Isaiah 65:1

Geneva Bible (1560)

I haue bene sought of them that asked not: I was found of them that sought me not: I sayd, Beholde me, beholde me, vnto a nation that called not vpon my Name.

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  • Rom 10:20 : 20 And Esaias is bolde, & saith, I was found of them that sought me not, and haue bene made manifest to them that asked not after me.
  • Eph 2:12-13 : 12 That ye were, I say, at that time without Christ, and were alients from the common wealth of Israel, and were strangers from the couenants of promise, and had no hope, and were without God in the world. 13 But nowe in Christ Iesus, ye which once were farre off, are made neere by the blood of Christ.
  • Rom 9:24-26 : 24 Euen vs whome hee hath called, not of of the Iewes onely, but also of the Gentiles, 25 As he sayth also in Osee, I will call them, My people, which were not my people: and her, Beloued, which was not beloued. 26 And it shalbe in the place where it was said vnto them, Ye are not my people, that there they shalbe called, The children of the liuing God.
  • Hos 1:10 : 10 Yet the nomber of the children of Israel shall be as the sande of the sea, which can not be measured nor tolde: and in the place where it was saide vnto them, Yee are not my people, it shall be saide vnto them, Yee are the sonnes of the liuing God.
  • Isa 2:2-3 : 2 It shall be in the last dayes, that the mountaine of the house of the Lorde shalbe prepared in the top of the mountaines, and shall be exalted aboue the hilles, and all nations shall flowe vnto it. 3 And many people shall go, and say, Come, and let vs go vp to the mountaine of the Lord, to the house of the God of Iaakob, and hee will teach vs his wayes, and we will walke in his paths: for the Lawe shall go foorth of Zion, and the worde of the Lord from Ierusalem,
  • Isa 63:19 : 19 We haue bene as they, ouer whome thou neuer barest rule, and vpon whom thy Name was not called.
  • Ps 22:27 : 27 All the endes of the worlde shall remember themselues, and turne to the Lord: and all the kinreds of the nations shall worship before thee.
  • Rom 9:30 : 30 What shall we say then? That the Gentiles which folowed not righteousnes, haue attained vnto righteousnes, euen the righteousnes which is of faith.
  • 1 Pet 2:10 : 10 Which in time past were not a people, yet are nowe the people of God: which in time past were not vnder mercie, but nowe haue obteined mercie.
  • Isa 11:10 : 10 And in that day the roote of Ishai, which shall stand vp for a signe vnto the people, the nations shall seeke vnto it, and his rest shall be glorious.
  • Isa 40:9 : 9 O Zion, that bringest good tidings, get thee vp into the hie mountaine: O Ierusalem, that bringest good tidings, lift vp thy voyce with strength: lift it vp, be not afraide: say vnto the cities of Iudah, Beholde your God.
  • Isa 41:27 : 27 I am the first, that saieth to Zion, Beholde, beholde them: and I will giue to Ierusalem one that shall bring good tidings.
  • Isa 43:1 : 1 Bvt nowe thus sayeth the Lorde, that created thee, O Iaakob: and hee that formed thee, O Israel, Feare not: for I haue redeemed thee: I haue called thee by thy name, thou art mine.
  • Isa 45:22 : 22 Looke vnto me, and ye shall be saued: all the endes of the earth shall be saued: for I am God, and there is none other.
  • Isa 55:5 : 5 Beholde, thou shalt call a nation that thou knowest not, and a nation that knew not thee, shall runne vnto thee, because of the Lorde thy God, and the holy one of Israel: for hee hath glorified thee.
  • Zech 2:11 : 11 And many nations shall be ioyned to the Lord in that day, and shalbe my people: and I will dwell in the middes of thee, and thou shalt knowe that the Lord of hostes hath sent me vnto thee.
  • Zech 8:22-23 : 22 Yea, great people and mightie nations shal come to seeke the Lorde of hostes in Ierusalem, and to pray before the Lord. 23 Thus sayth the Lord of hostes, In those dayes shall ten men take holde out of all languages of the nations, euen take holde of the skirt of him that is a Iewe, and say, We will go with you: for we haue heard that God is with you.
  • John 1:29 : 29 The next day Iohn, seeth Iesus coming vnto him, and saith, Beholde that Lambe of God, which taketh away the sinne of the world.

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  • Rom 10:19-21
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    19 But I demaund, Did not Israel knowe God? First Moses sayth, I will prouoke you to enuie by a nation that is not my nation, and by a foolish nation I will anger you.

    20 And Esaias is bolde, & saith, I was found of them that sought me not, and haue bene made manifest to them that asked not after me.

    21 And vnto Israel hee sayth, All the day long haue I stretched foorth mine hand vnto a disobedient, and gainesaying people.

  • 2 I haue spred out mine handes all the day vnto a rebellious people, which walked in a way that was not good, euen after their owne imaginations:

  • Isa 55:5-6
    2 verses
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    5 Beholde, thou shalt call a nation that thou knowest not, and a nation that knew not thee, shall runne vnto thee, because of the Lorde thy God, and the holy one of Israel: for hee hath glorified thee.

    6 Seeke ye the Lord while he may be found: call ye vpon him while he is neere.

  • 28 Then shall they call vpon me, but I will not answere: they shall seeke me early, but they shall not finde me,

  • Jer 29:12-14
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    12 Then shall you crie vnto mee, and ye shal go and pray vnto me, and I will heare you,

    13 And ye shall seeke mee and finde mee, because ye shall seeke mee with all your heart.

    14 And I wil be found of you, saith the Lord, and I will turne away your captiuitie, and I will gather you from all the nations, and from all the places, whither I haue cast you, saith the Lord, and will bring you againe vnto the place, whence I caused you to be caryed away captiue.

  • 19 I haue not spoken in secrete, neither in a place of darkenes in the earth: I saide not in vaine vnto the seede of Iaakob, Seeke you me: I the Lord doe speake righteousnesse, and declare righteous things.

  • Isa 45:4-5
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    4 For Iaakob my seruants sake, and Israel mine elect, I will euen call thee by thy name and name thee, though thou hast not knowen me.

    5 I am the Lorde and there is none other: there is no God besides me: I girded thee though thou hast not knowen me,

  • 17 That the residue of men might seeke after the Lorde, and all the Gentiles vpon whom my Name is called, saith the Lorde which doeth all these things.

  • 24 Because I haue called, & ye refused: I haue stretched out mine hand, & none woulde regarde.

  • 2 Yet they seeke me dayly, and will knowe my wayes, euen as a nation that did righteously, and had not forsaken the statutes of their God: they aske of me the ordinances of iustice: they wil drawe neere vnto God, saying,

  • 4 But whosoeuer returned in his affliction to the Lorde God of Israel, and sought him, he was founde of them.

  • 23 And I will sowe her vnto me in the earth, and I will haue mercie vpon her, that was not pitied, and I will say to them which were not my people, Thou art my people; they shal say, Thou art my God.

  • 12 Therefore wil I number you to the sword, and all you shal bowe downe to the slaughter, because I called, and ye did not answere: I spake, and ye heard not, but did euil in my sight, and did chuse that thing which I would not.

  • Rom 9:25-26
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    69%

    25 As he sayth also in Osee, I will call them, My people, which were not my people: and her, Beloued, which was not beloued.

    26 And it shalbe in the place where it was said vnto them, Ye are not my people, that there they shalbe called, The children of the liuing God.

  • 4 For thus saith the Lorde vnto the house of Israel, Seeke ye me, and ye shal liue.

  • 6 And them that are turned backe from the Lord, and those that haue not sought the Lorde, nor inquired for him.

  • 17 I loue them that loue me: and they that seeke me earely, shall finde me.

  • 11 But my people would not heare my voyce, and Israel would none of me.

  • 22 Looke vnto me, and ye shall be saued: all the endes of the earth shall be saued: for I am God, and there is none other.

  • 12 And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the North euen vnto the East shal they run to and fro to seeke the worde of the Lord, and shall not finde it.

  • 13 Therefore nowe because yee haue done all these woorkes, sayeth the Lorde, (and I rose vp earely and spake vnto you: but when I spake, yee would not heare me, neither when I called, would yee answere).

  • 6 They shall goe with their sheepe, and with their bullockes to seeke the Lorde: but they shall not finde him: for he hath withdrawne himselfe from them.

  • 27 That they shoulde seeke the Lorde, if so be they might haue groped after him, and founde him though doubtlesse he be not farre from euery one of vs.

  • 7 And there is none that calleth vpon thy Name, neither that stirreth vp himselfe to take holde of thee: for thou hast hid thy face from vs, and hast consumed vs because of our iniquities.

  • 6 Therefore my people shal know my Name: therefore they shall know in that day, that I am he that doe speake: beholde, it is I.

  • 12 Heare me, O Iaakob and Israel, my called, I am, I am the first, and I am the last.

  • 21 But as it is written, To whome hee was not spoken of, they shall see him, and they that heard not, shall vnderstand him.

  • 12 And they shal call them, The holy people, the redeemed of the Lord, and thou shalt be named, A citie sought out and not forsaken.

  • 7 And who is like me, that shall call, and shall declare it, and set it in order before me, since I appointed the ancient people? And what is at hand, and what things are to come? Let them shewe vnto them.

  • 4 Therefore will I chuse out their delusions, and I will bring their feare vpon them, because I called, and none woulde answere: I spake and they woulde not heare: but they did euill in my sight, and chose the things which I would not.

  • 15 Therefore came I forth to meete thee, that I might seeke thy face: and I haue found thee.

  • 24 Yea, before they call, I will answere, and whiles they speake, I will heare.

  • 31 O generation, take heede to the worde of the Lorde: haue I bene as a wildernesse vnto Israel? or a lande of darkenesse? Wherefore sayeth my people then, We are lordes, we will come no more vnto thee?

  • 9 For I haue taken thee from the endes of the earth, and called thee before the chiefe thereof, and saide vnto thee, Thou art my seruant: I haue chosen thee, and not cast thee away.

  • 11 For thus sayeth the Lorde God, Beholde, I will search my sheepe, and seeke them out.

  • 22 And thou hast not called vpon mee, O Iaakob, but thou hast wearied me, O Israel.

  • 5 Thus sayeth the Lord, What iniquitie haue your fathers founde in mee, that they are gone farre from mee, and haue walked after vanitie, and are become vaine?

  • 17 Therefore thus saith the Lorde of hostes, the God of Israel, Beholde, I will bring vpon Iudah, and vpon all the inhabitants of Ierusalem, all the euill that I haue pronounced against them, because I haue spoke vnto them, but they would not heare, and I haue called vnto them, but they would not answere.

  • 9 Then saide God, Call his name Lo-ammi: for yee are not my people: therefore will I not be yours.

  • 8 The Lord God sayth, which gathereth the scattered of Israel, Yet wil I gather to them those that are to be gathered to them.

  • 8 The priests said not, Where is the Lorde? And they that should minister the Lawe, knewe me not: the pastours also offended against me, and the Prophets prophesied in Baal, and went after things that did not profite.

  • 2 Wherefore came I, & there was no man? I called, & none answered: is mine hand so shortened, that it cannot helpe? or haue I no power to deliuer? Beholde, at my rebuke I drie vp the Sea: I make the floods desert: their fish rotteth for wat of water, and dieth for thirst.

  • 19 We haue bene as they, ouer whome thou neuer barest rule, and vpon whom thy Name was not called.