Contemplative Bible Reading

Isaiah 40:13-14 (New Living Translation) 13 Who is able to advise the Spirit of the Lord?Who knows enough to give him advice or teach him?14 Has the Lord ever needed anyone’s advice?Does he need instruction about what is good?Did someone teach him what is rightor show him the path of justice? Take the first phrase […]

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Isaiah 30:21 (New Living Translation) Your own ears will hear him.Right behind you a voice will say,“This is the way you should go,”whether to the right or to the left. God is speaking to the people through the prophet Isaiah. God will teach the people when they will listen. God, with God’s perspective and understanding, […]

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Isaiah 30:22 (New Living Translation) Then you will destroy all your silver idolsand your precious gold images.You will throw them out like filthy rags,saying to them, “Good riddance!” God is talking to the people through the prophet Isaiah. The people have been disobedient. God, however, tells them that if they return to God, God will […]

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Isaiah 43:10 (New Living Translation) 10 “But you are my witnesses, O Israel!” says the Lord.“You are my servant.You have been chosen to know me, believe in me,and understand that I alone am God.There is no other God—there never has been, and there never will be. This one is pretty simple. The implications are far […]

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Isaiah 43:13 (New Living Translation) 13 “From eternity to eternity I am God.No one can snatch anyone out of my hand.No one can undo what I have done.” In this section of scripture, the prophet Isaiah is relaying what God told Isaiah about God. The self-description ends with, “No one can undo what I have […]

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Isaiah 43:10 (New Living Translation) 10 “But you are my witnesses, O Israel!” says the Lord.“You are my servant.You have been chosen to know me, believe in me,and understand that I alone am God.There is no other God—there never has been, and there never will be. The Wikipedia definition of witness includes: a witness is […]

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Isaiah 2:4 (English Standard Version) He shall judge between the nations,    and shall decide disputes for many peoples;and they shall beat their swords into plowshares,    and their spears into pruning hooks;nation shall not lift up sword against nation,    neither shall they learn war anymore. The prophet Isaiah is relaying words from Jehovah, the God who created all. That […]

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Isaiah 2:1-5 (New Living Translation) 1 Out of the stump of David’s family will grow a shoot—yes, a new Branch bearing fruit from the old root.2 And the Spirit of the Lord will rest on him—the Spirit of wisdom and understanding,the Spirit of counsel and might,the Spirit of knowledge and the fear of the Lord.3 […]

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Isaiah 59:9-10 (New Living Translation) 9 So there is no justice among us,and we know nothing about right living.We look for light but find only darkness.We look for bright skies but walk in gloom.10 We grope like the blind along a wall,feeling our way like people without eyes.Even at brightest noontime,we stumble as though it […]

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Isaiah 57:11a (New Living Translation) “Are you afraid of these idols?Do they terrify you?Is that why you have lied to meand forgotten me and my words? God is speaking to the people through the prophet Isaiah. The people have been lying to God. That is odd in itself as God knows our thoughts, so we […]

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