Isaiah 48:14
New King James Version
14 “All of you, assemble yourselves, and hear!
Who among them has declared these things?
(A)The Lord loves him;
(B)He shall do His pleasure on Babylon,
And His arm shall be against the Chaldeans.
Isaiah 43:9
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9 Let all the nations be gathered together,
And let the people be assembled.
(A)Who among them can declare this,
And show us former things?
Let them bring out their witnesses, that they may be justified;
Or let them hear and say, “It is truth.”
Jeremiah 50:21-29
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21 “Go up against the land of Merathaim, against it,
And against the inhabitants of (A)Pekod.
[a]Waste and utterly destroy them,” says the Lord,
“And do (B)according to all that I have commanded you.
22 (C)A sound of battle is in the land,
And of great destruction.
23 How (D)the hammer of the whole earth has been cut apart and broken!
How Babylon has become a desolation among the nations!
24 I have laid a snare for you;
You have indeed been (E)trapped, O Babylon,
And you were not aware;
You have been found and also caught,
Because you have (F)contended against the Lord.
25 The Lord has opened His armory,
And has brought out (G)the weapons of His indignation;
For this is the work of the Lord God of hosts
In the land of the Chaldeans.
26 Come against her from the farthest border;
Open her storehouses;
Cast her up as heaps of ruins,
And destroy her utterly;
Let nothing of her be left.
27 Slay all her (H)bulls,
Let them go down to the slaughter.
Woe to them!
For their day has come, the time of (I)their punishment.
28 The voice of those who flee and escape from the land of Babylon
(J)Declares in Zion the vengeance of the Lord our God,
The vengeance of His temple.
29 “Call together the archers against Babylon.
All you who bend the bow, encamp against it all around;
Let none of them [b]escape.
(K)Repay her according to her work;
According to all she has done, do to her;
(L)For she has been proud against the Lord,
Against the Holy One of Israel.
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 50:21 Or Attack with the sword
- Jeremiah 50:29 Qr., some Heb. mss., LXX, Tg. add to her
Isaiah 13:17-18
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17 “Behold,(A) I will stir up the Medes against them,
Who will not [a]regard silver;
And as for gold, they will not delight in it.
18 Also their bows will dash the young men to pieces,
And they will have no pity on the fruit of the womb;
Their eye will not spare children.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 13:17 esteem
Jeremiah 51:20-24
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20 “You(A) are My battle-ax and weapons of war:
For with you I will break the nation in pieces;
With you I will destroy kingdoms;
21 With you I will break in pieces the horse and its rider;
With you I will break in pieces the chariot and its rider;
22 With you also I will break in pieces man and woman;
With you I will break in pieces (B)old and young;
With you I will break in pieces the young man and the maiden;
23 With you also I will break in pieces the shepherd and his flock;
With you I will break in pieces the farmer and his yoke of oxen;
And with you I will break in pieces governors and rulers.
24 “And(C) I will repay Babylon
And all the inhabitants of Chaldea
For all the evil they have done
In Zion in your sight,” says the Lord.
Isaiah 46:10-11
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10 (A)Declaring the end from the beginning,
And from ancient times things that are not yet done,
Saying, (B)‘My counsel shall stand,
And I will do all My pleasure,’
11 Calling a bird of prey (C)from the east,
The man (D)who executes My counsel, from a far country.
Indeed (E)I have spoken it;
I will also bring it to pass.
I have purposed it;
I will also do it.
Isaiah 45:20-21
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20 “Assemble yourselves and come;
Draw near together,
You who have escaped from the nations.
(A)They have no knowledge,
Who carry the wood of their carved image,
And pray to a god that cannot save.
21 Tell and bring forth your case;
Yes, let them take counsel together.
(B)Who has declared this from ancient time?
Who has told it from that time?
Have not I, the Lord?
(C)And there is no other God besides Me,
A just God and a Savior;
There is none besides Me.
Isaiah 41:22
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22 “Let(A) them bring forth and show us what will happen;
Let them show the (B)former things, what they were,
That we may [a]consider them,
And know the latter end of them;
Or declare to us things to come.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 41:22 Lit. set our heart on them
Isaiah 13:4-5
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4 The (A)noise of a multitude in the mountains,
Like that of many people!
A tumultuous noise of the kingdoms of nations gathered together!
The Lord of hosts musters
The army for battle.
5 They come from a far country,
From the end of heaven—
The (B)Lord and His [a]weapons of indignation,
To destroy the whole (C)land.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 13:5 Or instruments
Isaiah 44:28-45:3
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28 Who says of (A)Cyrus, ‘He is My shepherd,
And he shall perform all My pleasure,
Saying to Jerusalem, (B)“You shall be built,”
And to the temple, “Your foundation shall be laid.” ’
Cyrus, God’s Instrument
45 “Thus says the Lord to His anointed,
To (C)Cyrus, whose (D)right hand I have [a]held—
(E)To subdue nations before him
And (F)loose the armor of kings,
To open before him the double doors,
So that the gates will not be shut:
2 ‘I will go before you
(G)And[b] make the [c]crooked places straight;
(H)I will break in pieces the gates of bronze
And cut the bars of iron.
3 I will give you the treasures of darkness
And hidden riches of secret places,
(I)That you may know that I, the Lord,
Who (J)call you by your name,
Am the God of Israel.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 45:1 strengthened or sustained
- Isaiah 45:2 Tg. I will trample down the walls; Vg. I will humble the great ones of the earth
- Isaiah 45:2 DSS, LXX mountains
Isaiah 44:7
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7 And (A)who can proclaim as I do?
Then let him declare it and set it in order for Me,
Since I appointed the ancient people.
And the things that are coming and shall come,
Let them show these to them.
Mark 10:21
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21 Then Jesus, looking at him, loved him, and said to him, “One thing you lack: Go your way, (A)sell whatever you have and give to the poor, and you will have (B)treasure in heaven; and come, (C)take up the cross, and follow Me.”
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