Bible reading for the day: 199_07-Jul-18_Isa23-27Isa 23:2 Be silent, you inhabitants of the coastland, You merchants of Sidon; Your messengers crossed the sea Isa 23:3 And were on many waters. The grain of the Nile, the harvest of the River was her revenue; And she was the market of nations. Isa 23:4 Be ashamed, O Sidon; For the sea speaks, the stronghold of the sea, saying, "I have neither travailed nor given birth, I have neither brought up young men nor reared virgins." Isa 23:5 When the report reaches Egypt, They will be in anguish at the report of Tyre. Isa 23:6 Pass over to Tarshish; Wail, O inhabitants of the coastland. Isa 23:7 Is this your jubilant city, Whose origin is from antiquity, Whose feet used to carry her to colonize distant places? Isa 23:8 Who has planned this against Tyre, the bestower of crowns, Whose merchants were princes, whose traders were the honored of the earth? Isa 23:9 The Lord of hosts has planned it, to defile the pride of all beauty, To despise all the honored of the earth. Isa 23:10 Overflow your land like the Nile, O daughter of Tarshish, There is no more restraint. Isa 23:11 He has stretched His hand out over the sea, He has made the kingdoms tremble; The Lord has given a command concerning Canaan to demolish its strongholds. Isa 23:12 He has said, "You shall exult no more, O crushed virgin daughter of Sidon. Arise, pass over to Cyprus; even there you will find no rest." Isa 23:13 Behold, the land of the Chaldeans--this is the people which was not; Assyria appointed it for desert creatures--they erected their siege towers, they stripped its palaces, they made it a ruin. Isa 23:14 Wail, O ships of Tarshish, For your stronghold is destroyed. Isa 23:15 Now in that day Tyre will be forgotten for seventy years like the days of one king. At the end of seventy years it will happen to Tyre as in the song of the harlot: Isa 23:16 Take your harp, walk about the city, O forgotten harlot; Pluck the strings skillfully, sing many songs, That you may be remembered. Isa 23:17 It will come about at the end of seventy years that the Lord will visit Tyre. Then she will go back to her harlot's wages and will play the harlot with all the kingdoms on the face of the earth. Isa 23:18 Her gain and her harlot's wages will be set apart to the Lord; it will not be stored up or hoarded, but her gain will become sufficient food and choice attire for those who dwell in the presence of the Lord. -------- Isa 24:1 Behold, the Lord lays the earth waste, devastates it, distorts its surface and scatters its inhabitants. Isa 24:2 And the people will be like the priest, the servant like his master, the maid like her mistress, the buyer like the seller, the lender like the borrower, the creditor like the debtor. Isa 24:3 The earth will be completely laid waste and completely despoiled, for the Lord has spoken this word. Isa 24:4 The earth mourns and withers, the world fades and withers, the exalted of the people of the earth fade away. Isa 24:5 The earth is also polluted by its inhabitants, for they transgressed laws, violated statutes, broke the everlasting covenant. Isa 24:6 Therefore, a curse devours the earth, and those who live in it are held guilty. Therefore, the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men are left. Isa 24:7 The new wine mourns, The vine decays, All the merry-hearted sigh. Isa 24:8 The gaiety of tambourines ceases, The noise of revelers stops, The gaiety of the harp ceases. Isa 24:9 They do not drink wine with song; Strong drink is bitter to those who drink it. Isa 24:10 The city of chaos is broken down; Every house is shut up so that none may enter. Isa 24:11 There is an outcry in the streets concerning the wine; All joy turns to gloom. The gaiety of the earth is banished. Isa 24:12 Desolation is left in the city And the gate is battered to ruins. Isa 24:13 For thus it will be in the midst of the earth among the peoples, As the shaking of an olive tree, As the gleanings when the grape harvest is over. Isa 24:14 They raise their voices, they shout for joy; They cry out from the west concerning the majesty of the Lord. Isa 24:15 Therefore glorify the Lord in the east, The name of the Lord, the God of Israel, In the coastlands of the sea. Isa 24:16 From the ends of the earth we hear songs, "Glory to the Righteous One," But I say, "Woe to me! Woe to me! Alas for me! The treacherous deal treacherously, And the treacherous deal very treacherously." Isa 24:17 Terror and pit and snare Confront you, O inhabitant of the earth. Isa 24:18 Then it will be that he who flees the report of disaster will fall into the pit, And he who climbs out of the pit will be caught in the snare; For the windows above are opened, and the foundations of the earth shake. Isa 24:19 The earth is broken asunder, The earth is split through, The earth is shaken violently. Isa 24:20 The earth reels to and fro like a drunkard And it totters like a shack, For its transgression is heavy upon it, And it will fall, never to rise again. Isa 24:21 So it will happen in that day, That the Lord will punish the host of heaven on high, And the kings of the earth on earth. Isa 24:22 They will be gathered together Like prisoners in the dungeon, And will be confined in prison; And after many days they will be punished. Isa 24:23 Then the moon will be abashed and the sun ashamed, For the Lord of hosts will reign on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem, And His glory will be before His elders. -------- Isa 25:1 O Lord, You are my God; I will exalt You, I will give thanks to Your name; For You have worked wonders, Plans formed long ago, with perfect faithfulness. Isa 25:2 For You have made a city into a heap, A fortified city into a ruin; A palace of strangers is a city no more, It will never be rebuilt. Isa 25:3 Therefore a strong people will glorify You; Cities of ruthless nations will revere You. Isa 25:4 For You have been a defense for the helpless, A defense for the needy in his distress, A refuge from the storm, a shade from the heat; For the breath of the ruthless Is like a rain storm against a wall. Isa 25:5 Like heat in drought, You subdue the uproar of aliens; Like heat by the shadow of a cloud, the song of the ruthless is silenced. Isa 25:6 The Lord of hosts will prepare a lavish banquet for all peoples on this mountain; A banquet of aged wine, choice pieces with marrow, And refined, aged wine. Isa 25:7 And on this mountain He will swallow up the covering which is over all peoples, Even the veil which is stretched over all nations. Isa 25:8 He will swallow up death for all time, And the Lord God will wipe tears away from all faces, And He will remove the reproach of His people from all the earth; For the Lord has spoken. Isa 25:9 And it will be said in that day, "Behold, this is our God for whom we have waited that He might save us. This is the Lord for whom we have waited; Let us rejoice and be glad in His salvation." Isa 25:10 For the hand of the Lord will rest on this mountain, And Moab will be trodden down in his place As straw is trodden down in the water of a manure pile. Isa 25:11 And he will spread out his hands in the middle of it As a swimmer spreads out his hands to swim, But the Lord will lay low his pride together with the trickery of his hands. Isa 25:12 The unassailable fortifications of your walls He will bring down, Lay low and cast to the ground, even to the dust. -------- Isa 26:1 In that day this song will be sung in the land of Judah: "We have a strong city; He sets up walls and ramparts for security. Isa 26:2 "Open the gates, that the righteous nation may enter, The one that remains faithful. Isa 26:3 "The steadfast of mind You will keep in perfect peace, Because he trusts in You. Isa 26:4 "Trust in the Lord forever, For in God the Lord, we have an everlasting Rock. Isa 26:5 "For He has brought low those who dwell on high, the unassailable city; He lays it low, He lays it low to the ground, He casts it to the dust. Isa 26:6 "The foot will trample it, The feet of the afflicted, the steps of the helpless." Isa 26:7 The way of the righteous is smooth; O Upright One, make the path of the righteous level. Isa 26:8 Indeed, while following the way of Your judgments, O Lord, We have waited for You eagerly; Your name, even Your memory, is the desire of our souls. Isa 26:9 At night my soul longs for You, Indeed, my spirit within me seeks You diligently; For when the earth experiences Your judgments The inhabitants of the world learn righteousness. Isa 26:10 Though the wicked is shown favor, He does not learn righteousness; He deals unjustly in the land of uprightness, And does not perceive the majesty of the Lord. Isa 26:11 O Lord, Your hand is lifted up yet they do not see it. They see Your zeal for the people and are put to shame; Indeed, fire will devour Your enemies. Isa 26:12 Lord, You will establish peace for us, Since You have also performed for us all our works. Isa 26:13 O Lord our God, other masters besides You have ruled us; But through You alone we confess Your name. Isa 26:14 The dead will not live, the departed spirits will not rise; Therefore You have punished and destroyed them, And You have wiped out all remembrance of them. Isa 26:15 You have increased the nation, O Lord, You have increased the nation, You are glorified; You have extended all the borders of the land. Isa 26:16 O Lord, they sought You in distress; They could only whisper a prayer, Your chastening was upon them. Isa 26:17 As the pregnant woman approaches the time to give birth, She writhes and cries out in her labor pains, Thus were we before You, O Lord. Isa 26:18 We were pregnant, we writhed in labor, We gave birth, as it seems, only to wind. We could not accomplish deliverance for the earth, Nor were inhabitants of the world born. Isa 26:19 Your dead will live; Their corpses will rise. You who lie in the dust, awake and shout for joy, For your dew is as the dew of the dawn, And the earth will give birth to the departed spirits. Isa 26:20 Come, my people, enter into your rooms And close your doors behind you; Hide for a little while Until indignation runs its course. Isa 26:21 For behold, the Lord is about to come out from His place To punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity; And the earth will reveal her bloodshed And will no longer cover her slain. -------- Isa 27:1 In that day the Lord will punish Leviathan the fleeing serpent, With His fierce and great and mighty sword, Even Leviathan the twisted serpent; And He will kill the dragon who lives in the sea. Isa 27:2 In that day, "A vineyard of wine, sing of it! Isa 27:3 "I, the Lord, am its keeper; I water it every moment. So that no one will damage it, I guard it night and day. Isa 27:4 "I have no wrath. Should someone give Me briars and thorns in battle, Then I would step on them, I would burn them completely. Isa 27:5 "Or let him rely on My protection, Let him make peace with Me, Let him make peace with Me." Isa 27:6 In the days to come Jacob will take root, Israel will blossom and sprout, And they will fill the whole world with fruit. Isa 27:7 Like the striking of Him who has struck them, has He struck them? Or like the slaughter of His slain, have they been slain? Isa 27:8 You contended with them by banishing them, by driving them away. With His fierce wind He has expelled them on the day of the east wind. Isa 27:9 Therefore through this Jacob's iniquity will be forgiven; And this will be the full price of the pardoning of his sin: When he makes all the altar stones like pulverized chalk stones; When Asherim and incense altars will not stand. Isa 27:10 For the fortified city is isolated, A homestead forlorn and forsaken like the desert; There the calf will graze, And there it will lie down and feed on its branches. Isa 27:11 When its limbs are dry, they are broken off; Women come and make a fire with them, For they are not a people of discernment, Therefore their Maker will not have compassion on them. And their Creator will not be gracious to them. Isa 27:12 In that day the Lord will start His threshing from the flowing stream of the Euphrates to the brook of Egypt, and you will be gathered up one by one, O sons of Israel. Isa 27:13 It will come about also in that day that a great trumpet will be blown, and those who were perishing in the land of Assyria and who were scattered in the land of Egypt will come and worship the Lord in the holy mountain at Jerusalem.
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