Bible Reading for November 25 and 26
World English Bible
Nov.
25
Jeremiah
50-52
Jer
50:1 The word that Yahweh spoke concerning Babylon, concerning the
land of the Chaldeans, by Jeremiah the prophet.
Jer
50:2 Declare you among the nations and publish, and set up a
standard; publish, and don't conceal: say, Babylon is taken, Bel is
disappointed, Merodach is dismayed; her images are disappointed, her
idols are dismayed.
Jer
50:3 For out of the north there comes up a nation against her, which
shall make her land desolate, and none shall dwell therein: they are
fled, they are gone, both man and animal.
Jer
50:4 In those days, and in that time, says Yahweh, the children of
Israel shall come, they and the children of Judah together; they
shall go on their way weeping, and shall seek Yahweh their God.
Jer
50:5 They shall inquire concerning Zion with their faces turned
toward it, saying,
Come you, and join yourselves to Yahweh in an everlasting covenant
that shall not be forgotten.
Jer
50:6 My people have been lost sheep: their shepherds have caused
them to go astray; they have turned them away on the mountains; they
have gone from mountain to hill; they have forgotten their resting
place.
Jer
50:7 All who found them have devoured them; and their adversaries
said, We are not guilty, because they have sinned against Yahweh, the
habitation of righteousness, even Yahweh, the hope of their fathers.
Jer
50:8 Flee out of the midst of Babylon, and go forth out of the land
of the Chaldeans, and be as the male goats before the flocks.
Jer
50:9 For, behold, I will stir up and cause to come up against
Babylon a company of great nations from the north country; and they
shall set themselves in array against her; from there she shall be
taken: their arrows shall be as of an expert mighty man; none shall
return in vain.
Jer
50:10 Chaldea shall be a prey: all who prey on her shall be
satisfied, says Yahweh.
Jer
50:11 Because you are glad, because you rejoice, O you who plunder
my heritage, because you are wanton as a heifer that treads out the
grain, and neigh as strong horses;
Jer
50:12 your mother shall be utterly disappointed; she who bore you
shall be confounded: behold, she shall be the least of the nations, a
wilderness, a dry land, and a desert.
Jer
50:13 Because of the wrath of Yahweh she shall not be inhabited, but
she shall be wholly desolate: everyone who goes by Babylon shall be
astonished, and hiss at all her plagues.
Jer
50:14 Set yourselves in array against Babylon all around, all you
who bend the bow; shoot at her, spare no arrows: for she has sinned
against Yahweh.
Jer
50:15 Shout against her all around: she has submitted herself; her
bulwarks are fallen, her walls are thrown down; for it is the
vengeance of Yahweh: take vengeance on her; as she has done, do to
her.
Jer
50:16 Cut off the sower from Babylon, and him who handles the sickle
in the time of harvest: for fear of the oppressing sword they shall
turn everyone to his people, and they shall flee everyone to his own
land.
Jer
50:17 Israel is a hunted sheep; the lions have driven him away:
first, the king of Assyria devoured him; and now at last
Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has broken his bones.
Jer
50:18 Therefore thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel:
Behold, I will punish the king of Babylon and his land, as I have
punished the king of Assyria.
Jer
50:19 I will bring Israel again to his pasture, and he shall feed on
Carmel and Bashan, and his soul shall be satisfied on the hills of
Ephraim and in Gilead.
Jer
50:20 In those days, and in that time, says Yahweh, the iniquity of
Israel shall be sought for, and there shall be none; and the sins of
Judah, and they shall not be found: for I will pardon them whom I
leave as a remnant.
Jer
50:21 Go up against the land of Merathaim, even against it, and
against the inhabitants of Pekod: kill and utterly destroy after
them, says Yahweh, and do according to all that I have commanded you.
Jer
50:22 A sound of battle is in the land, and of great destruction.
Jer
50:23 How is the hammer of the whole earth cut apart and broken! how
is Babylon become a desolation among the nations!
Jer
50:24 I have laid a snare for you, and you are also taken, Babylon,
and you weren't aware: you are found, and also caught, because you
have striven against Yahweh.
Jer
50:25 Yahweh has opened his armory, and has brought forth the
weapons of his indignation; for the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, has a
work to do
in the land of the Chaldeans.
Jer
50:26 Come against her from the utmost border; open her storehouses;
cast her up as heaps, and destroy her utterly; let nothing of her be
left.
Jer
50:27 Kill all her bulls; let them go down to the slaughter: woe to
them! for their day is come, the time of their visitation.
Jer
50:28 The voice of those who flee and escape out of the land of
Babylon, to declare in Zion the vengeance of Yahweh our God, the
vengeance of his temple.
Jer
50:29 Call together the archers against Babylon, all those who bend
the bow; encamp against her all around; let none of it escape:
recompense her according to her work; according to all that she has
done, do to her; for she has been proud against Yahweh, against the
Holy One of Israel.
Jer
50:30 Therefore shall her young men fall in her streets, and all her
men of war shall be brought to silence in that day, says Yahweh.
Jer
50:31 Behold, I am against you, you proud one, says the Lord, Yahweh
of Armies; for your day is come, the time that I will visit you.
Jer
50:32 The proud one shall stumble and fall, and none shall raise him
up; and I will kindle a fire in his cities, and it shall devour all
who are around him.
Jer
50:33 Thus says Yahweh of Armies: The children of Israel and the
children of Judah are oppressed together; and all who took them
captive hold them fast; they refuse to let them go.
Jer
50:34 Their Redeemer is strong; Yahweh of Armies is his name: he
will thoroughly plead their cause, that he may give rest to the
earth, and disquiet the inhabitants of Babylon.
Jer
50:35 A sword is on the Chaldeans, says Yahweh, and on the
inhabitants of Babylon, and on her princes, and on her wise men.
Jer
50:36 A sword is on the boasters, and they shall become fools; a
sword is on her mighty men, and they shall be dismayed.
Jer
50:37 A sword is on their horses, and on their chariots, and on all
the mixed people who are in the midst of her; and they shall become
as women: a sword is on her treasures, and they shall be robbed.
Jer
50:38 A drought is on her waters, and they shall be dried up; for it
is a land of engraved images, and they are mad over idols.
Jer
50:39 Therefore the wild animals of the desert with the wolves shall
dwell there, and the ostriches shall dwell therein: and it shall be
no more inhabited forever; neither shall it be lived in from
generation to generation.
Jer
50:40 As when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbor
cities of it, says Yahweh, so shall no man dwell there, neither shall
any son of man sojourn therein.
Jer
50:41 Behold, a people comes from the north; and a great nation and
many kings shall be stirred up from the uttermost parts of the earth.
Jer
50:42 They lay hold on bow and spear; they are cruel, and have no
mercy; their voice roars like the sea; and they ride on horses,
everyone set in array, as a man to the battle, against you, daughter
of Babylon.
Jer
50:43 The king of Babylon has heard the news of them, and his hands
wax feeble: anguish has taken hold of him, and
pangs as of a woman in travail.
Jer
50:44 Behold, the enemy
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 can
stand before me?
Jer
50:45 Therefore hear the counsel of Yahweh, that he has taken
against Babylon; and his purposes, that he has purposed against the
land of the Chaldeans: Surely they shall drag them away, even
the little ones of the flock; surely he shall make their habitation
desolate over them.
Jer
50:46 At the noise of the taking of Babylon the earth trembles, and
the cry is heard among the nations.
Jer
51:1 Thus says Yahweh: Behold, I will raise up against Babylon, and
against those who dwell in Lebkamai, a destroying wind.
Jer
51:2 I will send to Babylon strangers, who shall winnow her; and
they shall empty her land: for in the day of trouble they shall be
against her around.
Jer
51:3 Against him who
bends let the archer bend his bow, and against him
who lifts himself up in his coat of
mail: and don't you spare her young men; destroy you utterly all her
army.
Jer
51:4 They shall fall down slain in the land of the Chaldeans, and
thrust through in her streets.
Jer
51:5 For Israel is not forsaken, nor Judah, of his God, of Yahweh of
Armies; though their land is full of guilt against the Holy One of
Israel.
Jer
51:6 Flee out of the midst of Babylon, and save every man his life;
don't be cut off in her iniquity: for it is the time of Yahweh's
vengeance; he will render to her a recompense.
Jer
51:7 Babylon has been a golden cup in Yahweh's hand, who made all
the earth drunken: the nations have drunk of her wine; therefore the
nations are mad.
Jer
51:8 Babylon is suddenly fallen and destroyed: wail for her; take
balm for her pain, if so be she may be healed.
Jer
51:9 We would have healed Babylon, but she is not healed: forsake
her, and let us go everyone into his own country; for her judgment
reaches to heaven, and is lifted up even to the skies.
Jer
51:10 Yahweh has brought forth our righteousness: come, and let us
declare in Zion the work of Yahweh our God.
Jer
51:11 Make sharp the arrows; hold firm the shields: Yahweh has
stirred up the spirit of the kings of the Medes; because his purpose
is against Babylon, to destroy it: for it is the vengeance of Yahweh,
the vengeance of his temple.
Jer
51:12 Set up a standard against the walls of Babylon, make the watch
strong, set the watchmen, prepare the ambushes; for Yahweh has both
purposed and done that which he spoke concerning the inhabitants of
Babylon.
Jer
51:13 You who dwell on many waters, abundant in treasures, your end
is come, the measure of your covetousness.
Jer
51:14 Yahweh of Armies has sworn by himself, saying,
Surely I will fill you with men, as with the canker worm; and they
shall lift up a shout against you.
Jer
51:15 He has made the earth by his power, he has established the
world by his wisdom, and by his understanding has he stretched out
the heavens:
Jer
51:16 when he utters his voice, there is a tumult of waters in the
heavens, and he causes the vapors to ascend from the ends of the
earth; he makes lightning for the rain, and brings forth the wind out
of his treasuries.
Jer
51:17 Every man is become brutish and
is without knowledge; every goldsmith is
disappointed by his image; for his molten image is falsehood, and
there is no breath in them.
Jer
51:18 They are vanity, a work of delusion: in the time of their
visitation they shall perish.
Jer
51:19 The portion of Jacob is not like these; for he is the former
of all things; and Israel
is the tribe of his inheritance: Yahweh of Armies is his name.
Jer
51:20 You are my battle axe and weapons of war: and with you will I
break in pieces the nations; and with you will I destroy kingdoms;
Jer
51:21 and with you will I break in pieces the horse and his rider;
Jer
51:22 and with you will I break in pieces the chariot and him who
rides therein; and with you will I break in pieces man and woman; and
with you will I break in pieces the old man and the youth; and with
you will I break in pieces the young man and the virgin;
Jer
51:23 and with you will I break in pieces the shepherd and his
flock; and with you will I break in pieces the farmer and his yoke of
oxen; and with you will I break in
pieces governors and deputies.
Jer
51:24 I will render to Babylon and to all the inhabitants of Chaldea
all their evil that they have done in Zion in your sight, says
Yahweh.
Jer
51:25 Behold, I am against you, destroying mountain, says Yahweh,
which destroys all the earth; and I will stretch out my hand on you,
and roll you down from the rocks, and will make you a burnt mountain.
Jer
51:26 They shall not take of you a stone for a corner, nor a stone
for foundations; but you shall be desolate for ever, says Yahweh.
Jer
51:27 Set up a standard in the land, blow the trumpet among the
nations, prepare the nations against her, call together against her
the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz: appoint a marshal
against her; cause the horses to come up as the rough canker worm.
Jer
51:28 Prepare against her the nations, the kings of the Medes, its
governors, and all its deputies, and all the land of their dominion.
Jer
51:29 The land trembles and is in pain; for the purposes of Yahweh
against Babylon do stand, to make the land of Babylon a desolation,
without inhabitant.
Jer
51:30 The mighty men of Babylon have forborne to fight, they remain
in their strongholds; their might has failed; they are become as
women: her dwelling places are set on fire; her bars are broken.
Jer
51:31 One runner will run to meet another, and one messenger to meet
another, to show the king of Babylon that his city is taken on every
quarter:
Jer
51:32 and the passages are seized, and the reeds they have burned
with fire, and the men of war are frightened.
Jer
51:33 For thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel: The
daughter of Babylon is like a threshing floor at the time when it is
trodden; yet a little while, and the time of harvest shall come for
her.
Jer
51:34 Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon has devoured me, he has
crushed me, he has made me an empty vessel, he has, like a monster,
swallowed me up, he has filled his maw with my delicacies; he has
cast me out.
Jer
51:35 The violence done to me and to my flesh be on Babylon, shall
the inhabitant of Zion say; and, My blood be on the inhabitants of
Chaldea, shall Jerusalem say.
Jer
51:36 Therefore thus says Yahweh: Behold, I will plead your cause,
and take vengeance for you; and I will dry up her sea, and make her
fountain dry.
Jer
51:37 Babylon shall become heaps, a dwelling place for jackals, an
astonishment, and a hissing, without inhabitant.
Jer
51:38 They shall roar together like young lions; they shall growl as
lions' cubs.
Jer
51:39 When they are heated, I will make their feast, and I will make
them drunken, that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and
not wake, says Yahweh.
Jer
51:40 I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams
with male goats.
Jer
51:41 How is Sheshach taken! and the praise of the whole earth
seized! how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations!
Jer
51:42 The sea is come up on Babylon; she is covered with the
multitude of its waves.
Jer
51:43 Her cities are become a desolation, a dry land, and a desert,
a land in which no man dwells, neither does any son of man pass
thereby.
Jer
51:44 I will execute judgment on Bel in Babylon, and I will bring
forth out of his mouth that which he has swallowed up; and the
nations shall not flow any more to him: yes, the wall of Babylon
shall fall.
Jer
51:45 My people, go you out of the midst of her, and save yourselves
every man from the fierce anger of Yahweh.
Jer
51:46 Don't let your heart faint, neither fear for the news that
shall be heard in the land; for news shall come one year, and after
that in another year shall come
news, and violence in the land, ruler against ruler.
Jer
51:47 Therefore, behold, the days come, that I will execute judgment
on the engraved images of Babylon; and her whole land shall be
confounded; and all her slain shall fall in the midst of her.
Jer
51:48 Then the heavens and the earth, and all that is therein, shall
sing for joy over Babylon; for the destroyers shall come to her from
the north, says Yahweh.
Jer
51:49 As Babylon has caused the slain of Israel to fall, so at
Babylon shall fall the slain of all the land.
Jer
51:50 You who have escaped the sword, go you, don't stand still;
remember Yahweh from afar, and let Jerusalem come into your mind.
Jer
51:51 We are confounded, because we have heard reproach; confusion
has covered our faces: for strangers are come into the sanctuaries of
Yahweh's house.
Jer
51:52 Therefore, behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that I will
execute judgment on her engraved images; and through all her land the
wounded shall groan.
Jer
51:53 Though Babylon should mount up to the sky, and though she
should fortify the height of her strength, yet from me shall
destroyers come to her, says Yahweh.
Jer
51:54 The sound of a cry from Babylon, and of great destruction from
the land of the Chaldeans!
Jer
51:55 For Yahweh lays Babylon waste, and destroys out of her the
great voice; and their waves roar like many waters; the noise of
their voice is uttered:
Jer
51:56 for the destroyer is come on her, even on Babylon, and her
mighty men are taken, their bows are broken in pieces; for Yahweh is
a God of recompenses, he will surely requite.
Jer
51:57 I will make drunk her princes and her wise men, her governors
and her deputies, and her mighty men; and they shall sleep a
perpetual sleep, and not wake up, says the King, whose name is Yahweh
of Armies.
Jer
51:58 Thus says Yahweh of Armies: The broad walls of Babylon shall
be utterly overthrown, and her high gates shall be burned with fire;
and the peoples shall labor for vanity, and the nations for the fire;
and they shall be weary.
Jer
51:59 The word which Jeremiah the prophet commanded Seraiah the son
of Neriah, the son of Mahseiah, when he went with Zedekiah the king
of Judah to Babylon in the fourth year of his reign. Now Seraiah was
chief quartermaster.
Jer
51:60 Jeremiah wrote in a book all the evil that should come on
Babylon, even all these words that are written concerning Babylon.
Jer
51:61 Jeremiah said to Seraiah, When you come to Babylon, then see
that you read all these words,
Jer
51:62 and say, Yahweh, you have spoken concerning this place, to cut
it off, that none shall dwell therein, neither man nor animal, but
that it shall be desolate forever.
Jer
51:63 It shall be, when you have made an end of reading this book,
that you shall bind a stone to it, and cast it into the midst of the
Euphrates:
Jer
51:64 and you shall say, Thus shall Babylon sink, and shall not rise
again because of the evil that I will bring on her; and they shall be
weary. Thus far are the words of Jeremiah.
Jer
52:1 Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he began to reign; and
he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was
Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.
Jer
52:2 He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, according to
all that Jehoiakim had done.
Jer
52:3 For through the anger of Yahweh did it happen in Jerusalem and
Judah, until he had cast them out from his presence. Zedekiah
rebelled against the king of Babylon.
Jer
52:4 It happened in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month,
in the tenth day of the month, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon
came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, and encamped against
it; and they built forts against it round about.
Jer
52:5 So the city was besieged to the eleventh year of king Zedekiah.
Jer
52:6 In the fourth month, in the ninth day of the month, the famine
was sore in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of
the land.
Jer
52:7 Then a breach was made in the city, and all the men of war
fled, and went forth out of the city by night by the way of the gate
between the two walls, which was by the king's garden; (now the
Chaldeans were against the city all around;) and they went toward
the Arabah.
Jer
52:8 But the army of the Chaldeans pursued after the king, and
overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho; and all his army was
scattered from him.
Jer
52:9 Then they took the king, and carried him up to the king of
Babylon to Riblah in the land of Hamath; and he gave judgment on him.
Jer
52:10 The king of Babylon killed the sons of Zedekiah before his
eyes: he killed also all the princes of Judah in Riblah.
Jer
52:11 He put out the eyes of Zedekiah; and the king of Babylon bound
him in fetters, and carried him to Babylon, and put him in prison
until the day of his death.
Jer
52:12 Now in the fifth month, in the tenth day of the month, which
was the nineteenth year of king Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, came
Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard, who stood before the king of
Babylon, into Jerusalem:
Jer
52:13 and he burned the house of Yahweh, and the king's house; and
all the houses of Jerusalem, even every great house, burned he with
fire.
Jer
52:14 All the army of the Chaldeans, who were with the captain of
the guard, broke down all the walls of Jerusalem all around.
Jer
52:15 Then Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive
of the poorest of the people, and the residue of the people who were
left in the city, and those who fell away, who fell to the king of
Babylon, and the residue of the multitude.
Jer
52:16 But Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left of the poorest
of the land to be vineyard keepers and farmers.
Jer
52:17 The pillars of brass that were in the house of Yahweh, and the
bases and the bronze sea that were in the house of Yahweh, did the
Chaldeans break in pieces, and carried all the brass of them to
Babylon.
Jer
52:18 The pots also, and the shovels, and the snuffers, and the
basins, and the spoons, and all the vessels of brass with which they
ministered, took they away.
Jer
52:19 The cups, and the fire pans, and the basins, and the pots, and
the lampstands, and the spoons, and the bowls--that which was of
gold, in gold, and that which was of silver, in silver,--the captain
of the guard took away.
Jer
52:20 The two pillars, the one sea, and the twelve bronze bulls that
were under the bases, which king Solomon had made for the house of
Yahweh. The brass of all these vessels was without weight.
Jer
52:21 As for the pillars, the height of the one pillar was eighteen
cubits; and a line of twelve cubits did compass it; and its thickness
was four fingers: it was hollow.
Jer
52:22 A capital of brass was on it; and the height of the one
capital was five cubits, with network and pomegranates on the capital
all around, all of brass: and the second pillar also had like these,
and pomegranates.
Jer
52:23 There were ninety-six pomegranates on the sides; all the
pomegranates were one hundred on the network all around.
Jer
52:24 The captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest, and
Zephaniah the second priest, and the three keepers of the threshold:
Jer
52:25 and out of the city he took an officer who was set over the
men of war; and seven men of those who saw the king's face, who were
found in the city; and the scribe of the captain of the army, who
mustered the people of the land; and sixty men of the people of the
land, who were found in the midst of the city.
Jer
52:26 Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took them, and brought
them to the king of Babylon to Riblah.
Jer
52:27 The king of Babylon struck them, and put them to death at
Riblah in the land of Hamath. So Judah was carried away captive out
of his land.
Jer
52:28 This is the people whom Nebuchadnezzar carried away captive:
in the seventh year three thousand twenty-three Jews;
Jer
52:29 in the eighteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar he carried away
captive from Jerusalem eight hundred thirty-two persons;
Jer
52:30 in the three and twentieth year of Nebuchadnezzar Nebuzaradan
the captain of the guard carried away captive of the Jews seven
hundred forty-five persons: all the persons were four thousand and
six hundred.
Jer
52:31 It happened in the seven and thirtieth year of the captivity
of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, in the five and
twentieth day of the month, that Evilmerodach king of Babylon, in the
first year
of his reign, lifted up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah, and
brought him forth out of prison;
Jer
52:32 and he spoke kindly to him, and set his throne above the
throne of the kings who were with him in Babylon,
Jer
52:33 and changed his prison garments. Jehoiachin
ate bread before him continually all the days of his life:
Jer
52:34 and for his allowance, there was a continual allowance given
him by the king of Babylon, every day a portion until the day of his
death, all the days of his life.
Nov.
26
Lamentations
1-5
Lam
1:1 How the city sits solitary, that was full of people! She has
become as a widow, who was great among the nations! She who was a
princess among the provinces is become tributary!
Lam
1:2 She weeps sore in the night, and her tears are on her cheeks;
among all her lovers she has none to comfort her: All her friends
have dealt treacherously with her; they are become her enemies.
Lam
1:3 Judah is gone into captivity because of affliction, and because
of great servitude; she dwells among the nations, she finds no rest:
all her persecutors overtook her within the straits.
Lam
1:4 The ways of Zion do mourn, because none come to the solemn
assembly; all her gates are desolate, her priests do sigh: her
virgins are afflicted, and she herself is in bitterness.
Lam
1:5 Her adversaries are become the head, her enemies prosper; for
Yahweh has afflicted her for the multitude of her transgressions: her
young children are gone into captivity before the adversary.
Lam
1:6 From the daughter of Zion all her majesty is departed: her
princes are become like harts that find no pasture, they are gone
without strength before the pursuer.
Lam
1:7 Jerusalem remembers in the days of her affliction and of her
miseries all her pleasant things that were from the days of old: when
her people fell into the hand of the adversary, and none did help
her, The adversaries saw her, they did mock at her desolations.
Lam
1:8 Jerusalem has grievously sinned; therefore she is become as an
unclean thing; all who honored her despise her, because they have
seen her nakedness: yes, she sighs, and turns backward.
Lam
1:9 Her filthiness was in her skirts; she didn't remember her latter
end; therefore is she come down wonderfully; she has no comforter:
see, Yahweh, my affliction; for the enemy has magnified himself.
Lam
1:10 The adversary has spread out his hand on all her pleasant
things: for she has seen that the nations are entered into her
sanctuary, concerning whom you did command that they should not enter
into your assembly.
Lam
1:11 All her people sigh, they seek bread; they have given their
pleasant things for food to refresh the soul: look, Yahweh, and see;
for I am become abject.
Lam
1:12 Is it nothing to you, all you who pass by? Look, and see if
there be any sorrow like my sorrow, which is brought on me, With
which Yahweh has afflicted me
in the day of his fierce anger.
Lam
1:13 From on high has he sent fire into my bones, and it prevails
against them; He has spread a net for my feet, he has turned me back:
He has made me desolate and faint all the day.
Lam
1:14 The yoke of my transgressions is bound by his hand; They are
knit together, they are come up on my neck; he has made my strength
to fail: The Lord has delivered me into their hands, against whom I
am not able to stand.
Lam
1:15 The Lord has set at nothing all my mighty men in the midst of
me; He has called a solemn assembly against me to crush my young men:
The Lord has trodden as in a winepress the virgin daughter of Judah.
Lam
1:16 For these things I weep; my eye, my eye runs down with water;
Because the comforter who should refresh my soul is far from me: My
children are desolate, because the enemy has prevailed.
Lam
1:17 Zion spreads forth her hands; there is none to comfort her;
Yahweh has commanded concerning Jacob, that those who are around him
should be his adversaries: Jerusalem is among them as an unclean
thing.
Lam
1:18 Yahweh is righteous; for I have rebelled against his
commandment: Please hear all you peoples, and see my sorrow: My
virgins and my young men are gone into captivity.
Lam
1:19 I called for my lovers, but
they deceived me: My priests and my elders gave up the spirit in the
city, While they sought them food to refresh their souls.
Lam
1:20 See, Yahweh; for I am in distress; my heart is troubled; My
heart is turned within me; for I have grievously rebelled: Abroad the
sword bereaves, at home there is as death.
Lam
1:21 They have heard that I sigh; there is none to comfort me; All
my enemies have heard of my trouble; they are glad that you have done
it: You will bring the day that you have proclaimed, and they shall
be like me.
Lam
1:22 Let all their wickedness come before you; Do to them, as you
have done to me for all my transgressions: For my sighs are many, and
my heart is faint.
Lam
2:1 How has the Lord covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in
his anger! He has cast down from heaven to the earth the beauty of
Israel, And hasn't remembered his footstool in the day of his anger.
Lam
2:2 The Lord has swallowed up all the habitations of Jacob, and has
not pitied: He has thrown down in his wrath the strongholds of the
daughter of Judah; He has brought them down to the ground; he has
profaned the kingdom and its princes.
Lam
2:3 He has cut off in fierce anger all the horn of Israel; He has
drawn back his right hand from before the enemy: He has burned up
Jacob like a flaming fire, which devours all around.
Lam
2:4 He has bent his bow like an enemy, he has stood with his right
hand as an adversary, Has killed all that were pleasant to the eye:
In the tent of the daughter of Zion he has poured out his wrath like
fire.
Lam
2:5 The Lord is become as an enemy, he has swallowed up Israel; He
has swallowed up all her palaces, he has destroyed his strongholds;
He has multiplied in the daughter of Judah mourning and lamentation.
Lam
2:6 He has violently taken away his tabernacle, as if it were of a
garden; he has destroyed his place of assembly: Yahweh has caused
solemn assembly and Sabbath to be forgotten in Zion, Has despised in
the indignation of his anger the king and the priest.
Lam
2:7 The Lord has cast off his altar, he has abhorred his sanctuary;
He has given up into the hand of the enemy the walls of her palaces:
They have made a noise in the house of Yahweh, as in the day of a
solemn assembly.
Lam
2:8 Yahweh has purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion;
He has stretched out the line, he has not withdrawn his hand from
destroying; He has made the rampart and wall to lament; they languish
together.
Lam
2:9 Her gates are sunk into the ground; he has destroyed and broken
her bars: Her king and her princes are among the nations where the
law is not; Yes, her prophets find no vision from Yahweh.
Lam
2:10 The elders of the daughter of Zion sit on the ground, they keep
silence; They have cast up dust on their heads; they have girded
themselves with sackcloth: The virgins of Jerusalem hang down their
heads to the ground.
Lam
2:11 My eyes do fail with tears, my heart is troubled; My liver is
poured on the earth, because of the destruction of the daughter of my
people, Because the young children and the infants swoon in the
streets of the city.
Lam
2:12 They tell their mothers, Where is grain and wine? When they
swoon as the wounded in the streets of the city, When their soul is
poured out into their mothers' bosom.
Lam
2:13 What shall I testify to you? what shall I liken to you,
daughter of Jerusalem? What shall I compare to you, that I may
comfort you, virgin daughter of Zion? For your breach is great like
the sea: who can heal you?
Lam
2:14 Your prophets have seen for you false and foolish visions; They
have not uncovered your iniquity, to bring back your captivity, But
have seen for you false oracles and causes of banishment.
Lam
2:15 All that pass by clap their hands at you; They hiss and wag
their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying,
Is this the city that men called The perfection of beauty, The joy of
the whole earth?
Lam
2:16 All your enemies have opened their mouth wide against you; They
hiss and gnash the teeth; they say, We have swallowed her up;
Certainly this is the day that we looked for; we have found, we have
seen it.
Lam
2:17 Yahweh has done that which he purposed; he has fulfilled his
word that he commanded in the days of old; He has thrown down, and
has not pitied: He has caused the enemy to rejoice over you; he has
exalted the horn of your adversaries.
Lam
2:18 Their heart cried to the Lord: wall of the daughter of Zion,
let tears run down like a river day and night; Give yourself no
respite; don't let the apple of your eye cease.
Lam
2:19 Arise, cry out in the night, at the beginning of the watches;
Pour out your heart like water before the face of the Lord: Lift up
your hands toward him for the life of your young children, that faint
for hunger at the head of every street.
Lam
2:20 Look, Yahweh, and see to whom you have done thus! Shall the
women eat their fruit, the children that are dandled in the hands?
Shall the priest and the prophet be killed in the sanctuary of the
Lord?
Lam
2:21 The youth and the old man lie on the ground in the streets; My
virgins and my young men are fallen by the sword: You have killed
them in the day of your anger; you have slaughtered, and
not pitied.
Lam
2:22 You have called, as in the day of a solemn assembly, my terrors
on every side; There was none that escaped or remained in the day of
Yahweh's anger: Those that I have dandled and brought up has my enemy
consumed.
Lam
3:1 I am the man that has seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.
Lam
3:2 He has led me and caused me to walk in darkness, and not in
light.
Lam
3:3 Surely against me he turns his hand again and again all the day.
Lam
3:4 My flesh and my skin has he made old; he has broken my bones.
Lam
3:5 He has built against me, and surrounded me with gall and
travail.
Lam
3:6 He has made me to dwell in dark places, as those that have been
long dead.
Lam
3:7 He has walled me about, that I can't go forth; he has made my
chain heavy.
Lam
3:8 Yes, when I cry, and call for help, he shuts out my prayer.
Lam
3:9 He has walled up my ways with cut stone; he has made my paths
crooked.
Lam
3:10 He is to me as a bear lying in wait, as a lion in secret
places.
Lam
3:11 He has turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces; he has
made me desolate.
Lam
3:12 He has bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.
Lam
3:13 He has caused the shafts of his quiver to enter into my
kidneys.
Lam
3:14 I am become a derision to all my people, and their song all the
day.
Lam
3:15 He has filled me with bitterness, he has sated me with
wormwood.
Lam
3:16 He has also broken my teeth with gravel stones; he has covered
me with ashes.
Lam
3:17 You have removed my soul far off from peace; I forgot
prosperity.
Lam
3:18 I said, My strength is perished, and my expectation from
Yahweh.
Lam
3:19 Remember my affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the
gall.
Lam
3:20 My soul still remembers them, and is bowed down within me.
Lam
3:21 This I recall to my mind; therefore have I hope.
Lam
3:22 It is of
Yahweh's loving kindnesses that we are not consumed, because his
compassion doesn't fail.
Lam
3:23 They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness.
Lam
3:24 Yahweh is my portion, says my soul; therefore will I hope in
him.
Lam
3:25 Yahweh is good to those who wait for him, to the soul that
seeks him.
Lam
3:26 It is good that a man should hope and quietly wait for the
salvation of Yahweh.
Lam
3:27 It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.
Lam
3:28 Let him sit alone and keep silence, because he has laid it on
him.
Lam
3:29 Let him put his mouth in the dust, if so be there may be hope.
Lam
3:30 Let him give his cheek to him who strikes him; let him be
filled full with reproach.
Lam
3:31 For the Lord will not cast off forever.
Lam
3:32 For though he cause grief, yet he will have compassion
according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses.
Lam
3:33 For he does not afflict willingly, nor grieve the children of
men.
Lam
3:34 To crush under foot all the prisoners of the earth,
Lam
3:35 To turn aside the right of a man before the face of the Most
High,
Lam
3:36 To subvert a man in his cause, the Lord doesn't approve.
Lam
3:37 Who is he who says, and it comes to pass, when the Lord doesn't
command it?
Lam
3:38 Doesn't evil and good come out of the mouth of the Most High?
Lam
3:39 Why does a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his
sins?
Lam
3:40 Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to Yahweh.
Lam
3:41 Let us lift up our heart with our hands to God in the heavens.
Lam
3:42 We have transgressed and have rebelled; you have not pardoned.
Lam
3:43 You have covered with anger and pursued us; you have killed,
you have not pitied.
Lam
3:44 You have covered yourself with a cloud, so that no prayer can
pass through.
Lam
3:45 You have made us an off-scouring and refuse in the midst of the
peoples.
Lam
3:46 All our enemies have opened their mouth wide against us.
Lam
3:47 Fear and the pit are come on us, devastation and destruction.
Lam
3:48 My eye runs down with streams of water, for the destruction of
the daughter of my people.
Lam
3:49 My eye pours down, and doesn't cease, without any intermission,
Lam
3:50 Until Yahweh look down, and see from heaven.
Lam
3:51 My eye affects my soul, because of all the daughters of my
city.
Lam
3:52 They have chased me sore like a bird, those who are my enemies
without cause.
Lam
3:53 They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and have cast a stone
on me.
Lam
3:54 Waters flowed over my head; I said, I am cut off.
Lam
3:55 I called on your name, Yahweh, out of the lowest dungeon.
Lam
3:56 You heard my voice; don't hide your ear at my breathing, at my
cry.
Lam
3:57 You drew near in the day that I called on you; you said, Don't
be afraid.
Lam
3:58 Lord, you have pleaded the causes of my soul; you have redeemed
my life.
Lam
3:59 Yahweh, you have seen my wrong; judge you my cause.
Lam
3:60 You have seen all their vengeance and all their devices against
me.
Lam
3:61 You have heard their reproach, Yahweh, and all their devices
against me,
Lam
3:62 The lips of those that rose up against me, and their device
against me all the day.
Lam
3:63 See you their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their
song.
Lam
3:64 You will render to them a recompense, Yahweh, according to the
work of their hands.
Lam
3:65 You will give them hardness of heart, your curse to them.
Lam
3:66 You will pursue them in anger, and destroy them from under the
heavens of Yahweh.
Lam
4:1 How is the gold become dim! how
is the most pure gold changed! The stones of the sanctuary are poured
out at the head of every street.
Lam
4:2 The precious sons of Zion, comparable to fine gold, How are they
esteemed as earthen pitchers, the work of the hands of the potter!
Lam
4:3 Even the jackals draw out the breast, they give suck to their
young ones: The daughter of my people is become cruel, like the
ostriches in the wilderness.
Lam
4:4 The tongue of the sucking child cleaves to the roof of his mouth
for thirst: The young children ask bread, and no man breaks it to
them.
Lam
4:5 Those who did feed delicately are desolate in the streets: Those
who were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills.
Lam
4:6 For the iniquity of the daughter of my people is greater than
the sin of Sodom, That was overthrown as in a moment, and no hands
were laid on her.
Lam
4:7 Her nobles were purer than snow, they were whiter than milk;
They were more ruddy in body than rubies, their polishing was as of
sapphire.
Lam
4:8 Their visage is blacker than a coal; they are not known in the
streets: Their skin cleaves to their bones; it is withered, it is
become like a stick.
Lam
4:9 Those who are killed with the sword are better than those who
are killed with hunger; For these pine away, stricken through, for
want of the fruits of the field.
Lam
4:10 The hands of the pitiful women have boiled their own children;
They were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
Lam
4:11 Yahweh has accomplished his wrath, he has poured out his fierce
anger; He has kindled a fire in Zion, which has devoured its
foundations.
Lam
4:12 The kings of the earth didn't believe, neither all the
inhabitants of the world, That the adversary and the enemy would
enter into the gates of Jerusalem.
Lam
4:13 It is
because of the sins of her prophets, and
the iniquities of her priests, That have shed the blood of the just
in the midst of her.
Lam
4:14 They wander as blind men in the streets, they are polluted with
blood, So that men can't touch their garments.
Lam
4:15 Depart you, they cried to them, Unclean! depart, depart, don't
touch! When they fled away and wandered, men said among the nations,
They shall no more sojourn here.
Lam
4:16 The anger of Yahweh has scattered them; he will no more regard
them: They didn't respect the persons of the priests, they didn't
favor the elders.
Lam
4:17 Our eyes do yet fail in looking
for our vain help: In our watching we have watched for a nation that
could not save.
Lam
4:18 They hunt our steps, so that we can't go in our streets: Our
end is near, our days are fulfilled; for our end is come.
Lam
4:19 Our pursuers were swifter than the eagles of the sky: They
chased us on the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness.
Lam
4:20 The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of Yahweh, was taken
in their pits; Of whom we said, Under his shadow we shall live among
the nations.
Lam
4:21 Rejoice and be glad, daughter of Edom, that dwell in the land
of Uz: The cup shall pass through to you also; you shall be drunken,
and shall make yourself naked.
Lam
4:22 The punishment of your iniquity is accomplished, daughter of
Zion; he will no more carry you away into captivity: He will visit
your iniquity, daughter of Edom; he will uncover your sins.
Lam
5:1 Remember, Yahweh, what has come on us: Look, and see our
reproach.
Lam
5:2 Our inheritance is turned to strangers, Our houses to aliens.
Lam
5:3 We are orphans and fatherless; Our mothers are as widows.
Lam
5:4 We have drunken our water for money; Our wood is sold to us.
Lam
5:5 Our pursuers are on our necks: We are weary, and have no rest.
Lam
5:6 We have given the hand to the Egyptians, To the Assyrians, to be
satisfied with bread.
Lam
5:7 Our fathers sinned, and are no more; We have borne their
iniquities.
Lam
5:8 Servants rule over us: There is none to deliver us out of their
hand.
Lam
5:9 We get our bread at the peril of our lives, Because of the sword
of the wilderness.
Lam
5:10 Our skin is black like an oven, Because of the burning heat of
famine.
Lam
5:11 They ravished the women in Zion, The virgins in the cities of
Judah.
Lam
5:12 Princes were hanged up by their hand: The faces of elders were
not honored.
Lam
5:13 The young men bare the mill; The children stumbled under the
wood.
Lam
5:14 The elders have ceased from the gate, The young men from their
music.
Lam
5:15 The joy of our heart is ceased; Our dance is turned into
mourning.
Lam
5:16 The crown is fallen from our head: Woe to us! for we have
sinned.
Lam
5:17 For this our heart is faint; For these things our eyes are dim;
Lam
5:18 For the mountain of Zion, which is desolate: The foxes walk on
it.
Lam
5:19 You, Yahweh, abide forever; Your throne is from generation to
generation.
Lam
5:20 Why do you forget us forever, And
forsake us so long time?
Lam
5:21 Turn you us to you, Yahweh, and we shall be turned; Renew our
days as of old.
Lam
5:22 But you have utterly rejected us; You are very angry against
us.
Nov. 25
Hebrews
11
Heb
11:1 Now faith is assurance of things hoped for, proof of things not
seen.
Heb
11:2 For by this, the elders obtained testimony.
Heb
11:3 By faith, we understand that the universe has been framed by
the word of God, so that what is seen has not been made out of things
which are visible.
Heb
11:4 By faith, Abel offered to God a more excellent sacrifice than
Cain, through which he had testimony given to him that he was
righteous, God testifying with respect to his gifts; and through it
he, being dead, still speaks.
Heb
11:5 By faith, Enoch was taken away, so that he wouldn't see death,
and he was not found, because God translated him. For he has had
testimony given to him that before his translation he had been well
pleasing to God.
Heb
11:6 Without faith it is impossible to be well pleasing to him, for
he who comes to God must believe that he exists, and that he is a
rewarder of those who seek him.
Heb
11:7 By faith, Noah, being warned about things not yet seen, moved
with godly fear, prepared a ship for the saving of his house, through
which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness
which is according to faith.
Heb
11:8 By faith, Abraham, when he was called, obeyed to go out to the
place which he was to receive for an inheritance. He went out, not
knowing where he went.
Heb
11:9 By faith, he lived as an alien in the land of promise, as in a
land not his own, dwelling in tents, with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs
with him of the same promise.
Heb
11:10 For he looked for the city which has the foundations, whose
builder and maker is God.
Heb
11:11 By faith, even Sarah herself received power to conceive, and
she bore a child when she was past age, since she counted him
faithful who had promised.
Heb
11:12 Therefore as many as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as
innumerable as the sand which is by the sea shore, were fathered by
one man, and him as good as dead.
Heb
11:13 These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but
having seen them and embraced them from afar, and having confessed
that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.
Heb
11:14 For those who say such things make it clear that they are
seeking a country of their own.
Heb
11:15 If indeed they had been thinking of that country from which
they went out, they would have had enough time to return.
Heb
11:16 But now they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly one.
Therefore God is not ashamed of them, to be called their God, for he
has prepared a city for them.
Heb
11:17 By faith, Abraham, being tested, offered up Isaac. Yes, he who
had gladly received the promises was offering up his one and only
son;
Heb
11:18 even he to whom it was said, "In Isaac will your seed be
called;"
Heb
11:19 concluding that God is able to raise up even from the dead.
Figuratively speaking, he also did receive him back from the dead.
Heb
11:20 By faith, Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau, even concerning things
to come.
Heb
11:21 By faith, Jacob, when he was dying, blessed each of the sons
of Joseph, and worshiped, leaning on the top of his staff.
Heb
11:22 By faith, Joseph, when his end was near, made mention of the
departure of the children of Israel; and gave instructions concerning
his bones.
Heb
11:23 By faith, Moses, when he was born, was hidden for three months
by his parents, because they saw that he was a beautiful child, and
they were not afraid of the king's commandment.
Heb
11:24 By faith, Moses, when he had grown up, refused to be called
the son of Pharaoh's daughter,
Heb
11:25 choosing rather to share ill treatment with God's people, than
to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a time;
Heb
11:26 accounting the reproach of Christ greater riches than the
treasures of Egypt; for he looked to the reward.
Heb
11:27 By faith, he left Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king;
for he endured, as seeing him who is invisible.
Heb
11:28 By faith, he kept the Passover, and the sprinkling of the
blood, that the destroyer of the firstborn should not touch them.
Heb
11:29 By faith, they passed through the Red Sea as on dry land. When
the Egyptians tried to do so, they were swallowed up.
Heb
11:30 By faith, the walls of Jericho fell down, after they had been
encircled for seven days.
Heb
11:31 By faith, Rahab the prostitute, didn't perish with those who
were disobedient, having received the spies in peace.
Heb
11:32 What more shall I say? For the time would fail me if I told of
Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, David, Samuel, and the prophets;
Heb
11:33 who, through faith subdued kingdoms, worked out righteousness,
obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions,
Heb
11:34 quenched the power of fire, escaped the edge of the sword,
from weakness were made strong, grew mighty in war, and caused foreign
armies to flee.
Heb
11:35 Women received their dead by resurrection. Others were
tortured, not accepting their deliverance, that they might obtain a
better resurrection.
Heb
11:36 Others were tried by mocking and scourging, yes, moreover by
bonds and imprisonment.
Heb
11:37 They were stoned. They were sawn apart. They were tempted.
They were slain with the sword. They went around in sheep skins and
in goat skins; being destitute, afflicted, ill-treated
Heb
11:38 (of whom the world was not worthy), wandering in deserts,
mountains, caves, and the holes of the earth.
Heb
11:39 These all, having had testimony given to them through their
faith, didn't receive the promise,
Heb
11:40 God having provided some better thing concerning us, so that
apart from us they should not be made perfect.
Nov. 26
Hebrews
12
Heb
12:1 Therefore let us also, seeing we are surrounded by so great a
cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight and the sin which so
easily entangles us, and let us run with patience the race that is
set before us,
Heb
12:2 looking to Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for
the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising its
shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
Heb
12:3 For consider him who has endured such contradiction of sinners
against himself, that you don't grow weary, fainting in your souls.
Heb
12:4 You have not yet resisted to blood, striving against sin;
Heb
12:5 and you have forgotten the exhortation which reasons with you
as with children, "My son, don't take lightly the chastening of
the Lord, nor faint when you are reproved by him;
Heb
12:6 For whom the Lord loves, he chastens, and scourges every son
whom he receives."
Heb
12:7 It is for discipline that you endure. God deals with you as
with children, for what son is there whom his father doesn't
discipline?
Heb
12:8 But if you are without discipline, of which all have been made
partakers, then are you illegitimate, and not children.
Heb
12:9 Furthermore, we had the fathers of our flesh to chasten us, and
we paid them respect. Shall we not much rather be in subjection to
the Father of spirits, and live?
Heb
12:10 For they indeed, for a few days, punished us as seemed good to
them; but he for our profit, that we may be partakers of his
holiness.
Heb
12:11 All chastening seems for the present to be not joyous but
grievous; yet afterward it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness
to those who have been exercised thereby.
Heb
12:12 Therefore, lift up the hands that hang down and the feeble
knees,
Heb
12:13 and make straight paths for your feet, so that which is lame
may not be dislocated, but rather be healed.
Heb
12:14 Follow after peace with all men, and the sanctification
without which no man will see the Lord,
Heb
12:15 looking carefully lest there be any man who falls short of the
grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you,
and many be defiled by it;
Heb
12:16 lest there be any sexually immoral person, or profane person,
like Esau, who sold his birthright for one meal.
Heb
12:17 For you know that even when he afterward desired to inherit
the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no place for a change of
mind though he sought it diligently with tears.
Heb
12:18 For you have not come to a mountain that might be touched, and
that burned with fire, and to blackness, darkness, storm,
Heb
12:19 the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which those
who heard it begged that not one more word should be spoken to them,
Heb
12:20 for they could not stand that which was commanded, "If
even an animal touches the mountain, it shall be stoned;"
Heb
12:21 and so fearful was the appearance, that Moses said, "I am
terrified and trembling."
Heb
12:22 But you have come to Mount Zion, and to the city of the living
God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable multitudes of angels,
Heb
12:23 to the general assembly and assembly of the firstborn who are
enrolled in heaven, to God the Judge of all, to the spirits of just
men made perfect,
Heb
12:24 to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the blood of
sprinkling that speaks better than that of Abel.
Heb
12:25 See that you don't refuse him who speaks. For if they didn't
escape when they refused him who warned on the Earth, how much more
will we not escape who turn away from him who warns from heaven,
Heb
12:26 whose voice shook the earth then, but now he has promised,
saying, "Yet once more I will shake not only the earth, but also
the heavens."
Heb
12:27 This phrase, "Yet once more," signifies the removing
of those things that are shaken, as of things that have been made,
that those things which are not shaken may remain.
Heb
12:28 Therefore, receiving a Kingdom that can't be shaken, let us
have grace, through which we serve God acceptably, with reverence and
awe,
Heb
12:29 for our God is a consuming fire.
