Woe to those who make unjust laws, to those who issue oppressive decrees, to deprive the poor of their rights and withhold justice from the oppressed of my people, making widows their prey and robbing the fatherless.

The bricks are fallen down, but we will build with hewn stones: the sycamores are cut down, but we will change them into cedars.

The poor and needy search for water, but there is none; their tongues are parched with thirst. But I the LORD will answer them; I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them. I will make rivers flow on barren heights, and springs within the valleys. I will turn the desert into pools of water, and the parched ground into springs.

In the desert prepare the way for the LORD; make straight in the wilderness a highway for our God. Every valley shall be raised up, every mountain and hill made low; the rough ground shall become level, the rugged places a plain. And the glory of the LORD will be revealed, and all mankind together will see it. For the mouth of the LORD has spoken.

Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red as crimson, they shall be like wool.

Sing to the LORD, for he has done glorious things; let this be known to all the world.

Those who walk uprightly enter into peace; they find rest as they lie in death.