Bible Reading for July 22   
      
   Isaiah 46   
   [1] Bel boweth down, Nebo stoopeth, their idols were upon the beasts, and upon   
   the cattle: your carriages were heavy loaden; they are a burden to the weary   
   beast.   
   [2] They stoop, they bow down together; they could not deliver the burden, but   
   themselves are gone into captivity. [3] Hearken unto me, O house of Jacob, and   
   all the remnant of the house of Israel, which are borne by me from the belly,   
   which are carried from the womb: [4] And even to your old age I am he; and   
   even to hoar hairs will I carry you: I have made, and I will bear; even I will   
   carry, and will deliver you. [5] To whom will ye liken me, and make me equal,   
   and compare me, that we may be like?   
   [6] They lavish gold out of the bag, and weigh silver in the balance, and hire   
   a goldsmith; and he maketh it a god: they fall down, yea, they worship. [7]   
   They bear him upon the shoulder, they carry him, and set him in his place, and   
   he standeth; from his place shall he not remove: yea, one shall cry unto him,   
   yet can he not answer, nor save him out of his trouble. [8] Remember this, and   
   shew yourselves men: bring it again to mind, O ye transgressors.   
   [9] Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is none else; I   
   am God, and there is none like me,   
   [10] Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things   
   that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my   
   pleasure:   
   [11] Calling a ravenous bird from the east, the man that executeth my counsel   
   from a far country: yea, I have spoken it, I will also bring it to pass; I   
   have purposed it, I will also do it.   
   [12] Hearken unto me, ye stouthearted, that are far from righteousness: [13] I   
   bring near my righteousness; it shall not be far off, and my salvation shall   
   not tarry: and I will place salvation in Zion for Israel my glory.   
      
   Isaiah 47   
   [1] Come down, and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon, sit on the   
   ground: there is no throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans: for thou shalt no   
   more be called tender and delicate.   
   [2] Take the millstones, and grind meal: uncover thy locks, make bare the leg,   
   uncover the thigh, pass over the rivers. [3] Thy nakedness shall be uncovered,   
   yea, thy shame shall be seen: I will take vengeance, and I will not meet thee   
   as a man. [4] As for our redeemer, the LORD of hosts is his name, the Holy One   
   of Israel. [5] Sit thou silent, and get thee into darkness, O daughter of the   
   Chaldeans: for thou shalt no more be called, The lady of kingdoms. [6] I was   
   wroth with my people, I have polluted mine inheritance, and given them into   
   thine hand: thou didst shew them no mercy; upon the ancient hast thou very   
   heavily laid thy yoke.   
   [7] And thou saidst, I shall be a lady for ever: so that thou didst not lay   
   these things to thy heart, neither didst remember the latter end of it. [8]   
   Therefore hear now this, thou that art given to pleasures, that dwellest   
   carelessly, that sayest in thine heart, I am, and none else beside me; I shall   
   not sit as a widow, neither shall I know the loss of children: [9] But these   
   two things shall come to thee in a moment in one day, the loss of children,   
   and widowhood: they shall come upon thee in their perfection for the multitude   
   of thy sorceries, and for the great abundance of thine enchantments. [10] For   
   thou hast trusted in thy wickedness: thou hast said, None seeth me. Thy wisdom   
   and thy knowledge, it hath perverted thee; and thou hast said in thine heart,   
   I am, and none else beside me. [11] Therefore shall evil come upon thee; thou   
   shalt not know from whence it riseth: and mischief shall fall upon thee; thou   
   shalt not be able to put it off: and desolation shall come upon thee suddenly,   
   which thou shalt not know. [12] Stand now with thine enchantments, and with   
   the multitude of thy sorceries, wherein thou hast laboured from thy youth; if   
   so be thou shalt be able to profit, if so be thou mayest prevail. [13] Thou   
   art wearied in the multitude of thy counsels. Let now the astrologers, the   
   stargazers, the monthly prognosticators, stand up, and save thee from these   
   things that shall come upon thee. [14] Behold, they shall be as stubble; the   
   fire shall burn them; they shall not deliver themselves from the power of the   
   flame: there shall not be a coal to warm at, nor fire to sit before it. [15]   
   Thus shall they be unto thee with whom thou hast laboured, even thy merchants,   
   from thy youth: they shall wander every one to his quarter; none shall save   
   thee.   
      
   Isaiah 48   
   [1] Hear ye this, O house of Jacob, which are called by the name of Israel,   
   and are come forth out of the waters of Judah, which swear by the name of the   
   LORD, and make mention of the God of Israel, but not in truth, nor in   
   righteousness. [2] For they call themselves of the holy city, and stay   
   themselves upon the God of Israel; The LORD of hosts is his name. [3] I have   
   declared the former things from the beginning; and they went forth out of my   
   mouth, and I shewed them; I did them suddenly, and they came to pass. [4]   
   Because I knew that thou art obstinate, and thy neck is an iron sinew, and thy   
   brow brass;   
   [5] I have even from the beginning declared it to thee; before it came to pass   
   I shewed it thee: lest thou shouldest say, Mine idol hath done them, and my   
   graven image, and my molten image, hath commanded them. [6] Thou hast heard,   
   see all this; and will not ye declare it? I have shewed thee new things from   
   this time, even hidden things, and thou didst not know them.   
   [7] They are created now, and not from the beginning; even before the day when   
   thou heardest them not; lest thou shouldest say, Behold, I knew them. [8] Yea,   
   thou heardest not; yea, thou knewest not; yea, from that time that thine ear   
   was not opened: for I knew that thou wouldest deal very treacherously, and   
   wast called a transgressor from the womb. [9] For my name's sake will I defer   
   mine anger, and for my praise will I refrain for thee, that I cut thee not   
   off. [10] Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee   
   in the furnace of affliction.   
   [11] For mine own sake, even for mine own sake, will I do it: for how should   
   my name be polluted? and I will not give my glory unto another. [12] Hearken   
   unto me, O Jacob and Israel, my called; I am he; I am the first, I also am the   
   last.   
   [13] Mine hand also hath laid the foundation of the earth, and my right hand   
   hath spanned the heavens: when I call unto them, they stand up together. [14]   
   All ye, assemble yourselves, and hear; which among them hath declared these   
   things? The LORD hath loved him: he will do his pleasure on Babylon, and his   
   arm shall be on the Chaldeans.   
   [15] I, even I, have spoken; yea, I have called him: I have brought him, and   
   he shall make his way prosperous.   
   [16] Come ye near unto me, hear ye this; I have not spoken in secret from the   
   beginning; from the time that it was, there am I: and now the Lord GOD, and   
   his Spirit, hath sent me.   
   [17] Thus saith the LORD, thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel; I am the LORD   
   thy God which teacheth thee to profit, which leadeth thee by the way that thou   
   shouldest go.   
   [18] O that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments! then had thy peace been   
   as a river, and thy righteousness as the waves of the sea: [19] Thy seed also   
   had been as the sand, and the offspring of thy bowels like the gravel thereof;   
   his name should not have been cut off nor destroyed from before me.   
   [20] Go ye forth of Babylon, flee ye from the Chaldeans, with a voice of   
   singing declare ye, tell this, utter it even to the end of the earth; say ye,   
   The LORD hath redeemed his servant Jacob. [21] And they thirsted not when he   
   led them through the deserts: he caused the waters to flow out of the rock for   
   them: he clave the rock also, and the waters gushed out.   
   [22] There is no peace, saith the LORD, unto the wicked.   
      
      
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