Personal bible study book of Isaiah

Here is a bible study of 12 different chapters from the book of Isaiah with differing messages for today, some are prophet some encouraging and some are filled with God’s promises to us on various things.

Up first is Isaiah chapter 6 which is where Isaiah has unclean lips which God deals with, and then the part I like is where Isaiah says here I am send me- volunteering willingly for a mission that God wants fulfilled.

(Isaiah 6:1)  In the year that King Uzziah died I saw the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up; and the train of his robe filled the temple.

(Isaiah 6:2)  Above him stood the seraphim. Each had six wings: with two he covered his face, and with two he covered his feet, and with two he flew.

(Isaiah 6:3)  And one called to another and said: "Holy, holy, holy is the LORD of hosts; the whole earth is full of his glory!"

(Isaiah 6:4)  And the foundations of the thresholds shook at the voice of him who called, and the house was filled with smoke.

(Isaiah 6:5)  And I said: "Woe is me! For I am lost; for I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips; for my eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts!"

(Isaiah 6:6)  Then one of the seraphim flew to me, having in his hand a burning coal that he had taken with tongs from the altar.

(Isaiah 6:7)  And he touched my mouth and said: "Behold, this has touched your lips; your guilt is taken away, and your sin atoned for."

(Isaiah 6:8)  And I heard the voice of the Lord saying, "Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?" Then I said, "Here am I! Send me."

(Isaiah 6:9)  And he said, "Go, and say to this people: "'Keep on hearing, but do not understand; keep on seeing, but do not perceive.'

(Isaiah 6:10)  Make the heart of this people dull, and their ears heavy, and blind their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their hearts, and turn and be healed."

(Isaiah 6:11)  Then I said, "How long, O Lord?" And he said: "Until cities lie waste without inhabitant, and houses without people, and the land is a desolate waste,

(Isaiah 6:12)  and the LORD removes people far away, and the forsaken places are many in the midst of the land.

(Isaiah 6:13)  And though a tenth remain in it, it will be burned again, like a terebinth or an oak, whose stump remains when it is felled." The holy seed is its stump.

Isaiah chapter 11 is prophetic prophesying perhaps Christ, or even the end times where people may live together peacefully even if hostile naturally. God is powerful that way. It is an encouraging chapter.

(Isaiah 11:1)  There shall come forth a shoot from the stump of Jesse, and a branch from his roots shall bear fruit.

(Isaiah 11:2)  And the Spirit of the LORD shall rest upon him, the Spirit of wisdom and understanding, the Spirit of counsel and might, the Spirit of knowledge and the fear of the LORD.

(Isaiah 11:3)  And his delight shall be in the fear of the LORD. He shall not judge by what his eyes see, or decide disputes by what his ears hear,

(Isaiah 11:4)  but with righteousness he shall judge the poor, and decide with equity for the meek of the earth; and he shall strike the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips he shall kill the wicked.

(Isaiah 11:5)  Righteousness shall be the belt of his waist, and faithfulness the belt of his loins.

(Isaiah 11:6)  The wolf shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the young goat, and the calf and the lion and the fattened calf together; and a little child shall lead them.

(Isaiah 11:7)  The cow and the bear shall graze; their young shall lie down together; and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.

(Isaiah 11:8)  The nursing child shall play over the hole of the cobra, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the adder's den.

(Isaiah 11:9)  They shall not hurt or destroy in all my holy mountain; for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD as the waters cover the sea.

(Isaiah 11:10)  In that day the root of Jesse, who shall stand as a signal for the peoples--of him shall the nations inquire, and his resting place shall be glorious.

(Isaiah 11:11)  In that day the Lord will extend his hand yet a second time to recover the remnant that remains of his people, from Assyria, from Egypt, from Pathros, from Cush, from Elam, from Shinar, from Hamath, and from the coastlands of the sea.

(Isaiah 11:12)  He will raise a signal for the nations and will assemble the banished of Israel, and gather the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth.

(Isaiah 11:13)  The jealousy of Ephraim shall depart, and those who harass Judah shall be cut off; Ephraim shall not be jealous of Judah, and Judah shall not harass Ephraim.

(Isaiah 11:14)  But they shall swoop down on the shoulder of the Philistines in the west, and together they shall plunder the people of the east. They shall put out their hand against Edom and Moab, and the Ammonites shall obey them.

(Isaiah11:15)  And the LORD will utterly destroy the tongue of the Sea of Egypt, and will wave his hand over the River with his scorching breath, and strike it into seven channels, and he will lead people across in sandals.

(Isaiah 11:16)  And there will be a highway from Assyria for the remnant that remains of his people, as there was for Israel when they came up from the land of Egypt.

Here is a prophetic praise song to be given in that day, and it does praise the Lord in this brief chapter 12 of Isaiah

(Isaiah 12:1)  You will say in that day: "I will give thanks to you, O LORD, for though you were angry with me, your anger turned away, that you might comfort me.

(Isaiah 12:2)  "Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and will not be afraid; for the LORD GOD is my strength and my song, and he has become my salvation."

(Isaiah 12:3)  With joy you will draw water from the wells of salvation.

(Isaiah 12:4)  And you will say in that day: "Give thanks to the LORD, call upon his name, make known his deeds among the peoples, proclaim that his name is exalted.

(Isaiah 12:5)  "Sing praises to the LORD, for he has done gloriously; let this be made known in all the earth.

(Isaiah 12:6)  Shout, and sing for joy, O inhabitant of Zion, for great in your midst is the Holy One of Israel."

Isaiah chapter 35 is prophetic also in a very similar vein to 11 promising blessings for many in a wonderful future time, and may also speak of Jesus

(Isaiah 35:1)  The wilderness and the dry land shall be glad; the desert shall rejoice and blossom like the crocus;

(Isaiah 35:2)  it shall blossom abundantly and rejoice with joy and singing. The glory of Lebanon shall be given to it, the majesty of Carmel and Sharon. They shall see the glory of the LORD, the majesty of our God.

(Isaiah 35:3)  Strengthen the weak hands, and make firm the feeble knees.

(Isaiah 35:4)  Say to those who have an anxious heart, "Be strong; fear not! Behold, your God will come with vengeance, with the recompense of God. He will come and save you."

(Isaiah 35:5)  Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf unstopped;

(Isaiah 35:6)  then shall the lame man leap like a deer, and the tongue of the mute sing for joy. For waters break forth in the wilderness, and streams in the desert;

(Isaiah 35:7)  the burning sand shall become a pool, and the thirsty ground springs of water; in the haunt of jackals, where they lie down, the grass shall become reeds and rushes.

(Isaiah 35:8)  And a highway shall be there, and it shall be called the Way of Holiness; the unclean shall not pass over it. It shall belong to those who walk on the way; even if they are fools, they shall not go astray.

(Isaiah 35:9)  No lion shall be there, nor shall any ravenous beast come up on it; they shall not be found there, but the redeemed shall walk there.

(Isaiah 35:10)  And the ransomed of the LORD shall return and come to Zion with singing; everlasting joy shall be upon their heads; they shall obtain gladness and joy, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.

Isaiah chapter 40 gives many encouraging messages and prophecies of John the Baptist and Jesus and God promises to give strength to the weary

(Isaiah 40:1)  Comfort, comfort my people, says your God.

(Isaiah 40:2)  Speak tenderly to Jerusalem, and cry to her that her warfare is ended, that her iniquity is pardoned, that she has received from the LORD's hand double for all her sins.

(Isaiah 40:3)  A voice cries: "In the wilderness prepare the way of the LORD; make straight in the desert a highway for our God.

(Isaiah 40:4)  Every valley shall be lifted up, and every mountain and hill be made low; the uneven ground shall become level, and the rough places a plain.

(Isaiah 40:5)  And the glory of the LORD shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together, for the mouth of the LORD has spoken."

(Isaiah 40:6)  A voice says, "Cry!" And I said, "What shall I cry?" All flesh is grass, and all its beauty is like the flower of the field.

(Isaiah 40:7)  The grass withers, the flower fades when the breath of the LORD blows on it; surely the people are grass.

(Isaiah 40:8)  The grass withers, the flower fades, but the word of our God will stand forever.

(Isaiah 40:9)  Get you up to a high mountain, O Zion, herald of good news; lift up your voice with strength, O Jerusalem, herald of good news; lift it up, fear not; say to the cities of Judah, "Behold your God!"

(Isaiah 40:10)  Behold, the Lord GOD comes with might, and his arm rules for him; behold, his reward is with him, and his recompense before him.

(Isaiah 40:11)  He will tend his flock like a shepherd; he will gather the lambs in his arms; he will carry them in his bosom, and gently lead those that are with young.

(Isaiah 40:12)  Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand and marked off the heavens with a span, enclosed the dust of the earth in a measure and weighed the mountains in scales and the hills in a balance?

(Isaiah 40:13)  Who has measured the Spirit of the LORD, or what man shows him his counsel?

(Isaiah 40:14)  Whom did he consult, and who made him understand? Who taught him the path of justice, and taught him knowledge, and showed him the way of understanding?

(Isaiah 40:15)  Behold, the nations are like a drop from a bucket, and are accounted as the dust on the scales; behold, he takes up the coastlands like fine dust.

(Isaiah 40:16)  Lebanon would not suffice for fuel, nor are its beasts enough for a burnt offering.

(Isaiah 40:17)  All the nations are as nothing before him, they are accounted by him as less than nothing and emptiness.

(Isaiah 40:18)  To whom then will you liken God, or what likeness compare with him?

(Isaiah 40:19)  An idol! A craftsman casts it, and a goldsmith overlays it with gold and casts for it silver chains.

(Isaiah 40:20)  He who is too impoverished for an offering chooses wood that will not rot; he seeks out a skillful craftsman to set up an idol that will not move.

(Isaiah 40:21)  Do you not know? Do you not hear? Has it not been told you from the beginning? Have you not understood from the foundations of the earth?

(Isaiah 40:22)  It is he who sits above the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers; who stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them like a tent to dwell in;

(Isaiah 40:23)  who brings princes to nothing, and makes the rulers of the earth as emptiness.

(Isaiah 40:24)  Scarcely are they planted, scarcely sown, scarcely has their stem taken root in the earth, when he blows on them, and they wither, and the tempest carries them off like stubble.

(Isaiah 40:25)  To whom then will you compare me, that I should be like him? says the Holy One.

(Isaiah 40:26)  Lift up your eyes on high and see: who created these? He who brings out their host by number, calling them all by name, by the greatness of his might, and because he is strong in power not one is missing.

(Isaiah 40:27)  Why do you say, O Jacob, and speak, O Israel, "My way is hidden from the LORD, and my right is disregarded by my God"?

(Isaiah 40:28)  Have you not known? Have you not heard? The LORD is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He does not faint or grow weary; his understanding is unsearchable.

(Isaiah 40:29)  He gives power to the faint, and to him who has no might he increases strength.

(Isaiah 40:30)  Even youths shall faint and be weary, and young men shall fall exhausted;

(Isaiah 40:31)  but they who wait for the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint.

Isaiah chapter 41 speaks of encouraging one another then prophesies God to be with Israel and to bless them in many ways and protect them

(Isaiah 41:1)  Listen to me in silence, O coastlands; let the peoples renew their strength; let them approach, then let them speak; let us together draw near for judgment.

(Isaiah 41:2)  Who stirred up one from the east whom victory meets at every step? He gives up nations before him, so that he tramples kings underfoot; he makes them like dust with his sword, like driven stubble with his bow.

(Isaiah 41:3)  He pursues them and passes on safely, by paths his feet have not trod.

(Isaiah 41:4)  Who has performed and done this, calling the generations from the beginning? I, the LORD, the first, and with the last; I am he.

(Isaiah 41:5)  The coastlands have seen and are afraid; the ends of the earth tremble; they have drawn near and come.

(Isaiah 41:6)  Everyone helps his neighbor and says to his brother, "Be strong!"

(Isaiah 41:7)  The craftsman strengthens the goldsmith, and he who smooths with the hammer him who strikes the anvil, saying of the soldering, "It is good"; and they strengthen it with nails so that it cannot be moved.

(Isaiah 41:8)  But you, Israel, my servant, Jacob, whom I have chosen, the offspring of Abraham, my friend;

(Isaiah 41:9)  you whom I took from the ends of the earth, and called from its farthest corners, saying to you, "You are my servant, I have chosen you and not cast you off";

(Isaiah 41:10)  fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God; I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.

(Isaiah 41:11)  Behold, all who are incensed against you shall be put to shame and confounded; those who strive against you shall be as nothing and shall perish.

(Isaiah 41:12)  You shall seek those who contend with you, but you shall not find them; those who war against you shall be as nothing at all.

(Isaiah 41:13)  For I, the LORD your God, hold your right hand; it is I who say to you, "Fear not, I am the one who helps you."

(Isaiah 41:14)  Fear not, you worm Jacob, you men of Israel! I am the one who helps you, declares the LORD; your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel.

(Isaiah 41:15)  Behold, I make of you a threshing sledge, new, sharp, and having teeth; you shall thresh the mountains and crush them, and you shall make the hills like chaff;

(Isaiah 41:16)  you shall winnow them, and the wind shall carry them away, and the tempest shall scatter them. And you shall rejoice in the LORD; in the Holy One of Israel you shall glory.

(Isaiah 41:17)  When the poor and needy seek water, and there is none, and their tongue is parched with thirst, I the LORD will answer them; I the God of Israel will not forsake them.

(Isaiah 41:18)  I will open rivers on the bare heights, and fountains in the midst of the valleys. I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water.

(Isaiah 41:19)  I will put in the wilderness the cedar, the acacia, the myrtle, and the olive. I will set in the desert the cypress, the plane and the pine together,

(Isaiah 41:20)  that they may see and know, may consider and understand together, that the hand of the LORD has done this, the Holy One of Israel has created it.

(Isaiah 41:21)  Set forth your case, says the LORD; bring your proofs, says the King of Jacob.

(Isaiah 41:22)  Let them bring them, and tell us what is to happen. Tell us the former things, what they are, that we may consider them, that we may know their outcome; or declare to us the things to come.

(Isaiah 41:23)  Tell us what is to come hereafter, that we may know that you are gods; do good, or do harm, that we may be dismayed and terrified.

(Isaiah 41:24)  Behold, you are nothing, and your work is less than nothing; an abomination is he who chooses you.

(Isaiah 41:25)  I stirred up one from the north, and he has come, from the rising of the sun, and he shall call upon my name; he shall trample on rulers as on mortar, as the potter treads clay.

(Isaiah 41:26)  Who declared it from the beginning, that we might know, and beforehand, that we might say, "He is right"? There was none who declared it, none who proclaimed, none who heard your words.

(Isaiah 41:27)  I was the first to say to Zion, "Behold, here they are!" and I give to Jerusalem a herald of good news.

(Isaiah 41:28)  But when I look, there is no one; among these there is no counselor who, when I ask, gives an answer.

(Isaiah 41:29)  Behold, they are all a delusion; their works are nothing; their metal images are empty wind.

Isaiah chapter 42 speaks of Jesus with the bruised reed that will not break and makes other promises and makes of the works and power of the Lord

(Isaiah 42:1)  Behold my servant, whom I uphold, my chosen, in whom my soul delights; I have put my Spirit upon him; he will bring forth justice to the nations.

(Isaiah 42:2)  He will not cry aloud or lift up his voice, or make it heard in the street;

(Isaiah 42:3)  a bruised reed he will not break, and a faintly burning wick he will not quench; he will faithfully bring forth justice.

(Isaiah 42:4)  He will not grow faint or be discouraged till he has established justice in the earth; and the coastlands wait for his law.

(Isaiah 42:5)  Thus says God, the LORD, who created the heavens and stretched them out, who spread out the earth and what comes from it, who gives breath to the people on it and spirit to those who walk in it:

(Isaiah 42:6)  "I am the LORD; I have called you in righteousness; I will take you by the hand and keep you; I will give you as a covenant for the people, a light for the nations,

(Isaiah 42:7)  to open the eyes that are blind, to bring out the prisoners from the dungeon, from the prison those who sit in darkness.

(Isaiah 42:8)  I am the LORD; that is my name; my glory I give to no other, nor my praise to carved idols.

(Isaiah 42:9)  Behold, the former things have come to pass, and new things I now declare; before they spring forth I tell you of them."

(Isaiah 42:10)  Sing to the LORD a new song, his praise from the end of the earth, you who go down to the sea, and all that fills it, the coastlands and their inhabitants.

(Isaiah 42:11)  Let the desert and its cities lift up their voice, the villages that Kedar inhabits; let the habitants of Sela sing for joy, let them shout from the top of the mountains.

(Isaiah 42:12)  Let them give glory to the LORD, and declare his praise in the coastlands.

(Isaiah 42:13)  The LORD goes out like a mighty man, like a man of war he stirs up his zeal; he cries out, he shouts aloud, he shows himself mighty against his foes.

(Isaiah 42:14)  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.

(Isaiah 42:15)  I will lay waste mountains and hills, and dry up all their vegetation; I will turn the rivers into islands, and dry up the pools.

(Isaiah 42:16)  And I will lead the blind in a way that they do not know, in paths that they have not known I will guide them. I will turn the darkness before them into light, the rough places into level ground. These are the things I do, and I do not forsake them.

(Isa 42:17)  They are turned back and utterly put to shame, who trust in carved idols, who say to metal images, "You are our gods."

(Isaiah 42:18)  Hear, you deaf, and look, you blind, that you may see!

(Isaiah 42:19)  Who is blind but my servant, or deaf as my messenger whom I send? Who is blind as my dedicated one, or blind as the servant of the LORD?

(Isaiah 42:20)  He sees many things, but does not observe them; his ears are open, but he does not hear.

(Isaiah 42:21)  The LORD was pleased, for his righteousness' sake, to magnify his law and make it glorious.

(Isaiah 42:22)  But this is a people plundered and looted; they are all of them trapped in holes and hidden in prisons; they have become plunder with none to rescue, spoil with none to say, "Restore!"

(Isaiah 42:23)  Who among you will give ear to this, will attend and listen for the time to come?

(Isaiah 42:24)  Who gave up Jacob to the looter, and Israel to the plunderers? Was it not the LORD, against whom we have sinned, in whose ways they would not walk, and whose law they would not obey?

(Isaiah 42:25)  So he poured on him the heat of his anger and the might of battle; it set him on fire all around, but he did not understand; it burned him up, but he did not take it to heart.

Isaiah chapter 53 is a powerful chapter on the promises of what Jesus would do for the lost, dying on the cross, spoken accurately and also this chapter prophesies Jesus’ ministry, too, and many other things accurately.

(Isaiah 53:1)  Who has believed what he has heard from us? And to whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed?

(Isaiah 53:2)  For he grew up before him like a young plant, and like a root out of dry ground; he had no form or majesty that we should look at him, and no beauty that we should desire him.

(Isaiah 53:3)  He was despised and rejected by men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief; and as one from whom men hide their faces he was despised, and we esteemed him not.

(Isaiah 53:4)  Surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows; yet we esteemed him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted.

(Isaiah 53:5)  But he was wounded for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities; upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with his stripes we are healed.

(Isaiah 53:6)  All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned--every one--to his own way; and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all.

(Isaiah 53:7)  He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth; like a lamb that is led to the slaughter, and like a sheep that before its shearers is silent, so he opened not his mouth.

(Isaiah 53:8)  By oppression and judgment he was taken away; and as for his generation, who considered that he was cut off out of the land of the living, stricken for the transgression of my people?

(Isaiah 53:9)  And they made his grave with the wicked and with a rich man in his death, although he had done no violence, and there was no deceit in his mouth.

(Isaiah 53:10)  Yet it was the will of the LORD to crush him; he has put him to grief; when his soul makes an offering for guilt, he shall see his offspring; he shall prolong his days; the will of the LORD shall prosper in his hand.

(Isaiah 53:11)  Out of the anguish of his soul he shall see and be satisfied; by his knowledge shall the righteous one, my servant, make many to be accounted righteous, and he shall bear their iniquities.

(Isaiah 53:12)  Therefore I will divide him a portion with the many, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong, because he poured out his soul to death and was numbered with the transgressors; yet he bore the sin of many, and makes intercession for the transgressors.

Isaiah chapter 55 is a chapter of promises and exhortations to basically come to the Lord, how His ways and thoughts are so much higher than ours, and also states that His word will never return void but do all that He pleases it to

(Isaiah 55:1)  "Come, everyone who thirsts, come to the waters; and he who has no money, come, buy and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.

(Isaiah 55:2)  Why do you spend your money for that which is not bread, and your labor for that which does not satisfy? Listen diligently to me, and eat what is good, and delight yourselves in rich food.

(Isaiah 55:3)  Incline your ear, and come to me; hear, that your soul may live; and I will make with you an everlasting covenant, my steadfast, sure love for David.

(Isaiah 55:4)  Behold, I made him a witness to the peoples, a leader and commander for the peoples.

(Isaiah 55:5)  Behold, you shall call a nation that you do not know, and a nation that did not know you shall run to you, because of the LORD your God, and of the Holy One of Israel, for he has glorified you.

(Isaiah 55:6)  "Seek the LORD while he may be found; call upon him while he is near;

(Isaiah 55:7)  let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; let him return to the LORD, that he may have compassion on him, and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.

(Isaiah 55:8)  For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the LORD.

(Isaiah 55:9)  For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.

(Isaiah 55:10)  "For as the rain and the snow come down from heaven and do not return there but water the earth, making it bring forth and sprout, giving seed to the sower and bread to the eater,

(Isaiah 55:11)  so shall my word be that goes out from my mouth; it shall not return to me empty, but it shall accomplish that which I purpose, and shall succeed in the thing for which I sent it.

(Isaiah 55:12)  "For you shall go out in joy and be led forth in peace; the mountains and the hills before you shall break forth into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.

(Isaiah 55:13)  Instead of the thorn shall come up the cypress; instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle; and it shall make a name for the LORD, an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off."

Isaiah chapter 58 gives a good demonstration of what a good fast is not and what our fasts should be- it was for the Israelites but we ourselves are now also to take care of the poor and widows for the Lord here promises to bless doing things that way

(Isaiah 58:1)  "Cry aloud; do not hold back; lift up your voice like a trumpet; declare to my people their transgression, to the house of Jacob their sins.

(Isaiah 58:2)  Yet they seek me daily and delight to know my ways, as if they were a nation that did righteousness and did not forsake the judgment of their God; they ask of me righteous judgments; they delight to draw near to God.

(Isaiah 58:3)  'Why have we fasted, and you see it not? Why have we humbled ourselves, and you take no knowledge of it?' Behold, in the day of your fast you seek your own pleasure, and oppress all your workers.

(Isaiah 58:4)  Behold, you fast only to quarrel and to fight and to hit with a wicked fist. Fasting like yours this day will not make your voice to be heard on high.

(Isaiah 58:5)  Is such the fast that I choose, a day for a person to humble himself? Is it to bow down his head like a reed, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? Will you call this a fast, and a day acceptable to the LORD?

(Isaiah 58:6)  "Is not this the fast that I choose: to loose the bonds of wickedness, to undo the straps of the yoke, to let the oppressed go free, and to break every yoke?

(Isaiah 58:7)  Is it not to share your bread with the hungry and bring the homeless poor into your house; when you see the naked, to cover him, and not to hide yourself from your own flesh?

(Isaiah 58:8)  Then shall your light break forth like the dawn, and your healing shall spring up speedily; your righteousness shall go before you; the glory of the LORD shall be your rear guard.

(Isaiah 58:9)  Then you shall call, and the LORD will answer; you shall cry, and he will say, 'Here I am.' If you take away the yoke from your midst, the pointing of the finger, and speaking wickedness,

(Isaiah 58:10)  if you pour yourself out for the hungry and satisfy the desire of the afflicted, then shall your light rise in the darkness and your gloom be as the noonday.

(Isaiah 58:11)  And the LORD will guide you continually and satisfy your desire in scorched places and make your bones strong; and you shall be like a watered garden, like a spring of water, whose waters do not fail.

(Isaiah 58:12)  And your ancient ruins shall be rebuilt; you shall raise up the foundations of many generations; you shall be called the repairer of the breach, the restorer of streets to dwell in.

(Isaiah 58:13)  "If you turn back your foot from the Sabbath, from doing your pleasure on my holy day, and call the Sabbath a delight and the holy day of the LORD honorable; if you honor it, not going your own ways, or seeking your own pleasure, or talking idly;

(Isaiah 58:14)  then you shall take delight in the LORD, and I will make you ride on the heights of the earth; I will feed you with the heritage of Jacob your father, for the mouth of the LORD has spoken."

Isaiah chapter 60 gives prophecies and promises of Jesus and how people will flock to Him the light even how the Lord will eventually be the everlasting light for all.

(Isaiah 60:1)  Arise, shine, for your light has come, and the glory of the LORD has risen upon you.

(Isaiah 60:2)  For behold, darkness shall cover the earth, and thick darkness the peoples; but the LORD will arise upon you, and his glory will be seen upon you.

(Isaiah 60:3)  And nations shall come to your light, and kings to the brightness of your rising.

(Isaiah 60:4)  Lift up your eyes all around, and see; they all gather together, they come to you; your sons shall come from afar, and your daughters shall be carried on the hip.

(Isaiah 60:5)  Then you shall see and be radiant; your heart shall thrill and exult, because the abundance of the sea shall be turned to you, the wealth of the nations shall come to you.

(Isaiah 60:6)  A multitude of camels shall cover you, the young camels of Midian and Ephah; all those from Sheba shall come. They shall bring gold and frankincense, and shall bring good news, the praises of the LORD.

(Isaiah 60:7)  All the flocks of Kedar shall be gathered to you; the rams of Nebaioth shall minister to you; they shall come up with acceptance on my altar, and I will beautify my beautiful house.

(Isaiah 60:8)  Who are these that fly like a cloud, and like doves to their windows?

(Isaiah 60:9)  For the coastlands shall hope for me, the ships of Tarshish first, to bring your children from afar, their silver and gold with them, for the name of the LORD your God, and for the Holy One of Israel, because he has made you beautiful.

(Isaiah 60:10)  Foreigners shall build up your walls, and their kings shall minister to you; for in my wrath I struck you, but in my favor I have had mercy on you.

(Isaiah 60:11)  Your gates shall be open continually; day and night they shall not be shut, that people may bring to you the wealth of the nations, with their kings led in procession.

(Isaiah 60:12)  For the nation and kingdom that will not serve you shall perish; those nations shall be utterly laid waste.

(Isaiah 60:13)  The glory of Lebanon shall come to you, the cypress, the plane, and the pine, to beautify the place of my sanctuary, and I will make the place of my feet glorious.

(Isaiah 60:14)  The sons of those who afflicted you shall come bending low to you, and all who despised you shall bow down at your feet; they shall call you the City of the LORD, the Zion of the Holy One of Israel.

(Isaiah 60:15)  Whereas you have been forsaken and hated, with no one passing through, I will make you majestic forever, a joy from age to age.

(Isaiah 60:16)  You shall suck the milk of nations; you shall nurse at the breast of kings; and you shall know that I, the LORD, am your Savior and your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.

(Isaiah 60:17)  Instead of bronze I will bring gold, and instead of iron I will bring silver; instead of wood, bronze, instead of stones, iron. I will make your overseers peace and your taskmasters righteousness.

(Isaiah 60:18)  Violence shall no more be heard in your land, devastation or destruction within your borders; you shall call your walls Salvation, and your gates Praise.

(Isaiah 60:19)  The sun shall be no more your light by day, nor for brightness shall the moon give you light; but the LORD will be your everlasting light, and your God will be your glory.

(Isaiah 60:20)  Your sun shall no more go down, nor your moon withdraw itself; for the LORD will be your everlasting light, and your days of mourning shall be ended.

(Isaiah 60:21)  Your people shall all be righteous; they shall possess the land forever, the branch of my planting, the work of my hands, that I might be glorified.

(Isaiah 60:22)  The least one shall become a clan, and the smallest one a mighty nation; I am the LORD; in its time I will hasten it.

Isaiah chapter 61 also makes prophecies related to our savior Jesus and His ministry and also speaks of the garments of praise to be clothed with

(Isaiah 61:1)  The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me, because the LORD has anointed me to bring good news to the poor; he has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to those who are bound;

(Isaiah 61:2)  to proclaim the year of the LORD's favor, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all who mourn;

(Isaiah 61:3)  to grant to those who mourn in Zion-- to give them a beautiful headdress instead of ashes, the oil of gladness instead of mourning, the garment of praise instead of a faint spirit; that they may be called oaks of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that he may be glorified.

(Isaiah 61:4)  They shall build up the ancient ruins; they shall raise up the former devastations; they shall repair the ruined cities, the devastations of many generations.

(Isaiah 61:5)  Strangers shall stand and tend your flocks; foreigners shall be your plowmen and vinedressers;

(Isaiah 61:6)  but you shall be called the priests of the LORD; they shall speak of you as the ministers of our God; you shall eat the wealth of the nations, and in their glory you shall boast.

(Isaiah 61:7)  Instead of your shame there shall be a double portion; instead of dishonor they shall rejoice in their lot; therefore in their land they shall possess a double portion; they shall have everlasting joy.

(Isaiah 61:8)  For I the LORD love justice; I hate robbery and wrong; I will faithfully give them their recompense, and I will make an everlasting covenant with them.

(Isaiah 61:9)  Their offspring shall be known among the nations, and their descendants in the midst of the peoples; all who see them shall acknowledge them, that they are an offspring the LORD has blessed.

(Isaiah 61:10)  I will greatly rejoice in the LORD; my soul shall exult in my God, for he has clothed me with the garments of salvation; he has covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decks himself like a priest with a beautiful headdress, and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.

(Isaiah 61:11)  For as the earth brings forth its sprouts, and as a garden causes what is sown in it to sprout up, so the Lord GOD will cause righteousness and praise to sprout up before all the nations.

Isaiah has many a wonderful message in these 12 chapters for us to grow with, to encourage us, show us how God loves us and also makes prophecies of the coming of Jesus, His ministry and in chapter 53 His purpose of laying down His life so we can live for ever with God and how He would be rejected of His people, yet also how the Lord would lay our sin on Him. This all happened and the Lord was a sacrifice for our sins, so God could re-establish relationship with mankind and Jesus did all this willingly, wanting the relationship. There is nothing like a relationship with God, nothing at all can compare to it. I am now including a prayer which you can use to invite Jesus in your heart to begin this wonderful relationship with which nothing can compare. Please pray this with me

Dear God in heaven, I come to you in the name of Jesus. I acknowledge to You that I am a sinner, and I am sorry for my sins and the life that I have lived; I need your forgiveness. I believe that your only begotten Son Jesus Christ shed His precious blood on the cross at Calvary and died for my sins, and I am now willing to turn from my sin. You said in Your Holy Word, Romans 10:9 that if we confess Jesus as our Lord and believe in our hearts that God raised Jesus from the dead, we will be saved. Right now I confess Jesus as the Lord of my soul. With my heart, I believe that God raised Jesus from the dead. This very moment I accept Jesus Christ as my own personal Savior and according to His Word, right now I am saved. Thank you Jesus for your unlimited grace which has saved me from my sins. I thank you Jesus that your grace never leads to license, but rather it always leads to repentance. Therefore Lord Jesus transform my life so that I may bring glory and honor to you alone and not to myself. Thank you Jesus for dying for me and giving me eternal life.

Amen.

God bless you and yours