Bible Reading
December 5
The World English Bible
Dec.
5
Ezekiel
33-36
Eze
33:1 The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
Eze
33:2 Son of man, speak to the children of your people, and tell
them, When I bring the sword on a land, and the people of the land
take a man from among them, and set him for their watchman;
Eze
33:3 if, when he sees the sword come on the land, he blow the
trumpet, and warn the people;
Eze
33:4 then whoever hears the sound of the trumpet, and doesn't take
warning, if the sword come, and take him away, his blood shall be on
his own head.
Eze
33:5 He heard the sound of the trumpet, and didn't take warning; his
blood shall be on him; whereas if he had taken warning, he would have
delivered his soul.
Eze
33:6 But if the watchman sees the sword come, and doesn't blow the
trumpet, and the people aren't warned, and the sword comes, and take
any person from among them; he is taken away in his iniquity, but his
blood will I require at the watchman's hand.
Eze
33:7 So you, son of man, I have set you a watchman to the house of
Israel; therefore hear the word at my mouth, and give them warning
from me.
Eze
33:8 When I tell the wicked, O wicked man, you shall surely die, and
you don't speak to warn the wicked from his way; that wicked man
shall die in his iniquity, but his blood will I require at your hand.
Eze
33:9 Nevertheless, if you warn the wicked of his way to turn from
it, and he doesn't turn from his way; he shall die in his iniquity,
but you have delivered your soul.
Eze
33:10 You, son of man, tell the house of Israel: Thus you speak,
saying, Our transgressions and our sins are on us, and we pine away
in them; how then can we live?
Eze
33:11 Tell them, As I live, says the Lord Yahweh, I have no pleasure
in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and
live: turn you, turn you from your evil ways; for why will you die,
house of Israel?
Eze
33:12 You, son of man, tell the children of your people, The
righteousness of the righteous shall not deliver him in the day of
his disobedience; and as for the wickedness of the wicked, he shall
not fall thereby in the day that he turns from his wickedness;
neither shall he who is righteous be able to live thereby in the day
that he sins.
Eze
33:13 When I tell the righteous, that he shall surely live; if he
trust to his righteousness, and commit iniquity, none of his
righteous deeds shall be remembered; but in his iniquity that he has
committed, therein shall he die.
Eze
33:14 Again, when I say to the wicked, You shall surely die; if he
turn from his sin, and do that which is lawful and right;
Eze
33:15 if the wicked restore the pledge, give again that which he had
taken by robbery, walk in the statutes of life, committing no
iniquity; he shall surely live, he shall not die.
Eze
33:16 None of his sins that he has committed shall be remembered
against him: he has done that which is lawful and right; he shall
surely live.
Eze
33:17 Yet the children of your people say, The way of the Lord is
not equal: but as for them, their way is not equal.
Eze
33:18 When the righteous turns from his righteousness, and commits
iniquity, he shall even die therein.
Eze
33:19 When the wicked turns from his wickedness, and does that which
is lawful and right, he shall live thereby.
Eze
33:20 Yet you say, The way of the Lord is not equal. House of
Israel, I will judge you everyone after his ways.
Eze
33:21 It happened in the twelfth year of our captivity, in the tenth
month, in
the fifth day
of the month, that one who had escaped out of Jerusalem came to me,
saying, The city has been struck.
Eze
33:22 Now the hand of Yahweh had been on me in the evening, before
he who was escaped came; and he had opened my mouth, until he came to
me in the morning; and my mouth was opened, and I was no more mute.
Eze
33:23 The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
Eze
33:24 Son of man, they who inhabit those waste places in the land of
Israel speak, saying, Abraham was one, and he inherited the land: but
we are many; the land is given us for inheritance.
Eze
33:25 Therefore tell them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: You eat with
the blood, and lift up your eyes to your idols, and shed blood: and
shall you possess the land?
Eze
33:26 You stand on your sword, you work abomination, and you defile
everyone his neighbor's wife: and shall you possess the land?
Eze
33:27 You shall tell them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: As I live,
surely those who are in the waste places shall fall by the sword; and
him who is in the open field will I give to the animals to be
devoured; and those who are in the strongholds and in the caves shall
die of the pestilence.
Eze
33:28 I will make the land a desolation and an astonishment; and the
pride of her power shall cease; and the mountains of Israel shall be
desolate, so that none shall pass through.
Eze
33:29 Then shall they know that I am Yahweh, when I have made the
land a desolation and an astonishment, because of all their
abominations which they have committed.
Eze
33:30 As for you, son of man, the children of your people talk of
you by the walls and in the doors of the houses, and speak one to
another, everyone to his brother, saying, Please come and hear what
is the word that comes forth from Yahweh.
Eze
33:31 They come to you as the people comes, and they sit before you
as my people, and they hear your words, but don't do them; for with
their mouth they show much love, but their heart goes after their
gain.
Eze
33:32 Behold, you are to them as a very lovely song of one who has a
pleasant voice, and can play well on an instrument; for they hear
your words, but they don't do them.
Eze
33:33 When this comes to pass, (behold, it comes), then shall they
know that a prophet has been among them.
Eze
34:1 The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
Eze
34:2 Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel, prophesy,
and tell them, even to the shepherds, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Woe
to the shepherds of Israel who feed themselves! Shouldn't the
shepherds feed the sheep?
Eze
34:3 You eat the fat, and you clothe you with the wool, you kill the
fatlings; but you don't feed the sheep.
Eze
34:4 You haven't strengthened the diseased, neither have you healed
that which was sick, neither have you bound up that which was broken,
neither have you brought back that which was driven away, neither
have you sought that which was lost; but with force and with rigor
have you ruled over them.
Eze
34:5 They were scattered, because there was no shepherd; and they
became food to all the animals of the field, and were scattered.
Eze
34:6 My sheep wandered through all the mountains, and on every high
hill: yes, my sheep were scattered on all the surface of the earth;
and there was none who searched or sought.
Eze
34:7 Therefore, you shepherds, hear the word of Yahweh:
Eze
34:8 As I live, says the Lord Yahweh, surely because my sheep became
a prey, and my sheep became food to all the animals of the field,
because there was no shepherd, neither did my shepherds search for my
sheep, but the shepherds fed themselves, and didn't feed my sheep;
Eze
34:9 therefore, you shepherds, hear the word of Yahweh:
Eze
34:10 Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I am against the shepherds;
and I will require my sheep at their hand, and cause them to cease
from feeding the sheep; neither shall the shepherds feed themselves
any more; and I will deliver my sheep from their mouth, that they may
not be food for them.
Eze
34:11 For thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I myself, even I, will
search for my sheep, and will seek them out.
Eze
34:12 As a shepherd seeks out his flock in the day that he is among
his sheep that are scattered abroad, so will I seek out my sheep; and
I will deliver them out of all places where they have been scattered
in the cloudy and dark day.
Eze
34:13 I will bring them out from the peoples, and gather them from
the countries, and will bring them into their own land; and I will
feed them on the mountains of Israel, by the watercourses, and in all
the inhabited places of the country.
Eze
34:14 I will feed them with good pasture; and on the mountains of
the height of Israel shall their fold be: there shall they lie down
in a good fold; and on fat pasture shall they feed on the mountains
of Israel.
Eze
34:15 I myself will be the shepherd of my sheep, and I will cause
them to lie down, says the Lord Yahweh.
Eze
34:16 I will seek that which was lost, and will bring back that
which was driven away, and will bind up that which was broken, and
will strengthen that which was sick: but the fat and the strong I
will destroy; I will feed them in justice.
Eze
34:17 As for you, O my flock, thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I
judge between sheep and sheep, the rams and the male goats.
Eze
34:18 Seems it a small thing to you to have fed on the good pasture,
but you must tread down with your feet the residue of your pasture?
and to have drunk of the clear waters, but you must foul the residue
with your feet?
Eze
34:19 As for my sheep, they eat that which you have trodden with
your feet, and they drink that which you have fouled with your feet.
Eze
34:20 Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh to them: Behold, I, even
I, will judge between the fat sheep and the lean sheep.
Eze
34:21 Because you thrust with side and with shoulder, and push all
the diseased with your horns, until you have scattered them abroad;
Eze
34:22 therefore will I save my flock, and they shall no more be a
prey; and I will judge between sheep and sheep.
Eze
34:23 I will set up one shepherd over them, and he shall feed them,
even my servant David; he shall feed them, and he shall be their
shepherd.
Eze
34:24 I, Yahweh, will be their God, and my servant David prince
among them; I, Yahweh, have spoken it.
Eze
34:25 I will make with them a covenant of peace, and will cause evil
animals to cease out of the land; and they shall dwell securely in
the wilderness, and sleep in the woods.
Eze
34:26 I will make them and the places around my hill a blessing; and
I will cause the shower to come down in its season; there shall be
showers of blessing.
Eze
34:27 The tree of the field shall yield its fruit, and the earth
shall yield its increase, and they shall be secure in their land; and
they shall know that I am Yahweh, when I have broken the bars of
their yoke, and have delivered them out of the hand of those who made
slaves of them.
Eze
34:28 They shall no more be a prey to the nations, neither shall the
animals of the earth devour them; but they shall dwell securely, and
none shall make them afraid.
Eze
34:29 I will raise up to them a plantation for renown, and they
shall be no more consumed with famine in the land, neither bear the
shame of the nations any more.
Eze
34:30 They shall know that I, Yahweh, their God am with them, and
that they, the house of Israel, are my people, says the Lord Yahweh.
Eze
34:31 You my sheep, the sheep of my pasture, are men, and I am your
God, says the Lord Yahweh.
Eze
35:1 Moreover the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
Eze
35:2 Son of man, set your face against Mount Seir, and prophesy
against it,
Eze
35:3 and tell it, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I am against
you, Mount Seir, and I will stretch out my hand against you, and I
will make you a desolation and an astonishment.
Eze
35:4 I will lay your cities waste, and you shall be desolate; and
you shall know that I am Yahweh.
Eze
35:5 Because you have had a perpetual enmity, and have given over
the children of Israel to the power of the sword in the time of their
calamity, in the time of the iniquity of the end;
Eze
35:6 therefore, as I live, says the Lord Yahweh, I will prepare you
to blood, and blood shall pursue you: since you have not hated blood,
therefore blood shall pursue you.
Eze
35:7 Thus will I make Mount Seir an astonishment and a desolation;
and I will cut off from it him who passes through and him who
returns.
Eze
35:8 I will fill its mountains with its slain: in your hills and in
your valleys and in all your watercourses shall they fall who are
slain with the sword.
Eze
35:9 I will make you a perpetual desolation, and your cities shall
not be inhabited; and you shall know that I am Yahweh.
Eze
35:10 Because you have said, These two nations and these two
countries shall be mine, and we will possess it; whereas Yahweh was
there:
Eze
35:11 therefore, as I live, says the Lord Yahweh, I will do
according to your anger, and according to your envy which you have
shown out of your hatred against them; and I will make myself known
among them, when I shall judge you.
Eze
35:12 You shall know that I, Yahweh, have heard all your insults
which you have spoken against the mountains of Israel, saying, They
are laid desolate, they are given us to devour.
Eze
35:13 You have magnified yourselves against me with your mouth, and
have multiplied your words against me: I have heard it.
Eze
35:14 Thus says the Lord Yahweh: When the whole earth rejoices, I
will make you desolate.
Eze
35:15 As you did rejoice over the inheritance of the house of
Israel, because it was desolate, so will I do to you: you shall be
desolate, Mount Seir, and all Edom, even all of it; and they shall
know that I am Yahweh.
Eze
36:1 You, son of man, prophesy to the mountains of Israel, and say,
You mountains of Israel, hear the word of Yahweh.
Eze
36:2 Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because the enemy has said against
you, Aha! and, The ancient high places are ours in possession;
Eze
36:3 therefore prophesy, and say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh:
Because, even because they have made you desolate, and swallowed you
up on every side, that you might be a possession to the residue of
the nations, and you are taken up in the lips of talkers, and the
evil report of the people;
Eze
36:4 therefore, you mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord
Yahweh: Thus says the Lord Yahweh to the mountains and to the hills,
to the watercourses and to the valleys, to the desolate wastes and to
the cities that are forsaken, which are become a prey and derision to
the residue of the nations that are all around;
Eze
36:5 therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Surely in the fire of my
jealousy have I spoken against the residue of the nations, and
against all Edom, that have appointed my land to themselves for a
possession with the joy of all their heart, with despite of soul, to
cast it out for a prey.
Eze
36:6 Therefore prophesy concerning the land of Israel, and tell the
mountains and to the hills, to the watercourses and to the valleys,
Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I have spoken in my jealousy and
in my wrath, because you have borne the shame of the nations:
Eze
36:7 therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: I have sworn, saying,
Surely the nations that are around you, they shall bear their shame.
Eze
36:8 But you, mountains of Israel, you shall shoot forth your
branches, and yield your fruit to my people Israel; for they are at
hand to come.
Eze
36:9 For, behold, I am for you, and I will turn into you, and you
shall be tilled and sown;
Eze
36:10 and I will multiply men on you, all the house of Israel, even
all of it; and the cities shall be inhabited, and the waste places
shall be built;
Eze
36:11 and I will multiply on you man and animal; and they shall
increase and be fruitful; and I will cause you to be inhabited after
your former estate, and will do better to
you than at your beginnings: and you
shall know that I am Yahweh.
Eze
36:12 Yes, I will cause men to walk on you, even my people Israel;
and they shall possess you, and you shall be their inheritance, and
you shall no more henceforth bereave them of children.
Eze
36:13 Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because they say to you, You land
are a devourer of men, and have been a bereaver of your nation;
Eze
36:14 therefore you shall devour men no more, neither bereave your
nation any more, says the Lord Yahweh;
Eze
36:15 neither will I let you hear any more the shame of the nations,
neither shall you bear the reproach of the peoples any more, neither
shall you cause your nation to stumble any more, says the Lord
Yahweh.
Eze
36:16 Moreover the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
Eze
36:17 Son of man, when the house of Israel lived in their own land,
they defiled it by their way and by their doings: their way before me
was as the uncleanness of a woman in her impurity.
Eze
36:18 Therefore I poured out my wrath on them for the blood which
they had poured out on the land, and because they had defiled it with
their idols;
Eze
36:19 and I scattered them among the nations, and they were
dispersed through the countries: according to their way and according
to their doings I judged them.
Eze
36:20 When they came to the nations, where they went, they profaned
my holy name; in that men said of them, These are the people of
Yahweh, and are gone forth out of his land.
Eze
36:21 But I had regard for my holy name, which the house of Israel
had profaned among the nations, where they went.
Eze
36:22 Therefore tell the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord Yahweh:
I don't do this
for your sake, house of Israel, but for my holy name, which you have
profaned among the nations, where you went.
Eze
36:23 I will sanctify my great name, which has been profaned among
the nations, which you have profaned in the midst of them; and the
nations shall know that I am Yahweh, says the Lord Yahweh, when I
shall be sanctified in you before their eyes.
Eze
36:24 For I will take you from among the nations, and gather you out
of all the countries, and will bring you into your own land.
Eze
36:25 I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you shall be clean:
from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse
you.
Eze
36:26 A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put
within you; and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh,
and I will give you a heart of flesh.
Eze
36:27 I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my
statutes, and you shall keep my ordinances, and do them.
Eze
36:28 You shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers; and
you shall be my people, and I will be your God.
Eze
36:29 I will save you from all your uncleanness: and I will call for
the grain, and will multiply it, and lay no famine on you.
Eze
36:30 I will multiply the fruit of the tree, and the increase of the
field, that you may receive no more the reproach of famine among the
nations.
Eze
36:31 Then you shall remember your evil ways, and your doings that
were not good; and you shall loathe yourselves in your own sight for
your iniquities and for your abominations.
Eze
36:32 Nor for your sake do I this,
says the Lord Yahweh, be it known to you: be ashamed and confounded
for your ways, house of Israel.
Eze
36:33 Thus says the Lord Yahweh: In the day that I cleanse you from
all your iniquities, I will cause the cities to be inhabited, and the
waste places shall be built.
Eze
36:34 The land that was desolate shall be tilled, whereas it was a
desolation in the sight of all who passed by.
Eze
36:35 They shall say, This land that was desolate is become like the
garden of Eden; and the waste and desolate and ruined cities are
fortified and inhabited.
Eze
36:36 Then the nations that are left around you shall know that I,
Yahweh, have built the ruined places, and planted that which was
desolate: I, Yahweh, have spoken it, and I will do it.
Eze
36:37 Thus says the Lord Yahweh: For this, moreover, will I be
inquired of by the house of Israel, to do it for them: I will
increase them with men like a flock.
Eze
36:38 As the flock for sacrifice, as the flock of Jerusalem in her
appointed feasts, so shall the waste cities be filled with flocks of
men; and they shall know that I am Yahweh.
Dec.
5
1
Peter 3
1Pe
3:1 In like manner, wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; so
that, even if any don't obey the Word, they may be won by the
behavior of their wives without a word;
1Pe
3:2 seeing your pure behavior in fear.
1Pe
3:3 Let your beauty be not just the outward adorning of braiding the
hair, and of wearing jewels of gold, or of putting on fine clothing;
1Pe
3:4 but in the hidden person of the heart, in the incorruptible
adornment of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God
very precious.
1Pe
3:5 For this is how the holy women before, who hoped in God also
adorned themselves, being in subjection to their own husbands:
1Pe
3:6 as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord, whose children you
now are, if you do well, and are not put in fear by any terror.
1Pe
3:7 You husbands, in like manner, live with your wives according to
knowledge, giving honor to the woman, as to the weaker vessel, as
being also joint heirs of the grace of life; that your prayers may
not be hindered.
1Pe
3:8 Finally, be all like-minded, compassionate, loving as brothers,
tenderhearted, courteous,
1Pe
3:9 not rendering evil for evil, or reviling for reviling; but
instead blessing; knowing that to this were you called, that you may
inherit a blessing.
1Pe
3:10 For, "He who would love life, and see good days, let him
keep his tongue from evil, and his lips from speaking deceit.
1Pe
3:11 Let him turn away from evil, and do good. Let him seek peace,
and pursue it.
1Pe
3:12 For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous, and his ears
open to their prayer; but the face of the Lord is against those who
do evil."
1Pe
3:13 Now who is he who will harm you, if you become imitators of
that which is good?
1Pe
3:14 But even if you should suffer for righteousness' sake, you are
blessed. "Don't fear what they fear, neither be troubled."
1Pe
3:15 But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts; and always be ready
to give an answer to everyone who asks you a reason concerning the
hope that is in you, with humility and fear:
1Pe
3:16 having a good conscience; that, while you are spoken against as
evildoers, they may be disappointed who curse your good manner of
life in Christ.
1Pe
3:17 For it is better, if it is God's will, that you suffer for
doing well than for doing evil.
1Pe
3:18 Because Christ also suffered for sins once, the righteous for
the unrighteous, that he might bring you to God; being put to death
in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit;
1Pe
3:19 in which he also went and preached to the spirits in prison,
1Pe
3:20 who before were disobedient, when God waited patiently in the
days of Noah, while the ship was being built. In it, few, that is,
eight souls, were saved through water.
1Pe
3:21 This is a symbol of baptism, which now saves you--not the
putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good
conscience toward God, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,
1Pe
3:22 who is at the right hand of God, having gone into heaven,
angels and authorities and powers being made subject to him.
