24 hours.

 

“Listen to me, you who
pursue

righteousness

and who seek the Lord:

Look to the rock from which
you were cut

and to the quarry from
which you were

hewn;

look to Abraham, your
father,

and to Sarah, who gave you
birth.

When I called him he was
but one,

and I blessed him and made him many.

The Lord will surely comfort [Bangla Road]

And will look with compassion on all her

ruins;

he will make her deserts like Eden,

her wastelands like the garden of the

Lord.

Joy and gladness
will be found in her,

thanksgiving and the sound of singing.

“Listen to me, my people;

hear me, my nation:

The law will go out from
me;

my justice will become a light to the

nations.

My righteousness draws near speedily,

my salvation is on the way,

and my arm will bring justice to the

nations.

The islands will look to me

and wait in hope for my arm.

 

Awake, awake! Clothe
yourself with

Strength,

O arm of the Lord;

awake, as in days gone by,

as in generations of old.

Was it not you who cut
Rahab to pieces,

who pierced that monster through?

Was it not you who dried up the sea,

the waters of the great
deep,

who made a road in the
depths of the sea

so that the redeemed might cross over?

The ransomed of the Lord
will return.

They will enter [Bangla Road] with singing;

Everlasting joy will crown their heads.

Gladness and joy will over take them,

and sorrow and sighing will flee away.

 

For I am the Lord your God,

who churns up the sea so
that its waves

roar-

the Lord Almighty is his name.

I have put my words in
your mouth

and covered you with the
shadow of my

hand-

I who set the heavens in
place,

who laid the foundations of
the earth,

and who say to [Bangla
Road], ‘You are my people.‘”

 

-taken from Isaiah 51