Thursday, May 21, 2015

Isaiah 45: 2-3



   Isaiah 45: 2-3

2 I will go before you
   and will level the mountains
   I will break down gates of bronze
   and cut through bars of iron.
3 I will give you hidden treasures,
   riches stored in secret places,
   so that you may know 
   that I am the Lord,
   the God of Israel,
   who summons you by name.

Tuesday, May 19, 2015

Isaiah 40:7-10




    Isaiah 40: 7-10

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.”
9 You who bring good news to Zion,
   go up on a high mountain.
   You who bring good news to 
   Jerusalem, lift up your voice 
   with a shout, lift it up, do not be
   afraid;
   say to the towns of Judah,
   "Here is your God!”
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.

Isaiah 40: 3-5




   Isaiah 40: 3-5

3 A voice of one calling:
  "In the wilderness prepare
    the way for the Lord
    make straight in the desert
    a highway for our God.
4 Every valley shall be raised up,
    every mountain and hill made low;
    the rough ground shall become level,
    the rugged places a plain.
5 And the glory of the Lord will be 
   revealed, and all people will see it 
   together.
   For the mouth of the Lord 
   has spoken.”

Monday, May 18, 2015

Isaiah 49: 10-11



Isaiah 49: 10-11

10 They will neither hunger 
      nor thirst, nor will the desert 
      heat or the sun beat down 
      on them. He who has 
      compassion on them 
      will guide them and lead them 
      beside springs of water.

11 I will turn all my mountains 
     into roads, and my highways 
     will be raised up.

Isaiah 48: 10-11



Isaiah 48: 10-11

10 See, I have refined you, 
     though not as silver;
     I have tested you 
     in the furnace 
     of affliction.

11 For my own sake, 
     for my own sake, 
     I do this.
     How can I let myself 
     be defamed?
     I will not yield 
     my glory to another.

Isaiah 48: 17-19




    Isaiah 48: 17-19

17 This is what the Lord says—
    your Redeemer, 
    the Holy One of Israel:
   "I am the Lord your God,
    who teaches you what is best 
    for you, who directs you 
    in the way you should   go.
18 If only you had paid attention 
    to my commands,
    your peace would have been 
    like a river,
    your well-being like the waves of the sea.
19 Your descendants would have been 
    like the sand,
    your children like its numberless grains;
    their name would never be blotted out
    nor destroyed from before me.”

Wednesday, May 13, 2015

Isaiah 55: 6-7



   Isaiah 55: 6-7

6 Seek the Lord while he may be 
   found;
   call on him while he is near.
7 Let the wicked forsake their ways
   and the unrighteous their thoughts.
   Let them turn to the Lord, 
   and he will have mercy on them,
   and to our God, for he will freely   
   pardon.

Isaiah 55: 1-3




   Isaiah 55: 1-3

1 Come, all you who are thirsty,
   come to the waters;
   and you who have no money,
   come, buy and eat!
   Come, buy wine and milk
   without money and without cost.
2 Why spend money on what is not   
   bread, and your labor on 
   what does not satisfy?
   Listen, listen to me, and eat 
   what is good, and you will delight
   in the richest of fare.
3 Give ear and come to me;
   listen, that you may live.
   I will make an everlasting covenant
   with you, my faithful love 
   promised to David.

Isaiah 55: 8- 11





    Isaiah 55: 8-11

8 “For my thoughts are not your thoughts,
    neither are your ways my ways,”
    declares the Lord.
9 “As the heavens are higher than the earth,
    so are my ways higher than your ways
    and my thoughts than your thoughts.
10 As the rain and the snow
    come down from heaven,
    and do not return to it
    without watering the earth
    and making it bud and flourish,
    so that it yields seed for the sower 
    and bread for the eater,
11 so is my word that goes out 
     from my mouth:
     It will not return to me empty,
     but will accomplish what I desire
     and achieve the purpose 
     for which I sent it.

Friday, May 1, 2015

Isaiah 51: 4-8




Isaiah 51: 4-8

4 “Listen to me, my people;
    hear me, my nation:
    Instruction will go out from me;
    my justice will become a light 
    to the nations.
5 My righteousness draws near 
    speedily,
    my salvation is on the way,
    and my arm will bring justice 
    to the nations.
    The islands will look to me
    and wait in hope for my arm.
6 Lift up your eyes to the heavens,
    look at the earth beneath;
    the heavens will vanish like smoke,
    the earth will wear out like a garment
    and its inhabitants die like flies.
    But my salvation will last forever,
    my righteousness will never fail.
7 “Hear me, you who know what is right,
    you people who have 
    taken my instruction to heart:
    Do not fear the reproach of mere    
     mortals
    or be terrified by their insults.
8 For the moth will eat them up 
    like a   garment;
    the worm will devour them like wool.
    But my righteousness will last forever,
    my salvation through all generations 


Sunday, April 5, 2015

Isaiah 43:25


       
        I, even I, am he 
        who blots out 
        your transgressions, 
        for my own sake,
        and remembers 
         your sins no more.

Monday, March 16, 2015

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.

Wednesday, March 4, 2015

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.

Tuesday, March 3, 2015

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.

Monday, March 2, 2015

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