“Yes, my God, I remember and am confounded; amazed at my ingratitude, amazed at thy grace.  I am thy witness, just so has been thy way with me.  What can I say?  Thou hast wrought with me for thy name’s sake.  I am dumb before thee; Oh, I am vile—­and yet I am thine!  Thou hast redeemed me; it is thy good pleasure to save me.  Glorify thy name.  ’I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, thy transgressions, and as a cloud, thy sins:  return unto me; for I have redeemed thee.  Sing, O ye heavens; for the Lord hath done it:  shout, ye lower parts of the earth:  break forth into singing, ye mountains, O forest and every green tree therein; for the Lord hath redeemed Jacob, and glorified himself in Israel.’

“’For if by one man’s offence, death reigned by one; much more they which receive abundance of grace, and of the gift of righteousness, shall reign in life by one, Christ Jesus.  Where sin abounded, grace did much more abound:  that as sin hath reigned unto death, so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life, by Jesus Christ our Lord.’

“’Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth:  for I am God, and there is none else.  I have sworn by myself, the word is gone out of my mouth in righteousness, and shall not return, that unto me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall swear.  Surely shall one say, In the Lord have I righteousness and strength:  even to him shall men come; and all that are incensed against him shall be ashamed.  In the Lord shall all the seed of Israel be justified, and shall glory.’  ’Hearken unto me, O house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house of Israel.  Even to your old age, I am he; and even to hoar hairs will I carry you:  I have made, and I will bear; even I will carry, and will deliver you.’  Isa. 45:22; 46:3.

“’Thus saith the Lord; I, even I, will both search my sheep, and seek them out.  As a shepherd seeketh out his flock in the day that he is among his sheep that are scattered; so will I seek out my sheep, and will deliver them out of all places where they have been scattered in the cloudy and dark day.  And I will bring them out from the people, and gather them to their own land, and feed them upon the mountains of Israel by the rivers, and in all the inhabited places of the country.  And I will feed them in a good pasture, and upon the high mountains of Israel shall their fold be:  there shall they lie in a good fold, and in a fat pasture shall they feed upon the mountains of Israel.  I will feed my flock, and I will cause them to lie down, saith the Lord God.  I will seek that which was lost, and bring again that which was driven away, and will bind up that which was broken, and will strengthen that which was sick.’  Ezek. 34:11.  He hath done it, I am his witness:  I, the poor wanderer, the happy subject of this grace.  ’And I will raise up for them a plant of renown,’ my Jesus, ’and they shall be no ’more consumed with hunger in the land, neither bear the