Category Archives: Covenant

Unfailing Love

In a surge of anger I hid my face from you for a moment, but with everlasting kindness I will have compassion on you,” says the LORD your Redeemer.  “To me this is like the days of Noah, when I … Continue reading

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Pierced for our Transgressions

Who has believed our message and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?   He grew up before him like a tender shoot, and like a root out of dry ground. He had no beauty or majesty to … Continue reading

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He Will Sprinkle Many Nations

“And now what do I have here?” declares the Lord . “For my people have been taken away for nothing, and those who rule them mock, ” declares the Lord . “And all day long my name is constantly blasphemed.   … Continue reading

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Awake!

“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.   For the moth will eat them up like a … Continue reading

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Was my arm too short to deliver you?

This is what the Lord says: “Where is your mother’s certificate of divorce with which I sent her away? Or to which of my creditors did I sell you? Because of your sins you were sold; because of your transgressions … Continue reading

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Roads Through the Mountains

This is what the Lord says: “In the time of my favor I will answer you, and in the day of salvation I will help you; I will keep you and will make you to be a covenant for the … Continue reading

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I Am and There is None Besides Me

“Go down, sit in the dust, Virgin Daughter Babylon; sit on the ground without a throne, queen city of the Babylonians.  No more will you be called tender or delicate.   Take millstones and grind flour; take off your veil. Lift … Continue reading

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Drinking no Water

The blacksmith takes a tool and works with it in the coals; he shapes an idol with hammers, he forges it with the might of his arm. He gets hungry and loses his strength; he drinks no water and grows … Continue reading

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I Belong to the Lord

But now listen, Jacob, my servant, Israel, whom I have chosen.   This is what the Lord says— he who made you, who formed you in the womb, and who will help you: Do not be afraid, Jacob, my servant, Jeshurun, … Continue reading

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Streams in the Wasteland

This is what the Lord says— he who made a way through the sea, a path through the mighty waters, who drew out the chariots and horses, the army and reinforcements together, and they lay there, never to rise again, … Continue reading

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