Discovery Box| (0.29) | Isa 34:16 |
| Carefully read the scroll of the Lord! 1 Not one of these creatures will be missing, 2 none will lack a mate. 3 For the Lord has issued the decree, 4 and his own spirit gathers them. 5 |
| (0.29) | Isa 36:6 |
| Look, you must be trusting in Egypt, that splintered reed staff. If someone leans on it for support, it punctures his hand and wounds him. That is what Pharaoh king of Egypt does to all who trust in him! |
| (0.29) | Isa 36:10 |
| Furthermore it was by the command of the Lord that I marched up against this land to destroy it. The Lord told me, ‘March up against this land and destroy it!’”’” 1 |
| (0.29) | Isa 36:11 |
| Eliakim, Shebna, and Joah said to the chief adviser, “Speak to your servants in Aramaic, 1 for we understand it. Don’t speak with us in the Judahite dialect 2 in the hearing of the people who are on the wall.” |
| (0.29) | Isa 37:3 |
| “This is what Hezekiah says: 1 ‘This is a day of distress, insults, 2 and humiliation, 3 as when a baby is ready to leave the birth canal, but the mother lacks the strength to push it through. 4 |
| (0.29) | Isa 37:7 |
| Look, I will take control of his mind; 1 he will receive a report and return to his own land. I will cut him down 2 with a sword in his own land.”’” |
| (0.29) | Isa 37:16 |
| “O Lord who commands armies, O God of Israel, who is enthroned on the cherubim! 1 You alone are God over all the kingdoms of the earth. You made the sky 2 and the earth. |
| (0.29) | Isa 37:19 |
| They have burned the gods of the nations, 1 for they are not really gods, but only the product of human hands manufactured from wood and stone. That is why the Assyrians could destroy them. 2 |
| (0.29) | Isa 37:26 |
| 1 Certainly you must have heard! 2 Long ago I worked it out, in ancient times I planned 3 it, and now I am bringing it to pass. The plan is this: Fortified cities will crash into heaps of ruins. 4 |
| (0.29) | 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 |
| (0.29) | Isa 37:38 |
| One day, 1 as he was worshiping 2 in the temple of his god Nisroch, 3 his sons Adrammelech and Sharezer struck him down with the sword. 4 They ran away to the land of Ararat; his son Esarhaddon replaced him as king. |
| (0.29) | Isa 38:5 |
| “Go and tell Hezekiah: ‘This is what the Lord God of your ancestor 1 David says: “I have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears. Look, I will add fifteen years to your life, |
| (0.29) | Isa 39:3 |
| Isaiah the prophet visited King Hezekiah and asked him, “What did these men say? Where do they come from?” Hezekiah replied, “They come from the distant land of Babylon.” |
| (0.29) | Isa 39:6 |
| ‘Look, a time is coming when everything in your palace and the things your ancestors 1 have accumulated to this day will be carried away to Babylon; nothing will be left,’ says the Lord. |
| (0.29) | Isa 40:2 |
| “Speak kindly to 1 Jerusalem, 2 and tell her that her time of warfare is over, 3 that her punishment is completed. 4 For the Lord has made her pay double 5 for all her sins.” |
| (0.29) | Isa 40:6 |
| A voice says, “Cry out!” Another asks, 1 “What should I cry out?” The first voice responds: 2 “All people are like grass, 3 and all their promises 4 are like the flowers in the field. |
| (0.29) | Isa 40:22 |
| He is the one who sits on the earth’s horizon; 1 its inhabitants are like grasshoppers before him. 2 He is the one who stretches out the sky like a thin curtain, 3 and spreads it out 4 like a pitched tent. 5 |
| (0.29) | Isa 40:26 |
| Look up at the sky! 1 Who created all these heavenly lights? 2 He is the one who leads out their ranks; 3 he calls them all by name. Because of his absolute power and awesome strength, not one of them is missing. |
| (0.29) | Isa 41:2 |
| Who stirs up this one from the east? 1 Who 2 officially commissions him for service? 3 He hands nations over to him, 4 and enables him to subdue 5 kings. He makes them like dust with his sword, like windblown straw with his bow. 6 |
| (0.29) | 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.” |
