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12Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand. 23And on that day, in every place that had a thousand vines worth a thousand shekels of silver,h only briers and thorns will be found. 2And the king of Assyria sent the Rabshakeh,a with a great army, from Lachish to King Hezekiah at Jerusalem. From now on I will tell you of new things. against the elders and leaders of His people: the plunder of the poor is in your houses. 9Then you will call, and the LORD will answer; you will cry out, and He will say, Here I am.. large enough to scoop the coals from a hearth. 17who brings out the chariots and horses. How can we be saved if we remain in our sins? It was no light undertaking; he was to condemn his own people and watch the nation crumble and perish. the God of Israel, who calls you by name. In His love and compassion He redeemed them; 11Then His people remembered the days of old, Where is He who brought them through the sea. They have seen everything in my palace, answered Hezekiah. Awake and sing, you who dwell in the dust! 5Those who made Cush their hope and Egypt their boast will be dismayed and ashamed. and wrapped me in a robe of righteousness. 11and as I have done to Samaria and its idols, will I not also do to Jerusalem and her idols?. 19And Babylon, the jewel of the kingdoms.

and there are no stragglers in its ranks. 9I brought you from the ends of the earth. For the LORD GOD is my strength and my song. Isaiah is one of the longest prophetic books (66 chapters).

According to this account he saw God and was overwhelmed by his contact with the divine glory and holiness. on the day of disease and incurable pain. Clicking on a chapter will show you the text of that chapter of Isaiah in the Bible (New International Version). like a driving rain or flooding downpour, 3The majestic crown of Ephraims drunkards. 1Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help. and the foundations of the earth are shaken. 7And some of your descendants, your own flesh and blood, will be taken away to be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon., 8But Hezekiah said to Isaiah, The word of the LORD that you have spoken is good. For he thought, At least there will be peace and security in my lifetime., Prepare the Way for the LORD(Matthew 3:112; Mark 1:18; Luke 3:120; John 1:1928). Date Written Written between (circa) 740-680 B.C., toward the end of the reign of King Uzziah and throughout the reigns of King Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah. I will turn the desert into a pool of water, and the Holy One of Israel has created it.. 17Those who consecrate and purify themselves to enter the grovesto follow one in the center of those who eat the flesh of swine and vermin and ratswill perish together, declares the LORD. from where the sun rises to where it sets. You collected water from the lower pool. 15Surely the nations are like a drop in a bucket; they are considered a speck of dust on the scales; He lifts up the islandsi like fine dust. 6Caravans of camels will cover your land. 3saying, Please, O LORD, remember how I have walked before You faithfully and with wholehearted devotion; I have done what was good in Your sight. And Hezekiah wept bitterly. 13Therefore I will make the heavens tremble, and the earth will be shaken from its place. when a banner is raised on the mountains. and your righteousness like waves of the sea. 3For you will spread out to the right and left; your descendants will dispossess the nations. 8By oppression and judgment He was taken away, For He was cut off from the land of the living;e. He was stricken for the transgression of My people. shaking a fist at the mount of Daughter Zion. Behold, I will lift up My hand to the nations. Introduction to The Study of the Book of Isaiah 2. Corrections? 15Behold, I will make you into a threshing sledge. I will put your authority in his hand, and he will be a father to the dwellers of Jerusalem and to the house of Judah. If it is handed to someone to read, he will say, I cannot, because it is sealed. 15At that time Tyre will be forgotten for seventy yearsthe span of a kings life. There the calves graze, and there they lie down; for this is a people without understanding. for You have cast all my sins behind Your back.

THE BOOK OF ISAIAH Isaiah, one of the greatest of the prophets, appeared at a critical moment in Israels history. and a Branch from his roots will bear fruit. and all its glory like the flowers of the field. Let us know if you have suggestions to improve this article (requires login). 4and say to him: Calm down and be quiet.

27Therefore their inhabitants, devoid of power, 29Because your rage and arrogance against Me. and all her princes will come to nothing. 6you will be visited by the LORD of Hosts. the multitude of the ruthless like blowing chaff. 7So they carry their wealth and belongings. 4Who has performed this and carried it out. He will speak to this peopled Let the earth open up that salvation may sprout. as a bridegroom wears a priestly headdress. Let them present their witnesses to vindicate them, so that others may hear and say, It is true.. 10So the redeemed of the LORD will return, and sorrow and sighing will flee.3 a Cited in Hebrews 12:127 b Or serpents or dragons, Sennacherib Threatens Jerusalem(2 Kings 18:1337; 2 Chronicles 32:18).

For My people have been taken without cause; are the feet of those who bring good news,c. As he tells it, he was only too aware that, coming with such a message, he would experience bitter opposition, willful disbelief, and ridicule, to withstand which he would have to be inwardly fortified.

18roll you into a ball, and sling you into a wide land. 26Who has declared this from the beginning. 4For You have been a refuge for the poor. They will tremble with fear beneath the uplifted hand of the LORD of Hosts, when He brandishes it against them. 19Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? and as a sheep before her shearers is silent. Isaiahs theology. 13O LORD our God, other lords besides You have had dominion. 16Behold, I have inscribed you on the palms of My hands; your destroyers and wreckers depart from you. 7When he sees chariots with teams of horsemen. 5For He has humbled those who dwell on high; You clear a straight path for the upright. Landscape says the LORD, who has compassion on you. and your soul will delight in the richest of foods. a peaceful pasture, a tent that does not wander; will be for us a place of rivers and wide canals. even the LORD, in the land of the living; 12My dwelling has been picked up and removed from me. the pointing of the finger and malicious talk. 7I form the light and create the darkness; and let the skies pour down righteousness. When they cry out to the LORD because of their oppressors, He will send them a savior and defender to rescue them. and there will be mourning and lamentation; she will be like an altar hearthb before Me. How then can the LORD deliver Jerusalem from my hand?, 21But the people remained silent and did not answer a word, for Hezekiah had commanded, Do not answer him.. 4Even to your old age, I will be the same. to establishb the heavens, to found the earth, and to say to Zion, You are My people., you who have drunk from the hand of the LORD, you who have drained the goblet to the dregs. 17The LORD will bring on you and on your people and on the house of your father a time unlike any since the day Ephraim separated from JudahHe will bring the king of Assyria.. Then every one of you will eat from his own vine and his own fig tree, and drink water from his own cistern,

3Then the LORD said to Isaiah, Go out with your son Shear-jashubc to meet Ahaz at the end of the aqueduct that feeds the upper pool, on the road to the Launderers Field, Why consult the dead on behalf of the living? 21Therefore now hear this, you afflicted one. 20And they will bring all your brothers from all the nations as a gift to the LORD on horses and chariots and wagons, on mules and camels, to My holy mountain Jerusalem, says the LORD, just as the Israelites bring an offering in a clean vessel to the house of the LORD.. 22Then they will look to the earth and see only distress and darkness and the gloom of anguish. The earliest recorded event in his life is his call to prophecy as now found in the sixth chapter of the Book of Isaiah; this occurred about 742 bce. they are soothsayers like the Philistines; they strike hands with the children of foreigners. and your labor on that which does not satisfy? shattered so that no fragment can be found. 6He says: It is not enough for You to be My Servant. 9And in that day it will be said, Surely this is our God; we have waited for Him, and He has saved us. 4and on that day you will say: 5Sing to the LORD, for He has done glorious things. Isaiah prophesied during the reign of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, Hezekiah, and Manasseh. will be established as the chief of the mountains; Come, let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, They will beat their swords into plowshares. Isaiahs Commission - In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord, high and exalted, seated on a throne; and the train of his robe filled the temple. 10Give this message to Hezekiah king of Judah: Do not let your God, in whom you trust, deceive you by saying that Jerusalem will not be delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria. 1At that time Merodach-baladan son of Baladan king of Babylon sent letters and a gift to Hezekiah, for he had heard about Hezekiahs illness and recovery. 25And from every high mountain and every raised hill, streams of water will flow in the day of great slaughter, when the towers fall. Do you not see it? Now I will lift Myself up. 8For the moth will devour them like a garment, 11So the redeemed of the LORD will return. 8 For he said, Surely they are my people, He faced many hardships, but continued in his call from God. He returned to Nineveh and stayed there.

1This is the burden against the Valley of Vision: that you have all gone up to the rooftops. 9Behold, the former things have happened, A New Song of Praise(Psalm 98:19; Psalm 149:19).

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Isaiah Nichols, a transfer defensive tackle from Arkansas, announced Tuesday his commitment to Purdue football ahead of the 2023 season. So they will proclaim My glory among the nations. you who are called by the name of Israel. 11Your pomp has been brought down to Sheol. They do not look to the Holy One of Israel; He will rise up against the house of the wicked. WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. The fortress of strangers is a city no more; 3Therefore, a strong people will honor You. 12Beat your breasts for the pleasant fields, The hilla and the watchtower will become caves forever. After that you will be called the City of Righteousness. and Lebanon will fall before the Mighty One. The Servants Obedience(Matthew 27:2731; Mark 15:1620; Luke 22:6365; John 19:115). a diadem of splendor to the remnant of His people. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD.

He was at home with the unprotected, the widowed and orphaned; with the dispossessed, homeless, landless; and with the resourceless victims of the moneyed mans court. I will give you two thousand horsesif you can put riders on them! When the people got upg the next morning, there were all the dead bodies! 1This is what the LORD says to Cyrus His anointed, 3I will give you the treasures of darkness. 11I will turn all My mountains into roads. and instead of humiliation, they will rejoice in their share; and so they will inherit a double portion in their land, in My faithfulness I will give them their recompense. that her forced labor has been completed; For she has received from the hand of the LORD, Prepare the way for the LORD in the wilderness;a, make a straight highway for our God in the desert.b. and the wealth of the nations will come to you. that he has granted them according to his compassion, according to the abundance of his steadfast love. 32For a remnant will go forth from Jerusalem. to disgrace all the renowned of the earth.

24Can the plunder be snatched from the mighty. They all gather together; they come to you. 14The desert creatures will meet with hyenas. what the LORD of Hosts has planned against Egypt. Where are the gods of Sepharvaim?

Written To Isaiah's words were primarily directed to the nation of Judah and the people of Jerusalem. As the new wine is found in a cluster of grapes, and men say, Do not destroy it, for it contains a blessing,. Their idols weigh down beasts and cattle. and foreigners will be your plowmen and vinedressers. they will sanctify the Holy One of Jacob. 27On that day the burden will be lifted from your shoulders. 5On that day the LORD of Hosts will be a crown of glory. 13The nations rage like the rush of many waters. for they have brought disaster upon themselves. 10Joy and gladness are removed from the orchard; No one tramples the grapes in the winepresses; 11Therefore my heart laments for Moab like a harp, 13This is the message that the LORD spoke earlier concerning Moab. Your wisdom and knowledge led you astray; you told yourself, I am, and there is none besides me.. and does not forsake the justice of their God.

26This is the plan devised for the whole earth. and even the lame will carry off plunder. I will extend peace to her like a river. Isaiah is a book that unveils the full dimensions of God's judgment and salvation. 2people and priest alike, servant and master. and all that was dear to us lies in ruins.