Discovery Box| (0.10) | Isa 37:36 |
| The Lord’s messenger 1 went out and killed 185,000 troops 2 in the Assyrian camp. When they 3 got up early the next morning, there were all the corpses! 4 |
| (0.10) | Isa 38:1 |
| In those days Hezekiah was stricken with a terminal illness. 1 The prophet Isaiah son of Amoz visited him and told him, “This is what the Lord says, ‘Give instructions to your household, for you are about to die; you will not get well.’” |
| (0.10) | Isa 38:3 |
| “Please, Lord. Remember how I have served you 1 faithfully and with wholehearted devotion, 2 and how I have carried out your will.” 3 Then Hezekiah wept bitterly. 4 |
| (0.10) | Isa 40:24 |
| Indeed, they are barely planted; yes, they are barely sown; yes, they barely take root in the earth, and then he blows on them, causing them to dry up, and the wind carries them away like straw. |
| (0.10) | Isa 41:7 |
| The craftsman encourages the metalsmith, the one who wields the hammer encourages 1 the one who pounds on the anvil. He approves the quality of the welding, 2 and nails it down so it won’t fall over.” |
| (0.10) | Isa 41:22 |
| “Let them produce evidence! Let them tell us what will happen! Tell us about your earlier predictive oracles, 1 so we may examine them 2 and see how they were fulfilled. 3 Or decree for us some future events! |
| (0.10) | Isa 41:25 |
| I have stirred up one out of the north 1 and he advances, one from the eastern horizon who prays in my name. 2 He steps on 3 rulers as if they were clay, like a potter treading the clay. |
| (0.10) | Isa 42:1 |
| 1 “Here is my servant whom I support, my chosen one in whom I take pleasure. I have placed my spirit on him; he will make just decrees 2 for the nations. 3 |
| (0.10) | Isa 42:13 |
| The Lord emerges like a hero, like a warrior he inspires himself for battle; 1 he shouts, yes, he yells, he shows his enemies his power. 2 |
| (0.10) | Isa 43:14 |
| This is what the Lord says, your protector, 1 the Holy One of Israel: 2 “For your sake I send to Babylon and make them all fugitives, 3 turning the Babylonians’ joyful shouts into mourning songs. 4 |
| (0.10) | Isa 44:12 |
| A blacksmith works with his tool 1 and forges metal over the coals. He forms it 2 with hammers; he makes it with his strong arm. He gets hungry and loses his energy; 3 he drinks no water and gets tired. |
| (0.10) | Isa 44:13 |
| A carpenter takes measurements; 1 he marks out an outline of its form; 2 he scrapes 3 it with chisels, and marks it with a compass. He patterns it after the human form, 4 like a well-built human being, and puts it in a shrine. 5 |
| (0.10) | Isa 45:1 |
| This is what the Lord says to his chosen 1 one, to Cyrus, whose right hand I hold 2 in order to subdue nations before him, and disarm kings, 3 to open doors before him, so gates remain unclosed: |
| (0.10) | Isa 45:11 |
| This is what the Lord says, the Holy One of Israel, 1 the one who formed him, concerning things to come: 2 “How dare you question me 3 about my children! How dare you tell me what to do with 4 the work of my own hands! |
| (0.10) | Isa 45:13 |
| It is me – I stir him up and commission him; 1 I will make all his ways level. He will rebuild my city; he will send my exiled people home, but not for a price or a bribe,” says the Lord who commands armies. |
| (0.10) | Isa 45:19 |
| I have not spoken in secret, in some hidden place. 1 I did not tell Jacob’s descendants, ‘Seek me in vain!’ 2 I am the Lord, the one who speaks honestly, who makes reliable announcements. 3 |
| (0.10) | Isa 46:4 |
| Even when you are old, I will take care of you, 1 even when you have gray hair, I will carry you. I made you and I will support you; I will carry you and rescue you. 2 |
| (0.10) | Isa 46:7 |
| They put it on their shoulder and carry it; they put it in its place and it just stands there; it does not 1 move from its place. Even when someone cries out to it, it does not reply; it does not deliver him from his distress. |
| (0.10) | Isa 48:20 |
| Leave Babylon! Flee from the Babylonians! Announce it with a shout of joy! Make this known! Proclaim it throughout the earth! 1 Say, ‘The Lord protects 2 his servant Jacob. |
| (0.10) | Isa 49:1 |
| Listen to me, you coastlands! 1 Pay attention, you people who live far away! The Lord summoned me from birth; 2 he commissioned me when my mother brought me into the world. 3 |
