“Is it a fast like this which I choose, a day for a man to humble himself?
Is it for bowing one’s head like a reed
And for spreading out sackcloth and ashes as a bed?
Will you call this a fast, even an acceptable day to the Lord?” (58:5). Continue reading
For thus says the high and exalted One
Who lives forever, whose name is Holy,
“I dwell on a high and holy place,
And also with the contrite and lowly of spirit
In order to revive the spirit of the lowly
And to revive the heart of the contrite,” (57:15). Continue reading
The Lord God, who gathers the dispersed of Israel, declares,
“Yet others I will gather to them, to those already gathered,” (56:8).
The Lord GOD, who gathers the outcasts of Israel, declares,
“I will gather yet others to him besides those already gathered,” (56:8 ESV). Continue reading
“Incline your ear and come to Me.
Listen, that you may live;
And I will make an everlasting covenant with you,
According to the faithful mercies shown to David,” (55:3). Continue reading
“In righteousness you will be established;
You will be far from oppression, for you will not fear;
And from terror, for it will not come near you,” (54:14). Continue reading
Therefore, I will allot Him a portion with the great,
And He will divide the booty with the strong;
Because He poured out Himself to death,
And was numbered with the transgressors;
Yet He Himself bore the sin of many,
And interceded for the transgressors, (53:12). Continue reading
The Lord has bared His holy arm
In the sight of all the nations,
That all the ends of the earth may see
The salvation of our God, (52:10). Continue reading
“Lift up your eyes to the sky,
Then look to the earth beneath;
For the sky will vanish like smoke,
And the earth will wear out like a garment
And its inhabitants will die in like manner;
But My salvation will be forever,
And My righteousness will not wane,” (51:6). Continue reading
For the Lord God helps Me,
Therefore, I am not disgraced;
Therefore, I have set My face like flint,
And I know that I will not be ashamed, (50:7). Continue reading
Thus says the Lord, the Redeemer of Israel and its Holy One,
To the despised One,
To the One abhorred by the nation,
To the Servant of rulers,
“Kings will see and arise,
Princes will also bow down,
Because of the Lord who is faithful, the Holy One of Israel who has chosen You,” (49:7).