Archive THE BIBLE - Verse by Verse (Isaiah Chapter 1 to 66)

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Isaiah 16:10 (NLT)
Gone now is the gladness,
gone the joy of harvest,
There will be no singing in the vineyards,
no more happy shouts
No treading of grapes in the winepresses.
I have ended all their harvest joys.
 
Isaiah 16:12 (NLT)
The people of Moab will worship at their pagan shrines,
but it will do them no good.
They will cry to the gods in their temples,
but no one will be able to save them.
 
Isaiah 16:14 (NLT)
But now the LORD says, "Within three years, counting each day, the glory of Moab will be ended. From it's great population, only a feeble few will be left alive."
 
Isaiah 17:1 (NLT)
This message came to me concerning Damascus:
"Look, the city of Damascus will disappear!
it will become a heap of ruins.
 
Isaiah 17:2 (NLT)
The towns of Aroer will be deserted.
Flocks will lie down in the steets undisturbed,
with no one to chase them away.
 
Isaiah 17:3 (NLT)
The fortified towns of Israel will also be destroyed,
and the royal power of Damascus will end.
All that renains of Syria
will share the fate of Israel's departed glory."
Declares the LORD of Heaven's Armies.
 
Isaiah 17:5 (NLT)
The whole land will look like a grainfield
after the harvesters have gathered the grain.
It will be desolate,
like the fields in the valley of Rephaim after the harvest.
 
Isaiah 17:6 (NLT)
Only a few of its people will be left,
like straight olives left on a tree after the harvest.
Only two or three remain in the highest branches,
Four or five scattered here and there on the limbs."
Declares the LORD, the God of Israel.
 
Isaiah 17:8 (NLT)
They will no longer look to their idols for help
or worship what's their own hands have made.
They will never again bow down to their Asherah poles
or worship at the pagan shines they have built.
 
Isaiah 17:9 (NLT)
Their largest cities will be like a deserted forest,
like the land the Hivites and Amorites abandoned
when the Israelites came here so long ago.
It will be utterly desolate.
 
Isaiah 17:10 (NLT)
Why? Because you have turned from the God who can save you.
You have forgotten the Rock who can hide you.
So you may plant the finest grape vines
and import the most expensive seedlings.
 
Isaiah 17:11 (NLT)
They may sprout on the day you set them out;
Yes, they may blossom on the very morning you plant them
but you will never pick any grapes from them.
Your only harvest will be a load of grief and unrelieved pain.
 
Isaiah 17:12 (NLT)
Listen! The armies of many nations roar like the roaring of the sea.
Hear the thunder of the mighty forces
as they rush forward like thundering waves.
 
Isaiah 17:13 (NLT)
But though tgey thunder like breakers on a beach,
GOd will silence them and they will run away.
They will flee like chaff scattered by the wind,
like a tumbleweed whirling before a storm.
 
Isaiah 17:14 (NLT)
In the evening Israel waits in terror,
but by dawn it's enemies are dead
this is the just reward of those who plunder us.
A fitting end for those who destroy us.
 
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