Search results for: Isaiah 64:8

Isaiah 46:10 (NIVUK)

I make known the end from the beginning, from ancient times, what is still to come. I say, “My purpose will stand, and I will do all that I please.”

Isaiah 46:11 (NIVUK)

From the east I summon a bird of prey; from a far-off land, a man to fulfil my purpose. What I have said, that I will bring about; what I have planned, that I will do.

Isaiah 46:12 (NIVUK)

Listen to me, you stubborn-hearted, you who are now far from my righteousness.

Isaiah 46:13 (NIVUK)

I am bringing my righteousness near, it is not far away; and my salvation will not be delayed. I will grant salvation to Zion, my splendour to Israel.

Isaiah 47:1 (NIVUK)

‘Go down, sit in the dust, Virgin Daughter Babylon; sit on the ground without a throne, queen city of the Babylonians. No more will you be called tender or delicate.

Isaiah 47:2 (NIVUK)

Take millstones and grind flour; take off your veil. Lift up your skirts, bare your legs, and wade through the streams.

Isaiah 47:3 (NIVUK)

Your nakedness will be exposed and your shame uncovered. I will take vengeance; I will spare no-one.’

Isaiah 47:4 (NIVUK)

Our Redeemer – the Lord Almighty is his name – is the Holy One of Israel.

Isaiah 47:5 (NIVUK)

‘Sit in silence, go into darkness, queen city of the Babylonians; no more will you be called queen of kingdoms.

Isaiah 47:6 (NIVUK)

I was angry with my people and desecrated my inheritance; I gave them into your hand, and you showed them no mercy. Even on the aged you laid a very heavy yoke.

Isaiah 47:7 (NIVUK)

You said, “I am for ever – the eternal queen!” But you did not consider these things or reflect on what might happen.

Isaiah 47:9 (NIVUK)

Both of these will overtake you in a moment, on a single day: loss of children and widowhood. They will come upon you in full measure, in spite of your many sorceries and all your potent spells.

Isaiah 47:10 (NIVUK)

You have trusted in your wickedness and have said, “No-one sees me.” Your wisdom and knowledge mislead you when you say to yourself, “I am, and there is none besides me.”

Disaster will come upon you, and you will not know how to conjure it away. A calamity will fall upon you that you cannot ward off with a ransom; a catastrophe you cannot foresee will suddenly come upon you.

Isaiah 47:12 (NIVUK)

‘Keep on, then, with your magic spells and with your many sorceries, which you have laboured at since childhood. Perhaps you will succeed, perhaps you will cause terror.

Isaiah 47:13 (NIVUK)

All the counsel you have received has only worn you out! Let your astrologers come forward, those stargazers who make predictions month by month, let them save you from what is coming upon you.

Isaiah 47:14 (NIVUK)

Surely they are like stubble; the fire will burn them up. They cannot even save themselves from the power of the flame. These are not coals for warmth; this is not a fire to sit by.

Isaiah 47:15 (NIVUK)

That is all they are to you – these you have dealt with and laboured with since childhood. All of them go on in their error; there is not one that can save you.

Isaiah 48:1 (NIVUK)

‘Listen to this, you descendants of Jacob, you who are called by the name of Israel and come from the line of Judah, you who take oaths in the name of the Lord and invoke the God of Israel – but not in truth or righteousness –

Isaiah 48:2 (NIVUK)

you who call yourselves citizens of the holy city and claim to rely on the God of Israel – the Lord Almighty is his name:

Isaiah 48:3 (NIVUK)

I foretold the former things long ago, my mouth announced them and I made them known; then suddenly I acted, and they came to pass.

Isaiah 48:4 (NIVUK)

For I knew how stubborn you were; your neck muscles were iron, your forehead was bronze.

Isaiah 48:5 (NIVUK)

Therefore I told you these things long ago; before they happened I announced them to you so that you could not say, “My images brought them about; my wooden image and metal god ordained them.”

Isaiah 48:6 (NIVUK)

You have heard these things; look at them all. Will you not admit them? ‘From now on I will tell you of new things, of hidden things unknown to you.

Isaiah 48:7 (NIVUK)

They are created now, and not long ago; you have not heard of them before today. So you cannot say, “Yes, I knew of them.”