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   Bible Reading for July 10   
      
   Isaiah 10   
   [1] Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and that write grievousness   
   which they have prescribed; [2] To turn aside the needy from judgment, and to   
   take away the right from the poor of my people, that widows may be their prey,   
   and that they may rob the fatherless!   
   [3] And what will ye do in the day of visitation, and in the desolation which   
   shall come from far? to whom will ye flee for help? and where will ye leave   
   your glory?   
   [4] Without me they shall bow down under the prisoners, and they shall fall   
   under the slain. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is   
   stretched out still.   
   [5] O Assyrian, the rod of mine anger, and the staff in their hand is mine   
   indignation.   
   [6] I will send him against an hypocritical nation, and against the people of   
   my wrath will I give him a charge, to take the spoil, and to take the prey,   
   and to tread them down like the mire of the streets. [7] Howbeit he meaneth   
   not so, neither doth his heart think so; but it is in his heart to destroy and   
   cut off nations not a few. [8] For he saith, Are not my princes altogether   
   kings? [9] Is not Calno as Carchemish? is not Hamath as Arpad? is not Samaria   
   as Damascus?   
   [10] As my hand hath found the kingdoms of the idols, and whose graven images   
   did excel them of Jerusalem and of Samaria; [11] Shall I not, as I have done   
   unto Samaria and her idols, so do to Jerusalem and her idols?   
   [12] Wherefore it shall come to pass, that when the Lord hath performed his   
   whole work upon mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the   
   stout heart of the king of Assyria, and the glory of his high looks. [13] For   
   he saith, By the strength of my hand I have done it, and by my wisdom; for I   
   am prudent: and I have removed the bounds of the people, and have robbed their   
   treasures, and I have put down the inhabitants like a valiant man:   
   [14] And my hand hath found as a nest the riches of the people: and as one   
   gathereth eggs that are left, have I gathered all the earth; and there was   
   none that moved the wing, or opened the mouth, or peeped. [15] Shall the axe   
   boast itself against him that heweth therewith? or shall the saw magnify   
   itself against him that shaketh it? as if the rod should shake itself against   
   them that lift it up, or as if the staff should lift up itself, as if it were   
   no wood.   
   [16] Therefore shall the Lord, the Lord of hosts, send among his fat ones   
   leanness; and under his glory he shall kindle a burning like the burning of a   
   fire.   
   [17] And the light of Israel shall be for a fire, and his Holy One for a   
   flame: and it shall burn and devour his thorns and his briers in one day; [18]   
   And shall consume the glory of his forest, and of his fruitful field, both   
   soul and body: and they shall be as when a standardbearer fainteth. [19] And   
   the rest of the trees of his forest shall be few, that a child may write them.   
   [20] And it shall come to pass in that day, that the remnant of Israel, and   
   such as are escaped of the house of Jacob, shall no more again stay upon him   
   that smote them; but shall stay upon the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, in   
   truth.   
   [21] The remnant shall return, even the remnant of Jacob, unto the mighty God.   
   [22] For though thy people Israel be as the sand of the sea, yet a remnant of   
   them shall return: the consumption decreed shall overflow with righteousness.   
   [23] For the Lord GOD of hosts shall make a consumption, even determined, in   
   the midst of all the land.   
   [24] Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD of hosts, O my people that dwellest in   
   Zion, be not afraid of the Assyrian: he shall smite thee with a rod, and shall   
   lift up his staff against thee, after the manner of Egypt. [25] For yet a very   
   little while, and the indignation shall cease, and mine anger in their   
   destruction.   
   [26] And the LORD of hosts shall stir up a scourge for him according to the   
   slaughter of Midian at the rock of Oreb: and as his rod was upon the sea, so   
   shall he lift it up after the manner of Egypt. [27] And it shall come to pass   
   in that day, that his burden shall be taken away from off thy shoulder, and   
   his yoke from off thy neck, and the yoke shall be destroyed because of the   
   anointing. [28] He is come to Aiath, he is passed to Migron; at Michmash he   
   hath laid up his carriages:   
   [29] They are gone over the passage: they have taken up their lodging at Geba;   
   Ramah is afraid; Gibeah of Saul is fled. [30] Lift up thy voice, O daughter of   
   Gallim: cause it to be heard unto Laish, O poor Anathoth.   
   [31] Madmenah is removed; the inhabitants of Gebim gather themselves to flee.   
   [32] As yet shall he remain at Nob that day: he shall shake his hand against   
   the mount of the daughter of Zion, the hill of Jerusalem. [33] Behold, the   
   Lord, the LORD of hosts, shall lop the bough with terror: and the high ones of   
   stature shall be hewn down, and the haughty shall be humbled.   
   [34] And he shall cut down the thickets of the forest with iron, and Lebanon   
   shall fall by a mighty one.   
      
   Isaiah 11   
   [1] And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a Branch   
   shall grow out of his roots:   
   [2] And the spirit of the LORD shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and   
   understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of   
   the fear of the LORD;   
   [3] And shall make him of quick understanding in the fear of the LORD: and he   
   shall not judge after the sight of his eyes, neither reprove after the hearing   
   of his ears:   
   [4] But with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and reprove with equity   
   for the meek of the earth: and he shall smite the earth with the rod of his   
   mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked. [5] And   
   righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins, and faithfulness the girdle of   
   his reins.   
   [6] The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down   
   with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a   
   little child shall lead them.   
   [7] And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down   
   together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox. [8] And the sucking child   
   shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on   
   the cockatrice' den. [9] They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy   
   mountain: for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD, as the   
   waters cover the sea. [10] And in that day there shall be a root of Jesse,   
   which shall stand for an ensign of the people; to it shall the Gentiles seek:   
   and his rest shall be glorious.   
   [11] And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall set his hand   
   again the second time to recover the remnant of his people, which shall be   
   left, from Assyria, and from Egypt, and from Pathros, and from Cush, and from   
   Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea.   
   [12] And he shall set up an ensign for the nations, and shall assemble the   
   outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four   
   corners of the earth.   
   [13] The envy also of Ephraim shall depart, and the adversaries of Judah shall   
   be cut off: Ephraim shall not envy Judah, and Judah shall not vex Ephraim.   
   [14] But they shall fly upon the shoulders of the Philistines toward the west;   
   they shall spoil them of the east together: they shall lay their hand upon   
   Edom and Moab; and the children of Ammon shall obey them. [15] And the LORD   
   shall utterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptian sea; and with his mighty wind   
   shall he shake his hand over the river, and shall smite it in the seven   
   streams, and make men go over dryshod. [16] And there shall be an highway for   
   the remnant of his people, which shall be left, from Assyria; like as it was   
   to Israel in the day that he came up out of the land of Egypt.   
      
   Isaiah 12   
   [1] And in that day thou shalt say, O LORD, I will praise thee: though thou   
   wast angry with me, thine anger is turned away, and thou comfortedst me. [2]   
   Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and not be afraid: for the LORD   
   JEHOVAH is my strength and my song; he also is become my salvation. [3]   
   Therefore with joy shall ye draw water out of the wells of salvation. [4] And   
   in that day shall ye say, Praise the LORD, call upon his name, declare his   
   doings among the people, make mention that his name is exalted. [5] Sing unto   
   the LORD; for he hath done excellent things: this is known in all the earth.   
   [6] Cry out and shout, thou inhabitant of Zion: for great is the Holy One of   
   Israel in the midst of thee.   
      
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