Category: Bible Comments
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Nothing Can Compare: Isaiah 40:17-19
“Before him all the nations are as nothing; they are regarded by him as worthless and less than nothing. With whom, then, will you compare God? To what image will you liken him? As for an idol, a metalworker casts it, and a goldsmith overlays it with gold and fashions silver chains for it.” –…
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Don’t be Dumb: Isaiah 39:2-3 and Galatians 5:13
“Hezekiah received the envoys gladly and showed them what was in his storehouses—the silver, the gold, the spices, the fine olive oil—his entire armory and everything found among his treasures. There was nothing in his palace or in all his kingdom that Hezekiah did not show them. Then Isaiah the prophet went to King Hezekiah…
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Evil Strategies: Isaiah 36:8, 10, 15, 17-18, 20; 37:11
““ ‘Come now, make a bargain with my master, the king of Assyria: I will give you two thousand horses—if you can put riders on them! Furthermore, have I come to attack and destroy this land without the Lord? The Lord himself told me to march against this country and destroy it.’ ” Do not let Hezekiah…
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He Seeketh Reconciliation: Isaiah 35:5-6
“Then will the eyes of the blind be opened and the ears of the deaf unstopped. Then will the lame leap like a deer, and the mute tongue shout for joy. Water will gush forth in the wilderness and streams in the desert.” – Isaiah 35:5-6 NIV God will restore things that once were broken…
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All Things Right: Isaiah 32:5
“No longer will the fool be called noble nor the scoundrel be highly respected.” – Isaiah 32:5 NIV God makes all things straight and reveals all truth in the end. Anything that goes against truth ends up being exposed and revealed as such for the evil thing(s) that it is/are. Trust that God will make…
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Sin is Unprofitable: Isaiah 30:6 and Romans 8:28
“A prophecy concerning the animals of the Negev: Through a land of hardship and distress, of lions and lionesses, of adders and darting snakes, the envoys carry their riches on donkeys’ backs, their treasures on the humps of camels, to that unprofitable nation, – Isaiah 30:6 NIV The Israelites were working to secure an alliance…
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Missed the Mark: Isaiah 29:13 and Romans 5:20-21
“The Lord says: “These people come near to me with their mouth and honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me. Their worship of me is based on merely human rules they have been taught.” – Isaiah 29:13 NIV God’s relationship with humanity is supposed to be based on actual relationship…
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