Bible Reading November 2 (World English Bible)
Isaiah
25-28
Isa
25:1 Yahweh, you are my God. I will exalt you! I will praise your
name, for you have done wonderful things, things planned long ago, in
complete faithfulness and truth.
Isa
25:2 For you have made a city into a heap, a fortified city into a
ruin, a palace of strangers to be no city. It will never be built.
Isa
25:3 Therefore a strong people will glorify you. A city of awesome
nations will fear you.
Isa
25:4 For you have been a stronghold to the poor, a stronghold to the
needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shade from the
heat, when the blast of the dreaded ones is like a storm against the
wall.
Isa
25:5 As the heat in a dry place will you bring down the noise of
strangers; as the heat by the shade of a cloud, the song of the
dreaded ones will be brought low.
Isa
25:6 In this mountain, Yahweh of Armies will make all peoples a
feast of fat things, a feast of choice wines, of fat things full of
marrow, of well refined choice wines.
Isa
25:7 He will destroy in this mountain the surface of the covering
that covers all peoples, and the veil that is spread over all
nations.
Isa
25:8 He has swallowed up death forever! The Lord Yahweh will wipe
away tears from off all faces. He will take the reproach of his
people away from off all the earth, for Yahweh has spoken it.
Isa
25:9 It shall be said in that day, "Behold, this is our God! We
have waited for him, and he will save us! This is Yahweh! We have
waited for him. We will be glad and rejoice in his salvation!"
Isa
25:10 For in this mountain the hand of Yahweh will rest. Moab will
be trodden down in his place, even like straw is trodden down in the
water of the dunghill.
Isa
25:11 He will spread out his hands in its midst, like one who swims
spreads out hands to swim, but his pride will be humbled together
with the craft of his hands.
Isa
25:12 He has brought the high fortress of your walls down, laid low,
and brought to the ground, even to the dust.
Isa
26:1 In that day, this song will be sung in the land of Judah: "We
have a strong city. God appoints salvation for walls and bulwarks.
Isa
26:2 Open the gates, that the righteous nation may enter: the one
which keeps faith.
Isa
26:3 You will keep whoever's mind is steadfast in perfect peace,
because he trusts in you.
Isa
26:4 Trust in Yahweh forever; for in Yah, Yahweh, is an everlasting
Rock.
Isa
26:5 For he has brought down those who dwell on high, the lofty
city. He lays it low. He lays it low even to the ground. He brings it
even to the dust.
Isa
26:6 The foot shall tread it down; Even the feet of the poor, and
the steps of the needy."
Isa
26:7 The way of the just is uprightness. You who are upright make
the path of the righteous level.
Isa
26:8 Yes, in the way of your judgments, Yahweh, have we waited for
you. Your name and your renown are the desire of our soul.
Isa
26:9 With my soul have I desired you in the night. Yes, with my
spirit within me will I seek you earnestly; for when your judgments
are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.
Isa
26:10 Let favor be shown to the wicked, yet he will not learn
righteousness. In the land of uprightness he will deal wrongfully,
and will not see Yahweh's majesty.
Isa
26:11 Yahweh, your hand is lifted up, yet they don't see; but they
will see your zeal for the people, and be disappointed. Yes, fire
will consume your adversaries.
Isa
26:12 Yahweh, you will ordain peace for us, for you have also worked
all our works for us.
Isa
26:13 Yahweh our God, other lords besides you have had dominion over
us, but by you only will we make mention of your name.
Isa
26:14 The dead shall not live. The deceased shall not rise.
Therefore have you visited and destroyed them, and caused all memory
of them to perish.
Isa
26:15 You have increased the nation, O Yahweh. You have increased
the nation! You are glorified! You have enlarged all the borders of
the land.
Isa
26:16 Yahweh, in trouble they have visited you. They poured out a
prayer when your chastening was on them.
Isa
26:17 Like as a woman with child, who draws near the time of her
delivery, is in pain and cries out in her pangs; so we have been
before you, Yahweh.
Isa
26:18 We have been with child. We have been in pain. We gave birth,
it seems, only to wind. We have not worked any deliverance in the
earth; neither have the inhabitants of the world fallen.
Isa
26:19 Your dead shall live. My dead bodies shall arise. Awake and
sing, you who dwell in the dust; for your dew is like the dew of
herbs, and the earth will cast forth the dead.
Isa
26:20 Come, my people, enter into your chambers, and shut your doors
behind you. Hide yourself for a little moment, until the indignation
is past.
Isa
26:21 For, behold, Yahweh comes forth out of his place to punish the
inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity. The earth also will
disclose her blood, and will no longer cover her slain.
Isa
27:1 In that day, Yahweh with his hard and great and strong sword
will punish leviathan, the fleeing serpent, and leviathan the twisted
serpent; and he will kill the dragon that is in the sea.
Isa
27:2 In that day, sing to her, "A pleasant vineyard!
Isa
27:3 I, Yahweh, am its keeper. I will water it every moment. Lest
anyone damage it, I will keep it night and day.
Isa
27:4 Wrath is not in me, but if I should find briers and thorns, I
would do battle! I would march on them and I would burn them
together.
Isa
27:5 Or else let him take hold of my strength, that he may make
peace with me. Let him make peace with me."
Isa
27:6 In days to come, Jacob will take root. Israel will blossom and
bud. They will fill the surface of the world with fruit.
Isa
27:7 Has he struck them as he struck those who struck them? Or are
they killed like those who killed them were killed?
Isa
27:8 In measure, when you send them away, you contend with them. He
has removed them with his rough blast in the day of the east wind.
Isa
27:9 Therefore, by this the iniquity of Jacob will be forgiven, and
this is all the fruit of taking away his sin: that he makes all the
stones of the altar as chalk stones that are beaten in pieces, so
that the Asherim and the incense altars shall rise no more.
Isa
27:10 For the fortified city is solitary, a habitation deserted and
forsaken, like the wilderness. The calf will feed there, and there he
will lie down, and consume its branches.
Isa
27:11 When its boughs are withered, they will be broken off. The
women will come and set them on fire, for they are a people of no
understanding. Therefore he who made them will not have compassion on
them, and he who formed them will show them no favor.
Isa
27:12 It will happen in that day, that Yahweh will thresh from the
flowing stream of the Euphrates to the brook of Egypt; and you will
be gathered one by one, children of Israel.
Isa
27:13 It will happen in that day that a great trumpet will be blown;
and those who were ready to perish in the land of Assyria, and those
who were outcasts in the land of Egypt, shall come; and they will
worship Yahweh in the holy mountain at Jerusalem.
Isa
28:1 Woe to the crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim, and to
the fading flower of his glorious beauty, which is on the head of the
fertile valley of those who are overcome with wine!
Isa
28:2 Behold, the Lord has a mighty and strong one. Like a storm of
hail, a destroying storm, and like a storm of mighty waters
overflowing, he will cast them down to the earth with his hand.
Isa
28:3 The crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim will be trodden
under foot.
Isa
28:4 The fading flower of his glorious beauty, which is on the head
of the fertile valley, shall be like the first-ripe fig before the
summer; which someone picks and eats as soon as he sees it.
Isa
28:5 In that day, Yahweh of Armies will become a crown of glory, and
a diadem of beauty, to the residue of his people;
Isa
28:6 and a spirit of justice to him who sits in judgment, and
strength to those who turn back the battle at the gate.
Isa
28:7 They also reel with wine, and stagger with strong drink. The
priest and the prophet reel with strong drink. They are swallowed up
by wine. They stagger with strong drink. They err in vision. They
stumble in judgment.
Isa
28:8 For all tables are completely full of filthy vomit and
filthiness.
Isa
28:9 Whom will he teach knowledge? To whom will he explain the
message? Those who are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the
breasts?
Isa
28:10 For it is precept on precept, precept on precept; line on
line, line on line; here a little, there a little.
Isa
28:11 But he will speak to this nation with stammering lips and in
another language;
Isa
28:12 to whom he said, "This is the resting place. Give rest to
weary;" and "This is the refreshing;" yet they would
not hear.
Isa
28:13 Therefore the word of Yahweh will be to them precept on
precept, precept on precept; line on line, line on line; here a
little, there a little; that they may go, fall backward, be broken,
be snared, and be taken.
Isa
28:14 Therefore hear the word of Yahweh, you scoffers, that rule
this people in Jerusalem:
Isa
28:15 "Because you have said, 'We have made a covenant with
death, and with Sheol are we in agreement. When the overflowing
scourge passes through, it won't come to us; for we have made lies
our refuge, and we have hidden ourselves under falsehood.' "
Isa
28:16 Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh, "Behold, I lay in
Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious cornerstone
of a sure foundation. He who believes shall not act hastily.
Isa
28:17 I will make justice the measuring line, and righteousness the
plumb line. The hail will sweep away the refuge of lies, and the
waters will overflow the hiding place.
Isa
28:18 Your covenant with death shall be annulled, and your agreement
with Sheol shall not stand. When the overflowing scourge passes
through, then you will be trampled down by it.
Isa
28:19 As often as it passes through, it will seize you; for morning
by morning it will pass through, by day and by night; and it will be
nothing but terror to understand the message."
Isa
28:20 For the bed is too short to stretch out on, and the blanket is
too narrow to wrap oneself in.
Isa
28:21 For Yahweh will rise up as on Mount Perazim. He will be angry
as in the valley of Gibeon; that he may do his work, his unusual
work, and bring to pass his act, his extraordinary act.
Isa
28:22 Now therefore don't be scoffers, lest your bonds be made
strong; for I have heard a decree of destruction from the Lord,
Yahweh of Armies, on the whole earth.
Isa
28:23 Give ear, and hear my voice! Listen, and hear my speech!
Isa
28:24 Does he who plows to sow plow continually? Does he keep
turning the soil and breaking the clods?
Isa
28:25 When he has leveled its surface, doesn't he plant the dill,
and scatter the cumin seed, and put in the wheat in rows, the barley
in the appointed place, and the spelt in its place?
Isa
28:26 For his God instructs him in right judgment, and teaches him.
Isa
28:27 For the dill are not threshed with a sharp instrument, neither
is a cart wheel turned over the cumin; but the dill is beaten out
with a stick, and the cumin with a rod.
Isa
28:28 Bread flour must be ground; so he will not always be threshing
it. Although he drives the wheel of his threshing cart over it, his
horses don't grind it.
Isa
28:29 This also comes forth from Yahweh of Armies, who is wonderful
in counsel, and excellent in wisdom.
1 Timothy
2
1Ti 2:1 I
exhort therefore, first of all, that petitions, prayers,
intercessions, and givings of thanks, be made for all men:
1Ti 2:2
for kings and all who are in high places; that we may lead a tranquil
and quiet life in all godliness and reverence.
1Ti 2:3
For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior;
1Ti 2:4
who desires all people to be saved and come to full knowledge of the
truth.
1Ti 2:5
For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man
Christ Jesus,
1Ti 2:6
who gave himself as a ransom for all; the testimony in its own times;
1Ti 2:7
to which I was appointed a preacher and an apostle (I am telling the
truth in Christ, not lying), a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and
truth.
1Ti 2:8 I
desire therefore that the men in every place pray, lifting up holy
hands without anger and doubting.
1Ti 2:9
In the same way, that women also adorn themselves in decent clothing,
with modesty and propriety; not just with braided hair, gold, pearls,
or expensive clothing;
1Ti 2:10
but (which becomes women professing godliness) with good works.
1Ti 2:11
Let a woman learn in quietness with all subjection.
1Ti 2:12
But I don't permit a woman to teach, nor to exercise authority over a
man, but to be in quietness.
1Ti 2:13
For Adam was first formed, then Eve.
1Ti 2:14
Adam wasn't deceived, but the woman, being deceived, has fallen into
disobedience;
1Ti 2:15
but she will be saved through her childbearing, if they continue in
faith, love, and sanctification with sobriety.
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