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1Give ear, Shepherd of Israel, you who lead Joseph like a flock.  You, who sit enthroned between the cherubim, shine forth.  2Before Ephraim, Benjamin and Manasseh, awaken your might; come and save us. 3Restore us, O God; make your face shine on us, that we may be saved. 4How long, Lord God Almighty, will your… Read more »

11 Let the heavens be glad, and let the earth rejoice; let the sea roar, and all that fills it; 12 let the field exult, and everything in it. Then shall all the trees of the forest sing for joy 13 before the Lord; for he is coming, for he is coming to judge the… Read more »

  6 The wolf shall live with the lamb, the leopard shall lie down with the kid, the calf and the lion and the fatling together, and a little child shall lead them. 7 The cow and the bear shall graze, their young shall lie down together; and the lion shall eat straw like the… Read more »

9 Get you up to a high mountain, O Zion, herald of good tidings; lift up your voice with strength, O Jerusalem, herald of good tidings, lift it up, do not fear, say to the cities of Judah,‘Here is your God!’ 11 He will feed his flock like a shepherd; he will gather the lambs… Read more »

He shall not judge by what His eyes see or decide by what His ears hear, but with righteousness He shall judge for the poor and decide with equity for the oppressed of the earth; He shall strike the earth with the rod of His mouth and with the breath of His lips He shall… Read more »

A shoot shall come out from the stump of Jesse, and a branch shall grow out of his roots. 2 The spirit of the Lord shall rest on Him and the Spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and fear of the Lord. 3 His delight shall… Read more »

But who can endure the day of his coming, and who can stand when he appears? For he is like a refiner’s fire and like washers’ soap; 3 he will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver, and he will purify the descendants of Levi and refine them like gold and silver, until they… Read more »

Matthew 24:36 But about that day or hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son,[a] but only the Father. Matthew 24:43  If the owner of the house had known at what time of night the thief was coming, he would have kept watch and would not have let his house be… Read more »

See, I am sending my messenger to prepare the way before me, and the Lord whom you seek will suddenly come to his temple. The messenger of the covenant in whom you delight—indeed, he is coming, says the Lord of hosts. The prophet Malachi lived approximately 450 years before the time of the nativity in… Read more »

But you, O Bethlehem of Ephrathah, who are one of the little clans of Judah, from you shall come forth for me one who is to rule in Israel, whose origin is from of old. God does unexpected things. His thoughts are not our thoughts, His timescale is not ours. As Isaiah 55:9 says, “For… Read more »