The Bible Verse By Verse Continued...

[phil36]

Isaiah 44:15

Then it becomes fuel for a man. He takes a part of it and warms himself; he kindles a fire and bakes bread. Also he makes a god and worships it; he makes it an idol and falls down before it.

 

[Marcelo]

Isaiah 44:16

New International Version

16 Half of the wood he burns in the fire; over it he prepares his meal, he roasts his meat and eats his fill.
He also warms himself and says, “Ah! I am warm; I see the fire.”

 

[Deade]

Isaiah 44:17 (ESV)

And the rest of it he makes into a god, his idol, and falls down to it and worships it. He prays to it and says, “Deliver me, for you are my god!”

 

[Deade]

Isaiah 44:18 (ESV)

They know not, nor do they discern, for he has shut their eyes, so that they cannot see, and their hearts, so that they cannot understand.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Isaiah 44:19 (ESV)

No one considers, nor is there knowledge or discernment to say, “Half of it I burned in the fire; I also baked bread on its coals; I roasted meat and have eaten. And shall I make the rest of it an abomination?
Shall I fall down before a block of wood?”

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Isaiah 44:20 (ESV)

He feeds on ashes; a deluded heart has led him astray, and he cannot deliver himself or say,
“Is there not a lie in my right hand?”

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Isaiah 44:21 (ESV)

Remember these things, O Jacob, and Israel, for you are my servant;
I formed you; you are my servant; O Israel, you will not be forgotten by me.

 

[Deade]

Isaiah 44:22 (ESV)

I have blotted out your transgressions like a cloud and your sins like mist; return to me, for I have redeemed you.

 

[Deade]

Isaiah 44:23 (ESV)

Sing, O heavens, for the Lord has done it; shout, O depths of the earth; break forth into singing, O mountains, O forest, and every tree in it! For the Lord has redeemed Jacob, and will be glorified in Israel.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Isaiah 44:24 (ESV)

Thus says the Lord, your Redeemer, who formed you from the womb:
“I am the Lord, who made all things, who alone stretched out the heavens, who spread out the earth by myself,

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Isaiah 44:25 (ESV)

who frustrates the signs of liars and makes fools of diviners,
who turns wise men back and makes their knowledge foolish,

 

[Deade]

Isaiah 44:26 (ESV)

who confirms the word of his servant and fulfills the counsel of his messengers, who says of Jerusalem, ‘She shall be inhabited,’ and of the cities of Judah, ‘They shall be built, and I will raise up their ruins’;

 

[Deade]

Isaiah 44:27 (ESV)

who says to the deep, ‘Be dry; I will dry up your rivers’;

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Isaiah 44:27 (ESV)

who says of Cyrus, ‘He is my shepherd, and he shall fulfill all my purpose’; saying of Jerusalem, ‘She shall be built,’
and of the temple, ‘Your foundation shall be laid.’”

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Isaiah 45.1 (ESV)

Thus says the Lord to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have grasped, to subdue nations before him
and to loose the belts of kings, to open doors before him that gates may not be closed:

 

[Kireina]

Isaiah 45:2
New International Version


2 I will go before you
and will level the mountains;
I will break down gates of bronze
and cut through bars of iron.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Isaiah 45.3 (NIV)

I will give you hidden treasures, riches stored in secret places,
so that you may know that I am the Lord, the God of Israel, who summons you by name.

 

[shittim]

Berean study Bible, Isiah 45-4
For the sake of Jacob My servant and Israel My chosen one, I call you by name; I have given you a title of honor, though you have not known Me.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Isaiah 45:5 (CSB)

I am the Lord, and there is no other; there is no God but me. I will strengthen you, though you do not know me,

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Isaiah 45:6 (CSB)

so that all may know from the rising of the sun to its setting that there is no one but me. I am the Lord, and there is no other.