Ezekiel 31 tells Pharaoh to “consider Assyria,” a cedar that rose by God’s waters and fell for its pride. The parable trains rulers and households to keep low, give shade, and trust the Gardener who governs height and rain.
Ezekiel 23 uses a shocking sister-parable to expose covenant infidelity and its consequences. It also points toward hope: jealous love that ends lewdness and restores true worship.
Jeremiah 2 brings God’s covenant lawsuit against Judah, exposing the folly of exchanging glory for emptiness. The indictment aims at repentance, calling thirsty hearts back to the only fountain that satisfies.
Hezekiah’s sickbed becomes a sanctuary where prayer is heard and years are added. Isaiah 38 blends medicine and miracle, forgiveness and worship, and calls the living to teach the next generation God’s faithfulness.
Under Assyrian threat, Hezekiah spreads the letter before the Lord and prays for God’s honor. Isaiah announces deliverance grounded in God’s name and Davidic promise, and the Lord defends Zion while giving a sign that the remnant will flourish.
Assyria’s envoy taunts Jerusalem and recasts holiness as weakness, but Isaiah 36 anchors courage in the living God. The chapter trains believers to resist counterfeit peace and to answer propaganda with quiet trust and prayer.
Isaiah 33 teaches believers to pray at daybreak and to see beyond siege: the Lord rises, Zion is filled with justice, and eyes behold the King in his beauty. The chapter ends where true safety begins—pardon given and a people dwelling in peace under their saving Judge, Lawgiver, and King.
Isaiah 23 humbles a proud port and redirects its gains toward God’s people. The oracle teaches that seas and markets answer to the Lord, who breaks pride and consecrates profit for those who live before him.
Isaiah 22 exposes a city feasting when it should repent and a steward seeking status over service. It directs us to trust the Lord who appoints faithful stewards and fulfills the promise to David in Christ, who opens and none can shut.
Assyria’s capture of Ashdod frames Isaiah’s three-year sign: stripped and barefoot, he embodies the fate awaiting Egypt and Cush. Judah’s temptation to seek southern help is exposed as a path to shame, and the chapter counsels a better trust in the Lord who defends Zion in his time and way.
Isaiah 14 begins with compassion and ends with a vow. The Lord re-chooses Israel, teaches a taunt over Babylon’s fallen king, exposes pride’s five “I will”s, swears to crush Assyria, and declares Zion a refuge for the afflicted. Through it all, the hand stretched out over all nations cannot be turned back.
Isaiah 10 indicts crooked laws, reveals Assyria as a rod in God’s hand, and then humbles that rod for boasting. At the center stands a promise: a remnant will return and truly rely on the Holy One, as the Mighty One lifts Zion’s yoke and fells the forest of pride.
Isaiah 8 makes prophecy public, predicts swift plunder of Judah’s foes, and warns that Assyria’s flood will reach the neck. The chapter calls God’s people from whispers to the word and steadies them with Immanuel until darkness breaks into dawn.
The Syro-Ephraimite crisis reveals Judah’s fears and God’s fidelity. Isaiah 7 promises Immanuel, ties stability to faith, and warns that the very alliances Ahaz pursues will become instruments of discipline.
Isaiah 5 sings a vineyard love song that becomes a lawsuit, exposing sour fruit where justice and righteousness should grow. Its six woes warn and its hope points to renewal under God’s faithful care.