33  A Song of the Word of the Lord

Refrain:

All   Return to the Lord, who will have mercy,

to our God, who will richly pardon.

1    Seek the Lord while he may be found,  

call upon him while he is near;

2    Let the wicked abandon their ways,  

and the unrighteous their thoughts;

3    Return to the Lord, who will have mercy;  

to our God, who will richly pardon.

4    ‘For my thoughts are not your thoughts,  

neither are your ways my ways,’ says the Lord.

5    ‘For as the heavens are higher than the earth,  

so are my ways higher than your ways

and my thoughts than your thoughts.

6    ‘As the rain and the snow come down from above,  

and return not again but water the earth,

7    ‘Bringing forth life and giving growth,  

seed for sowing and bread to eat,

8    ‘So is my word that goes forth from my mouth;  

it will not return to me fruitless,

9    ‘But it will accomplish that which I purpose,  

and succeed in the task I gave it.’

Isaiah 55.6-11

All   Glory to the Father and to the Son

and to the Holy Spirit;

as it was in the beginning is now

and shall be for ever. Amen.

All   Return to the Lord, who will have mercy,

to our God, who will richly pardon.

 

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