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Pentax S50

"This is what Yahweh says"

"'At a favorable time I have answered you, on the day of salvation I have been your help; I have formed you and made you to be my covenant with the people.

"'You will restore the land, and allot its abandoned farms. You will say to the captives: Come out, and to those in darkness: Show yourselves.

"'They will feed along the road; they will find pasture on barren hills. They will neither hunger nor thirst, nor will the scorching wind or the sun beat upon them; for he who has mercy on them will guide them and lead them to springs of water.

"I will turn all my mountains into roads and raise up my highways.

"'See, they come from afar, some from the north and west, others from the land of Sinim.'

"Sing, O heavens, and rejoice, O earth;
break forth into song, O mountains;
for Yahweh has comforted his people
and taken pity on those who are afflicted.

"But Zion said: 'Yahweh has forsaken me,
my Lord has forgotten me.'
Can a woman forget the baby at her breast
and have no compassion on the child of her womb?
Yet though she forget, I will never forget you.

"See, I have written your name upon the palm of my hands: your walls are ever before me. Your sons hurry back, and those who laid you waste hasten to depart from you.

"Lift up your eyes, look around and see: your sons are all assembling and coming to you. As I live, says Yahweh, you will wear them all as your jewels; they will adorn you as brides are adorned.

"Your lonely places and your ruins, your wastelands and devastated country, will now be too small for your people, while those who destroy you will be driven off."

ISAIAH 49:8-15

"You give me fullness of life, Yahweh, my Lord."

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