The Bible Verse By Verse Continued...

[phil36]

Isaiah 17:5

And it shall be as when the reaper gathers standing grain and his arm harvests the ears, and as when one gleans the ears of grain in the Valley of Rephaim.

 

[phil36]

Isaiah 17:6

Only a few of its people will be left, like stray olives left on a tree after the harvest. Only two or three remain in the highest branches, four or five scattered here and there on the limbs,” declares the LORD, the God of Israel.

 

[phil36]

Isaiah 17:7

In that day man will look to his Maker, and his eyes will look on the Holy One of Israel.

 

[Deade]

Isaiah 17:8 (ESV)

He will not look to the altars, the work of his hands, and he will not look on what his own fingers have made, either the Asherim or the altars of incense.

 

[Deade]

Isaiah 17:9 (ESV)

In that day their strong cities will be like the deserted places of the wooded heights and the hilltops, which they deserted because of the children of Israel, and there will be desolation.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Isaiah 17:10 (ESV)

You have forgotten God your Saviour; you have not remembered the Rock, your fortress.
Therefore, though you set out the finest plants and plant imported vines,

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Isaiah 17:11 (ESV)

though on the day you set them out, you make them grow, and on the morning when you plant them, you bring them to bud, yet the harvest will be as nothing in the day of disease and incurable pain.

 

[Deade]

Isaiah 17:12 (ESV)

Ah, the thunder of many peoples; they thunder like the thundering of the sea! Ah, the roar of nations; they roar like the roaring of mighty waters!

 

[Deade]

Isaiah 17:13 (ESV)

The nations roar like the roaring of many waters, but he will rebuke them, and they will flee far away, chased like chaff on the mountains before the wind and whirling dust before the storm.

 

[phil36]

Isaiah 17:14

At evening time, behold, terror! Before morning, they are no more! This is the portion of those who loot us, and the lot of those who plunder us.

 

[Deade]

Isaiah 18:1 (ESV)

Ah, land of whirring wings that is beyond the rivers of Cush,

 

[Deade]

Isaiah 18:2 (ESV)

which sends ambassadors by the sea, in vessels of papyrus on the waters! Go, you swift messengers, to a nation tall and smooth, to a people feared near and far, a nation mighty and conquering, whose land the rivers divide.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Isaiah 18:3 (ESV)

All you inhabitants of the world, you who dwell on the earth,
when a signal is raised on the mountains, look! When a trumpet is blown, hear!

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Isaiah 18:4 (ESV)

For thus the Lord said to me:
“I will quietly look from my dwelling like clear heat in sunshine,
like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.”

 

[Deade]

Isaiah 18:5 (ESV)

For before the harvest, when the blossom is over, and the flower becomes a ripening grape, he cuts off the shoots with pruning hooks, and the spreading branches he lops off and clears away.

 

[Deade]

Isaiah 18:6 (ESV)

They shall all of them be left to the birds of prey of the mountains and to the beasts of the earth. And the birds of prey will summer on them, and all the beasts of the earth will winter on them.

 

[Natasha91]

Isaiah 18:7 (NLT)

"At that time the Lord of Heaven’s Armies will receive gifts from this land divided by rivers, from this tall, smooth-skinned people, who are feared far and wide for their conquests and destruction. They will bring the gifts to Jerusalem, where the Lord of Heaven’s Armies dwells."

 

[Deade]

Isaiah 19:1 (ESV)

An oracle concerning Egypt. Behold, the Lord is riding on a swift cloud and comes to Egypt; and the idols of Egypt will tremble at his presence, and the heart of the Egyptians will melt within them.

 

[Deade]

Isaiah 19:2 (ESV)

And I will stir up Egyptians against Egyptians, and they will fight, each against another and each against his neighbor, city against city, kingdom against kingdom;

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Isaiah 19:3 (ESV)

and the spirit of the Egyptians within them will be emptied out,
and I will confound their counsel; and they will inquire of the idols and the sorcerers,
and the mediums and the necromancers;