The Lord is Good, worthy to be praised; The Lord Restores.

26I will restore your judges to what they were at first,
and your advisers to what they were at the start.
Afterward, you will be called the Righteous City,
a Faithful Town.”

27Zion will be redeemed by justice,
those who repent, by righteousness.
28At the same time, both rebels and sinners will be broken,
and those who abandon the Lord will perish.
29Indeed, they will be ashamed of the sacred trees
you desired,
and you will be embarrassed because of the garden shrines
you have chosen.
30For you will become like an oak
whose leaves are withered,
and like a garden without water.
31The strong one will become tinder,
and his work a spark;
Both will burn together,
with no one to extinguish the flames.
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Isaiah 1: CSB


Israel’s Restoration
11“In that day
“I will restore David’s fallen shelter—
I will repair its broken walls
and restore its ruins—
and will rebuild it as it used to be,
12so that they may possess the remnant of Edom
and all the nations that bear my name,”
declares the Lord, who will do these things.
13“The days are coming,” declares the Lord,
“when the reaper will be overtaken by the plowman
and the planter by the one treading grapes.
New wine will drip from the mountains
and flow from all the hills,
14and I will bring my people Israel back from exile.

“They will rebuild the ruined cities and live in them.
They will plant vineyards and drink their wine;
They will make gardens and eat their fruit.
15I will plant Israel in their own land,
never again to be uprooted
from the land I have given them,”

says the Lord your God.

Amos 9:11


All praises belong to the Lord. We worship His name forever and ever



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The City of Peace

1The vision that Isaiah, son of Amoz, saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem:
2In the last days
The mountain of the Lord’s house will be established
at the top of the mountains
and will be raised above the hills.
All nations will stream to it,
3and many people will come and say,
“Come, let’s go up to the mountain of the Lord,
to the house of the God of Jacob.
He will teach us about his ways
so that we may walk in his paths.”
For instruction will go out of Zion
and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.
4He will settle disputes among the nations
and provide arbitration for many peoples.
They will beat their swords into plows
and their spears into pruning knives.
Nation will not take up the sword against nation,
and they will never again train for war.
The Day of the Lord
5House of Jacob,
come and let’s walk in the Lord’s light.
6For you have abandoned your people,
the house of Jacob,
because they are full of divination from the East
and of fortune-tellers like the Philistines.
They are in league with foreigners.
7Their , land is full of silver and gold,
and there is no limit to their treasures;
their land is full of horses,
And there is no limit to their chariots.
8Their land is full of worthless idols;
they worship the work of their hands,
what their fingers have made.
9So humanity is brought low,
and each person is humbled.
Do not forgive them!
10Go into the rocks
and hide in the dust
from the terror of the Lord
and from his majestic splendor.
11The pride of mankind will be humbled,
and human loftiness will be brought low;
The Lord alone will be exalted on that day.

12For a day belonging to the Lord of Armies is coming
against all that is proud and lofty,
against all that is lifted up — it will be humbled —
13against all the cedars of Lebanon,
lofty and lifted up,
against all the oaks of Bashan,
14against all the high mountains,
against all the lofty hills,
15against every high tower,
against every fortified wall,
16against every ship of Tarshish,
and against every splendid sea vessel.
17The pride of mankind will be brought low,
and human loftiness will be humbled;
The Lord alone will be exalted on that day.
18The worthless idols will vanish completely.

19People will go into caves in the rocks
and holes in the ground,
away from the terror of the Lord
and from his majestic splendor,
when he rises to terrify the earth.
20On that day, people will throw
their worthless idols of silver and gold,
which they made to worship,
to the moles and the bats.
21They will go into the caves of the rocks
and the crevices in the cliffs,
away from the terror of the Lord
and from his majestic splendor,
when he rises to terrify the earth.
22Put no more trust in a mere human,
who has only the breath in his nostrils.
What is he really worth?

Isaiah 2


We will worship the Lord forever and ever

The Day of the Lord
5House of Jacob,
Come and let’s walk in the Lord’s light.
6For you have abandoned your people,
the house of Jacob,
because they are full of divination from the East
and of fortune-tellers like the Philistines.
They are in league with foreigners.
7Their land is full of silver and gold,
and there is no limit to their treasures;
Their land is full of horses,
And there is no limit to their chariots.
8Their land is full of worthless idols;
they worship the work of their hands,
what their fingers have made.
9So humanity is brought low,
and each person is humbled.
Do not forgive them!
10Go into the rocks
and hide in the dust
from the terror of the Lord
and from his majestic splendor.
11The pride of mankind will be humbled,
and human loftiness will be brought low;
the Lord alone will be exalted on that day.

12For a day belonging to the Lord of Armies is coming
against all that is proud and lofty,
against all that is lifted up — it will be humbled —
13against all the cedars of Lebanon,
lofty and lifted up,
against all the oaks of Bashan,
14against all the high mountains,
against all the lofty hills,
15against every high tower,
against every fortified wall,
16against every ship of Tarshish,
and against every splendid sea vessel.
17The pride of mankind will be brought low,
and human loftiness will be humbled;
the Lord alone will be exalted on that day.
18The worthless idols will vanish completely.

19People will go into caves in the rocks
and holes in the ground,
away from the terror of the Lord
and from his majestic splendor,
when he rises to terrify the earth.
20On that day people will throw
their worthless idols of silver and gold,
which they made to worship,
to the moles and the bats.
21They will go into the caves of the rocks
and the crevices in the cliffs,
away from the terror of the Lord
and from his majestic splendor,
when he rises to terrify the earth.
22Put no more trust in a mere human,
who has only the breath in his nostrils.
What is he really worth?
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Isaiah 2: CSB






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HEAVEN

18Who is a God like you,
forgiving iniquity and passing over rebellion
for the remnant of his inheritance?
He does not hold on to his anger forever
because he delights in faithful love.
19He will again have compassion on us;
he will vanquish our iniquities.
You will cast all our sins
into the depths of the sea.
20You will show loyalty to Jacob
and faithful love to Abraham,
as you swore to our ancestors
from days long ago.
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Micah 7: CSB

“From heaven the Lord looks down and sees all mankind; from his dwelling place he watches all who live on earth— he who forms the hearts of all, who considers everything they do. No king is saved by the size of his army; no warrior escapes by his great strength. A horse is a vain hope for deliverance; despite all its great strength it cannot save. But the eyes of the Lord are on those who fear him, on those whose hope is in his unfailing love, to deliver them from death and keep them alive in famine. We wait in hope for the Lord; he is our help and our shield. In him our hearts rejoice, for we trust in his holy name. May your unfailing love be with us, Lord, even as we put our hope in you.”
‭‭Psalms‬ ‭33‬:‭13‬-‭22‬ ‭NIV‬‬
https://bible.com/bible/111/psa.33.13-22.NIV