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Isaiah 22:1-24:23

The Valley of Vision

1 This is the burden against the Valley of Vision:

What ails you now,

that you have all gone up to the rooftops,

2 O city of commotion,

O town of revelry?

Your slain did not die by the sword,

nor were they killed in battle.

3 All your rulers have fled together,

captured without a bow.

All your fugitives were captured together,

having fled to a distant place.

4 Therefore I said,

“Turn away from me, let me weep bitterly!

Do not try to console me

over the destruction of the daughter of my people.”

5 For the Lord GOD of Hosts has set a day

of tumult and trampling and confusion in the Valley of Vision—

of breaking down the walls

and crying to the mountains.

6 Elam takes up a quiver, with chariots and horsemen,

and Kir uncovers the shield.

7 Your choicest valleys are full of chariots,

and horsemen are posted at the gates.

8 He has uncovered

the defenses of Judah.

On that day you looked to the weapons in the House of the Forest. 9You saw that there were many breaches in the walls of the City of David. You collected water from the lower pool. 10You counted the houses of Jerusalem and tore them down to strengthen the wall. 11You built a reservoir between the walls for the waters of the ancient pool, but you did not look to the One who made it, or consider Him who planned it long ago.

12 On that day the Lord GOD of Hosts

called for weeping and wailing,

for shaven heads

and the wearing of sackcloth.

13 But look, there is joy and gladness,

butchering of cattle and slaughtering of sheep,

eating of meat and drinking of wine:

“Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die!”

14 The Lord of Hosts has revealed in my hearing:

“Until your dying day,

this sin of yours will never be atoned for,”

says the Lord GOD of Hosts.

A Message for Shebna

15 This is what the Lord GOD of Hosts says: “Go, say to Shebna, the steward in charge of the palace: 16What are you doing here, and who authorized you to carve out a tomb for yourself here — to chisel your tomb in the height and cut your resting place in the rock?

17 Look, O mighty man! The Lord is about to shake you violently. He will take hold of you, 18roll you into a ball, and sling you into a wide land. There you will die, and there your glorious chariots will remain— a disgrace to the house of your master. 19I will remove you from office, and you will be ousted from your position.

20 On that day I will summon My servant, Eliakim son of Hilkiah. 21I will clothe him with your robe and tie your sash around him. I will put your authority in his hand, and he will be a father to the dwellers of Jerusalem and to the house of Judah. 22I will place on his shoulder the key to the house of David. What he opens no one can shut, and what he shuts no one can open. 23I will drive him like a peg into a firm place, and he will be a throne of glory for the house of his father.

24 So they will hang on him all the glory of his father’s house: the descendants and the offshoots— all the lesser vessels, from bowls to every kind of jar.

25 In that day, declares the Lord of Hosts, the peg driven into a firm place will give way; it will be sheared off and fall, and the load upon it will be cut down.”

Indeed, the Lord has spoken.

The Burden against Tyre

(Ezekiel 26:1–21)

1 This is the burden against Tyre:

Wail, O ships of Tarshish,

for Tyre is laid waste,

without house or harbor.

Word has reached them

from the land of Cyprus.

2 Be silent, O dwellers of the coastland,

you merchants of Sidon,

whose traders have crossed the sea.

3 On the great waters

came the grain of Shihor;

the harvest of the Nile was the revenue of Tyre;

she was the merchant of the nations.

4 Be ashamed, O Sidon, the stronghold of the sea,

for the sea has spoken:

“I have not been in labor

or given birth.

I have not raised young men

or brought up young women.”

5 When the report reaches Egypt,

they will writhe in agony over the news of Tyre.

6 Cross over to Tarshish;

wail, O inhabitants of the coastland!

7 Is this your jubilant city,

whose origin is from antiquity,

whose feet have taken her

to settle far away?

8 Who planned this against Tyre,

the bestower of crowns,

whose traders are princes,

whose merchants are renowned on the earth?

9 The Lord of Hosts planned it,

to defile all its glorious beauty,

to disgrace all the renowned of the earth.

10 Cultivate your land like the Nile, O Daughter of Tarshish;

there is no longer a harbor.

11 The Lord has stretched out His hand over the sea;

He has made kingdoms tremble.

He has given a command

that the strongholds of Canaan be destroyed.

12 He said, “You shall rejoice no more,

O oppressed Virgin Daughter of Sidon.

Get up and cross over to Cyprus—

even there you will find no rest.”

13 Look at the land of the Chaldeans—

a people now of no account.

The Assyrians destined it for the desert creatures;

they set up their siege towers and stripped its palaces.

They brought it to ruin.

14 Wail, O ships of Tarshish,

for your harbor has been destroyed!

15 At that time Tyre will be forgotten for seventy years— the span of a king’s life. But at the end of seventy years, it will happen to Tyre as in the song of the harlot:

16“Take up your harp,

stroll through the city,

O forgotten harlot.

Make sweet melody,

sing many a song,

so you will be remembered.”

17 And at the end of seventy years, the Lord will restore Tyre. Then she will return to hire as a prostitute and sell herself to all the kingdoms on the face of the earth. 18Yet her profits and wages will be set apart to the Lord; they will not be stored or saved, for her profit will go to those who live before the Lord, for abundant food and fine clothing.

God’s Judgment on the Earth

1 Behold, the Lord lays waste the earth

and leaves it in ruins.

He will twist its surface

and scatter its inhabitants—

2 people and priest alike, servant and master,

maid and mistress, buyer and seller,

lender and borrower, creditor and debtor.

3 The earth will be utterly laid waste

and thoroughly plundered.

For the Lord has spoken this word.

4 The earth mourns and withers;

the world languishes and fades;

the exalted of the earth waste away.

5 The earth is defiled by its people;

they have transgressed the laws;

they have overstepped the decrees

and broken the everlasting covenant.

6 Therefore a curse has consumed the earth,

and its inhabitants must bear the guilt;

the earth’s dwellers have been burned,

and only a few survive.

7 The new wine dries up, the vine withers.

All the merrymakers now groan.

8 The joyful tambourines have ceased;

the noise of revelers has stopped;

the joyful harp is silent.

9 They no longer sing and drink wine;

strong drink is bitter to those who consume it.

10 The city of chaos is shattered;

every house is closed to entry.

11 In the streets they cry out for wine.

All joy turns to gloom;

rejoicing is exiled from the land.

12 The city is left in ruins;

its gate is reduced to rubble.

13 So will it be on the earth

and among the nations,

like a harvested olive tree,

like a gleaning after a grape harvest.

14 They raise their voices, they shout for joy;

from the west they proclaim the majesty of the Lord.

15 Therefore glorify the Lord in the east.

Extol the name of the Lord, the God of Israel

in the islands of the sea.

16 From the ends of the earth we hear singing:

“Glory to the Righteous One.”

But I said, “I am wasting away! I am wasting away!

Woe is me.”

The treacherous betray;

the treacherous deal in treachery.

17 Terror and pit and snare await you,

O dweller of the earth.

18 Whoever flees the sound of panic

will fall into the pit,

and whoever climbs from the pit

will be caught in the snare.

For the windows of heaven are open,

and the foundations of the earth are shaken.

19 The earth is utterly broken apart,

the earth is split open,

the earth is shaken violently.

20 The earth staggers like a drunkard

and sways like a shack.

Earth’s rebellion weighs it down,

and it falls, never to rise again.

21 In that day the Lord will punish

the host of heaven above

and the kings of the earth below.

22 They will be gathered together

like prisoners in a pit.

They will be confined to a dungeon

and punished after many days.

23 The moon will be confounded

and the sun will be ashamed;

for the Lord of Hosts will reign

on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem,

and before His elders with great glory.

Galatians 2:17-3:9

17 But if, while we seek to be justified in Christ, we ourselves are found to be sinners, does that make Christ a minister of sin? Certainly not! 18If I rebuild what I have already torn down, I prove myself to be a lawbreaker.

19 For through the law I died to the law so that I might live to God. 20I have been crucified with Christ, and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me. 21I do not set aside the grace of God. For if righteousness comes through the law, then Christ died for nothing.

1 O foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you? Before your very eyes Jesus Christ was clearly portrayed as crucified. 2I would like to learn just one thing from you: Did you receive the Spirit by works of the law, or by hearing with faith?

3 Are you so foolish? After starting in the Spirit, are you now finishing in the flesh? 4Have you suffered so much for nothing, if it really was for nothing? 5Does God lavish His Spirit on you and work miracles among you because you practice the law, or because you hear and believe?

6 So also, “Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness.” 7Understand, then, that those who have faith are sons of Abraham. 8The Scripture foresaw that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, and foretold the gospel to Abraham: “All nations will be blessed through you.” 9So those who have faith are blessed along with Abraham, the man of faith.

Psalm 60:1-12

Victory with God

(2 Samuel 8:1–14; 1 Chronicles 18:1–13; Psalm 108:1–13)

1 For the choirmaster. To the tune of “The Lily of the Covenant.” A Miktam of David for instruction. When he fought Aram-naharaim and Aram-zobah, and Joab returned and struck down 12,000 Edomites in the Valley of Salt.

You have rejected us, O God;

You have broken us;

You have been angry;

restore us!

2 You have shaken the land

and torn it open.

Heal its fractures,

for it is quaking.

3 You have shown Your people hardship;

we are staggered from the wine You made us drink.

4 You have raised a banner for those who fear You,

that they may flee the bow.

Selah

5 Respond and save us with Your right hand,

that Your beloved may be delivered.

6 God has spoken from His sanctuary:

“I will triumph!

I will parcel out Shechem

and apportion the Valley of Succoth.

7 Gilead is Mine, and Manasseh is Mine;

Ephraim is My helmet, Judah is My scepter.

8 Moab is My washbasin;

upon Edom I toss My sandal;

over Philistia I shout in triumph.”

9 Who will bring me to the fortified city?

Who will lead me to Edom?

10 Have You not rejected us, O God?

Will You no longer march out, O God, with our armies?

11 Give us aid against the enemy,

for the help of man is worthless.

12 With God we will perform with valor,

and He will trample our enemies.

Proverbs 23:15-16

Saying 14

15 My son, if your heart is wise,

my own heart will indeed rejoice.

16 My inmost being will rejoice

when your lips speak what is right.

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One Year Bible

Isaiah 22:1-24:23

Galatians 2:17-3:9

Psalm 60:1-12

Proverbs 23:15-16