. That's my name. I don't franchise my glory, don't endorse the no-god idols.H3068H8034H3519H5414H312H8416H6456 9Take note: The earlier predictions of judgment have been fulfilled. I'm announcing the new salvation work. Before it bursts on the scene, I'm telling you all about it."H7223H935H2319H5046H6779H8085 10Sing to GOD a brand-new song, sing his praises all over the world! Let the sea and its fish give a round of applause, with all the far-flung islands joining in.H7891H3068H2319H7892H8416H7097H776H3381H3220H4393H339H3427 11Let the desert and its camps raise a tune, calling the Kedar nomads to join in. Let the villagers in Sela round up a choir and perform from the tops of the mountains.H4057H5892H5375H2691H6938H3427H3427H5553H7442H6681H7218H2022 12Make GOD's glory resound; echo his praises from coast to coast.H7760H3519H3068H5046H8416H339 13GOD steps out like he means business. You can see he's primed for action. He shouts, announcing his arrival; he takes charge and his enemies fall into line:H3068H3318H1368H5782H7068H376H4421H7321H6873H1396H341 14"I've been quiet long enough. I've held back, biting my tongue. But now I'm letting loose, letting go, like a woman who's having a baby—H5769H2814H2790H662H6463H3205H5395H8074H7602H3162 15Stripping the hills bare, withering the wildflowers, Drying up the rivers, turning lakes into mudflats.H2717H2022H1389H3001H6212H7760H5104H339H3001H98 16But I'll take the hand of those who don't know the way, who can't see where they're going. I'll be a personal guide to them, directing them through unknown country. I'll be right there to show them what roads to take, make sure they don't fall into the ditch. These are the things I'll be doing for them— sticking with them, not leaving them for a minute."H3212H5787H1870H3045H1869H5410H3045H7760H4285H216H6440H4625H4334H1697H6213H5800 17But those who invested in the no-gods are bankrupt—dead broke.H5472H268H1322H954H982H6459H559H4541H430

You’ve Seen a Lot, but Looked at Nothing

18Pay attention! Are you deaf? Open your eyes! Are you blind?H8085H2795H5027H5787H7200 19You're my servant, and you're not looking! You're my messenger, and you're not listening! The very people I depended upon, servants of GOD, blind as a bat—willfully blind!H5787H5650H2795H4397H7971H5787H7999H5787H3068H5650 20You've seen a lot, but looked at nothing. You've heard everything, but listened to nothing.H7200H7200H7227H8104H6491H241H8085 21GOD intended, out of the goodness of his heart, to be lavish in his revelation.H3068H2654H6664H1431H8451H142 22But this is a people battered and cowed, shut up in attics and closets, Victims licking their wounds, feeling ignored, abandoned.H5971H962H8154H6351H2352H970H2244H3608H1004H957H5337H4933H559H7725 23But is anyone out there listening? Is anyone paying attention to what's coming?H238H7181H8085H268 24Who do you think turned Jacob over to the thugs, let loose the robbers on Israel? Wasn't it GOD himself, this God against whom we've sinned— not doing what he commanded, not listening to what he said?H5414H3290H4933H4882H3478H962H3068H2098H2398H14H1980H1870H8085H8451 25Isn't it God's anger that's behind all this, God's punishing power? Their whole world collapsed but they still didn't get it; their life is in ruins but they don't take it to heart.H8210H2534H639H5807H4421H3857H5439H3045H1197H7760H3820


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