The Lord Will Come; Go Out to Meet Him!
He is the Prince of Peace. Image Courtesy: EWTN
God The Creator and Redeemer
Hear this O House of Jacob, who are called by the name of Israel and who came forth from the
loins of Judah, who swear by the name of the Lord and invoke the God of Israel but not in truth
or right (righteousness) For they call themselves after the Holy City and lean on the God of
Israel, the Lord of hosts is His name.
The former things I declared long ago, they went out from My mouth and I made them known;
then suddenly I did them and they came to pass. Because I know that you are obstinate, your
neck is an iron sinew and your forehead brass, I declared them to you from long ago before
they came to pass, I announced them to you, so you would not say, ‘My idol did them, my
carved image and my cast image commanded them.’
You have heard; Now see this and will you not declare it? From this time forward I make you
hear new things, hidden things that you have not known. They are created now, not long ago;
before today you have not heard them, so that you could not say, ‘I already know them.’ You
have never heard, you have never known, from of old your ear has not been opened. For I knew
that you would deal very treacherously and that from birth you were call a rebel.
For My Name’s sake I defer My anger, for the sake of praise I restrain it for you, so that I may
not cut you off. See I have refined you but not like silver; I have tested you in the furnace of
adversity. For My own sake, for My own sake, I do it, for why should My Name be profaned? My
glory I will not give to another.
Listen to Me, O Jacob and Israel, whom I called: I am He, I am the first and I am the last. My
hand laid the foundation of the earth and My right hand spread out the heavens; When I
summon them, they stand at attention.
Assemble, all of you and hear! Who among them has declared these things?
The Lord loves him; He shall perform His purpose on Babylon and His arm shall be against the
Chaldeans. I, even I have spoken and called Him, I have brought Him and he will prosper in his
way.
Draw near to me, hear this! From the beginning I have not spoken in secret, from the time it
came to be I have been there and now the Lord God has sent me and His Spirit.
Thus says the Lord, Your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel, I am the Lord Your God, who
teaches you for your own good, who leads you in the way you should go.
O that you had paid attention to My Commandments! Then your prosperity would have been
like a river and your success like the waves of the sea; Your offspring would have been like the
sand and your descendants like its grains; their name would never be cut off or destroyed from
before Me.
Go out from Babylon, flee from the Chaldea, declare this with a shout of joy and proclaim it,
send it forth to the end of the earth; Say, ‘The Lord has redeemed His servant Jacob!’ They did
not thirst when He led them through the deserts; He made water flow for them from the rock;
He split open the rock and the water gushed out.
“There is no peace,” says the Lord, “for the wicked.” –Isaiah 48:1-22
The Two Ways
Happy are those who do not follow the advice of the wicked or take the path that sinners tread,
or sit in the seat of scoffers but their delight is in the Law of the Lord and on His Law they
meditate day and night. They are like trees, planted by streams of water, which yield fruit in its
season and their leaves do not wither. In all that they do they prosper.
The wicked are not so but are like chaff that the wind drives away. Therefore the wicked will
not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.
For the Lord watches over the way of the righteous but the way of the wicked will perish.
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