Isaiah 11Isaiah 12Hebrews 7Isaiah 11
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And there will come a rod out of the broken tree of Jesse, and a branch out of his roots will give fruit.
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And the spirit of the Lord will be resting on him, the spirit of wisdom and good sense, the spirit of wise guiding and strength, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the Lord
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And he will not be guided in his judging by what he sees, or give decisions by the hearing of his ears:
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But he will do right in the cause of the poor, and give wise decisions for those in the land who are in need and the rod of his mouth will come down on the cruel, and with the breath of his lips he will put an end to the evil-doer.
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And righteousness will be the cord of his robe, and good faith the band round his breast.
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And the wolf will be living with the lamb, and the leopard will take his rest with the young goat and the lion will take grass for food like the ox and the young lion will go with the young ones of the herd and a little child will be their guide.
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And the cow and the bear will be friends while their young ones are sleeping together.
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And the child at the breast will be playing by the hole of the snake, and the older child will put his hand on the bright eye of the poison-snake.
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There will be no cause of pain or destruction in all my holy mountain: for the earth will be full of the knowledge of the Lord as the sea is covered by the waters.
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And in that day, the eyes of the nations will be turned to the root of Jesse which will be lifted up as the flag of the peoples and his resting-place will be glory.
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And in that day the hand of the Lord will be stretched out the second time to get back the rest of his people, from Assyria, and from Egypt, and from Pathros, and from Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the sea-lands.
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And he will put up a flag as a sign to the nations, and he will get together those of Israel who had been sent away, and the wandering ones of Judah, from the four ends of the earth.
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And the envy of Ephraim will be gone, and those who make trouble for Judah will come to an end: Ephraim will have no more envy of Judah, and there will be an end of Judah's hate for Ephraim.
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And they will be united in attacking the Philistines on the west, and together they will take the goods of the children of the east: their hand will be on Edom and Moab and the children of Ammon will be under their rule.
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And the Lord will make the tongue of the Egyptian sea completely dry and with his burning wind his hand will be stretched out over the River, and it will be parted into seven streams, so that men may go over it with dry feet.
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And there will be a highway for the rest of his people from Assyria as there was for Israel in the day when he came up out of the land of Egypt.
Isaiah 12
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And in that day you will say I will give praise to you, O Lord for though you were angry with me, your wrath is turned away, and I am comforted.
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See, God is my salvation I will have faith in the Lord, without fear: for the Lord Jah is my strength and song and he has become my salvation.
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So with joy will you get water out of the springs of salvation.
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And in that day you will say, Give praise to the Lord, let his name be honoured, give word of his doings among the peoples, say that his name is lifted up.
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Make a song to the Lord for he has done noble things: give news of them through all the earth.
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Let your voice be sounding in a cry of joy, O daughter of Zion, for great is the Holy One of Israel among you.
Hebrews 7
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For this Melchizedek, the king of Salem, a priest of the Most High God, who gave Abraham his blessing, meeting him when he came back after putting the kings to death,
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And to whom Abraham gave a tenth part of everything which he had, being first named King of righteousness, and then in addition, King of Salem, that is to say, King of peace
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Being without father or mother, or family, having no birth or end to his life, being made like the Son of God, is a priest for ever.
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Now see how great this man was, to whom our father Abraham gave a tenth part of what he had got in the fight.
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And it is true that by the law, those of the sons of Levi who have the position of priests may take a tenth part of the people's goods that is to say, they take it from their brothers though these are the sons of Abraham.
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But this man, who was not of their family, took the tenth from Abraham, and gave a blessing to him to whom God had given his undertaking.
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But there is no doubt that the less gets his blessing from the greater.
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Now at the present time, men over whom death has power take the tenth but then it was taken by one of whom it is witnessed that he is living.
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And we may say that in Abraham, even Levi, who has a right to take the tenth part, gave it
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Because he was still in his father's body when Melchizedek came to him.
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Now if it was possible for things to be made complete through the priests of the house of Levi (for the law was given to the people in connection with them), what need was there for another priest who was of the order of Melchizedek and not of the order of Aaron?
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Because if the priests are changed, it is necessary to make a change in the law.
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For he of whom these things are said comes of another tribe, of which no man has ever made offerings at the altar.
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Because it is clear that our Lord comes out of Judah, and Moses said nothing about priests from that tribe.
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And this is even more clear if a second priest has come up who is like Melchizedek,
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That is to say, not made by a law based on the flesh, but by the power of a life without end:
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For it has been witnessed of him, You are a priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek.
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So the law which went before is put on one side, because it was feeble and without profit.
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(Because the law made nothing complete), and in its place there is a better hope, through which we come near to God.
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And as this is not without the taking of an oath
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(For those were made priests without an oath, but this one was made a priest with an oath by him who says of him, The Lord gave his oath, which he will not take back, that you are a priest for ever)
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By so much is it a better agreement which we have through Jesus.
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And it is true that there have been a great number of those priests, because death does not let them go on for ever
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But this priest, because his life goes on for ever, is unchanging.
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So that he is fully able to be the saviour of all who come to God through him, because he is ever living to make prayer to God for them.
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It was right for us to have such a high priest, one who is holy and without evil, doing no wrong, having no part with sinners, and made higher than the heavens:
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Who has no need to make offerings for sins every day, like those high priests, first for himself, and then for the people because he did this once and for ever when he made an offering of himself.
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The law makes high priests of men who are feeble but the word of the oath, which was made after the law, gives that position to a Son, in whom all good is for ever complete.
