Listen to me O coastlands.
And give attention to you peoples from afar.
Return to me from the mind’s distant lands.
Like a fixed star.
And give attention to you peoples from afar.
Return to me from the mind’s distant lands.
Like a fixed star.
The Lord called me from the womb.
From the body of my mother he named my name.
And now he will lift me from my tomb.
We will be renewed in death , better than the same.
From the body of my mother he named my name.
And now he will lift me from my tomb.
We will be renewed in death , better than the same.
I said I have laboured in vain.
I have spent my strength for nothing in vanity.
But now we head from death into a new lane.
In death there will be no suffering but plenty.Surely my fate is with the Lord.
My recompense with my Lord.
I have spent my strength for nothing in vanity.
But now we head from death into a new lane.
In death there will be no suffering but plenty.Surely my fate is with the Lord.
My recompense with my Lord.
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Listen then coastlands
Give attention peoples
You called from the womb
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See Isaiah 49: 1-6