Through My Bible Yr 1 – December 29
Bible reading based on Isaiah 33-35 (NIV84) 1 Woe to you, O destroyer, 2 O LORD, be gracious to us; 3 At the thunder of your voice, the peoples flee; 4 Your plunder, O nations, is harvested as by young locusts;
5 The LORD is exalted, for he dwells on high; 6 He will be the sure foundation for your times, 7 Look, their brave men cry aloud in the streets; 8 The highways are deserted, 9 The land mourns [c] and wastes away,
10 “Now will I arise,” says the LORD. 11 You conceive chaff, 12 The peoples will be burned as if to lime; 13 You who are far away, hear what I have done; 14 The sinners in Zion are terrified; 15 He who walks righteously 16 this is the man who will dwell on the heights, 17 Your eyes will see the king in his beauty 18 In your thoughts you will ponder the former terror: 19 You will see those arrogant people no more, 20 Look upon Zion, the city of our festivals; 21 There the LORD will be our Mighty One. 22 For the LORD is our judge, 23 Your rigging hangs loose: 24 No one living in Zion will say, “I am ill”; 1 Come near, you nations, and listen; 2 The LORD is angry with all nations; 3 Their slain will be thrown out, 4 All the stars of the heavens will be dissolved 5 My sword has drunk its fill in the heavens; 6 The sword of the LORD is bathed in blood, 7 And the wild oxen will fall with them, 8 For the LORD has a day of vengeance, 9 Edom’s streams will be turned into pitch, 10 It will not be quenched night and day; 11 The desert owl [e] and screech owl [f] will possess it; 12 Her nobles will have nothing there to be called a kingdom, 13 Thorns will overrun her citadels, 14 Desert creatures will meet with hyenas, 15 The owl will nest there and lay eggs, 16 Look in the scroll of the LORD and read: 17 He allots their portions; 1 The desert and the parched land will be glad; 3 Strengthen the feeble hands, 4 say to those with fearful hearts, 5 Then will the eyes of the blind be opened 6 Then will the lame leap like a deer, 7 The burning sand will become a pool, 8 And a highway will be there; 9 No lion will be there, 10 and the ransomed of the LORD will return. Through My Bible – December 29
See series: Through My BibleIsaiah 33
Distress and Help
you who have not been destroyed!
Woe to you, O traitor,
you who have not been betrayed!
When you stop destroying,
you will be destroyed;
when you stop betraying,
you will be betrayed.
we long for you.
Be our strength every morning,
our salvation in time of distress.
when you rise up, the nations scatter.
like a swarm of locusts men pounce on it.
he will fill Zion with justice and righteousness.
a rich store of salvation and wisdom and knowledge;
the fear of the LORD is the key to this treasure. [a]
the envoys of peace weep bitterly.
no travelers are on the roads.
The treaty is broken,
its witnesses [b] are despised,
no one is respected.
Lebanon is ashamed and withers;
Sharon is like the Arabah,
and Bashan and Carmel drop their leaves.
“Now will I be exalted;
now will I be lifted up.
you give birth to straw;
your breath is a fire that consumes you.
like cut thornbushes they will be set ablaze.”
you who are near, acknowledge my power!
trembling grips the godless:
“Who of us can dwell with the consuming fire?
Who of us can dwell with everlasting burning?”
and speaks what is right,
who rejects gain from extortion
and keeps his hand from accepting bribes,
who stops his ears against plots of murder
and shuts his eyes against contemplating evil-
whose refuge will be the mountain fortress.
His bread will be supplied,
and water will not fail him.
and view a land that stretches afar.
“Where is that chief officer?
Where is the one who took the revenue?
Where is the officer in charge of the towers?”
those people of an obscure speech,
with their strange, incomprehensible tongue.
your eyes will see Jerusalem,
a peaceful abode, a tent that will not be moved;
its stakes will never be pulled up,
nor any of its ropes broken.
It will be like a place of broad rivers and streams.
No galley with oars will ride them,
no mighty ship will sail them.
the LORD is our lawgiver,
the LORD is our king;
it is he who will save us.
The mast is not held secure,
the sail is not spread.
Then an abundance of spoils will be divided
and even the lame will carry off plunder.
and the sins of those who dwell there will be forgiven.Isaiah 34
Judgment Against the Nations
pay attention, you peoples!
Let the earth hear, and all that is in it,
the world, and all that comes out of it!
his wrath is upon all their armies.
He will totally destroy [d] them,
he will give them over to slaughter.
their dead bodies will send up a stench;
the mountains will be soaked with their blood.
and the sky rolled up like a scroll;
all the starry host will fall
like withered leaves from the vine,
like shriveled figs from the fig tree.
see, it descends in judgment on Edom,
the people I have totally destroyed.
it is covered with fató
the blood of lambs and goats,
fat from the kidneys of rams.
For the LORD has a sacrifice in Bozrah
and a great slaughter in Edom.
the bull calves and the great bulls.
Their land will be drenched with blood,
and the dust will be soaked with fat.
a year of retribution, to uphold Zion’s cause.
her dust into burning sulfur;
her land will become blazing pitch!
its smoke will rise forever.
From generation to generation it will lie desolate;
no one will ever pass through it again.
the great owl [g] and the raven will nest there.
God will stretch out over Edom
the measuring line of chaos
and the plumb line of desolation.
all her princes will vanish away.
nettles and brambles her strongholds.
She will become a haunt for jackals,
a home for owls.
and wild goats will bleat to each other;
there the night creatures will also repose
and find for themselves places of rest.
she will hatch them, and care for her young under the shadow of her wings;
there also the falcons will gather,
each with its mate.
None of these will be missing,
not one will lack her mate.
For it is his mouth that has given the order,
and his Spirit will gather them together.
his hand distributes them by measure.
They will possess it forever
and dwell there from generation to generation.Isaiah 35
Joy of the Redeemed
the wilderness will rejoice and blossom.
Like the crocus, 2 it will burst into bloom;
it will rejoice greatly and shout for joy.
The glory of Lebanon will be given to it,
the splendor of Carmel and Sharon;
they will see the glory of the LORD,
the splendor of our God.
steady the knees that give way;
“Be strong, do not fear;
your God will come,
he will come with vengeance;
with divine retribution
he will come to save you.”
and the ears of the deaf unstopped.
and the mute tongue shout for joy.
Water will gush forth in the wilderness
and streams in the desert.
the thirsty ground bubbling springs.
In the haunts where jackals once lay,
grass and reeds and papyrus will grow.
it will be called the Way of Holiness.
The unclean will not journey on it;
it will be for those who walk in that Way;
wicked fools will not go about on it. [h]
nor will any ferocious beast get up on it;
they will not be found there.
But only the redeemed will walk there,
They will enter Zion with singing;
everlasting joy will crown their heads.
Gladness and joy will overtake them,
and sorrow and sighing will flee away.
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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