Discovery Box| (1.00) | Isa 53:1 |
| Who would have believed 1 what we 2 just heard? 3 When 4 was the Lord’s power 5 revealed through him? |
| (1.00) | Isa 53:3 |
| He was despised and rejected by people, 1 one who experienced pain and was acquainted with illness; people hid their faces from him; 2 he was despised, and we considered him insignificant. 3 |
| (1.00) | Isa 53:7 |
| He was treated harshly and afflicted, 1 but he did not even open his mouth. Like a lamb led to the slaughtering block, like a sheep silent before her shearers, he did not even open his mouth. 2 |
| (1.00) | Isa 53:9 |
| They intended to bury him with criminals, 1 but he ended up in a rich man’s tomb, 2 because 3 he had committed no violent deeds, nor had he spoken deceitfully. |
| (1.00) | Isa 53:11 |
| Having suffered, he will reflect on his work, he will be satisfied when he understands what he has done. 1 “My servant 2 will acquit many, 3 for he carried their sins. 4 |
| (1.00) | Isa 54:9 |
| “As far as I am concerned, this is like in Noah’s time, 1 when I vowed that the waters of Noah’s flood 2 would never again cover the earth. In the same way I have vowed that I will not be angry at you or shout at you. |
| (1.00) | 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. |
| (1.00) | Isa 54:17 |
| No weapon forged to be used against you will succeed; you will refute everyone who tries to accuse you. 1 This is what the Lord will do for his servants – I will vindicate them,” 2 says the Lord. |
| (1.00) | Isa 55:2 |
| Why pay money for something that will not nourish you? 1 Why spend 2 your hard-earned money 3 on something that will not satisfy? Listen carefully 4 to me and eat what is nourishing! 5 Enjoy fine food! 6 |
| (1.00) | 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 |
| (1.00) | Isa 55:8 |
| “Indeed, 1 my plans 2 are not like 3 your plans, and my deeds 4 are not like 5 your deeds, |
| (1.00) | Isa 55:9 |
| for just as the sky 1 is higher than the earth, so my deeds 2 are superior to 3 your deeds and my plans 4 superior to your plans. |
| (1.00) | Isa 55:10 |
| 1 The rain and snow fall from the sky and do not return, but instead water the earth and make it produce and yield crops, and provide seed for the planter and food for those who must eat. |
| (1.00) | Isa 55:11 |
| In the same way, the promise that I make does not return to me, having accomplished nothing. 1 No, it is realized as I desire and is fulfilled as I intend.” 2 |
| (1.00) | Isa 55:12 |
| Indeed you will go out with joy; you will be led along in peace; the mountains and hills will give a joyful shout before you, and all the trees in the field will clap their hands. |
| (1.00) | Isa 56:2 |
| The people who do this will be blessed, 1 the people who commit themselves to obedience, 2 who observe the Sabbath and do not defile it, who refrain from doing anything that is wrong. 3 |
| (1.00) | 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 – |
| (1.00) | Isa 56:7 |
| I will bring them to my holy mountain; I will make them happy in the temple where people pray to me. 1 Their burnt offerings and sacrifices will be accepted on my altar, for my temple will be known as a temple where all nations may pray.” 2 |
| (1.00) | Isa 57:5 |
| you who practice ritual sex 1 under the oaks and every green tree, who slaughter children near the streams under the rocky overhangs. 2 |
| (1.00) | Isa 57:6 |
| Among the smooth stones of the stream are the idols you love; they, they are the object of your devotion. 1 You pour out liquid offerings to them, you make an offering. Because of these things I will seek vengeance. 2 |
