The Daily Audio Bible Reading for Monday September 9, 2019 (NIV)

⁶ For ^(F)a man will take hold of his brother
in the house of his father, saying:
“You have a cloak;
you shall be our leader,
and this heap of ruins
shall be under your rule”;
⁷ in that day he will speak out, saying:
“I will not be a ^(G)healer;^[c]
in my house there is neither bread nor cloak;
you shall not make me
leader of the people.”
⁸ For Jerusalem has stumbled,
and Judah has fallen,
because their ^(H)speech and their deeds are against the Lord,
^(I)defying his glorious presence.^[d]

⁹ For the look on their faces bears witness against them;
they proclaim their sin ^(J)like Sodom;
they do not hide it.
Woe to them!
^(K)For they have brought evil on themselves.
^10 (L)Tell the righteous that it shall be well with them,
^(M)for they shall eat the fruit of their deeds.
^11 (N)Woe to the wicked! It shall be ill with him,
for what his hands have dealt out shall be done to him.
¹² My people—^(O)infants are their oppressors,
and women rule over them.
O my people, ^(P)your guides mislead you
and they have swallowed up^[e] the course of your paths.

¹³ The Lord ^(Q)has taken his place to contend;
he stands to judge peoples.
¹⁴ The Lord will enter into judgment
with the ^(R)elders and princes of his people:
“It is you who ^(S)have devoured^[f] the vineyard,
^(T)the spoil of the poor is in your houses.
¹⁵ What do you mean by ^(U)crushing my people,
by grinding the face of the poor?”
declares the Lord God of hosts.

¹⁶ The Lord said:
^(V)Because ^(W)the daughters of Zion are haughty
and walk with outstretched necks,
glancing wantonly with their eyes,
mincing along as they go,
^(X)tinkling with their feet,
¹⁷ therefore the Lord ^(Y)will strike with a scab
the heads of ^(Z)the daughters of Zion,
and the Lord will lay bare their secret parts.

²⁴ Instead of ^(AG)perfume there will be rottenness;
and instead of a ^(AH)belt, a rope;
and instead of ^(AI)well-set hair, ^(AJ)baldness;
and instead of a rich robe, a ^(AK)skirt of sackcloth;
and ^(AL)branding instead of beauty.
²⁵ Your men shall fall by the sword
and your mighty men in battle.
²⁶ And ^(AM)her gates shall lament and mourn;
empty, she shall ^(AN)sit on the ground.

³ And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem
and men of Judah,
judge between me and my vineyard.
^4 (BI)What more was there to do for my vineyard,
that I have not done in it?
^(BJ)When I looked for it to yield grapes,
why did it yield wild grapes?

⁵ And now I will tell you
what I will do to my vineyard.
I will remove ^(BK)its hedge,
and it shall be devoured;^[h]
(BL)I will break down its wall,
and it shall be trampled down.
⁶ I will make it a waste;
it shall not be pruned or hoed,
and ^(BM)briers and thorns shall grow up;
^(BN)I will also command the clouds
that they rain no rain upon it.

^7 (BO)For the vineyard of the Lord of hosts
is the house of Israel,
and the men of Judah
are his pleasant planting;
and he looked for justice,
but behold, bloodshed;^[i]
for righteousness,
but behold, an outcry!^[j]

¹¹ Woe to those who ^(BT)rise early in the morning,
that they may run after strong drink,
who tarry late into the evening
as wine inflames them!
^12 (BU)They have lyre and harp,
tambourine and flute and wine at their feasts,
^(BV)but they do not regard the deeds of the Lord,
or see the work of his hands.

¹³ Therefore my people go into exile
^(BW)for lack of knowledge;^[m]
their ^(BX)honored men go hungry,^[n]
and their multitude is parched with thirst.
¹⁴ Therefore Sheol has ^(BY)enlarged its appetite
and opened ^(BZ)its mouth beyond measure,
and the nobility of Jerusalem^[o] and her multitude will go down,
her revelers and he who ^(CA)exults in her.
^15 (CB)Man is humbled, and each one is brought low,
and the eyes of the haughty^[p] are brought low.
^16 (CC)But the Lord of hosts is exalted^[q] in justice,
and the Holy God shows himself holy in righteousness.
¹⁷ Then shall the lambs graze ^(CD)as in their pasture,
and ^(CE)nomads shall eat among the ruins of the rich.

¹⁸ Woe to those who draw iniquity with ^(CF)cords of falsehood,
who draw sin as with cart ropes,
¹⁹ who say: ^(CG)“Let him be quick,
let him speed his work
that we may see it;
let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw near,
and let it come, that we may know it!”
²⁰ Woe to ^(CH)those who call evil good
and good evil,
^(CI)who put darkness for light
and light for darkness,
who put bitter for sweet
and sweet for bitter!
²¹ Woe to those who are ^(CJ)wise in their own eyes,
and shrewd in their own sight!
²² Woe to those who are ^(CK)heroes at drinking wine,
and valiant men in mixing strong drink,
²³ who ^(CL)acquit the guilty for a bribe,
and deprive the innocent of his right!

²⁴ Therefore, ^(CM)as the tongue of fire devours the stubble,
and as dry grass sinks down in the flame,
so ^(CN)their root will be ^(CO)as rottenness,
and their blossom go up like dust;
for they have ^(CP)rejected the law of the Lord of hosts,
and have ^(CQ)despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.
²⁵ Therefore ^(CR)the anger of the Lord was kindled against his people,
and he stretched out his hand against them and struck them,
and ^(CS)the mountains quaked;
and their corpses were ^(CT)as refuse
in the midst of the streets.
^(CU)For all this his anger has not turned away,
and his hand is stretched out still.

²⁶ He will ^(CV)raise a signal for nations far away,
and ^(CW)whistle for them ^(CX)from the ends of the earth;
and behold, quickly, speedily they come!
^27 (CY)None is weary, none stumbles,
none slumbers or sleeps,
not a waistband is loose,
not a sandal strap broken;
^28 (CZ)their arrows are sharp,
all their bows bent,
their horses' hoofs seem like flint,
and their wheels ^(DA)like the whirlwind.
²⁹ Their roaring is like a lion,
like young lions they roar;
they growl and ^(DB)seize their prey;
they carry it off, and none can rescue.
³⁰ They will growl over it on that day,
like the growling of the sea.
And if one looks to the land,
behold, ^(DC)darkness and distress;
and the light is darkened by its clouds.

² God looks down from heaven
on the children of man
to see if there are any who understand,^[b]
who seek after God.

³ They have all fallen away;
together they have become corrupt;
there is none who does good,
not even one.

⁴ Have those who work evil no knowledge,
who eat up my people as they eat bread,
and do not call upon God?

⁵ There they are, in great terror,
^(C)where there is no terror!
For God ^(D)scatters the bones of him who encamps against you;
you put them to shame, for God has rejected them.

⁶ Oh, that salvation for Israel would come out of Zion!
When God restores the fortunes of his people,
let Jacob rejoice, let Israel be glad.