Isaiah 5:19

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

They say,“Let him hurry, let him act quickly, so we can see; let the plan of the Holy One of Israel take shape and come to pass, then we will know it!”

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  • Ezek 12:22 : 22 “Son of man, what is this proverb you have in the land of Israel,‘The days pass slowly, and every vision fails’?
  • Jer 17:15 : 15 Look at what they are saying to me,“Where are the events in the LORD’s message? Let’s see them happen, please!”
  • Jer 23:36 : 36 You must no longer say that the LORD’s message is burdensome. For what is‘burdensome’ really pertains to what a person himself says. You are misrepresenting the words of our God, the living God, the LORD of Heaven’s Armies.
  • Jer 23:18 : 18 Yet which of them has ever stood in the LORD’s inner circle so they could see and hear what he has to say? Which of them have ever paid attention or listened to what he has said?
  • Isa 30:11 : 11 Turn aside from the way; stray off the path. Remove from our presence the Holy One of Israel.”
  • Isa 66:5 : 5 Listen to the LORD’s message, you who respect his word! Your countrymen, who hate you and exclude you, supposedly for the sake of my name, say,“May the LORD be glorified, then we will witness your joy.” But they will be put to shame.
  • Jer 5:12-13 : 12 “These people have denied what the LORD says. They have said,‘That is not so! No harm will come to us. We will not experience war and famine. 13 The prophets will prove to be full of wind. The LORD has not spoken through them. So, let what they say happen to them.’”
  • Ezek 12:27 : 27 “Take note, son of man, the house of Israel is saying,‘The vision that he sees is for distant days; he is prophesying about the far future.’
  • Amos 5:18-19 : 18 The Lord Demands Justice Woe to those who wish for the day of the LORD! Why do you want the LORD’s day of judgment to come? It will bring darkness, not light. 19 Disaster will be inescapable, as if a man ran from a lion only to meet a bear, then escaped into a house, leaned his hand against the wall, and was bitten by a poisonous snake.
  • 2 Pet 3:3-4 : 3 Above all, understand this: In the last days blatant scoffers will come, being propelled by their own evil urges 4 and saying,“Where is his promised return? For ever since our ancestors died, all things have continued as they were from the beginning of creation.”

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  • Isa 29:14-15
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    14 Therefore I will again do an amazing thing for these people– an absolutely extraordinary deed. Wise men will have nothing to say, the sages will have no explanations.”

    15 Those who try to hide their plans from the LORD are as good as dead, who do their work in secret and boast,“Who sees us? Who knows what we’re doing?”

  • 18 Beware, those who pull evil along using cords of emptiness are as good as dead, who pull sin as with cart ropes.

  • Isa 5:20-21
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    20 Beware, those who call evil good and good evil, who turn darkness into light and light into darkness, who turn bitter into sweet and sweet into bitter.

    21 Beware, those who think they are wise, those who think they possess understanding.

  • Isa 41:20-23
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    20 I will do this so people will observe and recognize, so they will pay attention and understand that the LORD’s power has accomplished this, and that the Holy One of Israel has brought it into being.”

    21 The Lord Challenges the Pagan Gods“Present your argument,” says the LORD.“Produce your evidence,” says Jacob’s king.

    22 “Let them produce evidence! Let them tell us what will happen! Tell us about your earlier predictive oracles, so we may examine them and see how they were fulfilled. Or decree for us some future events!

    23 Predict how future events will turn out, so we might know you are gods. Yes, do something good or bad, so we might be frightened and in awe.

  • Isa 30:10-12
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    10 They say to the visionaries,“See no more visions!” and to the seers,“Don’t relate messages to us about what is right! Tell us nice things; relate deceptive messages.

    11 Turn aside from the way; stray off the path. Remove from our presence the Holy One of Israel.”

    12 For this reason this is what the Holy One of Israel says:“You have rejected this message; you trust instead in your ability to oppress and trick, and rely on that kind of behavior.

  • 15 Look at what they are saying to me,“Where are the events in the LORD’s message? Let’s see them happen, please!”

  • Jer 5:20-21
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    20 “Proclaim this message among the descendants of Jacob. Make it known throughout Judah.

    21 Tell them:‘Hear this, you foolish people who have no understanding, who have eyes but do not discern, who have ears but do not perceive:

  • 18 The Lord Demands Justice Woe to those who wish for the day of the LORD! Why do you want the LORD’s day of judgment to come? It will bring darkness, not light.

  • 17 Resistance to the Lord through Self-deceit You have wearied the LORD with your words. But you say,“How have we wearied him?” Because you say,“Everyone who does evil is good in the LORD’s opinion, and he delights in them,” or“Where is the God of justice?”

  • 2 Yet he too is wise and he will bring disaster; he does not retract his decree. He will attack the wicked nation, and the nation that helps those who commit sin.

  • 26 He lifts a signal flag for a distant nation, he whistles for it to come from the far regions of the earth. Look, they come quickly and swiftly.

  • 15 How awful that day will be! For the day of the LORD is near; it will come as destruction from the Divine Destroyer.

  • 18 I said,“Indeed, let them come quickly and sing a song of mourning for us. Let them wail loudly until tears stream from our own eyes and our eyelids overflow with water.

  • 15 May death destroy them! May they go down alive into Sheol! For evil is in their dwelling place and in their midst.

  • 3 They lament,‘Why don’t you notice when we fast? Why don’t you pay attention when we humble ourselves?’ Look, at the same time you fast, you satisfy your selfish desires, you oppress your workers.

  • 15 So now we consider the arrogant to be happy; indeed, those who practice evil are successful. In fact, those who challenge God escape!’”

  • 3 You refuse to believe a day of disaster will come, but you establish a reign of violence.

  • 9 All nations gather together, the peoples assemble. Who among them announced this? Who predicted earlier events for us? Let them produce their witnesses to testify they were right; let them listen and affirm,‘It is true.’

  • 14 He says,“Build it! Build it! Clear a way! Remove all the obstacles out of the way of my people!”

  • Zeph 2:1-2
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    1 The Prophet Warns the People Bunch yourselves together like straw, you undesirable nation,

    2 before God’s decree becomes reality and the day of opportunity disappears like windblown chaff, before the LORD’s raging anger overtakes you– before the day of the LORD’s angry judgment overtakes you!

  • 25 Do not let them say to themselves,“Aha! We have what we wanted!” Do not let them say,“We have devoured him!”

  • 11 Her leaders take bribes when they decide legal cases, her priests proclaim rulings for profit, and her prophets read omens for pay. Yet they claim to trust the LORD and say,“The LORD is among us. Disaster will not overtake us!”

  • 8 How can you say,“We are wise! We have the law of the LORD”? The truth is, those who teach it have used their writings to make it say what it does not really mean.

  • 14 The LORD was mindful of the calamity, and he brought it on us. For the LORD our God is just in all he has done, and we have not obeyed him.

  • 18 Jeremiah Petitions the Lord to Punish Those Who Attack Him Then some people said,“Come on! Let us consider how to deal with Jeremiah! There will still be priests to instruct us, wise men to give us advice, and prophets to declare God’s word. Come on! Let’s bring charges against him and get rid of him! Then we will not need to pay attention to anything he says.”

  • 18 lest the LORD see it, and be displeased, and turn his wrath away from him.

  • 3 Is it good for you to oppress, to despise the work of your hands, while you smile on the schemes of the wicked?

  • 30 “Something horrible and shocking is going on in the land of Judah:

  • 23 They pronounce the guilty innocent for a payoff, they ignore the just cause of the innocent.

  • 4 Let us evaluate for ourselves what is right; let us come to know among ourselves what is good.

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    3 They say,“Let’s tear off the shackles they’ve put on us! Let’s free ourselves from their ropes!”

  • 9 Israel Confesses its Sin For this reason deliverance is far from us and salvation does not reach us. We wait for light, but see only darkness; we wait for a bright light, but live in deep darkness.

  • 1 Land Robbers Will Lose Their Land Beware wicked schemers, those who devise calamity as they lie in bed. As soon as morning dawns they carry out their plans, because they have the power to do so.

  • 10 Devise your strategy, but it will be thwarted! Issue your orders, but they will not be executed! For God is with us!

  • 13 Be sure of this! The LORD of Heaven’s Armies has decreed: The nations’ efforts will go up in smoke; their exhausting work will be for nothing.

  • 1 Egypt Will Prove Unreliable“The rebellious children are as good as dead,” says the LORD,“those who make plans without consulting me, who form alliances without consulting my Spirit, and thereby compound their sin.

  • 15 Therefore, his disaster will come suddenly; in an instant he will be broken, and there will be no remedy.

  • 11 This is what the LORD says, the Holy One of Israel, the one who formed him, concerning things to come:“How dare you question me about my children! How dare you tell me what to do with the work of my own hands!

  • 3 They are experts at doing evil; government officials and judges take bribes, prominent men announce what they wish and then they plan it out.

  • 17 But Pharaoh replied,“You are slackers! Slackers! That is why you are saying,‘Let us go sacrifice to the LORD.’”

  • 7 The Israelites turn justice into bitterness; they throw what is fair and right to the ground.