Bible Reading for November 9 and 10
World English Bible
Nov.
9
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."
Nov.
10
Isaiah
57-60
Isa
57:1 The righteous perishes, and no man lays it to heart; and
merciful men are taken away, none considering that the righteous is
taken away from the evil to come.
Isa
57:2 He enters into peace; they rest in their beds, each one who
walks in his uprightness.
Isa
57:3 "But draw near here, you sons of the sorceress, the seed
of the adulterer and the prostitute.
Isa
57:4 Against whom do you sport yourselves? against whom make you a
wide mouth, and put out the tongue? Aren't you children of
disobedience, a seed of falsehood,
Isa
57:5 you who inflame yourselves among the oaks, under every green
tree; who kill the children in the valleys, under the clefts of the
rocks?
Isa
57:6 Among the smooth stones
of the valley is your portion; they, they are your lot; even to them
have you poured a drink offering, you have offered an offering. Shall
I be appeased for these things?
Isa
57:7 On a high and lofty mountain have you set your bed; there also
you went up to offer sacrifice.
Isa
57:8 Behind the doors and the posts have you set up your memorial:
for you have uncovered yourself
to another than me, and have gone up; you have enlarged your bed, and
made you a covenant with them: you loved their bed where you saw it.
Isa
57:9 You went to the king with oil, and did increase your perfumes,
and did send your ambassadors far off, and did debase yourself even
to Sheol.
Isa
57:10 You were wearied with the length of your way; yet you didn't
say, It is in vain: you found a reviving of your strength; therefore
you weren't faint.
Isa
57:11 "Of whom have you been afraid and in fear, that you lie,
and have not remembered me, nor laid it to your heart? Haven't I held
my peace even of long time, and you don't fear me?
Isa
57:12 I will declare your righteousness; and as for your works, they
shall not profit you.
Isa
57:13 When you cry, let those who you have gathered deliver you; but
the wind shall take them, a breath shall carry them all away: but he
who takes refuge in me shall possess the land, and shall inherit my
holy mountain."
Isa
57:14 He will say, "Cast up, cast up, prepare the way, take up
the stumbling-block out of the way of my people."
Isa
57:15 For thus says the high and lofty One who inhabits eternity,
whose name is Holy: "I dwell in the high and holy place, with
him also who is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit
of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite.
Isa
57:16 For I will not contend forever, neither will I be always
angry; for the spirit would faint before me, and the souls who I have
made.
Isa
57:17 For the iniquity of his covetousness was I angry, and struck
him; I hid my face
and was angry; and he went on backsliding in the way of his heart.
Isa
57:18 I have seen his ways, and will heal him: I will lead him also,
and restore comforts to him and to his mourners.
Isa
57:19 I create the fruit of the lips: Peace, peace, to him who is
far off and to him who is near," says Yahweh; "and I will
heal them."
Isa
57:20 But the wicked are like the troubled sea; for it can't rest,
and its waters cast up mire and dirt.
Isa
57:21 "There is no peace," says my God, "for the
wicked."
Isa
58:1 "Cry aloud, don't spare, lift up your voice like a
trumpet, and declare to my people their disobedience, and to the
house of Jacob their sins.
Isa
58:2 Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways: as a
nation that did righteousness, and didn't forsake the ordinance of
their God, they ask of me righteous judgments; they delight to draw
near to God.
Isa
58:3 'Why have we fasted,' say they,
'and you don't see? why
have we afflicted our soul, and you take no knowledge?' "Behold,
in the day of your fast you find your
own pleasure, and exact all your labors.
Isa
58:4 Behold, you fast for strife and contention, and to strike with
the fist of wickedness: you don't fast this day so as to make your
voice to be heard on high.
Isa
58:5 Is such the fast that I have chosen? the day for a man to
afflict his soul? Is it to bow down his head as a rush, and to spread
sackcloth and ashes under him? will you call this a fast, and an
acceptable day to Yahweh?
Isa
58:6 "Isn't this the fast that I have chosen: to loose the
bonds of wickedness, to undo the bands of the yoke, and to let the
oppressed go free, and that you break every yoke?
Isa
58:7 Isn't it to deal your bread to the hungry, and that you bring
the poor who are cast out to your house? when you see the naked, that
you cover him; and that you not hide yourself from your own flesh?
Isa
58:8 Then your light shall break forth as the morning, and your
healing shall spring forth speedily; and your righteousness shall go
before you; the glory of Yahweh shall be your rear guard.
Isa
58:9 Then you shall call, and Yahweh will answer; you shall cry, and
he will say, 'Here I am.' "If you take away from the midst of
you the yoke, the putting forth of the finger, and speaking wickedly;
Isa
58:10 and if you draw out your soul to the hungry, and satisfy the
afflicted soul: then your light shall rise in darkness, and your
obscurity be as the noonday;
Isa
58:11 and Yahweh will guide you continually, and satisfy your soul
in dry places, and make strong your bones; and you shall be like a
watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters don't fail.
Isa
58:12 Those who shall be of you shall build the old waste places;
you shall raise up the foundations of many generations; and you shall
be called The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell
in.
Isa
58:13 "If you turn away your foot from the Sabbath, from doing
your pleasure on my holy day; and call the Sabbath a delight, and
the holy of Yahweh honorable; and shall honor it, not doing your own
ways, nor finding your own pleasure, nor speaking your
own words:
Isa
58:14 then you shall delight yourself in Yahweh; and I will make you
to ride on the high places of the earth; and I will feed you with the
heritage of Jacob your father:" for the mouth of Yahweh has
spoken it.
Isa
59:1 Behold, Yahweh's hand is not shortened, that it can't save;
neither his ear heavy, that it can't hear:
Isa
59:2 but your iniquities have separated between you and your God,
and your sins have hidden his face from you, so that he will not
hear.
Isa
59:3 For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with
iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue mutters wickedness.
Isa
59:4 None sues in righteousness, and none pleads in truth: they
trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring
forth iniquity.
Isa
59:5 They hatch adders' eggs, and weave the spider's web: he who
eats of their eggs dies; and that which is crushed breaks out into a
viper.
Isa
59:6 Their webs shall not become garments, neither shall they cover
themselves with their works: their works are works of iniquity, and
the act of violence is in their hands.
Isa
59:7 Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent
blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; desolation and
destruction are in their paths.
Isa
59:8 The way of peace they don't know; and there is no justice in
their goings: they have made them crooked paths; whoever goes therein
does not know peace.
Isa
59:9 Therefore is justice far from us, neither does righteousness
overtake us: we look for light, but, behold, darkness; for
brightness, but we walk in obscurity.
Isa
59:10 We grope for the wall like the blind; yes, we grope as those
who have no eyes: we stumble at noonday as in the twilight; among
those who are lusty we are as dead men.
Isa
59:11 We roar all like bears, and moan sore like doves: we look for
justice, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far off from us.
Isa
59:12 For our transgressions are multiplied before you, and our sins
testify against us; for our transgressions are with us, and as for
our iniquities, we know them:
Isa
59:13 transgressing and denying Yahweh, and turning away from
following our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and
uttering from the heart words of falsehood.
Isa
59:14 Justice is turned away backward, and righteousness stands afar
off; for truth is fallen in the street, and uprightness can't enter.
Isa
59:15 Yes, truth is lacking; and he who departs from evil makes
himself a prey. Yahweh saw it, and it displeased him that there was
no justice.
Isa
59:16 He saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was no
intercessor: therefore his own arm brought salvation to him; and his
righteousness, it upheld him.
Isa
59:17 He put on righteousness as a breastplate, and a helmet of
salvation on his head; and he put on garments of vengeance for
clothing, and was clad with zeal as a mantle.
Isa
59:18 According to their deeds, accordingly he will repay, wrath to
his adversaries, recompense to his enemies; to the islands he will
repay recompense.
Isa
59:19 So shall they fear the name of Yahweh from the west, and his
glory from the rising of the sun; for he will come as a rushing
stream, which the breath of Yahweh drives.
Isa
59:20 "A Redeemer will come to Zion, and to those who turn from
disobedience in Jacob," says Yahweh.
Isa
59:21 "As for me, this is my covenant with them," says
Yahweh: "my Spirit who is on you, and my words which I have put
in your mouth, shall not depart out of your mouth, nor out of the
mouth of your seed, nor out of the mouth of your seed's seed,"
says Yahweh, "from henceforth and forever."
Isa
60:1 "Arise, shine; for your light is come, and the glory of
Yahweh is risen on you.
Isa
60:2 For, behold, darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness
the peoples; but Yahweh will arise on you, and his glory shall be
seen on you.
Isa
60:3 Nations shall come to your light, and kings to the brightness
of your rising.
Isa
60:4 "Lift up your eyes all around, and see: they all gather
themselves together, they come to you; your sons shall come from far,
and your daughters shall be carried in the arms.
Isa
60:5 Then you shall see and be radiant, and your heart shall thrill
and be enlarged; because the abundance of the sea shall be turned to
you, the wealth of the nations shall come to you.
Isa
60:6 The multitude of camels shall cover you, the dromedaries of
Midian and Ephah; all they from Sheba shall come; they shall bring
gold and frankincense, and shall proclaim the praises of Yahweh.
Isa
60:7 All the flocks of Kedar shall be gathered together to you, the
rams of Nebaioth shall minister to you; they shall come up with
acceptance on my altar; and I will glorify the house of my glory.
Isa
60:8 "Who are these who fly as a cloud, and as the doves to
their windows?
Isa
60:9 Surely the islands shall wait for me, and the ships of Tarshish
first, to bring your sons from far, their silver and their gold with
them, for the name of Yahweh your God, and for the Holy One of
Israel, because he has glorified you.
Isa
60:10 "Foreigners shall build up your walls, and their kings
shall minister to you: for in my wrath I struck you, but in my favor
have I had mercy on you.
Isa
60:11 Your gates also shall be open continually; they shall not be
shut day nor night; that men may bring to you the wealth of the
nations, and their kings led captive.
Isa
60:12 For that nation and kingdom that will not serve you shall
perish; yes, those nations shall be utterly wasted.
Isa
60:13 "The glory of Lebanon shall come to you, the fir tree,
the pine, and the box tree together, to beautify the place of my
sanctuary; and I will make the place of my feet glorious.
Isa
60:14 The sons of those who afflicted you shall come bending to you;
and all those who despised you shall bow themselves down at the soles
of your feet; and they shall call you The city of Yahweh, The Zion of
the Holy One of Israel.
Isa
60:15 "Whereas you have been forsaken and hated, so that no man
passed through you, I will make you an eternal excellency, a joy of
many generations.
Isa
60:16 You shall also suck the milk of the nations, and shall suck
the breast of kings; and you shall know that I, Yahweh, am your
Savior, and your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.
Isa
60:17 For brass I will bring gold, and for iron I will bring silver,
and for wood brass, and for stones iron. I will also make your
officers peace, and righteousness your ruler.
Isa
60:18 Violence shall no more be heard in your land, desolation nor
destruction within your borders; but you shall call your walls
Salvation, and your gates Praise.
Isa
60:19 The sun shall be no more your light by day; neither for
brightness shall the moon give light to you: but Yahweh will be to
you an everlasting light, and your God your glory.
Isa
60:20 Your sun shall no more go down, neither shall your moon
withdraw itself; for Yahweh will be your everlasting light, and the
days of your mourning shall be ended.
Isa
60:21 Your people also shall be all righteous; they shall inherit
the land forever, the branch of my planting, the work of my hands,
that I may be glorified.
Isa
60:22 The little one shall become a thousand, and the small one a
strong nation; I, Yahweh, will hasten it in its time."
Nov. 9
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.
Nov. 10
2
Timothy 4
2Ti 4:1
I command you therefore before God and the Lord Jesus Christ, who
will judge the living and the dead at his appearing and his Kingdom:
2Ti 4:2
preach the word; be urgent in season and out of season; reprove,
rebuke, and exhort, with all patience and teaching.
2Ti 4:3
For the time will come when they will not listen to the sound
doctrine, but, having itching ears, will heap up for themselves
teachers after their own lusts;
2Ti 4:4
and will turn away their ears from the truth, and turn aside to
fables.
2Ti 4:5
But you be sober in all things, suffer hardship, do the work of an
evangelist, and fulfill your ministry.
2Ti 4:6
For I am already being offered, and the time of my departure has
come.
2Ti 4:7
I have fought the good fight. I have finished the course. I have
kept the faith.
2Ti 4:8
From now on, there is stored up for me the crown of righteousness,
which the Lord, the righteous judge, will give to me on that day; and
not to me only, but also to all those who have loved his appearing.
2Ti 4:9
Be diligent to come to me soon,
2Ti
4:10 for Demas left me, having loved this present world, and went to
Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia, and Titus to Dalmatia.
2Ti
4:11 Only Luke is with me. Take Mark, and bring him with you, for he
is useful to me for service.
2Ti
4:12 But I sent Tychicus to Ephesus.
2Ti
4:13 Bring the cloak that I left at Troas with Carpus when you come,
and the books, especially the parchments.
2Ti
4:14 Alexander, the coppersmith, did much evil to me. The Lord will
repay him according to his works,
2Ti
4:15 of whom you also must beware; for he greatly opposed our words.
2Ti
4:16 At my first defense, no one came to help me, but all left me.
May it not be held against them.
2Ti
4:17 But the Lord stood by me, and strengthened me, that through me
the message might be fully proclaimed, and that all the Gentiles
might hear; and I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion.
2Ti
4:18 And the Lord will deliver me from every evil work, and will
preserve me for his heavenly Kingdom; to whom be the glory forever
and ever. Amen.
2Ti
4:19 Greet Prisca and Aquila, and the house of Onesiphorus.
2Ti
4:20 Erastus remained at Corinth, but I left Trophimus at Miletus
sick.
2Ti
4:21 Be diligent to come before winter. Eubulus salutes you, as do
Pudens, Linus, Claudia, and all the brothers.
2Ti
4:22 The Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. Grace be with you.
Amen.
