Search results for: Isaiah 64:8

Isaiah 1:1 (NIVUK)

The vision concerning Judah and Jerusalem that Isaiah son of Amoz saw during the reigns of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz and Hezekiah, kings of Judah.

Isaiah 1:2 (NIVUK)

Hear me, you heavens! Listen, earth! For the Lord has spoken: ‘I reared children and brought them up, but they have rebelled against me.

Isaiah 1:3 (NIVUK)

The ox knows its master, the donkey its owner’s manger, but Israel does not know, my people do not understand.’

Woe to the sinful nation, a people whose guilt is great, a brood of evildoers, children given to corruption! They have forsaken the Lord ; they have spurned the Holy One of Israel and turned their backs on him.

Isaiah 1:5 (NIVUK)

Why should you be beaten anymore? Why do you persist in rebellion? Your whole head is injured, your whole heart afflicted.

Isaiah 1:6 (NIVUK)

From the sole of your foot to the top of your head there is no soundness – only wounds and bruises and open sores, not cleansed or bandaged or soothed with oil.

Isaiah 1:7 (NIVUK)

Your country is desolate, your cities burned with fire; your fields are being stripped by foreigners right before you, laid waste as when overthrown by strangers.

Isaiah 1:9 (NIVUK)

Unless the Lord Almighty had left us some survivors, we would have become like Sodom, we would have been like Gomorrah.

Isaiah 1:10 (NIVUK)

Hear the word of the Lord , you rulers of Sodom; listen to the instruction of our God, you people of Gomorrah!

Isaiah 1:11 (NIVUK)

‘The multitude of your sacrifices – what are they to me?’ says the Lord . ‘I have more than enough of burnt offerings, of rams and the fat of fattened animals; I have no pleasure in the blood of bulls and lambs and goats.

Isaiah 1:12 (NIVUK)

When you come to appear before me, who has asked this of you, this trampling of my courts?

Isaiah 1:13 (NIVUK)

Stop bringing meaningless offerings! Your incense is detestable to me. New Moons, Sabbaths and convocations – I cannot bear your worthless assemblies.

Isaiah 1:14 (NIVUK)

Your New Moon feasts and your appointed festivals I hate with all my being. They have become a burden to me; I am weary of bearing them.

Isaiah 1:15 (NIVUK)

When you spread out your hands in prayer, I hide my eyes from you; even when you offer many prayers, I am not listening. Your hands are full of blood!

Isaiah 1:16 (NIVUK)

Wash and make yourselves clean. Take your evil deeds out of my sight; stop doing wrong.

Isaiah 1:17 (NIVUK)

Learn to do right; seek justice. Defend the oppressed. Take up the cause of the fatherless; plead the case of the widow.

Isaiah 1:18 (NIVUK)

‘Come now, let us settle the matter,’ says the Lord . ‘Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red as crimson, they shall be like wool.

Isaiah 1:19 (NIVUK)

If you are willing and obedient, you will eat the good things of the land;

Isaiah 1:20 (NIVUK)

but if you resist and rebel, you will be devoured by the sword.’ For the mouth of the Lord has spoken.

Isaiah 1:21 (NIVUK)

See how the faithful city has become a prostitute! She once was full of justice; righteousness used to dwell in her – but now murderers!

Isaiah 1:22 (NIVUK)

Your silver has become dross, your choice wine is diluted with water.

Isaiah 1:23 (NIVUK)

Your rulers are rebels, partners with thieves; they all love bribes and chase after gifts. They do not defend the cause of the fatherless; the widow’s case does not come before them.

Isaiah 1:24 (NIVUK)

Therefore the Lord, the Lord Almighty, the Mighty One of Israel, declares: ‘Ah! I will vent my wrath on my foes and avenge myself on my enemies.

Isaiah 1:25 (NIVUK)

I will turn my hand against you; I will thoroughly purge away your dross and remove all your impurities.

Isaiah 1:26 (NIVUK)

I will restore your leaders as in days of old, your rulers as at the beginning. Afterwards you will be called the City of Righteousness, the Faithful City.’