Isa.47.1

"Get off your high horse and sit in the dirt, virgin daughter of Babylon. No more throne for you--sit on the ground, daughter of the Chaldeans. Nobody will be calling you "charming' and "alluring' anymore. Get used to it.

Isa.47.1

"Go down, sit in the dust, Virgin Daughter of Babylon; sit on the ground without a throne, Daughter of the Babylonians. No more will you be called tender or delicate.

Isa.47.1

"Come down and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon; Sit on the ground without a throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans! For you shall no more be called Tender and delicate.

Isa.47.1

"Come, Babylon, unconquered one, sit in the dust. For your days of glory, pomp, and honor have ended. O daughter of Babylonia, never again will you be the lovely princess, tender and delicate.

Isa.47.2

Get a job, any old job: Clean gutters, scrub toilets. Hock your gowns and scarves, put on overalls--the party's over.

Isa.47.2

Take millstones and grind flour; take off your veil. Lift up your skirts, bare your legs, and wade through the streams.

Isa.47.2

Take the millstones and grind meal. Remove your veil, Take off the skirt, Uncover the thigh, Pass through the rivers.

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Take heavy millstones and grind the corn. Remove your veil and strip off your robe. Expose yourself to public view.

Isa.47.3

Your nude body will be on public display, exposed to vulgar taunts. It's vengeance time, and I'm taking vengeance. No one gets let off the hook."

Isa.47.3

Your nakedness will be exposed and your shame uncovered. I will take vengeance; I will spare no one."

Isa.47.3

Your nakedness shall be uncovered, Yes, your shame will be seen; I will take vengeance, And I will not arbitrate with a man."

Isa.47.3

You will be naked and burdened with shame. I will take vengeance against you and will not negotiate."

Isa.47.4

Our Redeemer speaks, named GOD-of-the-Angel-Armies, The Holy of Israel:

Isa.47.4

Our Redeemer-the LORD Almighty is his name- is the Holy One of Israel.

Isa.47.4

As for our Redeemer, the LORD of hosts is His name, The Holy One of Israel.

Isa.47.4

Our Redeemer, whose name is the LORD Almighty, is the Holy One of Israel.

Isa.47.5

"Shut up and get out of the way, daughter of Chaldeans. You'll no longer be called "First Lady of the Kingdoms.'

Isa.47.5

"Sit in silence, go into darkness, Daughter of the Babylonians; no more will you be called queen of kingdoms.

Isa.47.5

"Sit in silence, and go into darkness, O daughter of the Chaldeans; For you shall no longer be called The Lady of Kingdoms.

Isa.47.5

"O daughter of Babylonia, sit now in darkness and silence. Never again will you be known as the queen of kingdoms.

Isa.47.6

I was fed up with my people, thoroughly disgusted with my progeny. I turned them over to you, but you had no compassion. You put old men and women to cruel, hard labor.

Isa.47.6

I was angry with my people and desecrated my inheritance; I gave them into your hand, and you showed them no mercy. Even on the aged you laid a very heavy yoke.

Isa.47.6

I was angry with My people; I have profaned My inheritance, And given them into your hand. You showed them no mercy; On the elderly you laid your yoke very heavily.

Isa.47.6

For I was angry with my chosen people and began their punishment by letting them fall into your hands. But you, Babylon, showed them no mercy. You have forced even the elderly to carry heavy burdens.

Isa.47.7

You said, "I'm the First Lady. I'll always be the pampered darling.' You took nothing seriously, took nothing to heart, never gave tomorrow a thought.

Isa.47.7

You said, 'I will continue forever- the eternal queen!' But you did not consider these things or reflect on what might happen.

Isa.47.7

And you said, "I shall be a lady forever,' So that you did not take these things to heart, Nor remember the latter end of them.

Isa.47.7

You thought, `I will reign forever as queen of the world!' You did not care at all about my people or think about the consequences of your actions.

Isa.47.8

Well, start thinking, playgirl. You're acting like the center of the universe, Smugly saying to yourself, "I'm Number One. There's nobody but me. I'll never be a widow, I'll never lose my children.'

Isa.47.8

"Now then, listen, you wanton creature, lounging in your security and saying to yourself, 'I am, and there is none besides me. I will never be a widow or suffer the loss of children.'

Isa.47.8

"Therefore hear this now, you who are given to pleasures, Who dwell securely, Who say in your heart, "I am, and there is no one else besides me; I shall not sit as a widow, Nor shall I know the loss of children';

Isa.47.8

"You are a pleasure-crazy kingdom, living at ease and feeling secure, bragging as if you were the greatest in the world! You say, `I'm self-sufficient and not accountable to anyone! I will never be a widow or lose my children.'

Isa.47.9

Those two things are going to hit you both at once, suddenly, on the same day: Spouse and children gone, a total loss, despite your many enchantments and charms.

Isa.47.9

Both of these will overtake you in a moment, on a single day: loss of children and widowhood. They will come upon you in full measure, in spite of your many sorceries and all your potent spells.

Isa.47.9

But these two things shall come to you In a moment, in one day: The loss of children, and widowhood. They shall come upon you in their fullness Because of the multitude of your sorceries, For the great abundance of your enchantments.

Isa.47.9

Well, those two things will come upon you in a moment: widowhood and the loss of your children. Yes, these calamities will come upon you, despite all your witchcraft and magic.

Isa.47.10

You were so confident and comfortable in your evil life, saying, "No one sees me.' You thought you knew so much, had everything figured out. What delusion! Smugly telling yourself, "I'm Number One. There's nobody but me.'

Isa.47.10

You have trusted in your wickedness and have said, 'No one sees me.' Your wisdom and knowledge mislead you when you say to yourself, 'I am, and there is none besides me.'

Isa.47.10

"For you have trusted in your wickedness; You have said, "No one sees me'; Your wisdom and your knowledge have warped you; And you have said in your heart, "I am, and there is no one else besides me.'

Isa.47.10

"You felt secure in all your wickedness. `No one sees me,' you said. Your `wisdom' and `knowledge' have caused you to turn away from me and claim, `I am self-sufficient and not accountable to anyone!'

Isa.47.11

Ruin descends--you can't charm it away. Disaster strikes--you can't cast it off with spells. Catastrophe, sudden and total--and you're totally at sea, totally bewildered!

Isa.47.11

Disaster will come upon you, and you will not know how to conjure it away. A calamity will fall upon you that you cannot ward off with a ransom; a catastrophe you cannot foresee will suddenly come upon you.

Isa.47.11

Therefore evil shall come upon you; You shall not know from where it arises. And trouble shall fall upon you; You will not be able to put it off. And desolation shall come upon you suddenly, Which you shall not know.

Isa.47.11

So disaster will overtake you suddenly, and you won't be able to charm it away. Calamity will fall upon you, and you won't be able to buy your way out. A catastrophe will arise so fast that you won't know what hit you.

Isa.47.12

But don't give up. From your great repertoire of enchantments there must be one you haven't yet tried. You've been at this a long time. Surely something will work.

Isa.47.12

"Keep on, then, with your magic spells and with your many sorceries, which you have labored at since childhood. Perhaps you will succeed, perhaps you will cause terror.

Isa.47.12

"Stand now with your enchantments And the multitude of your sorceries, In which you have labored from your youth-- Perhaps you will be able to profit, Perhaps you will prevail.

Isa.47.12

"Call out the demon hordes you have worshiped all these years. Ask them to help you strike terror into the hearts of people once again.

Isa.47.13

I know you're exhausted trying out remedies, but don't give up. Call in the astrologers and stargazers. They're good at this. Surely they can work up something!

Isa.47.13

All the counsel you have received has only worn you out! Let your astrologers come forward, those stargazers who make predictions month by month, let them save you from what is coming upon you.

Isa.47.13

You are wearied in the multitude of your counsels; Let now the astrologers, the stargazers, And the monthly prognosticators Stand up and save you From what shall come upon you.

Isa.47.13

You have more than enough advisers, astrologers, and stargazers. Let them stand up and save you from what the future holds.

Isa.47.14

"Fat chance. You'd be grasping at straws that are already in the fire, A fire that is even now raging. Your "experts' are in it and won't get out. It's not a fire for cooking venison stew, not a fire to warm you on a winter night!

Isa.47.14

Surely they are like stubble; the fire will burn them up. They cannot even save themselves from the power of the flame. Here are no coals to warm anyone; here is no fire to sit by.

Isa.47.14

Behold, they shall be as stubble, The fire shall burn them; They shall not deliver themselves From the power of the flame; It shall not be a coal to be warmed by, Nor a fire to sit before!

Isa.47.14

But they are as useless as dried grass burning in a fire. They cannot even save themselves! You will get no help from them at all. Their hearth is not a place to sit for warmth.

Isa.47.15

That's the fate of your friends in sorcery, your magician buddies you've been in cahoots with all your life. They reel, confused, bumping into one another. None of them bother to help you.

Isa.47.15

That is all they can do for you- these you have labored with and trafficked with since childhood. Each of them goes on in his error; there is not one that can save you.

Isa.47.15

Thus shall they be to you With whom you have labored, Your merchants from your youth; They shall wander each one to his quarter. No one shall save you.

Isa.47.15

And all your friends, those with whom you have done business since childhood, will slip away and disappear, unable to help.

Isa.48.1

"And now listen to this, family of Jacob, you who are called by the name Israel: Who got you started in the loins of Judah, you who use GOD's name to back up your promises and pray to the God of Israel? But do you mean it? Do you live like it?

Isa.48.1

"Listen to this, O house of Jacob, you who are called by the name of Israel and come from the line of Judah, you who take oaths in the name of the LORD and invoke the God of Israel- but not in truth or righteousness-

Isa.48.1

"Hear this, O house of Jacob, Who are called by the name of Israel, And have come forth from the wellsprings of Judah; Who swear by the name of the LORD, And make mention of the God of Israel, But not in truth or in righteousness;

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"Listen to me, O family of Jacob, who are called by the name of Israel and born into the family of Judah. Listen, you who take oaths in the name of the LORD and call on the God of Israel. You don't follow through on any of your promises,

Isa.48.2

You claim to be citizens of the Holy City; you act as though you lean on the God of Israel, named GOD-of-the-Angel-Armies.

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you who call yourselves citizens of the holy city and rely on the God of Israel- the LORD Almighty is his name:

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For they call themselves after the holy city, And lean on the God of Israel; The LORD of hosts is His name:

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even though you call yourself the holy city and talk about depending on the God of Israel, whose name is the LORD Almighty.

Isa.48.3

For a long time now, I've let you in on the way I work: I told you what I was going to do beforehand, then I did it and it was done, and that's that.

Isa.48.3

I foretold the former things long ago, my mouth announced them and I made them known; then suddenly I acted, and they came to pass.

Isa.48.3

"I have declared the former things from the beginning; They went forth from My mouth, and I caused them to hear it. Suddenly I did them, and they came to pass.

Isa.48.3

Time and again I warned you about what was going to happen in the future. Then suddenly I took action, and all my predictions came true.

Isa.48.4

I know you're a bunch of hardheads, obstinate and flint-faced,

Isa.48.4

For I knew how stubborn you were; the sinews of your neck were iron, your forehead was bronze.

Isa.48.4

Because I knew that you were obstinate, And your neck was an iron sinew, And your brow bronze,

Isa.48.4

"I know how stubborn and obstinate you are. Your necks are as unbending as iron. You are as hardheaded as bronze.

Isa.48.5

So I got a running start and began telling you what was going on before it even happened. That is why you can't say, "My god-idol did this.'"My favorite god-carving commanded this.'

Isa.48.5

Therefore I told you these things long ago; before they happened I announced them to you so that you could not say, 'My idols did them; my wooden image and metal god ordained them.'

Isa.48.5

Even from the beginning I have declared it to you; Before it came to pass I proclaimed it to you, Lest you should say, "My idol has done them, And my carved image and my molded image Have commanded them.'

Isa.48.5

That is why I told you ahead of time what I was going to do. That way, you could never say, `My idols did it. My wooden image and metal god commanded it to happen!'

Isa.48.6

You have all this evidence confirmed by your own eyes and ears. Shouldn't you be talking about it? And that was just the beginning. I have a lot more to tell you, things you never knew existed.

Isa.48.6

You have heard these things; look at them all. Will you not admit them? "From now on I will tell you of new things, of hidden things unknown to you.

Isa.48.6

"You have heard; See all this. And will you not declare it? I have made you hear new things from this time, Even hidden things, and you did not know them.

Isa.48.6

You have heard my predictions and seen them fulfilled, but you refuse to admit it. Now I will tell you new things I have not mentioned before, secrets you have not yet heard.

Isa.48.7

This isn't a variation on the same old thing. This is new, brand-new, something you'd never guess or dream up. When you hear this you won't be able to say, "I knew that all along.'

Isa.48.7

They are created now, and not long ago; you have not heard of them before today. So you cannot say, 'Yes, I knew of them.'

Isa.48.7

They are created now and not from the beginning; And before this day you have not heard them, Lest you should say, "Of course I knew them.'

Isa.48.7

They are brand new, not things from the past. So you cannot say, `We knew that all the time!'

Isa.48.8

You've never been good listeners to me. You have a history of ignoring me, A sorry track record of fickle attachments--rebels from the womb.

Isa.48.8

You have neither heard nor understood; from of old your ear has not been open. Well do I know how treacherous you are; you were called a rebel from birth.

Isa.48.8

Surely you did not hear, Surely you did not know; Surely from long ago your ear was not opened. For I knew that you would deal very treacherously, And were called a transgressor from the womb.

Isa.48.8

"Yes, I will tell you of things that are entirely new, for I know so well what traitors you are. You have been rebels from your earliest childhood, rotten through and through.

Isa.48.9

But out of the sheer goodness of my heart, because of who I am, I keep a tight rein on my anger and hold my temper. I don't wash my hands of you.

Isa.48.9

For my own name's sake I delay my wrath; for the sake of my praise I hold it back from you, so as not to cut you off.

Isa.48.9

"For My name's sake I will defer My anger, And for My praise I will restrain it from you, So that I do not cut you off.

Isa.48.9

Yet for my own sake and for the honor of my name, I will hold back my anger and not wipe you out.

Isa.48.10

Do you see what I've done? I've refined you, but not without fire. I've tested you like silver in the furnace of affliction.

Isa.48.10

See, I have refined you, though not as silver; I have tested you in the furnace of affliction.

Isa.48.10

Behold, I have refined you, but not as silver; I have tested you in the furnace of affliction.

Isa.48.10

I have refined you but not in the way silver is refined. Rather, I have refined you in the furnace of suffering.

Isa.48.11

Out of myself, simply because of who I am, I do what I do. I have my reputation to keep up. I'm not playing second fiddle to either gods or people.

Isa.48.11

For my own sake, for my own sake, I do this. How can I let myself be defamed? I will not yield my glory to another.

Isa.48.11

For My own sake, for My own sake, I will do it; For how should My name be profaned? And I will not give My glory to another.

Isa.48.11

I will rescue you for my sake--yes, for my own sake! That way, the pagan nations will not be able to claim that their gods have conquered me. I will not let them have my glory!

Isa.48.12

"Listen, Jacob. Listen, Israel--I'm the One who named you! I'm the One. I got things started and, yes, I'll wrap them up.

Isa.48.12

"Listen to me, O Jacob, Israel, whom I have called: I am he; I am the first and I am the last.

Isa.48.12

"Listen to Me, O Jacob, And Israel, My called: I am He, I am the First, I am also the Last.

Isa.48.12

"Listen to me, O family of Jacob, Israel my chosen one! I alone am God, the First and the Last.

Isa.48.13

Earth is my work, handmade. And the skies--I made them too, horizon to horizon. When I speak, they're on their feet, at attention.

Isa.48.13

My own hand laid the foundations of the earth, and my right hand spread out the heavens; when I summon them, they all stand up together.

Isa.48.13

Indeed My hand has laid the foundation of the earth, And My right hand has stretched out the heavens; When I call to them, They stand up together.

Isa.48.13

It was my hand that laid the foundations of the earth. The palm of my right hand spread out the heavens above. I spoke, and they came into being.

Isa.48.14

"Come everybody, gather around, listen: Who among the gods has delivered the news? I, GOD, love this man Cyrus, and I'm using him to do what I want with Babylon.

Isa.48.14

"Come together, all of you, and listen: Which of the idols has foretold these things? The LORD's chosen ally will carry out his purpose against Babylon; his arm will be against the Babylonians.

Isa.48.14

"All of you, assemble yourselves, and hear! Who among them has declared these things? The LORD loves him; He shall do His pleasure on Babylon, And His arm shall be against the Chaldeans.

Isa.48.14

"Have any of your idols ever told you this? Come, all of you, and listen: `The LORD has chosen Cyrus as his ally. He will use him to put an end to the empire of Babylon, destroying the Babylonian armies.'

Isa.48.15

I, yes I, have spoken. I've called him. I've brought him here. He'll be successful.

Isa.48.15

I, even I, have spoken; yes, I have called him. I will bring him, and he will succeed in his mission.

Isa.48.15

I, even I, have spoken; Yes, I have called him, I have brought him, and his way will prosper.

Isa.48.15

I have said it: I am calling Cyrus! I will send him on this errand and will help him succeed.

Isa.48.16

Come close, listen carefully: I've never kept secrets from you. I've always been present with you." And now, the Master, GOD, sends me and his Spirit

Isa.48.16

"Come near me and listen to this: "From the first announcement I have not spoken in secret; at the time it happens, I am there." And now the Sovereign LORD has sent me, with his Spirit.

Isa.48.16

"Come near to Me, hear this: I have not spoken in secret from the beginning; From the time that it was, I was there. And now the Lord GOD and His Spirit Have sent Me."

Isa.48.16

Come closer and listen. I have always told you plainly what would happen so you would have no trouble understanding." And now the Sovereign LORD and his Spirit have sent me with this message:

Isa.48.17

with this Message from GOD, your Redeemer, The Holy of Israel: "I am GOD, your God, who teaches you how to live right and well. I show you what to do, where to go.

Isa.48.17

This is what the LORD says- your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: "I am the LORD your God, who teaches you what is best for you, who directs you in the way you should go.

Isa.48.17

Thus says the LORD, your Redeemer, The Holy One of Israel: "I am the LORD your God, Who teaches you to profit, Who leads you by the way you should go.

Isa.48.17

"The LORD, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel, says: I am the LORD your God, who teaches you what is good and leads you along the paths you should follow.

Isa.48.18

If you had listened all along to what I told you, your life would have flowed full like a river, blessings rolling in like waves from the sea.

Isa.48.18

If only you had paid attention to my commands, your peace would have been like a river, your righteousness like the waves of the sea.

Isa.48.18

Oh, that you had heeded My commandments! Then your peace would have been like a river, And your righteousness like the waves of the sea.

Isa.48.18

Oh, that you had listened to my commands! Then you would have had peace flowing like a gentle river and righteousness rolling like waves.

Isa.48.19

Children and grandchildren are like sand, your progeny like grains of sand. There would be no end of them, no danger of losing touch with me."

Isa.48.19

Your descendants would have been like the sand, your children like its numberless grains; their name would never be cut off nor destroyed from before me."

Isa.48.19

Your descendants also would have been like the sand, And the offspring of your body like the grains of sand; His name would not have been cut off Nor destroyed from before Me."

Isa.48.19

Then you would have become as numerous as the sands along the seashore--too many to count! There would have been no need for your destruction."

Isa.48.20

Get out of Babylon! Run from the Babylonians! Shout the news. Broadcast it. Let the world know, the whole world. Tell them, "GOD redeemed his dear servant Jacob!"

Isa.48.20

Leave Babylon, flee from the Babylonians! Announce this with shouts of joy and proclaim it. Send it out to the ends of the earth; say, "The LORD has redeemed his servant Jacob."

Isa.48.20

Go forth from Babylon! Flee from the Chaldeans! With a voice of singing, Declare, proclaim this, Utter it to the end of the earth; Say, "The LORD has redeemed His servant Jacob!"

Isa.48.20

Yet even now, be free from your captivity! Leave Babylon and the Babylonians, singing as you go! Shout to the ends of the earth that the LORD has redeemed his servants, the people of Israel.

Isa.48.21

They weren't thirsty when he led them through the deserts. He made water pour out of the rock; he split the rock and the water gushed.

Isa.48.21

They did not thirst when he led them through the deserts; he made water flow for them from the rock; he split the rock and water gushed out.

Isa.48.21

And they did not thirst When He led them through the deserts; He caused the waters to flow from the rock for them; He also split the rock, and the waters gushed out.

Isa.48.21

They were not thirsty when he led them through the desert. He divided the rock, and water gushed out for them to drink.

Isa.48.22

"There is no peace," says GOD, "for the wicked."

Isa.48.22

"There is no peace," says the LORD, "for the wicked."

Isa.48.22

"There is no peace," says the LORD, "for the wicked."

Isa.48.22

"But there is no peace for the wicked," says the LORD.

Isa.49.1

Listen, far-flung islands, pay attention, faraway people: GOD put me to work from the day I was born. The moment I entered the world he named me.

Isa.49.1

Listen to me, you islands; hear this, you distant nations: Before I was born the LORD called me; from my birth he has made mention of my name.

Isa.49.1

"Listen, O coastlands, to Me, And take heed, you peoples from afar! The LORD has called Me from the womb; From the matrix of My mother He has made mention of My name.

Isa.49.1

Listen to me, all of you in far-off lands! The LORD called me before my birth; from within the womb he called me by name.

Isa.49.2

He gave me speech that would cut and penetrate. He kept his hand on me to protect me. He made me his straight arrow and hid me in his quiver.

Isa.49.2

He made my mouth like a sharpened sword, in the shadow of his hand he hid me; he made me into a polished arrow and concealed me in his quiver.

Isa.49.2

And He has made My mouth like a sharp sword; In the shadow of His hand He has hidden Me, And made Me a polished shaft; In His quiver He has hidden Me."

Isa.49.2

He made my words of judgment as sharp as a sword. He has hidden me in the shadow of his hand. I am like a sharp arrow in his quiver.

Isa.49.3

He said to me, "You're my dear servant, Israel, through whom I'll shine."

Isa.49.3

He said to me, "You are my servant, Israel, in whom I will display my splendor."

Isa.49.3

"And He said to me, "You are My servant, O Israel, In whom I will be glorified.'

Isa.49.3

He said to me, "You are my servant, Israel, and you will bring me glory."

Isa.49.4

But I said, "I've worked for nothing. I've nothing to show for a life of hard work. Nevertheless, I'll let GOD have the last word. I'll let him pronounce his verdict."

Isa.49.4

But I said, "I have labored to no purpose; I have spent my strength in vain and for nothing. Yet what is due me is in the LORD's hand, and my reward is with my God."

Isa.49.4

Then I said, "I have labored in vain, I have spent my strength for nothing and in vain; Yet surely my just reward is with the LORD, And my work with my God."'

Isa.49.4

I replied, "But my work all seems so useless! I have spent my strength for nothing and to no purpose at all. Yet I leave it all in the LORD's hand; I will trust God for my reward."

Isa.49.5

"And now," GOD says, this God who took me in hand from the moment of birth to be his servant, To bring Jacob back home to him, to set a reunion for Israel--What an honor for me in GOD's eyes! That God should be my strength!

Isa.49.5

And now the LORD says- he who formed me in the womb to be his servant to bring Jacob back to him and gather Israel to himself, for I am honored in the eyes of the LORD and my God has been my strength-

Isa.49.5

"And now the LORD says, Who formed Me from the womb to be His Servant, To bring Jacob back to Him, So that Israel is gathered to Him (For I shall be glorious in the eyes of the LORD, And My God shall be My strength),

Isa.49.5

And now the LORD speaks--he who formed me in my mother's womb to be his servant, who commissioned me to bring his people of Israel back to him. The LORD has honored me, and my God has given me strength.

Isa.49.6

He says, "But that's not a big enough job for my servant--just to recover the tribes of Jacob, merely to round up the strays of Israel. I'm setting you up as a light for the nations so that my salvation becomes global!"

Isa.49.6

he says: "It is too small a thing for you to be my servant to restore the tribes of Jacob and bring back those of Israel I have kept. I will also make you a light for the Gentiles, that you may bring my salvation to the ends of the earth."

Isa.49.6

Indeed He says, "It is too small a thing that You should be My Servant To raise up the tribes of Jacob, And to restore the preserved ones of Israel; I will also give You as a light to the Gentiles, That You should be My salvation to the ends of the earth."'

Isa.49.6

He says, "You will do more than restore the people of Israel to me. I will make you a light to the Gentiles, and you will bring my salvation to the ends of the earth."

Isa.49.7

GOD, Redeemer of Israel, The Holy of Israel, says to the despised one, kicked around by the nations, slave labor to the ruling class: "Kings will see, get to their feet--the princes, too--and then fall on their faces in homage Because of GOD, who has faithfully kept his word, The Holy of Israel, who has chosen you."

Isa.49.7

This is what the LORD says- the Redeemer and Holy One of Israel- to him who was despised and abhorred by the nation, to the servant of rulers: "Kings will see you and rise up, princes will see and bow down, because of the LORD, who is faithful, the Holy One of Israel, who has chosen you."

Isa.49.7

Thus says the LORD, The Redeemer of Israel, their Holy One, To Him whom man despises, To Him whom the nation abhors, To the Servant of rulers: "Kings shall see and arise, Princes also shall worship, Because of the LORD who is faithful, The Holy One of Israel; And He has chosen You."

Isa.49.7

The LORD, the Redeemer and Holy One of Israel, says to the one who is despised and rejected by a nation, to the one who is the servant of rulers: "Kings will stand at attention when you pass by. Princes will bow low because the LORD has chosen you. He, the faithful LORD, the Holy One of Israel, chooses you."

Gal.5.7

You were running superbly! Who cut in on you, deflecting you from the true course of obedience?

Gal.5.7

You were running a good race. Who cut in on you and kept you from obeying the truth?

Gal.5.7

You ran well. Who hindered you from obeying the truth?

Gal.5.7

You were getting along so well. Who has interfered with you to hold you back from following the truth?

Gal.5.8

This detour doesn't come from the One who called you into the race in the first place.

Gal.5.8

That kind of persuasion does not come from the one who calls you.

Gal.5.8

This persuasion does not come from Him who calls you.

Gal.5.8

It certainly isn't God, for he is the one who called you to freedom.

Gal.5.9

And please don't toss this off as insignificant. It only takes a minute amount of yeast, you know, to permeate an entire loaf of bread.

Gal.5.9

"A little yeast works through the whole batch of dough."

Gal.5.9

A little leaven leavens the whole lump.

Gal.5.9

But it takes only one wrong person among you to infect all the others--a little yeast spreads quickly through the whole batch of dough!

Gal.5.10

Deep down, the Master has given me confidence that you will not defect. But the one who is upsetting you, whoever he is, will bear the divine judgment.

Gal.5.10

I am confident in the Lord that you will take no other view. The one who is throwing you into confusion will pay the penalty, whoever he may be.

Gal.5.10

I have confidence in you, in the Lord, that you will have no other mind; but he who troubles you shall bear his judgment, whoever he is.

Gal.5.10

I am trusting the Lord to bring you back to believing as I do about these things. God will judge that person, whoever it is, who has been troubling and confusing you.

Gal.5.11

As for the rumor that I continue to preach the ways of circumcision (as I did in those pre-Damascus Road days), that is absurd. Why would I still be persecuted, then? If I were preaching that old message, no one would be offended if I mentioned the Cross now and then--it would be so watered-down it wouldn't matter one way or the other.

Gal.5.11

Brothers, if I am still preaching circumcision, why am I still being persecuted? In that case the offense of the cross has been abolished.

Gal.5.11

And I, brethren, if I still preach circumcision, why do I still suffer persecution? Then the offense of the cross has ceased.

Gal.5.11

Dear brothers and sisters, if I were still preaching that you must be circumcised--as some say I do--why would the Jews persecute me? The fact that I am still being persecuted proves that I am still preaching salvation through the cross of Christ alone.

Gal.5.12

Why don't these agitators, obsessive as they are about circumcision, go all the way and castrate themselves!

Gal.5.12

As for those agitators, I wish they would go the whole way and emasculate themselves!

Gal.5.12

I could wish that those who trouble you would even cut themselves off!

Gal.5.12

I only wish that those troublemakers who want to mutilate you by circumcision would mutilate themselves.

Gal.5.13

It is absolutely clear that God has called you to a free life. Just make sure that you don't use this freedom as an excuse to do whatever you want to do and destroy your freedom. Rather, use your freedom to serve one another in love; that's how freedom grows.

Gal.5.13

You, my brothers, were called to be free. But do not use your freedom to indulge the sinful nature; rather, serve one another in love.

Gal.5.13

For you, brethren, have been called to liberty; only do not use liberty as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another.

Gal.5.13

For you have been called to live in freedom--not freedom to satisfy your sinful nature, but freedom to serve one another in love.

Gal.5.14

For everything we know about God's Word is summed up in a single sentence: Love others as you love yourself. That's an act of true freedom.

Gal.5.14

The entire law is summed up in a single command: "Love your neighbor as yourself."

Gal.5.14

For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this: "You shall love your neighbor as yourself."

Gal.5.14

For the whole law can be summed up in this one command: "Love your neighbor as yourself."

Gal.5.15

If you bite and ravage each other, watch out--in no time at all you will be annihilating each other, and where will your precious freedom be then?

Gal.5.15

If you keep on biting and devouring each other, watch out or you will be destroyed by each other.

Gal.5.15

But if you bite and devour one another, beware lest you be consumed by one another!

Gal.5.15

But if instead of showing love among yourselves you are always biting and devouring one another, watch out! Beware of destroying one another.

Gal.5.16

My counsel is this: Live freely, animated and motivated by God's Spirit. Then you won't feed the compulsions of selfishness.

Gal.5.16

So I say, live by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the sinful nature.

Gal.5.16

I say then: Walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh.

Gal.5.16

So I advise you to live according to your new life in the Holy Spirit. Then you won't be doing what your sinful nature craves.

Gal.5.17

For there is a root of sinful self-interest in us that is at odds with a free spirit, just as the free spirit is incompatible with selfishness. These two ways of life are antithetical, so that you cannot live at times one way and at times another way according to how you feel on any given day.

Gal.5.17

For the sinful nature desires what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit what is contrary to the sinful nature. They are in conflict with each other, so that you do not do what you want.

Gal.5.17

For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, so that you do not do the things that you wish.

Gal.5.17

The old sinful nature loves to do evil, which is just opposite from what the Holy Spirit wants. And the Spirit gives us desires that are opposite from what the sinful nature desires. These two forces are constantly fighting each other, and your choices are never free from this conflict.

Gal.5.18

Why don't you choose to be led by the Spirit and so escape the erratic compulsions of a law-dominated existence? [JC]

Gal.5.18

But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under law.

Gal.5.18

But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.

Gal.5.18

But when you are directed by the Holy Spirit, you are no longer subject to the law.

Gal.5.19

It is obvious what kind of life develops out of trying to get your own way all the time: repetitive, loveless, cheap sex; a stinking accumulation of mental and emotional garbage; frenzied and joyless grabs for happiness;

Gal.5.19

The acts of the sinful nature are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity and debauchery;

Gal.5.19

Now the works of the flesh are evident, which are: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lewdness,

Gal.5.19

When you follow the desires of your sinful nature, your lives will produce these evil results: sexual immorality, impure thoughts, eagerness for lustful pleasure,

Gal.5.20

trinket gods; magic-show religion; paranoid loneliness; cutthroat competition; all-consuming-yet-never-satisfied wants; a brutal temper; an impotence to love or be loved; divided homes and divided lives; small-minded and lopsided pursuits;

Gal.5.20

idolatry and witchcraft; hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions

Gal.5.20

idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies,

Gal.5.20

idolatry, participation in demonic activities, hostility, quarreling, jealousy, outbursts of anger, selfish ambition, divisions, the feeling that everyone is wrong except those in your own little group,

Gal.5.21

the vicious habit of depersonalizing everyone into a rival; uncontrolled and uncontrollable addictions; ugly parodies of community. I could go on. This isn't the first time I have warned you, you know. If you use your freedom this way, you will not inherit God's kingdom.

Gal.5.21

and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who live like this will not inherit the kingdom of God.

Gal.5.21

envy, murders, drunkenness, revelries, and the like; of which I tell you beforehand, just as I also told you in time past, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

Gal.5.21

envy, drunkenness, wild parties, and other kinds of sin. Let me tell you again, as I have before, that anyone living that sort of life will not inherit the Kingdom of God.

Gal.5.22

But what happens when we live God's way? He brings gifts into our lives, much the same way that fruit appears in an orchard--things like affection for others, exuberance about life, serenity. We develop a willingness to stick with things, a sense of compassion in the heart, and a conviction that a basic holiness permeates things and people. We find ourselves involved in loyal commitments,

Gal.5.22

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,

Gal.5.22

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,

Gal.5.22

But when the Holy Spirit controls our lives, he will produce this kind of fruit in us: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,

Gal.5.23

not needing to force our way in life, able to marshal and direct our energies wisely. Legalism is helpless in bringing this about; it only gets in the way.

Gal.5.23

gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law.

Gal.5.23

gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law.

Gal.5.23

gentleness, and self-control. Here there is no conflict with the law.

Gal.5.24

Among those who belong to Christ, everything connected with getting our own way and mindlessly responding to what everyone else calls necessities is killed off for good--crucified.

Gal.5.24

Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the sinful nature with its passions and desires.

Gal.5.24

And those who are Christ's have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.

Gal.5.24

Those who belong to Christ Jesus have nailed the passions and desires of their sinful nature to his cross and crucified them there.

Gal.5.25

Since this is the kind of life we have chosen, the life of the Spirit, let us make sure that we do not just hold it as an idea in our heads or a sentiment in our hearts, but work out its implications in every detail of our lives.

Gal.5.25

Since we live by the Spirit, let us keep in step with the Spirit.

Gal.5.25

If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.

Gal.5.25

If we are living now by the Holy Spirit, let us follow the Holy Spirit's leading in every part of our lives.

Gal.5.26

That means we will not compare ourselves with each other as if one of us were better and another worse. We have far more interesting things to do with our lives. Each of us is an original.

Gal.5.26

Let us not become conceited, provoking and envying each other.

Gal.5.26

Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another.

Gal.5.26

Let us not become conceited, or irritate one another, or be jealous of one another.

Ps.109.1

My God, don't turn a deaf ear to my hallelujah prayer.

Ps.109.1

O God, whom I praise, do not remain silent,

Ps.109.1

Do not keep silent, O God of my praise!

Ps.109.1

O God, whom I praise, don't stand silent and aloof

Ps.109.2

Liars are pouring out invective on me; Their lying tongues are like a pack of dogs out to get me,

Ps.109.2

for wicked and deceitful men have opened their mouths against me; they have spoken against me with lying tongues.

Ps.109.2

For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful Have opened against me; They have spoken against me with a lying tongue.

Ps.109.2

while the wicked slander me and tell lies about me.

Ps.109.3

barking their hate, nipping my heels--and for no reason!

Ps.109.3

With words of hatred they surround me; they attack me without cause.

Ps.109.3

They have also surrounded me with words of hatred, And fought against me without a cause.

Ps.109.3

They are all around me with their hateful words, and they fight against me for no reason.

Ps.109.4

I loved them and now they slander me--yes, me!- and treat my prayer like a crime;

Ps.109.4

In return for my friendship they accuse me, but I am a man of prayer.

Ps.109.4

In return for my love they are my accusers, But I give myself to prayer.

Ps.109.4

I love them, but they try to destroy me--even as I am praying for them!

Ps.109.5

They return my good with evil, they return my love with hate.

Ps.109.5

They repay me evil for good, and hatred for my friendship.

Ps.109.5

Thus they have rewarded me evil for good, And hatred for my love.

Ps.109.5

They return evil for good, and hatred for my love.

Ps.109.6

Send the Evil One to accuse my accusing judge; dispatch Satan to prosecute him.

Ps.109.6

Appoint an evil man to oppose him; let an accuser stand at his right hand.

Ps.109.6

Set a wicked man over him, And let an accuser stand at his right hand.

Ps.109.6

Arrange for an evil person to turn on him. Send an accuser to bring him to trial.

Ps.109.7

When he's judged, let the verdict be, "Guilty," and when he prays, let his prayer turn to sin.

Ps.109.7

When he is tried, let him be found guilty, and may his prayers condemn him.

Ps.109.7

When he is judged, let him be found guilty, And let his prayer become sin.

Ps.109.7

When his case is called for judgment, let him be pronounced guilty. Count his prayers as sins.

Ps.109.8

Give him a short life, and give his job to somebody else.

Ps.109.8

May his days be few; may another take his place of leadership.

Ps.109.8

Let his days be few, And let another take his office.

Ps.109.8

Let his years be few; let his position be given to someone else.

Ps.109.9

Make orphans of his children, dress his wife in widow's weeds;

Ps.109.9

May his children be fatherless and his wife a widow.

Ps.109.9

Let his children be fatherless, And his wife a widow.

Ps.109.9

May his children become fatherless, and may his wife become a widow.

Ps.109.10

Turn his children into begging street urchins, evicted from their homes--homeless.

Ps.109.10

May his children be wandering beggars; may they be driven from their ruined homes.

Ps.109.10

Let his children continually be vagabonds, and beg; Let them seek their bread also from their desolate places.

Ps.109.10

May his children wander as beggars; may they be evicted from their ruined homes.

Ps.109.11

May the bank foreclose and wipe him out, and strangers, like vultures, pick him clean.

Ps.109.11

May a creditor seize all he has; may strangers plunder the fruits of his labor.

Ps.109.11

Let the creditor seize all that he has, And let strangers plunder his labor.

Ps.109.11

May creditors seize his entire estate, and strangers take all he has earned.

Ps.109.12

May there be no one around to help him out, no one willing to give his orphans a break.

Ps.109.12

May no one extend kindness to him or take pity on his fatherless children.

Ps.109.12

Let there be none to extend mercy to him, Nor let there be any to favor his fatherless children.

Ps.109.12

Let no one be kind to him; let no one pity his fatherless children.

Ps.109.13

Chop down his family tree so that nobody even remembers his name.

Ps.109.13

May his descendants be cut off, their names blotted out from the next generation.

Ps.109.13

Let his posterity be cut off, And in the generation following let their name be blotted out.

Ps.109.13

May all his offspring die. May his family name be blotted out in a single generation.

Ps.109.14

But erect a memorial to the sin of his father, and make sure his mother's name is there, too--

Ps.109.14

May the iniquity of his fathers be remembered before the LORD; may the sin of his mother never be blotted out.

Ps.109.14

Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered before the LORD, And let not the sin of his mother be blotted out.

Ps.109.14

May the LORD never forget the sins of his ancestors; may his mother's sins never be erased from the record.

Ps.109.15

Their sins recorded forever before GOD, but they themselves sunk in oblivion.

Ps.109.15

May their sins always remain before the LORD, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth.

Ps.109.15

Let them be continually before the LORD, That He may cut off the memory of them from the earth;

Ps.109.15

May these sins always remain before the LORD, but may his name be cut off from human memory.

Ps.109.16

That's all he deserves since he was never once kind, hounded the afflicted and heartbroken to their graves.

Ps.109.16

For he never thought of doing a kindness, but hounded to death the poor and the needy and the brokenhearted.

Ps.109.16

Because he did not remember to show mercy, But persecuted the poor and needy man, That he might even slay the broken in heart.

Ps.109.16

For he refused all kindness to others; he persecuted the poor and needy, and he hounded the brokenhearted to death.

Ps.109.17

Since he loved cursing so much, let curses rain down; Since he had no taste for blessing, let blessings flee far from him.

Ps.109.17

He loved to pronounce a curse- may it come on him; he found no pleasure in blessing- may it be far from him.

Ps.109.17

As he loved cursing, so let it come to him; As he did not delight in blessing, so let it be far from him.

Ps.109.17

He loved to curse others; now you curse him. He never blessed others; now don't you bless him.

Ps.109.18

He dressed up in curses like a fine suit of clothes; he drank curses, took his baths in curses.

Ps.109.18

He wore cursing as his garment; it entered into his body like water, into his bones like oil.

Ps.109.18

As he clothed himself with cursing as with his garment, So let it enter his body like water, And like oil into his bones.

Ps.109.18

Cursing is as much a part of him as his clothing, or as the water he drinks, or the rich food he eats.

Ps.109.19

So give him a gift--a costume of curses; he can wear curses every day of the week!

Ps.109.19

May it be like a cloak wrapped about him, like a belt tied forever around him.

Ps.109.19

Let it be to him like the garment which covers him, And for a belt with which he girds himself continually.

Ps.109.19

Now may his curses return and cling to him like clothing; may they be tied around him like a belt.

Ps.109.20

That's what they'll get, those out to get me--an avalanche of just deserts from GOD.

Ps.109.20

May this be the LORD's payment to my accusers, to those who speak evil of me.

Ps.109.20

Let this be the LORD's reward to my accusers, And to those who speak evil against my person.

Ps.109.20

May those curses become the LORD's punishment for my accusers who are plotting against my life.