Book of Isaiah bible study chapters 52 through 66

           

            Here is the final part of the bible study of the book of Isaiah, which covers the last 15 chapters, but many are not too long. These contain many excellent prophecies but also good advice to us nowadays on our life. There is even a prophecy of the passion, and in ways ministry of Christ in one chapter (53), basically stating why Jesus came to the earth and yet written hundreds of years before He actually did those things. This bible study is a continuation of the earlier bible studies of the book of Isaiah, so because of that, I am now including a link to the book of Isaiah chapters 40 through 51 bible study here

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In chapter 52 God promises to redeem His people for nothing as they were sold for nothing  and encouraging them to put on strength. It is also stated that the people will sprinkle many nations

(Isaiah 52:1)  Awake, awake, put on your strength, O Zion; put on your beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city; for there shall no more come into you the uncircumcised and the unclean.

 

(Isaiah 52:2)  Shake yourself from the dust and arise; be seated, O Jerusalem; loose the bonds from your neck, O captive daughter of Zion.

 

(Isaiah 52:3)  For thus says the LORD: "You were sold for nothing, and you shall be redeemed without money."

 

(Isaiah 52:4)  For thus says the Lord GOD: "My people went down at the first into Egypt to sojourn there, and the Assyrian oppressed them for nothing.

 

(Isaiah 52:5)  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.

 

(Isaiah 52:6)  Therefore my people shall know my name. Therefore in that day they shall know that it is I who speak; here am I."

 

(Isaiah 52:7)  How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him who brings good news, who publishes peace, who brings good news of happiness, who publishes salvation, who says to Zion, "Your God reigns."

 

(Isaiah 52:8)  The voice of your watchmen--they lift up their voice; together they sing for joy; for eye to eye they see the return of the LORD to Zion.

 

(Isaiah 52:9)  Break forth together into singing, you waste places of Jerusalem, for the LORD has comforted his people; he has redeemed Jerusalem.

 

(Isaiah 52:10)  The LORD has bared his holy arm before the eyes of all the nations, and all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God.

 

(Isaiah 52:11)  Depart, depart, go out from there; touch no unclean thing; go out from the midst of her; purify yourselves, you who bear the vessels of the LORD.

 

(Isaiah 52:12)  For you shall not go out in haste, and you shall not go in flight, for the LORD will go before you, and the God of Israel will be your rear guard.

 

(Isaiah 52:13)  Behold, my servant shall act wisely; he shall be high and lifted up, and shall be exalted.

 

(Isaiah 52:14)  As many were astonished at you-- his appearance was so marred, beyond human semblance, and his form beyond that of the children of mankind--

 

(Isaiah 52:15)  so shall he sprinkle many nations; kings shall shut their mouths because of him; for that which has not been told them they see, and that which they have not heard they understand.

 

Isaiah chapter 53 is an accurate and very prophetic chapter, speaking of Jesus and aspects of His life and ministry, and especially prophesies His death for us and its purposes and even Jesus’ interceding for us now in heaven

(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 54 is a reassuring chapter speaking of us being the Lord’s bride (our maker) and we will be taught be him and also He will condemn any tongue that rises against us in judgment

(Isaiah 54:1)  "Sing, O barren one, who did not bear; break forth into singing and cry aloud, you who have not been in labor! For the children of the desolate one will be more than the children of her who is married," says the LORD.

 

(Isaiah 54:2)  "Enlarge the place of your tent, and let the curtains of your habitations be stretched out; do not hold back; lengthen your cords and strengthen your stakes.

 

(Isaiah 54:3)  For you will spread abroad to the right and to the left, and your offspring will possess the nations and will people the desolate cities.

 

(Isaiah 54:4)  "Fear not, for you will not be ashamed; be not confounded, for you will not be disgraced; for you will forget the shame of your youth, and the reproach of your widowhood you will remember no more.

 

(Isaiah 54:5)  For your Maker is your husband, the LORD of hosts is his name; and the Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer, the God of the whole earth he is called.

 

(Isaiah 54:6)  For the LORD has called you like a wife deserted and grieved in spirit, like a wife of youth when she is cast off, says your God.

 

(Isaiah 54:7)  For a brief moment I deserted you, but with great compassion I will gather you.

 

(Isaiah 54:8)  In overflowing anger for a moment I hid my face from you, but with everlasting love I will have compassion on you," says the LORD, your Redeemer.

 

(Isaiah 54:9)  "This is like the days of Noah to me: as I swore that the waters of Noah should no more go over the earth, so I have sworn that I will not be angry with you, and will not rebuke you.

 

(Isaiah 54:10)  For the mountains may depart and the hills be removed, but my steadfast love shall not depart from you, and my covenant of peace shall not be removed," says the LORD, who has compassion on you.

 

(Isaiah 54:11)  "O afflicted one, storm-tossed and not comforted, behold, I will set your stones in antimony, and lay your foundations with sapphires.

 

(Isaiah 54:12)  I will make your pinnacles of agate, your gates of carbuncles, and all your wall of precious stones.

 

(Isaiah 54:13)  All your children shall be taught by the LORD, and great shall be the peace of your children.

 

(Isaiah 54:14)  In righteousness you shall be established; you shall be far from oppression, for you shall not fear; and from terror, for it shall not come near you.

 

(Isaiah 54:15)  If anyone stirs up strife, it is not from me; whoever stirs up strife with you shall fall because of you.

 

(Isaiah 54:16)  Behold, I have created the smith who blows the fire of coals and produces a weapon for its purpose. I have also created the ravager to destroy;

 

(Isaiah 54:17)  no weapon that is fashioned against you shall succeed, and you shall confute every tongue that rises against you in judgment. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD and their vindication from me, declares the LORD."

 

Isaiah chapter 55 is a strong encouragement to come to the Lord and seek His ways which are higher than ours, and also seek His word which will never return void, but achieve what God has in mind

(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 56 prophesies the coming day of salvation, which will go to everyone even foreigners and eunuchs (gentiles)

(Isaiah 56:1)  Thus says the LORD: "Keep justice, and do righteousness, for soon my salvation will come, and my deliverance be revealed.

 

(Isaiah 56:2)  Blessed is the man who does this, and the son of man who holds it fast, who keeps the Sabbath, not profaning it, and keeps his hand from doing any evil."

 

(Isaiah 56:3)  Let not the foreigner who has joined himself to the LORD say, "The LORD will surely separate me from his people"; and let not the eunuch say, "Behold, I am a dry tree."

 

(Isaiah 56:4)  For thus says the LORD: "To the eunuchs who keep my Sabbaths, who choose the things that please me and hold fast my covenant,

 

(Isaiah 56:5)  I will give in my house and within my walls a monument and a name better than sons and daughters; I will give them an everlasting name that shall not be cut off.

 

(Isaiah56:6)  "And the foreigners who join themselves to the LORD, to minister to him, to love the name of the LORD, and to be his servants, everyone who keeps the Sabbath and does not profane it, and holds fast my covenant--

 

(Isaiah 56:7)  these I will bring to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer; their burnt offerings and their sacrifices will be accepted on my altar; for my house shall be called a house of prayer for all peoples."

 

(Isaiah 56:8)  The Lord GOD, who gathers the outcasts of Israel, declares, "I will gather yet others to him besides those already gathered."

 

(Isaiah 56:9)  All you beasts of the field, come to devour-- all you beasts in the forest.

 

(Isaiah 56:10)  His watchmen are blind; they are all without knowledge; they are all silent dogs; they cannot bark, dreaming, lying down, loving to slumber.

 

(Isaiah 56:11)  The dogs have a mighty appetite; they never have enough. But they are shepherds who have no understanding; they have all turned to their own way, each to his own gain, one and all.

 

(Isaiah 56:12)  "Come," they say, "let me get wine; let us fill ourselves with strong drink; and tomorrow will be like this day, great beyond measure."

 

Isaiah chapter 57 speaks of evil doers who don’t care when the righteous die, even notice. Blessing and peace will be to the righteous but there will be no peace to the wicked

(Isaiah 57:1)  The righteous man perishes, and no one lays it to heart; devout men are taken away, while no one understands. For the righteous man is taken away from calamity;

 

(Isaiah 57:2)  he enters into peace; they rest in their beds who walk in their uprightness.

 

(Isaiah 57:3)  But you, draw near, sons of the sorceress, offspring of the adulterer and the loose woman.

 

(Isaiah 57:4)  Whom are you mocking? Against whom do you open your mouth wide and stick out your tongue? Are you not children of transgression, the offspring of deceit,

 

(Isaiah 57:5)  you who burn with lust among the oaks, under every green tree, who slaughter your children in the valleys, under the clefts of the rocks?

 

(Isaiah 57:6)  Among the smooth stones of the valley is your portion; they, they, are your lot; to them you have poured out a drink offering, you have brought a grain offering. Shall I relent for these things?

 

(Isaiah 57:7)  On a high and lofty mountain you have set your bed, and there you went up to offer sacrifice.

 

(Isaiah 57:8)  Behind the door and the doorpost you have set up your memorial; for, deserting me, you have uncovered your bed, you have gone up to it, you have made it wide; and you have made a covenant for yourself with them, you have loved their bed, you have looked on nakedness.

 

(Isaiah 57:9)  You journeyed to the king with oil and multiplied your perfumes; you sent your envoys far off, and sent down even to Sheol.

 

(Isaiah 57:10)  You were wearied with the length of your way, but you did not say, "It is hopeless"; you found new life for your strength, and so you were not faint.

 

(Isaiah 57:11)  Whom did you dread and fear, so that you lied, and did not remember me, did not lay it to heart? Have I not held my peace, even for a long time, and you do not fear me?

 

(Isaiah 57:12)  I will declare your righteousness and your deeds, but they will not profit you.

 

(Isaiah 57:13)  When you cry out, let your collection of idols deliver you! The wind will carry them off, a breath will take them away. But he who takes refuge in me shall possess the land and shall inherit my holy mountain.

 

(Isaiah 57:14)  And it shall be said, "Build up, build up, prepare the way, remove every obstruction from my people's way."

 

(Isaiah 57:15)  For thus says the One who is high and lifted up, who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: "I dwell in the high and holy place, and also with him who is of a contrite and lowly spirit, to revive the spirit of the lowly, and to revive the heart of the contrite.

 

(Isaiah 57:16)  For I will not contend forever, nor will I always be angry; for the spirit would grow faint before me, and the breath of life that I made.

 

(Isaiah 57:17)  Because of the iniquity of his unjust gain I was angry, I struck him; I hid my face and was angry, but he went on backsliding in the way of his own heart.

 

(Isaiah 57:18)  I have seen his ways, but I will heal him; I will lead him and restore comfort to him and his mourners,

 

(Isaiah 57:19)  creating the fruit of the lips. Peace, peace, to the far and to the near," says the LORD, "and I will heal him.

 

(Isaiah 57:20)  But the wicked are like the tossing sea; for it cannot be quiet, and its waters toss up mire and dirt.

 

(Isaiah 57:21)  There is no peace," says my God, "for the wicked."

 

In Isaiah chapter 58 the message given reproves and chastises the wrong way of fasting and then teaches the best way to fast and how the good way will be blessed in many ways by God.

(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 59 warns against sin and iniquity and lists the consequences of doing it, and wonders if justice is turned back, but promising to repay for deeds and also a redeemer

(Isaiah 59:1)  Behold, the LORD's hand is not shortened, that it cannot save, or his ear dull, that it cannot hear;

 

(Isaiah 59:2)  but your iniquities have made a separation between you and your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you so that he does not hear.

 

(Isaiah 59:3)  For your hands are defiled with blood and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies; your tongue mutters wickedness.

 

(Isaiah 59:4)  No one enters suit justly; no one goes to law honestly; they rely on empty pleas, they speak lies, they conceive mischief and give birth to iniquity.

 

(Isaiah 59:5)  They hatch adders' eggs; they weave the spider's web; he who eats their eggs dies, and from one that is crushed a viper is hatched.

 

(Isaiah 59:6)  Their webs will not serve as clothing; men will not cover themselves with what they make. Their works are works of iniquity, and deeds of violence are in their hands.

 

(Isaiah 59:7)  Their feet run to evil, and they are swift to shed innocent blood; their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; desolation and destruction are in their highways.

 

(Isaiah 59:8)  The way of peace they do not know, and there is no justice in their paths; they have made their roads crooked; no one who treads on them knows peace.

 

(Isaiah 59:9)  Therefore justice is far from us, and righteousness does not overtake us; we hope for light, and behold, darkness, and for brightness, but we walk in gloom.

 

(Isaiah 59:10)  We grope for the wall like the blind; we grope like those who have no eyes; we stumble at noon as in the twilight, among those in full vigor we are like dead men.

 

(Isaiah 59:11)  We all growl like bears; we moan and moan like doves; we hope for justice, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far from us.

 

(Isaiah 59:12)  For our transgressions are multiplied before you, and our sins testify against us; for our transgressions are with us, and we know our iniquities:

 

(Isaiah 59:13)  transgressing, and denying the LORD, and turning back from following our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart lying words.

 

(Isaiah 59:14)  Justice is turned back, and righteousness stands far away; for truth has stumbled in the public squares, and uprightness cannot enter.

 

(Isaiah 59:15)  Truth is lacking, and he who departs from evil makes himself a prey. The LORD saw it, and it displeased him that there was no justice.

 

(Isaiah 59:16)  He saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was no one to intercede; then his own arm brought him salvation, and his righteousness upheld him.

 

(Isaiah 59:17)  He put on righteousness as a breastplate, and a helmet of salvation on his head; he put on garments of vengeance for clothing, and wrapped himself in zeal as a cloak.

 

(Isaiah 59:18)  According to their deeds, so will he repay, wrath to his adversaries, repayment to his enemies; to the coastlands he will render repayment.

 

(Isaiah 59:19)  So they shall fear the name of the LORD from the west, and his glory from the rising of the sun; for he will come like a rushing stream, which the wind of the LORD drives.

 

(Isaiah 59:20)  "And a Redeemer will come to Zion, to those in Jacob who turn from transgression," declares the LORD.

 

(Isaiah 59:21)  "And as for me, this is my covenant with them," says the LORD: "My Spirit that is upon you, and my words that I have put in your mouth, shall not depart out of your mouth, or out of the mouth of your offspring, or out of the mouth of your children's offspring," says the LORD, "from this time forth and forevermore."

 

Isaiah chapter 60 is filled with promises prophesied from God about all sorts of blessings to come down on His people throughout the chapter

(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 points out the anointing and blessing poured on Jesus, prophesying is ministry also the Holy Spirit does much the same for us and also blessings to come with this anointing

(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.

 

In Isaiah chapter 62 the Lord no longer will keep silent but promises to bless His chosen people in many ways

(Isaiah 62:1)  For Zion's sake I will not keep silent, and for Jerusalem's sake I will not be quiet, until her righteousness goes forth as brightness, and her salvation as a burning torch.

 

(Isaiah 62:2)  The nations shall see your righteousness, and all the kings your glory, and you shall be called by a new name that the mouth of the LORD will give.

 

(Isaiah 62:3)  You shall be a crown of beauty in the hand of the LORD, and a royal diadem in the hand of your God.

 

(Isaiah 62:4)  You shall no more be termed Forsaken, and your land shall no more be termed Desolate, but you shall be called My Delight Is in Her, and your land Married; for the LORD delights in you, and your land shall be married.

 

(Isaiah 62:5)  For as a young man marries a young woman, so shall your sons marry you, and as the bridegroom rejoices over the bride, so shall your God rejoice over you.

 

(Isaiah 62:6)  On your walls, O Jerusalem, I have set watchmen; all the day and all the night they shall never be silent. You who put the LORD in remembrance, take no rest,

 

(Isaiah 62:7)  and give him no rest until he establishes Jerusalem and makes it a praise in the earth.

 

(Isaiah 62:8)  The LORD has sworn by his right hand and by his mighty arm: "I will not again give your grain to be food for your enemies, and foreigners shall not drink your wine for which you have labored;

 

(Isaiah 62:9)  but those who garner it shall eat it and praise the LORD, and those who gather it shall drink it in the courts of my sanctuary."

 

(Isaiah 62:10)  Go through, go through the gates; prepare the way for the people; build up, build up the highway; clear it of stones; lift up a signal over the peoples.

 

(Isaiah 62:11)  Behold, the LORD has proclaimed to the end of the earth: Say to the daughter of Zion, "Behold, your salvation comes; behold, his reward is with him, and his recompense before him."

 

(Isaiah 62:12)  And they shall be called The Holy People, The Redeemed of the LORD; and you shall be called Sought Out, A City Not Forsaken.

 

In Isaiah chapter 63 God will trample the winepress of His wrath alone then says how the Lord is afflicted with His peoples afflictions how He saved them and then Isaiah prays at the end of the chapter

(Isaiah 63:1)  Who is this who comes from Edom, in crimsoned garments from Bozrah, he who is splendid in his apparel, marching in the greatness of his strength? "It is I, speaking in righteousness, mighty to save."

 

(Isaiah 63:2)  Why is your apparel red, and your garments like his who treads in the winepress?

 

(Isaiah 63:3)  "I have trodden the winepress alone, and from the peoples no one was with me; I trod them in my anger and trampled them in my wrath; their lifeblood spattered on my garments, and stained all my apparel.

 

(Isaiah 63:4)  For the day of vengeance was in my heart, and my year of redemption had come.

 

(Isaiah 63:5)  I looked, but there was no one to help; I was appalled, but there was no one to uphold; so my own arm brought me salvation, and my wrath upheld me.

 

(Isaiah 63:6)  I trampled down the peoples in my anger; I made them drunk in my wrath, and I poured out their lifeblood on the earth."

 

(Isaiah 63:7)  I will recount the steadfast love of the LORD, the praises of the LORD, according to all that the LORD has granted us, and the great goodness to the house of Israel that he has granted them according to his compassion, according to the abundance of his steadfast love.

 

(Isaiah 63:8)  For he said, "Surely they are my people, children who will not deal falsely." And he became their Savior.

 

(Isaiah 63:9)  In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them; in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; he lifted them up and carried them all the days of old.

 

(Isaiah 63:10)  But they rebelled and grieved his Holy Spirit; therefore he turned to be their enemy, and himself fought against them.

 

(Isaiah 63:11)  Then he remembered the days of old, of Moses and his people. Where is he who brought them up out of the sea with the shepherds of his flock? Where is he who put in the midst of them his Holy Spirit,

 

(Isaiah 63:12)  who caused his glorious arm to go at the right hand of Moses, who divided the waters before them to make for himself an everlasting name,

 

(Isaiah 63:13)  who led them through the depths? Like a horse in the desert, they did not stumble.

 

(Isaiah 63:14)  Like livestock that go down into the valley, the Spirit of the LORD gave them rest. So you led your people, to make for yourself a glorious name.

 

(Isaiah 63:15)  Look down from heaven and see, from your holy and beautiful habitation. Where are your zeal and your might? The stirring of your inner parts and your compassion are held back from me.

 

(Isaiah 63:16)  For you are our Father, though Abraham does not know us, and Israel does not acknowledge us; you, O LORD, are our Father, our Redeemer from of old is your name.

 

(Isaiah 63:17)  O LORD, why do you make us wander from your ways and harden our heart, so that we fear you not? Return for the sake of your servants, the tribes of your heritage.

 

(Isaiah 63:18)  Your holy people held possession for a little while; our adversaries have trampled down your sanctuary.

 

(Isaiah 63:19)  We have become like those over whom you have never ruled, like those who are not called by your name.

 

In Isaiah chapter 64 Isaiah’s prayer continues and Isaiah pleads for mercy for the people from the Lord in varied ways

(Isaiah 64:1)  Oh that you would rend the heavens and come down, that the mountains might quake at your presence--

 

(Isaiah 64:2)  as when fire kindles brushwood and the fire causes water to boil-- to make your name known to your adversaries, and that the nations might tremble at your presence!

 

(Isaiah 64:3)  When you did awesome things that we did not look for, you came down, the mountains quaked at your presence.

 

(Isaiah 64:4)  From of old no one has heard or perceived by the ear, no eye has seen a God besides you, who acts for those who wait for him.

 

(Isaiah 64:5)  You meet him who joyfully works righteousness, those who remember you in your ways. Behold, you were angry, and we sinned; in our sins we have been a long time, and shall we be saved?

 

(Isaiah 64:6)  We have all become like one who is unclean, and all our righteous deeds are like a polluted garment. We all fade like a leaf, and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.

 

(Isaiah 64:7)  There is no one who calls upon your name, who rouses himself to take hold of you; for you have hidden your face from us, and have made us melt in the hand of our iniquities.

 

(Isaiah 64:8)  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.

 

(Isaiah 64:9)  Be not so terribly angry, O LORD, and remember not iniquity forever. Behold, please look, we are all your people.

 

(Isaiah 64:10)  Your holy cities have become a wilderness; Zion has become a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.

 

(Isaiah 64:11)  Our holy and beautiful house, where our fathers praised you, has been burned by fire, and all our pleasant places have become ruins.

 

(Isaiah 64:12)  Will you restrain yourself at these things, O LORD? Will you keep silent, and afflict us so terribly?

 

In Isaiah chapter 65 in ways is answers to Isaiah’s intercession in the last two of promise for God but punishments for wrongdoers and also end times promises for a new heaven and a new earth

(Isaiah 65:1)  I was ready to be sought by those who did not ask for me; I was ready to be found by those who did not seek me. I said, "Here am I, here am I," to a nation that was not called by my name.

 

(Isaiah 65:2)  I spread out my hands all the day to a rebellious people, who walk in a way that is not good, following their own devices;

 

(Isaiah 65:3)  a people who provoke me to my face continually, sacrificing in gardens and making offerings on bricks;

 

(Isaiah 65:4)  who sit in tombs, and spend the night in secret places; who eat pig's flesh, and broth of tainted meat is in their vessels;

 

(Isaiah 65:5)  who say, "Keep to yourself, do not come near me, for I am too holy for you." These are a smoke in my nostrils, a fire that burns all the day.

 

(Isaiah 65:6)  Behold, it is written before me: "I will not keep silent, but I will repay; I will indeed repay into their bosom

 

(Isaiah 65:7)  both your iniquities and your fathers' iniquities together, says the LORD; because they made offerings on the mountains and insulted me on the hills, I will measure into their bosom payment for their former deeds."

 

(Isaiah 65:8)  Thus says the LORD: "As the new wine is found in the cluster, and they say, 'Do not destroy it, for there is a blessing in it,' so I will do for my servants' sake, and not destroy them all.

 

(Isaiah 65:9)  I will bring forth offspring from Jacob, and from Judah possessors of my mountains; my chosen shall possess it, and my servants shall dwell there.

 

(Isaiah 65:10)  Sharon shall become a pasture for flocks, and the Valley of Achor a place for herds to lie down, for my people who have sought me.

 

(Isaiah 65:11)  But you who forsake the LORD, who forget my holy mountain, who set a table for Fortune and fill cups of mixed wine for Destiny,

 

(Isaiah 65:12)  I will destine you to the sword, and all of you shall bow down to the slaughter, because, when I called, you did not answer; when I spoke, you did not listen, but you did what was evil in my eyes and chose what I did not delight in."

 

(Isaiah 65:13)  Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: "Behold, my servants shall eat, but you shall be hungry; behold, my servants shall drink, but you shall be thirsty; behold, my servants shall rejoice, but you shall be put to shame;

 

(Isaiah 65:14)  behold, my servants shall sing for gladness of heart, but you shall cry out for pain of heart and shall wail for breaking of spirit.

 

(Isaiah 65:15)  You shall leave your name to my chosen for a curse, and the Lord GOD will put you to death, but his servants he will call by another name.

 

(Isaiah 65:16)  So that he who blesses himself in the land shall bless himself by the God of truth, and he who takes an oath in the land shall swear by the God of truth; because the former troubles are forgotten and are hidden from my eyes.

 

(Isaiah 65:17)  "For behold, I create new heavens and a new earth, and the former things shall not be remembered or come into mind.

 

(Isaiah 65:18)  But be glad and rejoice forever in that which I create; for behold, I create Jerusalem to be a joy, and her people to be a gladness.

 

(Isa 65:19)  I will rejoice in Jerusalem and be glad in my people; no more shall be heard in it the sound of weeping and the cry of distress.

 

(Isaiah 65:20)  No more shall there be in it an infant who lives but a few days, or an old man who does not fill out his days, for the young man shall die a hundred years old, and the sinner a hundred years old shall be accursed.

 

(Isaiah 65:21)  They shall build houses and inhabit them; they shall plant vineyards and eat their fruit.

 

(Isaiah 65:22)  They shall not build and another inhabit; they shall not plant and another eat; for like the days of a tree shall the days of my people be, and my chosen shall long enjoy the work of their hands.

 

(Isaiah 65:23)  They shall not labor in vain or bear children for calamity, for they shall be the offspring of the blessed of the LORD, and their descendants with them.

 

(Isaiah 65:24)  Before they call I will answer; while they are yet speaking I will hear.

 

(Isaiah 65:25)  The wolf and the lamb shall graze together; the lion shall eat straw like the ox, and dust shall be the serpent's food. They shall not hurt or destroy in all my holy mountain," says the LORD.

 

In Isaiah chapter 66 there are promises for the righteous, and blessings, even end times related but also punishments and judgments for those who are wrongdoers

(Isaiah 66:1)  Thus says the LORD: "Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool; what is the house that you would build for me, and what is the place of my rest?

 

(Isaiah 66:2)  All these things my hand has made, and so all these things came to be, declares the LORD. But this is the one to whom I will look: he who is humble and contrite in spirit and trembles at my word.

 

(Isaiah 66:3)  "He who slaughters an ox is like one who kills a man; he who sacrifices a lamb, like one who breaks a dog's neck; he who presents a grain offering, like one who offers pig's blood; he who makes a memorial offering of frankincense, like one who blesses an idol. These have chosen their own ways, and their soul delights in their abominations;

 

(Isaiah 66:4)  I also will choose harsh treatment for them and bring their fears upon them, because when I called, no one answered, when I spoke, they did not listen; but they did what was evil in my eyes and chose that in which I did not delight."

 

(Isaiah 66:5)  Hear the word of the LORD, you who tremble at his word: "Your brothers who hate you and cast you out for my name's sake have said, 'Let the LORD be glorified, that we may see your joy'; but it is they who shall be put to shame.

 

(Isaiah 66:6)  "The sound of an uproar from the city! A sound from the temple! The sound of the LORD, rendering recompense to his enemies!

 

(Isaiah 66:7)  "Before she was in labor she gave birth; before her pain came upon her she delivered a son.

 

(Isaiah 66:8)  Who has heard such a thing? Who has seen such things? Shall a land be born in one day? Shall a nation be brought forth in one moment? For as soon as Zion was in labor she brought forth her children.

 

(Isaiah 66:9)  Shall I bring to the point of birth and not cause to bring forth?" says the LORD; "shall I, who cause to bring forth, shut the womb?" says your God.

 

(Isaiah 66:10)  "Rejoice with Jerusalem, and be glad for her, all you who love her; rejoice with her in joy, all you who mourn over her;

 

(Isaiah 66:11)  that you may nurse and be satisfied from her consoling breast; that you may drink deeply with delight from her glorious abundance."

 

(Isaiah 66:12)  For thus says the LORD: "Behold, I will extend peace to her like a river, and the glory of the nations like an overflowing stream; and you shall nurse, you shall be carried upon her hip, and bounced upon her knees.

 

(Isaiah 66:13)  As one whom his mother comforts, so I will comfort you; you shall be comforted in Jerusalem.

 

(Isaiah 66:14)  You shall see, and your heart shall rejoice; your bones shall flourish like the grass; and the hand of the LORD shall be known to his servants, and he shall show his indignation against his enemies.

 

(Isaiah 66:15)  "For behold, the LORD will come in fire, and his chariots like the whirlwind, to render his anger in fury, and his rebuke with flames of fire.

 

(Isaiah 66:16)  For by fire will the LORD enter into judgment, and by his sword, with all flesh; and those slain by the LORD shall be many.

 

(Isaiah 66:17)  "Those who sanctify and purify themselves to go into the gardens, following one in the midst, eating pig's flesh and the abomination and mice, shall come to an end together, declares the LORD.

 

(Isaiah 66:18)  "For I know their works and their thoughts, and the time is coming to gather all nations and tongues. And they shall come and shall see my glory,

 

(Isaiah 66:19)  and I will set a sign among them. And from them I will send survivors to the nations, to Tarshish, Pul, and Lud, who draw the bow, to Tubal and Javan, to the coastlands far away, that have not heard my fame or seen my glory. And they shall declare my glory among the nations.

 

(Isaiah 66:20)  And they shall bring all your brothers from all the nations as an offering to the LORD, on horses and in chariots and in litters and on mules and on dromedaries, to my holy mountain Jerusalem, says the LORD, just as the Israelites bring their grain offering in a clean vessel to the house of the LORD.

 

(Isaiah 66:21)  And some of them also I will take for priests and for Levites, says the LORD.

 

(Isaiah 66:22)  "For as the new heavens and the new earth that I make shall remain before me, says the LORD, so shall your offspring and your name remain.

 

(Isaiah 66:23)  From new moon to new moon, and from Sabbath to Sabbath, all flesh shall come to worship before me, declares the LORD.

 

(Isaiah 66:24)  "And they shall go out and look on the dead bodies of the men who have rebelled against me. For their worm shall not die, their fire shall not be quenched, and they shall be an abhorrence to all flesh."

 

God is merciful to send prophets like Isaiah to relay His messages to His people. Isaiah would prophesy the coming of Jesus and how He would give His life for us(chapter 53 and other places in Isaiah). Jesus gave His life willingly and lovingly so we could then be atoned for our sins and be restored to relationship with God the Father (as well as Jesus, of course) and there is NOTHING like a relationship with God, nothing that can compare with it or to it. I am now including a prayer which you can use that will invite Jesus into your heart for the start of this love relationship or even to return to it if you have drifted away for any reason. Please pray this prayer 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