Discovery Box| (0.18) | Isa 1:11 |
| “Of what importance to me are your many sacrifices?” 1 says the Lord. “I am stuffed with 2 burnt sacrifices of rams and the fat from steers. The blood of bulls, lambs, and goats I do not want. 3 |
| (0.18) | Isa 5:5 |
| Now I will inform you what I am about to do to my vineyard: I will remove its hedge and turn it into pasture, 1 I will break its wall and allow animals to graze there. 2 |
| (0.18) | Isa 19:11 |
| The officials of Zoan are nothing but fools; 1 Pharaoh’s wise advisers give stupid advice. How dare you say to Pharaoh, “I am one of the sages, one well-versed in the writings of the ancient kings?” 2 |
| (0.18) | Isa 24:16 |
| From the ends of the earth we 1 hear songs – the Just One is majestic. 2 But I 3 say, “I’m wasting away! I’m wasting away! I’m doomed! Deceivers deceive, deceivers thoroughly deceive!” 4 |
| (0.18) | Isa 25:1 |
| O Lord, you are my God! 1 I will exalt you in praise, I will extol your fame. 2 For you have done extraordinary things, and executed plans made long ago exactly as you decreed. 3 |
| (0.18) | Isa 30:14 |
| It shatters in pieces like a clay jar, so shattered to bits that none of it can be salvaged. 1 Among its fragments one cannot find a shard large enough 2 to scoop a hot coal from a fire 3 or to skim off water from a cistern.” 4 |
| (0.18) | Isa 30:26 |
| The light of the full moon will be like the sun’s glare and the sun’s glare will be seven times brighter, like the light of seven days, 1 when the Lord binds up his people’s fractured bones 2 and heals their severe wound. 3 |
| (0.18) | Isa 34:6 |
| The Lord’s sword is dripping with blood, it is covered 1 with fat; it drips 2 with the blood of young rams and goats and is covered 3 with the fat of rams’ kidneys. For the Lord is holding a sacrifice 4 in Bozrah, 5 a bloody 6 slaughter in the land of Edom. |
| (0.18) | Isa 36:11 |
| Eliakim, Shebna, and Joah said to the chief adviser, “Speak to your servants in Aramaic, 1 for we understand it. Don’t speak with us in the Judahite dialect 2 in the hearing of the people who are on the wall.” |
| (0.18) | Isa 44:13 |
| A carpenter takes measurements; 1 he marks out an outline of its form; 2 he scrapes 3 it with chisels, and marks it with a compass. He patterns it after the human form, 4 like a well-built human being, and puts it in a shrine. 5 |
| (0.18) | Isa 47:8 |
| So now, listen to this, O one who lives so lavishly, 1 who lives securely, who says to herself, 2 ‘I am unique! No one can compare to me! 3 I will never have to live as a widow; I will never lose my children.’ 4 |
| (0.18) | Isa 47:9 |
| Both of these will come upon you suddenly, in one day! You will lose your children and be widowed. 1 You will be overwhelmed by these tragedies, 2 despite 3 your many incantations and your numerous amulets. 4 |
| (0.18) | Isa 48:17 |
| This is what the Lord, your protector, 1 says, the Holy One of Israel: 2 “I am the Lord your God, who teaches you how to succeed, who leads you in the way you should go. |
| (0.18) | Isa 50:4 |
| The sovereign Lord has given me the capacity to be his spokesman, 1 so that I know how to help the weary. 2 He wakes me up every morning; he makes me alert so I can listen attentively as disciples do. 3 |
| (0.18) | Isa 55:2 |
| Why pay money for something that will not nourish you? 1 Why spend 2 your hard-earned money 3 on something that will not satisfy? Listen carefully 4 to me and eat what is nourishing! 5 Enjoy fine food! 6 |
| (0.18) | Isa 58:8 |
| Then your light will shine like the sunrise; 1 your restoration will quickly arrive; 2 your godly behavior 3 will go before you, and the Lord’s splendor will be your rear guard. 4 |
| (0.18) | Isa 66:4 |
| So I will choose severe punishment 1 for them; I will bring on them what they dread, because I called, and no one responded, I spoke and they did not listen. They did evil before me; 2 they chose to do what displeases me.” |
| (0.18) | Isa 66:12 |
| For this is what the Lord says: “Look, I am ready to extend to her prosperity that will flow like a river, the riches of nations will flow into her like a stream that floods its banks. 1 You will nurse from her breast 2 and be carried at her side; you will play on her knees. |
| (0.18) | Jer 12:6 |
| As a matter of fact, 1 even your own brothers and the members of your own family have betrayed you too. Even they have plotted to do away with you. 2 So do not trust them even when they say kind things 3 to you. |
| (0.18) | Jer 13:12 |
| “So tell them, 1 ‘The Lord, the God of Israel, says, “Every wine jar is made to be filled with wine.”’ 2 And they will probably say to you, ‘Do you not think we know 3 that every wine jar is supposed to be filled with wine?’ |
