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Hello, this is Father Paul, and I'm glad we're

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taking this journey together to read the Bible

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in a year. Today's reading is from the book of

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Isaiah, chapters 42 and 43. Chapter 42 Behold

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my servant whom I uphold, my elect one in whom

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my soul delights. I have put my spirit upon him.

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He will bring forth justice to the Gentiles.

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He will not cry out nor raise his voice, nor

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cause his voice to be heard in the street. A

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bruised reed he will not break, and smoking flax

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he will not quench. He will bring forth justice

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for truth. He will not fail nor be discouraged,

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till he has established justice in the earth,

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and the coastlands shall wait for his law. Thus

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says God the Lord, who created the heavens and

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stretched them out, who spread forth the earth,

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and that which comes from it, who gives breath

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to the people on it and spirit to those who walk

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on it. I, the Lord, have called you in righteousness

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and will hold your hand. I will keep you and

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give you as a covenant to the people, as a light

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to the Gentiles to open blind eyes, to bring

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out prisoners from the prison, those who sit

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in darkness from the prison house. I am the Lord,

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that is my name, and my glory I will not give

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to another. nor my praise to carved images behold

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the former things have come to pass and new things

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i declare before they spring forth i tell you

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of them sing to the lord a new song and his praise

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from the ends of the earth you who go down to

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the sea and all that is in it you coast lands

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and you inhabitants of them let the wilderness

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and its cities lift up their voice the villages

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that qidar inhabits let the inhabitants of sila

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sing Let them shout from the top of the mountains.

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Let them give glory to the Lord and declare His

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praise in the coastlands. The Lord shall go forth

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like a mighty man. He shall stir up His zeal

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like a man of war. He shall cry out, yes, shout

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aloud. He shall prevail against His enemies.

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I have held my peace a long time. I have been

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still and restrained myself. Now I will cry like

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a woman in labor. I will pant and gasp at once.

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I will lay waste the mountains and hills, and

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dry up all their vegetation. I will make the

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rivers coastlands, and I will dry up the pools.

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I will bring the blind by a way they did not

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know. I will lead them in paths they have not

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known. I will make darkness light before them,

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and crooked places straight. These things I will

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do for them, and not forsake them. They shall

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be turned back, they shall be greatly ashamed,

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who trust in carved images, who say to the molded

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images, You are our gods. Hear, you deaf, and

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look, you blind, that you may see. Who is blind

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but my servant, or deaf as my messenger, whom

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I send? Who is blind as he who is perfect, and

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blind as the Lord's servant? Seeing many things,

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but you do not observe, opening the ears, but

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he does not hear. The Lord is well pleased for

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his righteousness' sake. He will exalt the law

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and make it honorable. But this is a people robbed

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and plundered. All of them are snared in holes,

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and they are hidden in prison houses. They are

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for prey, and no one delivers. For plunder, and

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no one says, restore. Who among you will give

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ear to this? Who will listen and hear for the

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time to come? Who gave Jacob for plunder and

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Israel to the robbers? Was it not the Lord, he

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against whom we have sinned? For they would not

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walk in his ways, nor were they obedient to his

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law. Therefore he has poured on him the fury

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of his anger and the strength of battle. It has

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set him on fire all around, yet he did not know.

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And it burned him, yet he did not take it to

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heart. Chapter 43 But now, thus says the Lord,

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who created you, O Jacob, and he who formed you,

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O Israel. Fear not, for I have redeemed you,

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I have called you by your name, you are mine.

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When you pass through the waters, I will be with

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you, and through the rivers, they shall not overflow

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you. When you walk through the fire, you shall

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not be burned, nor shall the flame scorch you.

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For I am the Lord your God, the Holy One of Israel,

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your Savior. I gave Egypt for your ransom, Ethiopia

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and Saba in your place. Since you were precious

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in my sight, you have been honored, and I have

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loved you. Therefore I will give men for you,

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and people for your life. Fear not, for I am

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with you. I will bring your descendants from

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the east, and gather you from the west. I will

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say to the north, give them up, and to the south,

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do not keep them back. Bring my sons from afar,

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and my daughters from the ends of the earth.

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Everyone who is called by my name, whom I have

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created for my glory, I have formed him, yes,

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I have made him. Bring out the blind people who

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have eyes, and the deaf who have ears. Let all

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the nations be gathered together, and let the

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people be assembled. Who among them can declare

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this, and show us former things? Let them bring

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out their witnesses, that they may be justified.

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Or let them hear and say, It is truth. You are

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my witnesses, says the Lord, and my servant,

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whom I have chosen, that you may know and believe

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me, and understand that I am he. Before me there

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was no God formed, nor shall there be after me.

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I, even I, am the Lord, and besides me there

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is no Savior. I have declared and saved, I have

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proclaimed, and there was no foreign God among

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you. Therefore you are my witnesses, says the

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Lord, that I am God. Indeed, before the day was,

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I am He, and there is no one who can deliver

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out of my hand. I work, and who will reverse

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it? Thus says the Lord, your Redeemer, the Holy

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One of Israel, For your sake I will send to Babylon,

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and bring them all down as fugitives, the Chaldeans

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who rejoice in their ships. I am the Lord, your

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Holy One, the Creator of Israel, your King. Thus

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says the Lord, who makes a way in the sea, and

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a path through the mighty waters, who brings

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forth the chariot and horse, the army and the

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power. They shall lie down together, they shall

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not rise. They are extinguished. They are quenched

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like a wick. Do not remember the former things,

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nor consider the things of old. Behold, I will

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do a new thing. Now it shall spring forth. Shall

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you not know it? I will even make a road in the

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wilderness and rivers in the desert. The beast

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of the field will honor me, the jackals and the

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ostriches, because I give waters in the wilderness

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and rivers in the desert, to give drink to my

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people, my chosen. This people I have formed

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for myself. They shall declare my praise. But

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you have not called upon me, O Jacob, and you

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have been weary of me, O Israel. You have not

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brought me the sheep for your burnt offerings,

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nor have you honored me with your sacrifices.

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I have not caused you to serve with green offerings,

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nor wearied you with incense. You have bought

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me no sweet cane with money. nor have you satisfied

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me with the fat of your sacrifices, but you have

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burdened me with your sins. You have wearied

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me with your iniquities. I, even I, am he who

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blots out your transgressions for my own sake,

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and I will not remember your sins. Put me in

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remembrance. Let us contend together. State your

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case that you may be acquitted. Your first father

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sinned, and your mediators have transgressed

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against me. Therefore I will profane the princes

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of the sanctuary. I will give Jacob to the curse

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and Israel to reproaches. I hope you enjoyed

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today's reading as much as I did and I look forward

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to seeing you again tomorrow to continue on our

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journey. God bless you and have a great day.