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Through My Bible Yr 2 – January 11 Isaiah 43:14 – 44:23 (EHV) LISTEN HERE Through My Bible – January 11 Bible reading based on Isaiah 43:14 – 44:23 (EHV) https://wels2.blob.core.windows.net/tmb-ehv/02-0111db.mp3 See series: Through My Bible Isaiah 43 14 This is what the Lord says, the Lord your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel. For your sake I am taking action against Babylon, and I will bring down all the Chaldeans as refugees, in the ships over which they rejoiced. 15 I am the Lord , your Holy One, Israel’s Creator, your King. 16 This is what the Lord says, who makes a road through the sea and a path through mighty waters, 17 who brings out the chariot and the horses, the army and the strong warrior. They will all lie down together. They will not get up. They are extinguished. Like a wick they go out. 18 Do not remember the former [1] things. Do not keep thinking about ancient things. 19 Watch, I am about to do a new thing. Now it will spring up. Don’t you know about it? Indeed I will make a road in the wilderness. In the wasteland I will make rivers. 20 The wild animals, the jackals and ostriches, will honor me, because I am providing water in the wilderness, rivers in a parched wasteland, water for my chosen people to drink. 21 This people that I formed for myself will declare my praise. 22 But you have not called on me, O Jacob. Instead, you have become weary of me, O Israel. 23 You have not brought me sheep as your whole burnt offerings. You did not glorify me with your sacrifices. I did not make you serve me with a grain offering. I did not make you weary with demands for incense. 24 You did not purchase fragrant cane for me with silver or satisfy me with the fat from your sacrifices. Instead you have made me serve because of your sins. You have made me weary because of your guilt. 25 I, yes I, am he. I blot out your rebellious deeds for my own sake, and I will not remember your sins. 26 Refresh my memory. Let us review your case together. Present your defense so that you may be acquitted. 27 Your first father sinned, and your mediators rebelled against me. 28 Therefore I am repudiating the officials of the sanctuary, and I am giving Jacob over to complete destruction and Israel to insults. [2] The Lord Comforts His People Isaiah 44 But now listen, O Jacob my servant, O Israel, whom I have chosen. 2 This is what the Lord , your Maker, says, the Lord who formed you from the womb, who will help you. Do not be afraid, my servant Jacob, Jeshurun, [3] whom I have chosen, 3 because I will pour out water upon a thirsty land, and streams of water upon dry ground. I will pour out my Spirit on your offspring, and my blessing on your descendants. 4 They will spring up like a tree in a grassy meadow, [4] like willows beside flowing streams. 5 One person will say, “I belong to the Lord .” Another will be called by the name of Jacob. Another will write on his hand, “Belonging to the Lord ,” and he will take the name of Israel. The Lord Confronts Idols 6 This is what the Lord , the King of Israel, Israel’s Redeemer, the Lord of Armies, says. I am the first, and I am the last. Except for me, there is no god. 7 For who is like me? Let him declare it. Let him recite in order for me the things that took place since the time I established an ancient people. Or let them declare what is yet to come, and what is going to take place. 8 Do not tremble, and do not be frightened. Did I not announce this to you, and declare it already long ago? You are my witnesses. Is there any god except me? There is no other Rock. I am not aware of any other. 9 All those who form an idol are good for nothing. All the things which delight them provide no benefit. As for their witnesses—they do not see. They know nothing, so they will be ashamed. 10 Who is this who forms a god or casts a metal image that can provide no profit? 11 Look at him! All his associates will be ashamed. The craftsmen are merely men. Let them all gather themselves and take a stand. They will be terrified and ashamed together. 12 A blacksmith uses a cutting tool and makes an idol over hot coals. With hammers he shapes it. He makes it with his strong arm, but he becomes hungry and has no strength left. He does not drink water, and so he grows faint. 13 A woodworker stretches out a measuring line. He marks the lines with a stylus. He shapes the idol with chisels. He marks it with a compass. Then he carves it till it is shaped like a person, like a splendid man to inhabit a shrine. 14 He goes to cut down cedars for himself, or he chooses a holm tree [5] or an oak, and he lets it grow strong among the trees of a forest. Or he plants a cedar, and rain causes it to grow tall, 15 but it becomes fuel for a man to burn. He takes part of it to warm himself. He lights a fire to bake bread, and then from the rest he makes a god and worships it. He carves an idol and bows down to it. 16 Half of it he burns in a fire—over that half he eats meat. He roasts meat and is satisfied. So he is warm and says, “Ah! I am warm. I see the light of the fire.” 17 Then from what is left he makes a god to serve as his idol. He bows down to it. He worships it, and he prays to it, “Save me, because you are my god.” 18 They are ignorant. They do not understand, because their eyes are plastered shut, [6] and they cannot see. Their hearts are unable to gain insight. 19 A person does not take this to heart, so he has no knowledge or understanding to say, “Half of it I burn in the fire, and I bake bread on its coals. I roast meat, and I eat. Should I make the rest of it into a disgusting idol? Should I bow down to a piece of wood?” 20 He is like a sheep grazing on ashes. A deceived mind leads him astray. He will not save his life, nor will he say, “Isn’t what I am holding in my right hand a fraud?” Israel Will Be Restored 21 Remember these things, O Jacob, because you are my servant, Israel. I am forming you to be my servant. You, Israel, you will never be forgotten by me. [7] 22 I am blowing away your rebellious deeds like a cloud, and your sins like a mist. Return to me, because I am redeeming you. 23 Shout for joy, you heavens, because of what the Lord is doing. Make a joyful shout, you depths of the earth. Burst forth with shouts of joy, you mountains, you forest and every tree in it, because the Lord has redeemed Jacob, and in Israel he will display his beauty. Footnotes Isaiah 43:18 Or first Isaiah 43:28 Or condemnation Isaiah 44:2 Jeshurun is another name for Israel. It means the upright one. Isaiah 44:4 The translation follows the Dead Sea Scroll of Isaiah and some other manuscripts. The standard Hebrew text reads spring up between the grass. Isaiah 44:14 Also called an evergreen oak Isaiah 44:18 Or he has blinded their eyes Isaiah 44:21 Or you must not forget me The Holy Bible, Evangelical Heritage Version®, EHV®, © 2019 Wartburg Project, Inc. All rights reserved. Share this entry Share on Facebook Share on LinkedIn Share by Mail Link to Flickr Link to Instagram Link to Vimeo…
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Through My Bible Yr 2 – January 10 Isaiah 42:1 – 43:13 (EHV) LISTEN HERE Through My Bible – January 10 Bible reading based on Isaiah 42:1 – 43:13 (EHV) https://wels2.blob.core.windows.net/tmb-ehv/02-0110db.mp3 See series: Through My Bible Isaiah 42 The First Servant Song [1] The Servant Is Called to Bring Justice 1 Here is my servant, whom I uphold, my chosen one in whom I delight. I am placing my Spirit on him. He will announce a just verdict [2] for the nations. 2 He will not cry out. He will not raise his voice. He will not make his voice heard in the street. 3 A bent reed he will not break, and a dimly burning wick he will not snuff out. He will faithfully bring forth a just verdict. 4 He will not burn out, and he will not be broken until he establishes justice on the earth. The coastlands will wait for his law. [3] 5 This is what the true God says, the Lord who creates the heavens and stretches them out, who spreads out the earth and everything that it produces, who gives breath to the people on it and life to those who walk on it. 6 I am the Lord . I have called you in righteousness. I will hold on to your hand, and I will guard you. I will appoint you to be a covenant for the people, to be a light for the nations, 7 to open the eyes of the blind, to bring the prisoners out from the dungeon, and to bring those who sit in darkness out of prison. 8 I am the Lord ; that is my name. I will not give my glory to another, nor my praise to idols. 9 Look, the former things have taken place, and I am declaring new things. I am making them known to you before they spring forth. Creation Rejoices 10 Sing to the Lord a new song. Sing his praise from the end of the earth, you people who go down to the sea and everything that fills it, you coastlands and those who inhabit them. 11 Let the wilderness and its towns lift up their voice, along with the settlements where Kedar lives. Let the inhabitants of Sela sing for joy. Let them shout from the mountain tops. 12 Let them give glory to the Lord , and let them declare his praise among the coastlands. 13 The Lord will set out like a hero. Like a warrior, he will work himself into a frenzy. He will shout. Yes, he will raise a war cry. He will be heroic against his enemies. The Lord Shouts 14 I have been silent for a long time. I have kept still. I have restrained myself. But now, like a woman giving birth, I will scream. I will gasp and pant. 15 I will dry up mountains and hills. I will make all their grass wither. I will turn rivers into islands. I will dry up pools. 16 I will lead the blind on a way they do not know. Along paths they do not know I will direct them. Ahead of them I will turn darkness into light and rough places into level ground. These are the things I will accomplish for them. I will not abandon them. 17 They will be turned back and completely disgraced— those who trust in an idol, those who say to molten images, “You are our gods.” But Israel Does Not Notice 18 You deaf ones, listen! You blind ones, watch carefully so that you can see! 19 Who is as blind as my servant? Who is as deaf as my messenger whom I sent? Who is as blind as my associate, [4] as blind as the servant of the Lord ? 20 You, Israel, see many things, but you do not observe. Israel opens his ears, but he does not hear. 21 Because of his own righteousness, the Lord was pleased to make his law [5] great and glorious. 22 But this is a people plundered and looted. All of them are trapped in holes, and they are hidden in prisons. They have become plunder, and there is no rescuer. They have become loot and no one says, “Give it back!” 23 Who among you will turn his ear toward this? Who will pay attention and listen for the future? 24 Who gave up Jacob to looters and Israel to plunderers? Was it not the Lord , against whom we sinned? But they were not willing to walk in his ways, and they did not listen to his law. 25 So he poured out wrath on them, his anger, and the violence of battle. It set them on fire all around, but they did not understand. It burned in them, but they did not take it to heart. The Lord ’s New Act of Salvation Isaiah 43 1 But now this is what the Lord says, the Lord who created you, O Jacob, the Lord who formed you, O Israel. Do not be afraid, because I have redeemed you. I have called you by name. You are mine. 2 When you cross through the waters, I will be with you. When you cross the rivers, they will not sweep you away. When you walk through fire, you will not be burned, and the flame will not set you on fire. 3 Because I am the Lord your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior, I gave Egypt as your ransom, Cush and Seba in exchange for you. 4 Because you are precious and honored in my eyes, and I myself love you, I will give people in exchange for you, and peoples in exchange for your life. 5 Do not be afraid, because I am with you. From the east I will bring your offspring, and from the west I will gather you. 6 I will say to the north, “Give them back!” and to the south, “Do not hold them.” Bring my sons from far away and my daughters from the end of the earth— 7 everyone who is called by my name, everyone I created for my glory, everyone I formed, yes, everyone I have made. 8 Bring out the people who are blind, though they have eyes, and the people who are deaf, though they have ears. 9 Let all the nations be gathered together, and let peoples be assembled. Who among them has declared this? Who has made known to us the former things? Let them produce their witnesses to show that they were right, so that people can hear and say, “This is truth.” 10 You are my witnesses, declares the Lord . You are my servant, whom I have chosen, so that you may know me and believe in me, so that you will understand that I am he. Before me no god was formed, and after me there will not be another. 11 I, yes I, am the Lord , and apart from me there is no savior. 12 I myself declared it. I brought salvation, and I announced it. It was not some strange god among you. You are my witnesses, declares the Lord , and I am God. 13 Indeed, from the first day, I am he. There is no one who can deliver anyone from my hand. I act, and who can reverse it? Footnotes Isaiah 42:1 The Lord has many servants. Among his servants in Isaiah are Israel and Cyrus. In this collection of songs his Servant par excellance is Jesus the Messiah. Isaiah 42:1 Or bring forth justice Isaiah 42:4 Or teaching. Law here refers to the whole Word of God. Isaiah 42:19 Or my dedicated one or the one at peace with me. The meaning of this word is uncertain. Isaiah 42:21 Or teaching The Holy Bible, Evangelical Heritage Version®, EHV®, © 2019 Wartburg Project, Inc. All rights reserved. Share this entry Share on Facebook Share on LinkedIn Share by Mail Link to Flickr Link to Instagram Link to Vimeo…
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Through My Bible Yr 2 – January 9 Isaiah 41 (EHV) LISTEN HERE Through My Bible – January 9 Bible reading based on Isaiah 41 (EHV) https://wels2.blob.core.windows.net/tmb-ehv/02-0109db.mp3 See series: Through My Bible Isaiah 41 A Summons to Judgment 1 Prepare to present your case to me, [1] you coastlands, and let the peoples renew their strength. Let them come near. Yes, let them say, “We will gather together for the verdict.” A Mystery Man Is Summoned From the East 2 Who has aroused this one from the east? In righteousness he summons him to his feet. He gives nations to him and causes him to rule over kings. He makes them like dust with his sword, like wind-driven stubble with his bow. 3 He pursues them and passes by safely. His feet do not touch the ground. [2] 4 Who accomplished this and carried it out by summoning generations from the beginning? The Lord Controls History I, the Lord , am the first, and at the very end I will still be the one. 5 The coastlands see and fear. The ends of the earth tremble. They draw near. They come. The Idol Makers Appear 6 Each one assists his neighbor, and to his brother he says, “Be strong.” 7 The craftsman strengthens the refiner. The one who flattens with the hammer strengthens the one who strikes the anvil. Concerning the soldering he says, “It is good.” He fastens it with nails so that it cannot be moved. The Lord Is Your Defender 8 But you, O Israel, my servant, O Jacob, whom I have chosen, the offspring [3] of Abraham, whom I love, 9 whom I have snatched from the ends of the earth, whom I have called from its corners— I have said to you, “You are my servant.” I have chosen you and not rejected you. 10 Do not fear, for I am with you. Do not be overwhelmed, [4] for I am your God. I will strengthen you. Yes, I will help you. I will uphold you with my righteous right hand. 11 Just watch, they will be ashamed and humiliated— all those who are angry with you. They will become nothing and perish— those men who oppose you. 12 You will look for them, but you will not find them— those men who contend against you. They will become absolutely nothing, less than nothing— those men who battle against you. 13 For I am the Lord your God. I am the one who is holding on to your right hand. I am the one who says to you, “Do not fear. I myself am helping you.” 14 Do not fear, you worm, Jacob, you few men of Israel. [5] I myself am helping you, declares the Lord , your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel. 15 Look, I am making you into a sharp, new threshing sledge with double-edged blades. You will thresh mountains and crush them. You will turn hills into chaff. 16 You will winnow them, and a wind will lift them up. A strong wind will scatter them. But you, you will rejoice in the Lord . In the Holy One of Israel you will be confident. 17 The afflicted and the poor seek water, but there is none. Their tongues are parched with thirst. I, the Lord , I myself will answer them. I, the God of Israel, will not leave them. 18 I will open rivers on the barren heights. In the middle of valleys there will be springs. I will turn the wilderness into a pool of water, and the dry land will pour out water. 19 In the wilderness I will place cedar, acacia, myrtle, and olive trees. In the wasteland I will plant fir, maple, and pines together, 20 so that they may see and know, and pay attention and perceive this all together, that the hand of the Lord has done this, and the Holy One of Israel has created it. The Idols Are Placed on Trial 21 “Present your case,” says the Lord . “Set forth your strongest points,” says the King of Jacob. 22 Let them present and declare to us what is going to occur. What were the first things you predicted? Tell us, so that we can ponder them, so that we can know their outcome. Or, announce to us the coming things. 23 Declare to us the things that are still coming in the distant future. Then we will know that you are gods. In fact, just do something, do anything—good or evil, so that we may be overwhelmed and terrified together. 24 Look, you are less than nothing, and your work is less than zero. Anyone who chooses you is detestable. The Man From the North 25 I have stirred up someone from the north, and he is coming from the rising of the sun. He will call upon my name. He will walk over rulers as if they were mud, the way a potter tramples clay. 26 Who declared this from the beginning so that we could know it, and ahead of time so that we could say, “He is right”? In fact, not one of them declares this. In fact, not one of them makes this known. In fact, no one hears you say anything. 27 I was first to announce to Zion, “Look, here they are,” and I sent a herald of good news to Jerusalem. 28 When I looked, there was no one. None of them could give advice, even when I kept asking them to respond. 29 Look, all of them are useless. Their works are nothing. Their images are empty wind. Footnotes Isaiah 41:1 Or be silent before me. The Hebrew root used here does often mean be silent, but the context seems to require a preparation for legal action. There is a Hebrew homonym that means fabricate. This meaning fits the context. The Greek Old Testament and the parallelism also support this meaning. Isaiah 41:3 Literally he does not enter a path with his feet. This seems to mean that he moves so fast that his feet don’t touch the ground, or that he goes in new paths where he has never gone before, or that he quickly gains new territory. Isaiah 41:8 Literally the seed Isaiah 41:10 Or dismayed Isaiah 41:14 Or you insect, Israel. The Isaiah Dead Sea Scroll reads dead ones. The Holy Bible, Evangelical Heritage Version®, EHV®, © 2019 Wartburg Project, Inc. All rights reserved. Share this entry Share on Facebook Share on LinkedIn Share by Mail Link to Flickr Link to Instagram Link to Vimeo…
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Through My Bible Yr 2 – January 8 Isaiah 40 (EHV) LISTEN HERE Through My Bible – January 8 Bible reading based on Isaiah 40 (EHV) https://wels2.blob.core.windows.net/tmb-ehv/02-0108db.mp3 See series: Through My Bible Isaiah 40 Overview of the Lord ’s Plan 1 Comfort, comfort my people, says your God. 2 Speak to the heart of Jerusalem and call out to her. Her warfare [1] really is over. Her guilt is fully paid for. Yes, she has received from the Lord ’s hand double for all her sins. 3 A voice is calling out: In the wilderness prepare the way for the Lord . In the wasteland make a level [2] highway for our God. 4 Every valley will be raised up, and every mountain and hill will be made low. The rugged ground will become level, and the rough places will become a plain. 5 Then the glory of the Lord will be revealed, and all flesh together will see it. Yes, the mouth of the Lord has spoken. 6 A voice was saying, “Cry out!” And I said, “What shall I cry out?” All flesh is grass, and all its beauty [3] is like a wildflower in the countryside. 7 Grass withers, flowers fade, when the breath [4] of the Lord blows on them. Yes, the people are grass. 8 Grass withers, flowers fade, but the Word of our God endures forever. 9 Get up on a high mountain, O Zion, you herald of good news. Lift up your voice with strength, O Jerusalem, you herald of good news. Lift it up! Do not be afraid! Say to the cities of Judah, “Here is your God!” 10 Look, God the Lord will come with strength, and his arm is ruling for him. Look, his reward is with him. The result of his work is in front of him. 11 Like a shepherd he will care for his flock. With his arm he will gather the lambs. He will lift them up on his lap. He will gently lead the nursing mothers. The Lord Is Beyond Compare 12 Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand? Who marked off the heavens with the width of his hand? Who scooped up the dust of the earth with a measuring cup? Who weighed the mountains with a balance and the hills with scales? 13 Who has directed the Spirit of the Lord ? Who can teach him anything or serve as his advisor? 14 Who was his advisor to give him insight? Who taught him the path of justice? Who taught him knowledge? Who showed him the way to complete understanding? 15 Indeed, nations are like a drop in a bucket, and they are treated like powder on a scale. Look, he lifts up islands like dust! 16 Not even the forests of Lebanon could provide enough wood to burn, and its animals are not enough for a whole burnt offering. 17 All the nations are nothing to him. By him they are regarded as worthless, as less than nothing. 18 So to whom will you compare God? What image can you compare to him? 19 A craftsman casts the idol, and a goldsmith overlays it with gold. He forges silver chains for it. 20 He chooses mulberry wood as an offering, [5] wood that will not rot. He looks for a skillful craftsman to erect an idol that will not fall over. 21 Do you not know? Have you not heard? Has it not been declared to you from the beginning? Have you not understood it from the founding of the earth? 22 He is the one who sits above the circle of the earth. To him its inhabitants are like grasshoppers. He stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and he spreads them out like a tent to live in. 23 He is the one who reduces dignitaries to nothing. He makes the judges of the world useless. 24 They have hardly been planted. They have hardly been sown. Their stem has hardly taken root in the earth. Then he blows on them, and they dry up. A driving storm carries them away like chaff. 25 To whom can you compare me as if we were equals? says the Holy One. 26 Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and see who created these things. See who brings out their army in great number and calls them all by name. Because of his great strength and mighty power, not one of them is missing. 27 Why do you speak, O Jacob? O Israel, why do you say, “My way is hidden from the Lord , and justice for me is ignored by my God”? 28 Do you not know? Have you not heard? The Lord is the eternal God. He is the Creator of the ends of the earth. He will not grow tired, and he will not become weary. No one can find a limit to his understanding. 29 He is the one who gives strength to the weak, and he increases the strength of those who lack power. 30 Young men grow tired and become weary. Even strong men stumble and fall. 31 But those who wait for the Lord will receive new strength. They will lift up their wings and soar like eagles. They will run and not become weary. They will walk and not become tired. Footnotes Isaiah 40:2 Or hard labor Isaiah 40:3 Or straight Isaiah 40:6 The Hebrew literally reads mercy or faithfulness. 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Through My Bible Yr 2 – January 7 2 John & 3 John (EHV) LISTEN HERE Through My Bible – January 7 Bible reading based on 2 John and 3 John (EHV) https://wels2.blob.core.windows.net/tmb-ehv/02-0107db.mp3 See series: Through My Bible 2 John Greeting The Elder, To the chosen lady and her children, whom I love in the truth—not only I, but also everyone who knows the truth— 2 because of the truth that remains in us and will be with us forever: 3 Grace, mercy, and peace will be with us from God the Father and from [1] Jesus Christ, the Father’s Son, in truth and love. Keep on Walking According to God’s Word 4 I was overjoyed to find out that some of your children are walking in the truth, in keeping with the command we received from the Father. 5 And now I ask you, dear lady—not as though I were writing a new command to you, but the one we have had from the beginning—let us love one another. 6 And this is love: that we walk according to his commands. This is the command: Just as you have heard from the beginning, keep on walking in it. Beware of Deceivers 7 Many deceivers who do not confess Jesus Christ as coming in the flesh have gone out into the world. Such a person is a deceiver and an antichrist. 8 Watch yourselves so that you do not lose what we [2] have labored for but receive a full reward. 9 Anyone who goes on ahead and does not remain in the teaching of Christ does not have God. The one who remains in this teaching has both the Father and the Son. 10 If someone comes to you and does not bring this teaching, do not receive him into your house. Do not even wish him well. 11 For the one who wishes him well shares in his wicked works. Final Greetings 12 I have many things to write to you, but I did not want to do it with paper and ink. I hope instead to be with you and speak to you face to face so that our [3] joy may be made complete. 13 The children of your chosen sister greet you. 3 John Greeting The Elder, To dear Gaius, whom I love in the truth: Joy at Gaius’ Faithfulness and Cooperation in the Truth 2 Dear friend, I pray that you are doing well in every way and have good health, just as your soul is doing well. 3 Indeed, I was overjoyed when brothers [4] came and testified to your truthfulness because you are walking in the truth. 4 I have no greater joy than when I hear that my children are walking in the truth. 5 Dear friend, you are being faithful in what you are doing for the brothers even though they are strangers. 6 They have testified before the church about your love. You will do well to send them off in a manner worthy of God. 7 They went out for the sake of the Name, accepting nothing from the Gentiles. 8 Therefore, we have an obligation to support such men, so that we may be coworkers for the truth. A Warning About Diotrephes 9 I wrote something to the church, but Diotrephes, who loves to be first, does not welcome us. 10 For this reason, if I do come, I will call attention to what he is doing. He is disparaging us with wicked words, and he is not content with that. He also refuses to welcome the brothers. He even hinders and puts out of the church those who wish to welcome them. 11 Dear friend, do not imitate what is evil, but what is good. The one who does what is good is from God. The one who does what is evil has not seen God. 12 Demetrius has been endorsed by everyone, even by the truth itself. We also speak well of him, and you know that our testimony is true. Final Greeting 13 I had many things to write you, but I do not want to do it with pen and ink. 14 I hope to see you soon, and we will speak face to face. 15 Peace to you. Your friends here send their greetings to you. Greet our friends there by name. Footnotes 2 John 1:3 Some witnesses to the text add the Lord. (“Witnesses to the text” mentioned in footnotes may include Greek manuscripts, lectionaries, translations, and quotations in the church fathers.) 2 John 1:8 Some witnesses to the text read you. 2 John 1:12 Some witnesses to the text read your 3 John 1:3 When context indicates it, the Greek word for brothers may refer to all fellow believers, male and female. The Holy Bible, Evangelical Heritage Version®, EHV®, © 2019 Wartburg Project, Inc. All rights reserved. Share this entry Share on Facebook Share on LinkedIn Share by Mail Link to Flickr Link to Instagram Link to Vimeo…
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Through My Bible Yr 2 – January 6 1 John 5:4-21 (EHV) LISTEN HERE Through My Bible – January 6 Bible reading based on 1 John 5:4-21 (EHV) https://wels2.blob.core.windows.net/tmb-ehv/02-0106db.mp3 See series: Through My Bible 1 John 5 4 because everyone who has been born of God overcomes the world. This is the victory that has overcome the world: our faith. 5 Who is the one who overcomes the world? Only the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God. 6 This is the one who came by water and blood: Jesus Christ. He did not come by the water alone but by the water and by the blood. The Spirit is the one who testifies, because the Spirit is the truth. 7 In fact, there are three that testify: [1] 8 the Spirit, the water, and the blood, and these three are one. 9 If we accept the testimony of people, God’s testimony is even greater, because it is the testimony that God gave about his Son. 10 The one who believes in the Son of God has this testimony in him, but the one who does not believe has made God out to be a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony that God gave about his Son. 11 This is the testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. 12 The one who has the Son has life. The one who does not have the Son of God does not have life. 13 I have written these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God so that you may know that you have eternal life. 14 This is the confidence that we have before him: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us. 15 And if we know that he hears us—whatever we ask—we also know that we receive the things we have asked from him. 16 If anyone sees his brother committing a sin that does not result in death, he will ask, and God will give life—to those who commit sin that does not result in death. There is sin that results in death; I am not saying that he should ask about that. 17 All unrighteousness is sin, but there is sin that does not result in death. 18 We know that anyone who has been born of God does not go on sinning. But the one who was born of God protects him, [2] and the Evil One cannot take hold of him. 19 We know that we are from God and that the whole world lies in the grip of the Evil One. 20 We know that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding so that we may know him who is true. And we are in him who is true, in his Son, Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life. 21 Dear children, guard yourselves from idols. Footnotes 1 John 5:7 Only a very few late Greek witnesses to the text read testify in heaven: the Father, the Word, and the Holy Spirit, and these three are one. 8 And there are three that testify on earth: 1 John 5:18 Some witnesses to the text read himself. The Holy Bible, Evangelical Heritage Version®, EHV®, © 2019 Wartburg Project, Inc. All rights reserved. Share this entry Share on Facebook Share on LinkedIn Share by Mail Link to Flickr Link to Instagram Link to Vimeo…
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Through My Bible Yr 2 – January 5 1 John 4:7-5:3 (EHV) LISTEN HERE Through My Bible – January 5 Bible reading based on 1 John 4:7-5:3 (EHV) https://wels2.blob.core.windows.net/tmb-ehv/02-0105db.mp3 See series: Through My Bible 1 John 4 God Is Love 7 Dear friends, let us love one another, because love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. 8 The one who does not love has not known God, because God is love. 9 This is how God’s love for us was revealed: God has sent his only-begotten Son into the world so that we may live through him. 10 This is love: not that we have loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the atoning sacrifice for our sins. 11 Dear friends, if God loved us so much, we also should love one another. 12 No one has ever seen God. If we love one another, God remains in us and his love has been brought to its goal in us. 13 This is how we know that we remain in him and he in us: He has given us of his Spirit. 14 We have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of the world. 15 If anyone confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God remains in him and he in God. 16 We also have come to know and trust the love that God has for us. God is love. Whoever remains in love remains in God and God in him. 17 In this way his love has been brought to its goal among us, so that we may have confidence on the day of judgment, because in this world we are just like Jesus. [1] 18 There is no fear in love, but complete love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who continues to be afraid has not been brought to the goal in love. 19 We love [2] because he first loved us. 20 If anyone says, “I love God,” but hates his brother, he is a liar. For how can anyone who does not love his brother, whom he has seen, [3] love God, whom he has not seen? 21 This then is the command we have from him: The one who loves God should also love his brother. 1 John 5 Faith, Love, and Obedience 1 Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God, and everyone who loves the God who has given birth [4] also loves one who has been born of him. 2 This is how we know that we love the children of God: when we love God and keep his commands. 3 In fact, this is love for God: that we keep his commands. And his commands are not burdensome, Footnotes 1 John 4:17 Literally that one 1 John 4:19 A few witnesses to the text add God or him. 1 John 4:20 A few witnesses to the text read For anyone who does not love his brother, whom he has seen, cannot love God. 1 John 5:1 Or everyone who loves the Father The Holy Bible, Evangelical Heritage Version®, EHV®, © 2019 Wartburg Project, Inc. All rights reserved. Share this entry Share on Facebook Share on LinkedIn Share by Mail Link to Flickr Link to Instagram Link to Vimeo…
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Through My Bible Yr 2 – January 4 1 John 3:11-4:6 (EHV) LISTEN HERE Through My Bible – January 4 Bible reading based on 1 John 3:11-4:6 (EHV) https://wels2.blob.core.windows.net/tmb-ehv/02-0104db.mp3 See series: Through My Bible 1 John 3 Love One Another 11 This is the message you have heard from the beginning: Love one another. 12 Do not be like Cain, who belonged to the Evil One and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his own works were evil, while those of his brother were righteous. 13 Do not be surprised, brothers, [1] if the world hates you. 14 We know that we have crossed over from death to life, because we love our brothers. The one who does not love [2] remains in death. 15 Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life remaining in him. 16 This is how we have come to know love: Jesus [3] laid down his life for us. And we also should lay down our lives for our brothers. 17 Whoever has worldly wealth and sees his brother in need but closes his heart against him—how can God’s love remain in him? 18 Dear children, let us love not only with word or with our tongue, but also in action and truth. 19 This is how we know that we are of the truth and how we will set our hearts at rest in his presence: 20 If our hearts condemn us, God is greater than our hearts, and he knows everything. 21 Dear friends, if our hearts do not condemn us, we have confidence before God. 22 We also receive from him whatever we ask, because we keep his commands and do what is pleasing in his sight. 23 This then is his command: that we believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and that we love one another just as he commanded us. 24 The one who keeps his commands remains in God [4] and God [5] in him. This is how we know that he remains in us: We know it from the Spirit, whom he has given to us. John 4 Test the Spirits 1 Dear friends, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see if they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world. 2 This is how you can recognize the Spirit of God: Every spirit who confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God, 3 and every spirit who does not confess Jesus [6] is not from God. This is the spirit of the Antichrist, which you have heard is coming and is already in the world. 4 You are from God, dear children, and you have overcome the false prophets, [7] because the one in you is greater than the one in the world. 5 They are from the world. That is why they speak from a worldly perspective and the world listens to them. 6 We are from God. The one who knows God listens to us, but whoever is not from God does not listen to us. That is how we can distinguish between the spirit of truth and the spirit of error. Footnotes 1 John 3:13 When context indicates it, the Greek word for brothers may refer to all fellow believers, male and female. 1 John 3:14 Some witnesses to the text add his brother. 1 John 3:16 Literally that one 1 John 3:24 Literally him 1 John 3:24 Literally he 1 John 4:3 Some witnesses to the text read that Jesus has come in the flesh. 1 John 4:4 Literally them, referring to the false prophets of verse 1. The Holy Bible, Evangelical Heritage Version®, EHV®, © 2019 Wartburg Project, Inc. All rights reserved. Share this entry Share on Facebook Share on LinkedIn Share by Mail Link to Flickr Link to Instagram Link to Vimeo…
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Through My Bible Yr 2 – January 3 1 John 2:28-3:10 (EHV) LISTEN HERE Through My Bible – January 3 Bible reading based on 1 John 2:28-3:10 (EHV) https://wels2.blob.core.windows.net/tmb-ehv/02-0103db.mp3 See series: Through My Bible 1 John 2 28 So now, dear children, remain in him so that we may be confident when he appears and may be unashamed before him at his coming. 29 If you know that he is righteous, then you know that everyone who does what is right has been born of him. 1 John 3 Love From the Father 1 See the kind of love the Father has given us that we should be called children of God, and that is what we are! The world does not know us, because it did not know him. 2 Dear friends, we are children of God now, but what we will be has not yet been revealed. We know that when he is revealed we will be like him, and we will see him as he really is. 3 Everyone who has this hope purifies himself just as Jesus [1] is pure. 4 Everyone who commits sin also commits lawlessness. Sin is lawlessness. 5 You know that he appeared in order to take away our sins and in him there is no sin. 6 Anyone who remains in him does not sin. The person who keeps on sinning has not seen him or known him. 7 Dear children, do not let anyone deceive you. Whoever does what is right is righteous just as Jesus [2] is righteous. 8 The one who continues to sin is of the Devil, because the Devil has been sinning from the beginning. This is why the Son of God appeared: to destroy the works of the Devil. 9 Nobody who has been born of God continues to commit sin, because God’s seed remains in him. He cannot go on sinning, because he has been born of God. 10 This is how the children of God and the children of the Devil are obvious: Everyone who does not do what is right is not from God, along with everyone who does not love his brother. Footnotes 1 John 3:3 Literally that one 1 John 3:7 Literally that one The Holy Bible, Evangelical Heritage Version®, EHV®, © 2019 Wartburg Project, Inc. All rights reserved. Share this entry Share on Facebook Share on LinkedIn Share by Mail Link to Flickr Link to Instagram Link to Vimeo Click here to add your own text…
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Through My Bible Yr 2 – January 2 1 John 2:3-27 (EHV) LISTEN HERE Through My Bible – January 2 Bible reading based on 1 John 2:3-27 (EHV) https://wels2.blob.core.windows.net/tmb-ehv/02-0102db.mp3 See series: Through My Bible 1 John 2 3 This is how we know that we have known him: if we keep his commands. 4 The one who says, “I know him,” but does not keep his commands is a liar, and the truth is not in him. 5 If anyone keeps God’s word, the love of God is truly made complete in him. This is how we know that we are in him: 6 The one who says he remains in him should walk as Jesus [1] walked. 7 Dear friends, I am not writing you a new command but an old one that you have had since the beginning. The old command is the message you heard. 8 At the same time, the command I am writing is new—it is true in Jesus [2] and in you, because the darkness is passing away, and the true light is already shining. 9 The one who says he is in the light and yet hates his brother is still in the darkness. 10 The one who loves his brother remains in the light, and nothing causes him to stumble. 11 The one who hates his brother is in the darkness and walks in the darkness and does not know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes. 12 I am writing to you, dear children, because your sins have been forgiven because of his name. 13 I am writing to you, fathers, because you have known him who is from the beginning. I am writing to you, young men, because you have overcome the Evil One. 14 I have written to you, little children, because you have known the Father. I have written to you, fathers, because you have known him who is from the beginning. I have written to you, young men, because you are strong, and the word of God remains in you, and you have overcome the Evil One. Do Not Love the World 15 Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. 16 For everything in the world—the lust of the flesh, the desire of the eyes, boasting about material possessions—is not from the Father but from the world. 17 The world and its desires pass away, but the one who does the will of God remains forever. Warning Against False Teachers 18 Dear children, it is the last hour. The Antichrist is coming, just as you have heard, and even now many antichrists have come. (This is how you know that it is the last hour.) 19 They went out from us, but they really were not part of us. If they had been part of us, they would have stayed with us. Instead they all showed that they were not part of us. 20 You have an anointing from the Holy One, and you know all things. [3] 21 I did not write to you because you do not know the truth but because you do know it and because no lie comes from the truth. 22 Who is a liar but the one who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is an antichrist: the one who denies the Father and the Son. 23 Everyone who denies the Son does not have the Father. But the one who confesses the Son has the Father as well. 24 Let what you have heard from the beginning remain in you. If what you have heard from the beginning remains in you, then you will remain in the Son and the Father. 25 And this is what he promised you: eternal life. 26 I have written these things to you about those who are misleading you. 27 As for you, the anointing you received from him remains in you, and you have no need for someone to teach you. Rather, since his anointing teaches you all things and since it is true and is no lie, remain in him, just as it has taught you. Footnotes 1 John 2:6 Literally that one 1 John 2:8 Literally him 1 John 2:20 A few witnesses to the text read But all of you know that you have an anointing from the Holy One. The Holy Bible, Evangelical Heritage Version®, EHV®, © 2019 Wartburg Project, Inc. All rights reserved. Share this entry Share on Facebook Share on LinkedIn Share by Mail Link to Flickr Link to Instagram Link to Vimeo Click here to add your own text…
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Through My Bible Yr 2 – January 1 1 John 1-2:2 (EHV) LISTEN HERE Through My Bible – January 1 Bible reading based on 1 John 1-2:2 (EHV) https://wels2.blob.core.windows.net/tmb-ehv/02-0101db.mp3 See series: Through My Bible 1 John 1 The Word of Life 1 That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have observed and our hands have touched regarding the Word of Life— 2 the life appeared, and we have seen it. We testify and proclaim to you the eternal life, which was with the Father and has appeared to us. 3 We are proclaiming what we have seen and heard also to you, so that you may have fellowship with us. Our fellowship is with the Father and his Son Jesus Christ. 4 We write these things to you so that our [1] joy may be complete. Walking in the Light 5 This is the message we heard from him and proclaim to you: God is light. In him there is no darkness at all. 6 If we say we have fellowship with him but still walk in darkness, we are lying and do not put the truth into practice. 7 But if we walk in the light, just as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ, [2] his Son, cleanses us from all sin. 8 If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. 9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. 10 If we say we have not sinned, we make him out to be a liar, and his Word [3] is not in us. 1 John 2 1 My children, I write these things to you so that you will not sin. If anyone does sin, we have an Advocate before the Father: Jesus Christ, the Righteous One. 2 He is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not only for ours but also for the whole world. Footnotes 1 John 1:4 Some witnesses to the text read your. (“Witnesses to the text” mentioned in footnotes may include Greek manuscripts, lectionaries, translations, and quotations in the church fathers.) 1 John 1:7 Some witnesses to the text omit Christ. 1 John 1:10 Or word. This term could refer to Jesus (Word) or God’s message (word). The Holy Bible, Evangelical Heritage Version®, EHV®, © 2019 Wartburg Project, Inc. All rights reserved. Share this entry Share on Facebook Share on LinkedIn Share by Mail Link to Flickr Link to Instagram Link to Vimeo…
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Through My Bible Yr 01 – December 31 Isaiah 38 – 39 LISTEN HERE Through My Bible – December 31 Isaiah 38 – 39 (EHV) https://wels2.blob.core.windows.net/tmb-ehv/01-1231db.mp3 See series: Through My Bible Hezekiah’s Illness and Recovery Isaiah 38 1 In those days Hezekiah became sick and was dying. The prophet Isaiah son of Amoz came to him and said, “This is what the Lord says. Give instructions to your household, because you are going to die. You will not survive.” 2 So Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and prayed to the Lord . 3 He said, “Please remember, Lord , how I have walked before you in truth and with my whole heart. I have done what is good in your eyes.” Hezekiah wept bitterly. 4 Then the word of the Lord came to Isaiah. 5 Go back and tell Hezekiah that this is what the Lord , the God of your father David, says: I have heard your prayer and I have seen your tears. Now then, I will add fifteen years to your life. 6 I will rescue you and this city from the hand of the king of Assyria. I will defend this city. 7 This will be the sign from the Lord to you. The Lord will do what he has promised. 8 Watch! I will make the shadow of the setting sun that has moved down the stairway of Ahaz move back, ten steps higher on the staircase. Then the sun’s shadow moved backwards, ten steps higher on the stairway that it had just descended. 9 A poem written by Hezekiah king of Judah, after his illness and recovery. [1] 10 I thought that, only halfway through my life, I was entering into the gates of death, [2] deprived of the remaining years of my life. 11 I thought, I will not see the Lord — the Lord [3] in the land of the living. I will no longer see anyone among the inhabitants of the world. [4] 12 My dwelling place is being pulled down. It is carried away from me like a shepherd’s tent. I have rolled up my life like a weaver. He is cutting me off from the loom. From day until night, you make an end of me. [5] 13 I pondered this until the morning. He will break all my bones like a lion! From day until night, you make an end of me. 14 I chirp weakly like a swift or a swallow. I mourn like a dove. My eyes are tired from looking upward. O Lord, I am oppressed. Be my security. 15 What can I say? He has spoken to me, and he is the one to act. I will march slowly throughout all my years, because my heart is bitter. [6] 16 Lord, people live because you give them life. My spirit lives through this. [7] Restore me, and let me live. [8] 17 The bitter things I experienced were for my benefit. Your love has preserved my life from the pit of destruction, for you have thrown all my sins behind your back. 18 The grave [9] cannot thank you. Death cannot praise you. Those who go down into the pit cannot trust your faithfulness. 19 The living one, the living one, he praises you, as I do today. A father tells his children about your faithfulness. 20 The Lord will save me, so we will sing songs with stringed instruments all the days of our lives in the House of the Lord . 21 Isaiah had said, “Have them take a cake of figs, apply it as a poultice on the inflamed spot, and he will recover.” 22 Hezekiah had also asked, “What will be the sign that I will go up to the House of the Lord ?” Hezekiah Receives Envoys From Babylon Isaiah 39 1 At that time, Merodak [10] Baladan, son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters and a gift to Hezekiah, because he had heard that Hezekiah had been sick and had recovered. 2 Hezekiah was happy to receive the envoys, and he showed them his palace treasury—the silver and the gold, the spices and the precious oil, his whole armory, and everything that was found in his treasuries. There was nothing in his palace or in all his domain that Hezekiah did not show them. 3 Then Isaiah the prophet came to King Hezekiah and asked him, “What did those men say? Where did they come from?” Hezekiah replied, “They have come from a faraway country, from Babylon.” 4 The prophet asked, “What did they see in your palace?” Hezekiah said, “They have seen everything in my palace. There is nothing among my treasures that I did not show them.” 5 Then Isaiah said to Hezekiah, “Listen to the word of the Lord of Armies. 6 Listen carefully. The days are coming when whatever is in your house—everything that your fathers have stored up until today—will be carried away to Babylon. Not a thing will be left, says the Lord . 7 They will take away some of the sons who were born to you, your own children, and they will become eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.” 8 Then Hezekiah said to Isaiah, “The word of the Lord which you have spoken is good.” For Hezekiah also said, “There will be peace and stability during my days.” Footnotes Isaiah 38:9 This poem is not included in 2 Kings. Isaiah 38:10 Hebrew sheol Isaiah 38:11 The Hebrew text here has two occurrences of Yah , the short form of the divine name. Some Hebrew manuscripts have a single occurrence of Yahweh. Isaiah 38:11 Hebrew variant this passing world Isaiah 38:12 Or day, and then night! So quickly you have made an end of me. The meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain. Isaiah 38:15 The translation follows the Hebrew. The Dead Sea Scroll of Isaiah and the Syriac read What can I say? I will say to him that he is the one to act. I cannot sleep, because my heart is bitter. Isaiah 38:16 The meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain. Isaiah 38:16 Or you restore me, and you let me live! Isaiah 38:18 Hebrew sheol Isaiah 39:1 Merodak is probably a derogatory form of the name Marduk , the chief god of Babylon. The Holy Bible, Evangelical Heritage Version®, EHV®, © 2019 Wartburg Project, Inc. All rights reserved. Share this entry Share on Facebook Share on LinkedIn Share by Mail Link to Flickr Link to Instagram Link to Vimeo…
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Through My Bible Yr 01 – December 30 Isaiah 36 – 37 LISTEN HERE Through My Bible – December 30 Isaiah 36 – 37 (EHV) https://wels2.blob.core.windows.net/tmb-ehv/01-1230db.mp3 See series: Through My Bible Assyria Threatens Jerusalem Isaiah 36 1 Now in the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah, Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all of the fortified cities of Judah and seized them. 2 The king of Assyria sent his herald [1] from Lachish to Jerusalem to King Hezekiah. A large army was with him. He stood by the water channel from the upper pool on the road to the launderer’s [2] field. 3 Then Eliakim son of Hilkiah, who was the palace administrator, Shebna, who was the secretary, and Joah son of Asaph, who was the recorder, came out to meet him. 4 The herald told them this. Tell Hezekiah this is what the Great King, the king of Assyria, says. What makes you so confident? 5 Your wisdom and military strength are based on empty promises. Who do you trust, so that you now have rebelled against me? 6 Tell me! Are you really trusting in Egypt to be your staff, that splintered reed that will pierce the hand of anyone who leans on it? That is what happens to anyone who relies on Pharaoh king of Egypt. 7 If you say to me that you trust in the Lord your God, isn’t he the one whose high places and altars Hezekiah removed? Didn’t Hezekiah tell Judah and Jerusalem to worship at this altar? 8 Now then, make a bargain with my master the king of Assyria. I will give you two thousand horses, if you can find enough riders for them. 9 How can you resist even one officer from among the least of my lord’s servants? How can you put your trust in Egypt for chariots and charioteers? 10 What’s more, have I attacked this land to destroy it without the Lord ’s orders? The Lord is the one who said to me, “Go up against this land and destroy it.” 11 Then Eliakim, Shebna, and Joah said to the herald, “Please speak to your servants in Aramaic, because we understand it. Do not speak to us in Hebrew, because there are people on the city wall who are listening.” 12 But the herald replied, “Has my lord sent me only to you and to your lord to speak these words, and not to the men who are sitting on the wall, who will eat their own excrement and drink their own urine with you?” [3] 13 Then the herald stood up and called out in a loud voice in Hebrew. He said: Listen to the words of the Great King, the king of Assyria! 14 This is what the king says. Do not let Hezekiah deceive you! He will not be able to deliver you. 15 Do not let Hezekiah persuade you to trust in the Lord , when he says that the Lord will save you, and that this city will not be handed over to the king of Assyria. 16 Do not listen to Hezekiah, for this is what the king of Assyria says. Make a peace treaty with me and surrender to me. Each one of you will eat from his own vine, from his own fig tree, and each one of you will drink water from his own cistern, 17 until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land with grain and sweet wine, a land with bread and vineyards. 18 Do not let Hezekiah make you think that the Lord will deliver you! Have any of the gods of the nations kept them from being handed over to the king of Assyria? 19 Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim? Have they rescued Samaria from my hand? 20 Which of the gods of these countries have delivered their country from my hand? Will the Lord really deliver Jerusalem from my hand? 21 But the officials remained silent, saying nothing in reply, because the king had commanded, “Do not answer him.” 22 Then Eliakim son of Hilkiah, who was the palace administrator, Shebna, who was the secretary, and Joah son of Asaph, who was the recorder, went to Hezekiah with their clothing torn and told him everything the herald had said. Hezekiah Seeks Isaiah’s Advice Isaiah 37 1 When King Hezekiah heard the report, he tore his clothes, put on sackcloth, and went into the House of the Lord . 2 He sent Eliakim son of Hilkiah, who was the palace administrator, Shebna the secretary, and the senior priests, who were wearing sackcloth, to Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz. 3 They told him what Hezekiah said: “This is a day of distress, rebuke, and humiliation, because children are about to be born, but there is no strength left to give birth. 4 Perhaps the Lord your God will take note of the words of this herald, who was sent by his lord, the king of Assyria, in defiance of the living God, and perhaps the Lord your God will rebuke him for what he has heard. So please, pray for the small group that is left here.” 5 When the servants of King Hezekiah came to Isaiah, 6 he said to them, “Tell your master that this is what the Lord says. Do not be afraid of what you have heard. The lackeys [4] of the king of Assyria have blasphemed against me. 7 Watch! I will put a spirit in him, so that when he hears certain news, he will return to his own land. There I will cause him to be killed.” 8 Then the herald went back. He heard that the king of Assyria had already left Lachish and was fighting against Libnah. 9 When Sennacherib heard that Tirhakah king of Cush [5] had set out to fight against him, he sent messengers to Hezekiah 10 to say this to Hezekiah king of Judah: Do not let the God you trust deceive you, saying that Jerusalem will not be handed over to the king of Assyria. 11 Listen, you yourself have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all the other lands, destroying them completely. And you expect to be saved? 12 Did the gods of the nations whom my fathers destroyed save them—Gozan, Haran, Rezeph, and the people of Eden, who were in Tel Assar? 13 Where is the king of Hamath, and the king of Arpad, and the kings of the cities of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivvah? 14 Hezekiah took the letter from the hand of the messengers and read it. He went up to the House of the Lord and placed it there before the Lord . 15 Then he prayed to the Lord . 16 O Lord of Armies, God of Israel, seated above the cherubim, you alone are God of all the kingdoms of the earth. You made the heavens and the earth. 17 Turn your ear toward me, Lord , and hear. Open your eyes, Lord , and see. Listen to all of the words of Sennacherib, who has defied the living God. 18 It is true, Lord , that the kings of Assyria have destroyed all these lands and their territory. 19 They have thrown their gods into the fire, for they were not gods at all, but the work of human hands, wood and stone. So they have destroyed them. 20 Now, Lord our God, save us from his power, and let all the kingdoms of the earth know that you are the Lord , and you alone. The Lord Replies to Hezekiah Through Isaiah 21 Then Isaiah son of Amoz sent word to Hezekiah. The Lord , the God of Israel, says that because you have prayed to him about Sennacherib king of Assyria, 22 the Lord sends you this reply about him. The virgin daughter of Zion [6] despises you and jeers at you. The daughter of Jerusalem shakes her head at you in scorn. 23 Who is it whom you have mocked and blasphemed? Against whom have you raised your voice and lifted up your proud eyes? It is against the Holy One of Israel. 24 You have used your servants to mock the Lord. You have boasted, “I have driven my many chariots up the high mountains, to the most remote parts of Lebanon. I cut down its tallest cedars and its best fir trees. I have reached its highest peak, its most lush forest. 25 I dug wells and drank their water, and I dried up all the rivers of Egypt with the soles of my feet.” 26 Have you not heard? I did all this long ago. I formed all this in ancient times. Now I caused it all to take place. I enabled you to destroy fortified cities, reducing them to heaps of ruins. 27 Their inhabitants were powerless. Overwhelmed and ashamed, they were like plants in the field, like fresh green grass, like grass on a housetop, and like a field before it has grown. [7] 28 But I know when you stand and when you sit, [8] when you go out and when you come in, and how you rage wildly against me. 29 Because you rage against me, and because your arrogance has reached my ears, I will put my hook in your nose and my bit in your mouth, and I will make you go back by the same way that you came. 30 This will be a sign for you: This year you will eat what grows by itself. Next year you will eat what springs up from that. But in the third year, you will sow crops and harvest them. You will plant vineyards and eat their fruit. 31 The surviving remnant of the house of Judah will again put down roots below and bear fruit above. 32 For from Jerusalem a remnant will go out, and survivors from Mount Zion. The zeal of the Lord of Armies will accomplish this. 33 This is what the Lord says about the king of Assyria: He will not enter this city. He will not shoot an arrow there. He will not advance against it with a shield, and he will not build a siege ramp against it. 34 He will go back by the same route that he came, and he will not enter this city, declares the Lord . 35 For I will defend this city to save it, for my own sake, and for the sake of my servant David. The Destruction of Sennacherib 36 Then an angel of the Lord went and struck down one hundred eighty-five thousand men in the Assyrian camp. Early in the morning, there they were—all the dead bodies. 37 Then Sennacherib king of Assyria broke camp and left. He returned to Nineveh and remained there. 38 One day when Sennacherib was worshipping in the house of his god Nisrok, his sons Adrammelek and Sharezer struck him down with the sword. They fled to the land of Ararat, [9] and his son Esarhaddon became king in his place. Footnotes Isaiah 36:2 Or chief spokesman. The Hebrew/Assyrian term rab shakeh refers to a high-ranking military officer. Isaiah 36:2 Or washerman’s or wool-cleaner’s Isaiah 36:12 The Hebrew terms for excrement and urine are apparently coarse, because the scribal notes substitute euphemisms for them. Isaiah 37:6 Or junior officers , an insulting term to use for such high-ranking officers Isaiah 37:9 Cush is the ancient name for the territory south of the First Cataract of the Nile River. Called Ethiopia in Roman times, it included most of present-day Sudan and some of present-day Ethiopia. The Cushite or Nubian kings were the pharaohs of Egypt at this time. Isaiah 37:22 Daughter of Zion is a personification of Jerusalem and the people of Judah. Isaiah 37:27 The translation follows the main Hebrew reading of this verse. The parallel text in 2 Kings 19:26 reads scorched before it becomes a full-grown stalk. The Dead Sea Scroll of Isaiah reads scorched by the east wind. Isaiah 37:28 The translation follows the Dead Sea Scroll of Isaiah. The Hebrew does not have when you stand and. Isaiah 37:38 The region of present-day Armenia The Holy Bible, Evangelical Heritage Version®, EHV®, © 2019 Wartburg Project, Inc. All rights reserved. Share this entry Share on Facebook Share on LinkedIn Share by Mail Link to Flickr Link to Instagram Link to Vimeo…
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Through My Bible Yr 01 – December 29 Isaiah 33 – 35 LISTEN HERE Through My Bible – December 29 Isaiah 33 – 35 (EHV) https://wels2.blob.core.windows.net/tmb-ehv/01-1229db.mp3 See series: Through My Bible Rise Up, O Lord ! Isaiah 33 1 Woe to you who destroy, even though you have not been destroyed, you who betray, though you have not been betrayed! When you have finished destroying, you will be destroyed, and when you have finished betraying, you will be betrayed. 2 O Lord , be gracious to us. We wait hopefully for you. Be our strength every morning. Be our salvation in times of trouble. 3 At the thunder of your voice, people flee. When you stir up your great power, nations scatter. 4 Your plunder will be taken away the way a caterpillar [1] eats things up. People will swarm on it like a locust swarm. 5 The Lord is exalted, because he dwells on high. He will fill Zion with justice and righteousness. 6 There will be stability in your time, a wealth of salvation, wisdom, and knowledge. Your treasure will be the fear of the Lord . 7 Listen! Their elite troops [2] are crying in the streets. The peace envoys weep bitterly. 8 The highways are deserted. All travel has stopped. The treaty has been broken. Witnesses [3] are despised, and no one is respected. 9 The land mourns and becomes weak. Lebanon is ashamed and withers away. The Plain of Sharon is like the Arabah, and Bashan and Carmel are stripped bare. 10 Now I will arise, says the Lord . Now I will lift myself up. Now I will be exalted. 11 You will conceive chaff and give birth to stubble. Like fire, your own breath will consume you. 12 People will be burned to lime, [4] like thorns that are cut and burned in the fire. 13 You who are far away, recognize what I have done. You who are close by, acknowledge my mighty acts. 14 The sinners in Zion are afraid. Trembling has seized the ungodly. Who of us can live with a consuming fire? Who of us can live in a place that burns without end? 15 Those who walk righteously and speak blamelessly, those who despise dishonest gain, whose hands refuse a bribe, whose ears will not listen to violent plans, whose eyes reject evil— 16 they will dwell on high. Their defense will be a fortress on the cliffs. Their bread will be provided. Their water supply will be reliable. 17 Your eyes will see the King [5] in his splendor. They will see a land that stretches far and wide. 18 Your heart will think about the past terrors. You will think, “Where is the one who took the inventory? [6] Where is the one who weighed the silver? Where is the one who counted the towers?” 19 You will no longer see a barbaric people, a people with unintelligible speech, which you cannot understand, a people who babble in a language that makes no sense. 20 Look at Zion, the city where we hold our festivals. You will see Jerusalem as a peaceful place, as a tent that cannot be removed. Its stakes will never be pulled up. Its ropes will never be broken. 21 There the Lord will be with us in majesty, as in a place with wide rivers and streams, where no enemy warship can row, where no sailing ship can slip past. 22 Because the Lord is our judge, the Lord is our lawgiver, and the Lord is our king, he is the one who will save us. 23 Your rigging hangs loose. The mast is not steady. The sail is not set. [7] When they divide all the plunder, there will be so much that even the crippled will take part. 24 No one who lives there will say, “I am sick.” The guilt of the people who live there will be forgiven. Judgment Against the Nations Isaiah 34 1 Come near, you nations, and hear! Listen, you peoples. Let the earth and everything in it hear, the world and everything that it produces. 2 The Lord is angry with all the nations, and he is furious with all their armies. He has condemned them to destruction. He has handed them over for slaughter. 3 Their fallen bodies will lie unburied, and the stench of their corpses will linger. The mountains will flow with their blood. 4 The whole army of the heavens will fall apart. The sky will be rolled up like a scroll, and its whole army will waste away and fall, like leaves withering on a vine, like fruit that falls from a fig tree. 5 Yes, my sword has drunk its fill in the heavens. Now it will fall on Edom, on the people I have sentenced to judgment. 6 The sword of the Lord is covered with blood. It is coated with fat, with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat from the kidneys of rams, for the Lord has made a sacrifice in Bozrah, a massive slaughter in the land of Edom. 7 Wild oxen will fall along with them, bull calves and powerful bulls. Their land will be soaked with blood, and their dust will be saturated with fat. 8 It will be a day of vengeance for the Lord , a year of retribution for Zion’s sake. [8] 9 Edom’s streams will be turned into pitch, its dust into sulfur, and its land will become burning pitch, 10 which will not be extinguished night or day. Its smoke will go up forever. Generation after generation, it will lie in ruins. No one will ever pass through it. Never again! 11 But the desert owl and the porcupine will live there. [9] The screech owl and the raven will nest there. God will stretch a measuring line for chaos over Edom, and a plumb line for uninhabited ruins. [10] 12 There will be nothing left for its nobles to call a kingdom. All its officials will be gone. 13 Thorns will cover its citadels. Thistles and briers will overgrow its fortresses. It will be a den of jackals, a haunt for ostriches. 14 Desert animals and hyenas will gather, and wild goats [11] will bleat to each other. Creatures of the night [12] will settle there and find a resting place. 15 An owl [13] will nest there. She will lay eggs, hatch them, and gather her young under her shade. Falcons will gather there too, each with its mate. 16 Search through the book of the Lord , and read. Not one of them will be missing. Not one will lack her mate. For his mouth has commanded this, and his Spirit has gathered them together. 17 He has allotted this land for these creatures. His hand has divided it up for them with a surveying line. They will possess it forever. They will live there generation after generation. The Joyful Return Isaiah 35 1 The wilderness and the desert will be glad. The wasteland of the Arabah will rejoice and blossom like a crocus. 2 It will bloom lavishly, and there will be great joy and singing. The glory of Lebanon will be given to it. It will be excellent like Carmel and Sharon. They will see the glory of the Lord , the majesty of our God. 3 Strengthen the weak hands, and make the shaky knees steady. 4 Tell those who have a fearful heart: Be strong. Do not be afraid. Look! Your God will come with vengeance. With God’s own retribution, he will come and save you. 5 Then the eyes of the blind will be opened, and the ears of the deaf will be unplugged. 6 The crippled will leap like a deer, and the tongue of the mute will sing for joy. Waters will flow in the wilderness, and streams in the wasteland. 7 The burning sand will become a pool, and in the thirsty ground there will be springs of water. There will be grass, reeds, and rushes where the haunts of jackals once lay. 8 A highway will be there, a road that will be called the holy way. The impure will not walk there. It will be reserved for those who walk in that holy way. Wicked fools will not wander onto it. 9 No lion will be there, nor will any ferocious animal go up on it. They will not be found there, but only the redeemed will walk there. 10 Then those ransomed by the Lord will return. They will enter Zion with a joyful shout, and everlasting joy will crown their heads. Happiness and joy will overtake them, and sorrow and sighing will flee away. Footnotes Isaiah 33:4 The term refers to a life stage or a type of locust. Isaiah 33:7 Or the people of Ariel Isaiah 33:8 The translation follows the Dead Sea Scroll of Isaiah. The standard Hebrew text reads cities. Isaiah 33:12 Or to ashes Isaiah 33:17 Or the king Isaiah 33:18 The verse apparently refers to the actions of the enemy officers as they plundered Jerusalem. Isaiah 33:23 Or Your ropes are loose. Their flagpole is not firmly set, and the flag will not fly. But see verse 21. Isaiah 34:8 Or a time of retribution for the Defender of Zion Isaiah 34:11 The precise identification of these animals and other animals in this section is uncertain. The word translated porcupine may be another type of owl. Isaiah 34:11 The words translated chaos and uninhabited ruins are the same words that describe the undeveloped, empty world on the first day of creation. Isaiah 34:14 The term translated wild goats later became associated with satyrs and demons, but here it seems to refer to regular animals. Isaiah 34:14 Hebrew lilith. In later Jewish writing this term became the name of a female demon. Isaiah 34:15 Or the arrow snake. The meaning of the Hebrew term is uncertain. The Holy Bible, Evangelical Heritage Version®, EHV®, © 2019 Wartburg Project, Inc. All rights reserved. Share this entry Share on Facebook Share on LinkedIn Share by Mail Link to Flickr Link to Instagram Link to Vimeo…
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