26My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever. Read ChapterAll Versions Isaiah 41:10-13 10So do not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you; I will uphold you with my...
After the flood, Noah planted a vineyard (Genesis 9:20) and vineyards in the Bible serve to depict mankind as a collective, social, cultural and intellectual entity rather than a physical entity (Isaiah 5:1, Matthew 21:33-41; also see our article on the noun αμπελος, ampelos...
liberty as democratic ideal and law as a tool to guarantee it, and the pursuit of literacy and wisdom as means to social cohesion, peace, prosperity and general bliss. The literacy that had once marked the servant class now marked the ruling class. Or in the words of Isaiah: "... and...
The seraphim were also thought of as winged, and in Isaiah's vision they were stationed above the Lord's throne (6:1-2). They seemed to possess a human figure, and had voices, faces, and feet. According to the vision their task was to participate in singing God's praises antiphonally...
This cannot be reproduced exactly in English, which has a very different alphabet of twenty-six letters.55 Another example is the formal verbal play in Isaiah 5:7, where the prophet says that God looked for "justice, but saw bloodshed; for righteousness, but heard cries of distress" (NIV)...
12. Isaiah 65:17-20 “Anarcho-Preterism” is “the Gospel.”Let's start with the word "anarchism," which is even more offensive to most Christians than "preterism."In the Gospel of Mark, chapter 10 (see more below), Jesus discovers His disciples arguing about who is going to be the ...
of thought. That school of thought would have focused on The Things Sown or Scattered; wisdoms from other nations and traditions, which could only have come from YHWH and were therefore acceptable. Of this the prophetIsaiahsays: "the wealth of the nations will come to you (Isaiah 60:5),...
John the Baptist (the last Old Testament prophet) referred to Jesus as “The Lamb of God” (John 1:29,36).Lamb of Godis an Old Testament phrase referring to the sacrifices (Leviticus 4:32-35.Isaiah 53:4-12). Sin is a separator between man and our holy God, and in the Old Testam...
This way, in the eighth century BCE (before Common Era), in the proto-Isaiah, the first author of the Book of Isaiah the prophet ([14], pp. 365–67), we observe an example of Albam replacing, where the expression "לאֵ בְ טַ ", Tabeel, in chapter 7, verse 6...
For Abraham Yahweh not only was alone God; He was also his personal God in a closeness of fellowship (Genesis 24:40; 48:15) that has made him for three religions the type of the pious man (2 Chronicles 20:7; Isaiah 41:8; James 2:23, note the Arabic name of Hebron El-Khalil, ...