Bible Reading for November 23 and 24
World English Bible
Nov.
23
Jeremiah
42-45
Jer
42:1 Then all the captains of the forces, and Johanan the son of
Kareah, and Jezaniah the son of Hoshaiah, and all the people from the
least even to the greatest, came near,
Jer
42:2 and said to Jeremiah the prophet, Let, we pray you, our
supplication be presented before you, and pray for us to Yahweh your
God, even for all this remnant; for we are left but a few of many, as
your eyes do see us:
Jer
42:3 that Yahweh your God may show us the way in which we should
walk, and the thing that we should do.
Jer
42:4 Then Jeremiah the prophet said to them, I have heard you;
behold, I will pray to Yahweh your God according to your words; and
it shall happen that whatever thing Yahweh shall answer you, I will
declare it to you; I will keep nothing back from you.
Jer
42:5 Then they said to Jeremiah, Yahweh be a true and faithful
witness among us, if we don't do according to all the word with which
Yahweh your God shall send you to us.
Jer
42:6 Whether it be good, or whether it be evil, we will obey the
voice of Yahweh our God, to whom we send you; that it may be well
with us, when we obey the voice of Yahweh our God.
Jer
42:7 It happened after ten days, that the word of Yahweh came to
Jeremiah.
Jer
42:8 Then called he Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains
of the forces who were with him, and all the people from the least
even to the greatest,
Jer
42:9 and said to them, Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, to whom
you sent me to present your supplication before him:
Jer
42:10 If you will still abide in this land, then will I build you,
and not pull you down, and I will plant you, and not pluck you up;
for I grieve over the distress that I have brought on you.
Jer
42:11 Don't be afraid of the king of Babylon, of whom you are
afraid; don't be afraid of him, says Yahweh: for I am with you to
save you, and to deliver you from his hand.
Jer
42:12 I will grant you mercy, that he may have mercy on you, and
cause you to return to your own land.
Jer
42:13 But if you say, We will not dwell in this land; so that you
don't obey the voice of Yahweh your God,
Jer
42:14 saying, No; but we will go into the land of Egypt, where we
shall see no war, nor hear the sound of the trumpet, nor have hunger
of bread; and there will we dwell:
Jer
42:15 now therefore hear you the word of Yahweh, O remnant of Judah:
Thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, If you indeed set your
faces to enter into Egypt, and go to sojourn there;
Jer
42:16 then it shall happen, that the sword, which you fear, shall
overtake you there in the land of Egypt; and the famine, about which
you are afraid, shall follow hard after you there in Egypt; and there
you shall die.
Jer
42:17 So shall it be with all the men who set their faces to go into
Egypt to sojourn there: they shall die by the sword, by the famine,
and by the pestilence; and none of them shall remain or escape from
the evil that I will bring on them.
Jer
42:18 For thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel: As my anger
and my wrath has been poured forth on the inhabitants of Jerusalem,
so shall my wrath be poured forth on you, when you shall enter into
Egypt; and you shall be an object of horror, and an astonishment, and
a curse, and a reproach; and you shall see this place no more.
Jer
42:19 Yahweh has spoken concerning you, remnant of Judah, Don't you
go into Egypt: know certainly that I have testified to you this day.
Jer
42:20 For you have dealt deceitfully against your own souls; for you
sent me to Yahweh your God, saying, Pray for us to Yahweh our God;
and according to all that Yahweh our God shall say, so declare to us,
and we will do it:
Jer
42:21 and I have this day declared it to you; but you have not
obeyed the voice of Yahweh your God in anything for which he has sent
me to you.
Jer
42:22 Now therefore know certainly that you shall die by the sword,
by the famine, and by the pestilence, in the place where you desire
to go to sojourn there.
Jer
43:1 It happened that, when Jeremiah had made an end of speaking to
all the people all the words of Yahweh their God, with which Yahweh
their God had sent him to them, even all these words,
Jer
43:2 then spoke Azariah the son of Hoshaiah, and Johanan the son of
Kareah, and all the proud men, saying to Jeremiah, You speak falsely:
Yahweh our God has not sent you to say, You shall not go into Egypt
to sojourn there;
Jer
43:3 but Baruch the son of Neriah sets you on against us, to deliver
us into the hand of the Chaldeans, that they may put us to death, and
carry us away captive to Babylon.
Jer
43:4 So Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the
forces, and all the people, didn't obey the voice of Yahweh, to dwell
in the land of Judah.
Jer
43:5 But Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the
forces, took all the remnant of Judah, who were returned from all the
nations where they had been driven, to sojourn in the land of Judah;
Jer
43:6 the men, and the women, and the children, and the king's
daughters, and every person who Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard
had left with Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan; and
Jeremiah the prophet, and Baruch the son of Neriah;
Jer
43:7 and they came into the land of Egypt; for they didn't obey the
voice of Yahweh: and they came to Tahpanhes.
Jer
43:8 Then came the word of Yahweh to Jeremiah in Tahpanhes, saying,
Jer
43:9 Take great stones in your hand, and hide them in mortar in the
brick work, which is at the entry of Pharaoh's house in Tahpanhes, in
the sight of the men of Judah;
Jer
43:10 and tell them, Thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel:
Behold, I will send and take Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my
servant, and will set his throne on these stones that I have hidden;
and he shall spread his royal pavilion over them.
Jer
43:11 He shall come, and shall strike the land of Egypt; such as are
for death shall be given
to death, and such as are for captivity to captivity, and such as are
for the sword to the sword.
Jer
43:12 I will kindle a fire in the houses of the gods of Egypt; and
he shall burn them, and carry them away captive: and he shall array
himself with the land of Egypt, as a shepherd puts on his garment;
and he shall go forth from there in peace.
Jer
43:13 He shall also break the pillars of Beth Shemesh, that is in
the land of Egypt; and the houses of the gods of Egypt shall he burn
with fire.
Jer
44:1 The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the Jews who
lived in the land of Egypt, who lived at Migdol, and at Tahpanhes,
and at Memphis, and in the country of Pathros, saying,
Jer
44:2 Thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel: You have seen
all the evil that I have brought on Jerusalem, and on all the cities
of Judah; and behold, this day they are a desolation, and no man
dwells therein,
Jer
44:3 because of their wickedness which they have committed to
provoke me to anger, in that they went to burn incense, and
to serve other gods, that they didn't know, neither they, nor you,
nor your fathers.
Jer
44:4 However I sent to you all my servants the prophets, rising up
early and sending them, saying, Oh, don't do this abominable thing
that I hate.
Jer
44:5 But they didn't listen, nor inclined their ear to turn from
their wickedness, to burn no incense to other gods.
Jer
44:6 Therefore my wrath and my anger was poured forth, and was
kindled in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem; and
they are wasted and desolate, as it is this day.
Jer
44:7 Therefore now thus says Yahweh, the God of Armies, the God of
Israel: Why commit you this
great evil against your own souls, to cut off from you man and woman,
infant and suckling, out of the midst of Judah, to leave you none
remaining;
Jer
44:8 in that you provoke me to anger with the works of your hands,
burning incense to other gods in the land of Egypt, where you are
gone to sojourn; that you may be cut off, and that you may be a curse
and a reproach among all the nations of the earth?
Jer
44:9 Have you forgotten the wickedness of your fathers, and the
wickedness of the kings of Judah, and the wickedness of their wives,
and your own wickedness, and the wickedness of your wives which they
committed in the land of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem?
Jer
44:10 They are not humbled even to this day, neither have they
feared, nor walked in my law, nor in my statutes, that I set before
you and before your fathers.
Jer
44:11 Therefore thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel:
Behold, I will set my face against you for evil, even to cut off all
Judah.
Jer
44:12 I will take the remnant of Judah, that have set their faces to
go into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, and they shall all be
consumed; in the land of Egypt shall they fall; they shall be
consumed by the sword and by the famine; they shall die, from the
least even to the greatest, by the sword and by the famine; and they
shall be an object of horror, and
an astonishment, and a curse, and a reproach.
Jer
44:13 For I will punish those who dwell in the land of Egypt, as I
have punished Jerusalem, by the sword, by the famine, and by the
pestilence;
Jer
44:14 so that none of the remnant of Judah, who have gone into the
land of Egypt to sojourn there, shall escape or be left, to return
into the land of Judah, to which they have a desire to return to
dwell there: for none shall return save such as shall escape.
Jer
44:15 Then all the men who knew that their wives burned incense to
other gods, and all the women who stood by, a great assembly, even
all the people who lived in the land of Egypt, in Pathros, answered
Jeremiah, saying,
Jer
44:16 As for the word that you have spoken to us in the name of
Yahweh, we will not listen to you.
Jer
44:17 But we will certainly perform every word that is gone forth
out of our mouth, to burn incense to the queen of the sky, and to
pour out drink offerings to her, as we have done, we and our fathers,
our kings and our princes, in the cities of Judah, and in the streets
of Jerusalem; for then had we plenty of food, and were well, and saw
no evil.
Jer
44:18 But since we left off burning incense to the queen of the sky,
and pouring out drink offerings to her, we have wanted all things,
and have been consumed by the sword and by the famine.
Jer
44:19 When we burned incense to the queen of the sky, and poured out
drink offerings to her, did we make her cakes to worship her, and
pour out drink offerings to her, without our husbands?
Jer
44:20 Then Jeremiah said to all the people, to the men, and to the
women, even to all the people who had given him an answer, saying,
Jer
44:21 The incense that you burned in the cities of Judah, and in the
streets of Jerusalem, you and your fathers, your kings and your
princes, and the people of the land, didn't Yahweh remember them, and
didn't it come into his mind?
Jer
44:22 so that Yahweh could no longer bear, because of the evil of
your doings, and because of the abominations which you have
committed; therefore is your land become a desolation, and an
astonishment, and a curse, without inhabitant, as it is this day.
Jer
44:23 Because you have burned incense, and because you have sinned
against Yahweh, and have not obeyed the voice of Yahweh, nor walked
in his law, nor in his statutes, nor in his testimonies; therefore
this evil is happened to you, as it is this day.
Jer
44:24 Moreover Jeremiah said to all the people, and to all the
women, Hear the word of Yahweh, all Judah who are in the land of
Egypt:
Jer
44:25 Thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, saying, You and
your wives have both spoken with your mouths, and with your hands
have fulfilled it, saying, We will surely perform our vows that we
have vowed, to burn incense to the queen of the sky, and to pour out
drink offerings to her: establish then your vows, and perform your
vows.
Jer
44:26 Therefore hear the word of Yahweh, all Judah who dwell in the
land of Egypt: Behold, I have sworn by my great name, says Yahweh,
that my name shall no more be named in the mouth of any man of Judah
in all the land of Egypt, saying, As the Lord Yahweh lives.
Jer
44:27 Behold, I watch over them for evil, and not for good; and all
the men of Judah who are in the land of Egypt shall be consumed by
the sword and by the famine, until there be an end of them.
Jer
44:28 Those who escape the sword shall return out of the land of
Egypt into the land of Judah, few in number; and all the remnant of
Judah, who have gone into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, shall
know whose word shall stand, mine, or theirs.
Jer
44:29 This shall be the sign to you, says Yahweh, that I will punish
you in this place, that you may know that my words shall surely stand
against you for evil:
Jer
44:30 Thus says Yahweh, Behold, I will give Pharaoh Hophra king of
Egypt into the hand of his enemies, and into the hand of those who
seek his life; as I gave Zedekiah king of Judah into the hand of
Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, who was his enemy, and sought his
life.
Jer
45:1 The message that Jeremiah the prophet spoke to Baruch the son
of Neriah, when he wrote these words in a book at the mouth of
Jeremiah, in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of
Judah, saying,
Jer
45:2 Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, to you, Baruch:
Jer
45:3 You did say, Woe is me now! for Yahweh has added sorrow to my
pain; I am weary with my groaning, and I find no rest.
Jer
45:4 You shall tell him, Thus says Yahweh: Behold, that which I have
built will I break down, and that which I have planted I will pluck
up; and this in the whole land.
Jer
45:5 Seek you great things for yourself? Don't seek them; for,
behold, I will bring evil on all flesh, says Yahweh; but your life
will I give to you for a prey in all places where you go.
Nov.
24
Jeremiah
46-49
Jer
46:1 The word of Yahweh which came to Jeremiah the prophet
concerning the nations.
Jer
46:2 Of Egypt: concerning the army of Pharaoh Necoh king of Egypt,
which was by the river Euphrates in Carchemish, which Nebuchadnezzar
king of Babylon struck in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of
Josiah, king of Judah.
Jer
46:3 Prepare you the buckler and shield, and draw near to battle.
Jer
46:4 Harness the horses, and get up, you horsemen, and stand forth
with your helmets; furbish the spears, put on the coats of mail.
Jer
46:5 Why have I seen it? they are dismayed and are turned backward;
and their mighty ones are beaten down, and have fled apace, and don't
look back: terror is on every side, says Yahweh.
Jer
46:6 Don't let the swift flee away, nor the mighty man escape; in
the north by the river Euphrates have they stumbled and fallen.
Jer
46:7 Who is this who rises up like the Nile, whose waters toss
themselves like the rivers?
Jer
46:8 Egypt rises up like the Nile, and his waters toss themselves
like the rivers: and he says, I will rise up, I will cover the earth;
I will destroy cities and its inhabitants.
Jer
46:9 Go up, you horses; and rage, you chariots; and let the mighty
men go forth: Cush and Put, who handle the shield; and the Ludim, who
handle and bend the bow.
Jer
46:10 For that day is a day
of the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, a day of vengeance, that he may avenge
him of his adversaries: and the sword shall devour and be satiate,
and shall drink its fill of their blood; for the Lord, Yahweh of
Armies, has a sacrifice in the north country by the river Euphrates.
Jer
46:11 Go up into Gilead, and take balm, virgin daughter of Egypt: in
vain do you use many medicines; there is no healing for you.
Jer
46:12 The nations have heard of your shame, and the earth is full of
your cry; for the mighty man has stumbled against the mighty, they
are fallen both of them together.
Jer
46:13 The word that Yahweh spoke to Jeremiah the prophet, how that
Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon should come and strike the land of
Egypt.
Jer
46:14 Declare you in Egypt, and publish in Migdol, and publish in
Memphis and in Tahpanhes: say you, Stand forth, and prepare you; for
the sword has devoured around you.
Jer
46:15 Why are your strong ones swept away? they didn't stand,
because Yahweh did drive them.
Jer
46:16 He made many to stumble, yes, they fell one on another: and
they said, Arise, and let us go again to our own people, and to the
land of our birth, from the oppressing sword.
Jer
46:17 They cried there, Pharaoh king of Egypt is but a noise; he has
let the appointed time pass by.
Jer
46:18 As I live, says the King, whose name is Yahweh of Armies,
surely like Tabor among the mountains, and like Carmel by the sea, so
shall he come.
Jer
46:19 You daughter who dwell in Egypt, furnish yourself to go into
captivity; for Memphis shall become a desolation, and shall be burnt
up, without inhabitant.
Jer
46:20 Egypt is a very beautiful heifer; but
destruction out of the north is come, it is come.
Jer
46:21 Also her hired men in the midst of her are like calves of the
stall; for they also are turned back, they are fled away together,
they didn't stand: for the day of their calamity is come on them, the
time of their visitation.
Jer
46:22 The sound of it shall go like the serpent; for they shall
march with an army, and come against her with axes, as wood cutters.
Jer
46:23 They shall cut down her forest, says Yahweh, though it can't
be searched; because they are more than the locusts, and are
innumerable.
Jer
46:24 The daughter of Egypt shall be disappointed; she shall be
delivered into the hand of the people of the north.
Jer
46:25 Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, says: Behold, I will
punish Amon of No, and Pharaoh, and Egypt, with her gods, and her
kings; even Pharaoh, and those who trust in him:
Jer
46:26 and I will deliver them into the hand of those who seek their
lives, and into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and into
the hand of his servants; and afterwards it shall be inhabited, as in
the days of old, says Yahweh.
Jer
46:27 But don't be afraid you, Jacob my servant, neither be
dismayed, Israel: for, behold, I will save you from afar, and your
seed from the land of their captivity; and Jacob shall return, and
shall be quiet and at ease, and none shall make him afraid.
Jer
46:28 Don't be afraid you, O Jacob my servant, says Yahweh; for I am
with you: for I will make a full end of all the nations where I have
driven you; but I will not make a full end of you, but I will correct
you in measure, and will in no way leave you unpunished.
Jer
47:1 The word of Yahweh that came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning
the Philistines, before that Pharaoh struck Gaza.
Jer
47:2 Thus says Yahweh: Behold, waters rise up out of the north, and
shall become an overflowing stream, and shall overflow the land and
all that is therein, the city and those who dwell therein; and the
men shall cry, and all the inhabitants of the land shall wail.
Jer
47:3 At the noise of the stamping of the hoofs of his strong ones,
at the rushing of his chariots, at the rumbling of his wheels, the
fathers don't look back to their children for feebleness of hands;
Jer
47:4 because of the day that comes to destroy all the Philistines,
to cut off from Tyre and Sidon every helper who remains: for Yahweh
will destroy the Philistines, the remnant of the isle of Caphtor.
Jer
47:5 Baldness is come on Gaza; Ashkelon is brought to nothing, the
remnant of their valley: how long will you cut yourself?
Jer
47:6 You sword of Yahweh, how long will it be before you be quiet?
put up yourself into your scabbard; rest, and be still.
Jer
47:7 How can you be quiet, seeing Yahweh has given you a command?
Against Ashkelon, and against the seashore, there has he appointed
it.
Jer
48:1 Of Moab. Thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel: Woe to
Nebo! for it is laid waste; Kiriathaim is disappointed, it is taken;
Misgab is put to shame and broken down.
Jer
48:2 The praise of Moab is no more; in Heshbon they have devised
evil against her: Come, and let us cut her off from being a nation.
You also, Madmen, shall be brought to silence: the sword shall pursue
you.
Jer
48:3 The sound of a cry from Horonaim, desolation and great
destruction!
Jer
48:4 Moab is destroyed; her little ones have caused a cry to be
heard.
Jer
48:5 For by the ascent of Luhith with continual weeping shall they
go up; for at the descent of Horonaim they have heard the distress of
the cry of destruction.
Jer
48:6 Flee, save your lives, and be like the heath in the wilderness.
Jer
48:7 For, because you have trusted in your works and in your
treasures, you also shall be taken: and Chemosh shall go forth into
captivity, his priests and his princes together.
Jer
48:8 The destroyer shall come on every city, and no city shall
escape; the valley also shall perish, and the plain shall be
destroyed; as Yahweh has spoken.
Jer
48:9 Give wings to Moab, that she may fly and get her away: and her
cities shall become a desolation, without any to dwell therein.
Jer
48:10 Cursed be he who does the work of Yahweh negligently; and
cursed be he who keeps back his sword from blood.
Jer
48:11 Moab has been at ease from his youth, and he has settled on
his lees, and has not been emptied from vessel to vessel, neither has
he gone into captivity: therefore his taste remains in him, and his
scent is not changed.
Jer
48:12 Therefore, behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that I will
send to him those who pour off, and they shall pour him off; and they
shall empty his vessels, and break their bottles in pieces.
Jer
48:13 Moab shall be ashamed of Chemosh, as the house of Israel was
ashamed of Bethel their confidence.
Jer
48:14 How say you, We are mighty men, and valiant men for the war?
Jer
48:15 Moab is laid waste, and they are gone up into his cities, and
his chosen young men are gone down to the slaughter, says the King,
whose name is Yahweh of Armies.
Jer
48:16 The calamity of Moab is near to come, and his affliction
hurries fast.
Jer
48:17 All you who are around him, bemoan him, and all you who know
his name; say, How is the strong staff broken, the beautiful rod!
Jer
48:18 You daughter who dwells in Dibon, come down from your glory,
and sit in thirst; for the destroyer of Moab is come up against you,
he has destroyed your strongholds.
Jer
48:19 Inhabitant of Aroer, stand by the way, and watch: ask him who
flees, and her who escapes; say, What has been done?
Jer
48:20 Moab is disappointed; for it is broken down: wail and cry;
tell you it by the Arnon, that Moab is laid waste.
Jer
48:21 Judgment is come on the plain country, on Holon, and on
Jahzah, and on Mephaath,
Jer
48:22 and on Dibon, and on Nebo, and on Beth Diblathaim,
Jer
48:23 and on Kiriathaim, and on Beth Gamul, and on Beth Meon,
Jer
48:24 and on Kerioth, and on Bozrah, and on all the cities of the
land of Moab, far or near.
Jer
48:25 The horn of Moab is cut off, and his arm is broken, says
Yahweh.
Jer
48:26 Make you him drunken; for he magnified himself against Yahweh:
and Moab shall wallow in his vomit, and he also shall be in derision.
Jer
48:27 For wasn't Israel a derision to you? was he found among
thieves? for as often as you speak of him, you wag the head.
Jer
48:28 You inhabitants of Moab, leave the cities, and dwell in the
rock; and be like the dove that makes her nest over the mouth of the
abyss.
Jer
48:29 We have heard of the pride of Moab, that
he is very proud; his loftiness, and his pride, and his arrogance,
and the haughtiness of his heart.
Jer
48:30 I know his wrath, says Yahweh, that it is nothing; his
boastings have worked nothing.
Jer
48:31 Therefore will I wail for Moab; yes, I will cry out for all
Moab: for the men of Kir Heres shall they mourn.
Jer
48:32 With more than the weeping of Jazer will I weep for you, vine
of Sibmah: your branches passed over the sea, they reached even to
the sea of Jazer: on your summer fruits and on your vintage the
destroyer is fallen.
Jer
48:33 Gladness and joy is taken away from the fruitful field and
from the land of Moab; and I have caused wine to cease from the wine
presses: none shall tread with shouting; the shouting shall be no
shouting.
Jer
48:34 From the cry of Heshbon even to Elealeh, even to Jahaz have
they uttered their voice, from Zoar even to Horonaim, to Eglath
Shelishiyah: for the waters of Nimrim also shall become desolate.
Jer
48:35 Moreover I will cause to cease in Moab, says Yahweh, him who
offers in the high place, and him who burns incense to his gods.
Jer
48:36 Therefore my heart sounds for Moab like pipes, and my heart
sounds like pipes for the men of Kir Heres: therefore the abundance
that he has gotten is perished.
Jer
48:37 For every head is bald, and every beard clipped: on all the
hands are cuttings, and on the waist sackcloth.
Jer
48:38 On all the housetops of Moab and in its streets there is
lamentation every where; for I have broken Moab like a vessel in
which none delights, says Yahweh.
Jer
48:39 How is it broken down! how
do they wail! how has Moab turned the back with shame! so shall Moab
become a derision and a terror to all who are around him.
Jer
48:40 For thus says Yahweh: Behold, he shall fly as an eagle, and
shall spread out his wings against Moab.
Jer
48:41 Kerioth is taken, and the strongholds are seized, and the
heart of the mighty men of Moab at that day shall be as the heart of
a woman in her pangs.
Jer
48:42 Moab shall be destroyed from being a people, because he has
magnified himself against Yahweh.
Jer
48:43 Fear, and the pit, and the snare, are on you, inhabitant of
Moab, says Yahweh.
Jer
48:44 He who flees from the fear shall fall into the pit; and he who
gets up out of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for I will bring
on him, even on Moab, the year of their visitation, says Yahweh.
Jer
48:45 Those who fled stand without strength under the shadow of
Heshbon; for a fire is gone forth out of Heshbon, and a flame from
the midst of Sihon, and has devoured the corner of Moab, and the
crown of the head of the tumultuous ones.
Jer
48:46 Woe to you, O Moab! the people of Chemosh is undone; for your
sons are taken away captive, and your daughters into captivity.
Jer
48:47 Yet will I bring back the captivity of Moab in the latter
days, says Yahweh. Thus far is the judgment of Moab.
Jer
49:1 Of the children of Ammon. Thus says Yahweh: Has Israel no sons?
has he no heir? why then does Malcam possess Gad, and his people well
in its cities?
Jer
49:2 Therefore, behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that I will
cause an alarm of war to be heard against Rabbah of the children of
Ammon; and it shall become a desolate heap, and her daughters shall
be burned with fire: then shall Israel possess those who did possess
him, says Yahweh.
Jer
49:3 Wail, Heshbon, for Ai is laid waste; cry, you daughters of
Rabbah, gird you with sackcloth: lament, and run back and forth among
the fences; for Malcam shall go into captivity, his priests and his
princes together.
Jer
49:4 Why glory you in the valleys, your flowing valley, backsliding
daughter? who trusted in her treasures, saying,
Who shall come to me?
Jer
49:5 Behold, I will bring a fear on you, says the Lord, Yahweh of
Armies, from all who are around you; and you shall be driven out
every man right forth, and there shall be none to gather together the
fugitives.
Jer
49:6 But afterward I will bring back the captivity of the children
of Ammon, says Yahweh.
Jer
49:7 Of Edom. Thus says Yahweh of Armies: Is wisdom no more in
Teman? is counsel perished from the prudent? is their wisdom
vanished?
Jer
49:8 Flee you, turn back, dwell in the depths, inhabitants of Dedan;
for I will bring the calamity of Esau on him, the time that I shall
visit him.
Jer
49:9 If grape gatherers came to you, would they not leave some
gleaning grapes? if thieves by night, wouldn't they destroy until
they had enough?
Jer
49:10 But I have made Esau bare, I have uncovered his secret places,
and he shall not be able to hide himself: his seed is destroyed, and
his brothers, and his neighbors; and he is no more.
Jer
49:11 Leave your fatherless children, I will preserve them alive;
and let your widows trust in me.
Jer
49:12 For thus says Yahweh: Behold, they to whom it didn't pertain
to drink of the cup shall certainly drink; and are you he who shall
altogether go unpunished? you shall not go unpunished, but you shall
surely drink.
Jer
49:13 For I have sworn by myself, says Yahweh, that Bozrah shall
become an astonishment, a reproach, a waste, and a curse; and all its
cities shall be perpetual wastes.
Jer
49:14 I have heard news from Yahweh, and an ambassador is sent among
the nations, saying,
Gather yourselves together, and come against her, and rise up to the
battle.
Jer
49:15 For, behold, I have made you small among the nations, and
despised among men.
Jer
49:16 As for your terror, the pride of your heart has deceived you,
O you who dwell in the clefts of the rock, who hold the height of the
hill: though you should make your nest as high as the eagle, I will
bring you down from there, says Yahweh.
Jer
49:17 Edom shall become an astonishment: everyone who passes by it
shall be astonished, and shall hiss at all its plagues.
Jer
49:18 As in the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbor
cities of it, says Yahweh, no man shall dwell there, neither shall
any son of man sojourn therein.
Jer
49:19 Behold, he shall come up like a lion from the pride of the
Jordan against the strong habitation: for I will suddenly make them
run away from it; and whoever is chosen, him will I appoint over it:
for who is like me? and who will appoint me a time? and who is the
shepherd who will stand before me?
Jer
49:20 Therefore hear the counsel of Yahweh, that he has taken
against Edom; and his purposes, that he has purposed against the
inhabitants of Teman: Surely they shall drag them away, even
the little ones of the flock; surely he shall make their habitation
desolate over them.
Jer
49:21 The earth trembles at the noise of their fall; there is a cry,
the noise which is heard in the Red Sea.
Jer
49:22 Behold, he shall come up and fly as the eagle, and spread out
his wings against Bozrah: and the heart of the mighty men of Edom at
that day shall be as the heart of a woman in her pangs.
Jer
49:23 Of Damascus. Hamath is confounded, and Arpad; for they have
heard evil news, they are melted away: there is sorrow on the sea; it
can't be quiet.
Jer
49:24 Damascus has grown feeble, she turns herself to flee, and
trembling has seized on her: anguish and sorrows have taken hold of
her, as of a woman in travail.
Jer
49:25 How is the city of praise not forsaken, the city of my joy?
Jer
49:26 Therefore her young men shall fall in her streets, and all the
men of war shall be brought to silence in that day, says Yahweh of
Armies.
Jer
49:27 I will kindle a fire in the wall of Damascus, and it shall
devour the palaces of Ben Hadad.
Jer
49:28 Of Kedar, and of the kingdoms of Hazor, which Nebuchadnezzar
king of Babylon struck. Thus says Yahweh: Arise you, go up to Kedar,
and destroy the children of the east.
Jer
49:29 Their tents and their flocks shall they take; they shall carry
away for themselves their curtains, and all their vessels, and their
camels; and they shall cry to them, Terror on every side!
Jer
49:30 Flee you, wander far off, dwell in the depths, you inhabitants
of Hazor, says Yahweh; for Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has taken
counsel against you, and has conceived a purpose against you.
Jer
49:31 Arise, go up to a nation that is at ease, that dwells without
care, says Yahweh; that have neither gates nor bars, that dwell
alone.
Jer
49:32 Their camels shall be a booty, and the multitude of their
livestock a spoil: and I will scatter to all winds those who have the
corners of their hair
cut off; and I will bring their calamity from every side of them,
says Yahweh.
Jer
49:33 Hazor shall be a dwelling place of jackals, a desolation
forever: no man shall dwell there, neither shall any son of man
sojourn therein.
Jer
49:34 The word of Yahweh that came to Jeremiah the prophet
concerning Elam, in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of
Judah, saying,
Jer
49:35 Thus says Yahweh of Armies: Behold, I will break the bow of
Elam, the chief of their might.
Jer
49:36 On Elam will I bring the four winds from the four quarters of
the sky, and will scatter them toward all those winds; and there
shall be no nation where the outcasts of Elam shall not come.
Jer
49:37 I will cause Elam to be dismayed before their enemies, and
before those who seek their life; and I will bring evil on them, even
my fierce anger, says Yahweh; and I will send the sword after them,
until I have consumed them;
Jer
49:38 and I will set my throne in Elam, and will destroy from there
king and princes, says Yahweh.
Jer
49:39 But it shall happen in the latter days, that I will bring back
the captivity of Elam, says Yahweh.
Nov. 23
Hebrews
9
Heb 9:1
Now indeed even the first covenant had ordinances of divine service,
and an earthly sanctuary.
Heb 9:2
For a tabernacle was prepared. In the first part were the lampstand,
the table, and the show bread; which is called the Holy Place.
Heb 9:3
After the second veil was the tabernacle which is called the Holy of
Holies,
Heb 9:4
having a golden altar of incense, and the ark of the covenant
overlaid on all sides with gold, in which was a golden pot holding
the manna, Aaron's rod that budded, and the tablets of the covenant;
Heb 9:5
and above it cherubim of glory overshadowing the mercy seat, of
which things we can't speak now in detail.
Heb 9:6
Now these things having been thus prepared, the priests go in
continually into the first tabernacle, accomplishing the services,
Heb 9:7
but into the second the high priest alone, once in the year, not
without blood, which he offers for himself, and for the errors of the
people.
Heb 9:8
The Holy Spirit is indicating this, that the way into the Holy Place
wasn't yet revealed while the first tabernacle was still standing;
Heb 9:9
which is a symbol of the present age, where gifts and sacrifices are
offered that are incapable, concerning the conscience, of making the
worshipper perfect;
Heb
9:10 being only (with meats and drinks and various washings)
fleshly ordinances, imposed until a time of reformation.
Heb
9:11 But Christ having come as a high priest of the coming good
things, through the greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made
with hands, that is to say, not of this creation,
Heb
9:12 nor yet through the blood of goats and calves, but through his
own blood, entered in once for all into the Holy Place, having
obtained eternal redemption.
Heb
9:13 For if the blood of goats and bulls, and the ashes of a heifer
sprinkling those who have been defiled, sanctify to the cleanness of
the flesh:
Heb
9:14 how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal
Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, cleanse your
conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
Heb
9:15 For this reason he is the mediator of a new covenant, since a
death has occurred for the redemption of the transgressions that were
under the first covenant, that those who have been called may receive
the promise of the eternal inheritance.
Heb
9:16 For where a last will and testament is, there must of necessity
be the death of him who made it.
Heb
9:17 For a will is in force where there has been death, for it is
never in force while he who made it lives.
Heb
9:18 Therefore even the first covenant has not been dedicated
without blood.
Heb
9:19 For when every commandment had been spoken by Moses to all the
people according to the law, he took the blood of the calves and the
goats, with water and scarlet wool and hyssop, and sprinkled both the
book itself and all the people,
Heb
9:20 saying, "This is the blood of the covenant which God has
commanded you."
Heb
9:21 Moreover he sprinkled the tabernacle and all the vessels of the
ministry in like manner with the blood.
Heb
9:22 According to the law, nearly everything is cleansed with blood,
and apart from shedding of blood there is no remission.
Heb
9:23 It was necessary therefore that the copies of the things in the
heavens should be cleansed with these; but the heavenly things
themselves with better sacrifices than these.
Heb
9:24 For Christ hasn't entered into holy places made with hands,
which are representations of the true, but into heaven itself, now to
appear in the presence of God for us;
Heb
9:25 nor yet that he should offer himself often, as the high priest
enters into the holy place year by year with blood not his own,
Heb
9:26 or else he must have suffered often since the foundation of the
world. But now once at the end of the ages, he has been revealed to
put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.
Heb
9:27 Inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die once, and after
this, judgment,
Heb
9:28 so Christ also, having been offered once to bear the sins of
many, will appear a second time, without sin, to those who are
eagerly waiting for him for salvation.
Nov. 24
Hebrews
10
Heb
10:1 For the law, having a shadow of the good to come, not the very
image of the things, can never with the same sacrifices year by year,
which they offer continually, make perfect those who draw near.
Heb
10:2 Or else wouldn't they have ceased to be offered, because the
worshippers, having been once cleansed, would have had no more
consciousness of sins?
Heb
10:3 But in those sacrifices there is yearly reminder of sins.
Heb
10:4 For it is impossible that the blood of bulls and goats should
take away sins.
Heb
10:5 Therefore when he comes into the world, he says, "Sacrifice
and offering you didn't desire, but you prepared a body for me;
Heb
10:6 You had no pleasure in whole burnt offerings and sacrifices for
sin.
Heb
10:7 Then I said, 'Behold, I have come (in the scroll of the book
it is written of me) to do your will, O God.' "
Heb
10:8 Previously saying, "Sacrifices and offerings and whole
burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin you didn't desire, neither had
pleasure in them" (those which are offered according to the
law),
Heb
10:9 then he has said, "Behold, I have come to do your will."
He takes away the first, that he may establish the second,
Heb
10:10 by which will we have been sanctified through the offering of
the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
Heb
10:11 Every priest indeed stands day by day serving and often
offering the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins,
Heb
10:12 but he, when he had offered one sacrifice for sins forever,
sat down on the right hand of God;
Heb
10:13 from that time waiting until his enemies are made the
footstool of his feet.
Heb
10:14 For by one offering he has perfected forever those who are
being sanctified.
Heb
10:15 The Holy Spirit also testifies to us, for after saying,
Heb
10:16 "This is the covenant that I will make with them: 'After
those days,' says the Lord, 'I will put my laws on their heart, I
will also write them on their mind;' " then he says,
Heb
10:17 "I will remember their sins and their iniquities no
more."
Heb
10:18 Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for
sin.
Heb
10:19 Having therefore, brothers, boldness to enter into the holy
place by the blood of Jesus,
Heb
10:20 by the way which he dedicated for us, a new and living way,
through the veil, that is to say, his flesh;
Heb
10:21 and having a great priest over the house of God,
Heb
10:22 let's draw near with a true heart in fullness of faith, having
our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and having our body
washed with pure water,
Heb
10:23 let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering;
for he who promised is faithful.
Heb
10:24 Let us consider how to provoke one another to love and good
works,
Heb
10:25 not forsaking our own assembling together, as the custom of
some is, but exhorting one another; and so much the more, as you see
the Day approaching.
Heb
10:26 For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge
of the truth, there remains no more a sacrifice for sins,
Heb
10:27 but a certain fearful expectation of judgment, and a
fierceness of fire which will devour the adversaries.
Heb
10:28 A man who disregards Moses' law dies without compassion on the
word of two or three witnesses.
Heb
10:29 How much worse punishment, do you think, will he be judged
worthy of, who has trodden under foot the Son of God, and has counted
the blood of the covenant with which he was sanctified an unholy
thing, and has insulted the Spirit of grace?
Heb
10:30 For we know him who said, "Vengeance belongs to me,"
says the Lord, "I will repay." Again, "The Lord will
judge his people."
Heb
10:31 It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living
God.
Heb
10:32 But remember the former days, in which, after you were
enlightened, you endured a great struggle with sufferings;
Heb
10:33 partly, being exposed to both reproaches and oppressions; and
partly, becoming partakers with those who were treated so.
Heb
10:34 For you both had compassion on me in my chains, and joyfully
accepted the plundering of your possessions, knowing that you have
for yourselves a better possession and an enduring one in the
heavens.
Heb
10:35 Therefore don't throw away your boldness, which has a great
reward.
Heb
10:36 For you need endurance so that, having done the will of God,
you may receive the promise.
Heb
10:37 "In a very little while, he who comes will come, and will
not wait.
Heb
10:38 But the righteous will live by faith. If he shrinks back, my
soul has no pleasure in him."
Heb
10:39 But we are not of those who shrink back to destruction, but of
those who have faith to the saving of the soul.
