Search results for: Isaiah 64:8

Isaiah 48:9 (NIVUK)

For my own name’s sake I delay my wrath; for the sake of my praise I hold it back from you, so as not to destroy you completely.

Isaiah 48:10 (NIVUK)

See, I have refined you, though not as silver; I have tested you in the furnace of affliction.

Isaiah 48:11 (NIVUK)

For my own sake, for my own sake, I do this. How can I let myself be defamed? I will not yield my glory to another.

Isaiah 48:12 (NIVUK)

‘Listen to me, Jacob, Israel, whom I have called: I am he; I am the first and I am the last.

Isaiah 48:13 (NIVUK)

My own hand laid the foundations of the earth, and my right hand spread out the heavens; when I summon them, they all stand up together.

Isaiah 48:14 (NIVUK)

‘Come together, all of you, and listen: which of the idols has foretold these things? The Lord ’s chosen ally will carry out his purpose against Babylon; his arm will be against the Babylonians.

Isaiah 48:15 (NIVUK)

I, even I, have spoken; yes, I have called him. I will bring him, and he will succeed in his mission.

Isaiah 48:16 (NIVUK)

‘Come near me and listen to this: ‘From the first announcement I have not spoken in secret; at the time it happens, I am there.’ And now the Sovereign Lord has sent me, endowed with his Spirit.

Isaiah 48:17 (NIVUK)

This is what the Lord says – your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: ‘I am the Lord your God, who teaches you what is best for you, who directs you in the way you should go.

Isaiah 48:18 (NIVUK)

If only you had paid attention to my commands, your peace would have been like a river, your well-being like the waves of the sea.

Isaiah 48:19 (NIVUK)

Your descendants would have been like the sand, your children like its numberless grains; their name would never be blotted out nor destroyed from before me.’

Isaiah 48:20 (NIVUK)

Leave Babylon, flee from the Babylonians! Announce this with shouts of joy and proclaim it. Send it out to the ends of the earth; say, ‘The Lord has redeemed his servant Jacob.’

Isaiah 48:21 (NIVUK)

They did not thirst when he led them through the deserts; he made water flow for them from the rock; he split the rock and water gushed out.

Isaiah 48:22 (NIVUK)

‘There is no peace,’ says the Lord , ‘for the wicked.’

Isaiah 49:1 (NIVUK)

Listen to me, you islands; hear this, you distant nations: before I was born the Lord called me; from my mother’s womb he has spoken my name.

Isaiah 49:2 (NIVUK)

He made my mouth like a sharpened sword, in the shadow of his hand he hid me; he made me into a polished arrow and concealed me in his quiver.

Isaiah 49:3 (NIVUK)

He said to me, ‘You are my servant, Israel, in whom I will display my splendour.’

Isaiah 49:4 (NIVUK)

But I said, ‘I have laboured in vain; I have spent my strength for nothing at all. Yet what is due to me is in the Lord ’s hand, and my reward is with my God.’

And now the Lord says – he who formed me in the womb to be his servant to bring Jacob back to him and gather Israel to himself, for I am honoured in the eyes of the Lord and my God has been my strength –

Isaiah 49:6 (NIVUK)

he says: ‘It is too small a thing for you to be my servant to restore the tribes of Jacob and bring back those of Israel I have kept. I will also make you a light for the Gentiles, that my salvation may reach to the ends of the earth.’

Isaiah 49:7 (NIVUK)

This is what the Lord says – the Redeemer and Holy One of Israel – to him who was despised and abhorred by the nation, to the servant of rulers: ‘Kings will see you and stand up, princes will see and bow down, because of the Lord , who is faithful, the Holy One of Israel, who has chosen you.’