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THE CHRISTIAN SCRIPTURES Old Testament Prophecy - Angelfire

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darkness, and your darkness will be like noon. 11 Your God will be with you continually,<br />

and you will be satisfied according to what your soul covets. Your bones will become<br />

fat, and they will be like a well-watered garden and like a fountain from which water<br />

has not failed. A 12 Your eternal deserts will be built up, and your foundations will be<br />

eternal for generations of generations. You will be called a repairer of breaches, and<br />

you will bring an end to the paths between.<br />

13 If you turn your foot back due to the sabbaths, so as not to perform your own<br />

desires on the holy day, you will call the sabbaths delights, holy to your God; you will<br />

not lift up your foot for work nor speak a word in anger out of your mouth. 14 You will<br />

trust in the Lord, and he will bring you up to the good things of the land and feed you<br />

with the inheritance of Jacob your father, for the mouth of the Lord has spoken these<br />

things."<br />

Isaiah 59<br />

1 Is the hand of the Lord not strong to save? Or did he disable his ear so as not to<br />

listen? 2 On the contrary, your sinful acts set you apart from God, and on account of<br />

your sins he turned his face away from you so as not to show mercy. 3 For your hands<br />

have been defiled by blood and your fingers with sins; your lips spoke lawlessness and<br />

your tongues meditate on unrighteousness. 4 No one speaks righteous things, neither is<br />

there true judgment; they trust in vanities and speak empty things, for they conceive<br />

trouble and give birth to lawlessness. 5 They hatched the eggs of asps and are weaving<br />

a spider's web. The one who is about to eat their eggs cracked an unfertilized one and<br />

found a cobra even in it. 6 Their web will not become a garment, nor will they be clothed<br />

by their works, for their works are works of lawlessness. 7 Their feet run to evil; they are<br />

swift to shed blood. Their thoughts are thoughts of murder; B ruin and misery are in<br />

their ways. 8 They are not acquainted with the way of peace, and there is no justice in<br />

their ways, for their paths by which they travel are crooked, and they are not<br />

acquainted with peace.<br />

9 Because of this, justice departed from them, and righteousness will not overtake<br />

them. While they waited for light, darkness came to them; while they waited for<br />

brightness, they walked in the dead of night. 10 They will feel for a wall like blind men,<br />

and will feel for it as if they had no eyes. They will fall at noon as at midnight; they will<br />

groan like the dying. 11 They will go together like a bear and a dove. We waited for<br />

justice, and there is none; salvation stood far apart from us. 12 For our lawlessness is<br />

great before you, and our sins rose up against us. For our lawless acts are in us, and<br />

we knew our unrighteous acts. 13 We became ungodly, lied, and rebelled against our<br />

God; we spoke unrighteous things and were distrustful; we conceived and meditated on<br />

unrighteous words from our hearts. 14 We turned back justice, and righteousness stood<br />

far apart, for the truth is consumed in their ways, and they could not pass through what<br />

is straight. 15 Truth was taken away, and they turned their minds from understanding.<br />

A<br />

VS* ¦ + Your bones will spring up like vegetation and become fat, and they will inherit<br />

generations of generations. ScA<br />

B<br />

thoughts of murder VSc ¦ thoughts of fools S*A

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