Isaiah 51:4

For you are a holy people to Yahweh your God. Yahweh your God has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples who are on the face of the earth.

But you will be called Yahweh’s priests. Men will call you the servants of our God. You will eat the wealth of the nations. You will boast in their glory.

and he made us to be a Kingdom, priests to his God and Father—to him be the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen.

For so has the Lord commanded us, saying, ‘I have set you as a light for the Gentiles, that you should bring salvation to the uttermost parts of the earth.’ ”

and made us kings and priests to our God, and we will reign on the earth.”

For you are a holy people to Yahweh your God, and Yahweh has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples who are on the face of the earth.

The entrance of your words gives light. It gives understanding to the simple.

Only Yahweh had a delight in your fathers to love them, and he chose their offspring after them, even you above all peoples, as it is today.

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,

But you, Yahweh, are a shield around me, my glory, and the one who lifts up my head.

For his anger is but for a moment. His favor is for a lifetime. Weeping may stay for the night, but joy comes in the morning.

He will cover you with his feathers. Under his wings you will take refuge. His faithfulness is your shield and rampart.

Open to me the gates of righteousness. I will enter into them. I will give thanks to Yah.

I was glad when they said to me, “Let’s go to Yahweh’s house!”

Happy are the people who are in such a situation. Happy are the people whose God is Yahweh.

“Listen to me, you who know righteousness, the people in whose heart is my law. Don’t fear the reproach of men, and don’t be dismayed at their insults.

The true light that enlightens everyone was coming into the world.

You worship that which you don’t know. We worship that which we know; for salvation is from the Jews.

Whatever you do, in word or in deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father, through him.

who saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given to us in Christ Jesus before times eternal,

“For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel. After those days,” says the Lord; “I will put my laws into their mind, I will also write them on their heart. I will be their God, and they will be my people.

He made known his ways to Moses, his deeds to the children of Israel.

the people which I formed for myself, that they might declare my praise.

Yahweh, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel says: “I am Yahweh your God, who teaches you to profit, who leads you by the way that you should go.

Yahweh says, “I have answered you in an acceptable time. I have helped you in a day of salvation. I will preserve you and give you for a covenant of the people, to raise up the land, to make them inherit the desolate heritage,

They will call them “The Holy People, Yahweh’s Redeemed”. You will be called “Sought Out, A City Not Forsaken”.

and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name to all the nations, beginning at Jerusalem.

Again, therefore, Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world. He who follows me will not walk in the darkness, but will have the light of life.”

to open their eyes, that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive remission of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in me.’

for you were bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s.

seeing it is God who said, “Light will shine out of darkness,” who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

who delivered us out of the power of darkness, and translated us into the Kingdom of the Son of his love,

But Yahweh has taken you, and brought you out of the iron furnace, out of Egypt, to be to him a people of inheritance, as it is today.

Lift up your heads, you gates! Be lifted up, you everlasting doors, and the King of glory will come in.

Show me your ways, Yahweh. Teach me your paths.

Hear this, all you peoples. Listen, all you inhabitants of the world,

He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty.

Yahweh says to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have held, to subdue nations before him, and strip kings of their armor; to open the doors before him, and the gates shall not be shut:

Yahweh has made his holy arm bare in the eyes of all the nations. All the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.

Nations will come to your light, and kings to the brightness of your rising.

Don’t work for the food which perishes, but for the food which remains to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you. For God the Father has sealed him.”

Not that I have already obtained, or am already made perfect; but I press on, that I may take hold of that for which also I was taken hold of by Christ Jesus.

“I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.

He said, “If now I have found favor in your sight, Lord, please let the Lord go among us, even though this is a stiff-necked people; pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for your inheritance.”

He will make you high above all nations that he has made, in praise, in name, and in honor; and that you may be a holy people to Yahweh your God, as he has spoken.

They will call the peoples to the mountain. There they will offer sacrifices of righteousness, for they will draw out the abundance of the seas, the hidden treasures of the sand.”

Keep me as the apple of your eye. Hide me under the shadow of your wings,

For in the day of trouble, he will keep me secretly in his pavilion. In the secret place of his tabernacle, he will hide me. He will lift me up on a rock.

Blessed is the one whom you choose and cause to come near, that he may live in your courts. We will be filled with the goodness of your house, your holy temple.

“Hear, my people, and I will testify to you, Israel, if you would listen to me!

Teach me your way, Yahweh. I will walk in your truth. Make my heart undivided to fear your name.

For judgment will return to righteousness. All the upright in heart shall follow it.

Teach me, Yahweh, the way of your statutes. I will keep them to the end.

Your word is a lamp to my feet, and a light for my path.

Yahweh’s name is a strong tower: the righteous run to him, and are safe.

The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light. The light has shined on those who lived in the land of the shadow of death.

For yet a very little while, and the indignation against you will be accomplished, and my anger will be directed to his destruction.”

It will happen in that day that the nations will seek the root of Jesse, who stands as a banner of the peoples; and his resting place will be glorious.

For I, Yahweh your God, will hold your right hand, saying to you, ‘Don’t be afraid. I will help you.’

Turn your ear, and come to me. Hear, and your soul will live. I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David.

“Arise, shine; for your light has come, and Yahweh’s glory has risen on you.

Your gates also shall be open continually; they shall not be shut day nor night, that men may bring to you the wealth of the nations, and their kings led captive.

Of them I will also select priests and Levites,” says Yahweh.

“For my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the spring of living waters, and cut out cisterns for themselves: broken cisterns that can’t hold water.

But you, when you pray, enter into your inner room, and having shut your door, pray to your Father who is in secret, and your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly.

how the Christ must suffer, and how, by the resurrection of the dead, he would be first to proclaim light both to these people and to the Gentiles.”

For as many as have sinned without the law will also perish without the law. As many as have sinned under the law will be judged by the law.

(for when Gentiles who don’t have the law do by nature the things of the law, these, not having the law, are a law to themselves,

If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy him; for God’s temple is holy, which you are.

For our light affliction, which is for the moment, works for us more and more exceedingly an eternal weight of glory,

Follow after peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no man will see the Lord,

You also, as living stones, are built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

Many peoples shall go and say, “Come, let’s go up to the mountain of Yahweh, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths.” For the law shall go out of Zion, and Yahweh’s word from Jerusalem.

“I, Yahweh, have called you in righteousness. I will hold your hand. I will keep you, and make you a covenant for the people, as a light for the nations,

Come, my people, enter into your rooms, and shut your doors behind you. Hide yourself for a little moment, until the indignation is past.

Indeed, he says, “It is too light a thing that you should be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel. I will also give you as a light to the nations, that you may be my salvation to the end of the earth.”

Many nations will go and say, “Come! Let’s go up to the mountain of Yahweh, and to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths.” For the law will go out of Zion, and Yahweh’s word from Jerusalem;

and you shall be to me a kingdom of priests, and a holy nation.’ These are the words which you shall speak to the children of Israel.”

Now therefore, if I have found favor in your sight, please show me your way, now, that I may know you, so that I may find favor in your sight; and consider that this nation is your people.”

Yet he sent prophets to them, to bring them again to Yahweh, and they testified against them; but they would not listen.

Blessed is the nation whose God is Yahweh, the people whom he has chosen for his own inheritance.

“Hear, my people, and I will speak. Israel, I will testify against you. I am God, your God.

Hear my teaching, my people. Turn your ears to the words of my mouth.

that I may see the prosperity of your chosen, that I may rejoice in the gladness of your nation, that I may glory with your inheritance.

He has not done this for just any nation. They don’t know his ordinances. Praise Yah!

For the commandment is a lamp, and the law is light. Reproofs of instruction are the way of life,

Open the gates, that the righteous nation may enter: the one which keeps faith.

“Listen to me, O Jacob, and Israel my called: I am he. I am the first. I am also the last.

“Listen to me, you who follow after righteousness, you who seek Yahweh. Look to the rock you were cut from, and to the quarry you were dug from.

Why do you spend money for that which is not bread, and your labor for that which doesn’t satisfy? Listen diligently to me, and eat that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in richness.

For he said, “Surely, they are my people, children who will not deal falsely;” so he became their Savior.

a light for revelation to the nations, and the glory of your people Israel.”

But Peter, standing up with the eleven, lifted up his voice, and spoke out to them, “You men of Judea, and all you who dwell at Jerusalem, let this be known to you, and listen to my words.

to those who are without law, as without law (not being without law toward God, but under law toward Christ), that I might win those who are without law.

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.