Isaiah: Selected Verses

1. When ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear.   1:15
2. How is the faithful city become an harlot.   1:18
3. If ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it.   1:20
4. Ye shall be confounded for the gardens that ye have chosen.   1:29
5. They declare their sin as Sodom, they hide it not.   3:9
6. As for my people ... women rule over them.   3:12
7. Therefore the LORD will smite with a scab the crown of the head of the daughters of Zion, and the LORD will discover their secret parts.   3:17
8. Instead of sweet smell there shall be stink.   3:24
9. In that day seven women shall take hold of one man, saying, ... let us be called by thy name, to take away our reproach.   4:1
10. Hell hath enlarged herself, and opened her mouth without measure ... and he that rejoiceth, shall descend into it.   5:14
11. I saw also the LORD sitting upon a throne.   6:1
12. Above it stood the seraphims: each one had six wings; with twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly.   6:2
13. Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips.   6:5
14. Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes.   6:10
15. The LORD shall hiss for the fly ... and for the bee.   7:18
16. The Lord shave with a razor ... the head, and the hair of the feet.   7:20
17. Then said the LORD to me, Call his name Mahershalalhashbaz.   8:3
18. Through the wrath of the LORD of hosts is the land darkened, and the people shall be as the fuel of the fire: no man shall spare his brother.   9:19
19. And he shall snatch on the right hand, and be hungry; and he shall eat on the left hand, and they shall not be satisfied: they shall eat every man the flesh of his own arm.   9:20
20. He shall smite the earth: with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips.   11:4
21. The weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice' den.   11:8
22. The LORD shall utterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptian sea.   11:15
23. Howl ye; for the day of the LORD is at hand; it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty.   13:6
24. The sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine.   13:10
25. I will shake the heavens, and the earth shall remove out of her place.   13:13
26. Their children also shall be dashed to pieces before their eyes; their houses shall be spoiled, and their wives ravished.   13:16
27. Their bows also shall dash the young men to pieces; and they shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb; their eyes shall not spare children.   13:18
28. Prepare slaughter for his children for the iniquity of their fathers.   14:21
29. Out of the serpent's root shall come forth a cockatrice, and his fruit shall be a fiery flying serpent.   14:29
30. Moab shall howl over Nebo, and over Medeba: on all their heads shall be baldness, and every beard cut off.   15:2
31. The waters of Dimon shall be full of blood: for I will bring more upon Dimon, lions upon him that escapeth of Moab.   15:9
32. Therefore shall Moab howl for Moab, every one shall howl.   16:7
33. Wherefore my bowels shall sound like an harp for Moab.   16:11
34. Behold, the LORD rideth upon a swift cloud, and shall come into Egypt.   19:1
35. The LORD hath mingled a perverse spirit in the midst thereof: and they have caused Egypt to err in every work thereof, as a drunken man staggereth in his vomit.   19:14
36. The LORD maketh the earth empty, and maketh it waste, and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad the inhabitants thereof.   24:1
37. The land shall be utterly emptied, and utterly spoiled: for the LORD hath spoken this word.   24:3
38. The earth mourneth and fadeth away, the world languisheth and fadeth away.   24:4
39. The inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men left.   24:6
40. The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard.   24:20
41. The moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed.   24:23
42. The LORD with his sore and great and strong sword shall punish leviathan the piercing serpent, even leviathan that crooked serpent; and he shall slay the dragon that is in the sea.   27:1
43. Woe ... to the drunkards ... that are overcome with wine! .   28:1
44. All tables are full of vomit and filthiness.   28:8
45. The LORD shall rise up ... that he may do his work, his strange work; and bring to pass his act, his strange act.   28:21
46. Thou shalt cast them away as a menstruous cloth.   30:22
47. The light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold.   30:26
48. His lips are full of indignation, and his tongue as a devouring fire.   30:27
49. The breath of the LORD, like a stream of brimstone, doth kindle it.   30:33
50. The vile person shall be no more called liberal.   32:5
51. The liberal deviseth liberal things; and by liberal things shall he stand.   32:8
52. Tremble, ye women that are at ease ... strip you, and make you bare, and gird sackcloth upon your loins.   32:11
53. He hath utterly destroyed them, he hath delivered them to the slaughter.   34:2
54. And all the host of heaven shall be dissolved, and the heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll: and all their host shall fall down.   34:4
55. For my sword shall be bathed in heaven.   34:5
56. The sword of the LORD is filled with blood.   34:6
57. Hath he not sent me to the men that sit upon the wall, that they may eat their own dung, and drink their own piss with you?.   36:12
58. With the sole of my feet have I dried up all the rivers.   37:25
59. Then the angel of the LORD went forth, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and fourscore and five thousand: and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.   37:36
60. I will bring again the shadow of the degrees, which is gone down in the sun dial of Ahaz, ten degrees backward.   38:8
61. For the grave cannot praise thee, death can not celebrate thee: they that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth.   38:18
62. The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: because the spirit of the LORD bloweth upon it: surely the people is grass.   40:7
63. I am the LORD: that is my name.   42:8
64. The beast of the field shall honour me, the dragons and the owls: because I give waters in the wilderness.   43:20
65. Is there a God beside me? yea, there is no God; I know not any.   44:8
66. I am the LORD ... that saith of Cyrus, He is my shepherd.   44:24
67. Thus saith the LORD to his anointed, to Cyrus....   45:1
68. I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.   45:7
69. Make bare the leg, uncover the thigh ... thy nakedness shall be uncovered.   47:2
70. The LORD hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name.   49:1
71. Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands.   49:16
72. And kings shall be thy nursing fathers ... and lick up the dust of thy feet.   49:23
73. And I will feed them that oppress thee with their own flesh; and they shall be drunken with their own blood, as with sweet wine.   49:26
74. Thus saith the LORD, Where is the bill of your mother's divorcement, whom I have put away? .   50:1
75. For your iniquities have ye sold yourselves, and for your transgressions is your mother put away.   50:1
76. Is my hand shortened? .   50:2
77. I dry up the sea, I make the rivers a wilderness: their fish stinketh.   50:2
78. The heavens shall vanish away like smoke, and the earth shall wax old like a garment, and they that dwell therein shall die.   51:6
79. I have put my words in thy mouth.   51:16
80. Sing, O barren ... For thy Maker is thine husband.   54:1
81. Neither let the eunuch say, Behold, I am a dry tree.   56:3
82. Thus saith the LORD unto the eunuchs ... Even unto them will I give in mine house and ... an everlasting name.   56:4
83. Ye sons of the sorceress, the seed of the adulterer and the whore.   57:3
84. I create the fruit of the lips.   57:19
85. They hatch cockatrice' eggs ... he that eateth of their eggs dieth, and that which is crushed breaketh out into a viper.   59:5
86. I [God] will make the place of my feet glorious.   60:13
87. Thou shalt also suck the milk of the Gentiles, and shalt suck the breast of kings.   60:16
88. I have trodden the winepress alone ... for I will tread them in mine anger, and trample them in my fury; and their blood shall be sprinkled upon my garments, and I will stain all my raiment.   63:3
89. We are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags.   64:6
90. Which say, ... I am holier than thou.   65:5
91. Therefore will I number you to the sword, and ye shall all bow down to the slaughter.   65:12
92. The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall eat straw like the bullock: and dust shall be the serpent's meat.   65:25
93. He that killeth an ox is as if he slew a man.   66:3
94. He that sacrificeth a lamb, as if he cut off a dog's neck.   66:3
95. He that offereth an oblation, as if he offered swine's blood.   66:3
96. That ye may suck, and be satisfied with the breasts of her consolations; that ye may milk out, and be delighted with the abundance of her glory.   66:11
97. Then shall ye suck ... and be dandled upon her knees.   66:12
98. The LORD will come with fire, and with his chariots like a whirlwind, to render his anger with fury, and his rebuke with flames of fire.   66:15
99. For by fire and by his sword will the LORD plead with all flesh: and the slain of the LORD shall be many.   66:16
100. And they shall go forth, and look upon the carcases of the men that have transgressed against me: for their worm shall not die, neither shall their fire be quenched; and they shall be an abhorring unto all flesh.   66:24