Isaiah 1:15-17

                 

 Isaiah 1:15-17

15  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!

16  Wash and make yourselves clean.

      Take your evil deeds out of my sight;

      stop doing wrong.

17  Learn to do right; seek justice.

      Defend the oppressed.

      Take up the cause of the fatherless;

      plead the case of the widow.

Isaiah 40: 27-31

Isaiah 40: 27-31

27 Why do you complain, Jacob?

     Why do you say, Israel

     “My way is hidden from the Lord;

     my cause is disregarded by my 

     God”?

28 Do you not know?

     Have you not heard?

     The Lord is the everlasting God

     the Creator of the ends of the earth.

     He will not grow tired or weary,

     and his understanding no one can 

     fathom.

29 He gives strength to the weary

     and increases the power of the   

     weak.

30 Even youths grow tired and weary,

     and young men stumble and fall;

31 those who hope in the Lord

     will renew their strength.

     They will soar on wings like eagles;

     they will run and not grow weary,

     they will walk and not be faint.

Isaiah 40: 21-24

21 Do you not know?
Have you not heard?
Has it not been told you from the beginning?
Have you not understood since the earth was founded?
22 He sits enthroned above the circle of the earth,
and its people are like grasshoppers.
He stretches out the heavens like a canopy,
and spreads them out like a tentto live in.
23 He brings princes to naught
and reduces the rulers of this world to nothing.
24 No sooner are they planted,
no sooner are they sown,
no sooner do they take root in the ground,
than he blows on them and they wither,
and a whirlwind sweeps them away like chaff.

Isaiah 40: 13-14

Isaiah 40: 13-14

13 Who can fathom the Spirit of the 

     Lord,
     or instruct the Lord as his  

     counselor?

14 Whom did the Lord consult to   

     enlighten him,
     and who taught him the right way?

     Who was it that taught him  

     knowledge,
     or showed him the path of 

     understanding?

Isaiah 40: 10-11

Isaiah 40:10-11

10 See, the Sovereign Lord comes with    

     power,

     and he rules with a mighty arm.

     See, his reward is with him,

     and his recompense accompanies  

     him.

11 He tends his flock like a shepherd:

     He gathers the lambs in his arms

     and carries them close to his heart;

     he gently leads those that have   

     young.

Isaiah 40: 6-8

Isaiah 40: 6-8

6 A voice says, “Cry out.”

   And I said, “What shall I cry?”

  “All people are like grass,

    and all their faithfulness is like the    

   flowers of the field.

7 The grass withers and the flowers fall,

    because the breath of the Lord blows

    on them.

    Surely the people are grass.

8 The grass withers and the flowers fall

    but the word of our God   

    endures forever.

Isaiah 43: 18-19

 Isaiah 43:18-19

18 “Forget the former things;

    do not dwell on the past.

19 See, I am doing a new thing!

    Now it springs up; do you not 

    perceive it?

    I am making a way in the 

    wilderness

    and streams in the wastelands 

Isaiah 43: 1-2

Isaiah 43: 1-2

1  But now, this is what the Lord 

    says— he who created you, Jacob,

    he who formed you, Israel:

    "Do not fear, for I have redeemed you;

    I have summoned you by name; 

       you are mine.

2 When you pass through the waters,

    I will be with you;

    and when you pass through 

    the rivers,

    they will not sweep over you.

    When you walk through the fire,

    you will not be burned;

    the flames will not 

      set you ablaze.

Isaiah 45: 22-24

Isaiah 45: 22-24

There is none except Me.
22 “Turn to Me and be saved, all the ends of the earth;
For I am God, and there is no other.
23 “I have sworn by Myself,
The word has gone forth from My mouth in righteousness
And will not turn back,
That to Me every knee will bow, every tongue will swear allegiance.
24 “They will say of Me

Isaiah 45: 5-7

Isaiah 45: 5-7

5"I am the Lord, and there is no other;

   Besides Me there is no God.

   I will gird you, though you have not 

     known Me;

6 That men may know from the rising 

   to the setting of the sun

   That there is no one besides Me.

      I am the Lord, and there is no other,

7 The One forming light and creating 

    darkness,

    Causing well-being and creating    

    calamity;

       I am the Lord who does all these"