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Isaiah · read by Larry Perkins
60 verses, in order. Only the verses Larry 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 · Consider Your Options
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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 · Consider Your Options
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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 NKJV · Consider Your Options
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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 NKJV · Consider Your Options
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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 NKJV · Consider Your Options
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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 NKJV · Consider Your Options
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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 NKJV · Consider Your Options
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If you are willing and obedient, you will eat the best of the land.Read from ESV · Consider Your Options
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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 NKJV · Consider Your Options
Isaiah 36
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In the fourteenth year of Hezekiah's reign, Sennacherib king of Assyria attacked and captured all the fortified cities of Judah.Read from NKJV · Can God Be Trusted? (2)
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And the king of Assyria sent the Rabshakeh, with a great army, from Lachish to King Hezekiah at Jerusalem. And he stopped by the aqueduct of the upper pool, on the road to the Launderer's Field.Read from NKJV · Can God Be Trusted? (1)
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Then Eliakim son of Hilkiah the palace administrator, Shebna the scribe, and Joah son of Asaph the recorder, went out to him.Read from NKJV · Can God Be Trusted? (1)
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The Rabshakeh said to them, "Tell Hezekiah that this is what the great king, the king of Assyria, says: What is the basis of this confidence of yours?Read from NKJV · Can God Be Trusted? (2)
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Look now, you are trusting in Egypt, that splintered reed of a staff that will pierce the hand of anyone who leans on it. Such is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who trust in him.Read from NKJV · Can God Be Trusted? (1)
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But if you say to me, 'We trust in the LORD our God,' is He not the One whose high places and altars Hezekiah has removed, saying to Judah and Jerusalem, 'You must worship before this altar'?Read from NKJV · Can God Be Trusted? (1)
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For how can you repel a single officer among the least of my master's servants when you depend on Egypt for chariots and horsemen?Read from NKJV · Can God Be Trusted? (1)
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So now, was it apart from the LORD that I have come up against this land to destroy it? The LORD Himself said to me, 'Go up against this land and destroy it.'"Read from NKJV · Can God Be Trusted? (1)
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Do not let Hezekiah persuade you to trust in the LORD when he says, 'The LORD will surely deliver us; this city will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.'Read from NASB1995 · Can God Be Trusted? (1)
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Do not listen to Hezekiah, for this is what the king of Assyria says: Make peace with me and come out to me. Then every one of you will eat from his own vine and his own fig tree, and drink water from his own cistern,Read from NKJV · Can God Be Trusted? (1)
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until I come and take you away to a land like your own—a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards.Read from NASB1995 · Can God Be Trusted? (1)
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Do not let Hezekiah mislead you when he says, 'The LORD will deliver us.' Has the god of any nation ever delivered his land from the hand of the king of Assyria?Read from NKJV · Can God Be Trusted? (1)
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Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim? Have they delivered Samaria from my hand?Read from NKJV · Can God Be Trusted? (1)
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Who among all the gods of these lands has delivered his land from my hand? How then can the LORD deliver Jerusalem from my hand?"Read from NKJV · Can God Be Trusted? (1)
Isaiah 37
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On hearing this report, King Hezekiah tore his clothes, put on sackcloth, and entered the house of the LORD.Read from NKJV · Can God Be Trusted? (1)
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And he sent Eliakim the palace administrator, Shebna the scribe, and the leading priests, all wearing sackcloth, to the prophet Isaiah son of AmozRead from NKJV · Can God Be Trusted? (1)
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to tell him, "This is what Hezekiah says: Today is a day of distress, rebuke, and disgrace; for children have come to the point of birth, but there is no strength to deliver them.Read from NKJV · Can God Be Trusted? (1)
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Perhaps the LORD your God will hear the words of the Rabshakeh, whom his master the king of Assyria has sent to defy the living God, and He will rebuke him for the words that the LORD your God has heard. Therefore lift up a prayer for the remnant that still survives."Read from NKJV · Can God Be Trusted? (1)
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who replied, "Tell your master that this is what the LORD says: 'Do not be afraid of the words you have heard, with which the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed Me.Read from NKJV · Can God Be Trusted? (2)
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Behold, I will put a spirit in him so that he will hear a rumor and return to his own land, where I will cause him to fall by the sword.'"Read from NKJV · Can God Be Trusted? (2)
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"Give this message to Hezekiah king of Judah: 'Do not let your God, in whom you trust, deceive you by saying that Jerusalem will not be delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria.Read from NKJV · Can God Be Trusted? (2)
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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 · Can God Be Trusted? (2)
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Then Isaiah son of Amoz sent a message to Hezekiah: "This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: Because you have prayed to Me concerning Sennacherib king of Assyria,Read from NKJV · Can God Be Trusted? (2)
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Whom have you taunted and blasphemed? Against whom have you raised your voice and lifted your eyes in pride? Against the Holy One of Israel!Read from NKJV · Can God Be Trusted? (2)
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Because your rage and arrogance against Me have reached My ears, I will put My hook in your nose and My bit in your mouth; I will send you back the way you came.'Read from NKJV · Can God Be Trusted? (2)
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And this will be a sign to you, O Hezekiah: This year you will eat what grows on its own, and in the second year what springs from the same. But in the third year you will sow and reap; you will plant vineyards and eat their fruit.Read from NKJV · Can God Be Trusted? (2)
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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 NKJV · Can God Be Trusted? (2)
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He will go back the way he came, and he will not enter this city,' declares the LORD.Read from NKJV · Can God Be Trusted? (2)
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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 NASB1995 · Can God Be Trusted? (2)
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So Sennacherib king of Assyria broke camp and withdrew. He returned to Nineveh and stayed there.Read from NKJV · Can God Be Trusted? (2)
Isaiah 41
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Each one helps the other and says to his brother, "Be strong!"Read from NKJV · Living in the good of God's presence
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The craftsman encourages the goldsmith, and he who wields the hammer cheers him who strikes the anvil, saying of the welding, "It is good." He nails it down so it will not be toppled.Read from KJV · Living in the good of God's presence
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"But you, O Israel, My servant, Jacob, whom I have chosen, descendant of Abraham My friend—Read from KJV · Living in the good of God's presence
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I brought you from the ends of the earth and called you from its farthest corners. I said, 'You are My servant.' I have chosen and not rejected you.Read from KJV · Living in the good of God's presence
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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 KJV · Living in the good of God's presence
Isaiah 55
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"For My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways," declares the LORD.Read from NKJV · God's ways in Matthew 1 - 4
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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 · God's Ways with Moses and the Israelites
Isaiah 58
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"Cry aloud, do not hold back! Raise your voice like a ram's horn. Declare to My people their transgression and to the house of Jacob their sins.Read from KJV · Pleasing God
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For day after day they seek Me and delight to know My ways, like a nation that does what is right and does not forsake the justice of their God. They ask Me for righteous judgments; they delight in the nearness of God."Read from KJV · Pleasing God
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"Why have we fasted, and You have not seen? Why have we humbled ourselves, and You have not noticed?" "Behold, on the day of your fast, you do as you please, and you oppress all your workers.Read from KJV · Pleasing God
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Is this the fast I have chosen: a day for a man to deny himself, to bow his head like a reed, and to spread out sackcloth and ashes? Will you call this a fast and a day acceptable to the LORD?Read from KJV · Pleasing God
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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 KJV · Pleasing God
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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 KJV · Pleasing God
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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 KJV · Pleasing God
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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 KJV · Pleasing God
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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 KJV · Pleasing God
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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 KJV · Pleasing God
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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 KJV · Pleasing God
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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 KJV · Pleasing God
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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 KJV · Pleasing God