Bible Reading
December 3
The World English Bible
Dec.
3
Ezekiel
25-28
Eze
25:1 The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
Eze
25:2 Son of man, set your face toward the children of Ammon, and
prophesy against them:
Eze
25:3 and tell the children of Ammon, Hear the word of the Lord
Yahweh: Thus says the Lord Yahweh, Because you said, Aha, against my
sanctuary, when it was profaned; and against the land of Israel, when
it was made desolate; and against the house of Judah, when they went
into captivity:
Eze
25:4 therefore, behold, I will deliver you to the children of the
east for a possession, and they shall set their encampments in you,
and make their dwellings in you; they shall eat your fruit, and they
shall drink your milk.
Eze
25:5 I will make Rabbah a stable for camels, and the children of
Ammon a resting place for flocks: and you shall know that I am
Yahweh.
Eze
25:6 For thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because you have clapped your
hands, and stamped with the feet, and rejoiced with all the despite
of your soul against the land of Israel;
Eze
25:7 therefore, behold, I have stretched out my hand on you, and
will deliver you for a spoil to the nations; and I will cut you off
from the peoples, and I will cause you to perish out of the
countries: I will destroy you; and you shall know that I am Yahweh.
Eze
25:8 Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because Moab and Seir say, Behold,
the house of Judah is like all the nations;
Eze
25:9 therefore, behold, I will open the side of Moab from the
cities, from his cities which are on his frontiers, the glory of the
country, Beth Jeshimoth, Baal Meon, and Kiriathaim,
Eze
25:10 to the children of the east, to
go against the children of Ammon; and I
will give them for a possession, that the children of Ammon may not
be remembered among the nations.
Eze
25:11 and I will execute judgments on Moab; and they shall know that
I am Yahweh.
Eze
25:12 Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because Edom has dealt against the
house of Judah by taking vengeance, and has greatly offended, and
revenged himself on them;
Eze
25:13 therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh, I will stretch out my
hand on Edom, and will cut off man and animal from it; and I will
make it desolate from Teman; even to Dedan shall they fall by the
sword.
Eze
25:14 I will lay my vengeance on Edom by the hand of my people
Israel; and they shall do in Edom according to my anger and according
to my wrath; and they shall know my vengeance, says the Lord Yahweh.
Eze
25:15 Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because the Philistines have dealt
by revenge, and have taken vengeance with despite of soul to destroy
with perpetual enmity;
Eze
25:16 therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh, Behold, I will stretch
out my hand on the Philistines, and I will cut off the Cherethites,
and destroy the remnant of the sea coast.
Eze
25:17 I will execute great vengeance on them with wrathful rebukes;
and they shall know that I am Yahweh, when I shall lay my vengeance
on them.
Eze
26:1 It happened in the eleventh year, in the first day
of the month, that the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
Eze
26:2 Son of man, because Tyre has said against Jerusalem, Aha, she
is broken: the gate of the peoples; she is turned to me; I shall be
replenished, now that she is laid waste:
Eze
26:3 therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh, Behold, I am against you,
Tyre, and will cause many nations to come up against you, as the sea
causes its waves to come up.
Eze
26:4 They shall destroy the walls of Tyre, and break down her
towers: I will also scrape her dust from her, and make her a bare
rock.
Eze
26:5 She shall be a place for the spreading of nets in the midst of
the sea; for I have spoken it, says the Lord Yahweh; and she shall
become a spoil to the nations.
Eze
26:6 Her daughters who are in the field shall be slain with the
sword: and they shall know that I am Yahweh.
Eze
26:7 For thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I will bring on Tyre
Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, king of kings, from the north, with
horses, and with chariots, and with horsemen, and a company, and much
people.
Eze
26:8 He shall kill with the sword your daughters in the field; and
he shall make forts against you, and cast up a mound against you, and
raise up the buckler against you.
Eze
26:9 He shall set his battering engines against your walls, and with
his axes he shall break down your towers.
Eze
26:10 By reason of the abundance of his horses their dust shall
cover you: your walls shall shake at the noise of the horsemen, and
of the wagons, and of the chariots, when he shall enter into your
gates, as men enter into a city in which is made a breach.
Eze
26:11 With the hoofs of his horses shall he tread down all your
streets; he shall kill your people with the sword; and the pillars of
your strength shall go down to the ground.
Eze
26:12 They shall make a spoil of your riches, and make a prey of
your merchandise; and they shall break down your walls, and destroy
your pleasant houses; and they shall lay your stones and your timber
and your dust in the midst of the waters.
Eze
26:13 I will cause the noise of your songs to cease; and the sound
of your harps shall be no more heard.
Eze
26:14 I will make you a bare rock; you shall be a place for the
spreading of nets; you shall be built no more: for I Yahweh have
spoken it, says the Lord Yahweh.
Eze
26:15 Thus says the Lord Yahweh to Tyre: shall not the islands shake
at the sound of your fall, when the wounded groan, when the slaughter
is made in the midst of you?
Eze
26:16 Then all the princes of the sea shall come down from their
thrones, and lay aside their robes, and strip off their embroidered
garments: they shall clothe themselves with trembling; they shall sit
on the ground, and shall tremble every moment, and be astonished at
you.
Eze
26:17 They shall take up a lamentation over you, and tell you, How
are you destroyed, who were inhabited by seafaring men, the renowned
city, who was strong in the sea, she and her inhabitants, who caused
their terror to be on all who lived there!
Eze
26:18 Now shall the islands tremble in the day of your fall; yes,
the islands that are in the sea shall be dismayed at your departure.
Eze
26:19 For thus says the Lord Yahweh: When I shall make you a
desolate city, like the cities that are not inhabited; when I shall
bring up the deep on you, and the great waters shall cover you;
Eze
26:20 then will I bring you down with those who descend into the
pit, to the people of old time, and will make you to dwell in the
lower parts of the earth, in the places that are desolate of old,
with those who go down to the pit, that you be not inhabited; and I
will set glory in the land of the living:
Eze
26:21 I will make you a terror, and you shall no more have any
being; though you are sought for, yet you will never be found again,
says the Lord Yahweh.
Eze
27:1 The word of Yahweh came again to me, saying,
Eze
27:2 You, son of man, take up a lamentation over Tyre;
Eze
27:3 and tell Tyre, you who dwell at the entry of the sea, who are
the merchant of the peoples to many islands, thus says the Lord
Yahweh: You, Tyre, have said, I am perfect in beauty.
Eze
27:4 Your borders are in the heart of the seas; your builders have
perfected your beauty.
Eze
27:5 They have made all your planks of fir trees from Senir; they
have taken a cedar from Lebanon to make a mast for you.
Eze
27:6 Of the oaks of Bashan have they made your oars; they have made
your benches of ivory inlaid in boxwood, from the islands of Kittim.
Eze
27:7 Of fine linen with embroidered work from Egypt was your sail,
that it might be to you for a banner; blue and purple from the
islands of Elishah was your awning.
Eze
27:8 The inhabitants of Sidon and Arvad were your rowers: your wise
men, Tyre, were in you, they were your pilots.
Eze
27:9 The old men of Gebal and the wise men of it were in you your
repairers of ship seams: all the ships of the sea with their mariners
were in you to deal in your merchandise.
Eze
27:10 Persia and Lud and Put were in your army, your men of war:
they hanged the shield and helmet in you; they set forth your
comeliness.
Eze
27:11 The men of Arvad with your army were on your walls all around,
and valorous men were in your towers; they hanged their shields on
your walls all around; they have perfected your beauty.
Eze
27:12 Tarshish was your merchant by reason of the multitude of all
kinds of riches; with silver, iron, tin, and lead, they traded for
your wares.
Eze
27:13 Javan, Tubal, and Meshech, they were your traffickers; they
traded the persons of men and vessels of brass for your merchandise.
Eze
27:14 They of the house of Togarmah traded for your wares with
horses and war horses and mules.
Eze
27:15 The men of Dedan were your traffickers; many islands were the
market of your hand: they brought you in exchange horns of ivory and
ebony.
Eze
27:16 Syria was your merchant by reason of the multitude of your
handiworks: they traded for your wares with emeralds, purple, and
embroidered work, and fine linen, and coral, and rubies.
Eze
27:17 Judah, and the land of Israel, they were your traffickers:
they traded for your merchandise wheat of Minnith, and confections,
and honey, and oil, and balm.
Eze
27:18 Damascus was your merchant for the multitude of your
handiworks, by reason of the multitude of all kinds of riches, with
the wine of Helbon, and white wool.
Eze
27:19 Vedan and Javan traded with yarn for your wares: bright iron,
cassia, and calamus, were among your merchandise.
Eze
27:20 Dedan was your trafficker in precious cloths for riding.
Eze
27:21 Arabia, and all the princes of Kedar, they were the merchants
of your hand; in lambs, and rams, and goats, in these were they your
merchants.
Eze
27:22 The traffickers of Sheba and Raamah, they were your
traffickers; they traded for your wares with the chief of all spices,
and with all precious stones, and gold.
Eze
27:23 Haran and Canneh and Eden, the traffickers of Sheba, Asshur
and
Chilmad, were your traffickers.
Eze
27:24 These were your traffickers in choice wares, in wrappings of
blue and embroidered work, and in chests of rich clothing, bound with
cords and made of cedar, among your merchandise.
Eze
27:25 The ships of Tarshish were your caravans for your merchandise:
and you were replenished, and made very glorious in the heart of the
seas.
Eze
27:26 Your rowers have brought you into great waters: the east wind
has broken you in the heart of the seas.
Eze
27:27 Your riches, and your wares, your merchandise, your mariners,
and your pilots, your repairers of ship seams, and the dealers in
your merchandise, and all your men of war, who are in you, with all
your company which is in the midst of you, shall fall into the heart
of the seas in the day of your ruin.
Eze
27:28 At the sound of the cry of your pilots the suburbs shall
shake.
Eze
27:29 All who handled the oar, the mariners, and
all the pilots of the sea, shall come down from their ships; they
shall stand on the land,
Eze
27:30 and shall cause their voice to be heard over you, and shall
cry bitterly, and shall cast up dust on their heads, they shall
wallow themselves in the ashes:
Eze
27:31 and they shall make themselves bald for you, and gird them
with sackcloth, and they shall weep for you in bitterness of soul
with bitter mourning.
Eze
27:32 In their wailing they shall take up a lamentation for you, and
lament over you, saying,
Who is there like Tyre, like her who is brought to silence in the
midst of the sea?
Eze
27:33 When your wares went forth out of the seas, you filled many
peoples; you did enrich the kings of the earth with the multitude of
your riches and of your merchandise.
Eze
27:34 In the time that you were broken by the seas in the depths of
the waters, your merchandise and all your company did fall in the
midst of you.
Eze
27:35 All the inhabitants of the islands are astonished at you, and
their kings are horribly afraid; they are troubled in their face.
Eze
27:36 The merchants among the peoples hiss at you; you are become a
terror, and you shall nevermore have any being.
Eze
28:1 The word of Yahweh came again to me, saying,
Eze
28:2 Son of man, tell the prince of Tyre, Thus says the Lord Yahweh:
Because your heart is lifted up, and you have said, I am a god, I sit
in the seat of God, in the midst of the seas; yet you are man, and
not God, though you did set your heart as the heart of God--
Eze
28:3 behold, you are wiser than Daniel; there is no secret that is
hidden from you;
Eze
28:4 by your wisdom and by your understanding you have gotten you
riches, and have gotten gold and silver into your treasures;
Eze
28:5 by your great wisdom and
by your traffic have you increased your riches, and your heart is
lifted up because of your riches--
Eze
28:6 therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because you have set your
heart as the heart of God,
Eze
28:7 therefore, behold, I will bring strangers on you, the terrible
of the nations; and they shall draw their swords against the beauty
of your wisdom, and they shall defile your brightness.
Eze
28:8 They shall bring you down to the pit; and you shall die the
death of those who are slain, in the heart of the seas.
Eze
28:9 Will you yet say before him who kills you, I am God? but you
are man, and not God, in the hand of him who wounds you.
Eze
28:10 You shall die the death of the uncircumcised by the hand of
strangers: for I have spoken it, says the Lord Yahweh.
Eze
28:11 Moreover the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
Eze
28:12 Son of man, take up a lamentation over the king of Tyre, and
tell him, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: You seal up the sum, full of
wisdom, and perfect in beauty.
Eze
28:13 You were in Eden, the garden of God; every precious stone
adorned you: ruby, topaz, emerald, chrysolite, onyx, jasper,
sapphire, turquoise, and beryl. Gold work of tambourines and of pipes
was in you. In the day that you were created they were prepared.
Eze
28:14 You were the anointed cherub who covers: and I set you, so
that you were on the holy mountain of
God; you have walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire.
Eze
28:15 You were perfect in your ways from the day that you were
created, until unrighteousness was found in you.
Eze
28:16 By the abundance of your traffic they filled the midst of you
with violence, and you have sinned: therefore I have cast you as
profane out of the mountain of God; and I have destroyed you,
covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire.
Eze
28:17 Your heart was lifted up because of your beauty; you have
corrupted your wisdom by reason of your brightness: I have cast you
to the ground; I have laid you before kings, that they may see you.
Eze
28:18 By the multitude of your iniquities, in the unrighteousness of
your traffic, you have profaned your sanctuaries; therefore have I
brought forth a fire from the midst of you; it has devoured you, and
I have turned you to ashes on the earth in the sight of all those who
see you.
Eze
28:19 All those who know you among the peoples shall be astonished
at you: you are become a terror, and you shall nevermore have any
being.
Eze
28:20 The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
Eze
28:21 Son of man, set your face toward Sidon, and prophesy against
it,
Eze
28:22 and say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I am against you,
Sidon; and I will be glorified in the midst of you; and they shall
know that I am Yahweh, when I shall have executed judgments in her,
and shall be sanctified in her.
Eze
28:23 For I will send pestilence into her, and blood into her
streets; and the wounded shall fall in the midst of her, with the
sword on her on every side; and they shall know that I am Yahweh.
Eze
28:24 There shall be no more a pricking brier to the house of
Israel, nor a hurting thorn of any that are around them, that did
despite to them; and they shall know that I am the Lord Yahweh.
Eze
28:25 Thus says the Lord Yahweh: When I shall have gathered the
house of Israel from the peoples among whom they are scattered, and
shall be sanctified in them in the sight of the nations, then shall
they dwell in their own land which I gave to my servant Jacob.
Eze
28:26 They shall dwell securely therein; yes, they shall build
houses, and plant vineyards, and shall dwell securely, when I have
executed judgments on all those who do them despite all around them;
and they shall know that I am Yahweh their God.
Dec.
3
1
Peter 1
1Pe
1:1 Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the chosen ones who are
living as foreigners in the Dispersion in Pontus, Galatia,
Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia,
1Pe
1:2 according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in
sanctification of the Spirit, that you may obey Jesus Christ and be
sprinkled with his blood: Grace to you and peace be multiplied.
1Pe
1:3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who
according to his great mercy became our father again to a living hope
through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
1Pe
1:4 to an incorruptible and undefiled inheritance that doesn't fade
away, reserved in Heaven for you,
1Pe
1:5 who by the power of God are guarded through faith for a
salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.
1Pe
1:6 Wherein you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, if
need be, you have been put to grief in various trials,
1Pe
1:7 that the proof of your faith, which is more precious than gold
that perishes even though it is tested by fire, may be found to
result in praise, glory, and honor at the revelation of Jesus
Christ--
1Pe
1:8 whom not having known you love; in whom, though now you don't
see him, yet believing, you rejoice greatly with joy unspeakable and
full of glory--
1Pe
1:9 receiving the result of your faith, the salvation of your souls.
1Pe
1:10 Concerning this salvation, the prophets sought and searched
diligently, who prophesied of the grace that would come to you,
1Pe
1:11 searching for who or what kind of time the Spirit of Christ,
which was in them, pointed to, when he predicted the sufferings of
Christ, and the glories that would follow them.
1Pe
1:12 To them it was revealed, that not to themselves, but to you,
they ministered these things, which now have been announced to you
through those who preached the Good News to you by the Holy Spirit
sent out from heaven; which things angels desire to look into.
1Pe
1:13 Therefore, prepare your minds for action, be sober and set your
hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation
of Jesus Christ--
1Pe
1:14 as children of obedience, not conforming yourselves according
to your former lusts as in your ignorance,
1Pe
1:15 but just as he who called you is holy, you yourselves also be
holy in all of your behavior;
1Pe
1:16 because it is written, "You shall be holy; for I am holy."
1Pe
1:17 If you call on him as Father, who without respect of persons
judges according to each man's work, pass the time of your living as
foreigners here in reverent fear:
1Pe
1:18 knowing that you were redeemed, not with corruptible things,
with silver or gold, from the useless way of life handed down from
your fathers,
1Pe
1:19 but with precious blood, as of a faultless and pure lamb, the
blood of Christ;
1Pe
1:20 who was foreknown indeed before the foundation of the world,
but was revealed at the end of times for your sake,
1Pe
1:21 who through him are believers in God, who raised him from the
dead, and gave him glory; so that your faith and hope might be in
God.
1Pe
1:22 Seeing you have purified your souls in your obedience to the
truth through the Spirit in sincere brotherly affection, love one
another from the heart fervently:
1Pe
1:23 having been born again, not of corruptible seed, but of
incorruptible, through the word of God, which lives and remains
forever.
1Pe
1:24 For, "All flesh is like grass, and all of man's glory like
the flower in the grass. The grass withers, and its flower falls;
1Pe
1:25 but the Lord's word endures forever." This is the word of
Good News which was preached to you.
