Art for Jesus - in Japan

"Therefore I am now going to allure you;
I will lead you into the desert
and speak tenderly to you.
There I will give you back your vineyards,
and will make the Valley of Trouble a door of hope.
There you will sing as in the days of your youth,
as in the day you came up out of Egypt.
"In that day," declares the Lord,
"you will call Me 'my husband';
you will no longer call Me 'my master. '”

- Hosea 2, adapted

"I will turn your desert into pools of water,
and your parched ground into springs.
I will put in your desert
the cedar and the acacia,
the myrtle and the olive.
I will set pines in your wasteland,
the fir and the cypress together."

- Isaiah 41, adapted