For your servant's sake, O Lord, and according to your own heart, you have done all this greatness, in making known all these great things.
For I will defend this city to save it, for my own sake and for the sake of my servant David.”
This was according to the eternal purpose that he has realized in Christ Jesus our Lord,
making known to us the mystery of his will, according to his purpose, which he set forth in Christ as a plan for the fullness of time, to unite all things in him, things in heaven and things on earth. In him we have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to the purpose of him who works all things according to the counsel of his will,
yes, Father, for such was your gracious will.
Now therefore, O our God, listen to the prayer of your servant and to his pleas for mercy, and for your own sake, O Lord, make your face to shine upon your sanctuary, which is desolate.
And now the Lord says, he who formed me from the womb to be his servant, to bring Jacob back to him; and that Israel might be gathered to him— for I am honored in the eyes of the Lord, and my God has become my strength— he says: “It is too light a thing that you should be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob and to bring back the preserved of Israel; I will make you as a light for the nations, that my salvation may reach to the end of the earth.”
And he said to me, “You are my servant, Israel, in whom I will be glorified.”
Behold my servant, whom I uphold, my chosen, in whom my soul delights; I have put my Spirit upon him; he will bring forth justice to the nations.
He has shown his people the power of his works, in giving them the inheritance of the nations.
Full of splendor and majesty is his work, and his righteousness endures forever.
Yours, O Lord, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the victory and the majesty, for all that is in the heavens and in the earth is yours. Yours is the kingdom, O Lord, and you are exalted as head above all. Both riches and honor come from you, and you rule over all. In your hand are power and might, and in your hand it is to make great and to give strength to all.
Because of your promise, and according to your own heart, you have brought about all this greatness, to make your servant know it.
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