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Isaiah 1:1-2:22

Judah’s Rebellion

(2 Chronicles 28:5–15)

1 This is the vision concerning Judah and Jerusalem that Isaiah son of Amoz saw during the reigns of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah.

2 Listen, O heavens, and give ear, O earth,

for the Lord has spoken:

“I have raised children and brought them up,

but they have rebelled against Me.

3 The ox knows its owner,

and the donkey its master’s manger,

but Israel does not know;

My people do not understand.”

4 Alas, O sinful nation,

a people laden with iniquity,

a brood of evildoers,

children who act corruptly!

They have forsaken the Lord;

they have despised the Holy One of Israel

and turned their backs on Him.

5 Why do you want more beatings?

Why do you keep rebelling?

Your head has a massive wound,

and your whole heart is afflicted.

6 From the sole of your foot to the top of your head,

there is no soundness—

only wounds and welts and festering sores

neither cleansed nor bandaged nor soothed with oil.

7 Your land is desolate;

your cities are burned with fire.

Foreigners devour your fields before you —

a desolation demolished by strangers.

8 And the Daughter of Zion is abandoned

like a shelter in a vineyard,

like a shack in a cucumber field,

like a city besieged.

9 Unless the Lord of Hosts

had left us a few survivors,

we would have become like Sodom,

we would have resembled Gomorrah.

Meaningless Offerings

10 Hear the word of the Lord,

you rulers of Sodom;

listen to the instruction of our God,

you people of Gomorrah!

11“What good to Me is your multitude of sacrifices?”

says the Lord.

“I am full from the burnt offerings of rams

and the fat of well-fed cattle;

I take no delight in the blood of bulls

and lambs and goats.

12 When you come to appear before Me,

who has required this of you—

this trampling of My courts?

13 Bring your worthless offerings no more;

your incense is detestable to Me.

New Moons, Sabbaths, and convocations—

I cannot endure iniquity in a solemn assembly.

14 I hate your New Moons

and your appointed feasts.

They have become a burden to Me;

I am weary of bearing them.

15 When you spread out your hands in prayer,

I will hide My eyes from you;

even though you multiply your prayers,

I will not listen.

Your hands are covered with blood.

16 Wash and cleanse yourselves.

Remove your evil deeds from My sight.

Stop doing evil!

17 Learn to do right;

seek justice and correct the oppressor.

Defend the fatherless

and plead the case of the widow.”

18“Come now, let us reason together,”

says the Lord.

“Though your sins are like scarlet,

they will be as white as snow;

though they are as red as crimson,

they will become like wool.

19 If you are willing and obedient,

you will eat the best of the land.

20 But if you resist and rebel,

you will be devoured by the sword.”

For the mouth of the Lord has spoken.

The Corruption of Zion

21 See how the faithful city has become a harlot!

She once was full of justice;

righteousness resided within her,

but now only murderers!

22 Your silver has become dross;

your fine wine is diluted with water.

23 Your rulers are rebels,

friends of thieves.

They all love bribes

and chasing after rewards.

They do not defend the fatherless,

and the plea of the widow never comes before them.

24 Therefore the Lord GOD of Hosts,

the Mighty One of Israel, declares:

“Ah, I will be relieved of My foes

and avenge Myself on My enemies.

25 I will turn My hand against you;

I will thoroughly purge your dross;

I will remove all your impurities.

26 I will restore your judges as at first,

and your counselors as at the beginning.

After that you will be called the City of Righteousness,

the Faithful City.”

27 Zion will be redeemed with justice,

her repentant ones with righteousness.

28 But rebels and sinners will together be shattered,

and those who forsake the Lord will perish.

29 Surely you will be ashamed of the sacred oaks

in which you have delighted;

you will be embarrassed by the gardens

that you have chosen.

30 For you will become like an oak whose leaves are withered,

like a garden without water.

31 The strong man will become tinder

and his work will be a spark;

both will burn together,

with no one to quench the flames.

The Mountain of the House of the Lord

(Micah 4:1–5)

1 This is the message that was revealed to Isaiah son of Amoz concerning Judah and Jerusalem:

2 In the last days the mountain of the house of the Lord

will be established as the chief of the mountains;

it will be raised above the hills,

and all nations will stream to it.

3 And many peoples will come and say:

“Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord,

to the house of the God of Jacob.

He will teach us His ways

so that we may walk in His paths.”

For the law will go forth from Zion,

and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.

4 Then He will judge between the nations

and arbitrate for many peoples.

They will beat their swords into plowshares

and their spears into pruning hooks.

Nation will no longer take up the sword against nation,

nor train anymore for war.

The Day of Reckoning

5 Come, O house of Jacob,

let us walk in the light of the Lord.

6 For You have abandoned Your people,

the house of Jacob,

because they are filled

with influences from the east;

they are soothsayers like the Philistines;

they strike hands with the children of foreigners.

7 Their land is full of silver and gold,

with no limit to their treasures;

their land is full of horses,

with no limit to their chariots.

8 Their land is full of idols;

they bow down to the work of their hands,

to what their fingers have made.

9 So mankind is brought low,

and man is humbled —

do not forgive them!

10 Go into the rocks

and hide in the dust

from the terror of the Lord

and the splendor of His majesty.

11 The proud look of man will be humbled,

and the loftiness of men brought low;

the Lord alone will be exalted in that day.

12 For the Day of the Lord of Hosts

will come against all the proud and lofty,

against all that is exalted—

it will be humbled—

13 against all the cedars of Lebanon, lofty and lifted up,

against all the oaks of Bashan,

14 against all the tall mountains,

against all the high hills,

15 against every high tower,

against every fortified wall,

16 against every ship of Tarshish,

and against every stately vessel.

17 So the pride of man will be brought low,

and the loftiness of men will be humbled;

the Lord alone will be exalted in that day,

18 and the idols will vanish completely.

19 Men will flee to caves in the rocks

and holes in the ground,

away from the terror of the Lord

and from the splendor of His majesty,

when He rises to shake the earth.

20 In that day men will cast away

to the moles and bats

their idols of silver and gold —

the idols they made to worship.

21 They will flee to caverns in the rocks

and crevices in the cliffs,

away from the terror of the Lord

and from the splendor of His majesty,

when He rises to shake the earth.

22 Put no more trust in man,

who has only the breath in his nostrils.

Of what account is he?

2 Corinthians 10:1-18

Paul’s Apostolic Authority

1 Now by the mildness and gentleness of Christ, I appeal to you — I, Paul, who am humble when face to face with you, but bold when away. 2I beg you that when I come I may not need to be as bold as I expect toward those who presume that we live according to the flesh.

3 For though we live in the flesh, we do not wage war according to the flesh. 4The weapons of our warfare are not the weapons of the flesh. Instead, they have divine power to demolish strongholds. 5We demolish arguments and every presumption set up against the knowledge of God; and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ. 6And we will be ready to punish every act of disobedience, as soon as your obedience is complete.

7 You are looking at outward appearances. If anyone is confident that he belongs to Christ, he should remind himself that we belong to Christ just as much as he does. 8For even if I boast somewhat excessively about the authority the Lord gave us for building you up rather than tearing you down, I will not be ashamed.

9 I do not want to seem to be trying to frighten you by my letters. 10For some say, “His letters are weighty and forceful, but his physical presence is unimpressive, and his speaking is of no account.” 11Such people should consider that what we are in our letters when absent, we will be in our actions when present.

12 We do not dare to classify or compare ourselves with some who commend themselves. When they measure themselves by themselves and compare themselves with themselves, they show their ignorance. 13We, however, will not boast beyond our limits, but only within the field of influence that God has assigned to us — a field that reaches even to you. 14We are not overstepping our bounds, as if we had not come to you. Indeed, we were the first to reach you with the gospel of Christ.

15 Neither do we boast beyond our limits in the labors of others. But we hope that as your faith increases, our area of influence among you will greatly increase as well , 16so that we can preach the gospel in the regions beyond you. Then we will not be boasting in the work already done in another man’s territory.

17 Rather, “Let him who boasts boast in the Lord.” 18For it is not the one who commends himself who is approved, but the one whom the Lord commends.

Psalm 52:1-9

Why Do You Boast of Evil?

(1 Samuel 22:6–23)

1 For the choirmaster. A Maskil of David. After Doeg the Edomite went to Saul and told him, “David has gone to the house of Ahimelech.”

Why do you boast of evil, O mighty man?

The loving devotion of God endures all day long.

2 Your tongue devises destruction

like a sharpened razor,

O worker of deceit.

3 You love evil more than good,

falsehood more than speaking truth.

Selah

4 You love every word that devours,

O deceitful tongue.

5 Surely God will bring you down to everlasting ruin;

He will snatch you up and tear you away from your tent;

He will uproot you from the land of the living.

Selah

6 The righteous will see and fear;

they will mock the evildoer, saying,

7“Look at the man

who did not make God his refuge,

but trusted in the abundance of his wealth

and strengthened himself by destruction.”

8 But I am like an olive tree

flourishing in the house of God;

I trust in the loving devotion of God

forever and ever.

9 I will praise You forever,

because You have done it.

I will wait on Your name —

for it is good —

in the presence of Your saints.

Proverbs 22:26-27

Saying 4

26 Do not be one who gives pledges,

who puts up security for debts.

27 If you have nothing with which to pay,

why should your bed be taken from under you?

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One Year Bible

Isaiah 1:1-2:22

2 Corinthians 10:1-18

Psalm 52:1-9

Proverbs 22:26-27