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The Daily Audio Bible Reading for Sunday September 8, 2019 (NIV)

Isaiah 1-2

1 The (A)vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem (B)in the days of (C)Uzziah, (D)Jotham, (E)Ahaz, and (F)Hezekiah, kings of Judah.

The Wickedness of Judah

2 (G)Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O (H)earth;
for the Lord has spoken:
“Children[a] (I)have I reared and brought up,
but they have rebelled against me.
3 The ox (J)knows its owner,
and the donkey its master's crib,
but Israel does (K)not know,
my people do not understand.”

4 Ah, sinful nation,
a people laden with iniquity,
(L)offspring of evildoers,
children who deal corruptly!
They have forsaken the Lord,
they have (M)despised (N)the Holy One of Israel,
they are utterly (O)estranged.

5 Why will you still be (P)struck down?
Why will you (Q)continue to rebel?
The whole head is sick,
and the whole heart faint.
6 (R)From the sole of the foot even to the head,
there is no soundness in it,
but bruises and sores
and raw wounds;
they are (S)not pressed out or bound up
or softened with oil.

7 (T)Your country lies desolate;
your cities are burned with fire;
in your very presence
foreigners devour your land;
it is desolate, as overthrown by foreigners.
8 And (U)the daughter of Zion is left
like a (V)booth in a vineyard,
like a lodge in a cucumber field,
like a besieged city.

9 (W)If the Lord of hosts
had not left us (X)a few survivors,
we should have been like (Y)Sodom,
and become like (Z)Gomorrah.

10 Hear the word of the Lord,
you rulers of (AA)(AB)Sodom!
Give ear to the teaching[b] of our God,
you people of (AC)Gomorrah!
11 (AD)“What to me is the multitude of your sacrifices?
says the Lord;
I have had enough of burnt offerings of rams
and the fat of well-fed beasts;
I do not delight in the blood of bulls,
or of lambs, or of goats.

12 “When you come to (AE)appear before me,
who has required of you
this trampling of my courts?
13 Bring no more vain offerings;
incense is an abomination to me.
(AF)New moon and Sabbath and the (AG)calling of convocations—
I cannot endure (AH)iniquity and (AI)solemn assembly.
14 Your (AJ)new moons and your appointed feasts
my soul hates;
they have become a burden to me;
I am weary of bearing them.
15 When you (AK)spread out your hands,
I will hide my eyes from you;
(AL)even though you make many prayers,
I will not listen;
(AM)your hands are full of blood.
16 (AN)Wash yourselves; make yourselves clean;
remove the evil of your deeds from before my eyes;
(AO)cease to do evil,
17 learn to do good;
(AP)seek justice,
correct oppression;
(AQ)bring justice to the fatherless,
plead the widow's cause.

18 “Come now, (AR)let us reason[c] together, says the Lord:
though your sins are like scarlet,
they shall be as (AS)white as snow;
though they are red like crimson,
they shall become like wool.
19 (AT)If you are willing and obedient,
you shall eat the good of the land;
20 but if you refuse and rebel,
you shall be eaten by the sword;
(AU)for the mouth of the Lord has spoken.”

The Unfaithful City

21 How the faithful city
(AV)has become a whore,[d]
(AW)she who was full of justice!
Righteousness lodged in her,
but now murderers.
22 (AX)Your silver has become dross,
your best wine mixed with water.
23 Your princes are rebels
and companions of thieves.
Everyone (AY)loves a bribe
and runs after gifts.
(AZ)They do not bring justice to the fatherless,
and the widow's cause does not come to them.

24 Therefore the (BA)Lord declares,
the Lord of hosts,
the (BB)Mighty One of Israel:
“Ah, I will get relief from my enemies
(BC)and avenge myself on my foes.
25 (BD)I will turn my hand against you
and will smelt away your (BE)dross as with lye
and remove all your alloy.
26 And I will restore your judges (BF)as at the first,
and your counselors as at the beginning.
Afterward (BG)you shall be called the city of righteousness,
the faithful city.”

27 (BH)Zion shall be redeemed by justice,
and those in her who repent, by righteousness.
28 (BI)But rebels and sinners shall be broken together,
and those who forsake the Lord shall be consumed.
29 (BJ)For they[e] shall be ashamed of (BK)the oaks
that you desired;
and you shall blush for (BL)the gardens
that you have chosen.
30 For you shall be (BM)like an oak
whose leaf withers,
and like a garden without water.
31 And the strong shall become (BN)tinder,
and his work a spark,
and both of them shall burn together,
with (BO)none to quench them.

The Mountain of the Lord

2 The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem.

2 (BP)It shall come to pass in the latter days
that (BQ)the mountain of the house of the Lord
shall be established as the highest of the mountains,
and shall be lifted up above the hills;
and (BR)all the nations shall flow to it,
3 and (BS)many peoples shall come, and say:
“Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord,
to the house of the God of Jacob,
that he may teach us his ways
and that we may walk in his paths.”
For (BT)out of Zion shall go forth the law,[f]
and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.
4 He shall judge between the nations,
and shall decide disputes for many peoples;
(BU)and they shall beat their swords into plowshares,
and their spears into pruning hooks;
(BV)nation shall not lift up sword against nation,
neither shall they learn war anymore.

5 O house of Jacob,
come, let us walk
in (BW)the light of the Lord.

The Day of the Lord

6 For you have rejected your people,
the house of Jacob,
because they are full of things (BX)from the east
and (BY)of fortune-tellers (BZ)like the Philistines,
and they (CA)strike hands with the children of foreigners.
7 Their land is (CB)filled with silver and gold,
and there is no end to their treasures;
their land is (CC)filled with horses,
and there is no end to their chariots.
8 Their land is (CD)filled with idols;
they bow down to (CE)the work of their hands,
to what their own fingers have made.
9 So man (CF)is humbled,
and each one (CG)is brought low—
do not forgive them!
10 (CH)Enter into the rock
and hide in the dust
(CI)from before the terror of the Lord,
and from the splendor of his majesty.
11 (CJ)The haughty looks of man shall be brought low,
and the lofty pride of men shall be humbled,
and the Lord alone will be exalted in that day.

12 (CK)For the Lord of hosts has a day
against all that is proud and lofty,
against all that is lifted up—and it shall be brought low;
13 against all the (CL)cedars of Lebanon,
lofty and lifted up;
and against all the (CM)oaks of Bashan;
14 against all (CN)the lofty mountains,
and against all the uplifted hills;
15 against every high tower,
and against every fortified wall;
16 against all (CO)the ships of Tarshish,
and against all the beautiful craft.
17 (CP)And the haughtiness of man shall be humbled,
and the lofty pride of men shall be brought low,
and the Lord alone will be exalted in that day.
18 (CQ)And the idols shall utterly pass away.
19 (CR)And people shall enter the caves of the rocks
and the holes of the ground,[g]
from before the terror of the Lord,
and from the splendor of his majesty,
(CS)when he rises to terrify the earth.

20 In that day (CT)mankind will cast away
their idols of silver and their idols of gold,
which they made for themselves to worship,
to the moles and to the (CU)bats,
21 (CV)to enter the caverns of the rocks
and the clefts of the cliffs,
from before the terror of the Lord,
and from the splendor of his majesty,
(CW)when he rises to terrify the earth.
22 (CX)Stop regarding man
(CY)in whose nostrils is breath,
for of what account is he?

Footnotes:

  1. Isaiah 1:2 Or Sons; also verse 4
  2. Isaiah 1:10 Or law
  3. Isaiah 1:18 Or dispute
  4. Isaiah 1:21 Or become unchaste
  5. Isaiah 1:29 Some Hebrew manuscripts you
  6. Isaiah 2:3 Or teaching
  7. Isaiah 2:19 Hebrew dust

Cross references:

  1. Isaiah 1:1 : ch. 6:1
  2. Isaiah 1:1 : Hos. 1:1; Mic. 1:1
  3. Isaiah 1:1 : [2 Kgs. 15:1, 7]; See 2 Chr. 26
  4. Isaiah 1:1 : See 2 Kgs. 15:32-38; 2 Chr. 27
  5. Isaiah 1:1 : ch. 7:1, 3, 10, 12; 14:28; See 2 Kgs. 16; 2 Chr. 28
  6. Isaiah 1:1 : See ch. 37:2–39:8; 2 Kgs. 18-20; 2 Chr. 29–32
  7. Isaiah 1:2 : Deut. 32:1; [Deut. 4:26]
  8. Isaiah 1:2 : Mic. 1:2; 6:2
  9. Isaiah 1:2 : [Deut. 32:6, 10, 15]
  10. Isaiah 1:3 : [Jer. 8:7]
  11. Isaiah 1:3 : [Jer. 8:7]
  12. Isaiah 1:4 : [Matt. 3:7]
  13. Isaiah 1:4 : ch. 5:24
  14. Isaiah 1:4 : See ch. 31:1
  15. Isaiah 1:4 : Ezek. 14:5
  16. Isaiah 1:5 : Jer. 5:3; [ch. 9:13]
  17. Isaiah 1:5 : ch. 31:6
  18. Isaiah 1:6 : Ps. 38:3
  19. Isaiah 1:6 : [Jer. 8:22]
  20. Isaiah 1:7 : ch. 5:5; 6:11, 12; Deut. 28:51, 52
  21. Isaiah 1:8 : ch. 10:32; 37:22; Zech. 2:10; 9:9
  22. Isaiah 1:8 : Job 27:18
  23. Isaiah 1:9 : Lam. 3:22
  24. Isaiah 1:9 : ch. 10:21, 22; Cited Rom. 9:29
  25. Isaiah 1:9 : ch. 13:19; Gen. 19:24, 25
  26. Isaiah 1:9 : ch. 13:19; Gen. 19:24, 25
  27. Isaiah 1:10 : Ezek. 16:46, 48, 49, 55; [ch. 3:9; Rev. 11:8]
  28. Isaiah 1:10 : [Deut. 32:32]
  29. Isaiah 1:10 : [Deut. 32:32]
  30. Isaiah 1:11 : Prov. 15:8; Jer. 6:20; Mal. 1:10; [ch. 66:3]; See 1 Sam. 15:22
  31. Isaiah 1:12 : Ex. 23:17; 34:23
  32. Isaiah 1:13 : Num. 28:11; 1 Chr. 23:31
  33. Isaiah 1:13 : Ex. 12:16; Lev. 23:36
  34. Isaiah 1:13 : [Jer. 7:9, 10]
  35. Isaiah 1:13 : See Joel 2:15-17
  36. Isaiah 1:14 : [See ver. 13 above]; Num. 28:11; 1 Chr. 23:31
  37. Isaiah 1:15 : 1 Kgs. 8:22
  38. Isaiah 1:15 : Prov. 1:28; Mic. 3:4
  39. Isaiah 1:15 : ch. 59:3
  40. Isaiah 1:16 : [Jer. 2:22]
  41. Isaiah 1:16 : [1 Pet. 3:11]
  42. Isaiah 1:17 : Jer. 22:3
  43. Isaiah 1:17 : [ver. 23; James 1:27]
  44. Isaiah 1:18 : Mic. 6:2; [ch. 43:26]
  45. Isaiah 1:18 : Ps. 51:7; [Rev. 7:14]
  46. Isaiah 1:19 : Deut. 30:15, 16
  47. Isaiah 1:20 : ver. 2; ch. 24:3; 40:5; 58:14; Mic. 4:4; [Num. 23:19]
  48. Isaiah 1:21 : Jer. 2:20; [Ex. 34:15]
  49. Isaiah 1:21 : [Jer. 31:23]
  50. Isaiah 1:22 : [Jer. 6:30; Ezek. 22:18]
  51. Isaiah 1:23 : Mic. 7:3; [Ex. 23:8]
  52. Isaiah 1:23 : Jer. 5:28; Zech. 7:10; [ver. 17]
  53. Isaiah 1:24 : ch. 3:1; 10:33
  54. Isaiah 1:24 : Ps. 132:2
  55. Isaiah 1:24 : [Deut. 32:41]
  56. Isaiah 1:25 : Ps. 81:14; Amos 1:8; [ch. 5:25]
  57. Isaiah 1:25 : [Ezek. 22:20; Mal. 3:3]
  58. Isaiah 1:26 : Jer. 33:7, 11
  59. Isaiah 1:26 : [Zech. 8:3]
  60. Isaiah 1:27 : Jer. 22:3, 4
  61. Isaiah 1:28 : Job 31:3; Ps. 1:6
  62. Isaiah 1:29 : Hos. 4:19
  63. Isaiah 1:29 : ch. 57:5; Hos. 4:13
  64. Isaiah 1:29 : ch. 65:3; 66:17
  65. Isaiah 1:30 : [Jer. 17:8]
  66. Isaiah 1:31 : Judg. 16:9
  67. Isaiah 1:31 : ch. 66:24
  68. Isaiah 2:2 : For ver. 2-4, see Mic. 4:1-3
  69. Isaiah 2:2 : ch. 14:13; 25:6
  70. Isaiah 2:2 : [ch. 56:7]
  71. Isaiah 2:3 : See Zech. 8:20-23
  72. Isaiah 2:3 : [Luke 24:47; John 4:22]
  73. Isaiah 2:4 : [Joel 3:10]
  74. Isaiah 2:4 : ch. 9:7; Ps. 72:3, 7; Hos. 2:18; Zech. 9:10
  75. Isaiah 2:5 : ch. 60:1, 2; [Eph. 5:8]
  76. Isaiah 2:6 : [2 Kgs. 16:10, 11]
  77. Isaiah 2:6 : Mic. 5:12
  78. Isaiah 2:6 : 2 Kgs. 1:2
  79. Isaiah 2:6 : [2 Kgs. 16:7, 8]
  80. Isaiah 2:7 : ch. 39:2; [ch. 22:8, 11; Deut. 17:17]
  81. Isaiah 2:7 : ch. 30:16; [Deut. 17:16; Mic. 5:10]
  82. Isaiah 2:8 : ver. 18, 20; ch. 10:10, 11; Jer. 2:28
  83. Isaiah 2:8 : See ch. 44:9-17
  84. Isaiah 2:9 : ch. 5:15
  85. Isaiah 2:9 : ch. 5:15
  86. Isaiah 2:10 : ver. 19, 21; [Rev. 6:15, 16]
  87. Isaiah 2:10 : Cited 2 Thess. 1:9
  88. Isaiah 2:11 : ver. 17; Ps. 18:27; [Mic. 2:3; 2 Cor. 10:5]
  89. Isaiah 2:12 : [Job 40:11, 12; Mal. 4:1]
  90. Isaiah 2:13 : ch. 14:8; See Judg. 9:15
  91. Isaiah 2:13 : Ezek. 27:6; Zech. 11:2
  92. Isaiah 2:14 : [ch. 30:25]
  93. Isaiah 2:16 : ch. 60:9; 1 Kgs. 10:22
  94. Isaiah 2:17 : Ps. 18:27; [Mic. 2:3; 2 Cor. 10:5]
  95. Isaiah 2:18 : ver. 8
  96. Isaiah 2:19 : ver. 10; Hos. 10:8; Luke 23:30; Rev. 6:16
  97. Isaiah 2:19 : [Ps. 76:8, 9; Hab. 3:6]
  98. Isaiah 2:20 : ch. 30:22; 31:7
  99. Isaiah 2:20 : Lev. 11:19; Deut. 14:18
  100. Isaiah 2:21 : [See ver. 19 above]; ver. 10; Hos. 10:8; Luke 23:30; Rev. 6:16
  101. Isaiah 2:21 : [See ver. 19 above]; [Ps. 76:8, 9; Hab. 3:6]
  102. Isaiah 2:22 : Ps. 146:3
  103. Isaiah 2:22 : Job 27:3; [James 4:14]
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2 Corinthians 10

Paul Defends His Ministry

10 (A)I, Paul, myself entreat you, by the (B)meekness and gentleness of Christ—I who am humble when face to face with you, but bold toward you when I am away!— 2 I beg of you (C)that when I am present I may not have to show (D)boldness with such confidence as I count on showing against some who suspect us of walking according to the flesh. 3 For though we walk in the flesh, we are not waging war according to the flesh. 4 For the (E)weapons of (F)our warfare are not of the flesh but have (G)divine power (H)to destroy strongholds. 5 We destroy arguments and (I)every lofty opinion raised against the knowledge of God, and take every thought captive to (J)obey Christ, 6 (K)being ready to punish every disobedience, (L)when your obedience is complete.

7 (M)Look at what is before your eyes. (N)If anyone is confident that he is Christ's, let him remind himself that just as (O)he is Christ's, (P)so also are we. 8 For even if I boast a little too much of (Q)our authority, which the Lord gave for building you up and not for destroying you, I will not be ashamed. 9 I do not want to appear to be frightening you with my letters. 10 For they say, “His letters are weighty and strong, but (R)his bodily presence is weak, and (S)his speech of no account.” 11 Let such a person understand that what we say by letter when absent, we do when present. 12 Not that we dare to classify or (T)compare ourselves with some of those who (U)are commending themselves. But when they measure themselves by one another and compare themselves with one another, they are (V)without understanding.

13 But we will not boast (W)beyond limits, but will (X)boast only with regard to the area of influence God assigned to us, (Y)to reach even to you. 14 For we are not overextending ourselves, as though we did not reach you. (Z)For we were the first to come all the way to you with the gospel of Christ. 15 We do not boast beyond limit in the labors of others. But our hope is that (AA)as your faith increases, our area of influence among you may be (AB)greatly enlarged, 16 so that we may preach the gospel in lands beyond you, without boasting of work already done in another's area of influence. 17 “Let (AC)the one who boasts, boast in the Lord.” 18 For it is (AD)not the one who commends himself who is approved, but the one (AE)whom the Lord commends.

Cross references:

  1. 2 Corinthians 10:1 : See Rom. 12:1
  2. 2 Corinthians 10:1 : Zech. 9:9; Matt. 11:29; Phil. 2:7, 8
  3. 2 Corinthians 10:2 : ch. 13:2, 10; 1 Cor. 4:18, 21
  4. 2 Corinthians 10:2 : ver. 6
  5. 2 Corinthians 10:4 : ch. 6:7; [Eph. 6:11; 1 Thess. 5:8]
  6. 2 Corinthians 10:4 : See 1 Cor. 9:7
  7. 2 Corinthians 10:4 : ch. 13:3, 4; See 1 Cor. 2:5
  8. 2 Corinthians 10:4 : Jer. 1:10
  9. 2 Corinthians 10:5 : [Isa. 2:11, 12]
  10. 2 Corinthians 10:5 : ch. 9:13; [Rom. 5:19]
  11. 2 Corinthians 10:6 : See ver. 2
  12. 2 Corinthians 10:6 : ch. 2:9; 7:15
  13. 2 Corinthians 10:7 : [ch. 5:12; John 7:24]
  14. 2 Corinthians 10:7 : [1 Cor. 1:12; 14:37; 1 John 4:6]
  15. 2 Corinthians 10:7 : 1 Cor. 3:23
  16. 2 Corinthians 10:7 : [ch. 11:23; 1 Cor. 9:1; Gal. 1:12]
  17. 2 Corinthians 10:8 : ch. 13:10
  18. 2 Corinthians 10:10 : ch. 11:21; [ch. 12:7]
  19. 2 Corinthians 10:10 : See 1 Cor. 1:17
  20. 2 Corinthians 10:12 : 1 Cor. 2:13
  21. 2 Corinthians 10:12 : ver. 18; ch. 3:1; 12:6; [Prov. 27:2]
  22. 2 Corinthians 10:12 : [Prov. 26:12]
  23. 2 Corinthians 10:13 : ver. 15
  24. 2 Corinthians 10:13 : See Rom. 12:3
  25. 2 Corinthians 10:13 : [Rom. 15:20]
  26. 2 Corinthians 10:14 : 1 Cor. 3:5; 4:15; 9:1
  27. 2 Corinthians 10:15 : 2 Thess. 1:3
  28. 2 Corinthians 10:15 : [Acts 5:13]
  29. 2 Corinthians 10:17 : 1 Cor. 1:31; [Jer. 9:23, 24]
  30. 2 Corinthians 10:18 : See ver. 12
  31. 2 Corinthians 10:18 : Rom. 2:29; 1 Cor. 4:5
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Psalm 52

The Steadfast Love of God Endures

To the choirmaster. A Maskil[a] of David, when (A)Doeg, the Edomite, came and told Saul, “David has come to the house of Ahimelech.”

52 Why do you boast of evil, O mighty man?
The steadfast love of God endures all the day.
2 Your (B)tongue plots destruction,
like (C)a sharp razor, you (D)worker of deceit.
3 You love evil more than good,
and (E)lying more than speaking what is right. Selah
4 You love all words that devour,
O deceitful tongue.

5 But God will break you down forever;
he will snatch and (F)tear you from your tent;
he will uproot you from (G)the land of the living. Selah
6 The righteous shall (H)see and fear,
and shall (I)laugh at him, saying,
7 “See the man who would not make
God his refuge,
but (J)trusted in the abundance of his riches
and sought refuge in his own destruction!”[b]

8 But I am like (K)a green olive tree
in the house of God.
I trust in the steadfast love of God
forever and ever.
9 I will thank you forever,
because you have done it.
I will wait for your name, (L)for it is good,
in the presence of the (M)godly.

Footnotes:

  1. Psalm 52:1 Probably a musical or liturgical term
  2. Psalm 52:7 Or in his work of destruction

Cross references:

  1. Psalm 52:1 : 1 Sam. 22:9
  2. Psalm 52:2 : Ps. 50:19
  3. Psalm 52:2 : [Ps. 57:4]
  4. Psalm 52:2 : Ps. 101:7
  5. Psalm 52:3 : [Jer. 9:4, 5]
  6. Psalm 52:5 : Prov. 2:22
  7. Psalm 52:5 : See Ps. 27:13
  8. Psalm 52:6 : See Ps. 40:3
  9. Psalm 52:6 : See Ps. 2:4
  10. Psalm 52:7 : See Ps. 49:6
  11. Psalm 52:8 : Jer. 11:16; [Ps. 1:3; 37:35; 92:12, 13; 128:3; 144:12; Hos. 14:6]
  12. Psalm 52:9 : Ps. 54:6
  13. Psalm 52:9 : See Ps. 50:5
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Proverbs 22:26-27

26 Be not one of those who (A)give pledges,
who put up security for debts.
27 If you have nothing with which to pay,
why should (B)your bed be taken from under you?

Cross references:

  1. Proverbs 22:26 : See Job 17:3
  2. Proverbs 22:27 : [ch. 20:16; Ex. 22:26]
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