trust in him … (1:3, 7). The other prophets write in much the same way. Isaiah, for example, wrote, ‘The LORD takes his place in court; he rises to judge the people’,8 but he also writes, ‘The LORD will have compassion on Jacob …’ (14:1); and who can forget those words of love and mercy spoken to a rebellious people: ‘Seek the LORD while he may be found; call on him while he is near. Let the wicked forsake his way … Let him turn to the LORD, and he will have mercy on him, and to our God, for he will
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