Bible Reading
November 20
The World English Bible
Nov.
20
Jeremiah
30-33
Jer
30:1 The word that came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, saying,
Jer
30:2 Thus speaks Yahweh, the God of Israel, saying, Write you all
the words that I have spoken to you in a book.
Jer
30:3 For, behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that I will turn again
the captivity of my people Israel and Judah, says Yahweh; and I will
cause them to return to the land that I gave to their fathers, and
they shall possess it.
Jer
30:4 These are the words that Yahweh spoke concerning Israel and
concerning Judah.
Jer
30:5 For thus says Yahweh: We have heard a voice of trembling, of
fear, and not of peace.
Jer
30:6 Ask now, and see whether a man does travail with child: why do
I see every man with his hands on his waist, as a woman in travail,
and all faces are turned into paleness?
Jer
30:7 Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is
even the time of Jacob's trouble; but he shall be saved out of it.
Jer
30:8 It shall come to pass in that day, says Yahweh of Armies, that
I will break his yoke from off your neck, and will burst your bonds;
and strangers shall no more make him their bondservant;
Jer
30:9 but they shall serve Yahweh their God, and David their king,
whom I will raise up to them.
Jer
30:10 Therefore don't you be afraid, O Jacob my servant, says
Yahweh; neither be dismayed, Israel: for, behold, I will save you
from afar, and your seed from the land of their captivity; and Jacob
shall return, and shall be quiet and at ease, and none shall make him
afraid.
Jer
30:11 For I am with you, says Yahweh, to save you: for I will make a
full end of all the nations where I have scattered you, but I will
not make a full end of you; but I will correct you in measure, and
will in no way leave you unpunished.
Jer
30:12 For thus says Yahweh, Your hurt is incurable, and your wound
grievous.
Jer
30:13 There is none to plead your cause, that you may be bound up:
you have no healing medicines.
Jer
30:14 All your lovers have forgotten you; they don't seek you: for I
have wounded you with the wound of an enemy, with the chastisement of
a cruel one, for the greatness of your iniquity, because your sins
were increased.
Jer
30:15 Why cry you for your hurt? your pain is incurable: for the
greatness of your iniquity, because your sins were increased, I have
done these things to you.
Jer
30:16 Therefore all those who devour you shall be devoured; and all
your adversaries, everyone of them, shall go into captivity; and
those who despoil you shall be a spoil, and all who prey on you will
I give for a prey.
Jer
30:17 For I will restore health to you, and I will heal you of your
wounds, says Yahweh; because they have called you an outcast, saying,
It is Zion, whom no man seeks after.
Jer
30:18 Thus says Yahweh: Behold, I will turn again the captivity of
Jacob's tents, and have compassion on his dwelling places; and the
city shall be built on its own hill, and the palace shall be
inhabited after its own manner.
Jer
30:19 Out of them shall proceed thanksgiving and the voice of those
who make merry: and I will multiply them, and they shall not be few;
I will also glorify them, and they shall not be small.
Jer
30:20 Their children also shall be as before, and their congregation
shall be established before me; and I will punish all who oppress
them.
Jer
30:21 Their prince shall be of themselves, and their ruler shall
proceed from the midst of them; and I will cause him to draw near,
and he shall approach to me: for who is he who has had boldness to
approach to me? says Yahweh.
Jer
30:22 You shall be my people, and I will be your God.
Jer
30:23 Behold, the storm of Yahweh, even
his wrath, is gone forth, a sweeping
storm: it shall burst on the head of the wicked.
Jer
30:24 The fierce anger of Yahweh shall not return, until he has
executed, and until he have performed the intents of his heart: in
the latter days you shall understand it.
Jer
31:1 At that time, says Yahweh, will I be the God of all the
families of Israel, and they shall be my people.
Jer
31:2 Thus says Yahweh, The people who were left of the sword found
favor in the wilderness; even Israel, when I went to cause him to
rest.
Jer
31:3 Yahweh appeared of old to me, saying,
Yes, I have loved you with an everlasting love: therefore with loving
kindness have I drawn you.
Jer
31:4 Again will I build you, and you shall be built, O virgin of
Israel: again you shall be adorned with your tambourines, and shall
go forth in the dances of those who make merry.
Jer
31:5 Again you shall plant vineyards on the mountains of Samaria;
the planters shall plant, and shall enjoy its
fruit.
Jer
31:6 For there shall be a day, that the watchmen on the hills of
Ephraim shall cry, Arise you, and let us go up to Zion to Yahweh our
God.
Jer
31:7 For thus says Yahweh, Sing with gladness for Jacob, and shout
for the chief of the nations: publish you, praise you, and say,
Yahweh, save your people, the remnant of Israel.
Jer
31:8 Behold, I will bring them from the north country, and gather
them from the uttermost parts of the earth, and
with them the blind and the lame, the woman with child and her who
travails with child together: a great company shall they return here.
Jer
31:9 They shall come with weeping; and with petitions will I lead
them: I will cause them to walk by rivers of waters, in a straight
way in which they shall not stumble; for I am a father to Israel, and
Ephraim is my firstborn.
Jer
31:10 Hear the word of Yahweh, you nations, and declare it in the
islands afar off; and say, He who scattered Israel will gather him,
and keep him, as shepherd does his flock.
Jer
31:11 For Yahweh has ransomed Jacob, and redeemed him from the hand
of him who was stronger than he.
Jer
31:12 They shall come and sing in the height of Zion, and shall flow
to the goodness of Yahweh, to the grain, and to the new wine, and to
the oil, and to the young of the flock and of the herd: and their
soul shall be as a watered garden; and they shall not sorrow any more
at all.
Jer
31:13 Then shall the virgin rejoice in the dance, and the young men
and the old together; for I will turn their mourning into joy, and
will comfort them, and make them rejoice from their sorrow.
Jer
31:14 I will satiate the soul of the priests with fatness, and my
people shall be satisfied with my goodness, says Yahweh.
Jer
31:15 Thus says Yahweh: A voice is heard in Ramah, lamentation, and
bitter weeping, Rachel weeping for her children; she refuses to be
comforted for her children, because they are no more.
Jer
31:16 Thus says Yahweh: Refrain your voice from weeping, and your
eyes from tears; for your work shall be rewarded, says Yahweh; and
they shall come again from the land of the enemy.
Jer
31:17 There is hope for your latter end, says Yahweh; and your
children shall come again to their own border.
Jer
31:18 I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus,
You have chastised me, and I was chastised, as a calf unaccustomed to
the yoke: turn you me, and I shall be
turned; for you are Yahweh my God.
Jer
31:19 Surely after that I was turned, I repented; and after that I
was instructed, I struck on my thigh: I was ashamed, yes, even
confounded, because I did bear the reproach of my youth.
Jer
31:20 Is Ephraim my dear son? is he a darling child? for as often as
I speak against him, I do earnestly remember him still: therefore my
heart yearns for him; I will surely have mercy on him, says Yahweh.
Jer
31:21 Set up road signs, make guideposts; set your heart toward the
highway, even the way by which you went: turn again, virgin of
Israel, turn again to these your cities.
Jer
31:22 How long will you go here and there, you backsliding daughter?
for Yahweh has created a new thing in the earth: a woman shall
encompass a man.
Jer
31:23 Thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, Yet again shall
they use this speech in the land of Judah and in its cities, when I
shall bring again their captivity: Yahweh bless you, habitation of
righteousness, mountain of holiness.
Jer
31:24 Judah and all its cities shall dwell therein together, the
farmers, and those who go about with flocks.
Jer
31:25 For I have satiated the weary soul, and every sorrowful soul
have I replenished.
Jer
31:26 On this I awakened, and saw; and my sleep was sweet to me.
Jer
31:27 Behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that I will sow the house
of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man, and with the
seed of animal.
Jer
31:28 It shall happen that, like as I have watched over them to
pluck up and to break down and to overthrow and to destroy and to
afflict, so will I watch over them to build and to plant, says
Yahweh.
Jer
31:29 In those days they shall say no more, The fathers have eaten
sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge.
Jer
31:30 But everyone shall die for his own iniquity: every man who
eats the sour grapes, his teeth shall be set on edge.
Jer
31:31 Behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that I will make a new
covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah:
Jer
31:32 not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers
in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land
of Egypt; which my covenant they broke, although I was a husband to
them, says Yahweh.
Jer
31:33 But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of
Israel after those days, says Yahweh: I will put my law in their
inward parts, and in their heart will I write it; and I will be their
God, and they shall be my people:
Jer
31:34 and they shall teach no more every man his neighbor, and every
man his brother, saying, Know Yahweh; for they shall all know me,
from the least of them to the greatest of them, says Yahweh: for I
will forgive their iniquity, and their sin will I remember no more.
Jer
31:35 Thus says Yahweh, who gives the sun for a light by day, and
the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, who
stirs up the sea, so that its waves roar; Yahweh of Armies is his
name:
Jer
31:36 If these ordinances depart from before me, says Yahweh, then
the seed of Israel also shall cease from being a nation before me
forever.
Jer
31:37 Thus says Yahweh: If heaven above can be measured, and the
foundations of the earth searched out beneath, then will I also cast
off all the seed of Israel for all that they have done, says Yahweh.
Jer
31:38 Behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that the city shall be
built to Yahweh from the tower of Hananel to the gate of the corner.
Jer
31:39 The measuring line shall go out further straight onward to the
hill Gareb, and shall turn about to Goah.
Jer
31:40 The whole valley of the dead bodies and of the ashes, and all
the fields to the brook Kidron, to the corner of the horse gate
toward the east, shall be holy to Yahweh; it shall not be plucked up,
nor thrown down any more forever.
Jer
32:1 The word that came to Jeremiah from Yahweh in the tenth year of
Zedekiah king of Judah, which was the eighteenth year of
Nebuchadnezzar.
Jer
32:2 Now at that time the king of Babylon's army was besieging
Jerusalem; and Jeremiah the prophet was shut up in the court of the
guard, which was in the king of Judah's house.
Jer
32:3 For Zedekiah king of Judah had shut him up, saying, Why do you
prophesy, and say, Thus says Yahweh, Behold, I will give this city
into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall take it;
Jer
32:4 and Zedekiah king of Judah shall not escape out of the hand of
the Chaldeans, but shall surely be delivered into the hand of the
king of Babylon, and shall speak with him mouth to mouth, and his
eyes shall see his eyes;
Jer
32:5 and he shall bring Zedekiah to Babylon, and there shall he be
until I visit him, says Yahweh: though you fight with the Chaldeans,
you shall not prosper?
Jer
32:6 Jeremiah said, The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
Jer
32:7 Behold, Hanamel the son of Shallum your uncle shall come to
you, saying, Buy you my field that is in Anathoth; for the right of
redemption is yours to buy it.
Jer
32:8 So Hanamel my uncle's son came to me in the court of the guard
according to the word of Yahweh, and said to me, Please buy my field
that is in Anathoth, which is in the land of Benjamin; for the right
of inheritance is yours, and the redemption is yours; buy it for
yourself. Then I knew that this was the word of Yahweh.
Jer
32:9 I bought the field that was in Anathoth of Hanamel my uncle's
son, and weighed him the money, even seventeen shekels of silver.
Jer
32:10 I subscribed the deed, and sealed it, and called witnesses,
and weighed him the money in the balances.
Jer
32:11 So I took the deed of the purchase, both that which was
sealed, containing the terms and conditions, and that which was open;
Jer
32:12 and I delivered the deed of the purchase to Baruch the son of
Neriah, the son of Mahseiah, in the presence of Hanamel my uncle's
son, and in the presence of the witnesses who subscribed the deed of
the purchase, before all the Jews who sat in the court of the guard.
Jer
32:13 I commanded Baruch before them, saying,
Jer
32:14 Thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel: Take these
deeds, this deed of the purchase which is sealed, and this deed which
is open, and put them in an earthen vessel; that they may continue
many days.
Jer
32:15 For thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel: Houses and
fields and vineyards shall yet again be bought in this land.
Jer
32:16 Now after I had delivered the deed of the purchase to Baruch
the son of Neriah, I prayed to Yahweh, saying,
Jer
32:17 Ah Lord Yahweh! behold, you have made the heavens and the
earth by your great power and by your outstretched arm; there is
nothing too hard for you,
Jer
32:18 who show loving kindness to thousands, and recompense the
iniquity of the fathers into the bosom of their children after them;
the great, the mighty God, Yahweh of Armies is his name;
Jer
32:19 great in counsel, and mighty in work; whose eyes are open on
all the ways of the sons of men, to give everyone according to his
ways, and according to the fruit of his doings:
Jer
32:20 who performed signs and wonders in the land of Egypt, even to
this day, both in Israel and among other
men; and made you a name, as in this day;
Jer
32:21 and brought forth your people Israel out of the land of Egypt
with signs, and with wonders, and with a strong hand, and with an
outstretched arm, and with great terror;
Jer
32:22 and gave them this land, which you did swear to their fathers
to give them, a land flowing with milk and honey;
Jer
32:23 and they came in, and possessed it, but they didn't obey your
voice, neither walked in your law; they have done nothing of all that
you commanded them to do: therefore you have caused all this evil to
come on them.
Jer
32:24 Behold, the mounds, they are come to the city to take it; and
the city is given into the hand of the Chaldeans who fight against
it, because of the sword, and of the famine, and of the pestilence;
and what you have spoken has happened; and behold, you see it.
Jer
32:25 You have said to me, Lord Yahweh, Buy you the field for money,
and call witnesses; whereas the city is given into the hand of the
Chaldeans.
Jer
32:26 Then came the word of Yahweh to Jeremiah, saying,
Jer
32:27 Behold, I am Yahweh, the God of all flesh: is there anything
too hard for me?
Jer
32:28 Therefore thus says Yahweh: Behold, I will give this city into
the hand of the Chaldeans, and into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king
of Babylon, and he shall take it:
Jer
32:29 and the Chaldeans, who fight against this city, shall come and
set this city on fire, and burn it, with the houses, on whose roofs
they have offered incense to Baal, and poured out drink offerings to
other gods, to provoke me to anger.
Jer
32:30 For the children of Israel and the children of Judah have done
only that which was evil in my sight from their youth; for the
children of Israel have only provoked me to anger with the work of
their hands, says Yahweh.
Jer
32:31 For this city has been to me a provocation of my anger and of
my wrath from the day that they built it even to this day; that I
should remove it from before my face,
Jer
32:32 because of all the evil of the children of Israel and of the
children of Judah, which they have done to provoke me to anger, they,
their kings, their princes, their priests, and their prophets, and
the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
Jer
32:33 They have turned to me the back, and not the face: and though
I taught them, rising up early and teaching them, yet they have not
listened to receive instruction.
Jer
32:34 But they set their abominations in the house which is called
by my name, to defile it.
Jer
32:35 They built the high places of Baal, which are in the valley of
the son of Hinnom, to cause their sons and their daughters to pass
through the fire
to Molech; which I didn't command them, neither did it come into my
mind, that they should do this abomination, to cause Judah to sin.
Jer
32:36 Now therefore thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, concerning
this city, about which you say, It is given into the hand of the king
of Babylon by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence:
Jer
32:37 Behold, I will gather them out of all the countries, where I
have driven them in my anger, and in my wrath, and in great
indignation; and I will bring them again to this place, and I will
cause them to dwell safely:
Jer
32:38 and they shall be my people, and I will be their God:
Jer
32:39 and I will give them one heart and one way, that they may fear
me forever, for the good of them, and of their children after them:
Jer
32:40 and I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will
not turn away from following them, to do them good; and I will put my
fear in their hearts, that they may not depart from me.
Jer
32:41 Yes, I will rejoice over them to do them good, and I will
plant them in this land assuredly with my whole heart and with my
whole soul.
Jer
32:42 For thus says Yahweh: Like as I have brought all this great
evil on this people, so will I bring on them all the good that I have
promised them.
Jer
32:43 Fields shall be bought in this land, about which you say, It
is desolate, without man or animal; it is given into the hand of the
Chaldeans.
Jer
32:44 Men shall buy fields for money, and subscribe the deeds, and
seal them, and call witnesses, in the land of Benjamin, and in the
places about Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, and in the cities
of the hill country, and in the cities of the lowland, and in the
cities of the South: for I will cause their captivity to return, says
Yahweh.
Jer
33:1 Moreover the word of Yahweh came to Jeremiah the second time,
while he was yet shut up in the court of the guard, saying,
Jer
33:2 Thus says Yahweh who does it, Yahweh who forms it to establish
it; Yahweh is his name:
Jer
33:3 Call to me, and I will answer you, and will show you great
things, and difficult, which you don't know.
Jer
33:4 For thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, concerning the houses
of this city, and concerning the houses of the kings of Judah, which
are broken down to make a defense
against the mounds and against the sword;
Jer
33:5 while men
come to fight with the Chaldeans, and to fill them with the dead
bodies of men, whom I have killed in my anger and in my wrath, and
for all whose wickedness I have hid my face from this city:
Jer
33:6 Behold, I will bring it health and cure, and I will cure them;
and I will reveal to them abundance of peace and truth.
Jer
33:7 I will cause the captivity of Judah and the captivity of Israel
to return, and will build them, as at the first.
Jer
33:8 I will cleanse them from all their iniquity, by which they have
sinned against me; and I will pardon all their iniquities, by which
they have sinned against me, and by which they have transgressed
against me.
Jer
33:9 This city
shall be to me for a name of joy, for a praise and for a glory,
before all the nations of the earth, which shall hear all the good
that I do to them, and shall fear and tremble for all the good and
for all the peace that I procure to it.
Jer
33:10 Thus says Yahweh: Yet again there shall be heard in this
place, about which you say, It is waste, without man and without
animal, even in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem,
that are desolate, without man and without inhabitant and without
animal,
Jer
33:11 the voice of joy and the voice of gladness, the voice of the
bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the voice of those who say,
Give thanks to Yahweh of Armies, for Yahweh is good, for his loving
kindness endures forever; and of them
who bring sacrifices of
thanksgiving into the house of Yahweh. For I will cause the captivity
of the land to return as at the first, says Yahweh.
Jer
33:12 Thus says Yahweh of Armies: Yet again shall there be in this
place, which is waste, without man and without animal, and in all its
cities, a habitation of shepherds causing their flocks to lie down.
Jer
33:13 In the cities of the hill country, in the cities of the
lowland, and in the cities of the South, and in the land of Benjamin,
and in the places about Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, shall
the flocks again pass under the hands of him who numbers them, says
Yahweh.
Jer
33:14 Behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that I will perform that
good word which I have spoken concerning the house of Israel and
concerning the house of Judah.
Jer
33:15 In those days, and at that time, will I cause a Branch of
righteousness to grow up to David; and he shall execute justice and
righteousness in the land.
Jer
33:16 In those days shall Judah be saved, and Jerusalem shall dwell
safely; and this is the name
by which she shall be called: Yahweh our righteousness.
Jer
33:17 For thus says Yahweh: David shall never want a man to sit on
the throne of the house of Israel;
Jer
33:18 neither shall the priests the Levites want a man before me to
offer burnt offerings, and to burn meal offerings, and to do
sacrifice continually.
Jer
33:19 The word of Yahweh came to Jeremiah, saying,
Jer
33:20 Thus says Yahweh: If you can break my covenant of the day, and
my covenant of the night, so that there shall not be day and night in
their season;
Jer
33:21 then may also my covenant be broken with David my servant,
that he shall not have a son to reign on his throne; and with the
Levites the priests, my ministers.
Jer
33:22 As the army of the sky can't be numbered, neither the sand of
the sea measured; so will I multiply the seed of David my servant,
and the Levites who minister to me.
Jer
33:23 The word of Yahweh came to Jeremiah, saying,
Jer
33:24 Don't you consider what this people has spoken, saying, The
two families which Yahweh did choose, he has cast them off? thus do
they despise my people, that they should be no more a nation before
them.
Jer
33:25 Thus says Yahweh: If my covenant of day and night fails, if I
have not appointed the ordinances of heaven and earth;
Jer
33:26 then will I also cast away the seed of Jacob, and of David my
servant, so that I will not take of his seed to be rulers over the
seed of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: for I will cause their captivity
to return, and will have mercy on them.
Nov.
20
Hebrews
6
Heb
6:1 Therefore leaving the doctrine of the first principles of
Christ, let us press on to perfection--not laying again a foundation
of repentance from dead works, of faith toward God,
Heb
6:2 of the teaching of baptisms, of laying on of hands, of
resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment.
Heb
6:3 This will we do, if God permits.
Heb
6:4 For concerning those who were once enlightened and tasted of the
heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Spirit,
Heb
6:5 and tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the age to
come,
Heb
6:6 and then fell away, it is impossible to renew them again to
repentance; seeing they crucify the Son of God for themselves again,
and put him to open shame.
Heb
6:7 For the land which has drunk the rain that comes often on it,
and brings forth a crop suitable for them for whose sake it is also
tilled, receives blessing from God;
Heb
6:8 but if it bears thorns and thistles, it is rejected and near
being cursed, whose end is to be burned.
Heb
6:9 But, beloved, we are persuaded of better things for you, and
things that accompany salvation, even though we speak like this.
Heb
6:10 For God is not unrighteous, so as to forget your work and the
labor of love which you showed toward his name, in that you served
the saints, and still do serve them.
Heb
6:11 We desire that each one of you may show the same diligence to
the fullness of hope even to the end,
Heb
6:12 that you won't be sluggish, but imitators of those who through
faith and patience inherited the promises.
Heb
6:13 For when God made a promise to Abraham, since he could swear by
none greater, he swore by himself,
Heb
6:14 saying, "Surely blessing I will bless you, and multiplying
I will multiply you."
Heb
6:15 Thus, having patiently endured, he obtained the promise.
Heb
6:16 For men indeed swear by a greater one, and in every dispute of
theirs the oath is final for confirmation.
Heb
6:17 In this way God, being determined to show more abundantly to
the heirs of the promise the immutability of his counsel, interposed
with an oath;
Heb
6:18 that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God
to lie, we may have a strong encouragement, who have fled for refuge
to take hold of the hope set before us.
Heb
6:19 This hope we have as an anchor of the soul, a hope both sure
and steadfast and entering into that which is within the veil;
Heb
6:20 where as a forerunner Jesus entered for us, having become a
high priest forever after the order of Melchizedek.
