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Isaiah · read by E.A. Johnston
134 verses, in order. Only the verses E.A. read aloud are shown.
Isaiah 1
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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 · America's Perfect Storm
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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 · America's Perfect Storm
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The ox knows its owner, and the donkey its master's manger, but Israel does not know; My people do not understand."Read from KJV · Crises in the Land and an Unrepentant Church
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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 KJV · A Cake Not Turned a Study on Backsliding
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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 KJV · Crises in the Land and an Unrepentant Church
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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 KJV · Crises in the Land and an Unrepentant Church
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Your land is desolate; your cities are burned with fire. Foreigners devour your fields before you— a desolation demolished by strangers.Read from KJV · America's Perfect Storm
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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 KJV · Crises in the Land and an Unrepentant Church
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Unless the LORD of Hosts had left us a few survivors, we would have become like Sodom, we would have resembled Gomorrah.Read from KJV · America's Perfect Storm
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Hear the word of the LORD, you rulers of Sodom; listen to the instruction of our God, you people of Gomorrah!Read from KJV · Crises in the Land and an Unrepentant Church
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"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 KJV · Crises in the Land and an Unrepentant Church
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When you come to appear before Me, who has required this of you— this trampling of My courts?Read from KJV · Bloody America Turn Back to God
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Bring your worthless offerings no more; your incense is detestable to Me— your New Moons, Sabbaths, and convocations. I cannot endure iniquity in a solemn assembly.Read from KJV · Bloody America Turn Back to God
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I hate your New Moons and your appointed feasts. They have become a burden to Me; I am weary of bearing them.Read from KJV · Bloody America Turn Back to God
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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 KJV · Crises in the Land and an Unrepentant Church
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Wash and cleanse yourselves. Remove your evil deeds from My sight. Stop doing evil!Read from KJV · Bloody America Turn Back to God
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Learn to do right; seek justice and correct the oppressor. Defend the fatherless and plead the case of the widow."Read from KJV · Bloody America Turn Back to God
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"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 KJV · The Land of Forgetfulness
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If you are willing and obedient, you will eat the best of the land.Read from KJV · Bloody America Turn Back to God
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But if you resist and rebel, you will be devoured by the sword." For the mouth of the LORD has spoken.Read from KJV · America Repent
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I will turn My hand against you; I will thoroughly purge your dross; I will remove all your impurities.Read from KJV · The Refiner's Fire Faith Series
Isaiah 5
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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 KJV · Revival Lectures Three
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"And now, O dwellers of Jerusalem and men of Judah, I exhort you to judge between Me and My vineyard.Read from KJV · Revival Lectures Three
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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 KJV · Jesus the Genuine Vine
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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 KJV · Spiritual Wasteland
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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 KJV · Oh America
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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 KJV · Perverted Nation and a Powerless Church
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I heard the LORD of Hosts declare: "Surely many houses will become desolate, great mansions left unoccupied.Read from KJV · Perverted Nation and a Powerless Church
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For ten acres of vineyard will yield but a bath of wine, and a homer of seed only an ephah of grain."Read from KJV · Perverted Nation and a Powerless Church
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Woe to those who rise early in the morning in pursuit of strong drink, who linger into the evening, to be inflamed by wine.Read from KJV · Perverted Nation and a Powerless Church
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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 KJV · Perverted Nation and a Powerless Church
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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 KJV · Perverted Nation and a Powerless Church
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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 KJV · Fallen Empire When Evil is Called Good
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So mankind will be brought low, and each man humbled; the arrogant will lower their eyes.Read from KJV · Fallen Empire When Evil is Called Good
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But the LORD of Hosts will be exalted by His justice, and the holy God will show Himself holy in righteousness.Read from KJV · Perverted Nation and a Powerless Church
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Lambs will graze as in their own pastures, and strangers will feed in the ruins of the wealthy.Read from KJV · Perverted Nation and a Powerless Church
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Woe to those who draw iniquity with cords of deceit and pull sin along with cart ropes,Read from KJV · Perverted Nation and a Powerless Church
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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 KJV · Perverted Nation and a Powerless Church
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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 KJV · Perverted Nation and a Powerless Church
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Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes and clever in their own sight.Read from KJV · Perverted Nation and a Powerless Church
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Woe to those who are heroes in drinking wine and champions in mixing beer,Read from KJV · Fallen Empire When Evil is Called Good
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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 KJV · Fallen Empire When Evil is Called Good
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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 KJV · Fallen Empire When Evil is Called Good
Isaiah 6
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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 KJV · The Disturbing Presence of Christ
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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 KJV · The Disturbing Presence of Christ
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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 KJV · The Disturbing Presence of Christ
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At the sound of their voices the doorposts and thresholds shook, and the temple was filled with smoke.Read from KJV · Revival Recapturing the Vanished Vision of God
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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 KJV · A Thrice Holy God and a Backslidden Church
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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 KJV · A Thrice Holy God and a Backslidden Church
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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 KJV · A Thrice Holy God and a Backslidden Church
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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 KJV · A Thrice Holy God and a Backslidden Church
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And He replied: "Go and tell this people, 'Be ever hearing, but never understanding; be ever seeing, but never perceiving.'Read from KJV · A Thrice Holy God and a Backslidden Church
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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 KJV · A Thrice Holy God and a Backslidden Church
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Then I asked: "How long, O Lord?" And He replied: "Until the cities lie ruined and without inhabitant, until the houses are left unoccupied and the land is desolate and ravaged,Read from KJV · A Thrice Holy God and a Backslidden Church
Isaiah 8
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The LORD of Hosts is the One you shall regard as holy. Only He should be feared; only He should be dreaded.Read from KJV · Failing to See the Hand of God Because We Have No Fear of God
Isaiah 13
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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 KJV · The First Message of the Cross
Isaiah 14
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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 KJV · The Root of Sin
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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 KJV · The Only Message Who is Jesus
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I will ascend above the tops of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High."Read from NKJV · The Root of Sin
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But you will be brought down to Sheol, to the lowest depths of the Pit.Read from KJV · The Ugly Tyrant of Self
Isaiah 26
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You will keep in perfect peace the steadfast of mind, because he trusts in You.Read from KJV · Faith Like a Tree
Isaiah 28
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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 KJV · I Washed My Steps with Butter
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This also comes from the LORD of Hosts, who is wonderful in counsel and excellent in wisdom.Read from KJV · I Washed My Steps with Butter
Isaiah 30
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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 KJV · Gaining Spiritual Understanding
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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 KJV · Johnston's Golden Nuggets of Pain
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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 KJV · Johnston's Golden Nuggets of Pain
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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 KJV · End Elevator Christianity
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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 KJV · Dead Souls in a Living Hell
Isaiah 33
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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 KJV · Snatching Men from the Fire
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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 · The Guilty Sinner's Due
Isaiah 40
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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 KJV · Faith Equals Deliverance
Isaiah 41
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Behold, I will make you into a threshing sledge, new and sharp, with many teeth. You will thresh the mountains and crush them, and reduce the hills to chaff.Read from KJV · An Uncompromising Faith
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I will open rivers on the barren heights, and fountains in the middle of the valleys. I will turn the desert into a pool of water, and the dry land into flowing springs.Read from KJV · The Activity of God in the Life of Man
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I will plant cedars in the wilderness, acacias, myrtles, and olive trees. I will set cypresses in the desert, elms and boxwood together,Read from KJV · The Activity of God in the Life of Man
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so that all may see and know, may consider and understand, that the hand of the LORD has done this and the Holy One of Israel has created it."Read from KJV · The Activity of God in the Life of Man
Isaiah 42
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A bruised reed He will not break and a smoldering wick He will not extinguish; He will faithfully bring forth justice.Read from KJV · Bruised Reeds a Study on Brokenness
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I will lead the blind by a way they did not know; I will guide them on unfamiliar paths. I will turn darkness into light before them and rough places into level ground. These things I will do for them, and I will not forsake them.Read from KJV · Crooked Things
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But those who trust in idols and say to molten images, 'You are our gods!' will be turned back in utter shame.Read from KJV · Crooked Things
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So He poured out on them His furious anger and the fierceness of battle. It enveloped them in flames, but they did not understand; it consumed them, but they did not take it to heart.Read from KJV · Three Gavels of Proverbs 29 1
Isaiah 43
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I, yes I, am the LORD, and there is no Savior but Me.Read from NKJV · Christ's Reception of Sinners
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"Do not call to mind the former things; pay no attention to the things of old.Read from KJV · Obtained Promises Faith Series
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Behold, I am about to do something new; even now it is coming. Do you not see it? Indeed, I will make a way in the wilderness and streams in the desert.Read from KJV · Obtained Promises Faith Series
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But you have not called on Me, O Jacob, because you have grown weary of Me, O Israel.Read from KJV · Prayerlessness
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I, yes I, am He who blots out your transgressions for My own sake and remembers your sins no more.Read from KJV · False Faith Found Out in Hell
Isaiah 44
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For I will pour water on the thirsty land, and currents on the dry ground. I will pour out My Spirit on your descendants, and My blessing on your offspring.Read from KJV · How to Study Revival
Isaiah 45
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"I will go before you and level the mountains; I will break down the gates of bronze and cut through the bars of iron.Read from KJV · Making Crooked Places Straight
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I will give you the treasures of darkness and the riches hidden in secret places, so that you may know that I am the LORD, the God of Israel, who calls you by name.Read from KJV · Making Crooked Places Straight
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I am the LORD, and there is no other; there is no God but Me. I will equip you for battle, though you have not known Me,Read from KJV · A Teenager Searching for the Reality of God
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Turn to Me and be saved, all the ends of the earth; for I am God, and there is no other.Read from KJV · Christ's Reception of Sinners
Isaiah 48
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See, I have refined you, but not as silver; I have tested you in the furnace of affliction.Read from KJV · Five Tests of the Refiner's Fire
Isaiah 49
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"Can a woman forget her nursing child, or lack compassion for the son of her womb? Even if she could forget, I will not forget you!Read from KJV · A Love Story
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Behold, I have inscribed you on the palms of My hands; your walls are ever before Me.Read from KJV · Cord of Love Stained in Blood
Isaiah 52
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Just as many were appalled at Him — His appearance was disfigured beyond that of any man, and His form was marred beyond human likeness—Read from KJV · Broken Alabaster Boxes
Isaiah 53
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Who has believed our message? And to whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed?Read from KJV · Is the Reality of Christ a Reality in Your Life
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He grew up before Him like a tender shoot, and like a root out of dry ground. He had no stately form or majesty to attract us, no beauty that we should desire Him.Read from KJV · Is the Reality of Christ a Reality in Your Life
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He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows, acquainted with grief. Like one from whom men hide their faces, He was despised, and we esteemed Him not.Read from KJV · Honor the Son
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Surely He took on our infirmities and carried our sorrows; yet we considered Him stricken by God, struck down and afflicted.Read from KJV · Broken Alabaster Boxes
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But He was pierced for our transgressions, He was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was upon Him, and by His stripes we are healed.Read from KJV · Honor the Son
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We all like sheep have gone astray, each one has turned to his own way; and the LORD has laid upon Him the iniquity of us all.Read from KJV · Comfortable Christianity
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He was oppressed and afflicted, yet He did not open His mouth. He was led like a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is silent, so He did not open His mouth.Read from KJV · Comfortable Christianity
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By oppression and judgment He was taken away, and who can recount His descendants? For He was cut off from the land of the living; He was stricken for the transgression of My people.Read from KJV · The Murdering of God
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He was assigned a grave with the wicked, and with a rich man in His death, although He had done no violence, nor was any deceit in His mouth.Read from KJV · Comfortable Christianity
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Yet it was the LORD's will to crush Him and to cause Him to suffer; and when His soul is made a guilt offering, He will see His offspring, He will prolong His days, and the good pleasure of the LORD will prosper in His hand.Read from KJV · The Murdering of God
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After the anguish of His soul, He will see the light of life and be satisfied. By His knowledge My righteous Servant will justify many, and He will bear their iniquities.Read from KJV · The Murdering of God
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Therefore I will allot Him a portion with the great, and He will divide the spoils with the strong, because He has poured out His life unto death, and He was numbered with the transgressors. Yet He bore the sin of many and made intercession for the transgressors.Read from KJV · Losing Sight of Calvary
Isaiah 54
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For your husband is your Maker— the LORD of Hosts is His name— the Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer; He is called the God of all the earth.Read from KJV · The Root of Sin
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For the LORD has called you back, like a wife deserted and wounded in spirit, like the rejected wife of one's youth," says your God.Read from KJV · The Root of Sin
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"For a brief moment I forsook you, but with great compassion I will bring you back.Read from KJV · The Root of Sin
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In a surge of anger I hid My face from you for a moment, but with everlasting kindness I will have compassion on you," says the LORD your Redeemer.Read from KJV · The Root of Sin
Isaiah 55
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"Come, all you who are thirsty, come to the waters; and you without money, come, buy, and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without cost!Read from KJV · His Nail-Pierced Hands
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Seek the LORD while He may be found; call on Him while He is near.Read from KJV · Lifeboat of Grace in a Sinking World
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Let the wicked man forsake his own way and the unrighteous man his own thoughts; let him return to the LORD, that He may have compassion, and to our God, for He will freely pardon.Read from KJV · The Recovery of the Gospel
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"For My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways," declares the LORD.Read from KJV · Has God Changed His Stripes
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"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 · Has God Changed His Stripes
Isaiah 56
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Blessed is the man who does this, and the son of man who holds it fast, who keeps the Sabbath without profaning it and keeps his hand from doing any evil."Read from KJV · How God Sees Sin
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Israel's watchmen are blind, they are all oblivious; they are all mute dogs, they cannot bark; they are dreamers lying around, loving to slumber.Read from NKJV · Blind Guides Given to a Provoking People
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Like ravenous dogs, they are never satisfied. They are shepherds with no discernment; they all turn to their own way, each one seeking his own gain:Read from KJV · Blind Guides Given to a Provoking People
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"Come, let me get the wine, let us imbibe the strong drink, and tomorrow will be like today, only far better!"Read from KJV · Blind Guides Given to a Provoking People
Isaiah 57
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For thus says the One who is high and lifted up, who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: "I dwell in a high and holy place, and with the oppressed and humble in spirit, to restore the spirit of the lowly and revive the heart of the contrite.Read from KJV · God's Principle of Reduction for Revival
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I have seen his ways, but I will heal him; I will guide him and restore comfort to him and his mourners,Read from KJV · Test of Faith Faith Series
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bringing praise to their lips. Peace, peace to those far and near," says the LORD, "and I will heal them."Read from KJV · The Pearl Or the Furnace
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But the wicked are like the storm-tossed sea, for it cannot be still, and its waves churn up mire and muck.Read from NKJV · False Faith Found Out in Hell
Isaiah 59
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Surely the arm of the LORD is not too short to save, nor His ear too dull to hear.Read from KJV · A Teenager Searching for the Reality of God
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But your iniquities have built barriers between you and your God, and your sins have hidden His face from you, so that He does not hear.Read from KJV · A Teenager Searching for the Reality of God
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Their feet run to evil; they are swift to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are sinful thoughts; ruin and destruction lie in their wake.Read from NKJV · Kingdom of Darkness Bound
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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 KJV · The Gospel in Isaiah
Isaiah 63
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But they rebelled and grieved His Holy Spirit. So He turned and became their enemy, and He Himself fought against them.Read from KJV · Like a Bear Let Loose
Isaiah 64
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If only You would rend the heavens and come down, so that mountains would quake at Your presence,Read from KJV · How to Study Revival
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as fire kindles the brushwood and causes the water to boil, to make Your name known to Your enemies, so that the nations will tremble at Your presence!Read from KJV · Like a Bear Let Loose
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When You did awesome works that we did not expect, You came down, and the mountains trembled at Your presence.Read from KJV · Like a Bear Let Loose
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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 KJV · The Gospel in Isaiah