{"id":125645,"date":"2023-12-28T06:02:34","date_gmt":"2023-12-28T11:02:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=125645"},"modified":"2023-12-28T06:34:43","modified_gmt":"2023-12-28T11:34:43","slug":"from-the-morning-scripture-readings-996","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=125645","title":{"rendered":"From the Morning Scripture Readings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sing for joy, O heavens, and exult, O earth;<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0break forth, O mountains, into singing!<br \/>\nFor the Lord has comforted his people,<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0and will have compassion on his afflicted.<\/p>\n<p>But Zion said, \u201cThe Lord has forsaken me,<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0my Lord has forgotten me.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cCan a woman forget her sucking child,<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0that she should have no compassion on the son of her womb?<br \/>\nEven these may forget,<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0yet I will not forget you.<br \/>\nBehold, I have graven you on the palms of my hands;<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0your walls are continually before me.<br \/>\nYour builders outstrip your destroyers,<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0and those who laid you waste go forth from you.<br \/>\nLift up your eyes round about and see;<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0they all gather, they come to you.<br \/>\nAs I live, says the Lord,<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0you shall put them all on as an ornament,<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0you shall bind them on as a bride does.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSurely your waste and your desolate places<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0and your devastated land\u2014<br \/>\nsurely now you will be too narrow for your inhabitants,<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0and those who swallowed you up will be far away.<br \/>\nThe children born in the time of your bereavement<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0will yet say in your ears:<br \/>\n\u2018The place is too narrow for me;<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0make room for me to dwell in.\u2019<br \/>\nThen you will say in your heart:<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u2018Who has borne me these?<br \/>\nI was bereaved and barren,<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0exiled and put away,<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0but who has brought up these?<br \/>\nBehold, I was left alone;<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0whence then have these come?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Isaiah 49:13-21<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"de\" dir=\"ltr\">&#x2618;&#xfe0f;Guten Morgen &#x2600;&#xfe0f; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/JesvMQP4s6\">pic.twitter.com\/JesvMQP4s6<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; &#x1f4ab;Stein_harmonie&#x1f340;&#x1f9da;&#x200d;&#x2640;&#xfe0f; (@SteinHarmonie) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SteinHarmonie\/status\/1740285150905139648?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 28, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sing for joy, O heavens, and exult, O earth; \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0break forth, O mountains, into singing! 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