One Year Bible

Jeremiah 8:8-9:26

8 How can you say, ‘We are wise,

and the Law of the Lord is with us,’

when in fact the lying pen of the scribes

has produced a deception?

9 The wise will be put to shame;

they will be dismayed and trapped.

Since they have rejected the word of the Lord,

what wisdom do they really have?

10 Therefore I will give their wives to other men

and their fields to new owners.

For from the least of them to the greatest,

all are greedy for gain;

from prophet to priest,

all practice deceit.

11 They dress the wound of the daughter of My people

with very little care,

saying, ‘Peace, peace,’

when there is no peace at all.

12 Are they ashamed of the abomination they have committed?

No, they have no shame at all;

they do not even know how to blush.

So they will fall among the fallen;

when I punish them, they will collapse,

says the Lord.

13 I will take away their harvest,

declares the Lord.

There will be no grapes on the vine,

nor figs on the tree,

and even the leaf will wither.

Whatever I have given them will be lost to them.”

The People Respond

14 Why are we just sitting here?

Gather together,

let us flee to the fortified cities and perish there,

for the Lord our God has doomed us.

He has given us poisoned water to drink,

because we have sinned against the Lord.

15 We hoped for peace,

but no good has come,

for a time of healing,

but there was only terror.

16 The snorting of enemy horses

is heard from Dan.

At the sound of the neighing of mighty steeds,

the whole land quakes.

They come to devour the land and everything in it,

the city and all who dwell in it.

17“For behold, I will send snakes among you,

vipers that cannot be charmed,

and they will bite you,”

declares the Lord.

Jeremiah Weeps for His People

18 My sorrow is beyond healing;

my heart is faint within me.

19 Listen to the cry of the daughter of my people

from a land far away:

“Is the Lord no longer in Zion?

Is her King no longer there?”

“Why have they provoked Me to anger

with their carved images,

with their worthless foreign idols?”

20“The harvest has passed, the summer has ended,

but we have not been saved.”

21 For the brokenness of the daughter of my people I am crushed.

I mourn; horror has gripped me.

22 Is there no balm in Gilead?

Is no physician there?

Why then has the health of the daughter of my people

not been restored?

A Lament over Zion

1 Oh, that my head were a spring of water,

and my eyes a fountain of tears!

I would weep day and night

over the slain daughter of my people.

2 If only I had a traveler’s lodge in the wilderness,

I would abandon my people and depart from them,

for they are all adulterers,

a crowd of faithless people.

3“They bend their tongues like bows;

lies prevail over truth in the land.

For they proceed from evil to evil,

and they do not take Me into account,”

declares the Lord.

4“Let everyone guard against his neighbor;

do not trust any brother,

for every brother deals craftily,

and every friend spreads slander.

5 Each one betrays his friend;

no one tells the truth.

They have taught their tongues to lie;

they wear themselves out committing iniquity.

6 You dwell in the midst of deception;

in their deceit they refuse to know Me,”

declares the Lord.

7 Therefore this is what the Lord of Hosts says:

“Behold, I will refine them and test them,

for what else can I do

because of the daughter of My people?

8 Their tongues are deadly arrows;

they speak deception.

With his mouth a man speaks peace to his neighbor,

but in his heart he sets a trap for him.

9 Should I not punish them for these things?

declares the Lord.

Should I not avenge Myself

on such a nation as this?”

10 I will take up a weeping and wailing for the mountains,

a dirge over the wilderness pasture,

for they have been scorched so no one passes through,

and the lowing of cattle is not heard.

Both the birds of the air and the beasts have fled;

they have gone away.

11“And I will make Jerusalem a heap of rubble,

a haunt for jackals;

and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation,

without inhabitant.”

12 Who is the man wise enough to understand this? To whom has the mouth of the Lord spoken, that he may explain it? Why is the land destroyed and scorched like a desert, so no one can pass through it?

13 And the Lord answered, “It is because they have forsaken My law, which I set before them; they have not walked in it or obeyed My voice. 14Instead, they have followed the stubbornness of their hearts and gone after the Baals, as their fathers taught them.”

15 Therefore this is what the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: “Behold, I will feed this people wormwood and give them poisoned water to drink. 16I will scatter them among the nations that neither they nor their fathers have known, and I will send a sword after them until I have finished them off.”

17 This is what the Lord of Hosts says:

“Take note, and summon the wailing women;

send for the most skillful among them.

18 Let them come quickly

and take up a lament over us,

that our eyes may overflow with tears,

and our eyelids may gush with water.

19 For the sound of wailing

is heard from Zion:

‘How devastated we are!

How great is our shame!

For we have abandoned the land

because our dwellings have been torn down.’”

20 Now, O women, hear the word of the Lord.

Open your ears to the word of His mouth.

Teach your daughters to wail,

and one another to lament.

21 For death has climbed in through our windows;

it has entered our fortresses

to cut off the children from the streets,

the young men from the town squares.

22 Declare that this is what the Lord says:

“The corpses of men will fall like dung

upon the open field,

like newly cut grain behind the reaper,

with no one to gather it.”

23 This is what the Lord says:

“Let not the wise man boast in his wisdom,

nor the strong man in his strength,

nor the wealthy man in his riches.

24 But let him who boasts boast in this,

that he understands and knows Me,

that I am the Lord,

who exercises loving devotion,

justice and righteousness on the earth —

for I delight in these things,”

declares the Lord.

25“Behold, the days are coming,” declares the Lord, “when I will punish all who are circumcised only in the flesh— 26Egypt, Judah, Edom, Ammon, Moab, and all the inhabitants of the desert who clip the hair of their temples. For all these nations are uncircumcised, and the whole house of Israel is uncircumcised in heart.”

Colossians 3:1-17

1 Therefore, since you have been raised with Christ, strive for the things above, where Christ is seated at the right hand of God. 2Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things. 3For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God. 4When Christ, who is your life, appears, then you also will appear with Him in glory.

5 Put to death, therefore, the components of your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires, and greed, which is idolatry. 6Because of these, the wrath of God is coming on the sons of disobedience. 7When you lived among them, you also used to walk in these ways. 8But now you must put aside all such things as these: anger, rage, malice, slander, and filthy language from your lips.

9 Do not lie to one another, since you have taken off the old self with its practices, 10and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge in the image of its Creator. 11Here there is no Greek or Jew, circumcised or uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave, or free, but Christ is all and is in all.

12 Therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, clothe yourselves with hearts of compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience. 13Bear with one another and forgive any complaint you may have against someone else. Forgive as the Lord forgave you. 14And over all these virtues put on love, which is the bond of perfect unity. 15Let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, for to this you were called as members of one body. And be thankful.

16 Let the word of Christ richly dwell within you as you teach and admonish one another with all wisdom, and as you sing psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs with gratitude in your hearts to God. 17And whatever you do, in word or deed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through Him.

Psalm 78:32-55

32 In spite of all this, they kept on sinning;

despite His wonderful works, they did not believe.

33 So He ended their days in futility,

and their years in sudden terror.

34 When He slew them, they would seek Him;

they repented and searched for God.

35 And they remembered that God was their Rock,

that God Most High was their Redeemer.

36 But they deceived Him with their mouths,

and lied to Him with their tongues.

37 Their hearts were disloyal to Him,

and they were unfaithful to His covenant.

38 And yet He was compassionate;

He forgave their iniquity and did not destroy them.

He often restrained His anger

and did not unleash His full wrath.

39 He remembered that they were but flesh,

a passing breeze that does not return.

40 How often they disobeyed Him in the wilderness

and grieved Him in the desert!

41 Again and again they tested God

and provoked the Holy One of Israel.

42 They did not remember His power —

the day He redeemed them from the adversary,

43 when He performed His signs in Egypt

and His wonders in the fields of Zoan.

44 He turned their rivers to blood,

and from their streams they could not drink.

45 He sent swarms of flies that devoured them,

and frogs that devastated them.

46 He gave their crops to the grasshopper,

the fruit of their labor to the locust.

47 He killed their vines with hailstones

and their sycamore-figs with sleet.

48 He abandoned their cattle to the hail

and their livestock to bolts of lightning.

49 He unleashed His fury against them,

wrath, indignation, and calamity—

a band of destroying angels.

50 He cleared a path for His anger;

He did not spare them from death

but delivered their lives to the plague.

51 He struck all the firstborn of Egypt,

the virility in the tents of Ham.

52 He led out His people like sheep

and guided them like a flock in the wilderness.

53 He led them safely, so they did not fear,

but the sea engulfed their enemies.

54 He brought them to His holy land,

to the mountain His right hand had acquired.

55 He drove out nations before them

and apportioned their inheritance;

He settled the tribes of Israel in their tents.

Proverbs 24:27

27 Complete your outdoor work and prepare your field;

after that, you may build your house.

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One Year Bible

Jeremiah 8:8-9:26

Colossians 3:1-17

Psalm 78:32-55

Proverbs 24:27