Search results for: Isaiah 64:8

Isaiah 29:9 (NIVUK)

Be stunned and amazed, blind yourselves and be sightless; be drunk, but not from wine, stagger, but not from beer.

Isaiah 29:10 (NIVUK)

The Lord has brought over you a deep sleep: he has sealed your eyes (the prophets); he has covered your heads (the seers).

Isaiah 29:11 (NIVUK)

For you this whole vision is nothing but words sealed in a scroll. And if you give the scroll to someone who can read, and say, ‘Read this, please,’ they will answer, ‘I can’t; it is sealed.’

Isaiah 29:12 (NIVUK)

Or if you give the scroll to someone who cannot read, and say, ‘Read this, please,’ they will answer, ‘I don’t know how to read.’

The Lord says: ‘These people come near to me with their mouth and honour me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me. Their worship of me is based on merely human rules they have been taught.

Isaiah 29:14 (NIVUK)

Therefore once more I will astound these people with wonder upon wonder; the wisdom of the wise will perish, the intelligence of the intelligent will vanish.’

Isaiah 29:15 (NIVUK)

Woe to those who go to great depths to hide their plans from the Lord , who do their work in darkness and think, ‘Who sees us? Who will know?’

Isaiah 29:16 (NIVUK)

You turn things upside down, as if the potter were thought to be like the clay! Shall what is formed say to the one who formed it, ‘You did not make me’? Can the pot say to the potter, ‘You know nothing’?

Isaiah 29:17 (NIVUK)

In a very short time, will not Lebanon be turned into a fertile field and the fertile field seem like a forest?

Isaiah 29:18 (NIVUK)

In that day the deaf will hear the words of the scroll, and out of gloom and darkness the eyes of the blind will see.

Isaiah 29:19 (NIVUK)

Once more the humble will rejoice in the Lord ; the needy will rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.

Isaiah 29:20 (NIVUK)

The ruthless will vanish, the mockers will disappear, and all who have an eye for evil will be cut down –

Isaiah 29:21 (NIVUK)

those who with a word make someone out to be guilty, who ensnare the defender in court and with false testimony deprive the innocent of justice.

Isaiah 29:22 (NIVUK)

Therefore this is what the Lord , who redeemed Abraham, says to the descendants of Jacob: ‘No longer will Jacob be ashamed; no longer will their faces grow pale.

Isaiah 29:23 (NIVUK)

When they see among them their children, the work of my hands, they will keep my name holy; they will acknowledge the holiness of the Holy One of Jacob, and will stand in awe of the God of Israel.

Isaiah 29:24 (NIVUK)

Those who are wayward in spirit will gain understanding; those who complain will accept instruction.’

Isaiah 30:1 (NIVUK)

‘Woe to the obstinate children,’ declares the Lord , ‘to those who carry out plans that are not mine, forming an alliance, but not by my Spirit, heaping sin upon sin;

Isaiah 30:2 (NIVUK)

who go down to Egypt without consulting me; who look for help to Pharaoh’s protection, to Egypt’s shade for refuge.

Isaiah 30:3 (NIVUK)

But Pharaoh’s protection will be to your shame, Egypt’s shade will bring you disgrace.

Isaiah 30:4 (NIVUK)

Though they have officials in Zoan and their envoys have arrived in Hanes,

Isaiah 30:5 (NIVUK)

everyone will be put to shame because of a people useless to them, who bring neither help nor advantage, but only shame and disgrace.’

Isaiah 30:6 (NIVUK)

A prophecy concerning the animals of the Negev: Through a land of hardship and distress, of lions and lionesses, of adders and darting snakes, the envoys carry their riches on donkeys’ backs, their treasures on the humps of camels, to that unprofitable nation,