In the year that king Uzziah died, I saw the Lord sitting on a throne, high and lifted up; and his train filled the temple. I heard the Lord's voice, saying, "Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?" I said, "Here I am. Send me!"
My beloved had a vineyard on a fruitful hill. He dug it up, gathered its stones, planted it with the choicest vine, built a tower in its midst, and cut out a winepress. He looked for it to yield grapes, but it yielded wild grapes.
He will judge between the nations, and will decide concerning many peoples; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.
Historical background and authorship of the book of Isaiah. An emphasis on the unity of the book.
Their first game was very different from practice. Lots of people sat in the stands. With the first pitch, people called out, "Kade, swing!" Kade swung! "Strike!" Two more strikes, and he walked to the dugout. A friend patted him on the shoulder and said, "Don't pay attention to the crowd. Listen for the coach's voice."
Will Yahweh be pleased with thousands of rams? He has shown you, O man, what is good. What does Yahweh require of you, but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?
But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, being small among the clans of Judah, out of you one will come forth to me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth are from of old, from everlasting.
Her leaders judge for bribes, and her priests teach for a price. Therefore Zion for your sake will be plowed like a field, and Jerusalem will become heaps of rubble, and the mountain of the temple like the high places of a forest.
"The latter glory of this house will be greater than the former," says Yahweh of Armies; "and in this place will I give peace," says Yahweh of Armies.
Rejoice greatly, daughter of Zion! Shout, daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your King comes to you! He is righteous, and having salvation; lowly, and riding on a donkey, even on a colt, the foal of a donkey.