Isaiah 45: 2-3

   Isaiah 45: 2-3

2 I will go before you

   and will level the mountains

   I will break down gates of bronze

   and cut through bars of iron.

3 I will give you hidden treasures,

   riches stored in secret places,

   so that you may know 

   that I am the Lord,

   the God of Israel,

   who summons you by name.

Isaiah 40:7-10

    Isaiah 40: 7-10

7 The grass withers and the flowers fall,

    because the breath of the Lord 

    blows on them.

    Surely the people are grass.

8 The grass withers and the flowers fall,

    but the word of our God 

    endures forever.”

9 You who bring good news to Zion,

   go up on a high mountain.

   You who bring good news to 

   Jerusalem, lift up your voice 

   with a shout, lift it up, do not be

   afraid;

   say to the towns of Judah,

   "Here is your God!”

10 See, the Sovereign Lord comes 

    with power,

    and he rules with a mighty arm.

    See, his reward is with him,

    and his recompense accompanies 

    him.

Isaiah 40: 3-5

   Isaiah 40: 3-5

3 A voice of one calling:

  "In the wilderness prepare

    the way for the Lord

    make straight in the desert

    a highway for our God.

4 Every valley shall be raised up,

    every mountain and hill made low;

    the rough ground shall become level,

    the rugged places a plain.

5 And the glory of the Lord will be 

   revealed, and all people will see it 

   together.

   For the mouth of the Lord 

   has spoken.”

Isaiah 49: 10-11

Isaiah 49: 10-11

10 They will neither hunger 

      nor thirst, nor will the desert 

      heat or the sun beat down 

      on them. He who has 

      compassion on them 

      will guide them and lead them 

      beside springs of water.

11 I will turn all my mountains 

     into roads, and my highways 

     will be raised up.

Isaiah 48: 10-11

Isaiah 48: 10-11

10 See, I have refined you, 

     though not as silver;

     I have tested you 

     in the furnace 

     of affliction.

11 For my own sake, 

     for my own sake, 

     I do this.

     How can I let myself 

     be defamed?

     I will not yield 

     my glory to another.

Isaiah 48: 17-19

    Isaiah 48: 17-19

17 This is what the Lord says—

    your Redeemer, 

    the Holy One of Israel:

   "I am the Lord your God,

    who teaches you what is best 

    for you, who directs you 

    in the way you should   go.

18 If only you had paid attention 

    to my commands,

    your peace would have been 

    like a river,

    your well-being like the waves of the sea.

19 Your descendants would have been 

    like the sand,

    your children like its numberless grains;

    their name would never be blotted out

    nor destroyed from before me.”

Isaiah 55: 6-7

   Isaiah 55: 6-7

6 Seek the Lord while he may be 

   found;

   call on him while he is near.

7 Let the wicked forsake their ways

   and the unrighteous their thoughts.

   Let them turn to the Lord, 

   and he will have mercy on them,

   and to our God, for he will freely   

   pardon.

Isaiah 55: 1-3

   Isaiah 55: 1-3

1 Come, all you who are thirsty,

   come to the waters;

   and you who have no money,

   come, buy and eat!

   Come, buy wine and milk

   without money and without cost.

2 Why spend money on what is not   

   bread, and your labor on 

   what does not satisfy?

   Listen, listen to me, and eat 

   what is good, and you will delight

   in the richest of fare.

3 Give ear and come to me;

   listen, that you may live.

   I will make an everlasting covenant

   with you, my faithful love 

   promised to David.

Isaiah 55: 8- 11

    Isaiah 55: 8-11

8 “For my thoughts are not your thoughts,

    neither are your ways my ways,”

    declares the Lord.

9 “As the heavens are higher than the earth,

    so are my ways higher than your ways

    and my thoughts than your thoughts.

10 As the rain and the snow

    come down from heaven,

    and do not return to it

    without watering the earth

    and making it bud and flourish,

    so that it yields seed for the sower 

    and bread for the eater,

11 so is my word that goes out 

     from my mouth:

     It will not return to me empty,

     but will accomplish what I desire

     and achieve the purpose 

     for which I sent it.

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Isaiah 51: 4-8

Isaiah 51: 4-8

4 “Listen to me, my people;

    hear me, my nation:

    Instruction will go out from me;

    my justice will become a light 

    to the nations.

5 My righteousness draws near 

    speedily,

    my salvation is on the way,

    and my arm will bring justice 

    to the nations.

    The islands will look to me

    and wait in hope for my arm.

6 Lift up your eyes to the heavens,

    look at the earth beneath;

    the heavens will vanish like smoke,

    the earth will wear out like a garment

    and its inhabitants die like flies.

    But my salvation will last forever,

    my righteousness will never fail.

7 “Hear me, you who know what is right,

    you people who have 

    taken my instruction to heart:

    Do not fear the reproach of mere    

     mortals

    or be terrified by their insults.

8 For the moth will eat them up 

    like a   garment;

    the worm will devour them like wool.

    But my righteousness will last forever,

    my salvation through all generations