Month: September 2021

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The Daily Audio Bible Reading for Tuesday September 21, 2021 (NIV)

Isaiah 37-38

Hezekiah Seeks Isaiah’s Advice

37 When King Hezekiah heard the report, he tore his clothes, put on sackcloth, and went into the House of the Lord. 2 He sent Eliakim son of Hilkiah, who was the palace administrator, Shebna the secretary, and the senior priests, who were wearing sackcloth, to Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz.

3 They told him what Hezekiah said: “This is a day of distress, rebuke, and humiliation, because children are about to be born, but there is no strength left to give birth. 4 Perhaps the Lord your God will take note of the words of this herald, who was sent by his lord, the king of Assyria, in defiance of the living God, and perhaps the Lord your God will rebuke him for what he has heard. So please, pray for the small group that is left here.”

5 When the servants of King Hezekiah came to Isaiah, 6 he said to them, “Tell your master that this is what the Lord says. Do not be afraid of what you have heard. The lackeys[a] of the king of Assyria have blasphemed against me. 7 Watch! I will put a spirit in him, so that when he hears certain news, he will return to his own land. There I will cause him to be killed.”

8 Then the herald went back. He heard that the king of Assyria had already left Lachish and was fighting against Libnah.

9 When Sennacherib heard that Tirhakah king of Cush[b] had set out to fight against him, he sent messengers to Hezekiah 10 to say this to Hezekiah king of Judah:

Do not let the God you trust deceive you, saying that Jerusalem will not be handed over to the king of Assyria. 11 Listen, you yourself have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all the other lands, destroying them completely. And you expect to be saved? 12 Did the gods of the nations whom my fathers destroyed save them—Gozan, Haran, Rezeph, and the people of Eden, who were in Tel Assar? 13 Where is the king of Hamath, and the king of Arpad, and the kings of the cities of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivvah?

14 Hezekiah took the letter from the hand of the messengers and read it. He went up to the House of the Lord and placed it there before the Lord. 15 Then he prayed to the Lord.

16 O Lord of Armies, God of Israel, seated above the cherubim, you alone are God of all the kingdoms of the earth. You made the heavens and the earth. 17 Turn your ear toward me, Lord, and hear. Open your eyes, Lord, and see. Listen to all of the words of Sennacherib, who has defied the living God. 18 It is true, Lord, that the kings of Assyria have destroyed all these lands and their territory. 19 They have thrown their gods into the fire, for they were not gods at all, but the work of human hands, wood and stone. So they have destroyed them. 20 Now, Lord our God, save us from his power, and let all the kingdoms of the earth know that you are the Lord, and you alone.

The Lord Replies to Hezekiah Through Isaiah

21 Then Isaiah son of Amoz sent word to Hezekiah.

The Lord, the God of Israel, says that because you have prayed to him about Sennacherib king of Assyria, 22 the Lord sends you this reply about him.

The virgin daughter of Zion[c] despises you and jeers at you.
The daughter of Jerusalem shakes her head at you in scorn.
23 Who is it whom you have mocked and blasphemed?
Against whom have you raised your voice
and lifted up your proud eyes?
It is against the Holy One of Israel.
24 You have used your servants to mock the Lord.
You have boasted, “I have driven my many chariots
up the high mountains, to the most remote parts of Lebanon.
I cut down its tallest cedars and its best fir trees.
I have reached its highest peak, its most lush forest.
25 I dug wells and drank their water,
and I dried up all the rivers of Egypt with the soles of my feet.”

26 Have you not heard?
I did all this long ago.
I formed all this in ancient times.
Now I caused it all to take place.
I enabled you to destroy fortified cities,
reducing them to heaps of ruins.
27 Their inhabitants were powerless.
Overwhelmed and ashamed,
they were like plants in the field,
like fresh green grass, like grass on a housetop,
and like a field before it has grown.[d]
28 But I know when you stand and when you sit,[e]
when you go out and when you come in,
and how you rage wildly against me.
29 Because you rage against me,
and because your arrogance has reached my ears,
I will put my hook in your nose and my bit in your mouth,
and I will make you go back by the same way that you came.

30 This will be a sign for you:

This year you will eat what grows by itself.
Next year you will eat what springs up from that.
But in the third year, you will sow crops and harvest them.
You will plant vineyards and eat their fruit.
31 The surviving remnant of the house of Judah
will again put down roots below and bear fruit above.
32 For from Jerusalem a remnant will go out,
and survivors from Mount Zion.
The zeal of the Lord of Armies will accomplish this.

33 This is what the Lord says about the king of Assyria:

He will not enter this city.
He will not shoot an arrow there.
He will not advance against it with a shield,
and he will not build a siege ramp against it.
34 He will go back by the same route that he came,
and he will not enter this city, declares the Lord.
35 For I will defend this city to save it,
for my own sake,
and for the sake of my servant David.

The Destruction of Sennacherib

36 Then an angel of the Lord went and struck down one hundred eighty-five thousand men in the Assyrian camp. Early in the morning, there they were—all the dead bodies. 37 Then Sennacherib king of Assyria broke camp and left. He returned to Nineveh and remained there. 38 One day when Sennacherib was worshipping in the house of his god Nisrok, his sons Adrammelek and Sharezer struck him down with the sword. They fled to the land of Ararat,[f] and his son Esarhaddon became king in his place.

Hezekiah’s Illness and Recovery

38 In those days Hezekiah became sick and was dying. The prophet Isaiah son of Amoz came to him and said, “This is what the Lord says. Give instructions to your household, because you are going to die. You will not survive.”

2 So Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and prayed to the Lord. 3 He said, “Please remember, Lord, how I have walked before you in truth and with my whole heart. I have done what is good in your eyes.” Hezekiah wept bitterly.

4 Then the word of the Lord came to Isaiah.

5 Go back and tell Hezekiah that this is what the Lord, the God of your father David, says:

I have heard your prayer and I have seen your tears. Now then, I will add fifteen years to your life. 6 I will rescue you and this city from the hand of the king of Assyria. I will defend this city.

7 This will be the sign from the Lord to you. The Lord will do what he has promised. 8 Watch! I will make the shadow of the setting sun that has moved down the stairway of Ahaz move back, ten steps higher on the staircase.

Then the sun’s shadow moved backwards, ten steps higher on the stairway that it had just descended.

9 A poem written by Hezekiah king of Judah, after his illness and recovery.[g]

10 I thought that, only halfway through my life,
I was entering into the gates of death,[h]
deprived of the remaining years of my life.
11 I thought, I will not see the Lord—
the Lord[i] in the land of the living.
I will no longer see anyone among the inhabitants of the world.[j]
12 My dwelling place is being pulled down.
It is carried away from me like a shepherd’s tent.
I have rolled up my life like a weaver.
He is cutting me off from the loom.
From day until night, you make an end of me.[k]
13 I pondered this until the morning.
He will break all my bones like a lion!
From day until night, you make an end of me.
14 I chirp weakly like a swift or a swallow.
I mourn like a dove.
My eyes are tired from looking upward.
O Lord, I am oppressed.
Be my security.

15 What can I say?
He has spoken to me, and he is the one to act.
I will march slowly throughout all my years,
because my heart is bitter.[l]
16 Lord, people live because you give them life.
My spirit lives through this.[m]
Restore me, and let me live.[n]
17 The bitter things I experienced were for my benefit.
Your love has preserved my life from the pit of destruction,
for you have thrown all my sins behind your back.
18 The grave[o] cannot thank you.
Death cannot praise you.
Those who go down into the pit cannot trust your faithfulness.
19 The living one, the living one, he praises you, as I do today.
A father tells his children about your faithfulness.
20 The Lord will save me,
so we will sing songs with stringed instruments
all the days of our lives in the House of the Lord.

21 Isaiah had said, “Have them take a cake of figs, apply it as a poultice on the inflamed spot, and he will recover.”

22 Hezekiah had also asked, “What will be the sign that I will go up to the House of the Lord?”

Footnotes:

  1. Isaiah 37:6 Or junior officers, an insulting term to use for such high-ranking officers
  2. Isaiah 37:9 Cush is the ancient name for the territory south of the First Cataract of the Nile River. Called Ethiopia in Roman times, it included most of present-day Sudan and some of present-day Ethiopia. The Cushite or Nubian kings were the pharaohs of Egypt at this time.
  3. Isaiah 37:22 Daughter of Zion is a personification of Jerusalem and the people of Judah.
  4. Isaiah 37:27 The translation follows the main Hebrew reading of this verse. The parallel text in 2 Kings 19:26 reads scorched before it becomes a full-grown stalk. The Dead Sea Scroll of Isaiah reads scorched by the east wind.
  5. Isaiah 37:28 The translation follows the Dead Sea Scroll of Isaiah. The Hebrew does not have when you stand and.
  6. Isaiah 37:38 The region of present-day Armenia
  7. Isaiah 38:9 This poem is not included in 2 Kings.
  8. Isaiah 38:10 Hebrew sheol
  9. Isaiah 38:11 The Hebrew text here has two occurrences of Yah, the short form of the divine name. Some Hebrew manuscripts have a single occurrence of Yahweh.
  10. Isaiah 38:11 Hebrew variant this passing world
  11. Isaiah 38:12 Or day, and then night! So quickly you have made an end of me. The meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain.
  12. Isaiah 38:15 The translation follows the Hebrew. The Dead Sea Scroll of Isaiah and the Syriac read What can I say? I will say to him that he is the one to act. I cannot sleep, because my heart is bitter.
  13. Isaiah 38:16 The meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain.
  14. Isaiah 38:16 Or you restore me, and you let me live!
  15. Isaiah 38:18 Hebrew sheol
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Galatians 6

Bear One Another’s Burdens

6 Brothers, if a person is caught in some trespass, you who are spiritual should restore such a person in a spirit of humility, carefully watching yourself so that you are not also tempted. 2 Bear one another’s burdens, and in this way fulfill[a] the law of Christ. 3 For if someone thinks he is something when he is nothing, he deceives himself. 4 Let each person test his own work, and then he will take pride in regard to himself and not his neighbor. 5 For each man will bear his own burden.

6 Let the one who is taught the word share all good things with his teacher.

7 Do not be deceived. God is not mocked. To be sure, whatever a man sows, he will also reap. 8 Indeed, the one who sows for his own sinful flesh will reap destruction from the sinful flesh. But the one who sows for the spirit will reap eternal life from the spirit. 9 Let us not become weary of doing good, because at the appointed time we will reap, if we do not give up.[b] 10 So then, as we have opportunity, let us do good to all people, and especially to those who belong to the household of faith.

What Matters: A New Creation, Not Circumcision

11 See what large letters I am writing to you with my own hand. 12 Those who want to look good in the flesh are the ones who are trying to compel you to be circumcised. Their only reason is so that they are not persecuted for the cross of Christ. 13 As a matter of fact, those who are circumcised do not keep the law themselves. But they want to have you circumcised, so that they can boast about your flesh.

14 But far be it from me to boast, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me and I to the world. 15 In fact, in Christ Jesus[c] circumcision or uncircumcision does not matter. What matters is being a new creation. 16 Peace and mercy on those who follow this rule, namely, on the Israel of God.

17 Finally, let no one cause me any trouble, because I bear the marks of the Lord Jesus on my body.

18 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit, brothers. Amen.

Footnotes:

  1. Galatians 6:2 Some witnesses to the text read in this way you will fulfill.
  2. Galatians 6:9 Or reap without ever getting tired, or reap without ceasing
  3. Galatians 6:15 Some witnesses to the text omit in Christ Jesus.
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Psalm 65

Psalm 65

A Thanksgiving Psalm: You Crown the Year With Goodness

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For the choir director. A psalm by David. A song.

Introduction

1 Praise waits for you,[a] O God, in Zion.
To you vows will be fulfilled.
2 You who hear prayer, to you all mortals[b] will come.

Spiritual Blessings

3 The record of my guilt overpowered me.
You atone for our rebellious acts.
4 How blessed is the one you choose and bring near!
He will dwell in your courtyards.
We will be satisfied by the goodness of your house,
by the holiness of your temple.

Blessings on the Nations

5 In righteousness you answer us with awesome deeds,
O God who saves us.
He is trusted by all the farthest ends of the earth and the sea.
6 He establishes the mountains by his power.
He has wrapped himself with strength.
7 He stills the roaring of the seas,
the roaring of their waves,
and the turmoil of the peoples.

8 Those living at the ends of the earth fear your signs.
From sunrise to sunset you let them shout for joy.

Blessings of the Harvest

9 You visit the earth and water it.
You make it very rich.
God’s stream is filled with water.
You provide grain for them, just as you planned.
10 You drench the land’s furrows. You flatten its plowed ground.
You soften it with showers. You bless its crops.
11 You crown the year with your goodness.
The tracks made by your carts overflow with riches.[c]
12 The pastures of the wilderness drip.
The hills are wrapped with joy.
13 The meadows are clothed with flocks.
The valleys are dressed with grain.
They shout for joy. Yes! They sing.

Footnotes:

  1. Psalm 65:1 Or praise is fitting for you or silence is before you
  2. Psalm 65:2 Literally flesh
  3. Psalm 65:11 Literally drip fatness
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Proverbs 23:24

24 The father of a righteous child will celebrate greatly.
One who fathers a wise son will find joy in him.

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09/20/2021 DAB Transcript

Isaiah 33:10-36:22, Galatians 5:13-26, Psalm 64:1-10, Proverbs 23:23

Today is the 20th day of September, welcome to the Daily Audio Bible. I am Brian. It is wonderful, it is wonderful to be here with you today. As we put one foot in front of the other and take the next step forward together on the adventure that we find ourselves in through the Bible this year. And we have worked our way in the Old Testament all the way into the book of Isaiah, we have crossed the halfway point in the book of Isaiah, actually were probably in a be passing through the halfway point in the book of Isaiah with our reading today. We’re reading from the Evangelical Heritage Version, Isaiah chapter 33 verse 10 through 36 verse 22 today.

Commentary:

Okay, so in our reading from Galatians today and I quote Paul said this, “but if you keep on biting and devouring one another, watch out that you are not consumed by one another” and we can meditate on that one right there the rest of the day, go back and look at the stuff we’re posting on social media, go back and look at the stuff we’ve been saying, but also look inside of our minds of the things we’re not saying that we’re thinking and there’s just a lot to consider in that one verse alone, but it’s a lead-in because Paul is kind of contrasting today. Well essentially powers that would like control over us and that we can give power to, like, we can submit and give power over us. One leads in one direction and one leads in a completely different direction. Paul is saying, essentially, you gotta walk by the Spirit and not by your sinful, fleshly desires. And it’s at this point that he kind of lists out some characteristics and this is not uncommon in the writings of Paul to have these kind of summary lists and their helpful, so if it’s going to be a fleshly desire or sin that we will submit to that, then according to Paul, and I quote, “now the works of the sinful flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity, complete lack of restraint, idolatry, sorcery, hatred, discord, jealousy, outbursts of anger, selfish ambition, dissensions, heresies, envy, murders, drunkenness, orgies, and things similar to these.” So, that’s category one. We can submit ourselves to sin and its enticements and it will lead us in this direction. Interestingly enough, we kinda know these lists, right, so sexual immorality. Of course, that’s on the list, drunkenness, orgies, we can so on that stuff on the list but let’s look at the list more closely. Hatred is on the list. Jealousy is on the list. Outbursts of anger is on the list. Selfish ambition is on the list. Envy is on the list. On the list along with sexual immorality and drunkenness and orgies and all the stuff that we have been warned away from for most of our lives. So, maybe sexual immorality isn’t a part of your day-to-day or orgies, or drunkenness, but is jealousy, because it’s in the same category, is envy? Some things to think about for sure. There also is an alternative list. A list of characteristics that would accompany a person living by the Spirit, led by the Spirit and I quote that list “but the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control, against such things,” Paul says “there is no law” there is no law, against peace, there’s no law against patience. There’s no law against faithfulness or love or joy. So, there’s our contrast, if we want to surrender to the influences of sin in our lives than we see where the road is going to go and the stuff that we’re going to be participating in. If we’re going to submit to the Spirit in our lives than we can also see the fruit that will come from that. What we…we probably wouldn’t admit it but what we functionally try to do is mix these lists to pick and choose the things that are gonna be things that are okay with us. And so, if that’s really functionally how are going to try to live than we should just actually look at these lists and do some comparison. For example, can they be mixed? Can you be jealous in love? Can you instigate discord with peace? Can you patiently be envious? Can you be an immoral and have self-control? We can just keep mixing them all but we can see that they’re incompatible. So, Paul is writing this letter to the Galatians because this is what their wrestling with. Ironically, we still wrestle with the same things. They’re heart issues, we’re just wearing different clothing, but we still have the same type of emotional makeup and heart issues that are brothers and sisters in Galatia were wrestling with a couple of thousand years ago. And I guess the ultimate question here is who are we gonna serve? What is it we’re going for here? What are we after because the paths that we choose and walk are ultimately going to lead us to a destination? Are we going where we want to go? What are we enslaving ourselves to? Paul closes out our reading today probably with the best way to sum this up “those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the sinful flesh with its passions and desires. If we live by the Spirit, let us also walk in step with it. Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, and envying one another.” So, maybe just a little time of reflection with these lists today. We find them in Galatians 5, just kind of looking them over and asking ourselves now where…where am I in all of this and then inviting the Holy Spirit into that conversation. And we are likely to find some areas that we need to repent, that we need to change your mind and go in a different direction. Other areas we’ll find that we’re doing the right thing, we’re walking the right road. The idea is sanctification. The idea here is that each day over time, it’s better and better and better as we yield and surrender more fully to the Holy Spirit.

Prayer:

So, Spirit, come into all that we’re talking about here under these passages of Scripture. And the…what’s bubbling up in our hearts as we think this over. We need You. We have tried so hard on our own in so many ways. We need You to help us sort out things that we cannot get victory over or that we cannot sort out for ourselves. Help us to have clarity about where the path we are walking is leading so that we might have the opportunity to repent, so that we might be able to look and say that’s not where I wanted to go. So, I’m going to go in a different direction, which is repentance. Come Holy Spirit, we pray in the name of Jesus we ask. Amen.

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Prayer and Encouragements:

Hello DAB family. It is 17 of September at 7:36 AM and this is Sara from London. I hope you’ve all had a blessed week and I just thank God for all your lives. May God’s plans and purposes be fulfilled in each and every one of your lives. Today, I’m calling to pray for Stephen John, John O’Connor from South Sudan was admitted to the hospital for mental health. And it’s good that you shared it, John, because what the enemy wants, he wants us to, to not share things, to be filled with embarrassment, okay, and he wants to isolate us. But because he knows what God is gonna do to turn things around. And there’s is nothing better than the body of Christ coming together and praying because that’s when changes will be made and that’s when God’s will would be done. So, today, I am praying for Stephen John, I thank You Father for Stephen John’s life. I thank You for what You are going to do to turn things around in his life because You are faithful God. I pray that You take complete control of his mind in the name of Jesus Christ may any plans of the enemy be bound in Jesus’ name. May You arise God, and put to flight every mind control of Spirit in his life in the name of Jesus Christ. May Your healing power flow through his body in Jesus’ name. May Your plans and purposes for his life come to pass and be fulfilled. Oh Father, and may Stephen testify one day on how You have delivered him Lord Jesus. We thank You for answering these prayers and I say these prayers in the name of Jesus Christ, oh Father. I thank You, Lord Father, for everything that You are going to do. And I also pray this prayer over every single person that is battling with their mental health. But God is in control. I love you all. Stay blessed.

This is John calling from Budapest also known as Paul in Barcelona. Vicky, today is the 17th of September and I heard the message about your son Shane. I’m certain that many people will reach out to you because it was absolutely heartbreaking and I was thinking about how to speak to you, there are two things. First of all, well I thought, well how can I enter into that pain. I’ve never been a mother, I’ve never had a son, you know, and then I suddenly realize that there is a parallel experience my life. My own father died of alcoholism and then later cancer came into it alone in his trailer home in Arizona and my younger brother, three days after his death, in his easy chair found my father there in his easy chair, three days after he had died, when my…my father’s second wife. And the shock of opening that door and entering into that made, is very similar to what you said about having the door there open when you got there after your nine-hour trip and having prayed for/with Shane and it breaks my heart. Truly, truly it breaks my heart. And so, I’m praying for you over here in Europe even though you seem very strong woman of faith that Abba will never leave you. I just want to remind you of His promise for Shane and for you, for all of us, which is behold I make all things new and that day is just rushing upon us where He will wipe away every tear. So, God bless you, His peace be with you His comfort be with you. And just know that, you know, you’ve placed Shane in the Father’s hands and the Father understood that suffering and I’m certain that He has Shane in his arms. God bless.

Good morning Daily Audio Bible family. This is Samuel from Texas. And I thought I would just check-in and ask you guys to pray for the women in my life. I’ve come a really long way. The Lord has just completely changed my desires and things that used to want. And He is moving mightily in my life. I’m very grateful and healthy today. Our God is real and He does take away addictions and He replaces these sins and desires with new beautiful things. And one of these new beautiful things is my heart just yearns for my mother, my sister, as well as my girlfriend Janet, Haley and Kaylee. They all have their own battles going on, as a man, I don’t really understand the female psyche and the female mindset a lot of times. And so, I don’t know how to pray, I don’t know how to communicate sometimes. So, I’m asking the women of God of Daily Audio Bible to pray and intercede for these three women in my life. I just believe that that y'all pray for them, that the power of Jesus will encounter them and change them. Just pray that my sister sets herself apart. Pray that my girlfriend Kaylee burns for Christ and loses a judgmental Spirit. And just pray that my mom…mother finds peace.

Hi Daily Audio Family this is Iva from Ohio. Hey, I’ve been praying a lot for those of you calling in lately and I really prayed for Jack. Jack called and he had a test that was coming up and he said he’s just really wasn’t good at tests and he asked us to pray. Jack, I’m a teacher and I often pray for my students when I know that there are tests coming up. And I just want you to know that I prayed for you every day on my drive to school that you would be able to learn may be more easily and be able to face these tests with confidence. And so, I want you to know that I’m praying for you. And then Tammy from the Adorandex, I just heard you on September 17th and I just think that, I’ve been praying for the Lord to the restore the joy of your salvation, right. I think the enemy has slipped some lies in like, you aren’t doing this enough, you aren’t reading your Bible enough but you are reading your Bible and you are immersing yourself in Scripture and you’re praising the Lord for his grace. And so, I just break off the lies that the enemy has spoken over you and just pray for the joy of your salvation to be restored and for God to really just throw His peace all over you that you would sense the presence of God in your life. Family I am so thankful for you. I am…it is a privilege to pray for you and to be part of this, to be part of this, you know, campfire. I love you.

To the dear mother in Northern California whose son took his life because the burden got to heavy as a nurse at the hospital with the COVID surge. I am so sorry for your loss. And, this is your brother in Baltimore who, I serve as a Chaplain at a major East Coast hospital. So, I get a full glimpse of what you’re, of what your son experienced and Father, I just pray in the name of Jesus that you would ease this mother’s heart that You would bring comfort by Your Holy Spirit. Holy Spirit, come alongside her to comfort her in the days and weeks ahead as You ___ for her son. And Jesus we just ask that You would come alongside every doctor, every nurse, every environmental service person, every raspatory therapist, everybody who’s involved in health care who’s dealing with this pandemic. Strengthen them, oh God, and give them comfort and let them know that You are good. And that Your faithful love endures forever. In Jesus name we pray. Amen. Thank you so much and God speed to you. Amen.

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The Daily Audio Bible Reading for Monday September 20, 2021 (NIV)

Isaiah 33:10-36:22

10 Now I will arise, says the Lord.
Now I will lift myself up.
Now I will be exalted.
11 You will conceive chaff
and give birth to stubble.
Like fire, your own breath will consume you.
12 People will be burned to lime,[a]
like thorns that are cut and burned in the fire.
13 You who are far away, recognize what I have done.
You who are close by, acknowledge my mighty acts.

14 The sinners in Zion are afraid.
Trembling has seized the ungodly.
Who of us can live with a consuming fire?
Who of us can live in a place that burns without end?
15 Those who walk righteously and speak blamelessly,
those who despise dishonest gain,
whose hands refuse a bribe,
whose ears will not listen to violent plans,
whose eyes reject evil—
16 they will dwell on high.
Their defense will be a fortress on the cliffs.
Their bread will be provided.
Their water supply will be reliable.

17 Your eyes will see the King[b] in his splendor.
They will see a land that stretches far and wide.
18 Your heart will think about the past terrors.
You will think, “Where is the one who took the inventory?[c]
Where is the one who weighed the silver?
Where is the one who counted the towers?”
19 You will no longer see a barbaric people,
a people with unintelligible speech, which you cannot understand,
a people who babble in a language that makes no sense.
20 Look at Zion, the city where we hold our festivals.
You will see Jerusalem as a peaceful place,
as a tent that cannot be removed.
Its stakes will never be pulled up.
Its ropes will never be broken.
21 There the Lord will be with us in majesty,
as in a place with wide rivers and streams,
where no enemy warship can row,
where no sailing ship can slip past.
22 Because the Lord is our judge,
the Lord is our lawgiver,
and the Lord is our king,
he is the one who will save us.

23 Your rigging hangs loose.
The mast is not steady.
The sail is not set.[d]

When they divide all the plunder,
there will be so much that even the crippled will take part.
24 No one who lives there will say, “I am sick.”
The guilt of the people who live there will be forgiven.

Judgment Against the Nations

34 

Come near, you nations, and hear!
Listen, you peoples.
Let the earth and everything in it hear,
the world and everything that it produces.

2 The Lord is angry with all the nations,
and he is furious with all their armies.
He has condemned them to destruction.
He has handed them over for slaughter.
3 Their fallen bodies will lie unburied,
and the stench of their corpses will linger.
The mountains will flow with their blood.
4 The whole army of the heavens will fall apart.
The sky will be rolled up like a scroll,
and its whole army will waste away and fall,
like leaves withering on a vine,
like fruit that falls from a fig tree.

5 Yes, my sword has drunk its fill in the heavens.
Now it will fall on Edom,
on the people I have sentenced to judgment.
6 The sword of the Lord is covered with blood.
It is coated with fat,
with the blood of lambs and goats,
with the fat from the kidneys of rams,
for the Lord has made a sacrifice in Bozrah,
a massive slaughter in the land of Edom.
7 Wild oxen will fall along with them,
bull calves and powerful bulls.
Their land will be soaked with blood,
and their dust will be saturated with fat.
8 It will be a day of vengeance for the Lord,
a year of retribution for Zion’s sake.[e]
9 Edom’s streams will be turned into pitch,
its dust into sulfur,
and its land will become burning pitch,
10 which will not be extinguished night or day.
Its smoke will go up forever.
Generation after generation, it will lie in ruins.
No one will ever pass through it. Never again!
11 But the desert owl and the porcupine will live there.[f]
The screech owl and the raven will nest there.
God will stretch a measuring line for chaos over Edom,
and a plumb line for uninhabited ruins.[g]
12 There will be nothing left for its nobles to call a kingdom.
All its officials will be gone.
13 Thorns will cover its citadels.
Thistles and briers will overgrow its fortresses.
It will be a den of jackals,
a haunt for ostriches.
14 Desert animals and hyenas will gather,
and wild goats[h] will bleat to each other.
Creatures of the night[i] will settle there
and find a resting place.
15 An owl[j] will nest there.
She will lay eggs, hatch them,
and gather her young under her shade.
Falcons will gather there too,
each with its mate.

16 Search through the book of the Lord, and read.
Not one of them will be missing.
Not one will lack her mate.
For his mouth has commanded this,
and his Spirit has gathered them together.
17 He has allotted this land for these creatures.
His hand has divided it up for them with a surveying line.
They will possess it forever.
They will live there generation after generation.

The Joyful Return

35 

The wilderness and the desert will be glad.
The wasteland of the Arabah will rejoice and blossom like a crocus.
2 It will bloom lavishly,
and there will be great joy and singing.
The glory of Lebanon will be given to it.
It will be excellent like Carmel and Sharon.
They will see the glory of the Lord,
the majesty of our God.

3 Strengthen the weak hands,
and make the shaky knees steady.
4 Tell those who have a fearful heart:
Be strong.
Do not be afraid.
Look! Your God will come with vengeance.
With God’s own retribution, he will come and save you.

5 Then the eyes of the blind will be opened,
and the ears of the deaf will be unplugged.
6 The crippled will leap like a deer,
and the tongue of the mute will sing for joy.
Waters will flow in the wilderness,
and streams in the wasteland.
7 The burning sand will become a pool,
and in the thirsty ground there will be springs of water.
There will be grass, reeds, and rushes where the haunts
of jackals once lay.
8 A highway will be there,
a road that will be called the holy way.
The impure will not walk there.
It will be reserved for those who walk in that holy way.
Wicked fools will not wander onto it.
9 No lion will be there,
nor will any ferocious animal go up on it.
They will not be found there,
but only the redeemed will walk there.
10 Then those ransomed by the Lord will return.
They will enter Zion with a joyful shout,
and everlasting joy will crown their heads.
Happiness and joy will overtake them,
and sorrow and sighing will flee away.

Assyria Threatens Jerusalem

36 Now in the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah, Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all of the fortified cities of Judah and seized them. 2 The king of Assyria sent his herald[k] from Lachish to Jerusalem to King Hezekiah. A large army was with him. He stood by the water channel from the upper pool on the road to the launderer’s[l] field. 3 Then Eliakim son of Hilkiah, who was the palace administrator, Shebna, who was the secretary, and Joah son of Asaph, who was the recorder, came out to meet him.

4 The herald told them this.

Tell Hezekiah this is what the Great King, the king of Assyria, says.

What makes you so confident? 5 Your wisdom and military strength are based on empty promises. Who do you trust, so that you now have rebelled against me? 6 Tell me! Are you really trusting in Egypt to be your staff, that splintered reed that will pierce the hand of anyone who leans on it? That is what happens to anyone who relies on Pharaoh king of Egypt.

7 If you say to me that you trust in the Lord your God, isn’t he the one whose high places and altars Hezekiah removed? Didn’t Hezekiah tell Judah and Jerusalem to worship at this altar?

8 Now then, make a bargain with my master the king of Assyria. I will give you two thousand horses, if you can find enough riders for them. 9 How can you resist even one officer from among the least of my lord’s servants? How can you put your trust in Egypt for chariots and charioteers?

10 What’s more, have I attacked this land to destroy it without the Lord’s orders? The Lord is the one who said to me, “Go up against this land and destroy it.”

11 Then Eliakim, Shebna, and Joah said to the herald, “Please speak to your servants in Aramaic, because we understand it. Do not speak to us in Hebrew, because there are people on the city wall who are listening.”

12 But the herald replied, “Has my lord sent me only to you and to your lord to speak these words, and not to the men who are sitting on the wall, who will eat their own excrement and drink their own urine with you?”[m]

13 Then the herald stood up and called out in a loud voice in Hebrew. He said:

Listen to the words of the Great King, the king of Assyria! 14 This is what the king says.

Do not let Hezekiah deceive you! He will not be able to deliver you. 15 Do not let Hezekiah persuade you to trust in the Lord, when he says that the Lord will save you, and that this city will not be handed over to the king of Assyria.

16 Do not listen to Hezekiah, for this is what the king of Assyria says. Make a peace treaty with me and surrender to me. Each one of you will eat from his own vine, from his own fig tree, and each one of you will drink water from his own cistern, 17 until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land with grain and sweet wine, a land with bread and vineyards. 18 Do not let Hezekiah make you think that the Lord will deliver you!

Have any of the gods of the nations kept them from being handed over to the king of Assyria? 19 Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim? Have they rescued Samaria from my hand? 20 Which of the gods of these countries have delivered their country from my hand? Will the Lord really deliver Jerusalem from my hand?

21 But the officials remained silent, saying nothing in reply, because the king had commanded, “Do not answer him.”

22 Then Eliakim son of Hilkiah, who was the palace administrator, Shebna, who was the secretary, and Joah son of Asaph, who was the recorder, went to Hezekiah with their clothing torn and told him everything the herald had said.

Footnotes:

  1. Isaiah 33:12 Or to ashes
  2. Isaiah 33:17 Or the king
  3. Isaiah 33:18 The verse apparently refers to the actions of the enemy officers as they plundered Jerusalem.
  4. Isaiah 33:23 Or Your ropes are loose. Their flagpole is not firmly set, and the flag will not fly. But see verse 21.
  5. Isaiah 34:8 Or a time of retribution for the Defender of Zion
  6. Isaiah 34:11 The precise identification of these animals and other animals in this section is uncertain. The word translated porcupine may be another type of owl.
  7. Isaiah 34:11 The words translated chaos and uninhabited ruins are the same words that describe the undeveloped, empty world on the first day of creation.
  8. Isaiah 34:14 The term translated wild goats later became associated with satyrs and demons, but here it seems to refer to regular animals.
  9. Isaiah 34:14 Hebrew lilith. In later Jewish writing this term became the name of a female demon.
  10. Isaiah 34:15 Or the arrow snake. The meaning of the Hebrew term is uncertain.
  11. Isaiah 36:2 Or chief spokesman. The Hebrew/Assyrian term rab shakeh refers to a high-ranking military officer.
  12. Isaiah 36:2 Or washerman’s or wool-cleaner’s
  13. Isaiah 36:12 The Hebrew terms for excrement and urine are apparently coarse, because the scribal notes substitute euphemisms for them.
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Galatians 5:13-26

13 After all, brothers, you were called to freedom. Only do not use your freedom as a starting point for your sinful flesh. Rather, serve one another through love. 14 In fact, the whole law is summed up in this one statement: “Love your neighbor as yourself.”[a] 15 But if you keep on biting and devouring one another, watch out that you are not consumed by one another.

Flesh Opposes Spirit

16 What I am saying is this: Walk by the spirit,[b] and you will not carry out what the sinful flesh desires. 17 For the sinful flesh desires what is contrary to the spirit, and the spirit what is contrary to the sinful flesh. In fact, these two continually oppose one another, so that you do not continue to do these things you want to do. 18 But if you are led by the spirit, you are not under the control of the law.

19 Now the works of the sinful flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity, complete lack of restraint, 20 idolatry, sorcery, hatred, discord, jealousy, outbursts of anger, selfish ambition, dissensions, heresies, 21 envy, murders,[c] drunkenness, orgies, and things similar to these. I warn you, just as I also warned you before, that those who continue to do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

22 But the fruit of the spirit[d] is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no law. 24 Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the sinful flesh with its passions and desires. 25 If we live by the spirit, let us also walk in step with it. 26 Let us not become conceited, provoking one another and envying one another.

Footnotes:

  1. Galatians 5:14 Leviticus 19:18
  2. Galatians 5:16 In this section, the spirit refers to the new nature in contrast with the sinful flesh.
  3. Galatians 5:21 A few witnesses to the text omit murders.
  4. Galatians 5:22 Or Spirit
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Psalm 64

Psalm 64

Hide Me From the Conspiracy

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For the choir director. A psalm by David.

Opening Plea

1 Hear my voice, O God, when I complain.
Protect my life from the terror caused by the enemy.
2 Hide me from the conspiracy of the wicked,
from the noisy mob of evildoers.

The Enemies’ Wickedness

3 They sharpen their tongues like a sword.
They shoot poison words like arrows.
4 They shoot at the innocent from hiding places.
Suddenly they shoot at him. They have no fear.
5 They strengthen each other in an evil plot.
They discuss where to hide snares.
They say, “Who will see them?”
6 They plot evil deeds and they say,
“We have come up with a perfect plot!”
The mind and heart of man are devious!

God’s Judgment

7 But God will shoot them.
Suddenly they are wounded with an arrow.
8 Their own tongues cause their downfall.[a]
Everyone who sees them will shake his head.

The Joy of the Godly

9 Then all people will be afraid.
They will proclaim the work of God.
They will consider what he has done.
10 Let the righteous rejoice in the Lord
and take refuge in him.
Let all the upright in heart be confident!

Footnotes:

  1. Psalm 64:8 Because of a mixture of singular and plural number, the translation is uncertain. Literally the Hebrew reads and they caused him/it to stumble, upon them, their tongue.
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Proverbs 23:23

23 Buy truth and do not sell it.
Buy wisdom, discipline, and knowledge.

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09/19/2021 DAB Transcript

Isaiah 30:12-33:9, Galatians 5:1-12, Psalms 63:1-11, Proverbs 23:22

Today is the 19th day of September welcome to the Daily Audio Bible I am Brian it is wonderful to be here with you every day, but on these days when we’re starting a brand-new week together we can think about all that hasn’t happened yet, and it's…I mean you can do this every day, every month, but it’s a fresh start and we get to choose what this week is going to look like. And let’s choose wisely by continuing our journey together around the Global Campfire and taking the next step forward together. That leads us back to the book of Isaiah. Today Isaiah chapter 30 verse 12 through 33 verse 9. And we will read from the EHV, the Evangelical Heritage Version this week.

Prayer:

Thank You, Father for Your word. Thank You for bringing us this far. Eight and half months now. And every day You have been faithful, every day You been patient and kind, every day You have walked with us through all of the things that we get ourselves into and all of the things that come our way, that were unexpected. You are always present, and we are grateful. And, so, come Holy Spirit as we begin this brand-new shiny sparkly week. Lead us into all truth. Lead us on the narrow path that leads to life. Be a lamp to our feet and a light to our path, we ask in the name of Jesus. Amen.

Community Prayer and Praise:

Hey, DABbers this is Micah in Awe Kansas City. Today I was watching this show about mothers in jail and it really had made claustrophobic feeling for them and just felt this pressure and pain they had of not being able to do anything in there and it got me thinking about believers that could be locked up unright…unjustly and just everybody in jail but especially our brothers and sisters in jail, how much of a mental struggle that would be. And I remembered there was a scripture that said we should be praying for our brothers and sisters in jail. I found it. I want to read it real quick. It’s Hebrews 13:1-3. Well…this isn’t the exact __ spot but anyway. Keep on loving one another as brother and sister. Do not forget to show hospitality to strangers for by doing…so doing some people have shown hospitality to angels without knowing it. Continue to remember those in prison as if you were together with them in prison period and those who are mistreated as if those of you yourselves were suffering. So, today I just want to ask all of you to join me in a movement to pray for our brothers and sisters in jail and even for unbelievers in jail, that God would draw them to himself. And I believe with many prayers going up God can…God will move some things around and maybe we can get some of these people set free. Let’s pray particularly for that. Lord we ask this morning or whatever time it is for all these people, we ask that you see these people’s cause and see their plight, see what they’ve done. And we ask for mercy Lord. If they’re innocent or if they’re not deserving to be in jail for this longer a period, we ask for you to set them free spiritually, supernaturally, send a way that they can be set free and encourage them over their Lord. In Jesus name we pray…

Hello, my beautiful family this is Suzanne calling from Albuquerque. I am calling because I heard Victor from Nigeria call and for whatever reason your plea to be able to come back to the Lord really touched me. You have found the right place. We are home and I just wanted to encourage you to keep listening. This has been one of the most beautiful things that’s happened. I mean it’s really transformed my life listening to Daily Audio Bible. I had been around for well over 10 years. I lost count after seven years. And I just…it has helped me become so grounded and helped my…my confused mind just to have a much clearer direction. And just to be able to listen to this when I get up in the morning and I’m getting ready for the day and sometimes I’ll go back and listen to the certain things later. Sometimes I miss it but then I just try to listen to two the next day or…but I just…it’s been such a blessing. And, so, you have found home and we are opening our arms for you. Just know that we are supporting you and listening and loving you. And I know that Jesus is so…there was no accident you found us. So, welcome home brother, Victor in Nigeria.

This is __ from __ again. I just wanted to call in with a praise report. My wife contracted COVID. I’ve been through a lot of health issues. I have COPD bad. I’m on the highest dose of Trelegy before oxygen. And ss soon as she contracted COVID, found out she was positive she got her brother, and she was crying. Shes’…tell her brother we’ve been married 32 years and that she was gonna lose me, and the whole family thought that they were going to lose me. And everybody prayed about it, and I ended up not having it as bad as she did. I just think that the Lord works in mysterious ways and I think He’s got something for me planned. I don’t know what it is yet but whatever it is I’m more than willing to do it. And then her, my wife’s father has COPD really bad too and we really prayed for him. He…he went into the hospital but now he’s out of the hospital and he’s doing well. I just…I just think that’s great and that’s just a…the way the world works because. He takes good such good care of us. I just wanted to share that this morning. And I wanted to everyone to know I’m praying for ‘em and I love my DAB family.

Good morning, everyone actually afternoon, or it could be evening where you are at. This is Christy from Kentucky. I wanted to call and share something that happened today that was so beautiful. ASnd I’m like Lord I just want to share this with people who will understand, and I know that my family will understand. I’ve been having a rough couple days. I guess I’ve got just kind of the Blues a little bit from wondering, is this ever going to end? I’m one of those older individuals that have chosen to isolate and really just try to spend time with the Lord and use this time like turning lemons into lemonade. And but the last couple of days I’ve kind of been weary. Well, this morning when I got up I went in to make myself a cup of coffee and all the sudden the most beautiful fragrance filled the kitchen and I looked around to see if maybe my husband had, you know, lit a candle or just trying to figure out where this beautiful fragrance was coming from and there was no answer. And then I knew. I knew what was going on. I had the most beautiful moment and it had something playing on my phone and I turned that off and I asked my little Google home hub just to play some worship music. All the sudden this music came on. It was called “back to the altar” __ worship __ and I had the most beautiful moment in the presence of God. And that fragrance, that fragrance, so beautiful. And I just wanted to call and thank the Lord for that moment. I needed to be refreshed. He’s so faithful.

Good evening family this is Penelope on Louisville KY and I’m calling this evening to ask for prayer for a dear friend’s son. He was shot on Labor Day weekend during a road rage incident, and he is in critical condition in the ICU, and he is an induced coma as they try and allow the swelling in his brain to go down. He was shot through the eye and the bullet passed through his eye and out the back of his brain. And they of course don’t know the extent of damage. His skull will need to be reconstructed but he’s definitely lost that eye. And it’s one of those situations where you are really not sure what to pray. And, so, I’m asking for prayer for miraculous healing and for restoration and for redemption and for the…for his whole family, for my friend who is his stepdad but who has raised him since he was a toddler, for his mother, for his younger brother, and for his grandparents, just for the whole family. They are just all devastated as you can imagine. And…but especially for Rob. He was raised in church as a young child, but I don’t know what his relationship with the Lord has been like over the last decade or so. I don't…I don’t know. But my prayer is that if he has not accepted Christ as a savior that that will happen. Thank you, family.

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The Daily Audio Bible Reading for Sunday September 19, 2021 (NIV)

Isaiah 30:12-33:9

12 This is what the Holy One of Israel says:
Since you have rejected my word,
and you trust in oppression and deceit,
and you rely on them,
13 your guilt will be like a crack in a wall,
bulging out and about to collapse.
It will suddenly fall without warning.
14 It will crash like a broken clay pot,
smashed to pieces so violently that not one useful piece will be left,
not even a piece good enough to pick up a coal from the hearth
or to ladle water from a cistern.
15 This is what the Lord God, the Holy One of Israel, says:
If you repent and wait quietly, you will be saved.
Your strength will depend on quietness and trust.
But you refused.
16 You said, “No, we will flee on horseback!”
Yes indeed, you will flee.
You said, “We will ride away swiftly!”
Yes indeed, you will be pursued swiftly.
17 A thousand will flee when just one threatens.
When five threaten, you will flee,
until you are like a single flag, fluttering on a mountaintop,
like a lonely banner on a hill.
18 But the Lord is eager to be gracious to you.
He waits on high to have mercy on you,
for the Lord is a God of justice.
Blessed are all those who long for him.

19 So people will live in Zion. In Jerusalem you will weep no more. The Lord will be very gracious to you when he hears your cry. When he hears you, he will answer you. 20 Though the Lord has given you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, he is your teacher.[a] He will not be hidden any longer. You will see your teacher with your own eyes. 21 Whenever you are tempted to turn to the right or to the left, you will hear his voice behind you, saying, “This is the way. Walk in it.” 22 You will defile your idols that are plated with silver and your images overlaid with gold. You will throw them away like a filthy cloth,[b] saying, “Get away from me!”

23 Then he will give you rain so that you can sow seed in the ground. The bread from your land’s harvest will be excellent and plentiful. On that day your livestock will graze in wide pastures. 24 The oxen and the donkeys that work the ground will eat the best feed[c]—winnowed with a shovel and a winnowing fork. 25 On every lofty mountain and on every high hill there will be streams flowing with water.

It will be a day of terrible slaughter, when towers fall. 26 The light of the moon will be as bright as the sun, and the light of the sun will be seven times brighter—like the light of seven days—on the day when the Lord will bind up the wounds of his people and heal the injuries he inflicted.

God Will Punish Assyria

27 Look! The name of the Lord is coming from far away,
burning with anger, in a column of thick smoke.
His lips are full of anger,
and his tongue is a consuming fire.
28 His breath is a stream at flood stage,
surging all the way up to your neck.
He shakes the nations in a sieve to destroy them,
and he puts a bridle in their mouths to lead them to destruction.
29 You will sing as you do on the night of a holy festival,
with glad hearts,
as when they go up with flutes to the mountain of the Lord,
to the Rock of Israel.
30 The Lord will cause the majestic splendor of his voice to be heard.
He will make them see his arm come crashing down in fierce anger,
like the flames of a consuming fire,
like driving rain, a furious storm with hailstones.
31 The voice of the Lord will terrify Assyria.
He will strike it with his rod.
32 Every stroke of the punishing rod[d] which the Lord will lay on them
will be accompanied by the music of drums and lyres.
He himself will fight, battling them, swinging weapons.
33 Topheth has long been made ready.
It is prepared for the king,
a flaming funeral pyre, deep and wide, with plenty of wood.
The breath of the Lord, like a river of liquid fire, sets it ablaze.

Woe to Those Who Rely on Egypt

31 

Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help,
who put their faith in horses,
who trust in chariots because there are many of them,
who trust in charioteers[e] because they are very powerful.
They do not trust in the Holy One of Israel.
They do not seek the Lord.
2 The Lord is wise, and he will bring disaster.
He will not go back on his word,
but he will deal with those who do evil,
and with those who help the wicked.
3 The Egyptians are merely men, not gods.
Their horses are flesh, not spirit.
When the Lord stretches out his hand to punish,
both the helper and the one seeking help will fall.
Together they will perish.

4 This is what the Lord said to me:
When a lion or a young lion snarls over its prey,
and a band of shepherds is called out to drive it away,
it is not afraid of their shouts,
and it is not bothered by the noise they make.
In the same way, the Lord of Armies will fearlessly come down
to fight on Mount Zion and on its heights.
5 Like a hovering[f] bird,
the Lord of Armies will protect Jerusalem.
He will protect it and deliver it.
He will pass over it and preserve it.
6 O people of Israel, return to the one you have so completely betrayed. 7 In that day every one of you will throw away his idols of silver and his idols of gold—things you made, which caused you to sin.

8 Assyria will fall, but not by a human sword.
A sword will devour him, but not one wielded by men.
He will flee from the sword,
but his young men will be forced into slavery.
9 His rocky stronghold will pass away because of fear,
and his officials will abandon their banner in panic,
declares the Lord, whose fire is in Zion,
whose blast furnace is in Jerusalem.

The Righteous Kingdom

32 

See, a king will reign in righteousness,
and officials will govern with justice.
2 Each of them will be like a shelter from the wind
and a refuge from the storm,
like streams of water for a dry place,
like the shade of a massive cliff in a parched land.
3 The eyes of those who see will not be closed,
and the ears of those who hear will listen.
4 Hasty hearts[g] will gain understanding,
and stammering tongues will speak clearly.

5 The fool will no longer be called noble,
nor will rogues be treated like respectable people.[h]
6 The fool speaks folly,
and his heart plots evil:
to do what is ungodly,
to tell lies about the Lord,
to deny food to the hungry,
and to refuse even one drink for the thirsty.
7 The rogue’s ways are evil.
He plots evil to ruin the humble with lies,
even when the poor speak with justice.

8 But the noble man plans noble deeds,
and by noble deeds he stands.

Judgment and Restoration

9 Get up, you complacent women, and listen!
You carefree girls, hear what I have to say!
10 In a little more than a year, you carefree women will be worried,
because the grape harvest will fail,
and the fruit harvest will not arrive.
11 Tremble, you complacent women!
Be worried, you carefree girls!
Strip yourselves naked,
and put sackcloth around your waist.
12 Beat your breasts in mourning
for the pleasant fields,
for the fruitful vines,
13 because my people’s land will yield only thorns and briers.
Weep for all the houses where you partied,
in the city where you celebrated.
14 Then the fortress will be abandoned.
The crowded city will be deserted.
The citadel and the watchtower will become
rugged ruins[i] for a long time,
enjoyed by wild donkeys,
and a pasture for flocks,
15 until the Spirit is poured out on us from on high,
and the wilderness becomes a fertile field,
and the fertile field seems like a forest.
16 Then justice will dwell in the wilderness,
and righteousness will live in the fertile field.
17 The result of righteousness will be peace,
and righteousness will bring lasting tranquility and security.
18 My people will live in a peaceful place,
in secure dwellings,
and in quiet resting places.
19 Even if hail destroys the forest,
or if the city is totally leveled,
20 how blessed you will be,
as you sow seed beside streams,
and let your cattle and donkeys run free.

Rise Up, O Lord!

33 

Woe to you who destroy, even though you have not been destroyed,
you who betray, though you have not been betrayed!
When you have finished destroying, you will be destroyed,
and when you have finished betraying, you will be betrayed.

2 O Lord, be gracious to us. We wait hopefully for you.
Be our strength every morning.
Be our salvation in times of trouble.
3 At the thunder of your voice, people flee.
When you stir up your great power, nations scatter.
4 Your plunder will be taken away
the way a caterpillar[j] eats things up.
People will swarm on it like a locust swarm.
5 The Lord is exalted, because he dwells on high.
He will fill Zion with justice and righteousness.
6 There will be stability in your time,
a wealth of salvation, wisdom, and knowledge.
Your treasure will be the fear of the Lord.
7 Listen! Their elite troops[k] are crying in the streets.
The peace envoys weep bitterly.
8 The highways are deserted.
All travel has stopped.
The treaty has been broken.
Witnesses[l] are despised,
and no one is respected.
9 The land mourns and becomes weak.
Lebanon is ashamed and withers away.
The Plain of Sharon is like the Arabah,
and Bashan and Carmel are stripped bare.

Footnotes:

  1. Isaiah 30:20 The Hebrew reads teachers, perhaps referring to the prophets, but the singular he occurs throughout verses 20-26.
  2. Isaiah 30:22 The Hebrew words refer to a cloth stained with menstrual blood. Blood made a person who contacted it ceremonially unclean.
  3. Isaiah 30:24 Or seasoned feed
  4. Isaiah 30:32 Or the appointed rod
  5. Isaiah 31:1 Or horsemen
  6. Isaiah 31:5 Or swooping
  7. Isaiah 32:4 Or rash minds
  8. Isaiah 32:5 Or celebrities
  9. Isaiah 32:14 Or animals’ dens
  10. Isaiah 33:4 The term refers to a life stage or a type of locust.
  11. Isaiah 33:7 Or the people of Ariel
  12. Isaiah 33:8 The translation follows the Dead Sea Scroll of Isaiah. The standard Hebrew text reads cities.
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Galatians 5:1-12

Christ Set Us Free

5 It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not allow anyone to put the yoke of slavery on you again. 2 Look, I, Paul, tell you that if you allow yourselves to be circumcised, Christ will be of no benefit to you. 3 I testify again to every man who allows himself to be circumcised that he is obligated to do the whole law. 4 You who are trying to be declared righteous by the law are completely separated from Christ. You have fallen from grace.

5 Indeed, through the Spirit, we by faith are eagerly waiting for the sure hope of righteousness. 6 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision matters. Rather, it is faith working through love that matters. 7 You were running well! Who cut in on you, so that you are no longer persuaded by the truth? 8 This persuasion is not from the one who calls you. 9 A little yeast works through the whole batch. 10 I am confident in the Lord that you will have no other opinion than this. But the one who is trying to disturb you will pay the penalty, whoever he is.

11 Brothers,[a] if I am still preaching circumcision, why am I still being persecuted? Then the offense of the cross has been abolished. 12 If only those who are upsetting you would also cut themselves off![b]

Footnotes:

  1. Galatians 5:11 When context indicates it, the Greek word for brothers may refer to all fellow believers, male and female.
  2. Galatians 5:12 Using sarcasm, Paul sharply implies that if the Judaizers were so interested in circumcision, castration might be even better for them. See what Jesus said about false teachers in Matthew 18:6.
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Psalm 63

Psalm 63

My Soul Thirsts for You

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A psalm by David. When he was in the wilderness of Judah.[a]

Thirsting for God

1 God, you are my God. Eagerly I seek you.
My soul thirsts for you. My flesh longs for you,
in a dry and dreary land without water.
2 Yes, in the sanctuary I have watched you
to see your power and your glory.

Joy Even in Adversity

3 Because your mercy is better than life,
my lips will worship you.
4 Yes, I will bless you as long as I live.
In your name I will lift up my hands.
5 My soul will be satisfied with rich food.[b]
My mouth will praise you with lips filled with songs.
6 Whenever I remember you on my bed,
throughout the watches of the night I meditate on you.
7 Because you are a help for me,
I sing for joy under the shade of your wings.
8 My soul clings to you.
Your right hand upholds me.

Destruction for the Defiant

9 But those who seek my life will go to destruction.
They will go into the depths of the earth.
10 They will be given over to the power of the sword.
They will become food for foxes.[c]
11 But the king will rejoice in God.
All who swear by him will praise him,
but the mouths of those speaking lies will be shut.

Footnotes:

  1. Psalm 63:1 This location could apply to several periods during his long flight from Saul.
  2. Psalm 63:5 Literally with fat
  3. Psalm 63:10 Or jackals
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Proverbs 23:22

22 Listen to your father, who gave you life,
and do not despise your mother when she is old.

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9/18/2021 DAB Transcript

Isaiah 28:14-30:11, Galatians 3:23-4:31, Psalm 62:1-12, Proverbs 23:19-21

Today is the 18th day of September, welcome to the Daily Audio Bible. I am Brian and it is a joy and a privilege and an honor to be here with you today as we bring another one of our weeks to a close. We have been on the journey through Isaiah, which we will continue to do for a while we’re…we’re kind of approaching the halfway point in the book of Isaiah and we are working our way through the letter to the Galatians in the New Testament which we will continue today. We’ve been reading from the English Standard Version this week, which we will continue to do today. Isaiah chapter 28 verse 14 through 30 verse 11.

Prayer:

Father, we thank You for Your word. Thank You for another week and we’ve been able to enjoy fellowship with one another in spirit as we move through the Scriptures and pray for each other, fellowship with Your spirit as You plant the seeds of the Scriptures into our hearts, and constant mercy and kindness and patience with us as we continue this journey. This journey of faith that is going somewhere good. So, come Holy Spirit lead us into all truth. We pray in the name of Jesus we ask. Amen.

Announcements:

dailyaudiobible.com is home base, it’s the website, it’s where you find out what’s happening around here. I say it every day. Every day there's…there’s new…new souls, new voices, new friends, new family visiting for the first time and so welcome, check out the Daily Audio Bible website that’s where you can find out what’s going on around here. If you’re using the app you can find that as well. Check out the Daily Audio Bible Shop there are resources there in a number of different categories. Some of them fun, some things to wear, journals, the Daily Audio Bible journal, things to write with, like the black wing pencils that I use to journal with, resources for reading to take the journey deeper, things to listen to, things to enjoy, music to listen to check out the Daily Audio Bible Shop.

If you want to partner with the Daily Audio Bible then a heartfelt sincere deep gratitude. Thank you, thank you for your partnership. If we weren’t a community in this together, we wouldn’t be able to be making this journey and so thank you for your partnership. There is a link on the homepage at dailyaudiobible.com. If you’re using the app, you can press the Give button in the upper right-hand corner or the mailing address is P.O. Box 1996 Springhill, Tennessee 37174.

And as always if you have a prayer request or encouragement, you can hit the Hotline button in the app. The little red button at the top it looks like the hotline and so you can press that from wherever you are in the world and share from there or you can dial 877-942-4253.

And that’s it for today. I’m Brian and I love you and I’ll be waiting for you here tomorrow.

Prayer and Encouragements:

Hi DAB family, this is Jessica from California. Today, I’m calling in from the community prayer for Bonnie from Northern California whose husband died six years ago and mom died two years ago. And she now lives in her mother’s house with her two brothers who, they get along wonderfully. And they’re gonna have a new dynamic in their household because her son is coming to live with them. She said her son battles with anxiety because he’s worried about what’s going on in the world and she, she doesn’t know what to say to him. She wishes her husband was still around because he always had a way to talk to his son. And, I just was feeling your heart Bonnie and the worry for your son. I also have a son who’s nineteen and so I understand the mother-son stuff. And I just wanted to say a prayer for you guys, okay. Dear Heavenly Father, I just come before you with Bonnie Lord, You know the concerns of her heart for her son and Lord, I just pray that You would come to her son and You put peace, a hedge around him with peace and protection of his mind Lord, that he can place all his trust in You about what’s going on in this world today. And that’s what You’re calling us to do Lord, and I hope that him being around his Godly mother that he will feel that peace like he’s never felt before and also, being around the uncles and seeing how well they all get along, he will just fit in like, like he’s been there all along. And maybe this is what he’s been missing, to give him the peace, is to be around his family. So, I just thank You Lord that you have this situation covered. And, Jesus’ name I pray. Amen. Okay, love you Bonnie, take care.

Hi, this is Brenda from Hershey, PA the sweetest place on earth, I’m a first-time caller. I’ve been listening since April 2017. I am calling for prayer for my dear sweet mom. She is in a nursing home and due to COVID it has just been horrible as far as us being able to see her and be with her. She’s in a dementia ward and she knows who we are, but has a horrible time remembering when we’ve spoken to her or if we’ve been to see her and she feels totally abandoned. She is a godly, godly woman. She has…was a pastor’s wife for 35 years and loves the Lord dearly, but her mind is not healthy and I’m just asking you to pray that God’s angels will surround her and comfort her and I just know when people are praying for her. She will feel God’s presence and be comforted and not be so sad all the time. Please pray with me for her name is Nancy and she loves Jesus and I know that she just needs this comfort and ask the Lord to keep the demons away. Thank you, family.

Hello brothers and sisters. I want to go by the name of Anointed and I want prayer please for my husband. First that he, he has received the Lord, but he’s not walking with the Lord and I really want him to have the relationship with the Lord to lean on, but also for his physical state. He served in Desert Storm and he was exposed to chemical weapons and there’s other things that have happened but the latest is two years ago he started with a pain on the right side, right kidney side it feels like a kidney stone. The VA has refused to see him saying that the CT does not showing anything. We had a really, really good PCP primary care physician that just retired and she was the one pushing to see other doctors and get second opinions and now we don’t have her. He also has the middle of a piece lung is sticking out through ribs, fourth and fifth and that also causes pain. So, for two years he has had this pain, they had him on crazy amounts of painkillers. So, it is not a normal life. He really can’t do anything. Please I would love to have a miracle from God and…and for him to have more of a normal life and enjoy the grandkids and just little things every day, but also, it’s important that he has a relationship with the Lord. The Lord reveals himself to my husband’s whose name is Ron and he’s strength and he’s joyous and Him thank you so much. I’ll being praying for all of you.

He DAB fam, it’s Val in Vegas. Hey, today’s the 15th, I used to call in on the 15th of every month I think I’m gonna go back to that. I really looked forward to it and it was just a cool way to engage with you guys. So, anyhoo, I also have some additional news. I am, tomorrow at 5am which will be the 16th I’m having a bilateral mastectomy. And I need this community. And I know you guys will be there for me. I pray for all people that are dealing with circumstances that are involved around bad health. And I pray for good health and let’s do that. Lord, God, right now I pray for good health. I pray for great health. I pray for excellent health. Not just for me Lord but for everybody listening to this for everyone on this call, Heavenly Father. God I’m thinking right now that Your word says by His stripes I am healed. Lord not only me, everyone, Lord. Dear God, we pray right now that anyone that has any medical procedures Lord, God, that You would just bless the surgeons Lord. Bless any medical provider, Lord, all of them, Heavenly Father, they’ve had such a hard road this last year and a half. Dear God, please look out for our medical workers. In Jesus name, Amen.

Hey, my beautiful DAB fam, this is Kingdom Seeker Daniel. Family, I just want to pray for a couple of our brothers. So, let’s all gather around this Global Campfire, let’s hold hands and let’s talk to the Father. Father, I come and lift up two of your sons right now. I want to pray for John O'Connor from South Sudan and Garrett. Lord, I pray that you would minister to John O'Connor son, Steve, John, as he has had a mental lapse Lord, which is caused him to act out in a way that was destructive to his brother’s problem and space. So, Lord, we just ask that You would extend Your hand of healing to this man. God, You know the details and the circumstances of his life. You are well aware about the bipolar diagnosis. We know You are Lord over bipolar and any and all mental health issues and so I pray that You would extend Your hands of healing to this young man. And I pray that You would comfort John O'Connor’s heart, his dad and let him know that as he has released his son, he has released him into the greatest hands possible, which is Yours. So, what I thank You for what You’re doing. And then remember Garrett cause he is battling anxiety and worry. Just feeling defeat and not able to get ahead. Lord, would You just strengthen him, build him up and pull him close to your bosom. Lord, and calls are refreshing to take place in his life. Let the peace that surpasses all understanding guard Garrett’s heart and mind as well as Steve John in the name of Jesus, we give you praise for what You’re doing in these man’s lives. Amen.

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9/18/2021 DAB Transcript

Isaiah 28:14-30:11, Galatians 3:23-4:31, Psalm 62:1-12, Proverbs 23:19-21

Today is the 18th day of September, welcome to the Daily Audio Bible. I am Brian and it is a joy and a privilege and an honor to be here with you today as we bring another one of our weeks to a close. We have been on the journey through Isaiah, which we will continue to do for a while we’re…we’re kind of approaching the halfway point in the book of Isaiah and we are working our way through the letter to the Galatians in the New Testament which we will continue today. We’ve been reading from the English Standard Version this week, which we will continue to do today. Isaiah chapter 28 verse 14 through 30 verse 11.

Prayer:

Father, we thank You for Your word. Thank You for another week and we’ve been able to enjoy fellowship with one another in spirit as we move through the Scriptures and pray for each other, fellowship with Your spirit as You plant the seeds of the Scriptures into our hearts, and constant mercy and kindness and patience with us as we continue this journey. This journey of faith that is going somewhere good. So, come Holy Spirit lead us into all truth. We pray in the name of Jesus we ask. Amen.

Announcements:

dailyaudiobible.com is home base, it’s the website, it’s where you find out what’s happening around here. I say it every day. Every day there's…there’s new…new souls, new voices, new friends, new family visiting for the first time and so welcome, check out the Daily Audio Bible website that’s where you can find out what’s going on around here. If you’re using the app you can find that as well. Check out the Daily Audio Bible Shop there are resources there in a number of different categories. Some of them fun, some things to wear, journals, the Daily Audio Bible journal, things to write with, like the black wing pencils that I use to journal with, resources for reading to take the journey deeper, things to listen to, things to enjoy, music to listen to check out the Daily Audio Bible Shop.

If you want to partner with the Daily Audio Bible then a heartfelt sincere deep gratitude. Thank you, thank you for your partnership. If we weren’t a community in this together, we wouldn’t be able to be making this journey and so thank you for your partnership. There is a link on the homepage at dailyaudiobible.com. If you’re using the app, you can press the Give button in the upper right-hand corner or the mailing address is P.O. Box 1996 Springhill, Tennessee 37174.

And as always if you have a prayer request or encouragement, you can hit the Hotline button in the app. The little red button at the top it looks like the hotline and so you can press that from wherever you are in the world and share from there or you can dial 877-942-4253.

And that’s it for today. I’m Brian and I love you and I’ll be waiting for you here tomorrow.

Prayer and Encouragements:

Hi DAB family, this is Jessica from California. Today, I’m calling in from the community prayer for Bonnie from Northern California whose husband died six years ago and mom died two years ago. And she now lives in her mother’s house with her two brothers who, they get along wonderfully. And they’re gonna have a new dynamic in their household because her son is coming to live with them. She said her son battles with anxiety because he’s worried about what’s going on in the world and she, she doesn’t know what to say to him. She wishes her husband was still around because he always had a way to talk to his son. And, I just was feeling your heart Bonnie and the worry for your son. I also have a son who’s nineteen and so I understand the mother-son stuff. And I just wanted to say a prayer for you guys, okay. Dear Heavenly Father, I just come before you with Bonnie Lord, You know the concerns of her heart for her son and Lord, I just pray that You would come to her son and You put peace, a hedge around him with peace and protection of his mind Lord, that he can place all his trust in You about what’s going on in this world today. And that’s what You’re calling us to do Lord, and I hope that him being around his Godly mother that he will feel that peace like he’s never felt before and also, being around the uncles and seeing how well they all get along, he will just fit in like, like he’s been there all along. And maybe this is what he’s been missing, to give him the peace, is to be around his family. So, I just thank You Lord that you have this situation covered. And, Jesus’ name I pray. Amen. Okay, love you Bonnie, take care.

Hi, this is Brenda from Hershey, PA the sweetest place on earth, I’m a first-time caller. I’ve been listening since April 2017. I am calling for prayer for my dear sweet mom. She is in a nursing home and due to COVID it has just been horrible as far as us being able to see her and be with her. She’s in a dementia ward and she knows who we are, but has a horrible time remembering when we’ve spoken to her or if we’ve been to see her and she feels totally abandoned. She is a godly, godly woman. She has…was a pastor’s wife for 35 years and loves the Lord dearly, but her mind is not healthy and I’m just asking you to pray that God’s angels will surround her and comfort her and I just know when people are praying for her. She will feel God’s presence and be comforted and not be so sad all the time. Please pray with me for her name is Nancy and she loves Jesus and I know that she just needs this comfort and ask the Lord to keep the demons away. Thank you, family.

Hello brothers and sisters. I want to go by the name of Anointed and I want prayer please for my husband. First that he, he has received the Lord, but he’s not walking with the Lord and I really want him to have the relationship with the Lord to lean on, but also for his physical state. He served in Desert Storm and he was exposed to chemical weapons and there’s other things that have happened but the latest is two years ago he started with a pain on the right side, right kidney side it feels like a kidney stone. The VA has refused to see him saying that the CT does not showing anything. We had a really, really good PCP primary care physician that just retired and she was the one pushing to see other doctors and get second opinions and now we don’t have her. He also has the middle of a piece lung is sticking out through ribs, fourth and fifth and that also causes pain. So, for two years he has had this pain, they had him on crazy amounts of painkillers. So, it is not a normal life. He really can’t do anything. Please I would love to have a miracle from God and…and for him to have more of a normal life and enjoy the grandkids and just little things every day, but also, it’s important that he has a relationship with the Lord. The Lord reveals himself to my husband’s whose name is Ron and he’s strength and he’s joyous and Him thank you so much. I’ll being praying for all of you.

He DAB fam, it’s Val in Vegas. Hey, today’s the 15th, I used to call in on the 15th of every month I think I’m gonna go back to that. I really looked forward to it and it was just a cool way to engage with you guys. So, anyhoo, I also have some additional news. I am, tomorrow at 5am which will be the 16th I’m having a bilateral mastectomy. And I need this community. And I know you guys will be there for me. I pray for all people that are dealing with circumstances that are involved around bad health. And I pray for good health and let’s do that. Lord, God, right now I pray for good health. I pray for great health. I pray for excellent health. Not just for me Lord but for everybody listening to this for everyone on this call, Heavenly Father. God I’m thinking right now that Your word says by His stripes I am healed. Lord not only me, everyone, Lord. Dear God, we pray right now that anyone that has any medical procedures Lord, God, that You would just bless the surgeons Lord. Bless any medical provider, Lord, all of them, Heavenly Father, they’ve had such a hard road this last year and a half. Dear God, please look out for our medical workers. In Jesus name, Amen.

Hey, my beautiful DAB fam, this is Kingdom Seeker Daniel. Family, I just want to pray for a couple of our brothers. So, let’s all gather around this Global Campfire, let’s hold hands and let’s talk to the Father. Father, I come and lift up two of your sons right now. I want to pray for John O'Connor from South Sudan and Garrett. Lord, I pray that you would minister to John O'Connor son, Steve, John, as he has had a mental lapse Lord, which is caused him to act out in a way that was destructive to his brother’s problem and space. So, Lord, we just ask that You would extend Your hand of healing to this man. God, You know the details and the circumstances of his life. You are well aware about the bipolar diagnosis. We know You are Lord over bipolar and any and all mental health issues and so I pray that You would extend Your hands of healing to this young man. And I pray that You would comfort John O'Connor’s heart, his dad and let him know that as he has released his son, he has released him into the greatest hands possible, which is Yours. So, what I thank You for what You’re doing. And then remember Garrett cause he is battling anxiety and worry. Just feeling defeat and not able to get ahead. Lord, would You just strengthen him, build him up and pull him close to your bosom. Lord, and calls are refreshing to take place in his life. Let the peace that surpasses all understanding guard Garrett’s heart and mind as well as Steve John in the name of Jesus, we give you praise for what You’re doing in these man’s lives. Amen.

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The Daily Audio Bible Reading for Saturday September 18, 2021 (NIV)

Isaiah 28:14-30:11

A Cornerstone in Zion

14 Therefore hear the word of the Lord, you (A)scoffers,
who rule this people in Jerusalem!
15 Because you have said, “We have made a covenant with death,
and with Sheol we have an agreement,
when the (B)overwhelming whip passes through
it will not come to us,
for we have made (C)lies our refuge,
and in falsehood we have taken shelter”;
16 therefore thus says the Lord God,
(D)“Behold, I am the one who has laid[a] as a foundation (E)in Zion,
a stone, a tested stone,
a precious cornerstone, of a sure foundation:
‘Whoever believes will not be in haste.’
17 And I will make justice (F)the line,
and righteousness (G)the plumb line;
and hail will sweep away the refuge of lies,
and waters will overwhelm the shelter.”
18 Then (H)your covenant with death will be annulled,
and your agreement with Sheol will not stand;
when the overwhelming scourge passes through,
you will be beaten down by it.
19 As often as it passes through it will take you;
(I)for morning by morning it will pass through,
by day and by night;
and it will be (J)sheer terror to understand the message.
20 For the bed is too short to stretch oneself on,
and the covering too narrow to wrap oneself in.
21 For the Lord will rise up (K)as on Mount Perazim;
(L)as in the Valley of (M)Gibeon he will be roused;
to do his deed—strange is his deed!
and to work his work—alien is his work!
22 Now therefore do not (N)scoff,
lest your bonds be made strong;
for I have heard (O)a decree of destruction
from the Lord God of hosts against the whole land.

23 Give ear, and hear my voice;
give attention, and hear my speech.
24 Does he who plows for sowing plow continually?
Does he continually open and harrow his ground?
25 (P)When he has leveled its surface,
does he not scatter dill, sow cumin,
and put in wheat in rows
and barley in its proper place,
and emmer[b] as the border?
26 (Q)For he is rightly instructed;
his God teaches him.

27 Dill is not threshed with a threshing sledge,
nor is a cart wheel rolled over cumin,
but dill is beaten out with a stick,
and cumin with a rod.
28 Does one crush grain for bread?
No, he does not thresh it forever;[c]
when he drives his cart wheel over it
with his horses, he does not crush it.
29 This also comes from the Lord of hosts;
he is (R)wonderful in counsel
and excellent in wisdom.

The Siege of Jerusalem

29 Ah, Ariel, Ariel,
the city (S)where David encamped!
Add year to year;
let the feasts run their round.
2 Yet I will distress Ariel,
and there shall be moaning and lamentation,
and she shall be to me like an Ariel.[d]
3 (T)And I will encamp against you all around,
and will besiege you (U)with towers
and I will raise siegeworks against you.
4 (V)And you will be brought low; from the earth you shall speak,
and from the dust your speech will be bowed down;
your voice shall come from the ground like (W)the voice of a ghost,
and from the dust your speech shall whisper.

5 But the multitude of your foreign foes shall be like (X)small dust,
and the multitude of the ruthless like passing chaff.
(Y)And in an instant, suddenly,
6 (Z)you will be visited by the Lord of hosts
with thunder and with earthquake and great noise,
with whirlwind and tempest, and the flame of a devouring fire.
7 And (AA)the multitude of all the nations that fight against Ariel,
all that fight against her and her stronghold and distress her,
shall be (AB)like a dream, a vision of the night.
8 (AC)As when a hungry man dreams, and behold, he is eating,
and awakes with his hunger not satisfied,
or as when a thirsty man dreams, and behold, he is drinking,
and awakes faint, with his thirst not quenched,
so shall the multitude of all the nations be
that fight against Mount Zion.

9 Astonish yourselves[e] and be astonished;
blind yourselves and be blind!
Be drunk,[f] but not with wine;
(AD)stagger,[g] but not with strong drink!
10 (AE)For the Lord has poured out upon you
a spirit of deep sleep,
and has closed your eyes (the prophets),
and covered your heads (the seers).

11 And the vision of all this has become to you like the words of a book that is (AF)sealed. When men give it to one who can read, saying, “Read this,” he says, “I cannot, for it is sealed.” 12 And when they give the book to one who cannot read, saying, “Read this,” he says, “I cannot read.”

13 And the Lord said:
“Because (AG)this people (AH)draw near with their mouth
and honor me with their lips,
while their hearts are far from me,
and their fear of me is a commandment taught by men,
14 therefore, behold, (AI)I will again
do wonderful things with this people,
with wonder upon wonder;
and (AJ)the wisdom of their wise men shall perish,
and the discernment of their discerning men shall be hidden.”

15 Ah, (AK)you who hide deep from the Lord your counsel,
whose deeds are (AL)in the dark,
and who say, “Who sees us? Who knows us?”
16 (AM)You turn things upside down!
Shall the potter be regarded as the clay,
that the thing made should say of its maker,
“He did not make me”;
or the thing formed say of him who formed it,
“He has no understanding”?

17 Is it not yet a very little while
(AN)until Lebanon shall be turned into a fruitful field,
and the fruitful field shall be regarded as a forest?
18 In that day (AO)the deaf shall hear
(AP)the words of a book,
and out of their gloom and darkness
(AQ)the eyes of the blind shall see.
19 (AR)The meek shall obtain fresh joy in the Lord,
and the poor among mankind shall exult in the Holy One of Israel.
20 For the ruthless shall come to nothing
and (AS)the scoffer cease,
and all who watch to do evil shall be cut off,
21 who by a word make a man out to be an offender,
and (AT)lay a snare for him who reproves in the gate,
and with an empty plea (AU)turn aside him who is in the right.

22 Therefore thus says the Lord, (AV)who redeemed Abraham, concerning the house of Jacob:

“Jacob shall no more be ashamed,
no more shall his face grow pale.
23 For when he sees his children,
(AW)the work of my hands, in his midst,
they will sanctify my name;
(AX)they will sanctify the Holy One of Jacob
and will stand in awe of the God of Israel.
24 And those (AY)who go astray in spirit will come to understanding,
and those who murmur will accept instruction.”

Do Not Go Down to Egypt

30 “Ah, (AZ)stubborn children,” declares the Lord,
(BA)“who carry out a plan, but not mine,
and who make (BB)an alliance,[h] but not of my Spirit,
that they may add sin to sin;
2 (BC)who set out to go down to Egypt,
without asking for my direction,
to take refuge in the protection of Pharaoh
and to seek shelter in the shadow of Egypt!
3 (BD)Therefore shall the protection of Pharaoh turn to your shame,
and the shelter in the shadow of Egypt to your humiliation.
4 For though his officials are at (BE)Zoan
and (BF)his envoys reach (BG)Hanes,
5 everyone comes to shame
through (BH)a people that cannot profit them,
that brings neither help nor profit,
but shame and disgrace.”

6 An (BI)oracle on (BJ)the beasts of (BK)the Negeb.

Through a land of trouble and anguish,
from where come the lioness and the lion,
the adder and the (BL)flying fiery serpent,
they carry their riches on the backs of donkeys,
and their treasures on the humps of camels,
to a people that cannot profit them.
7 Egypt's (BM)help is worthless and empty;
therefore I have called her
(BN)“Rahab who sits still.”

A Rebellious People

8 And now, go, (BO)write it before them on a tablet
and inscribe it in a book,
that it may be for the time to come
as a witness forever.[i]
9 (BP)For they are a rebellious people,
lying children,
children unwilling to hear
the instruction of the Lord;
10 (BQ)who say to (BR)the seers, “Do not see,”
and to the prophets, “Do not prophesy to us what is right;
speak to us (BS)smooth things,
prophesy illusions,
11 leave the way, turn aside from the path,
let us hear no more about the Holy One of Israel.”

Footnotes:

  1. Isaiah 28:16 Dead Sea Scroll I am laying
  2. Isaiah 28:25 A type of wheat
  3. Isaiah 28:28 Or Grain is crushed for bread; he will surely thresh it, but not forever
  4. Isaiah 29:2 Ariel could mean lion of God, or hero (2 Samuel 23:20), or altar hearth (Ezekiel 43:15–16)
  5. Isaiah 29:9 Or Linger awhile
  6. Isaiah 29:9 Or They are drunk
  7. Isaiah 29:9 Or they stagger
  8. Isaiah 30:1 Hebrew who weave a web
  9. Isaiah 30:8 Some Hebrew manuscripts, Syriac, Targum, Vulgate, and Greek versions; Masoretic Text forever and ever

Cross references:

  1. Isaiah 28:14 : ver. 22; ch. 29:20
  2. Isaiah 28:15 : ver. 2, 18; [ch. 8:7, 8]
  3. Isaiah 28:15 : [Rom. 1:25]
  4. Isaiah 28:16 : Cited Rom. 9:33; 1 Pet. 2:6; [Ps. 118:22; Matt. 21:42; Acts 4:11]
  5. Isaiah 28:16 : ch. 14:32
  6. Isaiah 28:17 : [2 Kgs. 21:13]
  7. Isaiah 28:17 : [2 Kgs. 21:13]
  8. Isaiah 28:18 : ver. 15
  9. Isaiah 28:19 : [ch. 50:4]
  10. Isaiah 28:19 : [2 Chr. 32:18]
  11. Isaiah 28:21 : [2 Sam. 5:20; 1 Chr. 14:11]
  12. Isaiah 28:21 : See Josh. 10:10-14
  13. Isaiah 28:21 : 1 Chr. 14:16; See Josh. 9:3
  14. Isaiah 28:22 : ver. 14
  15. Isaiah 28:22 : ch. 10:23
  16. Isaiah 28:25 : [ch. 55:10, 11]
  17. Isaiah 28:26 : [ch. 21:10]
  18. Isaiah 28:29 : Jer. 32:19; [ch. 9:6]
  19. Isaiah 29:1 : [2 Sam. 5:9]
  20. Isaiah 29:3 : [2 Kgs. 25:1; Ezek. 4:2]
  21. Isaiah 29:3 : [Ezek. 21:22; 26:8]
  22. Isaiah 29:4 : [ch. 2:11, 12]
  23. Isaiah 29:4 : See ch. 8:19
  24. Isaiah 29:5 : ch. 17:13; Ps. 18:42
  25. Isaiah 29:5 : [ch. 17:14; 37:36; 2 Kgs. 19:35]
  26. Isaiah 29:6 : [1 Kgs. 19:11, 12]
  27. Isaiah 29:7 : [Zech. 12:9]; See Mic. 4:11-13
  28. Isaiah 29:7 : ch. 17:14; [Job 20:8]
  29. Isaiah 29:8 : [Ps. 73:20; 90:5]
  30. Isaiah 29:9 : [ch. 19:14; 24:20]
  31. Isaiah 29:10 : [ch. 6:10; Rom. 11:8]
  32. Isaiah 29:11 : ch. 8:16; Dan. 12:4
  33. Isaiah 29:13 : Cited Matt. 15:8, 9; Mark 7:6, 7; [Ezek. 33:31]
  34. Isaiah 29:13 : [ch. 1:12; 58:2]
  35. Isaiah 29:14 : Hab. 1:5; See ch. 3:1-4
  36. Isaiah 29:14 : Jer. 49:7; Cited 1 Cor. 1:19
  37. Isaiah 29:15 : [ch. 30:1]
  38. Isaiah 29:15 : Ezek. 8:12
  39. Isaiah 29:16 : See ch. 10:15
  40. Isaiah 29:17 : [Ps. 107:33, 35]
  41. Isaiah 29:18 : [ch. 32:3; 35:5; Matt. 11:5]
  42. Isaiah 29:18 : ver. 12
  43. Isaiah 29:18 : [ch. 35:5; Matt. 11:5]
  44. Isaiah 29:19 : ch. 61:1; [ch. 14:32; Zeph. 3:12; Matt. 5:3]
  45. Isaiah 29:20 : ch. 28:14, 22
  46. Isaiah 29:21 : Amos 5:10; [Ps. 127:5]
  47. Isaiah 29:21 : Amos 5:12
  48. Isaiah 29:22 : [ch. 51:2]
  49. Isaiah 29:23 : ch. 19:25; 60:21; [Ps. 100:3]
  50. Isaiah 29:23 : ch. 8:13
  51. Isaiah 29:24 : [ch. 28:7]
  52. Isaiah 30:1 : [ch. 1:2, 4]
  53. Isaiah 30:1 : [ch. 29:15]
  54. Isaiah 30:1 : ch. 25:7
  55. Isaiah 30:2 : ch. 31:1; 36:6
  56. Isaiah 30:3 : [ver. 7; ch. 20:5]
  57. Isaiah 30:4 : See ch. 19:11
  58. Isaiah 30:4 : [Ezek. 17:15]
  59. Isaiah 30:4 : [Jer. 43:7]
  60. Isaiah 30:5 : [ver. 7; Jer. 2:36]
  61. Isaiah 30:6 : See ch. 13:1
  62. Isaiah 30:6 : [ch. 51:9; Ps. 68:30]
  63. Isaiah 30:6 : [Acts 8:26]
  64. Isaiah 30:6 : [Deut. 8:15]
  65. Isaiah 30:7 : ch. 36:6
  66. Isaiah 30:7 : ch. 51:9
  67. Isaiah 30:8 : Hab. 2:2
  68. Isaiah 30:9 : ver. 1
  69. Isaiah 30:10 : Amos 2:12; [Amos 7:12, 13]
  70. Isaiah 30:10 : See 1 Sam. 9:9
  71. Isaiah 30:10 : [1 Kgs. 22:13]; See Jer. 28:1-11; Ezek. 13:8-16
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Galatians 3:23-4:31

23 Now before faith came, we were held captive under the law, (A)imprisoned until the coming faith would be revealed. 24 So then, (B)the law was our (C)guardian until Christ came, (D)in order that we might be justified by faith. 25 But now that faith has come, we are no longer under a guardian, 26 for in Christ Jesus (E)you are all sons of God, through faith. 27 For as many of you as (F)were baptized (G)into Christ have (H)put on Christ. 28 (I)There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave[a] nor free, (J)there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. 29 And (K)if you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's offspring, (L)heirs according to promise.

Sons and Heirs

4 I mean that the heir, as long as he is a child, is no different from a slave,[b] though he is the owner of everything, 2 but he is under guardians and managers until the date set by his father. 3 In the same way we also, when we were children, (M)were enslaved to the elementary principles[c] of the world. 4 But (N)when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth his Son, (O)born (P)of woman, born (Q)under the law, 5 (R)to redeem those who were under the law, so that we might receive (S)adoption as sons. 6 And because you are sons, God has sent (T)the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, “Abba! Father!” 7 So you are no longer a slave, but a son, and if a son, then (U)an heir through God.

Paul's Concern for the Galatians

8 Formerly, when you (V)did not know God, you (W)were enslaved to those that by nature (X)are not gods. 9 But now that you have come to know God, or rather (Y)to be known by God, (Z)how can you turn back again to (AA)the weak and worthless elementary principles of the world, whose slaves you want to be once more? 10 (AB)You observe days and months and seasons and years! 11 I am afraid (AC)I may have labored over you in vain.

12 Brothers,[d] (AD)I entreat you, become as I am, for I also have become as you are. (AE)You did me no wrong. 13 You know it was (AF)because of a bodily ailment that I preached the gospel to you (AG)at first, 14 and though my condition was a trial to you, you did not scorn or despise me, but received me (AH)as an angel of God, (AI)as Christ Jesus. 15 What then has become of your blessedness? For I testify to you that, if possible, you would have gouged out your eyes and given them to me. 16 Have I then become your enemy by (AJ)telling you the truth?[e] 17 They make much of you, but for no good purpose. They want to shut you out, that you may make much of them. 18 It is always good to be made much of for a good purpose, and (AK)not only when I am present with you, 19 (AL)my little children, (AM)for whom I am again in the anguish of childbirth until Christ (AN)is formed in you! 20 I wish I could be present with you now and change my tone, for I am perplexed about you.

Example of Hagar and Sarah

21 Tell me, you who desire to be under the law, do you not listen to the law? 22 For it is written that Abraham had two sons, (AO)one by a slave woman and (AP)one by a free woman. 23 But (AQ)the son of the slave was born according to the flesh, while (AR)the son of the free woman was born through promise. 24 Now this may be interpreted allegorically: these women are two (AS)covenants. (AT)One is from Mount Sinai, bearing children for slavery; she is Hagar. 25 Now Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia;[f] she corresponds to the present Jerusalem, for she is in slavery with her children. 26 But (AU)the Jerusalem above is free, and she is our mother. 27 For it is written,

(AV)“Rejoice, O barren one who does not bear;
break forth and cry aloud, you who are not in labor!
For the children of the desolate one will be more
than those of the one who has a husband.”

28 Now you,[g] brothers, (AW)like Isaac, (AX)are children of promise. 29 But just as at that time he who was born according to the flesh (AY)persecuted him who was born according to the Spirit, (AZ)so also it is now. 30 But what does the Scripture say? (BA)“Cast out the slave woman and her son, for the son of the slave woman shall not inherit with the son of the free woman.” 31 So, brothers, we are not children of the slave but (BB)of the free woman.

Footnotes:

  1. Galatians 3:28 For the contextual rendering of the Greek word doulos, see Preface
  2. Galatians 4:1 For the contextual rendering of the Greek word doulos, see Preface; also verse 7
  3. Galatians 4:3 Or elemental spirits; also verse 9
  4. Galatians 4:12 Or Brothers and sisters; also verses 28, 31
  5. Galatians 4:16 Or by dealing truthfully with you
  6. Galatians 4:25 Some manuscripts For Sinai is a mountain in Arabia
  7. Galatians 4:28 Some manuscripts we

Cross references:

  1. Galatians 3:23 : [1 Pet. 1:5]
  2. Galatians 3:24 : [Matt. 5:17; Rom. 10:4; Col. 2:17; Heb. 9:9, 10]
  3. Galatians 3:24 : 1 Cor. 4:15 (Gk.)
  4. Galatians 3:24 : ver. 11; See ch. 2:16
  5. Galatians 3:26 : ch. 4:5, 6; [John 1:12]; See Rom. 8:14-16
  6. Galatians 3:27 : Rom. 6:3
  7. Galatians 3:27 : See Acts 8:16
  8. Galatians 3:27 : See Rom. 13:14
  9. Galatians 3:28 : [ver. 14; ch. 5:6; 6:15]; See Rom. 3:30; 1 Cor. 12:13
  10. Galatians 3:28 : 1 Cor. 11:11
  11. Galatians 3:29 : See Rom. 9:7; 1 Cor. 3:23
  12. Galatians 3:29 : ch. 4:1, 7; Rom. 8:17; Eph. 3:6; [ch. 4:28; 2 Tim. 1:1; Titus 1:2; Heb. 9:15]
  13. Galatians 4:3 : See ch. 2:4
  14. Galatians 4:4 : [1 Tim. 2:6]; See Mark 1:15
  15. Galatians 4:4 : Phil. 2:7; See John 1:14
  16. Galatians 4:4 : [1 Tim. 2:15]; See Gen. 3:15
  17. Galatians 4:4 : [Luke 2:21, 22, 27]
  18. Galatians 4:5 : See ch. 3:13
  19. Galatians 4:5 : ch. 3:26; See Rom. 8:15
  20. Galatians 4:6 : [Rom. 5:5; 2 Cor. 3:17]; See Acts 16:7
  21. Galatians 4:7 : See ch. 3:29
  22. Galatians 4:8 : 1 Cor. 1:21; 1 Thess. 4:5; 2 Thess. 1:8; 1 John 4:8
  23. Galatians 4:8 : [Eph. 2:11, 12; 1 Thess. 1:9]
  24. Galatians 4:8 : 2 Chr. 13:9; Isa. 37:19; Jer. 2:11; 5:7; 16:20; [1 Cor. 8:4]
  25. Galatians 4:9 : See 1 Cor. 8:3
  26. Galatians 4:9 : [ch. 3:3]
  27. Galatians 4:9 : Rom. 8:3; Heb. 7:18
  28. Galatians 4:10 : Rom. 14:5; Col. 2:16
  29. Galatians 4:11 : ch. 2:2; 5:2, 4; 1 Thess. 3:5
  30. Galatians 4:12 : [2 Cor. 6:13]
  31. Galatians 4:12 : [2 Cor. 2:5]
  32. Galatians 4:13 : See 1 Cor. 2:3
  33. Galatians 4:13 : [ch. 1:6]
  34. Galatians 4:14 : 1 Sam. 29:9; [Mal. 2:7 (Gk.); 2 Cor. 5:20]
  35. Galatians 4:14 : See Matt. 10:40
  36. Galatians 4:16 : See ch. 2:5
  37. Galatians 4:18 : [ver. 13]
  38. Galatians 4:19 : [1 Cor. 4:15; Philem. 10]
  39. Galatians 4:19 : [James 1:18]
  40. Galatians 4:19 : Rom. 8:10
  41. Galatians 4:22 : Gen. 16:5
  42. Galatians 4:22 : Gen. 21:2
  43. Galatians 4:23 : ver. 29; [Rom. 9:7]
  44. Galatians 4:23 : ver. 28; Gen. 17:16-19; 18:10, 14; 21:1, 2; Heb. 11:11
  45. Galatians 4:24 : See Rom. 9:4
  46. Galatians 4:24 : Deut. 33:2
  47. Galatians 4:26 : [Heb. 12:22; Rev. 3:12; 21:2, 10]
  48. Galatians 4:27 : Cited from Isa. 54:1
  49. Galatians 4:28 : See ver. 23
  50. Galatians 4:28 : Rom. 9:8; See ch. 3:29
  51. Galatians 4:29 : Gen. 21:9
  52. Galatians 4:29 : See ch. 5:11
  53. Galatians 4:30 : Cited from Gen. 21:10; [John 8:35]
  54. Galatians 4:31 : [1 Pet. 3:6]
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Psalm 62

My Soul Waits for God Alone

To the choirmaster: according to (A)Jeduthun. A Psalm of David.

62 For God alone (B)my soul (C)waits in silence;
from him comes my salvation.
2 (D)He alone is my rock and my salvation,
my (E)fortress; (F)I shall not be greatly shaken.

3 How long will all of you attack a man
to batter him,
like (G)a leaning wall, a tottering fence?
4 They only plan to thrust him down from his (H)high position.
They take pleasure in falsehood.
(I)They bless with their mouths,
but inwardly they curse. Selah

5 For God alone, O (J)my soul, wait in silence,
for my hope is from him.
6 (K)He only is my rock and my salvation,
my fortress; I shall not be shaken.
7 On God rests my (L)salvation and my glory;
my mighty rock, (M)my refuge is God.

8 (N)Trust in him at all times, O people;
(O)pour out your heart before him;
God is (P)a refuge for us. Selah

9 (Q)Those of low estate are but a breath;
those of high estate (R)are a delusion;
in the balances they go up;
(S)they are together lighter than a breath.
10 Put no trust in extortion;
(T)set no vain hopes on robbery;
(U)if riches increase, set not your heart on them.

11 (V)Once God has spoken;
(W)twice have I heard this:
that (X)power belongs to God,
12 and that to you, O Lord, (Y)belongs steadfast love.
For you will (Z)render to a man
according to his work.

Cross references:

  1. Psalm 62:1 : See Ps. 39, title
  2. Psalm 62:1 : See Ps. 33:20
  3. Psalm 62:1 : [Ps. 37:7]
  4. Psalm 62:2 : Ps. 18:2
  5. Psalm 62:2 : See Ps. 9:9
  6. Psalm 62:2 : See Ps. 10:6
  7. Psalm 62:3 : [Isa. 30:13]
  8. Psalm 62:4 : Job 13:11
  9. Psalm 62:4 : See Ps. 28:3
  10. Psalm 62:5 : [See ver. 1 above]; See Ps. 33:20
  11. Psalm 62:6 : [See ver. 2 above]; Ps. 18:2
  12. Psalm 62:7 : See Ps. 3:8
  13. Psalm 62:7 : See Ps. 14:6
  14. Psalm 62:8 : See Ps. 37:3
  15. Psalm 62:8 : See Ps. 42:4
  16. Psalm 62:8 : [See ver. 7 above]; See Ps. 14:6
  17. Psalm 62:9 : Ps. 39:5; [Isa. 40:17]
  18. Psalm 62:9 : [Ps. 116:11]
  19. Psalm 62:9 : Ps. 39:5; [Isa. 40:17]
  20. Psalm 62:10 : See Prov. 1:10-19
  21. Psalm 62:10 : Luke 12:15; See Ps. 49:6
  22. Psalm 62:11 : Job 33:14; 40:5
  23. Psalm 62:11 : Job 33:14; 40:5
  24. Psalm 62:11 : Rev. 19:1; [Ps. 59:9, 17]
  25. Psalm 62:12 : Ps. 86:5, 15; 103:8; Dan. 9:9
  26. Psalm 62:12 : See Job 34:11
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Proverbs 23:19-21

19 Hear, my son, and (A)be wise,
and (B)direct your heart in the way.
20 Be not among (C)drunkards[a]
or among (D)gluttonous eaters of meat,
21 for the drunkard and the glutton will come to poverty,
and (E)slumber will clothe them with rags.

Footnotes:

  1. Proverbs 23:20 Hebrew those who drink too much wine

Cross references:

  1. Proverbs 23:19 : ch. 6:6
  2. Proverbs 23:19 : [ch. 9:6]
  3. Proverbs 23:20 : [ver. 29, 30; Isa. 5:11, 22; Matt. 24:49; Luke 21:34; Rom. 13:13; Eph. 5:18]
  4. Proverbs 23:20 : ch. 28:7
  5. Proverbs 23:21 : [ch. 6:10, 11]
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09/17/2021 DAB Transcript

Isaiah 25:1-28:13, Galatians 3:10-22, Psalms 61:1-8, Proverbs 23:17-18

Today is the 17th day of September welcome to the Daily Audio Bible I’m Brian it is wonderful to be here with you today. Another day together. Another step forward together through the Scriptures. That will lead us back into Isaiah. We’re reading from the English Standard Version this week. Isaiah 25:1 through 28:13 today.

Commentary:

Okay. So, the letter to the Galatians is taking us through some of the…some familiar territory because we encountered this theology and what Paul is teaching laid out in the book of Romans. It’s not surprising that we would be reminded of different portions of Paul’s doctrine in any of these letters, because there Paul’s letters to do exactly that. And, so, we get reminded along the way, but this is a highly theological thing that’s going on here today. So, I quote. “Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law.” So, we could…we could…let’s let that sink in. “Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law. He did that by becoming a curse for us.” In other words, on our behalf He took the curse and freed us from what we deserved. “For it is written”, and I’m quoting again, “cursed is everyone who is hanged on a tree, so that in Christ Jesus the blessing of Abraham might come to the Gentiles, so that we might receive the promised Spirit through faith.” So, this is justification by faith. “Christ Jesus took the curse through faith we believe that and through Christ we are redeemed and free from the curse.” Pretty core Christian doctrine laid out there. And we have to understand that Paul died over this stuff, over this message, the message that he had received directly from Jesus and then when all throughout the Roman Empire, preaching and teaching. He ended up being martyred. So, we…we can safely assume that Paul believed this fully, even though it was…it flew in the face of his pharisaical training. Let’s remember that Paul was very violently against the people following “the way”, people following Jesus. He was doing everything he could to stamp that out because his theological understanding was this is utter blasphemy, complete heresy. And, so, yes, he’s gonna work hard to stamp it out. Then he met Jesus. And, so, you have to imagine the re-think that would’ve had to happen in Paul’s mind for starters. Like all of the sudden everything that you think that you know about God is different than you thought because of new revelation that you’ve received from Jesus. Like that’s gonna create cognitive dissonance that’s going to have to be worked through and then Paul has to work through that. And the way that he works through that is really impressive actually. It’s kind of not reverse engineer everything that he’s been taught but just to go back to the beginning at Abraham and not start at Moses and start at the Mosaic law, but to ask the question, “what was going on before that.” And going back into the story of Abraham and seeing that it was faith that moved God. And he alludes to that in today’s reading by simply pointing out the fact that the law didn’t come for 430 more years after God made a promise to Abraham. Abraham couldn’t obey a law that didn’t exist. And yet he was the father of many nations. And all of the world was to be blessed through his seed or through his line, through his family, which are the Hebrew people. So, Paul trying to put all this together, going back to the origin story knowing that all the nations of the world are to be blessed and that means people that aren’t Jewish. So, that means Gentiles. And, so, he incorporates that, and he sees that Abraham was made righteous before God without any Mosaic law, just through faith. So, this is revolutionary thought coming from the lips of a trained Pharisee who had to go through a process of revelation and understanding because it reconnected dots in ways that weren’t connected before. It changed the script. It modified the story, or I quote Paul, “is the law then contrary to the promises of God? Certainly not! For if the law had been given that could give life, then righteousness would indeed be by the law. But the Scripture imprisoned everything under sin, so that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe.” Following the same formula of Abraham. Central to Paul’s teaching. Justification by faith. Redemption by simply believing in the promise of God and then living into it.

Prayer:

Father, we thank you for your word. We invite your Holy Spirit to continue to reveal the truth through your word into our hearts and lives modifying our story changing the way we live revealing things a we are still trying to grasp. And yet all we have to do is believe. And we believe you. We trust you. Come Holy Spirit and lead us deeper into the story of our salvation, we pray. In the name of Jesus’ we ask. Amen.

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This is Drew from __ and I shared word some of my story with you all about being beaten as a child, five…four back surgeries since 2015, cancer on my nose and…and all. And I’ve lived…I’ve had a pretty rough life. And me and my wife, we’ve always kind of struggled. And I’ve worked really hard my whole life but I never really slowed down to…to look at anything until…until now. I always thought I want this, and I want that, and you know, I need to get that. But I never really stopped to look at the blessings that I have until now. I’m blessed with two daughters that are in good health. I’m blessed with three grandchildren that are in good health that I love greatly. And I think that’s what some of the problem is with the world today is…is we just don’t slow down and look what God has given us. We just think about what we want. And that’s just the human aspect of us. We just always want more but I think if we could just slow down a little bit and…and just look at what he’s given us it would just be great. I mean I just think it’s the greatest thing ever. And I pray for all the people on here with…with problems and I just enjoy being a part of the Daily Audio Bible family. It's…it's…it’s just been great. And I pray for all y'all. But I just wanted to share a little bit of my story and I love all y'all.

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The Daily Audio Bible Reading for Friday September 17, 2021 (NIV)

Isaiah 25:1-28:13

God Will Swallow Up Death Forever

25 O Lord, (A)you are my God;
(B)I will exalt you; I will praise your name,
for you have done wonderful things,
(C)plans formed of old, faithful and sure.
2 For you have made the city (D)a heap,
the fortified city a ruin;
the foreigners' palace is a city no more;
it will never be rebuilt.
3 (E)Therefore strong peoples will glorify you;
cities of ruthless nations will fear you.
4 (F)For you have been a stronghold to the poor,
a stronghold to the needy in his distress,
(G)a shelter from the storm and a shade from the heat;
(H)for the breath of the ruthless is like a storm against a wall,
5 (I)like heat in a dry place.
You subdue the noise of the foreigners;
as heat by the shade of a cloud,
so the song of the ruthless is put down.

6 (J)On this mountain the Lord of hosts will make for all peoples
a feast of rich food, a feast of well-aged wine,
(K)of rich food full of marrow, of aged wine well refined.
7 And he will swallow up (L)on this mountain
the covering that is cast over all peoples,
(M)the veil that is spread over all nations.
8 (N)He will swallow up death forever;
and (O)the Lord God will wipe away tears from all faces,
and (P)the reproach of his people he will take away from all the earth,
(Q)for the Lord has spoken.
9 It will be said on that day,
“Behold, this is our God; (R)we have waited for him, that he might save us.
This is the Lord; we have waited for him;
(S)let us be glad and rejoice in his salvation.”
10 For the hand of the Lord will rest (T)on this mountain,
and (U)Moab shall be trampled down in his place,
as straw is trampled down in a dunghill.[a]
11 (V)And he will spread out his hands in the midst of it
as a swimmer spreads his hands out to swim,
but the Lord (W)will lay low his pompous pride together with the skill[b] of his hands.
12 And the high fortifications of his walls he will bring down,
lay low, and cast to the ground, to the dust.

You Keep Him in Perfect Peace

26 In that day (X)this song will be sung in the land of Judah:

“We have a strong city;
he sets up (Y)salvation
as walls and bulwarks.
2 (Z)Open the gates,
that the righteous nation that keeps faith may enter in.
3 (AA)You keep him in perfect peace
whose mind is stayed on you,
because he trusts in you.
4 Trust in the Lord forever,
for the Lord God is an everlasting rock.
5 (AB)For he has humbled
the inhabitants of the height,
the lofty city.
He lays it low, lays it low to the ground,
casts it to the dust.
6 The foot tramples it,
the feet of (AC)the poor,
the steps of (AD)the needy.”

7 The path of the righteous is level;
(AE)you make level the way of the righteous.
8 In the path of your judgments,
O Lord, we wait for you;
(AF)your name and (AG)remembrance
are the desire of our soul.
9 My soul yearns for you in the night;
my spirit within me earnestly seeks you.
(AH)For when your judgments are in the earth,
the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.
10 (AI)If favor is shown to the wicked,
he does not learn righteousness;
in the land of uprightness he deals corruptly
and does not see the majesty of the Lord.
11 O Lord, (AJ)your hand is lifted up,
but (AK)they do not see it.
Let them see your zeal for your people, and be ashamed.
Let (AL)the fire for your adversaries consume them.
12 O Lord, you will ordain (AM)peace for us,
for you have indeed done for us all our works.
13 O Lord our God,
(AN)other lords besides you have ruled over us,
(AO)but your name alone we bring to remembrance.
14 They are dead, they will not live;
they are shades, they will not arise;
to that end you have visited them with destruction
and wiped out all remembrance of them.
15 (AP)But you have increased the nation, O Lord,
you have increased the nation; you are glorified;
(AQ)you have enlarged all the borders of the land.

16 O Lord, (AR)in distress they sought you;
they poured out a whispered prayer
when your discipline was upon them.
17 (AS)Like a pregnant woman
who writhes and cries out in her pangs
when she is near to giving birth,
so were we because of you, O Lord;
18 (AT)we were pregnant, we writhed,
but we have given birth to wind.
We have accomplished no deliverance in the earth,
and the inhabitants of the world have not fallen.
19 (AU)Your dead shall live; their bodies shall rise.
You who dwell in the dust, awake and sing for joy!
For (AV)your dew is a dew of light,
and the earth will give birth to the dead.

20 Come, my people, enter your chambers,
and shut your doors behind you;
hide yourselves (AW)for a little while
until the fury has passed by.
21 (AX)For behold, the Lord is coming out from his place
to punish the inhabitants of (AY)the earth for their iniquity,
and the earth will disclose the blood shed on it,
and will no more cover its slain.

The Redemption of Israel

27 In that day the Lord with his hard and great and strong (AZ)sword will punish (BA)Leviathan the fleeing serpent, (BB)Leviathan the twisting serpent, and he will slay (BC)the dragon that is in the sea.

2 In that day,
(BD)“A pleasant vineyard,[c] (BE)sing of it!
3 I, the Lord, am its keeper;
every moment I water it.
Lest anyone punish it,
I keep it night and day;
4 I have no wrath.
(BF)Would that I had thorns and briers to battle!
I would march against them,
I would burn them up together.
5 Or let them lay hold of my protection,
let them make peace with me,
let them make peace with me.”

6 (BG)In days to come[d] Jacob shall take root,
Israel shall blossom and put forth shoots
and fill the whole world with fruit.

7 (BH)Has he struck them (BI)as he struck those who struck them?
Or have they been slain (BJ)as their slayers were slain?
8 (BK)Measure by measure,[e] by exile you contended with them;
(BL)he removed them with his fierce breath[f] in the day of the east wind.
9 Therefore by this (BM)the guilt of Jacob will be atoned for,
and this will be the full fruit of the removal of his sin:[g]
(BN)when he makes all the stones of the altars
like chalkstones crushed to pieces,
no (BO)Asherim or incense altars will remain standing.
10 (BP)For the fortified city is solitary,
a habitation deserted and forsaken, like the wilderness;
there the calf grazes;
there it lies down and strips its branches.
11 When its boughs are dry, they are broken;
women come and make a fire of them.
(BQ)For this is a people without discernment;
therefore he who made them will not have compassion on them;
he who formed them will show them no favor.

12 In that day (BR)from the river Euphrates[h] to the Brook of Egypt the Lord will thresh out the grain, and you will be gleaned one by one, O people of Israel. 13 And in that day (BS)a great trumpet will be blown, (BT)and those who were lost in the land of Assyria and those who were driven out to the land of Egypt (BU)will come and worship the Lord on the holy mountain at Jerusalem.

Judgment on Ephraim and Jerusalem

28 Ah, the proud crown of (BV)the drunkards of Ephraim,
and the fading flower of its glorious beauty,
which is on the head of the rich valley of those overcome with wine!
2 Behold, the Lord has (BW)one who is mighty and strong;
like a storm of hail, a destroying tempest,
like (BX)a storm of mighty, overflowing waters,
he casts down to the earth with his hand.
3 (BY)The proud crown of the drunkards of Ephraim
will be trodden underfoot;
4 (BZ)and the fading flower of its glorious beauty,
which is on the head of the rich valley,
will be like (CA)a first-ripe fig[i] before the summer:
when someone sees it, he swallows it
as soon as it is in his hand.

5 (CB)In that day the Lord of hosts will be a crown of glory,[j]
and a diadem of beauty, to the remnant of his people,
6 and (CC)a spirit of justice to him who sits in judgment,
and (CD)strength to those who turn back the battle at the gate.

7 (CE)These also reel with wine
and (CF)stagger with strong drink;
the priest and (CG)the prophet reel with strong drink,
they are swallowed by[k] wine,
they stagger with strong drink,
they reel in vision,
they stumble in giving judgment.
8 For all tables are full of filthy vomit,
with no space left.

9 (CH)“To whom will he teach knowledge,
and to whom will he explain the message?
Those who are weaned from the milk,
those taken from the breast?
10 For it is precept upon precept, precept upon precept,
line upon line, line upon line,
here a little, there a little.”

11 (CI)For by people of strange lips
and with a foreign tongue
the Lord will speak to this people,
12 to whom he has said,
(CJ)“This is rest;
give rest to the weary;
and this is repose”;
yet they would not hear.
13 And the word of the Lord will be to them
precept upon precept, precept upon precept,
line upon line, line upon line,
here a little, there a little,
(CK)that they may go, and fall backward,
and be broken, and snared, and taken.

Footnotes:

  1. Isaiah 25:10 The Hebrew words for dunghill and for the Moabite town Madmen (Jeremiah 48:2) sound alike
  2. Isaiah 25:11 Or in spite of the skill
  3. Isaiah 27:2 Many Hebrew manuscripts A vineyard of wine
  4. Isaiah 27:6 Hebrew In those to come
  5. Isaiah 27:8 Or By driving her away; the meaning of the Hebrew word is uncertain
  6. Isaiah 27:8 Or wind
  7. Isaiah 27:9 Septuagint and this is the blessing when I take away his sin
  8. Isaiah 27:12 Hebrew from the River
  9. Isaiah 28:4 Or fruit
  10. Isaiah 28:5 The Hebrew words for glory and hosts sound alike
  11. Isaiah 28:7 Or confused by

Cross references:

  1. Isaiah 25:1 : Ex. 15:2
  2. Isaiah 25:1 : [Ps. 107:32]
  3. Isaiah 25:1 : [2 Kgs. 19:25]
  4. Isaiah 25:2 : [ch. 17:1; Jer. 51:37]
  5. Isaiah 25:3 : [ch. 18:7]
  6. Isaiah 25:4 : Nah. 1:7
  7. Isaiah 25:4 : ch. 4:6
  8. Isaiah 25:4 : [2 Chr. 32:18]
  9. Isaiah 25:5 : [ch. 32:2]
  10. Isaiah 25:6 : ch. 2:2, 3; 11:9; 24:23
  11. Isaiah 25:6 : [Ps. 63:5]
  12. Isaiah 25:7 : [See ver. 6 above]; ch. 2:2, 3; 11:9; 24:23
  13. Isaiah 25:7 : [2 Cor. 3:15]
  14. Isaiah 25:8 : Cited 1 Cor. 15:54; [Hos. 13:14]
  15. Isaiah 25:8 : Rev. 7:17; [ch. 30:19]
  16. Isaiah 25:8 : [ch. 37:4]
  17. Isaiah 25:8 : See ch. 1:20
  18. Isaiah 25:9 : ch. 26:8; [Gen. 49:18; Ps. 27:14]
  19. Isaiah 25:9 : Ps. 9:14
  20. Isaiah 25:10 : [See ver. 6 above]; ch. 2:2, 3; 11:9; 24:23
  21. Isaiah 25:10 : See ch. 15:1
  22. Isaiah 25:11 : [ch. 16:12]
  23. Isaiah 25:11 : [ch. 16:14]
  24. Isaiah 26:1 : [ch. 27:2]
  25. Isaiah 26:1 : [ch. 60:18]
  26. Isaiah 26:2 : Ps. 118:19, 20
  27. Isaiah 26:3 : [ch. 30:15]
  28. Isaiah 26:5 : ch. 25:12
  29. Isaiah 26:6 : [ch. 25:4]
  30. Isaiah 26:6 : [ch. 25:4]
  31. Isaiah 26:7 : 1 Sam. 2:9; Ps. 37:23
  32. Isaiah 26:8 : Ex. 3:15
  33. Isaiah 26:8 : Ex. 3:15
  34. Isaiah 26:9 : ver. 16; [2 Chr. 33:12]
  35. Isaiah 26:10 : See Ps. 73:3-11
  36. Isaiah 26:11 : [Mic. 5:9]
  37. Isaiah 26:11 : [ch. 5:12]
  38. Isaiah 26:11 : Ps. 21:9; [ch. 33:14]
  39. Isaiah 26:12 : ch. 9:7; Mic. 5:5
  40. Isaiah 26:13 : [ch. 2:8; 2 Kgs. 16:3, 4]
  41. Isaiah 26:13 : [ch. 2:20; Ps. 20:7]; See 2 Kgs. 18:4-6
  42. Isaiah 26:15 : ch. 9:3
  43. Isaiah 26:15 : [ch. 54:2, 3]
  44. Isaiah 26:16 : Hos. 5:15; See ch. 37:1-4
  45. Isaiah 26:17 : See ch. 13:8
  46. Isaiah 26:18 : [See ver. 17 above]; See ch. 13:8
  47. Isaiah 26:19 : [Ezek. 37:12; Dan. 12:2; Hos. 13:14]
  48. Isaiah 26:19 : [Hos. 14:5]
  49. Isaiah 26:20 : ch. 10:25
  50. Isaiah 26:21 : Mic. 1:3
  51. Isaiah 26:21 : [ch. 24:5]
  52. Isaiah 27:1 : [Jer. 47:6]
  53. Isaiah 27:1 : Ps. 74:14
  54. Isaiah 27:1 : Ps. 74:14
  55. Isaiah 27:1 : ch. 51:9; Ezek. 29:3
  56. Isaiah 27:2 : ch. 5:7
  57. Isaiah 27:2 : [ch. 26:1]
  58. Isaiah 27:4 : [ch. 10:17]
  59. Isaiah 27:6 : ch. 37:31; Hos. 14:5, 6
  60. Isaiah 27:7 : Hos. 6:1, 2
  61. Isaiah 27:7 : See ch. 37:36-38
  62. Isaiah 27:7 : ch. 37:18, 19
  63. Isaiah 27:8 : [Jer. 10:24]
  64. Isaiah 27:8 : [Jer. 18:17]
  65. Isaiah 27:9 : [ch. 22:14]
  66. Isaiah 27:9 : [2 Kgs. 18:4]
  67. Isaiah 27:9 : See Deut. 16:21
  68. Isaiah 27:10 : ch. 17:9; 32:14, 19; [Hos. 8:14; Mic. 5:11]
  69. Isaiah 27:11 : Deut. 32:28; See ch. 30:16-18
  70. Isaiah 27:12 : See Gen. 15:18
  71. Isaiah 27:13 : Lev. 25:9; [Matt. 24:31; Rev. 11:15]
  72. Isaiah 27:13 : ch. 11:11, 16; Mic. 7:12
  73. Isaiah 27:13 : [ch. 2:2]
  74. Isaiah 28:1 : [Hos. 7:5]
  75. Isaiah 28:2 : [ch. 8:7]
  76. Isaiah 28:2 : ver. 15, 18
  77. Isaiah 28:3 : ver. 1
  78. Isaiah 28:4 : [Amos 8:1, 2]
  79. Isaiah 28:4 : Hos. 9:10; Mic. 7:1
  80. Isaiah 28:5 : ch. 2:11
  81. Isaiah 28:6 : [1 Kgs. 3:28]
  82. Isaiah 28:6 : [ch. 38:6]
  83. Isaiah 28:7 : [ch. 3:12]
  84. Isaiah 28:7 : Hos. 4:11
  85. Isaiah 28:7 : ch. 9:15; 56:10, 12
  86. Isaiah 28:9 : Jer. 6:10
  87. Isaiah 28:11 : Cited 1 Cor. 14:21; See ch. 5:26-29
  88. Isaiah 28:12 : ch. 30:15; [Matt. 11:28, 29]
  89. Isaiah 28:13 : ch. 8:15
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Galatians 3:10-22

The Righteous Shall Live by Faith

10 For all who rely on works of the law are (A)under a curse; for it is written, (B)“Cursed be everyone who does not (C)abide by all things written in the Book of the Law, and do them.” 11 Now it is evident that (D)no one is justified before God by the law, for (E)“The righteous shall live by faith.”[a] 12 But the law is not of faith, rather (F)“The one who does them shall live by them.” 13 Christ (G)redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us—for it is written, (H)“Cursed is everyone who is hanged (I)on a tree”— 14 so that in Christ Jesus the blessing of Abraham might (J)come to the Gentiles, so that (K)we might receive (L)the promised Spirit[b] through faith.

The Law and the Promise

15 (M)To give a human example, brothers:[c] (N)even with a man-made covenant, no one annuls it or adds to it once it has been ratified. 16 Now (O)the promises were made (P)to Abraham and to his offspring. It does not say, “And to offsprings,” referring to many, but referring to one, (Q)“And to your offspring,” who is Christ. 17 This is what I mean: the law, which came (R)430 years afterward, does not annul a covenant previously ratified by God, so as (S)to make the promise void. 18 For if the inheritance comes by the law, it no longer comes by promise; but (T)God gave it to Abraham by a promise.

19 Why then the law? (U)It was added because of transgressions, (V)until the offspring should come to whom the promise had been made, and it was (W)put in place through angels (X)by an intermediary. 20 Now (Y)an intermediary implies more than one, but (Z)God is one.

21 Is the law then contrary to the promises of God? Certainly not! For (AA)if a law had been given that could give life, then righteousness would indeed be by the law. 22 But the Scripture (AB)imprisoned everything under sin, so that (AC)the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given (AD)to those who believe.

Footnotes:

  1. Galatians 3:11 Or The one who by faith is righteous will live
  2. Galatians 3:14 Greek receive the promise of the Spirit
  3. Galatians 3:15 Or brothers and sisters

Cross references:

  1. Galatians 3:10 : [ch. 5:4]; See Rom. 4:15
  2. Galatians 3:10 : Cited from Deut. 27:26; [Jer. 11:3; Ezek. 18:4]
  3. Galatians 3:10 : [Matt. 5:19]
  4. Galatians 3:11 : See ch. 2:16
  5. Galatians 3:11 : Rom. 1:17; Heb. 10:38; Cited from Hab. 2:4
  6. Galatians 3:12 : Cited from Lev. 18:5; See Rom. 10:5
  7. Galatians 3:13 : ch. 4:5; [Rev. 22:3]; See 2 Pet. 2:1
  8. Galatians 3:13 : Cited from Deut. 21:23
  9. Galatians 3:13 : See Acts 5:30
  10. Galatians 3:14 : Rom. 4:9, 16; [ver. 28]
  11. Galatians 3:14 : ver. 2
  12. Galatians 3:14 : Acts 2:33; [Isa. 32:15; 44:3; Joel 2:28; John 7:39; Eph. 1:13]
  13. Galatians 3:15 : See Rom. 3:5
  14. Galatians 3:15 : [Heb. 9:17]
  15. Galatians 3:16 : Rom. 4:13, 16; See Luke 1:55
  16. Galatians 3:16 : Gen. 12:7; Acts 13:32
  17. Galatians 3:16 : Acts 3:25
  18. Galatians 3:17 : Ex. 12:40, 41; [Gen. 15:13; Acts 7:6]
  19. Galatians 3:17 : Rom. 4:14
  20. Galatians 3:18 : [Heb. 6:13, 14]
  21. Galatians 3:19 : [Rom. 4:15]
  22. Galatians 3:19 : ver. 16
  23. Galatians 3:19 : Acts 7:53; Heb. 2:2
  24. Galatians 3:19 : Ex. 20:19, 21, 22; Deut. 5:5, 22, 23, 27, 31; Acts 7:38
  25. Galatians 3:20 : 1 Tim. 2:5; Heb. 8:6; 9:15; 12:24; [Heb. 6:17]
  26. Galatians 3:20 : Rom. 3:30
  27. Galatians 3:21 : See ch. 2:21
  28. Galatians 3:22 : Rom. 11:32; See Rom. 3:9
  29. Galatians 3:22 : Rom. 4:16
  30. Galatians 3:22 : See Acts 10:43
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Psalm 61

Lead Me to the Rock

To the choirmaster: with (A)stringed instruments. Of David.

61 Hear my cry, O God,
(B)listen to my prayer;
2 from the end of the earth I call to you
when my heart is (C)faint.
Lead me to (D)the rock
that is higher than I,
3 for you have been (E)my refuge,
a strong (F)tower against the enemy.

4 Let me (G)dwell in your tent forever!
Let me take refuge under (H)the shelter of your wings! Selah
5 For you, O God, have heard my vows;
you have given me the heritage of those who fear your name.

6 (I)Prolong (J)the life of the king;
may his years endure to all generations!
7 May he be enthroned forever before God;
appoint (K)steadfast love and faithfulness to watch over him!

8 So will I ever sing praises to your name,
as I (L)perform my vows day after day.

Cross references:

  1. Psalm 61:1 : Ps. 4, title
  2. Psalm 61:1 : Ps. 55:1, 2
  3. Psalm 61:2 : Ps. 77:3
  4. Psalm 61:2 : [Ps. 18:2]
  5. Psalm 61:3 : See Ps. 14:6
  6. Psalm 61:3 : Prov. 18:10
  7. Psalm 61:4 : See Ps. 15:1; 27:4
  8. Psalm 61:4 : See Ps. 17:8
  9. Psalm 61:6 : See Ps. 21:4
  10. Psalm 61:6 : Ps. 63:11
  11. Psalm 61:7 : See Ps. 40:11
  12. Psalm 61:8 : See Ps. 50:14
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Proverbs 23:17-18

17 Let not your heart (A)envy sinners,
but continue in (B)the fear of the Lord all the day.
18 Surely (C)there is a future,
and your (D)hope will not be cut off.

Cross references:

  1. Proverbs 23:17 : See Ps. 37:1
  2. Proverbs 23:17 : [ch. 28:14]
  3. Proverbs 23:18 : ch. 24:14, 20
  4. Proverbs 23:18 : Ps. 9:18
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