(0.34) | Isa 51:2 | Look at Abraham, your father, and Sarah, who gave you birth. 1 When I summoned him, he was a lone individual, 2 but I blessed him 3 and gave him numerous descendants. 4 |
(0.34) | Isa 52:5 | And now, what do we have here?” 1 says the Lord. “Indeed my people have been carried away for nothing, those who rule over them taunt,” 2 says the Lord, “and my name is constantly slandered 3 all day long. |
(0.34) | Isa 53:3 | He was despised and rejected by people, 1 one who experienced pain and was acquainted with illness; people hid their faces from him; 2 he was despised, and we considered him insignificant. 3 |
(0.34) | Isa 53:8 | He was led away after an unjust trial 1 – but who even cared? 2 Indeed, he was cut off from the land of the living; 3 because of the rebellion of his own 4 people he was wounded. |
(0.34) | Isa 54:6 | “Indeed, the Lord will call you back like a wife who has been abandoned and suffers from depression, 1 like a young wife when she has been rejected,” says your God. |
(0.34) | Isa 54:10 | Even if the mountains are removed and the hills displaced, my devotion will not be removed from you, nor will my covenant of friendship 1 be displaced,” says the Lord, the one who has compassion on you. |
(0.34) | Isa 54:17 | No weapon forged to be used against you will succeed; you will refute everyone who tries to accuse you. 1 This is what the Lord will do for his servants – I will vindicate them,” 2 says the Lord. |
(0.34) | Isa 55:10 | 1 The rain and snow fall from the sky and do not return, but instead water the earth and make it produce and yield crops, and provide seed for the planter and food for those who must eat. |
(0.34) | Isa 56:3 | No foreigner who becomes a follower of 1 the Lord should say, ‘The Lord will certainly 2 exclude me from his people.’ The eunuch should not say, ‘Look, I am like a dried-up tree.’” |
(0.34) | Isa 59:10 | We grope along the wall like the blind, we grope like those who cannot see; 1 we stumble at noontime as if it were evening. Though others are strong, we are like dead men. 2 |
(0.34) | Isa 60:14 | The children of your oppressors will come bowing to you; all who treated you with disrespect will bow down at your feet. They will call you, ‘The City of the Lord, Zion of the Holy One of Israel.’ 1 |
(0.34) | Isa 64:6 | We are all like one who is unclean, all our so-called righteous acts are like a menstrual rag in your sight. 1 We all wither like a leaf; our sins carry us away like the wind. |
(0.34) | Isa 66:2 | My hand made them; 1 that is how they came to be,” 2 says the Lord. I show special favor 3 to the humble and contrite, who respect what I have to say. 4 |
(0.34) | Isa 66:24 | “They will go out and observe the corpses of those who rebelled against me, for the maggots that eat them will not die, 1 and the fire that consumes them will not die out. 2 All people will find the sight abhorrent.” 3 |
(0.34) | Jer 1:1 | The following is a record of what Jeremiah son of Hilkiah prophesied. 1 He was one of the priests who lived at Anathoth in the territory of the tribe of Benjamin. |
(0.34) | Jer 2:3 | Israel was set apart to the Lord; they were like the first fruits of a harvest to him. 1 All who tried to devour them were punished; disaster came upon them,” says the Lord.’” |
(0.34) | Jer 2:34 | Even your clothes are stained with the lifeblood of the poor who had not done anything wrong; you did not catch them breaking into your homes. 1 Yet, in spite of all these things you have done, 2 |
(0.34) | Jer 3:23 | We know our noisy worship of false gods on the hills and mountains did not help us. 1 We know that the Lord our God is the only one who can deliver Israel. 2 |
(0.34) | Jer 4:7 | Like a lion that has come up from its lair 1 the one who destroys nations has set out from his home base. 2 He is coming out to lay your land waste. Your cities will become ruins and lie uninhabited. |
(0.34) | Jer 4:16 | They are saying, 1 ‘Announce to the surrounding nations, 2 “The enemy is coming!” 3 Proclaim this message 4 to Jerusalem: “Those who besiege cities 5 are coming from a distant land. They are ready to raise the battle cry against 6 the towns in Judah.”’ |