Through My Bible Yr 1 – December 21
Bible reading based on Isaiah 17-19 (NIV84) 1 An oracle concerning Damascus: 2 The cities of Aroer will be deserted 3 The fortified city will disappear from Ephraim, 4 “In that day the glory of Jacob will fade;
5 It will be as when a reaper gathers the standing grain 6 Yet some gleanings will remain, 7 In that day men will look to their Maker 8 They will not look to the altars, 9In that day their strong cities, which they left because of the Israelites, will be like places abandoned to thickets and undergrowth. And all will be desolation.
10 You have forgotten God your Savior; 11 though on the day you set them out, you make them grow, 12 Oh, the raging of many nationsó 13 Although the peoples roar like the roar of surging waters, 14 In the evening, sudden terror! 1 Woe to the land of whirring wings [b] 2 which sends envoys by sea 3 All you people of the world, 4 This is what the LORD says to me: 5 For, before the harvest, when the blossom is gone 6 They will all be left to the mountain birds of prey 7 At that time gifts will be brought to the LORD Almighty 1 An oracle concerning Egypt: 2 “I will stir up Egyptian against Egyptianó 3 The Egyptians will lose heart, 4 I will hand the Egyptians over 5 The waters of the river will dry up, 6 The canals will stink; 7 also the plants along the Nile, 8 The fishermen will groan and lament, 9 Those who work with combed flax will despair, 10 The workers in cloth will be dejected, 11 The officials of Zoan are nothing but fools; 12 Where are your wise men now? 13 The officials of Zoan have become fools, 14 The LORD has poured into them 15 There is nothing Egypt can doó 16 In that day the Egyptians will be like women. They will shudder with fear at the uplifted hand that the LORD Almighty raises against them. 17And the land of Judah will bring terror to the Egyptians; everyone to whom Judah is mentioned will be terrified, because of what the LORD Almighty is planning against them. 18 In that day five cities in Egypt will speak the language of Canaan and swear allegiance to the LORD Almighty. One of them will be called the City of Destruction. [e] 19 In that day there will be an altar to the LORD in the heart of Egypt, and a monument to the LORD at its border. 20 It will be a sign and witness to the LORD Almighty in the land of Egypt. When they cry out to the LORD because of their oppressors, he will send them a savior and defender, and he will rescue them. 21 So the LORD will make himself known to the Egyptians, and in that day they will acknowledge the LORD. They will worship with sacrifices and grain offerings; they will make vows to the LORD and keep them. 22The LORD will strike Egypt with a plague; he will strike them and heal them. They will turn to the LORD, and he will respond to their pleas and heal them. 23 In that day there will be a highway from Egypt to Assyria. The Assyrians will go to Egypt and the Egyptians to Assyria. The Egyptians and Assyrians will worship together. 24 In that day Israel will be the third, along with Egypt and Assyria, a blessing on the earth. 25 The LORD Almighty will bless them, saying, “Blessed be Egypt my people, Assyria my handiwork, and Israel my inheritance.” Through My Bible – December 21
See series: Through My BibleIsaiah 17
An Oracle Against Damascus
“See, Damascus will no longer be a city
but will become a heap of ruins.
and left to flocks, which will lie down,
with no one to make them afraid.
and royal power from Damascus;
the remnant of Aram will be
like the glory of the Israelites,”
declares the LORD Almighty.
the fat of his body will waste away.
and harvests the grain with his armó
as when a man gleans heads of grain
in the Valley of Rephaim.
as when an olive tree is beaten,
leaving two or three olives on the topmost branches,
four or five on the fruitful boughs,”
declares the LORD, the God of Israel.
and turn their eyes to the Holy One of Israel.
the work of their hands,
and they will have no regard for the Asherah poles [a]
and the incense altars their fingers have made.
you have not remembered the Rock, your fortress.
Therefore, though you set out the finest plants
and plant imported vines,
and on the morning when you plant them, you bring them to bud,
yet the harvest will be as nothing
in the day of disease and incurable pain.
they rage like the raging sea!
Oh, the uproar of the peoplesó
they roar like the roaring of great waters!
when he rebukes them they flee far away,
driven before the wind like chaff on the hills,
like tumbleweed before a gale.
Before the morning, they are gone!
This is the portion of those who loot us,
the lot of those who plunder us.Isaiah 18
A Prophecy Against Cush
along the rivers of Cush, [c]
in papyrus boats over the water.
Go, swift messengers,
to a people tall and smooth-skinned,
to a people feared far and wide,
an aggressive nation of strange speech,
whose land is divided by rivers.
you who live on the earth,
when a banner is raised on the mountains,
you will see it,
and when a trumpet sounds,
you will hear it.
“I will remain quiet and will look on from my dwelling place,
like shimmering heat in the sunshine,
like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.”
and the flower becomes a ripening grape,
he will cut off the shoots with pruning knives,
and cut down and take away the spreading branches.
and to the wild animals;
the birds will feed on them all summer,
the wild animals all winter.
from a people tall and smooth-skinned,
from a people feared far and wide,
an aggressive nation of strange speech,
whose land is divided by riversó
the gifts will be brought to Mount Zion, the place of the Name of the LORD Almighty.Isaiah 19
A Prophecy About Egypt
See, the LORD rides on a swift cloud
and is coming to Egypt.
The idols of Egypt tremble before him,
and the hearts of the Egyptians melt within them.
brother will fight against brother,
neighbor against neighbor,
city against city,
kingdom against kingdom.
and I will bring their plans to nothing;
they will consult the idols and the spirits of the dead,
the mediums and the spiritists.
to the power of a cruel master,
and a fierce king will rule over them,”
declares the Lord, the LORD Almighty.
and the riverbed will be parched and dry.
the streams of Egypt will dwindle and dry up.
The reeds and rushes will wither,
at the mouth of the river.
Every sown field along the Nile
will become parched, will blow away and be no more.
all who cast hooks into the Nile;
those who throw nets on the water
will pine away.
the weavers of fine linen will lose hope.
and all the wage earners will be sick at heart.
the wise counselors of Pharaoh give senseless advice.
How can you say to Pharaoh,
“I am one of the wise men,
a disciple of the ancient kings”?
Let them show you and make known
what the LORD Almighty
has planned against Egypt.
the leaders of Memphis [d] are deceived;
the cornerstones of her peoples
have led Egypt astray.
a spirit of dizziness;
they make Egypt stagger in all that she does,
as a drunkard staggers around in his vomit.
head or tail, palm branch or reed.
Footnotes:
Scripture taken from the HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION®. NIV®. Copyright©1973, 1978, 1984 by International Bible Society. Used by permission of Zondervan. All rights reserved.
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