Bible Reading
October 30
The World English Bible
Oct.
30
Isaiah
13-16
Isa
13:1 The burden of Babylon, which Isaiah the son of Amoz saw:
Isa
13:2 Set up a banner on the bare mountain! Lift up your voice to
them! Wave your hand, that they may go into the gates of the nobles.
Isa
13:3 I have commanded my consecrated ones; yes, I have called my
mighty men for my anger, even my proudly exulting ones.
Isa
13:4 The noise of a multitude is in the mountains, as of a great
people; the noise of an uproar of the kingdoms of the nations
gathered together! Yahweh of Armies is mustering the army for the
battle.
Isa
13:5 They come from a far country, from the uttermost part of
heaven, even Yahweh, and the weapons of his indignation, to destroy
the whole land.
Isa
13:6 Wail; for the day of Yahweh is at hand! It will come as
destruction from the Almighty.
Isa
13:7 Therefore all hands will be feeble, and everyone's heart will
melt.
Isa
13:8 They will be dismayed. Pangs and sorrows will seize them. They
will be in pain like a woman in labor. They will look in amazement
one at another. Their faces will be faces of flame.
Isa
13:9 Behold, the day of Yahweh comes, cruel, with wrath and fierce
anger; to make the land a desolation, and to destroy its sinners out
of it.
Isa
13:10 For the stars of the sky and its constellations will not give
their light. The sun will be darkened in its going forth, and the
moon will not cause its light to shine.
Isa
13:11 I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for
their iniquity. I will cause the arrogance of the proud to cease, and
will humble the haughtiness of the terrible.
Isa
13:12 I will make people more rare than fine gold, even a person
than the pure gold of Ophir.
Isa
13:13 Therefore I will make the heavens tremble, and the earth will
be shaken out of its place in the wrath of Yahweh of Armies, and in
the day of his fierce anger.
Isa
13:14 It will happen that like a a hunted gazelle, and like sheep
that no one gathers, they will each turn to their own people, and
will each flee to their own land.
Isa
13:15 Everyone who is found will be thrust through. Everyone who is
captured will fall by the sword.
Isa
13:16 Their infants also will be dashed in pieces before their eyes.
Their houses will be ransacked, and their wives raped.
Isa
13:17 Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, who will not
value silver, and as for gold, they will not delight in it.
Isa
13:18 Their bows will dash the young men in pieces; and they shall
have no pity on the fruit of the womb. Their eyes will not spare
children.
Isa
13:19 Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldeans'
pride, will be like when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.
Isa
13:20 It will never be inhabited, neither will it be lived in from
generation to generation. The Arabian will not pitch a tent there,
neither will shepherds make their flocks lie down there.
Isa
13:21 But wild animals of the desert will lie there, and their
houses will be full of jackals. Ostriches will dwell there, and wild
goats will frolic there.
Isa
13:22 Wolves will cry in their castles, and jackals in the pleasant
palaces. Her time is near to come, and her days will not be
prolonged.
Isa
14:1 For Yahweh will have compassion on Jacob, and will yet choose
Israel, and set them in their own land. The foreigner will join
himself with them, and they will unite with the house of Jacob.
Isa
14:2 The peoples will take them, and bring them to their place. The
house of Israel will possess them in Yahweh's land for servants and
for handmaids. They will take as captives those whose captives they
were; and they shall rule over their oppressors.
Isa
14:3 It will happen in the day that Yahweh will give you rest from
your sorrow, from your trouble, and from the hard service in which
you were made to serve,
Isa
14:4 that you will take up this parable against the king of Babylon,
and say, "How the oppressor has ceased! The golden city has
ceased!"
Isa
14:5 Yahweh has broken the staff of the wicked, the scepter of the
rulers,
Isa
14:6 who struck the peoples in wrath with a continual stroke, who
ruled the nations in anger, with a persecution that none restrained.
Isa
14:7 The whole earth is at rest, and is quiet. They break out song.
Isa
14:8 Yes, the fir trees rejoice with you, with the cedars of
Lebanon, saying, "Since you are humbled, no lumberjack has come
up against us."
Isa
14:9 Sheol from beneath has moved for you to meet you at your
coming. It stirs up the dead for you, even all the rulers of the
earth. It has raised up from their thrones all the kings of the
nations.
Isa
14:10 They all will answer and ask you, "Have you also become
as weak as we are? Have you become like us?"
Isa
14:11 Your pomp is brought down to Sheol, with the sound of your
stringed instruments. Maggots are spread out under you, and worms
cover you.
Isa
14:12 How you have fallen from heaven, morning star, son of the
dawn! How you are cut down to the ground, who laid the nations low!
Isa
14:13 You said in your heart, "I will ascend into heaven! I
will exalt my throne above the stars of God! I will sit on the
mountain of assembly, in the far north!
Isa
14:14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds! I will make
myself like the Most High!"
Isa
14:15 Yet you shall be brought down to Sheol, to the depths of the
pit.
Isa
14:16 Those who see you will stare at you. They will ponder you,
saying, "Is this the man who made the earth to tremble, who
shook kingdoms;
Isa
14:17 who made the world like a wilderness, and overthrew its
cities; who didn't release his prisoners to their home?"
Isa
14:18 All the kings of the nations, sleep in glory, everyone in his
own house.
Isa
14:19 But you are cast away from your tomb like an abominable
branch, clothed with the slain, who are thrust through with the
sword, who go down to the stones of the pit; like a dead body trodden
under foot.
Isa
14:20 You will not join them in burial, because you have destroyed
your land. You have killed your people. The seed of evildoers will
not be named forever.
Isa
14:21 Prepare for slaughter of his children because of the iniquity
of their fathers, that they not rise up and possess the earth, and
fill the surface of the world with cities.
Isa
14:22 "I will rise up against them," says Yahweh of
Armies, "and cut off from Babylon name and remnant, and son and
son's son," says Yahweh.
Isa
14:23 "I will also make it a possession for the porcupine, and
pools of water. I will sweep it with the broom of destruction,"
says Yahweh of Armies.
Isa
14:24 Yahweh of Armies has sworn, saying, "Surely, as I have
thought, so shall it happen; and as I have purposed, so shall it
stand:
Isa
14:25 that I will break the Assyrian in my land, and tread him under
foot on my mountains. Then his yoke will leave them, and his burden
leave their shoulders.
Isa
14:26 This is the plan that is determined for the whole earth. This
is the hand that is stretched out over all the nations.
Isa
14:27 For Yahweh of Armies has planned, and who can stop it? His
hand is stretched out, and who can turn it back?"
Isa
14:28 This burden was in the year that king Ahaz died.
Isa
14:29 Don't rejoice, O Philistia, all of you, because the rod that
struck you is broken; for out of the serpent's root an adder will
emerge, and his fruit will be a fiery flying serpent.
Isa
14:30 The firstborn of the poor will eat, and the needy will lie
down in safety; and I will kill your root with famine, and your
remnant will be killed.
Isa
14:31 Howl, gate! Cry, city! You are melted away, Philistia, all of
you; for smoke comes out of the north, and there is no straggler in
his ranks.
Isa
14:32 What will they answer the messengers of the nation? That
Yahweh has founded Zion, and in her the afflicted of his people will
take refuge.
Isa
15:1 The burden of Moab: for in a night, Ar of Moab is laid waste,
and brought to nothing; for in a night Kir of Moab is laid waste, and
brought to nothing.
Isa
15:2 They have gone up to Bayith, and to Dibon, to the high places,
to weep. Moab wails over Nebo and over Medeba. Baldness is on all of
their heads. Every beard is cut off.
Isa
15:3 In their streets, they dress themselves in sackcloth. In their
streets and on their housetops, everyone wails, weeping abundantly.
Isa
15:4 Heshbon cries out with Elealeh. Their voice is heard even to
Jahaz. Therefore the armed men of Moab cry aloud. Their souls tremble
within them.
Isa
15:5 My heart cries out for Moab! Her nobles flee to Zoar, to Eglath
Shelishiyah; for they go up by the ascent of Luhith with weeping; for
in the way of Horonaim, they raise up a cry of destruction.
Isa
15:6 For the waters of Nimrim will be desolate; for the grass has
withered away, the tender grass fails, there is no green thing.
Isa
15:7 Therefore they will carry away the abundance they have gotten,
and that which they have stored up, over the brook of the willows.
Isa
15:8 For the cry has gone around the borders of Moab; its wailing to
Eglaim, and its wailing to Beer Elim.
Isa
15:9 For the waters of Dimon are full of blood; for I will bring yet
more on Dimon, a lion on those of Moab who escape, and on the remnant
of the land.
Isa
16:1 Send the lambs for the ruler of the land from Selah to the
wilderness, to the mountain of the daughter of Zion.
Isa
16:2 For it will be that as wandering birds, as a scattered nest, so
will the daughters of Moab be at the fords of the Arnon.
Isa
16:3 Give counsel! Execute justice! Make your shade like the night
in the midst of the noonday! Hide the outcasts! Don't betray the
fugitive!
Isa
16:4 Let my outcasts dwell with you! As for Moab, be a hiding place
for him from the face of the destroyer. For the extortioner is
brought to nothing. Destruction ceases. The oppressors are consumed
out of the land.
Isa
16:5 A throne will be established in loving kindness. One will sit
on it in truth, in the tent of David, judging, seeking justice, and
swift to do righteousness.
Isa
16:6 We have heard of the pride of Moab, that he is very proud; even
of his arrogance, his pride, and his wrath. His boastings are
nothing.
Isa
16:7 Therefore Moab will wail for Moab. Everyone will wail. You will
mourn for the raisin cakes of Kir Hareseth, utterly stricken.
Isa
16:8 For the fields of Heshbon languish with the vine of Sibmah. The
lords of the nations have broken down its choice branches, which
reached even to Jazer, which wandered into the wilderness. Its shoots
were spread abroad. They passed over the sea.
Isa
16:9 Therefore I will weep with the weeping of Jazer for the vine of
Sibmah. I will water you with my tears, Heshbon, and Elealeh: for on
your summer fruits and on your harvest the battle shout has fallen.
Isa
16:10 Gladness is taken away, and joy out of the fruitful field; and
in the vineyards there will be no singing, neither joyful noise.
Nobody will tread out wine in the presses. I have made the shouting
stop.
Isa
16:11 Therefore my heart sounds like a harp for Moab, and my inward
parts for Kir Heres.
Isa
16:12 It will happen that when Moab presents himself, when he
wearies himself on the high place, and comes to his sanctuary to
pray, that he will not prevail.
Isa
16:13 This is the word that Yahweh spoke concerning Moab in time
past.
Isa
16:14 But now Yahweh has spoken, saying, "Within three years,
as a worker bound by contract would count them, the glory of Moab
shall be brought into contempt, with all his great multitude; and the
remnant will be very small and feeble."
Oct.
30
2
Thessalonians 2
2Th
2:1 Now, brothers, concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ,
and our gathering together to him, we ask you
2Th
2:2 not to be quickly shaken in your mind, nor yet be troubled,
either by spirit, or by word, or by letter as from us, saying that
the day of Christ had come.
2Th
2:3 Let no one deceive you in any way. For it will not be, unless
the departure comes first, and the man of sin is revealed, the son of
destruction,
2Th
2:4 he who opposes and exalts himself against all that is called God
or that is worshiped; so that he sits as God in the temple of God,
setting himself up as God.
2Th
2:5 Don't you remember that, when I was still with you, I told you
these things?
2Th
2:6 Now you know what is restraining him, to the end that he may be
revealed in his own season.
2Th
2:7 For the mystery of lawlessness already works. Only there is one
who restrains now, until he is taken out of the way.
2Th
2:8 Then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord will kill
with the breath of his mouth, and destroy by the manifestation of his
coming;
2Th
2:9 even he whose coming is according to the working of Satan with
all power and signs and lying wonders,
2Th
2:10 and with all deception of wickedness for those who are being
lost, because they didn't receive the love of the truth, that they
might be saved.
2Th
2:11 Because of this, God sends them a working of error, that they
should believe a lie;
2Th
2:12 that they all might be judged who didn't believe the truth, but
had pleasure in unrighteousness.
2Th
2:13 But we are bound to always give thanks to God for you, brothers
loved by the Lord, because God chose you from the beginning for
salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief in the
truth;
2Th
2:14 to which he called you through our Good News, for the obtaining
of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.
2Th
2:15 So then, brothers, stand firm, and hold the traditions which
you were taught by us, whether by word, or by letter.
2Th
2:16 Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God our Father, who
loved us and gave us eternal comfort and good hope through grace,
2Th
2:17 comfort your hearts and establish you in every good work and
word.
