Bible Reading
November 26
The World English Bible
Nov.
26
Lamentations
1-5
Lam
1:1 How the city sits solitary, that was full of people! She has
become as a widow, who was great among the nations! She who was a
princess among the provinces is become tributary!
Lam
1:2 She weeps sore in the night, and her tears are on her cheeks;
among all her lovers she has none to comfort her: All her friends
have dealt treacherously with her; they are become her enemies.
Lam
1:3 Judah is gone into captivity because of affliction, and because
of great servitude; she dwells among the nations, she finds no rest:
all her persecutors overtook her within the straits.
Lam
1:4 The ways of Zion do mourn, because none come to the solemn
assembly; all her gates are desolate, her priests do sigh: her
virgins are afflicted, and she herself is in bitterness.
Lam
1:5 Her adversaries are become the head, her enemies prosper; for
Yahweh has afflicted her for the multitude of her transgressions: her
young children are gone into captivity before the adversary.
Lam
1:6 From the daughter of Zion all her majesty is departed: her
princes are become like harts that find no pasture, they are gone
without strength before the pursuer.
Lam
1:7 Jerusalem remembers in the days of her affliction and of her
miseries all her pleasant things that were from the days of old: when
her people fell into the hand of the adversary, and none did help
her, The adversaries saw her, they did mock at her desolations.
Lam
1:8 Jerusalem has grievously sinned; therefore she is become as an
unclean thing; all who honored her despise her, because they have
seen her nakedness: yes, she sighs, and turns backward.
Lam
1:9 Her filthiness was in her skirts; she didn't remember her latter
end; therefore is she come down wonderfully; she has no comforter:
see, Yahweh, my affliction; for the enemy has magnified himself.
Lam
1:10 The adversary has spread out his hand on all her pleasant
things: for she has seen that the nations are entered into her
sanctuary, concerning whom you did command that they should not enter
into your assembly.
Lam
1:11 All her people sigh, they seek bread; they have given their
pleasant things for food to refresh the soul: look, Yahweh, and see;
for I am become abject.
Lam
1:12 Is it nothing to you, all you who pass by? Look, and see if
there be any sorrow like my sorrow, which is brought on me, With
which Yahweh has afflicted me
in the day of his fierce anger.
Lam
1:13 From on high has he sent fire into my bones, and it prevails
against them; He has spread a net for my feet, he has turned me back:
He has made me desolate and faint all the day.
Lam
1:14 The yoke of my transgressions is bound by his hand; They are
knit together, they are come up on my neck; he has made my strength
to fail: The Lord has delivered me into their hands, against whom I
am not able to stand.
Lam
1:15 The Lord has set at nothing all my mighty men in the midst of
me; He has called a solemn assembly against me to crush my young men:
The Lord has trodden as in a winepress the virgin daughter of Judah.
Lam
1:16 For these things I weep; my eye, my eye runs down with water;
Because the comforter who should refresh my soul is far from me: My
children are desolate, because the enemy has prevailed.
Lam
1:17 Zion spreads forth her hands; there is none to comfort her;
Yahweh has commanded concerning Jacob, that those who are around him
should be his adversaries: Jerusalem is among them as an unclean
thing.
Lam
1:18 Yahweh is righteous; for I have rebelled against his
commandment: Please hear all you peoples, and see my sorrow: My
virgins and my young men are gone into captivity.
Lam
1:19 I called for my lovers, but
they deceived me: My priests and my elders gave up the spirit in the
city, While they sought them food to refresh their souls.
Lam
1:20 See, Yahweh; for I am in distress; my heart is troubled; My
heart is turned within me; for I have grievously rebelled: Abroad the
sword bereaves, at home there is as death.
Lam
1:21 They have heard that I sigh; there is none to comfort me; All
my enemies have heard of my trouble; they are glad that you have done
it: You will bring the day that you have proclaimed, and they shall
be like me.
Lam
1:22 Let all their wickedness come before you; Do to them, as you
have done to me for all my transgressions: For my sighs are many, and
my heart is faint.
Lam
2:1 How has the Lord covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in
his anger! He has cast down from heaven to the earth the beauty of
Israel, And hasn't remembered his footstool in the day of his anger.
Lam
2:2 The Lord has swallowed up all the habitations of Jacob, and has
not pitied: He has thrown down in his wrath the strongholds of the
daughter of Judah; He has brought them down to the ground; he has
profaned the kingdom and its princes.
Lam
2:3 He has cut off in fierce anger all the horn of Israel; He has
drawn back his right hand from before the enemy: He has burned up
Jacob like a flaming fire, which devours all around.
Lam
2:4 He has bent his bow like an enemy, he has stood with his right
hand as an adversary, Has killed all that were pleasant to the eye:
In the tent of the daughter of Zion he has poured out his wrath like
fire.
Lam
2:5 The Lord is become as an enemy, he has swallowed up Israel; He
has swallowed up all her palaces, he has destroyed his strongholds;
He has multiplied in the daughter of Judah mourning and lamentation.
Lam
2:6 He has violently taken away his tabernacle, as if it were of a
garden; he has destroyed his place of assembly: Yahweh has caused
solemn assembly and Sabbath to be forgotten in Zion, Has despised in
the indignation of his anger the king and the priest.
Lam
2:7 The Lord has cast off his altar, he has abhorred his sanctuary;
He has given up into the hand of the enemy the walls of her palaces:
They have made a noise in the house of Yahweh, as in the day of a
solemn assembly.
Lam
2:8 Yahweh has purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion;
He has stretched out the line, he has not withdrawn his hand from
destroying; He has made the rampart and wall to lament; they languish
together.
Lam
2:9 Her gates are sunk into the ground; he has destroyed and broken
her bars: Her king and her princes are among the nations where the
law is not; Yes, her prophets find no vision from Yahweh.
Lam
2:10 The elders of the daughter of Zion sit on the ground, they keep
silence; They have cast up dust on their heads; they have girded
themselves with sackcloth: The virgins of Jerusalem hang down their
heads to the ground.
Lam
2:11 My eyes do fail with tears, my heart is troubled; My liver is
poured on the earth, because of the destruction of the daughter of my
people, Because the young children and the infants swoon in the
streets of the city.
Lam
2:12 They tell their mothers, Where is grain and wine? When they
swoon as the wounded in the streets of the city, When their soul is
poured out into their mothers' bosom.
Lam
2:13 What shall I testify to you? what shall I liken to you,
daughter of Jerusalem? What shall I compare to you, that I may
comfort you, virgin daughter of Zion? For your breach is great like
the sea: who can heal you?
Lam
2:14 Your prophets have seen for you false and foolish visions; They
have not uncovered your iniquity, to bring back your captivity, But
have seen for you false oracles and causes of banishment.
Lam
2:15 All that pass by clap their hands at you; They hiss and wag
their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying,
Is this the city that men called The perfection of beauty, The joy of
the whole earth?
Lam
2:16 All your enemies have opened their mouth wide against you; They
hiss and gnash the teeth; they say, We have swallowed her up;
Certainly this is the day that we looked for; we have found, we have
seen it.
Lam
2:17 Yahweh has done that which he purposed; he has fulfilled his
word that he commanded in the days of old; He has thrown down, and
has not pitied: He has caused the enemy to rejoice over you; he has
exalted the horn of your adversaries.
Lam
2:18 Their heart cried to the Lord: wall of the daughter of Zion,
let tears run down like a river day and night; Give yourself no
respite; don't let the apple of your eye cease.
Lam
2:19 Arise, cry out in the night, at the beginning of the watches;
Pour out your heart like water before the face of the Lord: Lift up
your hands toward him for the life of your young children, that faint
for hunger at the head of every street.
Lam
2:20 Look, Yahweh, and see to whom you have done thus! Shall the
women eat their fruit, the children that are dandled in the hands?
Shall the priest and the prophet be killed in the sanctuary of the
Lord?
Lam
2:21 The youth and the old man lie on the ground in the streets; My
virgins and my young men are fallen by the sword: You have killed
them in the day of your anger; you have slaughtered, and
not pitied.
Lam
2:22 You have called, as in the day of a solemn assembly, my terrors
on every side; There was none that escaped or remained in the day of
Yahweh's anger: Those that I have dandled and brought up has my enemy
consumed.
Lam
3:1 I am the man that has seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.
Lam
3:2 He has led me and caused me to walk in darkness, and not in
light.
Lam
3:3 Surely against me he turns his hand again and again all the day.
Lam
3:4 My flesh and my skin has he made old; he has broken my bones.
Lam
3:5 He has built against me, and surrounded me with gall and
travail.
Lam
3:6 He has made me to dwell in dark places, as those that have been
long dead.
Lam
3:7 He has walled me about, that I can't go forth; he has made my
chain heavy.
Lam
3:8 Yes, when I cry, and call for help, he shuts out my prayer.
Lam
3:9 He has walled up my ways with cut stone; he has made my paths
crooked.
Lam
3:10 He is to me as a bear lying in wait, as a lion in secret
places.
Lam
3:11 He has turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces; he has
made me desolate.
Lam
3:12 He has bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.
Lam
3:13 He has caused the shafts of his quiver to enter into my
kidneys.
Lam
3:14 I am become a derision to all my people, and their song all the
day.
Lam
3:15 He has filled me with bitterness, he has sated me with
wormwood.
Lam
3:16 He has also broken my teeth with gravel stones; he has covered
me with ashes.
Lam
3:17 You have removed my soul far off from peace; I forgot
prosperity.
Lam
3:18 I said, My strength is perished, and my expectation from
Yahweh.
Lam
3:19 Remember my affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the
gall.
Lam
3:20 My soul still remembers them, and is bowed down within me.
Lam
3:21 This I recall to my mind; therefore have I hope.
Lam
3:22 It is of
Yahweh's loving kindnesses that we are not consumed, because his
compassion doesn't fail.
Lam
3:23 They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness.
Lam
3:24 Yahweh is my portion, says my soul; therefore will I hope in
him.
Lam
3:25 Yahweh is good to those who wait for him, to the soul that
seeks him.
Lam
3:26 It is good that a man should hope and quietly wait for the
salvation of Yahweh.
Lam
3:27 It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.
Lam
3:28 Let him sit alone and keep silence, because he has laid it on
him.
Lam
3:29 Let him put his mouth in the dust, if so be there may be hope.
Lam
3:30 Let him give his cheek to him who strikes him; let him be
filled full with reproach.
Lam
3:31 For the Lord will not cast off forever.
Lam
3:32 For though he cause grief, yet he will have compassion
according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses.
Lam
3:33 For he does not afflict willingly, nor grieve the children of
men.
Lam
3:34 To crush under foot all the prisoners of the earth,
Lam
3:35 To turn aside the right of a man before the face of the Most
High,
Lam
3:36 To subvert a man in his cause, the Lord doesn't approve.
Lam
3:37 Who is he who says, and it comes to pass, when the Lord doesn't
command it?
Lam
3:38 Doesn't evil and good come out of the mouth of the Most High?
Lam
3:39 Why does a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his
sins?
Lam
3:40 Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to Yahweh.
Lam
3:41 Let us lift up our heart with our hands to God in the heavens.
Lam
3:42 We have transgressed and have rebelled; you have not pardoned.
Lam
3:43 You have covered with anger and pursued us; you have killed,
you have not pitied.
Lam
3:44 You have covered yourself with a cloud, so that no prayer can
pass through.
Lam
3:45 You have made us an off-scouring and refuse in the midst of the
peoples.
Lam
3:46 All our enemies have opened their mouth wide against us.
Lam
3:47 Fear and the pit are come on us, devastation and destruction.
Lam
3:48 My eye runs down with streams of water, for the destruction of
the daughter of my people.
Lam
3:49 My eye pours down, and doesn't cease, without any intermission,
Lam
3:50 Until Yahweh look down, and see from heaven.
Lam
3:51 My eye affects my soul, because of all the daughters of my
city.
Lam
3:52 They have chased me sore like a bird, those who are my enemies
without cause.
Lam
3:53 They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and have cast a stone
on me.
Lam
3:54 Waters flowed over my head; I said, I am cut off.
Lam
3:55 I called on your name, Yahweh, out of the lowest dungeon.
Lam
3:56 You heard my voice; don't hide your ear at my breathing, at my
cry.
Lam
3:57 You drew near in the day that I called on you; you said, Don't
be afraid.
Lam
3:58 Lord, you have pleaded the causes of my soul; you have redeemed
my life.
Lam
3:59 Yahweh, you have seen my wrong; judge you my cause.
Lam
3:60 You have seen all their vengeance and all their devices against
me.
Lam
3:61 You have heard their reproach, Yahweh, and all their devices
against me,
Lam
3:62 The lips of those that rose up against me, and their device
against me all the day.
Lam
3:63 See you their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their
song.
Lam
3:64 You will render to them a recompense, Yahweh, according to the
work of their hands.
Lam
3:65 You will give them hardness of heart, your curse to them.
Lam
3:66 You will pursue them in anger, and destroy them from under the
heavens of Yahweh.
Lam
4:1 How is the gold become dim! how
is the most pure gold changed! The stones of the sanctuary are poured
out at the head of every street.
Lam
4:2 The precious sons of Zion, comparable to fine gold, How are they
esteemed as earthen pitchers, the work of the hands of the potter!
Lam
4:3 Even the jackals draw out the breast, they give suck to their
young ones: The daughter of my people is become cruel, like the
ostriches in the wilderness.
Lam
4:4 The tongue of the sucking child cleaves to the roof of his mouth
for thirst: The young children ask bread, and no man breaks it to
them.
Lam
4:5 Those who did feed delicately are desolate in the streets: Those
who were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills.
Lam
4:6 For the iniquity of the daughter of my people is greater than
the sin of Sodom, That was overthrown as in a moment, and no hands
were laid on her.
Lam
4:7 Her nobles were purer than snow, they were whiter than milk;
They were more ruddy in body than rubies, their polishing was as of
sapphire.
Lam
4:8 Their visage is blacker than a coal; they are not known in the
streets: Their skin cleaves to their bones; it is withered, it is
become like a stick.
Lam
4:9 Those who are killed with the sword are better than those who
are killed with hunger; For these pine away, stricken through, for
want of the fruits of the field.
Lam
4:10 The hands of the pitiful women have boiled their own children;
They were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
Lam
4:11 Yahweh has accomplished his wrath, he has poured out his fierce
anger; He has kindled a fire in Zion, which has devoured its
foundations.
Lam
4:12 The kings of the earth didn't believe, neither all the
inhabitants of the world, That the adversary and the enemy would
enter into the gates of Jerusalem.
Lam
4:13 It is
because of the sins of her prophets, and
the iniquities of her priests, That have shed the blood of the just
in the midst of her.
Lam
4:14 They wander as blind men in the streets, they are polluted with
blood, So that men can't touch their garments.
Lam
4:15 Depart you, they cried to them, Unclean! depart, depart, don't
touch! When they fled away and wandered, men said among the nations,
They shall no more sojourn here.
Lam
4:16 The anger of Yahweh has scattered them; he will no more regard
them: They didn't respect the persons of the priests, they didn't
favor the elders.
Lam
4:17 Our eyes do yet fail in looking
for our vain help: In our watching we have watched for a nation that
could not save.
Lam
4:18 They hunt our steps, so that we can't go in our streets: Our
end is near, our days are fulfilled; for our end is come.
Lam
4:19 Our pursuers were swifter than the eagles of the sky: They
chased us on the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness.
Lam
4:20 The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of Yahweh, was taken
in their pits; Of whom we said, Under his shadow we shall live among
the nations.
Lam
4:21 Rejoice and be glad, daughter of Edom, that dwell in the land
of Uz: The cup shall pass through to you also; you shall be drunken,
and shall make yourself naked.
Lam
4:22 The punishment of your iniquity is accomplished, daughter of
Zion; he will no more carry you away into captivity: He will visit
your iniquity, daughter of Edom; he will uncover your sins.
Lam
5:1 Remember, Yahweh, what has come on us: Look, and see our
reproach.
Lam
5:2 Our inheritance is turned to strangers, Our houses to aliens.
Lam
5:3 We are orphans and fatherless; Our mothers are as widows.
Lam
5:4 We have drunken our water for money; Our wood is sold to us.
Lam
5:5 Our pursuers are on our necks: We are weary, and have no rest.
Lam
5:6 We have given the hand to the Egyptians, To the Assyrians, to be
satisfied with bread.
Lam
5:7 Our fathers sinned, and are no more; We have borne their
iniquities.
Lam
5:8 Servants rule over us: There is none to deliver us out of their
hand.
Lam
5:9 We get our bread at the peril of our lives, Because of the sword
of the wilderness.
Lam
5:10 Our skin is black like an oven, Because of the burning heat of
famine.
Lam
5:11 They ravished the women in Zion, The virgins in the cities of
Judah.
Lam
5:12 Princes were hanged up by their hand: The faces of elders were
not honored.
Lam
5:13 The young men bare the mill; The children stumbled under the
wood.
Lam
5:14 The elders have ceased from the gate, The young men from their
music.
Lam
5:15 The joy of our heart is ceased; Our dance is turned into
mourning.
Lam
5:16 The crown is fallen from our head: Woe to us! for we have
sinned.
Lam
5:17 For this our heart is faint; For these things our eyes are dim;
Lam
5:18 For the mountain of Zion, which is desolate: The foxes walk on
it.
Lam
5:19 You, Yahweh, abide forever; Your throne is from generation to
generation.
Lam
5:20 Why do you forget us forever, And
forsake us so long time?
Lam
5:21 Turn you us to you, Yahweh, and we shall be turned; Renew our
days as of old.
Lam
5:22 But you have utterly rejected us; You are very angry against
us.
Nov.
26
Hebrews
12
Heb
12:1 Therefore let us also, seeing we are surrounded by so great a
cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight and the sin which so
easily entangles us, and let us run with patience the race that is
set before us,
Heb
12:2 looking to Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for
the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising its
shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
Heb
12:3 For consider him who has endured such contradiction of sinners
against himself, that you don't grow weary, fainting in your souls.
Heb
12:4 You have not yet resisted to blood, striving against sin;
Heb
12:5 and you have forgotten the exhortation which reasons with you
as with children, "My son, don't take lightly the chastening of
the Lord, nor faint when you are reproved by him;
Heb
12:6 For whom the Lord loves, he chastens, and scourges every son
whom he receives."
Heb
12:7 It is for discipline that you endure. God deals with you as
with children, for what son is there whom his father doesn't
discipline?
Heb
12:8 But if you are without discipline, of which all have been made
partakers, then are you illegitimate, and not children.
Heb
12:9 Furthermore, we had the fathers of our flesh to chasten us, and
we paid them respect. Shall we not much rather be in subjection to
the Father of spirits, and live?
Heb
12:10 For they indeed, for a few days, punished us as seemed good to
them; but he for our profit, that we may be partakers of his
holiness.
Heb
12:11 All chastening seems for the present to be not joyous but
grievous; yet afterward it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness
to those who have been exercised thereby.
Heb
12:12 Therefore, lift up the hands that hang down and the feeble
knees,
Heb
12:13 and make straight paths for your feet, so that which is lame
may not be dislocated, but rather be healed.
Heb
12:14 Follow after peace with all men, and the sanctification
without which no man will see the Lord,
Heb
12:15 looking carefully lest there be any man who falls short of the
grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you,
and many be defiled by it;
Heb
12:16 lest there be any sexually immoral person, or profane person,
like Esau, who sold his birthright for one meal.
Heb
12:17 For you know that even when he afterward desired to inherit
the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no place for a change of
mind though he sought it diligently with tears.
Heb
12:18 For you have not come to a mountain that might be touched, and
that burned with fire, and to blackness, darkness, storm,
Heb
12:19 the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which those
who heard it begged that not one more word should be spoken to them,
Heb
12:20 for they could not stand that which was commanded, "If
even an animal touches the mountain, it shall be stoned;"
Heb
12:21 and so fearful was the appearance, that Moses said, "I am
terrified and trembling."
Heb
12:22 But you have come to Mount Zion, and to the city of the living
God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable multitudes of angels,
Heb
12:23 to the general assembly and assembly of the firstborn who are
enrolled in heaven, to God the Judge of all, to the spirits of just
men made perfect,
Heb
12:24 to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the blood of
sprinkling that speaks better than that of Abel.
Heb
12:25 See that you don't refuse him who speaks. For if they didn't
escape when they refused him who warned on the Earth, how much more
will we not escape who turn away from him who warns from heaven,
Heb
12:26 whose voice shook the earth then, but now he has promised,
saying, "Yet once more I will shake not only the earth, but also
the heavens."
Heb
12:27 This phrase, "Yet once more," signifies the removing
of those things that are shaken, as of things that have been made,
that those things which are not shaken may remain.
Heb
12:28 Therefore, receiving a Kingdom that can't be shaken, let us
have grace, through which we serve God acceptably, with reverence and
awe,
Heb
12:29 for our God is a consuming fire.
