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Key Verses in Isaiah
Important passages from Isaiah, each shown in full in your chosen Bible version with its setting and meaning.
“Come now, and let’s reason together,” says the LORD: “Though your sins are as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow. Though they are red like crimson, they shall be as wool. Though your sins are as scarlet
God invites Judah to "reason together": their sins can be made white as snow. The offer comes in a chapter calling them to stop doing evil and seek justice for…
I heard the Lord’s voice, saying, “Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?” Then I said, “Here I am. Send me!” Here I am. Send me!
After his vision of the LORD and the cleansing of his lips, Isaiah hears God asking whom he should send, and answers at once.
Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Behold, the virgin will conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel. Immanuel: God with us
Isaiah offers King Ahaz a sign: a young woman (or virgin) will bear a son called Immanuel, "God with us". Matthew 1:22-23 sees it fulfilled in Jesus' birth.
For a child is born to us. A son is given to us; and the government will be on his shoulders. His name will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. For to us a child is born
A promise of a coming king from David's line, given in a dark time for northern Israel (9:1-2). His names describe his rule, which brings endless peace. Christians read it…
You will keep whoever’s mind is steadfast in perfect peace, because he trusts in you. Perfect peace
From a song of trust: God keeps in perfect peace the one whose mind is fixed on him.
The grass withers, the flower fades; but the word of our God stands forever.” The word of our God stands forever
People are like grass that withers, but God's word endures. 1 Peter 1:24-25 quotes it.
but those who wait for the LORD will renew their strength. They will mount up with wings like eagles. They will run, and not be weary. They will walk, and not faint. They shall mount up with wings like eagles
The chapter comforts exiles who think God has forgotten them (40:27). The everlasting Creator does not grow weary, and those who wait for the LORD renew their strength.
Don’t you be afraid, for I am with you. Don’t be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you. Yes, I will help you. Yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness. Don't be afraid, for I am with you
Spoken to Israel, God's chosen servant, in a time of exile and threat: God promises to strengthen, help and uphold them.
When you pass through the waters, I will be with you, and through the rivers, they will not overflow you. When you walk through the fire, you will not be burned, and flame will not scorch you. When you pass through the waters
God promises redeemed Israel his presence in danger: the waters will not overwhelm them, nor the fire burn them.
4Surely he has borne our sickness and carried our suffering; yet we considered him plagued, struck by God, and afflicted. 5But he was pierced for our transgressions. He was crushed for our iniquities. The punishment that brought our peace was on him; and by his wounds we are healed. 6All we like sheep have gone astray. Everyone has turned to his own way; and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all. Wounded for our transgressions
Part of the fourth Servant Song (52:13-53:12), which describes a servant who suffers for the sins of others. The New Testament applies it to Jesus (Acts 8:32-35; 1 Peter 2:24).
8“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, and your ways are not my ways,” says 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. My thoughts are not your thoughts
In an invitation to return to the LORD, who will abundantly pardon (55:7), God explains that his ways are higher than human ways.
so is my word that goes out of my mouth: it will not return to me void, but it will accomplish that which I please, and it will prosper in the thing I sent it to do. My word will not return to me void
Like rain that waters the earth, God's word accomplishes what he sends it to do.
1The Lord GOD’s Spirit is on me, because the LORD has anointed me to preach good news to the humble. He has sent me to bind up the broken hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and release to those who are bound, 2to proclaim the year of the LORD’s favor and the day of vengeance of our God, to comfort all who mourn, The Spirit of the Lord is on me
The anointed one announces good news to the poor, freedom for captives and comfort for mourners. Jesus reads this in the synagogue at Nazareth and says it is fulfilled (Luke…
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