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Isaiah
Isaiah’s prophetic
ministry spanned the reign of four kings of Judah (Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz,
and Hezekiah). Isaiah warned the people to turn from their sins or face
the judgment. He also foretold the coming of the Messiah. Many times he
emphasized that God is one and beside him there is no other.
Chapter
1
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1:1 The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which
he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah,
Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah.
2 Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth: for the LORD hath
spoken, I have nourished and brought up children, and they
have rebelled against me.
3 The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib: but
Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider.
4 Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of
evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken
the LORD, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto
anger, they are gone away backward.
5 Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more and
more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.
6 From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no
soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises, and putrifying
sores: they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither
mollified with ointment.
7 Your country is desolate, your cities are burned with fire:
your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it is
desolate, as overthrown by strangers.
8 And the daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a vineyard,
as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city.
9 Except the LORD of hosts had left unto us a very small
remnant, we should have been as Sodom, and we should have been
like unto Gomorrah.
10 Hear the word of the LORD, ye rulers of Sodom; give ear
unto the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah.
11 To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto
me? saith the LORD: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams,
and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of
bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats.
12 When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this at
your hand, to tread my courts?
13 Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination
unto me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of
assemblies, I cannot away with; it is iniquity, even the
solemn meeting.
14 Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth:
they are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear them.
15 And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes
from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear:
your hands are full of blood.
16 Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings
from before mine eyes; cease to do evil;
17 Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed,
judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.
18 Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD:
though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as
snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
19 If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the
land:
20 But if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the
sword: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it.
21 How is the faithful city become an harlot! it was full of
judgment; righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers.
22 Thy silver is become dross, thy wine mixed with water:
23 Thy princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves:
every one loveth gifts, and followeth after rewards: they
judge not the fatherless, neither doth the cause of the widow
come unto them.
24 Therefore saith the Lord, the LORD of hosts, the mighty One
of Israel, Ah, I will ease me of mine adversaries, and avenge
me of mine enemies:
25 And I will turn my hand upon thee, and purely purge away
thy dross, and take away all thy tin:
26 And I will restore thy judges as at the first, and thy
counsellers as at the beginning: afterward thou shalt be
called, The city of righteousness, the faithful city.
27 Zion shall be redeemed with judgment, and her converts with
righteousness.
28 And the destruction of the transgressors and of the sinners
shall be together, and they that forsake the LORD shall be
consumed.
29 For they shall be ashamed of the oaks which ye have
desired, and ye shall be confounded for the gardens that ye
have chosen.
30 For ye shall be as an oak whose leaf fadeth, and as a
garden that hath no water.
31 And the strong shall be as tow, and the maker of it as a
spark, and they shall both burn together, and none shall
quench them. |
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Of what nation and city
did Isaiah’s prophecy concern? (1)
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Who were the kings that
reigned when Isaiah prophesied? (1)
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Who did Judah provoke
to anger? (4)
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To what did Isaiah
liken Judah? (5-6)
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In what didn’t God
delight? (11)
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What did God want Judah
to do? (16-17)
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What could God do for
their sins? (18)
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What would result if
Judah was willing and obedient? (19)
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Who could not judge the
fatherless and widows? (23)
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Chapter
2
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2:1 the word that Isaiah the son of Amoz
saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem.
2 And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the
mountain of the LORD's house shall be established in the top
of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and
all nations shall flow unto it.
3 And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up
to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob;
and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his
paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of
the LORD from Jerusalem.
4 And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many
people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and
their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword
against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.
5 O house of Jacob, come ye, and let us walk in the light of
the LORD.
6 Therefore thou hast forsaken thy people the house of Jacob,
because they be replenished from the east, and are soothsayers
like the Philistines, and they please themselves in the
children of strangers.
7 Their land also is full of silver and gold, neither is there
any end of their treasures; their land is also full of horses,
neither is there any end of their chariots:
8 Their land also is full of idols; they worship the work of
their own hands, that which their own fingers have made:
9 And the mean man boweth down, and the great man humbleth
himself: therefore forgive them not.
10 Enter into the rock, and hide thee in the dust, for fear of
the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty.
11 The lofty looks of man shall be humbled, and the
haughtiness of men shall be bowed down, and the LORD alone
shall be exalted in that day.
12 For the day of the LORD of hosts shall be upon every one
that is proud and lofty, and upon every one that is lifted up;
and he shall be brought low:
13 And upon all the cedars of Lebanon, that are high and
lifted up, and upon all the oaks of Bashan,
14 And upon all the high mountains, and upon all the hills
that are lifted up,
15 And upon every high tower, and upon every fenced wall,
16 And upon all the ships of Tarshish, and upon all pleasant
pictures.
17 And the loftiness of man shall be bowed down, and the
haughtiness of men shall be made low: and the LORD alone shall
be exalted in that day.
18 And the idols he shall utterly abolish.
19 And they shall go into the holes of the rocks, and into the
caves of the earth, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of
his majesty, when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth.
20 In that day a man shall cast his idols of silver, and his
idols of gold, which they made each one for himself to
worship, to the moles and to the bats;
21 To go into the clefts of the rocks, and into the tops of
the ragged rocks, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of
his majesty, when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth.
22 Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils: for
wherein is he to be accounted of? |
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From where will the law
and the word of the LORD go forth? (3)
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Into what will nations
beat their swords and spears? (4)
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What will the nations
learn no more? (4)
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Who will be humbled?
(11-12,17)
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Who will be exalted?
(11,17)
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Chapter
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3:1 For, behold, the Lord, the LORD of hosts,
doth take away from Jerusalem and from Judah the stay and the
staff, the whole stay of bread, and the whole stay of water,
2 The mighty man, and the man of war, the judge, and the
prophet, and the prudent, and the ancient,
3 The captain of fifty, and the honourable man, and the
counseller, and the cunning artificer, and the eloquent
orator.
4 And I will give children to be their princes, and babes
shall rule over them.
5 And the people shall be oppressed, every one by another, and
every one by his neighbour: the child shall behave himself
proudly against the ancient, and the base against the
honourable.
6 When a man shall take hold of his brother of the house of
his father, saying, Thou hast clothing, be thou our ruler, and
let this ruin be under thy hand:
7 In that day shall he swear, saying, I will not be an healer;
for in my house is neither bread nor clothing: make me not a
ruler of the people.
8 For Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah is fallen: because their
tongue and their doings are against the LORD, to provoke the
eyes of his glory.
9 The shew of their countenance doth witness against them; and
they declare their sin as Sodom, they hide it not. Woe unto
their soul! for they have rewarded evil unto themselves.
10 Say ye to the righteous, that it shall be well with him:
for they shall eat the fruit of their doings.
11 Woe unto the wicked! it shall be ill with him: for the
reward of his hands shall be given him.
12 As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women
rule over them. O my people, they which lead thee cause thee
to err, and destroy the way of thy paths.
13 The LORD standeth up to plead, and standeth to judge the
people.
14 The LORD will enter into judgment with the ancients of his
people, and the princes thereof: for ye have eaten up the
vineyard; the spoil of the poor is in your houses.
15 What mean ye that ye beat my people to pieces, and grind
the faces of the poor? saith the LORD GOD of hosts.
16 Moreover the LORD saith, Because the daughters of Zion are
haughty, and walk with stretched forth necks and wanton eyes,
walking and mincing as they go, and making a tinkling with
their feet:
17 Therefore the LORD will smite with a scab the crown of the
head of the daughters of Zion, and the LORD will discover
their secret parts.
18 In that day the Lord will take away the bravery of their
tinkling ornaments about their feet, and their cauls, and
their round tires like the moon,
19 The chains, and the bracelets, and the mufflers,
20 The bonnets, and the ornaments of the legs, and the
headbands, and the tablets, and the earrings,
21 The rings, and nose jewels,
22 The changeable suits of apparel, and the mantles, and the
wimples, and the crisping pins,
23 The glasses, and the fine linen, and the hoods, and the
vails.
24 And it shall come to pass, that instead of sweet smell
there shall be stink; and instead of a girdle a rent; and
instead of well set hair baldness; and instead of a stomacher
a girding of sackcloth; and burning instead of beauty.
25 Thy men shall fall by the sword, and thy mighty in the war.
26 And her gates shall lament and mourn; and she being
desolate shall sit upon the ground. |
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What did the LORD take
away from Jerusalem and Judah? (1-3)
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Why was Jerusalem
ruined and Judah fallen? (8)
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Who would oppress and
rule over them? (12)
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What was said about the
daughters of Zion?
(16)
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What was the LORD going
to do to these daughters of Zion?
(17-24)
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What would happen to
the men of Judah
and Jerusalem? (25)
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Chapter
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4:1 And in that day seven women shall take
hold of one man, saying, We will eat our own bread, and wear
our own apparel: only let us be called by thy name, to take
away our reproach.
2 In that day shall the branch of the LORD be beautiful and
glorious, and the fruit of the earth shall be excellent and
comely for them that are escaped of Israel.
3 And it shall come to pass, that he that is left in Zion, and
he that remaineth in Jerusalem, shall be called holy, even
every one that is written among the living in Jerusalem:
4 When the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the
daughters of Zion, and shall have purged the blood of
Jerusalem from the midst thereof by the spirit of judgment,
and by the spirit of burning.
5 And the LORD will create upon every dwelling place of mount
Zion, and upon her assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day, and
the shining of a flaming fire by night: for upon all the glory
shall be a defence.
6 And there shall be a tabernacle for a shadow in the daytime
from the heat, and for a place of refuge, and for a covert
from storm and from rain. |
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What will the LORD wash
away? (4)
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What will a tabernacle
provide? (6)
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Chapter 5
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5:1 Now will I sing to my wellbeloved a
song of my beloved touching his vineyard. My wellbeloved hath
a vineyard in a very fruitful hill:
2 And he fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and
planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the
midst of it, and also made a winepress therein: and he looked
that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild
grapes.
3 And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem, and men of Judah,
judge, I pray you, betwixt me and my vineyard.
4 What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have
not done in it? wherefore, when I looked that it should bring
forth grapes, brought it forth wild grapes?
5 And now go to; I will tell you what I will do to my
vineyard: I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be
eaten up; and break down the wall thereof, and it shall be
trodden down:
6 And I will lay it waste: it shall not be pruned, nor digged;
but there shall come up briers and thorns: I will also command
the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.
7 For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts is the house of
Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked
for judgment, but behold oppression; for righteousness, but
behold a cry.
8 Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to
field, till there be no place, that they may be placed alone
in the midst of the earth!
9 In mine ears said the LORD of hosts, Of a truth many houses
shall be desolate, even great and fair, without inhabitant.
10 Yea, ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and the
seed of an homer shall yield an ephah.
11 Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning, that they
may follow strong drink; that continue until night, till wine
inflame them!
12 And the harp, and the viol, the tabret, and pipe, and wine,
are in their feasts: but they regard not the work of the LORD,
neither consider the operation of his hands.
13 Therefore my people are gone into captivity, because they
have no knowledge: and their honourable men are famished, and
their multitude dried up with thirst.
14 Therefore hell hath enlarged herself, and opened her mouth
without measure: and their glory, and their multitude, and
their pomp, and he that rejoiceth, shall descend into it.
15 And the mean man shall be brought down, and the mighty man
shall be humbled, and the eyes of the lofty shall be humbled:
16 But the LORD of hosts shall be exalted in judgment, and God
that is holy shall be sanctified in righteousness.
17 Then shall the lambs feed after their manner, and the waste
places of the fat ones shall strangers eat.
18 Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and
sin as it were with a cart rope:
19 That say, Let him make speed, and hasten his work, that we
may see it: and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw
nigh and come, that we may know it!
20 Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put
darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter
for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
21 Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent
in their own sight!
22 Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine, and men of
strength to mingle strong drink:
23 Which justify the wicked for reward, and take away the
righteousness of the righteous from him!
24 Therefore as the fire devoureth the stubble, and the flame
consumeth the chaff, so their root shall be as rottenness, and
their blossom shall go up as dust: because they have cast away
the law of the LORD of hosts, and despised the word of the
Holy One of Israel.
25 Therefore is the anger of the LORD kindled against his
people, and he hath stretched forth his hand against them, and
hath smitten them: and the hills did tremble, and their
carcases were torn in the midst of the streets. For all this
his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out
still.
26 And he will lift up an ensign to the nations from far, and
will hiss unto them from the end of the earth: and, behold,
they shall come with speed swiftly:
27 None shall be weary nor stumble among them; none shall
slumber nor sleep; neither shall the girdle of their loins be
loosed, nor the latchet of their shoes be broken:
28 Whose arrows are sharp, and all their bows bent, their
horses' hoofs shall be counted like flint, and their wheels
like a whirlwind:
29 Their roaring shall be like a lion, they shall roar like
young lions: yea, they shall roar, and lay hold of the prey,
and shall carry it away safe, and none shall deliver it.
30 And in that day they shall roar against them like the
roaring of the sea: and if one look unto the land, behold
darkness and sorrow, and the light is darkened in the heavens
thereof. |
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Who is likened to a
vineyard? (1-10)
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Instead of bring forth
good grapes what did the vineyard bring forth? (2,4,6)
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Why did God’s people go
into captivity? (12-13)
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What has enlarged
itself? (14)
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What was pronounced
upon those that call evil good and good evil? (20)
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Upon who else are woes
pronounced? (21-23)
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Chapter 6 To
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6:1 In the year that king Uzziah died I saw
also the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and
his train filled the temple.
2 Above it stood the seraphims: each one had six wings; with
twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet,
and with twain he did fly.
3 And one cried unto another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is
the LORD of hosts: the whole earth is full of his glory.
4 And the posts of the door moved at the voice of him that
cried, and the house was filled with smoke.
5 Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man
of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of
unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, the LORD of
hosts.
6 Then flew one of the seraphims unto me, having a live coal
in his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off the
altar:
7 And he laid it upon my mouth, and said, Lo, this hath
touched thy lips; and thine iniquity is taken away, and thy
sin purged.
8 Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I
send, and who will go for us? Then said I, Here am I; send me.
9 And he said, Go, and tell this people, Hear ye indeed, but
understand not; and see ye indeed, but perceive not.
10 Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears
heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and
hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and
convert, and be healed.
11 Then said I, Lord, how long? And he answered, Until the
cities be wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without
man, and the land be utterly desolate,
12 And the LORD have removed men far away, and there be a
great forsaking in the midst of the land.
13 But yet in it shall be a tenth, and it shall return, and
shall be eaten: as a teil tree, and as an oak, whose substance
is in them, when they cast their leaves: so the holy seed
shall be the substance thereof. |
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What did Isaiah see in
the year that Uzziah died? (1)
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What did the seraphim
cry? (2-3)
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What did Isaiah say
when he heard the cry and saw the house filled with smoke? (5)
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How did Isaiah reply
when the voice of the Lord said “Whom shall I send?” (8)
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What was he to tell the
people? (9-10)
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Chapter 7
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7:1 And it came to pass in the days of
Ahaz the son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, king of Judah, that
Rezin the king of Syria, and Pekah the son of Remaliah, king
of Israel, went up toward Jerusalem to war against it, but
could not prevail against it.
2 And it was told the house of David, saying, Syria is
confederate with Ephraim. And his heart was moved, and the
heart of his people, as the trees of the wood are moved with
the wind.
3 Then said the LORD unto Isaiah, Go forth now to meet Ahaz,
thou, and Shear-jashub thy son, at the end of the conduit of
the upper pool in the highway of the fuller's field;
4 And say unto him, Take heed, and be quiet; fear not, neither
be fainthearted for the two tails of these smoking firebrands,
for the fierce anger of Rezin with Syria, and of the son of
Remaliah.
5 Because Syria, Ephraim, and the son of Remaliah, have taken
evil counsel against thee, saying,
6 Let us go up against Judah, and vex it, and let us make a
breach therein for us, and set a king in the midst of it, even
the son of Tabeal:
7 Thus saith the Lord GOD, It shall not stand, neither shall
it come to pass.
8 For the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus
is Rezin; and within threescore and five years shall Ephraim
be broken, that it be not a people.
9 And the head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria
is Remaliah's son. If ye will not believe, surely ye shall not
be established.
10 Moreover the LORD spake again unto Ahaz, saying,
11 Ask thee a sign of the LORD thy God; ask it either in the
depth, or in the height above.
12 But Ahaz said, I will not ask, neither will I tempt the
LORD.
13 And he said, Hear ye now, O house of David; Is it a small
thing for you to weary men, but will ye weary my God also?
14 Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a
virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name
Immanuel.
15 Butter and honey shall he eat, that he may know to refuse
the evil, and choose the good.
16 For before the child shall know to refuse the evil, and
choose the good, the land that thou abhorrest shall be
forsaken of both her kings.
17 The LORD shall bring upon thee, and upon thy people, and
upon thy father's house, days that have not come, from the day
that Ephraim departed from Judah; even the king of Assyria.
18 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall
hiss for the fly that is in the uttermost part of the rivers
of Egypt, and for the bee that is in the land of Assyria.
19 And they shall come, and shall rest all of them in the
desolate valleys, and in the holes of the rocks, and upon all
thorns, and upon all bushes.
20 In the same day shall the Lord shave with a rasor that is
hired, namely, by them beyond the river, by the king of
Assyria, the head, and the hair of the feet: and it shall also
consume the beard.
21 And it shall come to pass in that day, that a man shall
nourish a young cow, and two sheep;
22 And it shall come to pass, for the abundance of milk that
they shall give he shall eat butter: for butter and honey
shall every one eat that is left in the land.
23 And it shall come to pass in that day, that every place
shall be, where there were a thousand vines at a thousand
silverlings, it shall even be for briers and thorns.
24 With arrows and with bows shall men come thither; because
all the land shall become briers and thorns.
25 And on all hills that shall be digged with the mattock,
there shall not come thither the fear of briers and thorns:
but it shall be for the sending forth of oxen, and for the
treading of lesser cattle. |
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What happened in the
days of Ahaz, king of Judah? (1)
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What did the LORD tell
Isaiah to tell Ahaz? (3-4)
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What was going to
happen to Ephraim? (8)
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What sign was the LORD
going to give? (14)
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Chapter 8
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8:1 Moreover the LORD said unto me, Take
thee a great roll, and write in it with a man's pen concerning
Maher-shalal-hash-baz.
2 And I took unto me faithful witnesses to record, Uriah the
priest, and Zechariah the son of Jeberechiah.
3 And I went unto the prophetess; and she conceived, and bare
a son. Then said the LORD to me, Call his name Maher-shalal-hash-baz.
4 For before the child shall have knowledge to cry, My father,
and my mother, the riches of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria
shall be taken away before the king of Assyria.
5 The LORD spake also unto me again, saying,
6 Forasmuch as this people refuseth the waters of Shiloah that
go softly, and rejoice in Rezin and Remaliah's son;
7 Now therefore, behold, the Lord bringeth up upon them the
waters of the river, strong and many, even the king of
Assyria, and all his glory: and he shall come up over all his
channels, and go over all his banks:
8 And he shall pass through Judah; he shall overflow and go
over, he shall reach even to the neck; and the stretching out
of his wings shall fill the breadth of thy land, O Immanuel.
9 Associate yourselves, O ye people, and ye shall be broken in
pieces; and give ear, all ye of far countries: gird
yourselves, and ye shall be broken in pieces; gird yourselves,
and ye shall be broken in pieces.
10 Take counsel together, and it shall come to nought; speak
the word, and it shall not stand: for God is with us.
11 For the LORD spake thus to me with a strong hand, and
instructed me that I should not walk in the way of this
people, saying,
12 Say ye not, A confederacy, to all them to whom this people
shall say, A confederacy; neither fear ye their fear, nor be
afraid.
13 Sanctify the LORD of hosts himself; and let him be your
fear, and let him be your dread.
14 And he shall be for a sanctuary; but for a stone of
stumbling and for a rock of offence to both the houses of
Israel, for a gin and for a snare to the inhabitants of
Jerusalem.
15 And many among them shall stumble, and fall, and be broken,
and be snared, and be taken.
16 Bind up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples.
17 And I will wait upon the LORD, that hideth his face from
the house of Jacob, and I will look for him.
18 Behold, I and the children whom the LORD hath given me are
for signs and for wonders in Israel from the LORD of hosts,
which dwelleth in mount Zion.
19 And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that have
familiar spirits, and unto wizards that peep, and that mutter:
should not a people seek unto their God? for the living to the
dead?
20 To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not
according to this word, it is because there is no light in
them.
21 And they shall pass through it, hardly bestead and hungry:
and it shall come to pass, that when they shall be hungry,
they shall fret themselves, and curse their king and their
God, and look upward.
22 And they shall look unto the earth; and behold trouble and
darkness, dimness of anguish; and they shall be driven to
darkness. |
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What would be taken
away? (4)
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Who should we fear?
(12-13)
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What is the reason some
would speak not according to the law and to the testimony? (20)
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Chapter 9
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9:1 Nevertheless the dimness shall not be such
as was in her vexation, when at the first he lightly afflicted
the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, and afterward
did more grievously afflict her by the way of the sea, beyond
Jordan, in Galilee of the nations.
2 The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light:
they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them
hath the light shined.
3 Thou hast multiplied the nation, and not increased the joy:
they joy before thee according to the joy in harvest, and as
men rejoice when they divide the spoil.
4 For thou hast broken the yoke of his burden, and the staff
of his shoulder, the rod of his oppressor, as in the day of
Midian.
5 For every battle of the warrior is with confused noise, and
garments rolled in blood; but this shall be with burning and
fuel of fire.
6 For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the
government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be
called Wonderful, Counseller, The mighty God, The everlasting
Father, The Prince of Peace.
7 Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be
no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to
order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice
from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of the LORD of hosts
will perform this.
8 The Lord sent a word into Jacob, and it hath lighted upon
Israel.
9 And all the people shall know, even Ephraim and the
inhabitant of Samaria, that say in the pride and stoutness of
heart,
10 The bricks are fallen down, but we will build with hewn
stones: the sycomores are cut down, but we will change them
into cedars.
11 Therefore the LORD shall set up the adversaries of Rezin
against him, and join his enemies together;
12 The Syrians before, and the Philistines behind; and they
shall devour Israel with open mouth. For all this his anger is
not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
13 For the people turneth not unto him that smiteth them,
neither do they seek the LORD of hosts.
14 Therefore the LORD will cut off from Israel head and tail,
branch and rush, in one day.
15 The ancient and honourable, he is the head; and the prophet
that teacheth lies, he is the tail.
16 For the leaders of this people cause them to err; and they
that are led of them are destroyed.
17 Therefore the Lord shall have no joy in their young men,
neither shall have mercy on their fatherless and widows: for
every one is an hypocrite and an evildoer, and every mouth
speaketh folly. For all this his anger is not turned away, but
his hand is stretched out still.
18 For wickedness burneth as the fire: it shall devour the
briers and thorns, and shall kindle in the thickets of the
forest, and they shall mount up like the lifting up of smoke.
19 Through the wrath of the LORD of hosts is the land
darkened, and the people shall be as the fuel of the fire: no
man shall spare his brother.
20 And he shall snatch on the right hand, and be hungry; and
he shall eat on the left hand, and they shall not be
satisfied: they shall eat every man the flesh of his own arm:
21 Manasseh, Ephraim; and Ephraim, Manasseh: and they together
shall be against Judah. For all this his anger is not turned
away, but his hand is stretched out still. |
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What would those who
walked in darkness see? (2)
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What would the child
born unto them be called? (6)
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Who would devour
Israel? (12)
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What caused them to
err? (16)
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Chapter 10
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10:1 Woe unto them that decree unrighteous
decrees, and that write grievousness which they have
prescribed;
2 To turn aside the needy from judgment, and to take away the
right from the poor of my people, that widows may be their
prey, and that they may rob the fatherless!
3 And what will ye do in the day of visitation, and in the
desolation which shall come from far? to whom will ye flee for
help? and where will ye leave your glory?
4 Without me they shall bow down under the prisoners, and they
shall fall under the slain. For all this his anger is not
turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
5 O Assyrian, the rod of mine anger, and the staff in their
hand is mine indignation.
6 I will send him against an hypocritical nation, and against
the people of my wrath will I give him a charge, to take the
spoil, and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the
mire of the streets.
7 Howbeit he meaneth not so, neither doth his heart think so;
but it is in his heart to destroy and cut off nations not a
few.
8 For he saith, Are not my princes altogether kings?
9 Is not Calno as Carchemish? is not Hamath as Arpad? is not
Samaria as Damascus?
10 As my hand hath found the kingdoms of the idols, and whose
graven images did excel them of Jerusalem and of Samaria;
11 Shall I not, as I have done unto Samaria and her idols, so
do to Jerusalem and her idols?
12 Wherefore it shall come to pass, that when the Lord hath
performed his whole work upon mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I
will punish the fruit of the stout heart of the king of
Assyria, and the glory of his high looks.
13 For he saith, By the strength of my hand I have done it,
and by my wisdom; for I am prudent: and I have removed the
bounds of the people, and have robbed their treasures, and I
have put down the inhabitants like a valiant man:
14 And my hand hath found as a nest the riches of the people:
and as one gathereth eggs that are left, have I gathered all
the earth; and there was none that moved the wing, or opened
the mouth, or peeped.
15 Shall the axe boast itself against him that heweth
therewith? or shall the saw magnify itself against him that
shaketh it? as if the rod should shake itself against them
that lift it up, or as if the staff should lift up itself, as
if it were no wood.
16 Therefore shall the Lord, the Lord of hosts, send among his
fat ones leanness; and under his glory he shall kindle a
burning like the burning of a fire.
17 And the light of Israel shall be for a fire, and his Holy
One for a flame: and it shall burn and devour his thorns and
his briers in one day;
18 And shall consume the glory of his forest, and of his
fruitful field, both soul and body: and they shall be as when
a standardbearer fainteth.
19 And the rest of the trees of his forest shall be few, that
a child may write them.
20 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the remnant of
Israel, and such as are escaped of the house of Jacob, shall
no more again stay upon him that smote them; but shall stay
upon the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, in truth.
21 The remnant shall return, even the remnant of Jacob, unto
the mighty God.
22 For though thy people Israel be as the sand of the sea, yet
a remnant of them shall return: the consumption decreed shall
overflow with righteousness.
23 For the Lord GOD of hosts shall make a consumption, even
determined, in the midst of all the land.
24 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD of hosts, O my people
that dwellest in Zion, be not afraid of the Assyrian: he shall
smite thee with a rod, and shall lift up his staff against
thee, after the manner of Egypt.
25 For yet a very little while, and the indignation shall
cease, and mine anger in their destruction.
26 And the LORD of hosts shall stir up a scourge for him
according to the slaughter of Midian at the rock of Oreb: and
as his rod was upon the sea, so shall he lift it up after the
manner of Egypt.
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.
28 He is come to Aiath, he is passed to Migron; at Michmash he
hath laid up his carriages:
29 They are gone over the passage: they have taken up their
lodging at Geba; Ramah is afraid; Gibeah of Saul is fled.
30 Lift up thy voice, O daughter of Gallim: cause it to be
heard unto Laish, O poor Anathoth.
31 Madmenah is removed; the inhabitants of Gebim gather
themselves to flee.
32 As yet shall he remain at Nob that day: he shall shake his
hand against the mount of the daughter of Zion, the hill of
Jerusalem.
33 Behold, the Lord, the LORD of hosts, shall lop the bough
with terror: and the high ones of stature shall be hewn down,
and the haughty shall be humbled.
34 And he shall cut down the thickets of the forest with iron,
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Unto whom will woe be
pronounced? (1-2)
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Who was sent against a
hypocritical nation? (5-6)
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Who will return to the
mighty God? (20-22)
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Why shouldn’t the
people of Zion be afraid of Assyria? (24-27)
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Chapter 11
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11:1 And there shall come forth a rod out of
the stem of Jesse, and a Branch shall grow out of his roots:
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 fear of the LORD;
3 And shall make him of quick understanding in the fear of the
LORD: and he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes,
neither reprove after the hearing of his ears:
4 But with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and reprove
with equity for the meek of the earth: and he shall smite the
earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his
lips shall he slay the wicked.
5 And righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins, and
faithfulness the girdle of his reins.
6 The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard
shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion
and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them.
7 And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall
lie down together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.
8 And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and
the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice' den.
9 They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain: for
the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD, as the
waters cover the sea.
10 And in that day there shall be a root of Jesse, which shall
stand for an ensign of the people; to it shall the Gentiles
seek: and his rest shall be glorious.
11 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall
set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant of
his people, which shall be left, from Assyria, and from Egypt,
and from Pathros, and from Cush, and from Elam, and from
Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea.
12 And he shall set up an ensign for the nations, and shall
assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the
dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth.
13 The envy also of Ephraim shall depart, and the adversaries
of Judah shall be cut off: Ephraim shall not envy Judah, and
Judah shall not vex Ephraim.
14 But they shall fly upon the shoulders of the Philistines
toward the west; they shall spoil them of the east together:
they shall lay their hand upon Edom and Moab; and the children
of Ammon shall obey them.
15 And the LORD shall utterly destroy the tongue of the
Egyptian sea; and with his mighty wind shall he shake his hand
over the river, and shall smite it in the seven streams, and
make men go over dryshod.
16 And there shall be an highway for the remnant of his
people, which shall be left, from Assyria; like as it was to
Israel in the day that he came up out of the land of Egypt. |
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What will come forth
out of the stem of Jesse? (1)
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What aspects of the
spirit would rest on him? (2)
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How will he judge the
poor? (4)
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What creatures are
mentioned as having peace with one another? (6-8)
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What will fill the
earth? (9)
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Who will the Lord
gather from the four corners of the earth? (11-12)
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Chapter 12
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12:1 And in that day thou shalt say, O
LORD, I will praise thee: though thou wast angry with me,
thine anger is turned away, and thou comfortedst me.
2 Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and not be
afraid: for the LORD JEHOVAH is my strength and my song; he
also is become my salvation.
3 Therefore with joy shall ye draw water out of the wells of
salvation.
4 And in that day shall ye say, Praise the LORD, call upon his
name, declare his doings among the people, make mention that
his name is exalted.
5 Sing unto the LORD; for he hath done excellent things: this
is known in all the earth.
6 Cry out and shout, thou inhabitant of Zion: for great is the
Holy One of Israel in the midst of thee. |
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What will the LORD
JEHOVAH be to them? (2)
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How will they draw
water out of the wells of salvation? (3)
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What will they say in
that day? (4)
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Why will they sing? (5)
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Chapter 13
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13:1 The burden of Babylon, which Isaiah
the son of Amoz did see.
2 Lift ye up a banner upon the high mountain, exalt the voice
unto them, shake the hand, that they may go into the gates of
the nobles.
3 I have commanded my sanctified ones, I have also called my
mighty ones for mine anger, even them that rejoice in my
highness.
4 The noise of a multitude in the mountains, like as of a
great people; a tumultuous noise of the kingdoms of nations
gathered together: the LORD of hosts mustereth the host of the
battle.
5 They come from a far country, from the end of heaven, even
the LORD, and the weapons of his indignation, to destroy the
whole land.
6 Howl ye; for the day of the LORD is at hand; it shall come
as a destruction from the Almighty.
7 Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every man's heart
shall melt:
8 And they shall be afraid: pangs and sorrows shall take hold
of them; they shall be in pain as a woman that travaileth:
they shall be amazed one at another; their faces shall be as
flames.
9 Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, cruel both with wrath
and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall
destroy the sinners thereof out of it.
10 For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof
shall not give their light: the sun shall be darkened in his
going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine.
11 And I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked
for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogancy of the
proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the
terrible.
12 I will make a man more precious than fine gold; even a man
than the golden wedge of Ophir.
13 Therefore I will shake the heavens, and the earth shall
remove out of her place, in the wrath of the LORD of hosts,
and in the day of his fierce anger.
14 And it shall be as the chased roe, and as a sheep that no
man taketh up: they shall every man turn to his own people,
and flee every one into his own land.
15 Every one that is found shall be thrust through; and every
one that is joined unto them shall fall by the sword.
16 Their children also shall be dashed to pieces before their
eyes; their houses shall be spoiled, and their wives ravished.
17 Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, which shall
not regard silver; and as for gold, they shall not delight in
it.
18 Their bows also shall dash the young men to pieces; and
they shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb; their eye
shall not spare children.
19 And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the
Chaldees' excellency, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and
Gomorrah.
20 It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in
from generation to generation: neither shall the Arabian pitch
tent there; neither shall the shepherds make their fold there.
21 But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their
houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and owls shall
dwell there, and satyrs shall dance there.
22 And the wild beasts of the islands shall cry in their
desolate houses, and dragons in their pleasant palaces: and
her time is near to come, and her days shall not be prolonged. |
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What did Isaiah see?
(1)
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What was coming? (6,9)
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For what will the world
be punished? (11)
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Who will the LORD stir
up against the Babylonians? (17)
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What shall become of
Babylon? (19)
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Chapter 14
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14:1 For the LORD will have mercy on
Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own
land: and the strangers shall be joined with them, and they
shall cleave to the house of Jacob.
2 And the people shall take them, and bring them to their
place: and the house of Israel shall possess them in the land
of the LORD for servants and handmaids: and they shall take
them captives, whose captives they were; and they shall rule
over their oppressors.
3 And it shall come to pass in the day that the LORD shall
give thee rest from thy sorrow, and from thy fear, and from
the hard bondage wherein thou wast made to serve,
4 That thou shalt take up this proverb against the king of
Babylon, and say, How hath the oppressor ceased! the golden
city ceased!
5 The LORD hath broken the staff of the wicked, and the
sceptre of the rulers.
6 He who smote the people in wrath with a continual stroke, he
that ruled the nations in anger, is persecuted, and none
hindereth.
7 The whole earth is at rest, and is quiet: they break forth
into singing.
8 Yea, the fir trees rejoice at thee, and the cedars of
Lebanon, saying, Since thou art laid down, no feller is come
up against us.
9 Hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy
coming: it stirreth up the dead for thee, even all the chief
ones of the earth; it hath raised up from their thrones all
the kings of the nations.
10 All they shall speak and say unto thee, Art thou also
become weak as we? art thou become like unto us?
11 Thy pomp is brought down to the grave, and the noise of thy
viols: the worm is spread under thee, and the worms cover
thee.
12 How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the
morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst
weaken the nations!
13 For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into
heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will
sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of
the north:
14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be
like the most High.
15 Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the
pit.
16 They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee, and
consider thee, saying, Is this the man that made the earth to
tremble, that did shake kingdoms;
17 That made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed the
cities thereof; that opened not the house of his prisoners?
18 All the kings of the nations, even all of them, lie in
glory, every one in his own house.
19 But thou art cast out of thy grave like an abominable
branch, and as the raiment of those that are slain, thrust
through with a sword, that go down to the stones of the pit;
as a carcase trodden under feet.
20 Thou shalt not be joined with them in burial, because thou
hast destroyed thy land, and slain thy people: the seed of
evildoers shall never be renowned.
21 Prepare slaughter for his children for the iniquity of
their fathers; that they do not rise, nor possess the land,
nor fill the face of the world with cities.
22 For I will rise up against them, saith the LORD of hosts,
and cut off from Babylon the name, and remnant, and son, and
nephew, saith the LORD.
23 I will also make it a possession for the bittern, and pools
of water: and I will sweep it with the besom of destruction,
saith the LORD of hosts.
24 The LORD of hosts hath sworn, saying, Surely as I have
thought, so shall it come to pass; and as I have purposed, so
shall it stand:
25 That I will break the Assyrian in my land, and upon my
mountains tread him under foot: then shall his yoke depart
from off them, and his burden depart from off their shoulders.
26 This is the purpose that is purposed upon the whole earth:
and this is the hand that is stretched out upon all the
nations.
27 For the LORD of hosts hath purposed, and who shall disannul
it? and his hand is stretched out, and who shall turn it back?
28 In the year that king Ahaz died was this burden.
29 Rejoice not thou, whole Palestina, because the rod of him
that smote thee is broken: for out of the serpent's root shall
come forth a cockatrice, and his fruit shall be a fiery flying
serpent.
30 And the firstborn of the poor shall feed, and the needy
shall lie down in safety: and I will kill thy root with
famine, and he shall slay thy remnant.
31 Howl, O gate; cry, O city; thou, whole Palestina, art
dissolved: for there shall come from the north a smoke, and
none shall be alone in his appointed times.
32 What shall one then answer the messengers of the nation?
That the LORD hath founded Zion, and the poor of his people
shall trust in it. |
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Upon whom will the LORD
have mercy? (1)
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What were the five I
wills of Lucifer? (13-14)
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Into what will the LORD
make Babylon? (22-23)
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Who else will the LORD
break? (25)
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Why shouldn’t Palestina
rejoice? (29-31)
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Chapter 15
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15:1 The burden of Moab. Because in the night
Ar of Moab is laid waste, and brought to silence; because in
the night Kir of Moab is laid waste, and brought to silence;
2 He is gone up to Bajith, and to Dibon, the high places, to
weep: Moab shall howl over Nebo, and over Medeba: on all their
heads shall be baldness, and every beard cut off.
3 In their streets they shall gird themselves with sackcloth:
on the tops of their houses, and in their streets, every one
shall howl, weeping abundantly.
4 And Heshbon shall cry, and Elealeh: their voice shall be
heard even unto Jahaz: therefore the armed soldiers of Moab
shall cry out; his life shall be grievous unto him.
5 My heart shall cry out for Moab; his fugitives shall flee
unto Zoar, an heifer of three years old: for by the mounting
up of Luhith with weeping shall they go it up; for in the way
of Horonaim they shall raise up a cry of destruction.
6 For the waters of Nimrim shall be desolate: for the hay is
withered away, the grass faileth, there is no green thing.
7 Therefore the abundance they have gotten, and that which
they have laid up, shall they carry away to the brook of the
willows.
8 For the cry is gone round about the borders of Moab; the
howling thereof unto Eglaim, and the howling thereof unto
Beer-elim.
9 For the waters of Dimon shall be full of blood: for I will
bring more upon Dimon, lions upon him that escapeth of Moab,
and upon the remnant of the land. |
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On what nation is
judgment prophesied? (1,2,4,5,8,9)
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Chapter 16
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16:1 Send ye the lamb to the ruler of the
land from Sela to the wilderness, unto the mount of the
daughter of Zion.
2 For it shall be, that, as a wandering bird cast out of the
nest, so the daughters of Moab shall be at the fords of Arnon.
3 Take counsel, execute judgment; make thy shadow as the night
in the midst of the noonday; hide the outcasts; bewray not him
that wandereth.
4 Let mine outcasts dwell with thee, Moab; be thou a covert to
them from the face of the spoiler: for the extortioner is at
an end, the spoiler ceaseth, the oppressors are consumed out
of the land.
5 And in mercy shall the throne be established: and he shall
sit upon it in truth in the tabernacle of David, judging, and
seeking judgment, and hasting righteousness.
6 We have heard of the pride of Moab; he is very proud: even
of his haughtiness, and his pride, and his wrath: but his lies
shall not be so.
7 Therefore shall Moab howl for Moab, every one shall howl:
for the foundations of Kir-hareseth shall ye mourn; surely
they are stricken.
8 For the fields of Heshbon languish, and the vine of Sibmah:
the lords of the heathen have broken down the principal plants
thereof, they are come even unto Jazer, they wandered through
the wilderness: her branches are stretched out, they are gone
over the sea.
9 Therefore I will bewail with the weeping of Jazer the vine
of Sibmah: I will water thee with my tears, O Heshbon, and
Elealeh: for the shouting for thy summer fruits and for thy
harvest is fallen.
10 And gladness is taken away, and joy out of the plentiful
field; and in the vineyards there shall be no singing, neither
shall there be shouting: the treaders shall tread out no wine
in their presses; I have made their vintage shouting to cease.
11 Wherefore my bowels shall sound like an harp for Moab, and
mine inward parts for Kir-haresh.
12 And it shall come to pass, when it is seen that Moab is
weary on the high place, that he shall come to his sanctuary
to pray; but he shall not prevail.
13 This is the word that the LORD hath spoken concerning Moab
since that time.
14 But now the LORD hath spoken, saying, Within three years,
as the years of an hireling, and the glory of Moab shall be
contemned, with all that great multitude; and the remnant
shall be very small and feeble. |
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To what are the
daughters of Moab compared? (2)
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What shall be taken
away and cease (10)
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Chapter 17
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17:1 The burden of Damascus. Behold,
Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a
ruinous heap.
2 The cities of Aroer are forsaken: they shall be for flocks,
which shall lie down, and none shall make them afraid.
3 The fortress also shall cease from Ephraim, and the kingdom
from Damascus, and the remnant of Syria: they shall be as the
glory of the children of Israel, saith the LORD of hosts.
4 And in that day it shall come to pass, that the glory of
Jacob shall be made thin, and the fatness of his flesh shall
wax lean.
5 And it shall be as when the harvestman gathereth the corn,
and reapeth the ears with his arm; and it shall be as he that
gathereth ears in the valley of Rephaim.
6 Yet gleaning grapes shall be left in it, as the shaking of
an olive tree, two or three berries in the top of the
uppermost bough, four or five in the outmost fruitful branches
thereof, saith the LORD God of Israel.
7 At that day shall a man look to his Maker, and his eyes
shall have respect to the Holy One of Israel.
8 And he shall not look to the altars, the work of his hands,
neither shall respect that which his fingers have made, either
the groves, or the images.
9 In that day shall his strong cities be as a forsaken bough,
and an uppermost branch, which they left because of the
children of Israel: and there shall be desolation.
10 Because thou hast forgotten the God of thy salvation, and
hast not been mindful of the rock of thy strength, therefore
shalt thou plant pleasant plants, and shalt set it with
strange slips:
11 In the day shalt thou make thy plant to grow, and in the
morning shalt thou make thy seed to flourish: but the harvest
shall be a heap in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow.
12 Woe to the multitude of many people, which make a noise
like the noise of the seas; and to the rushing of nations,
that make a rushing like the rushing of mighty waters!
13 The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but
God shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall
be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and
like a rolling thing before the whirlwind.
14 And behold at eveningtide trouble; and before the morning
he is not. This is the portion of them that spoil us, and the
lot of them that rob us. |
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Who would become a
ruinous heap? (1)
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Who would be made thin?
(4)
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Why would his strong
cities be forsaken? (9-10)
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Chapter 18
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18:1 Woe to the land shadowing with wings,
which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia:
2 That sendeth ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of
bulrushes upon the waters, saying, Go, ye swift messengers, to
a nation scattered and peeled, to a people terrible from their
beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden down, whose
land the rivers have spoiled!
3 All ye inhabitants of the world, and dwellers on the earth,
see ye, when he lifteth up an ensign on the mountains; and
when he bloweth a trumpet, hear ye.
4 For so the LORD said unto me, I will take my rest, and I
will consider in my dwelling place like a clear heat upon
herbs, and like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.
5 For afore the harvest, when the bud is perfect, and the sour
grape is ripening in the flower, he shall both cut off the
sprigs with pruning hooks, and take away and cut down the
branches.
6 They shall be left together unto the fowls of the mountains,
and to the beasts of the earth: and the fowls shall summer
upon them, and all the beasts of the earth shall winter upon
them.
7 In that time shall the present be brought unto the LORD of
hosts of a people scattered and peeled, and from a people
terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and
trodden under foot, whose land the rivers have spoiled, to the
place of the name of the LORD of hosts, the mount Zion. |
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To what land was woe
pronounced in this chapter? (1)
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Chapter 19
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19:1 The burden of Egypt. Behold, the LORD
rideth upon a swift cloud, and shall come into Egypt: and the
idols of Egypt shall be moved at his presence, and the heart
of Egypt shall melt in the midst of it.
2 And I will set the Egyptians against the Egyptians: and they
shall fight every one against his brother, and every one
against his neighbour; city against city, and kingdom against
kingdom.
3 And the spirit of Egypt shall fail in the midst thereof; and
I will destroy the counsel thereof: and they shall seek to the
idols, and to the charmers, and to them that have familiar
spirits, and to the wizards.
4 And the Egyptians will I give over into the hand of a cruel
lord; and a fierce king shall rule over them, saith the Lord,
the LORD of hosts.
5 And the waters shall fail from the sea, and the river shall
be wasted and dried up.
6 And they shall turn the rivers far away; and the brooks of
defence shall be emptied and dried up: the reeds and flags
shall wither.
7 The paper reeds by the brooks, by the mouth of the brooks,
and every thing sown by the brooks, shall wither, be driven
away, and be no more.
8 The fishers also shall mourn, and all they that cast angle
into the brooks shall lament, and they that spread nets upon
the waters shall languish.
9 Moreover they that work in fine flax, and they that weave
networks, shall be confounded.
10 And they shall be broken in the purposes thereof, all that
make sluices and ponds for fish.
11 Surely the princes of Zoan are fools, the counsel of the
wise counsellers of Pharaoh is become brutish: how say ye unto
Pharaoh, I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings?
12 Where are they? where are thy wise men? and let them tell
thee now, and let them know what the LORD of hosts hath
purposed upon Egypt.
13 The princes of Zoan are become fools, the princes of Noph
are deceived; they have also seduced Egypt, even they that are
the stay of the tribes thereof.
14 The LORD hath mingled a perverse spirit in the midst
thereof: and they have caused Egypt to err in every work
thereof, as a drunken man staggereth in his vomit.
15 Neither shall there be any work for Egypt, which the head
or tail, branch or rush, may do.
16 In that day shall Egypt be like unto women: and it shall be
afraid and fear because of the shaking of the hand of the LORD
of hosts, which he shaketh over it.
17 And the land of Judah shall be a terror unto Egypt, every
one that maketh mention thereof shall be afraid in himself,
because of the counsel of the LORD of hosts, which he hath
determined against it.
18 In that day shall five cities in the land of Egypt speak
the language of Canaan, and swear to the LORD of hosts; one
shall be called, The city of destruction.
19 In that day shall there be an altar to the LORD in the
midst of the land of Egypt, and a pillar at the border thereof
to the LORD.
20 And it shall be for a sign and for a witness unto the LORD
of hosts in the land of Egypt: for they shall cry unto the
LORD because of the oppressors, and he shall send them a
saviour, and a great one, and he shall deliver them.
21 And the LORD shall be known to Egypt, and the Egyptians
shall know the LORD in that day, and shall do sacrifice and
oblation; yea, they shall vow a vow unto the LORD, and perform
it.
22 And the LORD shall smite Egypt: he shall smite and heal it:
and they shall return even to the LORD, and he shall be
intreated of them, and shall heal them.
23 In that day shall there be a highway out of Egypt to
Assyria, and the Assyrian shall come into Egypt, and the
Egyptian into Assyria, and the Egyptians shall serve with the
Assyrians.
24 In that day shall Israel be the third with Egypt and with
Assyria, even a blessing in the midst of the land:
25 Whom the LORD of hosts shall bless, saying, Blessed be
Egypt my people, and Assyria the work of my hands, and Israel
mine inheritance. |
1.
Upon what nation is judgment prophesied in this chapter? (1)
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Chapter 20
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20:1 In the year that Tartan came unto Ashdod,
(when Sargon the king of Assyria sent him,) and fought against
Ashdod, and took it;
2 At the same time spake the LORD by Isaiah the son of Amoz,
saying, Go and loose the sackcloth from off thy loins, and put
off thy shoe from thy foot. And he did so, walking naked and
barefoot.
3 And the LORD said, Like as my servant Isaiah hath walked
naked and barefoot three years for a sign and wonder upon
Egypt and upon Ethiopia;
4 So shall the king of Assyria lead away the Egyptians
prisoners, and the Ethiopians captives, young and old, naked
and barefoot, even with their buttocks uncovered, to the shame
of Egypt.
5 And they shall be afraid and ashamed of Ethiopia their
expectation, and of Egypt their glory.
6 And the inhabitant of this isle shall say in that day,
Behold, such is our expectation, whither we flee for help to
be delivered from the king of Assyria: and how shall we
escape? |
1.
What did the LORD cause Isaiah to do as a sign to Egypt and Ethiopia?
(2-4)
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Chapter 21
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21:1 The burden of the desert of the sea. As
whirlwinds in the south pass through; so it cometh from the
desert, from a terrible land.
2 A grievous vision is declared unto me; the treacherous
dealer dealeth treacherously, and the spoiler spoileth. Go up,
O Elam: besiege, O Media; all the sighing thereof have I made
to cease.
3 Therefore are my loins filled with pain: pangs have taken
hold upon me, as the pangs of a woman that travaileth: I was
bowed down at the hearing of it; I was dismayed at the seeing
of it.
4 My heart panted, fearfulness affrighted me: the night of my
pleasure hath he turned into fear unto me.
5 Prepare the table, watch in the watchtower, eat, drink:
arise, ye princes, and anoint the shield.
6 For thus hath the Lord said unto me, Go, set a watchman, let
him declare what he seeth.
7 And he saw a chariot with a couple of horsemen, a chariot of
asses, and a chariot of camels; and he hearkened diligently
with much heed:
8 And he cried, A lion: My lord, I stand continually upon the
watchtower in the daytime, and I am set in my ward whole
nights:
9 And, behold, here cometh a chariot of men, with a couple of
horsemen. And he answered and said, Babylon is fallen, is
fallen; and all the graven images of her gods he hath broken
unto the ground.
10 O my threshing, and the corn of my floor: that which I have
heard of the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, have I declared
unto you.
11 The burden of Dumah. He calleth to me out of Seir,
Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night?
12 The watchman said, The morning cometh, and also the night:
if ye will inquire, inquire ye: return, come.
13 The burden upon Arabia. In the forest in Arabia shall ye
lodge, O ye travelling companies of Dedanim.
14 The inhabitants of the land of Tema brought water to him
that was thirsty, they prevented with their bread him that
fled.
15 For they fled from the swords, from the drawn sword, and
from the bent bow, and from the grievousness of war.
16 For thus hath the Lord said unto me, Within a year,
according to the years of an hireling, and all the glory of
Kedar shall fail:
17 And the residue of the number of archers, the mighty men of
the children of Kedar, shall be diminished: for the LORD God
of Israel hath spoken it. |
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Who was said to have
fallen? (9)
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Chapter 22
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22:1 The burden of the valley of vision. What
aileth thee now, that thou art wholly gone up to the
housetops?
2 Thou that art full of stirs, a tumultuous city, a joyous
city: thy slain men are not slain with the sword, nor dead in
battle.
3 All thy rulers are fled together, they are bound by the
archers: all that are found in thee are bound together, which
have fled from far.
4 Therefore said I, Look away from me; I will weep bitterly,
labour not to comfort me, because of the spoiling of the
daughter of my people.
5 For it is a day of trouble, and of treading down, and of
perplexity by the Lord GOD of hosts in the valley of vision,
breaking down the walls, and of crying to the mountains.
6 And Elam bare the quiver with chariots of men and horsemen,
and Kir uncovered the shield.
7 And it shall come to pass, that thy choicest valleys shall
be full of chariots, and the horsemen shall set themselves in
array at the gate.
8 And he discovered the covering of Judah, and thou didst look
in that day to the armour of the house of the forest.
9 Ye have seen also the breaches of the city of David, that
they are many: and ye gathered together the waters of the
lower pool.
10 And ye have numbered the houses of Jerusalem, and the
houses have ye broken down to fortify the wall.
11 Ye made also a ditch between the two walls for the water of
the old pool: but ye have not looked unto the maker thereof,
neither had respect unto him that fashioned it long ago.
12 And in that day did the Lord GOD of hosts call to weeping,
and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with
sackcloth:
13 And behold joy and gladness, slaying oxen, and killing
sheep, eating flesh, and drinking wine: let us eat and drink;
for to morrow we shall die.
14 And it was revealed in mine ears by the LORD of hosts,
Surely this iniquity shall not be purged from you till ye die,
saith the Lord GOD of hosts.
15 Thus saith the Lord GOD of hosts, Go, get thee unto this
treasurer, even unto Shebna, which is over the house, and say,
16 What hast thou here? and whom hast thou here, that thou
hast hewed thee out a sepulchre here, as he that heweth him
out a sepulchre on high, and that graveth an habitation for
himself in a rock?
17 Behold, the LORD will carry thee away with a mighty
captivity, and will surely cover thee.
18 He will surely violently turn and toss thee like a ball
into a large country: there shalt thou die, and there the
chariots of thy glory shall be the shame of thy lord's house.
19 And I will drive thee from thy station, and from thy state
shall he pull thee down.
20 And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will call my
servant Eliakim the son of Hilkiah:
21 And I will clothe him with thy robe, and strengthen him
with thy girdle, and I will commit thy government into his
hand: and he shall be a father to the inhabitants of
Jerusalem, and to the house of Judah.
22 And the key of the house of David will I lay upon his
shoulder; so he shall open, and none shall shut; and he shall
shut, and none shall open.
23 And I will fasten him as a nail in a sure place; and he
shall be for a glorious throne to his father's house.
24 And they shall hang upon him all the glory of his father's
house, the offspring and the issue, all vessels of small
quantity, from the vessels of cups, even to all the vessels of
flagons.
25 In that day, saith the LORD of hosts, shall the nail that
is fastened in the sure place be removed, and be cut down, and
fall; and the burden that was upon it shall be cut off: for
the LORD hath spoken it. |
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How would Judah be
carried away? (17)
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Who would be fastened
as a nail in a sure place? (20-23)
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What will happen to the
nail? (25)
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