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   Bible Reading for August 05   
      
   Obadiah 1   
   [1] The vision of Obadiah. Thus saith the Lord GOD concerning Edom; We have   
   heard a rumour from the LORD, and an ambassador is sent among the heathen,   
   Arise ye, and let us rise up against her in battle. [2] Behold, I have made   
   thee small among the heathen: thou art greatly despised.   
   [3] The pride of thine heart hath deceived thee, thou that dwellest in the   
   clefts of the rock, whose habitation is high; that saith in his heart, Who   
   shall bring me down to the ground?   
   [4] Though thou exalt thyself as the eagle, and though thou set thy nest among   
   the stars, thence will I bring thee down, saith the LORD. [5] If thieves came   
   to thee, if robbers by night, (how art thou cut off!) would they not have   
   stolen till they had enough? if the grapegatherers came to thee, would they   
   not leave some grapes? [6] How are the things of Esau searched out! how are   
   his hidden things sought up!   
   [7] All the men of thy confederacy have brought thee even to the border: the   
   men that were at peace with thee have deceived thee, and prevailed against   
   thee; they that eat thy bread have laid a wound under thee: there is none   
   understanding in him.   
   [8] Shall I not in that day, saith the LORD, even destroy the wise men out of   
   Edom, and understanding out of the mount of Esau? [9] And thy mighty men, O   
   Teman, shall be dismayed, to the end that every one of the mount of Esau may   
   be cut off by slaughter. [10] For thy violence against thy brother Jacob shame   
   shall cover thee, and thou shalt be cut off for ever.   
   [11] In the day that thou stoodest on the other side, in the day that the   
   strangers carried away captive his forces, and foreigners entered into his   
   gates, and cast lots upon Jerusalem, even thou wast as one of them. [12] But   
   thou shouldest not have looked on the day of thy brother in the day that he   
   became a stranger; neither shouldest thou have rejoiced over the children of   
   Judah in the day of their destruction; neither shouldest thou have spoken   
   proudly in the day of distress. [13] Thou shouldest not have entered into the   
   gate of my people in the day of their calamity; yea, thou shouldest not have   
   looked on their affliction in the day of their calamity, nor have laid hands   
   on their substance in the day of their calamity;   
   [14] Neither shouldest thou have stood in the crossway, to cut off those of   
   his that did escape; neither shouldest thou have delivered up those of his   
   that did remain in the day of distress. [15] For the day of the LORD is near   
   upon all the heathen: as thou hast done, it shall be done unto thee: thy   
   reward shall return upon thine own head.   
   [16] For as ye have drunk upon my holy mountain, so shall all the heathen   
   drink continually, yea, they shall drink, and they shall swallow down, and   
   they shall be as though they had not been. [17] But upon mount Zion shall be   
   deliverance, and there shall be holiness; and the house of Jacob shall possess   
   their possessions. [18] And the house of Jacob shall be a fire, and the house   
   of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau for stubble, and they shall kindle in   
   them, and devour them; and there shall not be any remaining of the house of   
   Esau; for the LORD hath spoken it.   
   [19] And they of the south shall possess the mount of Esau; and they of the   
   plain the Philistines: and they shall possess the fields of Ephraim, and the   
   fields of Samaria: and Benjamin shall possess Gilead. [20] And the captivity   
   of this host of the children of Israel shall possess that of the Canaanites,   
   even unto Zarephath; and the captivity of Jerusalem, which is in Sepharad,   
   shall possess the cities of the south. [21] And saviours shall come up on   
   mount Zion to judge the mount of Esau; and the kingdom shall be the LORD's.   
      
   Jeremiah 1   
   [1] The words of Jeremiah the son of Hilkiah, of the priests that were in   
   Anathoth in the land of Benjamin:   
   [2] To whom the word of the LORD came in the days of Josiah the son of Amon   
   king of Judah, in the thirteenth year of his reign. [3] It came also in the   
   days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, unto the end of the   
   eleventh year of Zedekiah the son of Josiah king of Judah, unto the carrying   
   away of Jerusalem captive in the fifth month. [4] Then the word of the LORD   
   came unto me, saying, [5] Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and   
   before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained   
   thee a prophet unto the nations.   
   [6] Then said I, Ah, Lord GOD! behold, I cannot speak: for I am a child. [7]   
   But the LORD said unto me, Say not, I am a child: for thou shalt go to all   
   that I shall send thee, and whatsoever I command thee thou shalt speak. [8] Be   
   not afraid of their faces: for I am with thee to deliver thee, saith the LORD.   
   [9] Then the LORD put forth his hand, and touched my mouth. And the LORD said   
   unto me, Behold, I have put my words in thy mouth. [10] See, I have this day   
   set thee over the nations and over the kingdoms, to root out, and to pull   
   down, and to destroy, and to throw down, to build, and to plant.   
   [11] Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, Jeremiah, what seest   
   thou? And I said, I see a rod of an almond tree. [12] Then said the LORD unto   
   me, Thou hast well seen: for I will hasten my word to perform it.   
   [13] And the word of the LORD came unto me the second time, saying, What seest   
   thou? And I said, I see a seething pot; and the face thereof is toward the   
   north.   
   [14] Then the LORD said unto me, Out of the north an evil shall break forth   
   upon all the inhabitants of the land. [15] For, lo, I will call all the   
   families of the kingdoms of the north, saith the LORD; and they shall come,   
   and they shall set every one his throne at the entering of the gates of   
   Jerusalem, and against all the walls thereof round about, and against all the   
   cities of Judah. [16] And I will utter my judgments against them touching all   
   their wickedness, who have forsaken me, and have burned incense unto other   
   gods, and worshipped the works of their own hands. [17] Thou therefore gird up   
   thy loins, and arise, and speak unto them all that I command thee: be not   
   dismayed at their faces, lest I confound thee before them.   
   [18] For, behold, I have made thee this day a defenced city, and an iron   
   pillar, and brasen walls against the whole land, against the kings of Judah,   
   against the princes thereof, against the priests thereof, and against the   
   people of the land.   
   [19] And they shall fight against thee; but they shall not prevail against   
   thee; for I am with thee, saith the LORD, to deliver thee.   
      
   Jeremiah 2   
   [1] Moreover the word of the LORD came to me, saying, [2] Go and cry in the   
   ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the LORD; I remember thee, the kindness   
   of thy youth, the love of thine espousals, when thou wentest after me in the   
   wilderness, in a land that was not sown. [3] Israel was holiness unto the   
   LORD, and the firstfruits of his increase: all that devour him shall offend;   
   evil shall come upon them, saith the LORD. [4] Hear ye the word of the LORD, O   
   house of Jacob, and all the families of the house of Israel:   
   [5] Thus saith the LORD, What iniquity have your fathers found in me, that   
   they are gone far from me, and have walked after vanity, and are become vain?   
   [6] Neither said they, Where is the LORD that brought us up out of the land of   
   Egypt, that led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and of   
   pits, through a land of drought, and of the shadow of death, through a land   
   that no man passed through, and where no man dwelt? [7] And I brought you into   
   a plentiful country, to eat the fruit thereof and the goodness thereof; but   
   when ye entered, ye defiled my land, and made mine heritage an abomination.   
   [8] The priests said not, Where is the LORD? and they that handle the law knew   
   me not: the pastors also transgressed against me, and the prophets prophesied   
   by Baal, and walked after things that do not profit. [9] Wherefore I will yet   
   plead with you, saith the LORD, and with your children's children will I plead.   
   [10] For pass over the isles of Chittim, and see; and send unto Kedar, and   
   consider diligently, and see if there be such a thing. [11] Hath a nation   
   changed their gods, which are yet no gods? but my people have changed their   
   glory for that which doth not profit. [12] Be astonished, O ye heavens, at   
   this, and be horribly afraid, be ye very desolate, saith the LORD.   
   [13] For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the   
   fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that   
   can hold no water.   
   [14] Is Israel a servant? is he a homeborn slave? why is he spoiled? [15] The   
   young lions roared upon him, and yelled, and they made his land waste: his   
   cities are burned without inhabitant. [16] Also the children of Noph and   
   Tahapanes have broken the crown of thy head.   
   [17] Hast thou not procured this unto thyself, in that thou hast forsaken the   
   LORD thy God, when he led thee by the way? [18] And now what hast thou to do   
   in the way of Egypt, to drink the waters of Sihor? or what hast thou to do in   
   the way of Assyria, to drink the waters of the river?   
   [19] Thine own wickedness shall correct thee, and thy backslidings shall   
   reprove thee: know therefore and see that it is an evil thing and bitter, that   
   thou hast forsaken the LORD thy God, and that my fear is not in thee, saith   
   the Lord GOD of hosts.   
   [20] For of old time I have broken thy yoke, and burst thy bands; and thou   
   saidst, I will not transgress; when upon every high hill and under every green   
   tree thou wanderest, playing the harlot. [21] Yet I had planted thee a noble   
   vine, wholly a right seed: how then art thou turned into the degenerate plant   
   of a strange vine unto me? [22] For though thou wash thee with nitre, and take   
   thee much soap, yet thine iniquity is marked before me, saith the Lord GOD.   
   [23] How canst thou say, I am not polluted, I have not gone after Baalim? see   
   thy way in the valley, know what thou hast done: thou art a swift dromedary   
   traversing her ways;   
   [24] A wild ass used to the wilderness, that snuffeth up the wind at her   
   pleasure; in her occasion who can turn her away? all they that seek her will   
   not weary themselves; in her month they shall find her. [25] Withhold thy foot   
   from being unshod, and thy throat from thirst: but thou saidst, There is no   
   hope: no; for I have loved strangers, and after them will I go.   
   [26] As the thief is ashamed when he is found, so is the house of Israel   
   ashamed; they, their kings, their princes, and their priests, and their   
   prophets,   
   [27] Saying to a stock, Thou art my father; and to a stone, Thou hast brought   
   me forth: for they have turned their back unto me, and not their face: but in   
   the time of their trouble they will say, Arise, and save us. [28] But where   
   are thy gods that thou hast made thee? let them arise, if they can save thee   
   in the time of thy trouble: for according to the number of thy cities are thy   
   gods, O Judah. [29] Wherefore will ye plead with me? ye all have transgressed   
   against me, saith the LORD.   
   [30] In vain have I smitten your children; they received no correction: your   
   own sword hath devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion. [31] O   
   generation, see ye the word of the LORD. Have I been a wilderness unto Israel?   
   a land of darkness? wherefore say my people, We are lords; we will come no   
   more unto thee?   
   [32] Can a maid forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? yet my people   
   have forgotten me days without number. [33] Why trimmest thou thy way to seek   
   love? therefore hast thou also taught the wicked ones thy ways.   
   [34] Also in thy skirts is found the blood of the souls of the poor innocents:   
   I have not found it by secret search, but upon all these. [35] Yet thou   
   sayest, Because I am innocent, surely his anger shall turn from me. Behold, I   
   will plead with thee, because thou sayest, I have not sinned.   
   [36] Why gaddest thou about so much to change thy way? thou also shalt be   
   ashamed of Egypt, as thou wast ashamed of Assyria. [37] Yea, thou shalt go   
   forth from him, and thine hands upon thine head: for the LORD hath rejected   
   thy confidences, and thou shalt not prosper in them.   
      
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