Search results for: Isaiah 64:8

Isaiah 28:12 (NIVUK)

to whom he said, ‘This is the resting-place, let the weary rest’; and, ‘This is the place of repose’ – but they would not listen.

So then, the word of the Lord to them will become: do this, do that, a rule for this, a rule for that; a little here, a little there – so that as they go they will fall backwards; they will be injured and snared and captured.

Isaiah 28:14 (NIVUK)

Therefore hear the word of the Lord , you scoffers who rule this people in Jerusalem.

Isaiah 28:15 (NIVUK)

You boast, ‘We have entered into a covenant with death, with the realm of the dead we have made an agreement. When an overwhelming scourge sweeps by, it cannot touch us, for we have made a lie our refuge and falsehood our hiding-place.’

Isaiah 28:16 (NIVUK)

So this is what the Sovereign Lord says: ‘See, I lay a stone in Zion, a tested stone, a precious cornerstone for a sure foundation; the one who relies on it will never be stricken with panic.

Isaiah 28:17 (NIVUK)

I will make justice the measuring line and righteousness the plumb-line; hail will sweep away your refuge, the lie, and water will overflow your hiding-place.

Isaiah 28:18 (NIVUK)

Your covenant with death will be annulled; your agreement with the realm of the dead will not stand. When the overwhelming scourge sweeps by, you will be beaten down by it.

Isaiah 28:19 (NIVUK)

As often as it comes it will carry you away; morning after morning, by day and by night, it will sweep through.’ The understanding of this message will bring sheer terror.

Isaiah 28:20 (NIVUK)

The bed is too short to stretch out on, the blanket too narrow to wrap around you.

Isaiah 28:21 (NIVUK)

The Lord will rise up as he did at Mount Perazim, he will rouse himself as in the Valley of Gibeon – to do his work, his strange work, and perform his task, his alien task.

Isaiah 28:22 (NIVUK)

Now stop your mocking, or your chains will become heavier; the Lord, the Lord Almighty, has told me of the destruction decreed against the whole land.

Isaiah 28:23 (NIVUK)

Listen and hear my voice; pay attention and hear what I say.

Isaiah 28:24 (NIVUK)

When a farmer ploughs for planting, does he plough continually? Does he keep on breaking up and working the soil?

Isaiah 28:25 (NIVUK)

When he has levelled the surface, does he not sow caraway and scatter cummin? Does he not plant wheat in its place, barley in its plot, and spelt in its field?

Isaiah 28:26 (NIVUK)

His God instructs him and teaches him the right way.

Isaiah 28:27 (NIVUK)

Caraway is not threshed with a sledge, nor is the cartwheel rolled over cummin; caraway is beaten out with a rod, and cummin with a stick.

Isaiah 28:28 (NIVUK)

Grain must be ground to make bread; so one does not go on threshing it for ever. The wheels of a threshing-cart may be rolled over it, but one does not use horses to grind grain.

Isaiah 28:29 (NIVUK)

All this also comes from the Lord Almighty, whose plan is wonderful, whose wisdom is magnificent.

Isaiah 29:1 (NIVUK)

Woe to you, Ariel, Ariel, the city where David settled! Add year to year and let your cycle of festivals go on.

Isaiah 29:2 (NIVUK)

Yet I will besiege Ariel; she will mourn and lament, she will be to me like an altar hearth.

Isaiah 29:3 (NIVUK)

I will encamp against you on all sides; I will encircle you with towers and set up my siege works against you.

Isaiah 29:4 (NIVUK)

Brought low, you will speak from the ground; your speech will mumble out of the dust. Your voice will come ghostlike from the earth; out of the dust your speech will whisper.

Isaiah 29:5 (NIVUK)

But your many enemies will become like fine dust, the ruthless hordes like blown chaff. Suddenly, in an instant,

Isaiah 29:6 (NIVUK)

the Lord Almighty will come with thunder and earthquake and great noise, with whirlwind and tempest and flames of a devouring fire.

Isaiah 29:7 (NIVUK)

Then the hordes of all the nations that fight against Ariel, that attack her and her fortress and besiege her, will be as it is with a dream, with a vision in the night –