Quotes About Isaiah

Thus when Isaiah in chapter fifty-three says how Christ should die for us and bear our sins, he has written the pure gospel. And I assure you, if a person fails to grasp this understanding of the gospel, he will never be able to be illuminated in the Scripture nor will he receive the right foundation.

In the Lord's Prayer the believer, with the phrase May thy name be made holy, calls for a demonstration of the holiness of God. That is, the worshiper is saying, May God again demonstrate his holiness. This in turn expresses a willingness to participate in Isaiah's dramatic experience.

The LORD Almighty has spoken—who can change his plans? When his hand moves, who can stop him? (ISAIAH 14:27 NLT).

For Luke, Isaiah's proclamation has new meaning: The "Lord" for Luke is Jesus of Nazareth, and the "way" to be prepared is not a literal highway in the desert, but the new movement that called itself not "Christian" but followers of "the Way" (see Acts 9:2).

There is little reason to argue over who has the correct reading here. Isaiah's words will mean, and should mean, different things to different people over time. Moreover, different translations necessarily give rise to different interpretations, and translation itself is an act of interpretation.

Universal hospitality. Welcoming all to God's table. A river of justice. Or, as the prophet Isaiah envisioned long ago, "They will not hurt or destroy on my holy mountain; for the earth will be full of the knowledge of the Lord as the waters cover the sea" (Isa. 11:9).

Authority rests upon his shoulders" (Isa. 9:6).

uses to carry out His purpose. This truth is taught in such passages as Isaiah 10:5-16 (we will look at this passage in another chapter).

His name will be called . . . Prince of Peace. – Isaiah 9:6

For You have been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shade from the heat. – Isaiah 25:4

My people will dwell in a peaceful habitation, in secure dwellings, and in quiet resting places. – Isaiah 32:18

You will keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on You, because he trusts in You. – Isaiah 26:3

As science turns toward the realm of the Spirit to understand the physical universe, Space, Matter, Time are more prone to induce reverence than arrogance among scientists, who are sounding more like Isaiah in the temple than Isaac Newton under the apple tree.

Isaiah go home and get some sleep, said God. Isaiah went home, slept, woke again. Isaiah felt a sensation below the neck, it was a silk and bitter sensation. Isaiah looked down. It was milk forcing the nipples open. Isaiah was more than whole. I am not with you am in you, said the muffled white voice of God.

Yet, O LORD, you are our Father. We are the clay, you are the potter; we are all the work of your hand. ISAIAH 64:8

I delight greatly in the LORD; my soul rejoices in my God. For he has clothed me with garments of salvation and arrayed me in a robe of righteousness. ISAIAH 61:10

He will be the sure foundation for your times, a rich store of salvation and wisdom and knowledge; the fear of the LORD is the key to this treasure. ISAIAH 33:6

You will keep in perfect peace him whose mind is steadfast, because he trusts in you. ISAIAH 26:3

In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord seated on a throne, high and exalted. ISAIAH 6:1

I am the LORD your God, who teaches you what is best for you, who directs you in the way you should go. ISAIAH 48:17

He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows, and familiar with suffering. Like one from whom men hide their faces he was despised, and we esteemed him not. ISAIAH 53:3

For this is what the high and lofty One says — he who lives forever, whose name is holy: "I live in a high and holy place, but also with him who is contrite and lowly in spirit, to revive the spirit of the lowly and to revive the heart of the contrite." ISAIAH 57:15

Give ear and come to me; hear me, that your soul may live. ISAIAH 55:3

The Spirit of the Sovereign LORD is on me, because the LORD has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. ISAIAH 61:1