Nov.
12
Isaiah
64-66
Isa
64:1 Oh that you would tear the heavens, that you would come down,
that the mountains might quake at your presence,
Isa
64:2 as when fire kindles the brushwood, and
the fire causes the waters to boil; to make your name known to your
adversaries, that the nations may tremble at your presence!
Isa
64:3 When you did terrible things which we didn't look for, you came
down, the mountains quaked at your presence.
Isa
64:4 For from of old men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear,
neither has the eye seen a God besides you, who works for him who
waits for him.
Isa
64:5 You meet him who rejoices and works righteousness, those who
remember you in your ways: behold, you were angry, and we sinned: in
them have we been
of long time; and shall we be saved?
Isa
64:6 For we have all become as one who is unclean, and all our
righteousness is as a polluted garment: and we all fade as a leaf;
and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.
Isa
64:7 There is none who calls on your name, who stirs up himself to
take hold of you; for you have hid your face from us, and have
consumed us by means of our iniquities.
Isa
64:8 But now, Yahweh, you are our Father; we are the clay, and you
our potter; and we all are the work of your hand.
Isa
64:9 Don't be furious, Yahweh, neither remember iniquity forever:
see, look, we beg you, we are all your people.
Isa
64:10 Your holy cities are become a wilderness, Zion is become a
wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.
Isa
64:11 Our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers praised
you, is burned with fire; and all our pleasant places are laid waste.
Isa
64:12 Will you refrain yourself for these things, Yahweh? will you
hold your peace, and afflict us very sore?
Isa
65:1 "I am inquired of by those who didn't ask; I am found by
those who didn't seek me: I said, See me, see me, to a nation that
was not called by my name.
Isa
65:2 I have spread out my hands all the day to a rebellious people,
who walk in a way that is not good, after their own thoughts;
Isa
65:3 a people who provoke me to my face continually, sacrificing in
gardens, and burning incense on bricks;
Isa
65:4 who sit among the graves, and lodge in the secret places; who
eat pig's flesh, and broth of abominable things is in their vessels;
Isa
65:5 who say, Stand by yourself, don't come near to me, for I am
holier than you. These are a smoke in my nose, a fire that burns all
the day.
Isa
65:6 "Behold, it is written before me: I will not keep silence,
but will recompense, yes, I will recompense into their bosom,
Isa
65:7 your own iniquities, and the iniquities of your fathers
together," says Yahweh, "who have burned incense on the
mountains, and blasphemed me on the hills; therefore will I first
measure their work into their bosom."
Isa
65:8 Thus says Yahweh, "As the new wine is found in the
cluster, and one says, 'Don't destroy it, for a blessing is in it:'
so will I do for my servants' sake, that I may not destroy them all.
Isa
65:9 I will bring forth a seed out of Jacob, and out of Judah an
inheritor of my mountains; and my chosen shall inherit it, and my
servants shall dwell there.
Isa
65:10 Sharon shall be a fold of flocks, and the valley of Achor a
place for herds to lie down in, for my people who have sought me.
Isa
65:11 "But you who forsake Yahweh, who forget my holy mountain,
who prepare a table for Fortune, and who fill up mixed wine to
Destiny;
Isa
65:12 I will destine you to the sword, and you shall all bow down to
the slaughter; because when I called, you did not answer; when I
spoke, you did not hear; but you did that which was evil in my eyes,
and chose that in which I didn't delight."
Isa
65:13 Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh, "Behold, my servants
shall eat, but you shall be hungry; behold, my servants shall drink,
but you shall be thirsty; behold, my servants shall rejoice, but you
shall be disappointed;
Isa
65:14 behold, my servants shall sing for joy of heart, but you shall
cry for sorrow of heart, and shall wail for anguish of spirit.
Isa
65:15 You shall leave your name for a curse to my chosen; and the
Lord Yahweh will kill you; and he will call his servants by another
name:
Isa
65:16 so that he who blesses himself in the earth shall bless
himself in the God of truth; and he who swears in the earth shall
swear by the God of truth; because the former troubles are forgotten,
and because they are hid from my eyes.
Isa
65:17 "For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth; and
the former things shall not be remembered, nor come into mind.
Isa
65:18 But be you glad and rejoice forever in that which I create;
for, behold, I create Jerusalem a rejoicing, and her people a joy.
Isa
65:19 I will rejoice in Jerusalem, and joy in my people; and there
shall be heard in her no more the voice of weeping and the voice of
crying.
Isa
65:20 "There shall be no more there an infant of days, nor an
old man who has not filled his days; for the child shall die one
hundred years old, and the sinner being one hundred years old shall
be accursed.
Isa
65:21 They shall build houses, and inhabit them; and they shall
plant vineyards, and eat the fruit of them.
Isa
65:22 They shall not build, and another inhabit; they shall not
plant, and another eat: for as the days of a tree shall be the days
of my people, and my chosen shall long enjoy the work of their hands.
Isa
65:23 They shall not labor in vain, nor bring forth for calamity;
for they are the seed of the blessed of Yahweh, and their offspring
with them.
Isa
65:24 It shall happen that, before they call, I will answer; and
while they are yet speaking, I will hear.
Isa
65:25 The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall
eat straw like the ox; and dust shall be the serpent's food. They
shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain," says
Yahweh.
Isa
66:1 Thus says Yahweh, "Heaven is my throne, and the earth is
my footstool: what manner of house will you build to me? and what
place shall be my rest?
Isa
66:2 For all these things has my hand made, and so
all these things came to be," says Yahweh: "but to this man
will I look, even to him who is poor and of a contrite spirit, and
who trembles at my word.
Isa
66:3 He who kills an ox is as he who kills a man; he who sacrifices
a lamb, as he who breaks a dog's neck; he who offers an offering, as
he who offers pig's blood; he who burns
frankincense, as he who blesses an idol. Yes, they have chosen their
own ways, and their soul delights in their abominations:
Isa
66:4 I also will choose their delusions, and will bring their fears
on them; because when I called, none did answer; when I spoke, they
did not hear: but they did that which was evil in my eyes, and chose
that in which I didn't delight."
Isa
66:5 Hear the word of Yahweh, you who tremble at his word: "Your
brothers who hate you, who cast you out for my name's sake, have
said, 'Let Yahweh be glorified, that we may see your joy;' but it is
those who shall be disappointed.
Isa
66:6 A voice of tumult from the city, a voice from the temple, a
voice of Yahweh that renders recompense to his enemies.
Isa
66:7 "Before she travailed, she brought forth; before her pain
came, she delivered a son.
Isa
66:8 Who has heard such a thing? who has seen such things? Shall a
land be born in one day? shall a nation be brought forth at once? for
as soon as Zion travailed, she brought forth her children.
Isa
66:9 Shall I bring to the birth, and not cause to bring forth?"
says Yahweh: "shall I who cause to bring forth shut the
womb?" says your God.
Isa
66:10 "Rejoice with Jerusalem, and be glad for her, all you who
love her: rejoice for joy with her, all you who mourn over her;
Isa
66:11 that you may suck and be satisfied with the breasts of her
consolations; that you may milk out, and be delighted with the
abundance of her glory."
Isa
66:12 For thus says Yahweh, "Behold, I will extend peace to her
like a river, and the glory of the nations like an overflowing
stream: and you shall suck of it;
you shall be borne on the side, and shall be dandled on the knees.
Isa
66:13 As one whom his mother comforts, so will I comfort you; and
you shall be comforted in Jerusalem."
Isa
66:14 You shall see it,
and your heart shall rejoice, and your bones shall flourish like the
tender grass: and the hand of Yahweh shall be known toward his
servants; and he will have indignation against his enemies.
Isa
66:15 For, behold, Yahweh will come with fire, and his chariots
shall be like the whirlwind; to render his anger with fierceness, and
his rebuke with flames of fire.
Isa
66:16 For by fire will Yahweh execute judgment, and by his sword, on
all flesh; and the slain of Yahweh shall be many.
Isa
66:17 "Those who sanctify themselves and purify themselves to
go to the gardens, behind one in the
midst, eating pig's flesh, and the abomination, and the mouse, they
shall come to an end together," says Yahweh.
Isa
66:18 "For I know
their works and their thoughts: the time
comes, that I will gather all nations and languages; and they shall
come, and shall see my glory.
Isa
66:19 "I will set a sign among them, and I will send such as
escape of them to the nations, to Tarshish, Pul, and Lud, who draw
the bow, to Tubal and Javan, to the islands afar off, who have not
heard my fame, neither have seen my glory; and they shall declare my
glory among the nations.
Isa
66:20 They shall bring all your brothers out of all the nations for
an offering to Yahweh, on horses, and in chariots, and in litters,
and on mules, and on dromedaries, to my holy mountain Jerusalem, says
Yahweh, as the children of Israel bring their offering in a clean
vessel into the house of Yahweh.
Isa
66:21 Of them also will I take for priests and
for Levites," says Yahweh.
Isa
66:22 "For as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will
make, shall remain before me," says Yahweh, "so your seed
and your name shall remain.
Isa
66:23 It shall happen, that from one new moon to another, and from
one Sabbath to another, shall all flesh come to worship before me,"
says Yahweh.
Isa
66:24 "They shall go forth, and look on the dead bodies of the
men who have transgressed against me: for their worm shall not die,
neither shall their fire be quenched; and they will be loathsome to
all mankind."
Nov. 12
Titus 2
Tit 2:1 But say the
things which fit sound doctrine,
Tit 2:2 that older men
should be temperate, sensible, sober minded, sound in faith, in love,
and in patience:
Tit 2:3 and that older
women likewise be reverent in behavior, not slanderers nor enslaved
to much wine, teachers of that which is good;
Tit 2:4 that they may
train the young women to love their husbands, to love their children,
Tit 2:5 to be sober
minded, chaste, workers at home, kind, being in subjection to their
own husbands, that God's word may not be blasphemed.
Tit 2:6 Likewise,
exhort the younger men to be sober minded;
Tit 2:7 in all things
showing yourself an example of good works; in your teaching showing
integrity, seriousness, incorruptibility,
Tit 2:8 and soundness
of speech that can't be condemned; that he who opposes you may be
ashamed, having no evil thing to say about us.
Tit 2:9 Exhort servants
to be in subjection to their own masters, and to be well-pleasing in
all things; not contradicting;
Tit 2:10 not stealing,
but showing all good fidelity; that they may adorn the doctrine of
God, our Savior, in all things.
Tit 2:11 For the grace
of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all men,
Tit 2:12 instructing us
to the intent that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we would
live soberly, righteously, and godly in this present world;
Tit 2:13 looking for
the blessed hope and appearing of the glory of our great God and
Savior, Jesus Christ;
Tit 2:14 who gave
himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify
for himself a people for his own possession, zealous for good works.
Tit 2:15 Say these
things and exhort and reprove with all authority. Let no man despise
you.