Tuesday January 18, 2011

The Word of the Lord

Isaiah 9

 ² The people walking in darkness
   have seen a great light;
on those living in the land of the shadow of death^[a]
   a light has dawned.
³ You have enlarged the nation
   and increased their joy;
they rejoice before you
   as people rejoice at the harvest,
as men rejoice
   when dividing the plunder.
⁴ For as in the day of Midian’s defeat,
   you have shattered
the yoke that burdens them,
   the bar across their shoulders,
   the rod of their oppressor.