nkjv Isaiah:25-27. SEEK
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O LORD ,
You are my God .
I will exalt You ,
I will praise Your name ,
For You have done wonderful things ;
Your counsels of old are faithfulness and truth .
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For You have made a city a ruin ,
A fortified city a ruin ,
A palace of foreigners to be a city no more ;
It will never be rebuilt .
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Therefore the strong people will glorify You ;
The city of the terrible nations will fear You .
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For You have been a strength to the poor ,
A strength to the needy in his distress ,
A refuge from the storm ,
A shade from the heat ;
For the blast of the terrible ones is as a storm against the wall .
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You will reduce the noise of aliens ,
As heat in a dry place ;
As heat in the shadow of a cloud ,
The song of the terrible ones will be diminished .
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And in this mountain The LORD of hosts will make for all people A feast of choice pieces ,
A feast of wines on the lees ,
Of fat things full of marrow ,
Of well-refined wines on the lees .
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And He will destroy on this mountain The surface of the covering cast over all people ,
And the veil that is spread over all nations .
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He will swallow up death forever ,
And the Lord GOD will wipe away tears from all faces ;
The rebuke of His people He will take away from all the earth ;
For the LORD has spoken .
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And it will be said in that day : "
Behold ,
this is our God ;
We have waited for Him ,
and He will save us .
This is the LORD ;
We have waited for Him ;
We will be glad and rejoice in His salvation ."
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For on this mountain the hand of the LORD will rest ,
And Moab shall be trampled down under Him ,
As straw is trampled down for the refuse heap .
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And He will spread out His hands in their midst As a swimmer reaches out to swim ,
And He will bring down their pride Together with the trickery of their hands .
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The fortress of the high fort of your walls He will bring down ,
lay low ,
And bring to the ground ,
down to the dust .
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In that day this song will be sung in the land of Judah : "
We have a strong city ;
God will appoint salvation for walls and bulwarks .
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Open the gates ,
That the righteous nation which keeps the truth may enter in .
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You will keep him in perfect peace ,
Whose mind is stayed on You ,
Because he trusts in You .
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Trust in the LORD forever ,
For in Yah ,
the LORD ,
is everlasting strength .
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For He brings down those who dwell on high ,
The lofty city ;
He lays it low ,
He lays it low to the ground ,
He brings it down to the dust .
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The foot shall tread it down --
The feet of the poor And the steps of the needy ."
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The way of the just is uprightness ;
O Most Upright ,
You weigh the path of the just .
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Yes ,
in the way of Your judgments ,
O LORD ,
we have waited for You ;
The desire of our soul is for Your name And for the remembrance of You .
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With my soul I have desired You in the night ,
Yes ,
by my spirit within me I will seek You early ;
For when Your judgments are in the earth ,
The inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness .
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Let grace be shown to the wicked ,
Yet he will not learn righteousness ;
In the land of uprightness he will deal unjustly ,
And will not behold the majesty of the LORD .
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LORD ,
when Your hand is lifted up ,
they will not see .
But they will see and be ashamed For their envy of people ;
Yes ,
the fire of Your enemies shall devour them .
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LORD ,
You will establish peace for us ,
For You have also done all our works in us .
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O LORD our God ,
masters besides You Have had dominion over us ;
But by You only we make mention of Your name .
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They are dead ,
they will not live ;
They are deceased ,
they will not rise .
Therefore You have punished and destroyed them ,
And made all their memory to perish .
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You have increased the nation ,
O LORD ,
You have increased the nation ;
You are glorified ;
You have expanded all the borders of the land .
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LORD ,
in trouble they have visited You ,
They poured out a prayer when Your chastening was upon them .
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As a woman with child Is in pain and cries out in her pangs ,
When she draws near the time of her delivery ,
So have we been in Your sight ,
O LORD .
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We have been with child ,
we have been in pain ;
We have ,
as it were ,
brought forth wind ;
We have not accomplished any deliverance in the earth ,
Nor have the inhabitants of the world fallen .
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Your dead shall live ;
Together with my dead body they shall arise .
Awake and sing ,
you who dwell in dust ;
For your dew is like the dew of herbs ,
And the earth shall cast out the dead .
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Come ,
my people ,
enter your chambers ,
And shut your doors behind you ;
Hide yourself ,
as it were ,
for a little moment ,
Until the indignation is past .
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For behold ,
the LORD comes out of His place To punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity ;
The earth will also disclose her blood ,
And will no more cover her slain .
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In that day the LORD with His severe sword ,
great and strong ,
Will punish Leviathan the fleeing serpent ,
Leviathan that twisted serpent ;
And He will slay the reptile that is in the sea .
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In that day sing to her , "
A vineyard of red wine !
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I ,
the LORD ,
keep it ,
I water it every moment ;
Lest any hurt it ,
I keep it night and day .
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Fury is not in Me .
Who would set briers and thorns Against Me in battle ?
I would go through them ,
I would burn them together .
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Or let him take hold of My strength ,
That he may make peace with Me ;
And he shall make peace with Me ."
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Those who come He shall cause to take root in Jacob ;
Israel shall blossom and bud ,
And fill the face of the world with fruit .
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Has He struck Israel as He struck those who struck him ?
Or has He been slain according to the slaughter of those who were slain by Him ?
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In measure ,
by sending it away ,
You contended with it .
He removes it by His rough wind In the day of the east wind .
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Therefore by this the iniquity of Jacob will be covered ;
And this is all the fruit of taking away his sin :
When he makes all the stones of the altar Like chalkstones that are beaten to dust ,
Wooden images and incense altars shall not stand .
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Yet the fortified city will be desolate ,
The habitation forsaken and left like a wilderness ;
There the calf will feed ,
and there it will lie down And consume its branches .
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When its boughs are withered ,
they will be broken off ;
The women come and set them on fire .
For it is a people of no understanding ;
Therefore He who made them will not have mercy on them ,
And He who formed them will show them no favor .
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And it shall come to pass in that day That the LORD will thresh ,
From the channel of the River to the Brook of Egypt ;
And you will be gathered one by one ,
O you children of Israel .
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So it shall be in that day :
The great trumpet will be blown ;
They will come ,
who are about to perish in the land of Assyria ,
And they who are outcasts in the land of Egypt ,
And shall worship the LORD in the holy mount at Jerusalem .
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Woe to the crown of pride ,
to the drunkards of Ephraim ,
Whose glorious beauty is a fading flower Which is at the head of the verdant valleys ,
To those who are overcome with wine !