Discovery Box| (0.12) | Isa 18:5 |
| For before the harvest, when the bud has sprouted, and the ripening fruit appears, 1 he will cut off the unproductive shoots 2 with pruning knives; he will prune the tendrils. 3 |
| (0.12) | Isa 19:11 |
| The officials of Zoan are nothing but fools; 1 Pharaoh’s wise advisers give stupid advice. How dare you say to Pharaoh, “I am one of the sages, one well-versed in the writings of the ancient kings?” 2 |
| (0.12) | Isa 22:16 |
| ‘What right do you have to be here? What relatives do you have buried here? 1 Why 2 do you chisel out a tomb for yourself here? He chisels out his burial site in an elevated place, he carves out his tomb on a cliff. |
| (0.12) | Isa 27:1 |
| At that time 1 the Lord will punish with his destructive, 2 great, and powerful sword Leviathan the fast-moving 3 serpent, Leviathan the squirming serpent; he will kill the sea monster. 4 |
| (0.12) | Isa 27:11 |
| When its branches get brittle, 1 they break; women come and use them for kindling. 2 For these people lack understanding, 3 therefore the one who made them has no compassion on them; the one who formed them has no mercy on them. |
| (0.12) | 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 |
| (0.12) | Isa 35:2 |
| Let it richly bloom; 1 let it rejoice and shout with delight! 2 It is given the grandeur 3 of Lebanon, the splendor of Carmel and Sharon. They will see the grandeur of the Lord, the splendor of our God. |
| (0.12) | Isa 42:25 |
| So he poured out his fierce anger on them, along with the devastation 1 of war. Its flames encircled them, but they did not realize it; 2 it burned against them, but they did notice. 3 |
| (0.12) | Isa 44:8 |
| Don’t panic! Don’t be afraid! 1 Did I not tell you beforehand and decree it? You are my witnesses! Is there any God but me? There is no other sheltering rock; 2 I know of none. |
| (0.12) | Isa 45:8 |
| O sky, rain down from above! Let the clouds send down showers 1 of deliverance! Let the earth absorb it 2 so salvation may grow, 3 and deliverance may sprout up 4 along with it. I, the Lord, create it. 5 |
| (0.12) | Isa 45:9 |
| One who argues with his creator is in grave danger, 1 one who is like a mere 2 shard among the other shards on the ground! The clay should not say to the potter, 3 “What in the world 4 are you doing? Your work lacks skill!” 5 |
| (0.12) | 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 |
| (0.12) | Isa 48:16 |
| Approach me! Listen to this! From the very first I have not spoken in secret; when it happens, 1 I am there.” So now, the sovereign Lord has sent me, accompanied by his spirit. 2 |
| (0.12) | Isa 55:3 |
| Pay attention and come to me! Listen, so you can live! 1 Then I will make an unconditional covenantal promise to 2 you, just like the reliable covenantal promises I made to David. 3 |
| (0.12) | 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.’” |
| (0.12) | Isa 61:11 |
| For just as the ground produces its crops and a garden yields its produce, so the sovereign Lord will cause deliverance 1 to grow, and give his people reason to praise him in the sight of all the nations. 2 |
| (0.12) | Isa 62:4 |
| You will no longer be called, “Abandoned,” and your land will no longer be called “Desolate.” Indeed, 1 you will be called “My Delight is in Her,” 2 and your land “Married.” 3 For the Lord will take delight in you, and your land will be married to him. 4 |
| (0.12) | Isa 64:5 |
| You assist 1 those who delight in doing what is right, 2 who observe your commandments. 3 Look, you were angry because we violated them continually. How then can we be saved? 4 |
| (0.12) | Isa 66:8 |
| Who has ever heard of such a thing? Who has ever seen this? Can a country 1 be brought forth in one day? Can a nation be born in a single moment? Yet as soon as Zion goes into labor she gives birth to sons! |
| (0.12) | Isa 66:17 |
| “As for those who consecrate and ritually purify themselves so they can follow their leader and worship in the sacred orchards, 1 those who eat the flesh of pigs and other disgusting creatures, like mice 2 – they will all be destroyed together,” 3 says the Lord. |
