1:15 When you spread out your hands in prayer,
I look the other way; 1
when you offer your many prayers,
I do not listen,
because your hands are covered with blood. 2
18:5 For before the harvest, when the bud has sprouted,
and the ripening fruit appears, 3
he will cut off the unproductive shoots 4 with pruning knives;
he will prune the tendrils. 5
29:22 So this is what the Lord, the one who delivered Abraham, says to the family of Jacob: 6
“Jacob will no longer be ashamed;
their faces will no longer show their embarrassment. 7
43:19 “Look, I am about to do something new.
Now it begins to happen! 8 Do you not recognize 9 it?
Yes, I will make a road in the desert
and paths 10 in the wilderness.
66:8 Who has ever heard of such a thing?
Who has ever seen this?
Can a country 11 be brought forth in one day?
Can a nation be born in a single moment?
Yet as soon as Zion goes into labor she gives birth to sons!