Through Jeremiah 52 (p.990)

Jeremiah 31
Finally words of love once again from God.
:33 – But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the Lord, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.~Instead of a “Don't do this and you will live” type of covenant.
:34 – And they shall teach no more every man his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the Lord: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.~This reminds me of our theme verse for this blog.
Jeremiah 32
:7 – right of redemption =
http://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?Strongs=H1353&t=KJV
:27 – Behold, I am the Lord, the God of all flesh: is there anything too hard for me?~A newly mentioned attribute of God.

*This chapter contains a legal settlement of a land sale. Biblical real estate deal!

Jeremiah 33
:3 – Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and shew thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not.

:22 – The Levites minister unto God.

Jeremiah 34
:10 – Emancipation of Bible slaves.
:11 – Undone one verse later bringing severe consequences.
Jeremiah 35
2: - Jeremiah is commanded to bring these people into God's house and give them wine! Rechabites = very little mentioned or known place/people
~It looks like God was trying to give a new commandment to this people that were formerly commanded to abstain from wine and planting and building...in other words God was trying to settle them, but they held on to that old commandment.
Jeremiah 36
:6 – upon the fasting day~a corporate day of fasting

~So Baruch had to read all the evil from the Lord sent to rebuke His people. There are times when remembering evil (or negative) is necessary. So it is inappropriate to say “I never dwell on the negative,” when God commands it to be read on a day of fasting to bring repentance, like Isaiah 58 talks about. Hello, preacher.

:28 – a second roll, like Moses' second set of stone tablets.

Jeremiah 37
Jeremiah goes to prison.
Jeremiah 38
Ebedmelech is sent to get Jeremiah out of prison after he tells the king Jeremiah will die since there is no more bread in the city.
Jeremiah 39
Babylon attacks Jerusalem...again.
Jeremiah 40
The Jews returned to Judah.
Jeremiah 41
Another Ishmael.
Jeremiah 42
:10 – God says he will repent of the evil He did to them.
:19 – remnant of Judah
Jeremiah 43
You better sojourn where God says... or else!
Jeremiah 44
All this because it was just too hard to obey God.
:26 – God swears by his own name.
Jeremiah 45
:5 – for a prey in all places whither thou goest~O to be the hunter rather than the hunted.
Jeremiah 46
Isn't it so amazing how in KJV language even the most horrid tragedies sound so eloquently beautiful?
:24 – Who is the daughter of Egypt?
Jeremiah 47
scabbard =
http://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?Strongs=H8593&t=KJV
Jeremiah 48
Woe to Moab
:44 – year of visitation is not always a holy visitation of happy, positive experiences.
Jeremiah 49
:4 – We cannot trust in our treasures.
:9 – would they not leave some gleaning grapes~I love this idea of leaving some extra for the poor, such as when Boaz commanded his workers to leave some for Ruth to glean. No matter the portion of ones' substance, it was commanded to leave some behind. I suppose a modern example would be those who prepare an extra plate for Elijah.
Jeremiah 50
Against Babylon. Finally...someone other than Jews.
:3 – Out of the north again. What is it about the north?
:17 – Israel is referred to as a 'he'
:20 – I will pardon them whom I reserve
Jeremiah 51
:7 – Babylon hath been a golden cup in the Lord's hand, that made all the earth drunken...~I believe kingdoms like this are still in the earth today, spiritually speaking. Love this analogy.

:16 – When he uttereth his voice, there is a multitude of waters in the heavens; and he causeth the vapours to ascend from the ends of the earth; he maketh lightnings with rain, and bringeth forth the wind out of his treasures.~In other words, God's voice rocks you like a hurricane.

:46 – rumour = 

http://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?Strongs=H8052&t=KJV

:48 – Spoilers from the north.

:63 – I wonder if that scroll was ever found? Did it become one of the Dead Sea Scrolls?

Jeremiah 52

(This is actually extending into the next weeks' reading portion, but it's the last chapter and it makes sense to me to keep it together.)

:12 – I have invented my own dating system for these biblical time descriptions:

5–10–19Neb = Now in the fifth month, in the tenth day of the month, which was the nineteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon...

I am happy to see after all the 'woe untos' that the book of Jeremiah has a happy ending-- the king of Judah was released from prison, sat back on a throne higher even that the king-in-power's fellow kings, and got to eat with him his whole life. All this even though the Babylonian king that released him was named Evilmerodach. Lamentations, here we come! I'm going to keep my hopes up for a happy ending, in spite of the name.

Through Jeremiah 30 (p.960)

Jeremiah 8
:1-3 – Grave-digging in action.
:7 – Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times; and the turtle and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the LORD.
:22 – Is there no balm in Gilead; is there no physician there? Why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered?~So they have the medicine, but won't go get it and take it.
Jeremiah 9
:15 – God feeds his people wormwood and gall water.***Definitions.
:23-24 – Thus saith the Lord, Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his might, let not the rich man glory in his riches: But let him that glorieth glory in this, that he understandeth and knoweth me, that I am the Lord which exercise lovingkindmess, judgment, and righteousness, in the earth: for in these things I delight, saith the Lord.~This is in addition to the scripture that often comes to mind when Jesus says “Rejoice that your names are written in the Lamb's Book of Life.”

~By the way, I just learned last week that in the Hebrew language there is no capitalization. So funny ways of capitalizing happen in the King James version, such as not using a capital letter to start the next sentence after a question mark...but they are not copying the original in that sense. Interesting.~

:25-26 – God will bring punishment to the circumcised as well as uncircumcised people together because Israel is uncircumcised in the heart.

Jeremiah 10
:22 – commotion out of the north country-There has to be some kind of symbolism with all these references to the north. ***
Jeremiah 11
:14 – God tells Jeremiah not to pray for the people. I'm glad I'm not the only one that has heard that from God!
Jeremiah 12
:10-12 – Pastors are reprimanded.
Jeremiah 13
Jeremiah really gets a strange commandment here — to get a linen girdle and hide it by the river for a couple weeks until God tells him to go get it back. Then, like the girdle is ruined, so will be the kingdoms he has to prophecy to — which will include rebuking the royalty themselves. Wow. Not fun.

Jeremiah 14

:1 – dearth??
:15 – False prophets reap the opposite of what they lie about.
Jeremiah 15
:3 – 4 kinds of destruction: 1) slaying sword 2) tearing dogs, 3) devouring and destroying fowls of heaven 4) devouring and destroying beasts of the earth
:20 – And I will make thee unto this people a fenced brasen wall: and they shall fight against thee, but they shall not prevail against thee: for I am with thee to save thee and to deliver thee, saith the Lord. ~Sounds very secure. Who needs armor and a shield when you're a wall?
Jeremiah 16
:1 - Don't make a family here.
Jeremiah 17
:5-6 – Thus saith the Lord; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the Lord. For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh; but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, in a salt land and not inhabited.
Heath = stripped, destitute, naked, poor, helpless http://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?Strongs=H6199&t=KJV
~I know that is true. You have to trust in God, even when most of your help may be coming from the same man (human) over and over...it is still God prompting them to help you.~
:9-10 – The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it? I the Lord search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings.~For some reason I always thought that verse was in Psalms or Proverbs.
:11 – As the partridge sitteth on eggs, and hatcheth them not; so he that getteth riches, and not by right, shall leave them in the midst of his days, and at his end shall be a fool.~Perhaps another verse people refer to in calling gambling a sin... but also a good verse to claim the victory over those who may have stolen from you.
:21-22 – Bear no burden on the sabbath day. Wow. No burden. I am positive that includes the mental and spiritual ones, as well as physical.
This just made it into my favorite chapters of the Bible category!
Jeremiah 18
:2 – potter's house
Jeremiah 19
Prophecy to Tophet = place of fire http://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?Strongs=H8612&t=KJV
Jeremiah 20
:9 – Then I said, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name. But his word was in mine heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I was weary with forbearing, and I could not stay.~If I were Jeremiah, I would probably have said this a lot sooner...like in chapter 2!
Jeremiah 21
Prophecy to Zedekiah
Jeremiah 22
To the king of Judah
:13 - Woe unto him that buildeth his house by unrighteousness, and his chambers by wrong, that useth his neighbour's service without wages, and giveth him not for his work.~So it is okay to be paid for working for your neighbor!
:14 – sealed is spelled cieled in KJV
Jeremiah 23
Woe to pastors
:23-24 – Am I a God at hand, saith the Lord, and not a God afar off? Can any hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him? Saith the Lord. Do not I fill heaven and earth? Saith the Lord.~Omnipresence.
:29 – Is not my word like as a fire? Saith the Lord; and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces?
Jeremiah 24
Fig Parable/Prophecy
Jeremiah 25
:9 – What are the families of the north?
:27 – spue=vomit http://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?Strongs=H7006&t=KJV
Jeremiah 26
:2 – stand in the court of the Lord's house, and speak unto all the cities of Judah~I believe just as much as Jeremiah's words were prophetic, so were his positions where he gave the words.
:13 – Therefore now amend your ways and your doings, and obey the voice of the Lord your God; and the Lord will repent him of the evil that he hath pronounced against you.~So we see that repenting doesn't imply wrongful doing or sin, just change.
Jeremiah 27
I notice that God speaks through Jeremiah often with a physical illustration of what He plans to do.
Jeremiah 28
:10 – 2 prophets working out a physical illustration together. Hananiah and Jeremiah.
:16-17 – Hananiah died because he taught rebellion against the Lord.
Jeremiah 29
:11 – 14 – For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end. Then shall ye call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you. And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart. And I will be found of you, saith the Lord: and I will turn away your captivity, and I will gather you from all the nations, and from all the places whither I have driven you, saith the Lord; and I will bring you again into the place whence I caused you to be carried away captive.
Jeremiah 30
:17 – For I will restore health unto thee, and I will heal thee of thy wounds, saith the Lord; because they called thee an Outcast, saying, This is Zion, whom no man seeketh after.

Through Jeremiah 7 (p.930)

Isaiah 46
Bel and Nebo
I am reminded of the book of Revelation by the rebuking of these lands...just as Revelation holds the rebuking of churches.
Isaiah 47
Who is the virgin daughter of Babylon? Daughter of the Chaldeans?
Isaiah 48
:1 – which swear by the name of the LORD, and make mention of the God
of Israel, but not in truth, nor in righteousness. ~Boy, there it
is. I looked at a certain “temple” last week that does
the same thing.
:17 – I am the LORD thy God which teacheth thee to profit, which leadeth
thee by the way that thou shouldest go.~Alright,
I'm ready for that class to be in session!
Isaiah 49
:1 – from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name ~
Just discussed this with my own mother the other day – that bowels must have meant something different to the OT and NT folks.
:11 – God's highways again. They'll be exalted! That might be a neat
ministry or project name. God's Highway.

:15-16 – Some of the most beautful expressions of God's love to his
people. Thy walls are continually before me ~this stands out to me.

Isaiah 50
:1 – God asks for divorce papers!
:7 – For the Lord God will help me; therefore shall I not be confounded; therefore have I set my face like a flint, and I know that I shall not be ashamed.~Yes and amen!
:11 – Behold, all ye that kindle a fire, that compass yourselves about with sparks: walk in the light of your fire, and in the sparks that ye have kindled. This shall ye have of mine hand; ye shall lie down in sorrow.~I have always heard this quoted as instruction to walk in your own “fire,” but here it looks as if it is a rebuke for doing so, as opposed to walking in the light of God (as the previous verse says.)
Isaiah 51
:3 - Zion has waste places?! And deserts. And God will change them back like an Eden and beautiful things.
Isaiah 52
Jerusalem is commanded to dress herself.
Isaiah 53
:2-3 – ...he hath no form or comliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him. He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not. – Prophetic of Christ in Jesus, as well as Christ in us.
:5 – with his stripes we are healed
Isaiah 54
:1 – The desolate will have more children than the married wife. ***(Research more.)
:2 – Get a bigger tent! Or make yours bigger!
:10 – Covenant of peace
:11 – stones with fair colours***

:13-14, 17– And all thy children shall be taught of the LORD; and great shall be the peace of thy children. In righteousness shalt thou be established: thou shalt be far from oppression; for thou shalt not fear; and from terror; for it shall not come near thee. No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judment thou shalt condemn. This is the
heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their righteousness is of me, saith the LORD.~ Beautiful promise.

Isaiah 55
The whole chapter!
:8 – 13!
Isaiah 56
Importance of the Sabbath
Isaiah 57
Righteous perish because they are being taken away from wickedness.
Isaiah 58
voice = trumpet
The great fasting chapter.
Isaiah 59
:17 – Different spiritual clothes than the new testament. Righteousness =
breastplate; salvation = helmet; vengeance = garments.
:19 – When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the LORD
shall lift up a standard against him.

Isaiah 60

Rise and shine and give God the glory glory; Rise and shine and give God the glory glory; Rise and shine and - give God the glory glory; children of the Lord!
:7 – the sacrificial ram will minister unto Israel as an acceptable
sacrifice to God.
:18 – Violence shall no more be heard in thy land, wasting nor destruction within thy borders; but thou shalt call thy walls Salvation, and thy gates Praise.
:22 – A little one shall become a thousand, and a small one a strong nation: I the LORD will hasten it in his time.~Hope to all us little preachers!
Isaiah 61
:2 – Vengeance from God sounds like the cure to many ailments, which occur
for lack of judgment. Certainly it is not the worldly way of interpreting correction as a good thing or a solution. But from this chapter, it appears to be God's way.
:3 - “What a healing Jesus”***
:8 – For I the LORD love judgment...


What a healing Jesus I've found in you
What a healing Jesus
You restore, refresh, and renew
You're my healing Jesus for such a time as this
Arise on healing wings
Son of Righteousness
__
The spirit of the Lord
Is now upon me
Anointing me
To heal the broken heart
Open prison doors
Set the captives free
To comfort those who mourn 
Fill their lips with praise
To pour the oil of joy
That they may be called
The trees of Righteousness
The planting of the LORD

Isaiah 62
:2 – A new name is given from God.
No more (old names) Forsaken or Desolate, but (new names) Hephzi-bah, Beulah,***The holy people, The redeemed of the LORD, Sought out, A city not forsaken.

Isaiah 63
:9 – Mention is made of God carrying his people all the days of old. ~I've seen references to leading and guiding and instructing, but this is the first carry
verb. Love it. Reminds me of parents carrying their babies.

:10
– The holy Spirit was vexed. And was in the earth before Jesus
sent it after himself.

Isaiah 64
Prayer words back towards God. Conversational shift from prophetic words of
God to his people.
Isaiah 65
:2 – Walking in their own thoughts....hmmm, how often does that still
happen? Thus the words my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither
are my ways your ways***
:5 – holier than thou – actually comes from this Scripture.
Always wondered that.
:17 – For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth: and the former
shall not be remembered, nor come into mind.~So this could have already happened and we don't know it?
:24 – And it shall come to pass that before they call, I will answer; and while they are yet speaking, I will hear.~I have experienced this.
Isaiah 66
:2 – but to this man will I look, even to him that is poor and of a
contrite spirit, and trembleth at my word.~Yes, I must preach here just a little bit. People think you're weird if you honor the Word of God by honoring the preacher who brings it to you. And yet here, we see that we earn the eyes or vision of God by having that kind of humility...and fear of His Word. How else can we show that humility? Reverence to the messengers. Amen.

:18 – 23 – Good Prayer for 10-40 window (part of the world said to have never had the Gospel preached to them.)

Jeremiah 1
:1-3 – B.C. I had obviously not been coined as a phrase or calendar system
yet, so it took a long time to describe the date.
:7 – Moses tried the same thing – finding some excuse for why he couldn't speak for God. But God didn't let Jeremiah off the hook or give him someone else like Moses was given Aaron.
Jeremiah 2
:3 – Israel was God's firstfruits
:8 – First mention I've seen of pastors. ***Look up Hebrew word to see if it is used before this.
:20 – playing the harlot is used to describe Israel worshiping other gods. Perhaps other references to this sort of behavior mean the same thing.
Jeremiah 3
:7 – Judah is Israel's sister
:8 – God outright says that he gave Israel a bill of divorce for playing the harlot.
Return, Backslider!
Jeremiah 4
:3 – For thus saith the LORD to the men of Judah and Jerusalem, Break up your fallow*** ground, and sow not among thorns.~A constant chore in the ministry.

:4 – Circumcision of the heart

:23 – Recap of Genesis 1:1?!
:26 – all the cities thereof were broken down at the presence of the LORD, and by his fierce anger~Several things: 1) makes one wonder how many times there was an “in the beginning”. 2) I am thinking of references to the day of the LORD being a great and terrible time 3) When He comes with vengeance, it looks like things get destroyed and have to start over. (In the beginning.)***Study further.

Jeremiah 5

:7 – What would be the harlots' houses in this case, keeping with the meaning of harlots being ones that serve false gods? Maybe false church houses of the time?
:14 – God's word = fire in the mouth, and those receiving the correction = the wood. Whew. What a ministry to bring that word to that people! No wonder he's the weeping prophet!
:31 – The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it so: and what will ye do in the end thereof?~Exactly. What are you going to do? I like what Prophet David Terrell said recently in his tent meeting, “Bible days never stopped. We are still living in Bible days.”

Jeremiah 6

A lot of talk about the north so far in this book.
:14 – They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.~I believe in striving for peace. And at the same time, saying Peace  doesn't always bring it. At least if you're going to say it, say it like Jesus when He calmed the waters and there was power behind his words.
:16 – Thus saith the LORD, stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls. But they said, We will not walk therein.~I believe some of those old paths are praying it through, fasting, tent ministry, and Holy Ghost baptism.
Jeremiah 7
:11 – God's house has become a den of robbers.
:22-23 – God didn't give Israel a commandment about sacrifices when they
came out of Egypt, but he said Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and ye shall be my people: and walk ye in all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well unto you.

Through Isaiah 45 (p.900)

Isaiah 16

To the land between Sela and Zion

Moab's daughters, Arnon's fords, Sibmah's vine
:8 – Heshbon's fields
:14 – years of an hireling?
Isaiah 17

To Damascus

:10 – strange slips?
Isaiah 18

To the shadowing land

:7 – present?
Isaiah 19
To Egypt
:20 – One thing about when trouble comes – that's when you hear from people you may not have heard from in awhile for prayer.
Isaiah 20
:2 – Isaiah walked NAKED AND BAREFOOT for 3 years as a sign about Egypt and Ethiopia (Interesting that so much of Africa is still this way – naked and barefoot). I am so glad that I live in this time and don't have that ministry!
Isaiah 21
To the desert of the sea
:1 – I understand those desert winds after living in the Mojave desert...AND having the tent up there!
:5 – anoint the shield – Good idea.
:11 – To Dumah
:16 – according to the years of an hireling-this shall come to pass at this very time, the event shall no longer be deferred, just as a hireling does not protract his daily work beyond the agreed hour http://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?Strongs=H7916&t=KJV
Isaiah 22
To the Valley of Vision
:11 - ...ye have not looked unto the maker thereof, neither had respect unto him that fashioned it long ago...
Isaiah 23
To Tyre

http://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?Strongs=H8659&t=KJV

Isaiah 24
:15 – Wherefore glorify ye the LORD in the fires, even the name of the LORD God of Israel in the isles of the sea.

:23 – Who are the Lord's ancients?

Isaiah 25
Woes are over!
Isaiah 26
:2 – Open ye the gates, that the righteous nation which keepeth the truth may enter in.- Not only will the king of glory come in the open gates, but the righteous nation!
:3 – Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee. The answer to perfect peace. Forget Confusion. I mean Confucious.
:9 – For when thy judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness. ~I know that's right. Judgment brings repentance and humility.

:17-18 – I believe this is a very effective prayer for pastors, or any minister striving to produce something in the earth.

Isaiah 27
:12 – 13 – Gather when the trumpet blows...not up up and away, but to worship in the holy mount.
Isaiah 28
Woe returns – now to Ephraim.
:18 – And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it.
Isaiah 29
Woe to Ariel
:10 – spirit of deep sleep from the LORD

:13 – Wherefore the LORD said, Forasmuch as this people draw near me with their mouth, and with their lips do honour me, but have removed their heart far from me, and their fear toward me is taught by the precept of men:~Exactly. This happens still often today with people who will brag on you, but have little to do with what you are doing for the Lord.

Isaiah 30
:1 – Woe to the rebellious children, saith the LORD, that take counsel, but not of me; and that cover with a covering, but not of my spirit, that they may add sin to sin:
:15 – For thus saith the Lord GOD, the Holy One of Israel; in returning and rest shall ye be saved; in quietness and in confidence shall be your strength: and ye would not.

:20-21 – And though the Lord give you the bread of adversity, and the water of affliction, yet shall not thy teachers be removed into a corner any more, but thine eyes shall see thy teachers: And thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying, This is the way, walk ye in it, when ye turn to the right hand, and when ye turn to the left. ~I absolutely believe this 100%. Adversity and affliction have been our hidden teachers. And the voice is real...sometimes coming behind you because you have to move in faith sometimes before the voice comes. As my old youth pastor used to say, “You can't steer a parked car.”

:33 – the breath of the LORD = a stream of brimstone

Isaiah 31
:1 – Egypt was a land with multitudes of gods with multitudes of names...and many chariots and horses and goods of every kind. So no wonder the Psalm said “We will remember the name of the Lord our God [Some trust in chariots, and some in horses: but we will remember the name of the LORD our God. Ps. 20:7]
Isaiah 32
:20 – Blessed are ye that sow beside all waters, that send forth thither the feet of the ox and the ass.
Isaiah 33
14 – Who knew that Zion had sinners in it? Who among us shall dwell with the devouring fire? Who among us shall dwell with everlasting burnings?
Isaiah 34
:4 – the heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll

Isaiah 35

:1 – The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them; and the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose.

:4 – God comes with vengeance to save his people.

:8 – Highway of Holiness
Isaiah 36
Hezekiah, Sennacherib, Assyria, Rabshakeh, Lachish, Eliakim, Hilkiah, Shebna, Joah, Asaph, Hamath, Arphad, Sepharvaim
Storytime chapter.
Isaiah 37
:29 – Because thy rage against me, and thy tumult, is come up into mine ears, therefore will I put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest. ~God to Hezekiah
:36 – This reminds me of the story about Jehosaphat and the angel of God killing Israel's enemies at that time. Who ever thought angels did all that killing for God?
Isaiah 38
:2 – Sometimes you just have to turn your face to the wall and cry out to God for what you want.
:8 – I wonder how many minutes 10 degrees was on the sundial?
:18 – For the grave cannot praise thee, death can not celebrate thee: they that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth.***
Isaiah 39
:8 - Why did Hezekiah say that Isaiah's word from God was good?
Isaiah 40
Beautifully poetic, like a Psalm.
:3 – I love how I keep reading about highways for God. You can drive fast on highways and go both ways.
:28 – 31 – power to the faint
Isaiah 41
:19 – 7 trees: cedar, shittah, myrtle, oil, fir, pine, box
Isaiah 42
:6 -7 – I the LORD have called thee in righteousness, and will hold thine hand, and will keep thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, for a light of the Gentiles; To open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the prison, and them that sit in darkness out of the prison house. ~All I want to do is quote Isaiah. I love it even more than Psalms! Maybe it's because it is like Israel earns all this blessings after making it through the “woe chapters.”
:14 – now will I cry like a travailing woman~this always jumps out to me whether I'm reading or listening to Isaiah. It is as if the words themselves are crying like the woman.
Isaiah 43
:1 - Fear not: for I have redeemed thee, I have called thee by name; thou art mine.
:18 - 19 – Remember ye not the former things, neither consider the things of old. Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert.

Isaiah 44
:1 – Jesu-run?
Isaiah 45
Sounds like the rebuke of Job.
:9 – Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker! Let the potsherd strive with the potsherds of the earth. Shall the clay say to him that fasioneth it, What makest thou? Or thy work, He hath no hands?

:11 – Thus saith the Lord, the Holy One of Israel, and his Maker, Ask me of things to come concerning my sons, and concerning the work of my hands command ye me.~God asking to be commanded?!

:15 – Yes, he sure is a God who hides Himself.

:23 – That unto me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall swear.~Sound familiar? Later in the NT...that Jesus Christ is Lord!! Hallelujah!

Through Isaiah 15 (p.870)

Ecclesiastes 8
:1 – Wisdom
gives you a bold and shiny face.
:6 – Not only
a season for all things, but to every purpose there is time andjudgment.
~This will likely be a key scripture in my next sermon “God is my
attorney.”*** It falls under the category of the rain falling
on the righteous as well as the unrighteous. Judgment happens to
every purpose...even the purpose of a misdiagnosis, like what
happened the day my husband passed away. And that doctor died within a year. I don't know if he was a believer or not, but I know he took an oath. And God takes covenants seriously, as I have seen all over the OT.

:8 – This is interesting. Man may not have power to keep the
spirit in a body of a man, but God sure does. And when we are
speaking as His oracle, we have that power as well as the sons of
God, rather than *only* men. I heard a preacher last week talking
about her husband coming back to life twice when the doctors said he had died. So somewhere with her was that power to keep that spirit with that body! Hallelujah!

:11-:13 – Distinguishing between the sinner, one who fears God, and
then the wicked. The sinner can sin a lot and still live a long time,
but the wicked won't. So who is the wicked if it is not the sinner?

Ecclesiastes 9
:2 – All things come alike to all ~Very similar to the expression of rain falling upon the righteous as well as the unrighteous
:4 – A living dog is better than a dead lion ~I would add that a dead lion is also better than a live one out of a
cage or its environment.
:7
– Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy
wine with a merry heart; for God now accepteth thy works. ~All
I want to say is that it's
in there.
:11
– the race is not to the swift...but time and chance
happeneth to them all. ~Just ask
the tortoise and the hare!

:17
– Yes, wise words are usually heard in quiet, although I never
actually thought of that.

Ecclesiastes 10
:2 – Wise
man's heart is on his right, and a fool's on his left – reminds
me of the French expression I learned yesterday having to do with
Gauche, meaning left, literally (en francᾶis)
but figuratively meaning undesirable.
:16 - :20 –
Going back to sounding like Proverbs...including the expressions: By
much slothfulness the building decayeth; and through idleness of the
hands the house droppeth through...money answereth all things...and
don't curse someone in secret, because a little birdie will tell the
person about it.
Ecclesiastes 11
:3 – Where a
tree falls, so is it. Who knew that was a biblical expression?
:8 – Live many
years, see many dark days.
:10 – This
verse will really preach to people hanging onto the excuse of having
a hard childhood, woe is me. Therefore remove sorrow
from thy heart, and put away evil from thy flesh: for childhood and
youth are vanity.
Ecclesiastes 12
:6 – silver
cord, golden bowl, pitcher at the fountain, wheel at the cistern
:12 – much
study is a weariness of the flesh~
Ha! Again, it's in there.
Song of Solomon 1
:1 - Self titled
Song of Songs

:5
– Why is she saying “I am black”?

Song of Solomon 2
:1 – I AM
the rose of Sharon, and the lily of the valleys.
:4
– his banner over me was love

Song of Solomon 3
Looking for lost love.
Song of Solomon 4
Symbolism all over.
The kind that was lost in translation. Neck like a tower for an army?
Song of Solomon 5
Playing hard to get.
Or hide and seek.
Song of Solomon 6
Although intensely
romantic, I feel this book describes the depth and passion of God's
love for His people somehow.
Song of Solomon 7
:2 – Oh, to have a navel like a goblet. Whew.
Song of Solomon 8
It is hard to imagine wanting the love of your life to be your sibling, but perhaps that was an attempt to express the desire to have known him longer in life.
I understand that some religions have banned this book from young children to read because of the intensely romantic innuendos. I wonder if Solomon gave a copy to every one of his sweethearts?
Isaiah 1
:3 – Israel does not know her place.
:9 – Thank God for the remnant.
:17 – Learn to do well; [1] seek judment, [2] relieve the oppressed, [3] judge the fatherless, [4] plead for the widow.
:25– tin?
Isaiah 2
:2 – God's house = a mountain on a mountain that all nations will flow into. To flow, gravity wise, would be downward. But in this case, it is
upward.
:3 – Out of Zion shall go forth the law
:4 – swords will be beat into plowshares and spears into pruninghooks ...neither shall they learn war anymore
:16 – ships of Tarshish*
Isaiah 3
:3-:4 – Alright, I like this. Babes and children shall rule over eloquent
orator(s).
Isaiah 4
:4 – purged the blood of Jerusalem...by the spirit of judgment, and by the spirit of burning.
:5 – And the LORD will create upon every dwelling place
of mount Zion, and upon her assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day, and the shining of a flaming fire by night: for upon all the
glory shall be a defence.
:6 – Tent verse!
Isaiah 5
:1 - Good time for a song. Almost sounds like we're going back to Song of Songs.

:14 – Hell expanded itself.

Isaiah 6
:1 - I see the Lord

:7 – Coal is
still used for detoxifying the body today.
Isaiah 7
:3 – fuller's field 
:10 – 14 – I am wondering how this is a sign to Ahaz, since Jesus' birth was long after...but perhaps it was intended as a sign to the whole
generation to come after Ahaz.
:15 – Eating butter and honey have something to do with discerning good verses evil.

Isaiah 8
:3 – Isaiah called his wife the prophetess.
Wow, I never thought of Isaiah as a dad. You have to really be able
to hear from God to get that whole name for that childMaher-shalal-hash-baz = Maher-shalal-hash-baz "swift is booty, speedy is prey"  1) symbolic name given by Isaiah by the Lord's direction to Isaiah's son; prophetic indication that Damascus and Samaria were soon to be plundered by the king of Assyria http://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?Strongs=H4122&t=KJV
:14 – he shall be for a sanctuary; but for a stone of stumbling and
for a rock of offence to both the houses of Israel...
Isaiah 9
:6 – and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.

:10 – bricks vs. hewn stones, sycamores vs. cedars

:14-:16 – Leaders that hinder people from truth can be cut off in one
day by God.

Recurring statement: For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

Isaiah 10
:21- The remnant shall return, even the remnant of Jacob, unto the mighty God.
:27 – And it shall come to pass in that day, that his burden shall be taken away from off thy shoulder, and his yoke from off thy neck, and the yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing.

I LOVE ISAIAH!!!

Isaiah 11
:2 – Spirits of God: 1) spirit of the LORD, 2) spirit of wisdom, 3) spirit of understanding, 4) spirit of counsel, 5) spirit of might, 6) spirit of
knowledge, 7) spirit of the fear of the LORD
Isaiah 12
:3 – Therefore with joy shall ye draw waters out of the wells of salvation.
~Salvation is the well the woman came to when Jesus said “Drink of me and you will never thirst again.” Salvation is the well. And
wells are for getting water. You just have to dig one deep enough to
get to the water. If you're thirsty, dig a little deeper.  Hallelujah!!!***
Isaiah 13
:12 – golden wedge of Ophir***Ophir = "reducing to ashes"

1) eleventh son of Joktan

2) a land or city in southern Arabia in Solomon's trade route where gold evidently was traded for goods

3) characteristic of fine gold

4) fine gold  http://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?Strongs=H211&t=KJV

Isaiah 14
:12 – Fall of Lucifer.
:16 – Lucifer is referred to as a man...which would negate the idea that he was Satan, a spirit or angel. In fact, going back to verse 4, it looks as though all this is in reference to the king of Babylon. Context is everything.
:22 – Refers back again to Babylon being cut off.
Isaiah 15
Moab, Ar, Kir, Bajith, Dibon, Nebo, Medeba, Heshbon, Elealeh, Jahaz, Zoar, Luhith, Horonaim, Nimrim, Eglaim, Beer-elim