Quotes About Guidance

And Hezekiah had asked, “What will be the sign that I will go up to the house of the LORD?”

Then Isaiah said to Hezekiah, “Hear the word of the LORD of Hosts:

“Comfort, comfort My people,” says your God.

He tends His flock like a shepherd; He gathers the lambs in His arms and carries them close to His heart. He gently leads the nursing ewes.

Who has directed the Spirit of the LORD, or informed Him as His counselor?

Whom did He consult to enlighten Him, and who taught Him the paths of justice? Who imparted knowledge to Him and showed Him the way of understanding?

Lift up your eyes on high: Who created all these? He leads forth the starry host by number; He calls each one by name. Because of His great power and mighty strength, not one of them is missing.

Why do you say, O Jacob, and why do you assert, O Israel, “My way is hidden from the LORD, and my claim is ignored by my God”?

He pursues them, going on safely, hardly touching the path with his feet.

For I am the LORD your God, who takes hold of your right hand and tells you: Do not fear, I will help you.

“Present your case,” says the LORD. “Submit your arguments,” says the King of Jacob.

When I look, there is no one; there is no counselor among them; when I ask them, they have nothing to say.

“I, the LORD, have called you for a righteous purpose, and I will take hold of your hand. I will keep you and appoint you to be a covenant for the people and a light to the nations,

I will lead the blind by a way they did not know; I will guide them on unfamiliar paths. I will turn darkness into light before them and rough places into level ground. These things I will do for them, and I will not forsake them.

When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and when you go through the rivers, they will not overwhelm you. When you walk through the fire, you will not be scorched; the flames will not set you ablaze.

Thus says the LORD, who makes a way in the sea and a path through the surging waters,

Behold, I am about to do something new; even now it is coming. Do you not see it? Indeed, I will make a way in the wilderness and streams in the desert.

“I will go before you and level the mountains; I will break down the gates of bronze and cut through the bars of iron.

I am the LORD, and there is no other; there is no God but Me. I will equip you for battle, though you have not known Me,

I have not spoken in secret, from a place in a land of darkness. I did not say to the descendants of Jacob, ëSeek Me in a wasteland.í I, the LORD, speak the truth; I say what is right.

Even to your old age, I will be the same, and I will bear you up when you turn gray. I have made you, and I will carry you; I will sustain you and deliver you.

Listen to Me, you stubborn people, far removed from righteousness:

You are wearied by your many counselors; let them come forward now and save you—your astrologers who observe the stars, who monthly predict your fate.

This is what they are to you—those with whom you have labored and traded from youth—each one strays in his own direction; not one of them can save you.