nkjv Isaiah:26-29 SEEK
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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 !
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Behold ,
the Lord has a mighty and strong one ,
Like a tempest of hail and a destroying storm ,
Like a flood of mighty waters overflowing ,
Who will bring them down to the earth with His hand .
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The crown of pride ,
the drunkards of Ephraim ,
Will be trampled underfoot ;
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And the glorious beauty is a fading flower Which is at the head of the verdant valley ,
Like the first fruit before the summer ,
Which an observer sees ;
He eats it up while it is still in his hand .
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In that day the LORD of hosts will be For a crown of glory and a diadem of beauty To the remnant of His people ,
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For a spirit of justice to him who sits in judgment ,
And for strength to those who turn back the battle at the gate .
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But they also have erred through wine ,
And through intoxicating drink are out of the way ;
The priest and the prophet have erred through intoxicating drink ,
They are swallowed up by wine ,
They are out of the way through intoxicating drink ;
They err in vision ,
they stumble in judgment .
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For all tables are full of vomit and filth ;
No place is clean .
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Whom will he teach knowledge ?
And whom will he make to understand the message ?
Those just weaned from milk ?
Those just drawn from the breasts ?
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For precept must be upon precept ,
precept upon precept ,
Line upon line ,
line upon line ,
Here a little ,
there a little ."
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For with stammering lips and another tongue He will speak to this people ,
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To whom He said , "
This is the rest with which You may cause the weary to rest ,"
And , "
This is the refreshing ";
Yet they would not hear .
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But the word of the LORD was to them , "
Precept upon precept ,
precept upon precept ,
Line upon line ,
line upon line ,
Here a little ,
there a little ,"
That they might go and fall backward ,
and be broken And snared and caught .
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Therefore hear the word of the LORD ,
you scornful men ,
Who rule this people who are in Jerusalem ,
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Because you have said , "
We have made a covenant with death ,
And with Sheol we are in agreement .
When the overflowing scourge passes through ,
It will not come to us ,
For we have made lies our refuge ,
And under falsehood we have hidden ourselves ."
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Therefore thus says the Lord GOD : "
Behold ,
I lay in Zion a stone for a foundation ,
A tried stone ,
a precious cornerstone ,
a sure foundation ;
Whoever believes will not act hastily .
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Also I will make justice the measuring line ,
And righteousness the plummet ;
The hail will sweep away the refuge of lies ,
And the waters will overflow the hiding place .
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Your covenant with death will be annulled ,
And your agreement with Sheol will not stand ;
When the overflowing scourge passes through ,
Then you will be trampled down by it .
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As often as it goes out it will take you ;
For morning by morning it will pass over ,
And by day and by night ;
It will be a terror just to understand the report ."
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For the bed is too short to stretch out on ,
And the covering so narrow that one cannot wrap himself in it .
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For the LORD will rise up as at Mount Perazim ,
He will be angry as in the Valley of Gibeon --
That He may do His work ,
His awesome work ,
And bring to pass His act ,
His unusual act .
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Now therefore ,
do not be mockers ,
Lest your bonds be made strong ;
For I have heard from the Lord GOD of hosts ,
A destruction determined even upon the whole earth .
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Give ear and hear my voice ,
Listen and hear my speech .
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Does the plowman keep plowing all day to sow ?
Does he keep turning his soil and breaking the clods ?
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When he has leveled its surface ,
Does he not sow the black cummin And scatter the cummin ,
Plant the wheat in rows ,
The barley in the appointed place ,
And the spelt in its place ?
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For He instructs him in right judgment ,
His God teaches him .
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For the black cummin is not threshed with a threshing sledge ,
Nor is a cartwheel rolled over the cummin ;
But the black cummin is beaten out with a stick ,
And the cummin with a rod .
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Bread flour must be ground ;
Therefore he does not thresh it forever ,
Break it with his cartwheel ,
Or crush it with his horsemen .
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This also comes from the LORD of hosts ,
Who is wonderful in counsel and excellent in guidance .
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Woe to Ariel ,
to Ariel ,
the city where David dwelt !
Add year to year ;
Let feasts come around .
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Yet I will distress Ariel ;
There shall be heaviness and sorrow ,
And it shall be to Me as Ariel .
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I will encamp against you all around ,
I will lay siege against you with a mound ,
And I will raise siegeworks against you .
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You shall be brought down ,
You shall speak out of the ground ;
Your speech shall be low ,
out of the dust ;
Your voice shall be like a medium '
s ,
out of the ground ;
And your speech shall whisper out of the dust .
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Moreover the multitude of your foes Shall be like fine dust ,
And the multitude of the terrible ones Like chaff that passes away ;
Yes ,
it shall be in an instant ,
suddenly .
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You will be punished by the LORD of hosts With thunder and earthquake and great noise ,
With storm and tempest And the flame of devouring fire .
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The multitude of all the nations who fight against Ariel ,
Even all who fight against her and her fortress ,
And distress her ,
Shall be as a dream of a night vision .
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It shall even be as when a hungry man dreams ,
And look--he eats ;
But he awakes ,
and his soul is still empty ;
Or as when a thirsty man dreams ,
And look--he drinks ;
But he awakes ,
and indeed he is faint ,
And his soul still craves :
So the multitude of all the nations shall be ,
Who fight against Mount Zion ."
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Pause and wonder !
Blind yourselves and be blind !
They are drunk ,
but not with wine ;
They stagger ,
but not with intoxicating drink .
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For the LORD has poured out on you The spirit of deep sleep ,
And has closed your eyes ,
namely ,
the prophets ;
And He has covered your heads ,
namely ,
the seers .
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The whole vision has become to you like the words of a book that is sealed ,
which men deliver to one who is literate ,
saying , "
Read this ,
please ."
And he says , "
I cannot ,
for it is sealed ."
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Then the book is delivered to one who is illiterate ,
saying , "
Read this ,
please ."
And he says , "
I am not literate ."
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Therefore the Lord said : "
Inasmuch as these people draw near with their mouths And honor Me with their lips ,
But have removed their hearts far from Me ,
And their fear toward Me is taught by the commandment of men ,
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Therefore ,
behold ,
I will again do a marvelous work Among this people ,
A marvelous work and a wonder ;
For the wisdom of their wise men shall perish ,
And the understanding of their prudent men shall be hidden ."
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Woe to those who seek deep to hide their counsel far from the LORD ,
And their works are in the dark ;
They say , "
Who sees us ?"
and , "
Who knows us ?"
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Surely you have things turned around !
Shall the potter be esteemed as the clay ;
For shall the thing made say of him who made it , "
He did not make me "?
Or shall the thing formed say of him who formed it , "
He has no understanding "?
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Is it not yet a very little while Till Lebanon shall be turned into a fruitful field ,
And the fruitful field be esteemed as a forest ?
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In that day the deaf shall hear the words of the book ,
And the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity and out of darkness .
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The humble also shall increase their joy in the LORD ,
And the poor among men shall rejoice In the Holy One of Israel .
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For the terrible one is brought to nothing ,
The scornful one is consumed ,
And all who watch for iniquity are cut off --
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Who make a man an offender by a word ,
And lay a snare for him who reproves in the gate ,
And turn aside the just by empty words .
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Therefore thus says the LORD ,
who redeemed Abraham ,
concerning the house of Jacob : "
Jacob shall not now be ashamed ,
Nor shall his face now grow pale ;
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But when he sees his children ,
The work of My hands ,
in his midst ,
They will hallow My name ,
And hallow the Holy One of Jacob ,
And fear the God of Israel .
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These also who erred in spirit will come to understanding ,
And those who complained will learn doctrine ."
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Woe to the rebellious children ,"
says the LORD , "
Who take counsel ,
but not of Me ,
And who devise plans ,
but not of My Spirit ,
That they may add sin to sin ;