Search results for: Isaiah 64:8
Isaiah 43:13 (NIVUK)
Yes, and from ancient days I am he. No-one can deliver out of my hand. When I act, who can reverse it?’
Isaiah 43:14 (NIVUK)
This is what the Lord says – your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: ‘For your sake I will send to Babylon and bring down as fugitives all the Babylonians, in the ships in which they took pride.
Isaiah 43:15 (NIVUK)
I am the Lord , your Holy One, Israel’s Creator, your King.’
Isaiah 43:16 (NIVUK)
This is what the Lord says – he who made a way through the sea, a path through the mighty waters,
Isaiah 43:17 (NIVUK)
who drew out the chariots and horses, the army and reinforcements together, and they lay there, never to rise again, extinguished, snuffed out like a wick:
Isaiah 43:18 (NIVUK)
‘Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past.
Isaiah 43:19 (NIVUK)
See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland.
Isaiah 43:20 (NIVUK)
The wild animals honour me, the jackals and the owls, because I provide water in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland, to give drink to my people, my chosen,
Isaiah 43:21 (NIVUK)
the people I formed for myself that they may proclaim my praise.
Isaiah 43:22 (NIVUK)
‘Yet you have not called on me, Jacob, you have not wearied yourselves for me, Israel.
Isaiah 43:23 (NIVUK)
You have not brought me sheep for burnt offerings, nor honoured me with your sacrifices. I have not burdened you with grain offerings nor wearied you with demands for incense.
Isaiah 43:24 (NIVUK)
You have not bought any fragrant calamus for me, or lavished on me the fat of your sacrifices. But you have burdened me with your sins and wearied me with your offences.
Isaiah 43:25 (NIVUK)
‘I, even I, am he who blots out your transgressions, for my own sake, and remembers your sins no more.
Isaiah 43:26 (NIVUK)
Review the past for me, let us argue the matter together; state the case for your innocence.
Isaiah 43:27 (NIVUK)
Your first father sinned; those I sent to teach you rebelled against me.
Isaiah 43:28 (NIVUK)
So I disgraced the dignitaries of your temple; I consigned Jacob to destruction and Israel to scorn.
Isaiah 44:1 (NIVUK)
‘But now listen, Jacob, my servant, Israel, whom I have chosen.
Isaiah 44:2 (NIVUK)
This is what the Lord says – he who made you, who formed you in the womb, and who will help you: do not be afraid, Jacob, my servant, Jeshurun, whom I have chosen.
Isaiah 44:3 (NIVUK)
For I will pour water on the thirsty land, and streams on the dry ground; I will pour out my Spirit on your offspring, and my blessing on your descendants.
Isaiah 44:4 (NIVUK)
They will spring up like grass in a meadow, like poplar trees by flowing streams.
Isaiah 44:5 (NIVUK)
Some will say, “I belong to the Lord ”; others will call themselves by the name of Jacob; still others will write on their hand, “The Lord ’s,” and will take the name Israel.
Isaiah 44:6 (NIVUK)
‘This is what the Lord says – Israel’s King and Redeemer, the Lord Almighty: I am the first and I am the last; apart from me there is no God.
Isaiah 44:7 (NIVUK)
Who then is like me? Let him proclaim it. Let him declare and lay out before me what has happened since I established my ancient people, and what is yet to come – yes, let them foretell what will come.
Isaiah 44:9 (NIVUK)
All who make idols are nothing, and the things they treasure are worthless. Those who would speak up for them are blind; they are ignorant, to their own shame.
Isaiah 44:10 (NIVUK)
Who shapes a god and casts an idol, which can profit nothing?