I have become as a wonder to many, But You [are] my strong refuge.

Here am I and the children whom the LORD has given me! [We are] for signs and wonders in Israel From the LORD of hosts, Who dwells in Mount Zion.

Then the LORD said, "Just as My servant Isaiah has walked naked and barefoot three years [for] a sign and a wonder against Egypt and Ethiopia,

For I think that God has displayed us, the apostles, last, as men condemned to death; for we have been made a spectacle to the world, both to angels and to men.

To the present hour we both hunger and thirst, and we are poorly clothed, and beaten, and homeless.

being defamed, we entreat. We have been made as the filth of the world, the offscouring of all things until now.

"Say, 'I [am] a sign to you. As I have done, so shall it be done to them; they shall be carried away into captivity.'

'Thus Ezekiel is a sign to you; according to all that he has done you shall do; and when this comes, you shall know that I [am] the Lord GOD.' "

"Behold! My Servant whom I uphold, My Elect One [in whom] My soul delights! I have put My Spirit upon Him; He will bring forth justice to the Gentiles.

"And He said to me, 'You [are] My servant, O Israel, In whom I will be glorified.'

" And now the LORD says, Who formed Me from the womb [to be] His Servant, To bring Jacob back to Him, So that Israel is gathered to Him ( For I shall be glorious in the eyes of the LORD, And My God shall be My strength),

Behold, My Servant shall deal prudently; He shall be exalted and extolled and be very high.

He shall see the labor of His soul, [and] be satisfied. By His knowledge My righteous Servant shall justify many, For He shall bear their iniquities.

"I will establish one shepherd over them, and he shall feed them -- My servant David. He shall feed them and be their shepherd.

"And I, the LORD, will be their God, and My servant David a prince among them; I, the LORD, have spoken.

" David My servant [shall be] king over them, and they shall all have one shepherd; they shall also walk in My judgments and observe My statutes, and do them.

who, being in the form of God, did not consider it robbery to be equal with God,

And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself and became obedient to [the point of] death, even the death of the cross.

"Then speak to him, saying, 'Thus says the LORD of hosts, saying: "Behold, the Man whose name [is] the BRANCH! From His place He shall branch out, And He shall build the temple of the LORD;

In that day the Branch of the LORD shall be beautiful and glorious; And the fruit of the earth [shall be] excellent and appealing For those of Israel who have escaped.

There shall come forth a Rod from the stem of Jesse, And a Branch shall grow out of his roots.

For He shall grow up before Him as a tender plant, And as a root out of dry ground. He has no form or comeliness; And when we see Him, [There is] no beauty that we should desire Him.

" Behold, [the] days are coming," says the LORD, "That I will raise to David a Branch of righteousness; A King shall reign and prosper, And execute judgment and righteousness in the earth.

'In those days and at that time I will cause to grow up to David A Branch of righteousness; He shall execute judgment and righteousness in the earth.

Thus says the Lord GOD: "I will take also [one] of the highest branches of the high cedar and set [it] out. I will crop off from the topmost of its young twigs a tender one, and will plant [it] on a high and prominent mountain.

"And all the trees of the field shall know that I, the LORD, have brought down the high tree and exalted the low tree, dried up the green tree and made the dry tree flourish; I, the LORD, have spoken and have done [it."]

"I will raise up for them a garden of renown, and they shall no longer be consumed with hunger in the land, nor bear the shame of the Gentiles anymore.

Through the tender mercy of our God, With which the Dayspring from on high has visited us;