Discovery Box| (0.15) | 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. |
| (0.15) | 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. |
| (0.15) | 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 |
| (0.15) | 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. |
| (0.15) | 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 |
| (0.15) | Isa 47:13 |
| You are tired out from listening to so much advice. 1 Let them take their stand – the ones who see omens in the sky, who gaze at the stars, who make monthly predictions – let them rescue you from the disaster that is about to overtake you! 2 |
| (0.15) | 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 |
| (0.15) | 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 |
| (0.15) | 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. |
| (0.15) | 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 |
| (0.15) | 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 |
| (0.15) | 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 – |
| (0.15) | Isa 63:15 |
| Look down from heaven and take notice, from your holy, majestic palace! Where are your zeal 1 and power? Do not hold back your tender compassion! 2 |
| (0.15) | Isa 66:14 |
| When you see this, you will be happy, 1 and you will be revived. 2 The Lord will reveal his power to his servants and his anger to his enemies. 3 |
| (0.15) | Jer 1:18 |
| I, the Lord, 1 hereby promise to make you 2 as strong as a fortified city, an iron pillar, and a bronze wall. You will be able to stand up against all who live in 3 the land, including the kings of Judah, its officials, its priests and all the people of the land. |
| (0.15) | Jer 5:5 |
| I will go to the leaders 1 and speak with them. Surely they know what the Lord demands. 2 Surely they know what their God requires of them.” 3 Yet all of them, too, have rejected his authority and refuse to submit to him. 4 |
| (0.15) | Jer 7:18 |
| Children are gathering firewood, fathers are building fires with it, and women are mixing dough to bake cakes to offer to the goddess they call the Queen of Heaven. 1 They are also pouring out drink offerings to other gods. They seem to do all this just 2 to trouble me. |
| (0.15) | Jer 9:24 |
| If people want to boast, they should boast about this: They should boast that they understand and know me. They should boast that they know and understand that I, the Lord, act out of faithfulness, fairness, and justice in the earth and that I desire people to do these things,” 1 says the Lord. |
| (0.15) | Jer 10:5 |
| Such idols are like scarecrows in a cucumber field. They cannot talk. They must be carried because they cannot walk. Do not be afraid of them because they cannot hurt you. And they do not have any power to help you.” 1 |
| (0.15) | Jer 11:15 |
| The Lord says to the people of Judah, 1 “What right do you have to be in my temple, my beloved people? 2 Many of you have done wicked things. 3 Can your acts of treachery be so easily canceled by sacred offerings 4 that you take joy in doing evil even while you make them? 5 |
