From: "FamilyNet"
Bible Reading for July 09
Isaiah 7
[1] And it came to pass in the days of Ahaz the son of Jotham, the son of
Uzziah, king of Judah, that Rezin the king of Syria, and Pekah the son of
Remaliah, king of Israel, went up toward Jerusalem to war against it, but
could not prevail against it.
[2] And it was told the house of David, saying, Syria is confederate with
Ephraim. And his heart was moved, and the heart of his people, as the trees of
the wood are moved with the wind. [3] Then said the LORD unto Isaiah, Go forth
now to meet Ahaz, thou, and Shear-jashub thy son, at the end of the conduit of
the upper pool in the highway of the fuller's field;
[4] And say unto him, Take heed, and be quiet; fear not, neither be
fainthearted for the two tails of these smoking firebrands, for the fierce
anger of Rezin with Syria, and of the son of Remaliah. [5] Because Syria,
Ephraim, and the son of Remaliah, have taken evil counsel against thee, saying,
[6] Let us go up against Judah, and vex it, and let us make a breach therein
for us, and set a king in the midst of it, even the son of Tabeal: [7] Thus
saith the Lord GOD, It shall not stand, neither shall it come to pass.
[8] For the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin; and
within threescore and five years shall Ephraim be broken, that it be not a
people.
[9] And the head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is Remaliah's
son. If ye will not believe, surely ye shall not be established. [10] Moreover
the LORD spake again unto Ahaz, saying, [11] Ask thee a sign of the LORD thy
God; ask it either in the depth, or in the height above.
[12] But Ahaz said, I will not ask, neither will I tempt the LORD. [13] And he
said, Hear ye now, O house of David; Is it a small thing for you to weary men,
but will ye weary my God also? [14] Therefore the Lord himself shall give you
a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his
name Immanuel. [15] Butter and honey shall he eat, that he may know to refuse
the evil, and choose the good.
[16] For before the child shall know to refuse the evil, and choose the good,
the land that thou abhorrest shall be forsaken of both her kings. [17] The
LORD shall bring upon thee, and upon thy people, and upon thy father's house,
days that have not come, from the day that Ephraim departed from Judah; even
the king of Assyria. [18] And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD
shall hiss for the fly that is in the uttermost part of the rivers of Egypt,
and for the bee that is in the land of Assyria.
[19] And they shall come, and shall rest all of them in the desolate valleys,
and in the holes of the rocks, and upon all thorns, and upon all bushes.
[20] In the same day shall the Lord shave with a rasor that is hired, namely,
by them beyond the river, by the king of Assyria, the head, and the hair of
the feet: and it shall also consume the beard. [21] And it shall come to pass
in that day, that a man shall nourish a young cow, and two sheep;
[22] And it shall come to pass, for the abundance of milk that they shall give
he shall eat butter: for butter and honey shall every one eat that is left in
the land.
[23] And it shall come to pass in that day, that every place shall be, where
there were a thousand vines at a thousand silverlings, it shall even be for
briers and thorns.
[24] With arrows and with bows shall men come thither; because all the land
shall become briers and thorns.
[25] And on all hills that shall be digged with the mattock, there shall not
come thither the fear of briers and thorns: but it shall be for the sending
forth of oxen, and for the treading of lesser cattle.
Isaiah 8
[1] Moreover the LORD said unto me, Take thee a great roll, and write in it
with a man's pen concerning Maher-shalal-hash-baz. [2] And I took unto me
faithful witnesses to record, Uriah the priest, and Zechariah the son of
Jeberechiah.
[3] And I went unto the prophetess; and she conceived, and bare a son. Then
said the LORD to me, Call his name Maher-shalal-hash-baz. [4] For before the
child shall have knowledge to cry, My father, and my mother, the riches of
Damascus and the spoil of Samaria shall be taken away before the king of
Assyria.
[5] The LORD spake also unto me again, saying, [6] Forasmuch as this people
refuseth the waters of Shiloah that go softly, and rejoice in Rezin and
Remaliah's son; [7] Now therefore, behold, the Lord bringeth up upon them the
waters of the river, strong and many, even the king of Assyria, and all his
glory: and he shall come up over all his channels, and go over all his banks:
[8] And he shall pass through Judah; he shall overflow and go over, he shall
reach even to the neck; and the stretching out of his wings shall fill the
breadth of thy land, O Immanuel.
[9] Associate yourselves, O ye people, and ye shall be broken in pieces; and
give ear, all ye of far countries: gird yourselves, and ye shall be broken in
pieces; gird yourselves, and ye shall be broken in pieces. [10] Take counsel
together, and it shall come to nought; speak the word, and it shall not stand:
for God is with us. [11] For the LORD spake thus to me with a strong hand, and
instructed me that I should not walk in the way of this people, saying, [12]
Say ye not, A confederacy, to all them to whom this people shall say, A
confederacy; neither fear ye their fear, nor be afraid. [13] Sanctify the LORD
of hosts himself; and let him be your fear, and let him be your dread.
[14] And he shall be for a sanctuary; but for a stone of stumbling and for a
rock of offence to both the houses of Israel, for a gin and for a snare to the
inhabitants of Jerusalem.
[15] And many among them shall stumble, and fall, and be broken, and be
snared, and be taken.
[16] Bind up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples. [17] And I will
wait upon the LORD, that hideth his face from the house of Jacob, and I will
look for him.
[18] Behold, I and the children whom the LORD hath given me are for signs and
for wonders in Israel from the LORD of hosts, which dwelleth in mount Zion.
[19] And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that have familiar
spirits, and unto wizards that peep, and that mutter: should not a people seek
unto their God? for the living to the dead? [20] To the law and to the
testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no
light in them. [21] And they shall pass through it, hardly bestead and hungry:
and it shall come to pass, that when they shall be hungry, they shall fret
themselves, and curse their king and their God, and look upward. [22] And they
shall look unto the earth; and behold trouble and darkness, dimness of
anguish; and they shall be driven to darkness.
Isaiah 9
[1] Nevertheless the dimness shall not be such as was in her vexation, when at
the first he lightly afflicted the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali,
and afterward did more grievously afflict her by the way of the sea, beyond
Jordan, in Galilee of the nations. [2] The people that walked in darkness have
seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon
them hath the light shined. [3] Thou hast multiplied the nation, and not
increased the joy: they joy before thee according to the joy in harvest, and
as men rejoice when they divide the spoil.
[4] For thou hast broken the yoke of his burden, and the staff of his
shoulder, the rod of his oppressor, as in the day of Midian. [5] For every
battle of the warrior is with confused noise, and garments rolled in blood;
but this shall be with burning and fuel of fire. [6] For unto us a child is
born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder:
and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counseller, The mighty God, The
everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace. [7] Of the increase of his government
and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his
kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from
henceforth even for ever. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will perform this. [8]
The Lord sent a word into Jacob, and it hath lighted upon Israel. [9] And all
the people shall know, even Ephraim and the inhabitant of Samaria, that say in
the pride and stoutness of heart, [10] The bricks are fallen down, but we will
build with hewn stones: the sycomores are cut down, but we will change them
into cedars. [11] Therefore the LORD shall set up the adversaries of Rezin
against him, and join his enemies together;
[12] The Syrians before, and the Philistines behind; and they shall devour
Israel with open mouth. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his
hand is stretched out still.
[13] For the people turneth not unto him that smiteth them, neither do they
seek the LORD of hosts.
[14] Therefore the LORD will cut off from Israel head and tail, branch and
rush, in one day.
[15] The ancient and honourable, he is the head; and the prophet that teacheth
lies, he is the tail.
[16] For the leaders of this people cause them to err; and they that are led
of them are destroyed.
[17] Therefore the Lord shall have no joy in their young men, neither shall
have mercy on their fatherless and widows: for every one is an hypocrite and
an evildoer, and every mouth speaketh folly. For all this his anger is not
turned away, but his hand is stretched out still. [18] For wickedness burneth
as the fire: it shall devour the briers and thorns, and shall kindle in the
thickets of the forest, and they shall mount up like the lifting up of smoke.
[19] Through the wrath of the LORD of hosts is the land darkened, and the
people shall be as the fuel of the fire: no man shall spare his brother. [20]
And he shall snatch on the right hand, and be hungry; and he shall eat on the
left hand, and they shall not be satisfied: they shall eat every man the flesh
of his own arm:
[21] Manasseh, Ephraim; and Ephraim, Manasseh: and they together shall be
against Judah. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is
stretched out still.
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