Life in Exile

The singer remembered what God had done! "You brought a vine out of Egypt! You drove out nations and made room for it! You cleared the ground. The vine took deep root and filled the whole land! Mountains hid under its shade. Its branches reached all the way to the sea!" Israel was that vine. God...

Yahweh spoke through Isaiah with amazing words. "I am making new heavens and a new earth! No more crying! No more pain! Babies will not die young. Old people will live full lives. People will build houses and live in them. They will plant gardens and eat the fruit. The wolf and the lamb will eat...

Far from home, Jewish exiles lived by a canal in a flat, dry land. They built mud houses with their own hands. Elders gathered to hear Ezekiel speak. Even here, in this strange place, Yahweh's hand came upon him. Yahweh had not stopped talking to his people.

Ps 80:8