Discovery Box| (0.25) | Psa 57:1 |
| For the music director; according to the al-tashcheth style; 2 a prayer 3 of David, written when he fled from Saul into the cave. 4 Have mercy on me, O God! Have mercy on me! For in you I have taken shelter. 5 In the shadow of your wings 6 I take shelter until trouble passes. |
| (0.25) | Ecc 2:11 |
| Yet when I reflected on everything I had accomplished 1 and on all the effort that I had expended to accomplish it, 2 I concluded: 3 “All these 4 achievements and possessions 5 are ultimately 6 profitless 7 – like chasing the wind! There is nothing gained 8 from them 9 on earth.” |
| (0.25) | Sos 8:5 |
| The Maidens about His Beloved: Who is this coming up from the desert, leaning on her beloved? The Beloved to Her Lover: Under the apple tree I aroused you; 1 there your mother conceived you, there she who bore you was in labor of childbirth. 2 |
| (0.25) | Isa 1:4 |
| 1 The sinful nation is as good as dead, 2 the people weighed down by evil deeds. They are offspring who do wrong, children 3 who do wicked things. They have abandoned the Lord, and rejected the Holy One of Israel. 4 They are alienated from him. 5 |
| (0.25) | Isa 2:3 |
| many peoples will come and say, “Come, let us go up to the Lord’s mountain, to the temple of the God of Jacob, so 1 he can teach us his requirements, 2 and 3 we can follow his standards.” 4 For Zion will be the center for moral instruction; 5 the Lord will issue edicts from Jerusalem. 6 |
| (0.25) | Isa 9:7 |
| His dominion will be vast 1 and he will bring immeasurable prosperity. 2 He will rule on David’s throne and over David’s kingdom, 3 establishing it 4 and strengthening it by promoting justice and fairness, 5 from this time forward and forevermore. The Lord’s intense devotion to his people 6 will accomplish this. |
| (0.25) | Isa 14:9 |
| Sheol 1 below is stirred up about you, ready to meet you when you arrive. It rouses 2 the spirits of the dead for you, all the former leaders of the earth; 3 it makes all the former kings of the nations rise from their thrones. 4 |
| (0.25) | Isa 24:18 |
| The one who runs away from the sound of the terror will fall into the pit; 1 the one who climbs out of the pit, will be trapped by the snare. For the floodgates of the heavens 2 are opened up 3 and the foundations of the earth shake. |
| (0.25) | Isa 29:8 |
| It will be like a hungry man dreaming that he is eating, only to awaken and find that his stomach is empty. 1 It will be like a thirsty man dreaming that he is drinking, only to awaken and find that he is still weak and his thirst unquenched. 2 So it will be for the horde from all the nations that fight against Mount Zion. |
| (0.25) | Isa 31:1 |
| Those who go down to Egypt for help are as good as dead, 1 those who rely on war horses, and trust in Egypt’s many chariots 2 and in their many, many horsemen. 3 But they do not rely on the Holy One of Israel 4 and do not seek help from the Lord. |
| (0.25) | Isa 36:2 |
| The king of Assyria sent his chief adviser 1 from Lachish to King Hezekiah in Jerusalem, 2 along with a large army. The chief adviser 3 stood at the conduit of the upper pool which is located on the road to the field where they wash and dry cloth. 4 |
| (0.25) | Isa 41:26 |
| Who decreed this from the beginning, so we could know? Who announced it 1 ahead of time, so we could say, ‘He’s correct’? Indeed, none of them decreed it! Indeed, none of them announced it! Indeed, no one heard you say anything! |
| (0.25) | 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 |
| (0.25) | Isa 49:5 |
| So now the Lord says, the one who formed me from birth 1 to be his servant – he did this 2 to restore Jacob to himself, so that Israel might be gathered to him; and I will be honored 3 in the Lord’s sight, for my God is my source of strength 4 – |
| (0.25) | Isa 50:2 |
| Why does no one challenge me when I come? Why does no one respond when I call? 1 Is my hand too weak 2 to deliver 3 you? Do I lack the power to rescue you? Look, with a mere shout 4 I can dry up the sea; I can turn streams into a desert, so the fish rot away and die from lack of water. 5 |
| (0.25) | Isa 50:11 |
| Look, all of you who start a fire and who equip yourselves with 1 flaming arrows, 2 walk 3 in the light 4 of the fire you started and among the flaming arrows you ignited! 5 This is what you will receive from me: 6 you will lie down in a place of pain. 7 |
| (0.25) | Isa 60:9 |
| Indeed, the coastlands 1 look eagerly for me, the large ships 2 are in the lead, bringing your sons from far away, along with their silver and gold, to honor the Lord your God, 3 the Holy One of Israel, 4 for he has bestowed honor on you. |
| (0.25) | Isa 63:3 |
| “I have stomped grapes in the winepress all by myself; no one from the nations joined me. I stomped on them 1 in my anger; I trampled them down in my rage. Their juice splashed on my garments, and stained 2 all my clothes. |
| (0.25) | Isa 66:12 |
| For this is what the Lord says: “Look, I am ready to extend to her prosperity that will flow like a river, the riches of nations will flow into her like a stream that floods its banks. 1 You will nurse from her breast 2 and be carried at her side; you will play on her knees. |
| (0.25) | Isa 66:20 |
| They will bring back all your countrymen 1 from all the nations as an offering to the Lord. They will bring them 2 on horses, in chariots, in wagons, on mules, and on camels 3 to my holy hill Jerusalem,” says the Lord, “just as the Israelites bring offerings to the Lord’s temple in ritually pure containers. |
