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YAHWEH

Yahweh
Then God said to Moses, “I AM WHO I AM” [These Hebrew words are related to the name Yahweh, usually translated “Lord,” and suggest that God eternally lives and is always with his people]. When you go to the people of Israel, tell them, ‘I AM sent me to you.’” Exodus 3:14 EXB
Yahweh, Yahweh
Always pain before a child is born

Jesus: "You will grieve, but your grief will turn to joy. A woman giving birth to a child has pain because her time has come; but when her baby is born she forgets the anguish because of her joy that a child is born into the world." John 16:20-21 NIV
 
We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time. Not only so, but we ourselves... Romans 8:22-23 NIV
​Yahweh, tell me now
Why the dark before the dawn?
The people walking in darkness have seen a great light; on those living in the land of deep darkness a light has dawned. Isaiah 9:2 NIV see also Matthew 4:16
A city should be shining on a hill
Jesus: "You are the light of the world. A city that is set on a hill cannot be hidden.... Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works and glorify your Father in heaven." Matthew 5:14-16 NKJV
Take this city
If it be your will
Jesus: "Father, if it is Your will, take this cup away from Me; nevertheless not My will, but Yours, be done." Luke 22:42 NKJV see also Matthew 26:39
What no man can own
​No man can take
And ye now therefore have sorrow: but I will see you again, and your heart shall rejoice, and your joy no man taketh from you. John 16:22 KJV

Jesus: "Don't hoard treasure down here where it gets eaten by moths and corroded by rust or--worse!--stolen by burglars. Stockpile treasure in heaven, where it's safe from moth and rust and burglars. It's obvious, isn't it? The place where your treasure is, is the place you will most want to be, and end up being." Matthew 6:19-21 MSG
Take this heart
And make it break
My sacrifice, O God, is a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart you, God, will not despise. Psalm 51:17 NIV
 
The Lord is close to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit. Psalm 34:18 NIV
 
Jesus: "In them is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah: 'You will be ever hearing but never understanding; you will be ever seeing but never perceiving. For this people’s heart has become calloused; they hardly hear with their ears, and they have closed their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts and turn, and I would heal them.'" Matthew 13:14-15 NIV see also Isaiah 6:9-10
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