listen to me, you who pursue righteousness you who seek the Lord look to the rock from which you were hewn and to the quarry from which you were dug [isaiah 51:1]   in the thick of struggle and challenge, it can be difficult to see the hand of God. the israelites...

“turn to me and be saved,     all the ends of the earth!     for i am God, and there is no other. by myself i have sworn;     from my mouth has gone out in righteousness     a word that shall not return: ‘to me every knee shall bow,     every tongue shall swear...

i did not speak in secret,     in a land of darkness; i did not say to the offspring of jacob,     ‘seek me in vain.’ i the Lord speak the truth;     i declare what is right. [isaiah 45:19]     what does God say to the offspring of jacob (and to us)?   ...

14 Thus says the LORD,     your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: “For your sake I send to Babylon     and bring them all down as fugitives,     even the Chaldeans, in the ships in which they rejoice. 15 I am the LORD, your Holy One,     the Creator of Israel, your...

 i, I am the Lord,  and besides me there is no savior. i declared and saved and proclaimed,  when there was no strange god among you;  and you are my witnesses,” declares the Lord, “and i am God. also henceforth i am he; there is none who can deliver from my hand; i...

bring out the people who are blind, yet have eyes,     who are deaf, yet have ears!   all the nations gather together,     and the peoples assemble. who among them can declare this,     and show us the former things? let them bring their witnesses to prove them right,...

fear not, for i am with you;     i will bring your offspring from the east,     and from the west i will gather you.   i will say to the north, give up, and to the south, do not withhold; bring my sons from afar     and my daughters from the end of the earth,...

for i am the Lord your God, the holy one of israel, your savior. i give egypt as your ransom,  cush and seba in exchange for you. because you are precious in my eyes, and honored, and I love you,  i give men in return for you, peoples in exchange for your life....

yet it was the will of the Lord to crush him;     he has put him to grief; when his soul makes an offering for guilt,     he shall see his offspring; he shall prolong his days; the will of the Lord shall prosper in his hand. out of the anguish of his soul he shall see...

by oppression and judgment he was taken away;     and as for his generation, who considered that he was cut off out of the land of the living,     stricken for the transgression of my people? and they made his grave with the wicked     and with a rich man in his...