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    <div class="book bkISA">
        <div class="chapter ch54" data-usfm="ISA.54.4+ISA.54.5+ISA.54.6+ISA.54.7+ISA.54.8">
            <div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.54.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">&#8220;Do not be afraid; you will not be put to shame.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.54.4"><span class="content">Do not fear disgrace; you will not be humiliated.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.54.4"><span class="content">You will forget the shame of your youth</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.54.4"><span class="content">and remember no more the reproach of your widowhood.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.54.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.54.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">For your Maker is your husband&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.54.5"><span class="content">the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty is his name&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.54.5"><span class="content">the Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.54.5"><span class="content">he is called the God of all the earth.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.54.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.54.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> will call you back</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.54.6"><span class="content">as if you were a wife deserted and distressed in spirit&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.54.6"><span class="content">a wife who married young,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.54.6"><span class="content">only to be rejected,&#8221; says your God.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.54.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.54.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">&#8220;For a brief moment I abandoned you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.54.7"><span class="content">but with deep compassion I will bring you back.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.54.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.54.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">In a surge of anger</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.54.8"><span class="content">I hid my face from you for a moment,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.54.8"><span class="content">but with everlasting kindness</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.54.8"><span class="content">I will have compassion on you,&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.54.8"><span class="content">says the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your Redeemer.</span></span></div>
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            <div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.54.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Though the mountains be shaken</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.54.10"><span class="content">and the hills be removed,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.54.10"><span class="content">yet my unfailing love for you will not be shaken</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.54.10"><span class="content">nor my covenant of peace be removed,&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.54.10"><span class="content">says the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, who has compassion on you.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.54.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.54.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">&#8220;Afflicted city, lashed by storms and not comforted,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.54.11"><span class="content">I will rebuild you with stones of turquoise,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">54:11 </span><span class="ft">The meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.54.11"><span class="content">your foundations with lapis lazuli.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.54.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.54.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">I will make your battlements of rubies,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.54.12"><span class="content">your gates of sparkling jewels,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.54.12"><span class="content">and all your walls of precious stones.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.54.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.54.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">All your children will be taught by 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.54.13"><span class="content">and great will be their peace.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.54.13"><span class="content">  </span></span></div>
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The Listener’s Bible®: NIV Edition

New International Version™  (Anglicised), Audio Edition

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

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    <div class="book bkISA">
        <div class="chapter ch55" data-usfm="ISA.55">
            <div class="label">55</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Invitation to the Thirsty</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.55.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">&#8220;Come, all you who are thirsty,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.55.1"><span class="content">come to the waters;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.55.1"><span class="content">and you who have no money,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.55.1"><span class="content">come, buy and eat!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.55.1"><span class="content">Come, buy wine and milk</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.55.1"><span class="content">without money and without cost.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.55.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.55.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Why spend money on what is not bread,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.55.2"><span class="content">and your labor on what does not satisfy?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.55.2"><span class="content">Listen, listen to me, and eat what is good,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.55.2"><span class="content">and you will delight in the richest of fare.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.55.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.55.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Give ear and come to me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.55.3"><span class="content">listen, that you may live.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.55.3"><span class="content">I will make an everlasting covenant with you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.55.3"><span class="content">my faithful love promised to David.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.55.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.55.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">See, I have made him a witness to the peoples,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.55.4"><span class="content">a ruler and commander of the peoples.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.55.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.55.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Surely you will summon nations you know not,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.55.5"><span class="content">and nations you do not know will come running to you,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.55.5"><span class="content">because of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.55.5"><span class="content">the Holy One of Israel,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.55.5"><span class="content">for he has endowed you with splendor.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.55.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.55.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Seek the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> while he may be found;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.55.6"><span class="content">call on him while he is near.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.55.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.55.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Let the wicked forsake their ways</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.55.7"><span class="content">and the unrighteous their thoughts.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.55.7"><span class="content">Let them turn to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, and he will have mercy on them,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.55.7"><span class="content">and to our God, for he will freely pardon.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.55.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.55.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">&#8220;For my thoughts are not your thoughts,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.55.8"><span class="content">neither are your ways my ways,&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q4"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.55.8"><span class="content">declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.55.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.55.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">&#8220;As the heavens are higher than the earth,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.55.9"><span class="content">so are my ways higher than your ways</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.55.9"><span class="content">and my thoughts than your thoughts.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.55.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.55.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">As the rain and the snow</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.55.10"><span class="content">come down from heaven,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.55.10"><span class="content">and do not return to it</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.55.10"><span class="content">without watering the earth</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.55.10"><span class="content">and making it bud and flourish,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.55.10"><span class="content">so that it yields seed for the sower and bread for the eater,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.55.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.55.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">so is my word that goes out from my mouth:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.55.11"><span class="content">It will not return to me empty,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.55.11"><span class="content">but will accomplish what I desire</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.55.11"><span class="content">and achieve the purpose for which I sent it.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.55.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.55.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">You will go out in joy</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.55.12"><span class="content">and be led forth in peace;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.55.12"><span class="content">the mountains and hills</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.55.12"><span class="content">will burst into song before you,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.55.12"><span class="content">and all the trees of the field</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.55.12"><span class="content">will clap their hands.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.55.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.55.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Instead of the thornbush will grow the juniper,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.55.13"><span class="content">and instead of briers the myrtle will grow.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.55.13"><span class="content">This will be for the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s renown,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.55.13"><span class="content">for an everlasting sign,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.55.13"><span class="content">that will endure forever.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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