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Bible Reading for July 16
Isaiah 28
[1] Woe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim, whose glorious
beauty is a fading flower, which are on the head of the fat valleys of them
that are overcome with wine!
[2] Behold, the Lord hath a mighty and strong one, which as a tempest of hail
and a destroying storm, as a flood of mighty waters overflowing, shall cast
down to the earth with the hand. [3] The crown of pride, the drunkards of
Ephraim, shall be trodden under feet:
[4] And the glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fat valley, shall be
a fading flower, and as the hasty fruit before the summer; which when he that
looketh upon it seeth, while it is yet in his hand he eateth it up. [5] In
that day shall the LORD of hosts be for a crown of glory, and for a diadem of
beauty, unto the residue of his people, [6] And for a spirit of judgment to
him that sitteth in judgment, and for strength to them that turn the battle to
the gate. [7] But they also have erred through wine, and through strong drink
are out of the way; the priest and the prophet have erred through strong
drink, they are swallowed up of wine, they are out of the way through strong
drink; they err in vision, they stumble in judgment. [8] For all tables are
full of vomit and filthiness, so that there is no place clean.
[9] Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand
doctrine? them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts. [10]
For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line
upon line; here a little, and there a little: [11] For with stammering lips
and another tongue will he speak to this people.
[12] To whom he said, This is the rest wherewith ye may cause the weary to
rest; and this is the refreshing: yet they would not hear. [13] But the word
of the LORD was unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line
upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little; that they might
go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.
[14] Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, ye scornful men, that rule this
people which is in Jerusalem.
[15] Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell
are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall
not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have
we hid ourselves:
[16] Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation
a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that
believeth shall not make haste. [17] Judgment also will I lay to the line, and
righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of
lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.
[18] And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement
with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through,
then ye shall be trodden down by it. [19] From the time that it goeth forth it
shall take you: for morning by morning shall it pass over, by day and by
night: and it shall be a vexation only to understand the report.
[20] For the bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself on it: and the
covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it. [21] For the LORD shall
rise up as in mount Perazim, he shall be wroth as in the valley of Gibeon,
that he may do his work, his strange work; and bring to pass his act, his
strange act.
[22] Now therefore be ye not mockers, lest your bands be made strong: for I
have heard from the Lord GOD of hosts a consumption, even determined upon the
whole earth.
[23] Give ye ear, and hear my voice; hearken, and hear my speech. [24] Doth
the plowman plow all day to sow? doth he open and break the clods of his
ground?
[25] When he hath made plain the face thereof, doth he not cast abroad the
fitches, and scatter the cummin, and cast in the principal wheat and the
appointed barley and rie in their place? [26] For his God doth instruct him to
discretion, and doth teach him. [27] For the fitches are not threshed with a
threshing instrument, neither is a cart wheel turned about upon the cummin;
but the fitches are beaten out with a staff, and the cummin with a rod. [28]
Bread corn is bruised; because he will not ever be threshing it, nor break it
with the wheel of his cart, nor bruise it with his horsemen. [29] This also
cometh forth from the LORD of hosts, which is wonderful in counsel, and
excellent in working.
Isaiah 29
[1] Woe to Ariel, to Ariel, the city where David dwelt! add ye year to year;
let them kill sacrifices.
[2] Yet I will distress Ariel, and there shall be heaviness and sorrow: and it
shall be unto me as Ariel.
[3] And I will camp against thee round about, and will lay siege against thee
with a mount, and I will raise forts against thee. [4] And thou shalt be
brought down, and shalt speak out of the ground, and thy speech shall be low
out of the dust, and thy voice shall be, as of one that hath a familiar
spirit, out of the ground, and thy speech shall whisper out of the dust.
[5] Moreover the multitude of thy strangers shall be like small dust, and the
multitude of the terrible ones shall be as chaff that passeth away: yea, it
shall be at an instant suddenly. [6] Thou shalt be visited of the LORD of
hosts with thunder, and with earthquake, and great noise, with storm and
tempest, and the flame of devouring fire.
[7] And the multitude of all the nations that fight against Ariel, even all
that fight against her and her munition, and that distress her, shall be as a
dream of a night vision.
[8] It shall even be as when an hungry man dreameth, and, behold, he eateth;
but he awaketh, and his soul is empty: or as when a thirsty man dreameth, and,
behold, he drinketh; but he awaketh, and, behold, he is faint, and his soul
hath appetite: so shall the multitude of all the nations be, that fight
against mount Zion.
[9] Stay yourselves, and wonder; cry ye out, and cry: they are drunken, but
not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink. [10] For the LORD hath
poured out upon you the spirit of deep sleep, and hath closed your eyes: the
prophets and your rulers, the seers hath he covered.
[11] And the vision of all is become unto you as the words of a book that is
sealed, which men deliver to one that is learned, saying, Read this, I pray
thee: and he saith, I cannot; for it is sealed: [12] And the book is delivered
to him that is not learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I am
not learned. [13] Wherefore the Lord said, Forasmuch as this people draw near
me with their mouth, and with their lips do honour me, but have removed their
heart far from me, and their fear toward me is taught by the precept of men:
[14] Therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a marvellous work among this
people, even a marvellous work and a wonder: for the wisdom of their wise men
shall perish, and the understanding of their prudent men shall be hid. [15]
Woe unto them that seek deep to hide their counsel from the LORD, and their
works are in the dark, and they say, Who seeth us? and who knoweth us? [16]
Surely your turning of things upside down shall be esteemed as the potter's
clay: for shall the work say of him that made it, He made me not? or shall the
thing framed say of him that framed it, He had no understanding?
[17] Is it not yet a very little while, and Lebanon shall be turned into a
fruitful field, and the fruitful field shall be esteemed as a forest? [18] And
in that day shall the deaf hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the
blind shall see out of obscurity, and out of darkness. [19] The meek also
shall increase their joy in the LORD, and the poor among men shall rejoice in
the Holy One of Israel. [20] For the terrible one is brought to nought, and
the scorner is consumed, and all that watch for iniquity are cut off: [21]
That make a man an offender for a word, and lay a snare for him that reproveth
in the gate, and turn aside the just for a thing of nought. [22] Therefore
thus saith the LORD, who redeemed Abraham, concerning the house of Jacob,
Jacob shall not now be ashamed, neither shall his face now wax pale.
[23] But when he seeth his children, the work of mine hands, in the midst of
him, they shall sanctify my name, and sanctify the Holy One of Jacob, and
shall fear the God of Israel.
[24] They also that erred in spirit shall come to understanding, and they that
murmured shall learn doctrine.
Isaiah 30
[1] Woe to the rebellious children, saith the LORD, that take counsel, but not
of me; and that cover with a covering, but not of my spirit, that they may add
sin to sin:
[2] That walk to go down into Egypt, and have not asked at my mouth; to
strengthen themselves in the strength of Pharaoh, and to trust in the shadow
of Egypt!
[3] Therefore shall the strength of Pharaoh be your shame, and the trust in
the shadow of Egypt your confusion. [4] For his princes were at Zoan, and his
ambassadors came to Hanes. [5] They were all ashamed of a people that could
not profit them, nor be an help nor profit, but a shame, and also a reproach.
[6] The burden of the beasts of the south: into the land of trouble and
anguish, from whence come the young and old lion, the viper and fiery flying
serpent, they will carry their riches upon the shoulders of young asses, and
their treasures upon the bunches of camels, to a people that shall not profit
them.
[7] For the Egyptians shall help in vain, and to no purpose: therefore have I
cried concerning this, Their strength is to sit still. [8] Now go, write it
before them in a table, and note it in a book, that it may be for the time to
come for ever and ever: [9] That this is a rebellious people, lying children,
children that will not hear the law of the LORD:
[10] Which say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Prophesy not unto
us right things, speak unto us smooth things, prophesy deceits: [11] Get you
out of the way, turn aside out of the path, cause the Holy One of Israel to
cease from before us.
[12] Wherefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel, Because ye despise this
word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and stay thereon: [13]
Therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling
out in a high wall, whose breaking cometh suddenly at an instant. [14] And he
shall break it as the breaking of the potters' vessel that is broken in
pieces; he shall not spare: so that there shall not be found in the bursting
of it a sherd to take fire from the hearth, or to take water withal out of the
pit.
[15] For thus saith the Lord GOD, the Holy One of Israel; In returning and
rest shall ye be saved; in quietness and in confidence shall be your strength:
and ye would not.
[16] But ye said, No; for we will flee upon horses; therefore shall ye flee:
and, We will ride upon the swift; therefore shall they that pursue you be
swift.
[17] One thousand shall flee at the rebuke of one; at the rebuke of five shall
ye flee: till ye be left as a beacon upon the top of a mountain, and as an
ensign on an hill.
[18] And therefore will the LORD wait, that he may be gracious unto you, and
therefore will he be exalted, that he may have mercy upon you: for the LORD is
a God of judgment: blessed are all they that wait for him. [19] For the people
shall dwell in Zion at Jerusalem: thou shalt weep no more: he will be very
gracious unto thee at the voice of thy cry; when he shall hear it, he will
answer thee. [20] And though the Lord give you the bread of adversity, and the
water of affliction, yet shall not thy teachers be removed into a corner any
more, but thine eyes shall see thy teachers: [21] And thine ears shall hear a
word behind thee, saying, This is the way, walk ye in it, when ye turn to the
right hand, and when ye turn to the left. [22] Ye shall defile also the
covering of thy graven images of silver, and the ornament of thy molten images
of gold: thou shalt cast them away as a menstruous cloth; thou shalt say unto
it, Get thee hence. [23] Then shall he give the rain of thy seed, that thou
shalt sow the ground withal; and bread of the increase of the earth, and it
shall be fat and plenteous: in that day shall thy cattle feed in large
pastures. [24] The oxen likewise and the young asses that ear the ground shall
eat clean provender, which hath been winnowed with the shovel and with the
fan. [25] And there shall be upon every high mountain, and upon every high
hill, rivers and streams of waters in the day of the great slaughter, when the
towers fall.
[26] Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the
light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days, in the day
that the LORD bindeth up the breach of his people, and healeth the stroke of
their wound.
[27] Behold, the name of the LORD cometh from far, burning with his anger, and
the burden thereof is heavy: his lips are full of indignation, and his tongue
as a devouring fire:
[28] And his breath, as an overflowing stream, shall reach to the midst of the
neck, to sift the nations with the sieve of vanity: and there shall be a
bridle in the jaws of the people, causing them to err. [29] Ye shall have a
song, as in the night when a holy solemnity is kept; and gladness of heart, as
when one goeth with a pipe to come into the mountain of the LORD, to the
mighty One of Israel. [30] And the LORD shall cause his glorious voice to be
heard, and shall shew the lighting down of his arm, with the indignation of
his anger, and with the flame of a devouring fire, with scattering, and
tempest, and hailstones. [31] For through the voice of the LORD shall the
Assyrian be beaten down, which smote with a rod.
[32] And in every place where the grounded staff shall pass, which the LORD
shall lay upon him, it shall be with tabrets and harps: and in battles of
shaking will he fight with it.
[33] For Tophet is ordained of old; yea, for the king it is prepared; he hath
made it deep and large: the pile thereof is fire and much wood; the breath of
the LORD, like a stream of brimstone, doth kindle it.
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