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Turn back, when the time comes, to this record of divine prophecy,✻ and read it afresh; you shall learn, then, that none of these signs was lacking, none waited for the coming of the next. The Lord it was entrusted me with the prophecies I utter; by his Spirit that strange company was called together. (Isaiah 34, 16)
A high road will stretch across it, by divine proclamation kept holy; none that is defiled may travel on it; and there you shall find a straight path lying before you, wayfarer is none so foolish he can go astray. (Isaiah 35, 8)
Ay, the Lord’s will it was, overwhelmed he should be with trouble. His life laid down for guilt’s atoning, he shall yet be rewarded; father of a long posterity, instrument of the divine purpose; (Isaiah 53, 10)
Justice shall be thy sure foundation; far from thy thoughts be all oppression, now thou hast nothing to fear, all tumult of the mind,✻ when peril is none to threaten thee. (Isaiah 54, 14)
Day after day they besiege me, arraign my dealings with them, a nation, you would think, ever dutiful, one that never swerved from the divine will. Proof they ask of my faithfulness, would fain bring a plea against their God.✻ (Isaiah 58, 2)
Then, sudden as the dawn, the welcome light shall break on thee, in a moment thy health shall find a new spring; divine favour shall lead thee on thy journey, brightness of the Lord’s presence close thy ranks behind. (Isaiah 58, 8)
Who owns the claim of justice, who judges honourably? A lie their confidence, folly their watchword, they carry mischief in the womb, bring shame to birth. (Isaiah 59, 4)
Heinous our treason against the Lord, that turn away from his divine leading to plan cruelty and rebellion; false thoughts we conceive in our hearts that still find utterance. (Isaiah 59, 13)
I will exchange thy brass for gold, thy iron for silver, thy wood for brass, thy stone for iron; I will give thee peace itself to be thy government, justice itself to be thy magistracy; (Isaiah 60, 17)
But indeed, thought I, perhaps they are poor men and foolish, that have never learnt the divine command, or what their God requires of them. (Jeremiah 5, 4)
I will go and have speech with the men of rank; what the divine command is, what their God requires of them, these will surely know. And these I found conspiring, as none other, to throw off the yoke, to break through their bonds. (Jeremiah 5, 5)
pampered and sleek, they defy my will past all bearing; redress they deny to the widow, right to the orphan, justice to the poor. (Jeremiah 5, 28)
