Talált 1518 Eredmények: Chosen People
This people, the Lord says, makes profession of worshipping me, does me honour with its lips, but its heart is far from me.✻ If they fear me, it is a lesson they learned from human precepts. (Isaiah 29, 13)
So rebellious a people is this, so treacherous a breed, refusing, my own children, to listen to the law of their God; (Isaiah 30, 9)
moon’s light will be like the light of the sun, and the sun will shine in sevenfold strength, as if the light of seven days were joined in one, when the time comes for the Lord to bind up his people’s hurt, and heal their grievous wound. (Isaiah 30, 26)
In quiet homes this people of mine shall live, in dwelling-places that fear no attack; all shall be ease and plenty. (Isaiah 32, 18)
No longer wilt thou see before thee a rebellious people,✻ all profound talk that passes thy comprehension, and no wisdom. (Isaiah 33, 19)
Or wilt thou answer, We trust, I and my people, in the Lord our God? Tell me, who is he? Is he not the God whose hill-shrines and altars their king, Ezechias, has cleared away, bidding Juda and Jerusalem worship at one altar here? (Isaiah 36, 7)
What, hast thou not heard how I dealt with this people in time past? This present design, too, is one I have formed long since, and am now carrying out; such a design as brings with it ruin for the mountain-fastnesses, the walled cities that fight against thee. (Isaiah 37, 26)
Take heart again, my people, says your God, take heart again. (Isaiah 40, 1)
grass that withers, a flower that fades, when the Lord’s breath blows upon it. The whole people, what is it but grass? (Isaiah 40, 7)
in his person, I led thee by the hand from the ends of the earth, beckoning thee from far away, and still I whispered to thee, My servant thou art, chosen, not rejected. (Isaiah 41, 9)
True to my purpose, I, the Lord, have summoned thee, taking thee by the hand and protecting thee, to make, through thee, a covenant with my own people, to shed, through thee, light over the Gentiles: (Isaiah 42, 6)
yet here is a people robbed and spoiled, caught by warriors that have hidden it away in dungeons, a prey there is none to deliver, spoil none bids them restore. (Isaiah 42, 22)
