TSK · Isaiah 44:2

Israel’s Rebellion But Jeshurun became fat and kicked, you got fat, thick, and stuffed! Then he deserted the God who made him, and treated the Rock who saved him with contempt.

God lives within it, it cannot be moved. God rescues it at the break of dawn.

Come! Let’s bow down and worship! Let’s kneel before the LORD, our Creator!

Don’t be afraid, despised insignificant Jacob, men of Israel. I am helping you,” says the LORD, your protector, the Holy One of Israel.

Don’t be afraid, for I am with you. From the east I will bring your descendants; from the west I will gather you.

the people whom I formed for myself, so they might praise me.”

The Lord Empowers Cyrus This is what the LORD, your protector, says, the one who formed you in the womb:“I am the LORD, who made everything, who alone stretched out the sky, who fashioned the earth all by myself,

Ideal Israel Delivers the Exiles Listen to me, you coastlands! Pay attention, you people who live far away! The LORD summoned me from birth; he commissioned me when my mother brought me into the world.

As for your birth, on the day you were born your umbilical cord was not cut, nor were you washed in water; you were certainly not rubbed down with salt, nor wrapped with blankets.

“Do not be afraid, little flock, for your Father is well pleased to give you the kingdom.

For he chose us in Christ before the foundation of the world that we should be holy and blameless before him in love.

Therefore let us confidently approach the throne of grace to receive mercy and find grace whenever we need help.