This blog continues my commentary on Isaiah using the Complete Jewish Bible version. Isaiah 5 I want to sing a song for someone I love, a song about my loved one and his vineyard. My loved one had a vineyard on a very fertile hill. 2 He dug up its stones and cleared them away, […]

This blog continues my commentary on Isaiah using the Complete Jewish Bible version ISAIAH 4 On that day, The Lord’s plant will be beautiful and glorious; and the fruit of the land will be the pride and splendor of Isra’el’s survivors. 3 Those left in Tziyon and remaining in Yerushalayim will be called holy, and […]

This blog continues my commentary on Isaiah using the Complete Jewish Bible ISAIAH 3 8 For Yerushalayim is ruined, and Y’hudah has fallen; because their words and deeds defy the Lord in open provocation of his glory. 9 Their complacency witnesses against them! They parade their sin, like Sodom; they don’t even try to hide […]

This blog continues my reading of Isaiah 1-39 in the Complete Jewish Bible translation. ISAIAH3 For see! The Lord God of armies will remove from Yerushalayim and Y’hudah every kind of support — all reserves of food and water; 2 heroes and warriors, judges and prophets, diviners and leaders, 3 captains of fifty, men of […]

This blog continues a commentary on Isaiah 1-39 in the Complete Jewish Bible version. Iaiaah 2: 6 6 For you have abandoned your people the house of Ya‘akov. Now they are filled from the east, full of sorcerers, like the P’lishtim; even the children of foreigners are enough for them! 7 Their land is full […]

This blog continues a commentary on Isaiah 1-39, using the Complete Jewish Bible version. Isaiah 2 This is the word that Yesha‘yahu the son of Amotz saw concerning Y’hudah and Yerushalayim: It will come about in the final days that the mountain of the Lord’s house will be established as the most important mountain. It […]

This blog continues a commentary on Isaiah chapters 1-39 using the Complete Jewish  Bible version. 21 What a whore the faithful city has become! Once she was filled with fair judgement; Justice lodged in her; but now murderers! 22 Your silver is no longer pure, your wine is watered down. 23 Your leaders are rebels, […]

10 Hear what the Lord says, you rulers of Sodom! Listen to God’s Torah, you people of ‘Gomorrah! 11 “Why are all those sacrifices offered to me?” asks the Lord. “I’m fed up with burnt offerings of rams and the fat of fattened animals! I get no pleasure from the blood of bulls, lambs and […]

Today this blog starts on the prophecy of the first Isaiah, that is chpaters 1-39 of the book as we have it. 1 This is the vision of Isaiah the son of Amotz, which he saw concerning Y’hudah and Yerushalayim during the days of ‘Uziyahu, Yotam, Achaz and Y’chizkiyahu, kings of Y’hudah: 2 “Hear, heaven! […]

The Theology of the book of Hebrews This book sets out a very definite teaching about Jesus: 1. Jesus is the son of God, who has shared in the creation of the universe and continues to share in God’s rule. 2. Jesus is the human son of God, who has lived in a human body, […]