(0.31) | 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 |
(0.31) | 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 |
(0.31) | Isa 57:19 | I am the one who gives them reason to celebrate. 1 Complete prosperity 2 is available both to those who are far away and those who are nearby,” says the Lord, “and I will heal them. |
(0.31) | Isa 58:6 | No, this is the kind of fast I want. 1 I want you 2 to remove the sinful chains, to tear away the ropes of the burdensome yoke, to set free the oppressed, 3 and to break every burdensome yoke. |
(0.31) | Isa 59:4 | No one is concerned about justice; 1 no one sets forth his case truthfully. They depend on false words 2 and tell lies; they conceive of oppression 3 and give birth to sin. |
(0.31) | Isa 59:9 | For this reason deliverance 1 is far from us 2 and salvation does not reach us. We wait for light, 3 but see only darkness; 4 we wait for 5 a bright light, 6 but live 7 in deep darkness. 8 |
(0.31) | Isa 59:17 | He wears his desire for justice 1 like body armor, 2 and his desire to deliver is like a helmet on his head. 3 He puts on the garments of vengeance 4 and wears zeal like a robe. |
(0.31) | Isa 61:1 | The spirit of the sovereign Lord is upon me, because the Lord has chosen 1 me. 2 He has commissioned 3 me to encourage 4 the poor, to help 5 the brokenhearted, to decree the release of captives, and the freeing of prisoners, |
(0.31) | 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 |
(0.31) | Isa 64:6 | We are all like one who is unclean, all our so-called righteous acts are like a menstrual rag in your sight. 1 We all wither like a leaf; our sins carry us away like the wind. |
(0.31) | Isa 65:13 | So this is what the sovereign Lord says: “Look, my servants will eat, but you will be hungry! Look, my servants will drink, but you will be thirsty! Look, my servants will rejoice, but you will be humiliated! |
(0.31) | Isa 66:2 | My hand made them; 1 that is how they came to be,” 2 says the Lord. I show special favor 3 to the humble and contrite, who respect what I have to say. 4 |
(0.31) | Jer 1:1 | The following is a record of what Jeremiah son of Hilkiah prophesied. 1 He was one of the priests who lived at Anathoth in the territory of the tribe of Benjamin. |
(0.31) | Jer 2:5 | This is what the Lord says: “What fault could your ancestors 1 have possibly found in me that they strayed so far from me? 2 They paid allegiance to 3 worthless idols, and so became worthless to me. 4 |
(0.31) | Jer 2:22 | You can try to wash away your guilt with a strong detergent. You can use as much soap as you want. But the stain of your guilt is still there for me to see,” 1 says the Lord God. 2 |
(0.31) | Jer 2:25 | Do not chase after other gods until your shoes wear out and your throats become dry. 1 But you say, ‘It is useless for you to try and stop me because I love those foreign gods 2 and want to pursue them!’ |
(0.31) | Jer 2:26 | Just as a thief has to suffer dishonor when he is caught, so the people of Israel 1 will suffer dishonor for what they have done. 2 So will their kings and officials, their priests and their prophets. |
(0.31) | Jer 2:28 | But where are the gods you made for yourselves? Let them save you when you are in trouble. The sad fact is that 1 you have as many gods as you have towns, Judah. |
(0.31) | Jer 3:3 | That is why the rains have been withheld, and the spring rains have not come. Yet in spite of this you are obstinate as a prostitute. 1 You refuse to be ashamed of what you have done. |
(0.31) | Jer 3:5 | You will not always be angry with me, will you? You will not be mad at me forever, will you?’ 1 That is what you say, but you continually do all the evil that you can.” 2 |