Book of Isaiah chapters 25 through 35 a bible study

            Here is the continuation of the bible study of the book of Isaiah and his prophecies from chapters 25 through 35, and these continue the various prophecies, some towards Israel and Judah, some end times, and then some to other nations, some a mixture of all of them. This is a continuation of the previous bible studies on the book of Isaiahand here is a link to the previous bible study of the book of Isaiah which contains chapters 13 through 24

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Isaiah chapter 25 is largely a prayer to God but also gives an end times prophecy and promise of wiping away all tears

(Isaiah 25:1)  O LORD, you are my God; I will exalt you; I will praise your name, for you have done wonderful things, plans formed of old, faithful and sure.

(Isaiah 25:2)  For you have made the city a heap, the fortified city a ruin; the foreigners' palace is a city no more; it will never be rebuilt.

(Isaiah 25:3)  Therefore strong peoples will glorify you; cities of ruthless nations will fear you.

(Isaiah 25:4)  For you have been a stronghold to the poor, a stronghold to the needy in his distress, a shelter from the storm and a shade from the heat; for the breath of the ruthless is like a storm against a wall,

(Isaiah 25:5)  like heat in a dry place. You subdue the noise of the foreigners; as heat by the shade of a cloud, so the song of the ruthless is put down.

(Isaiah 25:6)  On this mountain the LORD of hosts will make for all peoples a feast of rich food, a feast of well-aged wine, of rich food full of marrow, of aged wine well refined.

(Isaiah 25:7)  And he will swallow up on this mountain the covering that is cast over all peoples, the veil that is spread over all nations.

(Isaiah 25:8)  He will swallow up death forever; and the Lord GOD will wipe away tears from all faces, and the reproach of his people he will take away from all the earth, for the LORD has spoken.

(Isaiah 25:9)  It will be said on that day, "Behold, this is our God; we have waited for him, that he might save us. This is the LORD; we have waited for him; let us be glad and rejoice in his salvation."

(Isaiah 25:10)  For the hand of the LORD will rest on this mountain, and Moab shall be trampled down in his place, as straw is trampled down in a dunghill.

(Isaiah 25:11)  And he will spread out his hands in the midst of it as a swimmer spreads his hands out to swim, but the LORD will lay low his pompous pride together with the skill of his hands.

(Isaiah 25:12)  And the high fortifications of his walls he will bring down, lay low, and cast to the ground, to the dust.

Isaiah chapter 26 is both a song of praise and prophecy of end times and also states many of the qualities of God

(Isaiah 26:1)  In that day this song will be sung in the land of Judah: "We have a strong city; he sets up salvation as walls and bulwarks.

(Isaiah 26:2)  Open the gates, that the righteous nation that keeps faith may enter in.

(Isaiah 26:3)  You keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on you, because he trusts in you.

(Isaiah 26:4)  Trust in the LORD forever, for the LORD GOD is an everlasting rock.

(Isaiah 26:5)  For he has humbled the inhabitants of the height, the lofty city. He lays it low, lays it low to the ground, casts it to the dust.

(Isaiah 26:6)  The foot tramples it, the feet of the poor, the steps of the needy."

(Isaiah 26:7)  The path of the righteous is level; you make level the way of the righteous.

(Isaiah 26:8)  In the path of your judgments, O LORD, we wait for you; your name and remembrance are the desire of our soul.

(Isaiah 26:9)  My soul yearns for you in the night; my spirit within me earnestly seeks you. For when your judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.

(Isaiah 26:10)  If favor is shown to the wicked, he does not learn righteousness; in the land of uprightness he deals corruptly and does not see the majesty of the LORD.

(Isaiah 26:11)  O LORD, your hand is lifted up, but they do not see it. Let them see your zeal for your people, and be ashamed. Let the fire for your adversaries consume them.

(Isaiah 26:12)  O LORD, you will ordain peace for us, for you have indeed done for us all our works.

(Isaiah 26:13)  O LORD our God, other lords besides you have ruled over us, but your name alone we bring to remembrance.

(Isaiah 26:14)  They are dead, they will not live; they are shades, they will not arise; to that end you have visited them with destruction and wiped out all remembrance of them.

(Isaiah 26:15)  But you have increased the nation, O LORD, you have increased the nation; you are glorified; you have enlarged all the borders of the land.

(Isaiah 26:16)  O LORD, in distress they sought you; they poured out a whispered prayer when your discipline was upon them.

(Isaiah 26:17)  Like a pregnant woman who writhes and cries out in her pangs when she is near to giving birth, so were we because of you, O LORD;

(Isaiah 26:18)  we were pregnant, we writhed, but we have given birth to wind. We have accomplished no deliverance in the earth, and the inhabitants of the world have not fallen.

(Isaiah 26:19)  Your dead shall live; their bodies shall rise. You who dwell in the dust, awake and sing for joy! For your dew is a dew of light, and the earth will give birth to the dead.

(Isaiah 26:20)  Come, my people, enter your chambers, and shut your doors behind you; hide yourselves for a little while until the fury has passed by.

(Isaiah 26:21)  For behold, the LORD is coming out from his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity, and the earth will disclose the blood shed on it, and will no more cover its slain.

Isaiah chapter 27 speaks of judgment and punishment for leviathan yet also many promises for God’s chosen people

(Isaiah 27:1)  In that day the LORD with his hard and great and strong sword will punish Leviathan the fleeing serpent, Leviathan the twisting serpent, and he will slay the dragon that is in the sea.

(Isaiah 27:2)  In that day, "A pleasant vineyard, sing of it!

(Isaiah 27:3)  I, the LORD, am its keeper; every moment I water it. Lest anyone punish it, I keep it night and day;

(Isaiah 27:4)  I have no wrath. Would that I had thorns and briers to battle! I would march against them, I would burn them up together.

(Isaiah 27:5)  Or let them lay hold of my protection, let them make peace with me, let them make peace with me."

(Isaiah 27:6)  In days to come Jacob shall take root, Israel shall blossom and put forth shoots and fill the whole world with fruit.

(Isaiah 27:7)  Has he struck them as he struck those who struck them? Or have they been slain as their slayers were slain?

(Isaiah 27:8)  Measure by measure, by exile you contended with them; he removed them with his fierce breath in the day of the east wind.

(Isaiah 27:9)  Therefore by this the guilt of Jacob will be atoned for, and this will be the full fruit of the removal of his sin: when he makes all the stones of the altars like chalkstones crushed to pieces, no Asherim or incense altars will remain standing.

(Isaiah 27:10)  For the fortified city is solitary, a habitation deserted and forsaken, like the wilderness; there the calf grazes; there it lies down and strips its branches.

(Isaiah 27:11)  When its boughs are dry, they are broken; women come and make a fire of them. For this is a people without discernment; therefore he who made them will not have compassion on them; he who formed them will show them no favor.

(Isaiah 27:12)  In that day from the river Euphrates to the Brook of Egypt the LORD will thresh out the grain, and you will be gleaned one by one, O people of Israel.

(Isaiah 27:13)  And in that day a great trumpet will be blown, and those who were lost in the land of Assyria and those who were driven out to the land of Egypt will come and worship the LORD on the holy mountain at Jerusalem.

Isaiah chapter 28 promises judgment on many lands by a nation with a strange tongue (Babylon, most likely) but also encourages people to trust in the Lord for He is wonderful in counsel

(Isaiah 28:1)  Ah, the proud crown of the drunkards of Ephraim, and the fading flower of its glorious beauty, which is on the head of the rich valley of those overcome with wine!

(Isaiah 28:2)  Behold, the Lord has one who is mighty and strong; like a storm of hail, a destroying tempest, like a storm of mighty, overflowing waters, he casts down to the earth with his hand.

(Isaiah 28:3)  The proud crown of the drunkards of Ephraim will be trodden underfoot;

(Isaiah 28:4)  and the fading flower of its glorious beauty, which is on the head of the rich valley, will be like a first-ripe fig before the summer: when someone sees it, he swallows it as soon as it is in his hand.

(Isaiah 28:5)  In that day the LORD of hosts will be a crown of glory, and a diadem of beauty, to the remnant of his people,

(Isaiah 28:6)  and a spirit of justice to him who sits in judgment, and strength to those who turn back the battle at the gate.

(Isaiah 28:7)  These also reel with wine and stagger with strong drink; the priest and the prophet reel with strong drink, they are swallowed by wine, they stagger with strong drink, they reel in vision, they stumble in giving judgment.

(Isaiah 28:8)  For all tables are full of filthy vomit, with no space left.

(Isaiah 28:9)  "To whom will he teach knowledge, and to whom will he explain the message? Those who are weaned from the milk, those taken from the breast?

(Isaiah 28:10)  For it is precept upon precept, precept upon precept, line upon line, line upon line, here a little, there a little."

(Isaiah 28:11)  For by people of strange lips and with a foreign tongue the LORD will speak to this people,

(Isaiah 28:12)  to whom he has said, "This is rest; give rest to the weary; and this is repose"; yet they would not hear.

(Isaiah 28:13)  And the word of the LORD will be to them precept upon precept, precept upon precept, line upon line, line upon line, here a little, there a little, that they may go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.

(Isaiah 28:14)  Therefore hear the word of the LORD, you scoffers, who rule this people in Jerusalem!

(Isaiah 28:15)  Because you have said, "We have made a covenant with death, and with Sheol we have an agreement, when the overwhelming whip passes through it will not come to us, for we have made lies our refuge, and in falsehood we have taken shelter";

(Isaiah 28:16)  therefore thus says the Lord GOD, "Behold, I am the one who has laid as a foundation in Zion, a stone, a tested stone, a precious cornerstone, of a sure foundation: 'Whoever believes will not be in haste.'

(Isaiah 28:17)  And I will make justice the line, and righteousness the plumb line; and hail will sweep away the refuge of lies, and waters will overwhelm the shelter."

(Isaiah 28:18)  Then your covenant with death will be annulled, and your agreement with Sheol will not stand; when the overwhelming scourge passes through, you will be beaten down by it.

(Isaiah 28:19)  As often as it passes through it will take you; for morning by morning it will pass through, by day and by night; and it will be sheer terror to understand the message.

(Isaiah 28:20)  For the bed is too short to stretch oneself on, and the covering too narrow to wrap oneself in.

(Isaiah 28:21)  For the LORD will rise up as on Mount Perazim; as in the Valley of Gibeon he will be roused; to do his deed--strange is his deed! and to work his work--alien is his work!

(Isaiah 28:22)  Now therefore do not scoff, lest your bonds be made strong; for I have heard a decree of destruction from the Lord GOD of hosts against the whole land.

(Isaiah 28:23)  Give ear, and hear my voice; give attention, and hear my speech.

(Isaiah 28:24)  Does he who plows for sowing plow continually? Does he continually open and harrow his ground?

(Isaiah 28:25)  When he has leveled its surface, does he not scatter dill, sow cumin, and put in wheat in rows and barley in its proper place, and emmer as the border?

(Isaiah 28:26)  For he is rightly instructed; his God teaches him.

(Isaiah 28:27)  Dill is not threshed with a threshing sledge, nor is a cart wheel rolled over cumin, but dill is beaten out with a stick, and cumin with a rod.

(Isaiah 28:28)  Does one crush grain for bread? No, he does not thresh it forever; when he drives his cart wheel over it with his horses, he does not crush it.

(Isaiah 28:29)  This also comes from the LORD of hosts; he is wonderful in counsel and excellent in wisdom.

Isaiah chapter 29 promises distress and judgment against Ariel, stating what it will be, but also promises comfort for Israel

(Isaiah 29:1)  Ah, Ariel, Ariel, the city where David encamped! Add year to year; let the feasts run their round.

(Isaiah 29:2)  Yet I will distress Ariel, and there shall be moaning and lamentation, and she shall be to me like an Ariel.

(Isaiah 29:3)  And I will encamp against you all around, and will besiege you with towers and I will raise siegeworks against you.

(Isaiah 29:4)  And you will be brought low; from the earth you shall speak, and from the dust your speech will be bowed down; your voice shall come from the ground like the voice of a ghost, and from the dust your speech shall whisper.

(Isaiah 29:5)  But the multitude of your foreign foes shall be like small dust, and the multitude of the ruthless like passing chaff. And in an instant, suddenly,

(Isaiah 29:6)  you will be visited by the LORD of hosts with thunder and with earthquake and great noise, with whirlwind and tempest, and the flame of a devouring fire.

(Isaiah 29:7)  And the multitude of all the nations that fight against Ariel, all that fight against her and her stronghold and distress her, shall be like a dream, a vision of the night.

(Isaiah 29:8)  As when a hungry man dreams he is eating and awakes with his hunger not satisfied, or as when a thirsty man dreams he is drinking and awakes faint, with his thirst not quenched, so shall the multitude of all the nations be that fight against Mount Zion.

(Isaiah 29:9)  Astonish yourselves and be astonished; blind yourselves and be blind! Be drunk, but not with wine; stagger, but not with strong drink!

(Isaiah 29:10)  For the LORD has poured out upon you a spirit of deep sleep, and has closed your eyes (the prophets), and covered your heads (the seers).

(Isaiah 29:11)  And the vision of all this has become to you like the words of a book that is sealed. When men give it to one who can read, saying, "Read this," he says, "I cannot, for it is sealed."

(Isaiah 29:12)  And when they give the book to one who cannot read, saying, "Read this," he says, "I cannot read."

(Isaiah 29:13)  And the Lord said: "Because this people draw near with their mouth and honor me with their lips, while their hearts are far from me, and their fear of me is a commandment taught by men,

(Isaiah 29:14)  therefore, behold, I will again do wonderful things with this people, with wonder upon wonder; and the wisdom of their wise men shall perish, and the discernment of their discerning men shall be hidden."

(Isaiah 29:15)  Ah, you who hide deep from the LORD your counsel, whose deeds are in the dark, and who say, "Who sees us? Who knows us?"

(Isaiah 29:16)  You turn things upside down! Shall the potter be regarded as the clay, that the thing made should say of its maker, "He did not make me"; or the thing formed say of him who formed it, "He has no understanding"?

(Isaiah 29:17)  Is it not yet a very little while until Lebanon shall be turned into a fruitful field, and the fruitful field shall be regarded as a forest?

(Isaiah 29:18)  In that day the deaf shall hear the words of a book, and out of their gloom and darkness the eyes of the blind shall see.

(Isaiah 29:19)  The meek shall obtain fresh joy in the LORD, and the poor among mankind shall exult in the Holy One of Israel.

(Isaiah 29:20)  For the ruthless shall come to nothing and the scoffer cease, and all who watch to do evil shall be cut off,

(Isaiah 29:21)  who by a word make a man out to be an offender, and lay a snare for him who reproves in the gate, and with an empty plea turn aside him who is in the right.

(Isaiah 29:22)  Therefore thus says the LORD, who redeemed Abraham, concerning the house of Jacob: "Jacob shall no more be ashamed, no more shall his face grow pale.

(Isaiah 29:23)  For when he sees his children, the work of my hands, in his midst, they will sanctify my name; they will sanctify the Holy One of Jacob and will stand in awe of the God of Israel.

(Isaiah 29:24)  And those who go astray in spirit will come to understanding, and those who murmur will accept instruction."

In chapter 30 of Isaiah while the prophet chides and rebukes Israel for her evil and idolatry, promising punishment for the same there also are promises and prophecies of Israel doing away with the idolatry, repenting and turning back to God

(Isaiah 30:1)  "Ah, stubborn children," declares the LORD, "who carry out a plan, but not mine, and who make an alliance, but not of my Spirit, that they may add sin to sin;

(Isaiah 30:2)  who set out to go down to Egypt, without asking for my direction, to take refuge in the protection of Pharaoh and to seek shelter in the shadow of Egypt!

(Isaiah 30:3)  Therefore shall the protection of Pharaoh turn to your shame, and the shelter in the shadow of Egypt to your humiliation.

(Isaiah 30:4)  For though his officials are at Zoan and his envoys reach Hanes,

(Isaiah 30:5)  everyone comes to shame through a people that cannot profit them, that brings neither help nor profit, but shame and disgrace."

(Isaiah 30:6)  An oracle on the beasts of the Negeb. Through a land of trouble and anguish, from where come the lioness and the lion, the adder and the flying fiery serpent, they carry their riches on the backs of donkeys, and their treasures on the humps of camels, to a people that cannot profit them.

(Isaiah 30:7)  Egypt's help is worthless and empty; therefore I have called her "Rahab who sits still."

(Isaiah 30:8)  And now, go, write it before them on a tablet and inscribe it in a book, that it may be for the time to come as a witness forever.

(Isaiah 30:9)  For they are a rebellious people, lying children, children unwilling to hear the instruction of the LORD;

(Isaiah 30:10)  who say to the seers, "Do not see," and to the prophets, "Do not prophesy to us what is right; speak to us smooth things, prophesy illusions,

(Isaiah 30:11)  leave the way, turn aside from the path, let us hear no more about the Holy One of Israel."

(Isaiah 30:12)  Therefore thus says the Holy One of Israel, "Because you despise this word and trust in oppression and perverseness and rely on them,

(Isaiah 30:13)  therefore this iniquity shall be to you like a breach in a high wall, bulging out, and about to collapse, whose breaking comes suddenly, in an instant;

(Isaiah 30:14)  and its breaking is like that of a potter's vessel that is smashed so ruthlessly that among its fragments not a shard is found with which to take fire from the hearth, or to dip up water out of the cistern."

(Isaiah 30:15)  For thus said the Lord GOD, the Holy One of Israel, "In returning and rest you shall be saved; in quietness and in trust shall be your strength." But you were unwilling,

(Isaiah 30:16)  and you said, "No! We will flee upon horses"; therefore you shall flee away; and, "We will ride upon swift steeds"; therefore your pursuers shall be swift.

(Isaiah 30:17)  A thousand shall flee at the threat of one; at the threat of five you shall flee, till you are left like a flagstaff on the top of a mountain, like a signal on a hill.

(Isaiah 30:18)  Therefore the LORD waits to be gracious to you, and therefore he exalts himself to show mercy to you. For the LORD is a God of justice; blessed are all those who wait for him.

(Isaiah 30:19)  For a people shall dwell in Zion, in Jerusalem; you shall weep no more. He will surely be gracious to you at the sound of your cry. As soon as he hears it, he answers you.

(Isaiah 30:20)  And though the Lord give you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, yet your Teacher will not hide himself anymore, but your eyes shall see your Teacher.

(Isaiah 30:21)  And your ears shall hear a word behind you, saying, "This is the way, walk in it," when you turn to the right or when you turn to the left.

(Isaiah 30:22)  Then you will defile your carved idols overlaid with silver and your gold-plated metal images. You will scatter them as unclean things. You will say to them, "Be gone!"

(Isaiah 30:23)  And he will give rain for the seed with which you sow the ground, and bread, the produce of the ground, which will be rich and plenteous. In that day your livestock will graze in large pastures,

(Isaiah 30:24)  and the oxen and the donkeys that work the ground will eat seasoned fodder, which has been winnowed with shovel and fork.

(Isaiah 30:25)  And on every lofty mountain and every high hill there will be brooks running with water, in the day of the great slaughter, when the towers fall.

(Isaiah 30:26)  Moreover, the light of the moon will be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun will be sevenfold, as the light of seven days, in the day when the LORD binds up the brokenness of his people, and heals the wounds inflicted by his blow.

(Isaiah 30:27)  Behold, the name of the LORD comes from afar, burning with his anger, and in thick rising smoke; his lips are full of fury, and his tongue is like a devouring fire;

(Isaiah 30:28)  his breath is like an overflowing stream that reaches up to the neck; to sift the nations with the sieve of destruction, and to place on the jaws of the peoples a bridle that leads astray.

(Isaiah 30:29)  You shall have a song as in the night when a holy feast is kept, and gladness of heart, as when one sets out to the sound of the flute to go to the mountain of the LORD, to the Rock of Israel.

(Isaiah 30:30)  And the LORD will cause his majestic voice to be heard and the descending blow of his arm to be seen, in furious anger and a flame of devouring fire, with a cloudburst and storm and hailstones.

(Isaiah 30:31)  The Assyrians will be terror-stricken at the voice of the LORD, when he strikes with his rod.

(Isaiah 30:32)  And every stroke of the appointed staff that the LORD lays on them will be to the sound of tambourines and lyres. Battling with brandished arm, he will fight with them.

(Isaiah 30:33)  For a burning place has long been prepared; indeed, for the king it is made ready, its pyre made deep and wide, with fire and wood in abundance; the breath of the LORD, like a stream of sulfur, kindles it.

In chapter 31 of Isaiah while God promises distress and punishment for Egypt and Assyria He also is encouraging by Isaiah the prophet the children of Israel to return to God who loves them so

(Isaiah 31:1)  Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help and rely on horses, who trust in chariots because they are many and in horsemen because they are very strong, but do not look to the Holy One of Israel or consult the LORD!

(Isaiah 31:2)  And yet he is wise and brings disaster; he does not call back his words, but will arise against the house of the evildoers and against the helpers of those who work iniquity.

(Isaiah 31:3)  The Egyptians are man, and not God, and their horses are flesh, and not spirit. When the LORD stretches out his hand, the helper will stumble, and he who is helped will fall, and they will all perish together.

(Isaiah 31:4)  For thus the LORD said to me, "As a lion or a young lion growls over his prey, and when a band of shepherds is called out against him he is not terrified by their shouting or daunted at their noise, so the LORD of hosts will come down to fight on Mount Zion and on its hill.

(Isaiah 31:5)  Like birds hovering, so the LORD of hosts will protect Jerusalem; he will protect and deliver it; he will spare and rescue it."

(Isaiah 31:6)  Turn to him from whom people have deeply revolted, O children of Israel.

(Isaiah 31:7)  For in that day everyone shall cast away his idols of silver and his idols of gold, which your hands have sinfully made for you.

(Isaiah 31:8)  "And the Assyrian shall fall by a sword, not of man; and a sword, not of man, shall devour him; and he shall flee from the sword, and his young men shall be put to forced labor.

(Isaiah 31:9)  His rock shall pass away in terror, and his officers desert the standard in panic," declares the LORD, whose fire is in Zion, and whose furnace is in Jerusalem.

Isaiah chapter 32 speaks of again an end times prophecy (even the Millennial kingdom perhaps, God knows) where the people are blessed and such lving peacefully yet there will be scoundrels and fools

(Isaiah 32:1)  Behold, a king will reign in righteousness, and princes will rule in justice.

(Isaiah 32:2)  Each will be like a hiding place from the wind, a shelter from the storm, like streams of water in a dry place, like the shade of a great rock in a weary land.

(Isaiah 32:3)  Then the eyes of those who see will not be closed, and the ears of those who hear will give attention.

(Isaiah 32:4)  The heart of the hasty will understand and know, and the tongue of the stammerers will hasten to speak distinctly.

(Isaiah 32:5)  The fool will no more be called noble, nor the scoundrel said to be honorable.

(Isaiah 32:6)  For the fool speaks folly, and his heart is busy with iniquity, to practice ungodliness, to utter error concerning the LORD, to leave the craving of the hungry unsatisfied, and to deprive the thirsty of drink.

(Isaiah 32:7)  As for the scoundrel--his devices are evil; he plans wicked schemes to ruin the poor with lying words, even when the plea of the needy is right.

(Isaiah 32:8)  But he who is noble plans noble things, and on noble things he stands.

(Isaiah 32:9)  Rise up, you women who are at ease, hear my voice; you complacent daughters, give ear to my speech.

(Isaiah 32:10)  In little more than a year you will shudder, you complacent women; for the grape harvest fails, the fruit harvest will not come.

(Isaiah 32:11)  Tremble, you women who are at ease, shudder, you complacent ones; strip, and make yourselves bare, and tie sackcloth around your waist.

(Isaiah 32:12)  Beat your breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine,

(Isaiah 32:13)  for the soil of my people growing up in thorns and briers, yes, for all the joyous houses in the exultant city.

(Isaiah 32:14)  For the palace is forsaken, the populous city deserted; the hill and the watchtower will become dens forever, a joy of wild donkeys, a pasture of flocks;

(Isaiah 32:15)  until the Spirit is poured upon us from on high, and the wilderness becomes a fruitful field, and the fruitful field is deemed a forest.

(Isaiah 32:16)  Then justice will dwell in the wilderness, and righteousness abide in the fruitful field.

(Isaiah 32:17)  And the effect of righteousness will be peace, and the result of righteousness, quietness and trust forever.

(Isaiah 32:18)  My people will abide in a peaceful habitation, in secure dwellings, and in quiet resting places.

(Isaiah 32:19)  And it will hail when the forest falls down, and the city will be utterly laid low.

(Isaiah 32:20)  Happy are you who sow beside all waters, who let the feet of the ox and the donkey range free.

Isaiah chapter 33 has a prayer yet many prophecies and promises towards Israel and the children of blessings

(Isaiah 33:1)  Ah, you destroyer, who yourself have not been destroyed, you traitor, whom none has betrayed! When you have ceased to destroy, you will be destroyed; and when you have finished betraying, they will betray you.

(Isaiah 33:2)  O LORD, be gracious to us; we wait for you. Be our arm every morning, our salvation in the time of trouble.

(Isaiah 33:3)  At the tumultuous noise peoples flee; when you lift yourself up, nations are scattered,

(Isaiah 33:4)  and your spoil is gathered as the caterpillar gathers; as locusts leap, it is leapt upon.

(Isaiah 33:5)  The LORD is exalted, for he dwells on high; he will fill Zion with justice and righteousness,

(Isaiah 33:6)  and he will be the stability of your times, abundance of salvation, wisdom, and knowledge; the fear of the LORD is Zion's treasure.

(Isaiah 33:7)  Behold, their heroes cry in the streets; the envoys of peace weep bitterly.

(Isaiah 33:8)  The highways lie waste; the traveler ceases. Covenants are broken; cities are despised; there is no regard for man.

(Isaiah 33:9)  The land mourns and languishes; Lebanon is confounded and withers away; Sharon is like a desert, and Bashan and Carmel shake off their leaves.

(Isaiah 33:10)  "Now I will arise," says the LORD, "now I will lift myself up; now I will be exalted.

(Isaiah 33:11)  You conceive chaff; you give birth to stubble; your breath is a fire that will consume you.

(Isaiah 33:12)  And the peoples will be as if burned to lime, like thorns cut down, that are burned in the fire."

(Isaiah 33:13)  Hear, you who are far off, what I have done; and you who are near, acknowledge my might.

(Isaiah 33:14)  The sinners in Zion are afraid; trembling has seized the godless: "Who among us can dwell with the consuming fire? Who among us can dwell with everlasting burnings?"

(Isaiah 33:15)  He who walks righteously and speaks uprightly, who despises the gain of oppressions, who shakes his hands, lest they hold a bribe, who stops his ears from hearing of bloodshed and shuts his eyes from looking on evil,

(Isaiah 33:16)  he will dwell on the heights; his place of defense will be the fortresses of rocks; his bread will be given him; his water will be sure.

(Isaiah 33:17)  Your eyes will behold the king in his beauty; they will see a land that stretches afar.

(Isaiah 33:18)  Your heart will muse on the terror: "Where is he who counted, where is he who weighed the tribute? Where is he who counted the towers?"

(Isaiah 33:19)  You will see no more the insolent people, the people of an obscure speech that you cannot comprehend, stammering in a tongue that you cannot understand.

(Isaiah 33:20)  Behold Zion, the city of our appointed feasts! Your eyes will see Jerusalem, an untroubled habitation, an immovable tent, whose stakes will never be plucked up, nor will any of its cords be broken.

(Isaiah 33:21)  But there the LORD in majesty will be for us a place of broad rivers and streams, where no galley with oars can go, nor majestic ship can pass.

(Isaiah 33:22)  For the LORD is our judge; the LORD is our lawgiver; the LORD is our king; he will save us.

(Isaiah 33:23)  Your cords hang loose; they cannot hold the mast firm in its place or keep the sail spread out. Then prey and spoil in abundance will be divided; even the lame will take the prey.

(Isaiah 33:24)  And no inhabitant will say, "I am sick"; the people who dwell there will be forgiven their iniquity.

Isaiah chapter 34 prophesies judgment for all but particularly grievous judgment against Edom of all but also encourages people to read God’s word, the bible

(Isaiah 34:1)  Draw near, O nations, to hear, and give attention, O peoples! Let the earth hear, and all that fills it; the world, and all that comes from it.

(Isaiah 34:2)  For the LORD is enraged against all the nations, and furious against all their host; he has devoted them to destruction, has given them over for slaughter.

(Isaiah 34:3)  Their slain shall be cast out, and the stench of their corpses shall rise; the mountains shall flow with their blood.

(Isaiah 34:4)  All the host of heaven shall rot away, and the skies roll up like a scroll. All their host shall fall, as leaves fall from the vine, like leaves falling from the fig tree.

(Isaiah 34:5)  For my sword has drunk its fill in the heavens; behold, it descends for judgment upon Edom, upon the people I have devoted to destruction.

(Isaiah 34:6)  The LORD has a sword; it is sated with blood; it is gorged with fat, with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams. For the LORD has a sacrifice in Bozrah, a great slaughter in the land of Edom.

(Isaiah 34:7)  Wild oxen shall fall with them, and young steers with the mighty bulls. Their land shall drink its fill of blood, and their soil shall be gorged with fat.

(Isaiah 34:8)  For the LORD has a day of vengeance, a year of recompense for the cause of Zion.

(Isaiah 34:9)  And the streams of Edom shall be turned into pitch, and her soil into sulfur; her land shall become burning pitch.

(Isaiah 34:10)  Night and day it shall not be quenched; its smoke shall go up forever. From generation to generation it shall lie waste; none shall pass through it forever and ever.

(Isaiah 34:11)  But the hawk and the porcupine shall possess it, the owl and the raven shall dwell in it. He shall stretch the line of confusion over it, and the plumb line of emptiness.

(Isaiah 34:12)  Its nobles--there is no one there to call it a kingdom, and all its princes shall be nothing.

(Isaiah 34:13)  Thorns shall grow over its strongholds, nettles and thistles in its fortresses. It shall be the haunt of jackals, an abode for ostriches.

(Isaiah 34:14)  And wild animals shall meet with hyenas; the wild goat shall cry to his fellow; indeed, there the night bird settles and finds for herself a resting place.

(Isaiah 34:15)  There the owl nests and lays and hatches and gathers her young in her shadow; indeed, there the hawks are gathered, each one with her mate.

(Isaiah 34:16)  Seek and read from the book of the LORD: Not one of these shall be missing; none shall be without her mate. For the mouth of the LORD has commanded, and his Spirit has gathered them.

(Isaiah 34:17)  He has cast the lot for them; his hand has portioned it out to them with the line; they shall possess it forever; from generation to generation they shall dwell in it.

Isaiah chapter 35 gives some very powerful prophetic promises of blessings, miraculous healings and the ransomed of the Lord coming back to Zion

(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.

The next four chapters in the book of Isaiah, chapters 36 through 39, all deal with incidents in king Hezekiah’s life and reign as the king of Judah. I am led to not include them with the other prophecies in the book due to that, but I will instead give you a link to a bible study of the king of Hezekiah, a comparative one, which will also give you more ideas of what happened during the time when Isaiah was prophesying, too, further enriching your studies here. Please go here

https://www.facebook.com/notes/jay-dougherty/king-hezekiah-comparative-bible-study/10200738257712385

Here is the link to the next bible study in the book of Isaiah covering chapters 40 through 51 with many good and encouraging words for us today

https://www.facebook.com/notes/jay-dougherty/book-of-isaiah-bible-study-chapters-40-through-51/10200811899513384

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