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Spread Out! Think Big! 1-6 “Sing, barren woman, who has never had a baby. Fill the air with song, you who’ve never experienced childbirth! You’re ending up with far more children than all those childbearing women.”Godsays so! “Clear lots of ground for your tents! Make your tents large. Spread out! Think big! Use plenty of […]

Buy Without Money 1-5 “Hey there! All who are thirsty, come to the water! Are you penniless? Come anyway—buy and eat! Come, buy your drinks, buy wine and milk. Buy without money—everything’s free! Why do you spend your money on junk food, your hard-earned cash on cotton candy? Listen to me, listen well: Eat only […]

Salvation Is Just Around the Corner 1-3 God’s Message: “Guard my common good: Do what’s right and do it in the right way, For salvation is just around the corner, my setting-things-right is about to go into action. How blessed are you who enter into these things, you men and women who embrace them, Who […]

Never Tired of Trying New Religions 1-2 Meanwhile, right-living people die and no one gives them a thought. God-fearing people are carted off and no one even notices. The right-living people are out of their misery, they’re finally at rest. They lived well and with dignity and now they’re finally at peace. 3-10 “But you, […]

Your Prayers Won’t Get Off the Ground 1-3 “Shout! A full-throated shout! Hold nothing back—a trumpet-blast shout! Tell my people what’s wrong with their lives, face my family Jacob with their sins! They’re busy, busy, busy at worship, and love studying all about me. To all appearances they’re a nation of right-living people— law-abiding, God-honoring. […]

We Long for Light but Sink into Darkness 1-8 Look! Listen! God’s arm is not amputated—he can still save. God’s ears are not stopped up—he can still hear. There’s nothing wrong with God; the wrong is inyou. Your wrongheaded lives caused the split between you and God. Your sins got between you so that he […]

People Returning for the Reunion 1-7 “Get out of bed, Jerusalem! Wake up. Put your face in the sunlight. God’s bright glory has risen for you. The whole earth is wrapped in darkness, all people sunk in deep darkness, ButGodrises on you, his sunrise glory breaks over you. Nations will come to your light, kings […]

Announce Freedom to All Captives 1-7 The Spirit ofGod, the Master, is on me becauseGodanointed me. He sent me to preach good news to the poor, heal the heartbroken, Announce freedom to all captives, pardon all prisoners. Godsent me to announce the year of his grace— a celebration of God’s destruction of our enemies— and […]

Look, Your Savior Comes! 1-5 Regarding Zion, I can’t keep my mouth shut, regarding Jerusalem, I can’t hold my tongue, Until her righteousness blazes down like the sun and her salvation flames up like a torch. Foreign countries will see your righteousness, and world leaders your glory. You’ll get a brand-new name straight from the […]

Who Goes There? 1 The watchmen call out, “Who goes there, marching out of Edom, out of Bozrah in clothes dyed red? Name yourself, so splendidly dressed, advancing, bristling with power!” “It is I: I speak what is right, I, mighty to save!” 2 “And why are your robes so red, your clothes dyed red […]