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Bible Reading for July 08
Isaiah 4
[1] And in that day seven women shall take hold of one man, saying, We will
eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel: only let us be called by thy
name, to take away our reproach.
[2] In that day shall the branch of the LORD be beautiful and glorious, and
the fruit of the earth shall be excellent and comely for them that are escaped
of Israel.
[3] And it shall come to pass, that he that is left in Zion, and he that
remaineth in Jerusalem, shall be called holy, even every one that is written
among the living in Jerusalem:
[4] When the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion,
and shall have purged the blood of Jerusalem from the midst thereof by the
spirit of judgment, and by the spirit of burning. [5] And the LORD will create
upon every dwelling place of mount Zion, and upon her assemblies, a cloud and
smoke by day, and the shining of a flaming fire by night: for upon all the
glory shall be a defence. [6] And there shall be a tabernacle for a shadow in
the daytime from the heat, and for a place of refuge, and for a covert from
storm and from rain.
Isaiah 5
[1] Now will I sing to my wellbeloved a song of my beloved touching his
vineyard. My wellbeloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill: [2] And he
fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the
choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also made a winepress
therein: and he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth
wild grapes.
[3] And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem, and men of Judah, judge, I pray you,
betwixt me and my vineyard.
[4] What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it?
wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, brought it forth
wild grapes?
[5] And now go to; I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I will take
away the hedge thereof, and it shall be eaten up; and break down the wall
thereof, and it shall be trodden down: [6] And I will lay it waste: it shall
not be pruned, nor digged; but there shall come up briers and thorns: I will
also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.
[7] For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men
of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for judgment, but behold
oppression; for righteousness, but behold a cry. [8] Woe unto them that join
house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no place, that they may
be placed alone in the midst of the earth! [9] In mine ears said the LORD of
hosts, Of a truth many houses shall be desolate, even great and fair, without
inhabitant. [10] Yea, ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and the seed
of an homer shall yield an ephah.
[11] Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning, that they may follow
strong drink; that continue until night, till wine inflame them! [12] And the
harp, and the viol, the tabret, and pipe, and wine, are in their feasts: but
they regard not the work of the LORD, neither consider the operation of his
hands.
[13] Therefore my people are gone into captivity, because they have no
knowledge: and their honourable men are famished, and their multitude dried up
with thirst.
[14] Therefore hell hath enlarged herself, and opened her mouth without
measure: and their glory, and their multitude, and their pomp, and he that
rejoiceth, shall descend into it.
[15] And the mean man shall be brought down, and the mighty man shall be
humbled, and the eyes of the lofty shall be humbled: [16] But the LORD of
hosts shall be exalted in judgment, and God that is holy shall be sanctified
in righteousness. [17] Then shall the lambs feed after their manner, and the
waste places of the fat ones shall strangers eat.
[18] Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as it were
with a cart rope:
[19] That say, Let him make speed, and hasten his work, that we may see it:
and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw nigh and come, that we may
know it!
[20] Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for
light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
[21] Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own
sight!
[22] Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to
mingle strong drink:
[23] Which justify the wicked for reward, and take away the righteousness of
the righteous from him!
[24] Therefore as the fire devoureth the stubble, and the flame consumeth the
chaff, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as
dust: because they have cast away the law of the LORD of hosts, and despised
the word of the Holy One of Israel. [25] Therefore is the anger of the LORD
kindled against his people, and he hath stretched forth his hand against them,
and hath smitten them: and the hills did tremble, and their carcases were torn
in the midst of the streets. For all this his anger is not turned away, but
his hand is stretched out still.
[26] And he will lift up an ensign to the nations from far, and will hiss unto
them from the end of the earth: and, behold, they shall come with speed
swiftly:
[27] None shall be weary nor stumble among them; none shall slumber nor sleep;
neither shall the girdle of their loins be loosed, nor the latchet of their
shoes be broken:
[28] Whose arrows are sharp, and all their bows bent, their horses' hoofs
shall be counted like flint, and their wheels like a whirlwind: [29] Their
roaring shall be like a lion, they shall roar like young lions: yea, they
shall roar, and lay hold of the prey, and shall carry it away safe, and none
shall deliver it.
[30] And in that day they shall roar against them like the roaring of the sea:
and if one look unto the land, behold darkness and sorrow, and the light is
darkened in the heavens thereof.
Isaiah 6
[1] In the year that king Uzziah died I saw also the Lord sitting upon a
throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple. [2] Above it
stood the seraphims: each one had six wings; with twain he covered his face,
and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly.
[3] And one cried unto another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is the LORD of
hosts: the whole earth is full of his glory. [4] And the posts of the door
moved at the voice of him that cried, and the house was filled with smoke.
[5] Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean
lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have
seen the King, the LORD of hosts. [6] Then flew one of the seraphims unto me,
having a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off the
altar: [7] And he laid it upon my mouth, and said, Lo, this hath touched thy
lips; and thine iniquity is taken away, and thy sin purged. [8] Also I heard
the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then
said I, Here am I; send me. [9] And he said, Go, and tell this people, Hear ye
indeed, but understand not; and see ye indeed, but perceive not. [10] Make the
heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest
they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their
heart, and convert, and be healed. [11] Then said I, Lord, how long? And he
answered, Until the cities be wasted without inhabitant, and the houses
without man, and the land be utterly desolate,
[12] And the LORD have removed men far away, and there be a great forsaking in
the midst of the land.
[13] But yet in it shall be a tenth, and it shall return, and shall be eaten:
as a teil tree, and as an oak, whose substance is in them, when they cast
their leaves: so the holy seed shall be the substance thereof.
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