Search results for: Isaiah 64:8
Isaiah 42:12 (NIVUK)
Let them give glory to the Lord and proclaim his praise in the islands.
Isaiah 42:13 (NIVUK)
The Lord will march out like a champion, like a warrior he will stir up his zeal; with a shout he will raise the battle cry and will triumph over his enemies.
Isaiah 42:14 (NIVUK)
‘For a long time I have kept silent, I have been quiet and held myself back. But now, like a woman in childbirth, I cry out, I gasp and pant.
Isaiah 42:15 (NIVUK)
I will lay waste the mountains and hills and dry up all their vegetation; I will turn rivers into islands and dry up the pools.
Isaiah 42:16 (NIVUK)
I will lead the blind by ways they have not known, along unfamiliar paths I will guide them; I will turn the darkness into light before them and make the rough places smooth. These are the things I will do; I will not forsake them.
Isaiah 42:17 (NIVUK)
But those who trust in idols, who say to images, “You are our gods,” will be turned back in utter shame.
Isaiah 42:18 (NIVUK)
‘Hear, you deaf; look, you blind, and see!
Isaiah 42:19 (NIVUK)
Who is blind but my servant, and deaf like the messenger I send? Who is blind like the one in covenant with me, blind like the servant of the Lord ?
Isaiah 42:20 (NIVUK)
You have seen many things, but you pay no attention; your ears are open, but you do not listen.’
Isaiah 42:21 (NIVUK)
It pleased the Lord for the sake of his righteousness to make his law great and glorious.
Isaiah 42:22 (NIVUK)
But this is a people plundered and looted, all of them trapped in pits or hidden away in prisons. They have become plunder, with no-one to rescue them; they have been made loot, with no-one to say, ‘Send them back.’
Isaiah 42:23 (NIVUK)
Which of you will listen to this or pay close attention in time to come?
Isaiah 42:24 (NIVUK)
Who handed Jacob over to become loot, and Israel to the plunderers? Was it not the Lord , against whom we have sinned? For they would not follow his ways; they did not obey his law.
Isaiah 42:25 (NIVUK)
So he poured out on them his burning anger, the violence of war. It enveloped them in flames, yet they did not understand; it consumed them, but they did not take it to heart.
Isaiah 43:1 (NIVUK)
But now, this is what the Lord says – he who created you, Jacob, he who formed you, Israel: ‘Do not fear, for I have redeemed you; I have summoned you by name; you are mine.
Isaiah 43:2 (NIVUK)
When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and when you pass through the rivers, they will not sweep over you. When you walk through the fire, you will not be burned; the flames will not set you ablaze.
Isaiah 43:3 (NIVUK)
For I am the Lord your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Saviour; I give Egypt for your ransom, Cush and Seba in your stead.
Isaiah 43:4 (NIVUK)
Since you are precious and honoured in my sight, and because I love you, I will give people in exchange for you, nations in exchange for your life.
Isaiah 43:5 (NIVUK)
Do not be afraid, for I am with you; I will bring your children from the east and gather you from the west.
Isaiah 43:6 (NIVUK)
I will say to the north, “Give them up!” and to the south, “Do not hold them back.” Bring my sons from afar and my daughters from the ends of the earth –
Isaiah 43:7 (NIVUK)
everyone who is called by my name, whom I created for my glory, whom I formed and made.’
Isaiah 43:9 (NIVUK)
All the nations gather together and the peoples assemble. Which of their gods foretold this and proclaimed to us the former things? Let them bring in their witnesses to prove they were right, so that others may hear and say, ‘It is true.’
Isaiah 43:10 (NIVUK)
‘You are my witnesses,’ declares the Lord , ‘and my servant whom I have chosen, so that you may know and believe me and understand that I am he. Before me no god was formed, nor will there be one after me.
Isaiah 43:11 (NIVUK)
I, even I, am the Lord , and apart from me there is no saviour.
Isaiah 43:12 (NIVUK)
I have revealed and saved and proclaimed – I, and not some foreign god among you. You are my witnesses,’ declares the Lord , ‘that I am God.