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Isaiah 10:1-11:16

Woe to Tyrants

1 Woe to those who enact unjust statutes

and issue oppressive decrees,

2 to deprive the poor of fair treatment

and withhold justice from the oppressed of My people,

to make widows their prey

and orphans their plunder.

3 What will you do on the day of reckoning

when devastation comes from afar?

To whom will you flee for help?

Where will you leave your wealth?

4 Nothing will remain but to crouch among the captives

or fall among the slain.

Despite all this, His anger is not turned away;

His hand is still upraised.

Judgment on Assyria

5 Woe to Assyria, the rod of My anger;

the staff in their hands is My wrath.

6 I will send him against a godless nation;

I will dispatch him against a people destined for My rage,

to take spoils and seize plunder,

and to trample them down like clay in the streets.

7 But this is not his intention;

this is not his plan.

For it is in his heart to destroy

and cut off many nations.

8“Are not all my commanders kings?” he says.

9“Is not Calno like Carchemish?

Is not Hamath like Arpad?

Is not Samaria like Damascus?

10 As my hand seized the idolatrous kingdoms

whose images surpassed those of Jerusalem and Samaria,

11 and as I have done to Samaria and its idols,

will I not also do to Jerusalem and her idols?”

12 So when the Lord has completed all His work against Mount Zion and Jerusalem, He will say, “I will punish the king of Assyria for the fruit of his arrogant heart and the proud look in his eyes. 13For he says:

‘By the strength of my hand I have done this,

and by my wisdom, for I am clever.

I have removed the boundaries of nations

and plundered their treasures;

like a mighty one I subdued their rulers.

14 My hand reached as into a nest

to seize the wealth of the nations.

Like one gathering abandoned eggs,

I gathered all the earth.

No wing fluttered,

no beak opened or chirped.’”

15 Does an axe raise itself above the one who swings it?

Does a saw boast over him who saws with it?

It would be like a rod waving the one who lifts it,

or a staff lifting him who is not wood!

16 Therefore the Lord GOD of Hosts will send a wasting disease

among Assyria’s stout warriors,

and under his pomp will be kindled

a fire like a burning flame.

17 And the Light of Israel will become a fire,

and its Holy One a flame.

In a single day it will burn and devour

Assyria’s thorns and thistles.

18 The splendor of its forests and orchards,

both soul and body,

it will completely destroy,

as a sickness consumes a man.

19 The remaining trees of its forests will be so few

that a child could count them.

A Remnant Shall Return

20 On that day the remnant of Israel

and the survivors of the house of Jacob

will no longer depend

on him who struck them,

but they will truly rely on the Lord,

the Holy One of Israel.

21 A remnant will return — a remnant of Jacob —

to the Mighty God.

22 Though your people, O Israel, be like the sand of the sea,

only a remnant will return.

Destruction has been decreed,

overflowing with righteousness.

23 For the Lord GOD of Hosts will carry out

the destruction decreed upon the whole land.

24 Therefore this is what the Lord GOD of Hosts says:

“O My people who dwell in Zion,

do not fear Assyria,

who strikes you with a rod

and lifts his staff against you

as the Egyptians did.

25 For in just a little while

My fury against you will subside,

and My anger will turn to their destruction.”

26 And the Lord of Hosts will brandish a whip against them,

as when He struck Midian at the rock of Oreb.

He will raise His staff over the sea,

as He did in Egypt.

27 On that day the burden will be lifted from your shoulders,

and the yoke from your neck.

The yoke will be broken

because your neck will be too large.

28 Assyria has entered Aiath

and passed through Migron,

storing their supplies at Michmash.

29 They have crossed at the ford:

“We will spend the night at Geba.”

Ramah trembles;

Gibeah of Saul flees.

30 Cry aloud, O Daughter of Gallim!

Listen, O Laishah!

O wretched Anathoth!

31 Madmenah flees;

the people of Gebim take refuge.

32 Yet today they will halt at Nob,

shaking a fist at the mount of Daughter Zion,

at the hill of Jerusalem.

33 Behold, the Lord GOD of Hosts

will lop off the branches with terrifying power.

The tall trees will be cut down,

the lofty ones will be felled.

34 He will clear the forest thickets with an axe,

and Lebanon will fall before the Mighty One.

The Root of Jesse

1 Then a shoot will spring up from the stump of Jesse,

and a Branch from his roots will bear fruit.

2 The Spirit of the Lord will rest on Him—

the Spirit of wisdom and understanding,

the Spirit of counsel and strength,

the Spirit of knowledge and fear of the Lord.

3 And He will delight in the fear of the Lord.

He will not judge by what His eyes see,

and He will not decide by what His ears hear,

4 but with righteousness He will judge the poor,

and with equity He will decide for the lowly of the earth.

He will strike the earth with the rod of His mouth

and slay the wicked with the breath of His lips.

5 Righteousness will be the belt around His hips,

and faithfulness the sash around His waist.

6 The wolf will live with the lamb,

and the leopard will lie down with the goat;

the calf and young lion and fatling will be together,

and a little child will lead them.

7 The cow will graze with the bear,

their young will lie down together,

and the lion will eat straw like the ox.

8 The infant will play by the cobra’s den,

and the toddler will reach into the viper’s nest.

9 They will neither harm nor destroy

on all My holy mountain,

for the earth will be full of the knowledge of the Lord

as the sea is full of water.

10 On that day the Root of Jesse will stand as a banner for the peoples. The nations will seek Him, and His place of rest will be glorious. 11On that day the Lord will extend His hand a second time to recover the remnant of His people from Assyria, from Egypt, from Pathros, from Cush, from Elam, from Shinar, from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea.

12 He will raise a banner for the nations

and gather the exiles of Israel;

He will collect the scattered of Judah

from the four corners of the earth.

13 Then the jealousy of Ephraim will depart,

and the adversaries of Judah will be cut off.

Ephraim will no longer envy Judah,

nor will Judah harass Ephraim.

14 They will swoop down on the slopes of the Philistines to the west;

together they will plunder the sons of the east.

They will lay their hands on Edom and Moab,

and the Ammonites will be subject to them.

15 The Lord will devote to destruction

the gulf of the Sea of Egypt;

with a scorching wind He will sweep His hand

over the Euphrates.

He will split it into seven streams

for men to cross with dry sandals.

16 There will be a highway for the remnant of His people

who remain from Assyria,

as there was for Israel

when they came up from the land of Egypt.

2 Corinthians 12:11-21

Paul’s Concern for the Corinthians

11 I have become a fool, but you drove me to it. In fact, you should have commended me, since I am in no way inferior to those “super-apostles,” even though I am nothing. 12The marks of a true apostle — signs, wonders, and miracles — were performed among you with great perseverance. 13In what way were you inferior to the other churches, except that I was not a burden to you? Forgive me this wrong!

14 See, I am ready to come to you a third time, and I will not be a burden, because I am not seeking your possessions, but you. For children should not have to save up for their parents, but parents for their children. 15And for the sake of your souls, I will most gladly spend my money and myself. If I love you more, will you love me less?

16 Be that as it may, I was not a burden to you; but crafty as I am, I caught you by trickery. 17Did I exploit you by anyone I sent you? 18I urged Titus to visit you, and I sent our brother with him. Did Titus exploit you in any way? Did we not walk in the same Spirit and follow in the same footsteps?

19 Have you been thinking all along that we were making a defense to you? We speak before God in Christ, and all of this, beloved, is to build you up. 20For I am afraid that when I come, I may not find you as I wish, and you may not find me as you wish. I fear that there may be quarreling, jealousy, rage, rivalry, slander, gossip, arrogance, and disorder. 21I am afraid that when I come again, my God will humble me before you, and I will be grieved over many who have sinned earlier and have not repented of their acts of impurity, sexual immorality, and debauchery.

Psalm 56:1-13

Be Merciful to Me, O God

(1 Samuel 21:8–15)

1 For the choirmaster. To the tune of “A Dove on Distant Oaks.” A Miktam of David, when the Philistines seized him in Gath.

Be merciful to me, O God,

for men are hounding me;

all day they press their attack.

2 My enemies pursue me all day long,

for many proudly assail me.

3 When I am afraid,

I put my trust in You.

4 In God, whose word I praise —

in God I trust.

I will not be afraid.

What can man do to me?

5 All day long they twist my words;

all their thoughts are on my demise.

6 They conspire, they lurk,

they watch my steps

while they wait to take my life.

7 In spite of such sin, will they escape?

In Your anger, O God, cast down the nations.

8 You have taken account of my wanderings.

Put my tears in Your bottle —

are they not in Your book?

9 Then my enemies will retreat

on the day I cry for help.

By this I will know that God is on my side.

10 In God, whose word I praise,

in the Lord, whose word I praise,

11 in God I trust; I will not be afraid.

What can man do to me?

12 Your vows are upon me, O God;

I will render thank offerings to You.

13 For You have delivered my soul from death,

and my feet from stumbling,

that I may walk before God

in the light of life.

Proverbs 23:6-8

Saying 9

6 Do not eat the bread of a stingy man,

and do not crave his delicacies;

7 for he is keeping track,

inwardly counting the cost.

“Eat and drink,” he says to you,

but his heart is not with you.

8 You will vomit up what little you have eaten

and waste your pleasant words.

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One Year Bible

Isaiah 10:1-11:16

2 Corinthians 12:11-21

Psalm 56:1-13

Proverbs 23:6-8