(1.00) | Isa 45:22 | Turn to me so you can be delivered, 1 all you who live in the earth’s remote regions! For I am God, and I have no peer. |
(1.00) | Isa 45:23 | I solemnly make this oath 1 – what I say is true and reliable: 2 ‘Surely every knee will bow to me, every tongue will solemnly affirm; 3 |
(1.00) | Isa 46:2 | Together they bend low and kneel down; they are unable to rescue the images; 1 they themselves 2 head off into captivity. 3 |
(1.00) | Isa 46:6 | Those who empty out gold from a purse and weigh out silver on the scale 1 hire a metalsmith, who makes it into a god. They then bow down and worship it. |
(1.00) | Isa 46:13 | I am bringing my deliverance near, it is not far away; I am bringing my salvation near, 1 it does not wait. I will save Zion; 2 I will adorn Israel with my splendor.” 3 |
(1.00) | Isa 47:5 | “Sit silently! Go to a hiding place, 1 O daughter of the Babylonians! Indeed, 2 you will no longer be called ‘Queen of kingdoms.’ |
(1.00) | Isa 47:7 | You said, ‘I will rule forever as permanent queen!’ 1 You did not think about these things; 2 you did not consider how it would turn out. 3 |
(1.00) | 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 |
(1.00) | Isa 47:12 | Persist 1 in trusting 2 your amulets and your many incantations, which you have faithfully recited 3 since your youth! Maybe you will be successful 4 – maybe you will scare away disaster. 5 |
(1.00) | Isa 47:13 | You are tired out from listening to so much advice. 1 Let them take their stand – the ones who see omens in the sky, who gaze at the stars, who make monthly predictions – let them rescue you from the disaster that is about to overtake you! 2 |
(1.00) | Isa 48:3 | “I announced events beforehand, 1 I issued the decrees and made the predictions; 2 suddenly I acted and they came to pass. |
(1.00) | Isa 48:5 | I announced them to you beforehand; before they happened, I predicted them for you, so you could never say, ‘My image did these things, my idol, my cast image, decreed them.’ |
(1.00) | Isa 48:7 | Now they come into being, 1 not in the past; before today you did not hear about them, so you could not say, ‘Yes, 2 I know about them.’ |
(1.00) | Isa 48:8 | You did not hear, you do not know, you were not told beforehand. 1 For I know that you are very deceitful; 2 you were labeled 3 a rebel from birth. |
(1.00) | Isa 48:11 | For my sake alone 1 I will act, for how can I allow my name to be defiled? 2 I will not share my glory with anyone else! 3 |
(1.00) | Isa 48:13 | Yes, my hand founded the earth; my right hand spread out the sky. I summon them; they stand together. |
(1.00) | Isa 48:15 | I, I have spoken – yes, I have summoned him; I lead him and he will succeed. 1 |
(1.00) | Isa 48:20 | Leave Babylon! Flee from the Babylonians! Announce it with a shout of joy! Make this known! Proclaim it throughout the earth! 1 Say, ‘The Lord protects 2 his servant Jacob. |
(1.00) | Isa 49:1 | Listen to me, you coastlands! 1 Pay attention, you people who live far away! The Lord summoned me from birth; 2 he commissioned me when my mother brought me into the world. 3 |
(1.00) | Isa 49:2 | He made my mouth like a sharp sword, he hid me in the hollow of his hand; he made me like a sharpened 1 arrow, he hid me in his quiver. 2 |