Discovery Box| (0.28) | Isa 29:13 |
| The sovereign master 1 says, “These people say they are loyal to me; 2 they say wonderful things about me, 3 but they are not really loyal to me. 4 Their worship consists of nothing but man-made ritual. 5 |
| (0.28) | Isa 29:18 |
| At that time 1 the deaf will be able to hear words read from a scroll, and the eyes of the blind will be able to see through deep darkness. 2 |
| (0.28) | Isa 29:22 |
| So this is what the Lord, the one who delivered Abraham, says to the family of Jacob: 1 “Jacob will no longer be ashamed; their faces will no longer show their embarrassment. 2 |
| (0.28) | Isa 30:15 |
| For this is what the master, the Lord, the Holy One of Israel says: “If you repented and patiently waited for me, you would be delivered; 1 if you calmly trusted in me you would find strength, 2 but you are unwilling. |
| (0.28) | Isa 30:19 |
| For people will live in Zion; in Jerusalem 1 you will weep no more. 2 When he hears your cry of despair, he will indeed show you mercy; when he hears it, he will respond to you. 3 |
| (0.28) | Isa 30:28 |
| His battle cry overwhelms like a flooding river 1 that reaches one’s neck. He shakes the nations in a sieve that isolates the chaff; 2 he puts a bit into the mouth of the nations and leads them to destruction. 3 |
| (0.28) | Isa 30:29 |
| You will sing as you do in the evening when you are celebrating a festival. You will be happy like one who plays a flute as he goes to the mountain of the Lord, the Rock who shelters Israel. 1 |
| (0.28) | Isa 31:3 |
| The Egyptians are mere humans, not God; their horses are made of flesh, not spirit. The Lord will strike with 1 his hand; the one who helps will stumble and the one being helped will fall. Together they will perish. 2 |
| (0.28) | Isa 33:16 |
| This is the person who will live in a secure place; 1 he will find safety in the rocky, mountain strongholds; 2 he will have food and a constant supply of water. |
| (0.28) | Isa 33:20 |
| Look at Zion, the city where we hold religious festivals! You 1 will see Jerusalem, 2 a peaceful settlement, a tent that stays put; 3 its stakes will never be pulled up; none of its ropes will snap in two. |
| (0.28) | Isa 33:23 |
| Though at this time your ropes are slack, 1 the mast is not secured, 2 and the sail 3 is not unfurled, at that time you will divide up a great quantity of loot; 4 even the lame will drag off plunder. 5 |
| (0.28) | Isa 35:8 |
| A thoroughfare will be there – it will be called the Way of Holiness. 1 The unclean will not travel on it; it is reserved for those authorized to use it 2 – fools 3 will not stray into it. |
| (0.28) | Isa 36:6 |
| Look, you must be trusting in Egypt, that splintered reed staff. If someone leans on it for support, it punctures his hand and wounds him. That is what Pharaoh king of Egypt does to all who trust in him! |
| (0.28) | Isa 36:7 |
| Perhaps you will tell me, ‘We are trusting in the Lord our God.’ But Hezekiah is the one who eliminated his high places and altars and then told the people of Judah and Jerusalem, ‘You must worship at this altar.’ |
| (0.28) | Isa 36:10 |
| Furthermore it was by the command of the Lord that I marched up against this land to destroy it. The Lord told me, ‘March up against this land and destroy it!’”’” 1 |
| (0.28) | 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.” |
| (0.28) | Isa 36:15 |
| Don’t let Hezekiah talk you into trusting in the Lord by saying, “The Lord will certainly rescue us; this city will not be handed over to the king of Assyria.” |
| (0.28) | Isa 37:3 |
| “This is what Hezekiah says: 1 ‘This is a day of distress, insults, 2 and humiliation, 3 as when a baby is ready to leave the birth canal, but the mother lacks the strength to push it through. 4 |
| (0.28) | Isa 37:7 |
| Look, I will take control of his mind; 1 he will receive a report and return to his own land. I will cut him down 2 with a sword in his own land.”’” |
| (0.28) | Isa 37:26 |
| 1 Certainly you must have heard! 2 Long ago I worked it out, in ancient times I planned 3 it, and now I am bringing it to pass. The plan is this: Fortified cities will crash into heaps of ruins. 4 |
