One Year Bible

Isaiah 3:1-5:30

Judgment on Jerusalem and Judah

1 For behold, the Lord GOD of Hosts

is about to remove

from Jerusalem and Judah

both supply and support:

the whole supply of food and water,

2 the mighty man and the warrior,

the judge and the prophet,

the soothsayer and the elder,

3 the commander of fifty and the dignitary,

the counselor, the cunning magician, and the clever enchanter.

4“I will make mere lads their leaders,

and children will rule over them.”

5 The people will oppress one another,

man against man, neighbor against neighbor;

the young will rise up against the old,

and the base against the honorable.

6 A man will seize his brother

within his father’s house:

“You have a cloak— you be our leader!

Take charge of this heap of rubble.”

7 On that day he will cry aloud:

“I am not a healer.

I have no food or clothing in my house.

Do not make me leader of the people!”

8 For Jerusalem has stumbled

and Judah has fallen

because they spoke and acted against the Lord,

defying His glorious presence.

9 The expression on their faces testifies against them,

and like Sodom they flaunt their sin;

they do not conceal it.

Woe to them,

for they have brought disaster upon themselves.

10 Tell the righteous it will be well with them,

for they will enjoy the fruit of their labor.

11 Woe to the wicked; disaster is upon them!

For they will be repaid with what their hands have done.

12 Youths oppress My people,

and women rule over them.

O My people, your guides mislead you;

they turn you from your paths.

13 The Lord arises to contend;

He stands to judge the people.

14 The Lord brings this charge

against the elders and leaders of His people:

“You have devoured the vineyard;

the plunder of the poor is in your houses.

15 Why do you crush My people

and grind the faces of the poor?”

declares the Lord GOD of Hosts.

A Warning to the Daughters of Zion

16 The Lord also says:

“Because the daughters of Zion are haughty —

walking with heads held high

and wanton eyes,

prancing and skipping as they go,

jingling the bracelets on their ankles —

17 the Lord will bring sores

on the heads of the daughters of Zion,

and the Lord will make their foreheads bare.”

18 In that day the Lord will take away their finery:

their anklets and headbands and crescents;

19 their pendants, bracelets, and veils;

20 their headdresses, ankle chains, and sashes;

their perfume bottles and charms;

21 their signet rings and nose rings;

22 their festive robes, capes, cloaks, and purses;

23 and their mirrors, linen garments, tiaras, and shawls.

24 Instead of fragrance

there will be a stench;

instead of a belt, a rope;

instead of styled hair, baldness;

instead of fine clothing, sackcloth;

instead of beauty, shame.

25 Your men will fall by the sword,

and your warriors in battle.

26 And the gates of Zion will lament and mourn;

destitute, she will sit on the ground.

A Remnant in Zion

1 In that day seven women

will take hold of one man and say,

“We will eat our own bread

and provide our own clothes.

Just let us be called by your name.

Take away our disgrace!”

2 On that day the Branch of the Lord

will be beautiful and glorious,

and the fruit of the land

will be the pride and glory of Israel’s survivors.

3 Whoever remains in Zion

and whoever is left in Jerusalem

will be called holy—

all in Jerusalem who are recorded among the living—

4 when the Lord has washed away

the filth of the daughters of Zion

and cleansed the bloodstains from the heart of Jerusalem

by a spirit of judgment and a spirit of fire.

5 Then the Lord will create over all of Mount Zion

and over her assemblies

a cloud of smoke by day

and a glowing flame of fire by night.

For over all the glory

there will be a canopy,

6 a shelter to give shade

from the heat by day,

and a refuge and hiding place

from the storm and the rain.

The Song of the Vineyard

(Luke 13:6–9)

1 I will sing for my beloved a song of his vineyard:

My beloved had a vineyard

on a very fertile hill.

2 He dug it up and cleared the stones

and planted the finest vines.

He built a watchtower in the middle

and dug out a winepress as well.

He waited for the vineyard to yield good grapes,

but the fruit it produced was sour!

3“And now, O dwellers of Jerusalem

and men of Judah,

I exhort you to judge

between Me and My vineyard.

4 What more could have been done for My vineyard

than I have done for it?

Why, when I expected sweet grapes,

did it bring forth sour fruit?

5 Now I will tell you what I am about to do to My vineyard:

I will take away its hedge,

and it will be consumed;

I will tear down its wall,

and it will be trampled.

6 I will make it a wasteland,

neither pruned nor cultivated,

and thorns and briers will grow up.

I will command the clouds

that rain shall not fall on it.”

7 For the vineyard of the Lord of Hosts

is the house of Israel,

and the men of Judah

are the plant of His delight.

He looked for justice,

but saw bloodshed;

for righteousness,

but heard a cry of distress.

Woes to the Wicked

8 Woe to you who add house to house

and join field to field

until no place is left

and you live alone in the land.

9 I heard the Lord of Hosts declare:

“Surely many houses will become desolate,

great mansions left unoccupied.

10 For ten acres of vineyard

will yield but a bath of wine,

and a homer of seed

only an ephah of grain.”

11 Woe to those who rise early in the morning

in pursuit of strong drink,

who linger into the evening,

to be inflamed by wine.

12 At their feasts are the lyre and harp,

tambourines and flutes and wine.

They disregard the actions of the Lord

and fail to see the work of His hands.

13 Therefore My people will go into exile

for their lack of understanding;

their dignitaries are starving

and their masses are parched with thirst.

14 Therefore Sheol enlarges its throat

and opens wide its enormous jaws,

and down go Zion’s nobles and masses,

her revelers and carousers!

15 So mankind will be brought low, and each man humbled;

the arrogant will lower their eyes.

16 But the Lord of Hosts will be exalted by His justice,

and the holy God will show Himself holy in righteousness.

17 Lambs will graze as in their own pastures,

and strangers will feed in the ruins of the wealthy.

18 Woe to those who draw iniquity with cords of deceit

and pull sin along with cart ropes,

19 to those who say, “Let Him hurry and hasten His work

so that we may see it!

Let the plan of the Holy One of Israel come

so that we may know it!”

20 Woe to those who call evil good

and good evil,

who turn darkness to light

and light to darkness,

who replace bitter with sweet

and sweet with bitter.

21 Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes

and clever in their own sight.

22 Woe to those who are heroes in drinking wine

and champions in mixing strong drink,

23 who acquit the guilty for a bribe

and deprive the innocent of justice.

24 Therefore, as a tongue of fire consumes the straw,

and as dry grass shrivels in the flame,

so their roots will decay

and their blossoms will blow away like dust;

for they have rejected the instruction of the Lord of Hosts

and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.

25 Therefore the anger of the Lord burns against His people;

His hand is raised against them to strike them down.

The mountains quake,

and the corpses lie like refuse in the streets.

Despite all this, His anger is not turned away;

His hand is still upraised.

26 He lifts a banner for the distant nations

and whistles for those at the ends of the earth.

Behold— how speedily and swiftly they come!

27 None of them grows weary or stumbles;

no one slumbers or sleeps.

No belt is loose

and no sandal strap is broken.

28 Their arrows are sharpened,

and all their bows are strung.

The hooves of their horses are like flint;

their chariot wheels are like a whirlwind.

29 Their roaring is like that of a lion;

they roar like young lions.

They growl and seize their prey;

they carry it away, and no one can rescue it.

30 In that day they will roar over it,

like the roaring of the sea.

If one looks over the land,

he will see darkness and distress;

even the light will be obscured by clouds.

2 Corinthians 11:1-15

Paul and the False Apostles

1 I hope you will put up with a little of my foolishness, but you are already doing that. 2I am jealous for you with a godly jealousy. For I promised you to one husband, to present you as a pure virgin to Christ.

3 I am afraid, however, that just as Eve was deceived by the serpent’s cunning, your minds may be led astray from your simple and pure devotion to Christ. 4For if someone comes and proclaims a Jesus other than the One we proclaimed, or if you receive a different spirit than the One you received, or a different gospel than the one you accepted, you put up with it very easily.

5 I consider myself in no way inferior to those “super-apostles.” 6Although I am not a polished speaker, I am certainly not lacking in knowledge. We have made this clear to you in every way possible.

7 Was it a sin for me to humble myself in order to exalt you, because I preached the gospel of God to you free of charge? 8I robbed other churches by accepting their support in order to serve you. 9And when I was with you and in need, I was not a burden to anyone; for the brothers who came from Macedonia supplied my needs. I have refrained from being a burden to you in any way, and I will continue to do so. 10As surely as the truth of Christ is in me, this boasting of mine will not be silenced in the regions of Achaia. 11Why? Because I do not love you? God knows I do!

12 But I will keep on doing what I am doing, in order to undercut those who want an opportunity to be regarded as our equals in the things of which they boast. 13For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, masquerading as apostles of Christ. 14And no wonder, for Satan himself masquerades as an angel of light. 15It is not surprising, then, if his servants masquerade as servants of righteousness. Their end will correspond to their actions.

Psalm 53:1-6

The Fool Says There Is No God

(Psalm 14:1–7; Isaiah 59:1–17; Romans 3:9–20)

1 For the choirmaster. According to Mahalath. A Maskil of David.

The fool says in his heart,

“There is no God.”

They are corrupt; their ways are vile.

There is no one who does good.

2 God looks down from heaven

upon the sons of men

to see if any understand,

if any seek God.

3 All have turned away,

they have together become corrupt;

there is no one who does good,

not even one.

4 Will the workers of iniquity never learn?

They devour my people like bread;

they refuse to call upon God.

5 There they are, overwhelmed with dread,

where there was nothing to fear.

For God has scattered the bones

of those who besieged you.

You put them to shame,

for God has despised them.

6 Oh, that the salvation of Israel would come from Zion!

When God restores His captive people,

let Jacob rejoice, let Israel be glad!

Proverbs 22:28-29

Saying 5

28 Do not move an ancient boundary stone

which your fathers have placed.

Saying 6

29 Do you see a man skilled in his work?

He will be stationed in the presence of kings;

he will not stand before obscure men.

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One Year Bible

Isaiah 3:1-5:30

2 Corinthians 11:1-15

Psalm 53:1-6

Proverbs 22:28-29