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273 : Basic English : Isaiah 37,38; 2 Corinthians 10 1. And on hearing it Hezekiah took off his robe and put on haircloth and went into the house of the Lord. 2. And he sent Eliakim, who was over the house, and Shebna the scribe, and the chief priests, dressed in haircloth, to Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz. 3. And they said to him, Hezekiah says, This day is a day of trouble and punishment and shame: for the children are ready to come to birth, but there is no strength to give birth to them. 4. It may be that the Lord your God will give ear to the words of the Rab-shakeh, whom the king of Assyria, his master, has sent to say evil things against the living God, and will make his words come to nothing: so make your prayer for the rest of the people. 5. So the servants of King Hezekiah came to Isaiah. ; AB church Lausanne

272 : Basic English : Isaiah 34,35,36; 2 Corinthians 9 1. Come near, you nations, and give ear; take note, you peoples: let the earth and everything in it give ear; the world and all those living in it. 2. For the Lord is angry with all the nations, and his wrath is burning against all their armies: he has put them to the curse, he has given them to destruction. 3. Their dead bodies will be thick on the face of the earth, and their smell will come up, and the mountains will be flowing with their blood, and all the hills will come to nothing. 4. And the heavens will be rolled together like the roll of a book: and all their army will be gone, like a dead leaf from the vine, or a dry fruit from the fig-tree. 5. For my sword in heaven is full of wrath: see, it is coming down on Edom, in punishment on the people of my curse. ; AB church Lausanne

271 : Basic English : Isaiah 32,33; 2 Corinthians 8 1. See, a king will be ruling in righteousness, and chiefs will give right decisions. 2. And a man will be as a safe place from the wind, and a cover from the storm; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shade of a great rock in a waste land. 3. And the eyes of those who see will not be shut, and those who have hearing will give ear to the word. 4. The man of sudden impulses will become wise in heart, and he whose tongue is slow will get the power of talking clearly. 5. The foolish man will no longer be named noble, and they will not say of the false man that he is a man of honour. ; AB church Lausanne

270 : Basic English : Isaiah 30,31; 2 Corinthians 7 1. Ho! uncontrolled children, says the Lord, who give effect to a purpose which is not mine, and who make an agreement, but not by my spirit, increasing their sin: 2. Who make a move to go down into Egypt, without authority from me; who are looking to the strength of Pharaoh for help, and whose hope is in the shade of Egypt. 3. And the strength of Pharaoh will be your shame, and your hope in the shade of Egypt will come to nothing. 4. For his chiefs are at Zoan, and his representatives have come to Hanes. 5. For they have all come with offerings to a people of no use to them, in whom is no help or profit, but only shame and a bad name. ; AB church Lausanne

269 : Basic English : Isaiah 28,29; 2 Corinthians 6 1. Ho! crown of pride of those who are given up to wine in Ephraim, and the dead flower of his glory which is on the head of those who are overcome by strong drink! 2. See, the Lord has a strong and cruel one; like a rain of ice, a storm of destruction, like the overflowing of a strong river, he will violently overcome them. 3. The crown of pride of those who are given up to wine in Ephraim will be crushed under foot; 4. And the dead flower of his glory, which is on the head of the fertile valley, will be like the first early fruit before the summer; which a man takes and puts in his mouth the minute he sees it. 5. In that day will the Lord of armies be a crown of glory, and a fair ornament, to the rest of his people; ; AB church Lausanne

268 : Basic English : Isaiah 25,26,27; 2 Corinthians 5 1. O Lord, you are my God; I will give praise to you, I will give honour to your name; for you have done great acts of power; your purposes in the past have been made true and certain in effect. 2. For you have made a town a waste place: a strong town a mass of broken walls; the tower of the men of pride has come to an end; it will never be put up again. 3. For this cause will the strong people give glory to you, the town of the cruel ones will be in fear of you. 4. For you have been a strong place for the poor and the crushed in their trouble, a safe place from the storm, a shade from the heat, when the wrath of the cruel ones is like a winter storm. 5. As heat by the shade of a cloud, the noise of the men of pride has been made quiet by you; as heat by the shade of a cloud, the song of the cruel ones has been stopped. ; AB church Lausanne

267 : Basic English : Isaiah 23,24; 2 Corinthians 4 1. The word about Tyre. Let a cry of sorrow go up, O ships of Tarshish, because your strong place is made waste; on the way back from the land of Kittim the news is given to them. 2. Send out a cry of grief, you men of the sea-land, traders of Zidon, who go over the sea, whose representatives are on great waters; 3. Who get in the seed of Shihor, whose wealth is the trade of the nations. 4. Be shamed, O Zidon: for the sea, the strong place of the sea has said, I have not been with child, or given birth; I have not taken care of young men, or kept watch over the growth of virgins. 5. When the news comes to Egypt they will be bitterly pained at the fate of Tyre. ; AB church Lausanne

266 : Basic English : Isaiah 20,21,22; 2 Corinthians 3 1. In the year when the Tartan came to Ashdod, sent by Sargon, king of Assyria, and made war against it and took it; 2. At that time the word of the Lord came to Isaiah, the son of Amoz, saying, Go, and take off your robe, and your shoes from your feet; and he did so, walking unclothed and without shoes on his feet. 3. And the Lord said, As my servant Isaiah has gone unclothed and without shoes for three years as a sign and a wonder to Egypt and Ethiopia, 4. So will the king of Assyria take away the prisoners of Egypt and those forced out of Ethiopia, young and old, unclothed and without shoes, and with backs uncovered, to the shame of Egypt. 5. And they will be full of fear, and will no longer have faith in Ethiopia which was their hope, or in Egypt which was their glory. ; AB church Lausanne

265 : Basic English : Isaiah 16,17,18,19; 2 Corinthians 2 1. And they will send ... to the mountain of the daughter of Zion. 2. For the daughters of Moab will be like wandering birds, like a place from which the young birds have gone in flight, at the ways across the Arnon. 3. Give wise directions, make a decision; let your shade be as night in full day: keep safe those who are in flight; do not give up the wandering ones. 4. Let those who have been forced out of Moab have a resting-place with you; be a cover to them from him who is making waste their land: till the cruel ones are cut off, and wasting has come to an end, and those who take pleasure in crushing the poor are gone from the land. 5. Then a king's seat will be based on mercy, and one will be seated on it in the tent of David for ever; judging uprightly, and quick to do righteousness. ; AB church Lausanne

264 : Basic English : Isaiah 14,15; 2 Corinthians 1 1. For the Lord will have mercy on Jacob, and will again make Israel his special people, and will put them in their land; and the man from a strange country will take his place among them and be joined to the family of Jacob. 2. And the people will take them with them to their place: and the children of Israel will give them a heritage in the Lord's land as men-servants and women-servants, making them prisoners whose prisoners they were; and they will be rulers over their masters. 3. And it will be, in the day when the Lord gives you rest from your sorrow, and from your trouble, and from the hard yoke which they had put on you, 4. That you will take up this bitter song against the king of Babylon, and say, How has the cruel overseer come to an end! He who was lifted up in pride is cut off; 5. The stick of the evil-doers, the rod of the rulers, is broken by the Lord; ; AB church Lausanne

263 : Basic English : Isaiah 11,12,13; 1 Corinthians 16 1. And there will come a rod out of the broken tree of Jesse, and a branch out of his roots will give fruit. 2. And the spirit of the Lord will be resting on him, the spirit of wisdom and good sense, the spirit of wise guiding and strength, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the Lord; 3. And he will not be guided in his judging by what he sees, or give decisions by the hearing of his ears: 4. But he will do right in the cause of the poor, and give wise decisions for those in the land who are in need; and the rod of his mouth will come down on the cruel, and with the breath of his lips he will put an end to the evil-doer. 5. And righteousness will be the cord of his robe, and good faith the band round his breast. ; AB church Lausanne

262 : Basic English : Isaiah 9,10; 1 Corinthians 15 1. In earlier times he made the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali of small value, but after that he gave it glory, by the way of the sea, on the other side of Jordan, Galilee of the nations. 2. The people who went in the dark have seen a great light, and for those who were living in the land of the deepest night, the light is shining. 3. You have made them very glad, increasing their joy. They are glad before you as men are glad in the time of getting in the grain, or when they make division of the goods taken in war. 4. For by your hand the yoke on his neck and the rod on his back, even the rod of his cruel master, have been broken, as in the day of Midian. 5. For every boot of the man of war with his sounding step, and the clothing rolled in blood, will be for burning, food for the fire. ; AB church Lausanne

261 : Basic English : Isaiah 7,8; 1 Corinthians 14 1. Now it came about in the days of Ahaz, the son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, king of Judah, that Rezin, the king of Aram, and Pekah, the son of Remaliah, the king of Israel, came up to Jerusalem to make war against it, but were not able to overcome it. 2. And word came to the family of David that Aram had put up its tents in Ephraim. And the king's heart, and the hearts of his people, were moved, like the trees of the wood shaking in the wind. 3. Then the Lord said to Isaiah, Go out now, you and Shear-jashub, your son, and you will come across Ahaz at the end of the stream flowing from the higher pool, in the highway of the washerman's field; 4. And say to him, Take care and be quiet; have no fear, and do not let your heart be feeble, because of these two ends of smoking fire-wood, because of the bitter wrath of Rezin and Aram, and of the son of Remaliah. 5. Because Aram has made evil designs against you, saying, ; AB church Lausanne

260 : Basic English : Isaiah 4,5,6; 1 Corinthians 13 1. And in that day seven women will put their hands on one man, saying, There will be no need for you to give us food or clothing, only let us go under your name, so that our shame may be taken away. 2. In that day will the young growth of the Lord be beautiful in glory, and the fruit of the earth will be the pride of those who are still living in Israel. 3. And it will come about that the rest of the living in Zion, and of those who have been kept from destruction in Jerusalem, will be named holy, even everyone who has been recorded for life in Jerusalem: 4. When Zion has been washed from her sin by the Lord, and Jerusalem made clean from her blood by a judging and a burning wind. 5. And over every living-place on Mount Zion, all over all her meetings, the Lord will make a cloud and smoke by day, and the shining of a flaming fire by night, for over all, the glory of the Lord will be a cover and a tent; ; AB church Lausanne

259 : Basic English : Isaiah 2,3; 1 Corinthians 12 1. The word which Isaiah, the son of Amoz, saw about Judah and Jerusalem. 2. And it will come about in the last days, that the mountain of the Lord will be placed on the top of the mountains, and be lifted up over the hills; and all nations will come to it. 3. And the peoples will say, Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob: and he will give us knowledge of his ways, and we will be guided by his word; for out of Zion the law will go out, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem. 4. And he will be the judge between the nations, and the peoples will be ruled by his decisions: and their swords will be turned into plough-blades, and their spears into vine-knives: no longer will the nations be turning their swords against one another, and the knowledge of war will be gone for ever. 5. O family of Jacob, come, and let us go in the light of the Lord. ; AB church Lausanne