Search results for: Isaiah 64:8

Isaiah 41:15 (NIVUK)

‘See, I will make you into a threshing-sledge, new and sharp, with many teeth. You will thresh the mountains and crush them, and reduce the hills to chaff.

Isaiah 41:16 (NIVUK)

You will winnow them, the wind will pick them up, and a gale will blow them away. But you will rejoice in the Lord and glory in the Holy One of Israel.

Isaiah 41:17 (NIVUK)

‘The poor and needy search for water, but there is none; their tongues are parched with thirst. But I the Lord will answer them; I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them.

Isaiah 41:18 (NIVUK)

I will make rivers flow on barren heights, and springs within the valleys. I will turn the desert into pools of water, and the parched ground into springs.

Isaiah 41:19 (NIVUK)

I will put in the desert the cedar and the acacia, the myrtle and the olive. I will set junipers in the wasteland, the fir and the cypress together,

Isaiah 41:20 (NIVUK)

so that people may see and know, may consider and understand, that the hand of the Lord has done this, that the Holy One of Israel has created it.

Isaiah 41:21 (NIVUK)

‘Present your case,’ says the Lord . ‘Set forth your arguments,’ says Jacob’s King.

Isaiah 41:22 (NIVUK)

‘Tell us, you idols, what is going to happen. Tell us what the former things were, so that we may consider them and know their final outcome. Or declare to us the things to come,

Isaiah 41:23 (NIVUK)

tell us what the future holds, so that we may know you are gods. Do something, whether good or bad, so that we will be dismayed and filled with fear.

Isaiah 41:24 (NIVUK)

But you are less than nothing and your works are utterly worthless; whoever chooses you is detestable.

Isaiah 41:25 (NIVUK)

‘I have stirred up one from the north, and he comes – one from the rising sun who calls on my name. He treads on rulers as if they were mortar, as if he were a potter treading the clay.

Isaiah 41:26 (NIVUK)

Who told of this from the beginning, so that we could know, or beforehand, so that we could say, “He was right”? No-one told of this, no-one foretold it, no-one heard any words from you.

Isaiah 41:27 (NIVUK)

I was the first to tell Zion, “Look, here they are!” I gave to Jerusalem a messenger of good news.

Isaiah 41:28 (NIVUK)

I look but there is no-one – no-one among the gods to give counsel, no-one to give answer when I ask them.

Isaiah 41:29 (NIVUK)

See, they are all false! Their deeds amount to nothing; their images are but wind and confusion.

Isaiah 42:1 (NIVUK)

‘Here is my servant, whom I uphold, my chosen one in whom I delight; I will put my Spirit on him, and he will bring justice to the nations.

Isaiah 42:2 (NIVUK)

He will not shout or cry out, or raise his voice in the streets.

Isaiah 42:3 (NIVUK)

A bruised reed he will not break, and a smouldering wick he will not snuff out. In faithfulness he will bring forth justice;

Isaiah 42:4 (NIVUK)

he will not falter or be discouraged till he establishes justice on earth. In his teaching the islands will put their hope.’

This is what God the Lord says – the Creator of the heavens, who stretches them out, who spreads out the earth with all that springs from it, who gives breath to its people, and life to those who walk on it:

Isaiah 42:6 (NIVUK)

‘I, the Lord , have called you in righteousness; I will take hold of your hand. I will keep you and will make you to be a covenant for the people and a light for the Gentiles,

Isaiah 42:7 (NIVUK)

to open eyes that are blind, to free captives from prison and to release from the dungeon those who sit in darkness.

Isaiah 42:9 (NIVUK)

See, the former things have taken place, and new things I declare; before they spring into being I announce them to you.’

Isaiah 42:10 (NIVUK)

Sing to the Lord a new song, his praise from the ends of the earth, you who go down to the sea, and all that is in it, you islands, and all who live in them.

Isaiah 42:11 (NIVUK)

Let the wilderness and its towns raise their voices; let the settlements where Kedar lives rejoice. Let the people of Sela sing for joy; let them shout from the mountaintops.