The Daily Audio Bible Reading for Thursday October 25, 2018 (NIV)

Jeremiah 48:1-49:22

Prophecies against Moab

48 About Moab,^(A) this is what the Lord of Armies, the God of Israel, says:

Woe to Nebo,^(B) because it is about to be destroyed;
Kiriathaim will be put to shame;^(C) it will be taken captive.
The fortress will be put to shame and dismayed!
²There is no longer praise for Moab;
they plan harm against her in Heshbon:^(D)
Come, let’s cut her off from nationhood.
Also, Madmen, you will be silenced;
the sword will follow^(E) you.
³A voice cries out from Horonaim,^(F)
“devastation and a crushing blow!” ^(G)
⁴Moab will be shattered;
her little ones will cry out.
⁵For on the Ascent to Luhith
they will be weeping continually,^[a]
and on the descent to Horonaim
will be heard cries of distress over the destruction:^(H)
⁶Flee! Save your lives!^(I)
Be like a juniper bush^[b]^(J) in the wilderness.
⁷Because you trust in your works and treasures,
you will be captured also.
Chemosh^(K) will go into exile
with his priests and officials.^(L)
⁸The destroyer^(M) will move against every town;
not one town will escape.
The valley will perish,
and the plain will be annihilated,^(N)
as the Lord has said.
⁹Make Moab a salt marsh,^[c]^(O)
for she will run away;^[d]
her towns will become a desolation,
without inhabitant.^(P)
¹⁰The one who does
the Lord’s business deceitfully^[e] is cursed,^(Q)
and the one who withholds
his sword from bloodshed is cursed.
¹¹Moab has been left quiet since his youth,
settled like wine on its dregs.^(R)
He hasn’t been poured from one container to another
or gone into exile.
So his taste has remained the same,
and his aroma hasn’t changed.
¹²Therefore look, the days are coming^(S)—
this is the Lord’s declaration—
when I will send pourers to him, who will pour him out.
They will empty his containers
and smash his jars.
¹³Moab will be put to shame because of Chemosh,
just as the house of Israel was put to shame
because of Bethel^(T) that they trusted in.
¹⁴How can you say, “We are warriors—
valiant men for battle”?
¹⁵The destroyer of Moab and its towns
has come up,^[f]
and the best of its young men
have gone down to slaughter.
This is the King’s declaration;
the Lord of Armies is his name.^(U)
¹⁶Moab’s calamity is near at hand;
his disaster is rushing swiftly.
¹⁷Mourn for him, all you surrounding nations,
everyone who knows his name.
Say, “How the mighty scepter^(V) is shattered,
the glorious staff!”
¹⁸Come down from glory; sit on parched ground,
resident of the daughter of Dibon,^(W)
for the destroyer of Moab has come against you;
he has destroyed your fortresses.
¹⁹Stand by the highway and watch,
resident of Aroer!^(X)
Ask him who is fleeing or her who is escaping,^(Y)
“What happened?”
²⁰Moab is put to shame, indeed dismayed.
Wail and cry out!^(Z)
Declare by the Arnon
that Moab is destroyed.

²¹“Judgment has come to the land of the plateau^(AA)—to Holon, Jahzah, Mephaath, ²²Dibon, Nebo, Beth-diblathaim, ²³Kiriathaim, Beth-gamul, Beth-meon,^(AB) ²⁴Kerioth,^(AC) Bozrah, and all the towns of the land of Moab, those far and near. ²⁵Moab’s horn is chopped off;^(AD) his arm is shattered.”^(AE)

This is the Lord’s declaration.

²⁶“Make him drunk, because he has exalted himself against the Lord.^(AF) Moab will wallow in his own vomit, and he will also become a laughingstock. ²⁷Wasn’t Israel a laughingstock to you?^(AG) Was he ever found among thieves?^(AH) For whenever you speak of him you shake your head.”^(AI)

²⁸Abandon the towns! Live in the cliffs,
residents of Moab!
Be like a dove
that nests inside the mouth of a cave.^(AJ)

²⁹We have heard of Moab’s pride,
great pride, indeed—
his insolence, arrogance, pride,
and haughty heart.
³⁰I know his outburst.
This is the Lord’s declaration.
It is empty.
His boast is empty.
³¹Therefore, I will wail over Moab.
I will cry out for Moab, all of it;
he will moan for the men of Kir-heres.
³²I will weep for you, vine of Sibmah,
with more than the weeping for Jazer.
Your tendrils have extended to the sea;
they have reached to the sea and to Jazer.^[g]
The destroyer has fallen on your summer fruit and grape harvest.
³³Gladness and celebration are taken from the fertile field
and from the land of Moab.
I have stopped the flow of wine from the winepresses;
no one will tread with shouts of joy.
The shouting is not a shout of joy.^(AK)

³⁴“There is a cry from Heshbon to Elealeh; they make their voices heard as far as Jahaz^(AL)—from Zoar to Horonaim and Eglath-shelishiyah—because even the Waters of Nimrim have become desolate. ³⁵In Moab, I will stop”—this is the Lord’s declaration—“the one who offers sacrifices on the high place and burns incense to his gods.^(AM) ³⁶Therefore, my heart moans like flutes for Moab,^(AN) and my heart moans like flutes for the people of Kir-heres. And therefore, the wealth he has gained has perished. ³⁷Indeed, every head is bald and every beard is chopped short.^(AO) On every hand is a gash^(AP) and sackcloth^(AQ) around the waist. ³⁸On all the rooftops of Moab and in her public squares, everyone is mourning because I have shattered Moab like a jar no one wants.”^(AR) This is the Lord’s declaration. ³⁹“How broken it is! They wail! How Moab has turned his back! He is ashamed. Moab will become a laughingstock and a shock to all those around him.”^(AS)

⁴⁰For this is what the Lord says:

Look! He will swoop down like an eagle
and spread his wings against Moab.^(AT)
⁴¹The towns have^[h] been captured,
and the strongholds seized.
In that day the heart of Moab’s warriors
will be like the heart of a woman with contractions.^(AU)
⁴²Moab will be destroyed as a people
because he has exalted himself against the Lord.^(AV)
⁴³Panic,^(AW) pit, and trap
await you, resident of Moab.
This is the Lord’s declaration.
⁴⁴He who flees from the panic will fall in the pit,
and he who climbs from the pit
will be captured in the trap,
for I will bring against Moab
the year of their punishment.^(AX)
This is the Lord’s declaration.^(AY)

⁴⁵Those who flee will stand exhausted in Heshbon’s shadow
because fire has come out from Heshbon
and a flame from within Sihon.
It will devour Moab’s forehead
and the skull of the noisemakers.
⁴⁶Woe to you, Moab!
The people of Chemosh have perished
because your sons have been taken captive
and your daughters have gone into captivity.^(AZ)
⁴⁷Yet, I will restore the fortunes^[i] of Moab in the last days.^(BA)
This is the Lord’s declaration.
The judgment on Moab ends here.

Prophecies against Ammon

49 About the Ammonites,^(BB) this is what the Lord says:

Does Israel have no sons?
Is he without an heir?
Why then has Milcom^[j]^[k] dispossessed Gad^(BC)
and his people settled in their cities?
²Therefore look, the days are coming^(BD)—
this is the Lord’s declaration—
when I will make the shout of battle^(BE) heard
against Rabbah^(BF) of the Ammonites.
It will become a desolate mound,
and its surrounding villages will be set on fire.
Israel will dispossess their dispossessors,
says the Lord.
³Wail, Heshbon,^(BG) for Ai is devastated;
cry out, daughters of Rabbah!
Clothe yourselves with sackcloth,^(BH) and lament;
run back and forth within your walls,^[l]
because Milcom will go into exile
together with his priests and officials.^(BI)
⁴Why do you boast about your valleys,
your flowing valley,^[m]
you faithless daughter—
you who trust in your treasures
and say, “Who can attack me?”
⁵Look, I am about to bring terror on you^(BJ)—
this is the declaration of the Lord God of Armies—
from all those around you.
You will be banished, each person headlong,
with no one to gather up the fugitives.
⁶But after that, I will restore the fortunes^[n] of the Ammonites.^(BK)
This is the Lord’s declaration.

Prophecies against Edom

⁷About Edom,^(BL) this is what the Lord of Armies says:

Is there no longer wisdom in Teman?^(BM)
Has counsel perished from the prudent?
Has their wisdom rotted away?^(BN)
⁸Run! Turn back! Lie low,
residents of Dedan,^(BO)
for I will bring Esau’s calamity on him^(BP)
at the time I punish him.^(BQ)
⁹If grape harvesters came to you,
wouldn’t they leave some gleanings?^(BR)
Were thieves to come in the night,
they would destroy only what they wanted.^(BS)
¹⁰But I will strip Esau bare;
I will uncover his secret places.^(BT)
He will try to hide,^(BU) but he will be unable.
His descendants will be destroyed
along with his relatives and neighbors.
He will exist no longer.^(BV)
¹¹Abandon your fatherless; I will preserve them;
let your widows trust in me.^(BW)

¹²For this is what the Lord says: “If those who do not deserve to drink the cup must drink it, can you possibly remain unpunished? You will not remain unpunished, for you must drink it too. ¹³For by myself I have sworn”^(BX)—this is the Lord’s declaration—“Bozrah^[o] will become a desolation, a disgrace, a ruin, and an example for cursing, and all its surrounding cities will become ruins forever.”^(BY)

¹⁴I have heard an envoy from the Lord;
a messenger has been sent among the nations:
Assemble yourselves to come against her.
Rise up for war!

¹⁵I will certainly make you insignificant among the nations,
despised among humanity.
¹⁶As to the terror you cause,^[p]
your arrogant heart has deceived you.
You who live in the clefts of the rock,^[q]
you who occupy the mountain summit,
though you elevate your nest like the eagles,
even from there I will bring you down.
This is the Lord’s declaration.^(BZ)

¹⁷“Edom will become a desolation. Everyone who passes by her will be appalled and scoff because of all her wounds.^(CA) ¹⁸As when Sodom and Gomorrah were overthrown along with their neighbors,”^(CB) says the Lord, “no one will live there; no human being will stay in it even temporarily.^(CC)

¹⁹“Look, it will be like a lion coming from the thickets^[r] of the Jordan to the watered grazing land.^(CD) I will chase Edom away from her land in a flash. I will appoint whoever is chosen for her. For who is like me?^(CE) Who will issue me a summons?^(CF) Who is the shepherd who can stand against me?” ^(CG)

²⁰Therefore, hear the plans that the Lord has drawn up against Edom and the strategies he has devised against the people of Teman:^(CH) The flock’s little lambs will certainly be dragged away,^(CI) and their grazing land will be made desolate because of them.^(CJ) ²¹At the sound of their fall the earth will quake;^(CK) the sound of her cry will be heard at the Red Sea.^(CL) ²²Look! It will be like an eagle soaring upward, then swooping down and spreading its wings over Bozrah. In that day the hearts of Edom’s warriors will be like the heart of a woman with contractions.^(CM)

Footnotes:

48:5 Lit Luhith, weeping goes up with weeping
48:6 Or like Aroer; Is 17:2; Jr 48:19
48:9 LXX reads a sign; Vg reads a flower; Syr, Tg read a crown
48:9 Hb obscure
48:10 Or negligently
48:15 Or Moab is destroyed; he has come up against its cities
48:32 Some Hb mss read reached as far as Jazer
48:41 Or Kerioth has
48:47 Or will end the captivity
49:1 LXX, Syr, Vg; MT reads Malkam
49:1 = Molech
49:3 Or sheep pens
49:4 Or about your strength, your ebbing strength
49:6 Or will end the captivity, also in v. 39
49:13 = Edom’s capital
49:16 Lit Your horror
49:16 = Petra
49:19 Lit pride

Cross references:

Christian Standard Bible (CSB)

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2 Timothy 4

Fulfill Your Ministry

4 I solemnly charge you before God and Christ Jesus, who is going to judge^(A) the living and the dead,^(B) and because of his appearing and his kingdom:^(C) ²Preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; rebuke, correct, and encourage with great patience and teaching. ³For the time will come when people will not tolerate sound doctrine,^(D) but according to their own desires, will multiply teachers for themselves because they have an itch to hear what they want to hear. ⁴They will turn away from hearing the truth and will turn aside to myths.^(E) ⁵But as for you, exercise self-control in everything, endure hardship, do the work of an evangelist,^(F) fulfill your ministry.

⁶For I am already being poured out as a drink offering,^(G) and the time for my departure is close. ⁷I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. ⁸There is reserved for me the crown^(H) of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge,^(I) will give me on that day, and not only to me, but to all those who have loved his appearing.^[a]^(J)

Final Instructions

⁹Make every effort to come to me soon,^(K) ¹⁰because Demas^(L) has deserted me,^(M) since he loved this present world, and has gone to Thessalonica.^(N) Crescens has gone to Galatia,^(O) Titus^(P) to Dalmatia. ¹¹Only Luke^(Q) is with me. Bring Mark^(R) with you, for he is useful to me in the ministry. ¹²I have sent Tychicus^(S) to Ephesus. ¹³When you come, bring the cloak I left in Troas^(T) with Carpus, as well as the scrolls, especially the parchments. ¹⁴Alexander^(U) the coppersmith did great harm to me. The Lord will repay him according to his works. ¹⁵Watch out^(V) for him yourself because he strongly opposed our words.

¹⁶At my first defense, no one stood by me, but everyone deserted me.^(W) May it not be counted against them. ¹⁷But the Lord stood with me and strengthened me, so that I might fully preach the word and all the Gentiles might hear it. So I was rescued from the lion’s mouth. ¹⁸The Lord will rescue me from every evil work and will bring me safely into his heavenly kingdom.^(X) To him be the glory forever and ever! Amen.

Benediction

¹⁹Greet Prisca and Aquila,^(Y) and the household of Onesiphorus.^(Z) ²⁰Erastus^(AA) has remained at Corinth; I left Trophimus^(AB) sick at Miletus.^(AC) ²¹Make every effort to come before winter. Eubulus greets you, as do Pudens, Linus, Claudia, and all the brothers and sisters.

²²The Lord be with your spirit. Grace be with you all.

Footnotes:

4:8 Or have longed for his appearing

Cross references:

4:1 : Jn 5:22-30; Rm 5:18; 1Pt 4:5
4:1 : Jn 5:25; Rm 14:9; 1Pt 4:5; Rv 18:8; 19:11
4:1 : Mk 1:15; Ac 20:25
4:3 : Rm 15:4
4:4 : 1Tm 1:4; 4:7; Ti 1:14; 2Pt 1:16
4:5 : Ac 21:8; Eph 4:11
4:6 : Gn 35:14; Php 2:17
4:8 : Jn 15:17; Rv 12:1
4:8 : Lk 18:2,6; Jn 5:22-30; Ac 10:42; Heb 12:23
4:8 : Ti 2:13; 1Jn 2:28
4:9 : Ti 3:12
4:10 : Col 4:14; Phm 24
4:10 : 2Tm 1:15
4:10 : Ac 17:1
4:10 : Gl 1:2
4:10 : Ti 1:4
4:11 : Col 4:14; Phm 24
4:11 : Ac 15:37-39
4:12 : Ac 20:4; Ti 3:12
4:13 : Ac 16:8
4:14 : 1Tm 1:20
4:15 : 2Tm 1:14; 2Pt 3:17
4:16 : 2Tm 1:15
4:18 : Mk 1:15; Ac 20:25
4:19 : Ac 18:2
4:19 : 2Tm 1:16
4:20 : Ac 19:22; Rm 16:23
4:20 : Ac 20:4; 21:29
4:20 : Ac 20:15,17

Christian Standard Bible (CSB)

Psalm 95-96

Psalm 95

Worship and Warning

¹Come, let us shout joyfully to the Lord,
shout triumphantly to the rock of our salvation!^(A)
²Let us enter his presence with thanksgiving;
let us shout triumphantly to him in song.^(B)

³For the Lord is a great God,
a great King above all gods.^(C)
⁴The depths of the earth are in his hand,
and the mountain peaks are his.^(D)
⁵The sea is his; he made it.
His hands formed the dry land.^(E)

⁶Come, let us worship and bow down;
let us kneel before the Lord our Maker.^(F)
⁷For he is our God,
and we are the people of his pasture,
the sheep under his care.^[a]^(G)
Today, if you hear his voice:^(H)
⁸Do not harden your hearts as at Meribah,
as on that day at Massah in the wilderness^(I)
⁹where your fathers tested me;
they tried me, though they had seen what I did.^(J)
¹⁰For forty years I was disgusted with that generation;
I said, “They are a people whose hearts go astray;
they do not know my ways.”^(K)
¹¹So I swore in my anger,
“They will not enter my rest.”^(L)

Psalm 96^(M)

King of the Earth

¹Sing a new song to the Lord;
let the whole earth sing to the Lord.^(N)
²Sing to the Lord, bless his name;
proclaim his salvation from day to day.^(O)
³Declare his glory among the nations,
his wondrous works among all peoples.^(P)

⁴For the Lord is great and is highly praised;
he is feared above all gods.^(Q)
⁵For all the gods of the peoples are idols,
but the Lord made the heavens.^(R)
⁶Splendor and majesty are before him;
strength and beauty are in his sanctuary.^(S)

⁷Ascribe to the Lord, you families of the peoples,
ascribe to the Lord glory and strength.^(T)
⁸Ascribe to the Lord the glory of his name;^(U)
bring an offering and enter his courts.^(V)
⁹Worship the Lord in the splendor of his holiness;^(W)
let the whole earth tremble before him.^(X)

¹⁰Say among the nations: “The Lord reigns.^(Y)
The world is firmly established; it cannot be shaken.^(Z)
He judges the peoples fairly.”^(AA)
¹¹Let the heavens be glad and the earth rejoice;
let the sea and all that fills it resound.^(AB)
¹²Let the fields and everything in them celebrate.
Then all the trees of the forest will shout for joy^(AC)
¹³before the Lord, for he is coming—
for he is coming to judge the earth.
He will judge the world with righteousness
and the peoples with his faithfulness.^(AD)

Footnotes:

95:7 Lit sheep of his hand

Cross references:

Christian Standard Bible (CSB)

Proverbs 26:9-12

⁹A proverb in the mouth of a fool
is like a stick with thorns,
brandished by^[a] the hand of a drunkard.
¹⁰The one who hires a fool or who hires those passing by
is like an archer who wounds everyone.
¹¹As a dog returns to its vomit,
so also a fool repeats his foolishness.^(A)
¹²Do you see a person who is wise in his own eyes?^(B)
There is more hope for a fool than for him.^(C)

Footnotes:

26:9 Lit thorn that goes up into

Cross references:

Christian Standard Bible (CSB)

Jeremiah 48:1-49:22

Prophecies against Moab

Prophecies against Ammon

Prophecies against Edom

Footnotes:

Cross references:

2 Timothy 4

Fulfill Your Ministry

Final Instructions

Benediction

Footnotes:

Cross references:

Psalm 95-96

Psalm 95

Worship and Warning

Psalm 96(M)

King of the Earth

Footnotes:

Cross references:

Proverbs 26:9-12

Footnotes:

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Psalm 96^(M)