Quotes About Transformation

By warfare and exile You contended with her and removed her with a fierce wind, as on the day the east wind blows.

In a very short time, will not Lebanon become an orchard, and the orchard seem like a forest?

On that day the deaf will hear the words of the scroll, and out of the deep darkness the eyes of the blind will see.

Then the wayward in spirit will come to understanding, and those who grumble will accept instruction.”

So you will desecrate your silver-plated idols and your gold-plated images. You will throw them away like menstrual cloths, saying to them, “Be gone!”

The mind of the rash will know and understand, and the stammering tongue will speak clearly and fluently.

until the Spirit is poured out upon us from on high. Then the desert will be an orchard, and the orchard will seem like a forest.

The land mourns and languishes; Lebanon is ashamed and decayed. Sharon is like a desert; Bashan and Carmel shake off their leaves.

Edomís streams will be turned to tar, and her soil to sulfur; her land will become a blazing pitch.

Her towers will be overgrown with thorns, her fortresses with thistles and briers. She will become a haunt for jackals, an abode for ostriches.

The wilderness and the land will be glad; the desert will rejoice and blossom like a rose.

Then the eyes of the blind will be opened and the ears of the deaf unstopped.

Then the lame will leap like a deer and the mute tongue will shout for joy. For waters will gush forth in the wilderness, and streams in the desert.

The parched ground will become a pool, the thirsty land springs of water. In the haunt where jackals once lay, there will be grass and reeds and papyrus.

Every valley shall be lifted up, and every mountain and hill made low; the uneven ground will become smooth, and the rugged land a plain.

Behold, I will make you into a threshing sledge, new and sharp, with many teeth. You will thresh the mountains and crush them, and reduce the hills to chaff.

I will open rivers on the barren heights, and fountains in the middle of the valleys. I will turn the desert into a pool of water, and the dry land into flowing springs.

Behold, the former things have happened, and now I declare new things. Before they spring forth I proclaim them to you.”

I will lay waste the mountains and hills and dry up all their vegetation. I will turn the rivers into dry land and drain the marshes.

I will lead the blind by a way they did not know; I will guide them on unfamiliar paths. I will turn darkness into light before them and rough places into level ground. These things I will do for them, and I will not forsake them.

“Do not call to mind the former things; pay no attention to the things of old.

Behold, I am about to do something new; even now it is coming. Do you not see it? Indeed, I will make a way in the wilderness and streams in the desert.

Take millstones and grind flour; remove your veil; strip off your skirt, bare your thigh, and wade through the streams.

For I knew that you are stubborn; your neck is iron and your forehead is bronze.