Isaiah 30:12-33:9 12 For this reason this is what the Holy One of Israel says: “You have rejected this message;
you trust instead in your ability to oppress and trick,
and rely on that kind of behavior.
13 So this sin will become your downfall. You will be like a high wall that bulges and cracks and is ready to collapse; it crumbles suddenly, in a flash.
14 It shatters in pieces like a clay jar, so shattered to bits that none of it can be salvaged.
Among its fragments one cannot find a shard large enough
to scoop a hot coal from a fire
or to skim off water from a cistern.”
15 For this is what the master, the
Lord, the Holy One of Israel says: “If you repented and patiently waited for me, you would be delivered;
if you calmly trusted in me you would find strength,
but you are unwilling.
16 You say, ‘No, we will flee on horses,’ so you will indeed flee. You say, ‘We will ride on fast horses,’ so your pursuers will be fast.
17 One thousand will scurry at the battle cry of one enemy soldier;
at the battle cry of five enemy soldiers you will all run away,
until the remaining few are as isolated
as a flagpole on a mountaintop or a signal flag on a hill.”
18 For this reason the
Lord is ready to show you mercy; he sits on his throne, ready to have compassion on you.
Indeed, the
Lord is a just God; all who wait for him in faith will be blessed.
19 For people will live in Zion; in Jerusalem
you will weep no more.
When he hears your cry of despair, he will indeed show you mercy; when he hears it, he will respond to you.
20 The sovereign master
will give you distress to eat and suffering to drink;
but your teachers will no longer be hidden; your eyes will see them.
21 You
will hear a word spoken behind you, saying, “This is the correct
way, walk in it,” whether you are heading to the right or the left.
22 You will desecrate your silver-plated idols
and your gold-plated images.
You will throw them away as if they were a menstrual rag, saying to them, “Get out!”
23 He will water the seed you plant in the ground, and the ground will produce crops in abundance.
At that time
your cattle will graze in wide pastures.
24 The oxen and donkeys used in plowing
will eat seasoned feed winnowed with a shovel and pitchfork.
25 On every high mountain and every high hill there will be streams flowing with water, at the time of
great slaughter when the fortified towers collapse.
26 The light of the full moon will be like the sun’s glare and the sun’s glare will be seven times brighter, like the light of seven days,
when the
Lord binds up his people’s fractured bones
and heals their severe wound.
27 Look, the name
of the
Lord comes from a distant place in raging anger and awesome splendor.
He speaks angrily and his word is like destructive fire.
28 His battle cry overwhelms like a flooding river
that reaches one’s neck. He shakes the nations in a sieve that isolates the chaff;
he puts a bit into the mouth of the nations and leads them to destruction.
29 You will sing as you do in the evening when you are celebrating a festival. You will be happy like one who plays a flute as he goes to the mountain of the
Lord, the Rock who shelters Israel.
30 The
Lord will give a mighty shout
and intervene in power,
with furious anger and flaming, destructive fire,
with a driving rainstorm and hailstones.
31 Indeed, the
Lord’s shout will shatter Assyria;
he will beat them with a club.
32 Every blow from his punishing cudgel,
with which the
Lord will beat them,
will be accompanied by music from the
tambourine and harp, and he will attack them with his weapons.
33 For
the burial place is already prepared;
it has been made deep and wide for the king.
The firewood is piled high on it.
The
Lord’s breath, like a stream flowing with brimstone, will ignite it.
1 Those who go down to Egypt for help are as good as dead,
those who rely on war horses, and trust in Egypt’s many chariots
and in their many, many horsemen.
But they do not rely on the Holy One of Israel
and do not seek help from the
Lord.
2 Yet he too is wise
and he will bring disaster; he does not retract his decree.
He will attack the wicked nation,
and the nation that helps
those who commit sin.
3 The Egyptians are mere humans, not God; their horses are made of flesh, not spirit. The
Lord will strike with
his hand; the one who helps will stumble and the one being helped will fall. Together they will perish.
4 Indeed, this is what the
Lord says to me: “The
Lord will be like a growling lion, like a young lion growling over its prey.
Though a whole group of shepherds gathers against it, it is not afraid of their shouts or intimidated by their yelling.
In this same way the
Lord who commands armies will descend to do battle on Mount Zion and on its hill.
5 Just as birds hover over a nest,
so the
Lord who commands armies will protect Jerusalem.
He will protect and deliver it; as he passes over
he will rescue it.
6 You Israelites! Return to the one against whom you have so blatantly rebelled!
7 For at that time
everyone will get rid of
the silver and gold idols your hands sinfully made.
8 Assyria will fall by a sword, but not one human-made;
a sword not made by humankind will destroy them.
They will run away from this sword
and their young men will be forced to do hard labor.
9 They will surrender their stronghold
because of fear;
their officers will be afraid of the
Lord’s battle flag.”
This is what the
Lord says – the one whose fire is in Zion, whose firepot is in Jerusalem.
1 Look, a king will promote fairness;
officials will promote justice.
2 Each of them
will be like a shelter from the wind and a refuge from a rainstorm; like streams of water in a dry region and like the shade of a large cliff in a parched land.
3 Eyes
will no longer be blind
and ears
will be attentive.
4 The mind that acts rashly will possess discernment
and the tongue that stutters will speak with ease and clarity.
5 A fool will no longer be called honorable; a deceiver will no longer be called principled.
6 For a fool speaks disgraceful things;
his mind plans out sinful deeds.
He commits godless deeds
and says misleading things about the
Lord; he gives the hungry nothing to satisfy their appetite
and gives the thirsty nothing to drink.
7 A deceiver’s methods are evil;
he dreams up evil plans
to ruin the poor with lies, even when the needy are in the right.
8 An honorable man makes honorable plans; his honorable character gives him security.
9 You complacent
women, get up and listen to me! You carefree
daughters, pay attention to what I say!
10 In a year’s time
you carefree ones will shake with fear, for the grape
harvest will fail, and the fruit harvest will not arrive.
11 Tremble, you complacent ones! Shake with fear, you carefree ones! Strip off your clothes and expose yourselves – put sackcloth on your waist!
12 Mourn over the field,
over the delightful fields and the fruitful vine!
13 Mourn
over the land of my people, which is overgrown with thorns and briers, and over all the once-happy houses
in the city filled with revelry.
14 For the fortress is neglected; the once-crowded
city is abandoned. Hill
and watchtower are permanently uninhabited.
Wild donkeys love to go there, and flocks graze there.
15 This desolation will continue until new life is poured out on us from heaven.
Then the desert will become an orchard and the orchard will be considered a forest.
16 Justice will settle down in the desert and fairness will live in the orchard.
17 Fairness will produce peace
and result in lasting security.
18 My people will live in peaceful settlements, in secure homes, and in safe, quiet places.
19 Even if the forest is destroyed
and the city is annihilated,
20 you will be blessed, you who plant seed by all the banks of the streams,
you who let your ox and donkey graze.
1 The destroyer is as good as dead,
you who have not been destroyed! The deceitful one is as good as dead,
the one whom others have not deceived! When you are through destroying, you will be destroyed; when you finish
deceiving, others will deceive you!
2 Lord, be merciful to us! We wait for you. Give us strength each morning!
Deliver us when distress comes.
3 The nations run away when they hear a loud noise;
the nations scatter when you spring into action!
4 Your plunder
disappears as if locusts were eating it;
they swarm over it like locusts!
5 The
Lord is exalted,
indeed,
he lives in heaven;
he fills Zion with justice and fairness.
6 He is your constant source of stability;
he abundantly provides safety and great wisdom;
he gives all this to those who fear him.
7 Look, ambassadors
cry out in the streets; messengers sent to make peace
weep bitterly.
8 Highways are empty,
there are no travelers.
Treaties are broken,
witnesses are despised,
human life is treated with disrespect.
9 The land
dries up
and withers away; the forest of Lebanon shrivels up
and decays. Sharon
is like the desert;
Bashan and Carmel
are parched.
Context (NET) Galatians 5:1-12 1 For freedom
Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not be subject again to the yoke
of slavery.
2 Listen! I, Paul, tell you that if you let yourselves be circumcised, Christ will be of no benefit to you at all!
3 And I testify again to every man who lets himself be circumcised that he is obligated to obey
the whole law.
4 You who are trying to be declared righteous
by the law have been alienated
from Christ; you have fallen away from grace!
5 For through the Spirit, by faith, we wait expectantly for the hope of righteousness.
6 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision carries any weight – the only thing that matters is faith working through love.
7 You were running well; who prevented you from obeying
the truth?
8 This persuasion
does not come from the one who calls you!
9 A little yeast makes the whole batch of dough rise!
10 I am confident
in the Lord that you will accept no other view.
But the one who is confusing
you will pay the penalty,
whoever he may be.
11 Now, brothers and sisters,
if I am still preaching circumcision, why am I still being persecuted?
In that case the offense of the cross
has been removed.
12 I wish those agitators
would go so far as to
castrate themselves!
Context (NET) Psalm 63:1-11 1 A psalm of David, written when he was in the Judean wilderness.
O God, you are my God! I long for you!
My soul thirsts
for you, my flesh yearns for you, in a dry and parched
land where there is no water.
2 Yes,
in the sanctuary I have seen you,
and witnessed
your power and splendor.
3 Because
experiencing
your loyal love is better than life itself, my lips will praise you.
4 For this reason
I will praise you while I live; in your name I will lift up my hands.
5 As if with choice meat
you satisfy my soul.
My mouth joyfully praises you,
6 whenever
I remember you on my bed, and think about you during the nighttime hours.
7 For you are my deliverer;
under your wings
I rejoice.
8 My soul
pursues you;
your right hand upholds me.
9 Enemies seek to destroy my life,
but they will descend into the depths of the earth.
10 Each one will be handed over to the sword;
their corpses will be eaten by jackals.
11 But the king
will rejoice in God; everyone who takes oaths in his name
will boast, for the mouths of those who speak lies will be shut up.
Context (NET) Proverbs 23:22 22 Listen to your father who begot you, and do not despise your mother when she is old.
Context (NET)
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