Discovery Box| (0.23) | Ecc 8:10 |
| Not only that, 1 but I have seen the wicked approaching 2 and entering the temple, 3 and as they left the holy temple, 4 they boasted 5 in the city that they had done so. This also is an enigma. 6 |
| (0.23) | Isa 5:8 |
| Those who accumulate houses are as good as dead, 1 those who also accumulate landed property 2 until there is no land left, 3 and you are the only landowners remaining within the land. 4 |
| (0.23) | Isa 6:13 |
| Even if only a tenth of the people remain in the land, it will again be destroyed, 1 like one of the large sacred trees 2 or an Asherah pole, when a sacred pillar on a high place is thrown down. 3 That sacred pillar symbolizes the special chosen family.” 4 |
| (0.23) | Isa 7:16 |
| Here is why this will be so: 1 Before the child knows how to reject evil and choose what is right, the land 2 whose two kings you fear will be desolate. 3 |
| (0.23) | Isa 8:9 |
| You will be broken, 1 O nations; you will be shattered! 2 Pay attention, all you distant lands of the earth! Get ready for battle, and you will be shattered! Get ready for battle, and you will be shattered! 3 |
| (0.23) | Isa 9:3 |
| You 1 have enlarged the nation; you give them great joy. 2 They rejoice in your presence as harvesters rejoice; as warriors celebrate 3 when they divide up the plunder. |
| (0.23) | Isa 16:12 |
| When the Moabites plead with all their might at their high places, 1 and enter their temples to pray, their prayers will be ineffective! 2 |
| (0.23) | Isa 28:28 |
| Grain is crushed, though one certainly does not thresh it forever. The wheel of one’s wagon rolls over it, but his horses do not crush it. |
| (0.23) | Isa 33:9 |
| The land 1 dries up 2 and withers away; the forest of Lebanon shrivels up 3 and decays. Sharon 4 is like the desert; 5 Bashan and Carmel 6 are parched. 7 |
| (0.23) | Isa 41:22 |
| “Let them produce evidence! Let them tell us what will happen! Tell us about your earlier predictive oracles, 1 so we may examine them 2 and see how they were fulfilled. 3 Or decree for us some future events! |
| (0.23) | Isa 42:6 |
| “I, the Lord, officially commission you; 1 I take hold of your hand. I protect you 2 and make you a covenant mediator for people, 3 and a light 4 to the nations, 5 |
| (0.23) | Isa 44:12 |
| A blacksmith works with his tool 1 and forges metal over the coals. He forms it 2 with hammers; he makes it with his strong arm. He gets hungry and loses his energy; 3 he drinks no water and gets tired. |
| (0.23) | Isa 44:20 |
| He feeds on ashes; 1 his deceived mind misleads him. He cannot rescue himself, nor does he say, ‘Is this not a false god I hold in my right hand?’ 2 |
| (0.23) | 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 |
| (0.23) | 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 |
| (0.23) | Isa 49:19 |
| Yes, your land lies in ruins; it is desolate and devastated. 1 But now you will be too small to hold your residents, and those who devoured you will be far away. |
| (0.23) | Isa 51:18 |
| There was no one to lead her among all the children she bore; there was no one to take her by the hand among all the children she raised. |
| (0.23) | Isa 54:16 |
| Look, I create the craftsman, who fans the coals into a fire and forges a weapon. 1 I create the destroyer so he might devastate. |
| (0.23) | Isa 56:5 |
| I will set up within my temple and my walls a monument 1 that will be better than sons and daughters. I will set up a permanent monument 2 for them that will remain. |
| (0.23) | Isa 57:16 |
| For I will not be hostile 1 forever or perpetually angry, for then man’s spirit would grow faint before me, 2 the life-giving breath I created. |
