Discovery Box| (0.58298664634146) | Isa 28:28 |
| <p class="poetry">Grain is crushed,p> <p class="poetry">though one certainly does not thresh it forever.p> <p class="poetry">The wheel of one’s wagon rolls over it,p> <p class="poetry">but his horses do not crush it.p> |
| (0.58298664634146) | Isa 29:12 |
| Or when they hand the scroll to one who can’t read<n id="1" /> and say, “Read this,” he says, “I can’t read.”<n id="2" />p> |
| (0.58298664634146) | Isa 29:16 |
| <p class="poetry">Your thinking is perverse!<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">Should the potter be regarded as clay?<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">Should the thing made say<n id="3" /> about its maker, “He didn’t make me”?p> <p class="poetry">Or should the pottery say about the potter, “He doesn’t understand”?p> |
| (0.58298664634146) | Isa 30:1 |
| <t /><p class="poetry">“The rebellious<n id="1" /> children are as good as dead,”<n id="2" /> says the <sc>Lordsc>,p> <p class="poetry">“those who make plans without consulting me,<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">who form alliances without consulting my Spirit,<n id="4" />p> <p class="poetry">and thereby compound their sin.<n id="5" />p> |
| (0.58298664634146) | Isa 30:10 |
| <p class="poetry">They<n id="1" /> say to the visionaries, “See no more visions!”p> <p class="poetry">and to the seers, “Don’t relate messages to us about what is right!<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">Tell us nice things,p> <p class="poetry">relate deceptive messages.<n id="3" />p> |
| (0.58298664634146) | Isa 30:14 |
| <p class="poetry">It shatters in pieces like a clay jar,p> <p class="poetry">so shattered to bits that none of it can be salvaged.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">Among its fragments one cannot find a shard large enough<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">to scoop a hot coal from a fire<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">or to skim off water from a cistern.”<n id="4" />p> |
| (0.58298664634146) | Isa 31:3 |
| <p class="poetry">The Egyptians are mere humans, not God;p> <p class="poetry">their horses are made of flesh, not spirit.p> <p class="poetry">The <sc>Lordsc> will strike with<n id="1" /> his hand;p> <p class="poetry">the one who helps will stumblep> <p class="poetry">and the one being helped will fall.p> <p class="poetry">Together they will perish.<n id="2" />p> |
| (0.58298664634146) | Isa 31:8 |
| <p class="poetry">Assyria will fall by a sword, but not one human-made;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">a sword not made by humankind will destroy them.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">They will run away from this sword<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">and their young men will be forced to do hard labor.p> |
| (0.58298664634146) | Isa 33:1 |
| <t /><p class="poetry">The destroyer is as good as dead,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">you who have not been destroyed!p> <p class="poetry">The deceitful one is as good as dead,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">the one whom others have not deceived!p> <p class="poetry">When you are through destroying, you will be destroyed;p> <p class="poetry">when you finish<n id="3" /> deceiving, others will deceive you!p> |
| (0.58298664634146) | Isa 35:8 |
| <p class="poetry">A thoroughfare will be there –p> <p class="poetry">it will be called the Way of Holiness.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">The unclean will not travel on it;p> <p class="poetry">it is reserved for those authorized to use it<n id="2" /> –p> <p class="poetry">fools<n id="3" /> will not stray into it.p> |
| (0.58298664634146) | Isa 35:9 |
| <p class="poetry">No lions will be there,p> <p class="poetry">no ferocious wild animals will be on it<n id="1" /> –p> <p class="poetry">they will not be found there.p> <p class="poetry">Those delivered from bondage will travel on it,p> |
| (0.58298664634146) | Isa 38:11 |
| <p class="poetry">“I thought,p> <p class="poetry">‘I will no longer see the <sc>Lordsc><n id="1" /> in the land of the living,p> <p class="poetry">I will no longer look on humankind with the inhabitants of the world.<n id="2" />p> |
| (0.58298664634146) | Isa 39:4 |
| Isaiah<n id="1" /> asked, “What have they seen in your palace?” Hezekiah replied, “They have seen everything in my palace. I showed them everything in my treasuries.” |
| (0.58298664634146) | Isa 40:20 |
| <p class="poetry">To make a contribution one selects wood that will not rot;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">he then seeks a skilled craftsmanp> <p class="poetry">to make<n id="2" /> an idol that will not fall over.p> |
| (0.58298664634146) | Isa 40:31 |
| <p class="poetry">But those who wait for the <sc>Lordsc>’s help<n id="1" /> find renewed strength;p> <p class="poetry">they rise up as if they had eagles’ wings,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">they run without growing weary,p> <p class="poetry">they walk without getting tired.p> |
| (0.58298664634146) | Isa 42:25 |
| <p class="poetry">So he poured out his fierce anger on them,p> <p class="poetry">along with the devastation<n id="1" /> of war.p> <p class="poetry">Its flames encircled them, but they did not realize it;<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">it burned against them, but they did notice.<n id="3" />p> |
| (0.58298664634146) | Isa 43:24 |
| <p class="poetry">You did not buy me aromatic reeds;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">you did not present to me<n id="2" /> the fat of your sacrifices.p> <p class="poetry">Yet you burdened me with your sins;p> <p class="poetry">you made me weary with your evil deeds.<n id="3" />p> |
| (0.58298664634146) | Isa 45:13 |
| <p class="poetry">It is me – I stir him up and commission him;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">I will make all his ways level.p> <p class="poetry">He will rebuild my city;p> <p class="poetry">he will send my exiled people home,p> <p class="poetry">but not for a price or a bribe,”p> <p class="poetry">says the <sc>Lordsc> who commands armies.p> |
| (0.58298664634146) | Isa 45:19 |
| <p class="poetry">I have not spoken in secret,p> <p class="poetry">in some hidden place.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">I did not tell Jacob’s descendants,p> <p class="poetry">‘Seek me in vain!’<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">I am the <sc>Lordsc>,p> <p class="poetry">the one who speaks honestly,p> <p class="poetry">who makes reliable announcements.<n id="3" />p> |
| (0.58298664634146) | Isa 45:20 |
| <p class="poetry">Gather together and come!p> <p class="poetry">Approach together, you refugees from the nations!p> <p class="poetry">Those who carry wooden idols know nothing,p> <p class="poetry">those who pray to a god that cannot deliver.p> |
