1 ‘Listen to me, you who pursue righteousness and who seek the Lord: look to the rock from which you were cut and to the quarry from which you were…

1 Awake, awake, Zion, clothe yourself with strength! Put on your garments of splendour, Jerusalem, the holy city. The uncircumcised and defiled will not enter you again. 2 Shake off…

1 Who has believed our message and to whom has the arm of the Lordbeen revealed? 2 He grew up before him like a tender shoot, and like a root…

1 ‘Sing, barren woman, you who never bore a child; burst into song, shout for joy, you who were never in labour; because more are the children of the desolate…

1 ‘Come, all you who are thirsty, come to the waters; and you who have no money, come, buy and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without…

1 This is what the Lordsays: ‘Maintain justice and do what is right, for my salvation is close at hand and my righteousness will soon be revealed. 2 Blessed is…

1 The righteous perish, and no one takes it to heart; the devout are taken away, and no one understands that the righteous are taken away to be spared from…

1 ‘Shout it aloud, do not hold back. Raise your voice like a trumpet. Declare to my people their rebellion and to the descendants of Jacob their sins. 2 For…

1 Surely the arm of the Lordis not too short to save, nor his ear too dull to hear. 2 But your iniquities have separated you from your God; your…

1 ‘Arise, shine, for your light has come, and the glory of the Lordrises upon you. 2 See, darkness covers the earth and thick darkness is over the peoples, but…