A thunderous voice cries out in the wilderness: “Prepare the way for Yahweh’s arrival! Make a highway straight through the desert for our God! 4 Every valley will be raised up, every mountain brought low. The rugged terrain will become level ground and the rough places a plain. 5 Then Yahweh’s radiant glory will be […]

Your God says to you: “Comfort, comfort my people with gentle, compassionate words. 2 Speak tenderly from the heart to revive those in Jerusalem, and proclaim that their warfare is over. Her debt of sin is paid for, and she will not be treated as guilty.  Prophesy to her that she has received from the

Isaiah said to Hezekiah, “Here is what Yahweh, Commander of Angel Armies, has to say to you: 6 ‘The days are coming when all the treasures in your palace and all the wealth that your ancestors have stored up until this day will be carried off to Babylon; absolutely nothing will be left,’ says the

I will defend Jerusalem, and I will deliver you and this city from the hand of the king of Assyria. 7 This will be a sign to you from Yahweh as a confirmation that I will do for you what I have promised. 8 I will cause the sun’s shadow to retreat ten steps on

Now, Hezekiah became sick and was at the point of death. The prophet Isaiah, son of Amoz, came and prophesied to him, saying, “This is what Yahweh has to say to you: Set your affairs in order, for you will not recover from this illness. You are going to die.” 2 Then Hezekiah broke down

Therefore, here is what I, Yahweh, have to say about the king of Assyria: He will neither enter this city, nor shoot even one arrow here, nor raise a warrior’s shield, nor build a siege ramp against Jerusalem. 34 I declare that by the way he came, by that same way, he will leave. He

Hezekiah, this will be a sign for you: This year you will eat only grain that grows of itself. Next year you will eat what comes of that. Then, in the third year, life will be normal again. You will sow and reap, plant vineyards, and eat their fruit. Judah’s remnant will flourish again, sending

Isaiah writes a history of the time King of Assyria threatened to attack Jerusalem. The Jewish King Hezekiah first sends a delegation who returns in fear. There is another interaction, and this time, he goes to Isaiah as God’s prophet and asks him to appeal to God and pray for him and the nation. After

Don’t listen to Hezekiah, for the king of Assyria says to you, “Make your peace with me and surrender so that you may continue to eat from your own grapes and figs and drink the water from your own cisterns 17 until I come and take you away to a land like your own. It

There will be a highway of holiness called the Sacred Way. The impure will not be permitted on this road, but it will be accessible to God’s people. And not even fools will lose their way. 9 The lion will not be found there; no wild beast will travel on it— they will not be