"Only Life Changes"

Question:
What song of Thanksgiving is attributed to King Hezekiah, recuperating from illness?
Answer:
I said, “In the middle of my life.
I am to enter the gates of Sheol;
I have been deprived of the rest of my years.”
I said, “I will not see the Lord,
The Lord in the land of the living;
I will no longer look at mankind among the inhabitants of the world.
Like a shepherd’s tent my dwelling is pulled up and removed from me;
As a weaver I rolled up my life.
He cuts me off from the loom;
From day until night You make an end of me.
I composed my soul until morning.
Like a lion—so He breaks all my bones,
From day until night, You make an end of me.
Like a swallow, like a crane, so I twitter;
I moan like a dove;
My eyes look wistfully to the heights;
Lord, I am oppressed, be my security.
“What shall I say?
For He has spoken to me, and He Himself has done it;
I will walk quietly all my years because of the bitterness of my soul.
Lord, by these things people live,
And in all these is the life of my spirit;
Restore me to health and let me live!
Behold, for my own welfare I had great bitterness;
But You have kept my soul from the pit of nothingness,
For You have hurled all my sins behind Your back.
For Sheol cannot thank You,
Death cannot praise You;
Those who go down to the pit cannot hope for Your faithfulness.
It is the living who give thanks to You, as I do today;
A father tells his sons about Your faithfulness.
The Lord is certain to save me;
So we will play my songs on stringed instruments
All the days of our life at the house of the Lord.”
Isaiah 38:10-20 NASB

Question:
What passage poses the philosopher’s problem?
Answer:
“To whom then will you liken God?” Or what likeness will you compare with Him?
Isaiah 40:18 NASB

Question:
What passage pictures the universal sovereignty of God?
Answer:
“How great you are, O Sovereign LORD! There is no one like you, and there is no God but you, as we have heard with our own ears.”

(2 Samuel 7:22 NIV)

It reads in (Isaiah 40:12-17 NIV>)
Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, or with the breadth of his hand marked off the heavens? Who has held the dust of the earth in a basket, or weighed the mountains on the scales and the hills in a balance? Who can fathom the Spirit of the Lord, or instruct the Lord as his counselor? Whom did the Lord consult to enlighten him, and who taught him the right way? Who was it that taught him knowledge, or showed him the path of understanding? Surely the nations are like a drop in a bucket; they are regarded as dust on the scales; he weighs the islands as though they were fine dust. Lebanon is not sufficient for altar fires, nor its animals enough for burnt offerings. Before him all the nations are as nothing; they are regarded by him as worthless and less than nothing.

Question:
What passage, descriptive of the homeward way of the exiled Jewish community, has often been cited as describing humanity’s way of the future?
Answer:
And a highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called The way of holiness; the unclean shall not pass over it; but it shall be for those: the wayfaring men, though fools, shall not err therein.
Isaiah 35:8 KJV

Question:
What passage gives a vivid picture of life in a desert country?
Answer;
It reads in Isaiah 32:2 NIV> Each one will be like a shelter from the wind and a refuge from the storm, like streams of water in the desert and the shadow of a great rock in a thirsty land.

Question:
What illustration from the life of his own time does the author use to suggest that, although God does not always act in the same way, he always acts in the same way, he always acts with purpose?
Answer.
Of this, the “rules of good husbandry” are a parable. It reads in Isaiah 28:24-29 NIV> When a farmer plows for planting, does he plow continually? Does he keep on breaking up and working the soil? When he has leveled the surface, does he not sow caraway and scatter cumin? Does he not plant wheat in its place, barley in its plot, and spelt in its field? His God instructs him and teaches him the right way. Caraway is not threshed with a sledge, nor is the wheel of a cart rolled over cumin; caraway is beaten out with a rod, and cumin with a stick. Grain must be ground to make bread; so one does not go on threshing it forever. The wheels of a threshing cart may be rolled over it, but one does not use horses to grind grain. All this also comes from the LORD Almighty, whose plan is wonderful, whose wisdom is magnificent.

Question:
What passage is echoed in the letter to the Philippians?
Answer:
Isaiah 26:3 NIV> Looks for a time when Judah will sing: You will keep in perfect peace those whose minds are steadfast because they trust in you.
So Paul writes in Philippians 4:7 NIV> And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.

Question:
What passage is echoed in Revelation?
Answer:
In Isaiah 25:8 it reads: “He swallow up death for ever, and the Lord God, will wipe away tears from all faces.” AND REVELATION 21:4 NIV> He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away.” AND REVELATION 7:17 NIV> For the Lamb at the center of the throne will be their shepherd; ‘he will lead them to springs of living water.’ ‘And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.’”

Question:
In what ways was Jesus Christ influenced by the book of Isaiah the prophet Isaiah?
Answer:
Isaiah taught precisely how the Messiah would minister in mortality. He prophesied that Christ would be elect, have God’s Spirit, brings forth truth, light, and judgment to the “isles” (or the scattered covenant people) and the Gentiles, give sight to the blind, and set prisoners free (see Isaiah 42:1–4 NIV> “Here is my servant, whom I uphold, my chosen one in whom I delight; I will put my Spirit on him, and he will bring justice to the nations. He will not shout or cry out, or raise his voice in the streets. A bruised reed he will not break, and a smoldering wick he will not snuff out. In faithfulness he will bring forth justice; he will not falter or be discouraged till he establishes justice on earth. In his teaching, the islands will put their hope.” Isaiah 42:6 NIV> “I, the Lord, have called you in righteousness; I will take hold of your hand. I will keep you and will make you a covenant for the people and a light for the Gentiles. Isaiah 49:6–11 NIV> he says; “It is too small a thing for you to be my servant to restore the tribes of Jacob and bring back those of Israel I have kept. I will also make you a light for the Gentiles, that my salvation may reach to the ends of the earth.” This is what the Lord says, the Redeemer and Holy One of Israel, to him who was despised and abhorred by the nation, to the servant of rulers: “Kings will see you and stand up, princes will see and bow down, because of the Lord, who is faithful, the Holy One of Israel, who has chosen you.”

Question:

What taunt song is included?

Answer:

A song Tyre, reproaching her as a “forgotten harlot” Isaiah 23:16 NIV>“Take up a harp, walk through the city, you forgotten prostitute; play the harp well, sing many a song, so that you will be remembered.”