InIsaiah 40:31, Isaiah is encouraging the exiled Jewish community to believe God’s promises of freedom, and in the meantime, wait until He releases them from their sentence (Jeremiah 25:12). However, this form of waiting is not passive — it is active(Hebrew “qawah”). Isaiah urges ...
I let those thoughts tumble around in my head. But God is teaching me that I need to replace those thoughts with meditating on Him and the many ways that He has shown His goodness to me. Isaiah 26:3-4 has been a verse that God ...
The instruction to stop crying implies that God is about to bring a change in their circumstances. This echoes other biblical instances where God promises comfort, such as in Isaiah 40:1-2. for the reward for your work will come, declares the LORD.This promise of a reward indicates that ...
Another popular verse about on the Lord is from Isaiah and uses inspirational imagery of an eagle: “They that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles” (Isaiah 40:31). We have all been there, waiting for something to happen. Perhaps you ...
Isaiah 31:4-6 Christian Standard Bible 4For this is what theLordsaid to me: As a lion or young lion growls over its prey when a band of shepherds is called out against it, and it is not terrified by their shouting or subdued by their noise, ...
it is not frightened by their shouts or disturbed by their clamor—so the Lord Almighty will come down to do battle on Mount Zion and on its heights. Read full chapter Isaiah 31:4 in all English translationsMicah 5:4 New International Version 4 He will stand and shepherd his flock in...
This concept is echoed in other passages like Psalm 104:2 and Isaiah 40:22, reinforcing the idea of God as the architect of the cosmos. who spread out the earth and its offspring,Here, the focus shifts to the earth and its inhabitants. The term "spread out" conveys the idea of God ...
Isaiah 30:15: This is what the Sovereign Lord, the Holy One of Israel, says: "In repentance and rest is your salvation, in quietness and trust is your strength, but you would have none of it.
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 to His holy and righteous ways, to repentance, and to faith and faithful...
``as it is impossible that man should know the measure of the heavens above;'' otherwise it is measured by the Lord, for he hath "meted out heaven with a span", ( Isaiah 40:12 ) ; and the foundations of the earth searched out beneath: so as to be known what they are, or on...