Nov.
7
Isaiah
45-48
Isa
45:1 Thus says Yahweh to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I
have held, to subdue nations before him, and strip kings of their
armor; to open the doors before him, and the gates shall not be shut:
Isa
45:2 "I will go before you, and make the rough places smooth. I
will break the doors of brass in pieces, and cut apart the bars of
iron.
Isa
45:3 I will give you the treasures of darkness, and hidden riches of
secret places, that you may know that it is I, Yahweh, who call you
by your name, even the God of Israel.
Isa
45:4 For Jacob my servant's sake, and Israel my chosen, I have
called you by your name. I have surnamed you, though you have not
known me.
Isa
45:5 I am Yahweh, and there is none else. Besides me, there is no
God. I will strengthen you, though you have not known me;
Isa
45:6 that they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the
west, that there is none besides me. I am Yahweh, and there is no one
else.
Isa
45:7 I form the light, and create darkness. I make peace, and create
calamity. I am Yahweh, who does all these things.
Isa
45:8 Distil, you heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down
righteousness. Let the earth open, that it may bring forth salvation,
and let it cause righteousness to spring up with it. I, Yahweh, have
created it.
Isa
45:9 Woe to him who strives with his Maker-- a clay pot among the
clay pots of the earth! Shall the clay ask him who fashions it, 'What
are you making?' or your work, 'He has no hands?'
Isa
45:10 Woe to him who says to a father, 'What have you become the
father of?' or to a mother, 'To what have you given birth?' "
Isa
45:11 Thus says Yahweh, the Holy One of Israel, and his Maker: "You
ask me about the things that are to come, concerning my sons, and you
command me concerning the work of my hands!
Isa
45:12 I have made the earth, and created man on it. I, even my
hands, have stretched out the heavens; and I have commanded all their
army.
Isa
45:13 I have raised him up in righteousness, and I will make
straight all his ways. He shall build my city, and he shall let my
exiles go free, not for price nor reward," says Yahweh of
Armies.
Isa
45:14 Thus says Yahweh: "The labor of Egypt, and the
merchandise of Ethiopia, and the Sabeans, men of stature, shall come
over to you, and they shall be yours. They will go after you. They
shall come over in chains; and they will bow down to you. They will
make supplication to you: 'Surely God is in you; and there is none
else. There is no other god.
Isa
45:15 Most certainly you are a God who hid yourself, God of Israel,
the Savior.' "
Isa
45:16 They will be disappointed, yes, confounded, all of them. Those
who are makers of idols will go into confusion together.
Isa
45:17 Israel will be saved by Yahweh with an everlasting salvation.
You will not be disappointed nor confounded to ages everlasting.
Isa
45:18 For thus says Yahweh who created the heavens, the God who
formed the earth and made it, who established it and didn't create it
a waste, who formed it to be inhabited: "I am Yahweh; and there
is no other.
Isa
45:19 I have not spoken in secret, in a place of the land of
darkness. I didn't say to the seed of Jacob, 'Seek me in vain.' I,
Yahweh, speak righteousness. I declare things that are right.
Isa
45:20 "Assemble yourselves and come. Draw near together, you
who have escaped from the nations. Those have no knowledge who carry
the wood of their engraved image, and pray to a god that can't save.
Isa
45:21 Declare and present it. Yes, let them take counsel together.
Who has shown this from ancient time? Who has declared it of old?
Haven't I, Yahweh? There is no other God besides me, a just God and a
Savior; There is no one besides me.
Isa
45:22 "Look to me, and be saved, all the ends of the earth; for
I am God, and there is no other.
Isa
45:23 By myself have I sworn, the word has gone forth from my mouth
in righteousness, and will not return, that to me every knee shall
bow, every tongue shall swear.
Isa
45:24 They will say of me, 'There is righteousness and strength only
in Yahweh.' " Even to him shall men come; and all those who were
incensed against him shall be disappointed.
Isa
45:25 In Yahweh shall all the seed of Israel be justified, and shall
glory.
Isa
46:1 Bel bows down, Nebo stoops; their idols are on the animals, and
on the livestock: the things that you carried about are made a load,
a burden to the weary animal.
Isa
46:2 They stoop, they bow down together; they could not deliver the
burden, but themselves are gone into captivity.
Isa
46:3 "Listen to me, house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the
house of Israel, that have been borne by
me from their birth, that have been
carried from the womb;
Isa
46:4 and even to old age I am he, and even to gray hairs will I
carry you. I have made, and I will bear; yes, I will carry, and will
deliver.
Isa
46:5 "To whom will you liken me, and make me equal, and compare
me, that we may be like?
Isa
46:6 Some pour out gold from the bag, and weigh silver in the
balance. They hire a goldsmith, and he makes it a god. They fall
down--yes, they worship.
Isa
46:7 They bear it on the shoulder, they carry it, and set it in its
place, and it stands, from its place it shall not move: yes, one may
cry to it, yet it can not answer, nor save him out of his trouble.
Isa
46:8 "Remember this, and show yourselves men; bring it again to
mind, you transgressors.
Isa
46:9 Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is
none else; I am
God, and there is none like me;
Isa
46:10 declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times
things that are not yet
done; saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure;
Isa
46:11 calling a ravenous bird from the east, the man of my counsel
from a far country; yes, I have spoken, I will also bring it to pass;
I have purposed, I will also do it.
Isa
46:12 Listen to me, you stout-hearted, who are far from
righteousness:
Isa
46:13 I bring near my righteousness, it shall not be far off, and my
salvation shall not wait; and I will place salvation in Zion for
Israel my glory.
Isa
47:1 "Come down, and sit in the dust, virgin daughter of
Babylon; sit on the ground without a throne, daughter of the
Chaldeans: for you shall no more be called tender and delicate.
Isa
47:2 Take the millstones, and grind meal; remove your veil, strip
off the train, uncover the leg, pass through the rivers.
Isa
47:3 Your nakedness shall be uncovered, yes, your shame shall be
seen: I will take vengeance, and will spare no man."
Isa
47:4 Our Redeemer, Yahweh of Armies is his name, the Holy One of
Israel.
Isa
47:5 "Sit in silence, and go into darkness, daughter of the
Chaldeans; for you shall no more be called the mistress of kingdoms.
Isa
47:6 I was angry with my people, I profaned my inheritance, and gave
them into your hand: you did show them no mercy; on the aged have you
very heavily laid your yoke.
Isa
47:7 You said, I shall be mistress forever; so that you did not lay
these things to your heart, neither did remember the latter end of
it.
Isa
47:8 "Now therefore hear this, you who are given to pleasures,
who sit securely, who say in your heart, I am, and there is none else
besides me; I shall not sit as a widow, neither shall I know the loss
of children:
Isa
47:9 but these two things shall come to you in a moment in one day,
the loss of children, and widowhood; in their full measure shall they
come on you, in the multitude of your sorceries, and the great
abundance of your enchantments.
Isa
47:10 For you have trusted in your wickedness; you have said, None
sees me; your wisdom and your knowledge, it has perverted you, and
you have said in your heart, I am, and there is none else besides me.
Isa
47:11 Therefore evil will come on you; you won't know when it dawns:
and mischief wil fall on you; you will not be able to put it away:
and desolation shall come on you suddenly, which you don't know.
Isa
47:12 "Stand now with your enchantments, and with the multitude
of your sorceries, in which you have labored from your youth; if so
be you shall be able to profit, if so be you may prevail.
Isa
47:13 You are wearied in the multitude of your counsels: let now the
astrologers, the stargazers, the monthly prognosticators, stand up,
and save you from the things that shall come on you.
Isa
47:14 Behold, they shall be as stubble; the fire shall burn them;
they shall not deliver themselves from the power of the flame: it
shall not be a coal to warm at, nor a fire to sit before.
Isa
47:15 Thus shall the things be to you in which you have labored:
those who have trafficked with you from your youth shall wander
everyone to his quarter; there shall be none to save you.
Isa
48:1 "Hear this, house of Jacob, you who are called by the name
of Israel, and have come forth out of the waters of Judah; who swear
by the name of Yahweh, and make mention of the God of Israel, but not
in truth, nor in righteousness
Isa
48:2 (for they call themselves of the holy city, and stay themselves
on the God of Israel; Yahweh of Armies is his name):
Isa
48:3 I have declared the former things from of old; yes, they went
forth out of my mouth, and I showed them: suddenly I did them, and
they happened.
Isa
48:4 Because I knew that you are obstinate, and your neck is an iron
sinew, and your brow brass;
Isa
48:5 therefore I have declared it to you from of old; before it came
to pass I showed it to you; lest you should say, 'My idol has done
them, and my engraved image, and my molten image, has commanded
them.'
Isa
48:6 You have heard it; see all this; and you, will you not declare
it? "I have shown you new things from this time, even hidden
things, which you have not known.
Isa
48:7 They are created now, and not from of old; and before this day
you didn't hear them; lest you should say, 'Behold, I knew them.'
Isa
48:8 Yes, you didn't hear; yes, you didn't know; yes, from of old
your ear was not opened: for I knew that you did deal very
treacherously, and was called a transgressor from the womb.
Isa
48:9 For my name's sake will I defer my anger, and for my praise
will I refrain for you, that I not cut you off.
Isa
48:10 Behold, I have refined you, but not as silver; I have chosen
you in the furnace of affliction.
Isa
48:11 For my own sake, for my own sake, will I do it; for how should
my name be
profaned? and my glory I will not give to another.
Isa
48:12 "Listen to me, O Jacob, and Israel my called: I am he; I
am the first, I also am the last.
Isa
48:13 Yes, my hand has laid the foundation of the earth, and my
right hand has spread out the heavens: when I call to them, they
stand up together.
Isa
48:14 "Assemble yourselves, all you, and hear; who among them
has declared these things? He whom Yahweh loves shall perform his
pleasure on Babylon, and his arm shall
be on the Chaldeans.
Isa
48:15 I, even I, have spoken; yes, I have called him; I have brought
him, and he shall make his way prosperous.
Isa
48:16 "Come near to me and hear this: "From the beginning
I have not spoken in secret; from the time that it was, there am I."
Now the Lord Yahweh has sent me, with his Spirit.
Isa
48:17 Thus says Yahweh, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: I am
Yahweh your God, who teaches you to profit, who leads you by the way
that you should go.
Isa
48:18 Oh that you had listened to my commandments! then had your
peace been as a river, and your righteousness as the waves of the
sea:
Isa
48:19 your seed also had been as the sand, and the offspring of your
body like its grains: his name would not be cut off nor destroyed
from before me.
Isa
48:20 Go you forth from Babylon, flee you from the Chaldeans; with a
voice of singing declare you, tell this, utter it even to the end of
the earth: say you, Yahweh has redeemed his servant Jacob.
Isa
48:21 They didn't thirst when he led them through the deserts; he
caused the waters to flow out of the rock for them; he split the rock
also, and the waters gushed out.
Isa
48:22 "There is no peace," says Yahweh, "for the
wicked."
Nov. 7
2 Timothy 1
2Ti 1:1 Paul, an
apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, according to the
promise of the life which is in Christ Jesus,
2Ti 1:2 to Timothy, my
beloved child: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God the Father and
Christ Jesus our Lord.
2Ti 1:3 I thank God,
whom I serve as my forefathers did, with a pure conscience. How
unceasing is my memory of you in my petitions, night and day
2Ti 1:4 longing to see
you, remembering your tears, that I may be filled with joy;
2Ti 1:5 having been
reminded of the unfeigned faith that is in you; which lived first in
your grandmother Lois, and your mother Eunice, and, I am persuaded,
in you also.
2Ti 1:6 For this cause,
I remind you that you should stir up the gift of God which is in you
through the laying on of my hands.
2Ti 1:7 For God didn't
give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.
2Ti 1:8 Therefore don't
be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner; but
endure hardship for the Good News according to the power of God,
2Ti 1:9 who saved us
and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but
according to his own purpose and grace, which was given to us in
Christ Jesus before times eternal,
2Ti 1:10 but has now
been revealed by the appearing of our Savior, Christ Jesus, who
abolished death, and brought life and immortality to light through
the Good News.
2Ti 1:11 For this, I
was appointed as a preacher, an apostle, and a teacher of the
Gentiles.
2Ti 1:12 For this cause
I also suffer these things. Yet I am not ashamed, for I know him whom
I have believed, and I am persuaded that he is able to guard that
which I have committed to him against that day.
2Ti 1:13 Hold the
pattern of sound words which you have heard from me, in faith and
love which is in Christ Jesus.
2Ti 1:14 That good
thing which was committed to you, guard through the Holy Spirit who
dwells in us.
2Ti 1:15 This you know,
that all who are in Asia turned away from me; of whom are Phygelus
and Hermogenes.
2Ti 1:16 May the Lord
grant mercy to the house of Onesiphorus, for he often refreshed me,
and was not ashamed of my chain,
2Ti 1:17 but when he
was in Rome, he sought me diligently, and found me
2Ti 1:18 (the Lord
grant to him to find the Lord's mercy in that day); and in how many
things he served at Ephesus, you know very well.