Song # 1132.1 from Our Gospel In Song Collection by Col Johnston. The Book of Isaiah is named after a great prophet who lived in Jerusalem in the latter half of the eighth century BC. In chapter 44 we are told that Jerusalem is to be inhabited.
This is what the Lord says - your Redeemer, who formed you “I am the Lord who has made all things, who alone stretched out the heavens, who spread out the earth by myself” (Isaiah 44:24), “who foils the signs of false prophets and makes fools of diviners, who overthrows the learning of the wise and turns it into nonsense” (Isaiah 44:25). (See Song #1037.1- The Tower Of Babel). “Who carries out the words of His servants and fulfills the predictions of His messengers, who says of Jerusalem ‘It shall be inhabited’ and of the towns of Judah ‘They shall be built’ and of their ruins ‘I will restore them’” (Isaiah 44:26), “who says to the watery deep ‘Be dry, and I will dry up your streams’” (Isaiah 44:27), “who says of Cyrus ‘He is my shepherd and will accomplish all that I please’ he will say of Jerusalem ‘Let it be rebuilt’ and of the temple ‘Let its foundations be laid’” (Isaiah 44:28).
Thought for today: the Holy Bible may be old, but its truth is still valid today.
Thought for the future: God is the living word, while the Holy Bible is His written word. Where will you spend your eternity?