For I Know
Embracing Hope: Discovering Divine Plans
Lyrics
For I know the plans I have for you.
Assurance that the speaker (likely representing a higher power or divine entity) is aware of specific plans for the listener's life.
Plans to prosper you and not to harm you.
Reiteration of the positive nature of the plans, emphasizing prosperity and absence of harm.
Plans to give you hope and a future.
Further details about the plans, intending to provide hope and a positive future for the listener.
For I know the plans I have for you.
Reaffirmation of the speaker's knowledge and awareness of these plans.
Then you will call on me
Describes a future action by the listener: reaching out to the speaker.
and come and pray to me,
Expresses the act of coming to the speaker in prayer.
And I will listen, I will listen
Assurance that the speaker will actively listen to the listener's prayers.
I will listen.
Reiteration of the speaker's commitment to listen to the prayers.
You will seek me and find me,
Indicates a future action by the listener: actively searching for the speaker.
when you seek with all your heart.
Emphasizes the condition for finding the speaker—requiring wholehearted dedication in seeking.
I will be found by you.
Assures the listener that the speaker will be discovered upon sincere and dedicated seeking.
I will bring you back from captivity.
Promise to free the listener from captivity or constraints.
I will gather you from all the nations.
Assurance of the speaker's commitment to gathering the listener from various places.
And places where I have banished you.
Specifically mentions locations where the listener has been sent away or exiled.
And I will bring you back
Reaffirms the commitment to bring the listener back.
to the place from which I carried you into exile.
Referencing the return to the original place of exile, implying restoration.
And you will call on me
Similar to line 6, indicating a repeated action of reaching out to the speaker in prayer.
and come and pray to me,
Reiteration of the act of coming to the speaker in prayer.
and I will listen.
Assurance of the speaker's commitment to listening to prayers, echoing line 8.
I will listen. I will listen.
Reiterating the speaker's commitment to listen to prayers, similar to lines 8 and 9.
For I know the plans I have for you.
Reaffirmation of the speaker's knowledge and awareness of specific plans for the listener.
For you.
Conclusion, emphasizing the plans and intentions are specifically for the listener.
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