Well it's been a while since I have done one of these. Figure the Bible Discussion section could use some Bible to discuss, or at least study or read along with. I will try to post a new chapter daily or every other day with it being a longer book. Feel free to discuss any chapter that has been posted if I get ahead of you.
Isaiah is a good read just as a mere book. As history it is even more interesting. As the Bible goes it is a very integral part of the Bible. To get a good understanding of Isaiah's time era, which comes up in his book, is the Books of Kings and Chronicles. Many times in the Gospels are the prophecies of Isaiah referenced. Indeed many of the best known or most clear prophecies about Jesus are found in this book.
Isaiah as the man indeed has some of the fairest lips of all time.
Isaiah: The Prophet's Lips
Isaiah 1
[SUP]6 [/SUP]From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises, and putrifying sores: they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with ointment.
[SUP]7 [/SUP]Your country is desolate, your cities are burned with fire: your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers.
[SUP]8 [/SUP]And the daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city.
[SUP]9 [/SUP]Except the Lord of hosts had left unto us a very small remnant, we should have been as Sodom, and we should have been like unto Gomorrah.
[SUP]10 [/SUP]Hear the word of the Lord, ye rulers of Sodom; give ear unto the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah.
Isaiah is a good read just as a mere book. As history it is even more interesting. As the Bible goes it is a very integral part of the Bible. To get a good understanding of Isaiah's time era, which comes up in his book, is the Books of Kings and Chronicles. Many times in the Gospels are the prophecies of Isaiah referenced. Indeed many of the best known or most clear prophecies about Jesus are found in this book.
Isaiah as the man indeed has some of the fairest lips of all time.
Isaiah: The Prophet's Lips
Isaiah 1
[SUP]6 [/SUP]From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises, and putrifying sores: they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with ointment.
[SUP]7 [/SUP]Your country is desolate, your cities are burned with fire: your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers.
[SUP]8 [/SUP]And the daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city.
[SUP]9 [/SUP]Except the Lord of hosts had left unto us a very small remnant, we should have been as Sodom, and we should have been like unto Gomorrah.
[SUP]10 [/SUP]Hear the word of the Lord, ye rulers of Sodom; give ear unto the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah.
10 ye rulers of Sodom, ye people of Gomorrah The people of Judah are being addressed here!