Search results for: isaiah 55:8-9

Isaiah 1:9 (NIV)

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

Isaiah 1:10 (NIV)

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

“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 (NIV)

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

Isaiah 1:13 (NIV)

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

Isaiah 1:14 (NIV)

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 (NIV)

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 (NIV)

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

Isaiah 1:17 (NIV)

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 (NIV)

“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 (NIV)

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

Isaiah 1:20 (NIV)

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

Isaiah 1:21 (NIV)

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 (NIV)

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

Isaiah 1:23 (NIV)

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 (NIV)

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 (NIV)

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

Isaiah 1:26 (NIV)

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

Isaiah 1:27 (NIV)

Zion will be delivered with justice, her penitent ones with righteousness.

Isaiah 1:28 (NIV)

But rebels and sinners will both be broken, and those who forsake the Lord will perish.

Isaiah 1:29 (NIV)

“You will be ashamed because of the sacred oaks in which you have delighted; you will be disgraced because of the gardens that you have chosen.

Isaiah 1:30 (NIV)

You will be like an oak with fading leaves, like a garden without water.

Isaiah 1:31 (NIV)

The mighty man will become tinder and his work a spark; both will burn together, with no one to quench the fire.”

Isaiah 2:1 (NIV)

This is what Isaiah son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem:

Isaiah 2:2 (NIV)

In the last days the mountain of the Lord ’s temple will be established as the highest of the mountains; it will be exalted above the hills, and all nations will stream to it.