Study Desk

Just as you do not know the path of the wind, or how the bones form in the womb of a pregnant woman, so you do not know the work of God who makes everything.

Rejoice, young man, while you are young, and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth. Follow the impulses of your heart and the desires of your eyes, but know that God will judge your motives and actions.

and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the life's breath returns to God who gave it.

Having heard everything, I have reached this conclusion: Fear God and keep his commandments, because this is the whole duty of man.

For God will evaluate every deed, including every secret thing, whether good or evil.

many peoples will come and say, "Come, let us go up to the Lord 's mountain, to the temple of the God of Jacob, so he can teach us his requirements, and we can follow his standards." For Zion will be the center for moral instruction; the Lord will issue edicts from Jerusalem.

"Ask for a confirming sign from the Lord your God. You can even ask for something miraculous."

So Isaiah replied, "Pay attention, family of David. Do you consider it too insignificant to try the patience of men? Is that why you are also trying the patience of my God?

Devise your strategy, but it will be thwarted! Issue your orders, but they will not be executed! For God is with us!

They will pass through the land destitute and starving. Their hunger will make them angry, and they will curse their king and their God as they look upward.

For a child has been born to us, a son has been given to us. He shoulders responsibility and is called: Extraordinary Strategist, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.

A remnant will come back, a remnant of Jacob, to the mighty God.

Look, God is my deliverer! I will trust in him and not fear. For the Lord gives me strength and protects me; he has become my deliverer."

This is a message about Babylon that God revealed to Isaiah son of Amoz:

Babylon, the most admired of kingdoms, the Chaldeans' source of honor and pride, will be destroyed by God just as Sodom and Gomorrah were.

There will be some left behind, like when an olive tree is beaten— two or three ripe olives remain toward the very top, four or five on its fruitful branches," says the Lord God of Israel.

For you ignore the God who rescues you; you pay no attention to your strong protector. So this is what happens: You cultivate beautiful plants and plant exotic vines.

O my downtrodden people, crushed like stalks on the threshing floor, what I have heard from the Lord who commands armies, the God of Israel, I have reported to you.

Just a handful of archers, the warriors of Kedar, will be left." Indeed, the Lord God of Israel has spoken.

So in the east extol the Lord , along the seacoasts extol the fame of the Lord God of Israel.