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October 1 - Old & New Testament
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Isaiah 50,51,52
1 This is what the Lord says:
Where is your mother's divorce certificate
that I used to send her away?(a)
Or who were My creditors that I sold you to?(b)
Look, you were sold for your iniquities,(c)
and your mother was put away
because of your transgressions.
2 Why was no one there when I came?
Why was there no one to answer when I called?
Is My hand too short to redeem?(d)
Or do I have no power to deliver?
Look, I dry up the sea by My rebuke;(e)
I turn the rivers into a wilderness;
their fish rot because of lack of water
and die of thirst.
3 I dress the heavens in black
and make sackcloth their clothing.(f)
The Obedient Servant
4 The Lord
God
has given Me
the tongue of those who are instructed(g)
to know how to sustain the weary with a word.
He awakens Me each morning;
He awakens My ear to listen like those being instructed.(h)
5 The Lord
God
has opened My ear,
and I was not rebellious;
I did not turn back.(i)
6 I gave My back to those who beat Me,
and My cheeks to those who tore out My beard.
I did not hide My face from scorn and spitting.(j)
7 The Lord
God
will help Me;
therefore I have not been humiliated;
therefore I have set My face like flint,(k)
and I know I will not be put to shame.
8 The One who vindicates Me is near;(l)
who will contend with Me?
Let us confront each other.[a]
Who has a case against Me?[b]
Let him come near Me!
9 In truth, the Lord
God
will help Me;
who will condemn Me?(m)
Indeed, all of them will wear out like a garment;
a moth will devour them.(n)
10 Who among you fears the
Lord
,
listening to the voice of His Servant?(o)
Who among you walks in darkness,
and has no light?
Let him trust in the name of Yahweh;
let him lean on his God.
11 Look, all you who kindle a fire,
who encircle yourselves with[c] firebrands;
walk in the light of your fire
and in the firebrands you have lit!
This is what you'll get from My hand:
you will lie down in a place of torment.
Salvation for Zion
1 Listen to Me, you who pursue righteousness,
you who seek the
Lord
:
Look to the rock from which you were cut,
and to the quarry from which you were dug.
2 Look to Abraham your father,
and to Sarah who gave birth to you in pain.
When I called him, he was only one;
I blessed him and made him many.(a)
3 For the
Lord
will comfort Zion;(b)
He will comfort all her waste places,
and He will make her wilderness like Eden,(c)
and her desert like the garden of the
Lord
.(d)
Joy and gladness will be found in her,
thanksgiving and melodious song.
4 Pay attention to Me, My people,
and listen to Me, My nation;
for instruction will come from Me,
and My justice for a light to the nations.(e)
I will bring it about quickly.
5 My righteousness is near,(f)
My salvation appears,
and My arms will bring justice to the nations.(g)
The coastlands[a] will put their hope in Me,
and they will look to My strength.[b]
6 Look up to the heavens,
and look at the earth beneath;
for the heavens will vanish like smoke,
the earth will wear out like a garment,
and its inhabitants will die like gnats.[c](h)
But My salvation will last forever,(i)
and My righteousness will never be shattered.
7 Listen to Me, you who know righteousness,
the people in whose heart is My instruction:(j)
do not fear disgrace by men,
and do not be shattered by their taunts.
8 For the moth will devour them like a garment,(k)
and the worm will eat them like wool.(l)
But My righteousness will last forever,
and My salvation for all generations.
9 Wake up, wake up!
Put on the strength of the
Lord
's power.
Wake up as in days past,
as in generations of long ago.
Wasn't it You who hacked Rahab to pieces,(m)
who pierced the sea monster?(n)
10 Wasn't it You who dried up the sea,(o)
the waters of the great deep,
who made the sea-bed into a road
for the redeemed to pass over?(p)
11 And the redeemed of the
Lord
will return(q)
and come to Zion with singing,
crowned with unending joy.
Joy and gladness will overtake them,
and sorrow and sighing will flee.
12 I—I am the One who comforts you.
Who are you that you should fear man who dies,(r)
or a son of man who is given up like grass?(s)
13 But you have forgotten the
Lord
, your Maker,
who stretched out the heavens
and laid the foundations of the earth.(t)
You are in constant dread all day long
because of the fury of the oppressor,
who has set himself to destroy.
But where is the fury of the oppressor?(u)
14 The prisoner[d] is soon to be set free;
he will not die and go to the Pit,
and his food will not be lacking.
15 For I am Yahweh your God
who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar(v)—
His name is Yahweh of Hosts.
16 I have put My words in your mouth,(w)
and covered you in the shadow of My hand,(x)
in order to plant[e] the heavens,
to found the earth,
and to say to Zion, "You are My people."
17 Wake yourself, wake yourself up!
Stand up, Jerusalem,
you who have drunk the cup of His fury(y)
from the hand of the
Lord
;
you who have drunk the goblet to the dregs—
the cup that causes people to stagger.
18 There is no one to guide her
among all the children she has raised;
there is no one to take hold of her hand
among all the offspring she has brought up.
19 These two things have happened to you:(z)
devastation and destruction,
famine and sword.
Who will grieve for you?
How can I[f] comfort you?
20 Your children have fainted;
they lie at the head of every street
like an antelope in a net.
They are full of the
Lord
's fury,
the rebuke of your God.
21 So listen to this, afflicted
and drunken one—but not with wine.(aa)
22 This is what your Lord says—
Yahweh, even your God,
who defends His people(ab)—
"Look, I have removed
the cup of staggering from your hand;
that goblet, the cup of My fury.
You will never drink it again.
23 I will put it into the hands of your tormentors,
who said to you:(ac)
Lie down, so we can walk over you.
You made your back like the ground,
and like a street for those who walk on it.
1 "Wake up, wake up;
put on your strength, Zion!
Put on your beautiful garments,(a)
Jerusalem, the Holy City!(b)
For the uncircumcised and the unclean
will no longer enter you.(c)
2 Stand up, shake the dust off yourself!
Take your seat, Jerusalem.
Remove the bonds[a] from your neck,
captive Daughter Zion."
3 For this is what the
Lord
says:
"You were sold for nothing,
and you will be redeemed without silver."(d)
4 For this is what the Lord
God
says:
"At first My people went down to Egypt to live there,(e)
then Assyria oppressed them without cause.[b]
5 So now what have I here"—
this is the
Lord
's declaration—
"that My people are taken away for nothing?
Its rulers wail"—
this is the
Lord
's declaration—
"and My name is continually blasphemed all day long.(f)
6 Therefore My people will know My name;(g)
therefore they will know on that day
that I am He who says:
Here I am."
7 How beautiful on the mountains
are the feet of the herald,
who proclaims peace,
who brings news of good things,(h)
who proclaims salvation,
who says to Zion, "Your God reigns!"(i)
8 The voices of your watchmen(j)—
they lift up their voices,
shouting for joy together;
for every eye will see
when the
Lord
returns to Zion.
9 Be joyful, rejoice together,
you ruins of Jerusalem!(k)
For the
Lord
has comforted His people;(l)
He has redeemed Jerusalem.
10 The
Lord
has displayed His holy arm
in the sight of all the nations;(m)
all the ends of the earth will see
the salvation of our God.(n)
11 Leave, leave, go out from there!(o)
Do not touch anything unclean;
go out from her, purify yourselves,(p)
you who carry the vessels of the
Lord
.
12 For you will not leave in a hurry,(q)
and you will not have to take flight;
because the
Lord
is going before you,(r)
and the God of Israel is your rear guard.(s)
The Servant's Suffering and Exaltation
13 See, My Servant[c](t) will act wisely;[d]
He will be raised and lifted up and greatly exalted.(u)
14 Just as many were appalled at You[e]—
His appearance was so disfigured
that He did not look like a man,
and His form did not resemble a human being—
15 so He will sprinkle[f][g] many nations.[h](v)
Kings will shut their mouths because of Him,
For they will see what had not been told them,
and they will understand what they had not heard.(w)
Romans 9:16-33
Chapter 9
16 So then it does not depend on human will or effort[n](af) but on God who shows mercy.(ag) 17 For the Scripture tells Pharaoh:
I raised you up for this reason
so that I may display My power in you
and that My name may be proclaimed in all the earth.
(ah)[o]
18 So then, He shows mercy to those He wants to, and He hardens those He wants to harden.(ai)
19 You will say to me,(aj) therefore, "Why then does He still find fault?(ak) For who can resist His will?"(al) 20 But who are you, a mere man, to talk back to God?(am) Will what is formed say to the one who formed it, "Why did you make me like this?"(an) 21 Or has the potter no right over the clay,(ao) to make from the same lump one piece of pottery for honor and another for dishonor? 22 And what if God, desiring to display His wrath and to make His power known, endured with much patience(ap) objects of wrath ready for destruction?(aq) 23 And what if He did this to make known the riches of His glory(ar) on objects of mercy(as) that He prepared beforehand for glory(at)— 24 on us, the ones He also called,(au) not only from the Jews but also from the Gentiles?(av) 25 As He also says in Hosea:
I will call Not My People, My People,
and she who is Unloved, Beloved.
(aw)[p]
26
And it will be in the place where they were told,
you are not My people,
there they will be called sons of the living God.
(ax)[q]
27 But Isaiah cries out concerning Israel:
Though the number of Israel's sons
is like the sand of the sea,
(ay)
only the remnant will be saved;
(az)
28
for the Lord will execute His sentence
completely and decisively on the earth.
[r](ba)[s]
29 And just as Isaiah predicted:
If the Lord of Hosts
[t]
had not left us offspring,
(bb)
we would have become like Sodom,
and we would have been made like Gomorrah.
(bc)[u]
Israel's Present State
30 What should we say then?(bd) Gentiles, who did not pursue righteousness, have obtained righteousness—namely the righteousness that comes from faith.(be) 31 But Israel, pursuing the law for righteousness,(bf) has not achieved the righteousness of the law.[v](bg) 32 Why is that? Because they did not pursue it by faith, but as if it were by works.[w] They stumbled over the stumbling stone.(bh) 33 As it is written:
Look! I am putting a stone in Zion to stumble over
and a rock to trip over,
yet the one who believes on Him
(bi)
will not be put to shame.
(bj)[x]
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