This is what the Lord, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel says: I am the Lord your God, who teaches you for your benefit, who leads you in the way you should go.
For when he sees his children, the work of my hands within his nation, they will honour my name, they will honour the Holy One of Jacob and stand in awe of the God of Israel.
Yet the number of the Israelites will be like the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured or counted. And in the place where they were told: You are not my people, they will be called: Sons of the living God.
All your people will be righteous; they will possess the land for ever; they are the branch I planted, the work of my hands, so that I may be glorified.
On the day the Lord gave the Amorites over to the Israelites, Joshua spoke to the Lord in the presence of Israel: ‘Sun, stand still over Gibeon, and moon, over the Valley of Aijalon.’
They will come weeping, but I will bring them back with consolation. , I will lead them to wadis filled with water, by a smooth way where they will not stumble, for I am Israel’s Father, and Ephraim is my firstborn.
urging them to ask the God of the heavens for mercy concerning this mystery, so that Daniel and his friends would not be destroyed with the rest of Babylon’s wise men.
So I will make my holy name known among my people Israel and will no longer allow it to be profaned. Then the nations will know that I am the Lord, the Holy One in Israel.
I thought, ‘How I long to make you my sons and give you a desirable land, the most beautiful inheritance of all the nations.’ I thought, ‘You will call me “My Father” and never turn away from me.’
Now the Philistine leaders gathered together to offer a great sacrifice to their god Dagon. They rejoiced and said: Our god has handed over our enemy Samson to us.
When they say to you, ‘Enquire of the mediums and the spiritists who chirp and mutter,’ shouldn’t a people enquire of their God? Should they enquire of the dead on behalf of the living?
This is the word of the Lord your Maker, the one who formed you from the womb: He will help you. Do not fear, Jacob my servant, Jeshurun whom I have chosen.
Indeed, your husband is your Maker – his name is the Lord of Armies – and the Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer; he is called the God of the whole earth.
Now this is what the Lord says – the one who created you, Jacob, and the one who formed you, Israel – ‘Do not fear, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by your name; you are mine.
Yet you are our Father, even though Abraham does not know us and Israel doesn’t recognise us. You, Lord, are our Father; your name is Our Redeemer from Ancient Times.