Bible Reading
October 29
The World English Bible
Oct.
29
Isaiah
9-12
Isa
9:1 But there shall be no more gloom for her who was in anguish. In
the former time, he brought into contempt the land of Zebulun and the
land of Naphtali; but in the latter time he has made it glorious, by
the way of the sea, beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the nations.
Isa
9:2 The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light. Those
who lived in the land of the shadow of death, on them the light has
shined.
Isa
9:3 You have multiplied the nation. You have increased their joy.
They rejoice before you according to the joy in harvest, as men
rejoice when they divide the spoil.
Isa
9:4 For the yoke of his burden, and the staff of his shoulder, the
rod of his oppressor, you have broken as in the day of Midian.
Isa
9:5 For all the armor of the armed man in the noisy battle, and the
garments rolled in blood, will be for burning, fuel for the fire.
Isa
9:6 For to us a child is born. To us a son is given; and the
government will be on his shoulders. His name will be called
Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of
Peace.
Isa
9:7 Of the increase of his government and of peace there shall be no
end, on the throne of David, and on his kingdom, to establish it, and
to uphold it with justice and with righteousness from that time on,
even forever. The zeal of Yahweh of Armies will perform this.
Isa
9:8 The Lord sent a word into Jacob, and it falls on Israel.
Isa
9:9 All the people will know, including Ephraim and the inhabitants
of Samaria, who say in pride and in arrogance of heart,
Isa
9:10 "The bricks have fallen, but we will build with cut stone.
The sycamore fig trees have been cut down, but we will put cedars in
their place."
Isa
9:11 Therefore Yahweh will set up on high against him the
adversaries of Rezin, and will stir up his enemies,
Isa
9:12 The Syrians in front, and the Philistines behind; and they will
devour Israel with open mouth. For all this, his anger is not turned
away, but his hand is stretched out still.
Isa
9:13 Yet the people have not turned to him who struck them, neither
have they sought Yahweh of Armies.
Isa
9:14 Therefore Yahweh will cut off from Israel head and tail, palm
branch and reed, in one day.
Isa
9:15 The elder and the honorable man is the head, and the prophet
who teaches lies is the tail.
Isa
9:16 For those who lead this people lead them astray; and those who
are led by them are destroyed.
Isa
9:17 Therefore the Lord will not rejoice over their young men,
neither will he have compassion on their fatherless and widows; for
everyone is profane and an evildoer, and every mouth speaks folly.
For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched
out still.
Isa
9:18 For wickedness burns like a fire. It devours the briers and
thorns; yes, it kindles in the thickets of the forest, and they roll
upward in a column of smoke.
Isa
9:19 Through the wrath of Yahweh of Armies, the land is burnt up;
and the people are the fuel for the fire. No one spares his brother.
Isa
9:20 One will devour on the right hand, and be hungry; and he will
eat on the left hand, and they will not be satisfied. Everyone will
eat the flesh of his own arm:
Isa
9:21 Manasseh, Ephraim; and Ephraim, Manasseh; and they together
shall be against Judah. For all this his anger is not turned away,
but his hand is stretched out still.
Isa
10:1 Woe to those who decree unrighteous decrees, and to the writers
who write oppressive decrees;
Isa
10:2 to deprive the needy from justice, and to rob the poor among my
people of their rights, that widows may be their spoil, and that they
may make the fatherless their prey!
Isa
10:3 What will you do in the day of visitation, and in the
desolation which will come from afar? To whom will you flee for help?
Where will you leave your wealth?
Isa
10:4 They will only bow down under the prisoners, and will fall
under the slain. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his
hand is stretched out still.
Isa
10:5 Alas Assyrian, the rod of my anger, the staff in whose hand is
my indignation!
Isa
10:6 I will send him against a profane nation, and against the
people who anger me will I give him a command to take the spoil and
to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the
streets.
Isa
10:7 However he doesn't mean so, neither does his heart think so;
but it is in his heart to destroy, and to cut off not a few nations.
Isa
10:8 For he says, "Aren't all of my princes kings?
Isa
10:9 Isn't Calno like Carchemish? Isn't Hamath like Arpad? Isn't
Samaria like Damascus?"
Isa
10:10 As my hand has found the kingdoms of the idols, whose engraved
images exceeded those of Jerusalem and of Samaria;
Isa
10:11 shall I not, as I have done to Samaria and her idols, so do to
Jerusalem and her idols?
Isa
10:12 Therefore it will happen that, when the Lord has performed his
whole work on Mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of
the willful proud heart of the king of Assyria, and the insolence of
his haughty looks.
Isa
10:13 For he has said, "By the strength of my hand I have done
it, and by my wisdom; for I have understanding: and I have removed
the boundaries of the peoples, and have robbed their treasures. Like
a valiant man I have brought down their rulers.
Isa
10:14 My hand has found the riches of the peoples like a nest, and
like one gathers eggs that are abandoned, have I gathered all the
earth. There was no one who moved their wing, or that opened their
mouth, or chirped."
Isa
10:15 Should an axe brag against him who chops with it? Should a saw
exalt itself above him who saws with it? As if a rod should lift
those who lift it up, or as if a staff should lift up someone who is
not wood.
Isa
10:16 Therefore the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, will send among his fat
ones leanness; and under his glory a burning will be kindled like the
burning of fire.
Isa
10:17 The light of Israel will be for a fire, and his Holy One for a
flame; and it will burn and devour his thorns and his briers in one
day.
Isa
10:18 He will consume the glory of his forest, and of his fruitful
field, both soul and body. It will be as when a standard bearer
faints.
Isa
10:19 The remnant of the trees of his forest shall be few, so that a
child could write their number.
Isa
10:20 It will come to pass in that day that the remnant of Israel,
and those who have escaped from the house of Jacob will no more again
lean on him who struck them, but shall lean on Yahweh, the Holy One
of Israel, in truth.
Isa
10:21 A remnant will return, even the remnant of Jacob, to the
mighty God.
Isa
10:22 For though your people, Israel, are like the sand of the sea,
only a remnant of them will return. A destruction is determined,
overflowing with righteousness.
Isa
10:23 For the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, will make a full end, and that
determined, in the midst of all the earth.
Isa
10:24 Therefore the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, says "My people who
dwell in Zion, don't be afraid of the Assyrian, though he strike you
with the rod, and lift up his staff against you, as Egypt did.
Isa
10:25 For yet a very little while, and the indignation against you
will be accomplished, and my anger will be directed to his
destruction."
Isa
10:26 Yahweh of Armies will stir up a scourge against him, as in the
slaughter of Midian at the rock of Oreb. His rod will be over the
sea, and he will lift it up like he did against Egypt.
Isa
10:27 It will happen in that day, that his burden will depart from
off your shoulder, and his yoke from off your neck, and the yoke
shall be destroyed because of the anointing oil.
Isa
10:28 He has come to Aiath. He has passed through Migron. At
Michmash he stores his baggage.
Isa
10:29 They have gone over the pass. They have taken up their lodging
at Geba. Ramah trembles. Gibeah of Saul has fled.
Isa
10:30 Cry aloud with your voice, daughter of Gallim! Listen,
Laishah! You poor Anathoth!
Isa
10:31 Madmenah is a fugitive. The inhabitants of Gebim flee for
safety.
Isa
10:32 This very day he will halt at Nob. He shakes his hand at the
mountain of the daughter of Zion, the hill of Jerusalem.
Isa
10:33 Behold, the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, will lop the boughs with
terror. The tall will be cut down, and the lofty will be brought low.
Isa
10:34 He will cut down the thickets of the forest with iron, and
Lebanon will fall by the Mighty One.
Isa
11:1 A shoot will come out of the stock of Jesse, and a branch out
of his roots will bear fruit.
Isa
11:2 The Spirit of Yahweh will rest on him: the spirit of wisdom and
understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of
knowledge and of the fear of Yahweh.
Isa
11:3 His delight will be in the fear of Yahweh. He will not judge by
the sight of his eyes, neither decide by the hearing of his ears;
Isa
11:4 but with righteousness he will judge the poor, and decide with
equity for the humble of the earth. He will strike the earth with the
rod of his mouth; and with the breath of his lips he will kill the
wicked.
Isa
11:5 Righteousness will be the belt of his waist, and faithfulness
the belt of his waist.
Isa
11:6 The wolf will live with the lamb, and the leopard will lie down
with the young goat; The calf, the young lion, and the fattened calf
together; and a little child will lead them.
Isa
11:7 The cow and the bear will graze. Their young ones will lie down
together. The lion will eat straw like the ox.
Isa
11:8 The nursing child will play near a cobra's hole, and the weaned
child will put his hand on the viper's den.
Isa
11:9 They will not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain; for the
earth will be full of the knowledge of Yahweh, as the waters cover
the sea.
Isa
11:10 It will happen in that day that the nations will seek the root
of Jesse, who stands as a banner of the peoples; and his resting
place will be glorious.
Isa
11:11 It will happen in that day that the Lord will set his hand
again the second time to recover the remnant that is left of his
people from Assyria, from Egypt, from Pathros, from Cush, from Elam,
from Shinar, from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea.
Isa
11:12 He will set up a banner for the nations, and will assemble the
outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah from
the four corners of the earth.
Isa
11:13 The envy also of Ephraim will depart, and those who persecute
Judah will be cut off. Ephraim won't envy Judah, and Judah won't
persecute Ephraim.
Isa
11:14 They will fly down on the shoulders of the Philistines on the
west. Together they will plunder the children of the east. They will
extend their power over Edom and Moab, and the children of Ammon will
obey them.
Isa
11:15 Yahweh will utterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptian sea;
and with his scorching wind he will wave his hand over the River, and
will split it into seven streams, and cause men to march over in
sandals.
Isa
11:16 There will be a highway for the remnant that is left of his
people from Assyria, like there was for Israel in the day that he
came up out of the land of Egypt.
Isa
12:1 In that day you will say, "I will give thanks to you,
Yahweh; for though you were angry with me, your anger has turned away
and you comfort me.
Isa
12:2 Behold, God is my salvation. I will trust, and will not be
afraid; for Yah, Yahweh, is my strength and song; and he has become
my salvation."
Isa
12:3 Therefore with joy you will draw water out of the wells of
salvation.
Isa
12:4 In that day you will say, "Give thanks to Yahweh! Call on
his name. Declare his doings among the peoples. Proclaim that his
name is exalted!
Isa
12:5 Sing to Yahweh, for he has done excellent things! Let this be
known in all the earth!
Isa
12:6 Cry aloud and shout, you inhabitant of Zion; for the Holy One
of Israel is great in the midst of you!"
Oct.
29
2
Thessalonians 1
2Th
1:1 Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy, to the assembly of the
Thessalonians in God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ:
2Th
1:2 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus
Christ.
2Th
1:3 We are bound to always give thanks to God for you, brothers,
even as it is appropriate, because your faith grows exceedingly, and
the love of each and every one of you towards one another abounds;
2Th
1:4 so that we ourselves boast about you in the assemblies of God
for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and in the
afflictions which you endure.
2Th
1:5 This is an obvious sign of the righteous judgment of God, to the
end that you may be counted worthy of the Kingdom of God, for which
you also suffer.
2Th
1:6 Since it is a righteous thing with God to repay affliction to
those who afflict you,
2Th
1:7 and to give relief to you who are afflicted with us, when the
Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with his mighty angels in flaming
fire,
2Th
1:8 giving vengeance to those who don't know God, and to those who
don't obey the Good News of our Lord Jesus,
2Th
1:9 who will pay the penalty: eternal destruction from the face of
the Lord and from the glory of his might,
2Th
1:10 when he comes to be glorified in his saints, and to be admired
among all those who have believed (because our testimony to you was
believed) in that day.
2Th
1:11 To this end we also pray always for you, that our God may count
you worthy of your calling, and fulfill every desire of goodness and
work of faith, with power;
2Th
1:12 that the name of our Lord Jesus may be glorified in you, and
you in him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus
Christ.
