Search results for: Isaiah 64:8
Isaiah 49:13 (NIVUK)
Shout for joy, you heavens; rejoice, you earth; burst into song, you mountains! For the Lord comforts his people and will have compassion on his afflicted ones.
Isaiah 49:14 (NIVUK)
But Zion said, ‘The Lord has forsaken me, the Lord has forgotten me.’
Isaiah 49:15 (NIVUK)
‘Can a mother forget the baby at her breast and have no compassion on the child she has borne? Though she may forget, I will not forget you!
Isaiah 49:16 (NIVUK)
See, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands; your walls are ever before me.
Isaiah 49:17 (NIVUK)
Your children hasten back, and those who laid you waste depart from you.
Isaiah 49:18 (NIVUK)
Lift up your eyes and look around; all your children gather and come to you. As surely as I live,’ declares the Lord , ‘you will wear them all as ornaments; you will put them on, like a bride.
Isaiah 49:19 (NIVUK)
‘Though you were ruined and made desolate and your land laid waste, now you will be too small for your people, and those who devoured you will be far away.
Isaiah 49:20 (NIVUK)
The children born during your bereavement will yet say in your hearing, “This place is too small for us; give us more space to live in.”
Isaiah 49:21 (NIVUK)
Then you will say in your heart, “Who bore me these? I was bereaved and barren; I was exiled and rejected. Who brought these up? I was left all alone, but these – where have they come from?” ’
Isaiah 49:22 (NIVUK)
This is what the Sovereign Lord says: ‘See, I will beckon to the nations, I will lift up my banner to the peoples; they will bring your sons in their arms and carry your daughters on their hips.
Isaiah 49:23 (NIVUK)
Kings will be your foster fathers, and their queens your nursing mothers. They will bow down before you with their faces to the ground; they will lick the dust at your feet. Then you will know that I am the Lord ; those who hope in me will not be disappointed.’
Isaiah 49:24 (NIVUK)
Can plunder be taken from warriors, or captives be rescued from the fierce ?
Isaiah 49:25 (NIVUK)
But this is what the Lord says: ‘Yes, captives will be taken from warriors, and plunder retrieved from the fierce; I will contend with those who contend with you, and your children I will save.
Isaiah 49:26 (NIVUK)
I will make your oppressors eat their own flesh; they will be drunk on their own blood, as with wine. Then all mankind will know that I, the Lord , am your Saviour, your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.’
Isaiah 50:1 (NIVUK)
This is what the Lord says: ‘Where is your mother’s certificate of divorce with which I sent her away? Or to which of my creditors did I sell you? Because of your sins you were sold; because of your transgressions your mother was sent away.
Isaiah 50:2 (NIVUK)
When I came, why was there no-one? When I called, why was there no-one to answer? Was my arm too short to deliver you? Do I lack the strength to rescue you? By a mere rebuke I dry up the sea, I turn rivers into a desert; their fish rot for lack of water and die of thirst.
Isaiah 50:3 (NIVUK)
I clothe the heavens with darkness and make sackcloth its covering.’
Isaiah 50:4 (NIVUK)
The Sovereign Lord has given me a well-instructed tongue, to know the word that sustains the weary. He wakens me morning by morning, wakens my ear to listen like one being instructed.
Isaiah 50:5 (NIVUK)
The Sovereign Lord has opened my ears; I have not been rebellious, I have not turned away.
Isaiah 50:6 (NIVUK)
I offered my back to those who beat me, my cheeks to those who pulled out my beard; I did not hide my face from mocking and spitting.
Isaiah 50:7 (NIVUK)
Because the Sovereign Lord helps me, I will not be disgraced. Therefore have I set my face like flint, and I know I will not be put to shame.
Isaiah 50:9 (NIVUK)
It is the Sovereign Lord who helps me. Who will condemn me? They will all wear out like a garment; the moths will eat them up.
Isaiah 50:10 (NIVUK)
Who among you fears the Lord and obeys the word of his servant? Let the one who walks in the dark, who has no light, trust in the name of the Lord and rely on their God.
Isaiah 50:11 (NIVUK)
But now, all you who light fires and provide yourselves with flaming torches, go, walk in the light of your fires and of the torches you have set ablaze. This is what you shall receive from my hand: you will lie down in torment.
Isaiah 51:1 (NIVUK)
‘Listen to me, you who pursue righteousness and who seek the Lord : look to the rock from which you were cut and to the quarry from which you were hewn;