“Comfort, comfort my people, says your God. Speak tenderly to Jerusalem, and cry to her that her warfare is ended, that her iniquity is pardoned, that she has received from the LORD’s hand double for all her sins”(Isaiah 40:1-2).
“Stir up Your power, O Lord, and come, that by Your protection we may be rescued from the threatening perils of our sins and saved by Your mighty deliverance.” (Collect for the Day)
“And the foreigners who join themselves to
the LORD, to minister to Him, to love the name of the LORD, to be His servants,
everyone who keeps the Sabbath and does not profane it, and holds fast My
covenant- these I will bring to my holy mountain…” (Isaiah 56:6-7).
