Nov.
28
Ezekiel
5-8
Eze
5:1 You, son of man, take a sharp sword; You shall take it as a
barber's razor to you, and shall cause it to pass on your head and on
your beard: then take balances to weigh, and divide the hair.
Eze
5:2 A third part you shall burn in the fire in the midst of the
city, when the days of the siege are fulfilled; and you shall take a
third part, and strike with the sword around it; and a third part you
shall scatter to the wind, and I will draw out a sword after them.
Eze
5:3 You shall take of it a few in number, and bind them in your
skirts.
Eze
5:4 Of these again you shall take, and cast them into the midst of
the fire, and burn them in the fire; from it shall a fire come forth
into all the house of Israel.
Eze
5:5 Thus says the Lord Yahweh: This is Jerusalem; I have set her in
the midst of the nations, and countries are around her.
Eze
5:6 She has rebelled against my ordinances in doing wickedness more
than the nations, and against my statutes more than the countries
that are around her; for they have rejected my ordinances, and as for
my statutes, they have not walked in them.
Eze
5:7 Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because you are turbulent
more than the nations that are around you, and have not walked in my
statutes, neither have kept my ordinances, neither have done after
the ordinances of the nations that are around you;
Eze
5:8 therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I, even I, am
against you; and I will execute judgments in the midst of you in the
sight of the nations.
Eze
5:9 I will do in you that which I have not done, and whereunto I
will not do any more the like, because of all your abominations.
Eze
5:10 Therefore the fathers shall eat the sons in the midst of you,
and the sons shall eat their fathers; and I will execute judgments on
you; and the whole remnant of you will I scatter to all the winds.
Eze
5:11 Therefore, as I live, says the Lord Yahweh, surely, because you
have defiled my sanctuary with all your detestable things, and with
all your abominations, therefore will I also diminish you;
neither shall my eye spare, and I also will have no pity.
Eze
5:12 A third part of you shall die with the pestilence, and with
famine shall they be consumed in the midst of you; and a third part
shall fall by the sword around you; and a third part I will scatter
to all the winds, and will draw out a sword after them.
Eze
5:13 Thus shall my anger be accomplished, and I will cause my wrath
toward them to rest, and I shall be comforted; and they shall know
that I, Yahweh, have spoken in my zeal, when I have accomplished my
wrath on them.
Eze
5:14 Moreover I will make you a desolation and a reproach among the
nations that are around you, in the sight of all that pass by.
Eze
5:15 So it shall be a reproach and a taunt, an instruction and an
astonishment, to the nations that are around you, when I shall
execute judgments on you in anger and in wrath, and in wrathful
rebukes; (I, Yahweh, have spoken it;)
Eze
5:16 when I shall send on them the evil arrows of famine, that are
for destruction, which I will send to destroy you: and I will
increase the famine on you, and will break your staff of bread;
Eze
5:17 and I will send on you famine and evil animals, and they shall
bereave you; and pestilence and blood shall pass through you; and I
will bring the sword on you: I, Yahweh, have spoken it.
Eze
6:1 The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
Eze
6:2 Son of man, set your face toward the mountains of Israel, and
prophesy to them,
Eze
6:3 and say, You mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord
Yahweh: Thus says the Lord Yahweh to the mountains and to the hills,
to the watercourses and to the valleys: Behold, I, even I, will bring
a sword on you, and I will destroy your high places.
Eze
6:4 Your altars shall become desolate, and your incense altars shall
be broken; and I will cast down your slain men before your idols.
Eze
6:5 I will lay the dead bodies of the children of Israel before
their idols; and I will scatter your bones around your altars.
Eze
6:6 In all your dwelling places the cities shall be laid waste, and
the high places shall be desolate; that your altars may be laid waste
and made desolate, and your idols may be broken and cease, and your
incense altars may be cut down, and your works may be abolished.
Eze
6:7 The slain shall fall in the midst of you, and you shall know
that I am Yahweh.
Eze
6:8 Yet will I leave a remnant, in that you shall have some that
escape the sword among the nations, when you shall be scattered
through the countries.
Eze
6:9 Those of you that escape shall remember me among the nations
where they shall be carried captive, how that I have been broken with
their lewd heart, which has departed from me, and with their eyes,
which play the prostitute after their idols: and they shall loathe
themselves in their own sight for the evils which they have committed
in all their abominations.
Eze
6:10 They shall know that I am Yahweh: I have not said in vain that
I would do this evil to them.
Eze
6:11 Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Smite with your hand, and stamp with
your foot, and say, Alas! because of all the evil abominations of the
house of Israel; for they shall fall by the sword, by the famine, and
by the pestilence.
Eze
6:12 He who is far off shall die of the pestilence; and he who is
near shall fall by the sword; and he who remains and is besieged
shall die by the famine: thus will I accomplish my wrath on them.
Eze
6:13 You shall know that I am Yahweh, when their slain men shall be
among their idols around their altars, on every high hill, on all the
tops of the mountains, and under every green tree, and under every
thick oak, the places where they offered pleasant aroma to all their
idols.
Eze
6:14 I will stretch out my hand on them, and make the land desolate
and waste, from the wilderness toward Diblah, throughout all their
habitations: and they shall know that I am Yahweh.
Eze
7:1 Moreover the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
Eze
7:2 You, son of man, thus says the Lord Yahweh to the land of
Israel, An end: the end is come on the four corners of the land.
Eze
7:3 Now is the end on you, and I will send my anger on you, and will
judge you according to your ways; and I will bring on you all your
abominations.
Eze
7:4 My eye shall not spare you, neither will I have pity; but I will
bring your ways on you, and your abominations shall be in the midst
of you: and you shall know that I am Yahweh.
Eze
7:5 Thus says the Lord Yahweh: An evil, an only evil; behold, it
comes.
Eze
7:6 An end is come, the end is come; it awakes against you; behold,
it comes.
Eze
7:7 Your doom is come to you, inhabitant of the land: the time is
come, the day is near, a day of
tumult, and not of
joyful shouting, on the mountains.
Eze
7:8 Now will I shortly pour out my wrath on you, and accomplish my
anger against you, and will judge you according to your ways; and I
will bring on you all your abominations.
Eze
7:9 My eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity: I will bring
on you according to your ways; and your abominations shall be in the
midst of you; and you shall know that I, Yahweh, do strike.
Eze
7:10 Behold, the day, behold, it comes: your doom is gone forth; the
rod has blossomed, pride has budded.
Eze
7:11 Violence is risen up into a rod of wickedness; none of them
shall remain,
nor of their multitude, nor of their wealth: neither shall there be
eminency among them.
Eze
7:12 The time is come, the day draws near: don't let the buyer
rejoice, nor the seller mourn; for wrath is on all its multitude.
Eze
7:13 For the seller shall not return to that which is sold, although
they be yet alive: for the vision is touching the whole multitude of
it, none shall return; neither shall any strengthen himself in the
iniquity of his life.
Eze
7:14 They have blown the trumpet, and have made all ready; but none
goes to the battle; for my wrath is on all its multitude.
Eze
7:15 The sword is outside, and the pestilence and the famine within:
he who is in the field shall die with the sword: and he who is in the
city, famine and pestilence shall devour him.
Eze
7:16 But those of those who escape shall escape, and shall be on the
mountains like doves of the valleys, all of them moaning, every one
in his iniquity.
Eze
7:17 All hands shall be feeble, and all knees shall be weak as
water.
Eze
7:18 They shall also gird themselves with sackcloth, and horror
shall cover them; and shame shall be on all faces, and baldness on
all their heads.
Eze
7:19 They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold
shall be as an unclean thing; their silver and their gold shall not
be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of Yahweh: they shall
not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels; because it has
been the stumbling block of their iniquity.
Eze
7:20 As for the beauty of his ornament, he set it in majesty; but
they made the images of their abominations and
their detestable things therein: therefore have I made it to them as
an unclean thing.
Eze
7:21 I will give it into the hands of the strangers for a prey, and
to the wicked of the earth for a spoil; and they shall profane it.
Eze
7:22 My face will I turn also from them, and they shall profane my
secret place;
and robbers shall enter into it, and profane it.
Eze
7:23 Make the chain; for the land is full of bloody crimes, and the
city is full of violence.
Eze
7:24 Therefore I will bring the worst of the nations, and they shall
possess their houses: I will also make the pride of the strong to
cease; and their holy places shall be profaned.
Eze
7:25 Destruction comes; and they shall seek peace, and there shall
be none.
Eze
7:26 Mischief shall come on mischief, and rumor shall be on rumor;
and they shall seek a vision of the prophet; but the law shall perish
from the priest, and counsel from the elders.
Eze
7:27 The king shall mourn, and the prince shall be clothed with
desolation, and the hands of the people of the land shall be
troubled: I will do to them after their way, and according to their
own judgments will I judge them; and they shall know that I am
Yahweh.
Eze
8:1 It happened in the sixth year, in the sixth month,
in the fifth day
of the month, as I sat in my house, and the elders of Judah sat
before me, that the hand of the Lord Yahweh fell there on me.
Eze
8:2 Then I saw, and behold, a likeness as the appearance of fire;
from the appearance of his waist and downward, fire; and from his
waist and upward, as the appearance of brightness, as it were glowing
metal.
Eze
8:3 He put forth the form of a hand, and took me by a lock of my
head; and the Spirit lifted me up between earth and the sky, and
brought me in the visions of God to Jerusalem, to the door of the
gate of the inner court
that looks toward the north; where there was the seat of the image of
jealousy, which provokes to jealousy.
Eze
8:4 Behold, the glory of the God of Israel was there, according to
the appearance that I saw in the plain.
Eze
8:5 Then said he to me, Son of man, lift up your eyes now the way
toward the north. So I lifted up my eyes the way toward the north,
and see, northward of the gate of the altar this image of jealousy in
the entry.
Eze
8:6 He said to me, Son of man, see you what they do? even the great
abominations that the house of Israel do commit here, that I should
go far off from my sanctuary? but you shall again see yet other great
abominations.
Eze
8:7 He brought me to the door of the court; and when I looked,
behold, a hole in the wall.
Eze
8:8 Then said he to me, Son of man, dig now in the wall: and when I
had dug in the wall, behold, a door.
Eze
8:9 He said to me, Go in, and see the wicked abominations that they
do here.
Eze
8:10 So I went in and saw; and see, every form of creeping things,
and abominable animals, and all the idols of the house of Israel,
portrayed around on the wall.
Eze
8:11 There stood before them seventy men of the elders of the house
of Israel; and in the midst of them stood Jaazaniah the son of
Shaphan, every man with his censer in his hand; and the odor of the
cloud of incense went up.
Eze
8:12 Then said he to me, Son of man, have you seen what the elders
of the house of Israel do in the dark, every man in his chambers of
imagery? for they say, Yahweh doesn't see us; Yahweh has forsaken the
land.
Eze
8:13 He said also to me, You shall again see yet other great
abominations which they do.
Eze
8:14 Then he brought me to the door of the gate of Yahweh's house
which was toward the north; and see, there sat the women weeping for
Tammuz.
Eze
8:15 Then said he to me, Have you seen this,
son of man? you shall again see yet greater abominations than these.
Eze
8:16 He brought me into the inner court of Yahweh's house; and see,
at the door of the temple of Yahweh, between the porch and the altar,
were about twenty-five men, with their backs toward the temple of
Yahweh, and their faces toward the east; and they were worshipping
the sun toward the east.
Eze
8:17 Then he said to me, Have you seen this,
son of man? Is it a light thing to the house of Judah that they
commit the abominations which they commit here? for they have filled
the land with violence, and have turned again to provoke me to anger:
and behold, they put the branch to their nose.
Eze
8:18 Therefore will I also deal in wrath; my eye shall not spare,
neither will I have pity; and though they cry in my ears with a loud
voice, yet will I not hear them.
Nov. 28
James 1
Jas 1:1 James, a
servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes
which are in the Dispersion: Greetings.
Jas 1:2 Count it all
joy, my brothers, when you fall into various temptations,
Jas 1:3 knowing that
the testing of your faith produces endurance.
Jas 1:4 Let endurance
have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking
in nothing.
Jas 1:5 But if any of
you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and
without reproach; and it will be given to him.
Jas 1:6 But let him ask
in faith, without any doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of
the sea, driven by the wind and tossed.
Jas 1:7 For let that
man not think that he will receive anything from the Lord.
Jas 1:8 He is a
double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.
Jas 1:9 But let the
brother in humble circumstances glory in his high position;
Jas 1:10 and the rich,
in that he is made humble, because like the flower in the grass, he
will pass away.
Jas 1:11 For the sun
arises with the scorching wind, and withers the grass, and the flower
in it falls, and the beauty of its appearance perishes. So also will
the rich man fade away in his pursuits.
Jas 1:12 Blessed is the
man who endures temptation, for when he has been approved, he will
receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to those who love
him.
Jas 1:13 Let no man say
when he is tempted, "I am tempted by God," for God can't be
tempted by evil, and he himself tempts no one.
Jas 1:14 But each one
is tempted, when he is drawn away by his own lust, and enticed.
Jas 1:15 Then the lust,
when it has conceived, bears sin; and the sin, when it is full grown,
brings forth death.
Jas 1:16 Don't be
deceived, my beloved brothers.
Jas 1:17 Every good
gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the
Father of lights, with whom can be no variation, nor turning shadow.
Jas 1:18 Of his own
will he brought us forth by the word of truth, that we should be a
kind of first fruits of his creatures.
Jas 1:19 So, then, my
beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and
slow to anger;
Jas 1:20 for the anger
of man doesn't produce the righteousness of God.
Jas 1:21 Therefore,
putting away all filthiness and overflowing of wickedness, receive
with humility the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.
Jas 1:22 But be doers
of the word, and not only hearers, deluding your own selves.
Jas 1:23 For if anyone
is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man looking at
his natural face in a mirror;
Jas 1:24 for he sees
himself, and goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of man he
was.
Jas 1:25 But he who
looks into the perfect law of freedom, and continues, not being a
hearer who forgets, but a doer of the work, this man will be blessed
in what he does.
Jas 1:26 If anyone
among you thinks himself to be religious while he doesn't bridle his
tongue, but deceives his heart, this man's religion is worthless.
Jas 1:27 Pure religion
and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the
fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself
unstained by the world.