Nov.
3
Isaiah
29-32
Isa
29:1 Woe to Ariel! Ariel, the city where David encamped! Add year to
year; let the feasts come around;
Isa
29:2 then I will distress Ariel, and there will be mourning and
lamentation. She shall be to me as an altar hearth.
Isa
29:3 I will encamp against you all around you, and will lay siege
against you with posted troops. I will raise siege works against you.
Isa
29:4 You will be brought down, and will speak out of the ground.
Your speech will mumble out of the dust. Your voice will be as of one
who has a familiar spirit, out of the ground, and your speech will
whisper out of the dust.
Isa
29:5 But the multitude of your foes will be like fine dust, and the
multitude of the ruthless ones like chaff that blows away. Yes, it
will be in an instant, suddenly.
Isa
29:6 She will be visited by Yahweh of Armies with thunder, with
earthquake, with great noise, with whirlwind and storm, and with the
flame of a devouring fire.
Isa
29:7 The multitude of all the nations that fight against Ariel, even
all who fight against her and her stronghold, and who distress her,
will be like a dream, a vision of the night.
Isa
29:8 It will be like when a hungry man dreams, and behold, he eats;
but he awakes, and his hunger isn't satisfied; or like when a thirsty
man dreams, and behold, he drinks; but he awakes, and behold, he is
faint, and he is still thirsty. The multitude of all the nations that
fight against Mount Zion will be like that.
Isa
29:9 Pause and wonder! Blind yourselves and be blind! They are
drunken, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink.
Isa
29:10 For Yahweh has poured out on you a spirit of deep sleep, and
has closed your eyes, the prophets; and he has covered your heads,
the seers.
Isa
29:11 All vision has become to you like the words of a book that is
sealed, which men deliver to one who is educated, saying, "Read
this, please;" and he says, "I can't, for it is sealed:"
Isa
29:12 and the book is delivered to one who is not educated, saying,
"Read this, please;" and he says, "I can't read."
Isa
29:13 The Lord said, "Because this people draws near with their
mouth and with their lips to honor me, but they have removed their
heart far from me, and their fear of me is a commandment of men which
has been taught;
Isa
29:14 therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a marvelous work among
this people, even a marvelous work and a wonder; and the wisdom of
their wise men will perish, and the understanding of their prudent
men will be hidden."
Isa
29:15 Woe to those who deeply hide their counsel from Yahweh, and
whose works are in the dark, and who say, "Who sees us?"
and "Who knows us?"
Isa
29:16 You turn things upside down! Should the potter be thought to
be like clay; that the thing made should say about him who made it,
"He didn't make me;" or the thing formed say of him who
formed it, "He has no understanding?"
Isa
29:17 Isn't it yet a very little while, and Lebanon will be turned
into a fruitful field, and the fruitful field will be regarded as a
forest?
Isa
29:18 In that day, the deaf will hear the words of the book, and the
eyes of the blind will see out of obscurity and out of darkness.
Isa
29:19 The humble also will increase their joy in Yahweh, and the
poor among men will rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.
Isa
29:20 For the ruthless is brought to nothing, and the scoffer
ceases, and all those who are alert to do evil are cut off--
Isa
29:21 who cause a person to be indicted by a word, and lay a snare
for the arbiter in the gate, and who deprive the innocent of justice
with false testimony.
Isa
29:22 Therefore thus says Yahweh, who redeemed Abraham, concerning
the house of Jacob: "Jacob shall no longer be ashamed, neither
shall his face grow pale.
Isa
29:23 But when he sees his children, the work of my hands, in the
midst of him, they will sanctify my name. Yes, they will sanctify the
Holy One of Jacob, and will stand in awe of the God of Israel.
Isa
29:24 They also who err in spirit will come to understanding, and
those who grumble will receive instruction."
Isa
30:1 "Woe to the rebellious children," says Yahweh, "who
take counsel, but not from me; and who make an alliance, but not with
my Spirit, that they may add sin to sin,
Isa
30:2 who set out to go down into Egypt, and have not asked my
advice; to strengthen themselves in the strength of Pharaoh, and to
take refuge in the shadow of Egypt!
Isa
30:3 Therefore the strength of Pharaoh will be your shame, and the
refuge in the shadow of Egypt your confusion.
Isa
30:4 For their princes are at Zoan, and their ambassadors have come
to Hanes.
Isa
30:5 They shall all be ashamed because of a people that can't profit
them, that are not a help nor profit, but a shame, and also a
reproach."
Isa
30:6 The burden of the animals of the South. Through the land of
trouble and anguish, of the lioness and the lion, the viper and fiery
flying serpent, they carry their riches on the shoulders of young
donkeys, and their treasures on the humps of camels, to an
unprofitable people.
Isa
30:7 For Egypt helps in vain, and to no purpose; therefore have I
called her Rahab who sits still.
Isa
30:8 Now go, write it before them on a tablet, and inscribe it in a
book, that it may be for the time to come forever and ever.
Isa
30:9 For it is a rebellious people, lying children, children who
will not hear the law of Yahweh;
Isa
30:10 who tell the seers, "Don't see!" and to the
prophets, "Don't prophesy to us right things. Tell us pleasant
things. Prophesy deceits.
Isa
30:11 Get out of the way. Turn aside from the path. Cause the Holy
One of Israel to cease from before us."
Isa
30:12 Therefore thus says the Holy One of Israel, "Because you
despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and rely
on it;
Isa
30:13 therefore this iniquity shall be to you like a breach ready to
fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking comes suddenly in
an instant.
Isa
30:14 He will break it as a potter's vessel is broken, breaking it
in pieces without sparing, so that there won't be found among the
broken piece a piece good enough to take fire from the hearth, or to
dip up water out of the cistern."
Isa
30:15 For thus said the Lord Yahweh, the Holy One of Israel, "You
will be saved in returning and rest. Your strength will be in
quietness and in confidence." You refused,
Isa
30:16 but you said, "No, for we will flee on horses;"
therefore you will flee; and, "We will ride on the swift;"
therefore those who pursue you will be swift.
Isa
30:17 One thousand will flee at the threat of one. At the threat of
five, you will flee until you are left like a beacon on the top of a
mountain, and like a banner on a hill.
Isa
30:18 Therefore Yahweh will wait, that he may be gracious to you;
and therefore he will be exalted, that he may have mercy on you, for
Yahweh is a God of justice. Blessed are all those who wait for him.
Isa
30:19 For the people will dwell in Zion at Jerusalem. You will weep
no more. He will surely be gracious to you at the voice of your cry.
When he hears you, he will answer you.
Isa
30:20 Though the Lord may give you the bread of adversity and the
water of affliction, yet your teachers won't be hidden anymore, but
your eyes will see your teachers;
Isa
30:21 and when you turn to the right hand, and when you turn to the
left, your ears will hear a voice behind you, saying, "This is
the way. Walk in it."
Isa
30:22 You shall defile the overlaying of your engraved images of
silver, and the plating of your molten images of gold. You shall cast
them away as an unclean thing. You shall tell it, "Go away!"
Isa
30:23 He will give the rain for your seed, with which you will sow
the ground; and bread of the increase of the ground will be rich and
plentiful. In that day, your livestock will feed in large pastures.
Isa
30:24 The oxen likewise and the young donkeys that till the ground
will eat savory provender, which has been winnowed with the shovel
and with the fork.
Isa
30:25 There shall be brooks and streams of water on every lofty
mountain and on every high hill in the day of the great slaughter,
when the towers fall.
Isa
30:26 Moreover the light of the moon will be like the light of the
sun, and the light of the sun will be seven times brighter, like the
light of seven days, in the day that Yahweh binds up the fracture of
his people, and heals the wound they were struck with.
Isa
30:27 Behold, the name of Yahweh comes from far away, burning with
his anger, and in thick rising smoke. His lips are full of
indignation, and his tongue is as a devouring fire.
Isa
30:28 His breath is as an overflowing stream that reaches even to
the neck, to sift the nations with the sieve of destruction; and a
bridle that leads to ruin will be in the jaws of the peoples.
Isa
30:29 You will have a song, as in the night when a holy feast is
kept; and gladness of heart, as when one goes with a flute to come to
Yahweh's mountain, to Israel's Rock.
Isa
30:30 Yahweh will cause his glorious voice to be heard, and will
show the descent of his arm, with the indignation of his anger, and
the flame of a devouring fire, with a blast, storm, and hailstones.
Isa
30:31 For through the voice of Yahweh the Assyrian will be dismayed.
He will strike him with his rod.
Isa
30:32 Every stroke of the rod of punishment, which Yahweh will lay
on him, will be with the sound of tambourines and harps. He will
fight with them in battles, brandishing weapons.
Isa
30:33 For his burning place has long been ready. Yes, for the king
it is made ready. He has made its pyre deep and large with fire and
much wood. Yahweh's breath, like a stream of sulfur, kindles it.
Isa
31:1 Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help, and rely on horses,
and trust in chariots because they are many, and in horsemen because
they are very strong, but they don't look to the Holy One of Israel,
and they don't seek Yahweh!
Isa
31:2 Yet he also is wise, and will bring disaster, and will not call
back his words, but will arise against the house of the evildoers,
and against the help of those who work iniquity.
Isa
31:3 Now the Egyptians are men, and not God; and their horses flesh,
and not spirit. When Yahweh stretches out his hand, both he who helps
shall stumble, and he who is helped shall fall, and they all shall be
consumed together.
Isa
31:4 For thus says Yahweh to me, "As the lion and the young
lion growling over his prey, if a multitude of shepherds is called
together against him, will not be dismayed at their voice, nor abase
himself for the noise of them, so Yahweh of Armies will come down to
fight on Mount Zion and on its heights.
Isa
31:5 As birds hovering, so Yahweh of Armies will protect Jerusalem.
He will protect and deliver it. He will pass over and preserve it."
Isa
31:6 Return to him from whom you have deeply revolted, children of
Israel.
Isa
31:7 For in that day everyone shall cast away his idols of silver
and his idols of gold--sin which your own hands have made for you.
Isa
31:8 "The Assyrian will fall by the sword, not of man; and the
sword, not of mankind, shall devour him. He will flee from the sword,
and his young men will become subject to forced labor.
Isa
31:9 His rock will pass away by reason of terror, and his princes
will be afraid of the banner," says Yahweh, whose fire is in
Zion, and his furnace in Jerusalem.
Isa
32:1 Behold, a king shall reign in righteousness, and princes shall
rule in justice.
Isa
32:2 A man shall be as a hiding place from the wind, and a covert
from the storm, as streams of water in a dry place, as the shade of a
large rock in a weary land.
Isa
32:3 The eyes of those who see will not be dim, and the ears of
those who hear will listen.
Isa
32:4 The heart of the rash will understand knowledge, and the tongue
of the stammerers will be ready to speak plainly.
Isa
32:5 The fool will no longer be called noble, nor the scoundrel be
highly respected.
Isa
32:6 For the fool will speak folly, and his heart will work
iniquity, to practice profanity, and to utter error against Yahweh,
To make empty the soul of the hungry, and to cause the drink of the
thirsty to fail.
Isa
32:7 The ways of the scoundrel are evil. He devises wicked devices
to destroy the humble with lying words, even when the needy speaks
right.
Isa
32:8 But the noble devises noble things; and he will continue in
noble things.
Isa
32:9 Rise up, you women who are at ease! Hear my voice! You careless
daughters, give ear to my speech!
Isa
32:10 For days beyond a year you will be troubled, you careless
women; for the vintage shall fail. The harvest won't come.
Isa
32:11 Tremble, you women who are at ease! Be troubled, you careless
ones! Strip yourselves, make yourselves naked, and put sackcloth on
your waist.
Isa
32:12 Beat your breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful
vine.
Isa
32:13 Thorns and briars will come up on my people's land; yes, on
all the houses of joy in the joyous city.
Isa
32:14 For the palace will be forsaken. The populous city will be
deserted. The hill and the watchtower will be for dens forever, a
delight for wild donkeys, a pasture of flocks;
Isa
32:15 Until the Spirit is poured on us from on high, and the
wilderness becomes a fruitful field, and the fruitful field is
considered a forest.
Isa
32:16 Then justice will dwell in the wilderness; and righteousness
will remain in the fruitful field.
Isa
32:17 The work of righteousness will be peace; and the effect of
righteousness, quietness and confidence forever.
Isa
32:18 My people will abide in a peaceful habitation, in safe
dwellings, and in quiet resting places.
Isa
32:19 Though hail flattens the forest, and the city is leveled
completely.
Isa
32:20 Blessed are you who sow beside all waters, who send out the
feet of the ox and the donkey.
Nov. 3
1 Timothy 3
1Ti 3:1 This is a
faithful saying: if a man seeks the office of an overseer, he desires
a good work.
1Ti 3:2 The overseer
therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife,
temperate, sensible, modest, hospitable, good at teaching;
1Ti 3:3 not a drinker,
not violent, not greedy for money, but gentle, not quarrelsome, not
covetous;
1Ti 3:4 one who rules
his own house well, having children in subjection with all reverence;
1Ti 3:5 (but if a man
doesn't know how to rule his own house, how will he take care of the
assembly of God?)
1Ti 3:6 not a new
convert, lest being puffed up he fall into the same condemnation as
the devil.
1Ti 3:7 Moreover he
must have good testimony from those who are outside, to avoid falling
into reproach and the snare of the devil.
1Ti 3:8 Servants, in
the same way, must be reverent, not double-tongued, not addicted to
much wine, not greedy for money;
1Ti 3:9 holding the
mystery of the faith in a pure conscience.
1Ti 3:10 Let them also
first be tested; then let them serve if they are blameless.
1Ti 3:11 Their wives in
the same way must be reverent, not slanderers, temperate, faithful in
all things.
1Ti 3:12 Let servants
be husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses
well.
1Ti 3:13 For those who
have served well gain for themselves a good standing, and great
boldness in the faith which is in Christ Jesus.
1Ti 3:14 These things I
write to you, hoping to come to you shortly;
1Ti 3:15 but if I wait
long, that you may know how men ought to behave themselves in the
house of God, which is the assembly of the living God, the pillar and
ground of the truth.
1Ti 3:16 Without
controversy, the mystery of godliness is great: God was revealed in
the flesh, justified in the spirit, seen by angels, preached among
the nations, believed on in the world, and received up in glory.
