Isaiah 48:2

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Summary

Isaiah 48:2

For they call themselves of the holy city, and stay themselves upon the God of Israel; The LORD of hosts is his name.

They call

And stay

General references

Hosea 8:2

Bible References

They call

Awake! awake! put on your strength, O Zion; put on your beautiful robes, O Jerusalem, the holy town: for from now there will never again come into you the unclean and those without circumcision.

Your holy towns have become a waste, Zion has become a waste, Jerusalem is a mass of broken walls.

And the rulers of the people were living in Jerusalem: the rest of the people made selection, by the decision of chance, of one out of every ten to be living in Jerusalem, the holy town; the other nine to go to the other towns.

Great is the Lord and greatly to be praised, in the town of our God, in his holy mountain.

Noble things are said of you, O town of God. (Selah.)

Seventy weeks have been fixed for your people and your holy town, to let wrongdoing be complete and sin come to its full limit, and for the clearing away of evil-doing and the coming in of eternal righteousness: so that the vision and the word of the prophet may be stamped as true, and to put the holy oil on a most holy place.

Then the Evil One took him to the holy town; and he put him on the highest point of the Temple and said to him,

And coming out of their resting-places, after he had come again from the dead, they went into the holy town and were seen by a number of people.

But do not take the measure of the space outside the house; because it has been given to the nations: and the holy town will be under their feet for forty-two months.

And I saw the holy town, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, like a bride made beautiful for her husband.

And if any man takes away from the words of this book, God will take away from him his part in the tree of life and the holy town, even the things which are in this book.

And stay

And it will be in that day that the rest of Israel, and those of Jacob who have come safely through these troubles, will no longer go for help to him whose rod was on their back, but their faith will be in the Lord, the Holy One of Israel.

Then Micah said, Now I am certain that the Lord will do me good, seeing that the Levite has become my priest.

And when the people came back to their tents, the responsible men of Israel said, Why has the Lord let the Philistines overcome us today? Let us get the ark of the Lord's agreement here from Shiloh, so that it may be with us and give us salvation from the hands of those who are against us.

Put no faith in false words, saying, The Temple of the Lord, the Temple of the Lord, the Temple of the Lord, are these.

Will you get directions from the Lord for us; for Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, is making war against us; it may be that the Lord will do something for us like all the wonders he has done, and make him go away from us.

Its heads take rewards for judging, and the priests take payment for teaching, and the prophets get silver for reading the future: but still, supporting themselves on the Lord, they say, Is not the Lord among us? no evil will overtake us.

But now you have a desire to put me to death, a man who has said to you what is true, as I had it from God: Abraham did not do that.

But as for you who have the name of Jew, and are resting on the law, and take pride in God,

General references

They will send up to me a cry for help: We, Israel, have knowledge of you, O God of Israel.