Search results for: Isaiah 64:8
Isaiah 40:18 (NIVUK)
With whom, then, will you compare God? To what image will you liken him?
Isaiah 40:19 (NIVUK)
As for an idol, a metalworker casts it, and a goldsmith overlays it with gold and fashions silver chains for it.
Isaiah 40:20 (NIVUK)
A person too poor to present such an offering selects wood that will not rot; they look for a skilled worker to set up an idol that will not topple.
Isaiah 40:21 (NIVUK)
Do you not know? Have you not heard? Has it not been told you from the beginning? Have you not understood since the earth was founded?
Isaiah 40:22 (NIVUK)
He sits enthroned above the circle of the earth, and its people are like grasshoppers. He stretches out the heavens like a canopy, and spreads them out like a tent to live in.
Isaiah 40:23 (NIVUK)
He brings princes to naught and reduces the rulers of this world to nothing.
Isaiah 40:24 (NIVUK)
No sooner are they planted, no sooner are they sown, no sooner do they take root in the ground, than he blows on them and they wither, and a whirlwind sweeps them away like chaff.
Isaiah 40:25 (NIVUK)
‘To whom will you compare me? Or who is my equal?’ says the Holy One.
Isaiah 40:26 (NIVUK)
Lift up your eyes and look to the heavens: who created all these? He who brings out the starry host one by one and calls forth each of them by name. Because of his great power and mighty strength, not one of them is missing.
Isaiah 40:27 (NIVUK)
Why do you complain, Jacob? Why do you say, Israel, ‘My way is hidden from the Lord ; my cause is disregarded by my God’?
Isaiah 40:28 (NIVUK)
Do you not know? Have you not heard? The Lord is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He will not grow tired or weary, and his understanding no-one can fathom.
Isaiah 40:29 (NIVUK)
He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak.
Isaiah 40:30 (NIVUK)
Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall;
Isaiah 41:1 (NIVUK)
‘Be silent before me, you islands! Let the nations renew their strength! Let them come forward and speak; let us meet together at the place of judgment.
Isaiah 41:2 (NIVUK)
‘Who has stirred up one from the east, calling him in righteousness to his service ? He hands nations over to him and subdues kings before him. He turns them to dust with his sword, to wind-blown chaff with his bow.
Isaiah 41:3 (NIVUK)
He pursues them and moves on unscathed, by a path his feet have not travelled before.
Isaiah 41:4 (NIVUK)
Who has done this and carried it through, calling forth the generations from the beginning? I, the Lord – with the first of them and with the last – I am he.’
Isaiah 41:5 (NIVUK)
The islands have seen it and fear; the ends of the earth tremble. They approach and come forward;
Isaiah 41:6 (NIVUK)
they help each other and say to their companions, ‘Be strong!’
Isaiah 41:7 (NIVUK)
The metalworker encourages the goldsmith, and the one who smooths with the hammer spurs on the one who strikes the anvil. One says of the welding, ‘It is good.’ The other nails down the idol so that it will not topple.
Isaiah 41:9 (NIVUK)
I took you from the ends of the earth, from its farthest corners I called you. I said, “You are my servant”; I have chosen you and have not rejected you.
Isaiah 41:11 (NIVUK)
‘All who rage against you will surely be ashamed and disgraced; those who oppose you will be as nothing and perish.
Isaiah 41:12 (NIVUK)
Though you search for your enemies, you will not find them. Those who wage war against you will be as nothing at all.
Isaiah 41:13 (NIVUK)
For I am the Lord your God who takes hold of your right hand and says to you, Do not fear; I will help you.
Isaiah 41:14 (NIVUK)
Do not be afraid, you worm Jacob, little Israel, do not fear, for I myself will help you,’ declares the Lord , your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel.