Discovery Box| (1.00) | Isa 28:17 |
| I will make justice the measuring line, fairness the plumb line; hail will sweep away the unreliable refuge, 1 the floodwaters will overwhelm the hiding place. |
| (1.00) | Isa 28:18 |
| Your treaty with death will be dissolved; 1 your agreement 2 with Sheol will not last. 3 When the overwhelming judgment sweeps by, 4 you will be overrun by it. 5 |
| (1.00) | Isa 28:21 |
| For the Lord will rise up, as he did at Mount Perazim, 1 he will rouse himself, as he did in the Valley of Gibeon, 2 to accomplish his work, his peculiar work, to perform his task, his strange task. 3 |
| (1.00) | Isa 28:22 |
| So now, do not mock, or your chains will become heavier! For I have heard a message about decreed destruction, from the sovereign master, the Lord who commands armies, against the entire land. 1 |
| (1.00) | Isa 28:23 |
| Pay attention and listen to my message! 1 Be attentive and listen to what I have to say! 2 |
| (1.00) | Isa 28:29 |
| This also comes from the Lord who commands armies, who gives supernatural guidance and imparts great wisdom. 1 |
| (1.00) | Isa 29:3 |
| I will lay siege to you on all sides; 1 I will besiege you with troops; 2 I will raise siege works against you. |
| (1.00) | Isa 29:4 |
| You will fall; while lying on the ground 1 you will speak; from the dust where you lie, your words will be heard. 2 Your voice will sound like a spirit speaking from the underworld; 3 from the dust you will chirp as if muttering an incantation. 4 |
| (1.00) | Isa 29:11 |
| To you this entire prophetic revelation 1 is like words in a sealed scroll. When they hand it to one who can read 2 and say, “Read this,” he responds, “I can’t, because it is sealed.” |
| (1.00) | 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 |
| (1.00) | Isa 29:14 |
| Therefore I will again do an amazing thing for these people – an absolutely extraordinary deed. 1 Wise men will have nothing to say, the sages will have no explanations.” 2 |
| (1.00) | Isa 29:15 |
| Those who try to hide their plans from the Lord are as good as dead, 1 who do their work in secret and boast, 2 “Who sees us? Who knows what we’re doing?” 3 |
| (1.00) | Isa 29:16 |
| Your thinking is perverse! 1 Should the potter be regarded as clay? 2 Should the thing made say 3 about its maker, “He didn’t make me”? Or should the pottery say about the potter, “He doesn’t understand”? |
| (1.00) | 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 |
| (1.00) | Isa 29:21 |
| those who bear false testimony against a person, 1 who entrap the one who arbitrates at the city gate 2 and deprive the innocent of justice by making false charges. 3 |
| (1.00) | Isa 29:23 |
| For when they see their children, whom I will produce among them, 1 they will honor 2 my name. They will honor the Holy One of Jacob; 3 they will respect 4 the God of Israel. |
| (1.00) | Isa 30:6 |
| This is a message 1 about the animals in the Negev: Through a land of distress and danger, inhabited by lionesses and roaring lions, 2 by snakes and darting adders, 3 they transport 4 their wealth on the backs of donkeys, their riches on the humps of camels, to a nation that cannot help them. 5 |
| (1.00) | Isa 30:7 |
| Egypt is totally incapable of helping. 1 For this reason I call her ‘Proud one 2 who is silenced.’” 3 |
| (1.00) | Isa 30:8 |
| Now go, write it 1 down on a tablet in their presence, 2 inscribe it on a scroll, so that it might be preserved for a future time as an enduring witness. 3 |
| (1.00) | Isa 30:10 |
| They 1 say to the visionaries, “See no more visions!” and to the seers, “Don’t relate messages to us about what is right! 2 Tell us nice things, relate deceptive messages. 3 |
