In their own words — 2791 recorded sayings
The recorded words of the people of scripture. Search by speaker or by what they said.
“You have sent your servants with evil words against the Lord, and have said, With all my war-carriages I have come up to the top of the mountains, to the inmost parts of Lebanon; and its tall cedars will be cut down, and the best trees of its woods: I will come up into his highest places, into his thick woods.”— Isaiah, Isaiah 37:24
“I have made water-holes and taken their waters, and with my foot I have made all the rivers of Egypt dry.”— Isaiah, Isaiah 37:25
“Has it not come to your ears how I did it long before, purposing it in times long past? Now I have given effect to my design, so that by you strong towns might be turned into masses of broken walls.”— Isaiah, Isaiah 37:26
“This is why their townsmen had no power, they were broken and put to shame; they were like the grass of the field, or a green plant; like the grass on the house-tops, which a cold wind makes waste.”— Isaiah, Isaiah 37:27
“But I have knowledge of your getting up and your resting, of your going out and your coming in.”— Isaiah, Isaiah 37:28
“Because your wrath against me and your pride have come to my ears, I will put my hook in your nose and my cord in your lips, and I will make you go back by the way you came.”— Isaiah, Isaiah 37:29
“And this will be the sign to you: you will get your food this year from what comes up of itself, and in the second year from the produce of the same; and in the third year you will put in your seed, and get in the grain, and make vine-gardens, and take of their fruit.”— Isaiah, Isaiah 37:30
“And those of Judah who are still living will again take root in the earth, and give fruit.”— Isaiah, Isaiah 37:31
“For from Jerusalem those who have been kept safe will go out, and those who are still living will go out of Mount Zion: by the fixed purpose of the Lord of armies this will be done.”— Isaiah, Isaiah 37:32
“For this cause the Lord says about the king of Assyria, He will not come into this town, or send an arrow against it; he will not come before it with arms, or put up an earthwork against it.”— Isaiah, Isaiah 37:33
“By the way he came he will go back, and he will not get into this town.”— Isaiah, Isaiah 37:34
“For I will keep this town safe, for my honour, and for the honour of my servant David.”— Isaiah, Isaiah 37:35
“In those days Hezekiah was ill and near death. And Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, came to him, and said to him, The Lord says, Put your house in order; for your death is near.”— Isaiah, Isaiah 38:1
“And Isaiah said, Let them take a cake of figs, and put it on the diseased place, and he will get well.”— Isaiah, Isaiah 38:21
“Then Isaiah the prophet came to King Hezekiah, and said to him, What did these men say, and where did they come from? And Hezekiah said, They came from a far country, even from Babylon.”— Isaiah, Isaiah 39:3
“And he said, What have they seen in your house? And Hezekiah said in answer, They saw everything in my house: there is nothing among my stores which I did not let them see.”— Isaiah, Isaiah 39:4
“Then said Isaiah to Hezekiah, Give ear to the word of the Lord of armies: Truly, the days are coming when everything in your house, and whatever your fathers have put in store till this day, will be taken away to Babylon: all will be gone.”— Isaiah, Isaiah 39:5-6
“And your sons, even your offspring, will they take away to be unsexed servants in the house of the king of Babylon.”— Isaiah, Isaiah 39:7
“See, the virgin will be with child, and will give birth to a son, and they will give him the name Immanuel, that is, God with us.”— Isaiah, Matthew 1:23
“For this is he of whom Isaiah the prophet said, The voice of one crying in the waste land, Make ready the way of the Lord, make his roads straight.”— Isaiah, Matthew 3:3
“The land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, by the way of the sea, the other side of Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles, The people who were in the dark saw a great light, and to those in the land of the shade of death did the dawn come up.”— Isaiah, Matthew 4:15-16
“So that the word of Isaiah the prophet might come true: He himself took our pains and our diseases.”— Isaiah, Matthew 8:17
“Even as it is said in the book of Isaiah the prophet, See, I send my servant before your face, who will make ready your way; The voice of one crying in the waste land, Make ready the way of the Lord, make his roads straight;”— Isaiah, Mark 1:2-3
“As it says in the book of the words of Isaiah the prophet, The voice of one crying in the waste land, Make ready the way of the Lord, make his roads straight. Every valley will be lifted up, and all the mountains and hills made low, and the twisted will be made straight, and the rough ways smooth; And all flesh will see the salvation of God.”— Isaiah, Luke 3:4-6
“So that the words of the prophet Isaiah might come true, when he said, Lord, who has any belief in our preaching? and the arm of the Lord, to whom has it been unveiled?”— Isaiah, John 12:38
“He has made their eyes blind, and their hearts hard; for fear that they might see with their eyes and get knowledge with their hearts, and be changed, and I might make them well.”— Isaiah, John 12:40
“Now the place in the book where he was reading was this: He was taken, like a sheep, to be put to death; and as a lamb is quiet when its wool is being cut, so he made no sound: Being of low degree, his cause was not given a hearing: who has knowledge of his family? for his life is cut off from the earth.”— Isaiah, Acts 8:32-33
“And how will there be preachers if they are not sent? As it is said, How beautiful are the feet of those who give the glad news of good things. But they have not all given ear to the good news. For Isaiah says, Lord, who has had faith in our word?”— Isaiah, Romans 10:15-16
“As it was said in the holy Writings, God gave them a spirit of sleep, eyes which might not see, and ears which have no hearing, to this day. And David says, Let their table be made a net for taking them, and a stone in their way, and a punishment: Let their eyes be made dark so that they may not see, and let their back be bent down at all times.”— Isaiah, Romans 11:8-10
“Who has knowledge of the mind of the Lord? or who has taken part in his purposes? Or who has first given to him, and it will be given back to him again?”— Isaiah, Romans 11:34-35
“But as it is said in the holy Writings, They will see, to whom the news of him had not been given, and those to whose ears it had not come will have knowledge.”— Isaiah, Romans 15:21
“But as it says in the holy Writings, Things which the eye saw not, and which had not come to the ears or into the heart of man, such things as God has made ready for those who have love for him.”— Isaiah, 1 Corinthians 2:9
“For who has knowledge of the mind of the Lord, so as to be his teacher? But we have the mind of Christ.”— Isaiah, 1 Corinthians 2:16
“But when this has taken place, then that which was said in the Writings will come true, Death is overcome by life. O death, where is your power? O death, where are your pains?”— Isaiah, 1 Corinthians 15:54-55
“For it is said, All flesh is like grass, and all its glory like the flower of the grass. The grass becomes dry and the flower dead: But the word of the Lord is eternal. And this is the word of the good news which was given to you.”— Isaiah, 1 Peter 1:24-25
“And the man said, This is now bone of my bone and flesh of my flesh: let her name be Woman because she was taken out of Man.”— Adam, Genesis 2:23
“And he said, Hearing your voice in the garden I was full of fear, because I was without clothing: and I kept myself from your eyes.”— Adam, Genesis 3:10
“And the man said, The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me the fruit of the tree and I took it.”— Adam, Genesis 3:12
“And he said, My brothers and fathers, give hearing. The God of glory came to our father Abraham, when he was in Mesopotamia, before he was living in Haran, And said to him, Go out of your land, and away from your family, and come into the land to which I will be your guide. Then he came out of the land of the Chaldaeans, and went into Haran; and from there, when his father was dead, he was guided by God into this land, where you are living now: And God gave him no heritage in it, not even enough to put his foot on: but he gave him an undertaking that he would give it to him and to his…”— Stephen, Acts 7:2-53
“And he said, Now I see heaven open, and the Son of man at the right hand of God.”— Stephen, Acts 7:56
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