7K-Isaiah

Isaiah Chapter 1

Isaiah 1:1 (NIV)

¹ 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 (NKJV)

² Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth! For the LORD has spoken: ” I have nourished and brought up children, And they have rebelled against Me;

Isaiah 1:3 (NIV)

³ The ox knows his master, the donkey his owner’s manger, but Israel does not know, my people do not understand.”

Isaiah 1:4 (CJB)-M

⁴ “Oh, sinful nation, a people weighed down by iniquity, descendants of evildoers, immoral children! They have abandoned the Lord, spurned the Holy One of Israel, turned their backs on him!

Isaiah 1:5 (NIV)

⁵ Why should you be beaten anymore? Why do you persist in rebellion? Your whole head is injured, your whole heart afflicted.

Isaiah 1:6 (CJB)

⁶ From the sole of the foot to the head there is nothing healthy, only wounds, bruises and festering sores that haven’t been dressed or bandaged or softened up with oil.

Isaiah 1:7 (CJB)

⁷ “Your land is desolate, your cities are burned to the ground; foreigners devour your land in your presence; it’s as desolate as if overwhelmed by floods. 436

Isaiah 1:8 (AMP)

⁸ And the Daughter of Zion [Jerusalem] is left like a [deserted] booth in a vineyard, like a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, like a besieged city [spared, but in the midst of desolation].

Isaiah 1:9 (NASB)

⁹ Unless the LORD of hosts Had left us a few survivors, We would be like Sodom, We would be like Gomorrah.

Isaiah 1:10 (AMP)

¹⁰ Hear [O Jerusalem] the word of the Lord, you rulers or judges of [another] Sodom! Give ear to the law and the teaching of our God, you people of [another] Gomorrah!

Isaiah 1:11 (AMP)

¹¹ To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices to Me [unless they are the offering of the heart]? says the Lord. I have had enough of the burnt offerings of rams and the fat of fed beasts [without obedience]; and I do not delight in the blood of bulls or of lambs or of he-goats [without righteousness].

Isaiah 1:12 (CJB)

¹² Yes, you come to appear in my presence; but who asked you to do this, to trample through my courtyards?

Isaiah 1:13 (NIV)

¹³ Stop bringing meaningless offerings! Your incense is detestable to me. New Moons, Sabbaths and convocations– I cannot bear your evil assemblies.

Isaiah 1:13 (CJB)-M

¹³ Stop bringing worthless grain offerings! They are like disgusting incense to me! New Moons, Sabbaths, and calling convocations— I can’t stand evil together with your assemblies!

Isaiah 1:14 (NIV)

¹⁴ Your New Moon festivals and your appointed feasts my soul hates. They have become a burden to me; I am weary of bearing them.

Isaiah 1:15 (CJB)

¹⁵ “When you spread out your hands, I will hide my eyes from you; no matter how much you pray, I won’t be listening; because your hands are covered with blood.

Isaiah 1:16 (NASB)

¹⁶ “Wash yourselves, make yourselves clean; Remove the evil of your deeds from My sight. Cease to do evil,

Isaiah 1:17 (CJB)

¹⁷ learn to do good! Seek justice, relieve the oppressed, defend orphans, plead for the widow.

Isaiah 1:18 (CJB)-M

¹⁸ “Come now,” says the Lord, “let’s talk this over together. Even if your sins are like scarlet, they will be white as snow; even if they are red as crimson, they will be like wool.

Isaiah 1:19 (NIV)

¹⁹ If you are willing and obedient, you will eat the best from the land;

Isaiah 1:20 (NIV)

²⁰ but if you resist and rebel, you will be devoured by the sword.” For the mouth of the LORD has spoken.

Isaiah 1:21 (7KB)

²¹ Jerusalem was once so faithful to God but now she has become a prostitute. She was once the home of justice and righteousness but now she is filled with murderers.

Isaiah 1:22 (NIV)

²² Your silver has become dross, your choice wine is diluted with water.

Isaiah 1:23 (AMP)

²³ Your princes are rebels and companions of thieves; everyone loves bribes and runs after compensation and rewards. They judge not for the fatherless nor defend them, neither does the cause of the widow come to them [for they delay or turn a deaf ear].

Isaiah 1:24 (NASB)

²⁴ Therefore the Lord GOD of hosts, The Mighty One of Israel, declares, “Ah, I will be relieved of My adversaries And avenge Myself on My foes.

Isaiah 1:25 (CJB)

²⁵ But I will also turn my hand against you! I will cleanse your impurities as with lye and remove all your alloyed base metal.

Isaiah 1:26 (CJB)

²⁶ I will restore your judges as at first and your advisers as at the beginning. After that, you will be called the City of Righteousness, Faithful City.

Isaiah 1:27 (NASB)

²⁷ Zion will be redeemed with justice And her repentant ones with righteousness.

Isaiah 1:28 (NASB)

²⁸ But transgressors and sinners will be crushed together, And those who forsake the LORD will come to an end.

Isaiah 1:29 (AMP)

²⁹ For you will be ashamed [of the folly and degradation] of the oak or terebinth trees in which you found [idolatrous] pleasure, and you will blush with shame for the [idolatrous worship which you practice in the passion-inflaming] gardens which you have chosen.

Isaiah 1:30 (AMP)

³⁰ For you shall be like an oak or terebinth whose leaf withers, and like a garden that has no water.

Isaiah 1:31 (NIV)

³¹ The mighty man will become tinder and his work a spark; both will burn together, with no one to quench the fire.”

Isaiah Chapter 2

Isaiah 2:1 (NIV)

¹ This is what Isaiah son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem:

Isaiah 2:2 (NIV)

² In the last days the mountain of the LORD’s temple will be established as chief among the mountains; it will be raised above the hills, and all nations will stream to it.

Isaiah 2:3 (NIV)

³ Many peoples will come and say, “Come, let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob. He will teach us his ways, so that we may walk in his paths.” The law will go out from Zion, the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.

Isaiah 2:4 (NIV)

⁴ He will judge between the nations and will settle disputes for many peoples. They will beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation will not take up sword against nation, nor will they train for war anymore.

Isaiah 2:5 (NIV)

⁵ Come, O house of Jacob, let us walk in the light of the LORD.

Isaiah 2:6 (NIV)

⁶ You have abandoned your people, the house of Jacob. They are full of superstitions from the East; they practice divination like the Philistines and clasp hands with pagans.

Isaiah 2:7 (NASB)

⁷ Their land has also been filled with silver and gold And there is no end to their treasures; Their land has also been filled with horses And there is no end to their chariots.

Isaiah 2:8 (CJB)

⁸ Their land is full of idols; everyone worships the work of his hands, what his own fingers have made.

Isaiah 2:9 (AMP)-M

⁹ And the common man is bowed down [before idols], also the great man is brought low and humbles himself [before idols] —therefore forgive them not [O Lord].

Isaiah 2:10 (CJB)-M

¹⁰ Come into the rock, hide in the dust to escape the terror of the Lord and the glory of his majesty.

Isaiah 2:11 (NASB)

¹¹ The proud look of man will be abased And the loftiness of man will be humbled, And the LORD alone will be exalted in that day.

Isaiah 2:12 (AMP)

¹² For there shall be a day of the Lord of hosts against all who are proud and haughty and against all who are lifted up—and they shall be brought low—

Isaiah 2:13 (NASB)

¹³ And it will be against all the cedars of Lebanon that are lofty and lifted up, Against all the oaks of Bashan,

Isaiah 2:14 (NASB)

¹⁴ Against all the lofty mountains, Against all the hills that are lifted up,

Isaiah 2:15 (NASB)

¹⁵ Against every high tower, Against every fortified wall,

Isaiah 2:16 (NASB)

¹⁶ Against all the ships of Tarshish And against all the beautiful craft.

Isaiah 2:17 (AMP)

¹⁷ Then the loftiness of man shall be bowed down, and the haughtiness of men shall be brought low; and the Lord alone shall be exalted in that day.

Isaiah 2:18 (CJB)

¹⁸ The idols will be completely abolished.

Isaiah 2:19 (CJB)-M

¹⁹ People will enter cracks in the rocks and holes in the ground to escape the terror of the Lord and his glorious majesty, when he sets out to convulse the earth.

Isaiah 2:20 (CJB)

²⁰ On that day a man will take hold of his idols of silver and idols of gold, which they made for themselves to worship, and fling them away to the moles and bats!

Isaiah 2:21 (CJB)-M

²¹ Then they will enter the cracks in the rocks and the crevices in the cliffs to escape the terror of the Lord and his glorious majesty, when he sets out to convulse the earth.

Isaiah 2:22 (NIV2011)-M

²² Stop trusting in mere humans, who are as frail as breath. Why hold them in esteem for what good are they?

Isaiah Chapter 3

Isaiah 3:1 (NASB)

¹ For behold, the Lord GOD of hosts is going to remove from Jerusalem and Judah Both supply and support, the whole supply of bread And the whole supply of water;

Isaiah 3:2 (AMP)

² The mighty man and the man of war, the judge and the [professional] prophet, the one who foretells by divination and the old man,

Isaiah 3:3 (AMP)

³ The captain of fifty and the man of rank, the counselor and the expert craftsman and the skillful enchanter.

Isaiah 3:4 (BBE)

⁴ And I will make children their chiefs, and foolish ones will have rule over them.

Isaiah 3:5 (NLT2)

⁵ People will oppress each other— man against man, neighbor against neighbor. Young people will insult their elders, and vulgar people will sneer at the honorable.

Isaiah 3:6 (NIV)

⁶ A man will seize one of his brothers at his father’s home, and say, “You have a cloak, you be our leader; take charge of this heap of ruins!”

Isaiah 3:7 (NKJV)

⁷ In that day he will protest, saying, “I cannot cure your ills, For in my house is neither food nor clothing; Do not make me a ruler of the people.”

Isaiah 3:8 (AMP)

⁸ For Jerusalem is ruined and Judah is fallen, because their speech and their deeds are against the Lord, to provoke the eyes of His glory and defy His glorious presence.

Isaiah 3:9 (NIV)

⁹ The look on their faces testifies against them; they parade their sin like Sodom; they do not hide it. Woe to them! They have brought disaster upon themselves.

Isaiah 3:10 (CJB)

¹⁰ Say that it will go well with the righteous, that they will enjoy the fruit of their actions;

Isaiah 3:11 (NIV)

¹¹ Woe to the wicked! Disaster is upon them! They will be paid back for what their hands have done.

Isaiah 3:12 (NASB)

¹² O My people! Their oppressors are children, And women rule over them. O My people! Those who guide you lead you astray And confuse the direction of your paths.

Isaiah 3:13 (NIV)

¹³ The LORD takes his place in court; he rises to judge the people.

Isaiah 3:14 (NIV)

¹⁴ The LORD enters into judgment against the elders and leaders of his people: “It is you who have ruined my vineyard; the plunder from the poor is in your houses.

Isaiah 3:15 (NIV)

¹⁵ What do you mean by crushing my people and grinding the faces of the poor?” declares the Lord, the LORD Almighty.

Isaiah 3:16 (NIV)

¹⁶ The LORD says, “The women of Zion are haughty, walking along with outstretched necks, flirting with their eyes, tripping along with mincing steps, with ornaments jingling on their ankles.

Isaiah 3:17 (NKJV)

¹⁷ Therefore the Lord will strike with a scab The crown of the head of the daughters of Zion, And the LORD will uncover their secret parts.”

Isaiah 3:18 (NIV)

¹⁸ In that day the Lord will snatch away their finery: the bangles and headbands and crescent necklaces,

Isaiah 3:19 (NIV)

¹⁹ the earrings and bracelets and veils,

Isaiah 3:20 (NIV)

²⁰ the headdresses and ankle chains and sashes, the perfume bottles and charms,

Isaiah 3:21 (NIV)

²¹ the signet rings and nose rings,

Isaiah 3:22 (NIV)

²² the fine robes and the capes and cloaks, the purses

Isaiah 3:23 (NIV)

²³ and mirrors, and the linen garments and tiaras and shawls.

Isaiah 3:24 (NIV)

²⁴ Instead of fragrance there will be a stench; instead of a sash, a rope; instead of well-dressed hair, baldness; instead of fine clothing, sackcloth; instead of beauty, branding.

Isaiah 3:25 (NIV)

²⁵ Your men will fall by the sword, your warriors in battle.

Isaiah 3:26 (AMP)

²⁶ And [Jerusalem’s] gates shall lament and mourn [as those who wail for the dead]; and she, being ruined and desolate, shall sit upon the ground.

Isaiah Chapter 4

Isaiah 4:1 (AMP)

¹ And in that day seven women shall take hold of one man, saying, We will eat our own bread and provide our own apparel; only let us be called by your name to take away our reproach [of being unmarried].

Isaiah 4:2 (AMP)

² In that day the Branch of the Lord shall be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the land shall be excellent and lovely to those of Israel who have escaped.

Isaiah 4:3 (NIV)

³ Those who are left in Zion, who remain in Jerusalem, will be called holy, all who are recorded among the living in Jerusalem.

Isaiah 4:4 (AMP)

⁴ After the Lord has washed away the [moral] filth of the daughters of Zion [pride, vanity, haughtiness] and has purged the bloodstains of Jerusalem from the midst of it by the spirit and blast of judgment and by the spirit and blast of burning and sifting.

Isaiah 4:5 (CJB)-M

⁵ Adonai will create over the whole site of Mount Zion and over those who assemble there a smoking cloud by day and a shining, flaming fire by night; for the Glory will be over everything like a canopy.

Isaiah 4:6 (CJB)-M

⁶ A shelter will give shade by day from the heat; it will also provide refuge and cover from storm and rain.

Isaiah Chapter 5

Isaiah 5:1 (AMP)

¹ LET ME [as God’s representative] sing of and for my greatly Beloved [God, the Son] a tender song of my Beloved concerning His vineyard [His chosen people]. My greatly Beloved had a vineyard on a very fruitful hill.

Isaiah 5:2 (CJB)

² He dug up its stones and cleared them away, planted it with the choicest vines, built a watchtower in the middle of it, and carved out in its rock a winepress. He expected it to produce good grapes, but it produced only sour, wild grapes.

Isaiah 5:3 (CJB)-M

³ “Now, citizens of Jerusalem and people of Judah, judge between me and my vineyard.

Isaiah 5:4 (CJB)

⁴ What more could I have done for my vineyard that I haven’t already done in it? So why, when I expected good grapes, did it produce sour, wild grapes?

Isaiah 5:5 (NIV)

⁵ Now I will tell you what I am going to do to my vineyard: I will take away its hedge, and it will be destroyed; I will break down its wall, and it will be trampled.

Isaiah 5:6 (CJB)

⁶ I will let it go to waste: it will be neither pruned nor hoed, but overgrown with briars and thorns. I will also order the clouds not to let rain fall on it.”

Isaiah 5:7 (NIV)

⁷ The vineyard of the LORD Almighty is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah are the garden of his delight. And he looked for justice, but saw bloodshed; for righteousness, but heard cries of distress.

Isaiah 5:8 (BBE)

⁸ Cursed are those who are joining house to house, and putting field to field, till there is no more living-space for any but themselves in all the land!

Isaiah 5:9 (NIV)

⁹ The LORD Almighty has declared in my hearing: “Surely the great houses will become desolate, the fine mansions left without occupants.

Isaiah 5:10 (CJB)

¹⁰ for a ten-acre vineyard will produce only five gallons of wine, and seed from five bushels of grain will yield but half a bushel.”

Isaiah 5:11 (CJB)

¹¹ Woe to those who get up early to pursue intoxicating liquor; who stay up late at night, until wine inflames them.

Isaiah 5:12 (NIV)

¹² They have harps and lyres at their banquets, tambourines and flutes and wine, but they have no regard for the deeds of the LORD, no respect for the work of his hands.

Isaiah 5:13 (CJB)

¹³ For such lack of knowledge my people go into exile; this is also why their respected men starve and their masses are parched from thirst.

Isaiah 5:14 (NIV2011)

¹⁴ Therefore Death expands its jaws, opening wide its mouth; into it will descend their nobles and masses with all their brawlers and revelers.

Isaiah 5:15 (AMP)

¹⁵ And the common man is bowed down, and the great man is brought low, and the eyes of the haughty are humbled.

Isaiah 5:16 (NASB)

¹⁶ But the LORD of hosts will be exalted in judgment, And the holy God will show Himself holy in righteousness.

Isaiah 5:17 (NIV)

¹⁷ Then sheep will graze as in their own pasture; lambs will feed among the ruins of the rich.

Isaiah 5:18 (AMP)

¹⁸ Woe to those who draw [calamity] with cords of iniquity and falsehood, who bring punishment to themselves with a cart rope of wickedness,

Isaiah 5:19 (AMP)

¹⁹ Who say, Let [the Holy One] make haste and speed His [prophesied] vengeance, that we may see it; and let the purpose of the Holy One of Israel draw near and come, that we may know it!

Isaiah 5:20 (NASB)

²⁰ Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; Who substitute darkness for light and light for darkness; Who substitute bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!

Isaiah 5:21 (NASB)

²¹ Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes And clever in their own sight!

Isaiah 5:22 (CJB)

²² Woe to those who are heroes at drinking wine, men whose power goes to mixing strong drinks,

Isaiah 5:23 (NIV)

²³ who acquit the guilty for a bribe, but deny justice to the innocent.

Isaiah 5:24 (NASB)

²⁴ Therefore, as a tongue of fire consumes stubble And dry grass collapses into the flame, So their root will become like rot and their blossom blow away as dust; For they have rejected the law of the LORD of hosts And despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.

Isaiah 5:25 (CJB)-M

²⁵ This is why the Lord’s anger blazed up against his people, why he stretched out his hand against them and struck them [so hard that] the hills shook, and corpses lay like trash in the streets. Even after all this, his anger remains, his upraised hand still threatens.

Isaiah 5:26 (AMP)

²⁶ And He will lift up a signal to call together a hostile people from afar [to execute His judgment on Judea], and will hiss for them from the end of the earth [as bees are hissed from their hives], and behold, they shall come with speed, swiftly!

Isaiah 5:27 (CJB)

²⁷ none of them tired or stumbling, none of them sleeping or drowsy, none with a loose belt, none with a broken sandal-strap.

Isaiah 5:28 (CJB)

²⁸ Their arrows are sharp, all their bows are strung, their horses’ hoofs are like flint, and their [chariot] wheels like a whirlwind.

Isaiah 5:29 (AMP)

²⁹ Their roaring is like that of a lioness, they roar like young lions; they growl and seize their prey and carry it safely away, and there is none to deliver it.

Isaiah 5:30 (AMP)

³⁰ And in that day they [the army from afar] shall roar against [the Jews] like the roaring of the sea. And if one looks to the land, behold, there is darkness and distress; and the light [itself] will be darkened by the clouds of it.

Isaiah Chapter 6

Isaiah 6:1 (NASB)

¹ In the year of King Uzziah’s death I saw the Lord sitting on a throne, lofty and exalted, with the train of His robe filling the temple.

Isaiah 6:2 (NASB)

² Seraphim stood above Him, each having six wings: with two he covered his face, and with two he covered his feet, and with two he flew.

Isaiah 6:3 (NASB)

³ And one called out to another and said, “Holy, Holy, Holy, is the LORD of hosts, The whole earth is full of His glory.”

Isaiah 6:4 (NASB)

⁴ And the foundations of the thresholds trembled at the voice of him who called out, while the temple was filling with smoke.

Isaiah 6:5 (NASB)

⁵ Then I said, “Woe is me, for I am ruined! Because I am a man of unclean lips, And I live among a people of unclean lips; For my eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts.”

Isaiah 6:6 (AMP)

⁶ Then flew one of the seraphim [heavenly beings] to me, having a live coal in his hand which he had taken with tongs from off the altar;

Isaiah 6:7 (AMP)

⁷ And with it he touched my mouth and said, Behold, this has touched your lips; your iniquity and guilt are taken away, and your sin is completely atoned for and forgiven.

Isaiah 6:8 (NASB)

⁸ Then I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, “Whom shall I send, and who will go for Us?” Then I said, “Here am I. Send me!”

Isaiah 6:9 (NASB)

⁹ He said, “Go, and tell this people: ‘Keep on listening, but do not perceive; Keep on looking, but do not understand.’

Isaiah 6:10 (NASB)

¹⁰ “Render the hearts of this people insensitive, Their ears dull, And their eyes dim, Otherwise they might see with their eyes, Hear with their ears, Understand with their hearts, And return and be healed.”

Isaiah 6:11 (NASB)

¹¹ Then I said, “Lord, how long?” And He answered, “Until cities are devastated and without inhabitant, Houses are without people And the land is utterly desolate,

Isaiah 6:12 (AMP)

¹² And the Lord removes [His] people far away, and the forsaken places are many in the midst of the land.

Isaiah 6:13 (AMP)

¹³ And though a tenth [of the people] remain in the land, it will be for their destruction [eaten up and burned] like a terebinth tree or like an oak whose stump and substance remain when they are felled or have cast their leaves. The holy seed [the elect remnant] is the stump and substance [of Israel].

Isaiah Chapter 7

Isaiah 7:1 (NIV)

¹ When Ahaz son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, was king of Judah, King Rezin of Aram and Pekah son of Remaliah king of Israel marched up to fight against Jerusalem, but they could not overpower it.

Isaiah 7:2 (AMP)

² And the house of David [Judah] was told, Syria is allied with Ephraim [Israel]. And the heart [of Ahaz] and the hearts of his people trembled and shook, as the trees of the forest tremble and shake with the wind.

Isaiah 7:3 (AMP)

³ Then said the Lord to Isaiah, Go forth now to meet Judah’s King Ahaz, you and your son Shear-jashub [a remnant shall return], at the end of the aqueduct or canal of the Upper Pool on the highway to the Fuller’s Field;

Isaiah 7:4 (AMP)

⁴ And say to him, Take heed and be quiet; fear not, neither be fainthearted because of these two stumps of smoking firebrands—at the fierce anger of [the Syrian King] Rezin and Syria and of the son of Remaliah [Pekah, usurper of the throne of Israel].

Isaiah 7:5 (AMP)

⁵ Because Syria, Ephraim [Israel], and the son of Remaliah have purposed evil against you [Judah], saying,

Isaiah 7:6 (AMP)

⁶ Let us go up against Judah and harass and terrify it; and let us cleave it asunder [each of us taking a portion], and set a [vassal] king in the midst of it, namely the son of Tabeel,

Isaiah 7:7 (AMP)

⁷ Thus says the Lord God: It shall not stand, neither shall it come to pass.

Isaiah 7:8 (AMP)

⁸ For the head [the capital] of Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is [King] Rezin. Within sixty-five years Ephraim will be broken to pieces so that it will no longer be a people.

Isaiah 7:9 (NIV2011)

⁹ The head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is only Remaliah’s son. If you do not stand firm in your faith, you will not stand at all.’ ”

Isaiah 7:10 (AMP)

¹⁰ Moreover, the Lord spoke again to King Ahaz, saying,

Isaiah 7:11 (AMP)

¹¹ Ask for yourself a sign (a token or proof) of the Lord your God [one that will convince you that God has spoken and will keep His word]; ask it either in the depth below or in the height above [let it be as deep as Sheol or as high as heaven].

Isaiah 7:12 (NIV)

¹² But Ahaz said, “I will not ask; I will not put the LORD to the test.”

Isaiah 7:13 (NIV)

¹³ Then Isaiah said, “Hear now, you house of David! Is it not enough to try the patience of men? Will you try the patience of my God also?

Isaiah 7:14 (NIV)

¹⁴ Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign: The virgin will be with child and will give birth to a son, and will call him Immanuel.

Isaiah 7:15 (CJB)

¹⁵ By the time he knows enough to refuse evil and choose good, he will [have to] eat curdled milk and [wild] honey.

Isaiah 7:16 (CJB)

¹⁶ Yes, before the child knows enough to refuse evil and choose good, the land whose two kings you dread will be left abandoned.

Isaiah 7:17 (AMP)

¹⁷ The Lord shall bring upon you and upon your people and upon your father’s house such days as have not come since the day that Ephraim [the ten northern tribes] departed from Judah—even the king of Assyria.

Isaiah 7:18 (AMP)

¹⁸ And in that day the Lord shall whistle for the fly [the numerous and troublesome foe] that is in the whole extent of the canal country of Egypt and for the bee that is in the land of Assyria.

Isaiah 7:19 (AMP)

¹⁹ And these [enemies like flies and bees] shall come and shall rest all of them in the desolate and rugged valleys and deep ravines and in the clefts of the rocks, and on all the thornbushes and on all the pastures.

Isaiah 7:20 (AMP)

²⁰ In the same day [will the people of Judah be utterly stripped of belongings], the Lord will shave with the razor that is hired from the parts beyond the River [Euphrates]—even with the king of Assyria—[that razor will shave] the head and the hair of the legs, and it shall also consume the beard [leaving Judah with open shame and scorn].

Isaiah 7:21 (AMP)

²¹ And [because of the desolation brought on by the invaders] in that day, a man will [be so poor that he will] keep alive only a young milk cow and two sheep.

Isaiah 7:22 (AMP)

²² And because of the abundance of milk that they will give, he will eat butter and curds, for [only] butter and curds and [wild] honey [no vegetables] shall everyone eat who is left in the land [these products provided from the extensive pastures and the plentiful wild flowers upon which the bees depend].

Isaiah 7:23 (7KB)
23 And it will come about in that day, that every place where there used to be a thousand vines, valued at a thousand shekels of silver (each), will become briars and thorns.

Isaiah 7:24 (AMP)

²⁴ With arrows and with bows shall a man come [to hunt] there, because all the land will be briers and thorns.

Isaiah 7:25 (AMP)

²⁵ And as for all the hills that were formerly cultivated with mattock and hoe, you will not go there for fear of briers and thorns; but they will become a place where oxen are let loose to pasture and where sheep tread.

Isaiah Chapter 8

Isaiah 8:1 (CJB)-M

¹ Adonai said to me, “Take a large tablet, and write on it in easily readable letters; ‘Maher-Shalal-Hash-Baz [the spoil hurries, the prey speeds along].’”

Isaiah 8:2 (CJB)-M

² I had it witnessed for me by reliable witnesses— Uriah the priest and Zechariah the son of Jeberekiah.

Isaiah 8:3 (CJB)-M

³ Then I had sexual relations with my wife; she became pregnant and gave birth to a son; and the Lord said to me, “Name him Maher Shalal Hash Baz;

Isaiah 8:4 (AMP)

⁴ For before the child knows how to say, My father or my mother, the riches of Damascus [Syria’s capital] and the spoil of Samaria [Israel’s capital] shall be carried away before the king of Assyria.

Isaiah 8:5 (NASB)

⁵ Again the LORD spoke to me further, saying,

Isaiah 8:6 (AMP)

⁶ Because this people [Israel and Judah] have refused and despised the waters of Shiloah [Siloam, the only perennial fountain of Jerusalem, and symbolic of God’s protection and sustaining power] that go gently, and rejoice in and with Rezin [the king of Syria] and Remaliah’s son [Pekah the king of Israel],

Isaiah 8:7 (AMP)

⁷ Now therefore, behold, the Lord brings upon them the waters of the River [Euphrates], strong and many—even the king of Assyria and all the glory [of his gorgeous retinue]; and it will rise over all its channels, brooks, valleys, and canals and extend far beyond its banks;

Isaiah 8:8 (AMP)

⁸ And it will sweep on into Judah; it will overflow and go over [the hills], reaching even [but only] to the neck [of which Jerusalem is the head], and the outstretched wings [of the armies of Assyria] shall fill the breadth of Your land, O Immanuel [Messiah, God is with us]!

Isaiah 8:9 (AMP)

⁹ Make an uproar and be broken in pieces, O you peoples [rage, raise the war cry, do your worst, and be utterly dismayed]! Give ear, all you [our enemies] of far countries. Gird yourselves [for war], and be thrown into consternation! Gird yourselves, and be [utterly] dismayed!

Isaiah 8:10 (AMP)

¹⁰ Take counsel together [against Judah], but it shall come to nought; speak the word, but it will not stand, for God is with us [Immanuel]!

Isaiah 8:11 (AMP)

¹¹ For the Lord spoke thus to me with His strong hand [upon me], and warned and instructed me not to walk in the way of this people, saying,

Isaiah 8:12 (NIV)

¹² “Do not call conspiracy everything that these people call conspiracy; do not fear what they fear, and do not dread it.

Isaiah 8:13 (NIV)

¹³ The LORD Almighty is the one you are to regard as holy, he is the one you are to fear, he is the one you are to dread,

Isaiah 8:14 (AMP)

¹⁴ And He shall be a sanctuary [a sacred and indestructible asylum to those who reverently fear and trust in Him]; but He shall be a Stone of stumbling and a Rock of offense to both the houses of Israel, a trap and a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

Isaiah 8:15 (AMP)

¹⁵ And many among them shall stumble thereon; and they shall fall and be broken, and be snared and taken.

Isaiah 8:16 (AMP)

¹⁶ Bind up the testimony, seal the law and the teaching among my [Isaiah’s] disciples.

Isaiah 8:17 (NASB)

¹⁷ And I will wait for the LORD who is hiding His face from the house of Jacob; I will even look eagerly for Him.

Isaiah 8:18 (NIV)

¹⁸ Here am I, and the children the LORD has given me. We are signs and symbols in Israel from the LORD Almighty, who dwells on Mount Zion.

Isaiah 8:19 (AMP)

¹⁹ And when the people [instead of putting their trust in God] shall say to you, Consult for direction mediums and wizards who chirp and mutter, should not a people seek and consult their God? Should they consult the dead on behalf of the living?

Isaiah 8:20 (AMP)

²⁰ [Direct such people] to the teaching and to the testimony! If their teachings are not in accord with this word, it is surely because there is no dawn and no morning for them.

Isaiah 8:21 (NIV)

²¹ Distressed and hungry, they will roam through the land; when they are famished, they will become enraged and, looking upward, will curse their king and their God.

Isaiah 8:22 (NIV)

²² Then they will look toward the earth and see only distress and darkness and fearful gloom, and they will be thrust into utter darkness.

Isaiah Chapter 9

Isaiah 9:1 (NIV)

¹ Nevertheless, there will be no more gloom for those who were in distress. In the past he humbled the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, but in the future he will honor Galilee of the Gentiles, by the way of the sea, along the Jordan–

Isaiah 9:2 (NIV)

² The people walking in darkness have seen a great light; on those living in the land of the shadow of death a light has dawned.

Isaiah 9:3 (NASB)

³ You shall multiply the nation, You shall increase their gladness; They will be glad in Your presence As with the gladness of harvest, As men rejoice when they divide the spoil.

Isaiah 9:4 (NIV)

⁴ For as in the day of Midian’s defeat, you have shattered the yoke that burdens them, the bar across their shoulders, the rod of their oppressor.

Isaiah 9:5 (CJB)

⁵ For all the boots of soldiers marching and every cloak rolled in blood is destined for burning, fuel for the fire.

Isaiah 9:6 (NIV)

⁶ For to us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the government will be on his shoulders. And he will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.

Isaiah 9:7 (AMP)

⁷ Of the increase of His government and of peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David and over his kingdom, to establish it and to uphold it with justice and with righteousness from the [latter] time forth, even forevermore. The zeal of the Lord of hosts will perform this.

Isaiah 9:8 (NIV)

⁸ The Lord has sent a message against Jacob; it will fall on Israel.

Isaiah 9:9 (AMP)

⁹ And all the people shall know it—even Ephraim and the inhabitants of Samaria [its capital]—who said in pride and stoutness of heart,

Isaiah 9:10 (NIV)

¹⁰ “The bricks have fallen down, but we will rebuild with dressed stone; the fig trees have been felled, but we will replace them with cedars.”

Isaiah 9:11 (AMP)

¹¹ Therefore the Lord has stirred up the adversaries [the Assyrians] of Rezin [king of Syria] against [Ephraim], and He will stir up their enemies and arm and join them together,

Isaiah 9:12 (NIV)

¹² Arameans from the east and Philistines from the west have devoured Israel with open mouth. Yet for all this, his anger is not turned away, his hand is still upraised.

Isaiah 9:13 (AMP)

¹³ Yet the people turn not to Him Who smote them, neither do they seek [inquire for or require as their vital need] the Lord of hosts.

Isaiah 9:14 (AMP)

¹⁴ Therefore the Lord will cut off from Israel head and tail [the highest and the lowest]—[high] palm branch and [low] rush in one day;

Isaiah 9:15 (NIV)

¹⁵ the elders and prominent men are the head, the prophets who teach lies are the tail.

Isaiah 9:16 (NIV)

¹⁶ Those who guide this people mislead them, and those who are guided are led astray.

Isaiah 9:17 (AMP)

¹⁷ Therefore the Lord will not rejoice over their young men, neither will He have compassion on their fatherless and widows, for everyone is profane and an evildoer, and every mouth speaks folly. For all this, [God’s] anger is not turned away, but His hand is still stretched out [in judgment].

Isaiah 9:18 (AMP)

¹⁸ For wickedness burns like a fire; it devours the briers and thorns, and it kindles in the thickets of the forest; they roll upward in a column of smoke.

Isaiah 9:19 (NIV)

¹⁹ By the wrath of the LORD Almighty the land will be scorched and the people will be fuel for the fire; no one will spare his brother.

Isaiah 9:20 (AMP)

²⁰ They snatch in discord on the right hand, but are still hungry [their cruelty not diminished]; and they devour and destroy on the left hand, but are not satisfied. Each devours and destroys his own flesh [and blood] or his neighbor’s.

Isaiah 9:21 (AMP)

²¹ Manasseh [thirsts for the blood of his brother] Ephraim, and Ephraim [for that of] Manasseh; but together they are against Judah. For all this, [God’s] anger is not turned away, but His hand is still stretched out [in judgment].

Isaiah Chapter 10

Isaiah 10:1 (AMP)

¹ Woe to those [judges] who issue unrighteous decrees, and to the magistrates who keep causing unjust and oppressive decisions to be recorded,

Isaiah 10:2 (NIV)

² to deprive the poor of their rights and withhold justice from the oppressed of my people, making widows their prey and robbing the fatherless.

Isaiah 10:3 (AMP)

³ And what will you do in the day of visitation [of God’s wrath], and in the desolation which shall come from afar? To whom will you flee for help? And where will you deposit [for safekeeping] your wealth and with whom leave your glory?

Isaiah 10:4 (AMP)

⁴ Without Me they shall bow down among the prisoners, and they shall fall [overwhelmed] under the heaps of the slain [on the battlefield]. For all this, [God’s] anger is not turned away, but His hand is still stretched out [in judgment].

Isaiah 10:5 (AMP)

⁵ Woe to the Assyrian, the rod of My anger, the staff in whose hand is My indignation and fury [against Israel’s disobedience]!

Isaiah 10:6 (AMP)

⁶ I send [the Assyrian] against a hypocritical and godless nation and against the people of My wrath; I command him to take the spoil and to seize the prey and to tread them down like the mire in the streets.

Isaiah 10:7 (AMP)

⁷ However, this is not his intention [nor is the Assyrian aware that he is doing this at My bidding], neither does his mind so think and plan; but it is in his mind to destroy and cut off many nations.

Isaiah 10:8 (AMP)

⁸ For [the Assyrian] says, Are not my officers all either [subjugated] kings or their equal?

Isaiah 10:9 (AMP)

⁹ Is not Calno [of Babylonia conquered] like Carchemish [on the Euphrates]? Is not Hamath [in Upper Syria] like Arpad [her neighbor]? Is not Samaria [in Israel] like Damascus [in Syria]? [Have any of these cities been able to resist Assyria? Not one!]

Isaiah 10:10 (AMP)

¹⁰ As my hand has reached to the kingdoms of the idols [which were unable to defend them,] whose graven images were more to be feared and dreaded and more mighty than those of Jerusalem and of Samaria—

Isaiah 10:11 (AMP)

¹¹ Shall I not be able to do to Jerusalem and her images as I have done to Samaria and her idols? [says the Assyrian]

Isaiah 10:12 (AMP)

¹² Therefore when the Lord has completed all His work [of chastisement and purification to be executed] on Mount Zion and on Jerusalem, it shall be that He will inflict punishment on the fruit [the thoughts, words, and deeds] of the stout and arrogant heart of the king of Assyria and the haughtiness of his pride.

Isaiah 10:13 (NIV)

¹³ For he says: “‘By the strength of my hand I have done this, and by my wisdom, because I have understanding. I removed the boundaries of nations, I plundered their treasures; like a mighty one I subdued their kings.

Isaiah 10:14 (AMP)

¹⁴ And my hand has found like a nest the wealth of the people; and as one gathers eggs that are forsaken, so I have gathered all the earth; and there was none that moved its wing, or that opened its mouth or chirped.

Isaiah 10:15 (AMP)

¹⁵ Shall the ax boast itself against him who chops with it? Or shall the saw magnify itself against him who wields it back and forth? As if a rod should wield those who lift it up, or as if a staff should lift itself up as if it were not wood [but a man of God]!

Isaiah 10:16 (AMP)

¹⁶ Therefore will the Lord, the Lord of hosts, send leanness among [the Assyrian’s] fat ones; and instead of his glory or under it He will kindle a burning like the burning of fire.

Isaiah 10:17 (AMP)

¹⁷ And the Light of Israel shall become a fire and His Holy One a flame, and it will burn and devour [the Assyrian’s] thorns and briers in one day.

Isaiah 10:18 (NASB)

¹⁸ And He will destroy the glory of his forest and of his fruitful garden, both soul and body, And it will be as when a sick man wastes away.

Isaiah 10:19 (NIV)

¹⁹ And the remaining trees of his forests will be so few that a child could write them down.

Isaiah 10:20 (NIV)

²⁰ In that day the remnant of Israel, the survivors of the house of Jacob, will no longer rely on him who struck them down but will truly rely on the LORD, the Holy One of Israel.

Isaiah 10:21 (NIV)

²¹ A remnant will return, a remnant of Jacob will return to the Mighty God.

Isaiah 10:22 (NIV)

²² Though your people, O Israel, be like the sand by the sea, only a remnant will return. Destruction has been decreed, overwhelming and righteous.

Isaiah 10:23 (NIV)

²³ The Lord, the LORD Almighty, will carry out the destruction decreed upon the whole land.

Isaiah 10:24 (AMP)

²⁴ Therefore thus says the Lord, the Lord of hosts, O My people who dwell in Zion, do not be afraid of the Assyrian, who smites you with a rod and lifts up his staff against you, as [the king of] Egypt did.

Isaiah 10:25 (AMP)

²⁵ For yet a little while and My indignation against you shall be accomplished, and My anger shall be directed to destruction [of the Assyrian].

Isaiah 10:26 (NIV)

²⁶ The LORD Almighty will lash them with a whip, as when he struck down Midian at the rock of Oreb; and he will raise his staff over the waters, as he did in Egypt.

Isaiah 10:27 (KJV)

²⁷ And it shall come to pass in that day, that his burden shall be taken away from off thy shoulder, and his yoke from off thy neck, and the yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing.

Isaiah 10:28 (AMP)

²⁸ [The Assyrian with his army comes to Judah]. He arrives at Aiath; he passes through Migron; at Michmash he gets rid of his baggage [by storing it].

Isaiah 10:29 (AMP)

²⁹ They go through the pass, they make Geba their camping place for the night; Ramah is afraid and trembles, Gibeah [the city] of [King] Saul flees.

Isaiah 10:30 (AMP)

³⁰ Cry aloud [in consternation], O Daughter of Gallim! Hearken, O Laishah! [Answer her] O you poor Anathoth!

Isaiah 10:31 (AMP)

³¹ Madmenah is in flight; the inhabitants of Gebim seize their belongings and make their households flee for safety.

Isaiah 10:32 (AMP)

³² This very day [the Assyrian] will halt at Nob [the city of priests], shaking his fist at the mountain of the Daughter of Zion, at the hill of Jerusalem.

Isaiah 10:33 (AMP)

³³ [But just when the Assyrian is in sight of his goal] behold, the Lord, the Lord of hosts, will lop off the beautiful boughs with terrorizing force; the high in stature will be hewn down and the lofty will be brought low.

Isaiah 10:34 (AMP)

³⁴ And He will cut down the thickets of the forest with an ax, and Lebanon [the Assyrian] with its majestic trees shall fall by the Mighty One and mightily.

Isaiah Chapter 11

Isaiah 11:1 (AMP)

¹ And there shall come forth a Shoot out of the stock of Jesse [David’s father], and a Branch out of his roots shall grow and bear fruit.

Isaiah 11:2 (AMP)

² And the Spirit of the Lord shall rest upon Him—the Spirit of wisdom and understanding, the Spirit of counsel and might, the Spirit of knowledge and of the reverential and obedient fear of the Lord—

Isaiah 11:3 (NASB)

³ And He will delight in the fear of the LORD, And He will not judge by what His eyes see, Nor make a decision by what His ears hear;

Isaiah 11:4 (NASB)

⁴ But with righteousness He will judge the poor, And decide with fairness for the afflicted of the earth; And He will strike the earth with the rod of His mouth, And with the breath of His lips He will slay the wicked.

Isaiah 11:5 (AMP)

⁵ And righteousness shall be the girdle of His waist and faithfulness the girdle of His loins.

Isaiah 11:6 (AMP)

⁶ And the wolf shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid, and the calf and the young lion and the fatted domestic animal together; and a little child shall lead them.

Isaiah 11:7 (AMP)

⁷ And the cow and the bear shall feed side by side, their young shall lie down together, and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.

Isaiah 11:8 (NASB)

⁸ The nursing child will play by the hole of the cobra, And the weaned child will put his hand on the viper’s den.

Isaiah 11:9 (AMP)

⁹ They shall not hurt or destroy in all My holy mountain, for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord as the waters cover the sea.

Isaiah 11:10 (AMP)

¹⁰ And it shall be in that day that the Root of Jesse shall stand as a signal for the peoples; of Him shall the nations inquire and seek knowledge, and His dwelling shall be glory [His rest glorious]!

Isaiah 11:11 (AMP)

¹¹ And in that day the Lord shall again lift up His hand a second time to recover (acquire and deliver) the remnant of His people which is left, from Assyria, from Lower Egypt, from Pathros, from Ethiopia, from Elam [in Persia], from Shinar [Babylonia], from Hamath [in Upper Syria], and from the countries bordering on the [Mediterranean] Sea.

Isaiah 11:12 (AMP)

¹² And He will raise up a signal for the nations and will assemble the outcasts of Israel and will gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth.

Isaiah 11:13 (NIV)

¹³ Ephraim’s jealousy will vanish, and Judah’s enemies will be cut off; Ephraim will not be jealous of Judah, nor Judah hostile toward Ephraim.

Isaiah 11:14 (NIV)

¹⁴ They will swoop down on the slopes of Philistia to the west; together they will plunder the people to the east. They will lay hands on Edom and Moab, and the Ammonites will be subject to them.

Isaiah 11:15 (AMP)

¹⁵ And the Lord will utterly destroy (doom and dry up) the tongue of the Egyptian sea [the west fork of the Red Sea]; and with His [mighty] scorching wind He will wave His hand over the river [Nile] and will smite it into seven channels and will cause men to cross over dry-shod.

Isaiah 11:16 (NASB)

¹⁶ And there will be a highway from Assyria For the remnant of His people who will be left, Just as there was for Israel In the day that they came up out of the land of Egypt.

Isaiah Chapter 12

Isaiah 12:1 (NIV)

¹ In that day you will say: “I will praise you, O LORD. Although you were angry with me, your anger has turned away and you have comforted me.

Isaiah 12:2 (AMP)

² Behold, God, my salvation! I will trust and not be afraid, for the Lord God is my strength and song; yes, He has become my salvation.

Isaiah 12:3 (AMP)

³ Therefore with joy will you draw water from the wells of salvation.

Isaiah 12:4 (NASB)

⁴ And in that day you will say, “Give thanks to the LORD, call on His name. Make known His deeds among the peoples; Make them remember that His name is exalted.”

Isaiah 12:5 (AMP)

⁵ Sing praises to the Lord, for He has done excellent things [gloriously]; let this be made known to all the earth.

Isaiah 12:6 (AMP)

⁶ Cry aloud and shout joyfully, you women and inhabitants of Zion, for great in your midst is the Holy One of Israel.

Isaiah Chapter 13

Isaiah 13:1 (NIV2011)

¹ A prophecy against Babylon that Isaiah son of Amoz saw:

Isaiah 13:2 (AMP)

² Raise up a signal banner upon the high and bare mountain, summon them [the Medes and Persians] with loud voice and beckoning hand that they may enter the gates of the [Babylonian] nobles.

Isaiah 13:3 (AMP)

³ I Myself [says the Lord] have commanded My designated ones and have summoned My mighty men to execute My anger, even My proudly exulting ones [the Medes and Persians]—those who are made to triumph for My honor.

Isaiah 13:4 (NASB)

⁴ A sound of tumult on the mountains, Like that of many people! A sound of the uproar of kingdoms, Of nations gathered together! The LORD of hosts is mustering the army for battle.

Isaiah 13:5 (AMP)

⁵ They come from a distant country, from the uttermost part of the heavens [the far east]—even the Lord and the weapons of His indignation—to seize and destroy the whole land.

Isaiah 13:6 (NASB)

⁶ Wail, for the day of the LORD is near! It will come as destruction from the Almighty.

Isaiah 13:7 (AMP)

⁷ Therefore will all hands be feeble, and every man’s heart will melt.

Isaiah 13:8 (AMP)

⁸ And they [of Babylon] shall be dismayed and terrified, pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them; they shall be in pain as a woman in childbirth. They will gaze stupefied and aghast at one another, their faces will be aflame [from the effects of the unprecedented warfare].

Isaiah 13:9 (NASB)

⁹ Behold, the day of the LORD is coming, Cruel, with fury and burning anger, To make the land a desolation; And He will exterminate its sinners from it.

Isaiah 13:10 (AMP)

¹⁰ For the stars of the heavens and their constellations will not give their light; the sun will be darkened at its rising and the moon will not shed its light.

Isaiah 13:11 (NASB)

¹¹ Thus I will punish the world for its evil And the wicked for their iniquity; I will also put an end to the arrogance of the proud And abase the haughtiness of the ruthless.

Isaiah 13:12 (NASB)

¹² I will make mortal man scarcer than pure gold And mankind than the gold of Ophir.

Isaiah 13:13 (AMP)

¹³ Therefore I will make the heavens tremble; and the earth shall be shaken out of its place at the wrath of the Lord of hosts in the day of His fierce anger.

Isaiah 13:14 (AMP)

¹⁴ And like the chased roe or gazelle, and like sheep that no man gathers, each [foreign resident] will turn to his own people, and each will flee to his own land.

Isaiah 13:15 (NASB)

¹⁵ Anyone who is found will be thrust through, And anyone who is captured will fall by the sword.

Isaiah 13:16 (AMP)

¹⁶ Their infants also will be dashed to pieces before their eyes; their houses will be plundered and their wives ravished.

Isaiah 13:17 (AMP)

¹⁷ Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, who have no regard for silver and do not delight in gold [and thus cannot be bribed].

Isaiah 13:18 (AMP)

¹⁸ Their bows will cut down the young men [of Babylon]; and they will have no pity on the fruit of the womb, their eyes will not spare children.

Isaiah 13:19 (NASB)

¹⁹ And Babylon, the beauty of kingdoms, the glory of the Chaldeans’ pride, Will be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.

Isaiah 13:20 (AMP)

²⁰ [Babylon] shall never be inhabited or dwelt in from generation to generation; neither shall the Arab pitch his tent there, nor shall the shepherds make their sheepfolds there.

Isaiah 13:21 (NASB)

²¹ But desert creatures will lie down there, And their houses will be full of owls; Ostriches also will live there, and shaggy goats will frolic there.

Isaiah 13:22 (CJB)

²² Jackals will howl in their palaces and wild dogs in their temples of delight. Its time is close at hand, its days will not last long.

Isaiah Chapter 14

Isaiah 14:1 (NIV2011)

¹ The LORD will have compassion on Jacob; once again he will choose Israel and will settle them in their own land. Foreigners will join them and unite with the descendants of Jacob.

Isaiah 14:2 (NASB)

² The peoples will take them along and bring them to their place, and the house of Israel will possess them as an inheritance in the land of the LORD as male servants and female servants; and they will take their captors captive and will rule over their oppressors.

Isaiah 14:3 (NASB)

³ And it will be in the day when the LORD gives you rest from your pain and turmoil and harsh service in which you have been enslaved,

Isaiah 14:4 (CJB)-M

⁴ you will take up this taunt-song against the king of Babylon: “At last the oppressor is stilled, his arrogance is ended!

Isaiah 14:5 (AMP)

⁵ The Lord has broken the staff of the wicked, the scepter of the [tyrant] rulers,

Isaiah 14:6 (NASB)

⁶ Which used to strike the peoples in fury with unceasing strokes, Which subdued the nations in anger with unrestrained persecution.

Isaiah 14:7 (AMP)

⁷ The whole earth is at rest and is quiet; they break forth into singing.

Isaiah 14:8 (NIV)

⁸ Even the pine trees and the cedars of Lebanon exult over you and say, “Now that you have been laid low, no woodsman comes to cut us down.”

Isaiah 14:9 (NIV2011)

⁹ The realm of the dead below is all astir to meet you at your coming; it rouses the spirits of the departed to greet you— all those who were leaders in the world; it makes them rise from their thrones— all those who were kings over the nations.

Isaiah 14:10 (AMP)

¹⁰ All of them will [tauntingly] say to you, Have you also become weak as we are? Have you become like us?

Isaiah 14:11 (NIV2011)

¹¹ All your pomp has been brought down to the grave, along with the noise of your harps; maggots are spread out beneath you and worms cover you.

Isaiah 14:12 (NKJV)-M

¹² “How you are fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, [Satan-influencer of wicked kings] son of the morning! How you are cut down to the ground, You who weakened the nations!

Isaiah 14:13 (NKJV)

¹³ For you have said in your heart: ‘I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God; I will also sit on the mount of the congregation On the farthest sides of the north;

Isaiah 14:14 (AMP)

¹⁴ I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High.

Isaiah 14:15 (NIV2011)

¹⁵ But you are brought down to the realm of the dead, to the depths of the pit.

Isaiah 14:16 (NIV2011)

¹⁶ Those who see you stare at you, they ponder your fate: “Is this the man who shook the earth and made kingdoms tremble,

Isaiah 14:17 (NIV2011)

¹⁷ the man who made the world a wilderness, who overthrew its cities and would not let his captives go home?”

Isaiah 14:18 (AMP)

¹⁸ All the kings of the nations, all of them lie sleeping in glorious array, each one in his own sepulcher.

Isaiah 14:19 (CJB)

¹⁹ But you are discarded, unburied, like a loathed branch, clothed like the slain who were pierced by the sword, then fall to the stones inside a pit, like a corpse to be trampled underfoot.

Isaiah 14:20 (NASB)

²⁰ “You will not be united with them in burial, Because you have ruined your country, You have slain your people. May the offspring of evildoers not be mentioned forever.

Isaiah 14:21 (NIV2011)

²¹ Prepare a place to slaughter his children for the sins of their ancestors; they are not to rise to inherit the land and cover the earth with their cities.

Isaiah 14:22 (NIV)

²² “I will rise up against them,” declares the LORD Almighty. “I will cut off from Babylon her name and survivors, her offspring and descendants,” declares the LORD.

Isaiah 14:23 (NIV)

²³ “I will turn her into a place for owls and into swampland; I will sweep her with the broom of destruction,” declares the LORD Almighty.

Isaiah 14:24 (AMP)

²⁴ The Lord of hosts has sworn, saying, Surely, as I have thought and planned, so shall it come to pass, and as I have purposed, so shall it stand—

Isaiah 14:25 (NASB)

²⁵ to break Assyria in My land, and I will trample him on My mountains. Then his yoke will be removed from them and his burden removed from their shoulder.

Isaiah 14:26 (NIV)

²⁶ This is the plan determined for the whole world; this is the hand stretched out over all nations.

Isaiah 14:27 (AMP)

²⁷ For the Lord of hosts has purposed, and who can annul it? And His hand is stretched out, and who can turn it back?

Isaiah 14:28 (NIV2011)

²⁸ This prophecy came in the year King Ahaz died:

Isaiah 14:29 (NIV)

²⁹ Do not rejoice, all you Philistines, that the rod that struck you is broken; from the root of that snake will spring up a viper, its fruit will be a darting, venomous serpent.

Isaiah 14:30 (AMP)

³⁰ And the firstborn of the poor and the poorest of the poor [of Judah] shall feed on My meadows, and the needy will lie down in safety; but I will kill your root with famine, and your remnant shall be slain.

Isaiah 14:31 (NIV)

³¹ Wail, O gate! Howl, O city! Melt away, all you Philistines! A cloud of smoke comes from the north, and there is not a straggler in its ranks.

Isaiah 14:32 (NIV)

³² What answer shall be given to the envoys of that nation? “The LORD has established Zion, and in her his afflicted people will find refuge.”

Isaiah Chapter 15

Isaiah 15:1 (AMP)

¹ THE MOURNFUL, inspired prediction (a burden to be lifted up) concerning Moab: Because in a night Ar of Moab is laid waste and brought to silence! Because in a night Kir of Moab is laid waste and brought to silence!

Isaiah 15:2 (NIV)

² Dibon goes up to its temple, to its high places to weep; Moab wails over Nebo and Medeba. Every head is shaved and every beard cut off.

Isaiah 15:3 (NIV)

³ In the streets they wear sackcloth; on the roofs and in the public squares they all wail, prostrate with weeping.

Isaiah 15:4 (AMP)

⁴ And Heshbon and Elealeh [cities in possession of Moab] cry out; their voice is heard even to Jahaz. Therefore the armed soldiers of Moab cry out; [Moab’s] life is grievous and trembles within him.

Isaiah 15:5 (NIV)

⁵ My heart cries out over Moab; her fugitives flee as far as Zoar, as far as Eglath Shelishiyah. They go up the way to Luhith, weeping as they go; on the road to Horonaim they lament their destruction.

Isaiah 15:6 (NIV)

⁶ The waters of Nimrim are dried up and the grass is withered; the vegetation is gone and nothing green is left.

Isaiah 15:7 (CJB)-M

⁷ Therefore they carry away their wealth, everything they have put aside, across the Wadi of the Willows.

Isaiah 15:8 (NIV)

⁸ Their outcry echoes along the border of Moab; their wailing reaches as far as Eglaim, their lamentation as far as Beer Elim.

Isaiah 15:9 (AMP)

⁹ For the waters of Dimon are full of blood; yet I [the Lord] will bring even more on Dimon—a lion upon those of Moab who escape and upon the remnant of the land.

Isaiah Chapter 16

Isaiah 16:1 (AMP)

¹ You [Moabites, now fugitives in Edom, which is ruled by the king of Judah] send lambs to the ruler of the land, from Sela or Petra through the desert and wilderness to the mountain of the Daughter of Zion [Jerusalem].

Isaiah 16:2 (AMP)

² For like wandering birds, like a brood cast out and a scattered nest, so shall the daughters of Moab be at the fords of the [river] Arnon.

Isaiah 16:3 (CJB)

³ “Give [us] counsel! Decide [to help]! Make your shadow [over us] like night in the middle of noonday. Hide [our] outcasts! Don’t betray [our] fugitives!

Isaiah 16:4 (NASB)

⁴ “Let the outcasts of Moab stay with you; Be a hiding place to them from the destroyer.” For the extortioner has come to an end, destruction has ceased, Oppressors have completely disappeared from the land.

Isaiah 16:5 (AMP)

⁵ Then in mercy and loving-kindness shall a throne be established, and One shall sit upon it in truth and faithfulness in the tent of David, judging and seeking justice and being swift to do righteousness.

Isaiah 16:6 (AMP)

⁶ We have heard of the pride of Moab, that he is very proud—even of his arrogance, his conceit, his wrath, his untruthful boasting.

Isaiah 16:7 (NIV)

⁷ Therefore the Moabites wail, they wail together for Moab. Lament and grieve for the men of Kir Hareseth.

Isaiah 16:8 (AMP)

⁸ For the fields of Heshbon languish and wither, and the vines of Sibmah; the lords of the nations have broken down [Moab’s] choice vine branches, which reached even to Jazer, wandering into the wilderness; its shoots stretched out abroad, they passed over [the shores of] the [Dead] Sea.

Isaiah 16:9 (AMP)

⁹ Therefore I [Isaiah] will weep with the weeping of Jazer for the vines of Sibmah. I will drench you with my tears, O Heshbon and Elealeh; for upon your summer fruits and your harvest the shout [of alarm and the cry of the enemy] has fallen.

Isaiah 16:10 (AMP)

¹⁰ And gladness is taken away, and joy out of the plentiful field; and in the vineyards there is no singing, nor is there joyful sound; the treaders tread out no wine in the presses, for the shout of joy has been made to cease.

Isaiah 16:11 (NIV)

¹¹ My heart laments for Moab like a harp, my inmost being for Kir Hareseth.

Isaiah 16:12 (AMP)

¹² It shall be that when Moab presents himself, when he wearies himself [worshiping] on the high place [of idolatry], he will come to his sanctuary [of Chemosh, god of Moab], but he will not prevail. [Then will he be ashamed of his god.]

Isaiah 16:13 (NIV)

¹³ This is the word the LORD has already spoken concerning Moab.

Isaiah 16:14 (CJB)-M

¹⁴ But now the Lord has said, “Within three years [and not a day more], as if a hired worker were keeping track of the time, the glory of Moab will be brought into contempt, despite its large population; and the surviving remnant will be few and feeble.”

Isaiah Chapter 17

Isaiah 17:1 (NIV2011)

¹ A prophecy against Damascus: “See, Damascus will no longer be a city but will become a heap of ruins.

Isaiah 17:2 (AMP)

² The cities of Aroer [east of the Jordan] are forsaken; they shall be for flocks, which shall lie down, and none shall make them afraid.

Isaiah 17:3 (NIV)

³ The fortified city will disappear from Ephraim, and royal power from Damascus; the remnant of Aram will be like the glory of the Israelites,” declares the LORD Almighty.

Isaiah 17:4 (AMP)

⁴ And in that day the former glory of Jacob [Israel—his might, his population, his prosperity] shall be enfeebled, and the fat of his flesh shall become lean.

Isaiah 17:5 (NIV)

⁵ It will be as when a reaper gathers the standing grain and harvests the grain with his arm– as when a man gleans heads of grain in the Valley of Rephaim.

Isaiah 17:6 (NIV)

⁶ Yet some gleanings will remain, as when an olive tree is beaten, leaving two or three olives on the topmost branches, four or five on the fruitful boughs,” declares the LORD, the God of Israel.

Isaiah 17:7 (NASB)

⁷ In that day man will have regard for his Maker And his eyes will look to the Holy One of Israel.

Isaiah 17:8 (AMP)

⁸ And they will not look to the [idolatrous] altars, the work of their hands, neither will they have respect for what their fingers have made—either the Asherim [symbols of the goddess Asherah] or the sun-images.

Isaiah 17:9 (NIV)

⁹ In that day their strong cities, which they left because of the Israelites, will be like places abandoned to thickets and undergrowth. And all will be desolation.

Isaiah 17:10 (CJB)

¹⁰ For you have forgotten the God who saved you, failed to remember the Rock of your strength; so you plant pagan-style gardens and set out vine-cuttings for a foreign god.

Isaiah 17:11 (AMP)

¹¹ And in the day of your planting you hedge it in, and in the morning you make your seed to blossom, yet [promising as it is] the harvest shall be a heap of ruins and flee away in the day of expected possession and of desperate sorrow and sickening, incurable pain.

Isaiah 17:12 (CJB)

¹² Oh, the terror-stricken uproar of many peoples, roaring like the roar of the seas, and the rushing about of nations, rushing and surging like wild, wild waters!

Isaiah 17:13 (NIV)

¹³ Although the peoples roar like the roar of surging waters, when he rebukes them they flee far away, driven before the wind like chaff on the hills, like tumbleweed before a gale.

Isaiah 17:14 (NIV)

¹⁴ In the evening, sudden terror! Before the morning, they are gone! This is the portion of those who loot us, the lot of those who plunder us.

Isaiah Chapter 18

Isaiah 18:1 (CJB)

¹ Woe to the land of whirring wings beyond the rivers of Ethiopia;

Isaiah 18:2 (NIV)

² which sends envoys by sea in papyrus boats over the water. Go, swift messengers, to a people tall and smooth-skinned, to a people feared far and wide, an aggressive nation of strange speech, whose land is divided by rivers.

Isaiah 18:3 (NKJV)

³ All inhabitants of the world and dwellers on the earth: When he lifts up a banner on the mountains, you see it; And when he blows a trumpet, you hear it.

Isaiah 18:4 (NIV)

⁴ This is what the LORD says to me: “I will remain quiet and will look on from my dwelling place, like shimmering heat in the sunshine, like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.”

Isaiah 18:5 (NIV)

⁵ For, before the harvest, when the blossom is gone and the flower becomes a ripening grape, he will cut off the shoots with pruning knives, and cut down and take away the spreading branches.

Isaiah 18:6 (CJB)

⁶ They will all be left to the vultures in the mountains and to the wild animals in the fields; the vultures will feed on them in summer, and the wild animals of the fields in winter.

Isaiah 18:7 (CJB)-M

⁷ At that time tribute will be brought to LORD Almighty from a nation tall and bronzed, from a people feared far and near, from a strong and conquering nation whose land is divided by rivers, to the place where the name of LORD Almighty lives, Mount Zion.

Isaiah Chapter 19

Isaiah 19:1 (NIV2011)

¹ A prophecy against Egypt: See, the LORD rides on a swift cloud and is coming to Egypt. The idols of Egypt tremble before him, and the hearts of the Egyptians melt with fear.

Isaiah 19:2 (CJB)

² “I will incite Egypt against Egypt, brother will fight against brother, friend against friend, city against city, kingdom against kingdom.

Isaiah 19:3 (NIV)

³ The Egyptians will lose heart, and I will bring their plans to nothing; they will consult the idols and the spirits of the dead, the mediums and the spiritists.

Isaiah 19:4 (NIV)

⁴ I will hand the Egyptians over to the power of a cruel master, and a fierce king will rule over them,” declares the Lord, the LORD Almighty.

Isaiah 19:5 (NIV)

⁵ The waters of the river will dry up, and the riverbed will be parched and dry.

Isaiah 19:6 (CJB)

⁶ The rivers will become foul, the canals of Egypt’s Nile will dwindle and dry up, the reeds and rushes will wither.

Isaiah 19:7 (NIV)

⁷ also the plants along the Nile, at the mouth of the river. Every sown field along the Nile will become parched, will blow away and be no more.

Isaiah 19:8 (AMP)

⁸ The fishermen will lament, and all who cast a hook into the Nile will mourn; and they who spread nets upon the waters will languish.

Isaiah 19:9 (AMP)

⁹ Moreover, they who work with combed flax and they who weave white [cotton] cloth will be confounded and in despair.

Isaiah 19:10 (AMP)

¹⁰ [Those who are] the pillars and foundations of Egypt will be crushed, and all those who work for hire or who build dams will be grieved.

Isaiah 19:11 (AMP)

¹¹ The princes of Zoan [ancient capital of the Pharaohs] are utterly foolish; the counsel of the wisest counselors of Pharaoh has become witless (stupid). How can you say to Pharaoh, I am a son of the wise, a son of ancient kings?

Isaiah 19:12 (NIV)

¹² Where are your wise men now? Let them show you and make known what the LORD Almighty has planned against Egypt.

Isaiah 19:13 (NIV)

¹³ The officials of Zoan have become fools, the leaders of Memphis are deceived; the cornerstones of her peoples have led Egypt astray.

Isaiah 19:14 (AMP)

¹⁴ The Lord has mingled a spirit of perverseness, error, and confusion within her; [her leaders] have caused Egypt to stagger in all her doings, as a drunken man staggers in his vomit.

Isaiah 19:15 (AMP)

¹⁵ Neither can any work [done singly or by concerted action] accomplish anything for Egypt, whether by head or tail, palm branch or rush [high or low].

Isaiah 19:16 (AMP)

¹⁶ In that day will the Egyptians be like women [timid and helpless]; and they will tremble and fear because of the shaking of the hand of the Lord of hosts which He shakes over them.

Isaiah 19:17 (CJB)-M

¹⁷ Just mentioning the land of Judah to the Egyptians will throw them into panic; they will be afraid because of what the LORD Almighty is planning against them.

Isaiah 19:18 (NASB)

¹⁸ In that day five cities in the land of Egypt will be speaking the language of Canaan and swearing allegiance to the LORD of hosts; one will be called the City of Destruction.

Isaiah 19:19 (NIV)

¹⁹ In that day there will be an altar to the LORD in the heart of Egypt, and a monument to the LORD at its border.

Isaiah 19:20 (NIV)

²⁰ It will be a sign and witness to the LORD Almighty in the land of Egypt. When they cry out to the LORD because of their oppressors, he will send them a savior and defender, and he will rescue them.

Isaiah 19:21 (NIV)

²¹ So the LORD will make himself known to the Egyptians, and in that day they will acknowledge the LORD. They will worship with sacrifices and grain offerings; they will make vows to the LORD and keep them.

Isaiah 19:22 (AMP)

²² And the Lord shall smite Egypt, smiting and healing it; and they will return to the Lord, and He will listen to their entreaties and heal them.

Isaiah 19:23 (AMP)

²³ In that day shall there be a highway out of Egypt to Assyria, and the Assyrian will come into Egypt and the Egyptian into Assyria; and the Egyptians will worship [the Lord] with the Assyrians.

Isaiah 19:24 (AMP)

²⁴ In that day Israel shall be the third, with Egypt and with Assyria [in a Messianic league], a blessing in the midst of the earth,

Isaiah 19:25 (NIV)

²⁵ The LORD Almighty will bless them, saying, “Blessed be Egypt my people, Assyria my handiwork, and Israel my inheritance.”

Isaiah Chapter 20

Isaiah 20:1 (AMP)

¹ In the year that the Tartan [Assyrian commander in chief] came to Ashdod in Philistia, sent by Sargon king of Assyria, he fought against Ashdod and took it.

Isaiah 20:2 (AMP)

² At that time the Lord spoke by Isaiah son of Amoz, saying, Go, loose the sackcloth from off your loins and take your shoes off your feet. And he had done so, walking around stripped [to his loincloth] and barefoot.

Isaiah 20:3 (AMP)

³ And the Lord said, As My servant Isaiah has walked [comparatively] naked and barefoot for three years, as a sign and forewarning concerning Egypt and concerning Cush (Ethiopia),

Isaiah 20:4 (AMP)

⁴ So shall the king of Assyria lead away the Egyptian captives and the Ethiopian exiles, young and old, naked and barefoot, even with buttocks uncovered—to the shame of Egypt.

Isaiah 20:5 (CJB)

⁵ They will be dismayed and ashamed because of Ethiopia their hope and Egypt their pride.

Isaiah 20:6 (NIV)

⁶ In that day the people who live on this coast will say, ‘See what has happened to those we relied on, those we fled to for help and deliverance from the king of Assyria! How then can we escape?'”

Isaiah Chapter 21

Isaiah 21:1 (CJB)

¹ A prophecy about the coastal desert: Like whirlwinds sweeping over the Negev, it comes from the desert, from a fearsome land.

Isaiah 21:2 (NKJV)

² A distressing vision is declared to me; The treacherous dealer deals treacherously, And the plunderer plunders. Go up, O Elam! Besiege, O Media! All its sighing I have made to cease.

Isaiah 21:3 (NIV)

³ At this my body is racked with pain, pangs seize me, like those of a woman in labor; I am staggered by what I hear, I am bewildered by what I see.

Isaiah 21:4 (AMP)

⁴ My mind reels and wanders, horror terrifies me. [In my mind’s eye I am at the feast of Belshazzar. I see the defilement of the golden vessels taken from God’s temple, I watch the handwriting appear on the wall—I know that Babylon’s great king is to be slain.] The twilight I looked forward to with pleasure has been turned into fear and trembling for me.

Isaiah 21:5 (AMP)

⁵ They prepare the table, they spread the rugs, [and having] set the watchers [the revelers take no other precaution], they eat, they drink. Arise, you princes, and oil your shields [for your deadly foe is at the gates]!

Isaiah 21:7 (NASB)

⁷ “When he sees riders, horsemen in pairs, A train of donkeys, a train of camels, Let him pay close attention, very close attention.”

Isaiah 21:8 (NIV)

⁸ And the lookout shouted, “Day after day, my lord, I stand on the watchtower; every night I stay at my post.

Isaiah 21:9 (AMP)

⁹ And see! Here comes a troop of men and chariots, horsemen in pairs! And he [the watchman] tells [what it foretells]: Babylon has fallen, has fallen! And all the graven images of her gods lie shattered on the ground [in my vision]!

Isaiah 21:10 (AMP)

¹⁰ O you my threshed and winnowed ones [my own people the Jews, who must be trodden down by Babylon], that which I have heard from the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, I have [joyfully] announced to you [Babylon is to fall]!

Isaiah 21:11 (NIV2011)

¹¹ A prophecy against Dumah: Someone calls to me from Seir, “Watchman, what is left of the night? Watchman, what is left of the night?”

Isaiah 21:12 (AMP)

¹² The watchman said, The morning comes, but also the night. [Another time, if Edom earnestly wishes to know] if you will inquire [of me], inquire; return, come again.

Isaiah 21:13 (NIV2011)

¹³ A prophecy against Arabia: You caravans of Dedanites, who camp in the thickets of Arabia,

Isaiah 21:14 (NIV)

¹⁴ bring water for the thirsty; you who live in Tema, bring food for the fugitives.

Isaiah 21:15 (NIV)

¹⁵ They flee from the sword, from the drawn sword, from the bent bow and from the heat of battle.

Isaiah 21:16 (CJB)-M

¹⁶ For this is what the Lord has told me: “Within a year [and not a day more], as if a hired worker were keeping track of the time, the glory of Kedar will come to an end.

Isaiah 21:17 (NIV2011)

¹⁷ The survivors of the archers, the warriors of Kedar, will be few.” The LORD, the God of Israel, has spoken.

Isaiah Chapter 22

Isaiah 22:1 (AMP)

¹ The mournful inspired prediction (a burden to be lifted up) concerning the Valley of Vision: What do you mean [I wonder] that you have all gone up to the housetops,

Isaiah 22:2 (AMP)

² You who are full of shouting, a tumultuous city, a joyous and exultant city? [O Jerusalem] your slain warriors have not met [a glorious] death with the sword or in battle.

Isaiah 22:3 (7KB)
3 All your [military] leaders have fled together; without the bow [which they had thrown away]. They fled (like cowards) while the enemy was still far off. But later these same leaders ended up being caught and taken prisoner (when they surrendered without resistance).

Isaiah 22:4 (CJB)

⁴ This is why I said, “Don’t look at me, leave me alone to weep bitterly, don’t try to comfort me over the destruction of my people.”

Isaiah 22:5 (AMP)

⁵ For it is a day of discomfiture and of tumult, of treading down, of confusion and perplexity from the Lord God of hosts in the Valley of Vision, a day of breaking down the walls and of crying to the mountains.

Isaiah 22:6 (AMP)

⁶ And [in my vision I saw] Elam take up the quiver, with troops in chariots, infantry, and horsemen; and Kir [with Elam subject to Assyria] uncovered the shield.

Isaiah 22:7 (AMP)

⁷ And it came to pass that your choicest valleys were full of chariots, and the horsemen took their station [and set themselves in offensive array at the gate of Jerusalem].

Isaiah 22:8 (AMP)

⁸ Then [God] removed the protective covering of Judah; and you looked to the weapons in the House of the Forest [the king’s armory] in that day.

Isaiah 22:9 (NIV)

⁹ you saw that the City of David had many breaches in its defenses; you stored up water in the Lower Pool.

Isaiah 22:10 (NIV)

¹⁰ You counted the buildings in Jerusalem and tore down houses to strengthen the wall.

Isaiah 22:11 (AMP)

¹¹ You also made a reservoir between the two walls for the water of the Old Pool, but you did not look to the Maker of it, nor did you recognize Him Who planned it long ago.

Isaiah 22:12 (NIV)

¹² The Lord, the LORD Almighty, called you on that day to weep and to wail, to tear out your hair and put on sackcloth.

Isaiah 22:13 (NIV)

¹³ But see, there is joy and revelry, slaughtering of cattle and killing of sheep, eating of meat and drinking of wine! “Let us eat and drink,” you say, “for tomorrow we die!”

Isaiah 22:14 (AMP)

¹⁴ And the Lord of hosts revealed Himself in my ears [as He said], Surely this unatoned sin shall not be purged from you until [you are punished—and the punishment will be] death, says the Lord God of hosts.

Isaiah 22:15 (AMP)

¹⁵ Come, go to this [contemptible] steward and treasurer, to Shebna, who is over the house [but who is presumptuous enough to be building himself a tomb among those of the mighty, a tomb worthy of a king], and say to him,

Isaiah 22:16 (AMP)

¹⁶ What business have you here? And whom have you entombed here, that you have the right to hew out for yourself a tomb here? He hews out a sepulcher for himself on the height! He carves out a dwelling for himself in the rock!

Isaiah 22:17 (NIV)

¹⁷ “Beware, the LORD is about to take firm hold of you and hurl you away, O you mighty man.

Isaiah 22:18 (CJB)

¹⁸ roll you up, and toss you around like a ball in the open country. There you will die, with your fancy chariots, you disgrace to your master’s palace!

Isaiah 22:19 (NIV)

¹⁹ I will depose you from your office, and you will be ousted from your position.

Isaiah 22:20 (NIV)

²⁰ “In that day I will summon my servant, Eliakim son of Hilkiah.

Isaiah 22:21 (NIV)

²¹ I will clothe him with your robe and fasten your sash around him and hand your authority over to him. He will be a father to those who live in Jerusalem and to the house of Judah.

Isaiah 22:22 (NIV)

²² I will place on his shoulder the key to the house of David; what he opens no one can shut, and what he shuts no one can open.

Isaiah 22:23 (AMP)

²³ And I will fasten him like a peg or nail in a firm place; and he will become a throne of honor and glory to his father’s house.

Isaiah 22:24 (AMP)

²⁴ And they will hang on him the honor and the whole weight of [responsibility for] his father’s house: the offspring and issue [of the family, high and low], every small vessel, from the cups even to all the flasks and big bulging bottles.

Isaiah 22:25 (NIV)

²⁵ “In that day,” declares the LORD Almighty, “the peg driven into the firm place will give way; it will be sheared off and will fall, and the load hanging on it will be cut down.” The LORD has spoken.

Isaiah Chapter 23

Isaiah 23:1 (NIV2011)

¹ A prophecy against Tyre: Wail, you ships of Tarshish! For Tyre is destroyed and left without house or harbor. From the land of Cyprus word has come to them.

Isaiah 23:2 (AMP)

² Be still, you inhabitants of the coast, you merchants of Sidon, your messengers passing over the sea have replenished you [with wealth and industry],

Isaiah 23:3 (NASB)

³ And were on many waters. The grain of the Nile, the harvest of the River was her revenue; And she was the market of nations.

Isaiah 23:4 (AMP)

⁴ Be ashamed, O Sidon [mother-city of Tyre, now a widow bereaved of her children], for the sea has spoken, the stronghold of the sea, saying, I have neither travailed nor brought forth children; I have neither nourished and reared young men nor brought up virgins.

Isaiah 23:5 (AMP)

⁵ When the report comes to Egypt, they will be sorely pained over the report about Tyre.

Isaiah 23:6 (AMP)

⁶ Pass over to Tarshish [to seek safety as exiles]! Wail, you inhabitants of the [Tyre] coast!

Isaiah 23:7 (AMP)

⁷ Is this your jubilant city, whose origin dates back into antiquity, whose own feet are accustomed to carry her far off to settle [daughter cities]?

Isaiah 23:8 (NIV)

⁸ Who planned this against Tyre, the bestower of crowns, whose merchants are princes, whose traders are renowned in the earth?

Isaiah 23:9 (NIV)

⁹ The LORD Almighty planned it, to bring low the pride of all glory and to humble all who are renowned on the earth.

Isaiah 23:10 (NASB)

¹⁰ Overflow your land like the Nile, O daughter of Tarshish, There is no more restraint.

Isaiah 23:11 (NASB)

¹¹ He has stretched His hand out over the sea, He has made the kingdoms tremble; The LORD has given a command concerning Canaan to demolish its strongholds.

Isaiah 23:12 (AMP)

¹² And He said, You shall no more exult, you oppressed and crushed one, O Virgin Daughter of Sidon. Arise, pass over to Kittim (Cyprus); but even there you will have no rest.

Isaiah 23:13 (NASB)

¹³ Behold, the land of the Chaldeans—this is the people which was not; Assyria appointed it for desert creatures—they erected their siege towers, they stripped its palaces, they made it a ruin.

Isaiah 23:14 (AMP)

¹⁴ Howl, you ships of Tarshish, for your stronghold [of Tyre] is laid waste [your strength has been destroyed].

Isaiah 23:15 (NASB)

¹⁵ Now in that day Tyre will be forgotten for seventy years like the days of one king. At the end of seventy years it will happen to Tyre as in the song of the harlot:

Isaiah 23:16 (NASB)

¹⁶ Take your harp, walk about the city, O forgotten harlot; Pluck the strings skillfully, sing many songs, That you may be remembered.

Isaiah 23:17 (NASB)

¹⁷ It will come about at the end of seventy years that the LORD will visit Tyre. Then she will go back to her harlot’s wages and will play the harlot with all the kingdoms on the face of the earth.

Isaiah 23:18 (NASB)

¹⁸ Her gain and her harlot’s wages will be set apart to the LORD; it will not be stored up or hoarded, but her gain will become sufficient food and choice attire for those who dwell in the presence of the LORD.

Isaiah Chapter 24

Isaiah 24:1 (NIV)

¹ See, the LORD is going to lay waste the earth and devastate it; he will ruin its face and scatter its inhabitants–

Isaiah 24:2 (NIV)

² it will be the same for priest as for people, for master as for servant, for mistress as for maid, for seller as for buyer, for borrower as for lender, for debtor as for creditor.

Isaiah 24:3 (NIV)

³ The earth will be completely laid waste and totally plundered. The LORD has spoken this word.

Isaiah 24:4 (NIV)

⁴ The earth dries up and withers, the world languishes and withers, the exalted of the earth languish.

Isaiah 24:5 (AMP)

⁵ The land and the earth also are defiled by their inhabitants, because they have transgressed the laws, disregarded the statutes, and broken the everlasting covenant.

Isaiah 24:6 (AMP)

⁶ Therefore a curse devours the land and the earth, and they who dwell in it suffer the punishment of their guilt. Therefore the inhabitants of the land and the earth are scorched and parched [under the curse of God’s wrath], and few people are left.

Isaiah 24:7 (NIV)

⁷ The new wine dries up and the vine withers; all the merrymakers groan.

Isaiah 24:8 (CJB)

⁸ the happy sound of tambourines ceases, the shouts of merrymakers are stilled, the joy of the lyre ends.

Isaiah 24:9 (CJB)

⁹ They no longer sing as they drink their wine, strong liquor tastes bitter to those drinking it.

Isaiah 24:10 (NASB)

¹⁰ The city of chaos is broken down; Every house is shut up so that none may enter.

Isaiah 24:11 (NIV)

¹¹ In the streets they cry out for wine; all joy turns to gloom, all gaiety is banished from the earth.

Isaiah 24:12 (NIV)

¹² The city is left in ruins, its gate is battered to pieces.

Isaiah 24:13 (NIV)

¹³ So will it be on the earth and among the nations, as when an olive tree is beaten, or as when gleanings are left after the grape harvest.

Isaiah 24:14 (NIV)

¹⁴ They raise their voices, they shout for joy; from the west they acclaim the LORD’s majesty.

Isaiah 24:15 (NASB)

¹⁵ Therefore glorify the LORD in the east, The name of the LORD, the God of Israel, In the coastlands of the sea.

Isaiah 24:16 (NASB)

¹⁶ From the ends of the earth we hear songs, “Glory to the Righteous One,” But I say, “Woe to me! Woe to me! Alas for me! The treacherous deal treacherously, And the treacherous deal very treacherously.”

Isaiah 24:17 (AMP)

¹⁷ Terror and pit [of destruction] and snare are upon you, O inhabitant of the earth!

Isaiah 24:18 (AMP)

¹⁸ And he who flees at the noise of the terror will fall into the pit; and he who comes up out of the pit will be caught in the snare. For the windows of the heavens are opened [as in the deluge], and the foundations of the earth tremble and shake.

Isaiah 24:19 (NASB)

¹⁹ The earth is broken asunder, The earth is split through, The earth is shaken violently.

Isaiah 24:20 (NIV)

²⁰ The earth reels like a drunkard, it sways like a hut in the wind; so heavy upon it is the guilt of its rebellion that it falls–never to rise again.

Isaiah 24:21 (NIV)

²¹ In that day the LORD will punish the powers in the heavens above and the kings on the earth below.

Isaiah 24:22 (NKJV)

²² They will be gathered together, As prisoners are gathered in the pit, And will be shut up in the prison; After many days they will be punished.

Isaiah 24:23 (AMP)

²³ Then the moon will be confounded and the sun ashamed, when [they compare their ineffectual fire to the light of] the Lord of hosts, Who will reign on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem, and before His elders will show forth His glory.

Isaiah Chapter 25

Isaiah 25:1 (AMP)

¹ O LORD, You are my God; I will exalt You, I will praise Your name, for You have done wonderful things, even purposes planned of old [and fulfilled] in faithfulness and truth.

Isaiah 25:2 (AMP)

² For You have made a city a heap, a fortified city a ruin, a palace of aliens without a city [is no more a city]; it will never be rebuilt.

Isaiah 25:3 (AMP)

³ Therefore [many] a strong people will glorify You, [many] a city of terrible and ruthless nations will [reverently] fear You.

Isaiah 25:4 (AMP)

⁴ For You have been a stronghold for the poor, a stronghold for the needy in his distress, a shelter from the storm, a shade from the heat; for the blast of the ruthless ones is like a rainstorm against a wall.

Isaiah 25:5 (AMP)

⁵ As the heat in a dry land [is reduced by the shadow of a cloud, so] You will bring down the noise of aliens [exultant over their enemies]; and as the heat is brought low by the shadow of a cloud, so the song of the ruthless ones is brought low.

Isaiah 25:6 (CJB)-M

⁶ On this mountain the Lord Almighty will make for all peoples a feast of rich food and superb wines, delicious, rich food and superb, elegant wines.

Isaiah 25:7 (AMP)

⁷ And He will destroy on this mountain the covering of the face that is cast over the heads of all peoples [in mourning], and the veil [of profound wretchedness] that is woven and spread over all nations.

Isaiah 25:8 (NASB)

⁸ He will swallow up death for all time, And the Lord GOD will wipe tears away from all faces, And He will remove the reproach of His people from all the earth; For the LORD has spoken.

Isaiah 25:9 (CJB)-M

⁹ On that day they will say, “See! This is our God! We waited for him to save us. This is the Lord; we put our hope in him. We are full of joy, so glad he saved us!”

Isaiah 25:10 (NASB)

¹⁰ For the hand of the LORD will rest on this mountain, And Moab will be trodden down in his place As straw is trodden down in the water of a manure pile.

Isaiah 25:11 (NKJV)

¹¹ And He will spread out His hands in their midst As a swimmer reaches out to swim, And He will bring down their pride Together with the trickery of their hands.

Isaiah 25:12 (NASB)

¹² The unassailable fortifications of your walls He will bring down, Lay low and cast to the ground, even to the dust.

Isaiah Chapter 26

Isaiah 26:1 (NASB)

¹ In that day this song will be sung in the land of Judah: “We have a strong city; He sets up walls and ramparts for security.

Isaiah 26:2 (NASB)

² “Open the gates, that the righteous nation may enter, The one that remains faithful.

Isaiah 26:3 (NLT2)

³ You will keep in perfect peace all who trust in you, all whose thoughts are fixed on you!

Isaiah 26:4 (AMP)

⁴ So trust in the Lord (commit yourself to Him, lean on Him, hope confidently in Him) forever; for the Lord God is an everlasting Rock [the Rock of Ages].

Isaiah 26:5 (CJB)

⁵ For he has humbled those in high places, leveling the lofty city, leveling it to the ground, laying it in the dust.

Isaiah 26:6 (CJB)

⁶ It is trampled underfoot by the feet of the poor, by the footsteps of the needy.

Isaiah 26:7 (CJB)

⁷ The way of the righteous is level; Righteous One, you smooth the path for the righteous.

Isaiah 26:8 (NIV)

⁸ Yes, LORD, walking in the way of your laws, we wait for you; your name and renown are the desire of our hearts.

Isaiah 26:9 (NASB)

⁹ At night my soul longs for You, Indeed, my spirit within me seeks You diligently; For when the earth experiences Your judgments The inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.

Isaiah 26:10 (NASB)

¹⁰ Though the wicked is shown favor, He does not learn righteousness; He deals unjustly in the land of uprightness, And does not perceive the majesty of the LORD.

Isaiah 26:11 (NIV)

¹¹ O LORD, your hand is lifted high, but they do not see it. Let them see your zeal for your people and be put to shame; let the fire reserved for your enemies consume them.

Isaiah 26:12 (NIV)

¹² LORD, you establish peace for us; all that we have accomplished you have done for us.

Isaiah 26:13 (AMP)

¹³ O Lord, our God, other masters besides You have ruled over us, but we will acknowledge and mention Your name only.

Isaiah 26:14 (AMP)

¹⁴ They [the former tyrant masters] are dead, they shall not live and reappear; they are powerless ghosts, they shall not rise and come back. Therefore You have visited and made an end of them and caused every memory of them [every trace of their supremacy] to perish.

Isaiah 26:15 (AMP)

¹⁵ You have increased the nation, O Lord; You have increased the nation. You are glorified; You have enlarged all the borders of the land.

Isaiah 26:16 (AMP)

¹⁶ Lord, when they were in trouble and distress, they sought and visited You; they poured out a prayerful whisper when Your chastening was upon them.

Isaiah 26:17 (NIV)

¹⁷ As a woman with child and about to give birth writhes and cries out in her pain, so were we in your presence, O LORD.

Isaiah 26:18 (NKJV)

¹⁸ We have been with child, we have been in pain; We have, as it were, brought forth wind; We have not accomplished any deliverance in the earth, Nor have the inhabitants of the world fallen.

Isaiah 26:19 (NIV)

¹⁹ But your dead will live; their bodies will rise. You who dwell in the dust, wake up and shout for joy. Your dew is like the dew of the morning; the earth will give birth to her dead.

Isaiah 26:20 (CJB)

²⁰ Come, my people, enter your rooms, and shut your doors behind you. Hide yourselves for a little while until the wrath is past.

Isaiah 26:21 (NASB)

²¹ For behold, the LORD is about to come out from His place To punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity; And the earth will reveal her bloodshed And will no longer cover her slain.

Isaiah Chapter 27

Isaiah 27:1 (NASB)

¹ In that day the LORD will punish Leviathan the fleeing serpent, With His fierce and great and mighty sword, Even Leviathan the twisted serpent; And He will kill the dragon who lives in the sea.

Isaiah 27:2 (AMP)

² In that day [it will be said of the redeemed nation of Israel], A vineyard beloved and lovely; sing a responsive song to it and about it!

Isaiah 27:3 (AMP)

³ I, the Lord, am its Keeper; I water it every moment; lest anyone harm it, I guard and keep it night and day.

Isaiah 27:4 (CJB)

⁴ I have no anger in me. If it gives me briars and thorns, then, as in war, I will trample it down and burn it up at once;

Isaiah 27:5 (AMP)

⁵ Or else [if all Israel would escape being burned up together there is but one alternative], let them take hold of My strength and make complete surrender to My protection, that they may make peace with Me! Yes, let them make peace with Me!

Isaiah 27:6 (AMP)

⁶ In the days and generations to come Jacob shall take root; Israel shall blossom and send forth shoots and fill the whole world with fruit [of the knowledge of the true God].

Isaiah 27:7 (CJB)-M

⁷ [The Lord] will not strike Israel, as he did others who struck Israel; he will not kill them, as he did the others.

Isaiah 27:8 (CJB)

⁸ Your controversy with her is fully resolved by sending her [into exile]. He removes her with a rough gust of wind on a day when it’s blowing from the east.

Isaiah 27:9 (AMP)

⁹ Only on this condition shall the iniquity of Jacob (Israel) be forgiven and purged, and this shall be the full fruit [God requires] for taking away his sin: that [Israel] should make all the stones of the [idol] altars like chalk stones crushed to pieces, so that the Asherim and the sun-images shall not remain standing or rise again.

Isaiah 27:10 (NIV)

¹⁰ The fortified city stands desolate, an abandoned settlement, forsaken like the desert; there the calves graze, there they lie down; they strip its branches bare.

Isaiah 27:11 (NIV)

¹¹ When its twigs are dry, they are broken off and women come and make fires with them. For this is a people without understanding; so their Maker has no compassion on them, and their Creator shows them no favor.

Isaiah 27:12 (NASB)

¹² In that day the LORD will start His threshing from the flowing stream of the Euphrates to the brook of Egypt, and you will be gathered up one by one, O sons of Israel.

Isaiah 27:13 (NASB)

¹³ It will come about also in that day that a great trumpet will be blown, and those who were perishing in the land of Assyria and who were scattered in the land of Egypt will come and worship the LORD in the holy mountain at Jerusalem.

Isaiah Chapter 28

Isaiah 28:1 (AMP)

¹ Woe to [Samaria] the crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim [the ten tribes], and to the fading flower of its glorious beauty, which is on the head of the rich valley of those overcome and smitten down with wine!

Isaiah 28:2 (CJB)-M

² The Lord has someone strong and powerful. He comes like a hailstorm, a destructive tempest, like a flood of water, rushing, overwhelming; with his hand he hurls them to the ground.

Isaiah 28:3 (NASB)

³ The proud crown of the drunkards of Ephraim is trodden under foot.

Isaiah 28:4 (CJB)

⁴ and the fading flower of its proud splendor, located at the head of the rich valley, is like the first ripe fig of summer— whoever sees it picks and eats it.

Isaiah 28:5 (AMP)

⁵ [But] in that [future Messianic] day the Lord of hosts shall become a crown of glory and a diadem of beauty to the [converted] remnant of His people,

Isaiah 28:6 (CJB)

⁶ He will also be a spirit of justice for whoever sits as a judge, and a source of strength for those repelling enemy attacks at the gate.

Isaiah 28:7 (NIV)

⁷ And these also stagger from wine and reel from beer: Priests and prophets stagger from beer and are befuddled with wine; they reel from beer, they stagger when seeing visions, they stumble when rendering decisions.

Isaiah 28:8 (NIV)

⁸ All the tables are covered with vomit and there is not a spot without filth.

Isaiah 28:9 (CJB)

⁹ Can no one be taught anything? Can no one understand the message? Must one teach barely weaned toddlers, babies just taken from the breast,

Isaiah 28:10 (NASB)

¹⁰ “For He says, ‘Order on order, order on order, Line on line, line on line, A little here, a little there.'”

Isaiah 28:11 (NASB)

¹¹ Indeed, He will speak to this people Through stammering lips and a foreign tongue,

Isaiah 28:12 (NKJV)

¹² To whom He said, “This is the rest with which You may cause the weary to rest,” And, “This is the refreshing”; Yet they would not hear.

Isaiah 28:13 (NASB)

¹³ So the word of the LORD to them will be, “Order on order, order on order, Line on line, line on line, A little here, a little there,” That they may go and stumble backward, be broken, snared and taken captive.

Isaiah 28:14 (NASB)

¹⁴ Therefore, hear the word of the LORD, O scoffers, Who rule this people who are in Jerusalem,

Isaiah 28:15 (NIV2011)

¹⁵ You boast, “We have entered into a covenant with death, with the realm of the dead we have made an agreement. When an overwhelming scourge sweeps by, it cannot touch us, for we have made a lie our refuge and falsehood our hiding place.”

Isaiah 28:16 (NIV)

¹⁶ So this is what the Sovereign LORD says: “See, I lay a stone in Zion, a tested stone, a precious cornerstone for a sure foundation; the one who trusts will never be dismayed.

Isaiah 28:17 (CJB)-M

¹⁷ I will make justice the plumb-line and righteousness the plumb-bob; hail will sweep away the refuge of lies, water will overflow the hiding place,

Isaiah 28:18 (NIV2011)

¹⁸ Your covenant with death will be annulled; your agreement with the realm of the dead will not stand. When the overwhelming scourge sweeps by, you will be beaten down by it.

Isaiah 28:19 (AMP)

¹⁹ As often as it passes through, it [the enemy’s scourge] will take you; for morning by morning will it pass through, by day and by night. And it will be utter terror merely to hear and comprehend the report and the message of it [but only hard treatment and dispersion will make you understand God’s instruction].

Isaiah 28:20 (AMP)

²⁰ For [they will find that] the bed is too short for a man to stretch himself on and the covering too narrow for him to wrap himself in. [All their sources of confidence will fail them.]

Isaiah 28:21 (NASB)

²¹ For the LORD will rise up as at Mount Perazim, He will be stirred up as in the valley of Gibeon, To do His task, His unusual task, And to work His work, His extraordinary work.

Isaiah 28:22 (NIV)

²² Now stop your mocking, or your chains will become heavier; the Lord, the LORD Almighty, has told me of the destruction decreed against the whole land.

Isaiah 28:23 (AMP)

²³ Give ear and hear my [Isaiah’s] voice; listen and hear my words.

Isaiah 28:24 (AMP)

²⁴ Does he who plows for sowing plow continually? Does he continue to plow and harrow the ground after it is smooth?

Isaiah 28:25 (CJB)

²⁵ No — when he finishes leveling it, he scatters his dill-seed, sows his cumin, puts wheat in rows, barley where it belongs, and plants buckwheat around the edges;

Isaiah 28:26 (CJB)

²⁶ because his God has taught him this, has given him instruction.

Isaiah 28:27 (AMP)

²⁷ For dill is not threshed with a sharp threshing instrument, nor is a cartwheel rolled over cumin; but dill is beaten off with a staff, and cumin with a rod [by hand].

Isaiah 28:28 (CJB)

²⁸ When crushing grain for bread, one doesn’t thresh it forever; one drives the horse and cart wheels over it but doesn’t crush it to powder.

Isaiah 28:29 (NIV)

²⁹ All this also comes from the LORD Almighty, wonderful in counsel and magnificent in wisdom.

Isaiah Chapter 29

Isaiah 29:1 (AMP)

¹ Woe to Ariel [Jerusalem], to Ariel, the city where David encamped! Add yet another year; let the feasts run their round [but only one year more].

Isaiah 29:2 (AMP)

² Then will I distress Ariel; and there shall be mourning and lamentation, yet she shall be to Me like an Ariel [an altar hearth, a hearth of burning, the altar of God].

Isaiah 29:3 (AMP)

³ And I will encamp against you round about; and I will hem you in with siege works and I will set up fortifications against you.

Isaiah 29:4 (NIV)

⁴ Brought low, you will speak from the ground; your speech will mumble out of the dust. Your voice will come ghost-like from the earth; out of the dust your speech will whisper.

Isaiah 29:5 (CJB)

⁵ But your many foes will become like fine powder, the horde of tyrants like blowing chaff, and it will happen very suddenly.

Isaiah 29:6 (NIV)

⁶ the LORD Almighty will come with thunder and earthquake and great noise, with windstorm and tempest and flames of a devouring fire.

Isaiah 29:7 (AMP)

⁷ And the multitude of all the nations that fight against Ariel [Jerusalem], even all that fight against her and her stronghold and that distress her, shall be as a dream, a vision of the night.

Isaiah 29:8 (AMP)

⁸ It shall be as when a hungry man dreams that he is eating, but he wakens with his craving not satisfied; or as when a thirsty man dreams that he is drinking, but he wakens and is faint, and his thirst is not quenched. So shall the multitude of all the nations be that fight against Mount Zion.

Isaiah 29:9 (AMP)

⁹ Stop and wonder [at this prophecy, if you choose, whether you understand it or not; soon you will witness the actual event] and be confounded [reluctantly]! Blind yourselves [now, if you choose; take your pleasure] and then be blinded [at the actual occurrence]. They are drunk, but not from wine; they stagger, but not from strong drink [but from spiritual stupor].

Isaiah 29:10 (CJB)-M

¹⁰ For the Lord has poured over you a spirit of lethargy; he has closed your eyes (that is, the prophets) and covered your heads (that is, the seers).

Isaiah 29:11 (CJB)

¹¹ For you this whole prophetic vision has become like the message in a sealed-up scroll. When one gives it to someone who can read and says, “Please read this,” he answers, “I can’t, because it’s sealed.”

Isaiah 29:12 (NIV)

¹² Or if you give the scroll to someone who cannot read, and say, “Read this, please,” he will answer, “I don’t know how to read.”

Isaiah 29:13 (NIV)

¹³ The Lord says: “These people come near to me with their mouth and honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me. Their worship of me is made up only of rules taught by men.

Isaiah 29:14 (AMP)

¹⁴ Therefore, behold! I will again do marvelous things with this people, marvelous and astonishing things; and the wisdom of their wise men will perish, and the understanding of their discerning men will vanish or be hidden.

Isaiah 29:15 (NIV)

¹⁵ Woe to those who go to great depths to hide their plans from the LORD, who do their work in darkness and think, “Who sees us? Who will know?”

Isaiah 29:16 (AMP)

¹⁶ [Oh, your perversity!] You turn things upside down! Shall the potter be considered of no more account than the clay? Shall the thing that is made say of its maker, He did not make me; or the thing that is formed say of him who formed it, He has no understanding?

Isaiah 29:17 (NIV)

¹⁷ In a very short time, will not Lebanon be turned into a fertile field and the fertile field seem like a forest?

Isaiah 29:18 (NIV)

¹⁸ In that day the deaf will hear the words of the scroll, and out of gloom and darkness the eyes of the blind will see.

Isaiah 29:19 (NIV)

¹⁹ Once more the humble will rejoice in the LORD; the needy will rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.

Isaiah 29:20 (NIV)

²⁰ The ruthless will vanish, the mockers will disappear, and all who have an eye for evil will be cut down–

Isaiah 29:21 (NIV)

²¹ those who with a word make a man out to be guilty, who ensnare the defender in court and with false testimony deprive the innocent of justice.

Isaiah 29:22 (NIV)

²² Therefore this is what the LORD, who redeemed Abraham, says to the house of Jacob: “No longer will Jacob be ashamed; no longer will their faces grow pale.

Isaiah 29:23 (CJB)-M

²³ When his descendants see the work of my hands among them, they will consecrate my name. Yes, they will consecrate the Holy one of Jacob and stand in awe of the God of Israel.

Isaiah 29:24 (7KB)

²⁴ Those who were confused will gain understanding (after they repent and stop following vain ways) and those who grumble and are discontent (will accept instruction) when they get tired of living lives of total disorder.

Isaiah Chapter 30

Isaiah 30:1 (CJB)-M

¹ “Woe to the rebellious children,” says the Lord. “They make plans, but the plans are not mine; they develop alliances, but not from my Spirit, in order to pile sin upon sin.

Isaiah 30:2 (CJB)

² They go down to Egypt but don’t consult me, seeking refuge in Pharaoh’s protection, seeking shelter in Egypt’s shadow.

Isaiah 30:3 (CJB)

³ But Pharaoh’s protection will bring you shame, shelter in Egypt’s shadow will lead to disgrace.

Isaiah 30:4 (AMP)

⁴ For though [Pharaoh’s] officials are at Zoan and his ambassadors arrive at Hanes [in Egypt],

Isaiah 30:5 (CJB)

⁵ they all are disappointed with a people that doesn’t help them, who give no assistance and no advantage, only disappointment and disgrace.”

Isaiah 30:6 (CJB)

⁶ A prophecy about the animals in the Negev: In a land of trouble and anguish, of lionesses and roaring lions, of vipers and poisonous flying serpents, they carry their riches on donkeys’ backs and their treasures on camels’ humps to a people who will not help them.

Isaiah 30:7 (NIV)

⁷ to Egypt, whose help is utterly useless. Therefore I call her Rahab the Do-Nothing.

Isaiah 30:8 (CJB)

⁸ Now go, inscribe it on a tablet, write it for them in a scroll, so that on the final day it will be a witness forever and ever.

Isaiah 30:9 (NIV)

⁹ These are rebellious people, deceitful children, children unwilling to listen to the LORD’s instruction.

Isaiah 30:10 (NIV)

¹⁰ They say to the seers, “See no more visions!” and to the prophets, “Give us no more visions of what is right! Tell us pleasant things, prophesy illusions.

Isaiah 30:11 (NIV)

¹¹ Leave this way, get off this path, and stop confronting us with the Holy One of Israel!”

Isaiah 30:12 (AMP)

¹² Therefore thus says the Holy One of Israel: Because you despise and spurn this [My] word and trust in cunning and oppression, in crookedness and perverseness, and rely on them,

Isaiah 30:13 (NIV)

¹³ this sin will become for you like a high wall, cracked and bulging, that collapses suddenly, in an instant.

Isaiah 30:14 (AMP)

¹⁴ And he shall break it as a potter’s vessel is broken, breaking it in pieces without sparing so that there cannot be found among its pieces one large enough to carry coals of fire from the hearth or to dip water out of the cistern.

Isaiah 30:15 (AMP)

¹⁵ For thus said the Lord God, the Holy One of Israel: In returning [to Me] and resting [in Me] you shall be saved; in quietness and in [trusting] confidence shall be your strength. But you would not,

Isaiah 30:16 (AMP)

¹⁶ And you said, No! We will speed [our own course] on horses! Therefore you will speed [in flight from your enemies]! You said, We will ride upon swift steeds [doing our own way]! Therefore will they who pursue you be swift, [so swift that]

Isaiah 30:17 (AMP)

¹⁷ One thousand of you will flee at the threat of one of them; at the threat of five you will flee till you are left like a beacon or a flagpole on the top of a mountain, and like a signal on a hill.

Isaiah 30:18 (CJB)-M

¹⁸ Yet the Lord is just waiting to show you favor, he will have pity on you from on high; for Adonai is a God of justice; happy are all who wait for him!

Isaiah 30:19 (NIV)

¹⁹ O people of Zion, who live in Jerusalem, you will weep no more. How gracious he will be when you cry for help! As soon as he hears, he will answer you.

Isaiah 30:20 (AMP)

²⁰ And though the Lord gives you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, yet your Teacher will not hide Himself any more, but your eyes will constantly behold your Teacher.

Isaiah 30:21 (NIV)

²¹ Whether you turn to the right or to the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you, saying, “This is the way; walk in it.”

Isaiah 30:22 (NIV)

²² Then you will defile your idols overlaid with silver and your images covered with gold; you will throw them away like a menstrual cloth and say to them, “Away with you!”

Isaiah 30:23 (CJB)

²³ Then he will give you rain for the seed you use to sow your land; and the food that comes from the ground will be rich and abundant. When that day comes, your cattle will graze in spacious pastures.

Isaiah 30:24 (CJB)

²⁴ The oxen and donkeys that work the land will eat a tasty mixture, winnowed free of chaff, spread by pitchfork and shovel.

Isaiah 30:25 (AMP)

²⁵ And upon every high mountain and upon every high hill there will be brooks and streams of water in the day of the great slaughter [the day of the Lord], when the towers fall [and all His enemies are destroyed].

Isaiah 30:26 (AMP)

²⁶ Moreover, the light of the moon will be like the light of the sun, and the light of the sun will be sevenfold, like the light of seven days [concentrated in one], in the day that the Lord binds up the hurt of His people, and heals their wound [inflicted by Him because of their sins].

Isaiah 30:27 (NIV)

²⁷ See, the Name of the LORD comes from afar, with burning anger and dense clouds of smoke; his lips are full of wrath, and his tongue is a consuming fire.

Isaiah 30:28 (CJB)

²⁸ His breath is like a racing torrent that rises up to the neck, to sift the nations with the sieve of destruction, and put a bridle in the peoples’ mouths to lead them astray.

Isaiah 30:29 (CJB)-M

²⁹ Your song will be like one that is sung on a night when a holy feast is kept, and your hearts will be happy, as if walking to the sound of the flute, to the mountain of the Lord, to the Rock of Israel.

Isaiah 30:30 (NIV)

³⁰ The LORD will cause men to hear his majestic voice and will make them see his arm coming down with raging anger and consuming fire, with cloudburst, thunderstorm and hail.

Isaiah 30:31 (AMP)

³¹ At the voice of the Lord the Assyrians will be stricken with dismay and terror, when He smites them with His rod.

Isaiah 30:32 (NIV)

³² Every stroke the LORD lays on them with his punishing rod will be to the music of tambourines and harps, as he fights them in battle with the blows of his arm.

Isaiah 30:33 (AMP)

³³ For Topheth [a place of burning and abomination] has already been laid out and long ago prepared; yes, for the [Assyrian] king and [the god] Molech it has been made ready, its pyre made deep and large, with fire and much wood; the breath of the Lord, like a stream of brimstone, kindles it.

Isaiah Chapter 31

Isaiah 31:1 (NIV)

¹ Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help, who rely on horses, who trust in the multitude of their chariots and in the great strength of their horsemen, but do not look to the Holy One of Israel, or seek help from the LORD.

Isaiah 31:2 (CJB)

² But he too is wise and can bring disaster, and he does not take back his words; he will rise against the house of evildoers and against the help of those who do wrong.

Isaiah 31:3 (CJB)-M

³ Now the Egyptians are men and not God, and their horses flesh and not spirit. So when the Lord stretches out his hand, both he who helps will stumble, and he who is helped will fall; both will perish together.

Isaiah 31:4 (NIV)

⁴ This is what the LORD says to me: “As a lion growls, a great lion over his prey– and though a whole band of shepherds is called together against him, he is not frightened by their shouts or disturbed by their clamor– so the LORD Almighty will come down to do battle on Mount Zion and on its heights.

Isaiah 31:5 (NIV)

⁵ Like birds hovering overhead, the LORD Almighty will shield Jerusalem; he will shield it and deliver it, he will ‘pass over’ it and will rescue it.”

Isaiah 31:6 (CJB)-M

⁶ People of Israel! Return to him to whom you have been so deeply disloyal!

Isaiah 31:7 (AMP)

⁷ For in that day every man of you will cast away [in contempt and disgust] his idols of silver and his idols of gold, which your own hands have sinfully made for you.

Isaiah 31:8 (CJB)-M

⁸ Then Assyria will fall by a sword not of mortals, a sword, not of humans, will devour him; he will flee before the sword, and his young men will be put to forced labor.

Isaiah 31:9 (AMP)

⁹ [In his flight] he shall pass beyond his rock [refuge and stronghold] because of terror; even his officers shall desert the standard in fear and panic, says the Lord, Whose fire is in Zion and Whose furnace is in Jerusalem.

Isaiah Chapter 32

Isaiah 32:1 (CJB)

¹ There is coming a king who will reign justly and princes who will rule uprightly.

Isaiah 32:2 (AMP)

² And each one of them shall be like a hiding place from the wind and a shelter from the storm, like streams of water in a dry place, like the shade of a great rock in a weary land [to those who turn to them].

Isaiah 32:3 (NASB)

³ Then the eyes of those who see will not be blinded, And the ears of those who hear will listen.

Isaiah 32:4 (CJB)

⁴ The minds of the impetuous will learn to weigh carefully, the tongues of the stutterers will speak readily and clearly.

Isaiah 32:5 (AMP)

⁵ The fool (the unbeliever and the ungodly) will no more be called noble, nor the crafty and greedy [for gain] said to be bountiful and princely.

Isaiah 32:6 (CJB)-M

⁶ for the mean person will speak meanness, his heart planning evil, so that he can act godlessly, spreading error concerning the Lord, as he lets the hungry go on starving and deprives the thirsty of drink.

Isaiah 32:7 (NIV)

⁷ The scoundrel’s methods are wicked, he makes up evil schemes to destroy the poor with lies, even when the plea of the needy is just.

Isaiah 32:8 (AMP)

⁸ But the noble, openhearted, and liberal man devises noble things; and he stands for what is noble, openhearted, and generous.

Isaiah 32:9 (CJB)

⁹ You women who are so complacent, listen to me! Overconfident women, pay attention to my words!

Isaiah 32:10 (AMP)

¹⁰ In little more than a year you will be shaken with anxiety, you careless and complacent women; for the vintage will fail, and the ingathering will not come.

Isaiah 32:11 (NIV)

¹¹ Tremble, you complacent women; shudder, you daughters who feel secure! Strip off your clothes, put sackcloth around your waists.

Isaiah 32:12 (CJB)

¹² Beat your breasts in mourning for the pleasant fields and fruitful vines,

Isaiah 32:13 (CJB)

¹³ for the land of my people, producing thorns and briars, for all the happy homes in the joyful city.

Isaiah 32:14 (AMP)

¹⁴ For the palace shall be forsaken, the populous city shall be deserted; the hill and the watchtower shall become dens [for wild animals] endlessly, a joy for wild donkeys, a pasture for flocks,

Isaiah 32:15 (CJB)

¹⁵ till the Spirit is poured out on us from above, and the desert becomes a fertile field, with the fertile field regarded as a forest.

Isaiah 32:16 (NIV2011)

¹⁶ The LORD’s justice will dwell in the desert, his righteousness live in the fertile field.

Isaiah 32:17 (AMP)

¹⁷ And the effect of righteousness will be peace [internal and external], and the result of righteousness will be quietness and confident trust forever.

Isaiah 32:18 (CJB)

¹⁸ My people will live in a peaceful place, in secure neighborhoods and tranquil dwellings.

Isaiah 32:19 (AMP)

¹⁹ But it [the wrath of the Lord] shall hail, coming down overpoweringly on the forest [the army of the Assyrians], and the capital city shall be utterly humbled and laid prostrate.

Isaiah 32:20 (CJB)

²⁰ Happy are you who sow by all streams, letting oxen and donkeys roam freely.

Isaiah Chapter 33

Isaiah 33:1 (NIV)

¹ Woe to you, O destroyer, you who have not been destroyed! Woe to you, O traitor, you who have not been betrayed! When you stop destroying, you will be destroyed; when you stop betraying, you will be betrayed.

Isaiah 33:2 (NIV)

² O LORD, be gracious to us; we long for you. Be our strength every morning, our salvation in time of distress.

Isaiah 33:3 (NIV)

³ At the thunder of your voice, the peoples flee; when you rise up, the nations scatter.

Isaiah 33:4 (NIV)

⁴ Your plunder, O nations, is harvested as by young locusts; like a swarm of locusts men pounce on it.

Isaiah 33:5 (NIV)

⁵ The LORD is exalted, for he dwells on high; he will fill Zion with justice and righteousness.

Isaiah 33:6 (NIV)

⁶ He will be the sure foundation for your times, a rich store of salvation and wisdom and knowledge; the fear of the LORD is the key to this treasure.

Isaiah 33:7 (CJB)

⁷ Hear their brave men crying out for help! The envoys of peace weep bitterly.

Isaiah 33:8 (CJB)

⁸ The highways are deserted, there are no travelers. He has broken the covenant, despised the cities; he has no regard for human life.

Isaiah 33:9 (AMP)

⁹ The land mourns and languishes, Lebanon is confounded and [its luxuriant verdure] withers away; Sharon [a fertile pasture region south of Mount Carmel] is like a desert, and Bashan [a broad, fertile plateau east of the Jordan River] and [Mount] Carmel shake off their leaves.

Isaiah 33:10 (AMP)

¹⁰ Now will I arise, says the Lord. Now will I lift up Myself; now will I be exalted.

Isaiah 33:11 (NASB)

¹¹ “You have conceived chaff, you will give birth to stubble; My breath will consume you like a fire.

Isaiah 33:12 (NASB)

¹² “The peoples will be burned to lime, Like cut thorns which are burned in the fire.

Isaiah 33:13 (NIV)

¹³ You who are far away, hear what I have done; you who are near, acknowledge my power!

Isaiah 33:14 (NASB)

¹⁴ Sinners in Zion are terrified; Trembling has seized the godless. “Who among us can live with the consuming fire? Who among us can live with continual burning?”

Isaiah 33:15 (CJB)

¹⁵ He whose life is right and whose speech is straight, he who scorns getting rich by extortion, he who shakes his hands free of bribes, stops his ears against talk of bloodshed and shuts his eyes against looking at evil.

Isaiah 33:16 (CJB)

¹⁶ Such a person will live on the heights, his refuge a fortress among the cliffs, his food and water in steady supply.

Isaiah 33:17 (CJB)

¹⁷ Your eyes will see the king in his beauty, they will gaze on a land stretching into the distance.

Isaiah 33:18 (NIV)

¹⁸ In your thoughts you will ponder the former terror: “Where is that chief officer? Where is the one who took the revenue? Where is the officer in charge of the towers?”

Isaiah 33:19 (AMP)

¹⁹ You will see no more the fierce and insolent people, a people of a speech too deep and obscure to be comprehended, of a strange and stammering tongue that you cannot understand.

Isaiah 33:20 (NIV)

²⁰ Look upon Zion, the city of our festivals; your eyes will see Jerusalem, a peaceful abode, a tent that will not be moved; its stakes will never be pulled up, nor any of its ropes broken.

Isaiah 33:21 (AMP)

²¹ But there the Lord will be for us in majesty and splendor a place of broad rivers and streams, where no oar-propelled boat can go, and no mighty and stately ship can pass.

Isaiah 33:22 (NIV)

²² For the LORD is our judge, the LORD is our lawgiver, the LORD is our king; it is he who will save us.

Isaiah 33:23 (CJB)

²³ For your ropes are hanging loose, not holding the mast, not spreading the sail. Then the plunder shared out is so huge that even the lame get part of the spoil.

Isaiah 33:24 (AMP)

²⁴ And no inhabitant [of Zion] will say, I am sick; the people who dwell there will be forgiven their iniquity and guilt.

Isaiah Chapter 34

Isaiah 34:1 (AMP)

¹ Come near, you nations, to hear; and hearken, you peoples! Let the earth hear, and all that is in it; the world, and all things that come forth from it.

Isaiah 34:2 (NASB)

² For the LORD’S indignation is against all the nations, And His wrath against all their armies; He has utterly destroyed them, He has given them over to slaughter.

Isaiah 34:3 (NIV)

³ Their slain will be thrown out, their dead bodies will send up a stench; the mountains will be soaked with their blood.

Isaiah 34:4 (CJB)

⁴ The whole host of heaven will decompose, the heavens themselves be rolled up like a scroll; all their array will wither away like a withering grape-leaf that falls from a vine or a withered fig from a fig tree.

Isaiah 34:5 (NASB)

⁵ For My sword is satiated in heaven, Behold it shall descend for judgment upon Edom And upon the people whom I have devoted to destruction.

Isaiah 34:6 (NASB)

⁶ The sword of the LORD is filled with blood, It is sated with fat, with the blood of lambs and goats, With the fat of the kidneys of rams. For the LORD has a sacrifice in Bozrah And a great slaughter in the land of Edom.

Isaiah 34:7 (NASB)

⁷ Wild oxen will also fall with them And young bulls with strong ones; Thus their land will be soaked with blood, And their dust become greasy with fat.

Isaiah 34:8 (NASB)

⁸ For the LORD has a day of vengeance, A year of recompense for the cause of Zion.

Isaiah 34:9 (NASB)

⁹ Its streams will be turned into pitch, And its loose earth into brimstone, And its land will become burning pitch.

Isaiah 34:10 (NASB)

¹⁰ It will not be quenched night or day; Its smoke will go up forever. From generation to generation it will be desolate; None will pass through it forever and ever.

Isaiah 34:11 (NASB)

¹¹ But pelican and hedgehog will possess it, And owl and raven will dwell in it; And He will stretch over it the line of desolation And the plumb line of emptiness.

Isaiah 34:12 (NIV)

¹² Her nobles will have nothing there to be called a kingdom, all her princes will vanish away.

Isaiah 34:13 (NIV)

¹³ Thorns will overrun her citadels, nettles and brambles her strongholds. She will become a haunt for jackals, a home for owls.

Isaiah 34:14 (NIV)

¹⁴ Desert creatures will meet with hyenas, and wild goats will bleat to each other; there the night creatures will also repose and find for themselves places of rest.

Isaiah 34:15 (CJB)

¹⁵ There the hoot owl will nest, lay her eggs, hatch and gather her young in its shade. There the vultures will assemble, every one with its mate.

Isaiah 34:16 (AMP)

¹⁶ Seek out of the book of the Lord and read: not one of these [details of prophecy] shall fail, none shall want and lack her mate [in fulfillment]. For the mouth [of the Lord] has commanded, and His Spirit has gathered them.

Isaiah 34:17 (AMP)

¹⁷ And He has cast the lot for them, and His hand has portioned [Edom] to [the wild beasts] by measuring line. They shall possess it forever; from generation to generation they shall dwell in it.

Isaiah Chapter 35

Isaiah 35:1 (AMP)

¹ The wilderness and the dry land shall be glad; the desert shall rejoice and blossom like the rose and the autumn crocus.

Isaiah 35:2 (NIV)

² it will rejoice greatly and shout for joy. The glory of Lebanon will be given to it, the splendor of Carmel and Sharon; they will see the glory of the LORD, the splendor of our God.

Isaiah 35:3 (AMP)

³ Strengthen the weak hands and make firm the feeble and tottering knees.

Isaiah 35:4 (NIV)

⁴ say to those with fearful hearts, “Be strong, do not fear; your God will come, he will come with vengeance; with divine retribution he will come to save you.”

Isaiah 35:5 (NIV)

⁵ Then will the eyes of the blind be opened and the ears of the deaf unstopped.

Isaiah 35:6 (AMP)

⁶ Then shall the lame man leap like a hart, and the tongue of the dumb shall sing for joy. For waters shall break forth in the wilderness and streams in the desert.

Isaiah 35:7 (NIV)

⁷ The burning sand will become a pool, the thirsty ground bubbling springs. In the haunts where jackals once lay, grass and reeds and papyrus will grow.

Isaiah 35:8 (CJB)

⁸ A highway will be there, a way, called the Way of Holiness. The unclean will not pass over it, but it will be for those whom he guides— fools will not stray along it.

Isaiah 35:9 (AMP)

⁹ No lion shall be there, nor shall any ravenous beast come up on it; they shall not be found there. But the redeemed shall walk on it.

Isaiah 35:10 (AMP)

¹⁰ And the ransomed of the Lord shall return and come to Zion with singing, and everlasting joy shall be upon their heads; they shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.

Isaiah Chapter 36

Isaiah 36:1 (NIV)

¹ In the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah’s reign, Sennacherib king of Assyria attacked all the fortified cities of Judah and captured them.

Isaiah 36:2 (NIV)

² Then the king of Assyria sent his field commander with a large army from Lachish to King Hezekiah at Jerusalem. When the commander stopped at the aqueduct of the Upper Pool, on the road to the Washerman’s Field,

Isaiah 36:3 (NIV)

³ Eliakim son of Hilkiah the palace administrator, Shebna the secretary, and Joah son of Asaph the recorder went out to him.

Isaiah 36:4 (NIV)

⁴ The field commander said to them, “Tell Hezekiah, “‘This is what the great king, the king of Assyria, says: On what are you basing this confidence of yours?

Isaiah 36:5 (NIV)

⁵ You say you have strategy and military strength–but you speak only empty words. On whom are you depending, that you rebel against me?

Isaiah 36:6 (AMP)

⁶ Behold, you trust in the staff of this bruised and broken reed, Egypt, which will pierce the hand of any man who leans on it. So is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who trust and rely on him.

Isaiah 36:7 (NIV)

⁷ And if you say to me, “We are depending on the LORD our God”–isn’t he the one whose high places and altars Hezekiah removed, saying to Judah and Jerusalem, “You must worship before this altar”?

Isaiah 36:8 (NASB)

⁸ “Now therefore, come make a bargain with my master the king of Assyria, and I will give you two thousand horses, if you are able on your part to set riders on them.

Isaiah 36:9 (CJB)

⁹ How then can you repulse even one of my master’s lowest-ranked army officers? Yet you are relying on Egypt for chariots and riders!

Isaiah 36:10 (NASB)

¹⁰ “Have I now come up without the LORD’S approval against this land to destroy it? The LORD said to me, ‘Go up against this land and destroy it.'”‘”

Isaiah 36:11 (NIV)

¹¹ Then Eliakim, Shebna and Joah said to the field commander, “Please speak to your servants in Aramaic, since we understand it. Don’t speak to us in Hebrew in the hearing of the people on the wall.”

Isaiah 36:12 (NASB)

¹² But Rabshakeh said, “Has my master sent me only to your master and to you to speak these words, and not to the men who sit on the wall, doomed to eat their own dung and drink their own urine with you?”

Isaiah 36:13 (NIV)

¹³ Then the commander stood and called out in Hebrew, “Hear the words of the great king, the king of Assyria!

Isaiah 36:14 (NIV)

¹⁴ This is what the king says: Do not let Hezekiah deceive you. He cannot deliver you!

Isaiah 36:15 (NIV)

¹⁵ Do not let Hezekiah persuade you to trust in the LORD when he says, ‘The LORD will surely deliver us; this city will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.’

Isaiah 36:16 (NIV)

¹⁶ “Do not listen to Hezekiah. This is what the king of Assyria says: Make peace with me and come out to me. Then every one of you will eat from his own vine and fig tree and drink water from his own cistern,

Isaiah 36:17 (NIV)

¹⁷ until I come and take you to a land like your own–a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards.

Isaiah 36:18 (NIV)

¹⁸ “Do not let Hezekiah mislead you when he says, ‘The LORD will deliver us.’ Has the god of any nation ever delivered his land from the hand of the king of Assyria?

Isaiah 36:19 (NIV)

¹⁹ Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim? Have they rescued Samaria from my hand?

Isaiah 36:20 (NIV)

²⁰ Who of all the gods of these countries has been able to save his land from me? How then can the LORD deliver Jerusalem from my hand?”

Isaiah 36:21 (AMP)

²¹ But they kept still and answered him not a word, for the king’s [Hezekiah’s] command was, Do not answer him.

Isaiah 36:22 (AMP)

²² Then Eliakim son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, and Shebna the secretary, and Joah son of Asaph, the recording historian came to Hezekiah with their clothes rent, and told him the words of the Rabshakeh [the Assyrian military official].

Isaiah Chapter 37

Isaiah 37:1 (NIV)

¹ When King Hezekiah heard this, he tore his clothes and put on sackcloth and went into the temple of the LORD.

Isaiah 37:2 (NIV)

² He sent Eliakim the palace administrator, Shebna the secretary, and the leading priests, all wearing sackcloth, to the prophet Isaiah son of Amoz.

Isaiah 37:3 (NIV)

³ They told him, “This is what Hezekiah says: This day is a day of distress and rebuke and disgrace, as when children come to the point of birth and there is no strength to deliver them.

Isaiah 37:4 (NASB)

⁴ ~’Perhaps the LORD your God will hear the words of Rabshakeh, whom his master the king of Assyria has sent to reproach the living God, and will rebuke the words which the LORD your God has heard. Therefore, offer a prayer for the remnant that is left.'”

Isaiah 37:5 (NIV)

⁵ When King Hezekiah’s officials came to Isaiah,

Isaiah 37:6 (NIV)

⁶ Isaiah said to them, “Tell your master, ‘This is what the LORD says: Do not be afraid of what you have heard–those words with which the underlings of the king of Assyria have blasphemed me.

Isaiah 37:7 (NIV)

⁷ Listen! I am going to put a spirit in him so that when he hears a certain report, he will return to his own country, and there I will have him cut down with the sword.'”

Isaiah 37:8 (NIV)

⁸ When the field commander heard that the king of Assyria had left Lachish, he withdrew and found the king fighting against Libnah.

Isaiah 37:9 (NIV)

⁹ Now Sennacherib received a report that Tirhakah, the Cushite king [of Egypt], was marching out to fight against him. When he heard it, he sent messengers to Hezekiah with this word:

Isaiah 37:10 (NASB)

¹⁰ “Thus you shall say to Hezekiah king of Judah, ‘Do not let your God in whom you trust deceive you, saying, “Jerusalem will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.”

Isaiah 37:11 (CJB)-M

¹¹ You have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands — they have completely destroyed them. So how will you be delivered?

Isaiah 37:12 (CJB)-M

¹² Have the gods of the nations delivered them? No, my ancestors destroyed them — Gozan, Haran, Rezeph and the people of Eden who were in Tel Assar.

Isaiah 37:13 (NIV)

¹³ Where is the king of Hamath, the king of Arpad, the king of the city of Sepharvaim, or of Hena or Ivvah?”

Isaiah 37:14 (NIV)

¹⁴ Hezekiah received the letter from the messengers and read it. Then he went up to the temple of the LORD and spread it out before the LORD.

Isaiah 37:15 (NIV)

¹⁵ And Hezekiah prayed to the LORD:

Isaiah 37:16 (NIV)

¹⁶ “O LORD Almighty, God of Israel, enthroned between the cherubim, you alone are God over all the kingdoms of the earth. You have made heaven and earth.

Isaiah 37:17 (AMP)

¹⁷ Incline Your ear, O Lord, and hear; open Your eyes, O Lord, and see; and hear all the words of Sennacherib which he has sent to mock, reproach, insult, and defy the living God.

Isaiah 37:18 (NIV)

¹⁸ “It is true, O LORD, that the Assyrian kings have laid waste all these peoples and their lands.

Isaiah 37:19 (NIV)

¹⁹ They have thrown their gods into the fire and destroyed them, for they were not gods but only wood and stone, fashioned by human hands.

Isaiah 37:20 (NIV)

²⁰ Now, O LORD our God, deliver us from his hand, so that all kingdoms on earth may know that you alone, O LORD, are God.”

Isaiah 37:21 (NIV)

²¹ Then Isaiah son of Amoz sent a message to Hezekiah: “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: Because you have prayed to me concerning Sennacherib king of Assyria,

Isaiah 37:22 (NASB)

²² this is the word that the LORD has spoken against him: “She has despised you and mocked you, The virgin daughter of Zion; She has shaken her head behind you, The daughter of Jerusalem!

Isaiah 37:23 (NIV)

²³ Who is it you have insulted and blasphemed? Against whom have you raised your voice and lifted your eyes in pride? Against the Holy One of Israel!

Isaiah 37:24 (NIV)

²⁴ By your messengers you have heaped insults on the Lord. And you have said, ‘With my many chariots I have ascended the heights of the mountains, the utmost heights of Lebanon. I have cut down its tallest cedars, the choicest of its pines. I have reached its remotest heights, the finest of its forests.

Isaiah 37:25 (NIV)

²⁵ I have dug wells in foreign lands and drunk the water there. With the soles of my feet I have dried up all the streams of Egypt.’

Isaiah 37:26 (NASB)

²⁶ “Have you not heard? Long ago I did it, From ancient times I planned it. Now I have brought it to pass, That you should turn fortified cities into ruinous heaps.

Isaiah 37:27 (NASB)

²⁷ “Therefore their inhabitants were short of strength, They were dismayed and put to shame; They were as the vegetation of the field and as the green herb, As grass on the housetops is scorched before it is grown up.

Isaiah 37:28 (AMP)

²⁸ But I [the Lord] know your sitting down and your going out and your coming in and your raging against Me.

Isaiah 37:29 (NIV)

²⁹ Because you rage against me and because your insolence has reached my ears, I will put my hook in your nose and my bit in your mouth, and I will make you return by the way you came.

Isaiah 37:30 (NIV)

³⁰ “This will be the sign for you, O Hezekiah: “This year you will eat what grows by itself, and the second year what springs from that. But in the third year sow and reap, plant vineyards and eat their fruit.

Isaiah 37:31 (NIV)

³¹ Once more a remnant of the house of Judah will take root below and bear fruit above.

Isaiah 37:32 (NIV)

³² For out of Jerusalem will come a remnant, and out of Mount Zion a band of survivors. The zeal of the LORD Almighty will accomplish this.

Isaiah 37:33 (NIV)

³³ “Therefore this is what the LORD says concerning the king of Assyria: “He will not enter this city or shoot an arrow here. He will not come before it with shield or build a siege ramp against it.

Isaiah 37:34 (NIV)

³⁴ By the way that he came he will return; he will not enter this city,” declares the LORD.

Isaiah 37:35 (NIV)

³⁵ “I will defend this city and save it, for my sake and for the sake of David my servant!”

Isaiah 37:36 (NIV)

³⁶ Then the angel of the LORD went out and put to death a hundred and eighty-five thousand men in the Assyrian camp. When the people got up the next morning–there were all the dead bodies!

Isaiah 37:37 (NIV)

³⁷ So Sennacherib king of Assyria broke camp and withdrew. He returned to Nineveh and stayed there.

Isaiah 37:38 (NIV)

³⁸ One day, while he was worshiping in the temple of his god Nisroch, his sons Adrammelech and Sharezer cut him down with the sword, and they escaped to the land of Ararat. And Esarhaddon his son succeeded him as king.

Isaiah Chapter 38

Isaiah 38:1 (NIV)

¹ In those days Hezekiah became ill and was at the point of death. The prophet Isaiah son of Amoz went to him and said, “This is what the LORD says: Put your house in order, because you are going to die; you will not recover.”

Isaiah 38:2 (NASB)

² Then Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and prayed to the LORD,

Isaiah 38:3 (NIV)

³ “Remember, O LORD, how I have walked before you faithfully and with wholehearted devotion and have done what is good in your eyes.” And Hezekiah wept bitterly.

Isaiah 38:4 (NASB)

⁴ Then the word of the LORD came to Isaiah, saying,

Isaiah 38:5 (NASB)

⁵ “Go and say to Hezekiah, ‘Thus says the LORD, the God of your father David, “I have heard your prayer, I have seen your tears; behold, I will add fifteen years to your life.

Isaiah 38:6 (AMP)

⁶ And I will deliver you and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria; and I will defend this city [Jerusalem].

Isaiah 38:7 (NASB)

⁷ “This shall be the sign to you from the LORD, that the LORD will do this thing that He has spoken:

Isaiah 38:8 (NIV)

⁸ I will make the shadow cast by the sun go back the ten steps it has gone down on the stairway of Ahaz.'” So the sunlight went back the ten steps it had gone down.

Isaiah 38:9 (NIV)

⁹ A writing of Hezekiah king of Judah after his illness and recovery:

Isaiah 38:10 (NIV)

¹⁰ I said, “In the prime of my life must I go through the gates of death and be robbed of the rest of my years?”

Isaiah 38:11 (NIV)

¹¹ I said, “I will not again see the LORD, the LORD, in the land of the living; no longer will I look on mankind, or be with those who now dwell in this world.

Isaiah 38:12 (AMP)

¹² My [fleshly] dwelling is plucked up and is removed from me like a shepherd’s tent. I have rolled up my life as a weaver [rolls up the finished web]; [the Lord] cuts me free from the loom; from day to night You bring me to an end.

Isaiah 38:13 (NIV)

¹³ I waited patiently till dawn, but like a lion he broke all my bones; day and night you made an end of me.

Isaiah 38:14 (NIV)

¹⁴ I cried like a swift or thrush, I moaned like a mourning dove. My eyes grew weak as I looked to the heavens. I am troubled; O Lord, come to my aid!”

Isaiah 38:15 (NIV)

¹⁵ But what can I say? He has spoken to me, and he himself has done this. I will walk humbly all my years because of this anguish of my soul.

Isaiah 38:16 (NIV)

¹⁶ Lord, by such things men live; and my spirit finds life in them too. You restored me to health and let me live.

Isaiah 38:17 (NKJV)

¹⁷ Indeed it was for my own peace That I had great bitterness; But You have lovingly delivered my soul from the pit of corruption, For You have cast all my sins behind Your back.

Isaiah 38:18 (NIV)

¹⁸ For the grave cannot praise you, death cannot sing your praise; those who go down to the pit cannot hope for your faithfulness.

Isaiah 38:19 (NIV)

¹⁹ The living, the living–they praise you, as I am doing today; fathers tell their children about your faithfulness.

Isaiah 38:20 (NIV)

²⁰ The LORD will save me, and we will sing with stringed instruments all the days of our lives in the temple of the LORD.

Isaiah 38:21 (NIV)

²¹ Isaiah had said, “Prepare a poultice of figs and apply it to the boil, and he will recover.”

Isaiah 38:22 (NASB)

²² Then Hezekiah had said, “What is the sign that I shall go up to the house of the LORD?”

Isaiah Chapter 39

Isaiah 39:1 (NASB)

¹ At that time Merodach-baladan son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters and a present to Hezekiah, for he heard that he had been sick and had recovered.

Isaiah 39:2 (NKJV)

² And Hezekiah was pleased with them, and showed them the house of his treasures–the silver and gold, the spices and precious ointment, and all his armory–all that was found among his treasures. There was nothing in his house or in all his dominion that Hezekiah did not show them.

Isaiah 39:3 (NKJV)

³ Then Isaiah the prophet went to King Hezekiah, and said to him, “What did these men say, and from where did they come to you?” So Hezekiah said, “They came to me from a far country, from Babylon.”

Isaiah 39:4 (AMP)

⁴ Then Isaiah said, What have they seen in your house? And Hezekiah answered, They have seen all that is in my house; there is nothing among my treasures that I have not shown them.

Isaiah 39:5 (NASB)

⁵ Then Isaiah said to Hezekiah, “Hear the word of the LORD of hosts,

Isaiah 39:6 (NASB)

⁶ ‘Behold, the days are coming when all that is in your house and all that your fathers have laid up in store to this day will be carried to Babylon; nothing will be left,’ says the LORD.

Isaiah 39:7 (NIV)

⁷ And some of your descendants, your own flesh and blood who will be born to you, will be taken away, and they will become eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.”

Isaiah 39:8 (NKJV)

⁸ So Hezekiah said to Isaiah, “The word of the LORD which you have spoken is good!” For he said, “At least there will be peace and truth in my days.”

Isaiah Chapter 40

Isaiah 40:1 (CJB)

¹ “Comfort and keep comforting my people,” says your God.

Isaiah 40:2 (NKJV)

² “Speak comfort to Jerusalem, and cry out to her, That her warfare is ended, That her iniquity is pardoned; For she has received from the LORD’S hand Double for all her sins.”

Isaiah 40:3 (NKJV)

³ The voice of one crying in the wilderness: “Prepare the way of the LORD; Make straight in the desert A highway for our God.

Isaiah 40:4 (NIV)

⁴ Every valley shall be raised up, every mountain and hill made low; the rough ground shall become level, the rugged places a plain.

Isaiah 40:5 (NIV)

⁵ And the glory of the LORD will be revealed, and all mankind together will see it. For the mouth of the LORD has spoken.”

Isaiah 40:6 (NIV)

⁶ A voice says, “Cry out.” And I said, “What shall I cry?” “All men are like grass, and all their glory is like the flowers of the field.

Isaiah 40:7 (AMP)

⁷ The grass withers, the flower fades, when the breath of the Lord blows upon it; surely [all] the people are like grass.

Isaiah 40:8 (NKJV)

⁸ The grass withers, the flower fades, But the word of our God stands forever.”

Isaiah 40:9 (NIV)

⁹ You who bring good tidings to Zion, go up on a high mountain. You who bring good tidings 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!”

Isaiah 40:10 (NIV)

¹⁰ See, the Sovereign LORD comes with power, and his arm rules for him. See, his reward is with him, and his recompense accompanies him.

Isaiah 40:11 (NIV)

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 40:12 (NIV)

¹² Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, or with the breadth of his hand marked off the heavens? Who has held the dust of the earth in a basket, or weighed the mountains on the scales and the hills in a balance?

Isaiah 40:13 (NIV)

¹³ Who has understood the mind of the LORD, or instructed him as his counselor?

Isaiah 40:14 (NIV)

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 40:15 (AMP)

¹⁵ Behold, the nations are like a drop from a bucket and are counted as small dust on the scales; behold, He takes up the isles like a very little thing.

Isaiah 40:16 (AMP)

¹⁶ And all Lebanon’s [forests] cannot supply sufficient fuel, nor all its wild beasts furnish victims enough to burn sacrifices [worthy of the Lord].

Isaiah 40:17 (NIV)

¹⁷ Before him all the nations are as nothing; they are regarded by him as worthless and less than nothing.

Isaiah 40:18 (CJB)

¹⁸ With whom, then, will you compare God? By what standard will you evaluate him?

Isaiah 40:19 (NIV)

¹⁹ As for an idol, a craftsman casts it, and a goldsmith overlays it with gold and fashions silver chains for it.

Isaiah 40:20 (CJB)

²⁰ A man too poor to afford an offering chooses a piece of wood that won’t rot, then seeks out a skilled artisan to prepare an image that won’t fall over.

Isaiah 40:21 (NASB)

²¹ Do you not know? Have you not heard? Has it not been declared to you from the beginning? Have you not understood from the foundations of the earth?

Isaiah 40:22 (NIV)

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 tent to live in.

Isaiah 40:23 (NKJV)

²³ He brings the princes to nothing; He makes the judges of the earth useless.

Isaiah 40:24 (NIV)

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 40:25 (NIV)

²⁵ “To whom will you compare me? Or who is my equal?” says the Holy One.

Isaiah 40:26 (NIV)

²⁶ Lift your eyes and look to the heavens: Who created all these? He who brings out the starry host one by one, and calls them each by name. Because of his great power and mighty strength, not one of them is missing.

Isaiah 40:27 (NASB)

²⁷ Why do you say, O Jacob, and assert, O Israel, “My way is hidden from the LORD, And the justice due me escapes the notice of my God”?

Isaiah 40:28 (NIV)

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.

Isaiah 40:29 (NASB)

²⁹ He gives strength to the weary, And to him who lacks might He increases power.

Isaiah 40:30 (CJB)

³⁰ Young men may grow tired and weary, even the fittest may stumble and fall;

Isaiah 40:31 (NKJV)

³¹ But those who wait on the LORD Shall renew their strength; They shall mount up with wings like eagles, They shall run and not be weary, They shall walk and not faint.

Isaiah Chapter 41

Isaiah 41:1 (CJB)

¹ “Keep silence before me, coastlands! Let the peoples replenish their strength! Let them approach; then let them speak. Let us assemble for judgment.”

Isaiah 41:2 (NIV)

² “Who has stirred up one from the east, calling him in righteousness to his service? He hands nations over to him and subdues kings before him. He turns them to dust with his sword, to windblown chaff with his bow.

Isaiah 41:3 (NIV)

³ He pursues them and moves on unscathed, by a path his feet have not traveled before.

Isaiah 41:4 (AMP)

⁴ Who has prepared and done this, calling forth and guiding the destinies of the generations [of the nations] from the beginning? I, the Lord—the first [existing before history began] and with the last [an ever-present, unchanging God]—I am He.

Isaiah 41:5 (AMP)

⁵ The islands and coastlands have seen and fear; the ends of the earth tremble. They draw near and come;

Isaiah 41:6 (AMP)

⁶ They help every one his neighbor and say to his brother [in his tiresome idol making], Be of good courage!

Isaiah 41:7 (AMP)

⁷ So the carpenter encourages the goldsmith, and he who smooths [the metal] with the hammer [encourages] him who smites the anvil, saying of the soldering, That is good! And he fastens it with nails so that it cannot be moved.

Isaiah 41:8 (NIV)

⁸ “But you, O Israel, my servant, Jacob, whom I have chosen, you descendants of Abraham my friend,

Isaiah 41:9 (NIV)

⁹ I took you from the ends of the earth, from its farthest corners I called you. I said, ‘You are my servant’; I have chosen you and have not rejected you.

Isaiah 41:10 (NIV)

¹⁰ So do not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you; I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.

Isaiah 41:11 (NIV)

¹¹ “All who rage against you will surely be ashamed and disgraced; those who oppose you will be as nothing and perish.

Isaiah 41:12 (NIV)

¹² Though you search for your enemies, you will not find them. Those who wage war against you will be as nothing at all.

Isaiah 41:13 (NIV)

¹³ For I am the LORD, your God, who takes hold of your right hand and says to you, Do not fear; I will help you.

Isaiah 41:14 (NIV)

¹⁴ Do not be afraid, O worm Jacob, O little Israel, for I myself will help you,” declares the LORD, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel.

Isaiah 41:15 (NASB)

¹⁵ “Behold, I have made you a new, sharp threshing sledge with double edges; You will thresh the mountains and pulverize them, and will make the hills like chaff.

Isaiah 41:16 (AMP)

¹⁶ You shall winnow them, and the wind shall carry them away, and the tempest or whirlwind shall scatter them. And you shall rejoice in the Lord, you shall glory in the Holy One of Israel.

Isaiah 41:17 (NIV)

¹⁷ “The poor and needy search for water, but there is none; their tongues are parched with thirst. But I the LORD will answer them; I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them.

Isaiah 41:18 (NASB)

¹⁸ “I will open rivers on the bare heights And springs in the midst of the valleys; I will make the wilderness a pool of water And the dry land fountains of water.

Isaiah 41:19 (NKJV)

¹⁹ I will plant in the wilderness the cedar and the acacia tree, The myrtle and the oil tree; I will set in the desert the cypress tree and the pine And the box tree together,

Isaiah 41:20 (NIV)

²⁰ so that people may see and know, may consider and understand, that the hand of the LORD has done this, that the Holy One of Israel has created it.

Isaiah 41:21 (NIV)

²¹ “Present your case,” says the LORD. “Set forth your arguments,” says Jacob’s King.

Isaiah 41:22 (NASB)

²² Let them bring forth and declare to us what is going to take place; As for the former events, declare what they were, That we may consider them and know their outcome. Or announce to us what is coming;

Isaiah 41:23 (CJB)

²³ state what will happen in the future, so that we can know you are gods. At least, do something, either good or bad— anything, to make us awestruck and fearful!

Isaiah 41:24 (AMP)

²⁴ Behold, you [idols] are nothing, and your work is nothing! The worshiper who chooses you is an abomination [extremely disgusting and shamefully vile in God’s sight].

Isaiah 41:25 (AMP)

²⁵ I have raised up and impelled to action one from the north [Cyrus], and he comes; from the rising of the sun he calls upon My name [recognizing that his victories have been granted to him by Me]. And he shall tread upon rulers and deputies as upon mortar and as the potter treads clay. [He comes with the suddenness of a comet, but none of the idol oracles of the nations has anticipated it.]

Isaiah 41:26 (NASB)

²⁶ Who has declared this from the beginning, that we might know? Or from former times, that we may say, “He is right!”? Surely there was no one who declared, Surely there was no one who proclaimed, Surely there was no one who heard your words.

Isaiah 41:27 (AMP)

²⁷ I [the Lord] first gave to Zion the announcement, Behold, [the Jews will be restored to their own land, and the man Cyrus shall be raised up who will deliver them] behold them! And to Jerusalem I gave a herald [Isaiah] bringing the good news.

Isaiah 41:28 (AMP)

²⁸ For I look [upon the heathen prophets and the priests of pagan practices] and there is no man among them [who could predict these events], and among these [idols] there is no counselor who, when I ask of him, can answer a word.

Isaiah 41:29 (AMP)

²⁹ Behold, these [pagan prophets and priests] are all emptiness (falseness and futility)! Their works are worthless; their molten images are empty wind (confusion and waste).

Isaiah Chapter 42

Isaiah 42:1 (NASB)

¹ “Behold, My Servant, whom I uphold; My chosen one in whom My soul delights. I have put My Spirit upon Him; He will bring forth justice to the nations.

Isaiah 42:2 (NIV)

² He will not shout or cry out, or raise his voice in the streets.

Isaiah 42:3 (NASB)

³ “A bruised reed He will not break And a dimly burning wick He will not extinguish; He will faithfully bring forth justice.

Isaiah 42:4 (NKJV)

⁴ He will not fail nor be discouraged, Till He has established justice in the earth; And the coastlands shall wait for His law.”

Isaiah 42:5 (NASB)

⁵ Thus says God the LORD, Who created the heavens and stretched them out, Who spread out the earth and its offspring, Who gives breath to the people on it And spirit to those who walk in it,

Isaiah 42:6 (NIV)

⁶ “I, the LORD, have called you in righteousness; I will take hold of your hand. I will keep you and will make you to be a covenant for the people and a light for the Gentiles,

Isaiah 42:7 (NIV)

⁷ to open eyes that are blind, to free captives from prison and to release from the dungeon those who sit in darkness.

Isaiah 42:8 (NASB)

⁸ “I am the LORD, that is My name; I will not give My glory to another, Nor My praise to graven images.

Isaiah 42:9 (NIV)

⁹ See, the former things have taken place, and new things I declare; before they spring into being I announce them to you.”

Isaiah 42:10 (NKJV)

¹⁰ Sing to the LORD a new song, And His praise from the ends of the earth, You who go down to the sea, and all that is in it, You coastlands and you inhabitants of them!

Isaiah 42:11 (AMP)

¹¹ Let the wilderness and its cities lift up their voices, the villages that Kedar inhabits. Let the inhabitants of the rock [Sela or Petra] sing; let them shout from the tops of the mountains!

Isaiah 42:12 (AMP)

¹² Let them give glory to the Lord and declare His praise in the islands and coastal regions.

Isaiah 42:13 (AMP)

¹³ The Lord will go forth like a mighty man, He will rouse up His zealous indignation and vengeance like a warrior; He will cry, yes, He will shout aloud, He will do mightily against His enemies.

Isaiah 42:14 (NIV)

¹⁴ “For a long time I have kept silent, I have been quiet and held myself back. But now, like a woman in childbirth, I cry out, I gasp and pant.

Isaiah 42:15 (NIV)

¹⁵ I will lay waste the mountains and hills and dry up all their vegetation; I will turn rivers into islands and dry up the pools.

Isaiah 42:16 (NIV)

¹⁶ I will lead the blind by ways they have not known, along unfamiliar paths I will guide them; I will turn the darkness into light before them and make the rough places smooth. These are the things I will do; I will not forsake them.

Isaiah 42:17 (NIV)

¹⁷ But those who trust in idols, who say to images, ‘You are our gods,’ will be turned back in utter shame.

Isaiah 42:18 (NIV)

¹⁸ “Hear, you deaf; look, you blind, and see!

Isaiah 42:19 (NLT2)

¹⁹ Who is as blind as my own people, my servant? Who is as deaf as my messenger? Who is as blind as my chosen people, the servant of the LORD?

Isaiah 42:20 (NLT2)

²⁰ You see and recognize what is right but refuse to act on it. You hear with your ears, but you don’t really listen.”

Isaiah 42:21 (NIV)

²¹ It pleased the LORD for the sake of his righteousness to make his law great and glorious.

Isaiah 42:22 (NLT2)

²² But his own people have been robbed and plundered, enslaved, imprisoned, and trapped. They are fair game for anyone and have no one to protect them, no one to take them back home.

Isaiah 42:23 (CJB)

²³ Which of you will listen to this? Who will hear and give heed in the times to come?

Isaiah 42:24 (NASB)

²⁴ Who gave Jacob up for spoil, and Israel to plunderers? Was it not the LORD, against whom we have sinned, And in whose ways they were not willing to walk, And whose law they did not obey?

Isaiah 42:25 (NIV)

²⁵ So he poured out on them his burning anger, the violence of war. It enveloped them in flames, yet they did not understand; it consumed them, but they did not take it to heart.

Isaiah Chapter 43

Isaiah 43:1 (NASB)

¹ But now, thus says the LORD, your Creator, O Jacob, And He who formed you, O Israel, “Do not fear, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by name; you are Mine!

Isaiah 43:2 (NKJV)

² When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; And through the rivers, they shall not overflow you. When you walk through the fire, you shall not be burned, Nor shall the flame scorch you.

Isaiah 43:3 (NASB)

³ “For I am the LORD your God, The Holy One of Israel, your Savior; I have given Egypt as your ransom, Cush and Seba in your place.

Isaiah 43:4 (NASB)

⁴ “Since you are precious in My sight, Since you are honored and I love you, I will give other men in your place and other peoples in exchange for your life.

Isaiah 43:5 (AMP)

⁵ Fear not, for I am with you; I will bring your offspring from the east [where they are dispersed] and gather you from the west.

Isaiah 43:6 (NIV)

⁶ I will say to the north, ‘Give them up!’ and to the south, ‘Do not hold them back.’ Bring my sons from afar and my daughters from the ends of the earth–

Isaiah 43:7 (NASB)

⁷ Everyone who is called by My name, And whom I have created for My glory, Whom I have formed, even whom I have made.”

Isaiah 43:8 (NASB)

⁸ Bring out the people who are blind, even though they have eyes, And the deaf, even though they have ears.

Isaiah 43:9 (NIV)

⁹ All the nations gather together and the peoples assemble. Which of them foretold this and proclaimed to us the former things? Let them bring in their witnesses to prove they were right, so that others may hear and say, “It is true.”

Isaiah 43:10 (NASB)

¹⁰ “You are My witnesses,” declares the LORD, “And My servant whom I have chosen, So that you may know and believe Me And understand that I am He. Before Me there was no God formed, And there will be none after Me.

Isaiah 43:11 (AMP)

¹¹ I, even I, am the Lord, and besides Me there is no Savior.

Isaiah 43:12 (CJB)-M

¹² I have declared, saved and proclaimed— not some alien god among you. Therefore you are my witnesses,” says the Lord. “I am God.

Isaiah 43:13 (NASB)

¹³ “Even from eternity I am He, And there is none who can deliver out of My hand; I act and who can reverse it?”

Isaiah 43:14 (CJB)-M

¹⁴ Here is what the Lord, your redeemer, the Holy One of Israel, says: “For your sake I have sent [an army] to Babylon and knocked down the fleeing Babylonians, all of them; their songs of triumph are now lamentations.

Isaiah 43:15 (NASB)

¹⁵ “I am the LORD, your Holy One, The Creator of Israel, your King.”

Isaiah 43:16 (NASB)

¹⁶ Thus says the LORD, Who makes a way through the sea And a path through the mighty waters,

Isaiah 43:17 (NASB)

¹⁷ Who brings forth the chariot and the horse, The army and the mighty man (They will lie down together and not rise again; They have been quenched and extinguished like a wick):

Isaiah 43:18 (NIV2011)

¹⁸ “Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past.

Isaiah 43:19 (CJB)

¹⁹ I am doing something new; it’s springing up— can’t you see it? I am making a road in the desert, rivers in the wasteland.

Isaiah 43:20 (CJB)

²⁰ The wild animals will honor me, the jackals and the ostriches; because I put water in the desert, rivers in the wasteland, for my chosen people to drink,

Isaiah 43:21 (NIV)

²¹ the people I formed for myself that they may proclaim my praise.

Isaiah 43:22 (NASB)

²² “Yet you have not called on Me, O Jacob; But you have become weary of Me, O Israel.

Isaiah 43:23 (NIV)

²³ You have not brought me sheep for burnt offerings, nor honored me with your sacrifices. I have not burdened you with grain offerings nor wearied you with demands for incense.

Isaiah 43:24 (CJB)

²⁴ You have not spent money to buy me sweet cane or filled me with the fat of your sacrifices. Instead, you have burdened me with your sins and wearied me with your crimes.

Isaiah 43:25 (HCSB)

²⁵ “It is I who sweep away your transgressions for my own sake and remember your sins no more.

Isaiah 43:26 (NASB)

²⁶ “Put Me in remembrance, let us argue our case together; State your cause, that you may be proved right.

Isaiah 43:27 (AMP)

²⁷ Your first father [Jacob, in particular] sinned, and your teachers [the priests and the prophets—your mediators] transgressed against Me.

Isaiah 43:28 (NIV)

²⁸ So I will disgrace the dignitaries of your temple, and I will consign Jacob to destruction and Israel to scorn.

Isaiah Chapter 44

Isaiah 44:1 (NIV)

¹ “But now listen, O Jacob, my servant, Israel, whom I have chosen.

Isaiah 44:2 (NASB)

² Thus says the LORD who made you And formed you from the womb, who will help you, ‘Do not fear, O Jacob My servant; And you Jeshurun whom I have chosen.

Isaiah 44:3 (CJB)

³ For I will pour water on the thirsty land and streams on the dry ground; I will pour my Spirit on your descendants, my blessing on your offspring.

Isaiah 44:4 (CJB)

⁴ They will spring up among the grass like willows on the riverbanks.

Isaiah 44:5 (NASB)

⁵ “This one will say, ‘I am the LORD’S’; And that one will call on the name of Jacob; And another will write on his hand, ‘Belonging to the LORD,’ And will name Israel’s name with honor.

Isaiah 44:6 (NKJV)

⁶ “Thus says the LORD, the King of Israel, And his Redeemer, the LORD of hosts: ‘I am the First and I am the Last; Besides Me there is no God.

Isaiah 44:7 (CJB)

⁷ Who is like me? Let him speak out! Let him show me clearly what has been happening since I set up the eternal people; let him foretell future signs and events.

Isaiah 44:8 (CJB)

⁸ Don’t be frightened, don’t be afraid. Didn’t I tell you this long ago? I foretold it, and you are my witnesses. Is there any God besides me? There is no other Rock — I know of none.”

Isaiah 44:9 (CJB)

⁹ All idol-makers amount to nothing; their precious productions profit no one; and their witnesses, to their own shame, neither see nor understand.

Isaiah 44:10 (AMP)

¹⁰ Who is [such a fool as] to fashion a god or cast a graven image that is profitable for nothing?

Isaiah 44:11 (CJB)

¹¹ All involved will be ashamed, but more than anyone else, the people who made them. Let them all be assembled, let them stand up; let them fear and be shamed together.

Isaiah 44:12 (CJB)

¹² A blacksmith makes a tool over burning coals; with his strong arm he shapes it with hammers. But when he gets hungry, his strength fails; if he doesn’t drink water, he grows tired.

Isaiah 44:13 (CJB)

¹³ A carpenter takes his measurements, sketches the shape with a stylus, planes the wood, checks it with calipers, and carves it into the shape of a man; and, since it is honored like a man, of course it has to live in a house.

Isaiah 44:14 (NIV)

¹⁴ He cut down cedars, or perhaps took a cypress or oak. He let it grow among the trees of the forest, or planted a pine, and the rain made it grow.

Isaiah 44:15 (CJB)

¹⁵ In time, when it’s ready for use as fuel, he takes some of it to keep himself warm and burns some more to bake bread. Then he makes a god and worships it, carves it into an idol and falls down before it.

Isaiah 44:16 (CJB)

¹⁶ So half of it he burns in the fire; with that half he roasts meat and eats his fill; he warms himself; says, “It feels so good, getting warm while watching the flames!”

Isaiah 44:17 (CJB)

¹⁷ With the rest of the log he fashions a god, a carved image, then falls down before it; he worships it and prays to it. “Save me,” he says, “for you are my god!”

Isaiah 44:18 (NIV)

¹⁸ They know nothing, they understand nothing; their eyes are plastered over so they cannot see, and their minds closed so they cannot understand.

Isaiah 44:19 (NIV)

¹⁹ No one stops to think, no one has the knowledge or understanding to say, “Half of it I used for fuel; I even baked bread over its coals, I roasted meat and I ate. Shall I make a detestable thing from what is left? Shall I bow down to a block of wood?”

Isaiah 44:20 (CJB)

²⁰ He is relying on ashes! A deceived heart has led him astray; so that now he won’t save himself, just won’t say, “This thing in my hand is a fraud!”

Isaiah 44:21 (NIV)

²¹ “Remember these things, O Jacob, for you are my servant, O Israel. I have made you, you are my servant; O Israel, I will not forget you.

Isaiah 44:22 (NIV)

²² I have swept away your offenses like a cloud, your sins like the morning mist. Return to me, for I have redeemed you.”

Isaiah 44:23 (NKJV)

²³ Sing, O heavens, for the LORD has done it! Shout, you lower parts of the earth; Break forth into singing, you mountains, O forest, and every tree in it! For the LORD has redeemed Jacob, And glorified Himself in Israel.

Isaiah 44:24 (NASB)

²⁴ Thus says the LORD, your Redeemer, and the one who formed you from the womb, “I, the LORD, am the maker of all things, Stretching out the heavens by Myself And spreading out the earth all alone,

Isaiah 44:25 (CJB)

²⁵ I frustrate false prophets and their omens, I make fools of diviners, I drive back the sages and make their wisdom look silly.

Isaiah 44:26 (NIV)

²⁶ who carries out the words of his servants and fulfills the predictions of his messengers, who says of Jerusalem, ‘It shall be inhabited,’ of the towns of Judah, ‘They shall be built,’ and of their ruins, ‘I will restore them,’

Isaiah 44:27 (CJB)

²⁷ I say to the deep sea, ‘Dry up! I will make your streams run dry.’

Isaiah 44:28 (AMP)

²⁸ Who says of Cyrus, He is My shepherd (ruler), and he shall perform all My pleasure and fulfill all My purpose—even saying of Jerusalem, She shall [again] be built, and of the temple, Your foundation shall [again] be laid.

Isaiah Chapter 45

Isaiah 45:1 (NIV)

¹ “This is what the LORD says to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I take hold of to subdue nations before him and to strip kings of their armor, to open doors before him so that gates will not be shut:

Isaiah 45:2 (NIV)

² I will go before you and will level the mountains; I will break down gates of bronze and cut through bars of iron.

Isaiah 45:3 (NIV)

³ I will give you the treasures of darkness, riches stored in secret places, so that you may know that I am the LORD, the God of Israel, who summons you by name.

Isaiah 45:4 (NASB)

⁴ “For the sake of Jacob My servant, And Israel My chosen one, I have also called you by your name; I have given you a title of honor Though you have not known Me.

Isaiah 45:5 (NASB)

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;

Isaiah 45:6 (NIV)

⁶ so that from the rising of the sun to the place of its setting men may know there is none besides me. I am the LORD, and there is no other.

Isaiah 45:7 (NIV)

⁷ I form the light and create darkness, I bring prosperity and create disaster; I, the LORD, do all these things.

Isaiah 45:8 (NIV)

⁸ “You heavens above, rain down righteousness; let the clouds shower it down. Let the earth open wide, let salvation spring up, let righteousness grow with it; I, the LORD, have created it.

Isaiah 45:9 (NIV2011)

⁹ “Woe to those who quarrel with their Maker, those who are nothing but potsherds among the potsherds on the ground. Does the clay say to the potter, ‘What are you making?’ Does your work say, ‘The potter has no hands’?

Isaiah 45:10 (NIV)

¹⁰ Woe to him who says to his father, ‘What have you begotten?’ or to his mother, ‘What have you brought to birth?’

Isaiah 45:11 (NKJV)

¹¹ Thus says the LORD, The Holy One of Israel, and his Maker: “Ask Me of things to come concerning My sons; And concerning the work of My hands, you command Me.

Isaiah 45:12 (NIV)

¹² It is I who made the earth and created mankind upon it. My own hands stretched out the heavens; I marshaled their starry hosts.

Isaiah 45:13 (NIV)

¹³ I will raise up Cyrus in my righteousness: I will make all his ways straight. He will rebuild my city and set my exiles free, but not for a price or reward, says the LORD Almighty.”

Isaiah 45:14 (NIV)

¹⁴ This is what the LORD says: “The products of Egypt and the merchandise of Cush, and those tall Sabeans– they will come over to you and will be yours; they will trudge behind you, coming over to you in chains. They will bow down before you and plead with you, saying, ‘Surely God is with you, and there is no other; there is no other god.'”

Isaiah 45:15 (NKJV)

¹⁵ Truly You are God, who hide Yourself, O God of Israel, the Savior!

Isaiah 45:16 (NKJV)

¹⁶ They shall be ashamed And also disgraced, all of them; They shall go in confusion together, Who are makers of idols.

Isaiah 45:17 (NIV)

¹⁷ But Israel will be saved by the LORD with an everlasting salvation; you will never be put to shame or disgraced, to ages everlasting.

Isaiah 45:18 (NIV)

¹⁸ For this is what the LORD says– he who created the heavens, he is God; he who fashioned and made the earth, he founded it; he did not create it to be empty, but formed it to be inhabited– he says: “I am the LORD, and there is no other.

Isaiah 45:19 (NASB)

¹⁹ “I have not spoken in secret, In some dark land; I did not say to the offspring of Jacob, ‘Seek Me in a waste place’; I, the LORD, speak righteousness, Declaring things that are upright.

Isaiah 45:20 (NIV)

²⁰ “Gather together and come; assemble, you fugitives from the nations. Ignorant are those who carry about idols of wood, who pray to gods that cannot save.

Isaiah 45:21 (NASB)

²¹ “Declare and set forth your case; Indeed, let them consult together. Who has announced this from of old? Who has long since declared it? Is it not I, the LORD? And there is no other God besides Me, A righteous God and a Savior; There is none except Me.

Isaiah 45:22 (NASB)

²² “Turn to Me and be saved, all the ends of the earth; For I am God, and there is no other.

Isaiah 45:23 (NASB)

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.

Isaiah 45:24 (NASB)

²⁴ “They will say of Me, ‘Only in the LORD are righteousness and strength.’ Men will come to Him, And all who were angry at Him will be put to shame.

Isaiah 45:25 (AMP)

²⁵ In the Lord shall all the offspring of Israel be justified (enjoy righteousness, salvation, and victory) and shall glory.

Isaiah Chapter 46

Isaiah 46:1 (AMP)

¹ BEL bows down, Nebo stoops [gods of Babylon, whose idols are being carried off]; their idols are on the beasts [of burden] and on the cattle. These things that you carry about are loaded as burdens on the weary beasts.

Isaiah 46:2 (AMP)

² [The gods] stoop, they bow down together; they cannot save [their own idols], but are themselves going into captivity.

Isaiah 46:3 (NIV)

³ “Listen to me, O house of Jacob, all you who remain of the house of Israel, you whom I have upheld since you were conceived, and have carried since your birth.

Isaiah 46:4 (NLT2)-M

⁴ I will be your God throughout your lifetime— until your hair is white with age. I made you, and I will take care of you. I will sustain you and I will rescue you.

Isaiah 46:5 (CJB)

⁵ To whom will you liken me and equate me? With whom will you compare me, as if we were similar?”

Isaiah 46:6 (CJB)

⁶ They squander the gold from their bags and weigh silver on a scale; they hire a goldsmith to make a god, before which they fall down and worship!

Isaiah 46:7 (AMP)

⁷ They bear it upon their shoulders [in religious processions or into battle]; they carry it and set it down in its place, and there it stands. It cannot move from its place. Even if one cries to it for help, yet [the idol] cannot answer or save him out of his distress.

Isaiah 46:8 (AMP)

⁸ [Earnestly] remember this, be ashamed and own yourselves guilty; bring it again to mind and lay it to heart, O you rebels!

Isaiah 46:9 (CJB)

⁹ “Remember things that happened at the beginning, long ago — that I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is none like me.

Isaiah 46:10 (CJB)

¹⁰ At the beginning I announce the end, proclaim in advance things not yet done; and I say that my plan will hold, I will do everything I please to do.

Isaiah 46:11 (AMP)

¹¹ Calling a ravenous bird from the east—the man [Cyrus] who executes My counsel from a far country. Yes, I have spoken, and I will bring it to pass; I have purposed it, and I will do it.

Isaiah 46:12 (NASB)

¹² “Listen to Me, you stubborn-minded, Who are far from righteousness.

Isaiah 46:13 (NASB)

¹³ “I bring near My righteousness, it is not far off; And My salvation will not delay. And I will grant salvation in Zion, And My glory for Israel.

Isaiah Chapter 47

Isaiah 47:1 (AMP)

¹ Come down and sit in the dust, O Virgin Daughter of Babylon; sit on the ground [in abject humiliation]; there is no throne for you, O Daughter of the Chaldeans, for you shall no longer be called dainty and delicate.

Isaiah 47:2 (AMP)

² Take the millstones [like the poorest female slave of the household does] and grind meal; take off your veil and uncover your hair. Remove your skirt, bare your leg, wade through the rivers [at the command of your captors].

Isaiah 47:3 (NASB)

³ “Your nakedness will be uncovered, Your shame also will be exposed; I will take vengeance and will not spare a man.”

Isaiah 47:4 (NIV)

⁴ Our Redeemer–the LORD Almighty is his name– is the Holy One of Israel.

Isaiah 47:5 (NIV)

⁵ “Sit in silence, go into darkness, Daughter of the Babylonians; no more will you be called queen of kingdoms.

Isaiah 47:6 (AMP)

⁶ I was angry with My people, I profaned My inheritance [Judah]; and I gave them into your hand [Babylon]. You showed them no mercy; upon the old people you made your yoke very heavy.

Isaiah 47:7 (CJB)

⁷ You said, ‘I will be mistress forever.’ so you didn’t consider these things or think about the consequences.

Isaiah 47:8 (NIV)

⁸ “Now then, listen, you wanton creature, lounging in your security and saying to yourself, ‘I am, and there is none besides me. I will never be a widow or suffer the loss of children.’

Isaiah 47:9 (AMP)

⁹ But these two things shall come to you in a moment, in one day: loss of children and widowhood. They shall come upon you in full measure, in spite of the multitude of [your claims to] power given you by the assistance of evil spirits, in spite of the great abundance of your enchantments.

Isaiah 47:10 (AMP)

¹⁰ For you [Babylon] have trusted in your wickedness; you have said, No one sees me. Your wisdom and your knowledge led you astray, and you said in your heart and mind, I am, and there is no one besides me.

Isaiah 47:11 (NIV)

¹¹ Disaster will come upon you, and you will not know how to conjure it away. A calamity will fall upon you that you cannot ward off with a ransom; a catastrophe you cannot foresee will suddenly come upon you.

Isaiah 47:12 (CJB)

¹² So for now, keep on with your powerful spells and your many occult practices; from childhood you have been working at them; maybe they will do you some good, maybe you will inspire terror!

Isaiah 47:13 (AMP)

¹³ You are wearied with your many counsels and plans. Let now the astrologers, the stargazers, and the monthly prognosticators stand up and make known to you and save you from the things that shall come upon you [Babylon].

Isaiah 47:14 (CJB)

¹⁴ Look, they will be like straw! The fire will consume them. They will not save even themselves from the power of the flame. It will not be coals for warming oneself, not a fire to sit beside!

Isaiah 47:15 (CJB)

¹⁵ So much for your [wizards], with whom you have worked all your life! Each will wander off in his own direction, and nobody will save you.

Isaiah Chapter 48

Isaiah 48:1 (NIV)

¹ “Listen to this, O house of Jacob, you who are called by the name of Israel and come from the line of Judah, you who take oaths in the name of the LORD and invoke the God of Israel– but not in truth or righteousness–

Isaiah 48:2 (NIV)

² you who call yourselves citizens of the holy city and rely on the God of Israel– the LORD Almighty is his name:

Isaiah 48:3 (AMP)

³ I have declared from the beginning the former things [which happened in times past to Israel]; they went forth from My mouth and I made them known; then suddenly I did them, and they came to pass [says the Lord].

Isaiah 48:4 (NIV)

⁴ For I knew how stubborn you were; the sinews of your neck were iron, your forehead was bronze.

Isaiah 48:5 (NIV)

⁵ Therefore I told you these things long ago; before they happened I announced them to you so that you could not say, ‘My idols did them; my wooden image and metal god ordained them.’

Isaiah 48:6 (CJB)

⁶ You have heard and seen all this, so why won’t you admit it? “Now I am announcing new things to you, secret things you have not known,

Isaiah 48:7 (NIV)

⁷ They are created now, and not long ago; you have not heard of them before today. So you cannot say, ‘Yes, I knew of them.’

Isaiah 48:8 (AMP)

⁸ Yes, you have never heard, yes, you have never known; yes, from of old your ear has not been opened. For I, the Lord, knew that you, O house of Israel, dealt very treacherously; you were called a transgressor and a rebel [in revolt] from your birth.

Isaiah 48:9 (AMP)

⁹ For My name’s sake I defer My anger, and for the sake of My praise I restrain it for you, that I may not cut you off.

Isaiah 48:10 (NASB)

¹⁰ “Behold, I have refined you, but not as silver; I have tested you in the furnace of affliction.

Isaiah 48:11 (CJB)

¹¹ For my sake I will do it, for my own sake. I will not let [my reputation] be tarnished; I will not yield my glory to anyone else.

Isaiah 48:12 (NIV)

¹² “Listen to me, O Jacob, Israel, whom I have called: I am he; I am the first and I am the last.

Isaiah 48:13 (NASB)

¹³ “Surely My hand founded the earth, And My right hand spread out the heavens; When I call to them, they stand together.

Isaiah 48:14 (AMP)

¹⁴ Assemble yourselves, all of you, and hear! Who among them [the gods and Chaldean astrologers] has foretold these things? The Lord has loved him [Cyrus of Persia]; he will do His pleasure and purpose on Babylon, and his arm will be against the Chaldeans.

Isaiah 48:15 (AMP)

¹⁵ I, even I, have foretold it; yes, I have called him [Cyrus]; I have brought him, and [the Lord] shall make his way prosperous.

Isaiah 48:16 (AMP)

¹⁶ Come near to me and listen to this: I have not spoken in secret from the beginning; from the time that it happened, I was there. And now the Lord God has sent His Spirit in and with me.

Isaiah 48:17 (AMP)

¹⁷ Thus says the Lord, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: I am the Lord your God, Who teaches you to profit, Who leads you in the way that you should go.

Isaiah 48:18 (AMP)

¹⁸ Oh, that you had hearkened to My commandments! Then your peace and prosperity would have been like a flowing river, and your righteousness [the holiness and purity of the nation] like the [abundant] waves of the sea.

Isaiah 48:19 (NIV)

¹⁹ Your descendants would have been like the sand, your children like its numberless grains; their name would never be cut off nor destroyed from before me.”

Isaiah 48:20 (NIV)

²⁰ Leave Babylon, flee from the Babylonians! Announce this with shouts of joy and proclaim it. Send it out to the ends of the earth; say, “The LORD has redeemed his servant Jacob.”

Isaiah 48:21 (NIV)

²¹ They did not thirst when he led them through the deserts; he made water flow for them from the rock; he split the rock and water gushed out.

Isaiah 48:22 (NASB)

²² “There is no peace for the wicked,” says the LORD.

Isaiah Chapter 49

Isaiah 49:1 (NASB)

¹ Listen to Me, O islands, And pay attention, you peoples from afar. The LORD called Me from the womb; From the body of My mother He named Me.

Isaiah 49:2 (CJB)

² He has made my mouth like a sharp sword while hiding me in the shadow of his hand; he has made me like a sharpened arrow while concealing me in his quiver.

Isaiah 49:3 (NIV)

³ He said to me, “You are my servant, Israel, in whom I will display my splendor.”

Isaiah 49:4 (NIV)

⁴ But I said, “I have labored to no purpose; I have spent my strength in vain and for nothing. Yet what is due me is in the LORD’s hand, and my reward is with my God.”

Isaiah 49:5 (NASB)

⁵ And now says the LORD, who formed Me from the womb to be His Servant, To bring Jacob back to Him, so that Israel might be gathered to Him (For I am honored in the sight of the LORD, And My God is My strength),

Isaiah 49:6 (NIV)

⁶ he says: “It is too small a thing for you to be my servant to restore the tribes of Jacob and bring back those of Israel I have kept. I will also make you a light for the Gentiles, that you may bring my salvation to the ends of the earth.”

Isaiah 49:7 (NIV)

⁷ This is what the LORD says– the Redeemer and Holy One of Israel– to him who was despised and abhorred by the nation, to the servant of rulers: “Kings will see you and rise up, princes will see and bow down, because of the LORD, who is faithful, the Holy One of Israel, who has chosen you.”

Isaiah 49:8 (NASB)

⁸ Thus says the LORD, “In a favorable time I have answered You, And in a day of salvation I have helped You; And I will keep You and give You for a covenant of the people, To restore the land, to make them inherit the desolate heritages;

Isaiah 49:9 (AMP)

⁹ Saying to those who are bound, Come forth, and to those who are in [spiritual] darkness, Show yourselves [come into the light of the Sun of righteousness]. They shall feed in all the ways [in which they go], and their pastures shall be [not in deserts, but] on all the bare [grass-covered] hills.

Isaiah 49:10 (NASB)

¹⁰ “They will not hunger or thirst, Nor will the scorching heat or sun strike them down; For He who has compassion on them will lead them And will guide them to springs of water.

Isaiah 49:11 (NASB)

¹¹ “I will make all My mountains a road, And My highways will be raised up.

Isaiah 49:12 (NASB)

¹² “Behold, these will come from afar; And lo, these will come from the north and from the west, And these from the land of Sinim.”

Isaiah 49:13 (NASB)

¹³ Shout for joy, O heavens! And rejoice, O earth! Break forth into joyful shouting, O mountains! For the LORD has comforted His people And will have compassion on His afflicted.

Isaiah 49:14 (AMP)

¹⁴ But Zion [Jerusalem, her people as seen in captivity] said, The Lord has forsaken me, and my Lord has forgotten me.

Isaiah 49:15 (AMP)

¹⁵ [And the Lord answered] Can a woman forget her nursing child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? Yes, they may forget, yet I will not forget you.

Isaiah 49:16 (NASB)

¹⁶ “Behold, I have inscribed you on the palms of My hands; Your walls are continually before Me.

Isaiah 49:17 (NASB)

¹⁷ “Your builders hurry; Your destroyers and devastators Will depart from you.

Isaiah 49:18 (AMP)

¹⁸ Lift up your eyes round about and see [the returning exiles, ready to rebuild Jerusalem]; all these gather together and come to you. As I live, says the Lord, you [Zion] shall surely clothe yourself with them all as with an ornament and bind them on you as a bride does.

Isaiah 49:19 (NIV)

¹⁹ “Though you were ruined and made desolate and your land laid waste, now you will be too small for your people, and those who devoured you will be far away.

Isaiah 49:20 (NIV)

²⁰ The children born during your bereavement will yet say in your hearing, ‘This place is too small for us; give us more space to live in.’

Isaiah 49:21 (NASB)

²¹ “Then you will say in your heart, ‘Who has begotten these for me, Since I have been bereaved of my children And am barren, an exile and a wanderer? And who has reared these? Behold, I was left alone; From where did these come?'”

Isaiah 49:22 (AMP)

²² Thus says the Lord God: Behold, I will lift up My hand to the Gentile nations and set up My standard and raise high My signal banner to the peoples; and they will bring your sons in the bosom of their garments, and your daughters will be carried upon their shoulders.

Isaiah 49:23 (NASB)

²³ “Kings will be your guardians, And their princesses your nurses. They will bow down to you with their faces to the earth And lick the dust of your feet; And you will know that I am the LORD; Those who hopefully wait for Me will not be put to shame.

Isaiah 49:24 (NIV)

²⁴ Can plunder be taken from warriors, or captives rescued from the fierce?

Isaiah 49:25 (NIV)

²⁵ But this is what the LORD says: “Yes, captives will be taken from warriors, and plunder retrieved from the fierce; I will contend with those who contend with you, and your children I will save.

Isaiah 49:26 (NIV)

²⁶ I will make your oppressors eat their own flesh; they will be drunk on their own blood, as with wine. Then all mankind will know that I, the LORD, am your Savior, your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.”

Isaiah Chapter 50

Isaiah 50:1 (AMP)

¹ Thus says the Lord: Where is the bill of your mother’s divorce with which I put her away, O Israel? Or which of My creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities you were sold, and for your transgressions was your mother put away.

Isaiah 50:2 (AMP)

² Why, when I came, was there no man? When I called, why was there no one to answer? Is My hand shortened at all, that it cannot redeem? Or have I no power to deliver? Behold, at My rebuke I dry up the sea, I make the rivers a desert; their fish stink because there is no water, and they die of thirst.

Isaiah 50:3 (NIV)

³ I clothe the sky with darkness and make sackcloth its covering.”

Isaiah 50:4 (NKJV)

⁴ “The Lord GOD has given Me The tongue of the learned, That I should know how to speak A word in season to him who is weary. He awakens Me morning by morning, He awakens My ear To hear as the learned.

Isaiah 50:5 (NIV)

⁵ The Sovereign LORD has opened my ears, and I have not been rebellious; I have not drawn back.

Isaiah 50:6 (NASB)

⁶ I gave My back to those who strike Me, And My cheeks to those who pluck out the beard; I did not cover My face from humiliation and spitting.

Isaiah 50:7 (AMP)

⁷ For the Lord God helps Me; therefore have I not been ashamed or confounded. Therefore have I set My face like a flint, and I know that I shall not be put to shame.

Isaiah 50:8 (NIV)

⁸ He who vindicates me is near. Who then will bring charges against me? Let us face each other! Who is my accuser? Let him confront me!

Isaiah 50:9 (AMP)

⁹ Behold, the Lord God will help Me; who is he who will condemn Me? Behold, they all will wax old and be worn out as a garment; the moth will eat them up.

Isaiah 50:10 (7KB)

10 Who among you fears the Lord and obeys his servant (Yeshua) – Jesus the Lord? If you are walking in darkness, without a ray of light, you must trust in the Lord and rely wholly upon your God.

Isaiah 50:11 (7KB)

11 But watch out, you who live in your own light and warm yourselves by your own fires (of human self-effort). The reward that you will receive from the Lord is that you will lie down in torment (wallowing in the trouble created by being abandoned by God to your own devices).

Isaiah Chapter 51

Isaiah 51:1 (NIV)

¹ “Listen to me, you who pursue righteousness and who seek the LORD: Look to the rock from which you were cut and to the quarry from which you were hewn;

Isaiah 51:2 (NIV)

² look to Abraham, your father, and to Sarah, who gave you birth. When I called him he was but one, and I blessed him and made him many.

Isaiah 51:3 (NIV)

³ The LORD will surely comfort Zion and will look with compassion on all her ruins; he will make her deserts like Eden, her wastelands like the garden of the LORD. Joy and gladness will be found in her, thanksgiving and the sound of singing.

Isaiah 51:4 (NIV)

⁴ “Listen to me, my people; hear me, my nation: The law will go out from me; my justice will become a light to the nations.

Isaiah 51:5 (NASB)

⁵ “My righteousness is near, My salvation has gone forth, And My arms will judge the peoples; The coastlands will wait for Me, And for My arm they will wait expectantly.

Isaiah 51:6 (NIV)

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.

Isaiah 51:7 (NIV)

⁷ “Hear me, you who know what is right, you people who have my law in your hearts: Do not fear the reproach of men or be terrified by their insults.

Isaiah 51:8 (NIV)

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.”

Isaiah 51:9 (NASB)

⁹ Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the LORD; Awake as in the days of old, the generations of long ago. Was it not You who cut Rahab in pieces, Who pierced the dragon?

Isaiah 51:10 (NIV)

¹⁰ Was it not you who dried up the sea, the waters of the great deep, who made a road in the depths of the sea so that the redeemed might cross over?

Isaiah 51:11 (NIV)

¹¹ The ransomed of the LORD will return. They will enter Zion with singing; everlasting joy will crown their heads. Gladness and joy will overtake them, and sorrow and sighing will flee away.

Isaiah 51:12 (NIV)

¹² “I, even I, am he who comforts you. Who are you that you fear mortal men, the sons of men, who are but grass,

Isaiah 51:13 (NIV)

¹³ that you forget the LORD your Maker, who stretched out the heavens and laid the foundations of the earth, that you live in constant terror every day because of the wrath of the oppressor, who is bent on destruction? For where is the wrath of the oppressor?

Isaiah 51:14 (NIV)

¹⁴ The cowering prisoners will soon be set free; they will not die in their dungeon, nor will they lack bread.

Isaiah 51:15 (NIV)

¹⁵ For I am the LORD your God, who churns up the sea so that its waves roar– the LORD Almighty is his name.

Isaiah 51:16 (NIV)

¹⁶ I have put my words in your mouth and covered you with the shadow of my hand– I who set the heavens in place, who laid the foundations of the earth, and who say to Zion, ‘You are my people.'”

Isaiah 51:17 (NIV)

¹⁷ Awake, awake! Rise up, O Jerusalem, you who have drunk from the hand of the LORD the cup of his wrath, you who have drained to its dregs the goblet that makes men stagger.

Isaiah 51:18 (AMP)

¹⁸ There is none to guide her among all the sons she has borne; neither is there anyone to take her by the hand among all the sons whom she has brought up.

Isaiah 51:19 (NIV)

¹⁹ These double calamities have come upon you– who can comfort you?– ruin and destruction, famine and sword– who can console you?

Isaiah 51:20 (NIV)

²⁰ Your sons have fainted; they lie at the head of every street, like antelope caught in a net. They are filled with the wrath of the LORD and the rebuke of your God.

Isaiah 51:21 (NIV)

²¹ Therefore hear this, you afflicted one, made drunk, but not with wine.

Isaiah 51:22 (NIV)

²² This is what your Sovereign LORD says, your God, who defends his people: “See, I have taken out of your hand the cup that made you stagger; from that cup, the goblet of my wrath, you will never drink again.

Isaiah 51:23 (NIV)

²³ I will put it into the hands of your tormentors, who said to you, ‘Fall prostrate that we may walk over you.’ And you made your back like the ground, like a street to be walked over.”

Isaiah Chapter 52

Isaiah 52:1 (CJB)-M

¹ Awake! Awake, O Zion! Clothe yourself with your strength! Dress in your splendid garments, Jerusalem, the holy city! For the uncircumcised and the unclean will enter you no more.

Isaiah 52:2 (NASB)

² Shake yourself from the dust, rise up, O captive Jerusalem; Loose yourself from the chains around your neck, O captive daughter of Zion.

Isaiah 52:3 (NASB)

³ For thus says the LORD, “You were sold for nothing and you will be redeemed without money.”

Isaiah 52:4 (NASB)

⁴ For thus says the Lord GOD, “My people went down at the first into Egypt to reside there; then the Assyrian oppressed them without cause.

Isaiah 52:5 (AMP)

⁵ But now what have I here, says the Lord, seeing that My people have been taken away for nothing? Those who rule over them howl [with joy], says the Lord, and My name continually is blasphemed all day long.

Isaiah 52:6 (NIV)

⁶ Therefore my people will know my name; therefore in that day they will know that it is I who foretold it. Yes, it is I.”

Isaiah 52:7 (NASB)

⁷ How lovely on the mountains Are the feet of him who brings good news, Who announces peace And brings good news of happiness, Who announces salvation, And says to Zion, “Your God reigns!”

Isaiah 52:8 (NIV)

⁸ Listen! Your watchmen lift up their voices; together they shout for joy. When the LORD returns to Zion, they will see it with their own eyes.

Isaiah 52:9 (NASB)

⁹ Break forth, shout joyfully together, You waste places of Jerusalem; For the LORD has comforted His people, He has redeemed Jerusalem.

Isaiah 52:10 (NASB)

¹⁰ The LORD has bared His holy arm In the sight of all the nations, That all the ends of the earth may see The salvation of our God.

Isaiah 52:11 (NASB)

¹¹ Depart, depart, go out from there, Touch nothing unclean; Go out of the midst of her, purify yourselves, You who carry the vessels of the LORD.

Isaiah 52:12 (NASB)

¹² But you will not go out in haste, Nor will you go as fugitives; For the LORD will go before you, And the God of Israel will be your rear guard.

Isaiah 52:13 (NASB)

¹³ Behold, My servant will prosper, He will be high and lifted up and greatly exalted.

Isaiah 52:14 (NIV)

¹⁴ Just as there were many who were appalled at him– his appearance was so disfigured beyond that of any man and his form marred beyond human likeness–

Isaiah 52:15 (CJB)

¹⁵ so now he will startle many nations; because of him, kings will be speechless. For they will see what they had not been told, they will ponder things they had never heard.”

Isaiah Chapter 53

Isaiah 53:1 (NASB)

¹ Who has believed our message? And to whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed?

Isaiah 53:2 (NIV)

² He grew up before him like a tender shoot, and like a root out of dry ground. He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him, nothing in his appearance that we should desire him.

Isaiah 53:3 (NIV)

³ He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows, and familiar with suffering. Like one from whom men hide their faces he was despised, and we esteemed him not.

Isaiah 53:4 (CJB)

⁴ In fact, it was our diseases he bore, our pains from which he suffered; yet we regarded him as punished, stricken and afflicted by God.

Isaiah 53:5 (NIV)-M

⁵ But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace (with God) was upon him, and by his wounds we are healed.

Isaiah 53:6 (CJB)-M

⁶ We all, like sheep, went astray; we turned, each one, to his own way; yet the Lord laid on him the guilt of all of us.

Isaiah 53:7 (CJB)

⁷ Though mistreated, he was submissive— he did not open his mouth. Like a lamb led to be slaughtered, like a sheep silent before its shearers, he did not open his mouth.

Isaiah 53:8 (CJB)

⁸ After forcible arrest and sentencing, he was taken away; and none of his generation protested his being cut off from the land of the living for the crimes of my people, who deserved the punishment themselves.

Isaiah 53:9 (7KB)

⁹ His place after death was assigned with wicked men, and He was in the place of the rich man’s hell ensuing his decease. He suffered punishment for all human sin as a sacrifice even though He had done no violence, nor was there any deceit found in His mouth.

Isaiah 53:10 (NIV)

¹⁰ Yet it was the LORD’s will to crush him and cause him to suffer, and though the LORD makes his life a guilt offering, he will see his offspring and prolong his days, and the will of the LORD will prosper in his hand.

Isaiah 53:11 (CJB)

¹¹ After this ordeal, he will see satisfaction. “By his knowing [pain and sacrifice], my righteous servant makes many righteous; it is for their sins that he suffers.

Isaiah 53:12 (CJB)

¹² Therefore I will assign him a share with the great, he will divide the spoil with the mighty, for having exposed himself to death and being counted among the sinners, while actually bearing the sin of many and interceding for the offenders.”

Isaiah Chapter 54

Isaiah 54:1 (CJB)-M

¹ “Sing, barren woman who has never had a child! Burst into song, shout for joy, you who have never been in labor! For the deserted wife will have more children than the woman who is living with her husband,” says the Lord.

Isaiah 54:2 (CJB)

² Enlarge the space for your tent, extend the curtains of your dwelling; do not hold back, lengthen your cords, make your tent pegs firm.

Isaiah 54:3 (NKJV)

³ For you shall expand to the right and to the left, And your descendants will inherit the nations, And make the desolate cities inhabited.

Isaiah 54:4 (NASB)

⁴ “Fear not, for you will not be put to shame; And do not feel humiliated, for you will not be disgraced; But you will forget the shame of your youth, And the reproach of your widowhood you will remember no more.

Isaiah 54:5 (NKJV)

⁵ For your Maker is your husband, The LORD of hosts is His name; And your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel; He is called the God of the whole earth.

Isaiah 54:6 (AMP)

⁶ For the Lord has called you like a woman forsaken, grieved in spirit, and heartsore—even a wife [wooed and won] in youth, when she is [later] refused and scorned, says your God.

Isaiah 54:7 (CJB)

⁷ “Briefly I abandoned you, but with great compassion I am taking you back.

Isaiah 54:8 (NASB)

⁸ “In an outburst of anger I hid My face from you for a moment, But with everlasting lovingkindness I will have compassion on you,” Says the LORD your Redeemer.

Isaiah 54:9 (NIV)

⁹ “To me this is like the days of Noah, when I swore that the waters of Noah would never again cover the earth. So now I have sworn not to be angry with you, never to rebuke you again.

Isaiah 54:10 (AMP)

¹⁰ For though the mountains should depart and the hills be shaken or removed, yet My love and kindness shall not depart from you, nor shall My covenant of peace and completeness be removed, says the Lord, Who has compassion on you.

Isaiah 54:11 (CJB)

¹¹ “Storm-ravaged [city], unconsoled, I will set your stones in the finest way, lay your foundations with sapphires,

Isaiah 54:12 (CJB)

¹² make your windows shine with rubies, your gates with garnet, your walls with gemstones.

Isaiah 54:13 (NKJV)

¹³ All your children shall be taught by the LORD, And great shall be the peace of your children.

Isaiah 54:14 (NIV)

¹⁴ In righteousness you will be established: Tyranny will be far from you; you will have nothing to fear. Terror will be far removed; it will not come near you.

Isaiah 54:15 (NKJV)

¹⁵ Indeed they shall surely assemble, but not because of Me. Whoever assembles against you shall fall for your sake.

Isaiah 54:16 (CJB)

¹⁶ It is I who created the craftsman who blows on the coals and forges weapons suited to their purpose; I also created the destroyer to work havoc.

Isaiah 54:17 (NASB)

¹⁷ “No weapon that is formed against you will prosper; And every tongue that accuses you in judgment you will condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, And their vindication is from Me,” declares the LORD.

Isaiah Chapter 55

Isaiah 55:1 (NIV)

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.

Isaiah 55:2 (NASB)

² “Why do you spend money for what is not bread, And your wages for what does not satisfy? Listen carefully to Me, and eat what is good, And delight yourself in abundance.

Isaiah 55:3 (NASB)

³ “Incline your ear and come to Me. Listen, that you may live; And I will make an everlasting covenant with you, According to the faithful mercies shown to David.

Isaiah 55:4 (NASB)

⁴ “Behold, I have made him a witness to the peoples, A leader and commander for the peoples.

Isaiah 55:5 (NIV)

⁵ Surely you will summon nations you know not, and nations that do not know you will hasten to you, because of the LORD your God, the Holy One of Israel, for he has endowed you with splendor.”

Isaiah 55:6 (NASB)

⁶ Seek the LORD while He may be found; Call upon Him while He is near.

Isaiah 55:7 (NASB)

⁷ Let the wicked forsake his way And the unrighteous man his thoughts; And let him return to the LORD, And He will have compassion on him, And to our God, For He will abundantly pardon.

Isaiah 55:8 (NASB)

⁸ “For My thoughts are not your thoughts, Nor are your ways My ways,” declares the LORD.

Isaiah 55:9 (NASB)

⁹ “For as the heavens are higher than the earth, So are My ways higher than your ways And My thoughts than your thoughts.

Isaiah 55:10 (NASB)

¹⁰ “For as the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and do not return there without watering the earth and making it bear and sprout, and furnishing seed to the sower and bread to the eater;

Isaiah 55:11 (NASB)

¹¹ So will my word be which goes forth from my mouth; It will not return to me empty, without accomplishing what I desire, and without succeeding in the matter for which I sent it.

Isaiah 55:12 (NIV)

¹² You will go out in joy and be led forth in peace; the mountains and hills will burst into song before you, and all the trees of the field will clap their hands.

Isaiah 55:13 (NASB)

¹³ “Instead of the thorn bush the cypress will come up, And instead of the nettle the myrtle will come up, And it will be a memorial to the LORD, For an everlasting sign which will not be cut off.”

Isaiah Chapter 56

Isaiah 56:1 (NIV)

¹ This is what the LORD says: “Maintain justice and do what is right, for my salvation is close at hand and my righteousness will soon be revealed.

Isaiah 56:2 (NIV)

² Blessed is the man who does this, the man who holds it fast, who keeps the Sabbath without desecrating it, and keeps his hand from doing any evil.”

Isaiah 56:3 (AMP)

³ Let not the foreigner who has joined himself to the Lord say, The Lord will surely separate me from His people. And let not the eunuch say, Behold, I am a dry tree.

Isaiah 56:4 (NIV)

⁴ For this is what the LORD says: “To the eunuchs who keep my Sabbaths, who choose what pleases me and hold fast to my covenant–

Isaiah 56:5 (AMP)

⁵ To them I will give in My house and within My walls a memorial and a name better [and more enduring] than sons and daughters; I will give them an everlasting name that will not be cut off.

Isaiah 56:6 (NIV)

⁶ And foreigners who bind themselves to the LORD to serve him, to love the name of the LORD, and to worship him, all who keep the Sabbath without desecrating it and who hold fast to my covenant–

Isaiah 56:7 (NIV)

⁷ these I will bring to my holy mountain and give them joy in my house of prayer. Their burnt offerings and sacrifices will be accepted on my altar; for my house will be called a house of prayer for all nations.”

Isaiah 56:8 (AMP)

⁸ Thus says the Lord God, Who gathers the outcasts of Israel: I will gather yet others to [Israel] besides those already gathered.

Isaiah 56:9 (CJB)

⁹ All you wild animals, come and devour, yes, all you animals in the forest!

Isaiah 56:10 (CJB)-M

¹⁰ [Israel’s] watchmen are, all of them, blind; they don’t know anything. They are all dumb dogs, unable to bark, lying there dreaming, loving to sleep.

Isaiah 56:11 (NIV)

¹¹ They are dogs with mighty appetites; they never have enough. They are shepherds who lack understanding; they all turn to their own way, each seeks his own gain.

Isaiah 56:12 (CJB)

¹² “Come, I’ll get some wine, we’ll fill up on good, strong liquor! Tomorrow will be like today; in fact, it will be even better!”

Isaiah Chapter 57

Isaiah 57:1 (CJB)

¹ The righteous person perishes, and nobody gives it a thought. Godly men are taken away, and no one understands that the righteous person is taken away from the evil yet to come.

Isaiah 57:2 (NIV)

² Those who walk uprightly enter into peace; they find rest as they lie in death.

Isaiah 57:3 (AMP)

³ But come close, you sons of a sorceress [nursed in witchcraft and superstition], you offspring of an adulterer and a harlot.

Isaiah 57:4 (NIV)

⁴ Whom are you mocking? At whom do you sneer and stick out your tongue? Are you not a brood of rebels, the offspring of liars?

Isaiah 57:5 (AMP)

⁵ You who burn with lust [inflaming yourselves with idols] among the oaks, under every green tree, you who slay the children [in sacrifice] in the valleys under the clefts of the rocks?

Isaiah 57:6 (AMP)

⁶ Among the smooth stones of the valley is your portion; they, they [the idols] are your lot; to them you have poured out a drink offering, you have offered a cereal offering. Should I be quiet in spite of all these things [and leave them unpunished—bearing them with patience]?

Isaiah 57:7 (AMP)

⁷ Upon a lofty and high mountain you have openly and shamelessly set your [idolatrous and adulterous] bed; even there you went up to offer sacrifice [in spiritual unfaithfulness to your divine Husband].

Isaiah 57:8 (NKJV)

⁸ Also behind the doors and their posts You have set up your remembrance; For you have uncovered yourself to those other than Me, And have gone up to them; You have enlarged your bed And made a covenant with them; You have loved their bed, Where you saw their nudity.

Isaiah 57:9 (AMP)

⁹ And you went to the king [of foreign lands with gifts] or to Molech [the god] with oil and increased your perfumes and ointments; you sent your messengers far off and debased yourself even to Sheol (Hades) [symbol of an abysmal depth of degradation].

Isaiah 57:10 (CJB)

¹⁰ Though worn out by so much travel, you did not say, ‘All hope is gone’; rather, finding your strength renewed, you did not grow weak.

Isaiah 57:11 (CJB)

¹¹ Of whom have you been so afraid, so fearful that you lied? But me you don’t remember, you don’t give me a thought! I have held my peace so long that you no longer fear me.

Isaiah 57:12 (AMP)

¹² I will expose your [pretended] righteousness and your doings, but they will not help you.

Isaiah 57:13 (NIV)

¹³ When you cry out for help, let your collection [of idols] save you! The wind will carry all of them off, a mere breath will blow them away. But the man who makes me his refuge will inherit the land and possess my holy mountain.”

Isaiah 57:14 (NIV)

¹⁴ And it will be said: “Build up, build up, prepare the road! Remove the obstacles out of the way of my people.”

Isaiah 57:15 (NKJV)

¹⁵ For thus says the High and Lofty One Who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: “I dwell in the high and holy place, With him who has a contrite and humble spirit, To revive the spirit of the humble, And to revive the heart of the contrite ones.

Isaiah 57:16 (AMP)

¹⁶ For I will not contend forever, neither will I be angry always, for [if I did stay angry] the spirit [of man] would faint and be consumed before Me, and [My purpose in] creating the souls of men would be frustrated.

Isaiah 57:17 (CJB)

¹⁷ It was because of their flagrant greed that I was angry and struck them; I hid myself and was angry, but they continued on their own rebellious way.

Isaiah 57:18 (NIV)

¹⁸ I have seen his ways, but I will heal him; I will guide him and restore comfort to him,

Isaiah 57:19 (NIV)

¹⁹ creating praise on the lips of the mourners in Israel. Peace, peace, to those far and near,” says the LORD. “And I will heal them.”

Isaiah 57:20 (NASB)

²⁰ But the wicked are like the tossing sea, For it cannot be quiet, And its waters toss up refuse and mud.

Isaiah 57:21 (NIV)

²¹ “There is no peace,” says my God, “for the wicked.”

Isaiah Chapter 58

Isaiah 58:1 (NIV)

¹ “Shout it aloud, do not hold back. Raise your voice like a trumpet. Declare to my people their rebellion and to the house of Jacob their sins.

Isaiah 58:2 (NIV)

² For day after day they seek me out; they seem eager to know my ways, as if they were a nation that does what is right and has not forsaken the commands of its God. They ask me for just decisions and seem eager for God to come near them.

Isaiah 58:3 (NIV)

³ ‘Why have we fasted,’ they say, ‘and you have not seen it? Why have we humbled ourselves, and you have not noticed?’ “Yet on the day of your fasting, you do as you please and exploit all your workers.

Isaiah 58:4 (NIV)

⁴ Your fasting ends in quarreling and strife, and in striking each other with wicked fists. You cannot fast as you do today and expect your voice to be heard on high.

Isaiah 58:5 (NIV)

⁵ Is this the kind of fast I have chosen, only a day for a man to humble himself? Is it only for bowing one’s head like a reed and for lying on sackcloth and ashes? Is that what you call a fast, a day acceptable to the LORD?

Isaiah 58:6 (AMP)

⁶ [Rather] is not this the fast that I have chosen: to loose the bonds of wickedness, to undo the bands of the yoke, to let the oppressed go free, and that you break every [enslaving] yoke?

Isaiah 58:7 (NIV)

⁷ Is it not to share your food with the hungry and to provide the poor wanderer with shelter– when you see the naked, to clothe him, and not to turn away from your own flesh and blood?

Isaiah 58:8 (NIV)

⁸ Then your light will break forth like the dawn, and your healing will quickly appear; then your righteousness will go before you, and the glory of the LORD will be your rear guard.

Isaiah 58:9 (NASB)

⁹ “Then you will call, and the LORD will answer; You will cry, and He will say, ‘Here I am.’ If you remove the yoke from your midst, The pointing of the finger and speaking wickedness,

Isaiah 58:10 (NASB)

¹⁰ And if you give yourself to the hungry And satisfy the desire of the afflicted, Then your light will rise in darkness And your gloom will become like midday.

Isaiah 58:11 (NIV2011)

¹¹ The Lord will guide you always; he will satisfy your desires in a sun-scorched land and will strengthen your frame. You will be like a well-watered garden, like a spring whose waters never fail.

Isaiah 58:12 (NASB)

¹² “Those from among you will rebuild the ancient ruins; You will raise up the age-old foundations; And you will be called the repairer of the breach, The restorer of the streets in which to dwell.

Isaiah 58:13 (CJB)-M

¹³ “If you hold back your foot on Sabbath from pursuing your own interests on my holy day; if you call Sabbath a delight, the Lord’s holy day, worth honoring; then honor it by not doing your usual things or pursuing your interests or speaking about them.

Isaiah 58:14 (NASB)

¹⁴ Then you will take delight in the LORD, And I will make you ride on the heights of the earth; And I will feed you with the heritage of Jacob your father, For the mouth of the LORD has spoken.”

Isaiah Chapter 59

Isaiah 59:1 (NIV)

¹ Surely the arm of the LORD is not too short to save, nor his ear too dull to hear.

Isaiah 59:2 (NASB)

² But your iniquities have made a separation between you and your God, And your sins have hidden His face from you so that He does not hear.

Isaiah 59:3 (NKJV)

³ For your hands are defiled with blood, And your fingers with iniquity; Your lips have spoken lies, Your tongue has muttered perversity.

Isaiah 59:4 (NIV)

⁴ No one calls for justice; no one pleads his case with integrity. They rely on empty arguments and speak lies; they conceive trouble and give birth to evil.

Isaiah 59:5 (NIV)

⁵ They hatch the eggs of vipers and spin a spider’s web. Whoever eats their eggs will die, and when one is broken, an adder is hatched.

Isaiah 59:6 (NASB)

⁶ Their webs will not become clothing, Nor will they cover themselves with their works; Their works are works of iniquity, And an act of violence is in their hands.

Isaiah 59:7 (NIV)

⁷ Their feet rush into sin; they are swift to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are evil thoughts; ruin and destruction mark their ways.

Isaiah 59:8 (NIV)

⁸ The way of peace they do not know; there is no justice in their paths. They have turned them into crooked roads; no one who walks in them will know peace.

Isaiah 59:9 (NASB)

⁹ Therefore justice is far from us, And righteousness does not overtake us; We hope for light, but behold, darkness, For brightness, but we walk in gloom.

Isaiah 59:10 (CJB)

¹⁰ We grope for the wall like the blind; like people without eyes we feel our way; we stumble at noonday as if it were dusk, we are in dark places like the dead.

Isaiah 59:11 (NIV)

¹¹ We all growl like bears; we moan mournfully like doves. We look for justice, but find none; for deliverance, but it is far away.

Isaiah 59:12 (CJB)

¹² For our crimes multiply before you, our sins testify against us; for our crimes are present with us; and our sins, we know them well:

Isaiah 59:13 (NKJV)

¹³ In transgressing and lying against the LORD, And departing from our God, Speaking oppression and revolt, Conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.

Isaiah 59:14 (NIV)

¹⁴ So justice is driven back, and righteousness stands at a distance; truth has stumbled in the streets, honesty cannot enter.

Isaiah 59:15 (NIV)

¹⁵ Truth is nowhere to be found, and whoever shuns evil becomes a prey. The LORD looked and was displeased that there was no justice.

Isaiah 59:16 (NASB)

¹⁶ And He saw that there was no man, And was astonished that there was no one to intercede; Then His own arm brought salvation to Him, And His righteousness upheld Him.

Isaiah 59:17 (NASB)

¹⁷ He put on righteousness like a breastplate, And a helmet of salvation on His head; And He put on garments of vengeance for clothing And wrapped Himself with zeal as a mantle.

Isaiah 59:18 (CJB)

¹⁸ He repays according to their deeds— fury to his foes, reprisal to his enemies; to the coastlands he will repay their due;

Isaiah 59:19 (NKJV)

¹⁹ So shall they fear The name of the LORD from the west, And His glory from the rising of the sun; When the enemy comes in like a flood, The Spirit of the LORD will lift up a standard against him.

Isaiah 59:20 (NIV)

²⁰ “The Redeemer will come to Zion, to those in Jacob who repent of their sins,” declares the LORD.

Isaiah 59:21 (NIV)

²¹ “As for me, this is my covenant with them,” says the LORD. “My Spirit, who is on you, and my words that I have put in your mouth will not depart from your mouth, or from the mouths of your children, or from the mouths of their descendants from this time on and forever,” says the LORD.

Isaiah Chapter 60

Isaiah 60:1 (NASB)

¹ “Arise, shine; for your light has come, And the glory of the LORD has risen upon you.

Isaiah 60:2 (NIV)

² See, darkness covers the earth and thick darkness is over the peoples, but the LORD rises upon you and his glory appears over you.

Isaiah 60:3 (NKJV)

³ The Gentiles shall come to your light, And kings to the brightness of your rising.

Isaiah 60:4 (NKJV)

⁴ “Lift up your eyes all around, and see: They all gather together, they come to you; Your sons shall come from afar, And your daughters shall be nursed at your side.

Isaiah 60:5 (CJB)

⁵ Then you will see and be radiant, your heart will throb and swell with delight; for the riches of the seas will be brought to you, the wealth of nations will come to you.

Isaiah 60:6 (NASB)

⁶ “A multitude of camels will cover you, The young camels of Midian and Ephah; All those from Sheba will come; They will bring gold and frankincense, And will bear good news of the praises of the LORD.

Isaiah 60:7 (NIV)

⁷ All Kedar’s flocks will be gathered to you, the rams of Nebaioth will serve you; they will be accepted as offerings on my altar, and I will adorn my glorious temple.

Isaiah 60:8 (NKJV)

⁸ “Who are these who fly like a cloud, And like doves to their roosts?

Isaiah 60:9 (NIV)

⁹ Surely the islands look to me; in the lead are the ships of Tarshish, bringing your sons from afar, with their silver and gold, to the honor of the LORD your God, the Holy One of Israel, for he has endowed you with splendor.

Isaiah 60:10 (NASB)

¹⁰ “Foreigners will build up your walls, And their kings will minister to you; For in My wrath I struck you, And in My favor I have had compassion on you.

Isaiah 60:11 (NASB)

¹¹ “Your gates will be open continually; They will not be closed day or night, So that men may bring to you the wealth of the nations, With their kings led in procession.

Isaiah 60:12 (CJB)

¹² For the nation or kingdom that won’t serve you will perish; yes, those nations will be utterly destroyed.

Isaiah 60:13 (NASB)

¹³ “The glory of Lebanon will come to you, The juniper, the box tree and the cypress together, To beautify the place of My sanctuary; And I shall make the place of My feet glorious.

Isaiah 60:14 (NIV)

¹⁴ The sons of your oppressors will come bowing before you; all who despise you will bow down at your feet and will call you the City of the LORD, Zion of the Holy One of Israel.

Isaiah 60:15 (NIV)

¹⁵ “Although you have been forsaken and hated, with no one traveling through, I will make you the everlasting pride and the joy of all generations.

Isaiah 60:16 (NIV)

¹⁶ You will drink the milk of nations and be nursed at royal breasts. Then you will know that I, the LORD, am your Savior, your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.

Isaiah 60:17 (NIV)

¹⁷ Instead of bronze I will bring you gold, and silver in place of iron. Instead of wood I will bring you bronze, and iron in place of stones. I will make peace your governor and righteousness your ruler.

Isaiah 60:18 (NASB)

¹⁸ “Violence will not be heard again in your land, Nor devastation or destruction within your borders; But you will call your walls salvation, and your gates praise.

Isaiah 60:19 (NIV)

¹⁹ The sun will no more be your light by day, nor will the brightness of the moon shine on you, for the LORD will be your everlasting light, and your God will be your glory.

Isaiah 60:20 (NIV)

²⁰ Your sun will never set again, and your moon will wane no more; the LORD will be your everlasting light, and your days of sorrow will end.

Isaiah 60:21 (NIV)

²¹ Then will all your people be righteous and they will possess the land forever. They are the shoot I have planted, the work of my hands, for the display of my splendor.

Isaiah 60:22 (NASB)

²² “The smallest one will become a clan, And the least one a mighty nation. I, the LORD, will hasten it in its time.”

Isaiah Chapter 61

Isaiah 61:1 (NASB)

¹ The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me, Because the LORD has anointed me To bring good news to the afflicted; He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, To proclaim liberty to captives And freedom to prisoners;

Isaiah 61:2 (AMP)

² To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord [the year of His favor] and the day of vengeance of our God, to comfort all who mourn,

Isaiah 61:3 (NKJV)

³ To console those who mourn in Zion, To give them beauty for ashes, The oil of joy for mourning, The garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; That they may be called trees of righteousness, The planting of the LORD, that He may be glorified.”

Isaiah 61:4 (NIV)

⁴ They will rebuild the ancient ruins and restore the places long devastated; they will renew the ruined cities that have been devastated for generations.

Isaiah 61:5 (NIV)

⁵ Aliens will shepherd your flocks; foreigners will work your fields and vineyards.

Isaiah 61:6 (NASB)

⁶ But you will be called the priests of the LORD; You will be spoken of as ministers of our God. You will eat the wealth of nations, And in their riches you will boast.

Isaiah 61:7 (NIV)

⁷ Instead of their shame my people will receive a double portion, and instead of disgrace they will rejoice in their inheritance; and so they will inherit a double portion in their land, and everlasting joy will be theirs.

Isaiah 61:8 (NIV)

⁸ “For I, the LORD, love justice; I hate robbery and iniquity. In my faithfulness I will reward them and make an everlasting covenant with them.

Isaiah 61:9 (NIV)

⁹ Their descendants will be known among the nations and their offspring among the peoples. All who see them will acknowledge that they are a people the LORD has blessed.”

Isaiah 61:10 (NASB)

¹⁰ I will rejoice greatly in the LORD, My soul will exult in my God; For He has clothed me with garments of salvation, He has wrapped me with a robe of righteousness, As a bridegroom decks himself with a garland, And as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.

Isaiah 61:11 (NASB)

¹¹ For as the earth brings forth its sprouts, And as a garden causes the things sown in it to spring up, So the Lord GOD will cause righteousness and praise To spring up before all the nations.

Isaiah Chapter 62

Isaiah 62:1 (NIV)

¹ For Zion’s sake I will not keep silent, for Jerusalem’s sake I will not remain quiet, till her righteousness shines out like the dawn, her salvation like a blazing torch.

Isaiah 62:2 (NASB)

² The nations will see your righteousness, And all kings your glory; And you will be called by a new name Which the mouth of the LORD will designate.

Isaiah 62:3 (NASB)

³ You will also be a crown of beauty in the hand of the LORD, And a royal diadem in the hand of your God.

Isaiah 62:4 (NASB)

⁴ It will no longer be said to you, “Forsaken,” Nor to your land will it any longer be said, “Desolate”; But you will be called, “My delight is in her,” And your land, “Married”; For the LORD delights in you, And to Him your land will be married.

Isaiah 62:5 (NASB)

⁵ For as a young man marries a virgin, So your sons will marry you; And as the bridegroom rejoices over the bride, So your God will rejoice over you.

Isaiah 62:6 (AMP)

⁶ I have set watchmen upon your walls, O Jerusalem, who will never hold their peace day or night; you who [are His servants and by your prayers] put the Lord in remembrance [of His promises], keep not silence,

Isaiah 62:7 (AMP)

⁷ And give Him no rest until He establishes Jerusalem and makes her a praise in the earth.

Isaiah 62:8 (NASB)

⁸ The LORD has sworn by His right hand and by His strong arm, “I will never again give your grain as food for your enemies; Nor will foreigners drink your new wine for which you have labored.”

Isaiah 62:9 (NIV)

⁹ but those who harvest it will eat it and praise the LORD, and those who gather the grapes will drink it in the courts of my sanctuary.”

Isaiah 62:10 (NIV)

¹⁰ Pass through, pass through the gates! Prepare the way for the people. Build up, build up the highway! Remove the stones. Raise a banner for the nations.

Isaiah 62:11 (NIV)

¹¹ The LORD has made proclamation to the ends of the earth: “Say to the Daughter of Zion, ‘See, your Savior comes! See, his reward is with him, and his recompense accompanies him.'”

Isaiah 62:12 (NIV)

¹² They will be called the Holy People, the Redeemed of the LORD; and you will be called Sought After, the City No Longer Deserted.

Isaiah Chapter 63

Isaiah 63:1 (CJB)-M

¹ Who is this, coming from Edom, from Bozrah with clothing stained crimson, so magnificently dressed, so stately in his great strength? “It is I, who speak victoriously, I, well able to save.”

Isaiah 63:2 (NIV)

² Why are your garments red, like those of one treading the winepress?

Isaiah 63:3 (NIV)

³ “I have trodden the winepress alone; from the nations no one was with me. I trampled them in my anger and trod them down in my wrath; their blood spattered my garments, and I stained all my clothing.

Isaiah 63:4 (NASB)

⁴ “For the day of vengeance was in My heart, And My year of redemption has come.

Isaiah 63:5 (AMP)

⁵ And I looked, but there was no one to help; I was amazed and appalled that there was no one to uphold [truth and right]. So My own arm brought Me victory, and My wrath upheld Me.

Isaiah 63:6 (AMP)

⁶ I trod down the peoples in My anger and made them drink of the cup of My wrath until they were intoxicated, and I spilled their lifeblood upon the earth.

Isaiah 63:7 (NKJV)

⁷ I will mention the lovingkindnesses of the LORD And the praises of the LORD, According to all that the LORD has bestowed on us, And the great goodness toward the house of Israel, Which He has bestowed on them according to His mercies, According to the multitude of His lovingkindnesses.

Isaiah 63:8 (NIV)

⁸ He said, “Surely they are my people, sons who will not be false to me”; and so he became their Savior.

Isaiah 63:9 (NIV)

⁹ In all their distress he too was distressed, and the angel of his presence saved them. In his love and mercy he redeemed them; he lifted them up and carried them all the days of old.

Isaiah 63:10 (NIV)

¹⁰ Yet they rebelled and grieved his Holy Spirit. So he turned and became their enemy and he himself fought against them.

Isaiah 63:11 (NIV)

¹¹ Then his people recalled the days of old, the days of Moses and his people– where is he who brought them through the sea, with the shepherd of his flock? Where is he who set his Holy Spirit among them,

Isaiah 63:12 (NIV)

¹² who sent his glorious arm of power to be at Moses’ right hand, who divided the waters before them, to gain for himself everlasting renown,

Isaiah 63:13 (NIV)

¹³ who led them through the depths? Like a horse in open country, they did not stumble;

Isaiah 63:14 (NIV)

¹⁴ like cattle that go down to the plain, they were given rest by the Spirit of the LORD. This is how you guided your people to make for yourself a glorious name.

Isaiah 63:15 (NIV)

¹⁵ Look down from heaven and see from your lofty throne, holy and glorious. Where are your zeal and your might? Your tenderness and compassion are withheld from us.

Isaiah 63:16 (AMP)

¹⁶ For [surely] You are our Father, even though Abraham [our ancestor] does not know us and Israel (Jacob) does not acknowledge us; You, O Lord, are [still] our Father, our Redeemer from everlasting is Your name.

Isaiah 63:17 (NIV)

¹⁷ Why, O LORD, do you make us wander from your ways and harden our hearts so we do not revere you? Return for the sake of your servants, the tribes that are your inheritance.

Isaiah 63:18 (NIV)

¹⁸ For a little while your people possessed your holy place, but now our enemies have trampled down your sanctuary.

Isaiah 63:19 (CJB)

¹⁹ For so long we have been like those you never ruled, like those who were not called by your name!

Isaiah Chapter 64

Isaiah 64:1 (NIV)

¹ Oh, that you would rend the heavens and come down, that the mountains would tremble before you!

Isaiah 64:2 (NIV)

² As when fire sets twigs ablaze and causes water to boil, come down to make your name known to your enemies and cause the nations to quake before you!

Isaiah 64:3 (NIV)

³ For when you did awesome things that we did not expect, you came down, and the mountains trembled before you.

Isaiah 64:4 (NIV)

⁴ Since ancient times no one has heard, no ear has perceived, no eye has seen any God besides you, who acts on behalf of those who wait for him.

Isaiah 64:5 (CJB)

⁵ You favored those who were glad to do justice, those who remembered you in your ways. When you were angry, we kept sinning; but if we keep your ancient ways, we will be saved.

Isaiah 64:6 (NIV)

⁶ All of us have become like one who is unclean, and all our righteous acts are like filthy rags; we all shrivel up like a leaf, and like the wind our sins sweep us away.

Isaiah 64:7 (NASB)

⁷ There is no one who calls on Your name, Who arouses himself to take hold of You; For You have hidden Your face from us And have delivered us into the power of our iniquities.

Isaiah 64:8 (NASB)

⁸ But now, O LORD, You are our Father, We are the clay, and You our potter; And all of us are the work of Your hand.

Isaiah 64:9 (NIV)

⁹ Do not be angry beyond measure, O LORD; do not remember our sins forever. Oh, look upon us, we pray, for we are all your people.

Isaiah 64:10 (AMP)

¹⁰ Your holy cities have become a wilderness; Zion has become a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.

Isaiah 64:11 (NIV)

¹¹ Our holy and glorious temple, where our fathers praised you, has been burned with fire, and all that we treasured lies in ruins.

Isaiah 64:12 (AMP)

¹² Considering these [calamities], will You restrain Yourself, O Lord [and not come to our aid]? Will You keep silent and not command our deliverance but humble and afflict us exceedingly?

Isaiah Chapter 65

Isaiah 65:1 (NIV)

¹ “I revealed myself to those who did not ask for me; I was found by those who did not seek me. To a nation that did not call on my name, I said, ‘Here am I, here am I.’

Isaiah 65:2 (CJB)

² I spread out my hands all day long to a rebellious people who live in a way that is not good, who follow their own inclinations;

Isaiah 65:3 (NIV)

³ a people who continually provoke me to my very face, offering sacrifices in gardens and burning incense on altars of brick;

Isaiah 65:4 (CJB)

⁴ They sit among the graves and spend the night in caverns; they eat pig meat and their pots hold soup made from disgusting things.

Isaiah 65:5 (NASB)

⁵ “Who say, ‘Keep to yourself, do not come near me, For I am holier than you!’ These are smoke in My nostrils, A fire that burns all the day.

Isaiah 65:6 (CJB)

⁶ See, it is written before me; I will not be silent until I repay them; I will repay them to the full,

Isaiah 65:7 (NIV)

⁷ both your sins and the sins of your fathers,” says the LORD. “Because they burned sacrifices on the mountains and defied me on the hills, I will measure into their laps the full payment for their former deeds.”

Isaiah 65:8 (NIV)

⁸ This is what the LORD says: “As when juice is still found in a cluster of grapes and men say, ‘Don’t destroy it, there is yet some good in it,’ so will I do in behalf of my servants; I will not destroy them all.

Isaiah 65:9 (NIV)

⁹ I will bring forth descendants from Jacob, and from Judah those who will possess my mountains; my chosen people will inherit them, and there will my servants live.

Isaiah 65:10 (NIV)

¹⁰ Sharon will become a pasture for flocks, and the Valley of Achor a resting place for herds, for my people who seek me.

Isaiah 65:11 (CJB)-M

¹¹ “But as for you who abandon the Lord, who forget my holy mountain, who prepare a table for Gad, a god of luck, and fill bowls of mixed wine for Meni, a god of destiny—

Isaiah 65:12 (NIV)

¹² I will destine you for the sword, and you will all bend down for the slaughter; for I called but you did not answer, I spoke but you did not listen. You did evil in my sight and chose what displeases me.”

Isaiah 65:13 (NIV)

¹³ Therefore this is what the Sovereign LORD says: “My servants will eat, but you will go hungry; my servants will drink, but you will go thirsty; my servants will rejoice, but you will be put to shame.

Isaiah 65:14 (CJB)

¹⁴ Yes, my servants will sing for joy from their hearts, but you will cry out from the pain in your heart and howl from an anguished spirit.

Isaiah 65:15 (NASB)

¹⁵ “You will leave your name for a curse to My chosen ones, And the Lord GOD will slay you. But My servants will be called by another name.

Isaiah 65:16 (NIV)

¹⁶ Whoever invokes a blessing in the land will do so by the God of truth; he who takes an oath in the land will swear by the God of truth. For the past troubles will be forgotten and hidden from my eyes.

Isaiah 65:17 (NIV)

¹⁷ “Behold, I will create new heavens and a new earth. The former things will not be remembered, nor will they come to mind.

Isaiah 65:18 (NIV)

¹⁸ But be glad and rejoice forever in what I will create, for I will create Jerusalem to be a delight and its people a joy.

Isaiah 65:19 (NIV)

¹⁹ I will rejoice over Jerusalem and take delight in my people; the sound of weeping and of crying will be heard in it no more.

Isaiah 65:20 (NIV)

²⁰ “Never again will there be in it an infant who lives but a few days, or an old man who does not live out his years; he who dies at a hundred will be thought a mere youth; he who fails to reach a hundred will be considered accursed.

Isaiah 65:21 (NIV)

²¹ They will build houses and dwell in them; they will plant vineyards and eat their fruit.

Isaiah 65:22 (NIV)

²² No longer will they build houses and others live in them, or plant and others eat. For as the days of a tree, so will be the days of my people; my chosen ones will long enjoy the works of their hands.

Isaiah 65:23 (NIV)

²³ They will not toil in vain or bear children doomed to misfortune; for they will be a people blessed by the LORD, they and their descendants with them.

Isaiah 65:24 (NIV)

²⁴ Before they call I will answer; while they are still speaking I will hear.

Isaiah 65:25 (NIV)

²⁵ The wolf and the lamb will feed together, and the lion will eat straw like the ox, but dust will be the serpent’s food. They will neither harm nor destroy on all my holy mountain,” says the LORD.

Isaiah Chapter 66

Isaiah 66:1 (NIV)

¹ This is what the LORD says: “Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool. Where is the house you will build for me? Where will my resting place be?

Isaiah 66:2 (NASB)

² “For My hand made all these things, Thus all these things came into being,” declares the LORD. “But to this one I will look, To him who is humble and contrite of spirit, and who trembles at My word.

Isaiah 66:3 (CJB)

³ Those others might as well kill a person as an ox, as well break a dog’s neck as sacrifice a lamb, as well offer pig’s blood as offer a grain offering, as well bless an idol as burn incense. Just as these have chosen their ways and enjoy their disgusting practices,

Isaiah 66:4 (CJB)

⁴ so I will enjoy making fools of them, and bring on them the very things they fear. For when I called, no one answered; when I spoke, they did not hear. Instead they did what was evil in my sight and chose what did not please me.”

Isaiah 66:5 (AMP)

⁵ Hear the word of the Lord, you who tremble at His word: Your brethren who hate you, who cast you out for My name’s sake, have said, Let the Lord be glorified, that we may see your joy! But it is they who shall be put to shame.

Isaiah 66:6 (NIV)

⁶ Hear that uproar from the city, hear that noise from the temple! It is the sound of the LORD repaying his enemies all they deserve.

Isaiah 66:7 (NIV)

⁷ “Before she goes into labor, she gives birth; before the pains come upon her, she delivers a son.

Isaiah 66:8 (NIV)

⁸ Who has ever heard of such a thing? Who has ever seen such things? Can a country be born in a day or a nation be brought forth in a moment? Yet no sooner is Zion in labor than she gives birth to her children.

Isaiah 66:9 (NKJV)

⁹ Shall I bring to the time of birth, and not cause delivery?” says the LORD. “Shall I who cause delivery shut up the womb?” says your God.

Isaiah 66:10 (NIV)

¹⁰ “Rejoice with Jerusalem and be glad for her, all you who love her; rejoice greatly with her, all you who mourn over her.

Isaiah 66:11 (NASB)

¹¹ That you may nurse and be satisfied with her comforting breasts, That you may suck and be delighted with her bountiful bosom.”

Isaiah 66:12 (NASB)

¹² For thus says the LORD, “Behold, I extend peace to her like a river, And the glory of the nations like an overflowing stream; And you will be nursed, you will be carried on the hip and fondled on the knees.

Isaiah 66:13 (NIV)

¹³ As a mother comforts her child, so will I comfort you; and you will be comforted over Jerusalem.”

Isaiah 66:14 (NASB)

¹⁴ Then you will see this, and your heart will be glad, And your bones will flourish like the new grass; And the hand of the LORD will be made known to His servants, But He will be indignant toward His enemies.

Isaiah 66:15 (NIV)

¹⁵ See, the LORD is coming with fire, and his chariots are like a whirlwind; he will bring down his anger with fury, and his rebuke with flames of fire.

Isaiah 66:16 (NASB)

¹⁶ For the LORD will execute judgment by fire And by His sword on all flesh, And those slain by the LORD will be many.

Isaiah 66:17 (NIV)

¹⁷ “Those who consecrate and purify themselves to go into the gardens, following the one in the midst of those who eat the flesh of pigs and rats and other abominable things–they will meet their end together,” declares the LORD.

Isaiah 66:18 (NASB)

¹⁸ “For I know their works and their thoughts; the time is coming to gather all nations and tongues. And they shall come and see My glory.

Isaiah 66:19 (NASB)

¹⁹ “I will set a sign among them and will send survivors from them to the nations: Tarshish, Put, Lud, Meshech, Tubal and Javan, to the distant coastlands that have neither heard My fame nor seen My glory. And they will declare My glory among the nations.

Isaiah 66:20 (NASB)

²⁰ “Then they shall bring all your brethren from all the nations as a grain offering to the LORD, on horses, in chariots, in litters, on mules and on camels, to My holy mountain Jerusalem,” says the LORD, “just as the sons of Israel bring their grain offering in a clean vessel to the house of the LORD.

Isaiah 66:21 (NIV)

²¹ And I will select some of them also to be priests and Levites,” says the LORD.

Isaiah 66:22 (NIV)

²² “As the new heavens and the new earth that I make will endure before me,” declares the LORD, “so will your name and descendants endure.

Isaiah 66:23 (NIV)

²³ From one New Moon to another and from one Sabbath to another, all mankind will come and bow down before me,” says the LORD.

Isaiah 66:24 (NIV)

²⁴ “And they will go out and look upon the dead bodies of those who rebelled against me; their worm will not die, nor will their fire be quenched, and they will be loathsome to all mankind.”

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