Study Desk

Perfume from the magic flower fills the air, my darling. Right at our doorstep I have stored up for you all kinds of tasty fruits.

Solomon has a vineyard at Baal-Hamon, which he rents to others for a thousand pieces of silver each.

Your leaders have rejected me to become friends of crooks; your rulers are looking for gifts and bribes. Widows and orphans never get a fair trial.

Idols will be gone for good.

The look on your faces shows that you are sinful as Sodom, and you don't try to hide it. You are in for trouble, and you have brought it all on yourselves.

Tell those who obey God, "You're very fortunate— you will be rewarded for what you have done."

My friend dug the ground, removed the stones, and planted the best vines. He built a watchtower and dug a pit in rocky ground for pressing the grapes. He hoped they would be sweet, but bitter grapes were all it produced.

What more could I have done for my vineyard? I hoped for sweet grapes, but bitter grapes were all that grew.

I am the Lord All-Powerful! Israel is the vineyard, and Judah is the garden I tended with care. I had hoped for honesty and for justice, but dishonesty and cries for mercy were all I found.

You are in for trouble! You take over house after house and field after field, until there is no room left for anyone else in all the land.

You are in for trouble! You get up early to start drinking, and you keep it up late into the night.

The world of the dead has opened its mouth wide and is eagerly waiting for the leaders of Jerusalem and for its noisy crowds, especially for those who take pride in that city.

You are in for trouble! The lies you tell are like ropes by which you drag along sin and evil.

And you say, "Let the holy God of Israel hurry up and do what he has promised, so we can see it for ourselves."

You are headed for trouble! You say wrong is right, darkness is light, and bitter is sweet.

And you are great at drinking and mixing drinks. But you are in for trouble.

The Lord has signaled for the foreign nations to come and attack you. He has already whistled, and they are coming as fast as they can.

Flaming creatures with six wings each were flying over him. They covered their faces with two of their wings and their bodies with two more. They used the other two wings for flying,

After this, I heard the Lord ask, "Is there anyone I can send? Will someone go for us?" "I'll go," I answered. "Send me!"

Tell Ahaz to stop worrying. There's no need for him to be afraid of King Rezin and King Pekah. They are very angry, but they are nothing more than a dying fire. Ahaz doesn't need to fear