Bible Reading November 4, 5, 6 (World English Bible)
Isaiah
33-36
Isa
33:1 Woe to you who destroy, but you weren't destroyed; and who
betray, but nobody betrayed you! When you have finished destroying,
you will be destroyed; and when you have made an end of betrayal, you
will be betrayed.
Isa
33:2 Yahweh, be gracious to us. We have waited for you. Be our
strength every morning, our salvation also in the time of trouble.
Isa
33:3 At the noise of the thunder, the peoples have fled. When you
lift yourself up, the nations are scattered.
Isa
33:4 Your spoil will be gathered as the caterpillar gathers. Men
will leap on it as locusts leap.
Isa
33:5 Yahweh is exalted, for he dwells on high. He has filled Zion
with justice and righteousness.
Isa
33:6 There will be stability in your times, abundance of salvation,
wisdom, and knowledge. The fear of Yahweh is your treasure.
Isa
33:7 Behold, their valiant ones cry outside; the ambassadors of
peace weep bitterly.
Isa
33:8 The highways are desolate. The traveling man ceases. The
covenant is broken. He has despised the cities. He doesn't regard
man.
Isa
33:9 The land mourns and languishes. Lebanon is confounded and
withers away. Sharon is like a desert, and Bashan and Carmel are
stripped bare.
Isa
33:10 "Now I will arise," says Yahweh; "Now I will
lift myself up. Now I will be exalted.
Isa
33:11 You will conceive chaff. You will bring forth stubble. Your
breath is a fire that will devour you.
Isa
33:12 The peoples will be like the burning of lime, like thorns that
are cut down and burned in the fire.
Isa
33:13 Hear, you who are far off, what I have done; and, you who are
near, acknowledge my might."
Isa
33:14 The sinners in Zion are afraid. Trembling has seized the
godless ones. Who among us can live with the devouring fire? Who
among us can live with everlasting burning?
Isa
33:15 He who walks righteously, and speaks blamelessly; He who
despises the gain of oppressions, who gestures with his hands,
refusing to take a bribe, who stops his ears from hearing of blood,
and shuts his eyes from looking at evil--
Isa
33:16 he will dwell on high. His place of defense will be the
fortress of rocks. His bread will be supplied. His waters will be
sure.
Isa
33:17 Your eyes will see the king in his beauty. They will see a
distant land.
Isa
33:18 Your heart will meditate on the terror. Where is he who
counted? Where is he who weighed? Where is he who counted the towers?
Isa
33:19 You will no longer see the fierce people, a people of a deep
speech that you can't comprehend, with a strange language that you
can't understand.
Isa
33:20 Look at Zion, the city of our appointed festivals. Your eyes
will see Jerusalem, a quiet habitation, a tent that won't be removed.
Its stakes will never be plucked up, nor will any of its cords be
broken.
Isa
33:21 But there Yahweh will be with us in majesty, a place of broad
rivers and streams, in which no galley with oars will go, neither
will any gallant ship pass by there.
Isa
33:22 For Yahweh is our judge. Yahweh is our lawgiver. Yahweh is our
king. He will save us.
Isa
33:23 Your rigging is untied. They couldn't strengthen the foot of
their mast. They couldn't spread the sail. Then the prey of a great
spoil was divided. The lame took the prey.
Isa
33:24 The inhabitant won't say, "I am sick." The people
who dwell therein will be forgiven their iniquity.
Isa
34:1 Come near, you nations, to hear! Listen, you peoples. Let the
earth and all it contains hear; the world, and everything that comes
from it.
Isa
34:2 For Yahweh is enraged against all the nations, and angry with
all their armies. He has utterly destroyed them. He has given them
over for slaughter.
Isa
34:3 Their slain will also be cast out, and the stench of their dead
bodies will come up; and the mountains will melt in their blood.
Isa
34:4 All of the army of the sky will be dissolved. The sky will be
rolled up like a scroll, and all its armies will fade away, as a leaf
fades from off a vine or a fig tree.
Isa
34:5 For my sword has drunk its fill in the sky. Behold, it will
come down on Edom, and on the people of my curse, for judgment.
Isa
34:6 Yahweh's sword is filled with blood. It is covered with fat,
with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of
rams; for Yahweh has a sacrifice in Bozrah, And a great slaughter in
the land of Edom.
Isa
34:7 The wild oxen will come down with them, and the young bulls
with the mighty bulls; and their land will be drunken with blood, and
their dust made greasy with fat.
Isa
34:8 For Yahweh has a day of vengeance, a year of recompense for the
cause of Zion.
Isa
34:9 Its streams will be turned into pitch, its dust into sulfur,
And its land will become burning pitch.
Isa
34:10 It won't be quenched night nor day. Its smoke will go up
forever. From generation to generation, it will lie waste. No one
will pass through it forever and ever.
Isa
34:11 But the pelican and the porcupine will possess it. The owl and
the raven will dwell in it. He will stretch the line of confusion
over it, and the plumb line of emptiness.
Isa
34:12 They shall call its nobles to the kingdom, but none shall be
there; and all its princes shall be nothing.
Isa
34:13 Thorns will come up in its palaces, nettles and thistles in
its fortresses; and it will be a habitation of jackals, a court for
ostriches.
Isa
34:14 The wild animals of the desert will meet with the wolves, and
the wild goat will cry to his fellow. Yes, the night creature shall
settle there, and shall find herself a place of rest.
Isa
34:15 The arrow snake will make her nest there, and lay, hatch, and
gather under her shade. Yes, the kites will be gathered there, every
one with her mate.
Isa
34:16 Search in the book of Yahweh, and read: not one of these will
be missing. none will lack her mate. For my mouth has commanded, and
his Spirit has gathered them.
Isa
34:17 He has cast the lot for them, and his hand has divided it to
them with a measuring line. They shall possess it forever. From
generation to generation they will dwell in it.
Isa
35:1 The wilderness and the dry land will be glad. The desert will
rejoice and blossom like a rose.
Isa
35:2 It will blossom abundantly, and rejoice even with joy and
singing. Lebanon's glory Lebanon will be given to it, the excellence
of Carmel and Sharon. They will see Yahweh's glory, the excellence of
our God.
Isa
35:3 Strengthen the weak hands, and make firm the feeble knees.
Isa
35:4 Tell those who have a fearful heart, "Be strong. Don't be
afraid. Behold, your God will come with vengeance, God's retribution.
He will come and save you.
Isa
35:5 Then the eyes of the blind will be opened, and the ears of the
deaf will be unstopped.
Isa
35:6 Then the lame man will leap like a deer, and the tongue of the
mute will sing; for waters will break out in the wilderness, and
streams in the desert.
Isa
35:7 The burning sand will become a pool, and the thirsty ground
springs of water. Grass with reeds and rushes will be in the
habitation of jackals, where they lay.
Isa
35:8 A highway will be there, a road, and it will be called The Holy
Way. The unclean shall not pass over it, but it will be for those who
walk in the Way. Wicked fools will not go there.
Isa
35:9 No lion will be there, nor will any ravenous animal go up on
it. They will not be found there; but the redeemed will walk there.
Isa
35:10 The Yahweh's ransomed ones will return, and come with singing
to Zion; and everlasting joy will be on their heads. They will obtain
gladness and joy, and sorrow and sighing will flee away."
Isa
36:1 Now it happened in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah, that
Sennacherib king of Assyria attacked all of the fortified cities of
Judah, and captured them.
Isa
36:2 The king of Assyria sent Rabshakeh from Lachish to Jerusalem to
king Hezekiah with a large army. He stood by the aqueduct from the
upper pool in the fuller's field highway.
Isa
36:3 Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household,
and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, the son of Asaph, the recorder came
out to him.
Isa
36:4 Rabshakeh said to them, "Now tell Hezekiah, 'Thus says the
great king, the king of Assyria, "What confidence is this in
which you trust?
Isa
36:5 I say that your counsel and strength for the war are only vain
words. Now in whom do you trust, that you have rebelled against me?
Isa
36:6 Behold, you trust in the staff of this bruised reed, even in
Egypt, which if a man leans on it, it will go into his hand and
pierce it. So is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who trust in him.
Isa
36:7 But if you tell me, 'We trust in Yahweh our God,' isn't that he
whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah has taken away, and has
said to Judah and to Jerusalem, 'You shall worship before this
altar?' "
Isa
36:8 Now therefore, please make a pledge to my master the king of
Assyria, and I will give you two thousand horses, if you are able on
your part to set riders on them.
Isa
36:9 How then can you turn away the face of one captain of the least
of my master's servants, and put your trust on Egypt for chariots and
for horsemen?
Isa
36:10 Have I come up now without Yahweh against this land to destroy
it? Yahweh said to me, "Go up against this land, and destroy
it." ' "
Isa
36:11 Then Eliakim, Shebna and Joah said to Rabshakeh, "Please
speak to your servants in Aramaic, for we understand it; and don't
speak to us in the Jews' language in the hearing of the people who
are on the wall."
Isa
36:12 But Rabshakeh said, "Has my master sent me only to your
master and to you, to speak these words, and not to the men who sit
on the wall, who will eat their own dung and drink their own urine
with you?"
Isa
36:13 Then Rabshakeh stood, and called out with a loud voice in the
Jews' language, and said, "Hear the words of the great king, the
king of Assyria!
Isa
36:14 Thus says the king, 'Don't let Hezekiah deceive you; for he
will not be able to deliver you.
Isa
36:15 Don't let Hezekiah make you trust in Yahweh, saying, "Yahweh
will surely deliver us. This city won't be given into the hand of the
king of Assyria." '
Isa
36:16 Don't listen to Hezekiah, for thus says the king of Assyria,
'Make your peace with me, and come out to me; and each of you eat
from his vine, and each one from his fig tree, and each one of you
drink the waters of his own cistern;
Isa
36:17 until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a
land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards.
Isa
36:18 Beware lest Hezekiah persuade you, saying, "Yahweh will
deliver us." Have any of the gods of the nations delivered their
lands from the hand of the king of Assyria?
Isa
36:19 Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of
Sepharvaim? Have they delivered Samaria from my hand?
Isa
36:20 Who are they among all the gods of these countries that have
delivered their country out of my hand, that Yahweh should deliver
Jerusalem out of my hand?' "
Isa
36:21 But they remained silent, and said nothing in reply, for the
king's commandment was, "Don't answer him."
Isa
36:22 Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household,
and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, the son of Asaph, the recorder, came
to Hezekiah with their clothes torn, and told him the words of
Rabshakeh.
Isaiah
37-40
Isa
37:1 It happened, when king Hezekiah heard it, that he tore his
clothes, covered himself with sackcloth, and went into Yahweh's
house.
Isa
37:2 He sent Eliakim, who was over the household, and Shebna the
scribe, and the elders of the priests, covered with sackcloth, to
Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz.
Isa
37:3 They said to him, "Thus says Hezekiah, 'This day is a day
of trouble, and of rebuke, and of rejection; for the children have
come to the birth, and there is no strength to bring forth.
Isa
37:4 It may be Yahweh your God will hear the words of Rabshakeh,
whom the king of Assyria his master has sent to defy the living God,
and will rebuke the words which Yahweh your God has heard. Therefore
lift up your prayer for the remnant that is left.' "
Isa
37:5 So the servants of king Hezekiah came to Isaiah.
Isa
37:6 Isaiah said to them, "Tell your master, 'Thus says Yahweh,
"Don't be afraid of the words that you have heard, with which
the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed me.
Isa
37:7 Behold, I will put a spirit in him and he will hear news, and
will return to his own land. I will cause him to fall by the sword in
his own land." ' "
Isa
37:8 So Rabshakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria warring
against Libnah, for he had heard that he was departed from Lachish.
Isa
37:9 He heard news concerning Tirhakah king of Ethiopia, "He
has come out to fight against you." When he heard it, he sent
messengers to Hezekiah, saying,
Isa
37:10 "Thus you shall speak to Hezekiah king of Judah, saying,
'Don't let your God in whom you trust deceive you, saying, "Jerusalem
won't be given into the hand of the king of Assyria."
Isa
37:11 Behold, you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to
all lands, by destroying them utterly. Shall you be delivered?
Isa
37:12 Have the gods of the nations delivered them, which my fathers
have destroyed, Gozan, Haran, Rezeph, and the children of Eden who
were in Telassar?
Isa
37:13 Where is the king of Hamath, and the king of Arpad, and the
king of the city of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and Ivvah?' "
Isa
37:14 Hezekiah received the letter from the hand of the messengers
and read it. Then Hezekiah went up to Yahweh's house, and spread it
before Yahweh.
Isa
37:15 Hezekiah prayed to Yahweh, saying,
Isa
37:16 "Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, who is enthroned
among the cherubim, you are the God, even you alone, of all the
kingdoms of the earth. You have made heaven and earth.
Isa
37:17 Turn your ear, Yahweh, and hear. Open your eyes, Yahweh, and
behold. Hear all of the words of Sennacherib, who has sent to defy
the living God.
Isa
37:18 Truly, Yahweh, the kings of Assyria have destroyed all the
countries and their land,
Isa
37:19 and have cast their gods into the fire; for they were no gods,
but the work of men's hands, wood and stone; therefore they have
destroyed them.
Isa
37:20 Now therefore, Yahweh our God, save us from his hand, that all
the kingdoms of the earth may know that you are Yahweh, even you
only."
Isa
37:21 Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, "Thus
says Yahweh, the God of Israel, 'Because you have prayed to me
against Sennacherib king of Assyria,
Isa
37:22 this is the word which Yahweh has spoken concerning him. The
virgin daughter of Zion has despised you and ridiculed you. The
daughter of Jerusalem has shaken her head at you.
Isa
37:23 Whom have you defied and blasphemed? Against whom have you
exalted your voice and lifted up your eyes on high? Against the Holy
One of Israel.
Isa
37:24 By your servants, have you defied the Lord, and have said,
"With the multitude of my chariots I have come up to the height
of the mountains, to the innermost parts of Lebanon. I will cut down
its tall cedars and its choice fir trees. I will enter into its
farthest height, the forest of its fruitful field.
Isa
37:25 I have dug and drunk water, and with the sole of my feet I
will dry up all the rivers of Egypt."
Isa
37:26 Have you not heard how I have done it long ago, and formed it
in ancient times? Now I have brought it to pass, that it should be
yours to destroy fortified cities, turning them into ruinous heaps.
Isa
37:27 Therefore their inhabitants had little power. They were
dismayed and confounded. They were like the grass of the field, and
like the green herb, like the grass on the housetops, and like a
field before its crop has grown.
Isa
37:28 But I know your sitting down, your going out, your coming in,
and your raging against me.
Isa
37:29 Because of your raging against me, and because your arrogance
has come up into my ears, therefore will I put my hook in your nose
and my bridle in your lips, and I will turn you back by the way by
which you came.
Isa
37:30 This shall be the sign to you. You will eat this year that
which grows of itself, and in the second year that which springs from
the same; and in the third year sow and reap and plant vineyards, and
eat their fruit.
Isa
37:31 The remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah will again
take root downward, and bear fruit upward.
Isa
37:32 For out of Jerusalem a remnant will go forth, and survivors
will escape from Mount Zion. The zeal of Yahweh of Armies will
perform this.'
Isa
37:33 Therefore thus says Yahweh concerning the king of Assyria, 'He
will not come to this city, nor shoot an arrow there, neither will he
come before it with shield, nor cast up a mound against it.
Isa
37:34 By the way that he came, by the same he shall return, and he
shall not come to this city,' says Yahweh.
Isa
37:35 'For I will defend this city to save it, for my own sake, and
for my servant David's sake.' "
Isa
37:36 The angel of Yahweh went out and struck one hundred and
eighty-five thousand men in the camp of the Assyrians. When men arose
early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies.
Isa
37:37 So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, went away, returned
to Nineveh, and stayed there.
Isa
37:38 It happened, as he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his
god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons struck him with the
sword; and they escaped into the land of Ararat. Esar Haddon his son
reigned in his place.
Isa
38:1 In those days was Hezekiah sick and near death. Isaiah the
prophet, the son of Amoz, came to him, and said to him, "Thus
says Yahweh, 'Set your house in order, for you will die, and not
live.' "
Isa
38:2 Then Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and prayed to Yahweh,
Isa
38:3 and said, "Remember now, Yahweh, I beg you, how I have
walked before you in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done
that which is good in your sight." Hezekiah wept bitterly.
Isa
38:4 Then the word of Yahweh came to Isaiah, saying,
Isa
38:5 "Go, and tell Hezekiah, 'Thus says Yahweh, the God of
David your father, "I have heard your prayer. I have seen your
tears. Behold, I will add fifteen years to your life.
Isa
38:6 I will deliver you and this city out of the hand of the king of
Assyria, and I will defend this city.
Isa
38:7 This shall be the sign to you from Yahweh, that Yahweh will do
this thing that he has spoken.
Isa
38:8 Behold, I will cause the shadow on the sundial, which has gone
down on the sundial of Ahaz with the sun, to return backward ten
steps. So the sun returned ten steps on the sundial on which it had
gone down." ' "
Isa
38:9 The writing of Hezekiah king of Judah, when he had been sick,
and had recovered of his sickness.
Isa
38:10 I said, "In the middle of my life I go into the gates of
Sheol. I am deprived of the residue of my years."
Isa
38:11 I said, "I won't see Yah, Yah in the land of the living.
I will see man no more with the inhabitants of the world.
Isa
38:12 My dwelling is removed, and is carried away from me like a
shepherd's tent. I have rolled up, like a weaver, my life. He will
cut me off from the loom. From day even to night you will make an end
of me.
Isa
38:13 I waited patiently until morning. He breaks all my bones like
a lion. From day even to night you will make an end of me.
Isa
38:14 I chattered like a swallow or a crane. I moaned like a dove.
My eyes weaken looking upward. Lord, I am oppressed. Be my security."
Isa
38:15 What will I say? He has both spoken to me, and himself has
done it. I will walk carefully all my years because of the anguish of
my soul.
Isa
38:16 Lord, men live by these things; and my spirit finds life in
all of them: you restore me, and cause me to live.
Isa
38:17 Behold, for peace I had great anguish, but you have in love
for my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption; for you have
cast all my sins behind your back.
Isa
38:18 For Sheol can't praise you. Death can't celebrate you. Those
who go down into the pit can't hope for your truth.
Isa
38:19 The living, the living, he shall praise you, as I do this day.
The father shall make known your truth to the children.
Isa
38:20 Yahweh will save me. Therefore we will sing my songs with
stringed instruments all the days of our life in the house of Yahweh.
Isa
38:21 Now Isaiah had said, "Let them take a cake of figs, and
lay it for a poultice on the boil, and he shall recover."
Isa
38:22 Hezekiah also had said, "What is the sign that I will go
up to the house of Yahweh?"
Isa
39:1 At that time, Merodach Baladan the son of Baladan, king of
Babylon, sent letters and a present to Hezekiah; for he heard that he
had been sick, and had recovered.
Isa
39:2 Hezekiah was pleased with them, and showed them the house of
his precious things, the silver, and the gold, the spices, and the
precious oil, and all the house of his armor, and all that was found
in his treasures. There was nothing in his house, nor in all his
dominion, that Hezekiah didn't show them.
Isa
39:3 Then Isaiah the prophet came to king Hezekiah, and asked him,
"What did these men say? Where did they come from to you?"
Hezekiah said, "They have come from a country far from me, even
from Babylon."
Isa
39:4 Then he asked, "What have they seen in your house?"
Hezekiah answered, "They have seen all that is in my house.
There is nothing among my treasures that I have not shown them."
Isa
39:5 Then said Isaiah to Hezekiah, "Hear the word of Yahweh of
Armies:
Isa
39:6 'Behold, the days are coming when all that is in your house,
and that which your fathers have stored up until this day, will be
carried to Babylon. Nothing will be left,' says Yahweh.
Isa
39:7 'They will take away your sons who will issue from you, whom
you shall father, and they will be eunuchs in the king of Babylon's
palace.' "
Isa
39:8 Then Hezekiah said to Isaiah, "Yahweh's word which you
have spoken is good." He said moreover, "For there will be
peace and truth in my days."
Isa
40:1 "Comfort, comfort my people," says your God.
Isa
40:2 "Speak comfortably to Jerusalem; and call out to her that
her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned, that she
has received of Yahweh's hand double for all her sins."
Isa
40:3 The voice of one who calls out, "Prepare the way of Yahweh
in the wilderness! Make a level highway in the desert for our God.
Isa
40:4 Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill
shall be made low. The uneven shall be made level, and the rough
places a plain.
Isa
40:5 The glory of Yahweh shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see
it together; for the mouth of Yahweh has spoken it."
Isa
40:6 The voice of one saying, "Cry!" One said, "What
shall I cry?" "All flesh is like grass, and all its glory
is like the flower of the field.
Isa
40:7 The grass withers, the flower fades, because Yahweh's breath
blows on it. Surely the people are like grass.
Isa
40:8 The grass withers, the flower fades; but the word of our God
stands forever."
Isa
40:9 You who tell good news to Zion, go up on a high mountain. You
who tell good news to Jerusalem, lift up your voice with strength.
Lift it up. Don't be afraid. Say to the cities of Judah, "Behold,
your God!"
Isa
40:10 Behold, the Lord Yahweh will come as a mighty one, and his arm
will rule for him. Behold, his reward is with him, and his recompense
before him.
Isa
40:11 He will feed his flock like a shepherd. He will gather the
lambs in his arm, and carry them in his bosom. He will gently lead
those who have their young.
Isa
40:12 Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and
marked off the sky with his span, and calculated the dust of the
earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the
hills in a balance?
Isa
40:13 Who has directed the Spirit of Yahweh, or has taught him as
his counselor?
Isa
40:14 Who did he take counsel with, and who instructed him, and
taught him in the path of justice, and taught him knowledge, and
showed him the way of understanding?
Isa
40:15 Behold, the nations are like a drop in a bucket, and are
regarded as a speck of dust on a balance. Behold, he lifts up the
islands like a very little thing.
Isa
40:16 Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, nor its animals sufficient
for a burnt offering.
Isa
40:17 All the nations are like nothing before him. They are regarded
by him as less than nothing, and vanity.
Isa
40:18 To whom then will you liken God? Or what likeness will you
compare to him?
Isa
40:19 A workman has cast an image, and the goldsmith overlays it
with gold, and casts silver chains for it.
Isa
40:20 He who is too impoverished for such an offering chooses a tree
that will not rot. He seeks a skillful workman to set up an engraved
image for him that will not be moved.
Isa
40:21 Haven't you known? Haven't you heard, yet? Haven't you been
told from the beginning? Haven't you understood from the foundations
of the earth?
Isa
40:22 It is he who sits above the circle of the earth, and its
inhabitants are like grasshoppers; who stretches out the heavens like
a curtain, and spreads them out like a tent to dwell in;
Isa
40:23 who brings princes to nothing; who makes the judges of the
earth like meaningless.
Isa
40:24 They are planted scarcely. They are sown scarcely. Their stock
has scarcely taken root in the ground. He merely blows on them, and
they wither, and the whirlwind takes them away as stubble.
Isa
40:25 "To whom then will you liken me? Who is my equal?"
says the Holy One.
Isa
40:26 Lift up your eyes on high, and see who has created these, who
brings out their army by number. He calls them all by name. by the
greatness of his might, and because he is strong in power, Not one is
lacking.
Isa
40:27 Why do you say, Jacob, and speak, Israel, "My way is
hidden from Yahweh, and the justice due me is disregarded by my God?"
Isa
40:28 Haven't you known? Haven't you heard? The everlasting God,
Yahweh, The Creator of the ends of the earth, doesn't faint. He isn't
weary. His understanding is unsearchable.
Isa
40:29 He gives power to the weak. He increases the strength of him
who has no might.
Isa
40:30 Even the youths faint and get weary, and the young men utterly
fall;
Isa
40:31 But those who wait for Yahweh will renew their strength. They
will mount up with wings like eagles. They will run, and not be
weary. They will walk, and not faint.
Isaiah
41-44
Isa
41:1 "Keep silent before me, islands, and let the peoples renew
their strength. Let them come near, then let them speak. Let's meet
together for judgment.
Isa
41:2 Who has raised up one from the east? Whom called him to his
foot in righteousness? He hands over nations to him, and makes him
rule over kings. He gives them like the dust to his sword, like the
driven stubble to his bow.
Isa
41:3 He pursues them, and passes by safely, Even by a way that he
had not gone with his feet.
Isa
41:4 Who has worked and done it, calling the generations from the
beginning? I, Yahweh, the first, and with the last, I am he."
Isa
41:5 The islands have seen, and fear. The ends of the earth tremble.
They approach, and come.
Isa
41:6 Everyone helps his neighbor. They say to their brothers, "Be
strong!"
Isa
41:7 So the carpenter encourages the goldsmith. He who smoothes with
the hammer encourages him who strikes the anvil, saying of the
soldering, "It is good;" and he fastens it with nails, that
it might not totter.
Isa
41:8 "But you, Israel, my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen,
the seed of Abraham my friend,
Isa
41:9 You whom I have taken hold of from the ends of the earth, and
called from its corners, and said to you, 'You are my servant, I have
chosen you and not cast you away;'
Isa
41:10 Don't you be afraid, for I am with you. Don't be dismayed, for
I am your God. I will strengthen you. Yes, I will help you. Yes, I
will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness.
Isa
41:11 Behold, all those who are incensed against you will be
disappointed and confounded. Those who strive with you will be like
nothing, and shall perish.
Isa
41:12 You will seek them, and won't find them, even those who
contend with you. Those who war against you will be as nothing, as a
non-existent thing.
Isa
41:13 For I, Yahweh your God, will hold your right hand, saying to
you, 'Don't be afraid. I will help you.'
Isa
41:14 Don't be afraid, you worm Jacob, and you men of Israel. I will
help you," says Yahweh, "and your Redeemer is the Holy One
of Israel.
Isa
41:15 Behold, I have made you into a new sharp threshing instrument
with teeth. You will thresh the mountains, and beat them small, and
will make the hills like chaff.
Isa
41:16 You will winnow them, and the wind will carry them away, and
the whirlwind will scatter them. You will rejoice in Yahweh. You will
glory in the Holy One of Israel.
Isa
41:17 The poor and needy seek water, and there is none. Their tongue
fails for thirst. I, Yahweh, will answer them. I, the God of Israel,
will not forsake them.
Isa
41:18 I will open rivers on the bare heights, and springs in the
midst of the valleys. I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and
the dry land springs of water.
Isa
41:19 I will put cedar, acacia, myrtle, and oil trees in the
wilderness. I will set fir trees, pine, and box trees together in the
desert;
Isa
41:20 that they may see, know, consider, and understand together,
that the hand of Yahweh has done this, and the Holy One of Israel has
created it.
Isa
41:21 Produce your cause," says Yahweh. "Bring forth your
strong reasons," says the King of Jacob.
Isa
41:22 "Let them announce, and declare to us what shall happen.
Declare the former things, what they are, that we may consider them,
and know the latter end of them; or show us things to come.
Isa
41:23 Declare the things that are to come hereafter, that we may
know that you are gods. Yes, do good, or do evil, that we may be
dismayed, and see it together.
Isa
41:24 Behold, you are of nothing, and your work is of nothing. He
who chooses you is an abomination.
Isa
41:25 "I have raised up one from the north, and he has come;
from the rising of the sun, one who calls on my name; and he shall
come on rulers as on mortar, and as the potter treads clay.
Isa
41:26 Who has declared it from the beginning, that we may know? And
before, that we may say, 'He is right?' Surely, there is no one who
declares. Surely, there is no one who shows. Surely, there is no one
who hears your words.
Isa
41:27 I am the first to say to Zion, 'Behold, look at them;' and I
will give one who brings good news to Jerusalem.
Isa
41:28 When I look, there is no man; even among them there is no
counselor who, when I ask of them, can answer a word.
Isa
41:29 Behold, all of them, their works are vanity and nothing. Their
molten images are wind and confusion.
Isa
42:1 "Behold, my servant, whom I uphold; my chosen, in whom my
soul delights-- I have put my Spirit on him. He will bring justice to
the nations.
Isa
42:2 He will not shout, nor raise his voice, nor cause it to be
heard in the street.
Isa
42:3 He won't break a bruised reed. He won't quench a dimly burning
wick. He will faithfully bring justice.
Isa
42:4 He will not fail nor be discouraged, until he has set justice
in the earth, and the islands will wait for his law."
Isa
42:5 Thus says God Yahweh, he who created the heavens and stretched
them out, he who spread out the earth and that which comes out of it,
he who gives breath to its people and spirit to those who walk in it.
Isa
42:6 "I, Yahweh, have called you in righteousness, and will
hold your hand, and will keep you, and make you a covenant for the
people, as a light for the nations;
Isa
42:7 to open the blind eyes, to bring the prisoners out of the
dungeon, and those who sit in darkness out of the prison.
Isa
42:8 "I am Yahweh. That is my name. I will not give my glory to
another, nor my praise to engraved images.
Isa
42:9 Behold, the former things have happened, and I declare new
things. I tell you about them before they come up."
Isa
42:10 Sing to Yahweh a new song, and his praise from the end of the
earth, you who go down to the sea, and all that is therein, the
islands and their inhabitants.
Isa
42:11 Let the wilderness and its cities raise their voices, with the
villages that Kedar inhabits. Let the inhabitants of Sela sing. Let
them shout from the top of the mountains!
Isa
42:12 Let them give glory to Yahweh, and declare his praise in the
islands.
Isa
42:13 Yahweh will go out like a mighty man. He will stir up zeal
like a man of war. He will raise a war cry. Yes, he will shout aloud.
He will triumph over his enemies.
Isa
42:14 "I have been silent a long time. I have been quiet and
restrained myself. Now I will cry out like a travailing woman. I will
both gasp and pant.
Isa
42:15 I will destroy mountains and hills, and dry up all their
herbs. I will make the rivers islands, and will dry up the pools.
Isa
42:16 I will bring the blind by a way that they don't know. I will
lead them in paths that they don't know. I will make darkness light
before them, and crooked places straight. I will do these things, and
I will not forsake them.
Isa
42:17 "Those who trust in engraved images, who tell molten
images, 'You are our gods' will be turned back. They will be utterly
disappointed.
Isa
42:18 "Hear, you deaf, and look, you blind, that you may see.
Isa
42:19 Who is blind, but my servant? Or who is as deaf as my
messenger whom I send? Who is as blind as he who is at peace, and as
blind as Yahweh's servant?
Isa
42:20 You see many things, but don't observe. His ears are open, but
he doesn't listen.
Isa
42:21 It pleased Yahweh, for his righteousness' sake, to magnify the
law, and make it honorable.
Isa
42:22 But this is a robbed and plundered people. All of them are
snared in holes, and they are hidden in prisons. They have become a
prey, and no one delivers; and a spoil, and no one says, 'Restore
them!'
Isa
42:23 Who is there among you who will give ear to this? Who will
listen and hear for the time to come?
Isa
42:24 Who gave Jacob as plunder, and Israel to the robbers? Didn't
Yahweh, he against whom we have sinned? For they would not walk in
his ways, and they disobeyed his law.
Isa
42:25 Therefore he poured the fierceness of his anger on him, and
the strength of battle; and it set him on fire all around, but he
didn't know; and it burned him, but he didn't take it to heart."
Isa
43:1 But now thus says Yahweh who created you, Jacob, and he who
formed you, Israel: "Don't be afraid, for I have redeemed you. I
have called you by your name. You are mine.
Isa
43:2 When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and
through the rivers, they will not overflow you. When you walk through
the fire, you will not be burned, and flame will not scorch you.
Isa
43:3 For I am Yahweh your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior.
I have given Egypt as your ransom, Ethiopia and Seba in your place.
Isa
43:4 Since you have been precious and honored in my sight, and I
have loved you; therefore I will give people in your place, and
nations instead of your life.
Isa
43:5 Don't be afraid; for I am with you. I will bring your seed from
the east, and gather you from the west.
Isa
43:6 I will tell the north, 'Give them up!' and tell the south,
'Don't hold them back! Bring my sons from far, and my daughters from
the ends of the earth--
Isa
43:7 everyone who is called by my name, and whom I have created for
my glory, whom I have formed, yes, whom I have made.' "
Isa
43:8 Bring out the blind people who have eyes, and the deaf who have
ears.
Isa
43:9 Let all the nations be gathered together, and let the peoples
be assembled. Who among them can declare this, and show us former
things? Let them bring their witnesses, that they may be justified;
or let them hear, and say, "That is true."
Isa
43:10 "You are my witnesses," says Yahweh, "With my
servant whom I have chosen; that you may know and believe me, and
understand that I am he. Before me there was no God formed, neither
will there be after me.
Isa
43:11 I myself am Yahweh; and besides me there is no savior.
Isa
43:12 I have declared, I have saved, and I have shown; and there was
no strange god among you. Therefore you are my witnesses," says
Yahweh, "and I am God.
Isa
43:13 Yes, since the day was I am he; and there is no one who can
deliver out of my hand. I will work, and who can hinder it?"
Isa
43:14 Thus says Yahweh, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: "For
your sake, I have sent to Babylon, and I will bring all of them down
as fugitives, even the Chaldeans, in the ships of their rejoicing.
Isa
43:15 I am Yahweh, your Holy One, the Creator of Israel, your King."
Isa
43:16 Thus says Yahweh, who makes a way in the sea, and a path in
the mighty waters;
Isa
43:17 who brings forth the chariot and horse, the army and the
mighty man (they lie down together, they shall not rise; they are
extinct, they are quenched like a wick):
Isa
43:18 "Don't remember the former things, and don't consider the
things of old.
Isa
43:19 Behold, I will do a new thing. It springs forth now. Don't you
know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the
desert.
Isa
43:20 The animals of the field shall honor me, the jackals and the
ostriches; because I give water in the wilderness and rivers in the
desert, to give drink to my people, my chosen,
Isa
43:21 the people which I formed for myself, that they might set
forth my praise.
Isa
43:22 Yet you have not called on me, Jacob; but you have been weary
of me, Israel.
Isa
43:23 You have not brought me of your sheep for burnt offerings;
neither have you honored me with your sacrifices. I have not burdened
you with offerings, nor wearied you with frankincense.
Isa
43:24 You have bought me no sweet cane with money, nor have you
filled me with the fat of your sacrifices; but you have burdened me
with your sins. You have wearied me with your iniquities.
Isa
43:25 I, even I, am he who blots out your transgressions for my own
sake; and I will not remember your sins.
Isa
43:26 Put me in remembrance. Let us plead together. Set forth your
case, that you may be justified.
Isa
43:27 Your first father sinned, and your teachers have transgressed
against me.
Isa
43:28 Therefore I will profane the princes of the sanctuary; and I
will make Jacob a curse, and Israel a reviling."
Isa
44:1 Yet listen now, Jacob my servant, and Israel, whom I have
chosen.
Isa
44:2 This is what Yahweh who made you, and formed you from the womb,
who will help you says: "Don't be afraid, Jacob my servant; and
you, Jeshurun, whom I have chosen.
Isa
44:3 For I will pour water on him who is thirsty, and streams on the
dry ground. I will pour my Spirit on your seed, and my blessing on
your offspring:
Isa
44:4 and they will spring up among the grass, as willows by the
watercourses.
Isa
44:5 One will say, 'I am Yahweh's;' and another will be called by
the name of Jacob; and another will write with his hand 'to Yahweh,'
and honor the name of Israel."
Isa
44:6 This is what Yahweh, the King of Israel, and his Redeemer,
Yahweh of Armies, says: "I am the first, and I am the last; and
besides me there is no God.
Isa
44:7 Who is like me? Who will call, and will declare it, and set it
in order for me, since I established the ancient people? Let them
declare the things that are coming, and that will happen.
Isa
44:8 Don't fear, neither be afraid. Haven't I declared it to you
long ago, and shown it? You are my witnesses. Is there a God besides
me? Indeed, there is not. I don't know any other Rock."
Isa
44:9 Everyone who makes an engraved image is vain. The things that
they delight in will not profit. Their own witnesses don't see, nor
know, that they may be disappointed.
Isa
44:10 Who has fashioned a god, or molds an image that is profitable
for nothing?
Isa
44:11 Behold, all his fellows will be disappointed; and the workmen
are mere men. Let them all be gathered together. Let them stand up.
They will fear. They will be put to shame together.
Isa
44:12 The blacksmith takes an axe, works in the coals, fashions it
with hammers, and works it with his strong arm. He is hungry, and his
strength fails; he drinks no water, and is faint.
Isa
44:13 The carpenter stretches out a line. He marks it out with a
pencil. He shapes it with planes. He marks it out with compasses, and
shapes it like the figure of a man, with the beauty of a man, to
reside in a house.
Isa
44:14 He cuts down cedars for himself, and takes the cypress and the
oak, and strengthens for himself one among the trees of the forest.
He plants a fir tree, and the rain nourishes it.
Isa
44:15 Then it will be for a man to burn; and he takes some of it,
and warms himself. Yes, he burns it, and bakes bread. Yes, he makes a
god, and worships it; he makes it an engraved image, and falls down
to it.
Isa
44:16 He burns part of it in the fire. With part of it, he eats
meat. He roasts a roast, and is satisfied. Yes, he warms himself, and
says, "Aha! I am warm. I have seen the fire."
Isa
44:17 The rest of it he makes into a god, even his engraved image.
He bows down to it and worships, and prays to it, and says, "Deliver
me; for you are my god!"
Isa
44:18 They don't know, neither do they consider: for he has shut
their eyes, that they can't see; and their hearts, that they can't
understand.
Isa
44:19 No one thinks, neither is there knowledge nor understanding to
say, "I have burned part of it in the fire. Yes, I have also
baked bread on its coals. I have roasted meat and eaten it. Shall I
make the rest of it into an abomination? Shall I bow down to a tree
trunk?"
Isa
44:20 He feeds on ashes. A deceived heart has turned him aside; and
he can't deliver his soul, nor say, "Isn't there a lie in my
right hand?"
Isa
44:21 Remember these things, Jacob and Israel; for you are my
servant. I have formed you. You are my servant. Israel, you will not
be forgotten by me.
Isa
44:22 I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, your transgressions,
and, as a cloud, your sins. Return to me, for I have redeemed you.
Isa
44:23 Sing, you heavens, for Yahweh has done it! Shout, you lower
parts of the earth! Break out into singing, you mountains, O forest,
all of your trees, for Yahweh has redeemed Jacob, and will glorify
himself in Israel.
Isa
44:24 Thus says Yahweh, your Redeemer, and he who formed you from
the womb: "I am Yahweh, who makes all things; who alone
stretches out the heavens; who spreads out the earth by myself;
Isa
44:25 who frustrates the signs of the liars, and makes diviners mad;
who turns wise men backward, and makes their knowledge foolish;
Isa
44:26 who confirms the word of his servant, and performs the counsel
of his messengers; who says of Jerusalem, 'She will be inhabited;'
and of the cities of Judah, 'They will be built,' and 'I will raise
up its waste places;'
Isa
44:27 who says to the deep, 'Be dry,' and 'I will dry up your
rivers;'
Isa
44:28 Who says of Cyrus, 'He is my shepherd, and shall perform all
my pleasure,' even saying of Jerusalem, 'She will be built;' and of
the temple, 'Your foundation will be laid.' "
Nov. 4
1 Timothy
4
1Ti 4:1
But the Spirit says expressly that in later times some will fall away
from the faith, paying attention to seducing spirits and doctrines of
demons,
1Ti 4:2
through the hypocrisy of men who speak lies, branded in their own
conscience as with a hot iron;
1Ti 4:3
forbidding marriage and commanding to abstain from foods which God
created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and
know the truth.
1Ti 4:4
For every creature of God is good, and nothing is to be rejected, if
it is received with thanksgiving.
1Ti 4:5
For it is sanctified through the word of God and prayer.
1Ti 4:6
If you instruct the brothers of these things, you will be a good
servant of Christ Jesus, nourished in the words of the faith, and of
the good doctrine which you have followed.
1Ti 4:7
But refuse profane and old wives' fables. Exercise yourself toward
godliness.
1Ti 4:8
For bodily exercise has some value, but godliness has value in all
things, having the promise of the life which is now, and of that
which is to come.
1Ti 4:9
This saying is faithful and worthy of all acceptance.
1Ti 4:10
For to this end we both labor and suffer reproach, because we have
set our trust in the living God, who is the Savior of all men,
especially of those who believe.
1Ti 4:11
Command and teach these things.
1Ti 4:12
Let no man despise your youth; but be an example to those who
believe, in word, in your way of life, in love, in spirit, in faith,
and in purity.
1Ti 4:13
Until I come, pay attention to reading, to exhortation, and to
teaching.
1Ti 4:14
Don't neglect the gift that is in you, which was given to you by
prophecy, with the laying on of the hands of the elders.
1Ti 4:15
Be diligent in these things. Give yourself wholly to them, that your
progress may be revealed to all.
1Ti 4:16
Pay attention to yourself, and to your teaching. Continue in these
things, for in doing this you will save both yourself and those who
hear you.
1 Timothy
5
1Ti 5:1
Don't rebuke an older man, but exhort him as a father; the younger
men as brothers;
1Ti 5:2
the elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, in all purity.
1Ti 5:3
Honor widows who are widows indeed.
1Ti 5:4
But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let them learn first
to show piety towards their own family, and to repay their parents,
for this is acceptable in the sight of God.
1Ti 5:5
Now she who is a widow indeed, and desolate, has her hope set on God,
and continues in petitions and prayers night and day.
1Ti 5:6
But she who gives herself to pleasure is dead while she lives.
1Ti 5:7
Also command these things, that they may be without reproach.
1Ti 5:8
But if anyone doesn't provide for his own, and especially his own
household, he has denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.
1Ti 5:9
Let no one be enrolled as a widow under sixty years old, having been
the wife of one man,
1Ti 5:10
being approved by good works, if she has brought up children, if she
has been hospitable to strangers, if she has washed the saints' feet,
if she has relieved the afflicted, and if she has diligently followed
every good work.
1Ti 5:11
But refuse younger widows, for when they have grown wanton against
Christ, they desire to marry;
1Ti 5:12
having condemnation, because they have rejected their first pledge.
1Ti 5:13
Besides, they also learn to be idle, going about from house to house.
Not only idle, but also gossips and busybodies, saying things which
they ought not.
1Ti 5:14
I desire therefore that the younger widows marry, bear children, rule
the household, and give no occasion to the adversary for reviling.
1Ti 5:15
For already some have turned aside after Satan.
1Ti 5:16
If any man or woman who believes has widows, let them relieve them,
and don't let the assembly be burdened; that it might relieve those
who are widows indeed.
1Ti 5:17
Let the elders who rule well be counted worthy of double honor,
especially those who labor in the word and in teaching.
1Ti 5:18
For the Scripture says, "You shall not muzzle the ox when it
treads out the grain." And, "The laborer is worthy of his
wages."
1Ti 5:19
Don't receive an accusation against an elder, except at the word of
two or three witnesses.
1Ti 5:20
Those who sin, reprove in the sight of all, that the rest also may be
in fear.
1Ti 5:21
I command you in the sight of God, and Christ Jesus, and the chosen
angels, that you observe these things without prejudice, doing
nothing by partiality.
1Ti 5:22
Lay hands hastily on no one, neither be a participant in other men's
sins. Keep yourself pure.
1Ti 5:23
Be no longer a drinker of water only, but use a little wine for your
stomach's sake and your frequent infirmities.
1Ti 5:24
Some men's sins are evident, preceding them to judgment, and some
also follow later.
1Ti 5:25
In the same way also there are good works that are obvious, and those
that are otherwise can't be hidden.
1 Timothy
6
1Ti 6:1
Let as many as are bondservants under the yoke count their own
masters worthy of all honor, that the name of God and the doctrine
not be blasphemed.
1Ti 6:2
Those who have believing masters, let them not despise them, because
they are brothers, but rather let them serve them, because those who
partake of the benefit are believing and beloved. Teach and exhort
these things.
1Ti 6:3
If anyone teaches a different doctrine, and doesn't consent to sound
words, the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which
is according to godliness,
1Ti 6:4
he is conceited, knowing nothing, but obsessed with arguments,
disputes, and word battles, from which come envy, strife, reviling,
evil suspicions,
1Ti 6:5
constant friction of people of corrupt minds and destitute of the
truth, who suppose that godliness is a means of gain. Withdraw
yourself from such.
1Ti 6:6
But godliness with contentment is great gain.
1Ti 6:7
For we brought nothing into the world, and we certainly can't carry
anything out.
1Ti 6:8
But having food and clothing, we will be content with that.
1Ti 6:9
But those who are determined to be rich fall into a temptation and a
snare and many foolish and harmful lusts, such as drown men in ruin
and destruction.
1Ti 6:10
For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some have been
led astray from the faith in their greed, and have pierced themselves
through with many sorrows.
1Ti 6:11
But you, man of God, flee these things, and follow after
righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, and gentleness.
1Ti 6:12
Fight the good fight of faith. Lay hold of the eternal life to which
you were called, and you confessed the good confession in the sight
of many witnesses.
1Ti 6:13
I command you before God, who gives life to all things, and before
Christ Jesus, who before Pontius Pilate testified the good
confession,
1Ti 6:14
that you keep the commandment without spot, blameless, until the
appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ;
1Ti 6:15
which in its own times he will show, who is the blessed and only
Ruler, the King of kings, and Lord of lords;
1Ti 6:16
who alone has immortality, dwelling in unapproachable light; whom no
man has seen, nor can see: to whom be honor and eternal power. Amen.
1Ti 6:17
Charge those who are rich in this present world that they not be
haughty, nor have their hope set on the uncertainty of riches, but on
the living God, who richly provides us with everything to enjoy;
1Ti 6:18
that they do good, that they be rich in good works, that they be
ready to distribute, willing to communicate;
1Ti 6:19
laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time
to come, that they may lay hold of eternal life.
1Ti 6:20
Timothy, guard that which is committed to you, turning away from the
empty chatter and oppositions of the knowledge which is falsely so
called;
1Ti 6:21
which some professing have erred concerning the faith. Grace be with
you. Amen.
