62 For Zion’s sake I will not keep silent, for Jerusalem’s sake I will not remain quiet,till her vindication shines out like the dawn, her salvation like a blazing torch.2 The nations will see your vindication, and all kings your glory;you will be called by a new name that the mo...
There still remains the wonderful truth of His continuous intercession for us. In its widest meaning that word expresses the whole of the manifold ways by which Christ undertakes and maintains our cause. So we have not only to look back to the cross, but up to the throne. From the cross...
and then man marvels at the analogue of life which has its night as well as its day. On the one hand man scoffs at and scorns the Bible, and on the other refuses to see how full of realism and truth all its moral revelations are. It is equally true on its restful side. It tells...
Valeton says of Isaiah: "Never perhaps has there been another prophet like Isaiah, who stood with his head in the clouds and his feet on the solid earth, with his heart in the things of eternity and with mouth and hand in the things of time, with his spirit in the eternal counsel of...
Verses that Illustrate how the Bible does not Support the Concept of Karma Introduction to Isaiah 40:7-12 In Isaiah 40:1-11 we read how the Lord God of Israel wants to deliver His people. The Lord does not give up on us because of repeated sinning, but is always calling us back...
57The righteous perisheth, and no man layeth it to heart: and merciful men are taken away, none considering that the righteous is taken away from the evil to come. 2He shall enter into peace: they shall rest in their beds, each one walking in his uprightness. ...
Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible Isaiah 26:19 In-Context 17 Like a pregnant woman who writhes and cries out in her pangs when she is near to giving birth, so were we because of you, O LORD; 18 we were pregnant, we writhed, but we have given birth to wind. We...
The Pharisees emphasized keeping the Torah (the Pentateuch, the Law, the first five books of the Bible) over the insights of the Prophets. They should have read more carefully Isaiah 56-59.Of course, you and I can become shallow hypocrites without even knowing it. That's why we need ...
Isaiah 26:19 Your dead will live, my corpses will rise; awake and sing, you who dwell in the dust; for your dew is like the morning dew, and the earth will bring the ghosts to life... Read verse in The Complete Jewish Bible
Many people reject the truth as unworthy of God's love, but it is clear in the Bible. Verse 24 is quoted by Jesus (Matthew 9:48) and in the last book of the Bible (Revelation 14:11). It is sad, but true.Nevertheless, while the punishment of those who rebel lasts forever, so ...