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Isaiah יְשַׁעְיָהוּ Yəšạʻyā́hû ("Yahweh is salvation") lived approximately 2700 years ago and was a prophet in the 8th-century BC Kingdom of Judah. Isaiah warns the people of Israel to turn back to Yahweh, he is sensitive to the common people's problems and is outspoken regarding their treatment.
Also known as: Esaias
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And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice' den.
For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little.
Now go, write it before them in a table, and note it in a book.
Hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming.
The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib.
He stayeth his rough wind in the day of the east wind.
The desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose.
But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.
The Book of Isaiah (-500)
These people come near to me with their mouth and honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me.
As the terebinth and oak
The Book of Isaiah (-500)
I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips, and my eyes have seen the King, the LORD Almighty.
The Book of Isaiah (-500)
Ho, every one who thirsts, come to the waters; and he who has no money, come buy and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.
As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.
Nations will go to your light
Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!
Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee.
Listen to me, you who are pursuing righteousness, You who are seeking the Lord. Look to the rock from which you were hewn And to the quarry from which you were dug.
Come now, let us settle the matter, says the Lord. Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red as crimson, they shall be like wool.
Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God. Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned: for she hath received of the Lord's hand double for all her sins.
The Book of Isaiah (-500)
Learn to do right; seek justice. Defend the oppressed. Take up the cause of the fatherless; plead the case of the widow.
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