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Chapter 45
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45:1 Thus saith the LORD to his anointed, to
Cyrus, whose right hand I have holden, to subdue nations
before him; and I will loose the loins of kings, to open
before him the two leaved gates; and the gates shall not be
shut;
2 I will go before thee, and make the crooked places straight:
I will break in pieces the gates of brass, and cut in sunder
the bars of iron:
3 And I will give thee the treasures of darkness, and hidden
riches of secret places, that thou mayest know that I, the
LORD, which call thee by thy name, am the God of Israel.
4 For Jacob my servant's sake, and Israel mine elect, I have
even called thee by thy name: I have surnamed thee, though
thou hast not known me.
5 I am the LORD, and there is none else, there is no God
beside me: I girded thee, though thou hast not known me:
6 That they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the
west, that there is none beside me. I am the LORD, and there
is none else.
7 I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and
create evil: I the LORD do all these things.
8 Drop down, ye heavens, from above, and let the skies pour
down righteousness: let the earth open, and let them bring
forth salvation, and let righteousness spring up together; I
the LORD have created it.
9 Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker! Let the potsherd
strive with the potsherds of the earth. Shall the clay say to
him that fashioneth it, What makest thou? or thy work, He hath
no hands?
10 Woe unto him that saith unto his father, What begettest
thou? or to the woman, What hast thou brought forth?
11 Thus saith 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 command ye me.
12 I have made the earth, and created man upon it: I, even my
hands, have stretched out the heavens, and all their host have
I commanded.
13 I have raised him up in righteousness, and I will direct
all his ways: he shall build my city, and he shall let go my
captives, not for price nor reward, saith the LORD of hosts.
14 Thus saith the LORD, The labour of Egypt, and merchandise
of Ethiopia and of the Sabeans, men of stature, shall come
over unto thee, and they shall be thine: they shall come after
thee; in chains they shall come over, and they shall fall down
unto thee, they shall make supplication unto thee, saying,
Surely God is in thee; and there is none else, there is no
God.
15 Verily thou art a God that hidest thyself, O God of Israel,
the Saviour.
16 They shall be ashamed, and also confounded, all of them:
they shall go to confusion together that are makers of idols.
17 But Israel shall be saved in the LORD with an everlasting
salvation: ye shall not be ashamed nor confounded world
without end.
18 For thus saith the LORD that created the heavens; God
himself that formed the earth and made it; he hath established
it, he created it not in vain, he formed it to be inhabited: I
am the LORD; and there is none else.
19 I have not spoken in secret, in a dark place of the earth:
I said not unto the seed of Jacob, Seek ye me in vain: I the
LORD speak righteousness, I declare things that are right.
20 Assemble yourselves and come; draw near together, ye that
are escaped of the nations: they have no knowledge that set up
the wood of their graven image, and pray unto a god that
cannot save.
21 Tell ye, and bring them near; yea, let them take counsel
together: who hath declared this from ancient time? who hath
told it from that time? have not I the LORD? and there is no
God else beside me; a just God and a Saviour; there is none
beside me.
22 Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth:
for I am God, and there is none else.
23 I have sworn by myself, the word is gone out of my mouth in
righteousness, and shall not return, That unto me every knee
shall bow, every tongue shall swear.
24 Surely, shall one say, in the LORD have I righteousness and
strength: even to him shall men come; and all that are
incensed against him shall be ashamed.
25 In the LORD shall all the seed of Israel be justified, and
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What phrases show there is but one LORD? (5-6,11,18,21)
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To what is one compared who strives with his Maker? (9)
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Why did the LORD form the earth? (18)
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What will every knee do? (23)
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Chapter 46
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46:1 Bel boweth down, Nebo stoopeth, their
idols were upon the beasts, and upon the cattle: your
carriages were heavy loaden; they are a burden to the weary
beast.
2 They stoop, they bow down together; they could not deliver
the burden, but themselves are gone into captivity.
3 Hearken unto me, O house of Jacob, and all the remnant of
the house of Israel, which are borne by me from the belly,
which are carried from the womb:
4 And even to your old age I am he; and even to hoar hairs
will I carry you: I have made, and I will bear; even I will
carry, and will deliver you.
5 To whom will ye liken me, and make me equal, and compare me,
that we may be like?
6 They lavish gold out of the bag, and weigh silver in the
balance, and hire a goldsmith; and he maketh it a god: they
fall down, yea, they worship.
7 They bear him upon the shoulder, they carry him, and set him
in his place, and he standeth; from his place shall he not
remove: yea, one shall cry unto him, yet can he not answer,
nor save him out of his trouble.
8 Remember this, and shew yourselves men: bring it again to
mind, O ye transgressors.
9 Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there
is none else; I am God, and there is none like me,
10 Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient
times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel
shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure:
11 Calling a ravenous bird from the east, the man that
executeth my counsel from a far country: yea, I have spoken
it, I will also bring it to pass; I have purposed it, I will
also do it.
12 Hearken unto me, ye stouthearted, that are far from
righteousness:
13 I bring near my righteousness; it shall not be far off, and
my salvation shall not tarry: and I will place salvation in
Zion for Israel my glory. |
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What is one weakness of
gods made with man’s hands? (6-7)
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What is one aspect of
God that is different from gods made by man? (9-10)
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Chapter 47
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47:1 Come down, and sit in the dust, O
virgin daughter of Babylon, sit on the ground: there is no
throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans: for thou shalt no more be
called tender and delicate.
2 Take the millstones, and grind meal: uncover thy locks, make
bare the leg, uncover the thigh, pass over the rivers.
3 Thy nakedness shall be uncovered, yea, thy shame shall be
seen: I will take vengeance, and I will not meet thee as a
man.
4 As for our redeemer, the LORD of hosts is his name, the Holy
One of Israel.
5 Sit thou silent, and get thee into darkness, O daughter of
the Chaldeans: for thou shalt no more be called, The lady of
kingdoms.
6 I was wroth with my people, I have polluted mine
inheritance, and given them into thine hand: thou didst shew
them no mercy; upon the ancient hast thou very heavily laid
thy yoke.
7 And thou saidst, I shall be a lady for ever: so that thou
didst not lay these things to thy heart, neither didst
remember the latter end of it.
8 Therefore hear now this, thou that art given to pleasures,
that dwellest carelessly, that sayest in thine heart, I am,
and none else beside me; I shall not sit as a widow, neither
shall I know the loss of children:
9 But these two things shall come to thee in a moment in one
day, the loss of children, and widowhood: they shall come upon
thee in their perfection for the multitude of thy sorceries,
and for the great abundance of thine enchantments.
10 For thou hast trusted in thy wickedness: thou hast said,
None seeth me. Thy wisdom and thy knowledge, it hath perverted
thee; and thou hast said in thine heart, I am, and none else
beside me.
11 Therefore shall evil come upon thee; thou shalt not know
from whence it riseth: and mischief shall fall upon thee; thou
shalt not be able to put it off: and desolation shall come
upon thee suddenly, which thou shalt not know.
12 Stand now with thine enchantments, and with the multitude
of thy sorceries, wherein thou hast laboured from thy youth;
if so be thou shalt be able to profit, if so be thou mayest
prevail.
13 Thou art wearied in the multitude of thy counsels. Let now
the astrologers, the stargazers, the monthly prognosticators,
stand up, and save thee from these things that shall come upon
thee.
14 Behold, they shall be as stubble; the fire shall burn them;
they shall not deliver themselves from the power of the flame:
there shall not be a coal to warm at, nor fire to sit before
it.
15 Thus shall they be unto thee with whom thou hast laboured,
even thy merchants, from thy youth: they shall wander every
one to his quarter; none shall save thee. |
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How did Babylon treat
God’s people? (6)
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Who will not be able to
save Babylon from the judgment that would come? (13-14)
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Chapter 48
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48:1 Hear ye this, O house of Jacob, which are
called by the name of Israel, and are come forth out of the
waters of Judah, which swear by the name of the LORD, and make
mention of the God of Israel, but not in truth, nor in
righteousness.
2 For they call themselves of the holy city, and stay
themselves upon the God of Israel; The LORD of hosts is his
name.
3 I have declared the former things from the beginning; and
they went forth out of my mouth, and I shewed them; I did them
suddenly, and they came to pass.
4 Because I knew that thou art obstinate, and thy neck is an
iron sinew, and thy brow brass;
5 I have even from the beginning declared it to thee; before
it came to pass I shewed it thee: lest thou shouldest say,
Mine idol hath done them, and my graven image, and my molten
image, hath commanded them.
6 Thou hast heard, see all this; and will not ye declare it? I
have shewed thee new things from this time, even hidden
things, and thou didst not know them.
7 They are created now, and not from the beginning; even
before the day when thou heardest them not; lest thou
shouldest say, Behold, I knew them.
8 Yea, thou heardest not; yea, thou knewest not; yea, from
that time that thine ear was not opened: for I knew that thou
wouldest deal very treacherously, and wast called a
transgressor from the womb.
9 For my name's sake will I defer mine anger, and for my
praise will I refrain for thee, that I cut thee not off.
10 Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have
chosen thee in the furnace of affliction.
11 For mine own sake, even for mine own sake, will I do it:
for how should my name be polluted? and I will not give my
glory unto another.
12 Hearken unto me, O Jacob and Israel, my called; I am he; I
am the first, I also am the last.
13 Mine hand also hath laid the foundation of the earth, and
my right hand hath spanned the heavens: when I call unto them,
they stand up together.
14 All ye, assemble yourselves, and hear; which among them
hath declared these things? The LORD hath loved him: he will
do his pleasure on Babylon, and his arm shall be on the
Chaldeans.
15 I, even I, have spoken; yea, I have called him: I have
brought him, and he shall make his way prosperous.
16 Come ye near unto me, hear ye this; I have not spoken in
secret from the beginning; from the time that it was, there am
I: and now the Lord GOD, and his Spirit, hath sent me.
17 Thus saith the LORD, thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel;
I am the LORD thy God which teacheth thee to profit, which
leadeth thee by the way that thou shouldest go.
18 O that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments! then had
thy peace been as a river, and thy righteousness as the waves
of the sea:
19 Thy seed also had been as the sand, and the offspring of
thy bowels like the gravel thereof; his name should not have
been cut off nor destroyed from before me.
20 Go ye forth of Babylon, flee ye from the Chaldeans, with a
voice of singing declare ye, tell this, utter it even to the
end of the earth; say ye, The LORD hath redeemed his servant
Jacob.
21 And they thirsted not when he led them through the deserts:
he caused the waters to flow out of the rock for them: he
clave the rock also, and the waters gushed out.
22 There is no peace, saith the LORD, unto the wicked. |
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How did Israel swear by the name of the LORD and make mention of God? (1)
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How did God describe Israel? (4)
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To whom is there no peace? (22)
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Chapter 49
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49:1 Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye
people, from far; The LORD hath called me from the womb; from
the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name.
2 And he hath made my mouth like a sharp sword; in the shadow
of his hand hath he hid me, and made me a polished shaft; in
his quiver hath he hid me;
3 And said unto me, Thou art my servant, O Israel, in whom I
will be glorified.
4 Then I said, I have laboured in vain, I have spent my
strength for nought, and in vain: yet surely my judgment is
with the LORD, and my work with my God.
5 And now, saith the LORD that formed me from the womb to be
his servant, to bring Jacob again to him, Though Israel be not
gathered, yet shall I be glorious in the eyes of the LORD, and
my God shall be my strength.
6 And he said, It is a light thing that thou shouldest be my
servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the
preserved of Israel: I will also give thee for a light to the
Gentiles, that thou mayest be my salvation unto the end of the
earth.
7 Thus saith the LORD, the Redeemer of Israel, and his Holy
One, to him whom man despiseth, to him whom the nation
abhorreth, to a servant of rulers, Kings shall see and arise,
princes also shall worship, because of the LORD that is
faithful, and the Holy One of Israel, and he shall choose
thee.
8 Thus saith the LORD, In an acceptable time have I heard
thee, and in a day of salvation have I helped thee: and I will
preserve thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, to
establish the earth, to cause to inherit the desolate
heritages;
9 That thou mayest say to the prisoners, Go forth; to them
that are in darkness, Shew yourselves. They shall feed in the
ways, and their pastures shall be in all high places.
10 They shall not hunger nor thirst; neither shall the heat
nor sun smite them: for he that hath mercy on them shall lead
them, even by the springs of water shall he guide them.
11 And I will make all my mountains a way, and my highways
shall be exalted.
12 Behold, these shall come from far: and, lo, these from the
north and from the west; and these from the land of Sinim.
13 Sing, O heavens; and be joyful, O earth; and break forth
into singing, O mountains: for the LORD hath comforted his
people, and will have mercy upon his afflicted.
14 But Zion said, The LORD hath forsaken me, and my Lord hath
forgotten me.
15 Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not
have compassion on the son of her womb? yea, they may forget,
yet will I not forget thee.
16 Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands; thy
walls are continually before me.
17 Thy children shall make haste; thy destroyers and they that
made thee waste shall go forth of thee.
18 Lift up thine eyes round about, and behold: all these
gather themselves together, and come to thee. As I live, saith
the LORD, thou shalt surely clothe thee with them all, as with
an ornament, and bind them on thee, as a bride doeth.
19 For thy waste and thy desolate places, and the land of thy
destruction, shall even now be too narrow by reason of the
inhabitants, and they that swallowed thee up shall be far
away.
20 The children which thou shalt have, after thou hast lost
the other, shall say again in thine ears, The place is too
strait for me: give place to me that I may dwell.
21 Then shalt thou say in thine heart, Who hath begotten me
these, seeing I have lost my children, and am desolate, a
captive, and removing to and fro? and who hath brought up
these? Behold, I was left alone; these, where had they been?
22 Thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I will lift up mine hand
to the Gentiles, and set up my standard to the people: and
they shall bring thy sons in their arms, and thy daughters
shall be carried upon their shoulders.
23 And kings shall be thy nursing fathers, and their queens
thy nursing mothers: they shall bow down to thee with their
face toward the earth, and lick up the dust of thy feet; and
thou shalt know that I am the LORD: for they shall not be
ashamed that wait for me.
24 Shall the prey be taken from the mighty, or the lawful
captive delivered?
25 But thus saith the LORD, Even the captives of the mighty
shall be taken away, and the prey of the terrible shall be
delivered: for I will contend with him that contendeth with
thee, and I will save thy children.
26 And I will feed them that oppress thee with their own
flesh; and they shall be drunken with their own blood, as with
sweet wine: and all flesh shall know that I the LORD am thy
Saviour and thy Redeemer, the mighty One of Jacob. |
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What does the LORD say
about forgetting us? (15)
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With whom will the LORD
contend? (25)
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Chapter 50
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50:1 Thus saith the LORD, Where is the bill of
your mother's divorcement, whom I have put away? or which of
my creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your
iniquities have ye sold yourselves, and for your
transgressions is your mother put away.
2 Wherfore, when I came, was there no man? when I called, was
there none 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 wilderness: their
fish stinketh, because there is no water, and dieth for
thirst.
3 I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth
their covering.
4 The Lord GOD hath given me the tongue of the learned, that I
should know how to speak a word in season to him that is
weary: he wakeneth morning by morning, he wakeneth mine ear to
hear as the learned.
5 The Lord GOD hath opened mine ear, and I was not rebellious,
neither turned away back.
6 I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that
plucked off the hair: I hid not my face from shame and
spitting.
7 For the Lord GOD will help me; therefore shall I not be
confounded: therefore have I set my face like a flint, and I
know that I shall not be ashamed.
8 He is near that justifieth me; who will contend with me? let
us stand together: who is mine adversary? let him come near to
me.
9 Behold, the Lord GOD will help me; who is he that shall
condemn me? lo, they all shall wax old as a garment; the moth
shall eat them up.
10 Who is among you that feareth the LORD, that obeyeth the
voice of his servant, that walketh in darkness, and hath no
light? let him trust in the name of the LORD, and stay upon
his God.
11 Behold, all ye that kindle a fire, that compass yourselves
about with sparks: walk in the light of your fire, and in the
sparks that ye have kindled. This shall ye have of mine hand;
ye shall lie down in sorrow. |
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What questions did the
LORD ask? (2)
Answers to Isaiah Study
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Chapter 51
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51:1 Hearken to me, ye that follow after
righteousness, ye that seek the LORD: look unto the rock
whence ye are hewn, and to the hole of the pit whence ye are
digged.
2 Look unto Abraham your father, and unto Sarah that bare you:
for I called him alone, and blessed him, and increased him.
3 For the LORD shall comfort Zion: he will comfort all her
waste places; and he will make her wilderness like Eden, and
her desert like the garden of the LORD; joy and gladness shall
be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.
4 Hearken unto me, my people; and give ear unto me, O my
nation: for a law shall proceed from me, and I will make my
judgment to rest for a light of the people.
5 My righteousness is near; my salvation is gone forth, and
mine arms shall judge the people; the isles shall wait upon
me, and on mine arm shall they trust.
6 Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look upon the earth
beneath: for the heavens shall vanish away like smoke, and the
earth shall wax old like a garment, and they that dwell
therein shall die in like manner: but my salvation shall be
for ever, and my righteousness shall not be abolished.
7 Hearken unto me, ye that know righteousness, the people in
whose heart is my law; fear ye not the reproach of men,
neither be ye afraid of their revilings.
8 For the moth shall eat them up like a garment, and the worm
shall eat them like wool: but my righteousness shall be for
ever, and my salvation from generation to generation.
9 Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the LORD; awake, as
in the ancient days, in the generations of old. Art thou not
it that hath cut Rahab, and wounded the dragon?
10 Art thou not it which hath dried the sea, the waters of the
great deep; that hath made the depths of the sea a way for the
ransomed to pass over?
11 Therefore the redeemed of the LORD shall return, and come
with singing unto Zion; and everlasting joy shall be upon
their head: they shall obtain gladness and joy; and sorrow and
mourning shall flee away.
12 I, even I, am he that comforteth you: who art thou, that
thou shouldest be afraid of a man that shall die, and of the
son of man which shall be made as grass;
13 And forgettest the LORD thy maker, that hath stretched
forth the heavens, and laid the foundations of the earth; and
hast feared continually every day because of the fury of the
oppressor, as if he were ready to destroy? and where is the
fury of the oppressor?
14 The captive exile hasteneth that he may be loosed, and that
he should not die in the pit, nor that his bread should fail.
15 But I am the LORD thy God, that divided the sea, whose
waves roared: The LORD of hosts is his name.
16 And I have put my words in thy mouth, and I have covered
thee in the shadow of mine hand, that I may plant the heavens,
and lay the foundations of the earth, and say unto Zion, Thou
art my people.
17 Awake, awake, stand up, O Jerusalem, which hast drunk at
the hand of the LORD the cup of his fury; thou hast drunken
the dregs of the cup of trembling, and wrung them out.
18 There is none to guide her among all the sons whom she hath
brought forth; neither is there any that taketh her by the
hand of all the sons that she hath brought up.
19 These two things are come unto thee; who shall be sorry for
thee? desolation, and destruction, and the famine, and the
sword: by whom shall I comfort thee?
20 Thy sons have fainted, they lie at the head of all the
streets, as a wild bull in a net: they are full of the fury of
the LORD, the rebuke of thy God.
21 Therefore hear now this, thou afflicted, and drunken, but
not with wine:
22 Thus saith thy Lord the LORD, and thy God that pleadeth the
cause of his people, Behold, I have taken out of thine hand
the cup of trembling, even the dregs of the cup of my fury;
thou shalt no more drink it again:
23 But I will put it into the hand of them that afflict thee;
which have said to thy soul, Bow down, that we may go over:
and thou hast laid thy body as the ground, and as the street,
to them that went over. |
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What will the LORD do
for Zion? (3)
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What will the redeemed
of the LORD do? (11)
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Chapter 52
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52:1 Awake, awake; put on thy strength, O Zion;
put on thy beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city: for
henceforth there shall no more come into thee the
uncircumcised and the unclean.
2 Shake thyself from the dust; arise, and sit down, O
Jerusalem: loose thyself from the bands of thy neck, O captive
daughter of Zion.
3 For thus saith the LORD, Ye have sold yourselves for nought;
and ye shall be redeemed without money.
4 For thus saith the Lord GOD, My people went down aforetime
into Egypt to sojourn there; and the Assyrian oppressed them
without cause.
5 Now therefore, what have I here, saith the LORD, that my
people is taken away for nought? they that rule over them make
them to howl, saith the LORD; and my name continually every
day is blasphemed.
6 Therefore my people shall know my name: therefore they shall
know in that day that I am he that doth speak: behold, it is
I.
7 How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that
bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace; that bringeth
good tidings of good, that publisheth salvation; that saith
unto Zion, Thy God reigneth!
8 Thy watchmen shall lift up the voice; with the voice
together shall they sing: for they shall see eye to eye, when
the LORD shall bring again Zion.
9 Break forth into joy, sing together, ye waste places of
Jerusalem: for the LORD hath comforted his people, he hath
redeemed Jerusalem.
10 The LORD hath made bare his holy arm in the eyes of all the
nations; and all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation
of our God.
11 Depart ye, depart ye, go ye out from thence, touch no
unclean thing; go ye out of the midst of her; be ye clean,
that bear the vessels of the LORD.
12 For ye shall not go out with haste, nor go by flight: for
the LORD will go before you; and the God of Israel will be
your rereward.
13 Behold, my servant shall deal prudently, he shall be
exalted and extolled, and be very high.
14 As many were astonied at thee; his visage was so marred
more than any man, and his form more than the sons of men:
15 So shall he sprinkle many nations; the kings shall shut
their mouths at him: for that which had not been told them
shall they see; and that which they had not heard shall they
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What is beautiful? (7, Romans 10:15)
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What would happen to God’s servant? (13-14)
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Chapter 53
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53:1 Who hath believed our report? and to whom
is the arm of the LORD revealed?
2 For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a
root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and
when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should
desire him.
3 He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and
acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from
him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
4 Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows:
yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.
5 But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised
for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon
him; and with his stripes we are healed.
6 All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one
to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of
us all.
7 He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not
his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a
sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his
mouth.
8 He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall
declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of
the living: for the transgression of my people was he
stricken.
9 And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in
his death; because he had done no violence, neither was any
deceit in his mouth.
10 Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put him to
grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he
shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the
pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand.
11 He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be
satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify
many; for he shall bear their iniquities.
12 Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and
he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he hath
poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered with the
transgressors; and he bare the sin of many, and made
intercession for the transgressors. |
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About whose sufferings
is this chapter prophesying?
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What did he carry? (4)
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For what was he
wounded? (5,8)
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For what purpose were
his stripes? (5, I Peter 2:24)
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To what are we likened?
(6)
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What did he not open?
(7, Acts 8:32)
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Who was he numbered
with when he died? (12, Mark 15:28)
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What did he do for the
transgressors? (12)
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Chapter 54
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54:1 Sing, O barren, thou that didst not bear;
break forth into singing, and cry aloud, thou that didst not
travail with child: for more are the children of the desolate
than the children of the married wife, saith the LORD.
2 Enlarge the place of thy tent, and let them stretch forth
the curtains of thine habitations: spare not, lengthen thy
cords, and strengthen thy stakes;
3 For thou shalt break forth on the right hand and on the
left; and thy seed shall inherit the Gentiles, and make the
desolate cities to be inhabited.
4 Fear not; for thou shalt not be ashamed: neither be thou
confounded; for thou shalt not be put to shame: for thou shalt
forget the shame of thy youth, and shalt not remember the
reproach of thy widowhood any more.
5 For thy Maker is thine husband; the LORD of hosts is his
name; and thy Redeemer the Holy One of Israel; The God of the
whole earth shall he be called.
6 For the LORD hath called thee as a woman forsaken and
grieved in spirit, and a wife of youth, when thou wast
refused, saith thy God.
7 For a small moment have I forsaken thee; but with great
mercies will I gather thee.
8 In a little wrath I hid my face from thee for a moment; but
with everlasting kindness will I have mercy on thee, saith the
LORD thy Redeemer.
9 For this is as the waters of Noah unto me: for as I have
sworn that the waters of Noah should no more go over the
earth; so have I sworn that I would not be wroth with thee,
nor rebuke thee.
10 For the mountains shall depart, and the hills be removed;
but my kindness shall not depart from thee, neither shall the
covenant of my peace be removed, saith the LORD that hath
mercy on thee.
11 O thou afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not comforted,
behold, I will lay thy stones with fair colours, and lay thy
foundations with sapphires.
12 And I will make thy windows of agates, and thy gates of
carbuncles, and all thy borders of pleasant stones.
13 And all thy children shall be taught of the LORD; and great
shall be the peace of thy children.
14 In righteousness shalt thou be established: thou shalt be
far from oppression; for thou shalt not fear: and from terror;
for it shall not come near thee.
15 Behold, they shall surely gather together, but not by me:
whosoever shall gather together against thee shall fall for
thy sake.
16 Behold, I have created the smith that bloweth the coals in
the fire, and that bringeth forth an instrument for his work;
and I have created the waster to destroy.
17 No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and
every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou
shalt condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the
LORD, and their righteousness is of me, saith the LORD. |
1.
What would
not depart from the Israelites? (8,10)
2.
What would
not prosper against them? (17)
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Chapter 55
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55:1 Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to
the waters, and he that hath no money; come ye, buy, and eat;
yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.
2 Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread? and
your labour for that which satisfieth not? hearken diligently
unto me, and eat ye that which is good, and let your soul
delight itself in fatness.
3 Incline your ear, and come unto me: hear, and your soul
shall live; and I will make an everlasting covenant with you,
even the sure mercies of David.
4 Behold, I have given him for a witness to the people, a
leader and commander to the people.
5 Behold, thou shalt call a nation that thou knowest not, and
nations that knew not thee shall run unto thee because of the
LORD thy God, and for the Holy One of Israel; for he hath
glorified thee.
6 Seek ye the LORD while he may be found, call ye upon him
while he is near:
7 Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his
thoughts: and let him return unto the LORD, and he will have
mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
8 For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways
my ways, saith the LORD.
9 For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways
higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.
10 For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and
returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it
bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and
bread to the eater:
11 So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it
shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that
which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I
sent it.
12 For ye shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace:
the mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into
singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their
hands.
13 Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir tree, and
instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle tree: and it
shall be to the LORD for a name, for an everlasting sign that
shall not be cut off. |
1.
Who can
come and buy? (1)
2.
When should
we seek the LORD? (6)
3.
Who should
return to the LORD? (7)
4.
How do our
thoughts compare to God’s thoughts? (8-9)
5.
What will
not return void? (10-11)
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Chapter 56 To
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56:1 Thus saith the LORD, Keep ye judgment, and
do justice: for my salvation is near to come, and my
righteousness to be revealed.
2 Blessed is the man that doeth this, and the son of man that
layeth hold on it; that keepeth the sabbath from polluting it,
and keepeth his hand from doing any evil.
3 Neither let the son of the stranger, that hath joined
himself to the LORD, speak, saying, The LORD hath utterly
separated me from his people: neither let the eunuch say,
Behold, I am a dry tree.
4 For thus saith the LORD unto the eunuchs that keep my
sabbaths, and choose the things that please me, and take hold
of my covenant;
5 Even unto them will I give in mine house and within my walls
a place and a name better than of sons and of daughters: I
will give them an everlasting name, that shall not be cut off.
6 Also the sons of the stranger, that join themselves to the
LORD, to serve him, and to love the name of the LORD, to be
his servants, every one that keepeth the sabbath from
polluting it, and taketh hold of my covenant;
7 Even them will I bring to my holy mountain, and make them
joyful in my house of prayer: their burnt offerings and their
sacrifices shall be accepted upon mine altar; for mine house
shall be called an house of prayer for all people.
8 The Lord GOD which gathereth the outcasts of Israel saith,
Yet will I gather others to him, beside those that are
gathered unto him.
9 All ye beasts of the field, come to devour, yea, all ye
beasts in the forest.
10 His watchmen are blind: they are all ignorant, they are all
dumb dogs, they cannot bark; sleeping, lying down, loving to
slumber.
11 Yea, they are greedy dogs which can never have enough, and
they are shepherds that cannot understand: they all look to
their own way, every one for his gain, from his quarter.
12 Come ye, say they, I will fetch wine, and we will fill
ourselves with strong drink; and to morrow shall be as this
day, and much more abundant. |
1. Who does
the LORD gather? (8)
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Chapter 57 To
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57:1 The righteous perisheth, and no man layeth
it to heart: and merciful men are taken away, none considering
that the righteous is taken away from the evil to come.
2 He shall enter into peace: they shall rest in their beds,
each one walking in his uprightness.
3 But draw near hither, ye sons of the sorceress, the seed of
the adulterer and the whore.
4 Against whom do ye sport yourselves? against whom make ye a
wide mouth, and draw out the tongue? are ye not children of
transgression, a seed of falsehood,
5 Enflaming yourselves with idols under every green tree,
slaying the children in the valleys under the clifts of the
rocks?
6 Among the smooth stones of the stream is thy portion; they,
they are thy lot: even to them hast thou poured a drink
offering, thou hast offered a meat offering. Should I receive
comfort in these?
7 Upon a lofty and high mountain hast thou set thy bed: even
thither wentest thou up to offer sacrifice.
8 Behind the doors also and the posts hast thou set up thy
remembrance: for thou hast discovered thyself to another than
me, and art gone up; thou hast enlarged thy bed, and made thee
a covenant with them; thou lovedst their bed where thou sawest
it.
9 And thou wentest to the king with ointment, and didst
increase thy perfumes, and didst send thy messengers far off,
and didst debase thyself even unto hell.
10 Thou art wearied in the greatness of thy way; yet saidst
thou not, There is no hope: thou hast found the life of thine
hand; therefore thou wast not grieved.
11 And of whom hast thou been afraid or feared, that thou hast
lied, and hast not remembered me, nor laid it to thy heart?
have not I held my peace even of old, and thou fearest me not?
12 I will declare thy righteousness, and thy works; for they
shall not profit thee.
13 When thou criest, let thy companies deliver thee; but the
wind shall carry them all away; vanity shall take them: but he
that putteth his trust in me shall possess the land, and shall
inherit my holy mountain;
14 And shall say, Cast ye up, cast ye up, prepare the way,
take up the stumblingblock out of the way of my people.
15 For thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth
eternity, whose name is Holy; I dwell in the high and holy
place, with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit,
to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of
the contrite ones.
16 For I will not contend for ever, neither will I be always
wroth: for the spirit should fail before me, and the souls
which I have made.
17 For the iniquity of his covetousness was I wroth, and smote
him: I hid me, and was wroth, and he went on frowardly in the
way of his heart.
18 I have seen his ways, and will heal him: I will lead him
also, and restore comforts unto him and to his mourners.
19 I create the fruit of the lips; Peace, peace to him that is
far off, and to him that is near, saith the LORD; and I will
heal him.
20 But the wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot
rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt.
21 There is no peace, saith my God, to the wicked. |
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How is God described?
(15)
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With whom does God
dwell? (15)
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What are the wicked
like? (20)
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To whom is there no
peace? (21)
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Chapter 58 To
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58:1 Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice
like a trumpet, and shew my people their transgression, and
the house of Jacob their sins.
2 Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways, as a
nation that did righteousness, and forsook not the ordinance
of their God: they ask of me the ordinances of justice; they
take delight in approaching to God.
3 Wherefore have we fasted, say they, and thou seest not?
wherefore have we afflicted our soul, and thou takest no
knowledge? Behold, in the day of your fast ye find pleasure,
and exact all your labours.
4 Behold, ye fast for strife and debate, and to smite with the
fist of wickedness: ye shall not fast as ye do this day, to
make your voice to be heard on high.
5 Is it such a fast that I have chosen? a day for a man to
afflict his soul? is it to bow down his head as a bulrush, and
to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? wilt thou call this a
fast, and an acceptable day to the LORD?
6 Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands
of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the
oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke?
7 Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou
bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest
the naked, that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself
from thine own flesh?
8 Then shall thy light break forth as the morning, and thine
health shall spring forth speedily: and thy righteousness
shall go before thee; the glory of the LORD shall be thy
rereward.
9 Then shalt thou call, and the LORD shall answer; thou shalt
cry, and he shall say, Here I am. If thou take away from the
midst of thee the yoke, the putting forth of the finger, and
speaking vanity;
10 And if thou draw out thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy
the afflicted soul; then shall thy light rise in obscurity,
and thy darkness be as the noonday:
11 And the LORD shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy
soul in drought, and make fat thy bones: and thou shalt be
like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose
waters fail not.
12 And they that shall be of thee shall build the old waste
places: thou shalt raise up the foundations of many
generations; and thou shalt be called, The repairer of the
breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in.
13 If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy
pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the
holy of the LORD, honourable; and shalt honour him, not doing
thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking
thine own words:
14 Then shalt thou delight thyself in the LORD; and I will
cause thee to ride upon the high places of the earth, and feed
thee with the heritage of Jacob thy father: for the mouth of
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How should we show
God’s people their transgression? (1)
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What should one not do while fasting? (3)
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What is not a proper
motive for fasting? (4)
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What are some proper
reasons to fast? (6-7)
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What will happen if you
draw out your soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul? (10)
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Chapter 59 To
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59:1 Behold, the LORD's hand is not shortened,
that it cannot save; neither his ear heavy, that it cannot
hear:
2 But your iniquities have separated between you and your God,
and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not
hear.
3 For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with
iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath
muttered perverseness.
4 None calleth for justice, nor any pleadeth for truth: they
trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and
bring forth iniquity.
5 They hatch cockatrice' eggs, and weave the spider's web: he
that eateth of their eggs dieth, and that which is crushed
breaketh out into a viper.
6 Their webs shall not become garments, neither shall they
cover themselves with their works: their works are works of
iniquity, and the act of violence is in their hands.
7 Their feet run to evil, and they make hast to shed innocent
blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; wasting and
destruction are in their paths.
8 The way of peace they know not; and there is no judgment in
their goings: they have made them crooked paths: whosoever
goeth therein shall not know peace.
9 Therefore is judgment far from us, neither doth justice
overtake us: we wait for light, but behold obscurity; for
brightness, but we walk in darkness.
10 We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if we
had no eyes: we stumble at noonday as in the night; we are in
desolate places as dead men.
11 We roar all like bears, and mourn sore like doves: we look
for judgment, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far
off from us.
12 For our transgressions are multiplied before thee, and our
sins testify against us: for our transgressions are with us;
and as for our iniquities, we know them;
13 In transgressing and lying against the LORD, and departing
away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving
and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.
14 And judgment is turned away backward, and justice standeth
afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot
enter.
15 Yea, truth faileth; and he that departeth from evil maketh
himself a prey: and the LORD saw it, and it displeased him
that there was no judgment.
16 And he saw that there was no man, and wondered that there
was no intercessor: therefore his arm brought salvation unto
him; and his righteousness, it sustained him.
17 For he put on righteousness as a breastplate, and an helmet
of salvation upon his head; and he put on the garments of
vengeance for clothing, and was clad with zeal as a cloke.
18 According to their deeds, accordingly he will repay, fury
to his adversaries, recompence to his enemies; to the islands
he will repay recompence.
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 shall
come in like a flood, the Spirit of the LORD shall lift up a
standard against him.
20 And the Redeemer shall come to Zion, and unto them that
turn from transgression in Jacob, saith the LORD.
21 As for me, this is my covenant with them, saith the LORD;
My spirit that is upon thee, and my words which I have put in
thy mouth, shall not depart out of thy mouth, nor out of the
mouth of thy seed, nor out of the mouth of thy seed's seed,
saith the LORD, from henceforth and for ever. |
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What is said about the
LORD’s hand and ear? (1)
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What separates a person
from God? (2)
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When the enemy comes in
like a flood what will the Spirit of the LORD do? (19 )
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Where will the LORD put
his words? (21)
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Chapter 60 To
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60:1 Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and
the glory of the LORD is risen upon thee.
2 For, behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and gross
darkness the people: but the LORD shall arise upon thee, and
his glory shall be seen upon thee.
3 And the Gentiles shall come to thy light, and kings to the
brightness of thy rising.
4 Lift up thine eyes round about, and see: all they gather
themselves together, they come to thee: thy sons shall come
from far, and thy daughters shall be nursed at thy side.
5 Then thou shalt see, and flow together, and thine heart
shall fear, and be enlarged; because the abundance of the sea
shall be converted unto thee, the forces of the Gentiles shall
come unto thee.
6 The multitude of camels shall cover thee, the dromedaries of
Midian and Ephah; all they from Sheba shall come: they shall
bring gold and incense; and they shall shew forth the praises
of the LORD.
7 All the flocks of Kedar shall be gathered together unto
thee, the rams of Nebaioth shall minister unto thee: they
shall come up with acceptance on mine altar, and I will
glorify the house of my glory.
8 Who are these that fly as a cloud, and as the doves to their
windows?
9 Surely the isles shall wait for me, and the ships of
Tarshish first, to bring thy sons from far, their silver and
their gold with them, unto the name of the LORD thy God, and
to the Holy One of Israel, because he hath glorified thee.
10 And the sons of strangers shall build up thy walls, and
their kings shall minister unto thee: for in my wrath I smote
thee, but in my favour have I had mercy on thee.
11 Therefore thy gates shall be open continually; they shall
not be shut day nor night; that men may bring unto thee the
forces of the Gentiles, and that their kings may be brought.
12 For the nation and kingdom that will not serve thee shall
perish; yea, those nations shall be utterly wasted.
13 The glory of Lebanon shall come unto thee, the fir tree,
the pine tree, and the box together, to beautify the place of
my sanctuary; and I will make the place of my feet glorious.
14 The sons also of them that afflicted thee shall come
bending unto thee; and all they that despised thee shall bow
themselves down at the soles of thy feet; and they shall call
thee, The city of the LORD, The Zion of the Holy One of
Israel.
15 Whereas thou hast been forsaken and hated, so that no man
went through thee, I will make thee an eternal excellency, a
joy of many generations.
16 Thou shalt also suck the milk of the Gentiles, and shalt
suck the breast of kings: and thou shalt know that I the LORD
am thy Saviour and thy Redeemer, the mighty One of Jacob.
17 For brass I will bring gold, and for iron I will bring
silver, and for wood brass, and for stones iron: I will also
make thy officers peace, and thine exactors righteousness.
18 Violence shall no more be heard in thy land, wasting nor
destruction within thy borders; but thou shalt call thy walls
Salvation, and thy gates Praise.
19 The sun shall be no more thy light by day; neither for
brightness shall the moon give light unto thee: but the LORD
shall be unto thee an everlasting light, and thy God thy
glory.
20 Thy sun shall no more go down; neither shall thy moon
withdraw itself: for the LORD shall be thine everlasting
light, and the days of thy mourning shall be ended.
21 Thy people also shall be all righteous: they shall inherit
the land for ever, the branch of my planting, the work of my
hands, that I may be glorified.
22 A little one shall become a thousand, and a small one a
strong nation: I the LORD will hasten it in his time. |
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Even though gross
darkness covers the earth what will the LORD do for you? (2)
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What will happen to
nations and kingdoms that don’t serve Israel? (12)
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Instead of the sun and
moon what shall be an everlasting light? (19-20)
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61:1 The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me;
because the LORD hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto
the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to
proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the
prison to them that are bound;
2 To proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD, and the day of
vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn;
3 To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them
beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of
praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called
trees of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that he
might be glorified.
4 And they shall build the old wastes, they shall raise up the
former desolations, and they shall repair the waste cities,
the desolations of many generations.
5 And strangers shall stand and feed your flocks, and the sons
of the alien shall be your plowmen and your vinedressers.
6 But ye shall be named the Priests of the LORD: men shall
call you the Ministers of our God: ye shall eat the riches of
the Gentiles, and in their glory shall ye boast yourselves.
7 For your shame ye shall have double; and for confusion they
shall rejoice in their portion: therefore in their land they
shall possess the double: everlasting joy shall be unto them.
8 For I the LORD love judgment, I hate robbery for burnt
offering; and I will direct their work in truth, and I will
make an everlasting covenant with them.
9 And their seed shall be known among the Gentiles, and their
offspring among the people: all that see them shall
acknowledge them, that they are the seed which the LORD hath
blessed.
10 I will greatly rejoice in the LORD, my soul shall be joyful
in my God; for he hath clothed me with the garments of
salvation, he hath covered me with the robe of righteousness,
as a bridegroom decketh himself with ornaments, and as a bride
adorneth herself with her jewels.
11 For as the earth bringeth forth her bud, and as the garden
causeth the things that are sown in it to spring forth; so the
Lord GOD will cause righteousness and praise to spring forth
before all the nations. |
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For what purpose did
Jesus say the Spirit of the Lord was on him? (1-2, Luke 4:17-21)
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What is given to us in
exchange for the spirit of heaviness? (3)
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With what other
garments are we clothed? (10)
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Chapter 62 To
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62:1 For Zion's sake will I not hold my peace,
and for Jerusalem's sake I will not rest, until the
righteousness thereof go forth as brightness, and the
salvation thereof as a lamp that burneth.
2 And the Gentiles shall see thy righteousness, and all kings
thy glory: and thou shalt be called by a new name, which the
mouth of the LORD shall name.
3 Thou shalt also be a crown of glory in the hand of the LORD,
and a royal diadem in the hand of thy God.
4 Thou shalt no more be termed Forsaken; neither shall thy
land any more be termed Desolate: but thou shalt be called
Hephzi-bah, and thy land Beulah: for the LORD delighteth in
thee, and thy land shall be married.
5 For as a young man marrieth a virgin, so shall thy sons
marry thee: and as the bridegroom rejoiceth over the bride, so
shall thy God rejoice over thee.
6 I have set watchmen upon thy walls, O Jerusalem, which shall
never hold their peace day nor night: ye that make mention of
the LORD, keep not silence,
7 And give him no rest, till he establish, and till he make
Jerusalem a praise in the earth.
8 The LORD hath sworn by his right hand, and by the arm of his
strength, Surely I will no more give thy corn to be meat for
thine enemies; and the sons of the stranger shall not drink
thy wine, for the which thou hast laboured:
9 But they that have gathered it shall eat it, and praise the
LORD; and they that have brought it together shall drink it in
the courts of my holiness.
10 Go through, go through the gates; prepare ye the way of the
people; cast up, cast up the highway; gather out the stones;
lift up a standard for the people.
11 Behold, the LORD hath proclaimed unto the end of the world,
Say ye to the daughter of Zion, Behold, thy salvation cometh;
behold, his reward is with him, and his work before him.
12 And they shall call them, The holy people, The redeemed of
the LORD: and thou shalt be called, Sought out, A city not
forsaken. |
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What shall you be in
the hand of the LORD? (3)
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What has the LORD
proclaimed to the end of the world? (11)
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63:1 Who is this that cometh from Edom, with
dyed garments from Bozrah? this that is glorious in his
apparel, travelling in the greatness of his strength? I that
speak in righteousness, mighty to save.
2 Wherefore art thou red in thine apparel, and thy garments
like him that treadeth in the winefat?
3 I have trodden the winepress alone; and of the people there
was none with me: for I will tread them in mine anger, and
trample them in my fury; and their blood shall be sprinkled
upon my garments, and I will stain all my raiment.
4 For the day of vengeance is in mine heart, and the year of
my redeemed is come.
5 And I looked, and there was none to help; and I wondered
that there was none to uphold: therefore mine own arm brought
salvation unto me; and my fury, it upheld me.
6 And I will tread down the people in mine anger, and make
them drunk in my fury, and I will bring down their strength to
the earth.
7 I will mention the lovingkindnesses of the LORD, and the
praises of the LORD, according to all that the LORD hath
bestowed on us, and the great goodness toward the house of
Israel, which he hath bestowed on them according to his
mercies, and according to the multitude of his
lovingkindnesses.
8 For he said, Surely they are my people, children that will
not lie: so he was their Saviour.
9 In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of
his presence saved them: in his love and in his pity he
redeemed them; and he bare them, and carried them all the days
of old.
10 But they rebelled, and vexed his holy Spirit: therefore he
was turned to be their enemy, and he fought against them.
11 Then he remembered the days of old, Moses, and his people,
saying, Where is he that brought them up out of the sea with
the shepherd of his flock? where is he that put his holy
Spirit within him?
12 That led them by the right hand of Moses with his glorious
arm, dividing the water before them, to make himself an
everlasting name?
13 That led them through the deep, as an horse in the
wilderness, that they should not stumble?
14 As a beast goeth down into the valley, the Spirit of the
LORD caused him to rest: so didst thou lead thy people, to
make thyself a glorious name.
15 Look down from heaven, and behold from the habitation of
thy holiness and of thy glory: where is thy zeal and thy
strength, the sounding of thy bowels and of thy mercies toward
me? are they restrained?
16 Doubtless thou art our father, though Abraham be ignorant
of us, and Israel acknowledge us not: thou, O LORD, art our
father, our redeemer; thy name is from everlasting.
17 O LORD, why hast thou made us to err from thy ways, and
hardened our heart from thy fear? Return for thy servants'
sake, the tribes of thine inheritance.
18 The people of thy holiness have possessed it but a little
while: our adversaries have trodden down thy sanctuary.
19 We are thine: thou never barest rule over them; they were
not called by thy name. |
1. Why did the LORD
bestow goodness on Israel? (7)
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64:1 Oh that thou wouldest rend the heavens,
that thou wouldest come down, that the mountains might flow
down at thy presence,
2 As when the melting fire burneth, the fire causeth the
waters to boil, to make thy name known to thine adversaries,
that the nations may tremble at thy presence!
3 When thou didst terrible things which we looked not for,
thou camest down, the mountains flowed down at thy presence.
4 For since the beginning of the world men have not heard, nor
perceived by the ear, neither hath the eye seen, O God, beside
thee, what he hath prepared for him that waiteth for him.
5 Thou meetest him that rejoiceth and worketh righteousness,
those that remember thee in thy ways: behold, thou art wroth;
for we have sinned: in those is continuance, and we shall be
saved.
6 But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our
righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a
leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.
7 And there is none that calleth upon thy name, that stirreth
up himself to take hold of thee: for thou hast hid thy face
from us, and hast consumed us, because of our iniquities.
8 But now, O LORD, thou art our father; we are the clay, and
thou our potter; and we all are the work of thy hand.
9 Be not wroth very sore, O LORD, neither remember iniquity
for ever: behold, see, we beseech thee, we are all thy people.
10 Thy holy cities are a wilderness, Zion is a wilderness,
Jerusalem a desolation.
11 Our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers praised
thee, is burned up with fire: and all our pleasant things are
laid waste.
12 Wilt thou refrain thyself for these things, O LORD? wilt
thou hold thy peace, and afflict us very sore? |
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What has not the ear
heard or the eye seen? (4)
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To what are all our
righteousnesses compared? (6)
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To what is the LORD
compared? (8)
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65:1 I am sought of them that asked not for me;
I am found of them that sought me not: I said, Behold me,
behold me, unto a nation that was not called by my name.
2 I have spread out my hands all the day unto a rebellious
people, which walketh in a way that was not good, after their
own thoughts;
3 A people that provoketh me to anger continually to my face;
that sacrificeth in gardens, and burneth incense upon altars
of brick;
4 Which remain among the graves, and lodge in the monuments,
which eat swine's flesh, and broth of abominable things is in
their vessels;
5 Which say, Stand by thyself, come not near to me; for I am
holier than thou. These are a smoke in my nose, a fire that
burneth all the day.
6 Behold, it is written before me: I will not keep silence,
but will recompense, even recompense into their bosom,
7 Your iniquities, and the iniquities of your fathers
together, saith the LORD, which have burned incense upon the
mountains, and blasphemed me upon the hills: therefore will I
measure their former work into their bosom.
8 Thus saith the LORD, As the new wine is found in the
cluster, and one saith, Destroy it not; for a blessing is in
it: so will I do for my servants' sakes, that I may not
destroy them all.
9 And I will bring forth a seed out of Jacob, and out of Judah
an inheritor of my mountains: and mine elect shall inherit it,
and my servants shall dwell there.
10 And Sharon shall be a fold of flocks, and the valley of
Achor a place for the herds to lie down in, for my people that
have sought me.
11 But ye are they that forsake the LORD, that forget my holy
mountain, that prepare a table for that troop, and that
furnish the drink offering unto that number.
12 Therefore will I number you to the sword, and ye shall all
bow down to the slaughter: because when I called, ye did not
answer; when I spake, ye did not hear; but did evil before
mine eyes, and did choose that wherein I delighted not.
13 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, my servants
shall eat, but ye shall be hungry: behold, my servants shall
drink, but ye shall be thirsty: behold, my servants shall
rejoice, but ye shall be ashamed:
14 Behold, my servants shall sing for joy of heart, but ye
shall cry for sorrow of heart, and shall howl for vexation of
spirit.
15 And ye shall leave your name for a curse unto my chosen:
for the Lord GOD shall slay thee, and call his servants by
another name:
16 That he who blesseth himself in the earth shall bless
himself in the God of truth; and he that sweareth in the earth
shall swear by the God of truth; because the former troubles
are forgotten, and because they are hid from mine eyes.
17 For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth: and the
former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind.
18 But be ye glad and rejoice for ever in that which I create:
for, behold, I create Jerusalem a rejoicing, and her people a
joy.
19 And I will rejoice in Jerusalem, and joy in my people: and
the voice of weeping shall be no more heard in her, nor the
voice of crying.
20 There shall be no more thence an infant of days, nor an old
man that hath not filled his days: for the child shall die an
hundred years old; but the sinner being an hundred years old
shall be accursed.
21 And they shall build houses, and inhabit them; and they
shall plant vineyards, and eat the fruit of them.
22 They shall not build, and another inhabit; they shall not
plant, and another eat: for as the days of a tree are the days
of my people, and mine elect shall long enjoy the work of
their hands.
23 They shall not labour in vain, nor bring forth for trouble;
for they are the seed of the blessed of the LORD, and their
offspring with them.
24 And it shall come to pass, that before they call, I will
answer; and while they are yet speaking, I will hear.
25 The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion
shall eat straw like the bullock: and dust shall be the
serpent's meat. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy
mountain, saith the LORD. |
1.
What will feed together? (25)
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66:1 Thus saith the LORD, The heaven is my
throne, and the earth is my footstool: where is the house that
ye build unto me? and where is the place of my rest?
2 For all those things hath mine hand made, and those things
have been, saith the LORD: but to this man will I look, even
to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit, and trembleth at
my word.
3 He that killeth an ox is as if he slew a man; he that
sacrificeth a lamb, as if he cut off a dog's neck; he that
offereth an oblation, as if he offered swine's blood; he that
burneth incense, as if he blessed an idol. Yea, they have
chosen their own ways, and their soul delighteth in their
abominations.
4 I also will choose their delusions, and will bring their
fears upon them; because when I called, none did answer; when
I spake, they did not hear: but they did evil before mine
eyes, and chose that in which I delighted not.
5 Hear the word of the LORD, ye that tremble at his word; your
brethren that hated you, that cast you out for my name's sake,
said, Let the LORD be glorified: but he shall appear to your
joy, and they shall be ashamed.
6 A voice of noise from the city, a voice from the temple, a
voice of the LORD that rendereth recompence to his enemies.
7 Before she travailed, she brought forth; before her pain
came, she was delivered of a man child.
8 Who hath heard such a thing? who hath seen such things?
Shall the earth be made to bring forth in one day? or shall a
nation be born at once? for as soon as Zion travailed, she
brought forth her children.
9 Shall I bring to the birth, and not cause to bring forth?
saith the LORD: shall I cause to bring forth, and shut the
womb? saith thy God.
10 Rejoice ye with Jerusalem, and be glad with her, all ye
that love her: rejoice for joy with her, all ye that mourn for
her:
11 That ye may suck, and be satisfied with the breasts of her
consolations; that ye may milk out, and be delighted with the
abundance of her glory.
12 For thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will extend peace to her
like a river, and the glory of the Gentiles like a flowing
stream: then shall ye suck, ye shall be borne upon her sides,
and be dandled upon her knees.
13 As one whom his mother comforteth, so will I comfort you;
and ye shall be comforted in Jerusalem.
14 And when ye see this, your heart shall rejoice, and your
bones shall flourish like an herb: and the hand of the LORD
shall be known toward his servants, and his indignation toward
his enemies.
15 For, behold, the LORD will come with fire, and with his
chariots like a whirlwind, to render his anger with fury, and
his rebuke with flames of fire.
16 For by fire and by his sword will the LORD plead with all
flesh: and the slain of the LORD shall be many.
17 They that sanctify themselves, and purify themselves in the
gardens behind one tree in the midst, eating swine's flesh,
and the abomination, and the mouse, shall be consumed
together, saith the LORD.
18 For I know their works and their thoughts: it shall come,
that I will gather all nations and tongues; and they shall
come, and see my glory.
19 And I will set a sign among them, and I will send those
that escape of them unto the nations, to Tarshish, Pul, and
Lud, that draw the bow, to Tubal, and Javan, to the isles afar
off, that have not heard my fame, neither have seen my glory;
and they shall declare my glory among the Gentiles.
20 And they shall bring all your brethren for an offering unto
the LORD out of all nations upon horses, and in chariots, and
in litters, and upon mules, and upon swift beasts, to my holy
mountain Jerusalem, saith the LORD, as the children of Israel
bring an offering in a clean vessel into the house of the
LORD.
21 And I will also take of them for priests and for Levites,
saith the LORD.
22 For as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will
make, shall remain before me, saith the LORD, so shall your
seed and your name remain.
23 And it shall come to pass, that from one new moon to
another, and from one sabbath to another, shall all flesh come
to worship before me, saith the LORD.
24 And they shall go forth, and look upon the carcases of the
men that have transgressed against me: for their worm shall
not die, neither shall their fire be quenched; and they shall
be an abhorring unto all flesh. |
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To the LORD what is his
throne and his footstool? (1)
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To what man will the
LORD look? (2)
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Who shall come and
worship before the LORD? (23)
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