TSK · Isaiah 54:8

For the music director; a psalm of David. How long, LORD, will you continue to ignore me? How long will you pay no attention to me?

who delivers your life from the Pit, who crowns you with his loyal love and compassion,

I will wait patiently for the LORD, who has rejected the family of Jacob; I will wait for him.

I was angry at my people; I defiled my special possession and handed them over to you. You showed them no mercy; you even placed a very heavy burden on old people.

I will make your oppressors eat their own flesh; they will get drunk on their own blood, as if it were wine. Then all humankind will recognize that I am the LORD, your deliverer, your protector, the Powerful One of Jacob.”

Even if the mountains are removed and the hills displaced, my devotion will not be removed from you, nor will my covenant of friendship be displaced,” says the LORD, the one who has compassion on you.

For I will not be hostile forever or perpetually angry, for then man’s spirit would grow faint before me, the life-giving breath I created.

In a far-off land the LORD will manifest himself to them. He will say to them,‘I have loved you with an everlasting love. That is why I have continued to be faithful to you.

I will no longer hide my face from them, when I pour out my Spirit on the house of Israel, declares the Sovereign LORD.”

Now may our Lord Jesus Christ himself and God our Father, who loved us and by grace gave us eternal comfort and good hope,