Isaiah read by David Guzik

Isaiah 1

1 This is the vision concerning Judah and Jerusalem that Isaiah son of Amoz saw during the reigns of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah.Read from ESV · (Isaiah) Hope in the Midst of Judgment

2 Listen, O heavens, and give ear, O earth, for the LORD has spoken: "I have raised children and brought them up, but they have rebelled against Me.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) Hope in the Midst of Judgment

3 The ox knows its owner, and the donkey its master's manger, but Israel does not know; My people do not understand."Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) Hope in the Midst of Judgment

4 Alas, O sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a brood of evildoers, children of depravity! They have forsaken the LORD; they have despised the Holy One of Israel and turned their backs on Him.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) Hope in the Midst of Judgment

5 Why do you want more beatings? Why do you keep rebelling? Your head has a massive wound, and your whole heart is afflicted.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) Hope in the Midst of Judgment

6 From the sole of your foot to the top of your head, there is no soundness— only wounds and welts and festering sores neither cleansed nor bandaged nor soothed with oil.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) Hope in the Midst of Judgment

8 And the Daughter of Zion is abandoned like a shelter in a vineyard, like a shack in a cucumber field, like a city besieged.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) Hope in the Midst of Judgment

9 Unless the LORD of Hosts had left us a few survivors, we would have become like Sodom, we would have resembled Gomorrah.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) Hope in the Midst of Judgment

10 Hear the word of the LORD, you rulers of Sodom; listen to the instruction of our God, you people of Gomorrah!Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) Hope in the Midst of Judgment

11 "What good to Me is your multitude of sacrifices?" says the LORD. "I am full from the burnt offerings of rams and the fat of well-fed cattle; I take no delight in the blood of bulls and lambs and goats.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) Hope in the Midst of Judgment

12 When you come to appear before Me, who has required this of you— this trampling of My courts?Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) Hope in the Midst of Judgment

15 When you spread out your hands in prayer, I will hide My eyes from you; even though you multiply your prayers, I will not listen. Your hands are covered with blood.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) Hope in the Midst of Judgment

16 Wash and cleanse yourselves. Remove your evil deeds from My sight. Stop doing evil!Read from NKJV · The Essential Work of the Holy Spirit

17 Learn to do right; seek justice and correct the oppressor. Defend the fatherless and plead the case of the widow."Read from NKJV · The Essential Work of the Holy Spirit

18 "Come now, let us reason together," says the LORD. "Though your sins are like scarlet, they will be as white as snow; though they are as red as crimson, they will become like wool.Read from NKJV · The Essential Work of the Holy Spirit

20 But if you resist and rebel, you will be devoured by the sword." For the mouth of the LORD has spoken.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) Hope in the Midst of Judgment

21 See how the faithful city has become a harlot! She once was full of justice; righteousness resided within her, but now only murderers!Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) Hope in the Midst of Judgment

22 Your silver has become dross; your fine wine is diluted with water.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) Hope in the Midst of Judgment

23 Your rulers are rebels, friends of thieves. They all love bribes and chasing after rewards. They do not defend the fatherless, and the plea of the widow never comes before them.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) Hope in the Midst of Judgment

25 I will turn My hand against you; I will thoroughly purge your dross; I will remove all your impurities.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) Hope in the Midst of Judgment

27 Zion will be redeemed with justice, her repentant ones with righteousness.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) Hope in the Midst of Judgment

28 But rebels and sinners will together be shattered, and those who forsake the LORD will perish.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) Hope in the Midst of Judgment

31 The strong man will become tinder and his work will be a spark; both will burn together, with no one to quench the flames.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) Hope in the Midst of Judgment

Isaiah 2

1 This is the message that was revealed to Isaiah son of Amoz concerning Judah and Jerusalem:Read from ESV · The Meaning of the Millennium

2 In the last days the mountain of the house of the LORD will be established as the chief of the mountains; it will be raised above the hills, and all nations will stream to it.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) Hope in the Midst of Judgment

3 And many peoples will come and say: "Come, let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob. He will teach us His ways so that we may walk in His paths." For the law will go forth from Zion, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) Hope in the Midst of Judgment

4 Then He will judge between the nations and arbitrate for many peoples. They will beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation will no longer take up the sword against nation, nor train anymore for war.Read from NKJV · The Meaning of the Millennium

5 Come, O house of Jacob, let us walk in the light of the LORD.Read from ESV · (Isaiah) Hope in the Midst of Judgment

7 Their land is full of silver and gold, with no limit to their treasures; their land is full of horses, with no limit to their chariots.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) Hope in the Midst of Judgment

8 Their land is full of idols; they bow down to the work of their hands, to what their fingers have made.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) Hope in the Midst of Judgment

9 So mankind is brought low, and man is humbled— do not forgive them!Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) Hope in the Midst of Judgment

10 Go into the rocks and hide in the dust from the terror of the LORD and the splendor of His majesty.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) Hope in the Midst of Judgment

11 The proud look of man will be humbled, and the loftiness of men brought low; the LORD alone will be exalted in that day.Read from KJV · (Isaiah) Hope in the Midst of Judgment

12 For the Day of the LORD of Hosts will come against all the proud and lofty, against all that is exalted— it will be humbled—Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) Hope in the Midst of Judgment

13 against all the cedars of Lebanon, lofty and lifted up, against all the oaks of Bashan,Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) Hope in the Midst of Judgment

14 against all the tall mountains, against all the high hills,Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) Hope in the Midst of Judgment

16 against every ship of Tarshish, and against every stately vessel.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) Hope in the Midst of Judgment

17 So the pride of man will be brought low, and the loftiness of men will be humbled; the LORD alone will be exalted in that day,Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) Hope in the Midst of Judgment

18 and the idols will vanish completely.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) Hope in the Midst of Judgment

19 Men will flee to caves in the rocks and holes in the ground, away from the terror of the LORD and from the splendor of His majesty, when He rises to shake the earth.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) Hope in the Midst of Judgment

20 In that day men will cast away to the moles and bats their idols of silver and gold— the idols they made to worship.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) Hope in the Midst of Judgment

21 They will flee to caverns in the rocks and crevices in the cliffs, away from the terror of the LORD and from the splendor of His majesty, when He rises to shake the earth.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) Hope in the Midst of Judgment

22 Put no more trust in man, who has only the breath in his nostrils. Of what account is he?Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) Hope in the Midst of Judgment

Isaiah 3

1 For behold, the Lord GOD of Hosts is about to remove from Jerusalem and Judah both supply and support: the whole supply of food and water,Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) Sin's Judgment and God's Restoration

2 the mighty man and the warrior, the judge and the prophet, the soothsayer and the elder,Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) Sin's Judgment and God's Restoration

3 the commander of fifty and the dignitary, the counselor, the cunning magician, and the clever enchanter.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) Sin's Judgment and God's Restoration

4 "I will make mere lads their leaders, and children will rule over them."Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) Sin's Judgment and God's Restoration

5 The people will oppress one another, man against man, neighbor against neighbor; the young will rise up against the old, and the base against the honorable.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) Sin's Judgment and God's Restoration

6 A man will seize his brother within his father's house: "You have a cloak—you be our leader! Take charge of this heap of rubble."Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) Sin's Judgment and God's Restoration

7 On that day he will cry aloud: "I am not a healer. I have no food or clothing in my house. Do not make me leader of the people!"Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) Sin's Judgment and God's Restoration

8 For Jerusalem has stumbled and Judah has fallen because they spoke and acted against the LORD, defying His glorious presence.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) Sin's Judgment and God's Restoration

9 The expression on their faces testifies against them, and like Sodom they flaunt their sin; they do not conceal it. Woe to them, for they have brought disaster upon themselves.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) Sin's Judgment and God's Restoration

10 Tell the righteous it will be well with them, for they will enjoy the fruit of their labor.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) Sin's Judgment and God's Restoration

11 Woe to the wicked; disaster is upon them! For they will be repaid with what their hands have done.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) Sin's Judgment and God's Restoration

12 Youths oppress My people, and women rule over them. O My people, your guides mislead you; they turn you from your paths.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) Sin's Judgment and God's Restoration

13 The LORD arises to contend; He stands to judge the people.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) Sin's Judgment and God's Restoration

15 Why do you crush My people and grind the faces of the poor?" declares the Lord GOD of Hosts.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) Sin's Judgment and God's Restoration

16 The LORD also says: "Because the daughters of Zion are haughty— walking with heads held high and wanton eyes, prancing and skipping as they go, jingling the bracelets on their ankles—Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) Sin's Judgment and God's Restoration

17 the Lord will bring sores on the heads of the daughters of Zion, and the LORD will make their foreheads bare."Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) Sin's Judgment and God's Restoration

19 their pendants, bracelets, and veils;Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) Sin's Judgment and God's Restoration

20 their headdresses, ankle chains, and sashes; their perfume bottles and charms;Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) Sin's Judgment and God's Restoration

21 their signet rings and nose rings;Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) Sin's Judgment and God's Restoration

22 their festive robes, capes, cloaks, and purses;Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) Sin's Judgment and God's Restoration

23 and their mirrors, linen garments, tiaras, and shawls.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) Sin's Judgment and God's Restoration

24 Instead of fragrance there will be a stench; instead of a belt, a rope; instead of styled hair, baldness; instead of fine clothing, sackcloth; instead of beauty, shame.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) Sin's Judgment and God's Restoration

25 Your men will fall by the sword, and your warriors in battle.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) Sin's Judgment and God's Restoration

26 And the gates of Zion will lament and mourn; destitute, she will sit on the ground.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) Sin's Judgment and God's Restoration

Isaiah 4

1 In that day seven women will take hold of one man and say, "We will eat our own bread and provide our own clothes. Just let us be called by your name. Take away our disgrace!"Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) Sin's Judgment and God's Restoration

2 On that day the Branch of the LORD will be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the land will be the pride and glory of Israel's survivors.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) Sin's Judgment and God's Restoration

3 Whoever remains in Zion and whoever is left in Jerusalem will be called holy— all in Jerusalem who are recorded among the living—Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) Sin's Judgment and God's Restoration

4 when the Lord has washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion and cleansed the bloodstains from the heart of Jerusalem by a spirit of judgment and a spirit of fire.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) Sin's Judgment and God's Restoration

5 Then the LORD will create over all of Mount Zion and over her assemblies a cloud of smoke by day and a glowing flame of fire by night. For over all the glory there will be a canopy,Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) Sin's Judgment and God's Restoration

6 a shelter to give shade from the heat by day, and a refuge and hiding place from the storm and the rain.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) Sin's Judgment and God's Restoration

Isaiah 5

1 I will sing for my beloved a song of his vineyard: My beloved had a vineyard on a very fertile hill.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) a Nation Ripe for Judgment

2 He dug it up and cleared the stones and planted the finest vines. He built a watchtower in the middle and dug out a winepress as well. He waited for the vineyard to yield good grapes, but the fruit it produced was sour!Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) a Nation Ripe for Judgment

3 "And now, O dwellers of Jerusalem and men of Judah, I exhort you to judge between Me and My vineyard.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) a Nation Ripe for Judgment

4 What more could I have done for My vineyard than I already did for it? Why, when I expected sweet grapes, did it bring forth sour fruit?Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) a Nation Ripe for Judgment

5 Now I will tell you what I am about to do to My vineyard: I will take away its hedge, and it will be consumed; I will tear down its wall, and it will be trampled.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) a Nation Ripe for Judgment

6 I will make it a wasteland, neither pruned nor cultivated, and thorns and briers will grow up. I will command the clouds that rain shall not fall on it."Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) a Nation Ripe for Judgment

8 Woe to you who add house to house and join field to field until no place is left and you live alone in the land.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) a Nation Ripe for Judgment

9 I heard the LORD of Hosts declare: "Surely many houses will become desolate, great mansions left unoccupied.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) a Nation Ripe for Judgment

12 At their feasts are the lyre and harp, tambourines and flutes and wine. They disregard the actions of the LORD and fail to see the work of His hands.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) a Nation Ripe for Judgment

13 Therefore My people will go into exile for their lack of understanding; their dignitaries are starving and their masses are parched with thirst.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) a Nation Ripe for Judgment

14 Therefore Sheol enlarges its throat and opens wide its enormous jaws, and down go Zion's nobles and masses, her revelers and carousers!Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) a Nation Ripe for Judgment

15 So mankind will be brought low, and each man humbled; the arrogant will lower their eyes.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) a Nation Ripe for Judgment

16 But the LORD of Hosts will be exalted by His justice, and the holy God will show Himself holy in righteousness.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) a Nation Ripe for Judgment

17 Lambs will graze as in their own pastures, and strangers will feed in the ruins of the wealthy.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) a Nation Ripe for Judgment

18 Woe to those who draw iniquity with cords of deceit and pull sin along with cart ropes,Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) a Nation Ripe for Judgment

19 to those who say, "Let Him hurry and hasten His work so that we may see it! Let the plan of the Holy One of Israel come so that we may know it!"Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) a Nation Ripe for Judgment

20 Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who turn darkness to light and light to darkness, who replace bitter with sweet and sweet with bitter.Read from ESV · (Isaiah) a Nation Ripe for Judgment

21 Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes and clever in their own sight.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) a Nation Ripe for Judgment

22 Woe to those who are heroes in drinking wine and champions in mixing beer,Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) a Nation Ripe for Judgment

23 who acquit the guilty for a bribe and deprive the innocent of justice.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) a Nation Ripe for Judgment

24 Therefore, as a tongue of fire consumes the straw, and as dry grass shrivels in the flame, so their roots will decay and their blossoms will blow away like dust; for they have rejected the instruction of the LORD of Hosts and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) a Nation Ripe for Judgment

25 Therefore the anger of the LORD burns against His people; His hand is raised against them to strike them down. The mountains quake, and the corpses lay like refuse in the streets. Despite all this, His anger is not turned away; His hand is still upraised.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) a Nation Ripe for Judgment

26 He lifts a banner for the distant nations and whistles for those at the ends of the earth. Behold—how speedily and swiftly they come!Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) a Nation Ripe for Judgment

27 None of them grows weary or stumbles; no one slumbers or sleeps. No belt is loose and no sandal strap is broken.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) a Nation Ripe for Judgment

28 Their arrows are sharpened, and all their bows are strung. The hooves of their horses are like flint; their chariot wheels are like a whirlwind.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) a Nation Ripe for Judgment

29 Their roaring is like that of a lion; they roar like young lions. They growl and seize their prey; they carry it away from deliverance.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) a Nation Ripe for Judgment

30 In that day they will roar over it, like the roaring of the sea. If one looks over the land, he will see darkness and distress; even the light will be obscured by clouds.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) a Nation Ripe for Judgment

Isaiah 6

1 In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord seated on a throne, high and exalted; and the train of His robe filled the temple.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) Conviction, Cleansing, and Call

2 Above Him stood seraphim, each having six wings: With two wings they covered their faces, with two they covered their feet, and with two they were flying.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) a Nation Ripe for Judgment

3 And they were calling out to one another: "Holy, holy, holy is the LORD of Hosts; all the earth is full of His glory."Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) a Nation Ripe for Judgment

4 At the sound of their voices the doorposts and thresholds shook, and the temple was filled with smoke.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) Conviction, Cleansing, and Call

5 Then I said: "Woe is me, for I am ruined, because I am a man of unclean lips dwelling among a people of unclean lips; for my eyes have seen the King, the LORD of Hosts."Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) Conviction, Cleansing, and Call

6 Then one of the seraphim flew to me, and in his hand was a glowing coal that he had taken with tongs from the altar.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) a Nation Ripe for Judgment

7 And with it he touched my mouth and said: "Now that this has touched your lips, your iniquity is removed and your sin is atoned for."Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) Conviction, Cleansing, and Call

8 Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying: "Whom shall I send? Who will go for Us?" And I said: "Here am I. Send me!"Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) Conviction, Cleansing, and Call

9 And He replied: "Go and tell this people, 'Be ever hearing, but never understanding; be ever seeing, but never perceiving.'Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) Conviction, Cleansing, and Call

10 Make the hearts of this people calloused; deafen their ears and close their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts, and turn and be healed."Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) Conviction, Cleansing, and Call

12 until the LORD has driven men far away and the land is utterly forsaken.Read from NASB1995 · (Isaiah) Conviction, Cleansing, and Call

Isaiah 7

1 Now in the days that Ahaz son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, was king of Judah, Rezin king of Aram marched up to wage war against Jerusalem. He was accompanied by Pekah son of Remaliah the king of Israel, but he could not overpower the city.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) Conviction, Cleansing, and Call

2 When it was reported to the house of David that Aram was in league with Ephraim, the hearts of Ahaz and his people trembled like trees in the forest shaken by the wind.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) Conviction, Cleansing, and Call

3 Then the LORD said to Isaiah, "Go out with your son Shear-jashub to meet Ahaz at the end of the aqueduct that feeds the upper pool, on the road to the Launderer's Field,Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) Conviction, Cleansing, and Call

4 and say to him: Calm down and be quiet. Do not be afraid or disheartened over these two smoldering stubs of firewood—over the fierce anger of Rezin and Aram and of the son of Remaliah.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) Conviction, Cleansing, and Call

5 For Aram, along with Ephraim and the son of Remaliah, has plotted your ruin, saying:Read from KJV · (Isaiah) Conviction, Cleansing, and Call

6 'Let us invade Judah, terrorize it, and divide it among ourselves. Then we can install the son of Tabeal over it as king.'Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) Conviction, Cleansing, and Call

7 But this is what the Lord GOD says: 'It will not arise; it will not happen.Read from NASB1995 · (Isaiah) Conviction, Cleansing, and Call

8 For the head of Aram is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin. Within sixty-five years Ephraim will be shattered as a people.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) Conviction, Cleansing, and Call

9 The head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is the son of Remaliah. If you do not stand firm in your faith, then you will not stand at all.'"Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) Conviction, Cleansing, and Call

11 "Ask for a sign from the LORD your God, whether from the depths of Sheol or the heights of heaven."Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) Conviction, Cleansing, and Call

12 But Ahaz replied, "I will not ask; I will not test the LORD."Read from NASB1995 · (Isaiah) Conviction, Cleansing, and Call

14 Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign: Behold, the virgin will be with child and will give birth to a son, and will call Him Immanuel.Read from ESV · (Isaiah) Conviction, Cleansing, and Call

15 By the time He knows enough to reject evil and choose good, He will be eating curds and honey.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) Conviction, Cleansing, and Call

16 For before the boy knows enough to reject evil and choose good, the land of the two kings you dread will be laid waste.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) Conviction, Cleansing, and Call

17 The LORD will bring on you and on your people and on the house of your father a time unlike any since the day Ephraim separated from Judah—He will bring the king of Assyria."Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) Conviction, Cleansing, and Call

18 On that day the LORD will whistle to the flies at the farthest streams of the Nile and to the bees in the land of Assyria.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) Conviction, Cleansing, and Call

19 And they will all come and settle in the steep ravines and clefts of the rocks, in all the thornbushes and watering holes.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) Conviction, Cleansing, and Call

20 On that day the Lord will use a razor hired from beyond the Euphrates —the king of Assyria—to shave your head and the hair of your legs, and to remove your beard as well.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) Conviction, Cleansing, and Call

21 On that day a man will raise a young cow and two sheep,Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) Conviction, Cleansing, and Call

22 and from the abundance of milk they give, he will eat curds; for all who remain in the land will eat curds and honey.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) Conviction, Cleansing, and Call

23 And on that day, in every place that had a thousand vines worth a thousand shekels of silver, only briers and thorns will be found.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) Conviction, Cleansing, and Call

24 Men will go there with bow and arrow, for the land will be covered with briers and thorns.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) Conviction, Cleansing, and Call

25 For fear of the briers and thorns, you will no longer traverse the hills once tilled by the hoe; they will become places for oxen to graze and sheep to trample.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) Conviction, Cleansing, and Call

Isaiah 8

2 And I will appoint for Myself trustworthy witnesses—Uriah the priest and Zechariah son of Jeberekiah."Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) How to Prepare for God's Judgment

4 For before the boy knows how to cry 'Father' or 'Mother,' the wealth of Damascus and the plunder of Samaria will be carried off by the king of Assyria."Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) How to Prepare for God's Judgment

5 And the LORD spoke to me further:Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) How to Prepare for God's Judgment

7 the Lord will surely bring against them the mighty floodwaters of the Euphrates — the king of Assyria and all his pomp. It will overflow its channels and overrun its banks.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) How to Prepare for God's Judgment

9 Huddle together, O peoples, and be shattered; pay attention, all you distant lands; prepare for battle, and be shattered; prepare for battle, and be shattered!Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) How to Prepare for God's Judgment

10 Devise a plan, but it will be thwarted; state a proposal, but it will not happen. For God is with us."Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) How to Prepare for God's Judgment

11 For this is what the LORD has spoken to me with a strong hand, instructing me not to walk in the way of this people:Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) How to Prepare for God's Judgment

12 "Do not call conspiracy everything these people regard as conspiracy. Do not fear what they fear; do not live in dread.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) How to Prepare for God's Judgment

13 The LORD of Hosts is the One you shall regard as holy. Only He should be feared; only He should be dreaded.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) How to Prepare for God's Judgment

14 And He will be a sanctuary— but to both houses of Israel a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense, to the dwellers of Jerusalem a trap and a snare.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) How to Prepare for God's Judgment

15 Many will stumble over these; they will fall and be broken; they will be ensnared and captured."Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) How to Prepare for God's Judgment

16 Bind up the testimony and seal the law among my disciples.Read from NASB1995 · (Isaiah) How to Prepare for God's Judgment

17 I will wait for the LORD, who is hiding His face from the house of Jacob. I will put my trust in Him.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) How to Prepare for God's Judgment

18 Here am I, and the children the LORD has given me as signs and symbols in Israel from the LORD of Hosts, who dwells on Mount Zion.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) How to Prepare for God's Judgment

19 When men tell you to consult the spirits of the dead and the spiritists who whisper and mutter, shouldn't a people consult their God instead? Why consult the dead on behalf of the living?Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) How to Prepare for God's Judgment

21 They will roam the land, dejected and hungry. When they are famished, they will become enraged; and looking upward, they will curse their king and their God.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) How to Prepare for God's Judgment

22 Then they will look to the earth and see only distress and darkness and the gloom of anguish. And they will be driven into utter darkness.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) How to Prepare for God's Judgment

Isaiah 9

1 Nevertheless, there will be no more gloom for those in distress. In the past He humbled the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, but in the future He will honor the Way of the Sea, beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the nations:Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) the Glory of the Messiah's Reign

2 The people walking in darkness have seen a great light; on those living in the land of the shadow of death, a light has dawned.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) the Glory of the Messiah's Reign

3 You have enlarged the nation and increased its joy. The people rejoice before You as they rejoice at harvest time, as men rejoice in dividing the plunder.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) the Glory of the Messiah's Reign

5 For every trampling boot of battle and every garment rolled in blood will be burned as fuel for the fire.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) the Glory of the Messiah's Reign

6 For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given, and the government will be upon His shoulders. And He will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) the Glory of the Messiah's Reign

7 Of the increase of His government and peace there will be no end. He will reign on the throne of David and over his kingdom, to establish and sustain it with justice and righteousness from that time and forevermore. The zeal of the LORD of Hosts will accomplish this.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) the Glory of the Messiah's Reign

8 The Lord has sent a message against Jacob, and it has fallen upon Israel.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) the Glory of the Messiah's Reign

9 All the people will know it— Ephraim and the dwellers of Samaria. With pride and arrogance of heart they will say:Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) the Glory of the Messiah's Reign

10 "The bricks have fallen, but we will rebuild with finished stone; the sycamores have been felled, but we will replace them with cedars."Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) the Glory of the Messiah's Reign

11 The LORD has raised up the foes of Rezin against him and joined his enemies together.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) the Glory of the Messiah's Reign

12 Aram from the east and Philistia from the west have devoured Israel with open mouths. Despite all this, His anger is not turned away; His hand is still upraised.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) the Glory of the Messiah's Reign

13 But the people did not return to Him who struck them; they did not seek the LORD of Hosts.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) the Glory of the Messiah's Reign

14 So the LORD will cut off Israel's head and tail, both palm branch and reed in a single day.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) the Glory of the Messiah's Reign

15 The head is the elder and honorable man, and the tail is the prophet who teaches lies.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) the Glory of the Messiah's Reign

16 For those who guide this people mislead them, and those they mislead are swallowed up.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) the Glory of the Messiah's Reign

18 For wickedness burns like a fire that consumes the thorns and briers and kindles the forest thickets which roll upward in billows of smoke.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) the Glory of the Messiah's Reign

19 By the wrath of the LORD of Hosts the land is scorched, and the people are fuel for the fire. No man even spares his brother.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) the Glory of the Messiah's Reign

20 They carve out what is on the right, but they are still hungry; they eat what is on the left, but they are still not satisfied. Each one devours the flesh of his own offspring.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) the Glory of the Messiah's Reign

21 Manasseh devours Ephraim, and Ephraim Manasseh; together they turn against Judah. Despite all this, His anger is not turned away; His hand is still upraised.Read from KJV · (Isaiah) the Glory of the Messiah's Reign

Isaiah 10

1 Woe to those who enact unjust statutes and issue oppressive decrees,Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) the Glory of the Messiah's Reign

2 to deprive the poor of fair treatment and withhold justice from the oppressed of My people, to make widows their prey and orphans their plunder.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) the Glory of the Messiah's Reign

4 Nothing will remain but to crouch among the captives or fall among the slain. Despite all this, His anger is not turned away; His hand is still upraised.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) the Glory of the Messiah's Reign

5 Woe to Assyria, the rod of My anger; the staff in their hands is My wrath.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) the Glory of the Messiah's Character

6 I will send him against a godless nation; I will dispatch him against a people destined for My rage, to take spoils and seize plunder, and to trample them down like clay in the streets.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) the Glory of the Messiah's Character

7 But this is not his intention; this is not his plan. For it is in his heart to destroy and cut off many nations.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) the Glory of the Messiah's Character

8 "Are not all my commanders kings?" he says.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) the Glory of the Messiah's Character

9 "Is not Calno like Carchemish? Is not Hamath like Arpad? Is not Samaria like Damascus?Read from ESV · (Isaiah) the Glory of the Messiah's Character

10 As my hand seized the idolatrous kingdoms whose images surpassed those of Jerusalem and Samaria,Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) the Glory of the Messiah's Character

11 and as I have done to Samaria and its idols, will I not also do to Jerusalem and her idols?"Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) the Glory of the Messiah's Character

12 So when the Lord has completed all His work against Mount Zion and Jerusalem, He will say, "I will punish the king of Assyria for the fruit of his arrogant heart and the proud look in his eyes.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) the Glory of the Messiah's Character

13 For he says: 'By the strength of my hand I have done this, and by my wisdom, for I am clever. I have removed the boundaries of nations and plundered their treasures; like a mighty one I subdued their rulers.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) the Glory of the Messiah's Character

14 My hand reached as into a nest to seize the wealth of the nations. Like one gathering abandoned eggs, I gathered all the earth. No wing fluttered, no beak opened or chirped.'"Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) the Glory of the Messiah's Character

15 Does an axe raise itself above the one who swings it? Does a saw boast over him who saws with it? It would be like a rod waving the one who lifts it, or a staff lifting him who is not wood!Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) the Glory of the Messiah's Character

16 Therefore the Lord GOD of Hosts will send a wasting disease among Assyria's stout warriors, and under his pomp will be kindled a fire like a burning flame.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) the Glory of the Messiah's Character

17 And the Light of Israel will become a fire, and its Holy One a flame. In a single day it will burn and devour Assyria's thorns and thistles.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) the Glory of the Messiah's Character

18 The splendor of its forests and orchards, both soul and body, it will completely destroy, as a sickness consumes a man.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) the Glory of the Messiah's Character

19 The remaining trees of its forests will be so few that a child could count them.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) the Glory of the Messiah's Character

20 On that day the remnant of Israel and the survivors of the house of Jacob will no longer depend on him who struck them, but they will truly rely on the LORD, the Holy One of Israel.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) the Glory of the Messiah's Character

21 A remnant will return —a remnant of Jacob— to the Mighty God.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) the Glory of the Messiah's Character

22 Though your people, O Israel, be like the sand of the sea, only a remnant will return. Destruction has been decreed, overflowing with righteousness.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) the Glory of the Messiah's Character

23 For the Lord GOD of Hosts will carry out the destruction decreed upon the whole land.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) the Glory of the Messiah's Character

24 Therefore this is what the Lord GOD of Hosts says: "O My people who dwell in Zion, do not fear Assyria, who strikes you with a rod and lifts his staff against you as the Egyptians did.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) the Glory of the Messiah's Character

25 For in just a little while My fury against you will subside, and My anger will turn to their destruction."Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) the Glory of the Messiah's Character

26 And the LORD of Hosts will brandish a whip against them, as when He struck Midian at the rock of Oreb. He will raise His staff over the sea, as He did in Egypt.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) the Glory of the Messiah's Character

27 On that day the burden will be lifted from your shoulders, and the yoke from your neck. The yoke will be broken because your neck will be too large.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) the Glory of the Messiah's Character

32 Yet today they will halt at Nob, shaking a fist at the mount of Daughter Zion, at the hill of Jerusalem.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) the Glory of the Messiah's Character

33 Behold, the Lord GOD of Hosts will lop off the branches with terrifying power. The tall trees will be cut down, the lofty ones will be felled.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) the Glory of the Messiah's Character

34 He will clear the forest thickets with an axe, and Lebanon will fall before the Mighty One.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) the Glory of the Messiah's Character

Isaiah 11

1 Then a shoot will spring up from the stump of Jesse, and a Branch from his roots will bear fruit.Read from NKJV · The Meaning of the Millennium

2 The Spirit of the LORD will rest on Him— the Spirit of wisdom and understanding, the Spirit of counsel and strength, the Spirit of knowledge and fear of the LORD.Read from ESV · (Isaiah) the Glory of the Messiah's Character

3 And He will delight in the fear of the LORD. He will not judge by what His eyes see, and He will not decide by what His ears hear,Read from NKJV · The Meaning of the Millennium

4 but with righteousness He will judge the poor, and with equity He will decide for the lowly of the earth. He will strike the earth with the rod of His mouth and slay the wicked with the breath of His lips.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) the Glory of the Messiah's Character

5 Righteousness will be the belt around His hips, and faithfulness the sash around His waist.Read from NKJV · The Meaning of the Millennium

6 The wolf will live with the lamb, and the leopard will lie down with the goat; the calf and young lion and fatling will be together, and a little child will lead them.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) the Glory of the Messiah's Character

7 The cow will graze with the bear, their young will lie down together, and the lion will eat straw like the ox.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) the Glory of the Messiah's Character

8 The infant will play by the cobra's den, and the toddler will reach into the viper's nest.Read from NKJV · The Meaning of the Millennium

9 They will neither harm nor destroy on all My holy mountain, for the earth will be full of the knowledge of the LORD as the sea is full of water.Read from NKJV · The Meaning of the Millennium

10 On that day the Root of Jesse will stand as a banner for the peoples. The nations will seek Him, and His place of rest will be glorious.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) the Glory of the Messiah's Character

11 On that day the Lord will extend His hand a second time to recover the remnant of His people from Assyria, from Egypt, from Pathros, from Cush, from Elam, from Shinar, from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) the Glory of the Messiah's Character

12 He will raise a banner for the nations and gather the exiles of Israel; He will collect the scattered of Judah from the four corners of the earth.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) the Glory of the Messiah's Character

13 Then the jealousy of Ephraim will depart, and the adversaries of Judah will be cut off. Ephraim will no longer envy Judah, nor will Judah harass Ephraim.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) the Glory of the Messiah's Character

14 They will swoop down on the slopes of the Philistines to the west; together they will plunder the sons of the east. They will lay their hands on Edom and Moab, and the Ammonites will be subject to them.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) the Glory of the Messiah's Character

15 The LORD will devote to destruction the gulf of the Sea of Egypt; with a scorching wind He will sweep His hand over the Euphrates. He will split it into seven streams for men to cross with dry sandals.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) the Glory of the Messiah's Character

16 There will be a highway for the remnant of His people who remain from Assyria, as there was for Israel when they came up from the land of Egypt.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) the Glory of the Messiah's Character

Isaiah 12

1 In that day you will say: "O LORD, I will praise You. Although You were angry with me, Your anger has turned away, and You have comforted me.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) the Words of a Worshipper

2 Surely God is my salvation; I will trust and not be afraid. For the LORD GOD is my strength and my song, and He also has become my salvation."Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) the Words of a Worshipper

3 With joy you will draw water from the springs of salvation,Read from ESV · (Isaiah) the Words of a Worshipper

4 and on that day you will say: "Give praise to the LORD; proclaim His name! Make His works known among the peoples; declare that His name is exalted.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) the Words of a Worshipper

5 Sing to the LORD, for He has done glorious things. Let this be known in all the earth.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) the Words of a Worshipper

6 Cry out and sing, O citizen of Zion, for great among you is the Holy One of Israel."Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) the Words of a Worshipper

Isaiah 13

1 This is the burden against Babylon that Isaiah son of Amoz received:Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) the Words of a Worshipper

2 Raise a banner on a barren hilltop; call aloud to them. Wave your hand, that they may enter the gates of the nobles.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) the Words of a Worshipper

4 Listen, a tumult on the mountains, like that of a great multitude! Listen, an uproar among the kingdoms, like nations gathered together! The LORD of Hosts is mobilizing an army for war.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) the Words of a Worshipper

5 They are coming from faraway lands, from the ends of the heavens— the LORD and the weapons of His wrath— to destroy the whole country.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) the Words of a Worshipper

6 Wail, for the Day of the LORD is near; it will come as destruction from the Almighty.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) the Words of a Worshipper

7 Therefore all hands will fall limp, and every man's heart will melt.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) the Words of a Worshipper

8 Terror, pain, and anguish will seize them; they will writhe like a woman in labor. They will look at one another, their faces flushed with fear.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) the Words of a Worshipper

9 Behold, the Day of the LORD is coming— cruel, with fury and burning anger— to make the earth a desolation and to destroy the sinners within it.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) the Words of a Worshipper

10 For the stars of heaven and their constellations will not give their light. The rising sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) the Words of a Worshipper

11 I will punish the world for its evil and the wicked for their iniquity. I will end the haughtiness of the arrogant and lay low the pride of the ruthless.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) the Words of a Worshipper

13 Therefore I will make the heavens tremble, and the earth will be shaken from its place at the wrath of the LORD of Hosts on the day of His burning anger.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) the Words of a Worshipper

15 Whoever is caught will be stabbed, and whoever is captured will die by the sword.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) the Words of a Worshipper

16 Their infants will be dashed to pieces before their eyes, their houses will be looted, and their wives will be ravished.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) the Words of a Worshipper

17 Behold, I will stir up against them the Medes, who have no regard for silver and no desire for gold.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) the Words of a Worshipper

18 Their bows will dash young men to pieces; they will have no mercy on the fruit of the womb; they will not look with pity on the children.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) the Words of a Worshipper

19 And Babylon, the jewel of the kingdoms, the glory of the pride of the Chaldeans, will be overthrown by God like Sodom and Gomorrah.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) the Words of a Worshipper

20 She will never be inhabited or settled from generation to generation; no nomad will pitch his tent there, no shepherd will rest his flock there.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) the Words of a Worshipper

21 But desert creatures will lie down there, and howling creatures will fill her houses. Ostriches will dwell there, and wild goats will leap about.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) the Words of a Worshipper

22 Hyenas will howl in her fortresses and jackals in her luxurious palaces. Babylon's time is at hand, and her days will not be prolonged.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) the Words of a Worshipper

Isaiah 14

1 For the LORD will have compassion on Jacob; once again He will choose Israel and settle them in their own land. The foreigner will join them and unite with the house of Jacob.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) All About Satan

2 The nations will escort Israel and bring it to its homeland. Then the house of Israel will possess the nations as menservants and maidservants in the LORD's land. They will make captives of their captors and rule over their oppressors.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) All About Satan

3 On the day that the LORD gives you rest from your pain and torment, and from the hard labor into which you were forced,Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) All About Satan

4 you will sing this song of contempt against the king of Babylon: How the oppressor has ceased, and how his fury has ended!Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) All About Satan

5 The LORD has broken the staff of the wicked, the scepter of the rulers.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) All About Satan

6 It struck the peoples in anger with unceasing blows; it subdued the nations in rage with relentless persecution.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) All About Satan

7 All the earth is at peace and at rest; they break out in song.Read from ESV · (Isaiah) All About Satan

8 Even the cypresses and cedars of Lebanon exult over you: "Since you have been laid low, no woodcutter comes against us."Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) All About Satan

9 Sheol beneath is eager to meet you upon your arrival. It stirs the spirits of the dead to greet you— all the rulers of the earth. It makes all the kings of the nations rise from their thrones.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) All About Satan

11 Your pomp has been brought down to Sheol, along with the music of your harps. Maggots are your bed and worms your blanket.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) All About Satan

12 How you have fallen from heaven, O day star, son of the dawn! You have been cut down to the ground, O destroyer of nations.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) All About Satan

13 You said in your heart: "I will ascend to the heavens; I will raise my throne above the stars of God. I will sit on the mount of assembly, in the far reaches of the north.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) All About Satan

14 I will ascend above the tops of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High."Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) All About Satan

15 But you will be brought down to Sheol, to the lowest depths of the Pit.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) All About Satan

16 Those who see you will stare; they will ponder your fate: "Is this the man who shook the earth and made the kingdoms tremble,Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) All About Satan

17 who turned the world into a desert and destroyed its cities, who refused to let the captives return to their homes?"Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) All About Satan

18 All the kings of the nations lie in state, each in his own tomb.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) All About Satan

19 But you are cast out of your grave like a rejected branch, covered by those slain with the sword, and dumped into a rocky pit like a carcass trampled underfoot.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) All About Satan

20 You will not join them in burial, since you have destroyed your land and slaughtered your own people. The offspring of the wicked will never again be mentioned.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) All About Satan

21 Prepare a place to slaughter his sons for the iniquities of their forefathers. They will never rise up to possess a land or cover the earth with their cities.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) All About Satan

22 "I will rise up against them," declares the LORD of Hosts. "I will cut off from Babylon her name and her remnant, her offspring and her posterity," declares the LORD.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) All About Satan

24 The LORD of Hosts has sworn: "Surely, as I have planned, so will it be; as I have purposed, so will it stand.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) All About Satan

25 I will break Assyria in My land; I will trample him on My mountain. His yoke will be taken off My people, and his burden removed from their shoulders."Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) All About Satan

26 This is the plan devised for the whole earth, and this is the hand stretched out over all the nations.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) All About Satan

27 The LORD of Hosts has purposed, and who can thwart Him? His hand is outstretched, so who can turn it back?Read from ESV · (Isaiah) All About Satan

28 In the year that King Ahaz died, this burden was received:Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) All About Satan

29 Do not rejoice, all you Philistines, that the rod that struck you is broken. For a viper will spring from the root of the snake, and a flying serpent from its egg.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) All About Satan

31 Wail, O gate! Cry out, O city! Melt away, all you Philistines! For a cloud of smoke comes from the north, and there are no stragglers in its ranks.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) All About Satan

32 What answer will be given to the envoys of that nation? "The LORD has founded Zion, where His afflicted people will find refuge."Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) All About Satan

Isaiah 15

1 This is the burden against Moab: Ar in Moab is ruined, destroyed in a night! Kir in Moab is devastated, destroyed in a night!Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) the Pain of the Prophet

2 Dibon goes up to its temple to weep at its high places. Moab wails over Nebo, as well as over Medeba. Every head is shaved, every beard is cut off.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) the Pain of the Prophet

3 In its streets they wear sackcloth; on the rooftops and in the public squares they all wail, falling down weeping.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) the Pain of the Prophet

4 Heshbon and Elealeh cry out; their voices are heard as far as Jahaz. Therefore the soldiers of Moab cry out; their souls tremble within.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) the Pain of the Prophet

5 My heart cries out over Moab; her fugitives flee as far as Zoar, as far as Eglath-shelishiyah. With weeping they ascend the slope of Luhith; they lament their destruction on the road to Horonaim.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) the Pain of the Prophet

9 The waters of Dimon are full of blood, but I will bring more upon Dimon— a lion upon the fugitives of Moab and upon the remnant of the land.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) the Pain of the Prophet

Isaiah 16

1 Send the tribute lambs to the ruler of the land, from Sela in the desert to the mount of Daughter Zion.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) the Pain of the Prophet

2 Like fluttering birds pushed out of the nest, so are the daughters of Moab at the fords of the Arnon:Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) the Pain of the Prophet

3 "Give us counsel; render a decision. Shelter us at noonday with shade as dark as night. Hide the refugees; do not betray the one who flees.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) the Pain of the Prophet

4 Let my fugitives stay with you; be a refuge for Moab from the destroyer." When the oppressor has gone, destruction has ceased, and the oppressors have vanished from the land,Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) the Pain of the Prophet

5 in loving devotion a throne will be established in the tent of David. A judge seeking justice and hastening righteousness will sit on it in faithfulness.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) the Pain of the Prophet

6 We have heard of Moab's pomposity, his exceeding pride and conceit, his overflowing arrogance. But his boasting is empty.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) the Pain of the Prophet

7 Therefore let Moab wail; let them wail together for Moab. Moan for the raisin cakes of Kir-hareseth, you who are utterly stricken.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) the Pain of the Prophet

9 So I weep with Jazer for the vines of Sibmah; I drench Heshbon and Elealeh with my tears. Triumphant shouts have fallen silent over your summer fruit and your harvest.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) the Pain of the Prophet

11 Therefore my heart laments for Moab like a harp, my inmost being for Kir-heres.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) the Pain of the Prophet

12 When Moab appears on the high place, when he wearies himself and enters his sanctuary to pray, it will do him no good.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) the Pain of the Prophet

13 This is the message that the LORD spoke earlier concerning Moab.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) the Pain of the Prophet

14 And now the LORD says, "In three years, as a hired worker counts the years, Moab's splendor will become an object of contempt, with all her many people. And those who are left will be few and feeble."Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) the Pain of the Prophet

Isaiah 17

1 This is the burden against Damascus: "Behold, Damascus is no longer a city; it has become a heap of ruins.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) the Pain of the Prophet

2 The cities of Aroer are forsaken; they will be left to the flocks, which will lie down with no one to fear.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) the Pain of the Prophet

3 The fortress will disappear from Ephraim, and the sovereignty from Damascus. The remnant of Aram will be like the splendor of the Israelites," declares the LORD of Hosts.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) the Pain of the Prophet

5 as the reaper gathers the standing grain and harvests the ears with his arm, as one gleans heads of grain in the Valley of Rephaim.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) the Pain of the Prophet

6 Yet gleanings will remain, like an olive tree that has been beaten— two or three berries atop the tree, four or five on its fruitful branches," declares the LORD, the God of Israel.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) the Pain of the Prophet

7 In that day men will look to their Maker and turn their eyes to the Holy One of Israel.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) the Pain of the Prophet

8 They will not look to the altars they have fashioned with their hands or to the Asherahs and incense altars they have made with their fingers.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) the Pain of the Prophet

9 In that day their strong cities will be like forsaken thickets and summits, abandoned to the Israelites and to utter desolation.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) the Pain of the Prophet

10 For you have forgotten the God of your salvation and failed to remember the Rock of your refuge. Therefore, though you cultivate delightful plots and set out cuttings from exotic vines—Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) the Pain of the Prophet

11 though on the day you plant you make them grow, and on that morning you help your seed sprout— yet the harvest will vanish on the day of disease and incurable pain.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) the Pain of the Prophet

12 Alas, the tumult of many peoples; they rage like the roaring seas and clamoring nations; they rumble like the crashing of mighty waters.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) the Pain of the Prophet

13 The nations rage like the rush of many waters. He rebukes them, and they flee far away, driven before the wind like chaff on the hills, like tumbleweeds before a gale.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) the Pain of the Prophet

14 In the evening, there is sudden terror! Before morning, they are no more! This is the portion of those who loot us and the lot of those who plunder us.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) the Pain of the Prophet

Isaiah 18

1 Woe to the land of whirring wings, along the rivers of Cush,Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) the Pain of the Prophet

2 which sends couriers by sea, in papyrus vessels on the waters. Go, swift messengers, to a people tall and smooth-skinned, to a people widely feared, to a powerful nation of strange speech, whose land is divided by rivers.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) the Pain of the Prophet

3 All you people of the world and dwellers of the earth, when a banner is raised on the mountains, you will see it; when a ram's horn sounds, you will hear it.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) the Pain of the Prophet

4 For this is what the LORD has told me: "I will quietly look on from My dwelling place, like shimmering heat in the sunshine, like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest."Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) the Pain of the Prophet

5 For before the harvest, when the blossom is gone and the flower becomes a ripening grape, He will cut off the shoots with a pruning knife and remove and discard the branches.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) the Pain of the Prophet

6 They will all be left to the mountain birds of prey, and to the beasts of the land. The birds will feed on them in summer, and all the wild animals in winter.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) the Pain of the Prophet

7 At that time gifts will be brought to the LORD of Hosts— from a people tall and smooth-skinned, from a people widely feared, from a powerful nation of strange speech, whose land is divided by rivers— to Mount Zion, the place of the Name of the LORD of Hosts.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) the Pain of the Prophet

Isaiah 19

1 This is the burden against Egypt: Behold, the LORD rides on a swift cloud; He is coming to Egypt. The idols of Egypt will tremble before Him, and the hearts of the Egyptians will melt within them.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) Judgment of the Nations

2 "So I will incite Egyptian against Egyptian; brother will fight against brother, neighbor against neighbor, city against city, and kingdom against kingdom.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) Judgment of the Nations

3 Then the spirit of the Egyptians will be emptied out from among them, and I will frustrate their plans, so that they will resort to idols and spirits of the dead, to mediums and spiritists.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) Judgment of the Nations

4 I will deliver the Egyptians into the hands of harsh masters, and a fierce king will rule over them," declares the Lord GOD of Hosts.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) Judgment of the Nations

5 The waters of the Nile will dry up, and the riverbed will be parched and empty.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) Judgment of the Nations

6 The canals will stink; the streams of Egypt will trickle and dry up; the reeds and rushes will wither.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) Judgment of the Nations

7 The bulrushes by the Nile, by the mouth of the river, and all the fields sown along the Nile, will wither, blow away, and be no more.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) Judgment of the Nations

8 Then the fishermen will mourn, all who cast a hook into the Nile will lament, and those who spread nets on the waters will pine away.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) Judgment of the Nations

9 The workers in flax will be dismayed, and the weavers of fine linen will turn pale.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) Judgment of the Nations

10 The workers in cloth will be dejected, and all the hired workers will be sick at heart.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) Judgment of the Nations

11 The princes of Zoan are mere fools; Pharaoh's wise counselors give senseless advice. How can you say to Pharaoh, "I am one of the wise, a son of eastern kings"?Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) Judgment of the Nations

12 Where are your wise men now? Let them tell you and reveal what the LORD of Hosts has planned against Egypt.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) Judgment of the Nations

13 The princes of Zoan have become fools; the princes of Memphis are deceived. The cornerstones of her tribes have led Egypt astray.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) Judgment of the Nations

14 The LORD has poured into her a spirit of confusion. Egypt has been led astray in all she does, as a drunkard staggers through his own vomit.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) Judgment of the Nations

15 There is nothing Egypt can do— head or tail, palm or reed.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) Judgment of the Nations

16 In that day the Egyptians will be like women. They will tremble with fear beneath the uplifted hand of the LORD of Hosts, when He brandishes it against them.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) Judgment of the Nations

17 The land of Judah will bring terror to Egypt; whenever Judah is mentioned, Egypt will tremble over what the LORD of Hosts has planned against it.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) Judgment of the Nations

18 In that day five cities in the land of Egypt will speak the language of Canaan and swear allegiance to the LORD of Hosts. One of them will be called the City of the Sun.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) Judgment of the Nations

19 In that day there will be an altar to the LORD in the center of the land of Egypt, and a pillar to the LORD near her border.Read from ESV · (Isaiah) Judgment of the Nations

20 It will be a sign and a witness to the LORD of Hosts in the land of Egypt. When they cry out to the LORD because of their oppressors, He will send them a savior and defender to rescue them.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) Judgment of the Nations

21 The LORD will make Himself known to Egypt, and on that day Egypt will acknowledge the LORD. They will worship with sacrifices and offerings; they will make vows to the LORD and fulfill them.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) Judgment of the Nations

22 And the LORD will strike Egypt with a plague; He will strike them but heal them. They will turn to the LORD, and He will hear their prayers and heal them.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) Judgment of the Nations

23 In that day there will be a highway from Egypt to Assyria. The Assyrians will go to Egypt, and the Egyptians to Assyria. The Egyptians and Assyrians will worship together.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) Judgment of the Nations

24 In that day Israel will join a three-party alliance with Egypt and Assyria—a blessing upon the earth.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) Judgment of the Nations

25 The LORD of Hosts will bless them, saying, "Blessed be Egypt My people, Assyria My handiwork, and Israel My inheritance."Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) Judgment of the Nations

Isaiah 20

1 Before the year that the chief commander, sent by Sargon king of Assyria, came to Ashdod and attacked and captured it,Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) Judgment of the Nations

2 the LORD had already spoken through Isaiah son of Amoz, saying, "Go, remove the sackcloth from your waist and the sandals from your feet." And Isaiah did so, walking around naked and barefoot.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) Judgment of the Nations

3 Then the LORD said, "Just as My servant Isaiah has gone naked and barefoot for three years as a sign and omen against Egypt and Cush,Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) Judgment of the Nations

4 so the king of Assyria will lead away the captives of Egypt and the exiles of Cush, young and old alike, naked and barefoot, with bared buttocks—to Egypt's shame.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) Judgment of the Nations

5 Those who made Cush their hope and Egypt their boast will be dismayed and ashamed.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) Judgment of the Nations

6 And on that day the dwellers of this coastland will say, 'See what has happened to our source of hope, those to whom we fled for help and deliverance from the king of Assyria! How then can we escape?'"Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) Judgment of the Nations

Isaiah 21

1 This is the burden against the Desert by the Sea: Like whirlwinds sweeping through the Negev, an invader comes from the desert, from a land of terror.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) Judgment of the Nations

3 Therefore my body is filled with anguish. Pain grips me, like the pains of a woman in labor. I am bewildered to hear, I am dismayed to see.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) Judgment of the Nations

4 My heart falters; fear makes me tremble. The twilight of my desire has turned to horror.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) Judgment of the Nations

5 They prepare a table, they lay out a carpet, they eat, they drink! Rise up, O princes, oil the shields!Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) Judgment of the Nations

6 For this is what the Lord says to me: "Go, post a lookout and have him report what he sees.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) Judgment of the Nations

7 When he sees chariots with teams of horsemen, riders on donkeys, riders on camels, he must be alert, fully alert."Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) Judgment of the Nations

8 Then the lookout shouted: "Day after day, my lord, I stand on the watchtower; night after night I stay at my post.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) Judgment of the Nations

9 Look, here come the riders, horsemen in pairs." And one answered, saying: "Fallen, fallen is Babylon! All the images of her gods lie shattered on the ground!"Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) Judgment of the Nations

10 O my people, crushed on the threshing floor, I tell you what I have heard from the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) Judgment of the Nations

11 This is the burden against Dumah: One calls to me from Seir, "Watchman, what is left of the night? Watchman, what is left of the night?"Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) Judgment of the Nations

12 The watchman replies, "Morning has come, but also the night. If you would inquire, then inquire. Come back yet again."Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) Judgment of the Nations

13 This is the burden against Arabia: In the thickets of Arabia you must lodge, O caravans of Dedanites.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) Judgment of the Nations

14 Bring water for the thirsty, O dwellers of Tema; meet the refugees with food.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) Judgment of the Nations

16 For this is what the Lord says to me: "Within one year, as a hired worker would count it, all the glory of Kedar will be gone.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) Judgment of the Nations

17 The remaining archers, the warriors of Kedar, will be few." For the LORD, the God of Israel, has spoken.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) Judgment of the Nations

Isaiah 22

1 This is the burden against the Valley of Vision: What ails you now, that you have all gone up to the rooftops,Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) What to Hang Your Life On

2 O city of commotion, O town of revelry? Your slain did not die by the sword, nor were they killed in battle.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) What to Hang Your Life On

4 Therefore I said, "Turn away from me, let me weep bitterly! Do not try to console me over the destruction of the daughter of my people."Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) What to Hang Your Life On

5 For the Lord GOD of Hosts has set a day of tumult and trampling and confusion in the Valley of Vision— of breaking down the walls and crying to the mountains.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) What to Hang Your Life On

6 Elam takes up a quiver, with chariots and horsemen, and Kir uncovers the shield.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) What to Hang Your Life On

7 Your choicest valleys are full of chariots, and horsemen are posted at the gates.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) What to Hang Your Life On

8 He has uncovered the defenses of Judah. On that day you looked to the weapons in the House of the Forest.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) What to Hang Your Life On

9 You saw that there were many breaches in the walls of the City of David. You collected water from the lower pool.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) What to Hang Your Life On

10 You counted the houses of Jerusalem and tore them down to strengthen the wall.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) What to Hang Your Life On

12 On that day the Lord GOD of Hosts called for weeping and wailing, for shaven heads and the wearing of sackcloth.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) What to Hang Your Life On

13 But look, there is joy and gladness, butchering of cattle and slaughtering of sheep, eating of meat and drinking of wine: "Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die!"Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) What to Hang Your Life On

14 The LORD of Hosts has revealed in my hearing: "Until your dying day, this sin of yours will never be atoned for," says the Lord GOD of Hosts.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) What to Hang Your Life On

15 This is what the Lord GOD of Hosts says: "Go, say to Shebna, the steward in charge of the palace:Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) What to Hang Your Life On

17 Look, O mighty man! The LORD is about to shake you violently. He will take hold of you,Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) What to Hang Your Life On

18 roll you into a ball, and sling you into a wide land. There you will die, and there your glorious chariots will remain—a disgrace to the house of your master.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) What to Hang Your Life On

19 I will remove you from office, and you will be ousted from your position.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) What to Hang Your Life On

20 On that day I will summon My servant, Eliakim son of Hilkiah.Read from ESV · (Isaiah) What to Hang Your Life On

21 I will clothe him with your robe and tie your sash around him. I will put your authority in his hand, and he will be a father to the dwellers of Jerusalem and to the house of Judah.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) What to Hang Your Life On

22 I will place on his shoulder the key to the house of David. What he opens no one can shut, and what he shuts no one can open.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) What to Hang Your Life On

23 I will drive him like a peg into a firm place, and he will be a throne of glory for the house of his father.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) What to Hang Your Life On

24 So they will hang on him the whole burden of his father's house: the descendants and the offshoots—all the lesser vessels, from bowls to every kind of jar.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) What to Hang Your Life On

25 In that day, declares the LORD of Hosts, the peg driven into a firm place will give way; it will be sheared off and fall, and the load upon it will be cut down." Indeed, the LORD has spoken.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) What to Hang Your Life On

Isaiah 23

2 Be silent, O dwellers of the coastland, you merchants of Sidon, whose traders have crossed the sea.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) What to Hang Your Life On

3 On the great waters came the grain of Shihor; the harvest of the Nile was the revenue of Tyre; she was the merchant of the nations.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) What to Hang Your Life On

4 Be ashamed, O Sidon, the stronghold of the sea, for the sea has spoken: "I have not been in labor or given birth. I have not raised young men or brought up young women."Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) What to Hang Your Life On

6 Cross over to Tarshish; wail, O inhabitants of the coastland!Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) What to Hang Your Life On

7 Is this your jubilant city, whose origin is from antiquity, whose feet have taken her to settle far away?Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) What to Hang Your Life On

8 Who planned this against Tyre, the bestower of crowns, whose traders are princes, whose merchants are renowned on the earth?Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) What to Hang Your Life On

9 The LORD of Hosts planned it, to defile all its glorious beauty, to disgrace all the renowned of the earth.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) What to Hang Your Life On

10 Cultivate your land like the Nile, O Daughter of Tarshish; there is no longer a harbor.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) What to Hang Your Life On

11 The LORD has stretched out His hand over the sea; He has made kingdoms tremble. He has given a command that the strongholds of Canaan be destroyed.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) What to Hang Your Life On

12 He said, "You shall rejoice no more, O oppressed Virgin Daughter of Sidon. Get up and cross over to Cyprus— even there you will find no rest."Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) What to Hang Your Life On

13 Look at the land of the Chaldeans — a people now of no account. The Assyrians destined it for the desert creatures; they set up their siege towers and stripped its palaces. They brought it to ruin.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) What to Hang Your Life On

14 Wail, O ships of Tarshish, for your harbor has been destroyed!Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) What to Hang Your Life On

15 At that time Tyre will be forgotten for seventy years—the span of a king's life. But at the end of seventy years, it will happen to Tyre as in the song of the harlot:Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) What to Hang Your Life On

16 "Take up your harp, stroll through the city, O forgotten harlot. Make sweet melody, sing many a song, so you will be remembered."Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) What to Hang Your Life On

18 Yet her profits and wages will be set apart to the LORD; they will not be stored or saved, for her profit will go to those who live before the LORD, for abundant food and fine clothing.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) What to Hang Your Life On

Isaiah 24

1 Behold, the LORD lays waste the earth and leaves it in ruins. He will twist its surface and scatter its inhabitants—Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) Judgment and Praise in the Great Tribulation

2 people and priest alike, servant and master, maid and mistress, buyer and seller, lender and borrower, creditor and debtor.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) Judgment and Praise in the Great Tribulation

3 The earth will be utterly laid waste and thoroughly plundered. For the LORD has spoken this word.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) Judgment and Praise in the Great Tribulation

4 The earth mourns and withers; the world languishes and fades; the exalted of the earth waste away.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) Judgment and Praise in the Great Tribulation

5 The earth is defiled by its people; they have transgressed the laws; they have overstepped the decrees and broken the everlasting covenant.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) Judgment and Praise in the Great Tribulation

6 Therefore a curse has consumed the earth, and its inhabitants must bear the guilt; the earth's dwellers have been burned, and only a few survive.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) Judgment and Praise in the Great Tribulation

7 The new wine dries up, the vine withers. All the merrymakers now groan.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) Judgment and Praise in the Great Tribulation

8 The joyful tambourines have ceased; the noise of revelers has stopped; the joyful harp is silent.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) Judgment and Praise in the Great Tribulation

9 They no longer sing and drink wine; strong drink is bitter to those who consume it.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) Judgment and Praise in the Great Tribulation

10 The city of chaos is shattered; every house is closed to entry.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) Judgment and Praise in the Great Tribulation

12 The city is left in ruins; its gate is reduced to rubble.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) Judgment and Praise in the Great Tribulation

13 So will it be on the earth and among the nations, like a harvested olive tree, like a gleaning after a grape harvest.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) Judgment and Praise in the Great Tribulation

14 They raise their voices, they shout for joy; from the west they proclaim the majesty of the LORD.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) Judgment and Praise in the Great Tribulation

15 Therefore glorify the LORD in the east. Extol the name of the LORD, the God of Israel in the islands of the sea.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) Judgment and Praise in the Great Tribulation

16 From the ends of the earth we hear singing: "Glory to the Righteous One." But I said, "I am wasting away! I am wasting away! Woe is me." The treacherous betray; the treacherous deal in treachery.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) Judgment and Praise in the Great Tribulation

17 Terror and pit and snare await you, O dweller of the earth.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) Judgment and Praise in the Great Tribulation

18 Whoever flees the sound of panic will fall into the pit, and whoever climbs from the pit will be caught in the snare. For the windows of heaven are open, and the foundations of the earth are shaken.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) Judgment and Praise in the Great Tribulation

19 The earth is utterly broken apart, the earth is split open, the earth is shaken violently.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) Judgment and Praise in the Great Tribulation

20 The earth staggers like a drunkard and sways like a shack. Earth's rebellion weighs it down, and it falls, never to rise again.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) Judgment and Praise in the Great Tribulation

21 In that day the LORD will punish the host of heaven above and the kings of the earth below.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) Judgment and Praise in the Great Tribulation

22 They will be gathered together like prisoners in a pit. They will be confined to a dungeon and punished after many days.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) Judgment and Praise in the Great Tribulation

23 The moon will be confounded and the sun will be ashamed; for the LORD of Hosts will reign on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem, and before His elders with great glory.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) Judgment and Praise in the Great Tribulation

Isaiah 25

1 O LORD, You are my God! I will exalt You; I will praise Your name. For You have worked wonders— plans formed long ago— in perfect faithfulness.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) Judgment and Praise in the Great Tribulation

2 Indeed, You have made the city a heap of rubble, the fortified town a ruin. The fortress of strangers is a city no more; it will never be rebuilt.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) Judgment and Praise in the Great Tribulation

3 Therefore, a strong people will honor You. The cities of ruthless nations will revere You.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) Judgment and Praise in the Great Tribulation

5 like heat in a dry land. You subdue the uproar of foreigners. As the shade of a cloud cools the heat, so the song of the ruthless is silenced.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) Judgment and Praise in the Great Tribulation

6 On this mountain the LORD of Hosts will prepare a banquet for all the peoples, a feast of aged wine, of choice meat, of finely aged wine.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) Judgment and Praise in the Great Tribulation

7 On this mountain He will swallow up the shroud that enfolds all peoples, the sheet that covers all nations;Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) Judgment and Praise in the Great Tribulation

8 He will swallow up death forever. The Lord GOD will wipe away the tears from every face and remove the disgrace of His people from the whole earth. For the LORD has spoken.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) Judgment and Praise in the Great Tribulation

9 And in that day it will be said, "Surely this is our God; we have waited for Him, and He has saved us. This is the LORD for whom we have waited. Let us rejoice and be glad in His salvation."Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) Judgment and Praise in the Great Tribulation

10 For the hand of the LORD will rest on this mountain. But Moab will be trampled in his place as straw is trodden into the dung pile.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) Judgment and Praise in the Great Tribulation

12 The high-walled fortress will be brought down, cast to the ground, into the dust.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) Judgment and Praise in the Great Tribulation

Isaiah 26

1 In that day this song will be sung in the land of Judah: We have a strong city; salvation is established as its walls and ramparts.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) How to Have Perfect Peace

2 Open the gates so a righteous nation may enter— one that remains faithful.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) How to Have Perfect Peace

3 You will keep in perfect peace the steadfast of mind, because he trusts in You.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) How to Have Perfect Peace

4 Trust in the LORD forever, because GOD the LORD is the Rock eternal.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) How to Have Perfect Peace

5 For He has humbled those who dwell on high; He lays the lofty city low. He brings it down to the ground; He casts it into the dust.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) How to Have Perfect Peace

6 Feet trample it down— the feet of the oppressed, the steps of the poor.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) How to Have Perfect Peace

9 My soul longs for You in the night; indeed, my spirit seeks You at dawn. For when Your judgments come upon the earth, the people of the world learn righteousness.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) How to Have Perfect Peace

10 Though grace is shown to the wicked man, he does not learn righteousness. In the land of righteousness he acts unjustly and fails to see the majesty of the LORD.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) How to Have Perfect Peace

11 O LORD, Your hand is upraised, but they do not see it. They will see Your zeal for Your people and be put to shame. The fire set for Your enemies will consume them!Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) How to Have Perfect Peace

12 O LORD, You will establish peace for us. For all that we have accomplished, You have done for us.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) How to Have Perfect Peace

13 O LORD our God, other lords besides You have had dominion, but Your name alone do we confess.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) How to Have Perfect Peace

14 The dead will not live; the departed spirits will not rise. Therefore You have punished and destroyed them; You have wiped out all memory of them.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) How to Have Perfect Peace

16 O LORD, they sought You in their distress; when You disciplined them, they poured out a quiet prayer.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) How to Have Perfect Peace

17 As a woman with child about to give birth writhes and cries out in pain, so were we in Your presence, O LORD.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) How to Have Perfect Peace

18 We were with child; we writhed in pain; but we gave birth to wind. We have given no salvation to the earth, nor brought any life into the world.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) How to Have Perfect Peace

19 Your dead will live; their bodies will rise. Awake and sing, you who dwell in the dust! For your dew is like the dew of the morning, and the earth will bring forth her dead.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) How to Have Perfect Peace

20 Go, my people, enter your rooms and shut your doors behind you. Hide yourselves a little while until the wrath has passed.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) How to Have Perfect Peace

21 For behold, the LORD is coming out of His dwelling to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity. The earth will reveal her bloodshed and will no longer conceal her slain.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) How to Have Perfect Peace

Isaiah 27

1 In that day the LORD will take His sharp, great, and mighty sword, and bring judgment on Leviathan the fleeing serpent —Leviathan the coiling serpent—and He will slay the dragon of the sea.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) How to Have Perfect Peace

2 In that day: "Sing about a fruitful vineyard.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) How to Have Perfect Peace

3 I, the LORD, am its keeper; I water it continually. I guard it night and day so no one can disturb it;Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) How to Have Perfect Peace

5 Or let them lay claim to My protection; let them make peace with Me— yes, let them make peace with Me."Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) How to Have Perfect Peace

6 In the days to come, Jacob will take root. Israel will bud and blossom and fill the whole world with fruit.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) How to Have Perfect Peace

7 Has the LORD struck Israel as He struck her oppressors? Was she killed like those who slayed her?Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) How to Have Perfect Peace

8 By warfare and exile You contended with her and removed her with a fierce wind, as on the day the east wind blows.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) How to Have Perfect Peace

9 Therefore Jacob's guilt will be atoned for, and the full fruit of the removal of his sin will be this: When he makes all the altar stones like crushed bits of chalk, no Asherah poles or incense altars will remain standing.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) How to Have Perfect Peace

10 For the fortified city lies deserted— a homestead abandoned, a wilderness forsaken. There the calves graze, and there they lie down; they strip its branches bare.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) How to Have Perfect Peace

11 When its limbs are dry, they are broken off. Women come and use them for kindling; for this is a people without understanding. Therefore their Maker has no compassion on them, and their Creator shows them no favor.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) How to Have Perfect Peace

12 In that day the LORD will thresh from the flowing Euphrates to the Wadi of Egypt, and you, O Israelites, will be gathered one by one.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) How to Have Perfect Peace

13 And in that day a great ram's horn will sound, and those who were perishing in Assyria will come forth with those who were exiles in Egypt. And they will worship the LORD on the holy mountain in Jerusalem.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) How to Have Perfect Peace

Isaiah 28

1 Woe to the majestic crown of Ephraim's drunkards, to the fading flower of his glorious splendor, set on the summit above the fertile valley, the pride of those overcome by wine.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) God's Word to Drinkers

2 Behold, the Lord has one who is strong and mighty. Like a hailstorm or destructive tempest, like a driving rain or flooding downpour, he will smash that crown to the ground.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) God's Word to Drinkers

3 The majestic crown of Ephraim's drunkards will be trampled underfoot.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) God's Word to Drinkers

4 The fading flower of his beautiful splendor, set on the summit above the fertile valley, will be like a ripe fig before the summer harvest: Whoever sees it will take it in his hand and swallow it.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) God's Word to Drinkers

5 On that day the LORD of Hosts will be a crown of glory, a diadem of splendor to the remnant of His people,Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) God's Word to Drinkers

6 a spirit of justice to him who sits in judgment, and a strength to those who repel the onslaught at the gate.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) God's Word to Drinkers

7 These also stagger from wine and stumble from strong drink: Priests and prophets reel from strong drink and are befuddled by wine. They stumble because of strong drink, muddled in their visions and stumbling in their judgments.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) God's Word to Drinkers

9 Whom is He trying to teach? To whom is He explaining His message? To infants just weaned from milk? To babies removed from the breast?Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) God's Word to Drinkers

10 For they hear: "Order on order, order on order, line on line, line on line; a little here, a little there."Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) God's Word to Drinkers

11 Indeed, with mocking lips and foreign tongues, He will speak to this peopleRead from NKJV · (Isaiah) God's Word to Drinkers

12 to whom He has said: "This is the place of rest, let the weary rest; this is the place of repose." But they would not listen.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) God's Word to Drinkers

13 Then the word of the LORD to them will become: "Order on order, order on order, line on line, line on line; a little here, a little there," so that they will go stumbling backward and will be injured, ensnared, and captured.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) God's Word to Drinkers

14 Therefore hear the word of the LORD, O scoffers who rule this people in Jerusalem.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) God's Word to Drinkers

16 So this is what the Lord GOD says: "See, I lay a stone in Zion, a tested stone, a precious cornerstone, a sure foundation; the one who believes will never be shaken.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) God's Word to Drinkers

17 I will make justice the measuring line and righteousness the level. Hail will sweep away your refuge of lies, and water will flood your hiding place.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) God's Word to Drinkers

18 Your covenant with death will be dissolved, and your agreement with Sheol will not stand. When the overwhelming scourge passes through, you will be trampled by it.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) God's Word to Drinkers

19 As often as it passes through, it will carry you away; it will sweep through morning after morning, by day and by night." The understanding of this message will bring sheer terror.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) God's Word to Drinkers

21 For the LORD will rise up as at Mount Perazim. He will rouse Himself as in the Valley of Gibeon, to do His work, His strange work, and to perform His task, His disturbing task.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) God's Word to Drinkers

22 So now, do not mock, or your shackles will become heavier. Indeed, I have heard from the Lord GOD of Hosts a decree of destruction against the whole land.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) God's Word to Drinkers

23 Listen and hear my voice. Pay attention and hear what I say.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) God's Word to Drinkers

24 Does the plowman plow for planting every day? Does he continuously loosen and harrow the soil?Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) God's Word to Drinkers

26 For his God instructs and teaches him properly.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) God's Word to Drinkers

27 Surely caraway is not threshed with a sledge, and the wheel of a cart is not rolled over the cumin. But caraway is beaten out with a stick, and cumin with a rod.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) God's Word to Drinkers

28 Grain for bread must be ground, but it is not endlessly threshed. Though the wheels of the cart roll over it, the horses do not crush it.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) God's Word to Drinkers

29 This also comes from the LORD of Hosts, who is wonderful in counsel and excellent in wisdom.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) God's Word to Drinkers

Isaiah 29

1 Woe to you, O Ariel, the city of Ariel where David camped! Year upon year let your festivals recur.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) the Cause & Cure of Spiritual Blindness

2 And I will constrain Ariel, and there will be mourning and lamentation; she will be like an altar hearth before Me.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) the Cause & Cure of Spiritual Blindness

3 I will camp in a circle around you; I will besiege you with towers and set up siege works against you.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) the Cause & Cure of Spiritual Blindness

4 You will be brought low, you will speak from the ground, and out of the dust your words will be muffled. Your voice will be like a spirit from the ground; your speech will whisper out of the dust.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) the Cause & Cure of Spiritual Blindness

5 But your many foes will be like fine dust, the multitude of the ruthless like blowing chaff. Then suddenly, in an instant,Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) the Cause & Cure of Spiritual Blindness

6 you will be visited by the LORD of Hosts with thunder and earthquake and loud noise, with windstorm and tempest and consuming flame of fire.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) the Cause & Cure of Spiritual Blindness

7 All the many nations going out to battle against Ariel— even all who war against her, laying siege and attacking her— will be like a dream, like a vision in the night,Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) the Cause & Cure of Spiritual Blindness

8 as when a hungry man dreams he is eating, then awakens still hungry; as when a thirsty man dreams he is drinking, then awakens faint and parched. So will it be for all the many nations who go to battle against Mount Zion.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) the Cause & Cure of Spiritual Blindness

9 Stop and be astonished; blind yourselves and be sightless; be drunk, but not with wine; stagger, but not from strong drink.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) the Cause & Cure of Spiritual Blindness

10 For the LORD has poured out on you a spirit of deep sleep. He has shut your eyes, O prophets; He has covered your heads, O seers.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) the Cause & Cure of Spiritual Blindness

11 And the entire vision will be to you like the words sealed in a scroll. If it is handed to someone to read, he will say, "I cannot, because it is sealed."Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) the Cause & Cure of Spiritual Blindness

12 Or if the scroll is handed to one unable to read, he will say, "I cannot read."Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) the Cause & Cure of Spiritual Blindness

13 Therefore the Lord said: "These people draw near to Me with their mouths and honor Me with their lips, but their hearts are far from Me. Their worship of Me is but rules taught by men.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) the Cause & Cure of Spiritual Blindness

14 Therefore I will again confound these people with wonder upon wonder. The wisdom of the wise will vanish, and the intelligence of the intelligent will be hidden."Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) the Cause & Cure of Spiritual Blindness

15 Woe to those who dig deep to hide their plans from the LORD. In darkness they do their works and say, "Who sees us, and who will know?"Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) the Cause & Cure of Spiritual Blindness

16 You have turned things upside down, as if the potter were regarded as clay. Shall what is formed say to him who formed it, "He did not make me"? Can the pottery say of the potter, "He has no understanding"?Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) the Cause & Cure of Spiritual Blindness

17 In a very short time, will not Lebanon become an orchard, and the orchard seem like a forest?Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) the Cause & Cure of Spiritual Blindness

18 On that day the deaf will hear the words of the scroll, and out of the deep darkness the eyes of the blind will see.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) the Cause & Cure of Spiritual Blindness

19 The humble will increase their joy in the LORD, and the poor among men will rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) the Cause & Cure of Spiritual Blindness

20 For the ruthless will vanish, the mockers will disappear, and all who look for evil will be cut down—Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) the Cause & Cure of Spiritual Blindness

22 Therefore the LORD who redeemed Abraham says of the house of Jacob: "No longer will Jacob be ashamed and no more will his face grow pale.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) the Cause & Cure of Spiritual Blindness

23 For when he sees his children around him, the work of My hands, they will honor My name, they will sanctify the Holy One of Jacob, and they will stand in awe of the God of Israel.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) the Cause & Cure of Spiritual Blindness

24 Then the wayward in spirit will come to understanding, and those who grumble will accept instruction."Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) the Cause & Cure of Spiritual Blindness

Isaiah 30

1 "Woe to the rebellious children," declares the LORD, "to those who carry out a plan that is not Mine, who form an alliance, but against My will, heaping up sin upon sin.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) the Blessing of Looking to the Lord

2 They set out to go down to Egypt without asking My advice, to seek shelter under Pharaoh's protection and take refuge in Egypt's shade.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) the Blessing of Looking to the Lord

3 But Pharaoh's protection will become your shame, and the refuge of Egypt's shade your disgrace.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) the Blessing of Looking to the Lord

4 For though their princes are at Zoan and their envoys have arrived in Hanes,Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) the Blessing of Looking to the Lord

5 everyone will be put to shame because of a people useless to them. They cannot be of help; they are good for nothing but shame and reproach."Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) the Blessing of Looking to the Lord

6 This is the burden against the beasts of the Negev: Through a land of hardship and distress, of lioness and lion, of viper and flying serpent, they carry their wealth on the backs of donkeys and their treasures on the humps of camels, to a people of no profit to them.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) the Blessing of Looking to the Lord

7 Egypt's help is futile and empty; therefore I have called her Rahab Who Sits Still.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) the Blessing of Looking to the Lord

8 Go now, write it on a tablet in their presence and inscribe it on a scroll; it will be for the days to come, a witness forever and ever.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) the Blessing of Looking to the Lord

9 These are rebellious people, deceitful children, children unwilling to obey the LORD's instruction.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) the Blessing of Looking to the Lord

10 They say to the seers, "Stop seeing visions!" and to the prophets, "Do not prophesy to us the truth! Speak to us pleasant words; prophesy illusions.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) the Blessing of Looking to the Lord

11 Get out of the way; turn off the road. Rid us of the Holy One of Israel!"Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) the Blessing of Looking to the Lord

12 Therefore this is what the Holy One of Israel says: "Because you have rejected this message, trusting in oppression and relying on deceit,Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) the Blessing of Looking to the Lord

13 this iniquity of yours is like a breach about to fail, a bulge in a high wall, whose collapse will come suddenly— in an instant!Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) the Blessing of Looking to the Lord

14 It will break in pieces like a potter's jar, shattered so that no fragment can be found. Not a shard will be found in the dust large enough to scoop the coals from a hearth or to skim the water from a cistern."Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) the Blessing of Looking to the Lord

15 For the Lord GOD, the Holy One of Israel, has said: "By repentance and rest you would be saved; your strength would lie in quiet confidence— but you were not willing."Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) the Blessing of Looking to the Lord

16 "No," you say, "we will flee on horses." Therefore you will flee! "We will ride swift horses," but your pursuers will be faster.Read from NASB1995 · (Isaiah) the Blessing of Looking to the Lord

17 A thousand will flee at the threat of one; at the threat of five you will all flee, until you are left alone like a pole on a mountaintop, like a banner on a hill.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) the Blessing of Looking to the Lord

18 Therefore the LORD longs to be gracious to you; therefore He rises to show you compassion, for the LORD is a just God. Blessed are all who wait for Him.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) the Blessing of Looking to the Lord

20 The Lord will give you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, but your Teacher will no longer hide Himself—with your own eyes you will see Him.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) the Blessing of Looking to the Lord

21 And whether you turn to the right or to the left, your ears will hear this command behind you: "This is the way. Walk in it."Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) the Blessing of Looking to the Lord

22 So you will desecrate your silver-plated idols and your gold-plated images. You will throw them away like menstrual cloths, saying to them, "Be gone!"Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) the Blessing of Looking to the Lord

24 The oxen and donkeys that work the ground will eat salted fodder, winnowed with shovel and pitchfork.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) the Blessing of Looking to the Lord

25 And from every high mountain and every raised hill, streams of water will flow in the day of great slaughter, when the towers fall.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) the Blessing of Looking to the Lord

26 The light of the moon will be as bright as the sun, and the light of the sun will be seven times brighter—like the light of seven days—on the day that the LORD binds up the brokenness of His people and heals the wounds He has inflicted.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) the Blessing of Looking to the Lord

27 Behold, the Name of the LORD comes from afar, with burning anger and dense smoke. His lips are full of fury, and His tongue is like a consuming fire.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) the Blessing of Looking to the Lord

28 His breath is like a rushing torrent that rises to the neck. He comes to sift the nations in a sieve of destruction; He bridles the jaws of the peoples to lead them astray.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) the Blessing of Looking to the Lord

29 You will sing as on the night of a holy festival, and your heart will rejoice like one who walks to the music of a flute, going up to the mountain of the LORD, to the Rock of Israel.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) the Blessing of Looking to the Lord

30 And the LORD will cause His majestic voice to be heard and His mighty arm to be revealed, striking in angry wrath with a flame of consuming fire, and with cloudburst, storm, and hailstones.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) the Blessing of Looking to the Lord

32 And with every stroke of the rod of punishment that the LORD brings down on them, the tambourines and lyres will sound as He battles with weapons brandished.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) the Blessing of Looking to the Lord

33 For Topheth has long been prepared; it has been made ready for the king. Its funeral pyre is deep and wide, with plenty of fire and wood. The breath of the LORD, like a torrent of burning sulfur, sets it ablaze.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) the Blessing of Looking to the Lord

Isaiah 31

1 Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help, who rely on horses, who trust in their abundance of chariots and in their multitude of horsemen. They do not look to the Holy One of Israel; they do not seek the LORD.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) the Blessing of Looking to the Lord

2 Yet He too is wise and brings disaster; He does not call back His words. He will rise up against the house of the wicked and against the allies of evildoers.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) the Blessing of Looking to the Lord

3 But the Egyptians are men, not God; their horses are flesh, not spirit. When the LORD stretches out His hand, the helper will stumble, and the one he helps will fall; both will perish together.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) the Blessing of Looking to the Lord

4 For this is what the LORD has said to me: "Like a lion roaring or a young lion over its prey— and though a band of shepherds is called out against it, it is not terrified by their shouting or subdued by their clamor— so the LORD of Hosts will come down to do battle on Mount Zion and its heights.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) the Blessing of Looking to the Lord

5 Like birds hovering overhead, so the LORD of Hosts will protect Jerusalem. He will shield it and deliver it; He will pass over it and preserve it."Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) the Blessing of Looking to the Lord

6 Return to the One against whom you have so blatantly rebelled, O children of Israel.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) the Blessing of Looking to the Lord

7 For on that day, every one of you will reject the idols of silver and gold that your own hands have sinfully made.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) the Blessing of Looking to the Lord

8 "Then Assyria will fall, but not by the sword of man; a sword will devour them, but not one made by mortals. They will flee before the sword, and their young men will be put to forced labor.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) the Blessing of Looking to the Lord

9 Their rock will pass away for fear, and their princes will panic at the sight of the battle standard," declares the LORD, whose fire is in Zion, whose furnace is in Jerusalem.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) the Blessing of Looking to the Lord

Isaiah 32

1 Behold, a king will reign in righteousness, and princes will rule with justice.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) Our Beautiful King

2 Each will be like a shelter from the wind, a refuge from the storm, like streams of water in a dry land, like the shadow of a great rock in an arid land.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) Our Beautiful King

3 Then the eyes of those who see will no longer be closed, and the ears of those who hear will listen.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) Our Beautiful King

4 The mind of the rash will know and understand, and the stammering tongue will speak clearly and fluently.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) Our Beautiful King

5 No longer will a fool be called noble, nor a scoundrel be respected.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) Our Beautiful King

6 For a fool speaks foolishness; his mind plots iniquity. He practices ungodliness and speaks falsely about the LORD; he leaves the hungry empty and deprives the thirsty of drink.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) Our Beautiful King

7 The weapons of the scoundrel are destructive; he hatches plots to destroy the poor with lies, even when the plea of the needy is just.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) Our Beautiful King

8 But a noble man makes honorable plans; he stands up for worthy causes.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) Our Beautiful King

9 Stand up, you complacent women; listen to me. Give ear to my word, you overconfident daughters.Read from ESV · (Isaiah) Our Beautiful King

10 In a little more than a year you will tremble, O secure ones. For the grape harvest will fail and the fruit harvest will not arrive.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) Our Beautiful King

11 Shudder, you ladies of leisure; tremble, you daughters of complacency. Strip yourselves bare and put sackcloth around your waists.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) Our Beautiful King

12 Beat your breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vines,Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) Our Beautiful King

13 and for the land of my people, overgrown with thorns and briers— even for every house of merriment in this city of revelry.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) Our Beautiful King

14 For the palace will be forsaken, the busy city abandoned. The hill and the watchtower will become caves forever— the delight of wild donkeys and a pasture for flocks—Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) Our Beautiful King

15 until the Spirit is poured out upon us from on high. Then the desert will be an orchard, and the orchard will seem like a forest.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) Our Beautiful King

16 Then justice will inhabit the wilderness, and righteousness will dwell in the fertile field.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) Our Beautiful King

17 The work of righteousness will be peace; the service of righteousness will be quiet confidence forever.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) Our Beautiful King

18 Then my people will dwell in a peaceful place, in safe and secure places of rest.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) Our Beautiful King

19 But hail will level the forest, and the city will sink to the depths.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) Our Beautiful King

20 Blessed are those who sow beside abundant waters, who let the ox and donkey range freely.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) Our Beautiful King

Isaiah 33

1 Woe to you, O destroyer never destroyed, O traitor never betrayed! When you have finished destroying, you will be destroyed. When you have finished betraying, you will be betrayed.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) Our Beautiful King

2 O LORD, be gracious to us! We wait for You. Be our strength every morning and our salvation in time of trouble.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) Our Beautiful King

3 The peoples flee the thunder of Your voice; the nations scatter when You rise.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) Our Beautiful King

4 Your spoil, O nations, is gathered as by locusts; like a swarm of locusts men sweep over it.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) Our Beautiful King

5 The LORD is exalted, for He dwells on high; He has filled Zion with justice and righteousness.Read from NASB1995 · (Isaiah) Our Beautiful King

6 He will be the sure foundation for your times, a storehouse of salvation, wisdom, and knowledge. The fear of the LORD is Zion's treasure.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) Our Beautiful King

7 Behold, their valiant ones cry aloud in the streets; the envoys of peace weep bitterly.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) Our Beautiful King

9 The land mourns and languishes; Lebanon is ashamed and decayed. Sharon is like a desert; Bashan and Carmel shake off their leaves.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) Our Beautiful King

10 "Now I will arise," says the LORD. "Now I will lift Myself up. Now I will be exalted.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) Our Beautiful King

11 You conceive chaff; you give birth to stubble. Your breath is a fire that will consume you.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) Our Beautiful King

12 The peoples will be burned to ashes, like thorns cut down and set ablaze.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) Our Beautiful King

13 You who are far off, hear what I have done; you who are near, acknowledge My might."Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) Our Beautiful King

14 The sinners in Zion are afraid; trembling grips the ungodly: "Who of us can dwell with a consuming fire? Who of us can dwell with everlasting flames?"Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) Our Beautiful King

15 He who walks righteously and speaks with sincerity, who refuses gain from extortion, whose hand never takes a bribe, who stops his ears against murderous plots and shuts his eyes tightly against evil—Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) Our Beautiful King

16 he will dwell on the heights; the mountain fortress will be his refuge; his food will be provided and his water assured.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) Our Beautiful King

17 Your eyes will see the King in His beauty and behold a land that stretches afar.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) Our Beautiful King

18 Your mind will ponder the former terror: "Where is he who tallies? Where is he who weighs? Where is he who counts the towers?"Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) Our Beautiful King

19 You will no longer see the insolent, a people whose speech is unintelligible, who stammer in a language you cannot understand.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) Our Beautiful King

20 Look upon Zion, the city of our appointed feasts. Your eyes will see Jerusalem, a peaceful pasture, a tent that does not wander; its tent pegs will not be pulled up, nor will any of its cords be broken.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) Our Beautiful King

21 But there the Majestic One, our LORD, will be for us a place of rivers and wide canals, where no galley with oars will row, and no majestic vessel will pass.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) Our Beautiful King

22 For the LORD is our Judge, the LORD is our lawgiver, the LORD is our King. It is He who will save us.Read from ESV · (Isaiah) Our Beautiful King

23 Your ropes are slack; they cannot secure the mast or spread the sail. Then an abundance of spoils will be divided, and even the lame will carry off plunder.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) Our Beautiful King

24 And no resident of Zion will say, "I am sick." The people who dwell there will be forgiven of iniquity.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) Our Beautiful King

Isaiah 34

1 Come near, O nations, to listen; pay attention, O peoples. Let the earth hear, and all that fills it, the world and all that springs from it.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) the Highway of Holiness

2 The LORD is angry with all the nations and furious with all their armies. He will devote them to destruction; He will give them over to slaughter.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) the Highway of Holiness

3 Their slain will be left unburied, and the stench of their corpses will rise; the mountains will flow with their blood.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) the Highway of Holiness

4 All the stars of heaven will be dissolved. The skies will be rolled up like a scroll, and all their stars will fall like withered leaves from the vine, like foliage from the fig tree.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) the Highway of Holiness

5 When My sword has drunk its fill in the heavens, then it will come down upon Edom, upon the people I have devoted to destruction.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) the Highway of Holiness

6 The sword of the LORD is bathed in blood. It drips with fat— with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams. For the LORD has a sacrifice in Bozrah, a great slaughter in the land of Edom.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) the Highway of Holiness

7 And the wild oxen will fall with them, the young bulls with the strong ones. Their land will be drenched with blood, and their soil will be soaked with fat.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) the Highway of Holiness

8 For the LORD has a day of vengeance, a year of recompense for the cause of Zion.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) the Highway of Holiness

9 Edom's streams will be turned to tar, and her soil to sulfur; her land will become a blazing pitch.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) the Highway of Holiness

10 It will not be quenched—day or night. Its smoke will ascend forever. From generation to generation it will lie desolate; no one will ever again pass through it.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) the Highway of Holiness

11 The desert owl and screech owl will possess it, and the great owl and raven will dwell in it. The LORD will stretch out over Edom a measuring line of chaos and a plumb line of destruction.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) the Highway of Holiness

12 No nobles will be left to proclaim a king, and all her princes will come to nothing.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) the Highway of Holiness

13 Her towers will be overgrown with thorns, her fortresses with thistles and briers. She will become a haunt for jackals, an abode for ostriches.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) the Highway of Holiness

14 The desert creatures will meet with hyenas, and one wild goat will call to another. There the night creature will settle and find her place of repose.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) the Highway of Holiness

16 Search and read the scroll of the LORD: Not one of these will go missing, not one will lack her mate, because He has ordered it by His mouth, and He will gather them by His Spirit.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) the Highway of Holiness

17 He has allotted their portion; His hand has distributed it by measure. They will possess it forever; they will dwell in it from generation to generation.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) the Highway of Holiness

Isaiah 35

2 It will bloom profusely and rejoice with joy and singing. The glory of Lebanon will be given to it, the splendor of Carmel and Sharon. They will see the glory of the LORD, the splendor of our God.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) the Highway of Holiness

3 Strengthen the limp hands and steady the feeble knees!Read from ESV · (Isaiah) the Highway of Holiness

4 Say to those with anxious hearts: "Be strong, do not fear! Behold, your God will come with vengeance. With divine retribution He will come to save you."Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) the Highway of Holiness

5 Then the eyes of the blind will be opened and the ears of the deaf unstopped.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) the Highway of Holiness

7 The parched ground will become a pool, the thirsty land springs of water. In the haunt where jackals once lay, there will be grass and reeds and papyrus.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) the Highway of Holiness

8 And there will be a highway called the Way of Holiness. The unclean will not travel it— only those who walk in the Way— and fools will not stray onto it.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) the Highway of Holiness

9 No lion will be there, and no vicious beast will go up on it. Such will not be found there, but the redeemed will walk upon it.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) the Highway of Holiness

10 So the redeemed of the LORD will return and enter Zion with singing, crowned with everlasting joy. Gladness and joy will overtake them, and sorrow and sighing will flee.Read from NKJV · (Isaiah) the Highway of Holiness

Isaiah 40

3 A voice of one calling: "Prepare the way for the LORD in the wilderness; make a straight highway for our God in the desert.Read from NKJV · The First Word of the Gospel

5 And the glory of the LORD will be revealed, and all humanity together will see it. For the mouth of the LORD has spoken."Read from NKJV · The First Word of the Gospel

28 Do you not know? Have you not heard? The LORD is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He will not grow tired or weary; His understanding is beyond searching out.Read from NKJV · Christian Combat - God's Strength and How to Get It

29 He gives power to the faint and increases the strength of the weak.Read from NKJV · Christian Combat - God's Strength and How to Get It

30 Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall.Read from NKJV · Christian Combat - God's Strength and How to Get It

31 But those who wait upon the LORD will renew their strength; they will mount up with wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not faint.Read from NKJV · Christian Combat - God's Strength and How to Get It

Isaiah 42

1 "Here is My Servant, whom I uphold, My Chosen One, in whom My soul delights. I will put My Spirit on Him, and He will bring justice to the nations.Read from NKJV · Jesus the Servant and Leader

2 He will not cry out or raise His voice, nor make His voice heard in the streets.Read from NKJV · Jesus the Servant and Leader

3 A bruised reed He will not break and a smoldering wick He will not extinguish; He will faithfully bring forth justice.Read from NKJV · Jesus the Servant and Leader

4 He will not grow weak or discouraged before He has established justice on the earth. In His law the islands will put their hope."Read from NKJV · Jesus the Servant and Leader

Isaiah 55

3 Incline your ear and come to Me; listen, so that your soul may live. I will make with you an everlasting covenant— My loving devotion promised to David.Read from NKJV · The Meaning of the Millennium

4 Behold, I have made him a witness to the nations, a leader and commander of the peoples.Read from NKJV · The Meaning of the Millennium

8 "For My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways," declares the LORD.Read from NKJV · (1 Samuel) the Holiness of God

9 "For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so My ways are higher than your ways and My thoughts than your thoughts.Read from ESV · (1 Samuel) the Holiness of God

Isaiah 59

16 He saw that there was no man; He was amazed that there was no one to intercede. So His own arm brought salvation, and His own righteousness sustained Him.Read from NKJV · Christian Combat - God's Armor: What to Have

17 He put on righteousness like a breastplate, and the helmet of salvation on His head; He put on garments of vengeance and wrapped Himself in a cloak of zeal.Read from NKJV · Christian Combat - God's Armor: What to Have

Isaiah 64

6 Each of us has become like something unclean, and all our righteous acts are like filthy rags; we all wither like a leaf, and our iniquities carry us away like the wind.Read from NKJV · Do Good People Go to Heaven?

Isaiah 65

20 No longer will a nursing infant live but a few days, or an old man fail to live out his years. For the youth will die at a hundred years, and he who fails to reach a hundred will be considered accursed.Read from NKJV · The Meaning of the Millennium

21 They will build houses and dwell in them; they will plant vineyards and eat their fruit.Read from ESV · The Meaning of the Millennium

22 No longer will they build houses for others to inhabit, nor plant for others to eat. For as is the lifetime of a tree, so will be the days of My people, and My chosen ones will fully enjoy the work of their hands.Read from NKJV · The Meaning of the Millennium

23 They will not labor in vain or bear children doomed to disaster; for they will be a people blessed by the LORD— they and their descendants with them.Read from NKJV · The Meaning of the Millennium

24 Even before they call, I will answer, and while they are still speaking, I will hear.Read from NKJV · (Daniel) the 70 Weeks of Daniel

25 The wolf and the lamb will feed together, and the lion will eat straw like the ox, but the food of the serpent will be dust. They will neither harm nor destroy on all My holy mountain," says the LORD.Read from NKJV · The Meaning of the Millennium

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