Search results for: Isaiah 64:8

Isaiah 56:3 (NIVUK)

Let no foreigner who is bound to the Lord say, ‘The Lord will surely exclude me from his people.’ And let no eunuch complain, ‘I am only a dry tree.’

Isaiah 56:4 (NIVUK)

For this is what the Lord says: ‘To the eunuchs who keep my Sabbaths, who choose what pleases me and hold fast to my covenant –

Isaiah 56:5 (NIVUK)

to them I will give within my temple and its walls a memorial and a name better than sons and daughters; I will give them an everlasting name that will endure for ever.

And foreigners who bind themselves to the Lord to minister to him, to love the name of the Lord , and to be his servants, all who keep the Sabbath without desecrating it and who hold fast to my covenant –

Isaiah 56:7 (NIVUK)

these I will bring to my holy mountain and give them joy in my house of prayer. Their burnt offerings and sacrifices will be accepted on my altar; for my house will be called a house of prayer for all nations.’

Isaiah 56:9 (NIVUK)

Come, all you beasts of the field, come and devour, all you beasts of the forest!

Isaiah 56:10 (NIVUK)

Israel’s watchmen are blind, they all lack knowledge; they are all mute dogs, they cannot bark; they lie around and dream, they love to sleep.

Isaiah 56:11 (NIVUK)

They are dogs with mighty appetites; they never have enough. They are shepherds who lack understanding; they all turn to their own way, they seek their own gain.

Isaiah 56:12 (NIVUK)

‘Come,’ each one cries, ‘let me get wine! Let us drink our fill of beer! And tomorrow will be like today, or even far better.’

Isaiah 57:1 (NIVUK)

The righteous perish, and no-one takes it to heart; the devout are taken away, and no-one understands that the righteous are taken away to be spared from evil.

Isaiah 57:2 (NIVUK)

Those who walk uprightly enter into peace; they find rest as they lie in death.

Isaiah 57:3 (NIVUK)

‘But you – come here, you children of a sorceress, you offspring of adulterers and prostitutes!

Isaiah 57:4 (NIVUK)

Who are you mocking? At whom do you sneer and stick out your tongue? Are you not a brood of rebels, the offspring of liars?

Isaiah 57:5 (NIVUK)

You burn with lust among the oaks and under every spreading tree; you sacrifice your children in the ravines and under the overhanging crags.

Isaiah 57:6 (NIVUK)

The idols among the smooth stones of the ravines are your portion; indeed, they are your lot. Yes, to them you have poured out drink offerings and offered grain offerings. In view of all this, should I relent?

Isaiah 57:7 (NIVUK)

You have made your bed on a high and lofty hill; there you went up to offer your sacrifices.

Isaiah 57:9 (NIVUK)

You went to Molek with olive oil and increased your perfumes. You sent your ambassadors far away; you descended to the very realm of the dead!

Isaiah 57:10 (NIVUK)

You wearied yourself by such going about, but you would not say, “It is hopeless.” You found renewal of your strength, and so you did not faint.

Isaiah 57:11 (NIVUK)

‘Whom have you so dreaded and feared that you have not been true to me, and have neither remembered me nor taken this to heart? Is it not because I have long been silent that you do not fear me?

Isaiah 57:12 (NIVUK)

I will expose your righteousness and your works, and they will not benefit you.

Isaiah 57:13 (NIVUK)

When you cry out for help, let your collection of idols save you! The wind will carry all of them off, a mere breath will blow them away. But whoever takes refuge in me will inherit the land and possess my holy mountain.’

Isaiah 57:14 (NIVUK)

And it will be said: ‘Build up, build up, prepare the road! Remove the obstacles out of the way of my people.’

Isaiah 57:15 (NIVUK)

For this is what the high and exalted One says – he who lives for ever, whose name is holy: ‘I live in a high and holy place, but also with the one who is contrite and lowly in spirit, to revive the spirit of the lowly and to revive the heart of the contrite.

Isaiah 57:16 (NIVUK)

I will not accuse them for ever, nor will I always be angry, for then they would faint away because of me – the very people I have created.

Isaiah 57:17 (NIVUK)

I was enraged by their sinful greed; I punished them, and hid my face in anger, yet they kept on in their wilful ways.