Saturday, February 4, 2017

THEREFORE WILL THE LORD WAIT

Photo provided by June Ormesher

Get you out of the way, turn aside out of 
the path, cause the Holy One of Israel to 
cease from before us. Wherefore thus 
saith the Holy One of Israel, Because 
ye despise this word, and trust in 
oppression and perverseness, and 
stay thereon:  Therefore this iniquity 
shall be to you as a breach ready to 
fall, swelling out in a high wall, 
whose breaking cometh suddenly 
at an instant.  And he shall break 
it as the breaking of the potters’ 
vessel that is broken in pieces; 
he shall not spare: so that there 
shall not be found in the bursting 
of it a sherd to take fire from the 
hearth, or to take water withal out 
of the pit.  For thus saith the Lord 
GOD, the Holy One of Israel; In 
returning and rest shall ye be 
saved; in quietness and in 
confidence shall be your strength: 
and ye would not.  But ye said, 
No; for we will flee upon horses; 
therefore shall ye flee: and, We 
will ride upon the swift; therefore 
shall they that pursue you be swift.
One thousand shall flee at the rebuke 
of one; at the rebuke of five shall ye 
flee: till ye be left as a beacon upon 
the top of a mountain, and as an ensign 
on an hill.  And therefore will the LORD 
wait, that he may be gracious unto you, 
and therefore will he be exalted, that he 
may have mercy upon you: for the LORD 
is a God of judgment: blessed are all they 
that wait for him.  For the people shall 
dwell in Zion at Jerusalem: thou shalt 
weep no more: he will be very gracious 
unto thee at the voice of thy cry; when 
he shall hear it, he will answer thee.  And 
though the Lord give you the bread of 
adversity, and the water of affliction, yet 
shall not thy teachers be removed into a 
corner any more, but thine eyes shall see 
thy teachers:  And thine ears shall hear a 
word behind thee, saying, This is the way,
walk ye in it, when ye turn to the right hand, 
and when ye turn to the left.  Ye shall defile 
also the covering of thy graven images of 
silver, and the ornament of thy molten 
images of gold: thou shalt cast them away 
as a menstruous cloth; thou shalt say unto it,
Get thee hence.  Then shall he give the rain 
of thy seed, that thou shalt sow the ground 
withal; and bread of the increase of the earth, 
and it shall be fat and plenteous: in that day 
shall thy cattle feed in large pastures.  The 
oxen likewise and the young asses that ear 
the ground shall eat clean provender, which 
hath been winnowed with the shovel and 
with the fan.  And there shall be upon every 
high mountain, and upon every high hill, 
rivers and streams of waters in the day of 
the great slaughter, when the towers fall.
Moreover the light of the moon shall be 
as the light of the sun, and the light of the 
sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of 
seven days, in the day that the LORD 
bindeth up the breach of his people, 
and healeth the stroke of their wound.
Behold, the name of the LORD cometh 
from far, burning with his anger, and the 
burden thereof is heavy: his lips are full 
of indignation, and his tongue as a 
devouring fire:  And his breath, as an 
overflowing stream, shall reach to the 
midst of the neck, to sift the nations 
with the sieve of vanity: and there shall 
be a bridle in the jaws of the people, 
causing them to err.  Ye shall have a song, 
as in the night when a holy solemnity is 
kept; and gladness of heart, as when one 
goeth with a pipe to come into the mountain 
of the LORD, to the mighty One of Israel.
And the LORD shall cause his glorious 
voice to be heard, and shall shew the lighting 
down of his arm, with the indignation of his 
anger, and with the flame of a devouring fire, 
with scattering, and tempest, and hailstones.
For through the voice of the LORD shall the 
Assyrian be beaten down, which smote with a 
rod.  And in every place where the grounded 
staff shall pass, which the LORD shall lay upon 
him, it shall be with tabrets and harps: and in 
battles of shaking will he fight with it.

Isaiah 30:11:32



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