Maria Esther Torres's Highlights
Maria Esther Torres
highlighted Isaiah 49:15 ESV
"Can a woman forget her nursing child, that she should have no compassion on the son of her womb? Even these may forget, yet I will not forget you.
Dec 10
Maria Esther Torres
highlighted Isaiah 49:14 ESV
But Zion said, "The Lord has forsaken me; my Lord has forgotten me."
Dec 10
Maria Esther Torres
highlighted Isaiah 49:13 ESV
Sing for joy, O heavens, and exult, O earth; break forth, O mountains, into singing! For the Lord has comforted his people and will have compassion on his afflicted.
Dec 10
Maria Esther Torres
highlighted Isaiah 49:12 ESV
Behold, these shall come from afar, and behold, these from the north and from the west, and these from the land of Syene."
Dec 10
Maria Esther Torres
highlighted Isaiah 49:11 ESV
And I will make all my mountains a road, and my highways shall be raised up.
Dec 10
Maria Esther Torres
highlighted Isaiah 49:10 ESV
they shall not hunger or thirst, neither scorching wind nor sun shall strike them, for he who has pity on them will lead them, and by springs of water will guide them.
Dec 10
Maria Esther Torres
highlighted Isaiah 49:8 ESV
Thus says the Lord: "In a time of favor I have answered you; in a day of salvation I have helped you; I will keep you and give you as a covenant to the people, to establish the land, to apportion the desolate heritages,
Dec 10
Maria Esther Torres
highlighted Isaiah 49:9 ESV
saying to the prisoners, 'Come out,' to those who are in darkness, 'Appear.' They shall feed along the ways; on all bare heights shall be their pasture;
Dec 10
Maria Esther Torres
highlighted Isaiah 49:7 ESV
Thus says the Lord, the Redeemer of Israel and his Holy One, to one deeply despised, abhorred by the nation, the servant of rulers: "Kings shall see and arise; princes, and they shall prostrate themselves; because of the Lord, who is faithful, the Holy One of Israel, who has chosen you."
Dec 10
Maria Esther Torres
highlighted Isaiah 49:5 ESV
And now the Lord says, he who formed me from the womb to be his servant, to bring Jacob back to him; and that Israel might be gathered to him— for I am honored in the eyes of the Lord, and my God has become my strength—
Dec 10
Maria Esther Torres
highlighted Isaiah 49:4 ESV
But I said, "I have labored in vain; I have spent my strength for nothing and vanity; yet surely my right is with the Lord, and my recompense with my God."
Dec 10
Maria Esther Torres
highlighted Acts 21:27 ESV
When the seven days were almost completed, the Jews from Asia, seeing him in the temple, stirred up the whole crowd and laid hands on him,
Dec 9
Maria Esther Torres
highlighted Acts 21:38 ESV
Are you not the Egyptian, then, who recently stirred up a revolt and led the four thousand men of the Assassins out into the wilderness?"
Dec 9
Maria Esther Torres
highlighted Acts 21:39-40 ESV
Paul replied, "I am a Jew, from Tarsus in Cilicia, a citizen of no obscure city. I beg you, permit me to speak to the people."And when he had given him permission, Paul, standing on the steps, motioned with his hand to the people. And when there was a great hush, he addressed them in the Hebrew language, saying:
Dec 9
Maria Esther Torres
highlighted Acts 21:33 ESV
Then the tribune came up and arrested him and ordered him to be bound with two chains. He inquired who he was and what he had done.
Dec 9
Maria Esther Torres
highlighted Acts 21:30 ESV
Then all the city was stirred up, and the people ran together. They seized Paul and dragged him out of the temple, and at once the gates were shut.
Dec 9
Maria Esther Torres
highlighted Acts 21:31 ESV
And as they were seeking to kill him, word came to the tribune of the cohort that all Jerusalem was in confusion.
Dec 9
Maria Esther Torres
highlighted Acts 21:29 ESV
For they had previously seen Trophimus the Ephesian with him in the city, and they supposed that Paul had brought him into the temple.
Dec 9
Maria Esther Torres
highlighted Acts 21:20 ESV
And when they heard it, they glorified God. And they said to him, "You see, brother, how many thousands there are among the Jews of those who have believed. They are all zealous for the law,
Dec 9
Maria Esther Torres
highlighted Acts 21:18 ESV
On the following day Paul went in with us to James, and all the elders were present.
Dec 9