Isaiah 28-30 - Your Eyes Will See Your Teacher

Woe to Ephraim

Isa 28:9 LSB - 

[9] "Whom would He instruct in knowledge, 

And whom would He provide understanding about the report? 

Those [just] weaned from milk? 

Those [just] taken from the breast?

A Cornerstone in Zion

Isa 28:16 LSB - 

[16] Therefore thus says Lord Yahweh, 

"Behold, I am laying in Zion a stone, a tested stone, 

A costly cornerstone [for] the foundation, firmly placed. 

He who believes [in it] will not be disturbed.

Psa 118:22 LSB - [22] The stone which the builders rejected Has become the chief corner [stone].

Luk 20:17-18 LSB - 

[17] But when Jesus looked at them, He said, "What then is this that is written: 'THE STONE WHICH THE BUILDERS REJECTED, THIS HAS BECOME THE CHIEF CORNER [stone]'? 

[18] "Everyone who falls on that stone will be broken to pieces, but on whomever it falls, it will scatter him like dust."

Act 4:11-12 LSB - 

[11] "He is the STONE WHICH WAS REJECTED by you, THE BUILDERS, [but] WHICH BECAME THE CHIEF CORNER [stone]. 

[12] "And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven that has been given among men by which we must be saved."

1Pe 2:6-8 LSB - 

[6] For [this] is contained in Scripture: "BEHOLD, I LAY IN ZION A CHOICE STONE, A PRECIOUS CORNER [stone], AND HE WHO BELIEVES UPON HIM WILL NOT BE PUT TO SHAME." 

[7] This precious value, then, is for you who believe; but for those who disbelieve, "THE STONE WHICH THE BUILDERS REJECTED, THIS HAS BECOME THE CHIEF CORNER [stone]," 

[8] and, "A STONE OF STUMBLING AND A ROCK OF OFFENSE." They stumble because they are disobedient to the word, and to this [stumbling] they were also appointed.

Isa 28:21 LSB - [21] For Yahweh will rise up as [at] Mount Perazim; He will be stirred up as in the valley of Gibeon, To work His work, His unusual work, And to labor in His labor, His exceptional labor.

Woe to Ariel

Isa 29:13-14 LSB - 

[13] Then the Lord said, "Because this people draw near with their mouth 

And honor Me with their lips, 

But they remove their hearts far from Me, 

And their fear of Me is [in the] command of men learned [by rote], 

[14] Therefore behold, I will once again deal marvelously with this people, wondrously marvelous; 

And the wisdom of their wise men will perish, 

And the discernment of their discerning men will be hidden."

Isa 29:16 LSB - [16] You turn [things] around! 

Shall the potter be considered as equal with the clay, 

That what is made would say to its maker, 

"He did not make me"; 

Or what is formed say to him who formed it, 

"He has no understanding"?

The Afflicted Will Rejoice

Isa 29:23-24 LSB - [23] But when he sees his children, the work of My hands, in his midst, They will sanctify My name; Indeed, they will sanctify the Holy One of Jacob And will stand trembling [before] the God of Israel. 

[24] "Those who err in spirit will know discernment, And those who criticize will gain learning.

Alliance with Egypt Condemned

Isa 30:15 LSB - [15] For thus Lord Yahweh, the Holy One of Israel, has said, "In repentance and rest you will be saved, In quietness and trust is your might." But you were not willing,

Yahweh Is Gracious and Just

Isa 30:18 LSB - [18] Therefore Yahweh waits [with longing] to be gracious to you, And therefore He is on high to have compassion on you. For Yahweh is a God of justice; How blessed are all those who wait for Him.

Isa 30:20-21 LSB - [20] The Lord has given you bread of distress and water of oppression; 

[He], your Teacher will no longer hide Himself, but your eyes will see your Teacher. 

[21] And your ears will hear a word behind you, 

"This is the way, walk in it," whenever you turn to the right or to the left.

Isaiah 25-27

Yahweh Will Swallow Up Death

Isa 25:7-8 LSB - [7] And on this mountain He will swallow up the covering which is over all peoples, Even the veil which is stretched over all nations. [8] He will swallow up death for all time, And Lord Yahweh will wipe tears away from all faces, And He will remove the reproach of His people from all the earth; For Yahweh has spoken.

Yahweh Will Establish Peace

Isa 26:4 LSB - [4] "Trust in Yahweh forever, 

For in Yah--Yahweh [Himself]--[we have] an everlasting Rock.

Isa 26:8 LSB - [8] Indeed, [while following] the way of Your judgments, O Yahweh, 

We have hoped for You eagerly; 

Your name--the memory of You--is the desire of [our] souls.

Yahweh Will Deliver Israel

Isa 27:1 LSB - [1] In that day Yahweh will punish Leviathan the fleeing serpent, With His fierce and great and mighty sword, Even Leviathan the twisted serpent; And He will kill the dragon who [lives] in the sea.

Isa 27:2-3 LSB - [2] In that day, "A vineyard of delight, sing of it! 

[3] "I, Yahweh, am its keeper; I water it every moment. Lest anyone damage it, I keep it night and day.

Isa 27:12-13 LSB - [12] And it will be in that day, [that] Yahweh will start [His] threshing from the flowing stream of the River to the brook of Egypt, and you will be gathered up one by one, O sons of Israel. [13] And it will be in that day, [that] a great trumpet will be blown, and those who were perishing in the land of Assyria and who were banished in the land of Egypt will come and worship Yahweh in the holy mountain at Jerusalem.

Isaiah 22-24

An Oracle Concerning the Valley of Vision

Isa 22:11 LSB - [11] And you made a reservoir between the two walls 

For the waters of the old pool. 

But you did not look to Him who made it, 

Nor did you see Him who formed it long ago.

Isa 22:13 LSB - [13] Instead, behold, [there is] joy and gladness, 

Killing of cattle and slaughtering of sheep, 

Eating of meat and drinking of wine: 

"Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we may die."

1Co 15:32 LSB - [32] If from human motives I fought with wild beasts at Ephesus, what does it profit me? If the dead are not raised, LET US EAT AND DRINK, FOR TOMORROW WE DIE.

Isa 22:22 LSB - [22] "Then I will set the key of the house of David on his shoulder, When he opens no one will shut, When he shuts no one will open.

Rev 3:7 LSB - [7] "And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write: This is what He who is holy, who is true, who has the key of David, who opens and no one will shut, and who shuts and no one opens, says:

 

An Oracle Concerning Tyre

Isa 23:17-18 LSB - [17] And it will be at the end of seventy years that Yahweh will visit Tyre. Then she will go back to her harlot's wages and will play the harlot with all the kingdoms on the face of the earth. [18] And her gain and her harlot's wages will be set apart to Yahweh; it will not be treasured up or hoarded, but her gain will become sufficient food and choice attire for those who inhabit the presence of Yahweh.

Yahweh Will Empty the Earth

Isa 24:1 LSB - [1] Behold, Yahweh empties the earth to destruction, eviscerates it, distorts its surface, and scatters its inhabitants.

Isa 24:23 LSB - [23] Then the moon will be humiliated and the sun ashamed, For Yahweh of hosts will reign on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem, And [His] glory will be before His elders.

Isaiah 19-21 - Blessed is Egypt My people, and Assyria the work of My hands, and Israel My inheritance.

An Oracle Concerning Egypt

Isa 19:1 LSB - [1] The oracle concerning Egypt. Behold, Yahweh is riding on a swift cloud and is about to come to Egypt; The idols of Egypt will shake at His presence, And the heart of the Egyptians will melt within them.

Yahweh Will Bless Egypt, Assyria, and Israel

Isa 19:20-22 LSB - 

[20] And it will become a sign and a witness to Yahweh of hosts in the land of Egypt; for they will cry to Yahweh because of oppressors, and He will send them a Savior and a Champion, and He will deliver them. 

[21] Thus Yahweh will make Himself known to Egypt, and the Egyptians will know Yahweh in that day. They will even worship with sacrifice and offering, and they will make a vow to Yahweh and pay it. 

[22] And Yahweh will smite Egypt, smiting but healing; so they will return to Yahweh, and He will be moved by their entreaty and will heal them.

Isa 19:23-25 LSB - 

[23] In that day there will be a highway from Egypt to Assyria, and the Assyrians will come into Egypt and the Egyptians into Assyria, and the Egyptians will worship with the Assyrians. 

[24] In that day Israel will be the third [party] with Egypt and Assyria, a blessing in the midst of the earth, 

[25] whom Yahweh of hosts has blessed, saying, "Blessed is Egypt My people, and Assyria the work of My hands, and Israel My inheritance."

The Fruits of Grace by Spurgeon

A Prophecy About Egypt and Ethiopia

Isa 20:5-6 LSB - 

[5] "Then they will be dismayed and ashamed because of Ethiopia their hope and Egypt their boast. 

[6] "So the inhabitants of this coastland will say in that day, 'Behold, such is our hope, where we fled for help to be delivered from the king of Assyria; and we, how shall we escape?'"

Fallen, Fallen Is Babylon

Isa 21:9 LSB - [9] "Now behold, here comes a troop of riders, horsemen in pairs." And one answered and said, "Fallen, fallen is Babylon; And all the graven images of her gods are shattered on the ground."

Oracles Concerning Dumah and Arabia

Isa 21:16-17 LSB - [16] For thus the Lord said to me, "In a year, as a hired man would count it, all the glory of Kedar will end; [17] and the remainder of the number of bowmen, the mighty men of the sons of Kedar, will be few; for Yahweh, the God of Israel, has spoken."

Isaiah 16-18

An Oracle Concerning Moab

Isa 16:13-14 LSB - [13] This is the word which Yahweh spoke earlier concerning Moab. [14] But now Yahweh speaks, saying, "Within three years, as a hired man would count them, the glory of Moab will be dishonored along with all [his] great population, and [his] remnant will be very small [and] not mighty."

An Oracle Concerning Damascus

Isa 17:7-8 LSB - [7] In that day man will have regard for his Maker And his eyes will look to the Holy One of Israel. [8] He will not have regard for the altars, the work of his hands, Nor will he look to that which his fingers have made, Even the Asherim and incense stands.

A Message to Ethiopia

Isa 18:5 LSB - [5] For before the harvest, as soon as the bud blossoms And the flower becomes a ripening grape, Then He will cut off the sprigs with pruning knives And remove [and] cut away the spreading branches.

Isaiah 13-15

An Oracle Concerning Babylon

Isa 13:17 LSB - [17] Behold, I am going to awaken the Medes against them, Who will not think about silver or take pleasure in gold.

Israel’s Restoration and Dominion

Isa 14:4-5 LSB - [4] that you will take up this taunt against the king of Babylon, and say, "How the taskmaster has ceased, [And how] fury has ceased! [5] "Yahweh has broken the staff of the wicked, The scepter of rulers

Isa 14:12-15 LSB - 

[12] "How you have fallen from heaven, O star of the morning, son of the dawn! You have been cut down to the earth, You who have weakened the nations! 

[13] "But you said in your heart, 'I will ascend to heaven; I will raise my throne above the stars of God, And I will sit on the mount of assembly In the recesses of the north. 

[14] 'I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High.' 

[15] "Nevertheless you will be brought down to Sheol, To the recesses of the pit.

Yahweh’s Plan to Break Assyrian Rule

An Oracle Concerning Philistia

An Oracle Concerning Moab

Isa 15:5 LSB - [5] My heart cries out for Moab; Those who flee [from] her are as far as Zoar [and] Eglath-shelishiyah, For they go up the ascent of Luhith weeping; Surely on the road to Horonaim they keep awake with crying in distress over [their] destruction.

Isiah 10-12

Yahweh’s Anger with Assyria’s Arrogance

Isa 10:15 LSB - [15] Is the axe to boast itself over the one who chops with it? Is the saw to magnify itself over the one who wields it? [That would be] like a rod wielding those who lift it, [Or] like a staff lifting [him who] is not wood.

A Remnant Will Return

Isa 10:20 LSB - [20] Now it will be in that day, [that] the remnant of Israel and those of the house of Jacob who have escaped, will never again rely on the one who struck them, but will truly rely on Yahweh, the Holy One of Israel.

Isa 10:21-22 LSB - [21] A remnant will return, the remnant of Jacob, to the mighty God. [22] For though your people, O Israel, may be like the sand of the sea, [Only] a remnant within them will return; A [destructive] end is decreed, overflowing with righteousness.

The Judgments of the Branch

Isa 11:6-9 LSB - 

[6] And the wolf will dwell with the lamb, And the leopard will lie down with the young goat, And the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; And a young boy will lead them.

[7] Also the cow and the bear will graze, Their young will lie down together, And the lion will eat straw like the ox. 

[8] And the nursing baby will play by the hole of the cobra, And the weaned child will put his hand on the viper's den. 

[9] They will do no evil nor act corruptly in all My holy mountain, For the earth will be full of the knowledge of Yahweh As the waters cover the sea.

A Remnant Remains

Yahweh Is My Strength and My Song

Isa 12:1-2 LSB -

[1] Then you will say in that day, "I will give thanks to You, O Yahweh; For although You were angry with me, Your anger is turned away, And You comfort me. 

[2] "Behold, God is my salvation, I will trust and not dread; For Yah--Yahweh [Himself]--is my strength and song, And He has become my salvation."

Isaiah 7-9 - Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Eternal Father, Prince of Peace

Isaiah Sent to King Ahaz

Isa 7:9 LSB - [9] ... If you do not establish your faith [in Yahweh], you surely shall not be established.

The Sign of Immanuel

Isa 7:14-16 LSB - [14] "Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign: Behold, the virgin will be with child and bear a son, and she will call His name Immanuel. [15] "He will eat curds and honey in order that He will know to refuse evil and choose good. [16] "For before the boy will know to refuse evil and choose good, the land whose two kings you dread will be forsaken.

Trials to Come for Judah

Isa 7:18 LSB - [18] And it will be in that day, [that] Yahweh will whistle for the fly that is in the remotest part of the rivers of Egypt and for the bee that is in the land of Assyria.

The Coming Assyrian Invasion

Isa 8:4 LSB - [4] for before the boy knows how to cry out 'My father' or 'My mother,' the wealth of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria will be carried away before the king of Assyria."

Yahweh, a Sanctuary and a Stumbling Stone

Isa 8:13-15 LSB - 

[13] "It is Yahweh of hosts whom you should regard as holy. 

And He shall be your fear, 

And He shall be your cause of trembling. 

[14] "Then He shall become a sanctuary; 

But to both the houses of Israel, a stone to strike and a rock to stumble over, 

[And] a snare and a trap for the inhabitants of Jerusalem. 

[15] "And many will stumble over them; 

Then they will fall and be broken; 

They will even be snared and caught."

Isa 8:17-18 LSB - 

[17] And I will wait for Yahweh who is hiding His face from the house of Jacob; and I will hope for Him. 

[18] Behold, I and the children whom Yahweh has given me are for signs and wonders in Israel from Yahweh of hosts, who dwells on Mount Zion.

Darkness to Light Through the Prince of Peace

Isa 9:1-2 LSB - 

[1] But there will be no [more] gloom for her who was in anguish; in earlier times He treated the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali with contempt, but later on He shall make [it] glorious, by the way of the sea, on the other side of Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles. 

[2] The people who walk in darkness Will see a great light; Those who live in the land of the shadow of death, The light will shine on them.

Isa 9:6 LSB - [6] For a child will be born to us, a son will be given to us; And the government will rest on His shoulders; And His name will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Eternal Father, Prince of Peace.

Yahweh’s Anger with Israel’s Arrogance

Isaiah 4-6 - Yahweh Sends Isaiah

The Branch of Yahweh Glorified

Isa 4:2 LSB - [2] In that day the Branch of Yahweh will be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the earth [will be] the pride and the honor of those of Israel who escape.

The Song of the Vineyard

Isa 5:7 LSB - [7] For the vineyard of Yahweh of hosts is the house of Israel And the men of Judah His delightful plant. Thus He hoped for justice, but behold, bloodshed; For righteousness, but behold, a cry of distress.

Woes to Those Who Call Evil Good

Isa 5:21 LSB - [21] Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes And understanding in their own sight!

Isa 5:26 LSB - [26] He will also lift up a standard to the distant nations, And will whistle for it from the ends of the earth; And behold, it will come with speed swiftly.

Isaiah’s Vision of Yahweh

Isa 6:1-7 LSB - 

[1] In the year of King Uzziah's death I saw the Lord sitting on a throne, high and lifted up, with the train of His robe filling the temple. 

[2] Seraphim stood above Him, each having six wings: with two he covered his face, and with two he covered his feet, and with two he flew. 

[3] And one called out to another and said, "Holy, Holy, Holy, is Yahweh of hosts; The whole earth is full of His glory." 

[4] And the foundations of the thresholds shook at the voice of him who called out, while the house [of God] was filling with smoke. 

[5] Then I said, "Woe is me, for I am ruined! For I am a man of unclean lips, And I live among a people of unclean lips; For my eyes have seen the King, Yahweh of hosts." 

[6] Then one of the seraphim flew to me with a burning coal in his hand, which he had taken from the altar with tongs. 

[7] And he touched my mouth [with it] and said, "Behold, this has touched your lips; and your iniquity is taken away, and your sin is atoned for."

Yahweh Sends Isaiah

Isa 6:8 LSB - [8] Then I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, "Whom shall I send, and who will go for Us?" Then I said, "Here am I. Send me!"

Isa 6:9-10 LSB - [9] He said, "Go, and tell this people: 'Keep on hearing, but do not understand; Keep on seeing, but do not know.' [10] "Render the hearts of this people insensitive, Their ears dull, And their eyes dim, Lest they see with their eyes, And hear with their ears, And understand with their hearts, And return and be healed."

Isa 6:11 LSB - [11] Then I said, "Lord, how long?" And He said, "Until cities are devastated [and] without inhabitant, Houses are without people, And the land is devastated [to] desolation,