Search results for: Isaiah 64:8

Isaiah 54:6 (NIVUK)

The Lord will call you back as if you were a wife deserted and distressed in spirit – a wife who married young, only to be rejected,’ says your God.

Isaiah 54:7 (NIVUK)

‘For a brief moment I abandoned you, but with deep compassion I will bring you back.

Isaiah 54:9 (NIVUK)

‘To me this is like the days of Noah, when I swore that the waters of Noah would never again cover the earth. So now I have sworn not to be angry with you, never to rebuke you again.

Isaiah 54:10 (NIVUK)

Though the mountains be shaken and the hills be removed, yet my unfailing love for you will not be shaken nor my covenant of peace be removed,’ says the Lord , who has compassion on you.

Isaiah 54:11 (NIVUK)

‘Afflicted city, lashed by storms and not comforted, I will rebuild you with stones of turquoise, your foundations with lapis lazuli.

Isaiah 54:12 (NIVUK)

I will make your battlements of rubies, your gates of sparkling jewels, and all your walls of precious stones.

Isaiah 54:13 (NIVUK)

All your children will be taught by the Lord , and great will be their peace.

Isaiah 54:14 (NIVUK)

In righteousness you will be established: tyranny will be far from you; you will have nothing to fear. Terror will be far removed; it will not come near you.

Isaiah 54:15 (NIVUK)

If anyone does attack you, it will not be my doing; whoever attacks you will surrender to you.

Isaiah 54:16 (NIVUK)

‘See, it is I who created the blacksmith who fans the coals into flame and forges a weapon fit for its work. And it is I who have created the destroyer to wreak havoc;

no weapon forged against you will prevail, and you will refute every tongue that accuses you. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord , and this is their vindication from me,’ declares the Lord .

Isaiah 55:1 (NIVUK)

‘Come, all you who are thirsty, come to the waters; and you who have no money, come, buy and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without cost.

Isaiah 55:2 (NIVUK)

Why spend money on what is not bread, and your labour on what does not satisfy? Listen, listen to me, and eat what is good, and you will delight in the richest of fare.

Isaiah 55:3 (NIVUK)

Give ear and come to me; listen, that you may live. I will make an everlasting covenant with you, my faithful love promised to David.

Isaiah 55:4 (NIVUK)

See, I have made him a witness to the peoples, a ruler and commander of the peoples.

Isaiah 55:5 (NIVUK)

Surely you will summon nations you know not, and nations you do not know will come running to you, because of the Lord your God, the Holy One of Israel, for he has endowed you with splendour.’

Isaiah 55:6 (NIVUK)

Seek the Lord while he may be found; call on him while he is near.

Isaiah 55:7 (NIVUK)

Let the wicked forsake their ways and the unrighteous their thoughts. Let them turn to the Lord , and he will have mercy on them, and to our God, for he will freely pardon.

Isaiah 55:9 (NIVUK)

‘As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.

Isaiah 55:10 (NIVUK)

As the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and do not return to it without watering the earth and making it bud and flourish, so that it yields seed for the sower and bread for the eater,

Isaiah 55:11 (NIVUK)

so is my word that goes out from my mouth: it will not return to me empty, but will accomplish what I desire and achieve the purpose for which I sent it.

Isaiah 55:12 (NIVUK)

You will go out in joy and be led forth in peace; the mountains and hills will burst into song before you, and all the trees of the field will clap their hands.

Isaiah 55:13 (NIVUK)

Instead of the thorn-bush will grow the juniper, and instead of briers the myrtle will grow. This will be for the Lord ’s renown, for an everlasting sign, that will endure for ever.’

Isaiah 56:1 (NIVUK)

This is what the Lord says: ‘Maintain justice and do what is right, for my salvation is close at hand and my righteousness will soon be revealed.

Isaiah 56:2 (NIVUK)

Blessed is the one who does this – the person who holds it fast, who keeps the Sabbath without desecrating it, and keeps their hands from doing any evil.’