Bible Reading
December 22
The World English Bible
Dec.
22
Micah
5-7
Mic
5:1 Now you shall gather yourself in troops, daughter of troops. He
has laid siege against us. They will strike the judge of Israel with
a rod on the cheek.
Mic
5:2 But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, being small among the clans of
Judah, out of you one will come forth to me that is to be ruler in
Israel; whose goings forth are from of old, from everlasting.
Mic
5:3 Therefore he will abandon them until the time that she who is in
labor gives birth. Then the rest of his brothers will return to the
children of Israel.
Mic
5:4 He shall stand, and shall shepherd in the strength of Yahweh, in
the majesty of the name of Yahweh his God: and they will live, for
then he will be great to the ends of the earth.
Mic
5:5 He will be our peace when Assyria invades our land, and when he
marches through our fortresses, then we will raise against him seven
shepherds, and eight leaders of men.
Mic
5:6 They will rule the land of Assyria with the sword, and the land
of Nimrod in its gates. He will deliver us from the Assyrian, when he
invades our land, and when he marches within our border.
Mic
5:7 The remnant of Jacob will be in the midst of many peoples, like
dew from Yahweh, like showers on the grass, that don't wait for man,
nor wait for the sons of men.
Mic
5:8 The remnant of Jacob will be among the nations, in the midst of
many peoples, like a lion among the animals of the forest, like a
young lion among the flocks of sheep; who, if he goes through, treads
down and tears in pieces, and there is no one to deliver.
Mic
5:9 Let your hand be lifted up above your adversaries, and let all
of your enemies be cut off.
Mic
5:10 "It will happen in that day," says Yahweh, "That
I will cut off your horses out of the midst of you, and will destroy
your chariots.
Mic
5:11 I will cut off the cities of your land, and will tear down all
your strongholds.
Mic
5:12 I will destroy witchcraft from your hand; and you shall have no
soothsayers.
Mic
5:13 I will cut off your engraved images and your pillars out of
your midst; and you shall no more worship the work of your hands.
Mic
5:14 I will uproot your Asherim out of your midst; and I will
destroy your cities.
Mic
5:15 I will execute vengeance in anger, and wrath on the nations
that didn't listen."
Mic
6:1 Listen now to what Yahweh says: "Arise, plead your case
before the mountains, and let the hills hear what you have to say.
Mic
6:2 Hear, you mountains, Yahweh's controversy, and you enduring
foundations of the earth; for Yahweh has a controversy with his
people, and he will contend with Israel.
Mic
6:3 My people, what have I done to you? How have I burdened you?
Answer me!
Mic
6:4 For I brought you up out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed you
out of the house of bondage. I sent before you Moses, Aaron, and
Miriam.
Mic
6:5 My people, remember now what Balak king of Moab devised, and
what Balaam the son of Beor answered him from Shittim to Gilgal, that
you may know the righteous acts of Yahweh."
Mic
6:6 How shall I come before Yahweh, and bow myself before the
exalted God? Shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with
calves a year old?
Mic
6:7 Will Yahweh be pleased with thousands of rams? With tens of
thousands of rivers of oil? Shall I give my firstborn for my
disobedience? The fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?
Mic
6:8 He has shown you, O man, what is good. What does Yahweh require
of you, but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with
your God?
Mic
6:9 Yahweh's voice calls to the city, and wisdom sees your name:
"Listen to the rod, and he who appointed it.
Mic
6:10 Are there yet treasures of wickedness in the house of the
wicked, and a short ephah that is accursed?
Mic
6:11 Shall I be pure with dishonest scales, and with a bag of
deceitful weights?
Mic
6:12 Her rich men are full of violence, her inhabitants speak lies,
and their tongue is deceitful in their speech.
Mic
6:13 Therefore I also have struck you with a grievous wound. I have
made you desolate because of your sins.
Mic
6:14 You shall eat, but not be satisfied. Your humiliation will be
in your midst. You will store up, but not save; and that which you
save I will give up to the sword.
Mic
6:15 You will sow, but won't reap. You will tread the olives, but
won't anoint yourself with oil; and crush grapes, but won't drink the
wine.
Mic
6:16 For the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works of the
house of Ahab. You walk in their counsels, that I may make you a
ruin, and her inhabitants a hissing; And you will bear the reproach
of my people."
Mic
7:1 Misery is mine! Indeed, I am like one who gathers the summer
fruits, as gleanings of the vineyard: There is no cluster of grapes
to eat. My soul desires to eat the early fig.
Mic
7:2 The godly man has perished out of the earth, and there is no one
upright among men. They all lie in wait for blood; every man hunts
his brother with a net.
Mic
7:3 Their hands are on that which is evil to do it diligently. The
ruler and judge ask for a bribe; and the powerful man dictates the
evil desire of his soul. Thus they conspire together.
Mic
7:4 The best of them is like a brier. The most upright is worse than
a thorn hedge. The day of your watchmen, even your visitation, has
come; now is the time of their confusion.
Mic
7:5 Don't trust in a neighbor. Don't put confidence in a friend.
With the woman lying in your embrace, be careful of the words of your
mouth!
Mic
7:6 For the son dishonors the father, the daughter rises up against
her mother, the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; a man's
enemies are the men of his own house.
Mic
7:7 But as for me, I will look to Yahweh. I will wait for the God of
my salvation. My God will hear me.
Mic
7:8 Don't rejoice against me, my enemy. When I fall, I will arise.
When I sit in darkness, Yahweh will be a light to me.
Mic
7:9 I will bear the indignation of Yahweh, because I have sinned
against him, until he pleads my case, and executes judgment for me.
He will bring me forth to the light. I will see his righteousness.
Mic
7:10 Then my enemy will see it, and shame will cover her who said to
me, where is Yahweh your God? Then my enemy will see me and will
cover her shame. Now she will be trodden down like the mire of the
streets.
Mic
7:11 A day to build your walls-- In that day, he will extend your
boundary.
Mic
7:12 In that day they will come to you from Assyria and the cities
of Egypt, and from Egypt even to the River, and from sea to sea, and
mountain to mountain.
Mic
7:13 Yet the land will be desolate because of those who dwell
therein, for the fruit of their doings.
Mic
7:14 Shepherd your people with your staff, the flock of your
heritage, who dwell by themselves in a forest, in the midst of
fertile pasture land, let them feed; in Bashan and Gilead, as in the
days of old.
Mic
7:15 "As in the days of your coming forth out of the land of
Egypt, I will show them marvelous things."
Mic
7:16 The nations will see and be ashamed of all their might. They
will lay their hand on their mouth. Their ears will be deaf.
Mic
7:17 They will lick the dust like a serpent. Like crawling things of
the earth they shall come trembling out of their dens. They will come
with fear to Yahweh our God, and will be afraid because of you.
Mic
7:18 Who is a God like you, who pardons iniquity, and passes over
the disobedience of the remnant of his heritage? He doesn't retain
his anger forever, because he delights in loving kindness.
Mic
7:19 He will again have compassion on us. He will tread our
iniquities under foot; and you will cast all their sins into the
depths of the sea.
Mic
7:20 You will give truth to Jacob, and mercy to Abraham, as you have
sworn to our fathers from the days of old.
Dec. 22
Revelation 5, 6
Rev 5:1 I saw, in the
right hand of him who sat on the throne, a book written inside and
outside, sealed shut with seven seals.
Rev 5:2 I saw a mighty
angel proclaiming with a loud voice, "Who is worthy to open the
book, and to break its seals?"
Rev 5:3 No one in
heaven above, or on the earth, or under the earth, was able to open
the book, or to look in it.
Rev 5:4 And I wept
much, because no one was found worthy to open the book, or to look in
it.
Rev 5:5 One of the
elders said to me, "Don't weep. Behold, the Lion who is of the
tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has overcome; he who opens the
book and its seven seals."
Rev 5:6 I saw in the
midst of the throne and of the four living creatures, and in the
midst of the elders, a Lamb standing, as though it had been slain,
having seven horns, and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of
God, sent out into all the earth.
Rev 5:7 Then he came,
and he took it out of the right hand of him who sat on the throne.
Rev 5:8 Now when he had
taken the book, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders
fell down before the Lamb, each one having a harp, and golden bowls
full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints.
Rev 5:9 They sang a new
song, saying, "You are worthy to take the book, and to open its
seals: for you were killed, and bought us for God with your blood,
out of every tribe, language, people, and nation,
Rev 5:10 and made us
kings and priests to our God, and we will reign on earth."
Rev 5:11 I saw, and I
heard something like a voice of many angels around the throne, the
living creatures, and the elders; and the number of them was ten
thousands of ten thousands, and thousands of thousands;
Rev 5:12 saying with a
loud voice, "Worthy is the Lamb who has been killed to receive
the power, wealth, wisdom, strength, honor, glory, and blessing!"
Rev 5:13 I heard every
created thing which is in heaven, on the earth, under the earth, on
the sea, and everything in them, saying, "To him who sits on the
throne, and to the Lamb be the blessing, the honor, the glory, and
the dominion, forever and ever! Amen!"
Rev 5:14 The four
living creatures said, "Amen!" The elders fell down and
worshiped.
Rev 6:1 I saw that the
Lamb opened one of the seven seals, and I heard one of the four
living creatures saying, as with a voice of thunder, "Come and
see!"
Rev 6:2 And behold, a
white horse, and he who sat on it had a bow. A crown was given to
him, and he came forth conquering, and to conquer.
Rev 6:3 When he opened
the second seal, I heard the second living creature saying, "Come!"
Rev 6:4 Another came
forth, a red horse. To him who sat on it was given power to take
peace from the earth, and that they should kill one another. There
was given to him a great sword.
Rev 6:5 When he opened
the third seal, I heard the third living creature saying, "Come
and see!" And behold, a black horse, and he who sat on it had a
balance in his hand.
Rev 6:6 I heard a voice
in the midst of the four living creatures saying, "A choenix of
wheat for a denarius, and three choenix of barley for a denarius!
Don't damage the oil and the wine!"
Rev 6:7 When he opened
the fourth seal, I heard the fourth living creature saying, "Come
and see!"
Rev 6:8 And behold, a
pale horse, and he who sat on it, his name was Death. Hades followed
with him. Authority over one fourth of the earth, to kill with the
sword, with famine, with death, and by the wild animals of the earth
was given to him.
Rev 6:9 When he opened
the fifth seal, I saw underneath the altar the souls of those who had
been killed for the Word of God, and for the testimony of the Lamb
which they had.
Rev 6:10 They cried
with a loud voice, saying, "How long, Master, the holy and true,
until you judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell on the
earth?"
Rev 6:11 A long white
robe was given to each of them. They were told that they should rest
yet for a while, until their fellow servants and their brothers, who
would also be killed even as they were, should complete their course.
Rev 6:12 I saw when he
opened the sixth seal, and there was a great earthquake. The sun
became black as sackcloth made of hair, and the whole moon became as
blood.
Rev 6:13 The stars of
the sky fell to the earth, like a fig tree dropping its unripe figs
when it is shaken by a great wind.
Rev 6:14 The sky was
removed like a scroll when it is rolled up. Every mountain and island
were moved out of their places.
Rev 6:15 The kings of
the earth, the princes, the commanding officers, the rich, the
strong, and every slave and free person, hid themselves in the caves
and in the rocks of the mountains.
Rev 6:16 They told the
mountains and the rocks, "Fall on us, and hide us from the face
of him who sits on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb,
Rev 6:17 for the great
day of his wrath has come; and who is able to stand?"
