11 Suffering
one, storm-tossed, uncomforted,
look, I am setting your gemstones
in silvery metal
and your foundations with sapphires.
12 I
will make your towers of rubies,
and your gates of beryl,
and all your walls of precious jewels.
13 All your children will be disciples of the Lord—
I will make peace abound for your children.
14 You
will be firmly founded in righteousness.
You will stay far from oppression because you won’t fear,
far from terror because it won’t come near you.
15 If
anyone attacks you, it’s none of my doing.
Whoever attacks you will fall because of you.
16 Look,
I myself created the metalworker who blows the fire of coal and who produces a
tool for his work.
And I myself created the looter to destroy.
17 No
weapon fashioned against you will succeed,
and you may condemn every tongue that disputes with you.
This is the heritage of the Lord’s
servants,
whose righteousness comes from me, says the Lord.
1 All of
you who are thirsty, come to the water!
Whoever has no money, come, buy food and eat!
Without money, at no cost, buy wine and milk!
2 Why
spend money for what isn’t food,
and your earnings for what doesn’t satisfy?
Listen carefully to me and eat what is good;
enjoy the richest of feasts.
3 Listen
and come to me;
listen, and you will live.
I will make an everlasting covenant with you,
my faithful loyalty to David.
4 Look,
I made him a witness to the peoples,
a prince and commander of peoples.
5 Look,
you will call a nation you don’t know,
a nation you don’t know will run to you
because of the Lord your God,
the holy one of Israel, who has glorified you.
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