"Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the LORD is risen upon thee." Isaiah 60:1
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"Awake, awake, put on your strength, O Zion; put on your beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city; for there shall no more come into you the uncircumcised and the unclean." Isaiah 52:1
"But he was pierced for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities; upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with his wounds we are healed." Isaiah 53:5
“Come, all you who are thirsty, come to the waters; and you who have no money, come, buy and eat!" Isaiah 55:1
“Do you not know? Have you not heard? The LORD is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He will not grow tired or weary, and his understanding no one can fathom. He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak. Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall; but those who hope in the LORD will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.” Isaiah 40:28-31
"...Engraved you on the palms of my hands; your walls are continually before me." Isaiah 49:16
Isaiah 55:12
"God has given me the tongue of those who are taught, that I may know how to sustain with a word him who is weary. Morning by morning he awakens; he awakens my ear to hear as those who are taught." Isaiah 50:4
"How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of those who bring good news, who proclaim peace, who bring good tidings, who proclaim salvation, "Your God Reigns!" Isaiah 52:7
Invitation to the Thirsty - Isaiah 55
Listen to me, O coastlands, and give attention, you peoples from afar. The Lord called me from the womb, from the body of my mother he named my name." Isaiah 49:1
"Morning by morning he awakens; he awakens my ear to hear as those who are taught." Isaiah 50:4
"Oh that you would rend the heavens and come down, that the mountains might quake at your presence...O Lord, you are our Father; we are the clay, and you are our potter; we are all the work of your hand." Isaiah 64:1-8
"Provides the fertile ground from which the whole idea of the cross as substitution for human sin." ~ Tim Mackie
Quiet Habitation: the people that dwell therein shall be forgiven their iniquity. Isaiah 33:24
“Rejoice with Jerusalem, and be glad for her, all you who love her; rejoice with her in joy, all you who mourn over her; that you may nurse and be satisfied from her consoling breast; that you may drink deeply with delight from her glorious abundance.” Isaiah 66:10-11
Sing to the Lord a new song, his praise from the end of the earth, you who go down to the sea, and all that fills it, the coastlands and their inhabitants. Isaiah 42:10
"They who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles;
they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint." Isaiah 40:31
"Uzziah died I saw the Lord sitting upon a throne...Woe is me! For I am lost; for I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips; for my eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts!” Isaiah 6:1-7
Verses to consider from A to Z
"Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand and marked off the heavens with a span, enclosed the dust of the earth in a measure and weighed the mountains in scales and the hills in a balance?" ~ Isaiah 40:12
You shall be a crown of beauty in the hand of the Lord, and a royal diadem in the hand of your God. Isaiah 62:3
Zion, redeemed, carries on the mission servant ('light to the nations' 42:6; 49:6) Isaiah 60:1-3
One Hundred Flowers by Georgia O'Keeffe
