Isaiah

Isaiah is one of my favorite books of the Bible. Here are excerpts of particularly moving or meaningful passages, with New Testament connections in parentheses.

Isaiah 24:7-8 (Rev 18:22)
The new wine fails, the vine languishes,
All the merry-hearted sigh.
The mirth of the tambourine ceases,
The noise of the jubilant ends,
The joy of the harp ceases.

24:14-16
They shall lift up their voice, they shall sing;
For the majesty of the Lord
They shall cry aloud from the sea.
Therefore glorify the Lord in the dawning light,
The name of the Lord God of Israel in the coastlands of the sea.
From the ends of the earth we have heard songs:
“Glory to the righteous!”

24:21-23
It shall come to pass in that day
That the Lord will punish on high the host of exalted ones,
And on the earth the kings of the earth. (Rev 6:15)
They will be gathered together,
As prisoners are gathered in the pit,
And will be shut up in the prison; (Rev 20:3)
After many days they will be punished.
Then the moon will be disgraced
And the sun ashamed;
For the Lord of hosts will reign
On Mount Zion and in Jerusalem
And before His elders, gloriously. (Rev 4:4)

25:6-9
And in this mountain
The Lord of hosts will make for all people
A feast of choice pieces,
A feast of wines on the lees, (John 2:1-10)
Of fat things full of marrow,
Of well-refined wines on the lees.
And He will destroy on this mountain
The surface of the covering cast over all people,
And the veil that is spread over all nations.
He will swallow up death forever, (1 Corinthians 15:54)
And the Lord God will wipe away tears from all faces; (Rev 7:17; 20:14; 21:4)
The rebuke of His people
He will take away from all the earth;
For the Lord has spoken.
And it will be said in that day:
“Behold, this is our God;
We have waited for Him, and He will save us.
This is the Lord;
We have waited for Him;
We will be glad and rejoice in His salvation.”

26:8-9
Yes, in the way of Your judgments,
O Lord, we have waited for You;
The desire of our soul is for Your name
And for the remembrance of You.
With my soul I have desired You in the night,
Yes, by my spirit within me I will seek You early;
For when Your judgments are in the earth,
The inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness.

26:17-19 - read the right way, this passage shows us Jesus gloriously
As a woman with child
Is in pain and cries out in her pangs, (Rev 12:2)
When she draws near the time of her delivery,
So have we been in Your sight, O Lord.
We have been with child, we have been in pain;
We have, as it were, brought forth wind;
We have not accomplished any deliverance in the earth,
Nor have the inhabitants of the world fallen.

Your dead shall live;
Together with my dead body they shall arise. (Ephesians 2:5-6)
Awake and sing, you who dwell in dust; (Eph 5:14)
For your dew is like the dew of herbs,
And the earth shall cast out the dead.

27:1
In that day the Lord with His severe sword, great and strong, (Hebrews 4:12; Rev 1:16; 19:15)
Will punish Leviathan the fleeing serpent, (Rev 12:3,9)
Leviathan that twisted serpent;
And He will slay the reptile that is in the sea.