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“How beautiful upon the mountains”
― Marc Brettler, The New Oxford Annotated Bible with the Apocrypha: New Revised Standard Version

“All people are grass, their constancy is like the flower of the field. 7The grass withers, the flower fades, when the breath of the Lord blows upon it; surely the people are grass. 8The grass withers, the flower fades; but the word of our God will stand forever.”
― Marc Brettler, The New Oxford Annotated Bible with the Apocrypha: New Revised Standard Version

“Ho, everyone who thirsts, come to the waters; and you that have no money, come, buy and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.”
― Marc Brettler, The New Oxford Annotated Bible with the Apocrypha: New Revised Standard Version

“Now, I will make of you a threshing sledge, sharp, new, and having teeth; you shall thresh the mountains and crush them, and you shall make the hills like chaff. 16You shall winnow them and the wind shall carry them away, and the tempest shall scatter them.”
― Marc Brettler, The New Oxford Annotated Bible with the Apocrypha: New Revised Standard Version

“Then God said, “Let us make humankinda in our image, according to our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the wild animals of the earth,a and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth.”
― Marc Brettler, The New Oxford Annotated Bible with the Apocrypha: New Revised Standard Version

“he is able to bring low those who walk in pride.”
― Marc Brettler, The New Oxford Annotated Bible with the Apocrypha: New Revised Standard Version

“I have seen their ways, but I will heal them; I will lead them and repay them with comfort, creating for their mourners the fruit of the lips.a 19Peace, peace, to the far and the near, says the Lord; and I will heal them.”
― Marc Brettler, The New Oxford Annotated Bible with the Apocrypha: New Revised Standard Version

“Who has believed what we have heard? And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?”
― Marc Brettler, The New Oxford Annotated Bible with the Apocrypha: New Revised Standard Version

“All the inhabitants of the earth are accounted as nothing, and he does what he wills with the host of heaven and the inhabitants of the earth.”
― Marc Brettler, The New Oxford Annotated Bible with the Apocrypha: New Revised Standard Version

“Do not fear, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by name, you are mine. 2When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and through the rivers, they shall not overwhelm you; when you walk through fire you shall not be burned, and the flame shall not consume you. 3For I am the Lord your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior.”
― Marc Brettler, The New Oxford Annotated Bible with the Apocrypha: New Revised Standard Version

“You shall be a crown of beauty in the hand of the Lord, and a royal diadem in the hand of your God. 4You shall no more be termed Forsaken,c and your land shall no more be termed Desolate;d but you shall be called My Delight Is in Her,e and your land Married;f for the Lord delights in you, and your land shall be married.”
― Marc Brettler, The New Oxford Annotated Bible with the Apocrypha: New Revised Standard Version

“If you remove the yoke from among you, the pointing of the finger, the speaking of evil, 10if you offer your food to the hungry and satisfy the needs of the afflicted, then your light shall rise in the darkness and your gloom be like the noonday”
― Marc Brettler, The New Oxford Annotated Bible with the Apocrypha: New Revised Standard Version

“For I the Lord love justice, I hate robbery and wrongdoing;b I will faithfully give them their recompense, and I will make an everlasting covenant with them.”
― Marc Brettler, The New Oxford Annotated Bible with the Apocrypha: New Revised Standard Version

“do nothing on my own, but I speak these things as the Father instructed me.”
― Marc Brettler, The New Oxford Annotated Bible with the Apocrypha: New Revised Standard Version

“Do not adorn yourselves outwardly by braiding your hair, and by wearing gold ornaments or fine clothing; 4rather, let your adornment be the inner self with the lasting beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is very precious in God's sight. 5It was in this way long ago that the holy women who hoped in God used to adorn themselves by accepting the authority of their husbands.”
― Marc Brettler, The New Oxford Annotated Bible with the Apocrypha: New Revised Standard Version

“You turn things upside down! Shall the potter be regarded as the clay? Shall the thing made say of its maker, “He did not make me”; or the thing formed say of the one who formed it, “He has no understanding”?”
― Marc Brettler, The New Oxford Annotated Bible with the Apocrypha: New Revised Standard Version

“The Deuteronomistic History was probably completed shortly after the Babylonian exile in 586 bce and sought to offer a theological reason for the demise of Israel and Judah.”
― Marc Brettler, The New Oxford Annotated Bible with the Apocrypha: New Revised Standard Version

“Come away to a deserted place all by yourselves and rest a while.” For many were coming and going, and they had no leisure even to eat. 32And they went away in the boat to a deserted place by themselves.”
― Marc Brettler, The New Oxford Annotated Bible with the Apocrypha: New Revised Standard Version

“we have sinned and done wrong, acted wickedly and rebelled, turning aside from your commandments and ordinances.”
― Marc Brettler, The New Oxford Annotated Bible with the Apocrypha: New Revised Standard Version

“19I am about to do a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it? I will make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert. 20The wild animals will honor me, the jackals and the ostriches; for I give water in the wilderness, rivers in the desert, to give drink to my chosen people, 21the people whom I formed for myself so that they might declare my praise.”
― Marc Brettler, The New Oxford Annotated Bible with the Apocrypha: New Revised Standard Version

“So the guard continued to withdraw their royal rations and the wine they were to drink, and gave them vegetables. 17To these four young men God gave knowledge and skill in every aspect of literature and wisdom; Daniel also had insight into all visions and dreams.”
― Marc Brettler, The New Oxford Annotated Bible with the Apocrypha: New Revised Standard Version

“16Woe to you, Babylon and Asia! Woe to you, Egypt and Syria! 2Bind on sackcloth and cloth of goats’ hair,b and wail for your children,”
― Marc Brettler, The New Oxford Annotated Apocrypha: New Revised Standard Version