“Come now, let us reason together, says the Lord: though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red like crimson, they shall become like wool.

The Unfaithful City

How the faithful city has become a whore, she who was full of justice! Righteousness lodged in her, but now murderers.

And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem and men of Judah, judge between me and my vineyard.

And now I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard. I will remove its hedge, and it shall be devoured; I will break down its wall, and it shall be trampled down.

But now the Lord has spoken, saying, “In three years, like the years of a hired worker, the glory of Moab will be brought into contempt, in spite of all his great multitude, and those who remain will be very few and feeble.”

Now therefore do not scoff, lest your bonds be made strong; for I have heard a decree of destruction from the Lord God of hosts against the whole land.

A Rebellious People

And now, go, write it before them on a tablet and inscribe it in a book, that it may be for the time to come as a witness forever.

“Now I will arise,” says the Lord, “now I will lift myself up; now I will be exalted.

Do you think that mere words are strategy and power for war? In whom do you now trust, that you have rebelled against me?

Come now, make a wager with my master the king of Assyria: I will give you two thousand horses, if you are able on your part to set riders on them.

Now the king heard concerning Tirhakah king of Cush, “He has set out to fight against you.” And when he heard it, he sent messengers to Hezekiah, saying,

So now, O Lord our God, save us from his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that you alone are the Lord.”

“‘Have you not heard that I determined it long ago? I planned from days of old what now I bring to pass, that you should make fortified cities crash into heaps of ruins,

Now Isaiah had said, “Let them take a cake of figs and apply it to the boil, that he may recover.”

Behold, the former things have come to pass, and new things I now declare; before they spring forth I tell you of them.”

For a long time I have held my peace; I have kept still and restrained myself; now I will cry out like a woman in labor; I will gasp and pant.

Israel's Only Savior

But now thus says the Lord, he who created you, O Jacob, he who formed you, O Israel: “Fear not, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by name, you are mine.

Behold, I am doing a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it? I will make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert.

Israel the Lord's Chosen

“But now hear, O Jacob my servant, Israel whom I have chosen!

Now therefore hear this, you lover of pleasures, who sit securely, who say in your heart, “I am, and there is no one besides me; I shall not sit as a widow or know the loss of children”:

“You have heard; now see all this; and will you not declare it? From this time forth I announce to you new things, hidden things that you have not known.

They are created now, not long ago; before today you have never heard of them, lest you should say, ‘Behold, I knew them.’

Draw near to me, hear this: from the beginning I have not spoken in secret, from the time it came to be I have been there.” And now the Lord God has sent me, and his Spirit.

And now the Lord says, he who formed me from the womb to be his servant, to bring Jacob back to him; and that Israel might be gathered to him— for I am honored in the eyes of the Lord, and my God has become my strength—

“Surely your waste and your desolate places and your devastated land— surely now you will be too narrow for your inhabitants, and those who swallowed you up will be far away.

Now therefore what have I here,” declares the Lord, “seeing that my people are taken away for nothing? Their rulers wail,” declares the Lord, “and continually all the day my name is despised.

But now, O Lord, you are our Father; we are the clay, and you are our potter; we are all the work of your hand.