One Year Bible

Isaiah 62:6-65:25

6 On your walls, O Jerusalem, I have posted watchmen;

they will never be silent day or night.

You who call on the Lord

shall take no rest for yourselves,

7 nor give Him any rest

until He establishes Jerusalem

and makes her the praise of the earth.

8 The Lord has sworn by His right hand

and by His mighty arm:

“Never again will I give your grain

to your enemies for food,

nor will foreigners drink the new wine

for which you have toiled.

9 For those who harvest grain

will eat it and praise the Lord,

and those who gather grapes

will drink the wine in My holy courts.”

10 Go out, go out through the gates;

prepare the way for the people!

Build it up, build up the highway;

clear away the stones;

raise a banner for the nations!

11 Behold, the Lord has proclaimed

to the ends of the earth,

“Say to Daughter Zion:

See, your Savior comes!

Look, His reward is with Him,

and His recompense goes before Him.”

12 And they will be called the Holy People,

the Redeemed of The Lord;

and you will be called Sought Out,

A City Not Forsaken.

God’s Vengeance on the Nations

1 Who is this coming from Edom,

from Bozrah with crimson-stained garments?

Who is this robed in splendor,

marching in the greatness of His strength?

“It is I, proclaiming vindication,

mighty to save.”

2 Why are Your clothes red,

and Your garments like one who treads the winepress?

3“I have trodden the winepress alone,

and no one from the nations was with Me.

I trampled them in My anger

and trod them down in My fury;

their blood spattered My garments,

and all My clothes were stained.

4 For the day of vengeance was in My heart,

and the year of My redemption had come.

5 I looked, but there was no one to help;

I was appalled that no one assisted.

So My arm brought Me salvation,

and My own wrath upheld Me.

6 I trampled the nations in My anger;

in My wrath I made them drunk

and poured out their blood on the ground.”

God’s Mercies Recalled

7 I will make known the Lord’s loving devotion

and His praiseworthy acts,

because of all that the Lord has done for us—

the many good things for the house of Israel

according to His great compassion and loving devotion.

8 For He said, “They are surely My people,

sons who will not be disloyal.”

So He became their Savior.

9 In all their distress, He too was afflicted,

and the Angel of His Presence saved them.

In His love and compassion He redeemed them;

He lifted them up and carried them

all the days of old.

10 But they rebelled

and grieved His Holy Spirit.

So He turned and became their enemy,

and He Himself fought against them.

11 Then His people remembered the days of old,

the days of Moses.

Where is He who brought them through the sea

with the shepherds of His flock?

Where is the One who set

His Holy Spirit among them,

12 who sent His glorious arm

to lead them by the right hand of Moses,

who divided the waters before them

to gain for Himself everlasting renown,

13 who led them through the depths

like a horse in the wilderness,

so that they did not stumble?

14 Like cattle going down to the valley,

the Spirit of the Lord gave them rest.

You led Your people this way

to make for Yourself a glorious name.

A Prayer for Mercy

(Jeremiah 14:19–22)

15 Look down from heaven and see,

from Your holy and glorious habitation.

Where are Your zeal and might?

Your yearning and compassion for me are restrained.

16 Yet You are our Father,

though Abraham does not know us

and Israel does not acknowledge us.

You, O LORD, are our Father;

our Redeemer from Everlasting is Your name.

17 Why, O LORD, do You make us stray from Your ways

and harden our hearts from fearing You?

Return, for the sake of Your servants,

the tribes of Your heritage.

18 For a short while Your people possessed Your holy place,

but our enemies have trampled Your sanctuary.

19 We have become like those You never ruled,

like those not called by Your name.

A Prayer for God’s Power

1 If only You would rend the heavens and come down,

so that mountains would quake at Your presence,

2 as fire kindles the brushwood

and causes the water to boil,

to make Your name known to Your enemies,

so that the nations will tremble at Your presence!

3 When You did awesome works that we did not expect,

You came down, and the mountains trembled at Your presence.

4 From ancient times no one has heard,

no ear has perceived,

no eye has seen any God besides You,

who acts on behalf of those who wait for Him.

5 You welcome those who gladly do right,

who remember Your ways.

Surely You were angry, for we sinned.

How can we be saved if we remain in our sins?

6 Each of us has become like something unclean,

and all our righteous acts are like filthy rags;

we all wither like a leaf,

and our iniquities carry us away like the wind.

7 No one calls on Your name

or strives to take hold of You.

For You have hidden Your face from us

and delivered us into the hand of our iniquity.

8 But now, O LORD, You are our Father;

we are the clay, and You are the potter;

we are all the work of Your hand.

9 Do not be angry, O LORD, beyond measure;

do not remember our iniquity forever.

Oh, look upon us, we pray;

we are all Your people!

10 Your holy cities have become a wilderness.

Zion has become a wasteland and Jerusalem a desolation.

11 Our holy and beautiful temple,

where our fathers praised You,

has been burned with fire,

and all that was dear to us lies in ruins.

12 After all this, O LORD,

will You restrain Yourself?

Will You keep silent

and afflict us beyond measure?

Judgments and Promises

(Romans 10:1–21)

1“I revealed Myself to those who did not ask for Me;

I was found by those who did not seek Me.

To a nation that did not call My name,

I said, ‘Here I am! Here I am!’

2 All day long I have held out My hands

to an obstinate people

who walk in the wrong path,

who follow their own imaginations,

3 to a people who continually provoke Me to My face,

sacrificing in the gardens

and burning incense on altars of brick,

4 sitting among the graves,

spending nights in secret places,

eating the meat of pigs

and polluted broth from their bowls.

5 They say, ‘Keep to yourself;

do not come near me, for I am holier than you!’

Such people are smoke in My nostrils,

a fire that burns all day long.

6 Behold, it is written before Me:

I will not keep silent, but I will repay;

I will pay it back into their laps,

7 both for your iniquities

and for those of your fathers,”

says the Lord.

“Because they burned incense on the mountains

and scorned Me on the hills,

I will measure into their laps

full payment for their former deeds.”

8 This is what the Lord says:

“As the new wine is found in a cluster of grapes,

and men say, ‘Do not destroy it, for it contains a blessing,’

so I will act on behalf of My servants;

I will not destroy them all.

9 And I will bring forth descendants from Jacob,

and heirs from Judah;

My elect will possess My mountains,

and My servants will dwell there.

10 Sharon will become a pasture for flocks,

and the Valley of Achor a resting place for herds,

for My people who seek Me.

11 But you who forsake the Lord,

who forget My holy mountain,

who set a table for Fortune

and fill bowls of mixed wine for Destiny,

12 I will destine you for the sword,

and you will all kneel down to be slaughtered,

because I called and you did not answer,

I spoke and you did not listen;

you did evil in My sight

and chose that in which I did not delight.”

13 Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says:

“My servants will eat,

but you will go hungry;

My servants will drink,

but you will go thirsty;

My servants will rejoice,

but you will be put to shame.

14 My servants will shout for joy with a glad heart,

but you will cry out with a heavy heart

and wail with a broken spirit.

15 You will leave behind your name

as a curse for My chosen ones,

and the Lord GOD will slay you;

but to His servants He will give another name.

16 Whoever invokes a blessing in the land

will do so by the God of truth,

and whoever takes an oath in the land

will swear by the God of truth.

For the former troubles will be forgotten

and hidden from My sight.

A New Heaven and a New Earth

(Revelation 21:1–8)

17 For behold, I will create

new heavens and a new earth.

The former things will not be remembered,

nor will they come to mind.

18 But be glad and rejoice forever

in what I create;

for I will create Jerusalem to be a joy

and its people to be a delight.

19 I will rejoice in Jerusalem

and take delight in My people.

The sounds of weeping and crying

will no longer be heard in her.

20 No longer will a nursing infant live but a few days,

or an old man fail to live out his years.

For the youth will die at a hundred years,

and he who fails to reach a hundred

will be considered accursed.

21 They will build houses and dwell in them;

they will plant vineyards and eat their fruit.

22 No longer will they build houses for others to inhabit,

nor plant for others to eat.

For as is the lifetime of a tree,

so will be the days of My people,

and My chosen ones will fully enjoy

the work of their hands.

23 They will not labor in vain

or bear children doomed to disaster;

for they will be a people blessed by the Lord —

they and their descendants with them.

24 Even before they call, I will answer,

and while they are still speaking, I will hear.

25 The wolf and the lamb will feed together,

and the lion will eat straw like the ox,

but the food of the serpent will be dust.

They will neither harm nor destroy

on all My holy mountain,”

says the Lord.

Philippians 2:19-3:3

Timothy and Epaphroditus

(1 Corinthians 16:10–12)

19 Now I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy to you soon, that I also may be cheered when I learn how you are doing. 20I have nobody else like him who will genuinely care for your needs. 21For all the others look after their own interests, not those of Jesus Christ. 22But you know Timothy’s proven worth, that as a child with his father he has served with me to advance the gospel. 23So I hope to send him as soon as I see what happens with me. 24And I trust in the Lord that I myself will come soon.

25 But I thought it necessary to send back to you Epaphroditus, my brother, fellow worker, and fellow soldier, who is also your messenger and minister to my needs. 26For he has been longing for all of you and is distressed because you heard he was ill. 27He was sick indeed, nearly unto death. But God had mercy on him, and not only on him but also on me, to spare me sorrow upon sorrow.

28 Therefore I am all the more eager to send him, so that when you see him again you may rejoice, and I may be less anxious. 29Welcome him in the Lord with great joy, and honor men like him, 30because he nearly died for the work of Christ, risking his life to make up for your deficit of service to me.

1 Finally, my brothers, rejoice in the Lord. It is no trouble for me to write the same things to you again, and it is a safeguard for you.

2 Watch out for those dogs, those workers of evil, those mutilators of the flesh! 3For it is we who are the circumcision, we who worship by the Spirit of God, who glory in Christ Jesus, and who put no confidence in the flesh —

Psalm 73:1-28

BOOK III

Psalms 73–89

Surely God Is Good to Israel

1 A Psalm of Asaph.

Surely God is good to Israel,

to those who are pure in heart.

2 But as for me, my feet had almost stumbled;

my steps had nearly slipped.

3 For I envied the arrogant

when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.

4 They have no struggle in their death;

their bodies are well-fed.

5 They are free of the burdens others carry;

they are not afflicted like other men.

6 Therefore pride is their necklace;

a garment of violence covers them.

7 From their prosperity proceeds iniquity;

the imaginations of their hearts run wild.

8 They mock and speak with malice;

with arrogance they threaten oppression.

9 They set their mouths against the heavens,

and their tongues strut across the earth.

10 So their people return to this place

and drink up waters in abundance.

11 The wicked say, “How can God know?

Does the Most High have knowledge?”

12 Behold, these are the wicked —

always carefree as they increase their wealth.

13 Surely in vain I have kept my heart pure;

in innocence I have washed my hands.

14 For I am afflicted all day long

and punished every morning.

15 If I had said, “I will speak this way,”

then I would have betrayed Your children.

16 When I tried to understand all this,

it was troublesome in my sight

17 until I entered God’s sanctuary;

then I discerned their end.

18 Surely You set them on slick ground;

You cast them down into ruin.

19 How suddenly they are laid waste,

completely swept away by terrors!

20 Like one waking from a dream,

so You, O Lord, awaken and despise their form.

21 When my heart was grieved

and I was pierced within,

22 I was senseless and ignorant;

I was a brute beast before You.

23 Yet I am always with You;

You hold my right hand.

24 You guide me with Your counsel,

and later receive me in glory.

25 Whom have I in heaven but You?

And on earth I desire no one besides You.

26 My flesh and my heart may fail,

but God is the strength of my heart

and my portion forever.

27 Those far from You will surely perish;

You destroy all who are unfaithful to You.

28 But as for me, it is good to draw near to God.

I have made the Lord GOD my refuge,

that I may proclaim all Your works.

Proverbs 24:13-14

Saying 26

13 Eat honey, my son, for it is good,

and the honeycomb is sweet to your taste.

14 Know therefore that wisdom is sweet to your soul.

If you find it, there is a future for you,

and your hope will never be cut off.

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One Year Bible

Isaiah 62:6-65:25

Philippians 2:19-3:3

Psalm 73:1-28

Proverbs 24:13-14