Search results for: Isaiah 64:8
Isaiah 38:21 (NIVUK)
Isaiah had said, ‘Prepare a poultice of figs and apply it to the boil, and he will recover.’
Isaiah 38:22 (NIVUK)
Hezekiah had asked, ‘What will be the sign that I will go up to the temple of the Lord ?’
Isaiah 39:1 (NIVUK)
At that time Marduk-Baladan son of Baladan king of Babylon sent Hezekiah letters and a gift, because he had heard of his illness and recovery.
Isaiah 39:2 (NIVUK)
Hezekiah received the envoys gladly and showed them what was in his storehouses – the silver, the gold, the spices, the fine olive oil – his entire armoury and everything found among his treasures. There was nothing in his palace or in all his kingdom that Hezekiah did not show them.
Isaiah 39:3 (NIVUK)
Then Isaiah the prophet went to King Hezekiah and asked, ‘What did those men say, and where did they come from?’ ‘From a distant land,’ Hezekiah replied. ‘They came to me from Babylon.’
Isaiah 39:4 (NIVUK)
The prophet asked, ‘What did they see in your palace?’ ‘They saw everything in my palace,’ Hezekiah said. ‘There is nothing among my treasures that I did not show them.’
Isaiah 39:5 (NIVUK)
Then Isaiah said to Hezekiah, ‘Hear the word of the Lord Almighty:
Isaiah 39:6 (NIVUK)
the time will surely come when everything in your palace, and all that your predecessors have stored up until this day, will be carried off to Babylon. Nothing will be left, says the Lord .
Isaiah 39:7 (NIVUK)
And some of your descendants, your own flesh and blood who will be born to you, will be taken away, and they will become eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.’
Isaiah 40:1 (NIVUK)
Comfort, comfort my people, says your God.
Isaiah 40:2 (NIVUK)
Speak tenderly to Jerusalem, and proclaim to her that her hard service has been completed, that her sin has been paid for, that she has received from the Lord ’s hand double for all her sins.
Isaiah 40:3 (NIVUK)
A voice of one calling: ‘In the wilderness prepare the way for the Lord ; make straight in the desert a highway for our God.
Isaiah 40:4 (NIVUK)
Every valley shall be raised up, every mountain and hill made low; the rough ground shall become level, the rugged places a plain.
Isaiah 40:5 (NIVUK)
And the glory of the Lord will be revealed, and all people will see it together. For the mouth of the Lord has spoken.’
Isaiah 40:6 (NIVUK)
A voice says, ‘Cry out.’ And I said, ‘What shall I cry?’ ‘All people are like grass, and all their faithfulness is like the flowers of the field.
Isaiah 40:7 (NIVUK)
The grass withers and the flowers fall, because the breath of the Lord blows on them. Surely the people are grass.
Isaiah 40:9 (NIVUK)
You who bring good news to Zion, go up on a high mountain. You who bring good news to Jerusalem, lift up your voice with a shout, lift it up, do not be afraid; say to the towns of Judah, ‘Here is your God!’
Isaiah 40:10 (NIVUK)
See, the Sovereign Lord comes with power, and he rules with a mighty arm. See, his reward is with him, and his recompense accompanies him.
Isaiah 40:11 (NIVUK)
He tends his flock like a shepherd: he gathers the lambs in his arms and carries them close to his heart; he gently leads those that have young.
Isaiah 40:12 (NIVUK)
Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, or with the breadth of his hand marked off the heavens? Who has held the dust of the earth in a basket, or weighed the mountains on the scales and the hills in a balance?
Isaiah 40:13 (NIVUK)
Who can fathom the Spirit of the Lord , or instruct the Lord as his counsellor?
Isaiah 40:14 (NIVUK)
Whom did the Lord consult to enlighten him, and who taught him the right way? Who was it that taught him knowledge, or showed him the path of understanding?
Isaiah 40:15 (NIVUK)
Surely the nations are like a drop in a bucket; they are regarded as dust on the scales; he weighs the islands as though they were fine dust.
Isaiah 40:16 (NIVUK)
Lebanon is not sufficient for altar fires, nor its animals enough for burnt offerings.
Isaiah 40:17 (NIVUK)
Before him all the nations are as nothing; they are regarded by him as worthless and less than nothing.