Bible Reading
November 24
The World English Bible
Nov.
24
Jeremiah
46-49
Jer
46:1 The word of Yahweh which came to Jeremiah the prophet
concerning the nations.
Jer
46:2 Of Egypt: concerning the army of Pharaoh Necoh king of Egypt,
which was by the river Euphrates in Carchemish, which Nebuchadnezzar
king of Babylon struck in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of
Josiah, king of Judah.
Jer
46:3 Prepare you the buckler and shield, and draw near to battle.
Jer
46:4 Harness the horses, and get up, you horsemen, and stand forth
with your helmets; furbish the spears, put on the coats of mail.
Jer
46:5 Why have I seen it? they are dismayed and are turned backward;
and their mighty ones are beaten down, and have fled apace, and don't
look back: terror is on every side, says Yahweh.
Jer
46:6 Don't let the swift flee away, nor the mighty man escape; in
the north by the river Euphrates have they stumbled and fallen.
Jer
46:7 Who is this who rises up like the Nile, whose waters toss
themselves like the rivers?
Jer
46:8 Egypt rises up like the Nile, and his waters toss themselves
like the rivers: and he says, I will rise up, I will cover the earth;
I will destroy cities and its inhabitants.
Jer
46:9 Go up, you horses; and rage, you chariots; and let the mighty
men go forth: Cush and Put, who handle the shield; and the Ludim, who
handle and bend the bow.
Jer
46:10 For that day is a day
of the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, a day of vengeance, that he may avenge
him of his adversaries: and the sword shall devour and be satiate,
and shall drink its fill of their blood; for the Lord, Yahweh of
Armies, has a sacrifice in the north country by the river Euphrates.
Jer
46:11 Go up into Gilead, and take balm, virgin daughter of Egypt: in
vain do you use many medicines; there is no healing for you.
Jer
46:12 The nations have heard of your shame, and the earth is full of
your cry; for the mighty man has stumbled against the mighty, they
are fallen both of them together.
Jer
46:13 The word that Yahweh spoke to Jeremiah the prophet, how that
Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon should come and strike the land of
Egypt.
Jer
46:14 Declare you in Egypt, and publish in Migdol, and publish in
Memphis and in Tahpanhes: say you, Stand forth, and prepare you; for
the sword has devoured around you.
Jer
46:15 Why are your strong ones swept away? they didn't stand,
because Yahweh did drive them.
Jer
46:16 He made many to stumble, yes, they fell one on another: and
they said, Arise, and let us go again to our own people, and to the
land of our birth, from the oppressing sword.
Jer
46:17 They cried there, Pharaoh king of Egypt is but a noise; he has
let the appointed time pass by.
Jer
46:18 As I live, says the King, whose name is Yahweh of Armies,
surely like Tabor among the mountains, and like Carmel by the sea, so
shall he come.
Jer
46:19 You daughter who dwell in Egypt, furnish yourself to go into
captivity; for Memphis shall become a desolation, and shall be burnt
up, without inhabitant.
Jer
46:20 Egypt is a very beautiful heifer; but
destruction out of the north is come, it is come.
Jer
46:21 Also her hired men in the midst of her are like calves of the
stall; for they also are turned back, they are fled away together,
they didn't stand: for the day of their calamity is come on them, the
time of their visitation.
Jer
46:22 The sound of it shall go like the serpent; for they shall
march with an army, and come against her with axes, as wood cutters.
Jer
46:23 They shall cut down her forest, says Yahweh, though it can't
be searched; because they are more than the locusts, and are
innumerable.
Jer
46:24 The daughter of Egypt shall be disappointed; she shall be
delivered into the hand of the people of the north.
Jer
46:25 Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, says: Behold, I will
punish Amon of No, and Pharaoh, and Egypt, with her gods, and her
kings; even Pharaoh, and those who trust in him:
Jer
46:26 and I will deliver them into the hand of those who seek their
lives, and into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and into
the hand of his servants; and afterwards it shall be inhabited, as in
the days of old, says Yahweh.
Jer
46:27 But don't be afraid you, Jacob my servant, 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
46:28 Don't be afraid you, O Jacob my servant, says Yahweh; for I am
with you: for I will make a full end of all the nations where I have
driven 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
47:1 The word of Yahweh that came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning
the Philistines, before that Pharaoh struck Gaza.
Jer
47:2 Thus says Yahweh: Behold, waters rise up out of the north, and
shall become an overflowing stream, and shall overflow the land and
all that is therein, the city and those who dwell therein; and the
men shall cry, and all the inhabitants of the land shall wail.
Jer
47:3 At the noise of the stamping of the hoofs of his strong ones,
at the rushing of his chariots, at the rumbling of his wheels, the
fathers don't look back to their children for feebleness of hands;
Jer
47:4 because of the day that comes to destroy all the Philistines,
to cut off from Tyre and Sidon every helper who remains: for Yahweh
will destroy the Philistines, the remnant of the isle of Caphtor.
Jer
47:5 Baldness is come on Gaza; Ashkelon is brought to nothing, the
remnant of their valley: how long will you cut yourself?
Jer
47:6 You sword of Yahweh, how long will it be before you be quiet?
put up yourself into your scabbard; rest, and be still.
Jer
47:7 How can you be quiet, seeing Yahweh has given you a command?
Against Ashkelon, and against the seashore, there has he appointed
it.
Jer
48:1 Of Moab. Thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel: Woe to
Nebo! for it is laid waste; Kiriathaim is disappointed, it is taken;
Misgab is put to shame and broken down.
Jer
48:2 The praise of Moab is no more; in Heshbon they have devised
evil against her: Come, and let us cut her off from being a nation.
You also, Madmen, shall be brought to silence: the sword shall pursue
you.
Jer
48:3 The sound of a cry from Horonaim, desolation and great
destruction!
Jer
48:4 Moab is destroyed; her little ones have caused a cry to be
heard.
Jer
48:5 For by the ascent of Luhith with continual weeping shall they
go up; for at the descent of Horonaim they have heard the distress of
the cry of destruction.
Jer
48:6 Flee, save your lives, and be like the heath in the wilderness.
Jer
48:7 For, because you have trusted in your works and in your
treasures, you also shall be taken: and Chemosh shall go forth into
captivity, his priests and his princes together.
Jer
48:8 The destroyer shall come on every city, and no city shall
escape; the valley also shall perish, and the plain shall be
destroyed; as Yahweh has spoken.
Jer
48:9 Give wings to Moab, that she may fly and get her away: and her
cities shall become a desolation, without any to dwell therein.
Jer
48:10 Cursed be he who does the work of Yahweh negligently; and
cursed be he who keeps back his sword from blood.
Jer
48:11 Moab has been at ease from his youth, and he has settled on
his lees, and has not been emptied from vessel to vessel, neither has
he gone into captivity: therefore his taste remains in him, and his
scent is not changed.
Jer
48:12 Therefore, behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that I will
send to him those who pour off, and they shall pour him off; and they
shall empty his vessels, and break their bottles in pieces.
Jer
48:13 Moab shall be ashamed of Chemosh, as the house of Israel was
ashamed of Bethel their confidence.
Jer
48:14 How say you, We are mighty men, and valiant men for the war?
Jer
48:15 Moab is laid waste, and they are gone up into his cities, and
his chosen young men are gone down to the slaughter, says the King,
whose name is Yahweh of Armies.
Jer
48:16 The calamity of Moab is near to come, and his affliction
hurries fast.
Jer
48:17 All you who are around him, bemoan him, and all you who know
his name; say, How is the strong staff broken, the beautiful rod!
Jer
48:18 You daughter who dwells in Dibon, come down from your glory,
and sit in thirst; for the destroyer of Moab is come up against you,
he has destroyed your strongholds.
Jer
48:19 Inhabitant of Aroer, stand by the way, and watch: ask him who
flees, and her who escapes; say, What has been done?
Jer
48:20 Moab is disappointed; for it is broken down: wail and cry;
tell you it by the Arnon, that Moab is laid waste.
Jer
48:21 Judgment is come on the plain country, on Holon, and on
Jahzah, and on Mephaath,
Jer
48:22 and on Dibon, and on Nebo, and on Beth Diblathaim,
Jer
48:23 and on Kiriathaim, and on Beth Gamul, and on Beth Meon,
Jer
48:24 and on Kerioth, and on Bozrah, and on all the cities of the
land of Moab, far or near.
Jer
48:25 The horn of Moab is cut off, and his arm is broken, says
Yahweh.
Jer
48:26 Make you him drunken; for he magnified himself against Yahweh:
and Moab shall wallow in his vomit, and he also shall be in derision.
Jer
48:27 For wasn't Israel a derision to you? was he found among
thieves? for as often as you speak of him, you wag the head.
Jer
48:28 You inhabitants of Moab, leave the cities, and dwell in the
rock; and be like the dove that makes her nest over the mouth of the
abyss.
Jer
48:29 We have heard of the pride of Moab, that
he is very proud; his loftiness, and his pride, and his arrogance,
and the haughtiness of his heart.
Jer
48:30 I know his wrath, says Yahweh, that it is nothing; his
boastings have worked nothing.
Jer
48:31 Therefore will I wail for Moab; yes, I will cry out for all
Moab: for the men of Kir Heres shall they mourn.
Jer
48:32 With more than the weeping of Jazer will I weep for you, vine
of Sibmah: your branches passed over the sea, they reached even to
the sea of Jazer: on your summer fruits and on your vintage the
destroyer is fallen.
Jer
48:33 Gladness and joy is taken away from the fruitful field and
from the land of Moab; and I have caused wine to cease from the wine
presses: none shall tread with shouting; the shouting shall be no
shouting.
Jer
48:34 From the cry of Heshbon even to Elealeh, even to Jahaz have
they uttered their voice, from Zoar even to Horonaim, to Eglath
Shelishiyah: for the waters of Nimrim also shall become desolate.
Jer
48:35 Moreover I will cause to cease in Moab, says Yahweh, him who
offers in the high place, and him who burns incense to his gods.
Jer
48:36 Therefore my heart sounds for Moab like pipes, and my heart
sounds like pipes for the men of Kir Heres: therefore the abundance
that he has gotten is perished.
Jer
48:37 For every head is bald, and every beard clipped: on all the
hands are cuttings, and on the waist sackcloth.
Jer
48:38 On all the housetops of Moab and in its streets there is
lamentation every where; for I have broken Moab like a vessel in
which none delights, says Yahweh.
Jer
48:39 How is it broken down! how
do they wail! how has Moab turned the back with shame! so shall Moab
become a derision and a terror to all who are around him.
Jer
48:40 For thus says Yahweh: Behold, he shall fly as an eagle, and
shall spread out his wings against Moab.
Jer
48:41 Kerioth is taken, and the strongholds are seized, and the
heart of the mighty men of Moab at that day shall be as the heart of
a woman in her pangs.
Jer
48:42 Moab shall be destroyed from being a people, because he has
magnified himself against Yahweh.
Jer
48:43 Fear, and the pit, and the snare, are on you, inhabitant of
Moab, says Yahweh.
Jer
48:44 He who flees from the fear shall fall into the pit; and he who
gets up out of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for I will bring
on him, even on Moab, the year of their visitation, says Yahweh.
Jer
48:45 Those who fled stand without strength under the shadow of
Heshbon; for a fire is gone forth out of Heshbon, and a flame from
the midst of Sihon, and has devoured the corner of Moab, and the
crown of the head of the tumultuous ones.
Jer
48:46 Woe to you, O Moab! the people of Chemosh is undone; for your
sons are taken away captive, and your daughters into captivity.
Jer
48:47 Yet will I bring back the captivity of Moab in the latter
days, says Yahweh. Thus far is the judgment of Moab.
Jer
49:1 Of the children of Ammon. Thus says Yahweh: Has Israel no sons?
has he no heir? why then does Malcam possess Gad, and his people well
in its cities?
Jer
49:2 Therefore, behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that I will
cause an alarm of war to be heard against Rabbah of the children of
Ammon; and it shall become a desolate heap, and her daughters shall
be burned with fire: then shall Israel possess those who did possess
him, says Yahweh.
Jer
49:3 Wail, Heshbon, for Ai is laid waste; cry, you daughters of
Rabbah, gird you with sackcloth: lament, and run back and forth among
the fences; for Malcam shall go into captivity, his priests and his
princes together.
Jer
49:4 Why glory you in the valleys, your flowing valley, backsliding
daughter? who trusted in her treasures, saying,
Who shall come to me?
Jer
49:5 Behold, I will bring a fear on you, says the Lord, Yahweh of
Armies, from all who are around you; and you shall be driven out
every man right forth, and there shall be none to gather together the
fugitives.
Jer
49:6 But afterward I will bring back the captivity of the children
of Ammon, says Yahweh.
Jer
49:7 Of Edom. Thus says Yahweh of Armies: Is wisdom no more in
Teman? is counsel perished from the prudent? is their wisdom
vanished?
Jer
49:8 Flee you, turn back, dwell in the depths, inhabitants of Dedan;
for I will bring the calamity of Esau on him, the time that I shall
visit him.
Jer
49:9 If grape gatherers came to you, would they not leave some
gleaning grapes? if thieves by night, wouldn't they destroy until
they had enough?
Jer
49:10 But I have made Esau bare, I have uncovered his secret places,
and he shall not be able to hide himself: his seed is destroyed, and
his brothers, and his neighbors; and he is no more.
Jer
49:11 Leave your fatherless children, I will preserve them alive;
and let your widows trust in me.
Jer
49:12 For thus says Yahweh: Behold, they to whom it didn't pertain
to drink of the cup shall certainly drink; and are you he who shall
altogether go unpunished? you shall not go unpunished, but you shall
surely drink.
Jer
49:13 For I have sworn by myself, says Yahweh, that Bozrah shall
become an astonishment, a reproach, a waste, and a curse; and all its
cities shall be perpetual wastes.
Jer
49:14 I have heard news from Yahweh, and an ambassador is sent among
the nations, saying,
Gather yourselves together, and come against her, and rise up to the
battle.
Jer
49:15 For, behold, I have made you small among the nations, and
despised among men.
Jer
49:16 As for your terror, the pride of your heart has deceived you,
O you who dwell in the clefts of the rock, who hold the height of the
hill: though you should make your nest as high as the eagle, I will
bring you down from there, says Yahweh.
Jer
49:17 Edom shall become an astonishment: everyone who passes by it
shall be astonished, and shall hiss at all its plagues.
Jer
49:18 As in the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbor
cities of it, says Yahweh, no man shall dwell there, neither shall
any son of man sojourn therein.
Jer
49:19 Behold, he shall come up like a lion from the pride of the
Jordan against the strong habitation: for I will suddenly make them
run away from it; and whoever is chosen, him will I appoint over it:
for who is like me? and who will appoint me a time? and who is the
shepherd who will stand before me?
Jer
49:20 Therefore hear the counsel of Yahweh, that he has taken
against Edom; and his purposes, that he has purposed against the
inhabitants of Teman: Surely they shall drag them away, even
the little ones of the flock; surely he shall make their habitation
desolate over them.
Jer
49:21 The earth trembles at the noise of their fall; there is a cry,
the noise which is heard in the Red Sea.
Jer
49:22 Behold, he shall come up and fly as the eagle, and spread out
his wings against Bozrah: and the heart of the mighty men of Edom at
that day shall be as the heart of a woman in her pangs.
Jer
49:23 Of Damascus. Hamath is confounded, and Arpad; for they have
heard evil news, they are melted away: there is sorrow on the sea; it
can't be quiet.
Jer
49:24 Damascus has grown feeble, she turns herself to flee, and
trembling has seized on her: anguish and sorrows have taken hold of
her, as of a woman in travail.
Jer
49:25 How is the city of praise not forsaken, the city of my joy?
Jer
49:26 Therefore her young men shall fall in her streets, and all the
men of war shall be brought to silence in that day, says Yahweh of
Armies.
Jer
49:27 I will kindle a fire in the wall of Damascus, and it shall
devour the palaces of Ben Hadad.
Jer
49:28 Of Kedar, and of the kingdoms of Hazor, which Nebuchadnezzar
king of Babylon struck. Thus says Yahweh: Arise you, go up to Kedar,
and destroy the children of the east.
Jer
49:29 Their tents and their flocks shall they take; they shall carry
away for themselves their curtains, and all their vessels, and their
camels; and they shall cry to them, Terror on every side!
Jer
49:30 Flee you, wander far off, dwell in the depths, you inhabitants
of Hazor, says Yahweh; for Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has taken
counsel against you, and has conceived a purpose against you.
Jer
49:31 Arise, go up to a nation that is at ease, that dwells without
care, says Yahweh; that have neither gates nor bars, that dwell
alone.
Jer
49:32 Their camels shall be a booty, and the multitude of their
livestock a spoil: and I will scatter to all winds those who have the
corners of their hair
cut off; and I will bring their calamity from every side of them,
says Yahweh.
Jer
49:33 Hazor shall be a dwelling place of jackals, a desolation
forever: no man shall dwell there, neither shall any son of man
sojourn therein.
Jer
49:34 The word of Yahweh that came to Jeremiah the prophet
concerning Elam, in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of
Judah, saying,
Jer
49:35 Thus says Yahweh of Armies: Behold, I will break the bow of
Elam, the chief of their might.
Jer
49:36 On Elam will I bring the four winds from the four quarters of
the sky, and will scatter them toward all those winds; and there
shall be no nation where the outcasts of Elam shall not come.
Jer
49:37 I will cause Elam to be dismayed before their enemies, and
before those who seek their life; and I will bring evil on them, even
my fierce anger, says Yahweh; and I will send the sword after them,
until I have consumed them;
Jer
49:38 and I will set my throne in Elam, and will destroy from there
king and princes, says Yahweh.
Jer
49:39 But it shall happen in the latter days, that I will bring back
the captivity of Elam, says Yahweh.
Nov.
24
Hebrews
10
Heb
10:1 For the law, having a shadow of the good to come, not the very
image of the things, can never with the same sacrifices year by year,
which they offer continually, make perfect those who draw near.
Heb
10:2 Or else wouldn't they have ceased to be offered, because the
worshippers, having been once cleansed, would have had no more
consciousness of sins?
Heb
10:3 But in those sacrifices there is yearly reminder of sins.
Heb
10:4 For it is impossible that the blood of bulls and goats should
take away sins.
Heb
10:5 Therefore when he comes into the world, he says, "Sacrifice
and offering you didn't desire, but you prepared a body for me;
Heb
10:6 You had no pleasure in whole burnt offerings and sacrifices for
sin.
Heb
10:7 Then I said, 'Behold, I have come (in the scroll of the book
it is written of me) to do your will, O God.' "
Heb
10:8 Previously saying, "Sacrifices and offerings and whole
burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin you didn't desire, neither had
pleasure in them" (those which are offered according to the
law),
Heb
10:9 then he has said, "Behold, I have come to do your will."
He takes away the first, that he may establish the second,
Heb
10:10 by which will we have been sanctified through the offering of
the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
Heb
10:11 Every priest indeed stands day by day serving and often
offering the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins,
Heb
10:12 but he, when he had offered one sacrifice for sins forever,
sat down on the right hand of God;
Heb
10:13 from that time waiting until his enemies are made the
footstool of his feet.
Heb
10:14 For by one offering he has perfected forever those who are
being sanctified.
Heb
10:15 The Holy Spirit also testifies to us, for after saying,
Heb
10:16 "This is the covenant that I will make with them: 'After
those days,' says the Lord, 'I will put my laws on their heart, I
will also write them on their mind;' " then he says,
Heb
10:17 "I will remember their sins and their iniquities no
more."
Heb
10:18 Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for
sin.
Heb
10:19 Having therefore, brothers, boldness to enter into the holy
place by the blood of Jesus,
Heb
10:20 by the way which he dedicated for us, a new and living way,
through the veil, that is to say, his flesh;
Heb
10:21 and having a great priest over the house of God,
Heb
10:22 let's draw near with a true heart in fullness of faith, having
our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and having our body
washed with pure water,
Heb
10:23 let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering;
for he who promised is faithful.
Heb
10:24 Let us consider how to provoke one another to love and good
works,
Heb
10:25 not forsaking our own assembling together, as the custom of
some is, but exhorting one another; and so much the more, as you see
the Day approaching.
Heb
10:26 For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge
of the truth, there remains no more a sacrifice for sins,
Heb
10:27 but a certain fearful expectation of judgment, and a
fierceness of fire which will devour the adversaries.
Heb
10:28 A man who disregards Moses' law dies without compassion on the
word of two or three witnesses.
Heb
10:29 How much worse punishment, do you think, will he be judged
worthy of, who has trodden under foot the Son of God, and has counted
the blood of the covenant with which he was sanctified an unholy
thing, and has insulted the Spirit of grace?
Heb
10:30 For we know him who said, "Vengeance belongs to me,"
says the Lord, "I will repay." Again, "The Lord will
judge his people."
Heb
10:31 It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living
God.
Heb
10:32 But remember the former days, in which, after you were
enlightened, you endured a great struggle with sufferings;
Heb
10:33 partly, being exposed to both reproaches and oppressions; and
partly, becoming partakers with those who were treated so.
Heb
10:34 For you both had compassion on me in my chains, and joyfully
accepted the plundering of your possessions, knowing that you have
for yourselves a better possession and an enduring one in the
heavens.
Heb
10:35 Therefore don't throw away your boldness, which has a great
reward.
Heb
10:36 For you need endurance so that, having done the will of God,
you may receive the promise.
Heb
10:37 "In a very little while, he who comes will come, and will
not wait.
Heb
10:38 But the righteous will live by faith. If he shrinks back, my
soul has no pleasure in him."
Heb
10:39 But we are not of those who shrink back to destruction, but of
those who have faith to the saving of the soul.
