One Year Chronological Bible Sampler - Flipbook - Page 138
JULY 25
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“I have said it: I am calling Cyrus!
I will send him on this errand and will help him succeed.
Come closer, and listen to this.
From the beginning I have told you plainly what would happen.”
And now the Sovereign LORD and his Spirit
have sent me with this message.
This is what the LORD says—
your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel:
“I am the LORD your God,
who teaches you what is good for you
and leads you along the paths you should follow.
Oh, that you had listened to my commands!
Then you would have had peace flowing like a gentle river
and righteousness rolling over you like waves in the sea.
Your descendants would have been like the sands along the seashore—
too many to count!
There would have been no need for your destruction,
or for cutting off your family name.”
Yet even now, be free from your captivity!
Leave Babylon and the Babylonians.*
Sing out this message!
Shout it to the ends of the earth!
The LORD has redeemed his servants,
the people of Israel.*
They were not thirsty
when he led them through the desert.
He divided the rock,
and water gushed out for them to drink.
“But there is no peace for the wicked,”
says the LORD.
The LORD’s Servant Commissioned / Isaiah 49:1-7
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Listen to me, all you in distant lands!
Pay attention, you who are far away!
The LORD called me before my birth;
from within the womb he called me by name.
He made my words of judgment as sharp as a sword.
He has hidden me in the shadow of his hand.
I am like a sharp arrow in his quiver.
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He said to me, “You are my servant, Israel,
and you will bring me glory.”
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I replied, “But my work seems so useless!
I have spent my strength for nothing and to no purpose.
Yet I leave it all in the LORD’s hand;
I will trust God for my reward.”
48:20a Or the Chaldeans.
48:20b Hebrew his servant, Jacob. See note on 14:1.
