Isaiah 55:8

For you were going astray like sheep; but now you have returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.

but those who wait for Yahweh will renew their strength. They will mount up with wings like eagles. They will run, and not be weary. They will walk, and not faint.

Wait for Yahweh. Be strong, and let your heart take courage. Yes, wait for Yahweh.

How great are your works, Yahweh! Your thoughts are very deep.

But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

Because Christ also suffered for sins once, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring you to God, being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the Spirit,

For the vision is yet for the appointed time, and it hurries toward the end, and won’t prove false. Though it takes time, wait for it; because it will surely come. It won’t delay.

There are also many other things which Jesus did, which if they would all be written, I suppose that even the world itself wouldn’t have room for the books that would be written.

I have gone astray like a lost sheep. Seek your servant, for I don’t forget your commandments.

How precious to me are your thoughts, God! How vast is their sum!

He who heeds the Word finds prosperity. Whoever trusts in Yahweh is blessed.

Oh the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and the knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past tracing out!

Many, Yahweh, my God, are the wonderful works which you have done, and your thoughts which are toward us. They can’t be declared back to you. If I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be counted.

I will give thanks to you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Your works are wonderful. My soul knows that very well.

My people have been lost sheep. Their shepherds have caused them to go astray. They have turned them away on the mountains. They have gone from mountain to hill. They have forgotten their resting place.

who was delivered up for our trespasses, and was raised for our justification.

The Lord is not slow concerning his promise, as some count slowness; but he is patient with us, not wishing that anyone should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

her former husband, who sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife after she is defiled; for that would be an abomination to Yahweh. You shall not cause the land to sin, which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance.

After many days, Yahweh’s word came to Elijah, in the third year, saying, “Go, show yourself to Ahab; and I will send rain on the earth.”

You asked, ‘Who is this who hides counsel without knowledge?’ therefore I have uttered that which I didn’t understand, things too wonderful for me, which I didn’t know.

They have all gone aside. They have together become corrupt. There is no one who does good, no, not one.

My mouth will tell about your righteousness, and of your salvation all day, though I don’t know its full measure.

Whoever is wise will pay attention to these things. They will consider the loving kindnesses of Yahweh.

Or do you despise the riches of his goodness, forbearance, and patience, not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance?

let him know that he who turns a sinner from the error of his way will save a soul from death and will cover a multitude of sins.

Who is like you, Yahweh, among the gods? Who is like you, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders?

The Rock: his work is perfect, for all his ways are just. A God of faithfulness who does no wrong, just and right is he.

Elijah the Tishbite, who was one of the settlers of Gilead, said to Ahab, “As Yahweh, the God of Israel, lives, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word.”

Pour out the fury of your anger. Look at everyone who is proud, and bring him low.

The counsel of Yahweh stands fast forever, the thoughts of his heart to all generations.

Yahweh’s works are great, pondered by all those who delight in them.

to him who alone does great wonders; for his loving kindness endures forever:

The way of Yahweh is a stronghold to the upright, but it is a destruction to the workers of iniquity.

Yes, the dogs are greedy. They can never have enough. They are shepherds who can’t understand. They have all turned to their own way, each one to his gain, from every quarter.

For I know the thoughts that I think toward you,” says Yahweh, “thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope and a future.

Yet the house of Israel says, ‘The way of the Lord is not fair.’ House of Israel, aren’t my ways fair? Aren’t your ways unfair?

Many will purify themselves, and make themselves white, and be refined; but the wicked will do wickedly; and none of the wicked will understand; but those who are wise will understand.

Who is wise, that he may understand these things? Who is prudent, that he may know them? For the ways of Yahweh are right, and the righteous walk in them; But the rebellious stumble in them.

“Which of you men, if you had one hundred sheep, and lost one of them, wouldn’t leave the ninety-nine in the wilderness, and go after the one that was lost, until he found it?

and said, “You son of the devil, full of all deceit and all cunning, you enemy of all righteousness, will you not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord?

Now to him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us,

Elijah was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain, and it didn’t rain on the earth for three years and six months.

If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

Now I know that Yahweh is greater than all gods because of the way that they treated people arrogantly.”

This was a small thing in your eyes, God; but you have spoken of your servant’s house for a great while to come, and have respected me according to the standard of a man of high degree, Yahweh God.

who does great things that can’t be fathomed, marvelous things without number;

I will extol you, Yahweh, for you have raised me up, and have not made my foes to rejoice over me.

Oh taste and see that Yahweh is good. Blessed is the man who takes refuge in him.

Those who hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head. Those who want to cut me off, being my enemies wrongfully, are mighty. I have to restore what I didn’t take away.

to those who keep his covenant, to those who remember to obey his precepts.

I wait for Yahweh. My soul waits. I hope in his word.

This knowledge is beyond me. It’s lofty. I can’t attain it.

I will wait for Yahweh, who hides his face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for him.

It shall be said in that day, “Behold, this is our God! We have waited for him, and he will save us! This is Yahweh! We have waited for him. We will be glad and rejoice in his salvation!”

Yahweh is exalted, for he dwells on high. He has filled Zion with justice and righteousness.

“For long ago I broke off your yoke, and burst your bonds. You said, ‘I will not serve;’ for on every high hill and under every green tree you bowed yourself, playing the prostitute.

Who is wise enough to understand this? Who is he to whom the mouth of Yahweh has spoken, that he may declare it? Why has the land perished and burned up like a wilderness, so that no one passes through?

“Blessed is the man who trusts in Yahweh, and whose confidence is in Yahweh.

Yahweh is good to those who wait for him, to the soul who seeks him.

but have lifted up yourself against the Lord of heaven; and they have brought the vessels of his house before you, and you and your lords, your wives, and your concubines, have drunk wine from them. You have praised the gods of silver and gold, of bronze, iron, wood, and stone, which don’t see, or hear, or know; and you have not glorified the God in whose hand your breath is, and whose are all your ways.

But they don’t know the thoughts of Yahweh, neither do they understand his counsel; for he has gathered them like the sheaves to the threshing floor.

Yahweh, within her, is righteous. He will do no wrong. Every morning he brings his justice to light. He doesn’t fail, but the unjust know no shame.

Rather, go to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.

“He arose, and came to his father. But while he was still far off, his father saw him, and was moved with compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him.

For the law was given through Moses. Grace and truth were realized through Jesus Christ.

When therefore he heard that he was sick, he stayed two days in the place where he was.

But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”

Regard the patience of our Lord as salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also, according to the wisdom given to him, wrote to you,

They sang the song of Moses, the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, “Great and marvelous are your works, Lord God, the Almighty! Righteous and true are your ways, you King of the nations.

“Don’t keep talking so exceedingly proudly. Don’t let arrogance come out of your mouth, for Yahweh is a God of knowledge. By him actions are weighed.

Behold, these are but the outskirts of his ways. How small a whisper do we hear of him! But the thunder of his power who can understand?”

All the paths of Yahweh are loving kindness and truth to such as keep his covenant and his testimonies.

As the heavens for height, and the earth for depth, so the hearts of kings are unsearchable.

That which is, is far off and exceedingly deep. Who can find it out?

but Yahweh of Armies is exalted in justice, and God the Holy One is sanctified in righteousness.

All we like sheep have gone astray. Everyone has turned to his own way; and Yahweh has laid on him the iniquity of us all.

Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts. Let him return to Yahweh, and he will have mercy on him, to our God, for he will freely pardon.

“If you will return, Israel,” says Yahweh, “if you will return to me, and if you will put away your abominations out of my sight; then you will not be removed;

When I tell the wicked, ‘You will surely die;’ and you give him no warning, nor speak to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life; that wicked man will die in his iniquity; but I will require his blood at your hand.

You have also committed sexual immorality with the Egyptians, your neighbors, great of flesh; and have multiplied your prostitution, to provoke me to anger.

At the end of the days I, Nebuchadnezzar, lifted up my eyes to heaven, and my understanding returned to me, and I blessed the Most High, and I praised and honored him who lives forever; for his dominion is an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom from generation to generation.

But to us, God revealed them through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God.

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

This was yet a small thing in your eyes, Lord Yahweh; but you have spoken also of your servant’s house for a great while to come; and this among men, Lord Yahweh!

The way of the guilty is devious, but the conduct of the innocent is upright.

Therefore Yahweh will wait, that he may be gracious to you; and therefore he will be exalted, that he may have mercy on you, for Yahweh is a God of justice. Blessed are all those who wait for him.

Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and extol and honor the King of heaven; for all his works are truth, and his ways justice; and those who walk in pride he is able to abase.

But truly I tell you, there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the sky was shut up three years and six months, when a great famine came over all the land.

“They say, ‘If a man puts away his wife, and she goes from him, and becomes another man’s, should he return to her again?’ Wouldn’t that land be greatly polluted? But you have played the prostitute with many lovers; yet return again to me,” says Yahweh.