Bible Reading for October 30, 31 and November 1
World English Bible
Oct.
30
Isaiah
13-16
Isa
13:1 The burden of Babylon, which Isaiah the son of Amoz saw:
Isa
13:2 Set up a banner on the bare mountain! Lift up your voice to
them! Wave your hand, that they may go into the gates of the nobles.
Isa
13:3 I have commanded my consecrated ones; yes, I have called my
mighty men for my anger, even my proudly exulting ones.
Isa
13:4 The noise of a multitude is in the mountains, as of a great
people; the noise of an uproar of the kingdoms of the nations
gathered together! Yahweh of Armies is mustering the army for the
battle.
Isa
13:5 They come from a far country, from the uttermost part of
heaven, even Yahweh, and the weapons of his indignation, to destroy
the whole land.
Isa
13:6 Wail; for the day of Yahweh is at hand! It will come as
destruction from the Almighty.
Isa
13:7 Therefore all hands will be feeble, and everyone's heart will
melt.
Isa
13:8 They will be dismayed. Pangs and sorrows will seize them. They
will be in pain like a woman in labor. They will look in amazement
one at another. Their faces will be faces of flame.
Isa
13:9 Behold, the day of Yahweh comes, cruel, with wrath and fierce
anger; to make the land a desolation, and to destroy its sinners out
of it.
Isa
13:10 For the stars of the sky and its constellations will not give
their light. The sun will be darkened in its going forth, and the
moon will not cause its light to shine.
Isa
13:11 I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for
their iniquity. I will cause the arrogance of the proud to cease, and
will humble the haughtiness of the terrible.
Isa
13:12 I will make people more rare than fine gold, even a person
than the pure gold of Ophir.
Isa
13:13 Therefore I will make the heavens tremble, and the earth will
be shaken out of its place in the wrath of Yahweh of Armies, and in
the day of his fierce anger.
Isa
13:14 It will happen that like a a hunted gazelle, and like sheep
that no one gathers, they will each turn to their own people, and
will each flee to their own land.
Isa
13:15 Everyone who is found will be thrust through. Everyone who is
captured will fall by the sword.
Isa
13:16 Their infants also will be dashed in pieces before their eyes.
Their houses will be ransacked, and their wives raped.
Isa
13:17 Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, who will not
value silver, and as for gold, they will not delight in it.
Isa
13:18 Their bows will dash the young men in pieces; and they shall
have no pity on the fruit of the womb. Their eyes will not spare
children.
Isa
13:19 Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldeans'
pride, will be like when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.
Isa
13:20 It will never be inhabited, neither will it be lived in from
generation to generation. The Arabian will not pitch a tent there,
neither will shepherds make their flocks lie down there.
Isa
13:21 But wild animals of the desert will lie there, and their
houses will be full of jackals. Ostriches will dwell there, and wild
goats will frolic there.
Isa
13:22 Wolves will cry in their castles, and jackals in the pleasant
palaces. Her time is near to come, and her days will not be
prolonged.
Isa
14:1 For Yahweh will have compassion on Jacob, and will yet choose
Israel, and set them in their own land. The foreigner will join
himself with them, and they will unite with the house of Jacob.
Isa
14:2 The peoples will take them, and bring them to their place. The
house of Israel will possess them in Yahweh's land for servants and
for handmaids. They will take as captives those whose captives they
were; and they shall rule over their oppressors.
Isa
14:3 It will happen in the day that Yahweh will give you rest from
your sorrow, from your trouble, and from the hard service in which
you were made to serve,
Isa
14:4 that you will take up this parable against the king of Babylon,
and say, "How the oppressor has ceased! The golden city has
ceased!"
Isa
14:5 Yahweh has broken the staff of the wicked, the scepter of the
rulers,
Isa
14:6 who struck the peoples in wrath with a continual stroke, who
ruled the nations in anger, with a persecution that none restrained.
Isa
14:7 The whole earth is at rest, and is quiet. They break out song.
Isa
14:8 Yes, the fir trees rejoice with you, with the cedars of
Lebanon, saying, "Since you are humbled, no lumberjack has come
up against us."
Isa
14:9 Sheol from beneath has moved for you to meet you at your
coming. It stirs up the dead for you, even all the rulers of the
earth. It has raised up from their thrones all the kings of the
nations.
Isa
14:10 They all will answer and ask you, "Have you also become
as weak as we are? Have you become like us?"
Isa
14:11 Your pomp is brought down to Sheol, with the sound of your
stringed instruments. Maggots are spread out under you, and worms
cover you.
Isa
14:12 How you have fallen from heaven, morning star, son of the
dawn! How you are cut down to the ground, who laid the nations low!
Isa
14:13 You said in your heart, "I will ascend into heaven! I
will exalt my throne above the stars of God! I will sit on the
mountain of assembly, in the far north!
Isa
14:14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds! I will make
myself like the Most High!"
Isa
14:15 Yet you shall be brought down to Sheol, to the depths of the
pit.
Isa
14:16 Those who see you will stare at you. They will ponder you,
saying, "Is this the man who made the earth to tremble, who
shook kingdoms;
Isa
14:17 who made the world like a wilderness, and overthrew its
cities; who didn't release his prisoners to their home?"
Isa
14:18 All the kings of the nations, sleep in glory, everyone in his
own house.
Isa
14:19 But you are cast away from your tomb like an abominable
branch, clothed with the slain, who are thrust through with the
sword, who go down to the stones of the pit; like a dead body trodden
under foot.
Isa
14:20 You will not join them in burial, because you have destroyed
your land. You have killed your people. The seed of evildoers will
not be named forever.
Isa
14:21 Prepare for slaughter of his children because of the iniquity
of their fathers, that they not rise up and possess the earth, and
fill the surface of the world with cities.
Isa
14:22 "I will rise up against them," says Yahweh of
Armies, "and cut off from Babylon name and remnant, and son and
son's son," says Yahweh.
Isa
14:23 "I will also make it a possession for the porcupine, and
pools of water. I will sweep it with the broom of destruction,"
says Yahweh of Armies.
Isa
14:24 Yahweh of Armies has sworn, saying, "Surely, as I have
thought, so shall it happen; and as I have purposed, so shall it
stand:
Isa
14:25 that I will break the Assyrian in my land, and tread him under
foot on my mountains. Then his yoke will leave them, and his burden
leave their shoulders.
Isa
14:26 This is the plan that is determined for the whole earth. This
is the hand that is stretched out over all the nations.
Isa
14:27 For Yahweh of Armies has planned, and who can stop it? His
hand is stretched out, and who can turn it back?"
Isa
14:28 This burden was in the year that king Ahaz died.
Isa
14:29 Don't rejoice, O Philistia, all of you, because the rod that
struck you is broken; for out of the serpent's root an adder will
emerge, and his fruit will be a fiery flying serpent.
Isa
14:30 The firstborn of the poor will eat, and the needy will lie
down in safety; and I will kill your root with famine, and your
remnant will be killed.
Isa
14:31 Howl, gate! Cry, city! You are melted away, Philistia, all of
you; for smoke comes out of the north, and there is no straggler in
his ranks.
Isa
14:32 What will they answer the messengers of the nation? That
Yahweh has founded Zion, and in her the afflicted of his people will
take refuge.
Isa
15:1 The burden of Moab: for in a night, Ar of Moab is laid waste,
and brought to nothing; for in a night Kir of Moab is laid waste, and
brought to nothing.
Isa
15:2 They have gone up to Bayith, and to Dibon, to the high places,
to weep. Moab wails over Nebo and over Medeba. Baldness is on all of
their heads. Every beard is cut off.
Isa
15:3 In their streets, they dress themselves in sackcloth. In their
streets and on their housetops, everyone wails, weeping abundantly.
Isa
15:4 Heshbon cries out with Elealeh. Their voice is heard even to
Jahaz. Therefore the armed men of Moab cry aloud. Their souls tremble
within them.
Isa
15:5 My heart cries out for Moab! Her nobles flee to Zoar, to Eglath
Shelishiyah; for they go up by the ascent of Luhith with weeping; for
in the way of Horonaim, they raise up a cry of destruction.
Isa
15:6 For the waters of Nimrim will be desolate; for the grass has
withered away, the tender grass fails, there is no green thing.
Isa
15:7 Therefore they will carry away the abundance they have gotten,
and that which they have stored up, over the brook of the willows.
Isa
15:8 For the cry has gone around the borders of Moab; its wailing to
Eglaim, and its wailing to Beer Elim.
Isa
15:9 For the waters of Dimon are full of blood; for I will bring yet
more on Dimon, a lion on those of Moab who escape, and on the remnant
of the land.
Isa
16:1 Send the lambs for the ruler of the land from Selah to the
wilderness, to the mountain of the daughter of Zion.
Isa
16:2 For it will be that as wandering birds, as a scattered nest, so
will the daughters of Moab be at the fords of the Arnon.
Isa
16:3 Give counsel! Execute justice! Make your shade like the night
in the midst of the noonday! Hide the outcasts! Don't betray the
fugitive!
Isa
16:4 Let my outcasts dwell with you! As for Moab, be a hiding place
for him from the face of the destroyer. For the extortioner is
brought to nothing. Destruction ceases. The oppressors are consumed
out of the land.
Isa
16:5 A throne will be established in loving kindness. One will sit
on it in truth, in the tent of David, judging, seeking justice, and
swift to do righteousness.
Isa
16:6 We have heard of the pride of Moab, that he is very proud; even
of his arrogance, his pride, and his wrath. His boastings are
nothing.
Isa
16:7 Therefore Moab will wail for Moab. Everyone will wail. You will
mourn for the raisin cakes of Kir Hareseth, utterly stricken.
Isa
16:8 For the fields of Heshbon languish with the vine of Sibmah. The
lords of the nations have broken down its choice branches, which
reached even to Jazer, which wandered into the wilderness. Its shoots
were spread abroad. They passed over the sea.
Isa
16:9 Therefore I will weep with the weeping of Jazer for the vine of
Sibmah. I will water you with my tears, Heshbon, and Elealeh: for on
your summer fruits and on your harvest the battle shout has fallen.
Isa
16:10 Gladness is taken away, and joy out of the fruitful field; and
in the vineyards there will be no singing, neither joyful noise.
Nobody will tread out wine in the presses. I have made the shouting
stop.
Isa
16:11 Therefore my heart sounds like a harp for Moab, and my inward
parts for Kir Heres.
Isa
16:12 It will happen that when Moab presents himself, when he
wearies himself on the high place, and comes to his sanctuary to
pray, that he will not prevail.
Isa
16:13 This is the word that Yahweh spoke concerning Moab in time
past.
Isa
16:14 But now Yahweh has spoken, saying, "Within three years,
as a worker bound by contract would count them, the glory of Moab
shall be brought into contempt, with all his great multitude; and the
remnant will be very small and feeble."
Oct.
31
Isaiah
17-20
Isa
17:1 The burden of Damascus: "Behold, Damascus is taken away
from being a city, and it will be a ruinous heap.
Isa
17:2 The cities of Aroer are forsaken. They will be for flocks,
which shall lie down, and none shall make them afraid.
Isa
17:3 The fortress shall cease from Ephraim, and the kingdom from
Damascus, and the remnant of Syria. They will be as the glory of the
children of Israel," says Yahweh of Armies.
Isa
17:4 "It will happen in that day that the glory of Jacob will
be made thin, and the fatness of his flesh will become lean.
Isa
17:5 It will be like when the harvester gathers the wheat, and his
arm reaps the grain. Yes, it will be like when one gleans grain in
the valley of Rephaim.
Isa
17:6 Yet gleanings will be left there, like the shaking of an olive
tree, two or three olives in the top of the uppermost bough, four or
five in the outermost branches of a fruitful tree," says Yahweh,
the God of Israel.
Isa
17:7 In that day, people will look to their Maker, and their eyes
will have respect for the Holy One of Israel.
Isa
17:8 They will not look to the altars, the work of their hands;
neither shall they respect that which their fingers have made, either
the Asherim, or the incense altars.
Isa
17:9 In that day, their strong cities will be like the forsaken
places in the woods and on the mountain top, which were forsaken from
before the children of Israel; and it will be a desolation.
Isa
17:10 For you have forgotten the God of your salvation, and have not
remembered the rock of your strength. Therefore you plant pleasant
plants, and set out foreign seedlings.
Isa
17:11 In the day of your planting, you hedge it in. In the morning,
you make your seed blossom, but the harvest flees away in the day of
grief and of desperate sorrow.
Isa
17:12 Ah, the uproar of many peoples, who roar like the roaring of
the seas; and the rushing of nations, that rush like the rushing of
mighty waters!
Isa
17:13 The nations will rush like the rushing of many waters: but he
will rebuke them, and they will flee far off, and will be chased like
the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like the whirling
dust before the storm.
Isa
17:14 At evening, behold, terror! Before the morning, they are no
more. This is the portion of those who plunder us, and the lot of
those who rob us.
Isa
18:1 Ah, the land of the rustling of wings, which is beyond the
rivers of Ethiopia;
Isa
18:2 that sends ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of papyrus
on the waters, saying, "Go, you swift messengers, to a nation
tall and smooth, to a people awesome from their beginning onward, a
nation that measures out and treads down, whose land the rivers
divide!"
Isa
18:3 All you inhabitants of the world, and you dwellers on the
earth, when a banner is lifted up on the mountains, look! When the
trumpet is blown, listen!
Isa
18:4 For Yahweh said to me, "I will be still, and I will see in
my dwelling place, like clear heat in sunshine, like a cloud of dew
in the heat of harvest."
Isa
18:5 For before the harvest, when the blossom is over, and the
flower becomes a ripening grape, he will cut off the sprigs with
pruning hooks, and he will cut down and take away the spreading
branches.
Isa
18:6 They will be left together for the ravenous birds of the
mountains, and for the animals of the earth. The ravenous birds will
summer on them, and all the animals of the earth will winter on them.
Isa
18:7 In that time, a present will be brought to Yahweh of Armies
from a people tall and smooth, even from a people awesome from their
beginning onward, a nation that measures out and treads down, whose
land the rivers divide, to the place of the name of Yahweh of Armies,
Mount Zion.
Isa
19:1 The burden of Egypt: "Behold, Yahweh rides on a swift
cloud, and comes to Egypt. The idols of Egypt will tremble at his
presence; and the heart of Egypt will melt in its midst.
Isa
19:2 I will stir up the Egyptians against the Egyptians, and they
will fight everyone against his brother, and everyone against his
neighbor; city against city, and kingdom against kingdom.
Isa
19:3 The spirit of Egypt will fail in its midst. I will destroy its
counsel. They will seek the idols, the charmers, those who have
familiar spirits, and the wizards.
Isa
19:4 I will give over the Egyptians into the hand of a cruel lord. A
fierce king will rule over them," says the Lord, Yahweh of
Armies.
Isa
19:5 The waters will fail from the sea, and the river will be wasted
and become dry.
Isa
19:6 The rivers will become foul. The streams of Egypt will be
diminished and dried up. The reeds and flags will wither away.
Isa
19:7 The meadows by the Nile, by the brink of the Nile, and all the
sown fields of the Nile, will become dry, be driven away, and be no
more.
Isa
19:8 The fishermen will lament, and all those who fish in the Nile
will mourn, and those who spread nets on the waters will languish.
Isa
19:9 Moreover those who work in combed flax, and those who weave
white cloth, will be confounded.
Isa
19:10 The pillars will be broken in pieces. All those who work for
hire will be grieved in soul.
Isa
19:11 The princes of Zoan are utterly foolish. The counsel of the
wisest counselors of Pharaoh has become stupid. How do you say to
Pharaoh, "I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings?"
Isa
19:12 Where then are your wise men? Let them tell you now; and let
them know what Yahweh of Armies has purposed concerning Egypt.
Isa
19:13 The princes of Zoan have become fools. The princes of Memphis
are deceived. They have caused Egypt to go astray, who are the
cornerstone of her tribes.
Isa
19:14 Yahweh has mixed a spirit of perverseness in the midst of her;
and they have caused Egypt to go astray in all of its works, like a
drunken man staggers in his vomit.
Isa
19:15 Neither shall there be for Egypt any work, which head or tail,
palm branch or rush, may do.
Isa
19:16 In that day the Egyptians will be like women. They will
tremble and fear because of the shaking of the hand of Yahweh of
Armies, which he shakes over them.
Isa
19:17 The land of Judah will become a terror to Egypt. Everyone to
whom mention is made of it will be afraid, because of the plans of
Yahweh of Armies, which he determines against it.
Isa
19:18 In that day, there will be five cities in the land of Egypt
that speak the language of Canaan, and swear to Yahweh of Armies. One
will be called "The city of destruction."
Isa
19:19 In that day, there will be an altar to Yahweh in the midst of
the land of Egypt, and a pillar to Yahweh at its border.
Isa
19:20 It will be for a sign and for a witness to Yahweh of Armies in
the land of Egypt; for they will cry to Yahweh because of oppressors,
and he will send them a savior and a defender, and he will deliver
them.
Isa
19:21 Yahweh will be known to Egypt, and the Egyptians will know
Yahweh in that day. Yes, they will worship with sacrifice and
offering, and will vow a vow to Yahweh, and will perform it.
Isa
19:22 Yahweh will strike Egypt, striking and healing. They will
return to Yahweh, and he will be entreated by them, and will heal
them.
Isa
19:23 In that day there will be a highway out of Egypt to Assyria,
and the Assyrian shall come into Egypt, and the Egyptian into
Assyria; and the Egyptians will worship with the Assyrians.
Isa
19:24 In that day, Israel will be the third with Egypt and with
Assyria, a blessing in the midst of the earth;
Isa
19:25 because Yahweh of Armies has blessed them, saying, "Blessed
be Egypt my people, Assyria the work of my hands, and Israel my
inheritance."
Isa
20:1 In the year that Tartan came to Ashdod, when Sargon the king of
Assyria sent him, and he fought against Ashdod and took it;
Isa
20:2 at that time Yahweh spoke by Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying,
"Go, and loosen the sackcloth from off your waist, and take your
shoes from off your feet." He did so, walking naked and
barefoot.
Isa
20:3 Yahweh said, "As my servant Isaiah has walked naked and
barefoot three years for a sign and a wonder concerning Egypt and
concerning Ethiopia,
Isa
20:4 so the king of Assyria will lead away the captives of Egypt and
the exiles of Ethiopia, young and old, naked and barefoot, and with
buttocks uncovered, to the shame of Egypt.
Isa
20:5 They will be dismayed and confounded, because of Ethiopia their
expectation, and of Egypt their glory.
Isa
20:6 The inhabitants of this coast land will say in that day,
'Behold, this is our expectation, where we fled for help to be
delivered from the king of Assyria. And we, how will we escape?' "
Nov.
1
Isaiah
21-24
Isa
21:1 The burden of the wilderness of the sea. As whirlwinds in the
South sweep through, it comes from the wilderness, from an awesome
land.
Isa
21:2 A grievous vision is declared to me. The treacherous man deals
treacherously, and the destroyer destroys. Go up, Elam; attack! I
have stopped all of Media's sighing.
Isa
21:3 Therefore my thighs are filled with anguish. Pains have taken
hold on me, like the pains of a woman in labor. I am in so much pain
that I can't hear. I so am dismayed that I can't see.
Isa
21:4 My heart flutters. Horror has frightened me. The twilight that
I desired has been turned into trembling for me.
Isa
21:5 They prepare the table. They set the watch. They eat. They
drink. Rise up, you princes, oil the shield!
Isa
21:6 For the Lord said to me, "Go, set a watchman. Let him
declare what he sees.
Isa
21:7 When he sees a troop, horsemen in pairs, a troop of donkeys, a
troop of camels, he shall listen diligently with great
attentiveness."
Isa
21:8 He cried like a lion: "Lord, I stand continually on the
watchtower in the daytime, and every night I stay at my post.
Isa
21:9 Behold, here comes a troop of men, horsemen in pairs." He
answered, "Fallen, fallen is Babylon; and all the engraved
images of her gods are broken to the ground.
Isa
21:10 You are my threshing, and the grain of my floor!" That
which I have heard from Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, I have
declared to you.
Isa
21:11 The burden of Dumah. One calls to me out of Seir, "Watchman,
what of the night? Watchman, what of the night?"
Isa
21:12 The watchman said, "The morning comes, and also the
night. If you will inquire, inquire. Come back again."
Isa
21:13 The burden on Arabia. In the forest in Arabia you will lodge,
you caravans of Dedanites.
Isa
21:14 They brought water to him who was thirsty. The inhabitants of
the land of Tema met the fugitives with their bread.
Isa
21:15 For they fled away from the swords, from the drawn sword, from
the bent bow, and from the heat of battle.
Isa
21:16 For the Lord said to me, "Within a year, as a worker
bound by contract would count it, all the glory of Kedar will fail,
Isa
21:17 and the residue of the number of the archers, the mighty men
of the children of Kedar, will be few; for Yahweh, the God of Israel,
has spoken it."
Isa
22:1 The burden of the valley of vision. What ails you now, that you
have all gone up to the housetops?
Isa
22:2 You that are full of shouting, a tumultuous city, a joyous
town; your slain are not slain with the sword, neither are they dead
in battle.
Isa
22:3 All your rulers fled away together. They were bound by the
archers. All who were found by you were bound together. They fled far
away.
Isa
22:4 Therefore I said, "Look away from me. I will weep
bitterly. Don't labor to comfort me for the destruction of the
daughter of my people.
Isa
22:5 For it is a day of confusion, and of treading down, and of
perplexity, from the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, in the valley of vision;
a breaking down of the walls, and a crying to the mountains."
Isa
22:6 Elam carried his quiver, with chariots of men and horsemen; and
Kir uncovered the shield.
Isa
22:7 It happened that your choicest valleys were full of chariots,
and the horsemen set themselves in array at the gate.
Isa
22:8 He took away the covering of Judah; and you looked in that day
to the armor in the house of the forest.
Isa
22:9 You saw the breaches of the city of David, that they were many;
and you gathered together the waters of the lower pool.
Isa
22:10 You numbered the houses of Jerusalem, and you broke down the
houses to fortify the wall.
Isa
22:11 You also made a reservoir between the two walls for the water
of the old pool. But you didn't look to him who had done this,
neither did you have respect for him who purposed it long ago.
Isa
22:12 In that day, the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, called to weeping,
and to mourning, and to baldness, and to dressing in sackcloth:
Isa
22:13 and behold, joy and gladness, killing cattle and killing
sheep, eating flesh and drinking wine: "Let us eat and drink,
for tomorrow we will die."
Isa
22:14 Yahweh of Armies revealed himself in my ears, "Surely
this iniquity will not be forgiven you until you die," says the
Lord, Yahweh of Armies.
Isa
22:15 Thus says the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, "Go, get yourself
to this treasurer, even to Shebna, who is over the house, and say,
Isa
22:16 'What are you doing here? Who has you here, that you have dug
out a tomb here?' Cutting himself out a tomb on high, chiseling a
habitation for himself in the rock!"
Isa
22:17 Behold, Yahweh will overcome you and hurl you away violently.
Yes, he will grasp you firmly.
Isa
22:18 He will surely wind you around and around, and throw you like
a ball into a large country. There you will die, and there the
chariots of your glory will be, you shame of your lord's house.
Isa
22:19 I will thrust you from your office. You will be pulled down
from your station.
Isa
22:20 It will happen in that day that I will call my servant Eliakim
the son of Hilkiah,
Isa
22:21 and I will clothe him with your robe, and strengthen him with
your belt. I will commit your government into his hand; and he will
be a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to the house of
Judah.
Isa
22:22 I will lay the key of the house of David on his shoulder. He
will open, and no one will shut. He will shut, and no one will open.
Isa
22:23 I will fasten him like a nail in a sure place. He will be for
a throne of glory to his father's house.
Isa
22:24 They will hang on him all the glory of his father's house, the
offspring and the issue, every small vessel, from the cups even to
all the pitchers.
Isa
22:25 "In that day," says Yahweh of Armies, "the nail
that was fastened in a sure place will give way. It will be cut down,
and fall. The burden that was on it will be cut off, for Yahweh has
spoken it."
Isa
23:1 The burden of Tyre. Howl, you ships of Tarshish! For it is laid
waste, so that there is no house, no entering in. From the land of
Kittim it is revealed to them.
Isa
23:2 Be still, you inhabitants of the coast, you whom the merchants
of Sidon, that pass over the sea, have replenished.
Isa
23:3 On great waters, the seed of the Shihor, the harvest of the
Nile, was her revenue. She was the market of nations.
Isa
23:4 Be ashamed, Sidon; for the sea has spoken, the stronghold of
the sea, saying, "I have not travailed, nor brought forth,
neither have I nourished young men, nor brought up virgins."
Isa
23:5 When the report comes to Egypt, they will be in anguish at the
report of Tyre.
Isa
23:6 Pass over to Tarshish! Wail, you inhabitants of the coast!
Isa
23:7 Is this your joyous city, whose antiquity is of ancient days,
whose feet carried her far away to travel?
Isa
23:8 Who has planned this against Tyre, the giver of crowns, whose
merchants are princes, whose traffickers are the honorable of the
earth?
Isa
23:9 Yahweh of Armies has planned it, to stain the pride of all
glory, to bring into contempt all the honorable of the earth.
Isa
23:10 Pass through your land like the Nile, daughter of Tarshish.
There is no restraint any more.
Isa
23:11 He has stretched out his hand over the sea. He has shaken the
kingdoms. Yahweh has ordered the destruction of Canaan's strongholds.
Isa
23:12 He said, "You shall rejoice no more, you oppressed virgin
daughter of Sidon. Arise, pass over to Kittim. Even there you will
have no rest."
Isa
23:13 Behold, the land of the Chaldeans. This people was not. The
Assyrians founded it for those who dwell in the wilderness. They set
up their towers. They overthrew its palaces. They made it a ruin.
Isa
23:14 Howl, you ships of Tarshish, for your stronghold is laid
waste!
Isa
23:15 It will come to pass in that day that Tyre will be forgotten
seventy years, according to the days of one king. After the end of
seventy years it will be to Tyre like in the song of the prostitute.
Isa
23:16 Take a harp; go about the city, you prostitute that has been
forgotten. Make sweet melody. Sing many songs, that you may be
remembered.
Isa
23:17 It will happen after the end of seventy years that Yahweh will
visit Tyre, and she shall return to her wages, and will play the
prostitute with all the kingdoms of the world on the surface of the
earth.
Isa
23:18 Her merchandise and her wages will be holiness to Yahweh. It
will not be treasured nor laid up; for her merchandise will be for
those who dwell before Yahweh, to eat sufficiently, and for durable
clothing.
Isa
24:1 Behold, Yahweh makes the earth empty, makes it waste, turns it
upside down, and scatters its inhabitants.
Isa
24:2 It will be as with the people, so with the priest; as with the
servant, so with his master; as with the maid, so with her mistress;
as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the creditor, so with
the debtor; as with the taker of interest, so with the giver of
interest.
Isa
24:3 The earth will be utterly emptied and utterly laid waste; for
Yahweh has spoken this word.
Isa
24:4 The earth mourns and fades away. The world languishes and fades
away. The lofty people of the earth languish.
Isa
24:5 The earth also is polluted under its inhabitants, because they
have transgressed the laws, violated the statutes, and broken the
everlasting covenant.
Isa
24:6 Therefore the curse has devoured the earth, and those who dwell
therein are found guilty. Therefore the inhabitants of the earth are
burned, and few men left.
Isa
24:7 The new wine mourns. The vine languishes. All the merry-hearted
sigh.
Isa
24:8 The mirth of tambourines ceases. The sound of those who rejoice
ends. The joy of the harp ceases.
Isa
24:9 They will not drink wine with a song. Strong drink will be
bitter to those who drink it.
Isa
24:10 The confused city is broken down. Every house is shut up, that
no man may come in.
Isa
24:11 There is a crying in the streets because of the wine. All joy
is darkened. The mirth of the land is gone.
Isa
24:12 The city is left in desolation, and the gate is struck with
destruction.
Isa
24:13 For it will be so in the midst of the earth among the peoples,
as the shaking of an olive tree, as the gleanings when the vintage is
done.
Isa
24:14 These shall lift up their voice. They will shout for the
majesty of Yahweh. They cry aloud from the sea.
Isa
24:15 Therefore glorify Yahweh in the east, even the name of Yahweh,
the God of Israel, in the islands of the sea!
Isa
24:16 From the uttermost part of the earth have we heard songs.
Glory to the righteous! But I said, "I pine away! I pine away!
woe is me!" The treacherous have dealt treacherously. Yes, the
treacherous have dealt very treacherously.
Isa
24:17 Fear, the pit, and the snare, are on you who inhabitant the
earth.
Isa
24:18 It will happen that he who flees from the noise of the fear
will fall into the pit; and he who comes up out of the midst of the
pit will be taken in the snare; for the windows on high are opened,
and the foundations of the earth tremble.
Isa
24:19 The earth is utterly broken. The earth is torn apart. The
earth is shaken violently.
Isa
24:20 The earth will stagger like a drunken man, and will sway back
and forth like a hammock. Its disobedience will be heavy on it, and
it will fall and not rise again.
Isa
24:21 It shall happen in that day that Yahweh will punish the army
of the high ones on high, and the kings of the earth on the earth.
Isa
24:22 They shall be gathered together, as prisoners are gathered in
the pit, and shall be shut up in the prison; and after many days
shall they be visited.
Isa
24:23 Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed; for
Yahweh of Armies will reign on Mount Zion, and in Jerusalem; and
before his elders will be glory.
Oct. 30
2
Thessalonians 2
2Th 2:1
Now, brothers, concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and
our gathering together to him, we ask you
2Th 2:2
not to be quickly shaken in your mind, nor yet be troubled, either
by spirit, or by word, or by letter as from us, saying that the day
of Christ had come.
2Th 2:3
Let no one deceive you in any way. For it will not be, unless the
departure comes first, and the man of sin is revealed, the son of
destruction,
2Th 2:4
he who opposes and exalts himself against all that is called God or
that is worshiped; so that he sits as God in the temple of God,
setting himself up as God.
2Th 2:5
Don't you remember that, when I was still with you, I told you these
things?
2Th 2:6
Now you know what is restraining him, to the end that he may be
revealed in his own season.
2Th 2:7
For the mystery of lawlessness already works. Only there is one who
restrains now, until he is taken out of the way.
2Th 2:8
Then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord will kill with
the breath of his mouth, and destroy by the manifestation of his
coming;
2Th 2:9
even he whose coming is according to the working of Satan with all
power and signs and lying wonders,
2Th
2:10 and with all deception of wickedness for those who are being
lost, because they didn't receive the love of the truth, that they
might be saved.
2Th
2:11 Because of this, God sends them a working of error, that they
should believe a lie;
2Th
2:12 that they all might be judged who didn't believe the truth, but
had pleasure in unrighteousness.
2Th
2:13 But we are bound to always give thanks to God for you, brothers
loved by the Lord, because God chose you from the beginning for
salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief in the
truth;
2Th
2:14 to which he called you through our Good News, for the obtaining
of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.
2Th
2:15 So then, brothers, stand firm, and hold the traditions which
you were taught by us, whether by word, or by letter.
2Th
2:16 Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God our Father, who
loved us and gave us eternal comfort and good hope through grace,
2Th
2:17 comfort your hearts and establish you in every good work and
word.
Oct. 31
2
Thessalonians 3
2Th 3:1
Finally, brothers, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may spread
rapidly and be glorified, even as also with you;
2Th 3:2
and that we may be delivered from unreasonable and evil men; for not
all have faith.
2Th 3:3
But the Lord is faithful, who will establish you, and guard you from
the evil one.
2Th 3:4
We have confidence in the Lord concerning you, that you both do and
will do the things we command.
2Th 3:5
May the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God, and into the
patience of Christ.
2Th 3:6
Now we command you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ,
that you withdraw yourselves from every brother who walks in
rebellion, and not after the tradition which they received from us.
2Th 3:7
For you know how you ought to imitate us. For we didn't behave
ourselves rebelliously among you,
2Th 3:8
neither did we eat bread from anyone's hand without paying for it,
but in labor and travail worked night and day, that we might not
burden any of you;
2Th 3:9
not because we don't have the right, but to make ourselves an
example to you, that you should imitate us.
2Th
3:10 For even when we were with you, we commanded you this: "If
anyone will not work, neither let him eat."
2Th
3:11 For we hear of some who walk among you in rebellion, who don't
work at all, but are busybodies.
2Th
3:12 Now those who are that way, we command and exhort in the Lord
Jesus Christ, that with quietness they work, and eat their own bread.
2Th
3:13 But you, brothers, don't be weary in doing well.
2Th
3:14 If any man doesn't obey our word in this letter, note that man,
that you have no company with him, to the end that he may be ashamed.
2Th
3:15 Don't count him as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother.
2Th
3:16 Now may the Lord of peace himself give you peace at all times
in all ways. The Lord be with you all.
2Th
3:17 The greeting of me, Paul, with my own hand, which is the sign
in every letter: this is how I write.
2Th
3:18 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.
Nov. 1
1
Timothy 1
1Ti 1:1
Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus according to the commandment of God
our Savior, and Christ Jesus our hope;
1Ti 1:2
to Timothy, my true child in faith: Grace, mercy, and peace, from
God our Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.
1Ti 1:3
As I urged you when I was going into Macedonia, stay at Ephesus that
you might command certain men not to teach a different doctrine,
1Ti 1:4
neither to pay attention to myths and endless genealogies, which
cause disputes, rather than God's stewardship, which is in faith--
1Ti 1:5
but the goal of this command is love, out of a pure heart and a good
conscience and unfeigned faith;
1Ti 1:6
from which things some, having missed the mark, have turned aside to
vain talking;
1Ti 1:7
desiring to be teachers of the law, though they understand neither
what they say, nor about what they strongly affirm.
1Ti 1:8
But we know that the law is good, if a man uses it lawfully,
1Ti 1:9
as knowing this, that law is not made for a righteous man, but for
the lawless and insubordinate, for the ungodly and sinners, for the
unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of
mothers, for manslayers,
1Ti
1:10 for the sexually immoral, for homosexuals, for slave-traders,
for liars, for perjurers, and for any other thing contrary to the
sound doctrine;
1Ti
1:11 according to the Good News of the glory of the blessed God,
which was committed to my trust.
1Ti
1:12 And I thank him who enabled me, Christ Jesus our Lord, because
he counted me faithful, appointing me to service;
1Ti
1:13 although I was before a blasphemer, a persecutor, and insolent.
However, I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief.
1Ti
1:14 The grace of our Lord abounded exceedingly with faith and love
which is in Christ Jesus.
1Ti
1:15 The saying is faithful and worthy of all acceptance, that
Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am chief.
1Ti
1:16 However, for this cause I obtained mercy, that in me first,
Jesus Christ might display all his patience, for an example of those
who were going to believe in him for eternal life.
1Ti
1:17 Now to the King eternal, immortal, invisible, to God who alone
is wise, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen.
1Ti
1:18 This instruction I commit to you, my child Timothy, according
to the prophecies which led the way to you, that by them you may wage
the good warfare;
1Ti
1:19 holding faith and a good conscience; which some having thrust
away made a shipwreck concerning the faith;
1Ti
1:20 of whom is Hymenaeus and Alexander; whom I delivered to Satan,
that they might be taught not to blaspheme.
