Nov.
6
Isaiah
41-44
Isa
41:1 "Keep silent before me, islands, and let the peoples renew
their strength. Let them come near, then let them speak. Let's meet
together for judgment.
Isa
41:2 Who has raised up one from the east? Whom called him to his
foot in righteousness? He hands over nations to him, and makes him
rule over kings. He gives them like the dust to his sword, like the
driven stubble to his bow.
Isa
41:3 He pursues them, and passes by safely, Even by a way that he
had not gone with his feet.
Isa
41:4 Who has worked and done it, calling the generations from the
beginning? I, Yahweh, the first, and with the last, I am he."
Isa
41:5 The islands have seen, and fear. The ends of the earth tremble.
They approach, and come.
Isa
41:6 Everyone helps his neighbor. They say to their brothers, "Be
strong!"
Isa
41:7 So the carpenter encourages the goldsmith. He who smoothes with
the hammer encourages him who strikes the anvil, saying of the
soldering, "It is good;" and he fastens it with nails, that
it might not totter.
Isa
41:8 "But you, Israel, my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen,
the seed of Abraham my friend,
Isa
41:9 You whom I have taken hold of from the ends of the earth, and
called from its corners, and said to you, 'You are my servant, I have
chosen you and not cast you away;'
Isa
41:10 Don't you be afraid, for I am with you. Don't be dismayed, for
I am your God. I will strengthen you. Yes, I will help you. Yes, I
will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness.
Isa
41:11 Behold, all those who are incensed against you will be
disappointed and confounded. Those who strive with you will be like
nothing, and shall perish.
Isa
41:12 You will seek them, and won't find them, even those who
contend with you. Those who war against you will be as nothing, as a
non-existent thing.
Isa
41:13 For I, Yahweh your God, will hold your right hand, saying to
you, 'Don't be afraid. I will help you.'
Isa
41:14 Don't be afraid, you worm Jacob, and you men of Israel. I will
help you," says Yahweh, "and your Redeemer is the Holy One
of Israel.
Isa
41:15 Behold, I have made you into a new sharp threshing instrument
with teeth. You will thresh the mountains, and beat them small, and
will make the hills like chaff.
Isa
41:16 You will winnow them, and the wind will carry them away, and
the whirlwind will scatter them. You will rejoice in Yahweh. You will
glory in the Holy One of Israel.
Isa
41:17 The poor and needy seek water, and there is none. Their tongue
fails for thirst. I, Yahweh, will answer them. I, the God of Israel,
will not forsake them.
Isa
41:18 I will open rivers on the bare heights, and springs in the
midst of the valleys. I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and
the dry land springs of water.
Isa
41:19 I will put cedar, acacia, myrtle, and oil trees in the
wilderness. I will set fir trees, pine, and box trees together in the
desert;
Isa
41:20 that they may see, know, consider, and understand together,
that the hand of Yahweh has done this, and the Holy One of Israel has
created it.
Isa
41:21 Produce your cause," says Yahweh. "Bring forth your
strong reasons," says the King of Jacob.
Isa
41:22 "Let them announce, and declare to us what shall happen.
Declare the former things, what they are, that we may consider them,
and know the latter end of them; or show us things to come.
Isa
41:23 Declare the things that are to come hereafter, that we may
know that you are gods. Yes, do good, or do evil, that we may be
dismayed, and see it together.
Isa
41:24 Behold, you are of nothing, and your work is of nothing. He
who chooses you is an abomination.
Isa
41:25 "I have raised up one from the north, and he has come;
from the rising of the sun, one who calls on my name; and he shall
come on rulers as on mortar, and as the potter treads clay.
Isa
41:26 Who has declared it from the beginning, that we may know? And
before, that we may say, 'He is right?' Surely, there is no one who
declares. Surely, there is no one who shows. Surely, there is no one
who hears your words.
Isa
41:27 I am the first to say to Zion, 'Behold, look at them;' and I
will give one who brings good news to Jerusalem.
Isa
41:28 When I look, there is no man; even among them there is no
counselor who, when I ask of them, can answer a word.
Isa
41:29 Behold, all of them, their works are vanity and nothing. Their
molten images are wind and confusion.
Isa
42:1 "Behold, my servant, whom I uphold; my chosen, in whom my
soul delights-- I have put my Spirit on him. He will bring justice to
the nations.
Isa
42:2 He will not shout, nor raise his voice, nor cause it to be
heard in the street.
Isa
42:3 He won't break a bruised reed. He won't quench a dimly burning
wick. He will faithfully bring justice.
Isa
42:4 He will not fail nor be discouraged, until he has set justice
in the earth, and the islands will wait for his law."
Isa
42:5 Thus says God Yahweh, he who created the heavens and stretched
them out, he who spread out the earth and that which comes out of it,
he who gives breath to its people and spirit to those who walk in it.
Isa
42:6 "I, Yahweh, have called you in righteousness, and will
hold your hand, and will keep you, and make you a covenant for the
people, as a light for the nations;
Isa
42:7 to open the blind eyes, to bring the prisoners out of the
dungeon, and those who sit in darkness out of the prison.
Isa
42:8 "I am Yahweh. That is my name. I will not give my glory to
another, nor my praise to engraved images.
Isa
42:9 Behold, the former things have happened, and I declare new
things. I tell you about them before they come up."
Isa
42:10 Sing to Yahweh a new song, and his praise from the end of the
earth, you who go down to the sea, and all that is therein, the
islands and their inhabitants.
Isa
42:11 Let the wilderness and its cities raise their voices, with the
villages that Kedar inhabits. Let the inhabitants of Sela sing. Let
them shout from the top of the mountains!
Isa
42:12 Let them give glory to Yahweh, and declare his praise in the
islands.
Isa
42:13 Yahweh will go out like a mighty man. He will stir up zeal
like a man of war. He will raise a war cry. Yes, he will shout aloud.
He will triumph over his enemies.
Isa
42:14 "I have been silent a long time. I have been quiet and
restrained myself. Now I will cry out like a travailing woman. I will
both gasp and pant.
Isa
42:15 I will destroy mountains and hills, and dry up all their
herbs. I will make the rivers islands, and will dry up the pools.
Isa
42:16 I will bring the blind by a way that they don't know. I will
lead them in paths that they don't know. I will make darkness light
before them, and crooked places straight. I will do these things, and
I will not forsake them.
Isa
42:17 "Those who trust in engraved images, who tell molten
images, 'You are our gods' will be turned back. They will be utterly
disappointed.
Isa
42:18 "Hear, you deaf, and look, you blind, that you may see.
Isa
42:19 Who is blind, but my servant? Or who is as deaf as my
messenger whom I send? Who is as blind as he who is at peace, and as
blind as Yahweh's servant?
Isa
42:20 You see many things, but don't observe. His ears are open, but
he doesn't listen.
Isa
42:21 It pleased Yahweh, for his righteousness' sake, to magnify the
law, and make it honorable.
Isa
42:22 But this is a robbed and plundered people. All of them are
snared in holes, and they are hidden in prisons. They have become a
prey, and no one delivers; and a spoil, and no one says, 'Restore
them!'
Isa
42:23 Who is there among you who will give ear to this? Who will
listen and hear for the time to come?
Isa
42:24 Who gave Jacob as plunder, and Israel to the robbers? Didn't
Yahweh, he against whom we have sinned? For they would not walk in
his ways, and they disobeyed his law.
Isa
42:25 Therefore he poured the fierceness of his anger on him, and
the strength of battle; and it set him on fire all around, but he
didn't know; and it burned him, but he didn't take it to heart."
Isa
43:1 But now thus says Yahweh who created you, Jacob, and he who
formed you, Israel: "Don't be afraid, for I have redeemed you. I
have called you by your name. You are mine.
Isa
43:2 When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and
through the rivers, they will not overflow you. When you walk through
the fire, you will not be burned, and flame will not scorch you.
Isa
43:3 For I am Yahweh your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior.
I have given Egypt as your ransom, Ethiopia and Seba in your place.
Isa
43:4 Since you have been precious and honored in my sight, and I
have loved you; therefore I will give people in your place, and
nations instead of your life.
Isa
43:5 Don't be afraid; for I am with you. I will bring your seed from
the east, and gather you from the west.
Isa
43:6 I will tell the north, 'Give them up!' and tell the south,
'Don't hold them back! Bring my sons from far, and my daughters from
the ends of the earth--
Isa
43:7 everyone who is called by my name, and whom I have created for
my glory, whom I have formed, yes, whom I have made.' "
Isa
43:8 Bring out the blind people who have eyes, and the deaf who have
ears.
Isa
43:9 Let all the nations be gathered together, and let the peoples
be assembled. Who among them can declare this, and show us former
things? Let them bring their witnesses, that they may be justified;
or let them hear, and say, "That is true."
Isa
43:10 "You are my witnesses," says Yahweh, "With my
servant whom I have chosen; that you may know and believe me, and
understand that I am he. Before me there was no God formed, neither
will there be after me.
Isa
43:11 I myself am Yahweh; and besides me there is no savior.
Isa
43:12 I have declared, I have saved, and I have shown; and there was
no strange god among you. Therefore you are my witnesses," says
Yahweh, "and I am God.
Isa
43:13 Yes, since the day was I am he; and there is no one who can
deliver out of my hand. I will work, and who can hinder it?"
Isa
43:14 Thus says Yahweh, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: "For
your sake, I have sent to Babylon, and I will bring all of them down
as fugitives, even the Chaldeans, in the ships of their rejoicing.
Isa
43:15 I am Yahweh, your Holy One, the Creator of Israel, your King."
Isa
43:16 Thus says Yahweh, who makes a way in the sea, and a path in
the mighty waters;
Isa
43:17 who brings forth the chariot and horse, the army and the
mighty man (they lie down together, they shall not rise; they are
extinct, they are quenched like a wick):
Isa
43:18 "Don't remember the former things, and don't consider the
things of old.
Isa
43:19 Behold, I will do a new thing. It springs forth now. Don't you
know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the
desert.
Isa
43:20 The animals of the field shall honor me, the jackals and the
ostriches; because I give water in the wilderness and rivers in the
desert, to give drink to my people, my chosen,
Isa
43:21 the people which I formed for myself, that they might set
forth my praise.
Isa
43:22 Yet you have not called on me, Jacob; but you have been weary
of me, Israel.
Isa
43:23 You have not brought me of your sheep for burnt offerings;
neither have you honored me with your sacrifices. I have not burdened
you with offerings, nor wearied you with frankincense.
Isa
43:24 You have bought me no sweet cane with money, nor have you
filled me with the fat of your sacrifices; but you have burdened me
with your sins. You have wearied me with your iniquities.
Isa
43:25 I, even I, am he who blots out your transgressions for my own
sake; and I will not remember your sins.
Isa
43:26 Put me in remembrance. Let us plead together. Set forth your
case, that you may be justified.
Isa
43:27 Your first father sinned, and your teachers have transgressed
against me.
Isa
43:28 Therefore I will profane the princes of the sanctuary; and I
will make Jacob a curse, and Israel a reviling."
Isa
44:1 Yet listen now, Jacob my servant, and Israel, whom I have
chosen.
Isa
44:2 This is what Yahweh who made you, and formed you from the womb,
who will help you says: "Don't be afraid, Jacob my servant; and
you, Jeshurun, whom I have chosen.
Isa
44:3 For I will pour water on him who is thirsty, and streams on the
dry ground. I will pour my Spirit on your seed, and my blessing on
your offspring:
Isa
44:4 and they will spring up among the grass, as willows by the
watercourses.
Isa
44:5 One will say, 'I am Yahweh's;' and another will be called by
the name of Jacob; and another will write with his hand 'to Yahweh,'
and honor the name of Israel."
Isa
44:6 This is what Yahweh, the King of Israel, and his Redeemer,
Yahweh of Armies, says: "I am the first, and I am the last; and
besides me there is no God.
Isa
44:7 Who is like me? Who will call, and will declare it, and set it
in order for me, since I established the ancient people? Let them
declare the things that are coming, and that will happen.
Isa
44:8 Don't fear, neither be afraid. Haven't I declared it to you
long ago, and shown it? You are my witnesses. Is there a God besides
me? Indeed, there is not. I don't know any other Rock."
Isa
44:9 Everyone who makes an engraved image is vain. The things that
they delight in will not profit. Their own witnesses don't see, nor
know, that they may be disappointed.
Isa
44:10 Who has fashioned a god, or molds an image that is profitable
for nothing?
Isa
44:11 Behold, all his fellows will be disappointed; and the workmen
are mere men. Let them all be gathered together. Let them stand up.
They will fear. They will be put to shame together.
Isa
44:12 The blacksmith takes an axe, works in the coals, fashions it
with hammers, and works it with his strong arm. He is hungry, and his
strength fails; he drinks no water, and is faint.
Isa
44:13 The carpenter stretches out a line. He marks it out with a
pencil. He shapes it with planes. He marks it out with compasses, and
shapes it like the figure of a man, with the beauty of a man, to
reside in a house.
Isa
44:14 He cuts down cedars for himself, and takes the cypress and the
oak, and strengthens for himself one among the trees of the forest.
He plants a fir tree, and the rain nourishes it.
Isa
44:15 Then it will be for a man to burn; and he takes some of it,
and warms himself. Yes, he burns it, and bakes bread. Yes, he makes a
god, and worships it; he makes it an engraved image, and falls down
to it.
Isa
44:16 He burns part of it in the fire. With part of it, he eats
meat. He roasts a roast, and is satisfied. Yes, he warms himself, and
says, "Aha! I am warm. I have seen the fire."
Isa
44:17 The rest of it he makes into a god, even his engraved image.
He bows down to it and worships, and prays to it, and says, "Deliver
me; for you are my god!"
Isa
44:18 They don't know, neither do they consider: for he has shut
their eyes, that they can't see; and their hearts, that they can't
understand.
Isa
44:19 No one thinks, neither is there knowledge nor understanding to
say, "I have burned part of it in the fire. Yes, I have also
baked bread on its coals. I have roasted meat and eaten it. Shall I
make the rest of it into an abomination? Shall I bow down to a tree
trunk?"
Isa
44:20 He feeds on ashes. A deceived heart has turned him aside; and
he can't deliver his soul, nor say, "Isn't there a lie in my
right hand?"
Isa
44:21 Remember these things, Jacob and Israel; for you are my
servant. I have formed you. You are my servant. Israel, you will not
be forgotten by me.
Isa
44:22 I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, your transgressions,
and, as a cloud, your sins. Return to me, for I have redeemed you.
Isa
44:23 Sing, you heavens, for Yahweh has done it! Shout, you lower
parts of the earth! Break out into singing, you mountains, O forest,
all of your trees, for Yahweh has redeemed Jacob, and will glorify
himself in Israel.
Isa
44:24 Thus says Yahweh, your Redeemer, and he who formed you from
the womb: "I am Yahweh, who makes all things; who alone
stretches out the heavens; who spreads out the earth by myself;
Isa
44:25 who frustrates the signs of the liars, and makes diviners mad;
who turns wise men backward, and makes their knowledge foolish;
Isa
44:26 who confirms the word of his servant, and performs the counsel
of his messengers; who says of Jerusalem, 'She will be inhabited;'
and of the cities of Judah, 'They will be built,' and 'I will raise
up its waste places;'
Isa
44:27 who says to the deep, 'Be dry,' and 'I will dry up your
rivers;'
Isa
44:28 Who says of Cyrus, 'He is my shepherd, and shall perform all
my pleasure,' even saying of Jerusalem, 'She will be built;' and of
the temple, 'Your foundation will be laid.' "
Nov. 6
1 Timothy 6
1Ti 6:1 Let as many as
are bondservants under the yoke count their own masters worthy of all
honor, that the name of God and the doctrine not be blasphemed.
1Ti 6:2 Those who have
believing masters, let them not despise them, because they are
brothers, but rather let them serve them, because those who partake
of the benefit are believing and beloved. Teach and exhort these
things.
1Ti 6:3 If anyone
teaches a different doctrine, and doesn't consent to sound words, the
words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is
according to godliness,
1Ti 6:4 he is
conceited, knowing nothing, but obsessed with arguments, disputes,
and word battles, from which come envy, strife, reviling, evil
suspicions,
1Ti 6:5 constant
friction of people of corrupt minds and destitute of the truth, who
suppose that godliness is a means of gain. Withdraw yourself from
such.
1Ti 6:6 But godliness
with contentment is great gain.
1Ti 6:7 For we brought
nothing into the world, and we certainly can't carry anything out.
1Ti 6:8 But having food
and clothing, we will be content with that.
1Ti 6:9 But those who
are determined to be rich fall into a temptation and a snare and many
foolish and harmful lusts, such as drown men in ruin and destruction.
1Ti 6:10 For the love
of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some have been led astray
from the faith in their greed, and have pierced themselves through
with many sorrows.
1Ti 6:11 But you, man
of God, flee these things, and follow after righteousness, godliness,
faith, love, patience, and gentleness.
1Ti 6:12 Fight the good
fight of faith. Lay hold of the eternal life to which you were
called, and you confessed the good confession in the sight of many
witnesses.
1Ti 6:13 I command you
before God, who gives life to all things, and before Christ Jesus,
who before Pontius Pilate testified the good confession,
1Ti 6:14 that you keep
the commandment without spot, blameless, until the appearing of our
Lord Jesus Christ;
1Ti 6:15 which in its
own times he will show, who is the blessed and only Ruler, the King
of kings, and Lord of lords;
1Ti 6:16 who alone has
immortality, dwelling in unapproachable light; whom no man has seen,
nor can see: to whom be honor and eternal power. Amen.
1Ti 6:17 Charge those
who are rich in this present world that they not be haughty, nor have
their hope set on the uncertainty of riches, but on the living God,
who richly provides us with everything to enjoy;
1Ti 6:18 that they do
good, that they be rich in good works, that they be ready to
distribute, willing to communicate;
1Ti 6:19 laying up in
store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that
they may lay hold of eternal life.
1Ti 6:20 Timothy, guard
that which is committed to you, turning away from the empty chatter
and oppositions of the knowledge which is falsely so called;
1Ti 6:21 which some
professing have erred concerning the faith. Grace be with you. Amen.
