The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1915-03-25
Isaiah.

And will make the place of my feet
glourious.-60, IS.
Unto the name of the Lord thy God, and
to the Holy one of Israel, because he hath
glorified thee.-6O,9.
A little one shall become a thousand,
and small one strong nation: | the
Lord will hasten it in his time.-6O, %.
We roar all like bears, and mourn sore
like doves: we look for judgment, but there
is none; for salvation, but it is far from US.
SO, II.
Yet they seek me daily, and delight to
know my ways, as nation that did right
eousness, and forsook not the ordinance
of their God.-59, 2.
According to their deeds, accordingly he
will repay, fury to his adversaries, recon-
pence to his enemies; to the islands he will
repay recompense.-59, Is.
We grope for the wall like the blind, and
we grope as if we had no eyes: we stumble
at noon day as in night; we are in desolate
places as dead men.-59, 10.
Among the smooth stones of the stream
is thy portion; they, they are thy lot: even
to them hast thou poured drink offering,
thou hast offered meat offering. Should
I receive comfort in these PSI, 6.
As for me, this is my covenant with them
saith the Lord; My spirit that is upon thee,
and my words which l have put in thy
mouth, shall not depart out of thy mouth,
nor out Of the mouth of thy seed, nor out
of thy seeds seed, saith the Lord, from
henceforth and forever.-5S, 81.
Wherefore have we tasted, say they, and
thou seest not? wherefore have we afflicted
our soul, and thou takest no knowledge?
Behold, in the day of your fast We find
pleasure, and exact all your labors. Be-
hold, We fast for strife and debate, and to
smite with the fist of wickedness: ye shall
not fast as We do this day, to make your
voice to be heard on high.-58, ga.
If thou turn away thy foot from the sab
bath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy
day; and call the sabbath a delight, the
holy of the Lord, honorable; and shall
honor him. not doing thine own ways, mol
1 finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking
thine own words: Then shalt thou deligh
4 myself in the Lord; and will cause the,
to ride upon the hi h places of the earth
and feed thee with the heritage of Jacol
spoken it's, 1914.
lie was oppressed, ana ne was aHlcteu
yet he opened not his mouth: he is brough
as lamb to the slaughter, and as shee
before her shearers is dumb, so he openet
, not his mouth. He was taken from priso
and from judgment: and who shall declar
his generation? for he was cut off out Q
the land of the living: for the transgres
sion of my people was he stricken. An
he made his grave with the wicked, an
, with the rich in his death; because he ha
, one 20 violence, neither was any deceit
. in his mouth.-53, 10.
- Is it such a fast that I have chosen?
: day for man to afflict his soul? is it
:. bow down his head as bulrush, and
>, spread sackcloth and ashes under him
: wilt thou call this fast, and an acceptabl
~ day to the Lord? Is not this the fast thu
have chosen? to loose the bands of wick
edness, to undo the heavy burdens, and
> let the oppressed go free, and that We brea
every yoke? Is it not to deal thy bread
the hungry, and that thou bring the poo
q that are cast out to thy house? when tho
' seest the Naked that thou cover him; an
that thou hide not myself from thine ow
lesh?-58, 81.