14 for anything that becomes visible is light. Therefore it says,

(A)“Awake, O sleeper,
    and (B)arise from the dead,
and (C)Christ will shine on you.”

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34 (A)Wake up from your drunken stupor, as is right, and do not go on sinning. For (B)some have no knowledge of God. (C)I say this to your shame.

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11 Besides this you know the time, that the hour has come for you (A)to wake from sleep. (B)For salvation is nearer to us now than when we first believed.

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There was a man (A)sent from God, whose name was (B)John.

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21 So the servant came and reported these things to his master. Then the master of the house became angry and said to his servant, ‘Go out quickly to the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in (A)the poor and crippled and blind and lame.’ 22 And the servant said, ‘Sir, what you commanded has been done, and still there is room.’ 23 And the master said to the servant, ‘Go out to the highways and hedges and compel people to come in, that my house may be filled.

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40 And he came to the disciples and found them sleeping. And he said to Peter, “So, could you not watch with me one hour? 41 (A)Watch and (B)pray that you (C)may not enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.”

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Jerusalem Refused to Repent

(A)Run to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem,
    look and take note!
Search her squares to see
    (B)if you can find a man,
one who does justice
    and seeks truth,
(C)that I may pardon her.

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(A)There is no one who calls upon your name,
    who rouses himself to take hold of you;
for you have hidden your face from us,
    and have made us melt in[a] the hand of our iniquities.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 64:7 Masoretic Text; Septuagint, Syriac, Targum have delivered us into

34 (A)Blessed is the one who listens to me,
    watching daily at my gates,
    waiting beside my doors.

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On (A)the heights beside the way,
    at the crossroads she takes her stand;
beside (B)the gates in front of (C)the town,
    at the entrance of the portals she cries aloud:

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The Call of Wisdom

20 (A)Wisdom cries aloud in the street,
    in the markets she raises her voice;
21 at the head of the noisy streets she cries out;
    at (B)the entrance of the city gates she speaks:

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“Will the Lord (A)spurn forever,
    and never again (B)be favorable?
Has his steadfast love forever ceased?
    Are his (C)promises at an end for all time?
(D)Has God forgotten to be gracious?
    (E)Has he in anger shut up his compassion?” Selah

10 Then I said, “I will appeal to this,
    to the years of the (F)right hand of the Most High.”[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 77:10 Or This is my grief: that the right hand of the Most High has changed

For you are (A)the God in whom I take refuge;
    why have you (B)rejected me?
Why do I (C)go about mourning
    because of the oppression of the enemy?

(D)Send out your light and your truth;
    let them lead me;
let them bring me to your (E)holy hill
    and to your (F)dwelling!
Then I will go to the altar of God,
    to God my exceeding joy,
and I will praise you with the lyre,
    O God, my God.

(G)Why are you cast down, O my soul,
    and why are you in turmoil within me?
(H)Hope in God; for I shall again praise him,
    my salvation and my God.

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Deep calls to deep
    at the roar of your waterfalls;
(A)all your breakers and your (B)waves
    have gone over me.
By day the Lord (C)commands his steadfast love,
    and at (D)night his song is with me,
    a prayer to the God of my life.
I say to God, (E)my rock:
    “Why have you forgotten me?
(F)Why do I go mourning
    because of the oppression of the enemy?”

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Why Have You Forsaken Me?

To the choirmaster: according to The Doe of the Dawn. A Psalm of David.

22 (A)My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?
    Why are you so (B)far from saving me, from the words of my (C)groaning?
O my God, I cry by (D)day, but you do not answer,
    and by night, but I find no rest.

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