February 19, 2012, First Reading

The Book of the Prophet Isaiah   43: 18-19, 21-22, 24-25

43:18 You need not call to mind the past, nor consider the things of antiquity.
43:19 Behold, I am accomplishing new things. And presently, they will spring forth. With certainty, you will know them. I will make a way in the desert, and rivers in an impassible place.
43:21 This is the people whom I have formed for myself. They will speak my praise.
43:22 But you have not called upon me, O Jacob, nor have you struggled for me, O Israel.
43:24 You have bought me no sweet cane with money, and you have not inebriated me with the fat of your victims. Yet truly, you have burdened me with your sins; you have wearied me with your iniquities.
43:25 I am. I am the very One who wipes away your iniquities for my own sake. And I will not remember your sins.

 


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