I'd like to draw your attention
this morning to a passage you'll read in Isaiah chapter 11 and
verse 10. Isaiah chapter 11 and verse 10. And in that day there shall be
a root of Jesse which shall stand for an end sign of the people.
To it shall the Gentiles seek and his rest shall be glorious. it shall come to pass in that
day that the Lord shall set his hand again the second time to
recover the remnant of his people which shall be left from Assyria,
and from Egypt, and from Paphros, and from Cush, and from Elam,
and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea.
And he shall set up an ensign for the nations, and shall assemble
the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah
from the four corners of the earth." And also if you turn
to Psalm 147, And verse two, which reads, the Lord doth build
up Jerusalem. He gathereth together the outcasts
of Israel. The Lord doth build up Jerusalem. He gathereth together the outcasts
of Israel. Outcasts. The Lord here in these
two passages describes his people as the outcasts of Israel. Outcasts. Those who are cast
out. Those who are rejected. Those
who are set to one side. Those who are not wanted. Despised
of men. Ridiculed of men. UNWANTED NEGLECTED REJECTED OUTCASTS
OUTCASTS Yes, there's a people in this world who aren't the
same as others. They stand out. They're different. They don't fit in like others. The Lord here describes them
as the outcasts of Israel. See, in this world there are
definitely two kinds of people. Two kinds, two different seeds. Not all men are the same. And
as a result, not all men get along. Some inevitably don't fit in.
They're pushed to one side, they're cast out. God's people here are described
as outcasts. Of course there are those in
this world who aren't outcasts. Many are very popular. There
are very many who fit in with the general course of things.
Those who find it easy to get along in the world. those who
find it easy to prosper, those who are liked by many, those
who are welcome, those who are met by others with a bonhomie,
who are met with open arms, those whom the world speaks well of,
those whom the world admires, those whom the world love, the
wise, the prudent, the clever, The rich, the smart, the witty,
the worldly wise. Those who are looked up to. Those
who are certainly not cast out. And these sort are those who
generally have little time for God. They have much time for
what they see in this world. Much time for the riches and
the treasures of this world. Much time for the business and
the pleasure of this world. They run with the course of this
world. They run with the fashion of
this world. They run with the current thinking
of the time. The accepted thinking. They have no time for God. For God. and his truth and his
gospel is counter to the course of this
world. For this world and the majority
who head in a certain direction in this world has turned its
back upon God. It's turned its back upon its
maker. It's run in a different direction. And it has not time for God.
And it has not time for his truth. There is a road, a broad road,
a broad way, which heads in a certain direction. And there is another
road, a narrow way, a straight way. which heads in a completely
different direction. There are many on the broad way. And there are many who have no
time for God. And these are not anything like
cast out. Where the many are, there's popularity. where the majority are, it's
easy to fit in if you go their way. But there are others who walk
another way and that way is not welcomed by the majority. Now the majority are not cast
out but the majority have cast out God and his truth and his
gospel Where are you? Which path are
you on? Which road are you on? What enters
your thoughts? What governs the direction of
your life? What are your ambitions and your
goals? What are your desires? What motivates
you? What do you long for? Do you
seek the popularity of man? Do you seek the praise and the
acclaim, the adoration, the love of others? Do you seek to get
on in this world? Do you want to be rich? Do you
want to be powerful? Do you want to be liked? Well
there's an easy way to achieve all those things. But it will
take you upon a path which is wide. which is broad, where many
others travel, where you will be certainly prosperous, certainly
liked, certainly get on for a moment in the course of this world,
in the span of the time of your life. But it's a way which leads
to a shore and a certain end. It's a broad way which leads
to destruction. Yes, it's popular. Yes, you'll
fit in. Yes, you'll get much of what
you seek. Yes, you might enjoy the pleasures
that you look for for a moment. Yes, you may be rich. Yes, you
may get the career you desire. Yes, you may get the wife or
the husband. the friends you want. Yes, men
and women may look up to you and speak well of you, but it's but for a moment. And when the moment has passed,
with suddenness and no warning, your life comes to a close. And
you'll find that that way which seemed to promise so much, ended
up by leaving you with so little. You can take none of the riches
and none of the pleasures and none of the friends that you
have in this world beyond the grave. And the grave is that
destination that stands before you. However old you may be,
however prosperous, however popular, however rich, The grave approaches
like a little light at the end of a tunnel as you journey towards
it. It will come sooner than you
think and the popularity and the pleasures and the riches
will become a distant memory when you stand the other side
of judgment. Yes, there are those that fit in. Yes, there are those
that are popular. But such popularity is but for
a moment. They have no time for God, for
they seek pleasure. They seek what they want. They're
self-serving, self-seeking. For man, when he turned from
God in the garden, went another way. And his children and descendants,
to this day, continue from the womb from the day they're born
to head in the same direction as Adam did when he rebelled
in the garden. They cast out God. God doesn't
enter their thoughts and affections. Self does, and self-gratification
does. Where is your heart? Is your
heart set upon the Lord God, your maker, your sustainer, the
one that put you upon this earth. Are you seeking Him? Are you
seeking to discover Him, to find Him, to know Him, to love Him,
to serve Him, to worship Him? Or are you seeking self and your
own glory, your own gain, your own pleasure? Are you seeking
popularity? Some on this way will say that
they do seek God, they do love God, they do worship God. These are those that want all
the gains on the broad way, all the popularity. They want to
fit in with the crowds, but they know there's a God and they don't
want that God to cast them out. And with a certain fear of the
judgment to come, they seek to be right with God, whilst remaining
right with their fellow man. They want it all. And they have
a form of religion that seems to promise and give them all.
It deludes them into thinking that they can serve God and serve
mammon. And merrily they walk along this
broad way with others. in their broad churches, with
their broad religion, thinking that God is pleased with them. And their shock when they entered
the grave will be worse than others. For these won't even
be able to say that they sought not God. These are those that
think that they were well with God, when in reality God had
nothing at all to do with them. Is that you? Don't be deluded. Don't go the way of the masses.
Still seeking self-serving gain whilst deluding yourself that
you're going to get into heaven somehow. That you've met with
God. God's people don't fit in. God describes his people in our
passage with a certain phrase. He calls them the outcasts of
Israel. Not the popular in Israel. But outcasts. God's people are
outcasts. There are many in this world
that cannot be described as outcasts. Many who are popular, many who
are in a crowd. But God's people are outcasts. They don't fit in. They don't
fit in with the world, and they don't fit in with the world's
religion. You see, the world and its religion
is popular. The world has a religion where
they speak of God, but their God is another God. They don't
love the Sovereign Lord God of the Scriptures. They don't love
His precious Son, the Lord Jesus Christ. They may make a God that
they call Jesus, that gives them everything they want, that lets
them have their pleasure and their fun whilst they're here.
You heard them in their churches say, Oh God isn't against fun. He wants us to have it all. He
wants you to have it all. He wants us to live and have
fun. But they're not speaking of the same God as the God of
the scriptures. They can spin their line and
they can deceive many that run headlong towards destruction.
But whatever they call that God, this is not the God. that speaks
words of comfort to his people in their suffering. This is not
the God that came in the person of Jesus Christ to lay down his
life for the outcasts of Israel. This is not the God that came
to save the weak and the broken. This is not the God that healeth
the broken in heart and bindeth up their wounds. This is not
the God that lifteth up the meek and casteth the wicked down to
the ground. No, their God, the popular God
of popular so-called Christianity today is a God that helps the
strong, A God that helps the wise. A God that helps those
that love fun. A God that helps those that love
to worship as they like. A God that helps those that want
to do what they like. A God that ultimately helps those
that worship themselves. Those that still seek their own
gain. that God is not the God that
says that he shall gather the remnant of his people who shall
recover the remnant of his people which shall be left from Assyria
and from Egypt and from Paphos and from Cush and from Elam and
from Shinar and from Hamath and from the islands of the sea The
God who shall set up an ensign for the nations and shall assemble
the outcasts of Israel and gather together the dispersed of Judah
from the four corners of the earth. This God is a different God.
This God is the living God. The living God for the Lord that
filled up Jerusalem. He gathereth together the outcasts
of Israel. He healeth the broken in heart,
and bindeth up their wounds. He telleth the number of the
stars, he calleth them all by their names. Great is our Lord,
and of great power. His understanding is infinite.
The Lord lifteth up the meek, and he casteth the wicked down
to the ground. This is the true and the living
God. And all those who know this God,
and all those who follow this God, and all those who are saved
by this God, are described as the outcasts of Israel. Outcasts. Those who go another
way. A narrow way. a straight way,
a hard way. Those who don't fit in, those
who are cast out by the majority, those who are rejected. The majority reject both these
and they reject their God. When the Lord God sent his son
into this world, The majority cried out for him to be crucified.
They despised him and they rejected him. They said, we will not have
this man to reign over us. He came under his own, the religious,
the Jews, those who should have known him, those who should have
received him, and the Jews cast him out. They despised him. They hated him. they crucified
him. And the majority, even today,
despise him. They hate him. And in their hearts,
they crucify him. Why? Because at hearts, those
who fit in, those who are not cast out, are wicked. These are the wicked in heart.
And the wicked seem to prosper. Don't they? The wicked fit in. The wicked are accepted. They
make much money. They are powerful. They are worshipped. They are adored. They prosper. But they cast out God. And they
cast out his son. And they cast out his people.
Now the world has no room for him. and the world has no room
for the outcasts of Israel. Where are you? Which road are
you on? How do you describe yourself?
How do you feel? Are you popular? Do you have many, many friends? Does the world speak well of
you? When you go to work, when you go to school, Are you the
one that everyone speaks well of? Or are you shunned? God's people are outcasts. They're
strangers who are scattered, as Peter describes them in 1
Peter 1. Strangers scattered. They're strangers. The world
looks upon them as different. There's something about them
that sets them apart. They're strange to the world.
Cast out by the world. Unwanted, unwelcome, unliked. An irritation in the midst of
others. A dampener and a break on the
pleasures which others seek. These outcasts just don't fit
in. They don't, do they? They can
try as they might. They might seek to fit in. But
if they're the lords, if they're truly these outcasts of Israel,
then try as they might, ultimately there's that about them that
sets them apart. They're different. When God works
in a man or a woman, the difference begins to show. He begins to
stand out. He no longer walks as others
walk. He no longer thinks as others
think. He no longer believes as others
believe. He no longer loves what others
love. He's different. He's different,
there's something about him that's no longer as he used to be. Once
he was like others. Once he was as the children of
Roth. Once he was as the children of
disobedience. Once he lived just as any other
man did. Once he walked just as any other
man did. Once he went on the same path.
But there's come a day, there's come a time in his life when
something has begun to happen. When God has begun to work in
his soul. When God has begun to work in
the depths of his being. To change him, to turn him round. to teach him what he is, to teach
him what his soul is, to teach him what he is by nature, to
teach him the corruption of his own heart, to teach him where
the world is heading, to teach him where his pathway would end
if he carried on on it, to teach him who God is and what God is
like, to teach him what sin is, to teach him what righteousness
is, to teach him how far short he falls of righteousness, how
far short he falls of perfection. God has begun to turn him up,
to turn him upside down, to turn him inside out, to show him what
he is, to expose him. And suddenly he's no longer as
others. He's no longer thinking as others.
He no longer feels as others. Once he could walk just as other
men walked. Once he took pleasure in all
the things that they took pleasure in. Once he'd go out on a Friday
night with his friends just as others did. Once he'd go out
drinking and dancing. Once he'd go out to all the places
where others went. And he'd take the pleasure in
the same things that others took pleasure in. But now it's all
beginning to feel hollow and empty. Now what he sought in
this world seems worthless. Now what he thought was great
seems empty. Now what he thought was wonderful
seems vacant, seems barren. It no longer seems as good as
it used to. He no longer takes pleasures
in the things he did and the people he used to meet with.
His mind is set upon other things. It's when God begins to work
in the heart of a sinner, he churns him up. Now he looks in,
and when he once thought he used to be quite a good man, quite
upright, quite moral, now he seems to think another way about
himself. He looks upon his actions, he
looks upon his motives, he looks at his heart. and he becomes
increasingly disgusted with himself. He sees darkness in his heart.
He used to think he was wise and he was clever, but now he
realizes how little he knows. He knows nothing. Once he thought
it was good to go this way, now he begins to hate that way. Once
he didn't think about God and eternity, Now he can't help but
continue to think about God and eternity. Once he never thought
about death. Now every day he feels like death
beckons. Every day he feels like the bony
claw of death's hand is about to grab him and pull him the
other side. Once he thought nothing of his
sins. Now all he can see is his sins
and corruption. Once he thought nothing of judgment
and the wrath to come. Now his legs quake every day
as he knows, he realizes that he is guilty from head to toe. And that should his life be brought
to an end this day, that he will plunge into eternity. His thoughts
have changed. His affections have changed.
The spirit has wrought conviction in his heart. Have you come this
way? Have you discovered the corruption
of your heart? Have you seen judgment awaiting? Have you been made wise to eternity? Have you come to stand and to
think, where do I stand before God? Where will I be when my
life is ended? Have you looked upon those pleasures
you once took much delight in and begun to find them disgusting
and empty and useless? Have you begun to look beyond
what is in time, beyond what you can see with the outer eye
and to look into eternity and wonder what then? What's the
other side of the grave? and you're brought this way,
you no longer fit in. You no longer fit in. And the
world around you begins to see you're different. You no longer
laugh at their jokes. You no longer pat them on the
back like you used to. You're no longer such good company
to be with. You're mournful, you're miserable. You're heavy, you're too deep. the world no longer wants your
company and slowly and surely you find that you no longer fit
in and you're cast out it's when the Lord brings a man
on this pathway he brings him on a broad path and begins to
lead him towards a narrow gate a straight gate that leads to
a narrow path You're no longer the same. You can't think the
same, you don't see things the same, you don't walk the same.
You're different. You know that eternity beckons. And you begin to become cast
out. But when a man's in that state,
oh, what a pitiful place to be. He feels the corruption of his
heart. He knows that judgment awaits
him. He feels that God is angry with
him in his sin. But he finds that those who were
once his friends no longer want to know him either. He's cast
out by others. But he doesn't feel welcomed
in by the God. He knows he must one day stand
before. He feels very, very alone. Very, very cast out. Very, very
isolated. Have you walked this path? Perhaps
this is where you are this day. Perhaps this is where you seem
to be approaching. Perhaps you once took pleasure
in certain things, but now you've changed. Perhaps you've found
a Bible and you've begun to read it. Perhaps you've tried to seek
out a church where you might hear a preacher preach something
about what the Bible means. Perhaps you know there's a God
and you need to be right with God. Perhaps you've heard of
his son, Jesus Christ, and you know that Christ came to save
sinners and you want to know something about him. But you
listen, you read the Bible, you listen to the messages preached
and none of it seems to enter in. You can't make head or tail
of it. You know there's something in
it but it's not personal to you, you don't know where you are.
You just feel the wrath of God burning from heaven against your
sin. And you feel the rejection of
men all around you. And you feel an outcast. Perhaps
that's where you are this day. Cast out. Well, I want to tell
you about the one who gathers the outcasts of Israel. the one who gathers the outcasts,
the one who came to save those that the world casts out, the
one who came to save those in whose heart he has worked to
lead them from a broad way onto a narrow, the one who's come
for those who are broken in heart, the one who'd come for those
who are wounded in heart, who are wounded by the wounds of
conviction, who are broken down, who know that they're guilty
before a holy God, who know that they're nothing. There's one
who's come to save such as these, to gather such as these, His name is the Lord God Almighty. His son is the Lord Jesus Christ. And he sent his son to save outcasts. Are you an outcast? Perhaps you're not. If you're
not the very thought of being cast out, It's anathema to you. If all you want is to fit in,
then I haven't got good news for you. I've only got a warning
for you, that your pleasure will last but a moment. And then the
grave approaches. But if you're feeling cast out,
if you're feeling like you no longer love what you used to
love, like eternity matters, If you're feeling that God and
where you stand before God matters. If you're feeling that you're
sinful, that your heart is not good, that though the world around
might tell you that there's good in every man, that you're really
good, you know that that's an empty lie. You know there's no
truth in it. If you feel there's no truth
in that anymore, if your heart tells you something else, that
you look within and know that you're not good and you won't
stand before God, then I've good news for you. For there's one
that came for outcasts. One that came. One who came to
save outcasts. One who came to gather the outcasts. One who came to separate the
outcasts from the others. One who's brought you to this
point. For these two people in this
world, those on the narrow way and those on the broad, they're
on different paths for a reason. Outcasts didn't make themselves
like that. They were cast out by others,
but ultimately they were brought to that point at the hand of Him who came to
save the outcasts. What really makes one differ
from the other? Who makes the outcast differ
from the other? Is it those who cast them out?
Have they made them differ? Well, no. They cast them out
because they were different. They cast them out because they
despised them. Well, what made them different?
What separated these from the others? Why it is the Lord, the
One that came to save the outcasts, He made them different. If you
feel cast out this day, if you feel the corruption of your sin,
if you're looking to be saved from your sins, there's One who's
put you there. There's One who's made you to
differ. It wasn't your choice to be where
you are. You didn't make yourself aware
of the corruption within. There's One who worked within
your heart. The Spirit of God came upon you
and started to awaken you to your state. He started to convict
you within. He started to lead you another
way. He separated you from others. He brought you to the point that
you're on at His will, by His decree. He separates the people,
He brings them to know what they are. He brings them to an end
of themselves. He brings them to desperation. He brings them to that point
where they're cast out. And He brings them to cry. to
cry, to cry unto Him, to cry unto the Living God. Is that
where you are? Are you crying out? Are you crying
out for help? Are you crying out to God? Are
you crying out that God might spare you, that He might save
you? Do you feel separated, set apart
from others? Well, I tell you that's no bad
thing. That's a good place to be. That's a good place to be
brought. It might not seem it. It might
seem desperate. You might feel like death awaits,
but it's a good place to be brought. It's a good thing to be brought
there. It's a good thing to be separated. Separated from the masses. Separated
from the fools that go down to destruction. It's a good thing
to be brought there to be cast out. It may seem miserable, it
may seem a trial, but ultimately if you're brought there, it's
God that's brought you there. If you're cast out, it's God
that's caused you to be cast out. And it's God that came to
save the outcasts of Israel. outcasts. Oh it's a good thing
to be cast out, for in the end these outcasts, these ones who
were despised and rejected of men, have a great, a great reward. They have an everlasting reward. These ones who are cast out are
far better off than those who cast them out. Others may laugh
at them, they may scoff at them, but in the end it is these outcasts
who will laugh, who will rejoice. For these are those whom the
Lord God came to save. These are those whom the Lord
God will gather. These are those who will be brought
to His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ. These are those who will cry
out in desperation for salvation. and who will be heard. Every
last one of them will be heard. You may say this day, I feel
cast out. I want to be saved. Will the
Lord hear me? I answer, He hears the cries
of all, all who call upon His name, all who are cast out, all
who cry out to Him for salvation. He hears all the cries of His
people. All the outcasts of Israel, all
the broken in heart, all the bruised, all the broken, all
those who cry out to be saved, He hears them all. There's not
one who He passes by. and all whom He hears will be
saved. They will be heard, they'll be
gathered in, and these in the end will rejoice, they will laugh,
they will glory in His salvation. For though cast out by men, they
have greater reward. They're separated unto riches
beyond measure, unto eternal life, unto eternal bliss. They're
separated unto Jesus Christ, the one who came to save the
outcasts, the one who came to save his own, the one who came
to build up Jerusalem. Yes, these may be outcasts, but
these are cast out by the world with Christ. Their Saviour was
cast out. They're cast out, but their Saviour
was cast out. And all who are cast out in this
way are cast out with One who came to save them. To save them
with a mighty Saviour. They're cast out with that one
who came forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse, a branch which
grew up out of his roots, the one upon whom the Spirit of the
Lord shall rest, the one who has the spirit of wisdom and
understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit
of knowledge and the fear of the Lord. the one who had a quick
understanding in the fear of the Lord, the one who came not
to judge after the sight of his eyes and to reprove after the
hearing of his ears, but the one who came into this world
with righteousness that he might judge the poor and reprove with
equity the meek of the earth. that he should smite the earth
with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips he
should slay the wicked, and with righteousness about his loins,
and faithfulness his reigns, he should come to save the outcasts
of Israel. Yes, you may feel cast out, but
if you're brought to see the one that came to save the outcasts,
then you're cast out with a mighty saviour who will pick you up
and who will bind your wounds and will heal your transgressions
and who will wash you clean in his blood and put your feet upon
a rock and lead you forth on a narrow way, but a narrow way
that leads unto everlasting life. Yes, this Christ, this Son of
God, this God, this Saviour, came to save outcasts. In that
day, there shall be a root of Jesse, which shall stand for
an end sign of the people. To it shall the Gentiles seek
and his rest shall be glorious and it shall come to pass in
that day that the Lord shall set his hand again the second
time to recover the remnant of his people. which shall be left
from Assyria, and from Egypt, and from Paphos, and from Cush,
and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the
islands of the sea, wherever that people are, however scattered
they may be, however few they may be, however broken they may
be, wherever they may be, Wherever you, my friend, cast out by man
in this world, despised and rejected, wherever you may be, in that
day the Lord Jesus Christ shall come to recover the remnant of
his people. and he shall set up an ensign
for the nations, and shall assemble the outcasts of Israel, and shall
gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners
of the earth. He came to save a people. He came to save a people who
were cast out, who were scattered, who were few, who were rejected. He came to find them wherever
they are, and wherever they are, he finds them, and he gathers
them, and he finds them out, and he comes unto them in their
broken state, and he comes unto them wherever they are, wherever
you may be, and he says, rise up, take up thy bed and walk,
and follow me. Thy sins be forgiven thee. Thy faith have made thee whole. Look unto me, all ye ends of
the earth, and be ye saved. For this Saviour died in the
place of sinners, sinners like you and me. He came and He stood
under the judgment and the outpouring of the wrath of God. And He said
of these outcasts, He said to His Lord God, His Father, He
said, Lord, take their sins, take their corruption and lay
it upon me. Lord pour out thy wrath not upon
them but upon me and the Lord God poured out his wrath due
unto their sins and poured it out upon his son upon the tree
and consumed his son a sacrifice a sacrifice in the place of sins
he burnt him up and he judged him that those outcasts might
be washed in that blood which was shed when Christ died and
that they might be declared righteous for his blood washed their every
last sin and their every last transgression away. Have you
seen this Saviour suffering for you? You may feel outcast but
have you gone outside the camp to where that Saviour was crucified,
outside the camp of the mighty and the great, outside the camp
of the religious, outside to where a few were gathered to
look upon Him who was crucified outside the camp. Have you seen
the Saviour crucified for you? Have you seen one who washed
your sins away in His own blood? Have you seen Him? For if you
have, you will know that far from being an outcast you might
be cast out by the world you might be cast out by the religious
but you're not cast out and you will never ever ever be cast
out by this One who was Himself cast out, by this One who died
in your place, by this One who washed you clean, by this One
who lifts up the beggar from off the dunghill and makes him
a prince in Zion, by this One who takes the outcast and gathers
him in and brings him in with a mighty company around the throne
of the Lamb of God, the Son of God forever. You're not outcast
in glory. All those who are cast out by
men, who look upon Christ crucified for them, their Saviour, are
brought to eternal glory and everlasting righteousness and
everlasting salvation. They're given eternal life when
their life comes to a close, whereas the wicked plunge into
eternal wrath. their pleasures which were but
for a moment brought to a sudden end, these few, these others,
this remnant, these outcasts, who suffered for a moment in
this world, whom the world had no time for, these enter into
eternal glory, everlasting riches, everlasting glory, everlasting
bliss with that one who died in their stead, with that one
who took the heaps, the mountains of their corruptions upon his
back, with that one who suffered in their place, with that one
who took all the guilt and condemnation away, with that one who saved
them, who saved them, that they might in Him have everlasting
glory, and never, ever, ever be cast out again, but be welcomed
into the arms of the Saviour who loved them and gave Himself
for them. Have you seen Him? Are you brought
in with a welcome into His courts, cast out by many, yes, but welcomed
by the Son of God and welcomed by His Father and drawn by the
cords of love by His Spirit. Hebrews 13 tells us, The bodies
of those beasts whose blood is brought into the sanctuary by
the high priest for sin are burned without the camp. Wherefore Jesus
also that he might sanctify the people with his own blood suffered
without the gate. outside the camp, cast out, rejected. But let us go forth therefore
unto him without the camp, bearing his reproach. For here have we
no continuing city, but we seek one to call, one where we are
gathered with the Saviour, outcasts, but gathered in as the Jerusalem
of God. For the Lord doth build up Jerusalem,
he gathereth together the outcasts of Israel. Praise God.