Through My Bible Yr 1 – December 27
Bible reading based on Isaiah 29-30:17 (NIV84) 1 Woe to you, Ariel, Ariel, 2 Yet I will besiege Ariel; 3 I will encamp against you all around; 4 Brought low, you will speak from the ground;
5 But your many enemies will become like fine dust, 6 the LORD Almighty will come 7 Then the hordes of all the nations that fight against Ariel, 8 as when a hungry man dreams that he is eating, 9 Be stunned and amazed,
10 The LORD has brought over you a deep sleep: 11 For you this whole vision is nothing but words sealed in a scroll. And if you give the scroll to someone who can read, and say to him, “Read this, please,” he will answer, “I can’t; it is sealed.” 12Or if you give the scroll to someone who cannot read, and say, “Read this, please,” he will answer, “I don’t know how to read.” 13 The Lord says: 14 Therefore once more I will astound these people 15 Woe to those who go to great depths 16 You turn things upside down, 17 In a very short time, will not Lebanon be turned into a fertile field 18 In that day the deaf will hear the words of the scroll, 19 Once more the humble will rejoice in the LORD; 20 The ruthless will vanish, 21 those who with a word make a man out to be guilty, 22 Therefore this is what the LORD, who redeemed Abraham, says to the house of Jacob: 23 When they see among them their children, 24 Those who are wayward in spirit will gain understanding; 1 “Woe to the obstinate children,” 2 who go down to Egypt 3 But Pharaoh’s protection will be to your shame, 4 Though they have officials in Zoan 5 everyone will be put to shame 6 An oracle concerning the animals of the Negev: 7 to Egypt, whose help is utterly useless. 8 Go now, write it on a tablet for them, 9 These are rebellious people, deceitful children, 10 They say to the seers, 11 Leave this way, 12 Therefore, this is what the Holy One of Israel says: 13 this sin will become for you 14 It will break in pieces like pottery, 15 This is what the Sovereign LORD, the Holy One of Israel, says: 16 You said, ‘No, we will flee on horses.’ 17 A thousand will flee Through My Bible – December 27
See series: Through My BibleIsaiah 29
Woe to David’s City
the city where David settled!
Add year to year
and let your cycle of festivals go on.
she will mourn and lament,
she will be to me like an altar hearth. [a]
I will encircle you with towers
and set up my siege works against you.
your speech will mumble out of the dust.
Your voice will come ghostlike from the earth;
out of the dust your speech will whisper.
the ruthless hordes like blown chaff.
Suddenly, in an instant,
with thunder and earthquake and great noise,
with windstorm and tempest and flames of a devouring fire.
that attack her and her fortress and besiege her,
will be as it is with a dream,
with a vision in the night-
but he awakens, and his hunger remains;
as when a thirsty man dreams that he is drinking,
but he awakens faint, with his thirst unquenched.
So will it be with the hordes of all the nations
that fight against Mount Zion.
blind yourselves and be sightless;
be drunk, but not from wine,
stagger, but not from beer.
He has sealed your eyes (the prophets
he has covered your heads (the seers).
“These people come near to me with their mouth
and honor me with their lips,
but their hearts are far from me.
Their worship of me
is made up only of rules taught by men. [b]
with wonder upon wonder;
the wisdom of the wise will perish,
the intelligence of the intelligent will vanish.”
to hide their plans from the LORD,
who do their work in darkness and think,
“Who sees us? Who will know?”
as if the potter were thought to be like the clay!
Shall what is formed say to him who formed it,
“He did not make me”?
Can the pot say of the potter,
“He knows nothing”?
and the fertile field seem like a forest?
and out of gloom and darkness
the eyes of the blind will see.
the needy will rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.
the mockers will disappear,
and all who have an eye for evil will be cut down-
who ensnare the defender in court
and with false testimony deprive the innocent of justice.
“No longer will Jacob be ashamed;
no longer will their faces grow pale.
the work of my hands,
they will keep my name holy;
they will acknowledge the holiness of the Holy One of Jacob,
and will stand in awe of the God of Israel.
those who complain will accept instruction.”Isaiah 30
Woe to the Obstinate Nation
declares the LORD,
“to those who carry out plans that are not mine,
forming an alliance, but not by my Spirit,
heaping sin upon sin;
without consulting me;
who look for help to Pharaoh’s protection,
to Egypt’s shade for refuge.
Egypt’s shade will bring you disgrace.
and their envoys have arrived in Hanes,
because of a people useless to them,
who bring neither help nor advantage,
but only shame and disgrace.”
Through a land of hardship and distress,
of lions and lionesses,
of adders and darting snakes,
the envoys carry their riches on donkeys’ backs,
their treasures on the humps of camels,
to that unprofitable nation,
Therefore I call her
Rahab the Do-Nothing.
inscribe it on a scroll,
that for the days to come
it may be an everlasting witness.
children unwilling to listen to the LORD’s instruction.
“See no more visions!”
and to the prophets,
“Give us no more visions of what is right!
Tell us pleasant things,
prophesy illusions.
get off this path,
and stop confronting us
with the Holy One of Israel!”
“Because you have rejected this message,
relied on oppression
and depended on deceit,
like a high wall, cracked and bulging,
that collapses suddenly, in an instant.
shattered so mercilessly
that among its pieces not a fragment will be found
for taking coals from a hearth
or scooping water out of a cistern.”
“In repentance and rest is your salvation,
in quietness and trust is your strength,
but you would have none of it.
Therefore you will flee!
You said, ‘We will ride off on swift horses.’
Therefore your pursuers will be swift!
at the threat of one;
at the threat of five
you will all flee away,
till you are left
like a flagstaff on a mountaintop,
like a banner on a hill.”
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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