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The Daily Audio Bible Reading for Sunday September 16, 2018 (NIV)

Isaiah 22-24

A Pronouncement against Jerusalem

22 A pronouncement(A) concerning the Valley of Vision:(B)

What’s the matter with you?
Why have all of you gone up to the rooftops?(C)
2 The noisy city, the jubilant town,(D)
is filled with celebration.
Your dead did not die by the sword;
they were not killed in battle.
3 All your rulers have fled together,
captured without a bow.
All your fugitives were captured together;
they had fled far away.
4 Therefore I said,
“Look away from me! Let me weep bitterly!(E)
Do not try to comfort me
about the destruction of my dear[a] people.”
5 For the Lord God of Armies
had a day of tumult, trampling, and confusion(F)
in the Valley of Vision—
people shouting[b] and crying to the mountains;
6 Elam took up a quiver
with chariots and horsemen,[c]
and Kir(G) uncovered the shield.
7 Your best valleys were full of chariots,
and horsemen were positioned at the city gates.
8 He removed the defenses of Judah.

On that day you looked to the weapons in the House of the Forest.(H) 9 You saw that there were many breaches in the walls of the city of David.(I) You collected water from the lower pool.(J) 10 You counted the houses of Jerusalem so that you could tear them down to fortify the wall. 11 You made a reservoir between the walls(K) for the water of the ancient pool,(L) but you did not look to the one who made it, or consider the one who created it long ago.

12 On that day the Lord God of Armies
called for weeping,(M) for wailing, for shaven heads,
and for the wearing of sackcloth.
13 But look: joy and gladness,
butchering of cattle, slaughtering of sheep and goats,
eating of meat, and drinking of wine—
“Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die!” (N)
14 The Lord of Armies has directly revealed to me:(O)
“This iniquity will not be wiped out for you people as long as you live.”[d](P)
The Lord God of Armies has spoken.

A Pronouncement against Shebna

15 The Lord God of Armies said: “Go to Shebna,(Q) that steward who is in charge of the palace, and say to him: 16 What are you doing here? Who authorized you to carve out a tomb for yourself here, carving your tomb on the height and cutting a resting place for yourself out of rock?(R) 17 Look, you strong man! The Lord is about to shake you violently. He will take hold of you, 18 wind you up into a ball, and sling you into a wide land.[e] There you will die, and there your glorious chariots will be—a disgrace to the house of your lord. 19 I will remove you from your office; you will be ousted from your position.

20 “On that day I will call for my servant, Eliakim son of Hilkiah.(S) 21 I will clothe him with your robe and tie your sash around him. I will hand your authority over to him, and he will be like a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem and to the house of Judah.(T) 22 I will place the key(U) of the house of David on his shoulder; what he opens, no one can close; what he closes, no one can open.(V) 23 I will drive him, like a peg, into a firm place. He will be a throne of honor for his father’s family. 24 They will hang on him all the glory of his father’s family: the descendants and the offshoots—all the small vessels, from bowls to every kind of jar. 25 On that day”—the declaration of the Lord of Armies—“the peg that was driven into a firm place will give way, be cut off, and fall, and the load on it will be destroyed.” Indeed, the Lord has spoken.

A Pronouncement against Tyre

23 A pronouncement(W) concerning Tyre:(X)

Wail, ships of Tarshish,(Y)
for your haven has been destroyed.
Word has reached them from the land of Cyprus.[f](Z)
2 Mourn, inhabitants of the coastland,
you merchants of Sidon;(AA)
your agents have crossed the sea[g]
3 over deep water.
Tyre’s revenue was the grain from Shihor—
the harvest of the Nile.
She was the merchant among the nations.(AB)
4 Be ashamed, 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 news reaches Egypt,
they will be in anguish over the news about Tyre.(AC)
6 Cross over to Tarshish;
wail, inhabitants of the coastland!
7 Is this your jubilant city,
whose origin was in ancient times,
whose feet have taken her
to reside far away?
8 Who planned this against Tyre,
the bestower of crowns,
whose traders are princes,
whose merchants are the honored ones of the earth?
9 The Lord of Armies planned it,
to desecrate all its glorious beauty,
to disgrace all the honored ones of the earth.
10 Overflow[h] your land like the Nile, daughter of Tarshish;
there is no longer anything to restrain you.[i]
11 He stretched out his hand over the sea;(AD)
he made kingdoms tremble.
The Lord has commanded
that the Canaanite fortresses be destroyed.
12 He said,
“You will not celebrate anymore,
ravished young woman, daughter of Sidon.
Get up and cross over to Cyprus(AE)—
even there you will have no rest!”
13 Look at the land of the Chaldeans—
a people who no longer exist.
Assyria destined it for desert creatures.
They set up their siege towers
and stripped its palaces.
They made it a ruin.
14 Wail, ships of Tarshish,
because your fortress is destroyed!

15 On that day Tyre will be forgotten for seventy years—the life span of one king. At the end of seventy years, what the song says about the prostitute will happen to Tyre:

16 Pick up your lyre,
stroll through the city,
you forgotten prostitute.
Play skillfully,
sing many a song
so that you will be remembered.

17 And at the end of the seventy years,(AF) the Lord will restore Tyre(AG) and she will go back into business, prostituting herself with all the kingdoms of the world throughout the earth. 18 But her profits and wages will be dedicated to the Lord. They will not be stored or saved, for her profit will go to those who live in the Lord’s presence, to provide them with ample food and sacred clothing.

The Earth Judged

24 Look, the Lord is stripping the earth bare
and making it desolate.
He will twist its surface and scatter its inhabitants:
2 people and priest alike,
servant and master,
female servant and mistress,
buyer and seller,
lender and borrower,
creditor and debtor.
3 The earth will be stripped completely bare
and will be totally plundered,
for the Lord has spoken this message.(AH)
4 The earth mourns and withers;
the world wastes away and withers;
the exalted people of the earth waste away.
5 The earth is polluted by its inhabitants,(AI)
for they have transgressed teachings,
overstepped decrees,
and broken the permanent covenant.(AJ)
6 Therefore a curse has consumed the earth,(AK)
and its inhabitants have become guilty;
the earth’s inhabitants have been burned,
and only a few survive.
7 The new wine mourns;(AL)
the vine withers.
All the carousers now groan.
8 The joyful tambourines(AM) have ceased.
The noise of the jubilant has stopped.
The joyful lyre has ceased.
9 They no longer sing and drink wine;
beer is bitter to those who drink it.
10 The city of chaos is shattered;(AN)
every house is closed to entry.(AO)
11 In the streets they cry[j] for wine.
All joy grows dark;
earth’s rejoicing goes into exile.
12 Only desolation remains in the city;
its gate has collapsed in ruins.
13 For this is how it will be on earth
among the nations:
like a harvested olive tree,
like a gleaning after a grape harvest.(AP)
14 They raise their voices, they sing out;
they proclaim in the west
the majesty of the Lord.
15 Therefore, in the east honor the Lord!
In the coasts and islands of the west
honor the name of the Lord,
the God of Israel.
16 From the ends of the earth we hear songs:
The Splendor of the Righteous One.(AQ)
But I said, “I waste away! I waste away![k]
Woe is me.”
The treacherous act treacherously;
the treacherous deal very treacherously.(AR)

17 Panic, pit, and trap await you(AS)
who dwell on the earth.(AT)
18 Whoever flees at the sound of panic
will fall into a pit,
and whoever escapes from the pit
will be caught in a trap.
For the windows on high are opened,(AU)
and the foundations of the earth are shaken.(AV)
19 The earth is completely devastated;
the earth is split open;
the earth is violently shaken.
20 The earth staggers like a drunkard(AW)
and sways like a hut.
Earth’s rebellion weighs it down,
and it falls, never to rise again.

21 On that day(AX) the Lord will punish
the army of the heights in the heights
and the kings of the ground on the ground.
22 They will be gathered together
like prisoners in a pit.(AY)
They will be confined to a dungeon;(AZ)
after many days they will be punished.
23 The moon will be put to shame
and the sun disgraced,
because the Lord of Armies will reign as king
on Mount Zion in Jerusalem,
and he will display his glory
in the presence of his elders.(BA)

Footnotes:

  1. 22:4 Lit of the daughter of my
  2. 22:5 Or Vision—a tearing down of a wall, or Vision—Kir raged; Hb obscure
  3. 22:6 Lit chariots of man
  4. 22:14 Lit for you until you die
  5. 22:17-18 Hb obscure
  6. 23:1 Hb Kittim
  7. 23:2 DSS; MT reads Sidon, whom the seafarers have filled
  8. 23:10 DSS, LXX read Work
  9. 23:10 Or longer any harbor
  10. 24:11 Lit streets she cries
  11. 24:16 Hb obscure

Cross references:

  1. 22:1 : Is 13:1
  2. 22:1 : Ps 125:2; Jr 21:13; Jl 3:12,14
  3. 22:1 : Is 15:3
  4. 22:2 : Is 23:7; 32:13
  5. 22:4 : Is 15:3; 33:7; Jr 9:1; Zch 12:10
  6. 22:5 : Is 10:6; 37:3; 63:3
  7. 22:6 : 2Kg 16:9; Am 1:5; 9:7
  8. 22:8 : 1Kg 7:2; 10:17
  9. 22:9 : Lk 2:4
  10. 22:9 : 2Kg 20:20; Neh 3:16
  11. 22:11 : 2Kg 25:4; Jr 39:4
  12. 22:11 : 2Kg 20:20; 2Ch 32:3-4
  13. 22:12 : Is 32:11; Jl 1:13; 2:17
  14. 22:13 : Is 56:12; 1Co 15:32
  15. 22:14 : Is 5:9
  16. 22:14 : 1Sm 3:14; Ezk 24:13
  17. 22:15 : 2Kg 18:18,26,37; Is 36:3,11,22; 37:2
  18. 22:16 : 2Sm 18:18; 2Ch 16:14; Mt 27:60
  19. 22:20 : 2Kg 18:18; Is 36:3,22; 37:2
  20. 22:21 : Gn 45:8; Jb 29:16
  21. 22:22 : Mt 16:19; Rv 3:7
  22. 22:22 : Jb 12:14
  23. 23:1 : Is 13:1
  24. 23:1 : Jos 19:29; 1Kg 5:1; Jr 25:22; 47:4; Ezk 26:1—27:36; Jl 3:4-8; Am 1:9; Zch 9:2-4
  25. 23:1 : Gn 10:4; 1Kg 10:22
  26. 23:1 : Jr 2:10; Ezk 27:6; Ac 11:19
  27. 23:2 : Gn 10:15; Jos 19:28; Jr 25:22; 27:3; Ezk 27:8; 32:30; Jl 3:4; Zch 9:2
  28. 23:3 : Ezk 27:3-23
  29. 23:5 : Ac 21:7
  30. 23:11 : Ex 14:21; Is 14:26
  31. 23:12 : Is 23:1; Jr 2:10; Ezk 27:6; Ac 4:36; 11:19-20; 13:4; 15:39; 21:3,16; 27:4
  32. 23:17 : Jr 25:11,22
  33. 23:17 : Ac 21:7
  34. 24:3 : Is 1:20; 6:11
  35. 24:5 : Gn 3:17; 6:5,11-12; Nm 35:33; Is 9:17; 10:6
  36. 24:5 : Gn 9:16; 17:7; Ex 31:16; Lv 24:8; 2Sm 23:5; Ps 105:10; Is 55:3; 61:8; Jr 32:40; Ezk 16:60
  37. 24:6 : Jos 23:15; Is 34:5; 43:28; Zch 5:3-4
  38. 24:7 : Is 16:10; Jl 1:10,12
  39. 24:8 : Ex 15:20; Jdg 11:34; 1Sm 18:6; Is 30:32; Jr 31:4
  40. 24:10 : Is 34:11
  41. 24:10 : Is 23:1
  42. 24:13 : Is 17:6
  43. 24:16 : Ex 9:27; Pr 21:12; Ac 3:14; 7:52; 22:14
  44. 24:16 : Is 21:2; 33:1; Jr 3:20; 5:11
  45. 24:17 : Am 5:19
  46. 24:17-18 : Jr 48:43-44
  47. 24:18 : Gn 7:11
  48. 24:18 : Ps 18:7; 46:2; Is 2:19,21; 13:13
  49. 24:20 : Is 19:14
  50. 24:21 : Is 27:12
  51. 24:22 : Rv 20:1-3
  52. 24:22 : Rv 20:2
  53. 24:23 : Is 2:2-4; 1Co 15:54
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Galatians 2:17-3:9

17 But if we ourselves are also found to be “sinners” while seeking to be justified by Christ,(A) is Christ then a promoter[a](B) of sin? Absolutely not!(C) 18 If I rebuild(D) those things that I tore down, I show myself to be a lawbreaker.(E) 19 For through the law I died to the law,(F) so that I might live for God.(G) 20 I have been crucified with Christ, and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me.(H) The life I now live in the body,[b] I live by faith in the Son of God,(I) who loved(J) me(K) and gave himself(L) for me.(M) 21 I do not set aside the grace of God, for if righteousness comes through the law,(N) then Christ died(O) for nothing.

Justification through Faith

3 You foolish(P) Galatians! Who has cast a spell on you,[c] before whose eyes Jesus Christ was publicly portrayed[d] as crucified?(Q) 2 I only want to learn this from you: Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law or by believing what you heard?[e] 3 Are you so foolish? After beginning by the Spirit, are you now finishing by the flesh? 4 Did you experience[f](R) so much for nothing—if in fact it was for nothing? 5 So then, does God give you the Spirit and work miracles(S) among you by your doing the works of the law? Or is it by believing what you heard— 6 just like Abraham who believed God,(T) and it was credited to him for righteousness?[g](U)

7 You know, then, that those who have faith, these are Abraham’s sons.(V) 8 Now the Scripture saw in advance that God would justify the Gentiles by faith and proclaimed the gospel ahead of time to Abraham,(W) saying, All the nations[h]will be blessed through you.[i](X) 9 Consequently those who have faith are blessed with Abraham,(Y) who had faith.[j]

Footnotes:

  1. 2:17 Or servant
  2. 2:20 Lit flesh
  3. 3:1 Other mss add not to obey the truth
  4. 3:1 Other mss add among you
  5. 3:2 Lit hearing with faith, also in v. 5
  6. 3:4 Or suffer
  7. 3:6 Gn 15:6
  8. 3:8 Or Gentiles
  9. 3:8 Gn 12:3; 18:18
  10. 3:9 Or with believing Abraham

Cross references:

  1. 2:17 : Rm 6:23; 1Tm 1:15
  2. 2:17 : 1Co 3:5
  3. 2:17 : Lk 20:16
  4. 2:18 : Ac 20:32
  5. 2:18 : Rm 2:25,27; Jms 2:9,11
  6. 2:19 : Rm 7:4; 1Pt 2:24
  7. 2:19 : Php 1:21
  8. 2:20 : Mk 10:38; 2Co 13:5
  9. 2:20 : Jn 5:19; Heb 1:2
  10. 2:20 : Jn 3:16
  11. 2:20 : 2Th 2:13
  12. 2:20 : Ti 2:14
  13. 2:20 : Lk 20:38; Rm 14:8
  14. 2:21 : Rm 7:5; 9:31; Gl 5:4; Php 3:6
  15. 2:21 : 1Co 8:11; Php 3:10
  16. 3:1 : Rm 1:14
  17. 3:1 : Mt 27:22
  18. 3:4 : Php 1:29
  19. 3:5 : Mk 13:22
  20. 3:6 : Jn 14:1
  21. 3:6 : Gn 15:6
  22. 3:7 : Jn 8:37,39
  23. 3:8 : Gn 16:15; Jn 8:37; Heb 2:16
  24. 3:8 : Gn 12:3; 18:18
  25. 3:9 : Jn 8:39
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Psalm 60

Psalm 60

Prayer in Difficult Times

For the choir director: according to “The Lily of Testimony.”(A) A Miktam of David for teaching. When he fought with Aram-naharaim and Aram-zobah, and Joab returned and struck Edom in Salt Valley, killing twelve thousand.(B)

1 God, you have rejected us;
you have broken us down;
you have been angry. Restore us![a](C)
2 You have shaken the land and split it open.
Heal its fissures, for it shudders.(D)
3 You have made your people suffer hardship;
you have given us wine to drink
that made us stagger.(E)
4 You have given a signal flag to those who fear you,
so that they can flee before the archers.[b](F)Selah
5 Save with your right hand, and answer me,
so that those you love may be rescued.(G)

6 God has spoken in his sanctuary:[c]
“I will celebrate!
I will divide up Shechem.(H)
I will apportion the Valley of Succoth.(I)
7 Gilead is mine, Manasseh is mine,
and Ephraim is my helmet;(J)
Judah is my scepter.(K)
8 Moab is my washbasin.(L)
I throw my sandal on Edom;(M)
I shout in triumph over Philistia.”(N)

9 Who will bring me to the fortified city?
Who will lead me to Edom?(O)
10 God, haven’t you rejected us?
God, you do not march out with our armies.(P)
11 Give us aid against the foe,
for human help is worthless.(Q)
12 With God we will perform valiantly;(R)
he will trample our foes.(S)

Footnotes:

  1. 60:1 Or Turn back to us
  2. 60:4 Or can rally before the archers, or can rally because of the truth
  3. 60:6 Or has promised by his holy nature

Cross references:

  1. 60:0 : Ps 45; 69; 80
  2. 60:0 : 1Ch 18:3,12
  3. 60:1 : Ps 44:9,23; 79:5
  4. 60:2 : Ps 18:7
  5. 60:3 : Is 51:17-23; Jr 25:15-17
  6. 60:4 : Is 5:26; 11:12; 13:2
  7. 60:5 : Ps 17:7; 20:6; 138:7
  8. 60:6 : Gn 12:6; 33:18
  9. 60:6 : Gn 33:17
  10. 60:7 : Dt 33:17; Jos 13:31
  11. 60:7 : Gn 49:10
  12. 60:8 : 2Sm 8:2
  13. 60:8 : 2Sm 8:14
  14. 60:8 : 2Sm 8:1
  15. 60:9 : Jr 1:18
  16. 60:10 : Ps 44:9
  17. 60:11 : Ps 146:3
  18. 60:12 : Nm 24:18; Ps 44:5; 118:15-16
  19. 60:5-12 : Ps 108:6-13
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Proverbs 23:15-16

15 My son, if your heart is wise,
my heart will indeed rejoice.(A)
16 My innermost being will celebrate
when your lips say what is right.(B)

Cross references:

  1. 23:15 : Pr 10:1; 15:20; 23:24-25; 29:3
  2. 23:16 : Pr 8:6
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