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Scripture Jam
1 - Listen
2 - Listen
1 - Listen to me, you that pursue righteousness,
2 - Listen to me, you that seek the Lord.
1 - Look
2 - Look
1 - Look to the rock from which you were hewn,
2 - Look to the quarry from which you were dug.
1 - Look to Abraham your father
2 - Look to Sarah who bore you;
1 - for he was but one solitary man,
2 - she was just one woman,
1 - they were just a couple of old people when I called them,
2 - but I blessed them and made them many.
1 - For the Lord will comfort Zion;
2 - he will comfort all her waste places,
1 - and will make her wilderness like Eden,
2 - her desert like the garden of the Lord;
1 - joy and gladness will be found in her,
2 - thanksgiving and the voice of song.
(pause a
moment)
1 - Listen
2 - Listen
1 - Listen to me, my people,
2 - and give heed to me, my nation;
1 - for a teaching will go out from me,
2 - and my justice for a light to the peoples.
1 - I will bring near my deliverance swiftly,
2 - my salvation has gone out
1 - and my arms will rule the peoples;
2 - the coastlands wait for me,
1 - and for my arm they hope.
2 - Lift up your eyes to the heavens,
1 - and look at the earth beneath;
2 - for the heavens will vanish like smoke,
1 - the earth will wear out like a garment,
2 - and those who live on it will die like gnats;
1 - but my salvation will be forever,
2 - and my deliverance will never be ended.
Isaiah 51:1-6 (adapted) from
the New
Revised Standard Version,
copyright 1989 by the Division of Christian Education of the
National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States
of America.
Used by permission. All rights reserved.
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