Friday in Season after Pentecost

1Verse 1. “Comfort, comfort My people,” says your God. 2Verse 2. “Speak tenderly to Jerusalem, and proclaim to her that her forced labor has been completed; her iniquity has been pardoned. For she has received from the hand of the LORD double for all her sins.” 3Verse 3. A voice of one calling: “Prepare the way for the LORD in the wilderness; make a straight highway for our God in the desert. 4Verse 4. Every valley shall be lifted up, and every mountain and hill made low; the uneven ground will become smooth, and the rugged land a plain. 5Verse 5. And the glory of the LORD will be revealed, and all humanity together will see it.” 6Verse 6. A voice says, “Cry out!” And I asked, “What should I cry out?” “All flesh is like grass, and all its glory like the flowers of the field. 7Verse 7. The grass withers and the flowers fall when the breath of the LORD blows on them; indeed, the people are grass. 8Verse 8. The grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of our God stands forever.” 9Verse 9. Go up on a high mountain, O Zion, herald of good news. Raise your voice loudly, O Jerusalem, herald of good news. Lift it up, do not be afraid! Say to the cities of Judah, “Here is your God!” 10Verse 10. Behold, the Lord GOD comes with might, and His arm establishes His rule. His reward is with Him, and His recompense accompanies Him. 11Verse 11. He tends His flock like a shepherd; He gathers the lambs in His arms and carries them close to His heart. He gently leads the nursing ewes.

1Verse 1. After David had settled into his palace, he said to Nathan the prophet, “Here I am, living in a house of cedar, while the ark of the covenant of the LORD is under a tent.” 2Verse 2. And Nathan replied to David, “Do all that is in your heart, for God is with you.” 3Verse 3. But that night the word of God came to Nathan, saying, 4Verse 4. “Go and tell My servant David that this is what the LORD says: You are not the one to build Me a house in which to dwell. 5Verse 5. For I have not dwelt in a house from the day I brought Israel up out of Egypt until this day, but I have moved from tent to tent and dwelling to dwelling. 6Verse 6. In all My journeys with all the Israelites, have I ever asked any of the leaders I appointed to shepherd My people, ‘Why haven’t you built Me a house of cedar?’ 7Verse 7. Now then, you are to tell My servant David that this is what the LORD of Hosts says: I took you from the pasture, from following the flock, to be the ruler over My people Israel. 8Verse 8. I have been with you wherever you have gone, and I have cut off all your enemies from before you. Now I will make for you a name like that of the greatest in the land. 9Verse 9. And I will provide a place for My people Israel and will plant them so that they may dwell in a place of their own and be disturbed no more. No longer will the sons of wickedness oppress them as they did at the beginning 10Verse 10. and have done since the day I appointed judges over My people Israel. And I will subdue all your enemies. Moreover , I declare to you that the LORD will build a house for you. 11Verse 11. And when your days are fulfilled and you go to be with your fathers, I will raise up your descendant after you, one of your own sons, and I will establish his kingdom. 12Verse 12. He will build a house for Me, and I will establish his throne forever. 13Verse 13. I will be his Father, and he will be My son. And I will never remove My loving devotion from him as I removed it from your predecessor. 14Verse 14. But I will set him over My house and My kingdom forever, and his throne will be established forever.” 15Verse 15. So Nathan relayed to David all the words of this entire revelation.