Maria Esther Torres's Highlights
Maria Esther Torres
highlighted Isaiah 30:18 ESV
Therefore the Lord waits to be gracious to you, and therefore he exalts himself to show mercy to you. For the Lord is a God of justice; blessed are all those who wait for him.
Nov 30
Maria Esther Torres
highlighted Isaiah 30:16 ESV
and you said, "No! We will flee upon horses"; therefore you shall flee away; and, "We will ride upon swift steeds"; therefore your pursuers shall be swift.
Nov 30
Maria Esther Torres
highlighted Isaiah 30:15 ESV
For thus said the Lord God, the Holy One of Israel, "In returning and rest you shall be saved; in quietness and in trust shall be your strength." But you were unwilling,
Nov 30
Maria Esther Torres
highlighted Isaiah 30:13-14 ESV
therefore this iniquity shall be to you like a breach in a high wall, bulging out, and about to collapse, whose breaking comes suddenly, in an instant; and its breaking is like that of a potter's vessel that is smashed so ruthlessly that among its fragments not a shard is found with which to take fire from the hearth, or to dip up water out of the cistern."
Nov 30
Maria Esther Torres
highlighted Isaiah 30:12 ESV
Therefore thus says the Holy One of Israel, "Because you despise this word and trust in oppression and perverseness and rely on them,
Nov 30
Maria Esther Torres
highlighted Isaiah 30:11 ESV
leave the way, turn aside from the path, let us hear no more about the Holy One of Israel."
Nov 30
Maria Esther Torres
highlighted Isaiah 30:10 ESV
who say to the seers, "Do not see," and to the prophets, "Do not prophesy to us what is right; speak to us smooth things, prophesy illusions,
Nov 30
Maria Esther Torres
highlighted Isaiah 30:9 ESV
For they are a rebellious people, lying children, children unwilling to hear the instruction of the Lord;
Nov 30
Maria Esther Torres
highlighted Isaiah 30:7 ESV
Egypt's help is worthless and empty; therefore I have called her "Rahab who sits still."
Nov 30
Maria Esther Torres
highlighted Isaiah 30:5 ESV
everyone comes to shame through a people that cannot profit them, that brings neither help nor profit, but shame and disgrace."
Nov 30
Maria Esther Torres
highlighted Isaiah 30:1 ESV
"Ah, stubborn children," declares the Lord, "who carry out a plan, but not mine, and who make an alliance, but not of my Spirit, that they may add sin to sin;
Nov 30
Maria Esther Torres
highlighted Isaiah 29:24 ESV
And those who go astray in spirit will come to understanding, and those who murmur will accept instruction."
Nov 30
Maria Esther Torres
highlighted Isaiah 29:20 ESV
For the ruthless shall come to nothing and the scoffer cease, and all who watch to do evil shall be cut off,
Nov 30
Maria Esther Torres
highlighted Isaiah 29:19 ESV
The meek shall obtain fresh joy in the Lord, and the poor among mankind shall exult in the Holy One of Israel.
Nov 30
Maria Esther Torres
highlighted Isaiah 29:18 ESV
In that day the deaf shall hear the words of a book, and out of their gloom and darkness the eyes of the blind shall see.
Nov 30
Maria Esther Torres
highlighted Isaiah 29:16 ESV
You turn things upside down! Shall the potter be regarded as the clay, that the thing made should say of its maker, "He did not make me"; or the thing formed say of him who formed it, "He has no understanding"?
Nov 30
Maria Esther Torres
highlighted Isaiah 29:15 ESV
Ah, you who hide deep from the Lord your counsel, whose deeds are in the dark, and who say, "Who sees us? Who knows us?"
Nov 30
Maria Esther Torres
highlighted Isaiah 29:13 ESV
And the Lord said: "Because this people draw near with their mouth and honor me with their lips, while their hearts are far from me, and their fear of me is a commandment taught by men,
Nov 30
Maria Esther Torres
highlighted Isaiah 29:8 ESV
As when a hungry man dreams, and behold, he is eating and awakes with his hunger not satisfied, or as when a thirsty man dreams, and behold, he is drinking and awakes faint, with his thirst not quenched, so shall the multitude of all the nations be that fight against Mount Zion.
Nov 30
Maria Esther Torres
highlighted Acts 13:50 ESV
But the Jews incited the devout women of high standing and the leading men of the city, stirred up persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and drove them out of their district.
Nov 29