Bible verses about "drama" | Leeser

¹ The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of ‘Uzziyahu, Jotham, Achaz, and Hezekiah, the kings of Judah. ² Hear, O ye heavens, and give ear, O earth; for the Lord hath spoken: Children have I nourished and brought up, but they have rebelled against me. ³ The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master’s crib: Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider. ⁴ Woe! sinful nation, people laden with iniquity, seed of evil-doers, children that are corrupt: they have forsaken the Lord, they have incensed the Holy One of Israel, they are departed backward. ⁵ Why will ye be stricken yet more? that ye increase the revolt? every head is sick, and every heart is faint. ⁶ From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises, and putrefying sores: they have not been closed, nor bound up, nor mollified with oil. ⁷ Your country is desolate, your cities are burnt with fire; your soil—in your presence, strangers devour it, and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers. ⁸ And left is the daughter of Zion as a hut in a vineyard, as a lodge in a cucumber field, as a besieged city. ⁹ Unless the Lord of hosts had left unto us a remnant ever so small, like Sodom should we have been, unto Gomorrah should we have been compared. ¹⁰ Hear the word of the Lord, ye rulers of Sodom: give ear unto the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah. ¹¹ For what serveth me the multitude of your sacrifices? saith the Lord: I am sated with the burnt-offerings of rams, and the fat of fatted beasts; and the blood of bullocks, and of sheep, and of he-goats, I do not desire. ¹² When ye come to appear in my presence—who hath required this at your hand, to tread down my courts? ¹³ Continue no more to bring an oblation of deceit; incense of abomination is it unto me: new moon and sabbath, the calling of assemblies—I cannot bear misdeed with festive gathering. ¹⁴ Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth; they are become a burden unto me; I am weary to bear them, ¹⁵ And when ye spread forth your hands, I will withdraw my eyes from you; yea, when ye make ever so many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood. ¹⁶ Wash yourselves, make yourselves clean; put away the evil of your deeds from before my eyes; cease to do evil; ¹⁷ Learn to do well; seek for justice, relieve the oppressed, do justice to the fatherless, plead for the widow. ¹⁸ Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord: though your sins should be as scarlet, they shall become white as the snow; though they should be red like crimson, they shall become like wool. ¹⁹ If ye be willing and obey, the best of the land shall ye eat; ²⁰ But if ye refuse and rebel, by the sword shall ye be devoured; for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it. ²¹ How is she become a harlot, the faithful town! she, that was full of justice; righteousness lodged therein; but now murderers. ²² Thy silver is become dross, thy wine is drugged with water; ²³ Thy princes are rebels, and companions of thieves; every one loveth brides, and runneth after rewards; to the fatherless they will not do justice, and the cause of the widow doth not come unto them. ²⁴ Therefore saith the Lord, the Eternal of hosts, the mighty One of Israel, Ah, I will take satisfaction on my adversaries, and be avenged on my enemies. ²⁵ And I will turn my hand against thee, and purge away as with lye thy dross, and remove all thy tin: ²⁶ And I will restore thy judges as at the first, and thy counsellors as at the beginning; after that shalt thou be called, The city of righteousness, the town that is faithful. ²⁷ Zion shall be redeemed through justice, and her converts through righteousness. ²⁸ But destruction shall come over transgressors and sinners together, and those that forsake the Lord shall perish. ²⁹ For people shall be ashamed because of the terebinths which ye had desired, and ye shall be put to the blush because of the gardens that ye had chosen. ³⁰ For ye shall be as a terebinth the leaves of which wither, and as a garden that hath no water. ³¹ And the mighty oppressor shall become as tow, and his workman as a spark; and they shall both burn together, with none to quench.

⁵ Thou shalt not bow thyself down to them, nor serve them; for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;

¹ A psalm of David. The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want. ² In pastures of tender grass he causeth me to lie down: beside still waters he leadeth me. ³ My soul he refresheth: he guideth me in the tracks of righteousness for the sake of his name. ⁴ Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will not fear evil; for thou art with me: thy rod and thy staff—they indeed comfort me. ⁵ Thou preparest before me a table in the presence of my assailants; thou anointest with oil my head: my cup overfloweth. ⁶ Surely, only goodness and kindness shall follow me all the days of my life: and I shall dwell in the house of the Lord to the utmost length of days.

¹ He who sitteth under the secret protection of the Most High, shall rest under the shadow of the Almighty. ² I will say of the Lord, who is my refuge and my stronghold, my God, in whom I ever trust, ³ That he will surely deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, and from the pestilence of destruction. ⁴ With his pinions will he cover thee, and under his wings shalt thou find shelter: shield and buckler is his truth. ⁵ Thou shalt not be afraid of the terror of the night; nor of the arrow that flieth by day; ⁶ Nor of the pestilence that stalketh in darkness; nor of the deadly disease that wasteth at noonday. ⁷ There shall fall at thy side a thousand, and ten thousand at thy right hand; unto thee however shall it not come nigh. ⁸ Only with thy eyes shalt thou behold it, and see the recompense of the wicked. ⁹ Because thou hast said, The Lord is my protection, the Most High hast thou made thy refuge: ¹⁰ No evil shall befall thee, nor shall any plague come nigh unto thy tent. ¹¹ For his angels will he give charge concerning thee, to guard thee on all thy ways. ¹² Upon their hands shall they bear thee, that thou mayest not dash against a stone thy foot. ¹³ Upon the fierce lion and asp shalt thou tread: thou shalt trample under foot the young lion and serpent. ¹⁴ Because he hath fixed his desire upon me, therefore will I release him: I will set him on high, because he knoweth my name. ¹⁵ He will call on me, and I will answer him: with him will I be in distress; I will deliver him, and grant him honor. ¹⁶ With length of days will I satisfy him, and I will let him see my salvation.

²⁰ The soul that sinneth, she alone shall die; the son shall not help to bear the iniquity of the father and the father shall not help to bear the iniquity of the son: the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him.