Giving Thanks in Every Season

Embracing Wonder: A 5-Week Advent Devotional From Matthew West

El-Roi the God Who Sees Me

Advent Guide: You Belong

Vote With Vision: Praying God’s Will Over Elections

Our Father

Moving Toward Each Other in the Middle of a Divisive World

5 Spiritual Practices for Healing and Transformation

Thankful Through the Struggle

Daily Reading Plan With Christian Mael (December)

New International Version

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        <div class="chapter ch58" data-usfm="ISA.58.4+ISA.58.5+ISA.58.6+ISA.58.7+ISA.58.8+ISA.58.9+ISA.58.10+ISA.58.11+ISA.58.12+ISA.58.13+ISA.58.14">
            <div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.58.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Your fasting ends in quarreling and strife,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.58.4"><span class="content">and in striking each other with wicked fists.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.58.4"><span class="content">You cannot fast as you do today</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.58.4"><span class="content">and expect your voice to be heard on high.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.58.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.58.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Is this the kind of fast I have chosen,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.58.5"><span class="content">only a day for people to humble themselves?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.58.5"><span class="content">Is it only for bowing one&#8217;s head like a reed</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.58.5"><span class="content">and for lying in sackcloth and ashes?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.58.5"><span class="content">Is that what you call a fast,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.58.5"><span class="content">a day acceptable to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">?</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.58.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.58.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">&#8220;Is not this the kind of fasting I have chosen:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.58.6"><span class="content">to loose the chains of injustice</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.58.6"><span class="content">and untie the cords of the yoke,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.58.6"><span class="content">to set the oppressed free</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.58.6"><span class="content">and break every yoke?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.58.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.58.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Is it not to share your food with the hungry</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.58.7"><span class="content">and to provide the poor wanderer with shelter&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.58.7"><span class="content">when you see the naked, to clothe them,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.58.7"><span class="content">and not to turn away from your own flesh and blood?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.58.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.58.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Then your light will break forth like the dawn,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.58.8"><span class="content">and your healing will quickly appear;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.58.8"><span class="content">then your righteousness</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">58:8 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">your righteous One</span></span></span><span class="content"> will go before you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.58.8"><span class="content">and the glory of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> will be your rear guard.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.58.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.58.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Then you will call, and the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> will answer;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.58.9"><span class="content">you will cry for help, and he will say: Here am I.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.58.9"><span class="content">&#8220;If you do away with the yoke of oppression,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.58.9"><span class="content">with the pointing finger and malicious talk,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.58.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.58.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">and if you spend yourselves in behalf of the hungry</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.58.10"><span class="content">and satisfy the needs of the oppressed,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.58.10"><span class="content">then your light will rise in the darkness,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.58.10"><span class="content">and your night will become like the noonday.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.58.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.58.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> will guide you always;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.58.11"><span class="content">he will satisfy your needs in a sun-scorched land</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.58.11"><span class="content">and will strengthen your frame.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.58.11"><span class="content">You will be like a well-watered garden,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.58.11"><span class="content">like a spring whose waters never fail.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.58.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.58.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Your people will rebuild the ancient ruins</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.58.12"><span class="content">and will raise up the age-old foundations;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.58.12"><span class="content">you will be called Repairer of Broken Walls,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.58.12"><span class="content">Restorer of Streets with Dwellings.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.58.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.58.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">&#8220;If you keep your feet from breaking the Sabbath</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.58.13"><span class="content">and from doing as you please on my holy day,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.58.13"><span class="content">if you call the Sabbath a delight</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.58.13"><span class="content">and the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s holy day honorable,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.58.13"><span class="content">and if you honor it by not going your own way</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.58.13"><span class="content">and not doing as you please or speaking idle words,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.58.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.58.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">then you will find your joy in the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.58.14"><span class="content">and I will cause you to ride in triumph on the heights of the land</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.58.14"><span class="content">and to feast on the inheritance of your father Jacob.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q4"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.58.14"><span class="content">The mouth of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has spoken.</span></span></div>
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The Listener’s Bible®: NIV Edition

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Holy Bible, New International Version™ (Anglicised), South Asian Audio Edition

<div class="version vid111 iso6393eng" data-vid="111" data-iso6393="eng">
    <div class="book bkISA">
        <div class="chapter ch59" data-usfm="ISA.59">
            <div class="label">59</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Sin, Confession and Redemption</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.59.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Surely the arm of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> is not too short to save,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.59.1"><span class="content">nor his ear too dull to hear.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.59.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.59.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">But your iniquities have separated</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.59.2"><span class="content">you from your God;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.59.2"><span class="content">your sins have hidden his face from you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.59.2"><span class="content">so that he will not hear.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.59.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.59.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">For your hands are stained with blood,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.59.3"><span class="content">your fingers with guilt.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.59.3"><span class="content">Your lips have spoken falsely,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.59.3"><span class="content">and your tongue mutters wicked things.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.59.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.59.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">No one calls for justice;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.59.4"><span class="content">no one pleads a case with integrity.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.59.4"><span class="content">They rely on empty arguments, they utter lies;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.59.4"><span class="content">they conceive trouble and give birth to evil.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.59.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.59.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">They hatch the eggs of vipers</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.59.5"><span class="content">and spin a spider&#8217;s web.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.59.5"><span class="content">Whoever eats their eggs will die,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.59.5"><span class="content">and when one is broken, an adder is hatched.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.59.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.59.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Their cobwebs are useless for clothing;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.59.6"><span class="content">they cannot cover themselves with what they make.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.59.6"><span class="content">Their deeds are evil deeds,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.59.6"><span class="content">and acts of violence are in their hands.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.59.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.59.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Their feet rush into sin;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.59.7"><span class="content">they are swift to shed innocent blood.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.59.7"><span class="content">They pursue evil schemes;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.59.7"><span class="content">acts of violence mark their ways.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.59.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.59.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">The way of peace they do not know;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.59.8"><span class="content">there is no justice in their paths.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.59.8"><span class="content">They have turned them into crooked roads;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.59.8"><span class="content">no one who walks along them will know peace.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.59.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.59.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">So justice is far from us,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.59.9"><span class="content">and righteousness does not reach us.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.59.9"><span class="content">We look for light, but all is darkness;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.59.9"><span class="content">for brightness, but we walk in deep shadows.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.59.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.59.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Like the blind we grope along the wall,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.59.10"><span class="content">feeling our way like people without eyes.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.59.10"><span class="content">At midday we stumble as if it were twilight;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.59.10"><span class="content">among the strong, we are like the dead.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.59.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.59.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">We all growl like bears;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.59.11"><span class="content">we moan mournfully like doves.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.59.11"><span class="content">We look for justice, but find none;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.59.11"><span class="content">for deliverance, but it is far away.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.59.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.59.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">For our offenses are many in your sight,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.59.12"><span class="content">and our sins testify against us.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.59.12"><span class="content">Our offenses are ever with us,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.59.12"><span class="content">and we acknowledge our iniquities:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.59.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.59.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">rebellion and treachery against the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.59.13"><span class="content">turning our backs on our God,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.59.13"><span class="content">inciting revolt and oppression,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.59.13"><span class="content">uttering lies our hearts have conceived.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.59.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.59.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">So justice is driven back,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.59.14"><span class="content">and righteousness stands at a distance;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.59.14"><span class="content">truth has stumbled in the streets,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.59.14"><span class="content">honesty cannot enter.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.59.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.59.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Truth is nowhere to be found,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.59.15"><span class="content">and whoever shuns evil becomes a prey.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.59.15"><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> looked and was displeased</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.59.15"><span class="content">that there was no justice.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.59.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.59.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">He saw that there was no one,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.59.16"><span class="content">he was appalled that there was no one to intervene;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.59.16"><span class="content">so his own arm achieved salvation for him,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.59.16"><span class="content">and his own righteousness sustained him.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.59.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.59.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">He put on righteousness as his breastplate,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.59.17"><span class="content">and the helmet of salvation on his head;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.59.17"><span class="content">he put on the garments of vengeance</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.59.17"><span class="content">and wrapped himself in zeal as in a cloak.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.59.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.59.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">According to what they have done,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.59.18"><span class="content">so will he repay</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.59.18"><span class="content">wrath to his enemies</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.59.18"><span class="content">and retribution to his foes;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.59.18"><span class="content">he will repay the islands their due.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.59.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.59.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">From the west, people will fear the name of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.59.19"><span class="content">and from the rising of the sun, they will revere his glory.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.59.19"><span class="content">For he will come like a pent-up flood</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.59.19"><span class="content">that the breath of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> drives along.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">59:19 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">When enemies come in like a flood, / the Spirit of the <span class="nd">Lord</span> will put them to flight</span></span></span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.59.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.59.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">&#8220;The Redeemer will come to Zion,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.59.20"><span class="content">to those in Jacob who repent of their sins,&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q4"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.59.20"><span class="content">declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.59.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ISA.59.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">&#8220;As for me, this is my covenant with them,&#8221; says the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. &#8220;My Spirit, who is on you, will not depart from you, and my words that I have put in your mouth will always be on your lips, on the lips of your children and on the lips of their descendants&#8212;from this time on and forever,&#8221; says the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div>
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