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Maria Esther Torres

So they shall fear the name of the Lord from the west, and his glory from the rising of the sun; for he will come like a rushing stream, which the wind of the Lord drives.

Dec 13

Maria Esther Torres

highlighted Isaiah 59:18 ESV

According to their deeds, so will he repay, wrath to his adversaries, repayment to his enemies; to the coastlands he will render repayment.

Dec 13

Maria Esther Torres

highlighted Isaiah 59:14 ESV

Justice is turned back, and righteousness stands far away; for truth has stumbled in the public squares, and uprightness cannot enter.

Dec 13

Maria Esther Torres

highlighted Isaiah 59:13 ESV

transgressing, and denying the Lord, and turning back from following our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart lying words.

Dec 13

Maria Esther Torres

highlighted Isaiah 59:17 ESV

He put on righteousness as a breastplate, and a helmet of salvation on his head; he put on garments of vengeance for clothing, and wrapped himself in zeal as a cloak.

Dec 13

Maria Esther Torres

highlighted Isaiah 59:16 ESV

He saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was no one to intercede; then his own arm brought him salvation, and his righteousness upheld him.

Dec 13

Maria Esther Torres

highlighted Isaiah 59:15 ESV

Truth is lacking, and he who departs from evil makes himself a prey. The Lord saw it, and it displeased him that there was no justice.

Dec 13

Maria Esther Torres

highlighted Isaiah 59:7 ESV

Their feet run to evil, and they are swift to shed innocent blood; their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; desolation and destruction are in their highways.

Dec 13

Maria Esther Torres

highlighted Isaiah 59:8 ESV

The way of peace they do not know, and there is no justice in their paths; they have made their roads crooked; no one who treads on them knows peace.

Dec 13

Maria Esther Torres

highlighted Isaiah 59:12 ESV

For our transgressions are multiplied before you, and our sins testify against us; for our transgressions are with us, and we know our iniquities:

Dec 13

Maria Esther Torres

highlighted Isaiah 59:11 ESV

We all growl like bears; we moan and moan like doves; we hope for justice, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far from us.

Dec 13

We grope for the wall like the blind; we grope like those who have no eyes; we stumble at noon as in the twilight, among those in full vigor we are like dead men. Therefore justice is far from us, and righteousness does not overtake us; we hope for light, and behold, darkness, and for brightness, but we walk in gloom.

Dec 13

Maria Esther Torres

highlighted Isaiah 59:1 ESV

Behold, the Lord's hand is not shortened, that it cannot save, or his ear dull, that it cannot hear;

Dec 13

Maria Esther Torres

highlighted Isaiah 59:4 ESV

No one enters suit justly; no one goes to law honestly; they rely on empty pleas, they speak lies, they conceive mischief and give birth to iniquity.

Dec 13

Maria Esther Torres

highlighted Acts 25:26 ESV

But I have nothing definite to write to my lord about him. Therefore I have brought him before you all, and especially before you, King Agrippa, so that, after we have examined him, I may have something to write.

Dec 12

Maria Esther Torres

highlighted Acts 25:27 ESV

For it seems to me unreasonable, in sending a prisoner, not to indicate the charges against him."

Dec 12

Maria Esther Torres

highlighted Acts 25:25 ESV

But I found that he had done nothing deserving death. And as he himself appealed to the emperor, I decided to go ahead and send him.

Dec 12

Maria Esther Torres

highlighted Acts 25:20 ESV

Being at a loss how to investigate these questions, I asked whether he wanted to go to Jerusalem and be tried there regarding them.

Dec 12

Maria Esther Torres

highlighted Acts 25:19 ESV

Rather they had certain points of dispute with him about their own religion and about a certain Jesus, who was dead, but whom Paul asserted to be alive.

Dec 12

Maria Esther Torres

highlighted Acts 25:18 ESV

When the accusers stood up, they brought no charge in his case of such evils as I supposed.

Dec 12

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