Bible Reading November 9 (World English Bible)
Isaiah
53-56
Isa
53:1 Who has believed our message? To whom has the arm of Yahweh
been revealed?
Isa
53:2 For he grew up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out
of dry ground. He has no form nor comeliness. When we see him, there
is no beauty that we should desire him.
Isa
53:3 He was despised, and rejected by men; a man of suffering, and
acquainted with disease. He was despised as one from whom men hide
their face; and we didn't respect him.
Isa
53:4 Surely he has borne our sickness, and carried our suffering;
yet we considered him plagued, struck by God, and afflicted.
Isa
53:5 But he was pierced for our transgressions. He was crushed for
our iniquities. The punishment that brought our peace was on him; and
by his wounds we are healed.
Isa
53:6 All we like sheep have gone astray. Everyone has turned to his
own way; and Yahweh has laid on him the iniquity of us all.
Isa
53:7 He was oppressed, yet when he was afflicted he didn't open his
mouth. As a lamb that is led to the slaughter, and as a sheep that
before its shearers is mute, so he didn't open his mouth.
Isa
53:8 He was taken away by oppression and judgment; and as for his
generation, who considered that he was cut off out of the land of the
living and stricken for the disobedience of my people?
Isa
53:9 They made his grave with the wicked, and with a rich man in his
death; although he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in
his mouth.
Isa
53:10 Yet it pleased Yahweh to bruise him. He has caused him to
suffer. When you make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his
seed. He shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of Yahweh shall
prosper in his hand.
Isa
53:11 After the suffering of his soul, he will see the light and be
satisfied. My righteous servant will justify many by the knowledge of
himself; and he will bear their iniquities.
Isa
53:12 Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he
shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he poured out his
soul to death, and was numbered with the transgressors; yet he bore
the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.
Isa
54:1 "Sing, barren, you who didn't bear; break forth into
singing, and cry aloud, you who did not travail with child: for more
are the children of the desolate than the children of the married
wife," says Yahweh.
Isa
54:2 "Enlarge the place of your tent, and let them stretch
forth the curtains of your habitations; don't spare: lengthen your
cords, and strengthen your stakes.
Isa
54:3 For you shall spread aboard on the right hand and on the left;
and your seed shall possess the nations, and make the desolate cities
to be inhabited.
Isa
54:4 "Don't be afraid; for you shall not be ashamed: neither be
confounded; for you shall not be disappointed: for you shall forget
the shame of your youth; and the reproach of your widowhood you shall
remember no more.
Isa
54:5 For your Maker is your husband; Yahweh of Armies is his name:
and the Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer; the God of the whole
earth shall he be called.
Isa
54:6 For Yahweh has called you as a wife forsaken and grieved in
spirit, even a wife of youth, when she is cast off," says your
God.
Isa
54:7 "For a small moment have I forsaken you; but with great
mercies will I gather you.
Isa
54:8 In overflowing wrath I hid my face from you for a moment; but
with everlasting loving kindness will I have mercy on you," says
Yahweh your Redeemer.
Isa
54:9 "For this is like the waters of Noah to me; for as I have
sworn that the waters of Noah shall no more go over the earth, so
have I sworn that I will not be angry with you, nor rebuke you.
Isa
54:10 For the mountains may depart, and the hills be removed; but my
loving kindness shall not depart from you, neither shall my covenant
of peace be removed," says Yahweh who has mercy on you.
Isa
54:11 "You afflicted, tossed with storms, and not comforted,
behold, I will set your stones in beautiful colors, and lay your
foundations with sapphires.
Isa
54:12 I will make your pinnacles of rubies, and your gates of
sparkling jewels, and all your walls of precious stones.
Isa
54:13 All your children shall be taught of Yahweh; and great shall
be the peace of your children.
Isa
54:14 In righteousness you shall be established: you shall be far
from oppression, for you shall not be afraid; and from terror, for it
shall not come near you.
Isa
54:15 Behold, they may gather together, but not by me: whoever shall
gather together against you shall fall because of you.
Isa
54:16 "Behold, I have created the smith who blows the fire of
coals, and brings forth a weapon for his work; and I have created the
waster to destroy.
Isa
54:17 No weapon that is formed against you will prevail; and you
will condemn every tongue that rises against you in judgment. This is
the heritage of the servants of Yahweh, and their righteousness which
is of me," says Yahweh.
Isa
55:1 "Come, everyone who thirsts, to the waters, and he who has
no money; come, buy, and eat; yes, come, buy wine and milk without
money and without price.
Isa
55:2 Why do you spend money for that which is not bread? and your
labor for that which doesn't satisfy? listen diligently to me, and
eat you that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in
fatness.
Isa
55:3 Turn your ear, and come to me; hear, and your soul shall live:
and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure
mercies of David.
Isa
55:4 Behold, I have given him for a witness to the peoples, a leader
and commander to the peoples.
Isa
55:5 Behold, you shall call a nation that you don't know; and a
nation that didn't know you shall run to you, because of Yahweh your
God, and for the Holy One of Israel; for he has glorified you."
Isa
55:6 Seek Yahweh while he may be found; call you on him while he is
near:
Isa
55:7 let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his
thoughts; and let him return to Yahweh, and he will have mercy on
him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
Isa
55:8 "For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your
ways my ways," says Yahweh.
Isa
55:9 "For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my
ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.
Isa
55:10 For as the rain comes down and the snow from the sky, and
doesn't return there, but waters the earth, and makes it bring forth
and bud, and gives seed to the sower and bread to the eater;
Isa
55:11 so shall my word be that goes forth out of my mouth: it shall
not return to me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please,
and it shall prosper in the thing I sent it to do.
Isa
55:12 For you shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace:
the mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into
singing; and all the trees of the fields shall clap their hands.
Isa
55:13 Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir tree; and instead
of the brier shall come up the myrtle tree: and it shall be to Yahweh
for a name, for an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off."
Isa
56:1 Thus says Yahweh, "Keep justice, and do righteousness; for
my salvation is near to come, and my righteousness to be revealed.
Isa
56:2 Blessed is the man who does this, and the son of man who holds
it fast; who keeps the Sabbath from profaning it, and keeps his hand
from doing any evil."
Isa
56:3 Neither let the foreigner, who has joined himself to Yahweh,
speak, saying, "Yahweh will surely separate me from his people;"
neither let the eunuch say, "Behold, I am a dry tree."
Isa
56:4 For thus says Yahweh, "To the eunuchs who keep my
Sabbaths, and choose the things that please me, and hold fast my
covenant:
Isa
56:5 to them I will give in my house and within my walls a memorial
and a name better than of sons and of daughters; I will give them an
everlasting name, that shall not be cut off.
Isa
56:6 Also the foreigners who join themselves to Yahweh, to minister
to him, and to love the name of Yahweh, to be his servants, everyone
who keeps the Sabbath from profaning it, and holds fast my covenant;
Isa
56:7 even them will I bring to my holy mountain, and make them
joyful in my house of prayer: their burnt offerings and their
sacrifices shall be accepted on my altar; for my house shall be
called a house of prayer for all peoples."
Isa
56:8 The Lord Yahweh, who gathers the outcasts of Israel, says, "Yet
will I gather others
to him, besides his own who are gathered."
Isa
56:9 All you animals of the field, come to devour, yes,
all you animals in the forest.
Isa
56:10 His watchmen are blind, they are all without knowledge; they
are all mute dogs, they can't bark; dreaming, lying down, loving to
slumber.
Isa
56:11 Yes, the dogs are greedy, they can never have enough; and
these are shepherds who can't understand: they have all turned to
their own way, each one to his gain, from every quarter.
Isa
56:12 "Come," say they,
"I will get wine, and we will fill ourselves with strong drink;
and tomorrow shall be as this day, a day
great beyond measure."
2 Timothy
3
2Ti 3:1
But know this, that in the last days, grievous times will come.
2Ti 3:2
For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant,
blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
2Ti 3:3
without natural affection, unforgiving, slanderers, without
self-control, fierce, no lovers of good,
2Ti 3:4
traitors, headstrong, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than
lovers of God;
2Ti 3:5
holding a form of godliness, but having denied the power thereof.
Turn away from these, also.
2Ti 3:6
For of these are those who creep into houses, and take captive
gullible women loaded down with sins, led away by various lusts,
2Ti 3:7
always learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the
truth.
2Ti 3:8
Even as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so do these also oppose the
truth; men corrupted in mind, reprobate concerning the faith.
2Ti 3:9
But they will proceed no further. For their folly will be evident to
all men, as theirs also came to be.
2Ti 3:10
But you did follow my teaching, conduct, purpose, faith, patience,
love, steadfastness,
2Ti 3:11
persecutions, and sufferings: those things that happened to me at
Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra. I endured those persecutions. Out of
them all the Lord delivered me.
2Ti 3:12
Yes, and all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will suffer
persecution.
2Ti 3:13
But evil men and impostors will grow worse and worse, deceiving and
being deceived.
2Ti 3:14
But you remain in the things which you have learned and have been
assured of, knowing from whom you have learned them.
2Ti 3:15
From infancy, you have known the holy Scriptures which are able to
make you wise for salvation through faith, which is in Christ Jesus.
2Ti 3:16
Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for
reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,
2Ti 3:17
that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every
good work.
Fellow-Citizens—It
is at the season when nature hath assumed her loveliest apparel that
the American people assemble in their several temples to celebrate the
birthday of their nation. Arrayed in all the beauties of the year, the
Fourth of July once more visits us. Green fields and a ripening harvest
proclaim it, a bright sun cheers it, and the hearts of freemen bid it
welcome. Illustrious spectacle! Six millions of people this day surround
their altars, and unite in an address to Heaven for the preservation of
their rights. Every rank and every age imbibes the general spirit. From
the lisping inhabitant of the cradle to the aged warrior whose gray
hairs are fast sinking in the western horizon of life, every voice is,
this day, tuned to the accents of LIBERTY! WASHINGTON! MY COUNTRY!
