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SEPTEMBER 30
For I called him alone, 9 Awake, awake, put on strength,
And blessed him and increased him.” O arm of the LORD!
Awake as in the ancient days,
3 For the LORD will comfort Zion,
In the generations of old.
He will comfort all her waste places; Are You not the arm that cut Rahab
He will make her wilderness like Eden, apart,
And her desert like the garden And wounded the serpent?
of the LORD;
Joy and gladness will be found in it, 10 Are You not the One who dried up
Thanksgiving and the voice of melody. the sea,
The waters of the great deep;
4 “Listen to Me, My people;
And give ear to Me, O My nation: That made the depths of the sea a road
For the redeemed to cross over?
For law will proceed from Me, 11 So the ransomed of the LORD shall
And I will make My justice rest return,
As a light of the peoples.
5 My righteousness is near, And come to Zion with singing,
My salvation has gone forth, With everlasting joy on their heads.
They shall obtain joy and gladness;
And My arms will judge the peoples; Sorrow and sighing shall flee away.
The coastlands will wait upon Me,
And on My arm they will trust. 12 “I, even I, am He who comforts you.
6 Lift up your eyes to the heavens, Who are you that you should be afraid
And look on the earth beneath. Of a man who will die,
For the heavens will vanish away And of the son of a man who will be
like smoke, made like grass?
The earth will grow old like a garment, 13 And you forget the LORD your Maker,
And those who dwell in it will die in Who stretched out the heavens
like manner; And laid the foundations of the earth;
But My salvation will be forever, You have feared continually every day
And My righteousness will not Because of the fury of the oppressor,
be abolished. When he has prepared to destroy.
And where is the fury of the oppressor?
14 The captive exile hastens, that he may
be loosed,
That he should not die in the pit,
51:6 heavens will vanish…earth will grow
old. This begins to take place in the time of And that his bread should not fail.
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tribulation (Rev. 6:12–14; 8:12,13; 16:8–10,21), But I am the LORD your God,
setting the stage, along with the earthly judg- Who divided the sea whose waves
ments on land, sea, and fresh water (Rev. 6:14; roared—
8:6–11;16:3–5),for a renewed earth during the The LORD of hosts is His name.
Millennium. The actual “uncreation” or 16 And I have put My words in your mouth;
destruction of the present universe, of which I have covered you with the shadow
Peter wrote (2 Pet. 3:10–13), occurs at the end of My hand,
of Christ’s millennial reign on the earth, when That I may plant the heavens,
a new heaven and a new earth will replace the Lay the foundations of the earth,
present creation (2 Pet. 3:10; Rev. 21:1). And say to Zion, ‘You are My people.’ ”
Awake, awake!
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Stand up, O Jerusalem,
7 “Listen to Me, you who know You who have drunk at the hand
righteousness, of the LORD
You people in whose heart is My law: The cup of His fury;
Do not fear the reproach of men, You have drunk the dregs of the cup
Nor be afraid of their insults. of trembling,
8 For the moth will eat them up like And drained it out.
a garment, 18 There is no one to guide her
And the worm will eat them like wool; Among all the sons she has brought
But My righteousness will be forever, forth;
And My salvation from generation to Nor is there any who takes her by the
generation.” hand

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