Nov.
4
Isaiah
33-36
Isa
33:1 Woe to you who destroy, but you weren't destroyed; and who
betray, but nobody betrayed you! When you have finished destroying,
you will be destroyed; and when you have made an end of betrayal, you
will be betrayed.
Isa
33:2 Yahweh, be gracious to us. We have waited for you. Be our
strength every morning, our salvation also in the time of trouble.
Isa
33:3 At the noise of the thunder, the peoples have fled. When you
lift yourself up, the nations are scattered.
Isa
33:4 Your spoil will be gathered as the caterpillar gathers. Men
will leap on it as locusts leap.
Isa
33:5 Yahweh is exalted, for he dwells on high. He has filled Zion
with justice and righteousness.
Isa
33:6 There will be stability in your times, abundance of salvation,
wisdom, and knowledge. The fear of Yahweh is your treasure.
Isa
33:7 Behold, their valiant ones cry outside; the ambassadors of
peace weep bitterly.
Isa
33:8 The highways are desolate. The traveling man ceases. The
covenant is broken. He has despised the cities. He doesn't regard
man.
Isa
33:9 The land mourns and languishes. Lebanon is confounded and
withers away. Sharon is like a desert, and Bashan and Carmel are
stripped bare.
Isa
33:10 "Now I will arise," says Yahweh; "Now I will
lift myself up. Now I will be exalted.
Isa
33:11 You will conceive chaff. You will bring forth stubble. Your
breath is a fire that will devour you.
Isa
33:12 The peoples will be like the burning of lime, like thorns that
are cut down and burned in the fire.
Isa
33:13 Hear, you who are far off, what I have done; and, you who are
near, acknowledge my might."
Isa
33:14 The sinners in Zion are afraid. Trembling has seized the
godless ones. Who among us can live with the devouring fire? Who
among us can live with everlasting burning?
Isa
33:15 He who walks righteously, and speaks blamelessly; He who
despises the gain of oppressions, who gestures with his hands,
refusing to take a bribe, who stops his ears from hearing of blood,
and shuts his eyes from looking at evil--
Isa
33:16 he will dwell on high. His place of defense will be the
fortress of rocks. His bread will be supplied. His waters will be
sure.
Isa
33:17 Your eyes will see the king in his beauty. They will see a
distant land.
Isa
33:18 Your heart will meditate on the terror. Where is he who
counted? Where is he who weighed? Where is he who counted the towers?
Isa
33:19 You will no longer see the fierce people, a people of a deep
speech that you can't comprehend, with a strange language that you
can't understand.
Isa
33:20 Look at Zion, the city of our appointed festivals. Your eyes
will see Jerusalem, a quiet habitation, a tent that won't be removed.
Its stakes will never be plucked up, nor will any of its cords be
broken.
Isa
33:21 But there Yahweh will be with us in majesty, a place of broad
rivers and streams, in which no galley with oars will go, neither
will any gallant ship pass by there.
Isa
33:22 For Yahweh is our judge. Yahweh is our lawgiver. Yahweh is our
king. He will save us.
Isa
33:23 Your rigging is untied. They couldn't strengthen the foot of
their mast. They couldn't spread the sail. Then the prey of a great
spoil was divided. The lame took the prey.
Isa
33:24 The inhabitant won't say, "I am sick." The people
who dwell therein will be forgiven their iniquity.
Isa
34:1 Come near, you nations, to hear! Listen, you peoples. Let the
earth and all it contains hear; the world, and everything that comes
from it.
Isa
34:2 For Yahweh is enraged against all the nations, and angry with
all their armies. He has utterly destroyed them. He has given them
over for slaughter.
Isa
34:3 Their slain will also be cast out, and the stench of their dead
bodies will come up; and the mountains will melt in their blood.
Isa
34:4 All of the army of the sky will be dissolved. The sky will be
rolled up like a scroll, and all its armies will fade away, as a leaf
fades from off a vine or a fig tree.
Isa
34:5 For my sword has drunk its fill in the sky. Behold, it will
come down on Edom, and on the people of my curse, for judgment.
Isa
34:6 Yahweh's sword is filled with blood. It is covered with fat,
with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of
rams; for Yahweh has a sacrifice in Bozrah, And a great slaughter in
the land of Edom.
Isa
34:7 The wild oxen will come down with them, and the young bulls
with the mighty bulls; and their land will be drunken with blood, and
their dust made greasy with fat.
Isa
34:8 For Yahweh has a day of vengeance, a year of recompense for the
cause of Zion.
Isa
34:9 Its streams will be turned into pitch, its dust into sulfur,
And its land will become burning pitch.
Isa
34:10 It won't be quenched night nor day. Its smoke will go up
forever. From generation to generation, it will lie waste. No one
will pass through it forever and ever.
Isa
34:11 But the pelican and the porcupine will possess it. The owl and
the raven will dwell in it. He will stretch the line of confusion
over it, and the plumb line of emptiness.
Isa
34:12 They shall call its nobles to the kingdom, but none shall be
there; and all its princes shall be nothing.
Isa
34:13 Thorns will come up in its palaces, nettles and thistles in
its fortresses; and it will be a habitation of jackals, a court for
ostriches.
Isa
34:14 The wild animals of the desert will meet with the wolves, and
the wild goat will cry to his fellow. Yes, the night creature shall
settle there, and shall find herself a place of rest.
Isa
34:15 The arrow snake will make her nest there, and lay, hatch, and
gather under her shade. Yes, the kites will be gathered there, every
one with her mate.
Isa
34:16 Search in the book of Yahweh, and read: not one of these will
be missing. none will lack her mate. For my mouth has commanded, and
his Spirit has gathered them.
Isa
34:17 He has cast the lot for them, and his hand has divided it to
them with a measuring line. They shall possess it forever. From
generation to generation they will dwell in it.
Isa
35:1 The wilderness and the dry land will be glad. The desert will
rejoice and blossom like a rose.
Isa
35:2 It will blossom abundantly, and rejoice even with joy and
singing. Lebanon's glory Lebanon will be given to it, the excellence
of Carmel and Sharon. They will see Yahweh's glory, the excellence of
our God.
Isa
35:3 Strengthen the weak hands, and make firm the feeble knees.
Isa
35:4 Tell those who have a fearful heart, "Be strong. Don't be
afraid. Behold, your God will come with vengeance, God's retribution.
He will come and save you.
Isa
35:5 Then the eyes of the blind will be opened, and the ears of the
deaf will be unstopped.
Isa
35:6 Then the lame man will leap like a deer, and the tongue of the
mute will sing; for waters will break out in the wilderness, and
streams in the desert.
Isa
35:7 The burning sand will become a pool, and the thirsty ground
springs of water. Grass with reeds and rushes will be in the
habitation of jackals, where they lay.
Isa
35:8 A highway will be there, a road, and it will be called The Holy
Way. The unclean shall not pass over it, but it will be for those who
walk in the Way. Wicked fools will not go there.
Isa
35:9 No lion will be there, nor will any ravenous animal go up on
it. They will not be found there; but the redeemed will walk there.
Isa
35:10 The Yahweh's ransomed ones will return, and come with singing
to Zion; and everlasting joy will be on their heads. They will obtain
gladness and joy, and sorrow and sighing will flee away."
Isa
36:1 Now it happened in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah, that
Sennacherib king of Assyria attacked all of the fortified cities of
Judah, and captured them.
Isa
36:2 The king of Assyria sent Rabshakeh from Lachish to Jerusalem to
king Hezekiah with a large army. He stood by the aqueduct from the
upper pool in the fuller's field highway.
Isa
36:3 Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household,
and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, the son of Asaph, the recorder came
out to him.
Isa
36:4 Rabshakeh said to them, "Now tell Hezekiah, 'Thus says the
great king, the king of Assyria, "What confidence is this in
which you trust?
Isa
36:5 I say that your counsel and strength for the war are only vain
words. Now in whom do you trust, that you have rebelled against me?
Isa
36:6 Behold, you trust in the staff of this bruised reed, even in
Egypt, which if a man leans on it, it will go into his hand and
pierce it. So is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who trust in him.
Isa
36:7 But if you tell me, 'We trust in Yahweh our God,' isn't that he
whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah has taken away, and has
said to Judah and to Jerusalem, 'You shall worship before this
altar?' "
Isa
36:8 Now therefore, please make a pledge to my master the king of
Assyria, and I will give you two thousand horses, if you are able on
your part to set riders on them.
Isa
36:9 How then can you turn away the face of one captain of the least
of my master's servants, and put your trust on Egypt for chariots and
for horsemen?
Isa
36:10 Have I come up now without Yahweh against this land to destroy
it? Yahweh said to me, "Go up against this land, and destroy
it." ' "
Isa
36:11 Then Eliakim, Shebna and Joah said to Rabshakeh, "Please
speak to your servants in Aramaic, for we understand it; and don't
speak to us in the Jews' language in the hearing of the people who
are on the wall."
Isa
36:12 But Rabshakeh said, "Has my master sent me only to your
master and to you, to speak these words, and not to the men who sit
on the wall, who will eat their own dung and drink their own urine
with you?"
Isa
36:13 Then Rabshakeh stood, and called out with a loud voice in the
Jews' language, and said, "Hear the words of the great king, the
king of Assyria!
Isa
36:14 Thus says the king, 'Don't let Hezekiah deceive you; for he
will not be able to deliver you.
Isa
36:15 Don't let Hezekiah make you trust in Yahweh, saying, "Yahweh
will surely deliver us. This city won't be given into the hand of the
king of Assyria." '
Isa
36:16 Don't listen to Hezekiah, for thus says the king of Assyria,
'Make your peace with me, and come out to me; and each of you eat
from his vine, and each one from his fig tree, and each one of you
drink the waters of his own cistern;
Isa
36:17 until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a
land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards.
Isa
36:18 Beware lest Hezekiah persuade you, saying, "Yahweh will
deliver us." Have any of the gods of the nations delivered their
lands from the hand of the king of Assyria?
Isa
36:19 Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of
Sepharvaim? Have they delivered Samaria from my hand?
Isa
36:20 Who are they among all the gods of these countries that have
delivered their country out of my hand, that Yahweh should deliver
Jerusalem out of my hand?' "
Isa
36:21 But they remained silent, and said nothing in reply, for the
king's commandment was, "Don't answer him."
Isa
36:22 Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household,
and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, the son of Asaph, the recorder, came
to Hezekiah with their clothes torn, and told him the words of
Rabshakeh.
Nov. 4
1 Timothy 4
1Ti 4:1 But the Spirit
says expressly that in later times some will fall away from the
faith, paying attention to seducing spirits and doctrines of demons,
1Ti 4:2 through the
hypocrisy of men who speak lies, branded in their own conscience as
with a hot iron;
1Ti 4:3 forbidding
marriage and commanding to abstain from foods which God created to be
received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.
1Ti 4:4 For every
creature of God is good, and nothing is to be rejected, if it is
received with thanksgiving.
1Ti 4:5 For it is
sanctified through the word of God and prayer.
1Ti 4:6 If you instruct
the brothers of these things, you will be a good servant of Christ
Jesus, nourished in the words of the faith, and of the good doctrine
which you have followed.
1Ti 4:7 But refuse
profane and old wives' fables. Exercise yourself toward godliness.
1Ti 4:8 For bodily
exercise has some value, but godliness has value in all things,
having the promise of the life which is now, and of that which is to
come.
1Ti 4:9 This saying is
faithful and worthy of all acceptance.
1Ti 4:10 For to this
end we both labor and suffer reproach, because we have set our trust
in the living God, who is the Savior of all men, especially of those
who believe.
1Ti 4:11 Command and
teach these things.
1Ti 4:12 Let no man
despise your youth; but be an example to those who believe, in word,
in your way of life, in love, in spirit, in faith, and in purity.
1Ti 4:13 Until I come,
pay attention to reading, to exhortation, and to teaching.
1Ti 4:14 Don't neglect
the gift that is in you, which was given to you by prophecy, with the
laying on of the hands of the elders.
1Ti 4:15 Be diligent in
these things. Give yourself wholly to them, that your progress may be
revealed to all.
1Ti 4:16 Pay attention
to yourself, and to your teaching. Continue in these things, for in
doing this you will save both yourself and those who hear you.