Quotes About Covenant

Then the LORD said to Isaiah, “Go out with your son Shear-jashub to meet Ahaz at the end of the aqueduct that feeds the upper pool, on the road to the Laundererís Field,

Again the LORD spoke to Ahaz, saying,

Then Isaiah said, “Hear now, O house of David! Is it not enough to try the patience of men? Will you try the patience of my God as well?

And I will appoint for Myself trustworthy witnesses—Uriah the priest and Zechariah son of Jeberekiah.”

Bind up the testimony and seal the law among my disciples.

Here am I, and the children the LORD has given me as signs and symbols in Israel from the LORD of Hosts, who dwells on Mount Zion.

The Lord has sent a message against Jacob, and it has fallen upon Israel.

A remnant will return—a remnant of Jacob—to the Mighty God.

For the Lord GOD of Hosts will carry out the destruction decreed upon the whole land.

Righteousness will be the belt around His hips, and faithfulness the sash around His waist.

The LORD of Hosts has sworn: “Surely, as I have planned, so will it be; as I have purposed, so will it stand.

The LORD will make Himself known to Egypt, and on that day Egypt will acknowledge the LORD. They will worship with sacrifices and offerings; they will make vows to the LORD and fulfill them.

In that day Israel will join a three-party alliance with Egypt and Assyria—a blessing upon the earth.

I will drive him like a peg into a firm place, and he will be a throne of glory for the house of his father.

The earth is defiled by its people; they have transgressed the laws; they have overstepped the decrees and broken the everlasting covenant.

Open the gates so a righteous nation may enter—one that remains faithful.

Or let them lay claim to My protection; let them make peace with Me—yes, let them make peace with Me.”

Has the LORD struck Israel as He struck her oppressors? Was she killed like those who slayed her?

For you said, “We have made a covenant with death; we have fashioned an agreement with Sheol. When the overwhelming scourge passes through it will not touch us, because we have made lies our refuge and falsehood our hiding place.”

Your covenant with death will be dissolved, and your agreement with Sheol will not stand. When the overwhelming scourge passes through, you will be trampled by it.

Therefore the LORD who redeemed Abraham says of the house of Jacob: “No longer will Jacob be ashamed and no more will his face grow pale.

Return to the One against whom you have so blatantly rebelled, O children of Israel.

Now, therefore, make a bargain with my master, the king of Assyria. I will give you two thousand horses—if you can put riders on them!

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,