The Daily Audio Bible Reading for Friday October 1, 2021 (NIV)

⁶ Jerusalem,
I have appointed watchmen on your walls;^(A)
they will never be silent, day or night.
There is no rest for you,
who remind the Lord.
⁷ Do not give him rest
until he establishes and makes Jerusalem
the praise of the earth.^(B)

63 Who is this coming from Edom^(I)
in crimson-stained garments from Bozrah—
this one who is splendid in his apparel,
striding in his formidable^[b] might?
It is I, proclaiming vindication,^[c]
powerful to save.
² Why are your clothes red,
and your garments like one who treads a winepress?^(J)
3 I trampled the winepress alone,
and no one from the nations was with me.
I trampled them in my anger
and ground them underfoot in my fury;
their blood spattered my garments,
and all my clothes were stained.
⁴ For I planned the day of vengeance,^(K)
and the year of my redemption^[d] came.

⁷ I will make known the Lord’s faithful love
and the Lord’s praiseworthy acts,
because of all the Lord has done for us—
even the many good things
he has done for the house of Israel,
which he did for them based on his compassion
and the abundance of his faithful love.
⁸ He said, “They are indeed my people,
children who will not be disloyal,”
and he became their Savior.
⁹ In all their suffering, he suffered,^[e](O)
and the angel of his presence saved them.
He redeemed them
because of his love and compassion;^(P)
he lifted them up and carried them
all the days of the past.^(Q)
10 But they rebelled
and grieved his Holy Spirit.^(R)
So he became their enemy
and fought against them.
¹¹ Then he^[f] remembered the days of the past,
the days of Moses and his people.
Where is he who brought them out of the sea
with the shepherds^[g] of his flock?
Where is he who put his Holy Spirit among the flock?
¹² He made his glorious strength
available at the right hand of Moses,
divided the water before them^(S)
to make an eternal name for himself,
¹³ and led them through the depths
like a horse in the wilderness,
so that they did not stumble.

¹⁵ Look down from heaven and see^(T)
from your lofty home—holy and beautiful.
Where is your zeal and your might?
Your yearning^[i] and your compassion
are withheld from me.
¹⁶ Yet you are our Father,
even though Abraham does not know us
and Israel doesn’t recognize us.
You, Lord, are our Father;
your name is Our Redeemer^(U)
from Ancient Times.
¹⁷ Why, Lord, do you make us stray from your ways?
You harden our hearts so we do not fear^[j] you.^(V)
Return, because of your servants,
the tribes of your heritage.
¹⁸ Your holy people had a possession^[k]
for a little while,
but our enemies have trampled down
your sanctuary.^(W)
19 We have become like those you never ruled,
like those who did not bear your name.^(X)

65 “I was sought by those who did not ask;
I was found by those who did not seek me.
I said, ‘Here I am, here I am,’
to a nation that did not call on^[q] my name.^(AN)
2 I spread out my hands all day long
to a rebellious people^(AO)
who walk in the path that is not good,
following their own thoughts.
³ These people continually anger me
to my face,
sacrificing in gardens,^(AP)
burning incense on bricks,
⁴ sitting among the graves,
spending nights in secret places,
eating the meat of pigs,^(AQ)
and putting polluted broth in their bowls.^[r]
5 They say, ‘Keep to yourself,
don’t come near me, for I am too holy for you!’
These practices are smoke in my nostrils,
a fire that burns all day long.
⁶ Look, it is written in front of me:
I will not keep silent,^(AR) but I will repay;^(AS)
I will repay them fully^[s]
7 for your iniquities and the iniquities^(AT)
of your^[t] ancestors together,”
says the Lord.
“Because they burned incense on the mountains
and reproached me on the hills,^(AU)
I will reward them fully^[u]
for their former deeds.”

“As the new wine is found in a bunch of grapes,
and one says, ‘Don’t destroy it,
for there’s some good^[v] in it,’
so I will act because of my servants
and not destroy them all.
⁹ I will produce descendants from Jacob,^(AV)
and heirs to my mountains from Judah;
my chosen^(AW) ones will possess it,
and my servants will dwell there.^(AX)
10 Sharon will be a pasture for flocks,^(AY)
and the Valley of Achor a place for herds to lie down,^(AZ)
for my people who have sought me.^(BA)
11 But you who abandon the Lord,
who forget my holy mountain,
who prepare a table for Fortune
and fill bowls of mixed wine for Destiny,^[w]
12 I will destine you for the sword,
and all of you will kneel down to be slaughtered,
because I called and you did not answer,
I spoke and you did not hear;
you did what was evil in my sight
and chose what I did not delight in.”^(BB)

“Look! My servants will eat,
but you will be hungry.
Look! My servants will drink,
but you will be thirsty.
Look! My servants will rejoice,
but you will be put to shame.
¹⁴ Look! My servants will shout for joy from a glad heart,
but you will cry out from an anguished heart,
and you will lament out of a broken spirit.
¹⁵ You will leave your name behind
as a curse for my chosen ones,^(BC)
and the Lord God will kill you;
but he will give his servants another name.^(BD)
16 Whoever asks for a blessing in the land
will ask for a blessing by the God of truth,^(BE)
and whoever swears in the land
will swear by the God of truth.
For the former troubles will be forgotten
and hidden from my sight.

¹⁷ “For I will create new heavens and a new earth;^(BF)
the past events will not be remembered or come to mind.
¹⁸ Then be glad and rejoice forever
in what I am creating;
for I will create Jerusalem to be a joy
and its people to be a delight.
¹⁹ I will rejoice in Jerusalem
and be glad in my people.
The sound of weeping and crying
will no longer be heard in her.^(BG)
20 In her, a nursing infant will no longer live
only a few days,^[x]
or an old man not live out his days.
Indeed, the one who dies at a hundred years old
will be mourned as a young man,^[y]
and the one who misses a hundred years
will be considered cursed.^(BH)
21 People will build houses and live in them;
they will plant vineyards and eat their fruit.^(BI)
22 They will not build and others live in them;
they will not plant and others eat.
For my people’s lives will be
like the lifetime of a tree.^(BJ)
My chosen ones will fully enjoy
the work of their hands.
²³ They will not labor without success^(BK)
or bear children destined for disaster,
for they will be a people blessed by the Lord
along with their descendants.^(BL)
24 Even before they call, I will answer;^(BM)
while they are still speaking, I will hear.
²⁵ The wolf and the lamb will feed together,^[z]
and the lion will eat straw like cattle,^(BN)
but the serpent’s food will be dust!^(BO)
They will not do what is evil or destroy
on my entire holy mountain,”^(BP)
says the Lord.

¹ God is indeed good to Israel,
to the pure in heart.^(B)
2 But as for me, my feet almost slipped;
my steps nearly went astray.^(C)
3 For I envied the arrogant;
I saw the prosperity of the wicked.^(D)