ISAIAH CHAPTER FIFTY-SEVEN

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• ISAIAH CHAPTER FIFTY-SEVEN

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OUTLINE ISAIAH CHAPTER FIFTY-SEVEN

• ISRAEL'S FUTILE IDOLATRY V. 1-13
• HEALING FOR THE BACKSLIDER V. 14-21

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READ ISAIAH 571-2

• ISRAEL'S FUTILE IDOLATRY
• 1 The righteous perishes, And no man takes it to
  heart Merciful men are taken away, While no one
  considers That the righteous is taken away from
  evil.
• 2 He shall enter into peace They shall rest in
  their beds, Each one walking in his uprightness.

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 571-2

• ISRAEL'S FUTILE IDOLATRY
• 1 The righteous perishes, And no man takes it to
  heart Merciful men are taken away, While no one
  considers That the righteous is taken away from
  evil.
• 2 He shall enter into peace They shall rest in
  their beds, Each one walking in his uprightness.
• WHAT IS SAID CONCERNING THE RIGHTEOUS?
• WHAT DID THE UN-RIGHTEOUS FAIL TO CONSIDER?
• WHY ARE THE MERCIFUL TAKEN AWAY?
• WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO JEROBOAM?
• WHAT DID THE LORD SAY ABOUT MANASSEH?
• WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO JOSIAH?
• WHAT DID JESUS SAY TO THE SRIBES PHARISEES?
• WHAT WILL THE LORD DO FOR THE RIGHTEOUS?

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 571

• ISRAEL'S FUTILE IDOLATRY
• 1 The righteous perishes, And no man takes it to
  heart Merciful men are taken away, While no one
  considers That the righteous is taken away from
  evil.
• WHAT IS SAID CONCERNING THE RIGHTEOUS?
• READ PSALMS 121
• 1 Help, LORD, for the godly man ceases! For the
  faithful disappear from among the sons of men.
  NKJV
• READ MICAH 72
• 2 The faithful man has perished from the earth,
  And there is no one upright among men. They all
  lie in wait for blood Every man hunts his
  brother with a net. NKJV

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WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO JEROBOAM?

• READ 1 KINGS 149-13
• 9 You have done more evil than all who were
  before you, for you have gone and made for
  yourself other gods and molded images to provoke
  Me to anger, and have cast Me behind your back
• 10 therefore behold! I will bring disaster on the
  house of Jeroboam, and will cut off from Jeroboam
  every male in Israel, bond and free I will take
  away the remnant of the house of Jeroboam, as one
  takes away refuse until it is all gone.
• 11 The dogs shall eat whoever belongs to Jeroboam
  and dies in the city, and the birds of the air
  shall eat whoever dies in the field for the LORD
  has spoken!"
• 12 Arise therefore, go to your own house. When
  your feet enter the city, the child shall die.
• 13 And all Israel shall mourn for him and bury
  him, for he is the only one of Jeroboam who shall
  come to the grave, because in him there is found
  something good toward the LORD God of Israel in
  the house of Jeroboam.

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 571

• 1 The righteous perishes, And no man takes it to
  heart Merciful men are taken away, While no one
  considers That the righteous is taken away from
  evil.
• WHAT IS SAID CONCERNING THE RIGHTEOUS?
• WHY ARE THE MERCIFUL TAKEN AWAY?
• WHAT DID THE LORD SAY ABOUT MANASSEH?
• READ 2 KINGS 2116
• 16 Moreover Manasseh shed very much innocent
  blood, till he had filled Jerusalem from one end
  to another, besides his sin by which he made
  Judah sin, in doing evil in the sight of the
  LORD. NKJV
• WHAT HAPPENED TO MANASSEH?

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 571

• WHAT HAPPENED TO MANASSEH?
• READ 2 CHRONICLES 3310-13
• 10 And the LORD spoke to Manasseh and his people,
  but they would not listen.
• 11 Therefore the LORD brought upon them the
  captains of the army of the king of Assyria, who
  took Manasseh with hooks, bound him with bronze
  fetters, and carried him off to Babylon.
• 12 Now when he was in affliction, he implored the
  LORD his God, and humbled himself greatly before
  the God of his fathers,
• 13 and prayed to Him and He received his
  entreaty, heard his supplication, and brought him
  back to Jerusalem into his kingdom. Then Manasseh
  knew that the LORD was God. NKJV

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 571

• WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO JOSIAH?
• READ 2 KINGS 2218-20
• 18 But as for the king of Judah, who sent you to
  inquire of the LORD, in this manner you shall
  speak to him, 'Thus says the LORD God of Israel
  "Concerning the words which you have heard
• 19 because your heart was tender, and you humbled
  yourself before the LORD when you heard what I
  spoke against this place and against its
  inhabitants, that they would become a desolation
  and a curse, and you tore your clothes and wept
  before Me, I also have heard you," says the LORD.
• 20 Surely, therefore, I will gather you to your
  fathers, and you shall be gathered to your grave
  in peace and your eyes shall not see all the
  calamity which I will bring on this place."'" So
  they brought back word to the king.

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 571

• WHAT DID JESUS SAY TO THE SCRIBES PHARISEES?
• READ MATTHEW 2329-36
• 29 "Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees,
  hypocrites! Because you build the tombs of the
  prophets and adorn the monuments of the
  righteous,
• 30 and say, 'If we had lived in the days of our
  fathers, we would not have been partakers with
  them in the blood of the prophets.'
• 31 "Therefore you are witnesses against
  yourselves that you are sons of those who
  murdered the prophets.
• 32 Fill up, then, the measure of your fathers'
  guilt.
• 33 Serpents, brood of vipers! How can you escape
  the condemnation of hell?

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 571

• WHAT DID JESUS SAY TO THE SCRIBES PHARISEES?
• READ MATTHEW 2329-36
• 34 Therefore, indeed, I send you prophets, wise
  men, and scribes some of them you will kill and
  crucify, and some of them you will scourge in
  your synagogues and persecute from city to city,
• 35 that on you may come all the righteous blood
  shed on the earth, from the blood of righteous
  Abel to the blood of Zechariah, son of Berechiah,
  whom you murdered between the temple and the
  altar.
• 36 Assuredly, I say to you, all these things will
  come upon this generation. NKJV

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 571

• 1 The righteous perishes, And no man takes it to
  heart Merciful men are taken away, While no one
  considers That the righteous is taken away from
  evil.
• WHAT DID THE UN-RIGHTEOUS FAIL TO CONSIDER?
• WHY DID THE LORD GIVE THEM UP?
• READ ISAIAH 4224-25
• 24 Who gave Jacob for plunder, and Israel to the
  robbers? Was it not the LORD, He against whom we
  have sinned? For they would not walk in His ways,
  Nor were they obedient to His law.
• 25 Therefore He has poured on him the fury of His
  anger And the strength of battle It has set him
  on fire all around, Yet he did not know And it
  burned him, Yet he did not take it to heart.
  NKJV

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 571

• 1 The righteous perishes, And no man takes it to
  heart Merciful men are taken away, While no one
  considers That the righteous is taken away from
  evil.
• WHAT DID THE UN-RIGHTEOUS FAIL TO CONSIDER?
• WHAT DID PETER SAY TO THE JEWS?
• READ ACTS 314-15
• 14 But you denied the Holy One and the Just, and
  asked for a murderer to be granted to you,
• 15 and killed the Prince of life, whom God raised
  from the dead, of which we are witnesses. NKJV

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 571

• 2 He shall enter into peace They shall rest in
  their beds, Each one walking in his uprightness.
• WHAT WILL THE LORD DO FOR THE RIGHTEOUS?
• WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO ABRAM?
• READ GENESIS 1513-15
• 13 Then He said to Abram "Know certainly that
  your descendants will be strangers in a land that
  is not theirs, and will serve them, and they will
  afflict them four hundred years.
• 14 And also the nation whom they serve I will
  judge afterward they shall come out with great
  possessions.
• 15 Now as for you, you shall go to your fathers
  in peace you shall be buried at a good old age.

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 572

• 2 He shall enter into peace They shall rest in
  their beds, Each one walking in his uprightness.
• WHAT WILL THE LORD DO FOR THE RIGHTEOUS?
• READ JOB 313 17
• 13 For now I would have lain still and been
  quiet, I would have been asleep Then I would
  have been at rest
• 17 There the wicked cease from troubling, And
  there the weary are at rest. NKJV

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 572

• 2 He shall enter into peace They shall rest in
  their beds, Each one walking in his uprightness.
• WHAT WILL THE LORD DO FOR THE RIGHTEOUS?
• READ PSALMS 3737
• 37 Mark the blameless man, and observe the
  upright
• For the future of that man is peace. NKJV
• WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO DANIEL?
• READ DANIEL 1213
• 13 "But you, go your way till the end for you
  shall rest, and will arise to your inheritance at
  the end of the days. NKJV

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 572

• 2 He shall enter into peace They shall rest in
  their beds, Each one walking in his uprightness.
• WHAT WILL THE LORD DO FOR THE RIGHTEOUS?
• WHAT DID SIMEON SAY TO THE LORD?
• READ LUKE 229-32
• 29 "Lord, now You are letting Your servant
  depart in peace, According to Your word
• 30 For my eyes have seen Your salvation
• 31 Which You have prepared before the face of
  all peoples,
• 32 A light to bring revelation to the Gentiles,
  And the glory of Your people Israel." NKJV

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 572

• 2 He shall enter into peace They shall rest in
  their beds, Each one walking in his uprightness.
• WHAT WILL THE LORD DO FOR THE RIGHTEOUS?
• READ 1 THESSALONIANS 414-15
• 14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose
  again, even so God will bring with Him those who
  sleep in Jesus.
• 15 For this we say to you by the word of the
  Lord, that we who are alive and remain until the
  coming of the Lord will by no means precede those
  who are asleep.

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 572

• 2 He shall enter into peace They shall rest in
  their beds, Each one walking in his uprightness.
• WHAT WILL THE LORD DO FOR THE RIGHTEOUS?
• READ HEBREWS 49-10
• 9 There remains therefore a rest for the people
  of God.
• 10 For he who has entered His rest has himself
  also ceased from his works as God did from His.
  NKJV
• READ REVELATION 1413
• 13 Then I heard a voice from heaven saying to me,
  "Write 'Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord
  from now on.' "Yes," says the Spirit, "that they
  may rest from their labors, and their works
  follow them." NKJV

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READ ISAIAH 573-5

• ISRAEL'S FUTILE IDOLATRY
• 3 "But come here, You sons of the sorceress, You
  offspring of the adulterer and the harlot!
• 4 Whom do you ridicule? Against whom do you make
  a wide mouth And stick out the tongue? Are you
  not children of transgression, Offspring of
  falsehood,
• 5 Inflaming yourselves with gods under every
  green tree, Slaying the children in the valleys,
  Under the clefts of the rocks?

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 573-5

• ISRAEL'S FUTILE IDOLATRY
• 3 "But come here, You sons of the sorceress, You
  offspring of the adulterer and the harlot!
• 4 Whom do you ridicule? Against whom do you make
  a wide mouth And stick out the tongue? Are you
  not children of transgression, Offspring of
  falsehood,
• 5 Inflaming yourselves with gods under every
  green tree, Slaying the children in the valleys,
  Under the clefts of the rocks?
• HOW DID THE LORD REFER TO ISRAEL? WHY?

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 573

• ISRAEL'S FUTILE IDOLATRY
• 3 "But come here, You sons of the sorceress, You
  offspring of the adulterer and the harlot!
• HOW DID THE LORD REFER TO ISRAEL? WHY?
• WHAT DID THE LORD COMMAND ISRAEL?
• READ EXODUS 2218
• 18 "You shall not permit a sorceress to live.
  NKJV

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 573

• 3 "But come here, You sons of the sorceress, You
  offspring of the adulterer and the harlot!
• HOW DID THE LORD REFER TO ISRAEL? WHY?
• WHAT DID MANASSEH DO?
• READ 2 KINGS 216-7
• 6 Also he made his son pass through the fire,
  practiced soothsaying, used witchcraft, and
  consulted spiritists and mediums. He did much
  evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke Him to
  anger.
• 7 He even set a carved image of Asherah that he
  had made, in the house of which the LORD had said
  to David and to Solomon his son, "In this house
  and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all
  the tribes of Israel, I will put My name forever
  NKJV

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 573

• 3 "But come here, You sons of the sorceress, You
  offspring of the adulterer and the harlot!
• HOW DID THE LORD REFER TO ISRAEL? WHY?
• READ ISAIAH 121
• 1 How the faithful city has become a harlot! It
  was full of justice Righteousness lodged in it,
  But now murderers. NKJV
• READ ISAIAH 26
• 6 For You have forsaken Your people, the house of
  Jacob, Because they are filled with eastern ways
  They are soothsayers like the Philistines, And
  they are pleased with the children of foreigners.
  NKJV

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 573

• 3 "But come here, You sons of the sorceress, You
  offspring of the adulterer and the harlot!
• HOW DID THE LORD REFER TO ISRAEL? WHY?
• READ JEREMIAH 220
• 20 "For of old I have broken your yoke and burst
  your bonds And you said, 'I will not
  transgress, When on every high hill and under
  every green tree You lay down, playing the
  harlot. NKJV
• READ MALACHI 35
• 5 And I will come near you for judgment I will
  be a swift witness Against sorcerers, Against
  adulterers,
• Against perjurers, Against those who exploit wage
  earners and widows and orphans, And against those
  who turn away an alien Because they do not fear
  Me, Says the LORD of hosts. NKJV

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 573

• 3 "But come here, You sons of the sorceress, You
  offspring of the adulterer and the harlot!
• HOW DID THE LORD REFER TO ISRAEL? WHY?
• WHAT DID JESUS SAY?
• READ MATTHEW 1239
• 30 But He answered and said to them, "An evil
  and adulterous generation seeks after a sign, and
  no sign will be given to it except the sign of
  the prophet Jonah.
• READ MATTHEW 164
• 4 A wicked and adulterous generation seeks after
  a sign, and no sign shall be given to it except
  the sign of the prophet Jonah." And He left them
  and departed.

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 573

• 3 "But come here, You sons of the sorceress, You
  offspring of the adulterer and the harlot!
• HOW DID THE LORD REFER TO ISRAEL? WHY?
• WHO IS JAMES REFERRING TO? JEWS? GENTILES?
• READ JAMES 44
• 4 Adulterers and adulteresses! Do you not know
  that friendship with the world is enmity with
  God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of
  the world makes himself an enemy of God. NKJV

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 574

• ISRAEL'S FUTILE IDOLATRY
• 4 Whom do you ridicule? Against whom do you make
  a wide mouth And stick out the tongue? Are you
  not children of transgression, Offspring of
  falsehood,
• WHO IS ISAIAH SPEAKING TO?
• WHO ARE THEY RIDICULING?
• READ 2 CHRONICLES 3615-16
• 15 And the LORD God of their fathers sent
  warnings to them by His messengers, rising up
  early and sending them, because He had compassion
  on His people and on His dwelling place.
• 16 But they mocked the messengers of God,
  despised His words, and scoffed at His prophets,
  until the wrath of the LORD arose against His
  people, till there was no remedy. NKJV

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 574

• ISRAEL'S FUTILE IDOLATRY
• 4 Whom do you ridicule? Against whom do you make
  a wide mouth And stick out the tongue? Are you
  not children of transgression, Offspring of
  falsehood,
• WHO IS ISAIAH SPEAKING TO?
• WHO ARE THEY RIDICULING?
• READ ISAIAH 12-3
• 2 Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth! For the
  LORD has spoken "I have nourished and brought up
  children, And they have rebelled against Me
• 3 The ox knows its owner And the donkey its
  master's crib But Israel does not know, My
  people do not consider." NKJV

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 574

• ISRAEL'S FUTILE IDOLATRY
• 4 Whom do you ridicule? Against whom do you make
  a wide mouth And stick out the tongue? Are you
  not children of transgression, Offspring of
  falsehood,
• WHO IS ISAIAH SPEAKING TO?
• WHO ARE THEY RIDICULING?
• WHAT ARE THEIR ENEMIES DOING?
• READ LAMENTATIONS 216
• 16 All your enemies have opened their mouth
  against you They hiss and gnash their teeth.
  They say, "We have swallowed her up! Surely this
  is the day we have waited for We have found it,
  we have seen it!" NKJV

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 575

• 5 Inflaming yourselves with gods under every
  green tree, Slaying the children in the valleys,
  Under the clefts of the rocks?
• WHAT WAS ISRAEL DOING?
• WHAT DID THE LORD COMMAND ISRAEL?
• READ LEVITICUS 1820-21
• 21 You shall not let any of your descendants pass
  through the fire to Molech, nor shall you profane
  the name of your God I am the LORD. NKJV

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 575

• 5 Inflaming yourselves with gods under every
  green tree, Slaying the children in the valleys,
  Under the clefts of the rocks?
• WHAT WAS ISRAEL DOING?
• WHAT DID THE LORD COMMAND ISRAEL?
• READ DEUTERONOMY 122-4
• 2 You shall utterly destroy all the places where
  the nations which you shall dispossess served
  their gods, on the high mountains and on the
  hills and under every green tree.
• 3 And you shall destroy their altars, break their
  sacred pillars, and burn their wooden images with
  fire you shall cut down the carved images of
  their gods and destroy their names from that
  place.
• 4 You shall not worship the LORD your God with
  such things. NKJV

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 575

• 5 Inflaming yourselves with gods under every
  green tree, Slaying the children in the valleys,
  Under the clefts of the rocks?
• WHAT WAS ISRAEL DOING?
• WHAT DID THE LORD COMMAND ISRAEL?
• READ DEUTERONOMY 1229-31
• 29 "When the LORD your God cuts off from before
  you the nations which you go to dispossess, and
  you displace them and dwell in their land,
• 30 take heed to yourself that you are not
  ensnared to follow them, after they are destroyed
  from before you, and that you do not inquire
  after their gods, saying, 'How did these nations
  serve their gods? I also will do likewise.
• 31 You shall not worship the LORD your God in
  that way for every abomination to the LORD which
  He hates they have done to their gods for they
  burn even their sons and daughters in the fire to
  their gods. NKJV

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 575

• 5 Inflaming yourselves with gods under every
  green tree, Slaying the children in the valleys,
  Under the clefts of the rocks?
• WHAT WAS ISRAEL DOING?
• WHAT DID THE LORD COMMAND ISRAEL?
• READ DEUTERONOMY 189-11
• 9 "When you come into the land which the LORD
  your God is giving you, you shall not learn to
  follow the abominations of those nations.
• 10 There shall not be found among you anyone who
  makes his son or his daughter pass through the
  fire, or one who practices witchcraft, or a
  soothsayer, or one who interprets omens, or a
  sorcerer,
• 11 or one who conjures spells, or a medium, or a
  spiritist, or one who calls up the dead. NKJV

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 575

• WHAT GODS DID THE SAMARITANS SERVE?
• READ 2 KINGS 1729-33
• 29 Every nation continued to make gods of its
  own, and put them in the shrines on the high
  places which the Samaritans had made, every
  nation in the cities where they dwelt.
• 30 The men of Babylon made Succoth Benoth, the
  men of Cuth made Nergal, the men of Hamath made
  Ashima,
• 31 and the Avites made Nibhaz and Tartak and the
  Sepharvites burned their children in fire to
  Adrammelech and Anammelech, the gods of
  Sepharvaim.
• 32 So they feared the LORD, and from every class
  they appointed for themselves priests of the high
  places, who sacrificed for them in the shrines of
  the high places.
• 33 They feared the LORD, yet served their own
  gods according to the rituals of the nations
  from among whom they were carried away. NKJV

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 575

• WHAT DID KING AHAZ DO?
• READ 2 KINGS 162-4
• 2 Ahaz was twenty years old when he became king,
  and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem and he
  did not do what was right in the sight of the
  LORD his God, as his father David had done.
• 3 But he walked in the way of the kings of
  Israel indeed he made his son pass through the
  fire, according to the abominations of the
  nations whom the LORD had cast out from before
  the children of Israel. NKJV
• READ 2 CHRONICLES 283-4
• 3 He burned incense in the Valley of the Son of
  Hinnom, and burned his children in the fire,
  according to the abominations of the nations whom
  the LORD had cast out before the children of
  Israel.
• 4 And he sacrificed and burned incense on the
  high places, on the hills, and under every green
  tree. NKJV

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 575

• WHAT DID MANASSEH DO?
• READ 2 CHRONICLES 333-6
• 3 For he rebuilt the high places which Hezekiah
  his father had broken down he raised up altars
  for the Baals, and made wooden images and he
  worshiped all the host of heaven and served them.
• 4 He also built altars in the house of the LORD,
  of which the LORD had said, "In Jerusalem shall
  My name be forever.
• 5 And he built altars for all the host of heaven
  in the two courts of the house of the LORD.
• 6 He caused his sons to pass through the fire in
  the Valley of the Son of Hinnom he practiced
  soothsaying, used witchcraft and sorcery, and
  consulted mediums and spiritists. He did much
  evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke Him to
  anger. NKJV

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 575

• ISRAEL'S FUTILE IDOLATRY
• 5 Inflaming yourselves with gods under every
  green tree, Slaying the children in the valleys,
  Under the clefts of the rocks?
• WHAT DID THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL DO?
• READ PSALMS 10635-38
• 35 But they mingled with the Gentiles And learned
  their works
• 36 They served their idols, Which became a snare
  to them.
• 37 They even sacrificed their sons And their
  daughters to demons,
• 38 And shed innocent blood, The blood of their
  sons and daughters, Whom they sacrificed to the
  idols of Canaan And the land was polluted with
  blood. NKJV

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 575

• WHAT HAPPEN TO JUDAH JERUSALEM? WHY?
• READ JEREMIAH 732-34
• 32 "Therefore behold, the days are coming," says
  the LORD, "when it will no more be called Tophet,
  or the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, but the
  Valley of Slaughter for they will bury in Tophet
  until there is no room.
• 33 The corpses of this people will be food for
  the birds of the heaven and for the beasts of the
  earth. And no one will frighten them away.
• 34 Then I will cause to cease from the cities of
  Judah and from the streets of Jerusalem the voice
  of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of
  the bridegroom and the voice of the bride. For
  the land shall be desolate. NKJV

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 575

• ISRAEL'S FUTILE IDOLATRY
• 5 Inflaming yourselves with gods under every
  green tree, Slaying the children in the valleys,
  Under the clefts of the rocks?
• WHAT DID THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL DO?
• READ EZEKIEL 1620-21
• 20 "Moreover you took your sons and your
  daughters, whom you bore to Me, and these you
  sacrificed to them to be devoured. Were your acts
  of harlotry a small matter,
• 21 that you have slain My children and offered
  them up to them by causing them to pass through
  the fire?
• NKJV

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READ ISAIAH 576-8

• ISRAEL'S FUTILE IDOLATRY
• 6 Among the smooth stones of the stream Is your
  portion They, they, are your lot! Even to them
  you have poured a drink offering, You have
  offered a grain offering. Should I receive
  comfort in these?
• 7 "On a lofty and high mountain You have set your
  bed Even there you went up To offer sacrifice.
• 8 Also behind the doors and their posts You have
  set up your remembrance For you have uncovered
  yourself to those other than Me, And have gone up
  to them You have enlarged your bed And made a
  covenant with them You have loved their bed,
  Where you saw their nudity.

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 576-8

• ISRAEL'S FUTILE IDOLATRY
• 6 Among the smooth stones of the stream Is your
  portion They, they, are your lot! Even to them
  you have poured a drink offering, You have
  offered a grain offering. Should I receive
  comfort in these?
• 7 "On a lofty and high mountain You have set your
  bed Even there you went up To offer sacrifice.
• 8 Also behind the doors and their posts You have
  set up your remembrance For you have uncovered
  yourself to those other than Me, And have gone up
  to them You have enlarged your bed And made a
  covenant with them You have loved their bed,
  Where you saw their nudity.
• WHAT DID THEY OFFER ON THE SMOOTH STONES?
• WHERE DID THEY OFFER THEIR SACRIFICES?

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 576

• ISRAEL'S FUTILE IDOLATRY
• 6 Among the smooth stones of the stream Is your
  portion They, they, are your lot! Even to them
  you have poured a drink offering, You have
  offered a grain offering. Should I receive
  comfort in these?
• WHAT DID THEY OFFER ON THE SMOOTH STONES?
• WHAT DID JACOB OFFER ON THE PILLAR OF STONE?
• GENESIS 3514-15
• 14 Jacob set up a pillar in the place where He
  talked with him, a pillar of stone and he poured
  a drink offering on it, and he poured oil on it.
• 15 And Jacob called the name of the place where
  God spoke with him, Bethel. NKJV

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 576

• ISRAEL'S FUTILE IDOLATRY
• 6 Among the smooth stones of the stream Is your
  portion They, they, are your lot! Even to them
  you have poured a drink offering, You have
  offered a grain offering. Should I receive
  comfort in these?
• WHAT DID THEY OFFER ON THE SMOOTH STONES?
• WHAT DID THE LORD ASK FOR AS AN OFFERING?
• READ NUMBERS 154-5
• 4 He who presents his offering to the LORD shall
  bring a grain offering of one-tenth of an ephah
  of fine flour mixed with one-fourth of a hin of
  oil
• 5 and one-fourth of a hin of wine as a drink
  offering you shall prepare with the burnt
  offering or the sacrifice, for each lamb. NKJV

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 576

• WHAT DID ISRAEL OFFER ON THE SMOOTH STONES?
• READ 2 KINGS 179-12
• 9 The children of Israel secretly did against the
  LORD their God things that were not right, and
  they built for themselves high places in all
  their cities, from watchtower to fortified city.
• 10 They set up for themselves sacred pillars and
  wooden images on every high hill and under every
  green tree.
• 11 There they burned incense on all the high
  places, like the nations whom the LORD had
  carried away before them and they did wicked
  things to provoke the LORD to anger,
• 12 for they served idols, of which the LORD had
  said to them, "You shall not do this thing." NKJV

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 576

• 6 Among the smooth stones of the stream Is your
  portion They, they, are your lot! Even to them
  you have poured a drink offering, You have
  offered a grain offering. Should I receive
  comfort in these?
• WHAT DID ISRAEL OFFER ON THE SMOOTH STONES?
• READ JEREMIAH 38-10
• 8 Then I saw that for all the causes for which
  backsliding Israel had committed adultery, I had
  put her away and given her a certificate of
  divorce yet her treacherous sister Judah did not
  fear, but went and played the harlot also.
• 9 So it came to pass, through her casual
  harlotry, that she defiled the land and committed
  adultery with stones and trees.
• 10 And yet for all this her treacherous sister
  Judah has not turned to Me with her whole heart,
  but in pretense," says the LORD. NKJV

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 576

• 6 Among the smooth stones of the stream Is your
  portion They, they, are your lot! Even to them
  you have poured a drink offering, You have
  offered a grain offering. Should I receive
  comfort in these?
• WHAT DID ISRAEL OFFER ON THE SMOOTH STONES?
• READ JEREMIAH 718
• 18 The children gather wood, the fathers kindle
  the fire, and the women knead dough, to make
  cakes for the queen of heaven and they pour out
  drink offerings to other gods, that they may
  provoke Me to anger. NKJV
• READ JEREMIAH 1913
• 13 And the houses of Jerusalem and the houses of
  the kings of Judah shall be defiled like the
  place of Tophet, because of all the houses on
  whose roofs they have burned incense to all the
  host of heaven, and poured out drink offerings to
  other gods."'" NKJV

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 576

• 6 Among the smooth stones of the stream Is your
  portion They, they, are your lot! Even to them
  you have poured a drink offering, You have
  offered a grain offering. Should I receive
  comfort in these?
• WHY DID ISRAEL MAKE THESE OFFERINGS?
• READ JEREMIAH 4417-18
• 17 But we will certainly do whatever has gone out
  of our own mouth, to burn incense to the queen of
  heaven and pour out drink offerings to her, as we
  have done, we and our fathers, our kings and our
  princes, in the cities of Judah and in the
  streets of Jerusalem. For then we had plenty of
  food, were well-off, and saw no trouble.
• 18 But since we stopped burning incense to the
  queen of heaven and pouring out drink offerings
  to her, we have lacked everything and have been
  consumed by the sword and by famine." NKJV

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 577

• ISRAEL'S FUTILE IDOLATRY
• 7 "On a lofty and high mountain You have set your
  bed Even there you went up To offer sacrifice.
• WHERE DID THEY OFFER THEIR SACRIFICES?
• READ JEREMIAH 36
• 6 The LORD said also to me in the days of Josiah
  the king "Have you seen what backsliding Israel
  has done? She has gone up on every high mountain
  and under every green tree, and there played the
  harlot. NKJV
• READ JEREMIAH 1327
• 27 I have seen your adulteries And your lustful
  neighings, The lewdness of your harlotry, Your
  abominations on the hills in the fields. Woe to
  you, O Jerusalem! Will you still not be made
  clean?" NKJV

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 577

• ISRAEL'S FUTILE IDOLATRY
• WHERE DID THEY OFFER THEIR SACRIFICES?
• READ EZEKIEL 62-3
• 2 "Son of man, set your face toward the mountains
  of Israel, and prophesy against them,
• 3 and say, 'O mountains of Israel, hear the word
  of the Lord GOD! Thus says the Lord GOD to the
  mountains, to the hills, to the ravines, and to
  the valleys "Indeed I, even I, will bring a
  sword against you, and I will destroy your high
  places. NKJV
• READ EZEKIEL 613
• 13 Then you shall know that I am the LORD, when
  their slain are among their idols all around
  their altars, on every high hill, on all the
  mountaintops, under every green tree, and under
  every thick oak, wherever they offered sweet
  incense to all their idols. NKJV

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 577

• ISRAEL'S FUTILE IDOLATRY
• 7 "On a lofty and high mountain You have set your
  bed Even there you went up To offer sacrifice.
• WHERE DID THEY OFFER THEIR SACRIFICES?
• READ EZEKIEL 2027-28
• 27 "Therefore, son of man, speak to the house of
  Israel, and say to them, 'Thus says the Lord GOD
  "In this too your fathers have blasphemed Me, by
  being unfaithful to Me.
• 28 When I brought them into the land concerning
  which I had raised My hand in an oath to give
  them, and they saw all the high hills and all the
  thick trees, there they offered their sacrifices
  and provoked Me with their offerings. There they
  also sent up their sweet aroma and poured out
  their drink offerings. NKJV

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 578

• ISRAEL'S FUTILE IDOLATRY
• 8 Also behind the doors and their posts You have
  set up your remembrance For you have uncovered
  yourself to those other than Me, And have gone up
  to them You have enlarged your bed And made a
  covenant with them You have loved their bed,
  Where you saw their nudity.
• WHAT DID THE LORD COMMAND THEM TO DO?
• WHAT DID THEY SET UP ON THEIR POSTS?
• WHO DID THEY MAKE THEIR COVENANT WITH?

54
QUESTIONS ISAIAH 578

• WHAT DID THE LORD COMMAND THEM TO DO?
• WHAT DID THEY SET UP ON THEIR POSTS?
• READ DEUTERONOMY 66-9
• 6 "And these words which I command you today
  shall be in your heart.
• 7 You shall teach them diligently to your
  children, and shall talk of them when you sit in
  your house, when you walk by the way, when you
  lie down, and when you rise up.
• 8 You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and
  they shall be as frontlets between your eyes.
• 9 You shall write them on the doorposts of your
  house and on your gates. NKJV

55
QUESTIONS ISAIAH 578

• WHAT DID THE LORD COMMAND THEM TO DO?
• WHAT DID THEY SET UP ON THEIR POSTS?
• READ DEUTERONOMY 1118-21
• 18 "Therefore you shall lay up these words of
  mine in your heart and in your soul, and bind
  them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as
  frontlets between your eyes.
• 19 You shall teach them to your children,
  speaking of them when you sit in your house, when
  you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when
  you rise up.
• 20 And you shall write them on the doorposts of
  your house and on your gates,
• 21 that your days and the days of your children
  may be multiplied in the land of which the LORD
  swore to your fathers to give them, like the days
  of the heavens above the earth. NKJV

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 578

• ISRAEL'S FUTILE IDOLATRY
• 8 Also behind the doors and their posts You have
  set up your remembrance For you have uncovered
  yourself to those other than Me, And have gone up
  to them You have enlarged your bed And made a
  covenant with them You have loved their bed,
  Where you saw their nudity.
• WHAT DID THE LORD COMMAND THEM?
• HOW DID THEY RESPOND?
• READ DEUTERONOMY 2714-15
• 14 "And the Levites shall speak with a loud voice
  and say to all the men of Israel
• 15 'Cursed is the one who makes a carved or
  molded image, an abomination to the LORD, the
  work of the hands of the craftsman, and sets it
  up in secret. "And all the people shall answer
  and say, 'Amen!' NKJV

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 578

• ISRAEL'S FUTILE IDOLATRY
• 8 Also behind the doors and their posts You have
  set up your remembrance For you have uncovered
  yourself to those other than Me, And have gone up
  to them You have enlarged your bed And made a
  covenant with them You have loved their bed,
  Where you saw their nudity.
• WHAT DID THE LORD COMMAND THEM?
• WHO DID THEY MAKE THEIR COVENANT WITH?
• READ EXODUS 195
• 5 Now therefore, if you will indeed obey My
  voice and keep My covenant, then you shall be a
  special treasure to Me above all people for all
  the earth is Mine.
• READ EXODUS 2332
• 32 You shall make no covenant with them, nor with
  their gods. NKJV

58
QUESTIONS ISAIAH 578

• WHAT WAS THE CONSEQUENCE OF THEIR IDOLATRY?
• READ EZEKIEL 2318
• 18 She revealed her harlotry and uncovered her
  nakedness. Then I alienated Myself from her, As I
  had alienated Myself from her sister. NKJV
• READ EZEKIEL 1636-37
• 36 Thus says the Lord GOD "Because your
  filthiness was poured out and your nakedness
  uncovered in your harlotry with your lovers, and
  with all your abominable idols, and because of
  the blood of your children which you gave to
  them,
• 37 surely, therefore, I will gather all your
  lovers with whom you took pleasure, all those you
  loved, and all those you hated I will gather
  them from all around against you and will uncover
  your nakedness to them, that they may see all
  your nakedness. NKJV

59
READ ISAIAH 579-10

• ISRAEL'S FUTILE IDOLATRY
• 9 You went to the king with ointment, And
  increased your perfumes You sent your messengers
  far off, And even descended to Sheol.
• 10 You are wearied in the length of your way Yet
  you did not say, 'There is no hope. You have
  found the life of your hand Therefore you were
  not grieved.

60
QUESTIONS ISAIAH 579-10

• ISRAEL'S FUTILE IDOLATRY
• 9 You went to the king with ointment, And
  increased your perfumes You sent your messengers
  far off, And even descended to Sheol.
• 10 You are wearied in the length of your way Yet
  you did not say, 'There is no hope. You have
  found the life of your hand Therefore you were
  not grieved.
• WHO DID THEY GO TO? WHY?
• WHAT SHOULD THEY HAVE DONE?
• WHAT WAS THE RESULT OF THEIR ENDEAVOR?

61
QUESTIONS ISAIAH 579

• ISRAEL'S FUTILE IDOLATRY
• 9 You went to the king with ointment, And
  increased your perfumes You sent your messengers
  far off, And even descended to Sheol.
• WHO DID THEY GO TO? WHY?
• WHAT DID THE LORD COMMAND ISRAEL?
• READ LEVITICUS 1821
• 21 You shall not let any of your descendants pass
  through the fire to Molech, nor shall you profane
  the name of your God I am the LORD. NKJV

62
QUESTIONS ISAIAH 579

• WHAT DID SOLOMON DO?
• READ 1 KINGS 111-8
• 1 But King Solomon loved many foreign women, as
  well as the daughter of Pharaoh women of the
  Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians, and
  Hittites
• 2 from the nations of whom the LORD had said to
  the children of Israel, "You shall not intermarry
  with them, nor they with you. Surely they will
  turn away your hearts after their gods." Solomon
  clung to these in love.
• 3 He had seven hundred wives, princesses, and
  three hundred concubines and his wives turned
  away his heart.
• 4 For it was so, when Solomon was old, that his
  wives turned his heart after other gods and his
  heart was not loyal to the LORD his God, as was
  the heart of his father David.

63
QUESTIONS ISAIAH 579

• WHAT DID SOLOMON DO?
• READ 1 KINGS 111-8
• 5 For Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddess of
  the Sidonians, and after Milcom the abomination
  of the Ammonites.
• 6 Solomon did evil in the sight of the LORD, and
  did not fully follow the LORD, as did his father
  David.
• 7 Then Solomon built a high place for Chemosh the
  abomination of Moab, on the hill that is east of
  Jerusalem, and for Molech the abomination of the
  people of Ammon.
• 8 And he did likewise for all his foreign wives,
  who burned incense and sacrificed to their gods.
  NKJV

64
QUESTIONS ISAIAH 579

• WHAT DID AHAZ DO?
• READ 2 KINGS 161-11
• 2 Ahaz was twenty years old when he became king,
  and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem and he
  did not do what was right in the sight of the
  LORD his God, as his father David had done.
• 3 But he walked in the way of the kings of
  Israel indeed he made his son pass through the
  fire, according to the abominations of the
  nations whom the LORD had cast out from before
  the children of Israel.
• 4 And he sacrificed and burned incense on the
  high places, on the hills, and under every green
  tree.

65
QUESTIONS ISAIAH 579

• WHAT DID AHAZ DO?
• READ 2 KINGS 161-11
• 7 Ahaz sent messengers to Tiglath-Pileser king of
  Assyria, saying, "I am your servant and your son.
  Come up and save me from the hand of the king of
  Syria and from the hand of the king of Israel,
  who rise up against me.
• 8 And Ahaz took the silver and gold that was
  found in the house of the LORD, and in the
  treasuries of the king's house, and sent it as a
  present to the king of Assyria.
• 9 So the king of Assyria heeded him for the king
  of Assyria went up against Damascus and took it,
  carried its people captive to Kir, and killed
  Rezin.

66
QUESTIONS ISAIAH 579

• WHAT DID AHAZ DO?
• READ 2 KINGS 161-11
• 10 Now King Ahaz went to Damascus to meet
  Tiglath-Pileser king of Assyria, and saw an altar
  that was at Damascus and King Ahaz sent to
  Urijah the priest the design of the altar and its
  pattern, according to all its workmanship.
• 11 Then Urijah the priest built an altar
  according to all that King Ahaz had sent from
  Damascus. So Urijah the priest made it before
  King Ahaz came back from Damascus. NKJV

67
QUESTIONS ISAIAH 579

• WHAT DID AHAZ DO?
• READ ISAIAH 71-6
• 1 Now it came to pass in the days of Ahaz the son
  of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, king of Judah, that
  Rezin king of Syria and Pekah the son of
  Remaliah, king of Israel, went up to Jerusalem to
  make war against it, but could not prevail
  against it.
• 2 And it was told to the house of David, saying,
  "Syria's forces are deployed in Ephraim." So his
  heart and the heart of his people were moved as
  the trees of the woods are moved with the wind.

68
QUESTIONS ISAIAH 579

• WHAT DID AHAZ DO?
• READ ISAIAH 71-6
• 3 Then the LORD said to Isaiah, "Go out now to
  meet Ahaz, you and Shear-Jashub your son, at the
  end of the aqueduct from the upper pool, on the
  highway to the Fuller's Field,
• 4 and say to him 'Take heed, and be quiet do
  not fear or be fainthearted for these two stubs
  of smoking firebrands, for the fierce anger of
  Rezin and Syria, and the son of Remaliah.
• 5 Because Syria, Ephraim, and the son of Remaliah
  have plotted evil against you, saying,
• 6 "Let us go up against Judah and trouble it, and
  let us make a gap in its wall for ourselves, and
  set a king over them, the son of Tabel" NKJV
• (2 CHRONICLES 285-15)

69
QUESTIONS ISAIAH 579

• ISRAEL'S FUTILE IDOLATRY
• 9 You went to the king with ointment, And
  increased your perfumes You sent your messengers
  far off, And even descended to Sheol.
• WHO DID THEY GO TO? WHY?
• WHAT SHOULD THEY HAVE DONE?
• READ ISAIAH 301-2
• FUTILE CONFIDENCE IN EGYPT
• 1 "Woe to the rebellious children," says the
  LORD,
• "Who take counsel, but not of Me, And who devise
  plans, but not of My Spirit, That they may add
  sin to sin
• 2 Who walk to go down to Egypt, And have not
  asked My advice, To strengthen themselves in the
  strength of Pharaoh, And to trust in the shadow
  of Egypt!

70
QUESTIONS ISAIAH 579

• WHO DID THEY GO TO? WHY?
• WHAT SHOULD THEY HAVE DONE?
• READ HOSEA 711-14
• 11 "Ephraim also is like a silly dove, without
  sense
• They call to Egypt, They go to Assyria.
• 12 Wherever they go, I will spread My net on
  them
• I will bring them down like birds of the air I
  will chastise them According to what their
  congregation has heard.
• 13 "Woe to them, for they have fled from Me!
  Destruction to them, Because they have
  transgressed against Me! Though I redeemed them,
  Yet they have spoken lies against Me.
• 14 They did not cry out to Me with their heart
  When they wailed upon their beds. "They assemble
  together for grain and new wine, They rebel
  against Me NKJV

71
QUESTIONS ISAIAH 579

• WHO DID THEY GO TO? WHY?
• READ HOSEA 121
• 1 "Ephraim feeds on the wind, And pursues the
  east wind He daily increases lies and
  desolation. Also they make a covenant with the
  Assyrians, And oil is carried to Egypt. NKJV
• WHAT SHOULD THEY HAVE DONE?
• READ ISAIAH 819
• 19 And when they say to you, "Seek those who are
  mediums and wizards, who whisper and mutter,"
  should not a people seek their God? Should they
  seek the dead on behalf of the living? NKJV

72
QUESTIONS ISAIAH 5710

• ISRAEL'S FUTILE IDOLATRY
• 10 You are wearied in the length of your way Yet
  you did not say, 'There is no hope. You have
  found the life of your hand Therefore you were
  not grieved.
• WHAT WAS THE RESULT OF THEIR ENDEAVOR?
• READ ISAIAH 4713
• 13 You are wearied in the multitude of your
  counsels
• Let now the astrologers, the stargazers, And the
  monthly prognosticators Stand up and save you
  From what shall come upon you. NKJV
• READ JEREMIAH 225
• 25 Withhold your foot from being unshod, and your
  throat from thirst. But you said, 'There is no
  hope. No! For I have loved aliens, and after them
  I will go.' NKJV

73
QUESTIONS ISAIAH 5710

• HOW DID THEY RESPOND?
• READ JEREMIAH 1812
• 12 And they said, "That is hopeless! So we will
  walk according to our own plans, and we will
  every one obey the dictates of his evil heart."
  NKJV
• READ MALACHI 314-15
• 14 You have said, 'It is useless to serve God
  What profit is it that we have kept His
  ordinance, And that we have walked as mourners
  Before the LORD of hosts?
• 15 So now we call the proud blessed, For those
  who do wickedness are raised up They even tempt
  God and go free.'" NKJV

74
READ ISAIAH 5711-13

• ISRAEL'S FUTILE IDOLATRY
• 11 "And of whom have you been afraid, or feared,
  That you have lied And not remembered Me, Nor
  taken it to your heart? Is it not because I have
  held My peace from of old That you do not fear
  Me?
• 12 I will declare your righteousness And your
  works, For they will not profit you.
• 13 When you cry out, Let your collection of idols
  deliver you. But the wind will carry them all
  away, A breath will take them. But he who puts
  his trust in Me shall possess the land, And shall
  inherit My holy mountain."

75
QUESTIONS ISAIAH 5711

• 11 "And of whom have you been afraid, or feared,
  That you have lied And not remembered Me, Nor
  taken it to your heart? Is it not because I have
  held My peace from of old That you do not fear
  Me?
• WHO DO THEY FEAR?
• WHO HAVE THEY FORGOTTEN? WHY?
• IS IT BECAUSE THE LORD HAS HELD HIS PEACE?
• WHO SHOULD THEY FEAR?
• READ PROVERBS 2925
• 25 The fear of man brings a snare, But whoever
  trusts in the LORD shall be safe. NKJV

76
QUESTIONS ISAIAH 5711

• WHO DO THEY FEAR?
• WHO HAVE THEY FORGOTTEN? WHY?
• IS IT BECAUSE THE LORD HAS HELD HIS PEACE?
• READ ECCLESIASTES 812-13
• 12 Though a sinner does evil a hundred times, and
  his days are prolonged, yet I surely know that it
  will be well with those who fear God, who fear
  before Him.
• 13 But it will not be well with the wicked nor
  will he prolong his days, which are as a shadow,
  because he does not fear before God. NKJV

77
QUESTIONS ISAIAH 5711

• WHO DO THEY FEAR?
• WHO HAVE THEY FORGOTTEN? WHY?
• IS IT BECAUSE THE LORD HAS HELD HIS PEACE?
• READ ISAIAH 1710-11
• 10 Because you have forgotten the God of your
  salvation, And have not been mindful of the Rock
  of your stronghold, Therefore you will plant
  pleasant plants And set out foreign seedlings
• 11 In the day you will make your plant to grow,
  And in the morning you will make your seed to
  flourish But the harvest will be a heap of ruins
  In the day of grief and desperate sorrow. NKJV

78
QUESTIONS ISAIAH 5711

• WHO DO THEY FEAR?
• WHO HAVE THEY FORGOTTEN? WHY?
• IS IT BECAUSE THE LORD HAS HELD HIS PEACE?
• READ ISAIAH 5112-13
• 12 "I, even I, am He who comforts you. Who are
  you that you should be afraid Of a man who will
  die, And of the son of a man who will be made
  like grass?
• 13 And you forget the LORD your Maker, Who
  stretched out the heavens And laid the
  foundations of the earth You have feared
  continually every day Because of the fury of the
  oppressor, When he has prepared to destroy. And
  where is the fury of the oppressor? NKJV

79
QUESTIONS ISAIAH 5711

• WHO DO THEY FEAR?
• WHO HAVE THEY FORGOTTEN? WHY?
• IS IT BECAUSE THE LORD HAS HELD HIS PEACE?
• READ JEREMIAH 232
• 32 Can a virgin forget her ornaments, Or a bride
  her attire? Yet My people have forgotten Me days
  without number. NKJV
• READ JEREMIAH 321
• 21 A voice was heard on the desolate heights,
  Weeping and supplications of the children of
  Israel. For they have perverted their way They
  have forgotten the LORD their God. NKJV

80
QUESTIONS ISAIAH 5711

• WHO DO THEY FEAR?
• WHO HAVE THEY FORGOTTEN? WHY?
• IS IT BECAUSE THE LORD HAS HELD HIS PEACE?
• READ JEREMIAH 1325
• 25 This is your lot, The portion of your measures
  from Me," says the LORD, "Because you have
  forgotten Me
• And trusted in falsehood. NKJV
• READ JEREMIAH 1815-16
• 15 "Because My people have forgotten Me, They
  have burned incense to worthless idols. And they
  have caused themselves to stumble in their ways,
  From the ancient paths, To walk in pathways and
  not on a highway,
• 16 To make their land desolate and a perpetual
  hissing Everyone who passes by it will be
  astonished
• And shake his head. NKJV

81
QUESTIONS ISAIAH 5711

• WHO DO THEY FEAR?
• WHO HAVE THEY FORGOTTEN? WHY?
• IS IT BECAUSE THE LORD HAS HELD HIS PEACE?
• READ PSALMS 831
• 1 Do not keep silent, O God! Do not hold Your
  peace,
• And do not be still, O God! NKJV
• READ PSALMS 5019-21
• 19 You give your mouth to evil, And your tongue
  frames deceit.
• 20 You sit and speak against your brother You
  slander your own mother's son.
• 21 These things you have done, and I kept silent
• You thought that I was altogether like you But I
  will rebuke you, And set them in order before
  your eyes.

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 5712

• 12 I will declare your righteousness And your
  works, For they will not profit you.
• WHAT WILL THE LORD DECLARE?
• READ EZEKIEL 162
• 2 "Son of man, cause Jerusalem to know her
  abominations, NKJV
• HOW DO THEY RESPOND?
• READ ISAIAH 2915
• 15 Woe to those who seek deep to hide their
  counsel far from the LORD, And their works are in
  the dark They say, "Who sees us?" and, "Who
  knows us? NKJV

83
QUESTIONS ISAIAH 5712

• WHAT WILL THE LORD DECLARE?
• READ MICAH 31-4
• 1 "Hear now, O heads of Jacob, And you rulers of
  the house of Israel Is it not for you to know
  justice?
• 2 You who hate good and love evil Who strip the
  skin from My people, And the flesh from their
  bones
• 3 Who also eat the flesh of My people, Flay their
  skin from them, Break their bones, And chop them
  in pieces
• Like meat for the pot, Like flesh in the
  caldron."
• 4 Then they will cry to the LORD, But He will not
  hear them He will even hide His face from them
  at that time,
• Because they have been evil in their deeds.
  NKJV
• 8 But truly I am full of power by the Spirit of
  the LORD, And of justice and might, To declare to
  Jacob his transgression And to Israel his sin.
  NKJV

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• 13 When you cry out, Let your collection of idols
  deliver you. But the wind will carry them all
  away, A breath will take them. But he who puts
  his trust in Me shall possess the land, And shall
  inherit My holy mountain.
• WHO DO THEY CRY OUT TO?
• WHAT HAPPENED TO THEM? WHY?
• READ JOB 2118-19
• 18 They are like straw before the wind, And like
  chaff that a storm carries away.
• 19 They say, 'God lays up one's iniquity for his
  children' Let Him recompense him, that he may
  know it.

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• 13 When you cry out, Let your collection of idols
  deliver you. But the wind will carry them all
  away, A breath will take them. But he who puts
  his trust in Me shall possess the land, And shall
  inherit My holy mountain.
• WHO SHOULD THEY TRUST?
• WHAT HAPPENED TO THE FOOLISH MAN?
• READ MATTHEW 726-27
• 26 "But everyone who hears these sayings of Mine,
  and does not do them, will be like a foolish man
  who built his house on the sand
• 27 and the rain descended, the floods came, and
  the winds blew and beat on that house and it
  fell. And great was its fall." NKJV

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• 13 When you cry out, Let your collection of idols
  deliver you. But the wind will carry them all
  away, A breath will take them. But he who puts
  his trust in Me shall possess the land, And shall
  inherit My holy mountain.
• WHO SHOULD THEY TRUST?
• WHAT WILL THE LORD DO FOR THEM?
• READ PSALMS 379-11
• 9 For evildoers shall be cut off But those who
  wait on the LORD, They shall inherit the earth.
• 10 For yet a little while and the wicked shall be
  no more Indeed, you will look carefully for his
  place, But it shall be no more.
• 11 But the meek shall inherit the earth, And
  shall delight themselves in the abundance of
  peace. NKJV
• (MATTHEW 55)
• Blessed are the meek, For they shall inherit the
  earth

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• 13 When you cry out, Let your collection of idols
  deliver you. But the wind will carry them all
  away, A breath will take them. But he who puts
  his trust in Me shall possess the land, And shall
  inherit My holy mountain.
• WHO SHOULD THEY TRUST?
• WHAT WILL THE LORD DO FOR THEM?
• READ PSALMS 6935-36
• 35 For God will save Zion And build the cities of
  Judah, That they may dwell there and possess it.
• 36 Also, the descendants of His servants shall
  inherit it, And those who love His name shall
  dwell in it. NKJV

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READ ISAIAH 5714-15

• HEALING FOR THE BACKSLIDER
• 14 And one shall say, "Heap it up! Heap it up!
  Prepare the way, Take the stumbling block out of
  the way of My people."
• 15 For thus says the High and Lofty One Who
  inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy "I dwell
  in the high and holy place, With him who has a
  contrite and humble spirit, To revive the spirit
  of the humble, And to revive the heart of the
  contrite ones.

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• HEALING FOR THE BACKSLIDER
• 14 And one shall say, "Heap it up! Heap it up!
  Prepare the way, Take the stumbling block out of
  the way of My people."
• 15 For thus says the High and Lofty One Who
  inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy "I dwell
  in the high and holy place, With him who has a
  contrite and humble spirit, To revive the spirit
  of the humble, And to revive the heart of the
  contrite ones.
• WHAT WILL ONE SAY?
• WHY DID THEY STUMBLE?
• WHAT DID THE LORD SAY?
• WHO WILL DWELL WITH THE LORD? WHY?

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• 14 And one shall say, "Heap it up! Heap it up!
  Prepare the way, Take the stumbling block out of
  the way of My people."
• WHAT WILL ONE SAY?
• WHY DID THEY STUMBLE?
• READ JEREMIAH 1815
• 15 "Because My people have forgotten Me, They
  have burned incense to worthless idols. And they
  have caused themselves to stumble in their ways,
  From the ancient paths, To walk in pathways and
  not on a highway, NKJV

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• 14 And one shall say, "Heap it up! Heap it up!
  Prepare the way, Take the stumbling block out of
  the way of My people."
• WHAT WILL ONE SAY?
• WHAT DID ISAIAH PROPHESY?
• READ ISAIAH 1116
• 16 There will be a highway for the remnant of
  His people Who will be left from Assyria, As it
  was for Israel
• In the day that he came up from the land of
  Egypt. NKJV
• READ ISAIAH 358
• 8 A highway shall be there, and a road, And it
  shall be called the Highway of Holiness. The
  unclean shall not pass over it, But it shall be
  for others. Whoever walks the road, although a
  fool, Shall not go astray. NKJV

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• 14 And one shall say, "Heap it up! Heap it up!
  Prepare the way, Take the stumbling block out of
  the way of My people."
• WHAT WILL ONE SAY?
• WHAT DID ISAIAH PROPHESY?
• READ ISAIAH 403-5
• 3 The voice of one crying in the wilderness
  "Prepare the way of the LORD Make straight in
  the desert A highway for our God.
• 4 Every valley shall be exalted And every
  mountain and hill brought low The crooked places
  shall be made straight And the rough places
  smooth
• 5 The glory of the LORD shall be revealed, And
  all flesh shall see it together For the mouth of
  the LORD has spoken." NKJV

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• 14 And one shall say, "Heap it up! Heap it up!
  Prepare the way, Take the stumbling block out of
  the way of My people."
• WHAT WILL ONE SAY?
• WHAT WAS THE STUMBLING BLOCK?
• WHAT DID ISAIAH PROPHESY?
• 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

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• 14 And one shall say, "Heap it up! Heap it up!
  Prepare the way, Take the stumbling block out of
  the way of My people."
• WHAT WILL ONE SAY?
• WHAT WAS THE STUMBLING BLOCK?
• READ 1 PETER 26-8
• 6 Therefore it is also contained in the
  Scripture,
• "Behold, I lay in Zion A chief cornerstone,
  elect, precious,
• And he who believes on Him will by no means be
  put to shame."
• 7 Therefore, to you who believe, He is precious
  but to those who are disobedient, "The stone
  which the builders rejected Has become the chief
  cornerstone,"
• 8 and "A stone of stumbling And a rock of
  offense."
• They stumble, being disobedient to the word, to
  which they also were ap