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Prophets and Kings
thee: therefore will I give men for thee, and people for thy life.”
Isaiah
43:1-4
.
There is forgiveness with God; there is acceptance full and free
through the merits of Jesus, our crucified and risen Lord. Isaiah heard
the Lord declaring to His chosen ones: “I, even I, am He that blotteth
out thy transgressions for Mine own sake, and will not remember thy
sins. Put Me in remembrance: let us plead together: declare thou, that
thou mayest be justified.” “Thou shalt know that I the Lord am thy
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Saviour and thy Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.”
Verses 25, 26
;
60:16
.
“The rebuke of His people shall He take away,” the prophet de-
clared. “They shall call them, The holy people, The redeemed of the
Lord.” He hath appointed “to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil
of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness;
that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the
Lord, that He might be glorified.”
“Awake, awake; put on thy strength, O Zion;
Put on thy beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the Holy
City:
For henceforth there shall no more come unto thee the
uncircumcised and the unclean.
“Shake thyself from the dust;
Arise, and sit down, O Jerusalem:
Loose thyself from the bands of thy neck, O captive
daughter
of Zion.”
“O thou afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not comforted,
Behold, I will lay thy stones with fair colors,
And lay thy foundations with sapphires.
“And I will make thy windows of agates.
And thy gates of carbuncles,
And all thy borders of pleasant stones.
“And all thy children shall be taught of the Lord;
And great shall be the peace of thy children.
In righteousness shalt thou be established: