October 2019 – Page 5 – A Walk Through The Word

October 12, 2019

The Daily Audio Bible Reading for Saturday October 12, 2019 (NIV)

Jeremiah 19-21

19 This is what the Lord says: “Go and buy a clay jar from a potter.^(A) Take along some of the elders^(B) of the people and of the priests ²and go out to the Valley of Ben Hinnom,^(C) near the entrance of the Potsherd Gate. There proclaim the words I tell you, ³and say, ‘Hear the word of the Lord, you kings^(D) of Judah and people of Jerusalem. This is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says: Listen! I am going to bring a disaster^(E) on this place that will make the ears of everyone who hears of it tingle.^(F) ⁴For they have forsaken^(G) me and made this a place of foreign gods^(H); they have burned incense^(I) in it to gods that neither they nor their ancestors nor the kings of Judah ever knew, and they have filled this place with the blood of the innocent.^(J) ⁵They have built the high places of Baal to burn their children^(K) in the fire as offerings to Baal—something I did not command or mention, nor did it enter my mind.^(L) ⁶So beware, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when people will no longer call this place Topheth^(M) or the Valley of Ben Hinnom,^(N) but the Valley of Slaughter.^(O)

⁷“‘In this place I will ruin^[a] the plans^(P) of Judah and Jerusalem. I will make them fall by the sword before their enemies,^(Q) at the hands of those who want to kill them, and I will give their carcasses^(R) as food^(S) to the birds and the wild animals. ⁸I will devastate this city and make it an object of horror and scorn;^(T) all who pass by will be appalled^(U) and will scoff because of all its wounds.^(V) ⁹I will make them eat^(W) the flesh of their sons and daughters, and they will eat one another’s flesh because their enemies^(X) will press the siege so hard against them to destroy them.’

¹⁰“Then break the jar^(Y) while those who go with you are watching, ¹¹and say to them, ‘This is what the Lord Almighty says: I will smash^(Z) this nation and this city just as this potter’s jar is smashed and cannot be repaired. They will bury^(AA) the dead in Topheth until there is no more room. ¹²This is what I will do to this place and to those who live here, declares the Lord. I will make this city like Topheth. ¹³The houses^(AB) in Jerusalem and those of the kings of Judah will be defiled^(AC) like this place, Topheth—all the houses where they burned incense on the roofs^(AD) to all the starry hosts^(AE) and poured out drink offerings^(AF) to other gods.’”

¹⁴Jeremiah then returned from Topheth, where the Lord had sent him to prophesy, and stood in the court^(AG) of the Lord’s temple and said to all the people, ¹⁵“This is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says: ‘Listen! I am going to bring on this city and all the villages around it every disaster^(AH) I pronounced against them, because they were stiff-necked^(AI) and would not listen^(AJ) to my words.’”

Jeremiah and Pashhur

20 When the priest Pashhur son of Immer,^(AK) the official^(AL) in charge of the temple of the Lord, heard Jeremiah prophesying these things, ²he had Jeremiah the prophet beaten^(AM) and put in the stocks^(AN) at the Upper Gate of Benjamin^(AO) at the Lord’s temple. ³The next day, when Pashhur released him from the stocks, Jeremiah said to him, “The Lord’s name^(AP) for you is not Pashhur, but Terror on Every Side.^(AQ) ⁴For this is what the Lord says: ‘I will make you a terror to yourself and to all your friends; with your own eyes^(AR) you will see them fall by the sword of their enemies. I will give^(AS) all Judah into the hands of the king of Babylon, who will carry^(AT) them away to Babylon or put them to the sword. ⁵I will deliver all the wealth^(AU) of this city into the hands of their enemies—all its products, all its valuables and all the treasures of the kings of Judah. They will take it away^(AV) as plunder and carry it off to Babylon. ⁶And you, Pashhur, and all who live in your house will go into exile to Babylon. There you will die and be buried, you and all your friends to whom you have prophesied^(AW) lies.’”

Jeremiah’s Complaint

⁷You deceived^[b]^(AX) me, Lord, and I was deceived^[c];
you overpowered^(AY) me and prevailed.
I am ridiculed^(AZ) all day long;
everyone mocks^(BA) me.
⁸Whenever I speak, I cry out
proclaiming violence and destruction.^(BB)
So the word of the Lord has brought me
insult and reproach^(BC) all day long.
⁹But if I say, “I will not mention his word
or speak anymore in his name,”^(BD)
his word is in my heart like a fire,^(BE)
a fire shut up in my bones.
I am weary of holding it in;^(BF)
indeed, I cannot.
¹⁰I hear many whispering,
“Terror^(BG) on every side!
Denounce^(BH) him! Let’s denounce him!”
All my friends^(BI)
are waiting for me to slip,^(BJ) saying,
“Perhaps he will be deceived;
then we will prevail^(BK) over him
and take our revenge^(BL) on him.”

¹¹But the Lord^(BM) is with me like a mighty warrior;
so my persecutors^(BN) will stumble and not prevail.^(BO)
They will fail and be thoroughly disgraced;^(BP)
their dishonor will never be forgotten.
¹²Lord Almighty, you who examine the righteous
and probe the heart and mind,^(BQ)
let me see your vengeance^(BR) on them,
for to you I have committed^(BS) my cause.

¹³Sing^(BT) to the Lord!
Give praise to the Lord!
He rescues^(BU) the life of the needy
from the hands of the wicked.^(BV)

¹⁴Cursed be the day I was born!^(BW)
May the day my mother bore me not be blessed!
¹⁵Cursed be the man who brought my father the news,
who made him very glad, saying,
“A child is born to you—a son!”
¹⁶May that man be like the towns^(BX)
the Lord overthrew without pity.
May he hear wailing^(BY) in the morning,
a battle cry at noon.
¹⁷For he did not kill me in the womb,^(BZ)
with my mother as my grave,
her womb enlarged forever.
¹⁸Why did I ever come out of the womb^(CA)
to see trouble^(CB) and sorrow
and to end my days in shame?^(CC)

God Rejects Zedekiah’s Request

21 The word came to Jeremiah from the Lord when King Zedekiah^(CD) sent to him Pashhur^(CE) son of Malkijah and the priest Zephaniah^(CF) son of Maaseiah. They said: ²“Inquire^(CG) now of the Lord for us because Nebuchadnezzar^[d]^(CH) king of Babylon^(CI) is attacking us. Perhaps the Lord will perform wonders^(CJ) for us as in times past so that he will withdraw from us.”

³But Jeremiah answered them, “Tell Zedekiah, ⁴‘This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: I am about to turn^(CK) against you the weapons of war that are in your hands, which you are using to fight the king of Babylon and the Babylonians^[e] who are outside the wall besieging^(CL) you. And I will gather them inside this city. ⁵I myself will fight^(CM) against you with an outstretched hand^(CN) and a mighty arm^(CO) in furious anger and in great wrath. ⁶I will strike^(CP) down those who live in this city—both man and beast—and they will die of a terrible plague.^(CQ) ⁷After that, declares the Lord, I will give Zedekiah^(CR) king of Judah, his officials and the people in this city who survive the plague,^(CS) sword and famine, into the hands of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon^(CT) and to their enemies^(CU) who want to kill them.^(CV) He will put them to the sword;^(CW) he will show them no mercy or pity or compassion.’^(CX)

⁸“Furthermore, tell the people, ‘This is what the Lord says: See, I am setting before you the way of life^(CY) and the way of death. ⁹Whoever stays in this city will die by the sword, famine or plague.^(CZ) But whoever goes out and surrenders^(DA) to the Babylonians who are besieging you will live; they will escape with their lives.^(DB) ¹⁰I have determined to do this city harm^(DC) and not good, declares the Lord. It will be given into the hands^(DD) of the king of Babylon, and he will destroy it with fire.’^(DE)

¹¹“Moreover, say to the royal house^(DF) of Judah, ‘Hear the word of the Lord. ¹²This is what the Lord says to you, house of David:

“‘Administer justice^(DG) every morning;
rescue from the hand of the oppressor^(DH)
the one who has been robbed,
or my wrath will break out and burn like fire^(DI)
because of the evil^(DJ) you have done—
burn with no one to quench^(DK) it.
¹³I am against^(DL) you, Jerusalem,
you who live above this valley^(DM)
on the rocky plateau, declares the Lord—
you who say, “Who can come against us?
Who can enter our refuge?”^(DN)
¹⁴I will punish you as your deeds^(DO) deserve,
declares the Lord.
I will kindle a fire^(DP) in your forests^(DQ)
that will consume everything around you.’”

Footnotes:

Jeremiah 19:7 The Hebrew for ruin sounds like the Hebrew for jar (see verses 1 and 10).
Jeremiah 20:7 Or persuaded
Jeremiah 20:7 Or persuaded
Jeremiah 21:2 Hebrew Nebuchadrezzar, of which Nebuchadnezzar is a variant; here and often in Jeremiah and Ezekiel
Jeremiah 21:4 Or Chaldeans; also in verse 9

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1 Thessalonians 5:4-28

⁴But you, brothers and sisters, are not in darkness^(A) so that this day should surprise you like a thief.^(B) ⁵You are all children of the light^(C) and children of the day. We do not belong to the night or to the darkness. ⁶So then, let us not be like others, who are asleep,^(D) but let us be awake^(E) and sober.^(F) ⁷For those who sleep, sleep at night, and those who get drunk, get drunk at night.^(G) ⁸But since we belong to the day,^(H) let us be sober, putting on faith and love as a breastplate,^(I) and the hope of salvation^(J) as a helmet.^(K) ⁹For God did not appoint us to suffer wrath^(L) but to receive salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ.^(M) ¹⁰He died for us so that, whether we are awake or asleep, we may live together with him.^(N) ¹¹Therefore encourage one another^(O) and build each other up,^(P) just as in fact you are doing.

Final Instructions

¹²Now we ask you, brothers and sisters, to acknowledge those who work hard^(Q) among you, who care for you in the Lord^(R) and who admonish you. ¹³Hold them in the highest regard in love because of their work. Live in peace with each other.^(S) ¹⁴And we urge you, brothers and sisters, warn those who are idle^(T) and disruptive, encourage the disheartened, help the weak,^(U) be patient with everyone. ¹⁵Make sure that nobody pays back wrong for wrong,^(V) but always strive to do what is good for each other^(W) and for everyone else.

¹⁶Rejoice always,^(X) ¹⁷pray continually,^(Y) ¹⁸give thanks in all circumstances;^(Z) for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.

¹⁹Do not quench the Spirit.^(AA) ²⁰Do not treat prophecies^(AB) with contempt ²¹but test them all;^(AC) hold on to what is good,^(AD) ²²reject every kind of evil.

²³May God himself, the God of peace,^(AE) sanctify you through and through. May your whole spirit, soul^(AF) and body be kept blameless^(AG) at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.^(AH) ²⁴The one who calls^(AI) you is faithful,^(AJ) and he will do it.^(AK)

²⁵Brothers and sisters, pray for us.^(AL) ²⁶Greet all God’s people with a holy kiss.^(AM) ²⁷I charge you before the Lord to have this letter read to all the brothers and sisters.^(AN)

²⁸The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.^(AO)

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Psalm 82

A psalm of Asaph.

¹God presides in the great assembly;
he renders judgment^(A) among the “gods”:^(B)

²“How long will you^[a] defend the unjust
and show partiality^(C) to the wicked?^[b]^(D)
³Defend the weak and the fatherless;^(E)
uphold the cause of the poor^(F) and the oppressed.
⁴Rescue the weak and the needy;
deliver them from the hand of the wicked.

⁵“The ‘gods’ know nothing, they understand nothing.^(G)
They walk about in darkness;^(H)
all the foundations^(I) of the earth are shaken.

⁶“I said, ‘You are “gods”;^(J)
you are all sons of the Most High.’
⁷But you will die^(K) like mere mortals;
you will fall like every other ruler.”

⁸Rise up,^(L) O God, judge^(M) the earth,
for all the nations are your inheritance.^(N)

Footnotes:

Psalm 82:2 The Hebrew is plural.
Psalm 82:2 The Hebrew has Selah (a word of uncertain meaning) here.

New International Version (NIV)

Proverbs 25:9-10

⁹If you take your neighbor to court,
do not betray another’s confidence,
¹⁰or the one who hears it may shame you
and the charge against you will stand.

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October 11, 2019

The Daily Audio Bible Reading for Friday October 11, 2019 (NIV)

Jeremiah 16:16-18:23

¹⁶“But now I will send for many fishermen,” declares the Lord, “and they will catch them.^(A) After that I will send for many hunters, and they will hunt^(B) them down on every mountain and hill and from the crevices of the rocks.^(C) ¹⁷My eyes are on all their ways; they are not hidden^(D) from me, nor is their sin concealed from my eyes.^(E) ¹⁸I will repay^(F) them double^(G) for their wickedness and their sin, because they have defiled my land^(H) with the lifeless forms of their vile images^(I) and have filled my inheritance with their detestable idols.^(J)”^(K)

¹⁹Lord, my strength and my fortress,
my refuge^(L) in time of distress,
to you the nations will come^(M)
from the ends of the earth and say,
“Our ancestors possessed nothing but false gods,^(N)
worthless idols^(O) that did them no good.^(P)
²⁰Do people make their own gods?
Yes, but they are not gods!”^(Q)

²¹“Therefore I will teach them—
this time I will teach them
my power and might.
Then they will know
that my name^(R) is the Lord.

17 “Judah’s sin is engraved with an iron tool,^(S)
inscribed with a flint point,
on the tablets of their hearts^(T)
and on the horns^(U) of their altars.
²Even their children remember
their altars and Asherah poles^[a]^(V)
beside the spreading trees
and on the high hills.^(W)
³My mountain in the land
and your^[b] wealth and all your treasures
I will give away as plunder,^(X)
together with your high places,^(Y)
because of sin throughout your country.^(Z)
⁴Through your own fault you will lose
the inheritance^(AA) I gave you.
I will enslave you to your enemies^(AB)
in a land^(AC) you do not know,
for you have kindled my anger,
and it will burn^(AD) forever.”

⁵This is what the Lord says:

“Cursed is the one who trusts in man,^(AE)
who draws strength from mere flesh
and whose heart turns away from the Lord.^(AF)
⁶That person will be like a bush in the wastelands;
they will not see prosperity when it comes.
They will dwell in the parched places^(AG) of the desert,
in a salt^(AH) land where no one lives.

⁷“But blessed^(AI) is the one who trusts^(AJ) in the Lord,
whose confidence is in him.
⁸They will be like a tree planted by the water
that sends out its roots by the stream.^(AK)
It does not fear when heat comes;
its leaves are always green.
It has no worries in a year of drought^(AL)
and never fails to bear fruit.”^(AM)

⁹The heart^(AN) is deceitful above all things
and beyond cure.
Who can understand it?

¹⁰“I the Lord search the heart^(AO)
and examine the mind,^(AP)
to reward^(AQ) each person according to their conduct,
according to what their deeds deserve.”^(AR)

¹¹Like a partridge that hatches eggs it did not lay
are those who gain riches by unjust means.
When their lives are half gone, their riches will desert them,
and in the end they will prove to be fools.^(AS)

¹²A glorious throne,^(AT) exalted from the beginning,
is the place of our sanctuary.
¹³Lord, you are the hope^(AU) of Israel;
all who forsake^(AV) you will be put to shame.
Those who turn away from you will be written in the dust^(AW)
because they have forsaken the Lord,
the spring of living water.^(AX)

¹⁴Heal me, Lord, and I will be healed;^(AY)
save^(AZ) me and I will be saved,
for you are the one I praise.^(BA)
¹⁵They keep saying to me,
“Where is the word of the Lord?
Let it now be fulfilled!”^(BB)
¹⁶I have not run away from being your shepherd;
you know I have not desired the day of despair.
What passes my lips^(BC) is open before you.
¹⁷Do not be a terror^(BD) to me;
you are my refuge^(BE) in the day of disaster.^(BF)
¹⁸Let my persecutors be put to shame,
but keep me from shame;
let them be terrified,
but keep me from terror.
Bring on them the day of disaster;
destroy them with double destruction.^(BG)

Keeping the Sabbath Day Holy

¹⁹This is what the Lord said to me: “Go and stand at the Gate of the People,^[c] through which the kings of Judah go in and out; stand also at all the other gates of Jerusalem.^(BH) ²⁰Say to them, ‘Hear the word of the Lord, you kings of Judah and all people of Judah and everyone living in Jerusalem^(BI) who come through these gates.^(BJ) ²¹This is what the Lord says: Be careful not to carry a load on the Sabbath^(BK) day or bring it through the gates of Jerusalem. ²²Do not bring a load out of your houses or do any work on the Sabbath, but keep the Sabbath day holy, as I commanded your ancestors.^(BL) ²³Yet they did not listen or pay attention;^(BM) they were stiff-necked^(BN) and would not listen or respond to discipline.^(BO) ²⁴But if you are careful to obey me, declares the Lord, and bring no load through the gates of this city on the Sabbath, but keep the Sabbath day holy^(BP) by not doing any work on it, ²⁵then kings who sit on David’s throne^(BQ) will come through the gates of this city with their officials. They and their officials will come riding in chariots and on horses, accompanied by the men of Judah and those living in Jerusalem, and this city will be inhabited forever.^(BR) ²⁶People will come from the towns of Judah and the villages around Jerusalem, from the territory of Benjamin and the western foothills, from the hill country and the Negev,^(BS) bringing burnt offerings and sacrifices, grain offerings and incense, and bringing thank offerings to the house of the Lord. ²⁷But if you do not obey^(BT) me to keep the Sabbath^(BU) day holy by not carrying any load as you come through the gates of Jerusalem on the Sabbath day, then I will kindle an unquenchable fire^(BV) in the gates of Jerusalem that will consume her fortresses.’”^(BW)

At the Potter’s House

18 This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord: ²“Go down to the potter’s house, and there I will give you my message.” ³So I went down to the potter’s house, and I saw him working at the wheel. ⁴But the pot he was shaping from the clay was marred in his hands; so the potter formed it into another pot, shaping it as seemed best to him.

⁵Then the word of the Lord came to me. ⁶He said, “Can I not do with you, Israel, as this potter does?” declares the Lord. “Like clay^(BX) in the hand of the potter, so are you in my hand,^(BY) Israel. ⁷If at any time I announce that a nation or kingdom is to be uprooted,^(BZ) torn down and destroyed, ⁸and if that nation I warned repents of its evil, then I will relent^(CA) and not inflict on it the disaster^(CB) I had planned. ⁹And if at another time I announce that a nation or kingdom is to be built^(CC) up and planted, ¹⁰and if it does evil^(CD) in my sight and does not obey me, then I will reconsider^(CE) the good I had intended to do for it.^(CF)

¹¹“Now therefore say to the people of Judah and those living in Jerusalem, ‘This is what the Lord says: Look! I am preparing a disaster^(CG) for you and devising a plan^(CH) against you. So turn^(CI) from your evil ways,^(CJ) each one of you, and reform your ways and your actions.’^(CK) ¹²But they will reply, ‘It’s no use.^(CL) We will continue with our own plans; we will all follow the stubbornness of our evil hearts.^(CM)’”

¹³Therefore this is what the Lord says:

“Inquire among the nations:
Who has ever heard anything like this?^(CN)
A most horrible^(CO) thing has been done
by Virgin^(CP) Israel.
¹⁴Does the snow of Lebanon
ever vanish from its rocky slopes?
Do its cool waters from distant sources
ever stop flowing?^[d]
¹⁵Yet my people have forgotten^(CQ) me;
they burn incense^(CR) to worthless idols,^(CS)
which made them stumble^(CT) in their ways,
in the ancient paths.^(CU)
They made them walk in byways,
on roads not built up.^(CV)
¹⁶Their land will be an object of horror^(CW)
and of lasting scorn;^(CX)
all who pass by will be appalled^(CY)
and will shake their heads.^(CZ)
¹⁷Like a wind^(DA) from the east,
I will scatter them before their enemies;
I will show them my back and not my face^(DB)
in the day of their disaster.”

¹⁸They said, “Come, let’s make plans^(DC) against Jeremiah; for the teaching of the law by the priest^(DD) will not cease, nor will counsel from the wise,^(DE) nor the word from the prophets.^(DF) So come, let’s attack him with our tongues^(DG) and pay no attention to anything he says.”

¹⁹Listen to me, Lord;
hear what my accusers^(DH) are saying!
²⁰Should good be repaid with evil?^(DI)
Yet they have dug a pit^(DJ) for me.
Remember that I stood^(DK) before you
and spoke in their behalf^(DL)
to turn your wrath away from them.
²¹So give their children over to famine;^(DM)
hand them over to the power of the sword.^(DN)
Let their wives be made childless and widows;^(DO)
let their men be put to death,
their young men^(DP) slain by the sword in battle.
²²Let a cry^(DQ) be heard from their houses
when you suddenly bring invaders against them,
for they have dug a pit^(DR) to capture me
and have hidden snares^(DS) for my feet.
²³But you, Lord, know
all their plots to kill^(DT) me.
Do not forgive^(DU) their crimes
or blot out their sins from your sight.
Let them be overthrown before you;
deal with them in the time of your anger.^(DV)

Footnotes:

Jeremiah 17:2 That is, wooden symbols of the goddess Asherah
Jeremiah 17:3 Or hills / ³and the mountains of the land. / Your
Jeremiah 17:19 Or Army
Jeremiah 18:14 The meaning of the Hebrew for this sentence is uncertain.

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1 Thessalonians 4:1-5:3

Living to Please God

4 As for other matters, brothers and sisters,^(A) we instructed you how to live^(B) in order to please God,^(C) as in fact you are living. Now we ask you and urge you in the Lord Jesus to do this more and more. ²For you know what instructions we gave you by the authority of the Lord Jesus.

³It is God’s will^(D) that you should be sanctified: that you should avoid sexual immorality;^(E) ⁴that each of you should learn to control your own body^[a]^(F) in a way that is holy and honorable, ⁵not in passionate lust^(G) like the pagans,^(H) who do not know God;^(I) ⁶and that in this matter no one should wrong or take advantage of a brother or sister.^[b]^(J) The Lord will punish^(K) all those who commit such sins,^(L) as we told you and warned you before. ⁷For God did not call us to be impure, but to live a holy life.^(M) ⁸Therefore, anyone who rejects this instruction does not reject a human being but God, the very God who gives you his Holy Spirit.^(N)

⁹Now about your love for one another^(O) we do not need to write to you,^(P) for you yourselves have been taught by God^(Q) to love each other.^(R) ¹⁰And in fact, you do love all of God’s family throughout Macedonia.^(S) Yet we urge you, brothers and sisters, to do so more and more,^(T) ¹¹and to make it your ambition to lead a quiet life: You should mind your own business and work with your hands,^(U) just as we told you, ¹²so that your daily life may win the respect of outsiders^(V) and so that you will not be dependent on anybody.

Believers Who Have Died

¹³Brothers and sisters, we do not want you to be uninformed^(W) about those who sleep in death,^(X) so that you do not grieve like the rest of mankind, who have no hope.^(Y) ¹⁴For we believe that Jesus died and rose again,^(Z) and so we believe that God will bring with Jesus those who have fallen asleep in him.^(AA) ¹⁵According to the Lord’s word, we tell you that we who are still alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord,^(AB) will certainly not precede those who have fallen asleep.^(AC) ¹⁶For the Lord himself will come down from heaven,^(AD) with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel^(AE) and with the trumpet call of God,^(AF) and the dead in Christ will rise first.^(AG) ¹⁷After that, we who are still alive and are left^(AH) will be caught up together with them in the clouds^(AI) to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord^(AJ) forever. ¹⁸Therefore encourage one another^(AK) with these words.

The Day of the Lord

5 Now, brothers and sisters, about times and dates^(AL) we do not need to write to you,^(AM) ²for you know very well that the day of the Lord^(AN) will come like a thief in the night.^(AO) ³While people are saying, “Peace and safety,”^(AP) destruction will come on them suddenly,^(AQ) as labor pains on a pregnant woman, and they will not escape.^(AR)

Footnotes:

1 Thessalonians 4:4 Or learn to live with your own wife; or learn to acquire a wife
1 Thessalonians 4:6 The Greek word for brother or sister (adelphos) refers here to a believer, whether man or woman, as part of God’s family.

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Psalm 81

Psalm 81^[a]

For the director of music. According to gittith.^[b] Of Asaph.

¹Sing for joy to God our strength;
shout aloud to the God of Jacob!^(A)
²Begin the music, strike the timbrel,^(B)
play the melodious harp^(C) and lyre.^(D)

³Sound the ram’s horn^(E) at the New Moon,^(F)
and when the moon is full, on the day of our festival;
⁴this is a decree for Israel,
an ordinance of the God of Jacob.^(G)
⁵When God went out against Egypt,^(H)
he established it as a statute for Joseph.

I heard an unknown voice say:^(I)

⁶“I removed the burden^(J) from their shoulders;^(K)
their hands were set free from the basket.
⁷In your distress you called^(L) and I rescued you,
I answered^(M) you out of a thundercloud;
I tested you at the waters of Meribah.^[c]^(N)
⁸Hear me, my people,^(O) and I will warn you—
if you would only listen to me, Israel!
⁹You shall have no foreign god^(P) among you;
you shall not worship any god other than me.
¹⁰I am the Lord your God,
who brought you up out of Egypt.^(Q)
Open^(R) wide your mouth and I will fill^(S) it.

¹¹“But my people would not listen to me;
Israel would not submit to me.^(T)
¹²So I gave them over^(U) to their stubborn hearts
to follow their own devices.

¹³“If my people would only listen to me,^(V)
if Israel would only follow my ways,
¹⁴how quickly I would subdue^(W) their enemies
and turn my hand against^(X) their foes!
¹⁵Those who hate the Lord would cringe^(Y) before him,
and their punishment would last forever.
¹⁶But you would be fed with the finest of wheat;^(Z)
with honey from the rock I would satisfy you.”

Footnotes:

Psalm 81:1 In Hebrew texts 81:1-16 is numbered 81:2-17.
Psalm 81:1 Title: Probably a musical term
Psalm 81:7 The Hebrew has Selah (a word of uncertain meaning) here.

Cross references:

Psalm 81:1 : S Ps 66:1
Psalm 81:2 : S Ex 15:20
Psalm 81:2 : Ps 92:3
Psalm 81:2 : S Job 21:12
Psalm 81:3 : S Ex 19:13
Psalm 81:3 : S Ne 10:33
Psalm 81:4 : ver 1
Psalm 81:5 : S Ex 11:4
Psalm 81:5 : Ps 114:1
Psalm 81:6 : S Ex 1:14
Psalm 81:6 : Isa 9:4; 52:2
Psalm 81:7 : S Ex 2:23
Psalm 81:7 : Ex 19:19
Psalm 81:7 : S Ex 17:7; S Dt 33:8
Psalm 81:8 : Ps 50:7; 78:1
Psalm 81:9 : S Ex 20:3
Psalm 81:10 : S Ex 6:6; S 13:3; S 29:46
Psalm 81:10 : Eze 2:8
Psalm 81:10 : Ps 107:9
Psalm 81:11 : Ex 32:1-6
Psalm 81:12 : Eze 20:25; Ac 7:42; Ro 1:24
Psalm 81:13 : S Dt 5:29
Psalm 81:14 : Ps 47:3
Psalm 81:14 : Am 1:8
Psalm 81:15 : S 2Sa 22:45
Psalm 81:16 : S Dt 32:14

New International Version (NIV)

Proverbs 25:6-8

⁶Do not exalt yourself in the king’s presence,
and do not claim a place among his great men;
⁷it is better for him to say to you, “Come up here,”^(A)
than for him to humiliate you before his nobles.

What you have seen with your eyes
⁸do not bring^[a] hastily to court,
for what will you do in the end
if your neighbor puts you to shame?^(B)

Footnotes:

Proverbs 25:8 Or nobles / on whom you had set your eyes. / ⁸Do not go

Cross references:

New International Version (NIV)

October 10, 2019

10/10/2019 DAB Transcript

Jeremiah 14:11-16:15, 1 Thessalonians 2:9-3:13, Psalms 80:1-19, Proverbs 25:1-5

Today is the 10^th day of the month of October. Welcome to the Daily Audio Bible. I’m Brian… I say the day every day but there are times that it’s just like it blips out…like what month are we in? Where are we? You ever feel that way? Anyway, I’m looking at it now. I’m looking at the calendar it’s the 10^th of October and we’re here to take the next step forward in the Scriptures, which will take us into the book of Jeremiah today as the first letter to the Thessalonians, which we began yesterday. We’re reading from the New International Version this week. Jeremiah chapter 14 verse 11 through 16 verse 15 today.

Okay. Have you ever felt like you are under a lot of pressure, right? There’s a lot of us right now going, “yeah! Right now. I feel that way right now.” Like, can…we all know what this feels like. You get stressed out. The pressure is descending upon us. We feel like we’re being crushed. And that’s kind of what we read about in both the Old and the New Testaments today. So, in Thessalonica, we’ve already talked about this. This church was formed under pressure and it was formed quickly, and Paul was concerned because he had to…they had to run out of town, like they had to escape. And, so, he’d been wondering and he sent Timothy and Timothy came back and gave good news that they were holding to their faith, which prompted Paul to write this letter in part because he wanted them to know that they weren’t alone, like they weren’t the only ones facing opposition. I mean, for sure they were experiencing intimidation and they were being harassed by their own countrymen, but the Hebrew believers were experience the same kind of thing from their own fellow countrymen. So, Paul wanted the Thessalonian believers to know they were not abandoned. Instead, they’d actually taken their place. Liked they’d locked arms and hearts with thousands of other brothers and sisters who were in the struggle for spiritual freedom.

So, if you’re feeling crushed, if you’re feeling spiritually worn out and opposed and marginalized, then…then first of all understand that you’ve taken your place to in this long and unbroken line of brothers and sisters, stretching all the way back to the day that Paul wrote this letter who have all endured the same thing. Opposition is how the gospel spread throughout the earth and the Scriptures continually tell us not to be surprised by it. But the Scriptures also continually tell us are not alone.

So, like in Jeremiah today. The prophet was feeling marginalized and…and…and opposed and he received direct comfort from the Lord when he cried out to God about these things. And God said, “if you repent, I will restore you, that you may serve me. If you utter worthy not worthless words you will be my spokesman that this people turn to you. But you must not turn to them. In other words, not become like them. I will make you a wall to this people, a fortified wall of bronze. They will fight against you but will not overcome you for I am with you to rescue and save you, declares the Lord. I will save you from the hands of the wicked and deliver you from the grasp of the cruel.

And then resume back forward into the letter to the Thessalonians and we have Paul praying a prayer of encouragement and benediction. And he says, “may the Lord make your love increase and overflow for each other and for everyone else, just as ours does for you. May he strengthen your hearts so that you will be blameless and holy in the presence of our God and Father when our Lord Jesus comes with all His holy ones. Take those prayers and encouragement that span thousands of years and remember them when you’re feeling alone, or when you’re overwhelmed, or when you’re crushed or opposed. Remember these words spoken by God and remember the prayer of the apostle Paul, you are not alone. And in this is important. Don’t mistake challenge for abandonment. They’re very different things. God’s presence and the presence of our fellow brothers and sisters, that does…like that’s not the recipe for making life easy, it’s simply the promise that we can rise to the challenges and become stronger through them. It was challenge that spread the gospel of Jesus around the world. Jesus told us we should expect nothing different. Challenge doesn’t mean we’re gonna be abandoned. That will never happen. We will never be alone in it. So, understand that you are not alone, and you will never be alone. As you walk through this day your brothers and sisters all over the world are going through the same kinds of things and we have the same Holy Spirit who raised Christ from the dead dwelling in us. We are equipped to rise to the challenge, and we must.

Prayer:

Holy Spirit come. Encourage us. Give us courage to rise to the challenges that we face every day in life. And we draw near to You and know that You will draw near to us. Lead us forward on the way that we should go. And we pray this in the name of Jesus. Amen.

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October 10, 2019

The Daily Audio Bible Reading for Thursday October 10, 2019 (NIV)

Jeremiah 14:11-16:15

¹¹Then the Lord said to me, “Do not pray^(A) for the well-being of this people. ¹²Although they fast, I will not listen to their cry;^(B) though they offer burnt offerings^(C) and grain offerings,^(D) I will not accept^(E) them. Instead, I will destroy them with the sword,^(F) famine^(G) and plague.”^(H)

¹³But I said, “Alas, Sovereign Lord! The prophets^(I) keep telling them, ‘You will not see the sword or suffer famine.^(J) Indeed, I will give you lasting peace^(K) in this place.’”

¹⁴Then the Lord said to me, “The prophets are prophesying lies^(L) in my name. I have not sent^(M) them or appointed them or spoken to them. They are prophesying to you false visions,^(N) divinations,^(O) idolatries^[a] and the delusions of their own minds. ¹⁵Therefore this is what the Lord says about the prophets who are prophesying in my name: I did not send them, yet they are saying, ‘No sword or famine will touch this land.’ Those same prophets will perish^(P) by sword and famine.^(Q) ¹⁶And the people they are prophesying to will be thrown out into the streets of Jerusalem because of the famine and sword. There will be no one to bury^(R) them, their wives, their sons and their daughters.^(S) I will pour out on them the calamity they deserve.^(T)

¹⁷“Speak this word to them:

“‘Let my eyes overflow with tears^(U)
night and day without ceasing;
for the Virgin^(V) Daughter, my people,
has suffered a grievous wound,
a crushing blow.^(W)
¹⁸If I go into the country,
I see those slain by the sword;
if I go into the city,
I see the ravages of famine.^(X)
Both prophet and priest
have gone to a land they know not.^(Y)’”

¹⁹Have you rejected Judah completely?^(Z)
Do you despise Zion?
Why have you afflicted us
so that we cannot be healed?^(AA)
We hoped for peace
but no good has come,
for a time of healing
but there is only terror.^(AB)
²⁰We acknowledge^(AC) our wickedness, Lord,
and the guilt of our ancestors;^(AD)
we have indeed sinned^(AE) against you.
²¹For the sake of your name^(AF) do not despise us;
do not dishonor your glorious throne.^(AG)
Remember your covenant^(AH) with us
and do not break it.
²²Do any of the worthless idols^(AI) of the nations bring rain?^(AJ)
Do the skies themselves send down showers?
No, it is you, Lord our God.
Therefore our hope is in you,
for you are the one who does all this.^(AK)

15 Then the Lord said to me: “Even if Moses^(AL) and Samuel^(AM) were to stand before me, my heart would not go out to this people.^(AN) Send them away from my presence!^(AO) Let them go! ²And if they ask you, ‘Where shall we go?’ tell them, ‘This is what the Lord says:

“‘Those destined for death, to death;
those for the sword, to the sword;^(AP)
those for starvation, to starvation;^(AQ)
those for captivity, to captivity.’^(AR)

³“I will send four kinds of destroyers^(AS) against them,” declares the Lord, “the sword^(AT) to kill and the dogs^(AU) to drag away and the birds^(AV) and the wild animals to devour and destroy.^(AW) ⁴I will make them abhorrent^(AX) to all the kingdoms of the earth^(AY) because of what Manasseh^(AZ) son of Hezekiah king of Judah did in Jerusalem.

⁵“Who will have pity^(BA) on you, Jerusalem?
Who will mourn for you?
Who will stop to ask how you are?
⁶You have rejected^(BB) me,” declares the Lord.
“You keep on backsliding.
So I will reach out^(BC) and destroy you;
I am tired of holding back.^(BD)
⁷I will winnow^(BE) them with a winnowing fork
at the city gates of the land.
I will bring bereavement^(BF) and destruction on my people,^(BG)
for they have not changed their ways.^(BH)
⁸I will make their widows^(BI) more numerous
than the sand of the sea.
At midday I will bring a destroyer^(BJ)
against the mothers of their young men;
suddenly I will bring down on them
anguish and terror.^(BK)
⁹The mother of seven will grow faint^(BL)
and breathe her last.^(BM)
Her sun will set while it is still day;
she will be disgraced^(BN) and humiliated.
I will put the survivors to the sword^(BO)
before their enemies,”^(BP)
declares the Lord.

¹⁰Alas, my mother, that you gave me birth,^(BQ)
a man with whom the whole land strives and contends!^(BR)
I have neither lent^(BS) nor borrowed,
yet everyone curses^(BT) me.

¹¹The Lord said,

“Surely I will deliver you^(BU) for a good purpose;
surely I will make your enemies plead^(BV) with you
in times of disaster and times of distress.

¹²“Can a man break iron—
iron from the north^(BW)—or bronze?

¹³“Your wealth^(BX) and your treasures
I will give as plunder,^(BY) without charge,^(BZ)
because of all your sins
throughout your country.^(CA)
¹⁴I will enslave you to your enemies
in^[b] a land you do not know,^(CB)
for my anger will kindle a fire^(CC)
that will burn against you.”

¹⁵Lord, you understand;
remember me and care for me.
Avenge me on my persecutors.^(CD)
You are long-suffering^(CE)—do not take me away;
think of how I suffer reproach for your sake.^(CF)
¹⁶When your words came, I ate^(CG) them;
they were my joy and my heart’s delight,^(CH)
for I bear your name,^(CI)
Lord God Almighty.
¹⁷I never sat^(CJ) in the company of revelers,
never made merry with them;
I sat alone because your hand^(CK) was on me
and you had filled me with indignation.
¹⁸Why is my pain unending
and my wound grievous and incurable?^(CL)
You are to me like a deceptive brook,
like a spring that fails.^(CM)

¹⁹Therefore this is what the Lord says:

“If you repent, I will restore you
that you may serve^(CN) me;
if you utter worthy, not worthless, words,
you will be my spokesman.^(CO)
Let this people turn to you,
but you must not turn to them.
²⁰I will make you a wall^(CP) to this people,
a fortified wall of bronze;
they will fight against you
but will not overcome^(CQ) you,
for I am with you
to rescue and save you,”^(CR)
declares the Lord.
²¹“I will save^(CS) you from the hands of the wicked^(CT)
and deliver^(CU) you from the grasp of the cruel.”^(CV)

Day of Disaster

16 Then the word of the Lord came to me: ²“You must not marry^(CW) and have sons or daughters in this place.” ³For this is what the Lord says about the sons and daughters born in this land and about the women who are their mothers and the men who are their fathers:^(CX) ⁴“They will die of deadly diseases. They will not be mourned or buried^(CY) but will be like dung lying on the ground.^(CZ) They will perish by sword and famine,^(DA) and their dead bodies will become food for the birds and the wild animals.”^(DB)

⁵For this is what the Lord says: “Do not enter a house where there is a funeral meal; do not go to mourn or show sympathy, because I have withdrawn my blessing, my love and my pity^(DC) from this people,” declares the Lord. ⁶“Both high and low will die in this land.^(DD) They will not be buried or mourned,^(DE) and no one will cut^(DF) themselves or shave^(DG) their head for the dead. ⁷No one will offer food^(DH) to comfort those who mourn^(DI) for the dead—not even for a father or a mother—nor will anyone give them a drink to console^(DJ) them.

⁸“And do not enter a house where there is feasting and sit down to eat and drink.^(DK) ⁹For this is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says: Before your eyes and in your days I will bring an end to the sounds^(DL) of joy and gladness and to the voices of bride^(DM) and bridegroom in this place.^(DN)

¹⁰“When you tell these people all this and they ask you, ‘Why has the Lord decreed such a great disaster against us? What wrong have we done? What sin have we committed against the Lord our God?’^(DO) ¹¹then say to them, ‘It is because your ancestors forsook me,’ declares the Lord, ‘and followed other gods and served and worshiped^(DP) them. They forsook me and did not keep my law.^(DQ) ¹²But you have behaved more wickedly than your ancestors.^(DR) See how all of you are following the stubbornness of your evil hearts^(DS) instead of obeying me. ¹³So I will throw you out of this land^(DT) into a land neither you nor your ancestors have known,^(DU) and there you will serve other gods^(DV) day and night, for I will show you no favor.’^(DW)

¹⁴“However, the days are coming,”^(DX) declares the Lord, “when it will no longer be said, ‘As surely as the Lord lives, who brought the Israelites up out of Egypt,’^(DY) ¹⁵but it will be said, ‘As surely as the Lord lives, who brought the Israelites up out of the land of the north^(DZ) and out of all the countries where he had banished them.’^(EA) For I will restore^(EB) them to the land I gave their ancestors.^(EC)

Footnotes:

Jeremiah 14:14 Or visions, worthless divinations
Jeremiah 15:14 Some Hebrew manuscripts, Septuagint and Syriac (see also 17:4); most Hebrew manuscripts I will cause your enemies to bring you / into

Cross references:

New International Version (NIV)

1 Thessalonians 2:9-3:13

⁹Surely you remember, brothers and sisters, our toil and hardship; we worked^(A) night and day in order not to be a burden to anyone^(B) while we preached the gospel of God to you. ¹⁰You are witnesses,^(C) and so is God,^(D) of how holy,^(E) righteous and blameless we were among you who believed. ¹¹For you know that we dealt with each of you as a father deals with his own children,^(F) ¹²encouraging, comforting and urging you to live lives worthy^(G) of God, who calls^(H) you into his kingdom and glory.

¹³And we also thank God continually^(I) because, when you received the word of God,^(J) which you heard from us, you accepted it not as a human word, but as it actually is, the word of God, which is indeed at work in you who believe. ¹⁴For you, brothers and sisters, became imitators^(K) of God’s churches in Judea,^(L) which are in Christ Jesus: You suffered from your own people^(M) the same things those churches suffered from the Jews ¹⁵who killed the Lord Jesus^(N) and the prophets^(O) and also drove us out. They displease God and are hostile to everyone ¹⁶in their effort to keep us from speaking to the Gentiles^(P) so that they may be saved. In this way they always heap up their sins to the limit.^(Q) The wrath of God has come upon them at last.^[a]

Paul’s Longing to See the Thessalonians

¹⁷But, brothers and sisters, when we were orphaned by being separated from you for a short time (in person, not in thought),^(R) out of our intense longing we made every effort to see you.^(S) ¹⁸For we wanted to come to you—certainly I, Paul, did, again and again—but Satan^(T) blocked our way.^(U) ¹⁹For what is our hope, our joy, or the crown^(V) in which we will glory^(W) in the presence of our Lord Jesus when he comes?^(X) Is it not you? ²⁰Indeed, you are our glory^(Y) and joy.

3 So when we could stand it no longer,^(Z) we thought it best to be left by ourselves in Athens.^(AA) ²We sent Timothy,^(AB) who is our brother and co-worker^(AC) in God’s service in spreading the gospel of Christ,^(AD) to strengthen and encourage you in your faith, ³so that no one would be unsettled by these trials.^(AE) For you know quite well that we are destined for them.^(AF) ⁴In fact, when we were with you, we kept telling you that we would be persecuted. And it turned out that way, as you well know.^(AG) ⁵For this reason, when I could stand it no longer,^(AH) I sent to find out about your faith.^(AI) I was afraid that in some way the tempter^(AJ) had tempted you and that our labors might have been in vain.^(AK)

Timothy’s Encouraging Report

⁶But Timothy^(AL) has just now come to us from you^(AM) and has brought good news about your faith and love.^(AN) He has told us that you always have pleasant memories of us and that you long to see us, just as we also long to see you.^(AO) ⁷Therefore, brothers and sisters, in all our distress and persecution we were encouraged about you because of your faith. ⁸For now we really live, since you are standing firm^(AP) in the Lord. ⁹How can we thank God enough for you^(AQ) in return for all the joy we have in the presence of our God because of you?^(AR) ¹⁰Night and day we pray^(AS) most earnestly that we may see you again^(AT) and supply what is lacking in your faith.

¹¹Now may our God and Father^(AU) himself and our Lord Jesus clear the way for us to come to you. ¹²May the Lord make your love increase and overflow for each other^(AV) and for everyone else, just as ours does for you. ¹³May he strengthen your hearts so that you will be blameless^(AW) and holy in the presence of our God and Father^(AX) when our Lord Jesus comes^(AY) with all his holy ones.^(AZ)

Footnotes:

1 Thessalonians 2:16 Or them fully

Cross references:

New International Version (NIV)

Psalm 80

Psalm 80^[a]

For the director of music. To the tune of “The Lilies of the Covenant.” Of Asaph. A psalm.

¹Hear us, Shepherd of Israel,
you who lead Joseph like a flock.^(A)
You who sit enthroned between the cherubim,^(B)
shine forth ²before Ephraim, Benjamin and Manasseh.^(C)
Awaken^(D) your might;
come and save us.^(E)

³Restore^(F) us,^(G) O God;
make your face shine on us,
that we may be saved.^(H)

⁴How long,^(I) Lord God Almighty,
will your anger smolder^(J)
against the prayers of your people?
⁵You have fed them with the bread of tears;^(K)
you have made them drink tears by the bowlful.^(L)
⁶You have made us an object of derision^[b] to our neighbors,
and our enemies mock us.^(M)

⁷Restore us, God Almighty;
make your face shine on us,
that we may be saved.^(N)

⁸You transplanted a vine^(O) from Egypt;
you drove out^(P) the nations and planted^(Q) it.
⁹You cleared the ground for it,
and it took root and filled the land.
¹⁰The mountains were covered with its shade,
the mighty cedars with its branches.
¹¹Its branches reached as far as the Sea,^[c]
its shoots as far as the River.^[d]^(R)

¹²Why have you broken down its walls^(S)
so that all who pass by pick its grapes?
¹³Boars from the forest ravage^(T) it,
and insects from the fields feed on it.
¹⁴Return to us, God Almighty!
Look down from heaven and see!^(U)
Watch over this vine,
¹⁵the root your right hand has planted,
the son^[e] you have raised up for yourself.

¹⁶Your vine is cut down, it is burned with fire;^(V)
at your rebuke^(W) your people perish.
¹⁷Let your hand rest on the man at your right hand,
the son of man^(X) you have raised up for yourself.
¹⁸Then we will not turn away from you;
revive^(Y) us, and we will call on your name.

¹⁹Restore us, Lord God Almighty;
make your face shine on us,
that we may be saved.

Footnotes:

Psalm 80:1 In Hebrew texts 80:1-19 is numbered 80:2-20.
Psalm 80:6 Probable reading of the original Hebrew text; Masoretic Text contention
Psalm 80:11 Probably the Mediterranean
Psalm 80:11 That is, the Euphrates
Psalm 80:15 Or branch

New International Version (NIV)

Proverbs 25:1-5

More Proverbs of Solomon

25 These are more proverbs^(A) of Solomon, compiled by the men of Hezekiah king of Judah:^(B)

²It is the glory of God to conceal a matter;
to search out a matter is the glory of kings.^(C)
³As the heavens are high and the earth is deep,
so the hearts of kings are unsearchable.

⁴Remove the dross from the silver,
and a silversmith can produce a vessel;
⁵remove wicked officials from the king’s presence,^(D)
and his throne will be established^(E) through righteousness.^(F)

Cross references:

New International Version (NIV)

October 9, 2019

10/09/2019 DAB Transcript

Jeremiah 12:1-14:10, 1 Thessalonians 1:1-2:8, Psalms 79:1-13, Proverbs 24:30-34

Today is the 9^th day of October. Welcome to the Daily Audio Bible. I’m Brian. It’s great to be here with you as we continue our journey forward, pass through the center of the week. We’re working our way through the book of Jeremiah in the Old Testament. And then when we reach the New Testament, we’ll be beginning another of Paul’s letters, His first to the church at Thessalonica, also known as first Thessalonians. And we’ll talk about that when we get there, but first Jeremiah chapter 12 verse 1 through 14 verse 10.

Introduction to First Thessalonians:

Okay. So, we are going to enter into Paul’s first letter to the church in Thessalonica and that’s called first Thessalonians as we mentioned at the beginning. And the story of the establishment of this particular congregation can be found in the book of Acts in the 17^th chapter. So, Paul had previously been in Philippi but then persecution had become very severe there. So, he traveled to Thessalonica where in a very short and very intense time this church was planted. And then unfortunately a mob was stirred up against the church and persecution broke out and Paul and his companions were spirited away out of Thessalonica in the night and this happen on site the second missionary journey of Paul. And, so, a few cities later Paul found himself in Corinth, where he stayed for a year and a half. And it was probably in Corinth that Paul wrote this letter back to Thessalonians somewhere around that late A.D. 51 maybe early as A.D. 52. So, very early Christian writing. And Paul wanted to go back to Thessalonica just because of the circumstances, the persecution, the intenseness, the little amount of time that he had. He wanted to go back, encourage, and build up their faith and instruct them in community but he was not able. So, he sent Timothy and when Timothy came back from Thessalonica and reported the good news that the church was actually staying true well then Paul was relieved and overjoyed and that’s noticeable in the words of this letter, making it a very encouraging piece of the New Testament and a personal letter from the apostle Paul to the Thessalonian believers. So, persecution made it impossible for Paul to spend a lot of time there as we mentioned and the forming community was under such pressure that some of the believers had begun to question what Paul had taught them, especially about the afterlife of the believer. And, so, Paul addresses this and a lot of other things in this letter giving a more solid theological foundation for the church to grow. And as with Paul’s other letters, we get a fascinating glimpse in first Thessalonians into the early church because these letters are some of the earliest existing Christian documents. And it’s in first Thessalonians that we’re taught to respect one another and to remain passionate for God, even…even while the pressures of persecution are swirling around us. And, so, with that we begin. First Thessalonians chapter 1 verse 1 through 2 verse 8 today.

Commentary:

Okay, that proverb…that proverb is so true, and when we apply it to the natural world we know it’s true, right? Like the summer time if you don’t cut your lawn or you don’t have somebody cut your lawn, right? If you don’t weed and trim then it’s can overgrow and it’s gonna take off on you get out of control and then everything’s going to start looking like a ruin. If you don’t maintain things, then they’re going to start falling apart on you and their gonna start over growing and becoming a mess. Like, we know that but have we ever applied it to our hearts? Like have we ever looked at our in interior lives from this perspective, because that could explain an awful lot? A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest, spiritually, and poverty will come on you like a thief and scarcity like an armed man in the same way that it will happen in our natural lives. So, again that can explain a lot of things that are going on inside of us right now. And, so, let’s take this proverb, Proverbs 24 30: through 34, which is what we read today, and apply it to our lives and carry it around with us the next few days because it explains, it gives language, not only to the natural order of our lives but our interior lives as well.

Prayer:

Holy Spirit we invite You into that. Where have we been sleeping? Where have we been slumbering? Where have we been folding our hands to rest and not maintaining what’s going on within us? Reveal the areas that need to be maintained. We pray this in the mighty name of Jesus. Amen.

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October 9, 2019

The Daily Audio Bible Reading for Wednesday October 9, 2019 (NIV)

Jeremiah 12:1-14:10

Jeremiah’s Complaint

12 You are always righteous,^(A) Lord,
when I bring a case^(B) before you.
Yet I would speak with you about your justice:^(C)
Why does the way of the wicked prosper?^(D)
Why do all the faithless live at ease?
²You have planted^(E) them, and they have taken root;
they grow and bear fruit.^(F)
You are always on their lips
but far from their hearts.^(G)
³Yet you know me, Lord;
you see me and test^(H) my thoughts about you.
Drag them off like sheep^(I) to be butchered!
Set them apart for the day of slaughter!^(J)
⁴How long will the land lie parched^(K)
and the grass in every field be withered?^(L)
Because those who live in it are wicked,
the animals and birds have perished.^(M)
Moreover, the people are saying,
“He will not see what happens to us.”

God’s Answer

⁵“If you have raced with men on foot
and they have worn you out,
how can you compete with horses?
If you stumble^[a] in safe country,
how will you manage in the thickets^(N) by^[b] the Jordan?
⁶Your relatives, members of your own family—
even they have betrayed you;
they have raised a loud cry against you.^(O)
Do not trust them,
though they speak well of you.^(P)

⁷“I will forsake^(Q) my house,
abandon^(R) my inheritance;
I will give the one I love^(S)
into the hands of her enemies.^(T)
⁸My inheritance has become to me
like a lion^(U) in the forest.
She roars at me;
therefore I hate her.^(V)
⁹Has not my inheritance become to me
like a speckled bird of prey
that other birds of prey surround and attack?
Go and gather all the wild beasts;
bring them to devour.^(W)
¹⁰Many shepherds^(X) will ruin my vineyard
and trample down my field;
they will turn my pleasant field
into a desolate wasteland.^(Y)
¹¹It will be made a wasteland,^(Z)
parched and desolate before me;^(AA)
the whole land will be laid waste
because there is no one who cares.
¹²Over all the barren heights in the desert
destroyers will swarm,
for the sword^(AB) of the Lord^(AC) will devour^(AD)
from one end of the land to the other;^(AE)
no one will be safe.^(AF)
¹³They will sow wheat but reap thorns;
they will wear themselves out but gain nothing.^(AG)
They will bear the shame of their harvest
because of the Lord’s fierce anger.”^(AH)

¹⁴This is what the Lord says: “As for all my wicked neighbors who seize the inheritance^(AI) I gave my people Israel, I will uproot^(AJ) them from their lands and I will uproot^(AK) the people of Judah from among them. ¹⁵But after I uproot them, I will again have compassion^(AL) and will bring^(AM) each of them back to their own inheritance and their own country. ¹⁶And if they learn^(AN) well the ways of my people and swear by my name, saying, ‘As surely as the Lord lives’^(AO)—even as they once taught my people to swear by Baal^(AP)—then they will be established among my people.^(AQ) ¹⁷But if any nation does not listen, I will completely uproot and destroy^(AR) it,” declares the Lord.

A Linen Belt

13 This is what the Lord said to me: “Go and buy a linen belt and put it around your waist, but do not let it touch water.” ²So I bought a belt, as the Lord directed, and put it around my waist.

³Then the word of the Lord came to me a second time:^(AS) ⁴“Take the belt you bought and are wearing around your waist, and go now to Perath^[c]^(AT) and hide it there in a crevice in the rocks.” ⁵So I went and hid it at Perath, as the Lord told me.^(AU)

⁶Many days later the Lord said to me, “Go now to Perath and get the belt I told you to hide there.” ⁷So I went to Perath and dug up the belt and took it from the place where I had hidden it, but now it was ruined and completely useless.

⁸Then the word of the Lord came to me: ⁹“This is what the Lord says: ‘In the same way I will ruin the pride of Judah and the great pride^(AV) of Jerusalem. ¹⁰These wicked people, who refuse to listen^(AW) to my words, who follow the stubbornness of their hearts^(AX) and go after other gods^(AY) to serve and worship them,^(AZ) will be like this belt—completely useless!^(BA) ¹¹For as a belt is bound around the waist, so I bound all the people of Israel and all the people of Judah to me,’ declares the Lord, ‘to be my people for my renown^(BB) and praise and honor.^(BC) But they have not listened.’^(BD)

Wineskins

¹²“Say to them: ‘This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: Every wineskin should be filled with wine.’ And if they say to you, ‘Don’t we know that every wineskin should be filled with wine?’ ¹³then tell them, ‘This is what the Lord says: I am going to fill with drunkenness^(BE) all who live in this land, including the kings who sit on David’s throne, the priests, the prophets and all those living in Jerusalem. ¹⁴I will smash them one against the other, parents and children alike, declares the Lord. I will allow no pity^(BF) or mercy or compassion^(BG) to keep me from destroying^(BH) them.’”

Threat of Captivity

¹⁵Hear and pay attention,
do not be arrogant,
for the Lord has spoken.^(BI)
¹⁶Give glory^(BJ) to the Lord your God
before he brings the darkness,
before your feet stumble^(BK)
on the darkening hills.
You hope for light,
but he will turn it to utter darkness
and change it to deep gloom.^(BL)
¹⁷If you do not listen,^(BM)
I will weep in secret
because of your pride;
my eyes will weep bitterly,
overflowing with tears,^(BN)
because the Lord’s flock^(BO) will be taken captive.^(BP)

¹⁸Say to the king^(BQ) and to the queen mother,^(BR)
“Come down from your thrones,
for your glorious crowns^(BS)
will fall from your heads.”
¹⁹The cities in the Negev will be shut up,
and there will be no one to open them.
All Judah^(BT) will be carried into exile,
carried completely away.

²⁰Look up and see
those who are coming from the north.^(BU)
Where is the flock^(BV) that was entrusted to you,
the sheep of which you boasted?
²¹What will you say when the Lord sets over you
those you cultivated as your special allies?^(BW)
Will not pain grip you
like that of a woman in labor?^(BX)
²²And if you ask yourself,
“Why has this happened to me?”^(BY)—
it is because of your many sins^(BZ)
that your skirts have been torn off^(CA)
and your body mistreated.^(CB)
²³Can an Ethiopian^[d] change his skin
or a leopard its spots?
Neither can you do good
who are accustomed to doing evil.^(CC)

²⁴“I will scatter you like chaff^(CD)
driven by the desert wind.^(CE)
²⁵This is your lot,
the portion^(CF) I have decreed for you,”
declares the Lord,
“because you have forgotten^(CG) me
and trusted in false gods.^(CH)
²⁶I will pull up your skirts over your face
that your shame may be seen^(CI)—
²⁷your adulteries and lustful neighings,
your shameless prostitution!^(CJ)
I have seen your detestable acts
on the hills and in the fields.^(CK)
Woe to you, Jerusalem!
How long will you be unclean?”^(CL)

Drought, Famine, Sword

14 This is the word of the Lord that came to Jeremiah concerning the drought:^(CM)

²“Judah mourns,^(CN)
her cities languish;
they wail for the land,
and a cry goes up from Jerusalem.
³The nobles send their servants for water;
they go to the cisterns
but find no water.^(CO)
They return with their jars unfilled;
dismayed and despairing,
they cover their heads.^(CP)
⁴The ground is cracked
because there is no rain in the land;^(CQ)
the farmers are dismayed
and cover their heads.
⁵Even the doe in the field
deserts her newborn fawn
because there is no grass.^(CR)
⁶Wild donkeys stand on the barren heights^(CS)
and pant like jackals;
their eyes fail
for lack of food.”^(CT)

⁷Although our sins testify^(CU) against us,
do something, Lord, for the sake of your name.^(CV)
For we have often rebelled;^(CW)
we have sinned^(CX) against you.
⁸You who are the hope^(CY) of Israel,
its Savior^(CZ) in times of distress,^(DA)
why are you like a stranger in the land,
like a traveler who stays only a night?
⁹Why are you like a man taken by surprise,
like a warrior powerless to save?^(DB)
You are among^(DC) us, Lord,
and we bear your name;^(DD)
do not forsake^(DE) us!

¹⁰This is what the Lord says about this people:

“They greatly love to wander;
they do not restrain their feet.^(DF)
So the Lord does not accept^(DG) them;
he will now remember^(DH) their wickedness
and punish them for their sins.”^(DI)

Footnotes:

Jeremiah 12:5 Or you feel secure only
Jeremiah 12:5 Or the flooding of
Jeremiah 13:4 Or possibly to the Euphrates; similarly in verses 5-7
Jeremiah 13:23 Hebrew Cushite (probably a person from the upper Nile region)

Cross references:

New International Version (NIV)

1 Thessalonians 1:1-2:8

1 Paul, Silas^[a]^(A) and Timothy,^(B)

To the church of the Thessalonians^(C) in God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ:

Grace and peace to you.^(D)

Thanksgiving for the Thessalonians’ Faith

²We always thank God for all of you^(E) and continually mention you in our prayers.^(F) ³We remember before our God and Father^(G) your work produced by faith,^(H) your labor prompted by love,^(I) and your endurance inspired by hope^(J) in our Lord Jesus Christ.

⁴For we know, brothers and sisters^[b] loved by God,^(K) that he has chosen you, ⁵because our gospel^(L) came to you not simply with words but also with power,^(M) with the Holy Spirit and deep conviction. You know^(N) how we lived among you for your sake. ⁶You became imitators of us^(O) and of the Lord, for you welcomed the message in the midst of severe suffering^(P) with the joy^(Q) given by the Holy Spirit.^(R) ⁷And so you became a model^(S) to all the believers in Macedonia^(T) and Achaia.^(U) ⁸The Lord’s message^(V) rang out from you not only in Macedonia and Achaia—your faith in God has become known everywhere.^(W) Therefore we do not need to say anything about it, ⁹for they themselves report what kind of reception you gave us. They tell how you turned^(X) to God from idols^(Y) to serve the living and true God,^(Z) ¹⁰and to wait for his Son from heaven,^(AA) whom he raised from the dead^(AB)—Jesus, who rescues us from the coming wrath.^(AC)

Paul’s Ministry in Thessalonica

2 You know, brothers and sisters, that our visit to you^(AD) was not without results.^(AE) ²We had previously suffered^(AF) and been treated outrageously in Philippi,^(AG) as you know, but with the help of our God we dared to tell you his gospel in the face of strong opposition.^(AH) ³For the appeal we make does not spring from error or impure motives,^(AI) nor are we trying to trick you.^(AJ) ⁴On the contrary, we speak as those approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel.^(AK) We are not trying to please people^(AL) but God, who tests our hearts.^(AM) ⁵You know we never used flattery, nor did we put on a mask to cover up greed^(AN)—God is our witness.^(AO) ⁶We were not looking for praise from people,^(AP) not from you or anyone else, even though as apostles^(AQ) of Christ we could have asserted our authority.^(AR) ⁷Instead, we were like young children^[c] among you.

Just as a nursing mother cares for her children,^(AS) ⁸so we cared for you. Because we loved you so much, we were delighted to share with you not only the gospel of God^(AT) but our lives as well.^(AU)

Footnotes:

1 Thessalonians 1:1 Greek Silvanus, a variant of Silas
1 Thessalonians 1:4 The Greek word for brothers and sisters (adelphoi) refers here to believers, both men and women, as part of God’s family; also in 2:1, 9, 14, 17; 3:7; 4:1, 10, 13; 5:1, 4, 12, 14, 25, 27.
1 Thessalonians 2:7 Some manuscripts were gentle

Cross references:

New International Version (NIV)

Psalm 79

A psalm of Asaph.

¹O God, the nations have invaded your inheritance;^(A)
they have defiled^(B) your holy temple,
they have reduced Jerusalem to rubble.^(C)
²They have left the dead bodies of your servants
as food for the birds of the sky,^(D)
the flesh of your own people for the animals of the wild.^(E)
³They have poured out blood like water
all around Jerusalem,
and there is no one to bury^(F) the dead.^(G)
⁴We are objects of contempt to our neighbors,
of scorn^(H) and derision to those around us.^(I)

⁵How long,^(J) Lord? Will you be angry^(K) forever?
How long will your jealousy burn like fire?^(L)
⁶Pour out your wrath^(M) on the nations
that do not acknowledge^(N) you,
on the kingdoms
that do not call on your name;^(O)
⁷for they have devoured^(P) Jacob
and devastated his homeland.

⁸Do not hold against us the sins of past generations;^(Q)
may your mercy come quickly to meet us,
for we are in desperate need.^(R)
⁹Help us,^(S) God our Savior,
for the glory of your name;
deliver us and forgive our sins
for your name’s sake.^(T)
¹⁰Why should the nations say,
“Where is their God?”^(U)

Before our eyes, make known among the nations
that you avenge^(V) the outpoured blood^(W) of your servants.
¹¹May the groans of the prisoners come before you;
with your strong arm preserve those condemned to die.
¹²Pay back into the laps^(X) of our neighbors seven times^(Y)
the contempt they have hurled at you, Lord.
¹³Then we your people, the sheep of your pasture,^(Z)
will praise you forever;^(AA)
from generation to generation
we will proclaim your praise.

Cross references:

Psalm 79:1 : S Ex 34:9
Psalm 79:1 : S Lev 20:3
Psalm 79:1 : S 2Ki 25:9; S Ne 4:2; S Isa 6:11
Psalm 79:2 : Rev 19:17-18
Psalm 79:2 : S Dt 28:26; Jer 7:33
Psalm 79:3 : Jer 25:33; Rev 11:9
Psalm 79:3 : Jer 16:4
Psalm 79:4 : S Ps 39:8; S Eze 5:14
Psalm 79:4 : Ps 44:13; 80:6
Psalm 79:5 : S Ps 74:10
Psalm 79:5 : Ps 74:1; 85:5
Psalm 79:5 : S Dt 29:20; Ps 89:46; Zep 3:8
Psalm 79:6 : S Ps 2:5; 69:24; 110:5; Rev 16:1
Psalm 79:6 : Ps 147:20; Jer 10:25
Psalm 79:6 : S Ps 14:4
Psalm 79:7 : Isa 9:12; Jer 10:25
Psalm 79:8 : S Ge 9:25; Jer 44:21
Psalm 79:8 : Ps 116:6; 142:6
Psalm 79:9 : S 2Ch 14:11
Psalm 79:9 : Ps 25:11; 31:3; Jer 14:7
Psalm 79:10 : S Ps 42:3
Psalm 79:10 : Ps 94:1; S Rev 6:10
Psalm 79:10 : ver 3
Psalm 79:12 : Isa 65:6; Jer 32:18
Psalm 79:12 : S Ge 4:15
Psalm 79:13 : S Ps 74:1
Psalm 79:13 : Ps 44:8

New International Version (NIV)

Proverbs 24:30-34

³⁰I went past the field of a sluggard,^(A)
past the vineyard of someone who has no sense;
³¹thorns had come up everywhere,
the ground was covered with weeds,
and the stone wall was in ruins.
³²I applied my heart to what I observed
and learned a lesson from what I saw:
³³A little sleep, a little slumber,
a little folding of the hands to rest^(B)—
³⁴and poverty will come on you like a thief
and scarcity like an armed man.^(C)

Cross references:

New International Version (NIV)

October 8, 2019

10/08/2019 DAB Transcript

Jeremiah 10:1-11:23, Colossians 3:18-4:18, Psalms 78:56-72, Proverbs 24:28-29

Today is the 8^th day of October. Welcome to the Daily Audio Bible. I’m Brian. It is…It’s great to be here with you today taking the next step forward on this pathway that we’ve been following since the beginning of the year. And wow, what turns and twists and peaks and valleys and walking along rivers and through forests. We have been all over the place as we’ve journeyed through the Bible this year. And, we still have a ways to go, a lot of really interesting territory as we wind our way to the conclusion. But we’re at October 8^th and so we’re a ways from the conclusion. And we’ll pick up where we left off. We’re reading from the New International version this week. Jeremiah, chapters 10 and 11 today.

Commentary:

Okay, let’s talk about its idolatry. Idolatry, that ominous word. We’ve encountered this word countless times as we’ve been moving through the Scriptures this year. We read stories about it. We’ve listened to the mighty condemnations of it, we’ve witnessed the repercussions of it, but now that we’re in the prophetic books there’s no way to escape it, it’s everywhere, which can kind of set us off because idolatry isn’t a part of like our normal conversation. How’s your idolatry doing? How are you doing with your idolatry these days? Right? Like this is not something we talk about. Hey, you still have that goddess Artemis in your closet, right? So, idolatry is essentially the worship of false gods. And those false gods at least in the time of Jeremiah were normally fashioned statues of some sort that they would bow in worship too, even sacrifice too, and bring offerings too. And in Jeremiah today we, you know, we…they’re basically scarecrows. Like, they can’t speak, they can’t walk, like they’ve got to be carried around. There hammered with nails they don’t fall over. Right? So, Jeremiah’s essentially making fun. And it’s easy enough for us to make fun because it’s like who would bow down and worship? Like if you make the statue yourself and then you think you’re gonna bow down and it’s gonna become a deity, like are you…“are you thick?” That’s what…that’s what my aunts and uncles who have all gone on that I grew up with, that’s one of the phrases they would use. “Seriously? Like, are you stupid?” You made this thing. Why would you bow and worship to it? You made it. For those people though, they didn’t think that the statue itself was their god. They thought if they could make an image and they would worship this image then their worship and devotion would awaken their god or open the mouth of their god. But even the idea of, you know, worshiping at the feet of a statue… Like we can look at what…what Jeremiah says about idolatry and about the statues and we can breathe a sigh of relief because we never made an idol like that and we never hid an idol like that and we never worshiped and I like that and we wouldn’t even think about doing something like that. So, we can be like, “cool! Idolatry’s not a part of my life. I don’t know why I need to read these chapters of Jeremiah.” But the thing is, because the description is so…created…something that’s made and then a person would offer themselves in worship at this thing in hopes that it would awaken something in the divine realm and cause this God to look upon them with favor, then just about anything can be an idol. If we are expecting our lives to be improved or sustained in any other way than through our relationship with God, then we’re creating an idol that cannot talk that cannot see that cannot walk and expecting it to bring us life. So, anything can be and idol. Your savings account can be an idol. You just keep building it up, right.? You just keep adding to it. You just keep making something of it and you keep doing that and you keep checking the balance and you keep going there hoping to see what you have accumulated so that later on it will open its mouth and look favorably upon you so that your life can be sustained. You see where we’re going here. Anything can be an idol. I’m not saying a savings accounts a bad thing. It’s just a bad thing when you expect that it’s going to bring you life and that your turning to it instead of God. So, anything can work like this. Relationships can work like this, right? You can fall in love with somebody and you can’t see straight. You can’t see clear at all. Like, they become the object of your worship, right? And, so, you get lost in each other and you move towards marriage and everything only to find out, of my gosh, they can’t deliver life. We can collaborate and be in life together and be life-giving to each other but they cannot sustain…like I cannot go to them and worship and expect that I’ll get a promotion. But here’s the thing, Idolatry isn’t something like…God hates it. He’s clear about that in Scripture but it’s not something that makes him nervous about whether or not He really is the most-high God. Like, no matter what we’ll give our hearts to worship, no matter what any human gives their hearts in worship too, there is only one most-high God. But when we worship what’s false we’re withholding, we’re keeping ourselves from him and we’ll miss out on what He cares most about, a relationship, which will only destroy us in the end. So, this is actually pretty heartbreaking. So, like…so like if your…if your son one day tells you that you’re not there parent anymore and they found a new parent and it’s a stuffed animal that they’re carrying with…they’re carrying around and they only play and they only talk to this stuffed animal because they believe this stuffed animal has become their true parent, right, we would probably be freaking out and seeking help, but that’s essentially what we say to God when we turn toward something false in hopes that it’s going to sustain our lives. But even if…even if our kid did this and all they did was talk to this stuffed animal and call it mommy or daddy and ignored us, we’re still their parent, right? Like nothing can change the fact that we’re their true parent. And, so, even though the child’s given their affection to something else we’re still their parent and we’re very, very troubled by it. This is why God hates idolatry. This is God’s position towards idolatry. And what we see when He approaches the subject of idolatry over and over again, what is He saying? Return. Come home. Return to me. Because the alternative is destruction. So, let's…let’s consider what we are turning to for life, things that we actually are trusting in that have no power to save us and no power to do good or evil and no power to walk or stand. Because when we do give our affection and worship to something else we’re betraying our only true source of life, which is absolutely backwards to how we were created. It’s not who we are and it will not get us anywhere.

Prayer:

Father we invite your Holy Spirit once again to what we read today and what we’re contemplating here in terms of idolatry because it is really easy for us to just zone out like that’s not our issue and we ask your Holy Spirit to show us where it might be an issue. What are we counting on? What are we giving ourselves to thinking it will give us life? Come Holy Spirit we pray. In Jesus’ name we ask. Amen.

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October 8, 2019

The Daily Audio Bible Reading for Tuesday October 8, 2019 (NIV)

Jeremiah 10-11

God and Idols^(A)

10 Hear what the Lord says to you, people of Israel. ²This is what the Lord says:

“Do not learn the ways of the nations^(B)
or be terrified by signs^(C) in the heavens,
though the nations are terrified by them.
³For the practices of the peoples are worthless;
they cut a tree out of the forest,
and a craftsman^(D) shapes it with his chisel.^(E)
⁴They adorn it with silver^(F) and gold;
they fasten it with hammer and nails
so it will not totter.^(G)
⁵Like a scarecrow in a cucumber field,
their idols cannot speak;^(H)
they must be carried
because they cannot walk.^(I)
Do not fear them;
they can do no harm^(J)
nor can they do any good.”^(K)

⁶No one is like you,^(L) Lord;
you are great,^(M)
and your name is mighty in power.
⁷Who should not fear^(N) you,
King of the nations?^(O)
This is your due.
Among all the wise leaders of the nations
and in all their kingdoms,
there is no one like you.

⁸They are all senseless^(P) and foolish;^(Q)
they are taught by worthless wooden idols.^(R)
⁹Hammered silver is brought from Tarshish^(S)
and gold from Uphaz.
What the craftsman and goldsmith have made^(T)
is then dressed in blue and purple—
all made by skilled workers.
¹⁰But the Lord is the true God;
he is the living God,^(U) the eternal King.^(V)
When he is angry,^(W) the earth trembles;^(X)
the nations cannot endure his wrath.^(Y)

¹¹“Tell them this: ‘These gods, who did not make the heavens and the earth, will perish^(Z) from the earth and from under the heavens.’”^[a]

¹²But God made^(AA) the earth^(AB) by his power;
he founded the world by his wisdom^(AC)
and stretched out the heavens^(AD) by his understanding.
¹³When he thunders,^(AE) the waters in the heavens roar;
he makes clouds rise from the ends of the earth.
He sends lightning^(AF) with the rain^(AG)
and brings out the wind from his storehouses.^(AH)

¹⁴Everyone is senseless and without knowledge;
every goldsmith is shamed^(AI) by his idols.
The images he makes are a fraud;^(AJ)
they have no breath in them.
¹⁵They are worthless,^(AK) the objects of mockery;
when their judgment comes, they will perish.
¹⁶He who is the Portion^(AL) of Jacob is not like these,
for he is the Maker of all things,^(AM)
including Israel, the people of his inheritance^(AN)—
the Lord Almighty is his name.^(AO)

Coming Destruction

¹⁷Gather up your belongings^(AP) to leave the land,
you who live under siege.
¹⁸For this is what the Lord says:
“At this time I will hurl^(AQ) out
those who live in this land;
I will bring distress^(AR) on them
so that they may be captured.”

¹⁹Woe to me because of my injury!
My wound^(AS) is incurable!
Yet I said to myself,
“This is my sickness, and I must endure^(AT) it.”
²⁰My tent^(AU) is destroyed;
all its ropes are snapped.
My children are gone from me and are no more;^(AV)
no one is left now to pitch my tent
or to set up my shelter.
²¹The shepherds^(AW) are senseless^(AX)
and do not inquire of the Lord;^(AY)
so they do not prosper^(AZ)
and all their flock is scattered.^(BA)
²²Listen! The report is coming—
a great commotion from the land of the north!^(BB)
It will make the towns of Judah desolate,^(BC)
a haunt of jackals.^(BD)

Jeremiah’s Prayer

²³Lord, I know that people’s lives are not their own;
it is not for them to direct their steps.^(BE)
²⁴Discipline me, Lord, but only in due measure—
not in your anger,^(BF)
or you will reduce me to nothing.^(BG)
²⁵Pour out your wrath on the nations^(BH)
that do not acknowledge you,
on the peoples who do not call on your name.^(BI)
For they have devoured^(BJ) Jacob;
they have devoured him completely
and destroyed his homeland.^(BK)

The Covenant Is Broken

11 This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord: ²“Listen to the terms of this covenant^(BL) and tell them to the people of Judah and to those who live in Jerusalem. ³Tell them that this is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: ‘Cursed^(BM) is the one who does not obey the terms of this covenant— ⁴the terms I commanded your ancestors when I brought them out of Egypt,^(BN) out of the iron-smelting furnace.^(BO)’ I said, ‘Obey^(BP) me and do everything I command you, and you will be my people,^(BQ) and I will be your God. ⁵Then I will fulfill the oath I swore^(BR) to your ancestors, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey’^(BS)—the land you possess today.”

I answered, “Amen,^(BT) Lord.”

⁶The Lord said to me, “Proclaim^(BU) all these words in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem: ‘Listen to the terms of this covenant and follow^(BV) them. ⁷From the time I brought your ancestors up from Egypt until today, I warned them again and again,^(BW) saying, “Obey me.” ⁸But they did not listen or pay attention;^(BX) instead, they followed the stubbornness of their evil hearts.^(BY) So I brought on them all the curses^(BZ) of the covenant I had commanded them to follow but that they did not keep.^(CA)’”

⁹Then the Lord said to me, “There is a conspiracy^(CB) among the people of Judah and those who live in Jerusalem. ¹⁰They have returned to the sins of their ancestors,^(CC) who refused to listen to my words.^(CD) They have followed other gods^(CE) to serve them.^(CF) Both Israel and Judah have broken the covenant^(CG) I made with their ancestors. ¹¹Therefore this is what the Lord says: ‘I will bring on them a disaster^(CH) they cannot escape.^(CI) Although they cry^(CJ) out to me, I will not listen^(CK) to them. ¹²The towns of Judah and the people of Jerusalem will go and cry out to the gods to whom they burn incense,^(CL) but they will not help them at all when disaster^(CM) strikes. ¹³You, Judah, have as many gods^(CN) as you have towns;^(CO) and the altars you have set up to burn incense^(CP) to that shameful^(CQ) god Baal are as many as the streets of Jerusalem.’

¹⁴“Do not pray^(CR) for this people or offer any plea or petition for them, because I will not listen^(CS) when they call to me in the time of their distress.

¹⁵“What is my beloved doing in my temple
as she, with many others, works out her evil schemes?
Can consecrated meat^(CT) avert your punishment?^(CU)
When you engage in your wickedness,
then you rejoice.^[b]”

¹⁶The Lord called you a thriving olive tree^(CV)
with fruit beautiful in form.
But with the roar of a mighty storm
he will set it on fire,^(CW)
and its branches will be broken.^(CX)

¹⁷The Lord Almighty, who planted^(CY) you, has decreed disaster^(CZ) for you, because the people of both Israel and Judah have done evil and aroused^(DA) my anger by burning incense to Baal.^(DB)

Plot Against Jeremiah

¹⁸Because the Lord revealed their plot to me, I knew it, for at that time he showed me what they were doing. ¹⁹I had been like a gentle lamb led to the slaughter;^(DC) I did not realize that they had plotted^(DD) against me, saying,

“Let us destroy the tree and its fruit;
let us cut him off from the land of the living,^(DE)
that his name be remembered^(DF) no more.”
²⁰But you, Lord Almighty, who judge righteously^(DG)
and test the heart^(DH) and mind,^(DI)
let me see your vengeance^(DJ) on them,
for to you I have committed my cause.

²¹Therefore this is what the Lord says about the people of Anathoth^(DK) who are threatening to kill you,^(DL) saying, “Do not prophesy^(DM) in the name of the Lord or you will die^(DN) by our hands”— ²²therefore this is what the Lord Almighty says: “I will punish them. Their young men^(DO) will die by the sword, their sons and daughters by famine. ²³Not even a remnant^(DP) will be left to them, because I will bring disaster on the people of Anathoth in the year of their punishment.^(DQ)”

Footnotes:

Jeremiah 10:11 The text of this verse is in Aramaic.
Jeremiah 11:15 Or Could consecrated meat avert your punishment? / Then you would rejoice

Cross references:

New International Version (NIV)

Colossians 3:18-4

Instructions for Christian Households^(A)

¹⁸Wives, submit yourselves to your husbands,^(B) as is fitting in the Lord.

¹⁹Husbands, love your wives and do not be harsh with them.

²⁰Children, obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord.

²¹Fathers,^[a] do not embitter your children, or they will become discouraged.

²²Slaves, obey your earthly masters in everything; and do it, not only when their eye is on you and to curry their favor, but with sincerity of heart and reverence for the Lord. ²³Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for human masters, ²⁴since you know that you will receive an inheritance^(C) from the Lord as a reward.^(D) It is the Lord Christ you are serving. ²⁵Anyone who does wrong will be repaid for their wrongs, and there is no favoritism.^(E)

4 Masters, provide your slaves with what is right and fair,^(F) because you know that you also have a Master in heaven.

Further Instructions

²Devote yourselves to prayer,^(G) being watchful and thankful. ³And pray for us, too, that God may open a door^(H) for our message, so that we may proclaim the mystery^(I) of Christ, for which I am in chains.^(J) ⁴Pray that I may proclaim it clearly, as I should. ⁵Be wise^(K) in the way you act toward outsiders;^(L) make the most of every opportunity.^(M) ⁶Let your conversation be always full of grace,^(N) seasoned with salt,^(O) so that you may know how to answer everyone.^(P)

Final Greetings

⁷Tychicus^(Q) will tell you all the news about me. He is a dear brother, a faithful minister and fellow servant^[b]^(R) in the Lord. ⁸I am sending him to you for the express purpose that you may know about our^[c] circumstances and that he may encourage your hearts.^(S) ⁹He is coming with Onesimus,^(T) our faithful and dear brother, who is one of you.^(U) They will tell you everything that is happening here.

¹⁰My fellow prisoner Aristarchus^(V) sends you his greetings, as does Mark,^(W) the cousin of Barnabas.^(X) (You have received instructions about him; if he comes to you, welcome him.) ¹¹Jesus, who is called Justus, also sends greetings. These are the only Jews^[d] among my co-workers^(Y) for the kingdom of God, and they have proved a comfort to me. ¹²Epaphras,^(Z) who is one of you^(AA) and a servant of Christ Jesus, sends greetings. He is always wrestling in prayer for you,^(AB) that you may stand firm in all the will of God, mature^(AC) and fully assured. ¹³I vouch for him that he is working hard for you and for those at Laodicea^(AD) and Hierapolis. ¹⁴Our dear friend Luke,^(AE) the doctor, and Demas^(AF) send greetings. ¹⁵Give my greetings to the brothers and sisters at Laodicea,^(AG) and to Nympha and the church in her house.^(AH)

¹⁶After this letter has been read to you, see that it is also read^(AI) in the church of the Laodiceans and that you in turn read the letter from Laodicea.

¹⁷Tell Archippus:^(AJ) “See to it that you complete the ministry you have received in the Lord.”^(AK)

¹⁸I, Paul, write this greeting in my own hand.^(AL) Remember^(AM) my chains.^(AN) Grace be with you.^(AO)

Footnotes:

Colossians 3:21 Or Parents
Colossians 4:7 Or slave; also in verse 12
Colossians 4:8 Some manuscripts that he may know about your
Colossians 4:11 Greek only ones of the circumcision group

Cross references:

Colossians 3:18 : 3:18-4:1pp — Eph 5:22-6:9
Colossians 3:18 : S Eph 5:22
Colossians 3:24 : S Ac 20:32
Colossians 3:24 : S Mt 16:27
Colossians 3:25 : S Ac 10:34
Colossians 4:1 : Lev 25:43, 53
Colossians 4:2 : S Lk 18:1
Colossians 4:3 : S Ac 14:27
Colossians 4:3 : S Ro 16:25
Colossians 4:3 : S Ac 21:33
Colossians 4:5 : Eph 5:15
Colossians 4:5 : S Mk 4:11
Colossians 4:5 : Eph 5:16
Colossians 4:6 : Eph 4:29
Colossians 4:6 : Mk 9:50
Colossians 4:6 : 1Pe 3:15
Colossians 4:7 : S Ac 20:4
Colossians 4:7 : Eph 6:21, 22; Col 1:7
Colossians 4:8 : Eph 6:21, 22; Col 2:2
Colossians 4:9 : Phm 10
Colossians 4:9 : ver 12
Colossians 4:10 : S Ac 19:29
Colossians 4:10 : S Ac 12:12
Colossians 4:10 : S Ac 4:36
Colossians 4:11 : S Php 2:25
Colossians 4:12 : Col 1:7; Phm 23
Colossians 4:12 : ver 9
Colossians 4:12 : S Ro 15:30
Colossians 4:12 : S 1Co 2:6
Colossians 4:13 : S Col 2:1
Colossians 4:14 : 2Ti 4:11; Phm 24
Colossians 4:14 : 2Ti 4:10; Phm 24
Colossians 4:15 : S Col 2:1
Colossians 4:15 : S Ro 16:5
Colossians 4:16 : 2Th 3:14; S 1Ti 4:13
Colossians 4:17 : Phm 2
Colossians 4:17 : 2Ti 4:5
Colossians 4:18 : S 1Co 16:21
Colossians 4:18 : Heb 13:3
Colossians 4:18 : S Ac 21:33
Colossians 4:18 : 1Ti 6:21; 2Ti 4:22; Tit 3:15; Heb 13:25

New International Version (NIV)

Psalm 78:56-72

⁵⁶But they put God to the test
and rebelled against the Most High;
they did not keep his statutes.
⁵⁷Like their ancestors^(A) they were disloyal and faithless,
as unreliable as a faulty bow.^(B)
⁵⁸They angered him^(C) with their high places;^(D)
they aroused his jealousy with their idols.^(E)
⁵⁹When God heard^(F) them, he was furious;^(G)
he rejected Israel^(H) completely.
⁶⁰He abandoned the tabernacle of Shiloh,^(I)
the tent he had set up among humans.^(J)
⁶¹He sent the ark of his might^(K) into captivity,^(L)
his splendor into the hands of the enemy.
⁶²He gave his people over to the sword;^(M)
he was furious with his inheritance.^(N)
⁶³Fire consumed^(O) their young men,
and their young women had no wedding songs;^(P)
⁶⁴their priests were put to the sword,^(Q)
and their widows could not weep.

⁶⁵Then the Lord awoke as from sleep,^(R)
as a warrior wakes from the stupor of wine.
⁶⁶He beat back his enemies;
he put them to everlasting shame.^(S)
⁶⁷Then he rejected the tents of Joseph,
he did not choose the tribe of Ephraim;^(T)
⁶⁸but he chose the tribe of Judah,^(U)
Mount Zion,^(V) which he loved.
⁶⁹He built his sanctuary^(W) like the heights,
like the earth that he established forever.
⁷⁰He chose David^(X) his servant
and took him from the sheep pens;
⁷¹from tending the sheep^(Y) he brought him
to be the shepherd^(Z) of his people Jacob,
of Israel his inheritance.
⁷²And David shepherded them with integrity of heart;^(AA)
with skillful hands he led them.

New International Version (NIV)

Proverbs 24:28-29

²⁸Do not testify against your neighbor without cause^(A)—
would you use your lips to mislead?
²⁹Do not say, “I’ll do to them as they have done to me;
I’ll pay them back for what they did.”^(B)

Cross references:

New International Version (NIV)

October 7, 2019

10/07/2019 DAB Transcript

Jeremiah 8:8-9:26, Colossians 3:1-17, Psalms 78:32-55, Proverbs 24:27

Today is the 7^th day of October. Welcome to the Daily Audio Bible. I’m Brian. It is wonderful to be here with you today as we get going into our week here and get back and into the rhythm of the workweek. And we’ll pick up where we left off. That’s what we do every day no matter whether it’s weekend or weekday or holiday or whatever, we have a rhythm that we keep that allows God’s work…His word to speak into our lives every day. So, this week we’re reading from the New International Version. Today, Jeremiah chapter 8 verse 8:29 verse 26.

Commentary:

Ok. Let’s talk about our diet for second or let’s at least use our diet as a metaphor. So, let’s say we’re hungry, we walk in the kitchen, there’s two big bowls full of things and we gotta pick what were gonna eat and in one bowl is sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires, greed, idolatry, anger, rage, malicious behavior, slander, filthy language and lying. And then we look over in this other bowl, there’s tenderhearted mercy, kindness, humility, gentleness, patience, forgiveness, peace, and love, right? Those two bowls are full of very different things. If they were foods, they are so non-complementarity that if we tried to mix them on a plate and eat them, they would clash, it would not be a good meal and yet mixing from those two bowls is likely our normal diet. Ouch or ewe, which ever one we prefer. Paul had a conviction and his conviction was that Jesus actually transforms us into a completely different person with a completely different appetite. So, think about these two bowls that we just described sitting on the kitchen counter full of stuff that we’re gonna consume. Which bowl you can go to? Which bowl is going to be more healthy for you? Right? It’s like having two bowls, one full of candy and one that’s a nice salad, right, with maybe some seeds and berries in it, right? Everything in that bowl, as soon as we eat it our body is going to know what it is and know what to do with it and it’s gonna turn it into energy and muscle and bone and everything that we need to stay alive or we can turn to the candy and kill ourselves slowly. And the irony, because we just talked about this spiritually, the irony is that we are…our diets are probably of those mixed bowls. So, for everything that we put in our mouth that helps our body we put something in her mouth that hurts our body. So, can we walk up into the kitchen to these two bowls and take a nice bite of rage, then reach over and grab a piece of patience and try to consume them together? Or can we reach into the bowl and grab a bar of slander and then reach over into the bowl and get up slice of forgiveness and throw them into our mouths at the same time? We have some things to consider because we are trying to mix these things up, whether in spirit or in body. And in both cases, we are not being led to perfect health. And in this day and age it’s a busy, busy, busy world, right? So, we don’t necessarily always think about the bowls that we’re choosing from, what our source of food might be. We’re running and grabbing whatever we can because we’re too busy to pay attention, but it doesn’t matter the same effects happen in our body. We’re still going to get sick. We won’t be able to say, “well I was just too busy to be healthy. I was too busy to pay attention to my spiritual health and so I was just grabbing whatever I could grab and not paying attention to the fact that I was getting sick.” Paul gave us a little…a little tool that we can carry around with us, but we’ll have to slow down enough to at least have a pause to know that we’re making a decision toward health spiritually or physically or toward unhealth. Paul says, “look, whatever you do, whatever you choose to do, whatever you choose to say, however it is that you’re going to conduct yourself, understand that you’re representing the Lord Jesus. Do everything that you do in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks through Him to God the Father.” So, if our life is too busy and we’re not paying attention to our health in any kind of way, we can…we can look in the mirror that the Scriptures gave us today and consciously understand what we’re feasting upon because that’s what we’re going to turn into. So, this tool just lets us say, “Can…like can I say this in the name of Jesus? Can I…am I representing Christ if I walk down this path?” If we go back to Paul’s lists or if we go back to those two bowls on our counter, it’s crystal clear which one of them represents Christ, and which one doesn’t. And, so it kind of boils down to what are you going to eat today because that’s what you are going to become eventually.

Prayer:

Father, we invite You into that because if the metaphor holds true then we do have to admit that we eat things that are not good for us and we eat things that are good for us and we do this in our Spirit and then we wonder why we’re week or why we’re spiritually starving or why things aren’t working. And it’s because we’re making ourself sick. And, so, Holy Spirit come. We want to feast upon tenderhearted mercy and kindness and humility and gentleness and patience and forgiveness and peace and love. We don’t even have to watch ourselves. We can consume as much of that as we want until we’re full up. And we pray Holy Spirit that we would be full up so that it would spill out of our lives and affect the world and all of our relationships. Come Holy Spirit we pray. In Jesus’ name we ask. Amen.

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Community Prayer and Praise:

Hey, DABbers this is Slave of Jesus in North Carolina. Alright Holy Spirit let’s roll. Boy, I had a lot of problems. I’m using an old school phone number to call in. The app was telling me I had the wrong password even though I had the same password. So, I had to reset it, it still wasn’t working. The enemy does not want me to make this call. That’s why I gotta make this call. I was hoping tomorrow was going to be 40 days of my fast and I was gonna tell you about my great struggles and how we’re getting to that and instead I am in the emergency room parking lot getting ready to deal with my daughter who was brought here the of the police. So, I hope my wife forgives me for using female names. I have an agreement not to use it but I ask you to pray for my daughter Jordan and my wife Deborah and that the guardian angels, I know you won’t get this after, that they just surround her and that the enemy would not give her the horrible ideas that it tends to give her from time to time. And, so, Lord we ask this in Jesus mighty name, and I know you guys will be praying. Alfaio, I’m like two weeks behind in my DAB and listening there. It was good to hear you call my name out as I was pulling up to the hospital here. So, perfect timing as usual. Love you all. Have a great day.

This is the first time I’ve ever called. I’m calling to ask for prayers for my daughter, her husband, and their family. They’re talking about separation and I’m just praying against it and hoping that you pray with me that the Spirit will convict each one of them to look inside of each of them instead of pointing fingers at each other. They have two young daughters under 10 and also a grandson under 10.

Hi family this is Serah from Nebraska. Lisa from Michigan, I cannot tell you how comforting and how much I was filled with hope when I heard your message. I was brought to tears. It truly gave me hope. So, thank you so much. Casey is officially in remission as of Monday, today is October 3^rd. As of Monday, he was officially in remission. Tomorrow, Friday, they’re doing a spinal tap just to make sure like none of the leukemia is in his spinal fluid. It’s just precautionary. I’m trying not to let my anxiety get the best of me and so far, I’ve been doing really good with relying on God and just letting Him handle it. I just want to thank everyone on here. I know that there are people who have called in, prayed for Casey and myself and there are people who have done what I do and just prayed while hearing it. And I just want to thank all of you. We have seriously been so, so blessed and it has amazing to see and hear. I’ve been having Casey listen to all the prayers that are for him and he is just in so much awe. We love you and we thank you. Bye-bye.

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October 7, 2019

The Daily Audio Bible Reading for Monday October 7, 2019 (NIV)

Jeremiah 8:8-9:26

⁸“‘How can you say, “We are wise,
for we have the law^(A) of the Lord,”
when actually the lying pen of the scribes
has handled it falsely?
⁹The wise^(B) will be put to shame;
they will be dismayed^(C) and trapped.^(D)
Since they have rejected the word^(E) of the Lord,
what kind of wisdom^(F) do they have?
¹⁰Therefore I will give their wives to other men
and their fields to new owners.^(G)
From the least to the greatest,
all are greedy for gain;^(H)
prophets^(I) and priests alike,
all practice deceit.^(J)
¹¹They dress the wound of my people
as though it were not serious.
“Peace, peace,” they say,
when there is no peace.^(K)
¹²Are they ashamed of their detestable conduct?
No, they have no shame^(L) at all;
they do not even know how to blush.
So they will fall among the fallen;
they will be brought down when they are punished,^(M)
says the Lord.^(N)

¹³“‘I will take away their harvest,
declares the Lord.
There will be no grapes on the vine.^(O)
There will be no figs^(P) on the tree,
and their leaves will wither.^(Q)
What I have given them
will be taken^(R) from them.^[a]’”

¹⁴Why are we sitting here?
Gather together!
Let us flee to the fortified cities^(S)
and perish there!
For the Lord our God has doomed us to perish
and given us poisoned water^(T) to drink,
because we have sinned^(U) against him.
¹⁵We hoped for peace^(V)
but no good has come,
for a time of healing
but there is only terror.^(W)
¹⁶The snorting of the enemy’s horses^(X)
is heard from Dan;^(Y)
at the neighing of their stallions
the whole land trembles.^(Z)
They have come to devour^(AA)
the land and everything in it,
the city and all who live there.

¹⁷“See, I will send venomous snakes^(AB) among you,
vipers that cannot be charmed,^(AC)
and they will bite you,”
declares the Lord.

¹⁸You who are my Comforter^[b] in sorrow,
my heart is faint^(AD) within me.
¹⁹Listen to the cry of my people
from a land far away:^(AE)
“Is the Lord not in Zion?
Is her King^(AF) no longer there?”

“Why have they aroused^(AG) my anger with their images,
with their worthless^(AH) foreign idols?”^(AI)

²⁰“The harvest is past,
the summer has ended,
and we are not saved.”

²¹Since my people are crushed,^(AJ) I am crushed;
I mourn,^(AK) and horror grips me.
²²Is there no balm in Gilead?^(AL)
Is there no physician^(AM) there?
Why then is there no healing^(AN)
for the wound of my people?

9 ^[c]¹Oh, that my head were a spring of water
and my eyes a fountain of tears!^(AO)
I would weep^(AP) day and night
for the slain of my people.^(AQ)
²Oh, that I had in the desert^(AR)
a lodging place for travelers,
so that I might leave my people
and go away from them;
for they are all adulterers,^(AS)
a crowd of unfaithful^(AT) people.

³“They make ready their tongue
like a bow, to shoot lies;^(AU)
it is not by truth
that they triumph^[d] in the land.
They go from one sin to another;
they do not acknowledge^(AV) me,”
declares the Lord.
⁴“Beware of your friends;^(AW)
do not trust anyone in your clan.^(AX)
For every one of them is a deceiver,^[e]^(AY)
and every friend a slanderer.^(AZ)
⁵Friend deceives friend,^(BA)
and no one speaks the truth.^(BB)
They have taught their tongues to lie;^(BC)
they weary themselves with sinning.
⁶You^[f] live in the midst of deception;^(BD)
in their deceit they refuse to acknowledge me,”
declares the Lord.

⁷Therefore this is what the Lord Almighty says:

“See, I will refine^(BE) and test^(BF) them,
for what else can I do
because of the sin of my people?
⁸Their tongue^(BG) is a deadly arrow;
it speaks deceitfully.
With their mouths they all speak cordially to their neighbors,^(BH)
but in their hearts they set traps^(BI) for them.^(BJ)
⁹Should I not punish them for this?”
declares the Lord.
“Should I not avenge^(BK) myself
on such a nation as this?”

¹⁰I will weep and wail for the mountains
and take up a lament concerning the wilderness grasslands.^(BL)
They are desolate and untraveled,
and the lowing of cattle is not heard.
The birds^(BM) have all fled
and the animals are gone.

¹¹“I will make Jerusalem a heap^(BN) of ruins,
a haunt of jackals;^(BO)
and I will lay waste the towns of Judah^(BP)
so no one can live there.”^(BQ)

¹²Who is wise^(BR) enough to understand this? Who has been instructed by the Lord and can explain it? Why has the land been ruined and laid waste like a desert that no one can cross?

¹³The Lord said, “It is because they have forsaken my law, which I set before them; they have not obeyed me or followed my law.^(BS) ¹⁴Instead, they have followed^(BT) the stubbornness of their hearts;^(BU) they have followed the Baals, as their ancestors taught them.” ¹⁵Therefore this is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says: “See, I will make this people eat bitter food^(BV) and drink poisoned water.^(BW) ¹⁶I will scatter them among nations^(BX) that neither they nor their ancestors have known,^(BY) and I will pursue them with the sword^(BZ) until I have made an end of them.”^(CA)

¹⁷This is what the Lord Almighty says:

“Consider now! Call for the wailing women^(CB) to come;
send for the most skillful of them.
¹⁸Let them come quickly
and wail over us
till our eyes overflow with tears
and water streams from our eyelids.^(CC)
¹⁹The sound of wailing is heard from Zion:
‘How ruined^(CD) we are!
How great is our shame!
We must leave our land
because our houses are in ruins.’”

²⁰Now, you women, hear the word of the Lord;
open your ears to the words of his mouth.^(CE)
Teach your daughters how to wail;
teach one another a lament.^(CF)
²¹Death has climbed in through our windows^(CG)
and has entered our fortresses;
it has removed the children from the streets
and the young men^(CH) from the public squares.

²²Say, “This is what the Lord declares:

“‘Dead bodies will lie
like dung^(CI) on the open field,
like cut grain behind the reaper,
with no one to gather them.’”

²³This is what the Lord says:

“Let not the wise boast of their wisdom^(CJ)
or the strong boast of their strength^(CK)
or the rich boast of their riches,^(CL)
²⁴but let the one who boasts boast^(CM) about this:
that they have the understanding to know^(CN) me,
that I am the Lord,^(CO) who exercises kindness,^(CP)
justice and righteousness^(CQ) on earth,
for in these I delight,”
declares the Lord.

²⁵“The days are coming,” declares the Lord, “when I will punish all who are circumcised only in the flesh^(CR)— ²⁶Egypt, Judah, Edom, Ammon, Moab and all who live in the wilderness in distant places.^[g]^(CS) For all these nations are really uncircumcised,^(CT) and even the whole house of Israel is uncircumcised in heart.^(CU)”

Footnotes:

Jeremiah 8:13 The meaning of the Hebrew for this sentence is uncertain.
Jeremiah 8:18 The meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain.
Jeremiah 9:1 In Hebrew texts 9:1 is numbered 8:23, and 9:2-26 is numbered 9:1-25.
Jeremiah 9:3 Or lies; / they are not valiant for truth
Jeremiah 9:4 Or a deceiving Jacob
Jeremiah 9:6 That is, Jeremiah (the Hebrew is singular)
Jeremiah 9:26 Or wilderness and who clip the hair by their foreheads

Cross references:

New International Version (NIV)

Colossians 3:1-17

Living as Those Made Alive in Christ

3 Since, then, you have been raised with Christ,^(A) set your hearts on things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God.^(B) ²Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things.^(C) ³For you died,^(D) and your life is now hidden with Christ in God. ⁴When Christ, who is your^[a] life,^(E) appears,^(F) then you also will appear with him in glory.^(G)

⁵Put to death,^(H) therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly nature:^(I) sexual immorality,^(J) impurity, lust, evil desires and greed,^(K) which is idolatry.^(L) ⁶Because of these, the wrath of God^(M) is coming.^[b] ⁷You used to walk in these ways, in the life you once lived.^(N) ⁸But now you must also rid yourselves^(O) of all such things as these: anger, rage, malice, slander,^(P) and filthy language from your lips.^(Q) ⁹Do not lie to each other,^(R) since you have taken off your old self^(S) with its practices ¹⁰and have put on the new self,^(T) which is being renewed^(U) in knowledge in the image of its Creator.^(V) ¹¹Here there is no Gentile or Jew,^(W) circumcised or uncircumcised,^(X) barbarian, Scythian, slave or free,^(Y) but Christ is all,^(Z) and is in all.

¹²Therefore, as God’s chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves^(AA) with compassion, kindness, humility,^(AB) gentleness and patience.^(AC) ¹³Bear with each other^(AD) and forgive one another if any of you has a grievance against someone. Forgive as the Lord forgave you.^(AE) ¹⁴And over all these virtues put on love,^(AF) which binds them all together in perfect unity.^(AG)

¹⁵Let the peace of Christ^(AH) rule in your hearts, since as members of one body^(AI) you were called to peace.^(AJ) And be thankful. ¹⁶Let the message of Christ^(AK) dwell among you richly as you teach and admonish one another with all wisdom^(AL) through psalms,^(AM) hymns, and songs from the Spirit, singing to God with gratitude in your hearts.^(AN) ¹⁷And whatever you do,^(AO) whether in word or deed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks^(AP) to God the Father through him.

Footnotes:

Colossians 3:4 Some manuscripts our
Colossians 3:6 Some early manuscripts coming on those who are disobedient

Cross references:

Colossians 3:1 : S Ro 6:5
Colossians 3:1 : S Mk 16:19
Colossians 3:2 : Php 3:19, 20
Colossians 3:3 : S Ro 6:2; 2Co 5:14
Colossians 3:4 : Gal 2:20
Colossians 3:4 : 1Co 1:7
Colossians 3:4 : 1Pe 1:13; 1Jn 3:2
Colossians 3:5 : S Ro 6:2; S Eph 4:22
Colossians 3:5 : S Gal 5:24
Colossians 3:5 : S 1Co 6:18
Colossians 3:5 : Eph 5:3
Colossians 3:5 : Gal 5:19-21; Eph 5:5
Colossians 3:6 : S Ro 1:18
Colossians 3:7 : S Eph 2:2
Colossians 3:8 : S Eph 4:22
Colossians 3:8 : Eph 4:31
Colossians 3:8 : Eph 4:29
Colossians 3:9 : S Eph 4:22, 25
Colossians 3:9 : S Ro 6:6
Colossians 3:10 : S Ro 6:4; S 13:14
Colossians 3:10 : Ro 12:2; S 2Co 4:16; Eph 4:23
Colossians 3:10 : Eph 2:10
Colossians 3:11 : Ro 10:12; 1Co 12:13
Colossians 3:11 : S 1Co 7:19
Colossians 3:11 : Gal 3:28
Colossians 3:11 : Eph 1:23
Colossians 3:12 : ver 10
Colossians 3:12 : Php 2:3
Colossians 3:12 : 2Co 6:6; Gal 5:22, 23; Eph 4:2
Colossians 3:13 : Eph 4:2
Colossians 3:13 : Eph 4:32
Colossians 3:14 : 1Co 13:1-13
Colossians 3:14 : S Ro 15:5
Colossians 3:15 : S Jn 14:27
Colossians 3:15 : S Ro 12:5
Colossians 3:15 : S Ro 14:19
Colossians 3:16 : Ro 10:17
Colossians 3:16 : Col 1:28
Colossians 3:16 : Ps 47:7
Colossians 3:16 : S Eph 5:19
Colossians 3:17 : 1Co 10:31
Colossians 3:17 : S Eph 5:20

New International Version (NIV)

Psalm 78:32-55

³²In spite of all this, they kept on sinning;^(A)
in spite of his wonders,^(B) they did not believe.^(C)
³³So he ended their days in futility^(D)
and their years in terror.
³⁴Whenever God slew them, they would seek^(E) him;
they eagerly turned to him again.
³⁵They remembered that God was their Rock,^(F)
that God Most High was their Redeemer.^(G)
³⁶But then they would flatter him with their mouths,^(H)
lying to him with their tongues;
³⁷their hearts were not loyal^(I) to him,
they were not faithful to his covenant.
³⁸Yet he was merciful;^(J)
he forgave^(K) their iniquities^(L)
and did not destroy them.
Time after time he restrained his anger^(M)
and did not stir up his full wrath.
³⁹He remembered that they were but flesh,^(N)
a passing breeze^(O) that does not return.

⁴⁰How often they rebelled^(P) against him in the wilderness^(Q)
and grieved him^(R) in the wasteland!
⁴¹Again and again they put God to the test;^(S)
they vexed the Holy One of Israel.^(T)
⁴²They did not remember^(U) his power—
the day he redeemed them from the oppressor,^(V)
⁴³the day he displayed his signs^(W) in Egypt,
his wonders^(X) in the region of Zoan.
⁴⁴He turned their river into blood;^(Y)
they could not drink from their streams.
⁴⁵He sent swarms of flies^(Z) that devoured them,
and frogs^(AA) that devastated them.
⁴⁶He gave their crops to the grasshopper,^(AB)
their produce to the locust.^(AC)
⁴⁷He destroyed their vines with hail^(AD)
and their sycamore-figs with sleet.
⁴⁸He gave over their cattle to the hail,
their livestock^(AE) to bolts of lightning.
⁴⁹He unleashed against them his hot anger,^(AF)
his wrath, indignation and hostility—
a band of destroying angels.^(AG)
⁵⁰He prepared a path for his anger;
he did not spare them from death
but gave them over to the plague.
⁵¹He struck down all the firstborn of Egypt,^(AH)
the firstfruits of manhood in the tents of Ham.^(AI)
⁵²But he brought his people out like a flock;^(AJ)
he led them like sheep through the wilderness.
⁵³He guided them safely, so they were unafraid;
but the sea engulfed^(AK) their enemies.^(AL)
⁵⁴And so he brought them to the border of his holy land,
to the hill country his right hand^(AM) had taken.
⁵⁵He drove out nations^(AN) before them
and allotted their lands to them as an inheritance;^(AO)
he settled the tribes of Israel in their homes.

Cross references:

Psalm 78:32 : S ver 17
Psalm 78:32 : ver 11
Psalm 78:32 : ver 22
Psalm 78:33 : Nu 14:29, 35
Psalm 78:34 : S Dt 4:29; Hos 5:15
Psalm 78:35 : S Ge 49:24
Psalm 78:35 : S Dt 9:26
Psalm 78:36 : Eze 33:31
Psalm 78:37 : ver 8; Ac 8:21
Psalm 78:38 : S Ex 34:6
Psalm 78:38 : Isa 1:25; 27:9; 48:10; Da 11:35
Psalm 78:38 : Ps 25:11; 85:2
Psalm 78:38 : S Job 9:13; S Isa 30:18
Psalm 78:39 : S Ge 6:3; S Isa 29:5
Psalm 78:39 : S Job 7:7; Jas 4:14
Psalm 78:40 : S Ex 23:21
Psalm 78:40 : Ps 95:8; 106:14
Psalm 78:40 : Eph 4:30
Psalm 78:41 : S Ex 17:2
Psalm 78:41 : S 2Ki 19:22; Ps 71:22; 89:18
Psalm 78:42 : S Jdg 3:7; S Ne 9:17
Psalm 78:42 : S Ps 27:11
Psalm 78:43 : Ex 10:1
Psalm 78:43 : S Ex 3:20
Psalm 78:44 : Ex 7:20-21; Ps 105:29
Psalm 78:45 : Ex 8:24; Ps 105:31
Psalm 78:45 : S Ex 8:2, 6
Psalm 78:46 : Na 3:15
Psalm 78:46 : S Ex 10:13
Psalm 78:47 : Ex 9:23; Ps 105:32; 147:17
Psalm 78:48 : Ex 9:25
Psalm 78:49 : Ex 15:7
Psalm 78:49 : S Ge 19:13; 1Co 10:10
Psalm 78:51 : S Ex 12:12; Ps 135:8
Psalm 78:51 : Ps 105:23; 106:22
Psalm 78:52 : S Job 21:11; S Ps 28:9; 77:20
Psalm 78:53 : S Ex 14:28
Psalm 78:53 : Ex 15:7; Ps 106:10
Psalm 78:54 : Ps 44:3
Psalm 78:55 : Ps 44:2
Psalm 78:55 : S Dt 1:38; S Jos 13:7; Ac 13:19

New International Version (NIV)

Proverbs 24:27

²⁷Put your outdoor work in order
and get your fields ready;
after that, build your house.

New International Version (NIV)

Jeremiah 19-21

Jeremiah and Pashhur

Jeremiah’s Complaint

God Rejects Zedekiah’s Request

Footnotes:

Cross references:

1 Thessalonians 5:4-28

Final Instructions

Cross references:

Psalm 82

Psalm 82

A psalm of Asaph.

Footnotes:

Cross references:

Proverbs 25:9-10

Jeremiah 16:16-18:23

Keeping the Sabbath Day Holy

At the Potter’s House

Footnotes:

Cross references:

1 Thessalonians 4:1-5:3

Living to Please God

Believers Who Have Died

The Day of the Lord

Footnotes:

Cross references:

Psalm 81

Psalm 81[a]

For the director of music. According to gittith.[b] Of Asaph.

Footnotes:

Cross references:

Proverbs 25:6-8

Footnotes:

Cross references:

Jeremiah 14:11-16:15

Day of Disaster

Footnotes:

Cross references:

1 Thessalonians 2:9-3:13

Paul’s Longing to See the Thessalonians

Timothy’s Encouraging Report

Footnotes:

Cross references:

Psalm 80

Psalm 80[a]

For the director of music. To the tune of “The Lilies of the Covenant.” Of Asaph. A psalm.

Footnotes:

Cross references:

Proverbs 25:1-5

More Proverbs of Solomon

Cross references:

Jeremiah 12:1-14:10

Jeremiah’s Complaint

God’s Answer

A Linen Belt

Wineskins

Threat of Captivity

Drought, Famine, Sword

Footnotes:

Cross references:

1 Thessalonians 1:1-2:8

Thanksgiving for the Thessalonians’ Faith

Paul’s Ministry in Thessalonica

Footnotes:

Cross references:

Psalm 79

Psalm 79

A psalm of Asaph.

Cross references:

Proverbs 24:30-34

Cross references:

Jeremiah 10-11

God and Idols(A)

Coming Destruction

Jeremiah’s Prayer

The Covenant Is Broken

Plot Against Jeremiah

Footnotes:

Cross references:

Colossians 3:18-4

Psalm 81^[a]

For the director of music. According to gittith.^[b] Of Asaph.

Psalm 80^[a]

God and Idols^(A)

Instructions for Christian Households^(A)