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Isaiah · read by John Piper
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Isaiah 2
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Their land is full of idols; they bow down to the work of their hands, to what their fingers have made.Read from ESV · The Uncommon Virtue of Humility
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So mankind is brought low, and man is humbled— do not forgive them!Read from ESV · The Uncommon Virtue of Humility
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Go into the rocks and hide in the dust from the terror of the LORD and the splendor of His majesty.Read from ESV · The Uncommon Virtue of Humility
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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 ESV · The Uncommon Virtue of Humility
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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 ESV · The Uncommon Virtue of Humility
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against every high tower, against every fortified wall,Read from NASB1995 · The Uncommon Virtue of Humility
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against every ship of Tarshish, and against every stately vessel.Read from ESV · The Uncommon Virtue of Humility
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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 ESV · The Uncommon Virtue of Humility
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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 ESV · The Uncommon Virtue of Humility
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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 ESV · The Uncommon Virtue of Humility
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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 ESV · The Uncommon Virtue of Humility
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Put no more trust in man, who has only the breath in his nostrils. Of what account is he?Read from ESV · The Uncommon Virtue of Humility
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 ESV · In the Throne Room： The God of Holiness and Hope
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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 ESV · In the Throne Room： The God of Holiness and Hope
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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 ESV · In the Throne Room： The God of Holiness and Hope
Isaiah 9
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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 · Son of God, Son of Man, King of Israel
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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 ESV · Prayer and the Victory of God
Isaiah 10
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He will clear the forest thickets with an axe, and Lebanon will fall before the Mighty One.Read from ESV · The Branch And Banner of David
Isaiah 11
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Then a shoot will spring up from the stump of Jesse, and a Branch from his roots will bear fruit.Read from ESV · The Branch And Banner of David
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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 ESV · The Branch And Banner of David
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Righteousness will be the belt around His hips, and faithfulness the sash around His waist.Read from ESV · The Branch And Banner of David
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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 ESV · Gentiles Rejoice in the Root of Jesse
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The cow will graze with the bear, their young will lie down together, and the lion will eat straw like the ox.Read from ESV · Gentiles Rejoice in the Root of Jesse
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The infant will play by the cobra's den, and the toddler will reach into the viper's nest.Read from ESV · Gentiles Rejoice in the Root of Jesse
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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 ESV · The Branch And Banner of David
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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 ESV · The Branch And Banner of David
Isaiah 24
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They raise their voices, they shout for joy; from the west they proclaim the majesty of the LORD.Read from ESV · The Glory of God in the Gladness of the Nations in God
Isaiah 26
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You will keep in perfect peace the steadfast of mind, because he trusts in You.Read from NKJV · Peace Overcomes Our Conflicts
Isaiah 30
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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 ESV · Battling the Unbelief of Impatience
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But Pharaoh's protection will become your shame, and the refuge of Egypt's shade your disgrace.Read from ESV · Battling the Unbelief of Impatience
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For though their princes are at Zoan and their envoys have arrived in Hanes,Read from ESV · Battling the Unbelief of Impatience
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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 ESV · Battling the Unbelief of Impatience
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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 ESV · Battling the Unbelief of Impatience
Isaiah 31
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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 ESV · God Works for Those Who Wait for Him (Video)
Isaiah 37
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So Hezekiah received the letter from the messengers, read it, and went up to the house of the LORD and spread it out before the LORD.Read from ESV · Prayer and the Victory of God
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"O LORD of Hosts, God of Israel, enthroned above the cherubim, You alone are God over all the kingdoms of the earth. You made the heavens and the earth.Read from NASB1995 · Prayer and the Victory of God
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So this is what the LORD says about the king of Assyria: 'He will not enter this city or shoot an arrow into it. He will not come before it with a shield or build up a siege ramp against it.Read from ESV · Prayer and the Victory of God
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He will go back the way he came, and he will not enter this city,' declares the LORD.Read from ESV · Prayer and the Victory of God
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'I will defend this city and save it for My own sake and for the sake of My servant David.'"Read from ESV · Prayer and the Victory of God
Isaiah 40
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Surely the nations are like a drop in a bucket; they are considered a speck of dust on the scales; He lifts up the islands like fine dust.Read from ESV · God Raised Your Great Shepherd From the Dead
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All the nations are as nothing before Him; He regards them as nothingness and emptiness.Read from ESV · The Glory of God and Why We Sing
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"To whom will you liken Me, or who is My equal?" asks the Holy One.Read from ESV · The Supremacy of God in the Use of Your Mind
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Lift up your eyes on high: Who created all these? He leads forth the starry host by number; He calls each one by name. Because of His great power and mighty strength, not one of them is missing.Read from ESV · The Supremacy of God in the Use of Your Mind
Isaiah 41
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Do not fear, for I am with you; do not be afraid, for I am your God. I will strengthen you; I will surely help you; I will uphold you with My right hand of righteousness.Read from ESV · Battling the Unbelief of Anxiety
Isaiah 43
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everyone called by My name and created for My glory, whom I have indeed formed and made."Read from ESV · The Supremacy of God in the Use of Your Mind
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Bring out a people who have eyes but are blind, and who have ears but are deaf.Read from NASB1995 · (Education for Exultation) I Am the Lord, and Besides Me There Is No Savior
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All the nations gather together and the peoples assemble. Who among them can declare this, and proclaim to us the former things? Let them present their witnesses to vindicate them, so that others may hear and say, "It is true."Read from NASB1995 · (Education for Exultation) I Am the Lord, and Besides Me There Is No Savior
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"You are My witnesses," declares the LORD, "and My servant whom I have chosen, so that you may consider and believe Me and understand that I am He. Before Me no god was formed, and after Me none will come.Read from NASB1995 · (Education for Exultation) I Am the Lord, and Besides Me There Is No Savior
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I, yes I, am the LORD, and there is no Savior but Me.Read from NASB1995 · (Education for Exultation) I Am the Lord, and Besides Me There Is No Savior
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I alone decreed and saved and proclaimed— I, and not some foreign god among you. So you are My witnesses," declares the LORD, "that I am God.Read from NASB1995 · (Education for Exultation) I Am the Lord, and Besides Me There Is No Savior
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Even from eternity I am He, and none can deliver out of My hand. When I act, who can reverse it?"Read from NASB1995 · (Education for Exultation) I Am the Lord, and Besides Me There Is No Savior
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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 ESV · Let the Nations Be Glad - Part 2
Isaiah 45
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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 NASB1995 · (Education for Exultation) I Am the Lord, and Besides Me There Is No Savior
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so that all may know, from where the sun rises to where it sets, that there is none but Me; I am the LORD, and there is no other.Read from NASB1995 · (Education for Exultation) I Am the Lord, and Besides Me There Is No Savior
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I form the light and create the darkness; I bring prosperity and create calamity. I, the LORD, do all these things.Read from NASB1995 · (Education for Exultation) I Am the Lord, and Besides Me There Is No Savior
Isaiah 46
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Bel crouches; Nebo cowers. Their idols weigh down beasts and cattle. The images you carry are burdensome, a load to the weary animal.Read from ESV · God Works for Those Who Wait for Him (Video)
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The gods cower; they crouch together, unable to relieve the burden; but they themselves go into captivity.Read from ESV · The Supremacy of God in Prayer
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"Listen to Me, O house of Jacob, all the remnant of the house of Israel, who have been sustained from the womb, carried along since birth.Read from NASB1995 · Living by Faith in Future Grace - Lesson 4
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Even to your old age, I will be the same, and I will bear you up when you turn gray. I have made you, and I will carry you; I will sustain you and deliver you.Read from ESV · Finishing Well in the Face of Death
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Remember what happened long ago, for I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is none like Me.Read from NASB1995 · (Education for Exultation) I Am the Lord, and Besides Me There Is No Savior
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I declare the end from the beginning, and ancient times from what is still to come. I say, 'My purpose will stand, and all My good pleasure I will accomplish.'Read from ESV · God Works for Those Who Wait for Him (Video)
Isaiah 48
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For the sake of My name I will delay My wrath; for the sake of My praise I will restrain it, so that you will not be cut off.Read from ESV · The Supremacy of God in Preaching
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See, I have refined you, but not as silver; I have tested you in the furnace of affliction.Read from NASB1995 · Desiring God - Lesson 1
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For My own sake, My very own sake, I will act; for how can I let Myself be defamed? I will not yield My glory to another.Read from ESV · The Supremacy of God in Preaching
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If only you had paid attention to My commandments, your peace would have been like a river, and your righteousness like waves of the sea.Read from ESV · Peace Overcomes Our Conflicts
Isaiah 53
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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 ESV · Belief in Jesus： Its Barriers and Blessings
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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 ESV · Peace Overcomes Our Conflicts
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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 ESV · Judas Iscariot, the Suicide of Satan, and the Salvation of the World
Isaiah 54
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"Shout for joy, O barren woman, who bears no children; break forth in song and cry aloud, you who have never travailed; because more are the children of the desolate woman than of her who has a husband," says the LORD.Read from ESV · Single in Christ a Name Better Than Sons and Daughters
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 ESV · Desiring God - Lesson 3
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Why spend money on that which is not bread, and your labor on that which does not satisfy? Listen carefully to Me, and eat what is good, and your soul will delight in the richest of foods.Read from ESV · Desiring God - Lesson 3
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Seek the LORD while He may be found; call on Him while He is near.Read from ESV · Battling the Unbelief of Misplaced Shame
Isaiah 56
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For this is what the LORD says: "To the eunuchs who keep My Sabbaths, who choose what pleases Me and hold fast to My covenant—Read from ESV · Single in Christ a Name Better Than Sons and Daughters
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I will give them, in My house and within My walls, a memorial and a name better than that of sons and daughters. I will give them an everlasting name that will not be cut off.Read from ESV · Single in Christ a Name Better Than Sons and Daughters
Isaiah 58
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Isn't this the fast that I have chosen: to break the chains of wickedness, to untie the cords of the yoke, to set the oppressed free and tear off every yoke?Read from NASB1995 · A Fast for Waters That Do Not Fail (Part 2)
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Isn't it to share your bread with the hungry, to bring the poor and homeless into your home, to clothe the naked when you see him, and not to turn away from your own flesh and blood?Read from NASB1995 · A Fast for Waters That Do Not Fail (Part 2)
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Then your light will break forth like the dawn, and your healing will come quickly. Your righteousness will go before you, and the glory of the LORD will be your rear guard.Read from NASB1995 · A Fast for Waters That Do Not Fail (Part 2)
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Then you will call, and the LORD will answer; you will cry out, and He will say, 'Here I am.' If you remove the yoke from your midst, the pointing of the finger and malicious talk,Read from NASB1995 · A Fast for Waters That Do Not Fail (Part 2)
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and if you give yourself to the hungry and satisfy the afflicted soul, then your light will go forth in the darkness, and your night will be like noonday.Read from NASB1995 · A Fast for Waters That Do Not Fail (Part 1)
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The LORD will always guide you; He will satisfy you in a sun-scorched land and strengthen your frame. You will be like a well-watered garden, like a spring whose waters never fail.Read from NASB1995 · A Fast for Waters That Do Not Fail (Part 1)
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Your people will rebuild the ancient ruins; you will restore the age-old foundations; you will be called Repairer of the Breach, Restorer of the Streets of Dwelling.Read from NASB1995 · A Fast for Waters That Do Not Fail (Part 2)
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If you turn your foot from breaking the Sabbath, from doing as you please on My holy day, if you call the Sabbath a delight, and the LORD's holy day honorable, if you honor it by not going your own way or seeking your own pleasure or speaking idle words,Read from NASB1995 · A Fast for Waters That Do Not Fail (Part 1)
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then you will delight yourself in the LORD, and I will make you ride on the heights of the land and feed you with the heritage of your father Jacob." For the mouth of the LORD has spoken.Read from NASB1995 · A Fast for Waters That Do Not Fail (Part 1)
Isaiah 60
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For behold, darkness covers the earth, and thick darkness is over the peoples; but the LORD will rise upon you, and His glory will appear over you.Read from ESV · Put on the Lord Jesus Christ, Part One
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Nations will come to your light, and kings to the brightness of your dawn.Read from NASB1995 · Put on the Lord Jesus Christ, Part One
Isaiah 61
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The Spirit of the Lord GOD is on Me, because the LORD has anointed Me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent Me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and freedom to the prisoners,Read from ESV · I Will Build My Church
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They will rebuild the ancient ruins; they will restore the places long devastated; they will renew the ruined cities, the desolations of many generations.Read from ESV · I Will Build My Church
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 ESV · God Works for Those Who Wait for Him (Video)
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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 ESV · God Works for Those Who Wait for Him (Video)
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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 ESV · God Works for Those Who Wait for Him (Video)
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From ancient times no one has heard, no ear has perceived, no eye has seen any God besides You, who acts on behalf of those who wait for Him.Read from ESV · God Works for Those Who Wait for Him (Video)
Isaiah 65
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For behold, I will create new heavens and a new earth. The former things will not be remembered, nor will they come to mind.Read from NKJV · The Triumph of the Gospel in the New Heavens and the New Earth (Video)
Isaiah 66
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"For just as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make, will endure before Me," declares the LORD, "so your descendants and your name will endure.Read from ESV · The Triumph of the Gospel in the New Heavens and the New Earth (Video)
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"As they go forth, they will see the corpses of the men who have rebelled against Me; for their worm will never die, their fire will never be quenched, and they will be a horror to all mankind."Read from ESV · God's Wrath: Vengeance Is Mine, I Will Repay, Says the Lord