Browse quotations represented under Isaiah with named sources, context notes, meanings and recurring themes.
“Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.”
The line places human flourishing inside mutual care: strength, resources, attention, or opportunity become responsibilities toward other people.
Source note: Isaiah 1:17 in the King James Version.
“Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow.”
The vivid color contrast makes forgiveness a picture of radical change: guilt is not merely ignored but imagined as cleansed and transformed.
Source note: Isaiah 1:18 in the King James Version; excerpt from the invitation to reason together and the promise of cleansing.
“Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee.”
Steadiness of attention is linked with steadiness of inner life, making calm partly a matter of where the mind remains fixed.
Source note: Isaiah 26:3 in the King James Version.
“Fear thou not; for I am with thee.”
The answer to fear is not a promise of an effortless situation but assurance of presence and support inside difficulty.
Source note: Isaiah 41:10 in the King James Version; opening reassurance of the verse.
“I, even I, am he that blotteth out thy transgressions.”
The image of blotting out a record presents forgiveness as active removal rather than a vague change of mood.
Source note: Isaiah 43:25 in the King James Version; excerpt from the verse about blotting out transgressions.
“He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief.”
The passage links rejection with sustained familiarity with sorrow, portraying grief as something known through lived suffering rather than observed from a distance.
Source note: Isaiah 53:3, King James Version; the line belongs to the suffering-servant passage and combines social rejection with sorrow and grief.
“And if thou draw out thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul.”
The line places human flourishing inside mutual care: strength, resources, attention, or opportunity become responsibilities toward other people.
Source note: Isaiah 58:10 in the King James Version.
“To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning.”
Mourning is not erased, but the imagery turns toward restoration, exchanging signs of loss for beauty and joy as a picture of renewed life.
Source note: Isaiah 61:3, King James Version; the verse describes consolation for mourners through a sequence of restorative exchanges.