Contemplative Bible Reading

Isaiah 59:3 Your hands are the hands of murderers, and your fingers are filthy with sin. (New Living Translation) your lips have spoken lies; your tongue mutters wickedness. (English Standard Version) Permit me to mix English translation of this verse from the prophet Isaiah. The prophet is relaying from God how life will be when […]

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Isaiah 32:1-2 (English Standard Version) 1 Behold, a king will reign in righteousness, and princes will rule in justice. 2 Each will be like a hiding place from the wind, a shelter from the storm, like streams of water in a dry place, like the shade of a great rock in a weary land. The […]

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Isaiah 29:13 (New Living Translation) And so the Lord says, “These people say they are mine. They honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me. And their worship of me is nothing but man-made rules learned by rote. rote: noun – mechanical or habitual repetition of something to be learned. God’s […]

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Isaiah 29:10 (New Living Translation) For the Lord has poured out on you a spirit of deep sleep. He has closed the eyes of your prophets and visionaries. God the Creator is punishing the chosen people for their disobedience. The punishment? Deep sleep. Those who are supposed to see, hear, and envision are…well, their minds […]

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Isaiah 3:5 (New Living Translation) Young people will insult their elders, and vulgar people will sneer at the honorable. The is part of a passage about God judging and punishing the people. It is a long list including the scarcity of food and water—necessities for life. And here we have another punishing: youth disrespecting those […]

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Isaiah 37:7 (New Living Translation) “Listen! I myself will move against him, and the king will receive a message that he is needed at home. So he will return to his land, where I will have him killed with a sword.’” The prophet Isaiah is speaking to King Hezekiah about the King of Assyria. The […]

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Isaiah 58:6-7 (New Living Translation) 6 “No, this is the kind of fasting I want: Free those who are wrongly imprisoned; lighten the burden of those who work for you. Let the oppressed go free, and remove the chains that bind people. 7 Share your food with the hungry, and give shelter to the homeless. […]

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Isaiah 40: (New Living Translation) 1 “Comfort, comfort my people,” says your God. 2 “Speak tenderly to Jerusalem. Tell her that her sad days are gone and her sins are pardoned. Yes, the Lord has punished her twice over for all her sins.” 3 Listen! It’s the voice of someone shouting, “Clear the way through […]

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Isaiah 30:10 (New Living Translation) They tell the seers, “Stop seeing visions!” They tell the prophets, “Don’t tell us what is right. Tell us nice things. Tell us lies. The people didn’t want to hear the message that God was sending them via the prophets. Their own disobedience had eroded them. “Please,” the pleaded. “Tell […]

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Isaiah 58:6-7 (New Living Translation) 6 “No, this is the kind of fasting I want: Free those who are wrongly imprisoned; lighten the burden of those who work for you. Let the oppressed go free, and remove the chains that bind people. 7 Share your food with the hungry, and give shelter to the homeless. […]

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