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Monday, December 10, 2012

Simple Christmas Joy


Let the wilderness and the arid land rejoice,
the desert be glad and blossom.
Covered with flowers, it sings and shouts with joy,
adorned with the splendor of Lebanon,
the magnificence of Carmel and Sharon.
They, my people, see the glory of Yahweh,
the majesty of our God.

Give vigour to weary hands
and strength to enfeebled knees.
Say to those who are afraid:
"Have courage, do not fear.
See, your God comes, demanding justice.
He is the God who rewards
the God who comes to save you."

Then will the eye of the blind be opened
and the ears of the deaf unsealed.
Then will the lame leap as a hart
and the tongue of the dumb sing and shout.
For water will break out in the wilderness
and streams gush forth from the desert.
The thirsty ground will become a pool,
te arid land springs of water.
In the haunts where once reptiles lay,
grass will grow with reeds and rushes.

There will be a highway
which will be called The Way of Holiness;
no one unclean will pass over it
nor any wicked fool stray there.
No lion will be found there
nor any beast of prey.
Only the redeemed will walk there.
For the ransomed of Yahweh will return:
with everlasting joy upon their heads,
the will come to Zion singing,
gladness and joy marching with them,
while sorrow and sighing flee away.

Isaiah 35:1-10

"Lord, help me to bring joy and glad tidings to those who are oppressed."


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