ISAIAH CHAPTER FIFTY-FOUR

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• ISAIAH CHAPTER FIFTY-FOUR

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PROPHET - DATE JONAH (825-785BC)? JOEL (800BC)? HOSEA (785-725BC)? MICAH (785-710BC)? AMOS (784BC)? ISAIAH (701-681BC)? NAHUM (700BC)? ZEPHANIAH (630BC)? JEREMIAH (629-588BC)? DANIEL (606-534BC)? HABAKKUK (598BC)? EZEKIEL (597-573BC)? OBADIAH (588-562BC)? EZRA (536-456BC)? HAGGAI (532-512BC)? ZECHARIAH (520-475BC)? NEHEMIAH (465-424BC)? MALACHI (420-397BC)? KING / EVENT - DATE TIGLATH-PILESER (745-727BC)? HEZEKIAH (JUDAH) (726-698BC)? SHALMANESER (727-722BC)? ISRAEL TAKEN CAPTIVE (722BC)? SENNACHERIB (705-681BC)? NEBUCHADNEZZAR (605-562BC)? ZEDEKIAH (JUDAH) (597-586BC)? JUDAH TAKEN CAPTIVE (586BC)? BELSHAZZAR (541-523BC)? CYRUS (559-529BC)? BABYLON DESTROYED (536BC)? DARIUS (511-475BC)?
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OUTLINE ISAIAH CHAPTER FIFTY-FOUR

• PROMISES OF GREAT INCREASE V. 1-3
• FOUNDATION OF THIS PROMISE V. 4-6
• THE LORDS ETERNAL FAVOR V. 7-8
• AN ETERNAL COVENANT V. 9-10
• GLORIOUS FUTURE FOR HIS PEOPLE V. 11-12
• THEY WILL BE TAUGHT OF THE LORD V. 13-14
• THE LORD WOULD DEFEND THEM V. 15-17

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READ ISAIAH 541-3

• A PERPETUAL COVENANT OF PEACE
• 1 "Sing, O barren, You who have not borne! Break
  forth into singing, and cry aloud, You who have
  not labored with child! For more are the children
  of the desolate Than the children of the married
  woman," says the LORD.
• 2 "Enlarge the place of your tent, And let them
  stretch out the curtains of your dwellings Do
  not spare Lengthen your cords, And strengthen
  your stakes.
• 3 For you shall expand to the right and to the
  left, And your descendants will inherit the
  nations, And make the desolate cities inhabited.

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 541-3

• A PERPETUAL COVENANT OF PEACE
• 1 "Sing, O barren, You who have not borne! Break
  forth into singing, and cry aloud, You who have
  not labored with child! For more are the children
  of the desolate Than the children of the married
  woman," says the LORD.
• 2 "Enlarge the place of your tent, And let them
  stretch out the curtains of your dwellings Do
  not spare Lengthen your cords, And strengthen
  your stakes.
• 3 For you shall expand to the right and to the
  left, And your descendants will inherit the
  nations, And make the desolate cities inhabited.
• WHO WILL SING? WHY?
• WHAT SHOULD THEY DO WITH THEIR TENT? WHY?
• WHO WILL INHERIT THE NATIONS?

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 541-3

• A PERPETUAL COVENANT OF PEACE
• 1 "Sing, O barren, You who have not borne! Break
  forth into singing, and cry aloud, You who have
  not labored with child! For more are the children
  of the desolate Than the children of the married
  woman," says the LORD.
• WHO WILL SING? WHY?
• WHO WILL BEAR CHILDREN?
• READ GENESIS 301
• 1 Now when Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no
  children, Rachel envied her sister, and said to
  Jacob, "Give me children, or else I die!" NKJV

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 541-3

• A PERPETUAL COVENANT OF PEACE
• 1 "Sing, O barren, You who have not borne! Break
  forth into singing, and cry aloud, You who have
  not labored with child! For more are the children
  of the desolate Than the children of the married
  woman," says the LORD.
• WHO WILL SING? WHY?
• WHO WILL BEAR CHILDREN?
• READ GENESIS 216-7
• 6 And Sarah said, "God has made me laugh, and all
  who hear will laugh with me.
• 7 She also said, "Who would have said to Abraham
  that Sarah would nurse children? For I have borne
  him a son in his old age." NKJV

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 541-3

• A PERPETUAL COVENANT OF PEACE
• 1 "Sing, O barren, You who have not borne! Break
  forth into singing, and cry aloud, You who have
  not labored with child! For more are the children
  of the desolate Than the children of the married
  woman," says the LORD.
• WHO WILL SING? WHY?
• WHO WILL BEAR CHILDREN? WHY?
• READ 1 SAMUEL 25
• 5 Those who were full have hired themselves out
  for bread, And the hungry have ceased to hunger.
  Even the barren has borne seven, And she who has
  many children has become feeble. NKJV

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 541-3

• WHO WILL BEAR CHILDREN? WHY?
• READ ISAIAH 4920-22
• 20 The children you will have, After you have
  lost the others, Will say again in your ears,
  'The place is too small for me Give me a place
  where I may dwell.'
• 21 Then you will say in your heart, 'Who has
  begotten these for me, Since I have lost my
  children and am desolate, A captive, and
  wandering to and fro? And who has brought these
  up? There I was, left alone But these, where
  were they?'"
• 22 Thus says the Lord GOD "Behold, I will lift
  My hand in an oath to the nations, And set up My
  standard for the peoples They shall bring your
  sons in their arms,
• And your daughters shall be carried on their
  shoulders

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 541-3

• 1 "Sing, O barren, You who have not borne! Break
  forth into singing, and cry aloud, You who have
  not labored with child! For more are the children
  of the desolate Than the children of the married
  woman," says the LORD.
• WHO WILL SING? WHY?
• WHO WILL BEAR CHILDREN? WHY?
• READ GALATIANS 427
• 27 For it is written "Rejoice, O barren, You who
  do not bear! Break forth and shout, You who are
  not in labor! For the desolate has many more
  children Than she who has a husband." NKJV

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 541-3

• 2 "Enlarge the place of your tent, And let them
  stretch out the curtains of your dwellings Do
  not spare Lengthen your cords, And strengthen
  your stakes.
• WHAT SHOULD THEY DO WITH THEIR TENT? WHY?
• IS THIS THEIR INDIVIDUAL TENTS?
• READ GENESIS 2619-22
• 19 Also Isaac's servants dug in the valley, and
  found a well of running water there.
• 20 But the herdsmen of Gerar quarreled with
  Isaac's herdsmen, saying, "The water is ours." So
  he called the name of the well Esek, because they
  quarreled with him.
• 21 Then they dug another well, and they quarreled
  over that one also. So he called its name Sitnah.
• 22 And he moved from there and dug another well,
  and they did not quarrel over it. So he called
  its name Rehoboth, because he said, "For now the
  LORD has made room for us, and we shall be
  fruitful in the land."

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 541-3

• 2 "Enlarge the place of your tent, And let them
  stretch out the curtains of your dwellings Do
  not spare Lengthen your cords, And strengthen
  your stakes.
• IS THIS THEIR INDIVIDUAL TENTS?
• OR THE TABERNACLE?
• READ EXODUS 3510-19
• ARTICLES OF THE TABERNACLE
• 18 the pegs of the tabernacle, the pegs of the
  court, and their cords
• READ EXODUS 3932-41
• THE WORK COMPLETED
• 40 the hangings of the court, its pillars and its
  sockets, the screen for the court gate, its
  cords, and its pegs all the utensils for the
  service of the tabernacle, for the tent of
  meeting

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 541-3

• 2 "Enlarge the place of your tent, And let them
  stretch out the curtains of your dwellings Do
  not spare Lengthen your cords, And strengthen
  your stakes.
• IS THIS THEIR INDIVIDUAL TENTS?
• OR THE TABERNACLE?
• READ ISAIAH 3320
• 20 Look upon Zion, the city of our appointed
  feasts
• Your eyes will see Jerusalem, a quiet home, A
  tabernacle that will not be taken down Not one
  of its stakes will ever be removed, Nor will any
  of its cords be broken. NKJV

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 541-3

• A PERPETUAL COVENANT OF PEACE
• 3 For you shall expand to the right and to the
  left, And your descendants will inherit the
  nations, And make the desolate cities inhabited.
• WHO WILL SING? WHY?
• WHAT SHOULD THEY DO WITH THEIR TENT? WHY?
• WHAT WILL THE LORD DO FOR THEM? WHY?
• READ JOB 1223
• 23 He makes nations great, and destroys them He
  enlarges nations, and guides them. NKJV

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 541-3

• WHAT WILL THE LORD DO FOR THEM? WHY?
• READ GENESIS 1314-18
• 14 And the LORD said to Abram, after Lot had
  separated from him "Lift your eyes now and look
  from the place where you are northward,
  southward, eastward, and westward
• 15 for all the land which you see I give to you
  and your descendants forever.
• 16 And I will make your descendants as the dust
  of the earth so that if a man could number the
  dust of the earth, then your descendants also
  could be numbered.
• 17 Arise, walk in the land through its length and
  its width, for I give it to you."
• 18 Then Abram moved his tent, and went and dwelt
  by the terebinth trees of Mamre, which are in
  Hebron, and built an altar there to the LORD.
  NKJV

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 541-3

• 3 For you shall expand to the right and to the
  left, And your descendants will inherit the
  nations, And make the desolate cities inhabited.
• WHAT WILL THE LORD DO FOR THEM? WHY?
• READ ISAIAH 141-2
• 1 For the LORD will have mercy on Jacob, and will
  still choose Israel, and settle them in their own
  land. The strangers will be joined with them, and
  they will cling to the house of Jacob.
• 2 Then people will take them and bring them to
  their place, and the house of Israel will possess
  them for servants and maids in the land of the
  LORD they will take them captive whose captives
  they were, and rule over their oppressors. NKJV

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 541-3

• 3 For you shall expand to the right and to the
  left, And your descendants will inherit the
  nations, And make the desolate cities inhabited.
• WHAT WILL THE LORD DO FOR THEM? WHY?
• READ ISAIAH 4426
• 26 Who confirms the word of His servant, And
  performs the counsel of His messengers Who says
  to Jerusalem, 'You shall be inhabited, To the
  cities of Judah, 'You shall be built, And I will
  raise up her waste places NKJV

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 541-3

• 3 For you shall expand to the right and to the
  left, And your descendants will inherit the
  nations, And make the desolate cities inhabited.
• WHAT WILL THE LORD DO FOR THEM? WHY?
• READ ISAIAH 4818-19
• 18 Oh, that you had heeded My commandments! Then
  your peace would have been like a river, And your
  righteousness like the waves of the sea.
• 19 Your descendants also would have been like the
  sand, And the offspring of your body like the
  grains of sand His name would not have been cut
  off Nor destroyed from before Me." NKJV

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 541-3

• 3 For you shall expand to the right and to the
  left, And your descendants will inherit the
  nations, And make the desolate cities inhabited.
• WHAT WILL THE LORD DO FOR THEM? WHY?
• READ ISAIAH 4919
• 19 "For your waste and desolate places, And the
  land of your destruction, Will even now be too
  small for the inhabitants And those who
  swallowed you up will be far away. NKJV

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READ ISAIAH 544-5

• 4 "Do not fear, for you will not be ashamed
  Neither be disgraced, for you will not be put to
  shame For you will forget the shame of your
  youth, And will not remember the reproach of your
  widowhood anymore.
• 5 For your Maker is your husband, The LORD of
  hosts is His name And your Redeemer is the Holy
  One of Israel He is called the God of the whole
  earth.

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 544-5

• 4 "Do not fear, for you will not be ashamed
  Neither be disgraced, for you will not be put to
  shame For you will forget the shame of your
  youth, And will not remember the reproach of your
  widowhood anymore.
• 5 For your Maker is your husband, The LORD of
  hosts is His name And your Redeemer is the Holy
  One of Israel He is called the God of the whole
  earth.
• WHY SHOULD THEY NOT BE AFRAID OR ASHAMED?
• WHO IS THEIR MAKER REDEEMER?

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 544-5

• 4 "Do not fear, for you will not be ashamed
  Neither be disgraced, for you will not be put to
  shame For you will forget the shame of your
  youth, And will not remember the reproach of your
  widowhood anymore.
• WHY SHOULD THEY NOT BE AFRAID OR ASHAMED?
• For you will forget the shame of your youth,
• And will not remember the reproach of your
  widowhood anymore.
• READ GENESIS 3022-24
• 22 Then God remembered Rachel, and God listened
  to her and opened her womb.
• 23 And she conceived and bore a son, and said,
  "God has taken away my reproach.
• 24 So she called his name Joseph, and said, "The
  LORD shall add to me another son." NKJV

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 544-5

• WHY SHOULD THEY NOT BE AFRAID OR ASHAMED?
• For you will forget the shame of your youth,
• And will not remember the reproach of your
  widowhood anymore.
• READ PSALMS 256-7
• 6 Remember, O LORD, Your tender mercies and Your
  loving-kindnesses, For they are from of old.
• 7 Do not remember the sins of my youth, nor my
  transgressions According to Your mercy remember
  me,
• For Your goodness' sake, O LORD. NKJV

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 544-5

• WHY SHOULD THEY NOT BE AFRAID OR ASHAMED?
• For you will forget the shame of your youth,
• And will not remember the reproach of your
  widowhood anymore.
• READ ISAIAH 2922-24
• 22 Therefore thus says the LORD, who redeemed
  Abraham, concerning the house of Jacob "Jacob
  shall not now be ashamed, Nor shall his face now
  grow pale
• 23 But when he sees his children, The work of My
  hands, in his midst, They will hallow My name,
  And hallow the Holy One of Jacob, And fear the
  God of Israel.
• 24 These also who erred in spirit will come to
  understanding, And those who complained will
  learn doctrine." NKJV

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 544-5

• WHY SHOULD THEY NOT BE AFRAID OR ASHAMED?
• For you will forget the shame of your youth,
• And will not remember the reproach of your
  widowhood anymore.
• READ ISAIAH 4110-14
• 10 Fear not, for I am with you Be not dismayed,
  for I am your God. I will strengthen you, Yes, I
  will help you,
• I will uphold you with My righteous right hand.'
• 11 "Behold, all those who were incensed against
  you
• Shall be ashamed and disgraced They shall be as
  nothing, And those who strive with you shall
  perish.
• 13 For I, the LORD your God, will hold your right
  hand, Saying to you, 'Fear not, I will help you.'
  
• 14 "Fear not, you worm Jacob, You men of Israel!
  I will help you," says the LORD And your
  Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel. NKJV

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 544-5

• WHY SHOULD THEY NOT BE AFRAID OR ASHAMED?
• For you will forget the shame of your youth,
• And will not remember the reproach of your
  widowhood anymore.
• READ ISAIAH 517
• 7 "Listen to Me, you who know righteousness, You
  people in whose heart is My law Do not fear the
  reproach of men, Nor be afraid of their insults.
  NKJV
• READ JEREMIAH 22
• 2 "Go and cry in the hearing of Jerusalem,
  saying, 'Thus says the LORD "I remember you, The
  kindness of your youth, The love of your
  betrothal, When you went after Me in the
  wilderness, In a land not sown. NKJV

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 544-5

• WHY SHOULD THEY NOT BE AFRAID OR ASHAMED?
• For you will forget the shame of your youth,
• And will not remember the reproach of your
  widowhood anymore.
• READ JEREMIAH 324-25
• 24 For shame has devoured The labor of our
  fathers from our youth Their flocks and their
  herds, Their sons and their daughters.
• 25 We lie down in our shame, And our reproach
  covers us. For we have sinned against the LORD
  our God, We and our fathers, From our youth even
  to this day, And have not obeyed the voice of the
  LORD our God." NKJV

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 544-5

• WHY SHOULD THEY NOT BE AFRAID OR ASHAMED?
• For you will forget the shame of your youth,
• And will not remember the reproach of your
  widowhood anymore.
• READ JEREMIAH 2221-22
• 21 I spoke to you in your prosperity, But you
  said, 'I will not hear. This has been your
  manner from your youth, That you did not obey My
  voice.
• 22 The wind shall eat up all your rulers, And
  your lovers shall go into captivity Surely then
  you will be ashamed and humiliated For all your
  wickedness. NKJV

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 544-5

• WHY SHOULD THEY NOT BE AFRAID OR ASHAMED?
• For you will forget the shame of your youth,
• And will not remember the reproach of your
  widowhood anymore.
• READ JEREMIAH 3010-11
• 10 'Therefore do not fear, O My servant Jacob,'
  says the LORD, 'Nor be dismayed, O Israel For
  behold, I will save you from afar, And your seed
  from the land of their captivity. Jacob shall
  return, have rest and be quiet, And no one shall
  make him afraid.
• 11 For I am with you,' says the LORD, 'to save
  you
• Though I make a full end of all nations where I
  have scattered you, Yet I will not make a
  complete end of you.
• But I will correct you in justice, And will not
  let you go altogether unpunished.' NKJV

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 544-5

• WHY SHOULD THEY NOT BE AFRAID OR ASHAMED?
• For you will forget the shame of your youth,
• And will not remember the reproach of your
  widowhood anymore.
• READ JEREMIAH 3119
• 19 Surely, after my turning, I repented And
  after I was instructed, I struck myself on the
  thigh I was ashamed, yes, even humiliated,
  Because I bore the reproach of my youth.' NKJV

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 544-5

• 5 For your Maker is your husband, The LORD of
  hosts is His name And your Redeemer is the Holy
  One of Israel He is called the God of the whole
  earth.
• WHO IS THEIR MAKER REDEEMER?
• your Maker is your husband, The LORD of hosts is
  His name
• READ JEREMIAH 314
• 14 "Return, O backsliding children," says the
  LORD "for I am married to you. I will take you,
  one from a city and two from a family, and I will
  bring you to Zion. NKJV

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 544-5

• 5 For your Maker is your husband, The LORD of
  hosts is His name And your Redeemer is the Holy
  One of Israel He is called the God of the whole
  earth.
• WHO IS THEIR MAKER REDEEMER?
• your Maker is your husband, The LORD of hosts is
  His name
• READ MALACHI 211
• 11 Judah has dealt treacherously, And an
  abomination has been committed in Israel and in
  Jerusalem, For Judah has profaned The LORDS holy
  institution which He loves He has married the
  daughter of a foreign god. NKJV

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 544-5

• 5 For your Maker is your husband, The LORD of
  hosts is His name And your Redeemer is the Holy
  One of Israel He is called the God of the whole
  earth.
• WHO IS THEIR MAKER REDEEMER?
• your Maker is your husband, The LORD of hosts is
  His name
• READ HOSEA 216
• 16 "And it shall be, in that day, Says the LORD,
• "That you will call Me 'My Husband,' And no
  longer call Me 'My Master,' NKJV

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 544-5

• 5 For your Maker is your husband, The LORD of
  hosts is His name And your Redeemer is the Holy
  One of Israel He is called the God of the whole
  earth.
• WHY SHOULD THEY NOT BE AFRAID OR ASHAMED?
• WHO IS THEIR MAKER REDEEMER?
• your Maker is your husband, The LORD of hosts is
  His name
• READ PSALMS 956-7
• 6 Oh come, let us worship and bow down Let us
  kneel before the LORD our Maker.
• 7 For He is our God, And we are the people of His
  pasture, And the sheep of His hand. NKJV

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 544-5

• 5 For your Maker is your husband, The LORD of
  hosts is His name And your Redeemer is the Holy
  One of Israel He is called the God of the whole
  earth.
• WHO IS THEIR MAKER REDEEMER?
• your Maker is your husband, The LORD of hosts is
  His name
• READ PSALMS 1492
• 2 Let Israel rejoice in their Maker Let the
  children of Zion be joyful in their King. NKJV
• READ ECCLESIASTES 121
• 1 Remember now your Creator in the days of your
  youth, Before the difficult days come, And the
  years draw near when you say, "I have no pleasure
  in them" NKJV

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 544-5

• WHO IS THEIR MAKER REDEEMER?
• your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel
• READ ISAIAH 14
• 4 Alas, sinful nation, A people laden with
  iniquity,
• A brood of evildoers, Children who are
  corrupters! They have forsaken the LORD, They
  have provoked to anger
• The Holy One of Israel, They have turned away
  backward.
• READ ISAIAH 125-6
• 5 Sing to the LORD, For He has done excellent
  things This is known in all the earth.
• 6 Cry out and shout, O inhabitant of Zion, For
  great is the Holy One of Israel in your midst!"
  NKJV

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 544-5

• WHO IS THEIR MAKER REDEEMER?
• your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel
• READ ISAIAH 433
• 3 For I am the LORD your God, The Holy One of
  Israel, your Savior I gave Egypt for your
  ransom, Ethiopia and Seba in your place. NKJV
• READ ISAIAH 4817
• 17 Thus says the LORD, your Redeemer, The Holy
  One of Israel "I am the LORD your God, Who
  teaches you to profit, Who leads you by the way
  you should go.

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 544-5

• WHO IS THEIR MAKER REDEEMER?
• your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel
• READ ISAIAH 497
• 7 Thus says the LORD, The Redeemer of Israel,
  their Holy One, To Him whom man despises, To Him
  whom the nation abhors, To the Servant of rulers
  "Kings shall see and arise, Princes also shall
  worship, Because of the LORD who is faithful, The
  Holy One of Israel And He has chosen You." NKJV

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READ ISAIAH 546-8

• 6 For the LORD has called you Like a woman
  forsaken and grieved in spirit, Like a youthful
  wife when you were refused, "Says your God.
• 7 "For a mere moment I have forsaken you, But
  with great mercies I will gather you.
• 8 With a little wrath I hid My face from you for
  a moment But with everlasting kindness I will
  have mercy on you, "Says the LORD, your Redeemer.

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 546-8

• 6 For the LORD has called you Like a woman
  forsaken and grieved in spirit, Like a youthful
  wife when you were refused, "Says your God.
• 7 "For a mere moment I have forsaken you, But
  with great mercies I will gather you.
• 8 With a little wrath I hid My face from you for
  a moment But with everlasting kindness I will
  have mercy on you, "Says the LORD, your Redeemer.
• HOW DOES GOD LIKEN HIS RELATIONSHIP TO ISRAEL?
• DID THE LORD FORSAKE ISRAEL?
• WHY DID THE LORD HIDE HIS FACE FROM ISRAEL?

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 546-8

• 6 For the LORD has called you Like a woman
  forsaken and grieved in spirit, Like a youthful
  wife when you were refused, "Says your God.
• HOW DOES GOD LIKEN HIS RELATIONSHIP TO ISRAEL?
• The LORD has called you like a woman forsaken and
  grieved in spirit
• DID THE LORD FORSAKE ISRAEL?
• READ ISAIAH 14
• 4 Alas, sinful nation, A people laden with
  iniquity,
• A brood of evildoers, Children who are
  corrupters! They have forsaken the LORD, They
  have provoked to anger
• The Holy One of Israel, They have turned away
  backward.

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 546-8

• 6 For the LORD has called you Like a woman
  forsaken and grieved in spirit, Like a youthful
  wife when you were refused, "Says your God.
• HOW DOES GOD LIKEN HIS RELATIONSHIP TO ISRAEL?
• The LORD has called you like a woman forsaken and
  grieved in spirit
• DID THE LORD FORSAKE ISRAEL?
• READ ISAIAH 4914-15
• 14 But Zion said, "The LORD has forsaken me, And
  my Lord has forgotten me."
• 15 "Can a woman forget her nursing child, And not
  have compassion on the son of her womb? Surely
  they may forget, Yet I will not forget you.
  NKJV

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 546-8

• 6 For the LORD has called you Like a woman
  forsaken and grieved in spirit, Like a youthful
  wife when you were refused, "Says your God.
• HOW DOES GOD LIKEN HIS RELATIONSHIP TO ISRAEL?
• The LORD has called you like a woman forsaken and
  grieved in spirit
• DID THE LORD FORSAKE ISRAEL?
• READ ISAIAH 501
• 1 Thus says the LORD "Where is the certificate
  of your mother's divorce, Whom I have put away?
  Or which of My creditors is it to whom I have
  sold you? For your iniquities you have sold
  yourselves, And for your transgressions your
  mother has been put away. NKJV

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 546-8

• 6 For the LORD has called you Like a woman
  forsaken and grieved in spirit, Like a youthful
  wife when you were refused, "Says your God.
• HOW DOES GOD LIKEN HIS RELATIONSHIP TO ISRAEL?
• The LORD has called you like a woman forsaken and
  grieved in spirit
• DID THE LORD FORSAKE ISRAEL?
• READ MALACHI 215
• 15 But did He not make them one, Having a remnant
  of the Spirit? And why one? He seeks godly
  offspring.
• Therefore take heed to your spirit, And let none
  deal treacherously with the wife of his youth.
  NKJV

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 546-8

• DID THE LORD FORSAKE ISRAEL?
• READ EZEKIEL 168
• 8 "When I passed by you again and looked upon
  you, indeed your time was the time of love so I
  spread My wing over you and covered your
  nakedness. Yes, I swore an oath to you and
  entered into a covenant with you, and you became
  Mine," says the Lord GOD. NKJV
• READ EZEKIEL 1622
• 22 And in all your abominations and acts of
  harlotry you did not remember the days of your
  youth, when you were naked and bare, struggling
  in your blood. NKJV
• READ EZEKIEL 1660
• 60 "Nevertheless I will remember My covenant with
  you in the days of your youth, and I will
  establish an everlasting covenant with you. NKJV

46
QUESTIONS ISAIAH 546-8

• 6 For the LORD has called you Like a woman
  forsaken and grieved in spirit, Like a youthful
  wife when you were refused, "Says your God.
• HOW DOES GOD LIKEN HIS RELATIONSHIP TO ISRAEL?
• The LORD has called you like a woman forsaken and
  grieved in spirit
• DID THE LORD FORSAKE ISRAEL?
• READ JEREMIAH 22
• 2 "Go and cry in the hearing of Jerusalem,
  saying, 'Thus says the LORD "I remember you, The
  kindness of your youth, The love of your
  betrothal, When you went after Me in the
  wilderness, In a land not sown. NKJV

47
QUESTIONS ISAIAH 546-8

• 6 For the LORD has called you Like a woman
  forsaken and grieved in spirit, Like a youthful
  wife when you were refused, "Says your God.
• HOW DOES GOD LIKEN HIS RELATIONSHIP TO ISRAEL?
• The LORD has called you like a woman forsaken and
  grieved in spirit
• DID THE LORD FORSAKE ISRAEL?
• READ JEREMIAH 442-3
• 2 "Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of
  Israel 'You have seen all the calamity that I
  have brought on Jerusalem and on all the cities
  of Judah and behold, this day they are a
  desolation, and no one dwells in them,
• 3 because of their wickedness which they have
  committed to provoke Me to anger, in that they
  went to burn incense and to serve other gods whom
  they did not know, they nor you nor your fathers.
  NKJV

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 546-8

• 6 For the LORD has called you Like a woman
  forsaken and grieved in spirit, Like a youthful
  wife when you were refused, "Says your God.
• HOW DOES GOD LIKEN HIS RELATIONSHIP TO ISRAEL?
• The LORD has called you like a woman forsaken and
  grieved in spirit
• DID THE LORD FORSAKE ISRAEL?
• READ HOSEA 110
• 10 'Yet the number of the children of Israel
  Shall be as the sand of the sea, Which cannot be
  measured or numbered. And it shall come to pass
  In the place where it was said to them, 'You are
  not My people,' There it shall be said to them,
  'You are sons of the living God.' NKJV

49
QUESTIONS ISAIAH 546-8

• 7 "For a mere moment I have forsaken you, But
  with great mercies I will gather you.
• DID THE LORD FORSAKE ISRAEL?
• For a mere moment I have forsaken you,
• But with great mercies I will gather you
• READ PSALMS 305
• 5 For His anger is but for a moment, His favor is
  for life Weeping may endure for a night, But joy
  comes in the morning. NKJV
• READ JOB 1413
• 13 "Oh, that You would hide me in the grave, That
  You would conceal me until Your wrath is past,
  That You would appoint me a set time, and
  remember me! NKJV

50
QUESTIONS ISAIAH 546-8

• 7 "For a mere moment I have forsaken you, But
  with great mercies I will gather you.
• DID THE LORD FORSAKE ISRAEL?
• For a mere moment I have forsaken you,
• But with great mercies I will gather you
• READ ISAIAH 2620
• 20 Come, my people, enter your chambers, And shut
  your doors behind you Hide yourself, as it were,
  for a little moment, Until the indignation is
  past. NKJV

51
QUESTIONS ISAIAH 546-8

• 7 "For a mere moment I have forsaken you, But
  with great mercies I will gather you.
• DID THE LORD FORSAKE ISRAEL?
• For a mere moment I have forsaken you,
• But with great mercies I will gather you
• READ ISAIAH 2620
• 20 Come, my people, enter your chambers, And shut
  your doors behind you Hide yourself, as it were,
  for a little moment, Until the indignation is
  past. NKJV

52
QUESTIONS ISAIAH 546-8

• 7 "For a mere moment I have forsaken you, But
  with great mercies I will gather you.
• DID THE LORD FORSAKE ISRAEL?
• For a mere moment I have forsaken you,
• But with great mercies I will gather you
• READ 2 CORINTHIANS 417-18
• 17 For our light affliction, which is but for a
  moment, is working for us a far more exceeding
  and eternal weight of glory,
• 18 while we do not look at the things which are
  seen, but at the things which are not seen. For
  the things which are seen are temporary, but the
  things which are not seen are eternal. NKJV

53
QUESTIONS ISAIAH 546-8

• 8 With a little wrath I hid My face from you for
  a moment But with everlasting kindness I will
  have mercy on you, "Says the LORD, your Redeemer.
• WHY DID THE LORD HIDE HIS FACE FROM ISRAEL?
• With a little wrath I hid My face from you for a
  moment
• READ JOB 1324
• 24 Why do You hide Your face, And regard me as
  Your enemy? NKJV
• READ JOB 3429
• 29 When He gives quietness, who then can make
  trouble? And when He hides His face, who then can
  see Him, Whether it is against a nation or a man
  alone?

54
QUESTIONS ISAIAH 546-8

• WHY DID THE LORD HIDE HIS FACE FROM ISRAEL?
• With a little wrath I hid My face from you for a
  moment
• READ NEHEMIAH 18-9
• 8 Remember, I pray, the word that You commanded
  Your servant Moses, saying, 'If you are
  unfaithful, I will scatter you among the nations
• 9 but if you return to Me, and keep My
  commandments and do them, though some of you were
  cast out to the farthest part of the heavens, yet
  I will gather them from there, and bring them to
  the place which I have chosen as a dwelling for
  My name.' NKJV

55
QUESTIONS ISAIAH 546-8

• WHY DID THE LORD HIDE HIS FACE FROM ISRAEL?
• With a little wrath I hid My face from you for a
  moment
• READ PSALMS 307
• 7 LORD, by Your favor You have made my mountain
  stand strong You hid Your face, and I was
  troubled.
• READ PSALMS 4424
• 24 Why do You hide Your face, And forget our
  affliction and our oppression? NKJV

56
QUESTIONS ISAIAH 546-8

• WHY DID THE LORD HIDE HIS FACE FROM ISRAEL?
• With a little wrath I hid My face from you for a
  moment
• READ ISAIAH 115
• 15 When you spread out your hands, I will hide My
  eyes from you Even though you make many prayers,
• I will not hear. Your hands are full of blood.
  NKJV
• READ ISAIAH 817
• 17 And I will wait on the LORD, Who hides His
  face from the house of Jacob And I will hope in
  Him. NKJV

57
QUESTIONS ISAIAH 546-8

• 7 "For a mere moment I have forsaken you, But
  with great mercies I will gather you.
• DID THE LORD FORSAKE ISRAEL?
• For a mere moment I have forsaken you,
• But with great mercies I will gather you.
• READ ISAIAH 141
• 1 For the LORD will have mercy on Jacob, and will
  still choose Israel, and settle them in their own
  land. The strangers will be joined with them, and
  they will cling to the house of Jacob. NKJV
• READ HOSEA 219
• 19 "I will betroth you to Me forever Yes, I will
  betroth you to Me In righteousness and justice,
  In loving-kindness and mercy NKJV

58
READ ISAIAH 549-10

• 9 "For this is like the waters of Noah to Me For
  as I have sworn That the waters of Noah would no
  longer cover the earth, So have I sworn That I
  would not be angry with you, nor rebuke you.
• 10 For the mountains shall depart And the hills
  be removed, But My kindness shall not depart from
  you, Nor shall My covenant of peace be removed,
  "Says the LORD, who has mercy on you.

59
QUESTIONS ISAIAH 549-10

• 9 "For this is like the waters of Noah to Me For
  as I have sworn That the waters of Noah would no
  longer cover the earth, So have I sworn That I
  would not be angry with you, nor rebuke you.
• 10 For the mountains shall depart And the hills
  be removed, But My kindness shall not depart from
  you, Nor shall My covenant of peace be removed,
  "Says the LORD, who has mercy on you.
• WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO NOAH?
• WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO ISRAEL?

60
QUESTIONS ISAIAH 549-10

• WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO NOAH?
• This is like the waters of Noah to Me For as I
  have sworn
• That the waters of Noah would no longer cover the
  earth
• READ GENESIS 821-22
• 21 And the LORD smelled a soothing aroma. Then
  the LORD said in His heart, "I will never again
  curse the ground for man's sake, although the
  imagination of man's heart is evil from his
  youth nor will I again destroy every living
  thing as I have done.
• 22 "While the earth remains, Seedtime and
  harvest,
• Cold and heat, Winter and summer, And day and
  night
• Shall not cease." NKJV
• READ GENESIS 911
• 11 Thus I establish My covenant with you Never
  again shall all flesh be cut off by the waters of
  the flood never again shall there be a flood to
  destroy the earth."

61
QUESTIONS ISAIAH 549-10

• 9 "For this is like the waters of Noah to Me For
  as I have sworn That the waters of Noah would no
  longer cover the earth, So have I sworn That I
  would not be angry with you, nor rebuke you.
• WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO NOAH?
• WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO ISRAEL?
• READ DEUTERONOMY 2820
• 20 "The LORD will send on you cursing, confusion,
  and rebuke in all that you set your hand to do,
  until you are destroyed and until you perish
  quickly, because of the wickedness of your doings
  in which you have forsaken Me. NKJV

62
QUESTIONS ISAIAH 549-10

• 9 "For this is like the waters of Noah to Me For
  as I have sworn That the waters of Noah would no
  longer cover the earth, So have I sworn That I
  would not be angry with you, nor rebuke you.
• WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO ISRAEL?
• So have I sworn That I would not be angry with
  you, nor rebuke you.
• WHAT DID DAVID ASK THE LORD?
• READ PSALMS 131
• 1 How long, O LORD? Will You forget me forever?
• How long will You hide Your face from me? NKJV
• READ PSALMS 1039
• 9 He will not always strive with us, Nor will He
  keep His anger forever. NKJV

63
QUESTIONS ISAIAH 549-10

• 9 "For this is like the waters of Noah to Me For
  as I have sworn That the waters of Noah would no
  longer cover the earth, So have I sworn That I
  would not be angry with you, nor rebuke you.
• WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO ISRAEL?
• So have I sworn That I would not be angry with
  you, nor rebuke you.
• WHAT DID ISAIAH SAY ABOUT THE LORD?
• READ ISAIAH 121
• 1 And in that day you will say "O LORD, I will
  praise You Though You were angry with me, Your
  anger is turned away, and You comfort me. NKJV
• READ ISAIAH 1424
• 24 The LORD of hosts has sworn, saying, "Surely,
  as I have thought, so it shall come to pass, And
  as I have purposed, so it shall stand NKJV

64
QUESTIONS ISAIAH 549-10

• WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO ISRAEL?
• So have I sworn That I would not be angry with
  you, nor rebuke you.
• WHAT DID JEREMIAH SAY ABOUT THE LORD?
• READ JEREMIAH 35
• 5 Will He remain angry forever? Will He keep it
  to the end? Behold, you have spoken and done
  evil things,
• As you were able." NKJV
• READ JEREMIAH 312
• 12 Go and proclaim these words toward the north,
  and say 'Return, backsliding Israel,' says the
  LORD
• 'I will not cause My anger to fall on you. For I
  am merciful,' says the LORD 'I will not remain
  angry forever.

65
QUESTIONS ISAIAH 549-10

• WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO ISRAEL?
• So have I sworn That I would not be angry with
  you, nor rebuke you.
• WHAT DID EZEKIEL SAY ABOUT THE LORD?
• READ EZEKIEL 3929
• 29 And I will not hide My face from them anymore
  for I shall have poured out My Spirit on the
  house of Israel,' says the Lord GOD." NKJV
• WHAT DID MICAH SAY ABOUT THE LORD?
• READ MICAH 718
• 18 Who is a God like You, Pardoning iniquity And
  passing over the transgression of the remnant of
  His heritage? NKJV

66
QUESTIONS ISAIAH 549-10

• 10 For the mountains shall depart And the hills
  be removed, But My kindness shall not depart from
  you, Nor shall My covenant of peace be removed,
  "Says the LORD, who has mercy on you.
• WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO ISRAEL?
• For the mountains shall depart And the hills be
  removed,
• But My kindness shall not depart from you,
• Nor shall My covenant of peace be removed,

67
QUESTIONS ISAIAH 549-10

• 10 For the mountains shall depart And the hills
  be removed, But My kindness shall not depart from
  you, Nor shall My covenant of peace be removed,
  "Says the LORD, who has mercy on you.
• WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO ISRAEL?
• For the mountains shall depart And the hills be
  removed,
• But My kindness shall not depart from you,
• Nor shall My covenant of peace be removed,

68
QUESTIONS ISAIAH 549-10

• 10 For the mountains shall depart And the hills
  be removed, But My kindness shall not depart from
  you, Nor shall My covenant of peace be removed,
  "Says the LORD, who has mercy on you.
• WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO ISRAEL?
• For the mountains shall depart And the hills be
  removed,
• WHAT DID DAVID SAY ABOUT THE LORD?
• READ PSALMS 461-2
• 1 God is our refuge and strength, A very present
  help in trouble.
• 2 Therefore we will not fear, Even though the
  earth be removed, And though the mountains be
  carried into the midst of the sea NKJV

69
QUESTIONS ISAIAH 549-10

• WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO ISRAEL?
• For the mountains shall depart And the hills be
  removed,
• WHAT DID DAVID SAY ABOUT THE LORD?
• READ PSALMS 10225-28
• 25 Of old You laid the foundation of the earth,
  And the heavens are the work of Your hands.
• 26 They will perish, but You will endure Yes,
  they will all grow old like a garment Like a
  cloak You will change them, And they will be
  changed. NKJV
• 27 But You are the same, And Your years will have
  no end.
• 28 The children of Your servants will continue,
  And their descendants will be established before
  You."

70
QUESTIONS ISAIAH 549-10

• WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO ISRAEL?
• For the mountains shall depart And the hills be
  removed,
• WHAT DID ISAIAH SAY ABOUT THIS?
• READ ISAIAH 516
• 6 Lift up your eyes to the heavens, And look on
  the earth beneath. For the heavens will vanish
  away like smoke, The earth will grow old like a
  garment, And those who dwell in it will die in
  like manner But My salvation will be forever,
  And My righteousness will not be abolished. NKJV

71
QUESTIONS ISAIAH 549-10

• WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO ISRAEL?
• For the mountains shall depart And the hills be
  removed,
• WHAT DID PAUL SAY ABOUT THE LORD?
• READ HEBREWS 110-12
• 10 "You, LORD, in the beginning laid the
  foundation of the earth, And the heavens are the
  work of Your hands.
• 11 They will perish, but You remain And they
  will all grow old like a garment
• 12 Like a cloak You will fold them up, And they
  will be changed. But You are the same, And Your
  years will not fail." NKJV
• READ REVELATION 614
• 14 Then the sky receded as a scroll when it is
  rolled up, and every mountain and island was
  moved out of its place. NKJV

72
QUESTIONS ISAIAH 549-10

• WHAT DID PAUL SAY ABOUT THIS?
• READ HEBREWS 1225-29
• 25 See that you do not refuse Him who speaks. For
  if they did not escape who refused Him who spoke
  on earth, much more shall we not escape if we
  turn away from Him who speaks from heaven,
• 26 whose voice then shook the earth but now He
  has promised, saying, "Yet once more I shake not
  only the earth, but also heaven.
• 27 Now this, "Yet once more," indicates the
  removal of those things that are being shaken, as
  of things that are made, that the things which
  cannot be shaken may remain.
• 28 Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom
  which cannot be shaken, let us have grace, by
  which we may serve God acceptably with reverence
  and godly fear.
• 29 For our God is a consuming fire. NKJV

73
QUESTIONS ISAIAH 549-10

• WHAT DID PETER SAY ABOUT THIS?
• READ 2 PETER 310-13
• 10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief
  in the night, in which the heavens will pass away
  with a great noise, and the elements will melt
  with fervent heat both the earth and the works
  that are in it will be burned up.
• 11 Therefore, since all these things will be
  dissolved, what manner of persons ought you to be
  in holy conduct and godliness,
• 12 looking for and hastening the coming of the
  day of God, because of which the heavens will be
  dissolved, being on fire, and the elements will
  melt with fervent heat?
• 13 Nevertheless we, according to His promise,
  look for new heavens and a new earth in which
  righteousness dwells. NKJV

74
QUESTIONS ISAIAH 549-10

• 10 For the mountains shall depart And the hills
  be removed, But My kindness shall not depart from
  you, Nor shall My covenant of peace be removed,
  "Says the LORD, who has mercy on you.
• WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO ISRAEL?
• But My kindness shall not depart from you,
• Nor shall My covenant of peace be removed,
• READ GENESIS 916
• 16 The rainbow shall be in the cloud, and I will
  look on it to remember the everlasting covenant
  between God and every living creature of all
  flesh that is on the earth."

75
QUESTIONS ISAIAH 549-10

• WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO ISRAEL?
• But My kindness shall not depart from you,
• Nor shall My covenant of peace be removed,
• WHAT DID DAVID SAY ABOUT THE LORD?
• READ 2 SAMUEL 235
• 5 "Although my house is not so with God, Yet He
  has made with me an everlasting covenant, Ordered
  in all things and secure. For this is all my
  salvation and all my desire Will He not make it
  increase? NKJV
• READ PSALMS 8934
• 34 My covenant I will not break, Nor alter the
  word that has gone out of My lips. NKJV

76
QUESTIONS ISAIAH 549-10

• WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO ISRAEL?
• But My kindness shall not depart from you,
• Nor shall My covenant of peace be removed,
• WHAT DID ISAIAH SAY ABOUT THE LORD?
• READ ISAIAH 141
• 1 For the LORD will have mercy on Jacob, and will
  still choose Israel, and settle them in their own
  land. The strangers will be joined with them, and
  they will cling to the house of Jacob. NKJV
• READ ISAIAH 557
• 7 Let the wicked forsake his way, And the
  unrighteous man his thoughts Let him return to
  the LORD, And He will have mercy on him And to
  our God,
• For He will abundantly pardon. NKJV

77
READ ISAIAH 5411-13

• 11 "O you afflicted one, Tossed with tempest, and
  not comforted, Behold, I will lay your stones
  with colorful gems, And lay your foundations with
  sapphires.
• 12 I will make your pinnacles of rubies, Your
  gates of crystal, And all your walls of precious
  stones.
• 13 All your children shall be taught by the LORD,
  And great shall be the peace of your children.

78
QUESTIONS ISAIAH 5411-13

• 11 "O you afflicted one, Tossed with tempest, and
  not comforted, Behold, I will lay your stones
  with colorful gems, And lay your foundations with
  sapphires.
• 12 I will make your pinnacles of rubies, Your
  gates of crystal, And all your walls of precious
  stones.
• 13 All your children shall be taught by the LORD,
  And great shall be the peace of your children.
• WHO IS AFFLICTED? WHY?
• WHAT HAS THE LORD PREPARED FOR THEM?
• WHAT WILL THE LORD DO FOR THEIR CHILDREN?

79
QUESTIONS ISAIAH 5411-13

• 11 "O you afflicted one, Tossed with tempest, and
  not comforted, Behold, I will lay your stones
  with colorful gems, And lay your foundations with
  sapphires.
• WHO IS AFFLICTED? WHY?
• O you afflicted one, Tossed with tempest, and not
  comforted
• READ JONAH 111-13
• 11 Then they said to him, "What shall we do to
  you that the sea may be calm for us?" for the
  sea was growing more tempestuous.
• 12 And he said to them, "Pick me up and throw me
  into the sea then the sea will become calm for
  you. For I know that this great tempest is
  because of me."
• 13 Nevertheless the men rowed hard to return to
  land, but they could not, for the sea continued
  to grow more tempestuous against them. NKJV

80
QUESTIONS ISAIAH 5411-13

• WHO IS AFFLICTED? WHY?
• O you afflicted one, Tossed with tempest, and not
  comforted
• READ ISAIAH 282
• 2 Behold, the Lord has a mighty and strong one,
• Like a tempest of hail and a destroying storm,
  Like a flood of mighty waters overflowing, Who
  will bring them down to the earth with His hand.
  NKJV
• READ ISAIAH 296
• 6 You will be punished by the LORD of hosts With
  thunder and earthquake and great noise, With
  storm and tempest And the flame of devouring
  fire. NKJV
• READ ISAIAH 5119
• 19 These two things have come to you Who will be
  sorry for you? Desolation and destruction,
  famine and sword By whom will I comfort you?
  NKJV

81
QUESTIONS ISAIAH 5411-13

• WHAT HAS THE LORD PREPARED FOR THEM?
• I will lay your stones with colorful gems,
• And lay your foundations with sapphires
• I will make your pinnacles of rubies, Your gates
  of crystal,
• And all your walls of precious stones
• WHAT DID THESE PEOPLE SEE?
• READ EXODUS 249-10
• 9 Then Moses went up, also Aaron, Nadab, and
  Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel,
• 10 and they saw the God of Israel. And there was
  under His feet as it were a paved work of
  sapphire stone, and it was like the very heavens
  in its clarity. NKJV

82
QUESTIONS ISAIAH 5411-13

• WHAT HAS THE LORD PREPARED FOR THEM?
• I will lay your stones with colorful gems,
• And lay your foundations with sapphires
• I will make your pinnacles of rubies, Your gates
  of crystal,
• And all your walls of precious stones
• WHAT DID DAVID PREPARE FOR THE HOUSE OF GOD?
• READ 1 CHRONILCES 292
• 2 Now for the house of my God I have prepared
  with all my might gold for things to be made of
  gold, silver for things of silver, bronze for
  things of bronze, iron for things of iron, wood
  for things of wood, onyx stones, stones to be
  set, glistening stones of various colors, all
  kinds of precious stones, and marble slabs in
  abundance. NKJV

83
QUESTIONS ISAIAH 5411-13

• WHAT HAS THE LORD PREPARED FOR THEM?
• I will lay your stones with colorful gems,
• And lay your foundations with sapphires
• I will make your pinnacles of rubies, Your gates
  of crystal,
• And all your walls of precious stones
• WHERE DID DAVID GET THESE PRECIOUS STONES ?
• READ JOB 285-6
• 5 As for the earth, from it comes bread, But
  underneath it is turned up as by fire
• 6 Its stones are the source of sapphires, And it
  contains gold dust. NKJV

84
QUESTIONS ISAIAH 5411-13

• WHAT HAS THE LORD PREPARED FOR THEM?
• I will lay your stones with colorful gems,
• And lay your foundations with sapphires
• I will make your pinnacles of rubies, Your gates
  of crystal,
• And all your walls of precious stones
• WHAT DID JOHN SEE?
• READ REVELATION 212
• 2 Then I, John, saw the holy city, New Jerusalem,
  coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a
  bride adorned for her husband.

85
QUESTIONS ISAIAH 5411-13

• WHAT DID JOHN SEE?
• READ REVELATION 2118-21
• 18 The construction of its wall was of jasper
  and the city was pure gold, like clear glass.
• 19 The foundations of the wall of the city were
  adorned with all kinds of precious stones the
  first foundation was jasper, the second sapphire,
  the third chalcedony, the fourth emerald,
• 30 the fifth sardonyx, the sixth sardius, the
  seventh chrysolite, the eighth beryl, the ninth
  topaz, the tenth chrysoprase, the eleventh
  jacinth, and the twelfth amethyst.
• 21 The twelve gates were twelve pearls each
  individual gate was of one pearl. And the street
  of the city was pure gold, like transparent
  glass. NKJV

86
QUESTIONS ISAIAH 5411-13

• I will lay your stones with colorful gems,
• And lay your foundations with sapphires
• I will make your pinnacles of rubies, Your gates
  of crystal,
• And all your walls of precious stones
• WHAT HAS THE LORD PREPARED FOR THEM?
• READ ISAIAH 1432
• 32 What will they answer the messengers of the
  nation? That the LORD has founded Zion, And the
  poor of His people shall take refuge in it. NKJV
• READ ISAIAH 2816
• 16 Therefore thus says the Lord GOD "Behold, I
  lay in Zion a stone for a foundation, A tried
  stone, a precious cornerstone, a sure foundation
  Whoever believes will not act hastily. NKJV

87
QUESTIONS ISAIAH 5411-13

• 13 All your children shall be taught by the LORD,
  And great shall be the peace of your children.
• WHAT WILL THE LORD DO FOR THEIR CHILDREN?
• All your children shall be taught by the LORD
• HOW WILL THE LORD TEACH THEM?
• READ ISAIAH 289-10
• 9 "Whom will he teach knowledge? And whom will he
  make to understand the message? Those just weaned
  from milk? Those just drawn from the breasts?
• 10 For precept must be upon precept, precept upon
  precept, Line upon line, line upon line, Here a
  little, there a little." NKJV

88
QUESTIONS ISAIAH 5411-13

• WHAT WILL THE LORD DO FOR THEIR CHILDREN?
• All your children shall be taught by the LORD
• HOW WILL THEY KNOW THE LORD?
• READ JEREMIAH 3134
• 34 No more shall every man teach his neighbor,
  and every man his brother, saying, 'Know the
  LORD,' for they all shall know Me, from the least
  of them to the greatest of them, says the LORD.
  For I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin
  I will remember no more." NKJV

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 5411-13

• WHAT WILL THE LORD DO FOR THEIR CHILDREN?
• All your children shall be taught by the LORD
• HOW WILL THE KNOW THE LORD?
• READ MICAH 42
• 2 Many nations shall come and say, "Come, and let
  us go up to the mountain of the LORD, To the
  house of the God of Jacob He will teach us His
  ways, And we shall walk in His paths. For out of
  Zion the law shall go forth, And the word of the
  LORD from Jerusalem. NKJV

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 5411-13

• WHAT WILL THE LORD DO FOR THEIR CHILDREN?
• All your children shall be taught by the LORD
• HOW WILL THEY KNOW THE LORD?
• READ JOHN 645
• 45 It is written in the prophets, 'And they shall
  all be taught by God.' Therefore everyone who has
  heard and learned from the Father comes to Me.
  NKJV
• READ 1 CORINTHIANS 210
• 10 But God has revealed them to us through His
  Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, yes,
  the deep things of God. NKJV

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 5411-13

• WHAT WILL THE LORD DO FOR THEIR CHILDREN?
• All your children shall be taught by the LORD
• WHAT WILL THEY KNOW?
• READ 1 JOHN 220-21
• 20 But you have an anointing from the Holy One,
  and you know all things.
• 21 I have not written to you because you do not
  know the truth, but because you know it, and that
  no lie is of the truth. NKJV
• READ 1 JOHN 227
• 27 But the anointing which you have received
  from Him abides in you, and you do not need that
  anyone teach you but as the same anointing
  teaches you concerning all things, and is true,
  and is not a lie, and just as it has taught you,
  you will abide in Him. NKJV

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 5411-13

• WHAT WILL THE LORD DO FOR THEIR CHILDREN?
• All your children shall be taught by the LORD
• HOW WILL THEY KNOW THE LORD?
• READ HEBREWS 810-12
• 10 For this is the covenant that I will make with
  the house of Israel after those days, says the
  LORD I will put My laws in their mind and write
  them on their hearts and I will be their God,
  and they shall be My people.
• 11 None of them shall teach his neighbor, and
  none his brother, saying, 'Know the LORD,' for
  all shall know Me, from the least of them to the
  greatest of them.
• 12 For I will be merciful to their
  unrighteousness, and their sins and their lawless
  deeds I will remember no more." NKJV

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 5411-13

• WHAT WILL THE LORD DO FOR THEIR CHILDREN?
• All your children shall be taught by the LORD
• HOW WILL THEY KNOW THE LORD?
• READ HEBREWS 1016-17
• 16 "This is the covenant that I will make with
  them after those days, says the LORD I will put
  My laws into their hearts, and in their minds I
  will write them,
• 17 then He adds, "Their sins and their lawless
  deeds I will remember no more." NKJV

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 5411-13

• WHAT WILL THE LORD DO FOR THEIR CHILDREN?
• And great shall be the peace of your children.
• HOW WILL THE HAVE PEACE?
• READ ISAIAH 24
• 4 He shall judge between the nations, And rebuke
  many people They shall beat their swords into
  plowshares, And their spears into pruning hooks
  Nation shall not lift up sword against nation,
  Neither shall they learn war anymore. NKJV
• READ ISAIAH 4818
• 18 Oh, that you had heeded My commandments! Then
  your peace would have been like a river, And your
  righteousness like the waves of the sea. NKJV

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 5411-13

• 13 All your children shall be taught by the LORD,
  And great shall be the peace of your children.
• WHAT WILL THE LORD DO FOR THEIR CHILDREN?
• And great shall be the peace of your children.
• HOW WILL THEY HAVE PEACE?
• READ ISAIAH 96
• 6 For unto us a Child is born, Unto us a Son is
  given
• And the government will be upon His shoulder. And
  His name will be called Wonderful, Counselor,
  Mighty God,
• Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. NKJV

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READ ISAIAH 5414-15

• 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.
• 15 Indeed they shall surely assemble, but not
  because of Me. Whoever assembles against you
  shall fall for your sake.

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 5414-15

• 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.
• 15 Indeed they shall surely assemble, but not
  because of Me. Whoever assembles against you
  shall fall for your sake.
• HOW WILL THE LORD ESTABLISH THEM?
• In righteousness you shall be established
• WHAT WILL THE LORD REMOVE FROM THEM?
• You shall be far from oppression, for you shall
  not fear
• And from terror, for it shall not come near you.
• WHO ASSEMBLE AGAINST THEM?
• Indeed they shall surely assemble, but not
  because of Me.
• WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO THEM?
• Whoever assembles against you shall fall for your
  sake.

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 5414-15

• 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.
• HOW WILL THE LORD ESTABLISH THEM?
• In righteousness you shall be established
• READ PSALMS 722-4
• 2 He will judge Your people with righteousness,
  And Your poor with justice.
• 3 The mountains will bring peace to the people,
  And the little hills, by righteousness.
• 4 He will bring justice to the poor of the
  people He will save the children of the needy,
  And will break in pieces the oppressor. NKJV

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 5414-15

• 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.
• HOW WILL THE LORD ESTABLISH THEM?
• In righteousness you shall be established
• READ ISAIAH 114-5
• 4 But with righteousness He shall judge the poor,
• And decide with equity for the meek of the earth
  He shall strike the earth with the rod of His
  mouth, And with the breath of His lips He shall
  slay the wicked.
• 5 Righteousness shall be the belt of His loins,
  And faithfulness the belt of His waist. NKJV

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 5414-15

• 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.
• HOW WILL THE LORD ESTABLISH THEM?
• In righteousness you shall be established
• READ ISAIAH 261-2
• 1 In that day this song will be sung in the land
  of Judah "We have a strong city God will
  appoint salvation for walls and bulwarks.
• 2 Open the gates, That the righteous