Discovery Box| (0.68) | Isa 45:11 |
| This is what the Lord says, the Holy One of Israel, 1 the one who formed him, concerning things to come: 2 “How dare you question me 3 about my children! How dare you tell me what to do with 4 the work of my own hands! |
| (0.68) | Isa 45:14 |
| This is what the Lord says: “The profit 1 of Egypt and the revenue 2 of Ethiopia, along with the Sabeans, those tall men, will be brought to you 3 and become yours. They will walk behind you, coming along in chains. 4 They will bow down to you and pray to you: 5 ‘Truly God is with 6 you; he has no peer; 7 there is no other God!’” |
| (0.68) | 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 |
| (0.68) | Isa 48:1 |
| Listen to this, O family of Jacob, 1 you who are called by the name ‘Israel,’ and are descended from Judah, 2 who take oaths in the name of the Lord, and invoke 3 the God of Israel – but not in an honest and just manner. 4 |
| (0.68) | Isa 50:3 |
| I can clothe the sky in darkness; I can cover it with sackcloth.” |
| (0.68) | Isa 51:3 |
| Certainly the Lord will console Zion; he will console all her ruins. He will make her wilderness like Eden, her desert like the Garden of the Lord. Happiness and joy will be restored to 1 her, thanksgiving and the sound of music. |
| (0.68) | Isa 54:13 |
| All your children will be followers of the Lord, and your children will enjoy great prosperity. 1 |
| (0.68) | Isa 55:6 |
| Seek the Lord while he makes himself available; 1 call to him while he is nearby! |
| (0.68) | Isa 56:6 |
| As for foreigners who become followers of 1 the Lord and serve him, who love the name of the Lord and want to be his servants – all who observe the Sabbath and do not defile it, and who are faithful to 2 my covenant – |
| (0.68) | Isa 57:21 |
| There will be no prosperity,” says my God, “for the wicked.” |
| (0.68) | Isa 63:4 |
| For I looked forward to the day of vengeance, and then payback time arrived. 1 |
| (0.68) | Isa 66:3 |
| The one who slaughters a bull also strikes down a man; 1 the one who sacrifices a lamb also breaks a dog’s neck; 2 the one who presents an offering includes pig’s blood with it; 3 the one who offers incense also praises an idol. 4 They have decided to behave this way; 5 they enjoy these disgusting practices. 6 |
| (0.68) | Isa 66:5 |
| Hear the word of the Lord, you who respect what he has to say! 1 Your countrymen, 2 who hate you and exclude you, supposedly for the sake of my name, say, “May the Lord be glorified, then we will witness your joy.” 3 But they will be put to shame. |
| (0.68) | Isa 66:21 |
| And I will choose some of them as priests and Levites,” says the Lord. |
| (0.68) | Jer 1:3 |
| The Lord also spoke to him when Jehoiakim son of Josiah ruled over Judah, and he continued to speak to him until the fifth month of the eleventh year 1 that Zedekiah son of Josiah ruled over Judah. That was when the people of Jerusalem 2 were taken into exile. 3 |
| (0.68) | Jer 2:2 |
| “Go and declare in the hearing of the people of Jerusalem: 1 ‘This is what the Lord says: “I have fond memories of you, 2 how devoted you were to me in your early years. 3 I remember how you loved me like a new bride; you followed me through the wilderness, through a land that had never been planted. |
| (0.68) | Jer 2:12 |
| Be amazed at this, O heavens! 1 Be shocked and utterly dumbfounded,” says the Lord. |
| (0.68) | Jer 2:16 |
| Even the soldiers 1 from Memphis and Tahpanhes have cracked your skulls, people of Israel. 2 |
| (0.68) | Jer 2:23 |
| “How can you say, ‘I have not made myself unclean. I have not paid allegiance to 1 the gods called Baal.’ Just look at the way you have behaved in the Valley of Hinnom! 2 Think about the things you have done there! You are like a flighty, young female camel that rushes here and there, crisscrossing its path. 3 |
| (0.68) | Jer 2:24 |
| You are like a wild female donkey brought up in the wilderness. In her lust she sniffs the wind to get the scent of a male. 1 No one can hold her back when she is in heat. None of the males need wear themselves out chasing after her. At mating time she is easy to find. 2 |
