"but I didn't believe it at first! But then I came here and I've seen it for myself! It's amazing! I wasn't told half of what's really great about your wisdom. You're far better in person than what the reports have said about you!

All of Israel since the king wasn't going to listen to them the people responded to the king, "What's the point in following David? We have no inheritance in the descendants of Jesse. Let's go home, Israel! David, take care of your own household!" So all of Israel left for home.

"During those days, it wasn't safe for anyone to come and go, because many civil disturbances afflicted everyone who lived in the territories.

But Jehoshaphat asked, “Isn’t there a prophet of Yahweh here anymore? Let’s ask him.”

and he joined himself with him to make ships to go to Tarshish; and they made the ships in Ezion-geber.

A man came from God and warned him, "Your majesty, don't let the army of Israel accompany you into battle, because the LORD isn't with any of the descendants of Ephraim.

and they resisted Uzziah the king, and said to him, "It isn't for you, Uzziah, to burn incense to Yahweh, but for the priests the sons of Aaron, who are consecrated to burn incense. Go out of the sanctuary; for you have trespassed; neither shall it be for your honor from Yahweh God."

Isn’t Hezekiah misleading you to give you over to death by famine and thirst when he says, “Yahweh our God will deliver us from the power of the king of Assyria”?

Isn't this the very same Hezekiah who removed this god's high places and altars? Isn't this the same Hezekiah who issued this order to Judah and Jerusalem: "You are to worship in front of only one altar and burn your sacrifices only on it."?

But Hezekiah's response wasn't commensurate with what had been done for him because he was arrogant in heart, so wrath came upon him, upon Judah, and upon Jerusalem.

The children of Asnah, the children of Mehunim, the children of Nephusim,

But there are many people, and it is the rainy season. We don’t have the stamina to stay out in the open. This isn’t something that can be done in a day or two, for we have rebelled terribly in this matter.

I proceeded to the Fountain Gate, and then to the King's Pool, but there wasn't sufficient clearance for the animal I was riding to pass.

Then I said, “What you are doing isn’t right. Shouldn’t you walk in the fear of our God and not invite the reproach of our foreign enemies?

And the Levites: both Jeshua the son of Azaniah, Binnui of the sons of Henadad, Kadmiel;

Isn't this the way your ancestors acted, causing our God to bring on them and on this city all this misfortune? And now you are causing even more wrath on Israel, profaning the Sabbath like this!"

Isn’t your piety your confidence,
and the integrity of your life your hope?

Isn't their tent cord plucked up within them? They die, and that without wisdom.'

Tasteless food isn't eaten without salt, is it? Is there any taste in an egg white?

Isn't it that I have no help in me, That wisdom is driven quite from me?

Isn’t mankind consigned to forced labor on earth?
Are not his days like those of a hired hand?

The earth is handed over to the wicked;
He blindfolds its judges.
If it isn’t He, then who is it?

They are longer than the earth's circumference, and broader than the ocean.

What do you know that we don't know, or that you understand and that isn't clear to us?

"But if I speak, my pain isn't assuaged; if I refrain from speaking, what do I have to lose?"

After all, isn't my complaint against a human being? If so, why shouldn't I be impatient?

Behold! Their prosperity isn't in their control! The counsel of the wicked will remain far from me."

Isn’t your wickedness abundant
and aren’t your iniquities endless?

Isn’t God as high as the heavens?
And look at the highest stars—how lofty they are!

"Look! If I go east, he isn't there! If I go to the west, I don't perceive him.

If it isn't so now, who will prove me a liar, and make my speech worth nothing?"

Behold, even the moon isn't bright, and the stars aren't pure in his eyes.

The ocean depths say, “It’s not in me,”
while the sea declares, “I don’t have it.”

Didn't I weep for him who was in trouble? Wasn't my soul grieved for the needy?

Who isn't partial to princes? Who doesn't give preference to the nobles over the poor? Nevertheless, all of them are his handiwork.

because what I have to say isn't deceptive, and the one who has perfect knowledge is with you."

"Have you been to the source of the sea and walked about in the recesses of the deepest ocean?

For he set its foundation upon the seas, and established it upon the ocean currents.

For yet a little while, and the wicked will be no more. Yes, though you look for his place, he isn't there.

Oh that the salvation of Israel would come out of Zion! When God brings back his people from captivity, then Jacob shall rejoice, and Israel shall be glad. For the Chief Musician. On stringed instruments. A contemplation by David, when the Ziphites came and said to Saul, "Isn't David hiding himself among us?"

He split the rocks in the wilderness
And gave them abundant drink like the ocean depths.

You covered the primeval ocean like a garment; the water stood above the mountains.

witnessed the works of the LORD his awesome deeds in the ocean's depth.

Yahweh, my heart isn't haughty, nor my eyes lofty; nor do I concern myself with great matters, or things too wonderful for me.

He does whatever he pleases in heaven and on earth, in the seas and all the ocean depths.

even darkness isn't dark to you, darkness and light are the same to you.

My frame wasn't hidden from you, when I was made in secret, woven together in the depths of the earth.

Praise the Lord from the earth,
all sea monsters and ocean depths,

A thief isn't despised if he steals to meet his needs when he is hungry,

My husband isn’t home;
he went on a long journey.

Isn't wisdom calling out; isn't understanding raising her voice?

Everything I have to say is just; there isn't anything corrupt or perverse in my speech.

When there were no ocean depths, I brought them to birth at a time when there were no springs.

I was there when He established the heavens,
when He laid out the horizon on the surface of the ocean,

when He placed the skies above,
when the fountains of the ocean gushed out,

Arrogant speech isn't fitting for a fool, much less do lying lips fit a prince.

Furthermore, it isn't good to fine the righteous, or to beat an official because of his uprightness.

It isn't good to have zeal without knowledge; nor being hasty with one's feet and missing the way.

Here are some more proverbs from wise people: It isn't good to show partiality in judgment.

To eat too much honey isn't good; and neither is it honorable to seek one's own glory.

that's what someone is like who lies to his neighbor and then says, "I was joking, wasn't I?"

To show partiality isn't good, yet for a piece of bread the valiant will transgress.

The miser is in a hurry to get wealthy, but he isn't aware that poverty will catch up with him.

When you make a promise to God, don't fail to keep it, since he isn't pleased with fools. Keep what you promise

If someone's ax is blunt the edge isn't sharpened then more strength will be needed. Putting wisdom to work will bring success.

Isn’t Calno like Carchemish?
Isn’t Hamath like Arpad?
Isn’t Samaria like Damascus?

Does an ax exalt itself
above the one who chops with it?
Does a saw magnify itself
above the one who saws with it?
It would be like a staff waving the one who lifts it!
It would be like a rod lifting a man who isn’t wood!

It will be like when a hungry man dreams, and behold, he eats; but he awakes, and his hunger isn't satisfied; or like when a thirsty man dreams, and behold, he drinks; but he awakes, and behold, he is faint, and he is still thirsty. The multitude of all the nations that fight against Mount Zion will be like that.

Isn’t it true that in just a little while
Lebanon will become an orchard,
and the orchard will seem like a forest?

Suppose you say to me, ‘We trust in the Lord our God.’ Isn’t He the One whose high places and altars Hezekiah has removed, saying to Judah and Jerusalem, ‘You are to worship at this altar’?

But the field commander asked, "Was it only to all of you and to your master that my master sent me to speak these things? Wasn't it also to the men sitting on the wall who, like you, will have to eat their own excrement and drink their own urine?"

Isaiah asked, “What have they seen in your palace?”

Hezekiah answered, “They have seen everything in my palace. There isn’t anything in my treasuries that I didn’t show them.”

Haven't you known? Haven't you heard? The everlasting God, Yahweh, The Creator of the ends of the earth, doesn't faint. He isn't weary. His understanding is unsearchable.

He feeds on ashes.
His deceived mind has led him astray,
and he cannot deliver himself,
or say, “Isn’t there a lie in my right hand?”

Wake up, wake up!
Put on the strength of the Lord’s power.
Wake up as in days past,
as in generations of long ago.
Wasn’t it You who hacked Rahab to pieces,
who pierced the sea monster?

Wasn’t it You who dried up the sea,
the waters of the great deep,
who made the sea-bed into a road
for the redeemed to pass over?

Therefore will I assign him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong: because he hath poured out his soul unto death, and was reckoned with the transgressors; and he bore the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.

Who is it you are mocking?
Who is it you are opening your mouth
and sticking out your tongue at?
Isn’t it you, you rebellious children,
you race of liars,

Isn’t the fast I choose:
To break the chains of wickedness,
to untie the ropes of the yoke,
to set the oppressed free,
and to tear off every yoke?

Isn't it to distribute your bread to the hungry, and that you bring the poor who are cast out to your house? When you see the naked, that you cover him; and that you not hide yourself from your own flesh?

In all their distress he wasn't distressed, but the angel of his presence saved them; in his acts of love and in his acts of pity he redeemed them; he carried them and lifted them up all the days of old.

I held out my hands all day long to a disobedient people, who walk in a way that isn't good, following their own inclinations

I will even assign you to the sword, and ye shall all bow down in the slaughter; because I called, and ye did not answer, I spoke, and ye did not hear; but ye did what was evil in mine eyes, and chose that wherein I delight not.

But are they really provoking Me?” This is the Lord’s declaration. “Isn’t it they themselves being provoked to disgrace?”

Behold, the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people from a land that is very far off: isn't Yahweh in Zion? Isn't her King in her? Why have they provoked me to anger with their engraved images, and with foreign vanities?

Is there no balm in Gilead? is there no physician there? why then isn't the health of the daughter of my people recovered?

When his voice thunders, the heavenly ocean roars. He makes the clouds rise from the far-off horizons. He makes the lightning flash out in the midst of the rain. He unleashes the wind from the places where he stores it.

He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well. Wasn't this to know me? says Yahweh.

Isn't my word like fire? says Yahweh; and like a hammer that breaks the rock in pieces?

Isn’t Ephraim a precious son to Me,
a delightful child?
Whenever I speak against him,
I certainly still think about him.
Therefore, My inner being yearns for him;
I will truly have compassion on him.
This is the Lord’s declaration.

Wasn’t Israel a laughingstock to you? Was he ever found among thieves? For whenever you speak of him you shake your head.”

Behold, he shall come up like a lion from the swelling of the Jordan against the strong habitation; for I will make them suddenly run away from it; and who is a chosen man whom I shall appoint over her? For who is like me? and who will assign me a time? and who is that shepherd that will stand before me?

Behold, he shall come up like a lion from the swelling of the Jordan against the strong habitation; for I will make him suddenly run away from it; and who is a chosen man whom I may appoint over her? For who is like me? and who will assign me a time? and who is that shepherd that will stand before me?

This isn't a large group of people whose speech is unintelligible to you or whose language is difficult for you to comprehend. Frankly, if I had sent you to that kind of people, they would certainly have listened to you!

"The house of Israel and Judah is guilty and theirs is a stubborn guilt, at that!" he replied to me. "The land is filled with blood, and the city overflows with injustice, because they keep saying, "The LORD has abandoned the land,' and "The LORD isn't watching.'

They are saying, ‘Isn’t the time near to build houses? The city is the pot, and we are the meat.’

After all, it's useful only for kindling a fire, isn't it? And once you've burnt up the ends and charred through the middle of it, is it useful for anything else?

As for your birth, your umbilical cord wasn’t cut on the day you were born, and you weren’t washed clean with water. You were not rubbed with salt or wrapped in cloths.

“You even took your sons and daughters you bore to Me and sacrificed them to these images as food. Wasn’t your prostitution enough?

It wasn't just that you lived like they did and committed their detestable practices, but in just a little while your behavior led you to become more corrupt than they were!"