Familiar Phrases

Cornerstone of the Cathedral of Saint Paul in Macau (1602)


1. Sentence completion:  Isaiah said the unlearned should be taught "Precept upon precept, precept upon precept..."


2. Fill in the blanks: Isaiah quoted the Lord as saying, "Behold, I lay in Zion a  --------  for a foundation, A tried stone, a precious  -------- ."


3. Isaiah predicted a time when the Lord's people will hear a voice saying,  "This is the way, -------  in it."





1. Line upon line, line upon line, Here a little, there a little" (Is. 28:13).


2. "Stone...cornerstone" (Is. 28:16). Isaiah said the Lord intended to rebuild Jerusalem from that cornerstone with the measuring line of justice and the plummet of righteousness (v17).

3. "Walk" (Is. 30:21).

Familiar Phrases

1. Fill in the blanks: Isaiah envisioned a messenger arriving to announce, "Babylon is  ------  ,is 
------ !"

2. Sentence completion: Isaiah said Judah ignored  God's call to mourn and chose instead to say, "Let us eat and drink, for --------  !"

3. Isaiah said of the Lord, "You will keep him in perfect peace..."

1. "Fallen...fallen"  (Is.21:8,9).  At the time of Isaiah, such an announcement was unthinkable.

 

2. "Tomorrow we die" (Is. 22:13).

 

3. "Whose mind is stayed on You, Because he trusts in You" (Is. 26:3).

Familiar Phrases

1. Fill in the blanks: Isaiah predicted a time when : "The wolf also shall dwell with the ------  , The leopard shall lie down with the young goat... And a little   -------  shall lead them."

2. Sentence completion: Isaiah predicted that when Messiah reigns, "The earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord As ..."

3. Fill in the blanks: Isaiah wrote of the wicked one, "How you are  ------  from heaven, O ------,  son of the morning!"

1. "Lamb...child"  (Is. 11:6).

 

 

2. "The waters cover the sea"  (Is. 11:9).

 

 

3. "Fallen... Lucifer" (Is. 14:12).

Familiar Phrases

1. Fill in the blanks:  Matthew quoted this verse from Isaiah to note its fulfillment in Jesus, "The people who walked in  ---------  Have seen a great  ---------  ; Those who dwelt in the land of the   -------  of death, Upon them a light has shined." 

2. Sentence completion:  Isaiah predicted about the Messiah, "For unto us a Child is born, Unto us..."

3. Isaiah predicted, "There shall come forth a Rod from the stem of Jesse..."

 

 

1. "Darkness...light...shadow" ( Is. 9:2).

 

 

 

2. "A Son is given; And the government will be upon  His shoulder. And His name will be called

Wonderful, Counselor. Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace" (Is. 9:6). These  names reveal the deity of Christ as well as the majesty of His activity as Messiah.

 

 

3. "And a Branch shall grow out of his roots" (Is. 11:1). Jesse, David's father, was like an old tree from which sprang a new shoot that would overshadow the old.

Familiar Phrases

1. Sentence completion: Isaiah told King Ahaz, :Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign:  Behold, the virgin shall conceive..."

"And  bear a Son , and shall call His name Immanuel"  (Is. 7:14).

To King Ahaz, this sign had to do with when Syria and Israel would no longer be a military threat against Judah (vv. 1, 16). A greater deliverance was also in the mind of God (Matt. 1:21-23).

Familiar Phrases

1. Question:  What line cones after Isaiah's lament, "Woe is me, for I am undone"?

2. Fill in the blanks:  After Isaiah confessed his uncleanness, he said, "Then one of the ------  flew to me, having in his hand a live -------  which he had taken with the tongs from the  ------- ."

3. Sentence completion: After the seraphim cleansed the lips of Isaiah, he wrote, "Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying: 'Whom shall I send...'

1. "Because I am a man of unclean lips" (Is 6:5)

 

 

2. "Seraphim...coal...alter" (Is. 6:6). The live coal purged the iniquity from Isaiah's lips (v.7).

 

 

3. 'And who will go for Us ?' Then I said, 'Here am I! Send me' (Is. 6:8).

Prophecy---Familiar Phrases

1. Fill in the blanks:  Isaiah quoted God who was displeased with Israel's sacrifices, "I have had enough of -------  ----------  of rams and fat of fed cattle.  I do not delight in the  --------  of bulls."


2. Isaiah said, "Woe to those who call  --------  --------.  Who put darkness for light.  Who  put bitter for sweet."

3. Sentence completion:  In Isaiah's vision of God, the seraphim said to one another, "Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts !--------

1. "Burnt offerings---blood" (Is. 1:11).

 

 

2. "Evil good" (Is. 5:20).

 

 

3. "The whole earth is full of His glory" (Is. 6:3).