Isaiah 5:19

World English Bible (2000)

Who say, "Let him make speed, let him hasten his work, that we may see it; and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw near and come, that we may know it!"

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  • Ezek 12:22 : 22 Son of man, what is this proverb that you have in the land of Israel, saying, The days are prolonged, and every vision fails?
  • Jer 17:15 : 15 Behold, they tell me, Where is the word of Yahweh? let it come now.
  • Jer 23:36 : 36 You shall mention the burden of Yahweh no more: for every man's own word shall be his burden; for you have perverted the words of the living God, of Yahweh of Armies our God.
  • Jer 23:18 : 18 For who has stood in the council of Yahweh, that he should perceive and hear his word? who has marked my word, and heard it?
  • Isa 30:11 : 11 Get out of the way. Turn aside from the path. Cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us."
  • Isa 66:5 : 5 Hear the word of Yahweh, you who tremble at his word: "Your brothers who hate you, who cast you out for my name's sake, have said, 'Let Yahweh be glorified, that we may see your joy;' but it is those who shall be disappointed.
  • Jer 5:12-13 : 12 They have denied Yahweh, and said, "It is not he; neither shall evil come on us; neither shall we see sword nor famine. 13 The prophets shall become wind, and the word is not in them. Thus shall it be done to them."
  • Ezek 12:27 : 27 Son of man, behold, they of the house of Israel say, The vision that he sees is for many day to come, and he prophesies of times that are far off.
  • Amos 5:18-19 : 18 "Woe to you who desire the day of Yahweh! Why do you long for the day of Yahweh? It is darkness, and not light. 19 As if a man fled from a lion, and a bear met him; Or he went into the house and leaned his hand on the wall, and a snake bit him.
  • 2 Pet 3:3-4 : 3 knowing this first, that in the last days mockers will come, walking after their own lusts, 4 and saying, "Where is the promise of his coming? For, from the day that the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation."

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  • Isa 29:14-15
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    14 therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a marvelous work among this people, even a marvelous work and a wonder; and the wisdom of their wise men will perish, and the understanding of their prudent men will be hidden."

    15 Woe to those who deeply hide their counsel from Yahweh, and whose works are in the dark, and who say, "Who sees us?" and "Who knows us?"

  • 18 Woe to those who draw iniquity with cords of falsehood, and wickedness as with cart rope;

  • Isa 5:20-21
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    20 Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; who put darkness for light, and light for darkness; who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!

    21 Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!

  • Isa 41:20-23
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    20 that they may see, know, consider, and understand together, that the hand of Yahweh has done this, and the Holy One of Israel has created it.

    21 Produce your cause," says Yahweh. "Bring forth your strong reasons," says the King of Jacob.

    22 "Let them announce, and declare to us what shall happen. Declare the former things, what they are, that we may consider them, and know the latter end of them; or show us things to come.

    23 Declare the things that are to come hereafter, that we may know that you are gods. Yes, do good, or do evil, that we may be dismayed, and see it together.

  • Isa 30:10-12
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    10 who tell the seers, "Don't see!" and to the prophets, "Don't prophesy to us right things. Tell us pleasant things. Prophesy deceits.

    11 Get out of the way. Turn aside from the path. Cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us."

    12 Therefore thus says the Holy One of Israel, "Because you despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and rely on it;

  • 15 Behold, they tell me, Where is the word of Yahweh? let it come now.

  • Jer 5:20-21
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    20 "Declare this in the house of Jacob, and publish it in Judah, saying,

    21 'Hear now this, foolish people, and without understanding; who have eyes, and don't see; who have ears, and don't hear:

  • 18 "Woe to you who desire the day of Yahweh! Why do you long for the day of Yahweh? It is darkness, and not light.

  • 17 You have wearied Yahweh with your words. Yet you say, 'How have we wearied him?' In that you say, 'Everyone who does evil is good in the sight of Yahweh, and he delights in them;' or 'Where is the God of justice?'

  • 2 Yet he also is wise, and will bring disaster, and will not call back his words, but will arise against the house of the evildoers, and against the help of those who work iniquity.

  • 26 He will lift up a banner to the nations from far, and he will whistle for them from the end of the earth. Behold, they will come speedily and swiftly.

  • 15 Alas for the day! For the day of Yahweh is at hand, and it will come as destruction from the Almighty.

  • 18 and let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids gush out with waters.

  • 15 Let death come suddenly on them. Let them go down alive into Sheol. For wickedness is in their dwelling, in the midst of them.

  • 3 'Why have we fasted,' [say they], 'and you don't see? [why] have we afflicted our soul, and you take no knowledge?' "Behold, in the day of your fast you find pleasure, and exact all your labors.

  • 15 Now we call the proud happy; yes, those who work wickedness are built up; yes, they tempt God, and escape.'

  • 3 Those who put far away the evil day, and cause the seat of violence to come near;

  • 9 Let all the nations be gathered together, and let the peoples be assembled. Who among them can declare this, and show us former things? Let them bring their witnesses, that they may be justified; or let them hear, and say, "That is true."

  • 14 He will say, "Cast up, cast up, prepare the way, take up the stumbling-block out of the way of my people."

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    1 Gather yourselves together, yes, gather together, you nation that has no shame,

    2 before the appointed time when the day passes as the chaff, before the fierce anger of Yahweh comes on you, before the day of Yahweh's anger comes on you.

  • 25 Don't let them say in their heart, "Aha! That's the way we want it!" Don't let them say, "We have swallowed him up!"

  • 11 Her leaders judge for bribes, and her priests teach for a price, and her prophets of it tell fortunes for money: yet they lean on Yahweh, and say, "Isn't Yahweh in the midst of us? No disaster will come on us."

  • 8 How do you say, We are wise, and the law of Yahweh is with us? But, behold, the false pen of the scribes has worked falsely.

  • 14 Therefore has Yahweh watched over the evil, and brought it on us; for Yahweh our God is righteous in all his works which he does, and we have not obeyed his voice.

  • 18 Then they said, Come, and let us devise devices against Jeremiah; for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let us strike him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words.

  • 18 lest Yahweh see it, and it displease him, and he turn away his wrath from him.

  • 3 Is it good to you that you should oppress, that you should despise the work of your hands, and smile on the counsel of the wicked?

  • 30 "An astonishing and horrible thing has happened in the land.

  • 23 who acquit the guilty for a bribe, but deny justice for the innocent!

  • 4 Let us choose for us that which is right. Let us know among ourselves what is good.

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    3 "Let's break their bonds apart, and cast their cords from us."

  • 9 Therefore is justice far from us, neither does righteousness overtake us: we look for light, but, behold, darkness; for brightness, but we walk in obscurity.

  • 1 Woe to those who devise iniquity and work evil on their beds! When the morning is light, they practice it, because it is in the power of their hand.

  • 10 Take counsel together, and it will be brought to nothing; speak the word, and it will not stand: for God is with us."

  • 13 Behold, isn't it of Yahweh of Armies that the peoples labor for the fire, and the nations weary themselves for vanity?

  • 1 "Woe to the rebellious children," says Yahweh, "who take counsel, but not from me; and who make an alliance, but not with my Spirit, that they may add sin to sin,

  • 15 Therefore his calamity will come suddenly. He will be broken suddenly, and that without remedy.

  • 11 Thus says Yahweh, the Holy One of Israel, and his Maker: "You ask me about the things that are to come, concerning my sons, and you command me concerning the work of my hands!

  • 3 Their hands are on that which is evil to do it diligently. The ruler and judge ask for a bribe; and the powerful man dictates the evil desire of his soul. Thus they conspire together.

  • 17 But he said, "You are idle! You are idle! Therefore you say, 'Let us go and sacrifice to Yahweh.'

  • 7 You who turn justice to wormwood, and cast down righteousness to the earth: