Search results for: Isaiah 64:8
Isaiah 31:3 (NIVUK)
But the Egyptians are mere mortals and not God; their horses are flesh and not spirit. When the Lord stretches out his hand, those who help will stumble, those who are helped will fall; all will perish together.
Isaiah 31:4 (NIVUK)
This is what the Lord says to me: ‘As a lion growls, a great lion over its prey – and though a whole band of shepherds is called together against it, it is not frightened by their shouts or disturbed by their clamour – so the Lord Almighty will come down to do battle on Mount Zion and on its heights.
Isaiah 31:5 (NIVUK)
Like birds hovering overhead, the Lord Almighty will shield Jerusalem; he will shield it and deliver it, he will “pass over” it and will rescue it.’
Isaiah 31:6 (NIVUK)
Return, you Israelites, to the One you have so greatly revolted against.
Isaiah 31:7 (NIVUK)
For in that day every one of you will reject the idols of silver and gold your sinful hands have made.
Isaiah 31:9 (NIVUK)
Their stronghold will fall because of terror; at the sight of the battle standard their commanders will panic,’ declares the Lord , whose fire is in Zion, whose furnace is in Jerusalem.
Isaiah 32:1 (NIVUK)
See, a king will reign in righteousness and rulers will rule with justice.
Isaiah 32:2 (NIVUK)
Each one will be like a shelter from the wind and a refuge from the storm, like streams of water in the desert and the shadow of a great rock in a thirsty land.
Isaiah 32:3 (NIVUK)
Then the eyes of those who see will no longer be closed, and the ears of those who hear will listen.
Isaiah 32:4 (NIVUK)
The fearful heart will know and understand, and the stammering tongue will be fluent and clear.
Isaiah 32:5 (NIVUK)
No longer will the fool be called noble nor the scoundrel be highly respected.
Isaiah 32:6 (NIVUK)
For fools speak folly, their hearts are bent on evil: they practise ungodliness and spread error concerning the Lord ; the hungry they leave empty and from the thirsty they withhold water.
Isaiah 32:7 (NIVUK)
Scoundrels use wicked methods, they make up evil schemes to destroy the poor with lies, even when the plea of the needy is just.
Isaiah 32:9 (NIVUK)
You women who are so complacent, rise up and listen to me; you daughters who feel secure, hear what I have to say!
Isaiah 32:10 (NIVUK)
In little more than a year you who feel secure will tremble; the grape harvest will fail, and the harvest of fruit will not come.
Isaiah 32:11 (NIVUK)
Tremble, you complacent women; shudder, you daughters who feel secure! Strip off your fine clothes and wrap yourselves in rags.
Isaiah 32:12 (NIVUK)
Beat your breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vines
Isaiah 32:13 (NIVUK)
and for the land of my people, a land overgrown with thorns and briers – yes, mourn for all houses of merriment and for this city of revelry.
Isaiah 32:14 (NIVUK)
The fortress will be abandoned, the noisy city deserted; citadel and watchtower will become a wasteland for ever, the delight of donkeys, a pasture for flocks,
Isaiah 32:15 (NIVUK)
till the Spirit is poured on us from on high, and the desert becomes a fertile field, and the fertile field seems like a forest.
Isaiah 32:16 (NIVUK)
The Lord ’s justice will dwell in the desert, his righteousness live in the fertile field.
Isaiah 32:17 (NIVUK)
The fruit of that righteousness will be peace; its effect will be quietness and confidence for ever.
Isaiah 32:18 (NIVUK)
My people will live in peaceful dwelling-places, in secure homes, in undisturbed places of rest.
Isaiah 32:19 (NIVUK)
Though hail flattens the forest and the city is levelled completely,
Isaiah 32:20 (NIVUK)
how blessed you will be, sowing your seed by every stream, and letting your cattle and donkeys range free.