Isaiah 51

Everlasting Salvation for Zion 1 “Listen to me, you who pursue righteousness and who seek theLord: Look to the rock from which you were cut and to the quarry from which you were hewn; 2 look to Abraham, your father, and to Sarah, who gave you birth. When I called him he was only one […]

Isaiah 52

1 Awake, awake, Zion, clothe yourself with strength! Put on your garments of splendor, Jerusalem, the holy city. The uncircumcised and defiled will not enter you again. 2 Shake off your dust; rise up, sit enthroned, Jerusalem. Free yourself from the chains on your neck, Daughter Zion, now a captive. 3 For this is what […]

Isaiah 53

1 Who has believed our message and to whom has the arm of theLordbeen revealed? 2 He grew up before him like a tender shoot, and like a root out of dry ground. He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him, nothing in his appearance that we should desire him. 3 He […]

Isaiah 54

The Future Glory of Zion 1 “Sing, barren woman, you who never bore a child; burst into song, shout for joy, you who were never in labor; because more are the children of the desolate woman than of her who has a husband,” says theLord. 2 “Enlarge the place of your tent, stretch your tent […]

Isaiah 55

Invitation to the Thirsty 1 “Come, all you who are thirsty, come to the waters; and you who have no money, come, buy and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without cost. 2 Why spend money on what is not bread, and your labor on what does not satisfy? Listen, listen to […]

Isaiah 56

Salvation for Others 1 This is what theLordsays: “Maintain justice and do what is right, for my salvation is close at hand and my righteousness will soon be revealed. 2 Blessed is the one who does this— the person who holds it fast, who keeps the Sabbath without desecrating it, and keeps their hands from […]

Isaiah 57

1 The righteous perish, and no one takes it to heart; the devout are taken away, and no one understands that the righteous are taken away to be spared from evil. 2 Those who walk uprightly enter into peace; they find rest as they lie in death. 3 “But you—come here, you children of a […]

Isaiah 58

True Fasting 1 “Shout it aloud, do not hold back. Raise your voice like a trumpet. Declare to my people their rebellion and to the descendants of Jacob their sins. 2 For day after day they seek me out; they seem eager to know my ways, as if they were a nation that does what […]

Isaiah 59

Sin, Confession and Redemption 1 Surely the arm of theLordis not too short to save, nor his ear too dull to hear. 2 But your iniquities have separated you from your God; your sins have hidden his face from you, so that he will not hear. 3 For your hands are stained with blood, your […]

Isaiah 60

The Glory of Zion 1 “Arise, shine, for your light has come, and the glory of theLordrises upon you. 2 See, darkness covers the earth and thick darkness is over the peoples, but theLordrises upon you and his glory appears over you. 3 Nations will come to your light, and kings to the brightness of […]