Search results for: Isaiah 64:8

Isaiah 22:17 (NIVUK)

‘Beware, the Lord is about to take firm hold of you and hurl you away, you mighty man.

Isaiah 22:18 (NIVUK)

He will roll you up tightly like a ball and throw you into a large country. There you will die and there the chariots you were so proud of will become a disgrace to your master’s house.

Isaiah 22:19 (NIVUK)

I will depose you from your office, and you will be ousted from your position.

Isaiah 22:20 (NIVUK)

‘In that day I will summon my servant, Eliakim son of Hilkiah.

Isaiah 22:21 (NIVUK)

I will clothe him with your robe and fasten your sash around him and hand your authority over to him. He will be a father to those who live in Jerusalem and to the people of Judah.

Isaiah 22:22 (NIVUK)

I will place on his shoulder the key to the house of David; what he opens no-one can shut, and what he shuts no-one can open.

Isaiah 22:23 (NIVUK)

I will drive him like a peg into a firm place; he will become a seat of honour for the house of his father.

Isaiah 22:24 (NIVUK)

All the glory of his family will hang on him: its offspring and offshoots – all its lesser vessels, from the bowls to all the jars.

Isaiah 22:25 (NIVUK)

‘In that day,’ declares the Lord Almighty, ‘the peg driven into the firm place will give way; it will be sheared off and will fall, and the load hanging on it will be cut down.’ The Lord has spoken.

Isaiah 23:1 (NIVUK)

A prophecy against Tyre: Wail, you ships of Tarshish! For Tyre is destroyed and left without house or harbour. From the land of Cyprus word has come to them.

Isaiah 23:2 (NIVUK)

Be silent, you people of the island and you merchants of Sidon, whom the seafarers have enriched.

Isaiah 23:3 (NIVUK)

On the great waters came the grain of the Shihor; the harvest of the Nile was the revenue of Tyre, and she became the market-place of the nations.

Isaiah 23:4 (NIVUK)

Be ashamed, Sidon, and you fortress of the sea, for the sea has spoken: ‘I have neither been in labour nor given birth; I have neither reared sons nor brought up daughters.’

Isaiah 23:5 (NIVUK)

When word comes to Egypt, they will be in anguish at the report from Tyre.

Isaiah 23:6 (NIVUK)

Cross over to Tarshish; wail, you people of the island.

Isaiah 23:7 (NIVUK)

Is this your city of revelry, the old, old city, whose feet have taken her to settle in far-off lands?

Isaiah 23:9 (NIVUK)

The Lord Almighty planned it, to bring down her pride in all her splendour and to humble all who are renowned on the earth.

Isaiah 23:10 (NIVUK)

Till your land as they do along the Nile, Daughter Tarshish, for you no longer have a harbour.

Isaiah 23:11 (NIVUK)

The Lord has stretched out his hand over the sea and made its kingdoms tremble. He has given an order concerning Phoenicia that her fortresses be destroyed.

Isaiah 23:12 (NIVUK)

He said, ‘No more of your revelling, Virgin Daughter Sidon, now crushed! ‘Up, cross over to Cyprus; even there you will find no rest.’

Look at the land of the Babylonians, this people that is now of no account! The Assyrians have made it a place for desert creatures; they raised up their siege towers, they stripped its fortresses bare and turned it into a ruin.

Isaiah 23:14 (NIVUK)

Wail, you ships of Tarshish; your fortress is destroyed!

Isaiah 23:15 (NIVUK)

At that time Tyre will be forgotten for seventy years, the span of a king’s life. But at the end of these seventy years, it will happen to Tyre as in the song of the prostitute:

Isaiah 23:16 (NIVUK)

‘Take up a harp, walk through the city, you forgotten prostitute; play the harp well, sing many a song, so that you will be remembered.’

Isaiah 23:17 (NIVUK)

At the end of seventy years, the Lord will deal with Tyre. She will return to her lucrative prostitution and will ply her trade with all the kingdoms on the face of the earth.