Bible Reading
December 4
The World English Bible
Dec.
4
Ezekiel
29-32
Eze
29:1 In the tenth year, in the tenth month, on the twelfth day of
the month, the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
Eze
29:2 "Son of man, set your face against Pharaoh king of Egypt,
and prophesy against him and against all Egypt.
Eze
29:3 Speak and say, 'Thus says the Lord Yahweh: "Behold, I am
against you, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great monster that lies in
the midst of his rivers, that has said, 'My river is my own, and I
have made it for myself.'
Eze
29:4 I will put hooks in your jaws, and I will make the fish of your
rivers stick to your scales; and I will bring you up out of the midst
of your rivers, with all the fish of your rivers which stick to your
scales.
Eze
29:5 I'll cast you forth into the wilderness, you and all the fish
of your rivers. You'll fall on the open field. You won't be brought
together, nor gathered. I have given you for food to the animals of
the earth and to the birds of the sky.
Eze
29:6 All the inhabitants of Egypt will know that I am Yahweh,
because they have been a staff of reed to the house of Israel.
Eze
29:7 When they took hold of you by your hand, you broke, and tore
all their shoulders; and when they leaned on you, you broke, and
paralyzed all of their thighs."
Eze
29:8 Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: "Behold, I will bring
a sword on you, and will cut off from you man and animal.
Eze
29:9 The land of Egypt shall be a desolation and a waste; and they
shall know that I am Yahweh. Because he has said, 'The river is mine,
and I have made it;'
Eze
29:10 therefore, behold, I am against you, and against your rivers,
and I will make the land of Egypt an utter waste and desolation, from
the tower of Seveneh even to the border of Ethiopia.
Eze
29:11 No foot of man shall pass through it, nor foot of animal shall
pass through it, neither shall it be inhabited forty years.
Eze
29:12 I will make the land of Egypt a desolation in the midst of the
countries that are desolate; and her cities among the cities that are
laid waste shall be a desolation forty years; and I will scatter the
Egyptians among the nations, and will disperse them through the
countries."
Eze
29:13 For thus says the Lord Yahweh: "At the end of forty years
will I gather the Egyptians from the peoples where they were
scattered;
Eze
29:14 and I will bring back the captivity of Egypt, and will cause
them to return into the land of Pathros, into the land of their
birth; and they shall be there a base kingdom.
Eze
29:15 It shall be the base of the kingdoms; neither shall it any
more lift itself up above the nations: and I will diminish them, that
they shall no more rule over the nations.
Eze
29:16 It shall be no more the confidence of the house of Israel,
bringing iniquity to memory, when they turn to look after them: and
they shall know that I am the Lord Yahweh." ' "
Eze
29:17 It came to pass in the seven and twentieth year, in the first
month, in
the first day
of the month, the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
Eze
29:18 Son of man, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon caused his army to
serve a great service against Tyre: every head was made bald, and
every shoulder was worn; yet had he no wages, nor his army, from
Tyre, for the service that he had served against it.
Eze
29:19 Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I will give the
land of Egypt to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon; and he shall carry
off her multitude, and take her spoil, and take her prey; and it
shall be the wages for his army.
Eze
29:20 I have given him the land of Egypt as his recompense for which
he served, because they worked for me, says the Lord Yahweh.
Eze
29:21 In that day will I cause a horn to bud forth to the house of
Israel, and I will give you the opening of the mouth in the midst of
them; and they shall know that I am Yahweh.
Eze
30:1 The word of Yahweh came again to me, saying,
Eze
30:2 Son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Wail,
Alas for the day!
Eze
30:3 For the day is near, even the day of Yahweh is near; it shall
be a day of clouds, a time of the nations.
Eze
30:4 A sword shall come on Egypt, and anguish shall be in Ethiopia,
when the slain shall fall in Egypt; and they shall take away her
multitude, and her foundations shall be broken down.
Eze
30:5 Ethiopia, and Put, and Lud, and all the mixed people, and Cub,
and the children of the land that is in league, shall fall with them
by the sword.
Eze
30:6 Thus says Yahweh: They also who uphold Egypt shall fall; and
the pride of her power shall come down: from the tower of Seveneh
shall they fall in it by the sword, says the Lord Yahweh.
Eze
30:7 They shall be desolate in the midst of the countries that are
desolate; and her cities shall be in the midst of the cities that are
wasted.
Eze
30:8 They shall know that I am Yahweh, when I have set a fire in
Egypt, and all her helpers are destroyed.
Eze
30:9 In that day shall messengers go forth from before me in ships
to make the careless Ethiopians afraid; and there shall be anguish on
them, as in the day of Egypt; for, behold, it comes.
Eze
30:10 Thus says the Lord Yahweh: I will also make the multitude of
Egypt to cease, by the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon.
Eze
30:11 He and his people with him, the terrible of the nations, shall
be brought in to destroy the land; and they shall draw their swords
against Egypt, and fill the land with the slain.
Eze
30:12 I will make the rivers dry, and will sell the land into the
hand of evil men; and I will make the land desolate, and all that is
therein, by the hand of strangers: I, Yahweh, have spoken it.
Eze
30:13 Thus says the Lord Yahweh: I will also destroy the idols, and
I will cause the images to cease from Memphis; and there shall be no
more a prince from the land of Egypt: and I will put a fear in the
land of Egypt.
Eze
30:14 I will make Pathros desolate, and will set a fire in Zoan, and
will execute judgments on No.
Eze
30:15 I will pour my wrath on Sin, the stronghold of Egypt; and I
will cut off the multitude of No.
Eze
30:16 I will set a fire in Egypt: Sin shall be in great anguish, and
No shall be broken up; and Memphis shall
have adversaries in the daytime.
Eze
30:17 The young men of Aven and of Pibeseth shall fall by the sword;
and these cities
shall go into captivity.
Eze
30:18 At Tehaphnehes also the day shall withdraw itself, when I
shall break there the yokes of Egypt, and the pride of her power
shall cease in her: as for her, a cloud shall cover her, and her
daughters shall go into captivity.
Eze
30:19 Thus will I execute judgments on Egypt; and they shall know
that I am Yahweh.
Eze
30:20 It happened in the eleventh year, in the first month,
in the seventh day
of the month, that the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
Eze
30:21 Son of man, I have broken the arm of Pharaoh king of Egypt;
and behold, it has not been bound up, to apply healing
medicines, to put a bandage to bind it, that it be strong to hold the
sword.
Eze
30:22 Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I am against
Pharaoh king of Egypt, and will break his arms, the strong arm,
and that which was broken; and I will cause the sword to fall out of
his hand.
Eze
30:23 I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and will
disperse them through the countries.
Eze
30:24 I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, and put my
sword in his hand: but I will break the arms of Pharaoh, and he shall
groan before him with the groanings of a deadly wounded man.
Eze
30:25 I will hold up the arms of the king of Babylon; and the arms
of Pharaoh shall fall down; and they shall know that I am Yahweh,
when I shall put my sword into the hand of the king of Babylon, and
he shall stretch it out on the land of Egypt.
Eze
30:26 I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and disperse
them through the countries; and they shall know that I am Yahweh.
Eze
31:1 It happened in the eleventh year, in the third month,
in the first day
of the month, that the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
Eze
31:2 Son of man, tell Pharaoh king of Egypt, and to his multitude:
Whom are you like in your greatness?
Eze
31:3 Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with beautiful
branches, and with a forest-like shade, and of high stature; and its
top was among the thick boughs.
Eze
31:4 The waters nourished it, the deep made it to grow: its rivers
ran all around its plantation; and it sent out its channels to all
the trees of the field.
Eze
31:5 Therefore its stature was exalted above all the trees of the
field; and its boughs were multiplied, and its branches became long
by reason of many waters, when it shot them
forth.
Eze
31:6 All the birds of the sky made their nests in its boughs; and
under its branches did all the animals of the field bring forth their
young; and under its shadow lived all great nations.
Eze
31:7 Thus was it beautiful in its greatness, in the length of its
branches; for its root was by many waters.
Eze
31:8 The cedars in the garden of God could not hide it; the fir
trees were not like its boughs, and the plane trees were not as its
branches; nor was any tree in the garden of God like it in its
beauty.
Eze
31:9 I made it beautiful by the multitude of its branches, so that
all the trees of Eden, that were in the garden of God, envied it.
Eze
31:10 Therefore thus said the Lord Yahweh: Because you are exalted
in stature, and he has set his top among the thick boughs, and his
heart is lifted up in his height;
Eze
31:11 I will even deliver him into the hand of the mighty one of the
nations; he shall surely deal with him; I have driven him out for his
wickedness.
Eze
31:12 Strangers, the terrible of the nations, have cut him off, and
have left him: on the mountains and in all the valleys his branches
are fallen, and his boughs are broken by all the watercourses of the
land; and all the peoples of the earth are gone down from his shadow,
and have left him.
Eze
31:13 On his ruin all the birds of the sky shall dwell, and all the
animals of the field shall be on his branches;
Eze
31:14 to the end that none of all the trees by the waters exalt
themselves in their stature, neither set their top among the thick
boughs, nor that their mighty ones stand up on their height, even
all who drink water: for they are all delivered to death, to the
lower parts of the earth, in the midst of the children of men, with
those who go down to the pit.
Eze
31:15 Thus says the Lord Yahweh: In the day when he went down to
Sheol I caused a mourning: I covered the deep for him, and I
restrained its rivers; and the great waters were stayed; and I caused
Lebanon to mourn for him, and all the trees of the field fainted for
him.
Eze
31:16 I made the nations to shake at the sound of his fall, when I
cast him down to Sheol with those who descend into the pit; and all
the trees of Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon, all that drink
water, were comforted in the lower parts of the earth.
Eze
31:17 They also went down into Sheol with him to those who are slain
by the sword; yes, those who were his arm, that
lived under his shadow in the midst of the nations.
Eze
31:18 To whom are you thus like in glory and in greatness among the
trees of Eden? yet you will be brought down with the trees of Eden to
the lower parts of the earth: you shall lie in the midst of the
uncircumcised, with those who are slain by the sword. This is Pharaoh
and all his multitude, says the Lord Yahweh.
Eze
32:1 It happened in the twelfth year, in the twelfth month, in the
first day
of the month, that the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
Eze
32:2 Son of man, take up a lamentation over Pharaoh king of Egypt,
and tell him, You were likened to a young lion of the nations: yet
are you as a monster in the seas; and you did break forth with your
rivers, and troubled the waters with your feet, and fouled their
rivers.
Eze
32:3 Thus says the Lord Yahweh: I will spread out my net on you with
a company of many peoples; and they shall bring you up in my net.
Eze
32:4 I will leave you on the land, I will cast you forth on the open
field, and will cause all the birds of the sky to settle on you, and
I will satisfy the animals of the whole earth with you.
Eze
32:5 I will lay your flesh on the mountains, and fill the valleys
with your height.
Eze
32:6 I will also water with your blood the land in which you swim,
even to the mountains; and the watercourses shall be full of you.
Eze
32:7 When I shall extinguish you, I will cover the heavens, and make
its stars dark; I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon shall
not give its light.
Eze
32:8 All the bright lights of the sky will I make dark over you, and
set darkness on your land, says the Lord Yahweh.
Eze
32:9 I will also trouble the hearts of many peoples, when I shall
bring your destruction among the nations, into the countries which
you have not known.
Eze
32:10 Yes, I will make many peoples amazed at you, and their kings
shall be horribly afraid for you, when I shall brandish my sword
before them; and they shall tremble at every moment, every man for
his own life, in the day of your fall.
Eze
32:11 For thus says the Lord Yahweh: The sword of the king of
Babylon shall come on you.
Eze
32:12 By the swords of the mighty will I cause your multitude to
fall; the terrible of the nations are they all: and they shall bring
to nothing the pride of Egypt, and all its multitude shall be
destroyed.
Eze
32:13 I will destroy also all its animals from beside many waters;
neither shall the foot of man trouble them any more, nor the hoofs of
animals trouble them.
Eze
32:14 Then will I make their waters clear, and cause their rivers to
run like oil, says the Lord Yahweh.
Eze
32:15 When I shall make the land of Egypt desolate and waste, a land
destitute of that of which it was full, when I shall strike all those
who dwell therein, then shall they know that I am Yahweh.
Eze
32:16 This is the lamentation with which they shall lament; the
daughters of the nations shall lament therewith; over Egypt, and over
all her multitude, shall they lament therewith, says the Lord Yahweh.
Eze
32:17 It happened also in the twelfth year, in the fifteenth day
of the month, that the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
Eze
32:18 Son of man, wail for the multitude of Egypt, and cast them
down, even her, and the daughters of the famous nations, to the lower
parts of the earth, with those who go down into the pit.
Eze
32:19 Whom do you pass in beauty? Go down, and be laid with the
uncircumcised.
Eze
32:20 They shall fall in the midst of those who are slain by the
sword: she is delivered to the sword; draw her away and all her
multitudes.
Eze
32:21 The strong among the mighty shall speak to him out of the
midst of Sheol with those who help him: they are gone down, they lie
still, even the uncircumcised, slain by the sword.
Eze
32:22 Asshur is there and all her company; her graves are all around
her; all of them slain, fallen by the sword;
Eze
32:23 whose graves are set in the uttermost parts of the pit, and
her company is around her grave; all of them slain, fallen by the
sword, who caused terror in the land of the living.
Eze
32:24 There is Elam and all her multitude around her grave; all of
them slain, fallen by the sword, who are gone down uncircumcised into
the lower parts of the earth, who caused their terror in the land of
the living, and have borne their shame with those who go down to the
pit.
Eze
32:25 They have set her a bed in the midst of the slain with all her
multitude; her graves are around her; all of them uncircumcised,
slain by the sword; for their terror was caused in the land of the
living, and they have borne their shame with those who go down to the
pit: he is put in the midst of those who are slain.
Eze
32:26 There is Meshech, Tubal, and all their multitude; their graves
are around them; all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword; for
they caused their terror in the land of the living.
Eze
32:27 They shall not lie with the mighty who are fallen of the
uncircumcised, who are gone down to Sheol with their weapons of war,
and have laid their swords under their heads, and their iniquities
are on their bones; for they were
the terror of the mighty in the land of the living.
Eze
32:28 But you shall be broken in the midst of the uncircumcised, and
shall lie with those who are slain by the sword.
Eze
32:29 There is Edom, her kings and all her princes, who in their
might are laid with those who are slain by the sword: they shall lie
with the uncircumcised, and with those who go down to the pit.
Eze
32:30 There are the princes of the north, all of them, and all the
Sidonians, who are gone down with the slain; in the terror which they
caused by their might they are put to shame; and they lie
uncircumcised with those who are slain by the sword, and bear their
shame with those who go down to the pit.
Eze
32:31 Pharaoh shall see them, and shall be comforted over all his
multitude, even Pharaoh and all his army, slain by the sword, says
the Lord Yahweh.
Eze
32:32 For I have put his terror in the land of the living; and he
shall be laid in the midst of the uncircumcised, with those who are
slain by the sword, even Pharaoh and all his multitude, says the Lord
Yahweh.
Dec.
4
1
Peter 2
1Pe
2:1 Putting away therefore all wickedness, all deceit, hypocrisies,
envies, and all evil speaking,
1Pe
2:2 as newborn babies, long for the pure milk of the Word, that you
may grow thereby,
1Pe
2:3 if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is gracious:
1Pe
2:4 coming to him, a living stone, rejected indeed by men, but
chosen by God, precious.
1Pe
2:5 You also, as living stones, are built up as a spiritual house,
to be a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable
to God through Jesus Christ.
1Pe
2:6 Because it is contained in Scripture, "Behold, I lay in
Zion a chief cornerstone, chosen, and precious: He who believes in
him will not be disappointed."
1Pe
2:7 For you who believe therefore is the honor, but for those who
are disobedient, "The stone which the builders rejected, has
become the chief cornerstone,"
1Pe
2:8 and, "a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offense."
For they stumble at the word, being disobedient, to which also they
were appointed.
1Pe
2:9 But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a
people for God's own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence
of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light:
1Pe
2:10 who in time past were no people, but now are God's people, who
had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.
1Pe
2:11 Beloved, I beg you as foreigners and pilgrims, to abstain from
fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
1Pe
2:12 having good behavior among the nations, so in that of which
they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works,
which they see, glorify God in the day of visitation.
1Pe
2:13 Therefore subject yourselves to every ordinance of man for the
Lord's sake: whether to the king, as supreme;
1Pe
2:14 or to governors, as sent by him for vengeance on evildoers and
for praise to those who do well.
1Pe
2:15 For this is the will of God, that by well-doing you should put
to silence the ignorance of foolish men:
1Pe
2:16 as free, and not using your freedom for a cloak of wickedness,
but as bondservants of God.
1Pe
2:17 Honor all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the king.
1Pe
2:18 Servants, be in subjection to your masters with all fear; not
only to the good and gentle, but also to the wicked.
1Pe
2:19 For it is commendable if someone endures pain, suffering
unjustly, because of conscience toward God.
1Pe
2:20 For what glory is it if, when you sin, you patiently endure
beating? But if, when you do well, you patiently endure suffering,
this is commendable with God.
1Pe
2:21 For to this you were called, because Christ also suffered for
us, leaving you an example, that you should follow his steps,
1Pe
2:22 who did not sin, "neither was deceit found in his mouth."
1Pe
2:23 Who, when he was cursed, didn't curse back. When he suffered,
didn't threaten, but committed himself to him who judges righteously;
1Pe
2:24 who his own self bore our sins in his body on the tree, that
we, having died to sins, might live to righteousness; by whose
stripes you were healed.
1Pe
2:25 For you were going astray like sheep; but now have returned to
the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.
