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How is the faithful city become a harlot! It was full of judgment; righteousness used to lodge in it, but now murderers.

Verse ConceptsBabylonSpiritual HarlotryInjustice, Examples OfProstitutionHarlotswhores

Therefore this is what the Lord GOD of the Heavenly Armies, the one who is Israel's Mighty One, declares: "Now I'll get relief from his enemies and avenge myself on his foes.

Verse ConceptsGod, Power OfRetributionGod Executes VengeanceRevengeventing

Now it will come about that
In the last days
The mountain of the house of the Lord
Will be established as the chief of the mountains,
And will be raised above the hills;
And all the nations will stream to it.

Verse ConceptsDays, LastThe Final Days Of TimeNames And Titles For The ChurchRevelation Of The FutureThe Temple In HeavenJerusalem In Millennial Kingdomend times prophecyEnd Of DaysEnd Times

Now it will come about that instead of sweet perfume there will be putrefaction;
Instead of a belt, a rope;
Instead of well-set hair, a plucked-out scalp;
Instead of fine clothes, a donning of sackcloth;
And branding instead of beauty.

Verse ConceptsBaldness, Figurative UseClothHairsSackcloth And AshesSmellsPeople RottingFragranceMarks On PeopleAppearance Of HairNo BeautyWomen's BeautyHairmakeupbranding

Now will I sing to my well-beloved a song of my beloved regarding his vineyard. My well-beloved has a vineyard on a very fruitful hill:

Verse ConceptsSongsfruitfulness

And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem and men of Judah, judge, I pray you, betwixt me and my vineyard.

Verse ConceptsArbitration

And now I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be eaten up; I will break down the wall thereof, and it shall be trodden down:

Verse ConceptsWallsFigurative Fields

Which used to speak on this manner: "Let him make haste now, and go forth with his work, that we may see it! Let that counsel of the holy one of Israel come, and draw nigh, that we may know it!"

Verse ConceptsDoubting God's WordScoffers

He touched my mouth with it and said:

Now that this has touched your lips,
your wickedness is removed
and your sin is atoned for.

Verse ConceptsGuilt, Removal OfLipsSin, Deliverance From GodTouchCoal, Uses OfPurgingTouching For HealingOther References To Mouths

Now it came about in the days of Ahaz, the son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, king of Judah, that Rezin, the king of Aram, and Pekah, the son of Remaliah, the king of Israel, came up to Jerusalem to make war against it, but were not able to overcome it.

Verse ConceptsList Of Kings Of IsraelTimes Of People

Now when the house of David - that is Ahaz - heard word thereof, that Syria and Ephraim were confederate together: His heart quaked, yea and the hearts also of his people, like as a tree in the field that is moved with the wind.

Verse ConceptsForestsdoubtersPessimismAllegiancesGroups Trembling

Then said Jehovah unto Isaiah, Go forth now to meet Ahaz, thou, and Shear-jashub thy son, at the end of the conduit of the upper pool, in the highway of the fuller's field;

Verse ConceptsOccupationsProphets, Lives OfPoolsMeeting PeopleClean ClothesWater ChannelHighways

For the head of Aram is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin (and in sixty-five years from now Ephraim will be broken, and will no longer be a people):

Verse ConceptsThe Prophecy Towards DamascusPeople Passing Away50 To 70 YearsNorthern Kingdom Of Israelsyriadamascus

And he said, Hear ye now, O house of David: Is it a small thing for you to weary men, that ye will weary my God also?

Verse ConceptsGod, Patience OfGod Growing Weary

For before the child is old enough to make a decision between evil and good, the land whose two kings you are now fearing will have become waste.

Verse ConceptsLand Becoming EmptyRejectionParents Being Wrongmanhood

Now in that day a man may keep alive a heifer and a pair of sheep;

And as for all hills that now are hewn down, thou shalt not come upon them, for fear of briers and thorns. But the cattle shall be driven thither, and the sheep shall feed there."

Verse ConceptsHillsTilling The SoilFear, Of NaturalCultivation

After that went I unto the Prophetess, that now had conceived and born a son. Then said the LORD to me, "Give him this name: Mahershalahashbaz.

Verse ConceptsWomenAnnunciationsProphetessSpeedGod Naming People

now therefore, behold, the Lord bringeth up upon them the waters of the River, strong and many, even the king of Assyria and all his glory: and it shall come up over all its channels, and go over all its banks;

Verse ConceptsChaosLike A Flood

Now lay the witnesses together and seal the law with my disciples.

Verse ConceptsSealing The Message

Now if they tell you, "Consult the ghosts and the spirits, those who chirp and those who mutter. Should not a people consult its gods, the dead on behalf of the living,

Verse ConceptsAstrologyFamiliar SpiritsSpiritsSpiritismNecromancyDivinationFortunetellingAvoid SpiritismOccultismguidancewitchespsychicsOccult Being Powerless Before God

The gloom will be dispelled for those who were anxious. In earlier times he humiliated the land of Zebulun, and the land of Naphtali; but now he brings honor to the way of the sea, the region beyond the Jordan, and Galilee of the nations.

Verse ConceptsHumilityComing Out Of DarknessDespair

Now as to the yoke that has been his burden, and the bar laid on his shoulder the rod of his oppressor you have broken it as on the day of Midian.

Verse ConceptsCruelty, God's attitude toCivil LibertyYokesRemoving BurdensGod Freeing Captives

Of the increase of his rule and of peace there will be no end, on the seat of David, and in his kingdom; to make it strong, supporting it with wise decision and righteousness, now and for ever. By the fixed purpose of the Lord of armies this will be done.

Verse ConceptsIncreaseCovenant, God's with DavidGod, Zeal OfLeaders, PoliticalNewsThroneJusticeChrist's DominionMessianic PropheciesTime Of Peace

Now what will you do in the day of punishment,
And in the devastation which will come from afar?
To whom will you flee for help?
And where will you leave your wealth?

Verse ConceptsMoney, Attitudes ToRich, TheVisitationGod VisitingReckoningDrawbacks To RichesPeople From Far Away

Now in that day the remnant of Israel, and those of the house of Jacob who have escaped, will never again rely on the one who struck them, but will truly rely on the Lord, the Holy One of Israel.

Verse ConceptsAfflictions, Benefits OfSurvivors FavouredSurvivors Of IsraelBelieving In GodOthers Believing In God

When the LORD now shall bring thee to rest; from the travail, fear, and hard bondage that thou wast laden withal.

Verse ConceptsRest, PhysicalGod Giving RestSuccess And Hard Work

Yea even the fir trees and Cedars of Lebanon rejoice at thy fall, saying, 'Now that thou art laid down, there come no more up to destroy us.'

Verse ConceptsCedarFir TreesFelling Trees


Therefore the abundance which they have acquired and stored away
They carry off over the Brook of the Willows.

Send lambs to the ruler of the land [you Moabites],
From Sela [that is, Petra in Edom] through the wilderness to the mountain of the Daughter of Zion (Jerusalem).

Verse ConceptsGiving To OthersRulersTaxationPossessing Sheep

Now shall be withdrawn rejoicing and exultation out of the garden-land, And, in the vineyards, shall be neither singing nor shouting, - Wine in the winepress, the treader, shall not tread, The vintage-shout, have I made to cease.

Verse ConceptsAlcoholWinepressDestroying VineyardsVintageCessationTreading GrapesLack Of Rejoicing

But now Jehovah hath spoken, saying, Within three years, as the years of a hireling, the glory of Moab shall be brought into contempt, with all his great multitude; and the remnant shall be very small and of no account.

Verse ConceptsInferiorityHirelingsPowerlessnessThree YearsSurvivors ThreatenedLosing Honour

The cities of Aroer are forsaken; now they are for flocks; they shall lie down, and no one terrifies them.

Verse ConceptsEmpty CitiesPasturing The Flock

Now in that day the glory of Jacob will fade,
And the fatness of his flesh will become lean.

Verse ConceptsFatnessDecayThin BodiesLosing Honour

That sends ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of bulrushes upon the waters, saying, Go, you swift messengers, to a nation tall and smooth of skin, to a people feared from their beginning until now; a nation powerful and treading down, whose land the rivers divide!

Verse ConceptsBabylonenvoyPapyrusDivision Of WatersTall PeopleSea TravelBoatsWaters DividingFearing Other People

In that time shall a present be brought unto the LORD of hosts from a people tall and smooth of skin, and from a people feared from their beginning until now; a nation powerful and treading under foot, whose land the rivers divide, to the place of the name of the LORD of hosts, to mount Zion.

Verse ConceptsGiftsGiving To GodDivision Of WatersTall PeopleWaters DividingFearing Other PeopleAmerica

Where are they then, thy wise men? Let them now tell thee, and let them make known what Jehovah of hosts hath purposed upon Egypt.

Verse ConceptsPlansWise MenWhere Are People?

And the inhabitants of this coastland will say on that day, ‘Look, this is what has happened to those we relied on and fled to for help to rescue us from the king of Assyria! Now, how will we escape?’”

Verse ConceptsEscaping Evilpremonitions

Now behold, here comes a troop of riders, horsemen in pairs.”
And one said, “Fallen, fallen is Babylon;
And all the images of her gods are shattered on the ground.”

Verse ConceptsBabylonThe Prophecy Towards BabylonDestruction Of BabylonBabylon DestroyedPutting Away Other GodsAbandoning Idols

The burden of the valley of vision. What aileth thee now, that thou art wholly gone up to the housetops?

Verse ConceptsHousetopsRooftop

But in place of these there was joy and delight, oxen and sheep were being made ready for food, there was feasting and drinking: men said, Now is the time for food and wine, for tomorrow death comes.

Verse ConceptsBitingMortalityPresent, TheSelf IndulgenceWinePleasure SeekersAlcohol ConsumptionEating And DrinkingEating Drinking And Rejoicing


Be ashamed, O Sidon [mother-city of Tyre, now like a widow bereaved of her children];
For the sea speaks, the stronghold of the sea, saying,
“I have neither labored nor given birth [to children];
I have neither brought up young men nor reared virgins.”

Verse ConceptsConfidence In God, Produces BoldnessBirth Not Being Possible

And he said: "You will revel no longer, you virgin daughter of Sidon, now crushed. Get up, cross over to Cyprus but even there you will find no rest.'"

Verse ConceptsdaughtersSleeplessnessVirginUnrest

Now in that day Tyre will be forgotten for seventy years like the days of one king. At the end of seventy years it will happen to Tyre as in the song of the harlot:

Verse ConceptsAge, Span Of Life70 To 80 YearsLifespanForgetting Peoplewhores

The new wine mourns;
the vine withers.
All the carousers now groan.

Verse ConceptsdrynessShortage Of WineMourning Due To Catastrophe

So go now my people into thy chamber, and shut the door to thee, and suffer now the twinkling of an eye, till the wrath be overpast.

Verse ConceptsGod's IndignationA Short TimeShutting DoorsHiding From GodShort Time For ActionSpeed Of God's AngerPraying Behind Closed Doors

To whom will he give knowledge? and to whom will he make clear the word? Will it be to those who have newly given up milk, and who have only now been taken from the breast?

Verse ConceptsWeaningGod TeachingSchoolbreaststryingdoctrine

Now therefore be ye not scorners, lest your bonds be made strong; for I have heard from the Lord Jehovah of hosts a consumption, and one determined, upon the whole land.

Verse ConceptsChainsMockeryRejection Of God, Results OfRidicule, Objects OfDestructionTying Upmockers


Stop and take some time and wonder [at this prophecy],
Blind yourselves and be blinded [at its fulfillment by your spiritual incompetence].
They are drunk, but not from wine;
They stagger, but not from strong drink.

Verse ConceptsAmazingdrinkingStaggeringStrong DrinkBlindingGod Making DrunkOther Blindinguncertaintybeerdrunkards

And the vision of all this has become for you like [the] words of sealed document. When they give it to one who knows the document, saying, "{Read} this now!" He says, "I am not able, for it [is] sealed."

Verse ConceptsScrollsDullnessSealing The MessageReading The Bible

And [if] the document is given to [one] who does not {know how to read}, saying, "{Read} this now!" he says, "I do not {know how to read}."

Verse ConceptsLiteracyReading Other MatterMemorizing ScriptureEducationReading The Bible

Therefore thus saith Jehovah who redeemed Abraham, concerning the house of Jacob: Jacob shall not now be ashamed, neither shall his face now be pale;

Verse ConceptsGod, As Redeemerredeemed

Now go, write it before them on a tablet, and record it in a book, that it may be for the time to come, as a witness for ever,

Verse ConceptsInscriptionsProphecy, Methods Of OtScrollsTabletsJournalizing

Indeed! Topheth has been ready
for the king for a long time now.
Its funeral pyre is deep and wide,
with plenty of fire and wood.
The breath of the Lord, like a torrent of brimstone,
kindles it.

Verse ConceptsPitsTheophanyBrimstonePreparation For BurialSulphurA Place Prepared

Now the Egyptians are men, and not God; and their horses flesh, and not spirit: and when Jehovah shall stretch out his hand, both he that helpeth shall stumble, and he that is helped shall fall, and they all shall be consumed together.

Verse ConceptsGod, As SpiritAliancesStumblingTrusting In Man, Warnings AgainstGod's HandLimitations Of The BodyGod's Hands Stretched OutDanger From MenNatural Disasters

Now hearken to, ye that are far off, how I do with them; and consider my glory, ye that be at hand.

Verse ConceptsAcknowledged

Loosed are thy ropes, - They cannot strengthen the socket of their mast They have not unfurled a sail Now, can be apportioned spoil, in abundance, The lame, have captured prey!

Verse ConceptsShipsDividing The Spoil

He says, "Indeed, my sword has slaughtered heavenly powers. Look, it now descends on Edom, on the people I will annihilate in judgment."

Verse ConceptsMore Than EnoughGod's Sword

Now it came to pass in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah, that Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the fortified cities of Judah, and took them.

Verse ConceptsFortificationsArmies, Against IsraelNations Attacking Israel

And Rabshakeh said to them, "Now say to Hezekiah, 'Thus says the great king, the king of Assyria: "What [is] this confidence [in] which you trust?

I said, 'Only a word of lips! {War has power and a plan}!' Now, in whom do you trust, that you have rebelled against me?

Verse Conceptsemptiness

And now please make a wager with my master the king of Assyria, and I will give you two thousand horses, [that is,] if you are able {put} riders for yourself on them!

Verse ConceptsBackNegotiationTwo ThousandRiding Horses

Seeing now that thou canst not resist the power of the smallest prince that my LORD hath, how darest thou trust in the chariots and horsemen of Egypt?

Verse ConceptsChariotsOfficersTrusting In ChariotsTrusting Other People

And now was it without Yahweh that I have come up against this land to destroy it? Yahweh said to me, "Go up against this land and destroy it!" '"

Verse ConceptsDestruction Of Countries

And Eliakim will say, and Shebna, and Joah, to Rabshakeh, Speak now to thy servants Aramean, for we hear; and thou shalt not speak to us Judaic in the ears of the people who are upon the wall

Verse ConceptsLanguages

And Rabshakeh stood stiff, and cried with a loud voice in the Jews' tongue, and said, "Now take heed, how the great king of the Assyrians giveth you warning!

Verse ConceptsLanguages

Now when Rabshakeh returned, he found the king of Assyria laying siege to Libnah; for he had understood that he was departed from Lachish.

Now he heard concerning Tirhakah the king of Cush, saying, "He has set out to fight against you." When he heard [it], he sent messengers to Hezekiah, saying,

Verse ConceptsMessengerAfricaMessengers Sent Out

Now when Hezekiah had received the letter of the messengers, and read it; he went up into the house of the LORD, and opened the letter before the LORD.

Verse ConceptsLettersSpreading

So now, Yahweh, our God, save us from his hand so that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that you [are] Yahweh, you alone!"

Verse ConceptsKnowledge, Of GodNo Other Is GodKnowing That There Is A GodThe Lord [Yahweh] Is God

Have you not heard from {a long time ago}? I have made it from days of primeval time, and I formed it. Now I have brought it [about], and it is for fortified cities to collapse into heaps of destroyed stones.

Verse ConceptsGuidance, God's Promises OfHistoryDestruction Of CitiesHearing About GodGod Planning Of OldGod's Plans

“This shall be the sign [of these things] to you [Hezekiah]: you are to eat this year what grows of itself, and in the second year that which springs from the same, and in the third year you are to sow and harvest, and plant vineyards and eat their fruit.

Verse ConceptsProphetic SignsSigns From GodVineyardPlanting VineyardsLiteral PlantingReapingFallow LandReaping What You Sowsowing

and said, Remember now, O Jehovah, I beseech thee, how I have walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in thy sight. And Hezekiah wept sore.

Verse ConceptsFaithfulness, Examples OfLoyaltyOthers MourningOne's Deedsdevotion

Behold, I will return the shadow of Ahaz's dial, that now is laid out with the Sun, and bring it ten degrees backward.'" So the Sun turned ten degrees backward, the which he was desended afore.

Verse ConceptsAstronomyLight, NaturalShadowsStairwaysThe SunSun DialsTen ThingsStepsMoving OnRecoveryEclipseSolar Eclipse

"My Lord is against them, yet they live, and among all of them who live is his spirit. Now you have restored me to health, so let me live!

Verse ConceptsRevival, PersonalRecovery

Now Isaiah had said, Let them take a cake of figs, and lay it for a plaster upon the boil, and he shall recover.

Verse ConceptsFig treeBodydoctorsdiseasesBoils Or UlcersMedicineFigsRecoveryAbscess

The same voice spake, "Now cry." And I said, "What shall I cry?" Then spake it, "That all flesh is grass, and that all the beauty thereof, is as the flower of the field.

Verse ConceptsLife, Brevity OfThe Frailty Of ManMere Men

They have only now been planted, and their seed put into the earth, and they have only now taken root, when he sends out his breath over them and they become dry, and the storm-wind takes them away like dry grass.

Verse ConceptsBreath Of GodRootsWhirlwindsPeople WitheredMetaphorical Planting

'To whom now will ye liken me, and whom shall I be like?' sayeth the holy one.

Verse ConceptsGod, Holiness OfUniquenessLikeningBeyond CompareLikening God

See, the things said before have come about, and now I give word of new things: before they come I give you news of them.

Verse ConceptsGod, All knowingFutureForeknowledgeGod's Foreknowledgea new beginningThe Pastspringtime

I have long time holden my peace; I have been still, and refrained myself: now will I cry out like a travailing woman; I will gasp and pant together.

Verse ConceptsGod, Patience OfGod, Suffering OfSilenceLabour PainsGod Being Silent

Who suffered Jacob to be trodden under foot, and Israel to be spoiled? Did not the LORD? Now have we sinned against him, and have had no delight to walk in his ways, neither been obedient unto his law.

Verse ConceptsSelf Will

This is what the LORD says, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: "For your sake I will send to Babylon, and bring them all down as fugitives. Now as for the Babylonians, their ringing cry will become lamentation.

Verse ConceptsReturn From BabylonRedemption, In OtSeafaringShipsFor The Sake Of God's People

Put me now in remembrance, for we will reason together, and show what thou hast for thee, to make thee righteous.

Verse ConceptsLogicReasoningSuing GodThe Pastremembrancepastvindication

Now, all the forming of images means nothing, and the things they treasure are worthless. Their own witnesses cannot see, and they know nothing. So they will be put to shame.

Verse ConceptsFolly, Effects OfFalse ReligionRefugeIdols Not ExistingVanityUnprofitable SinsUseless PeopleShame Of IdolatryimageHinduism

Who should now make a God, or fashion an Image, that is profitable for nothing?

Verse ConceptsProfitsUseless Idolsimage

And no one takes note, no one has enough knowledge or wisdom to say, I have put part of it in the fire, and made bread on it; I have had a meal of the flesh cooked with it: and am I now to make the rest of it into a false god? am I to go down on my face before a bit of wood?

Verse ConceptsAbominationsAbominations, Idolatry IsIgnorance Towards God, Leads ToDullnessBowing To False GodsBaking BreadFirewoodHalf Of ThingsThose Who Were Ignorant

Therefore now hear this, luxuriant [one] who sits in security, who says in her heart, "I [am], and besides me [there is] no one. I shall not sit [as] a widow, and I shall not know [the] loss of children."

Verse ConceptsCarePride, Examples OfWorldly Pleasures, Characteristic Of The WickedPleasure SeekersUnique NationsNo Loss

Stand, now, in your enchantments, and in your many sorceries with which you have labored from your youth. Perhaps you may be able to benefit; perhaps you may {scare away}.

Verse ConceptsBabylonAstrologyMagiciansSorcerymagic

You struggle with your many consultations; let them stand, now, and save you-- those who see the stars, divide [the] {celestial sphere}, who inform by new moons-- from [those things] that are coming upon you.

Verse ConceptsBabylonAstrologyDivination, Practiced ByStarsOccultismfate

You have heard, now see all this; and will you not declare it? I have showed you new things from this time, even hidden things, and you did not know them.

Verse ConceptsIgnorant Of Facts

Now they are created, and not from {of old}, and before today, and you have not heard them so that you could not say, "Look! I knew them."

Verse ConceptsNow

Draw near to me; hear this! I have not spoken in secrecy from [the] {beginning}; from [the] time {it came to be}, there I [have been]; And now the Lord Yahweh has sent me and his Spirit."

Verse ConceptsSecrecyGod, TrinityThe Spirit Of GodGod Sending ProphetsLed By The Spiritheartbroken