Month: September 2022

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The Daily Audio Bible Reading for Friday September 23, 2022 (NIV)

Isaiah 41:17-43:13

17 The poor and the needy seek water, but there is none;
their tongues are parched with thirst.
I will answer them.(A)
I am the Lord, the God of Israel. I will not abandon them.
18 I will open rivers on the barren heights,(B)
and springs in the middle of the plains.
I will turn the desert into a pool
and dry land into springs.(C)
19 I will plant cedar, acacia, myrtle, and olive trees
in the wilderness.(D)
I will put juniper, elm, and cypress trees together
in the desert,
20 so that all may see and know,
consider and understand,
that the hand of the Lord has done this,(E)
the Holy One of Israel has created(F) it.

21 “Submit your case,” says the Lord.
“Present your arguments,” says Jacob’s King.
22 “Let them come and tell us
what will happen.(G)
Tell us the past events,
so that we may reflect on them
and know the outcome,
or tell us the future.
23 Tell us the coming events,(H)
then we will know that you are gods.
Indeed, do something good or bad,
then we will be in awe[a] when we see it.
24 Look, you are nothing(I)
and your work is worthless.
Anyone who chooses you is detestable.

25 “I have stirred up one from the north,(J) and he has come,
one from the east(K) who invokes my[b] name.(L)
He will march over rulers as if they were mud,
like a potter who treads the clay.
26 Who told about this from the beginning,
so that we might know,
and from times past,
so that we might say, ‘He is right’?
No one announced it,
no one told it,
no one heard your words.
27 I was the first to say to Zion,[c]
‘Look! Here they are!’
And I gave Jerusalem a herald with good news.(M)
28 When I look, there is no one;
there is no counselor among them;
when I ask them, they have nothing to say.(N)
29 Look, all of them are a delusion;[d]
their works are nonexistent;
their images are wind and emptiness.

The Servant’s Mission

42 “This(O) is my servant;(P) I strengthen him,
this is my chosen one;(Q) I delight in him.(R)
I have put my Spirit on him;(S)
he will bring justice[e] to the nations.(T)
2 He will not cry out or shout
or make his voice heard in the streets.
3 He will not break a bruised reed,
and he will not put out a smoldering wick;
he will faithfully bring justice.
4 He will not grow weak or be discouraged
until he has established justice on earth.
The coasts and islands will wait for his instruction.”(U)

5 This is what God, the Lord, says—
who created the heavens and stretched them out,(V)
who spread out the earth and what comes from it,(W)
who gives breath to the people on it
and spirit to those who walk on it(X)—
6 “I am the Lord. I have called you
for a righteous purpose,[f](Y)
and I will hold you by your hand.(Z)
I will watch over you, and I will appoint you
to be a covenant for the people(AA)
and a light to the nations,(AB)
7 in order to open blind eyes,(AC)
to bring out prisoners from the dungeon,(AD)
and those sitting in darkness from the prison house.
8 I am the Lord. That is my name,
and I will not give my glory to another(AE)
or my praise to idols.
9 The past events have indeed happened.
Now I declare new events;(AF)
I announce them to you before they occur.”

A Song of Praise

10 Sing a new song to the Lord;(AG)
sing his praise from the ends of the earth,
you who go down to the sea with all that fills it,(AH)
you coasts and islands with your[g] inhabitants.
11 Let the desert and its cities shout,
the settlements where Kedar dwells cry aloud.(AI)
Let the inhabitants of Sela sing for joy;(AJ)
let them cry out from the mountaintops.
12 Let them give glory to the Lord
and declare his praise in the coasts and islands.
13 The Lord advances like a warrior;
he stirs up his zeal like a soldier.(AK)
He shouts, he roars aloud,
he prevails over his enemies.

14 “I have kept silent from ages past;
I have been quiet and restrained myself.(AL)
But now, I will groan like a woman in labor,(AM)
gasping breathlessly.
15 I will lay waste mountains and hills
and dry up all their vegetation.
I will turn rivers into islands
and dry up marshes.(AN)
16 I will lead the blind by a way they did not know;(AO)
I will guide them on paths they have not known.
I will turn darkness to light in front of them(AP)
and rough places into level ground.(AQ)
This is what I will do for them,
and I will not abandon them.(AR)
17 They will be turned back and utterly ashamed—
those who trust in an idol
and say to a cast image,
‘You are our gods!’ (AS)

Israel’s Blindness and Deafness

18 “Listen, you deaf!
Look, you blind, so that you may see.(AT)
19 Who is blind but my servant,(AU)
or deaf like my messenger I am sending?
Who is blind like my dedicated one,[h]
or blind like the servant of the Lord?
20 Though seeing many things,[i] you pay no attention.
Though his ears are open, he does not listen.”(AV)

21 Because of his righteousness, the Lord was pleased
to magnify his instruction and make it glorious.
22 But this is a people plundered and looted,
all of them trapped in holes
or imprisoned in dungeons.
They have become plunder(AW)
with no one to rescue them
and loot, with no one saying, “Give it back!”
23 Who among you will hear this?
Let him listen and obey in the future.
24 Who gave Jacob to the robber,[j]
and Israel to the plunderers?
Was it not the Lord?
Have we not sinned against him?
They were not willing to walk in his ways,
and they would not listen to his instruction.
25 So he poured out his furious anger
and the power of war on Jacob.
It surrounded him with fire, but he did not know it;
it burned him, but he didn’t take it to heart.(AX)

Restoration of Israel

43 Now this is what the Lord says—
the one who created you, Jacob,
and the one who formed you, Israel(AY)—
“Do not fear, for I have redeemed you;(AZ)
I have called you by your name; you are mine.(BA)
2 When you pass through the waters,(BB)
I will be with you,(BC)
and the rivers will not overwhelm you.
When you walk through the fire,(BD)
you will not be scorched,
and the flame will not burn you.
3 For I am the Lord your God,(BE)
the Holy One of Israel, and your Savior.(BF)
I have given Egypt as a ransom for you,
Cush and Seba in your place.
4 Because you are precious in my sight(BG)
and honored, and I love you,(BH)
I will give people in exchange for you
and nations instead of your life.
5 Do not fear, for I am with you;
I will bring your descendants from the east,(BI)
and gather you from the west.(BJ)
6 I will say to the north, ‘Give them up!’
and to the south, ‘Do not hold them back!’
Bring my sons from far away,(BK)
and my daughters from the ends of the earth(BL)—
7 everyone who bears my name
and is created for my glory.
I have formed them; indeed, I have made them.”

8 Bring out a people who are blind, yet have eyes,(BM)
and are deaf, yet have ears.
9 All the nations are gathered together,
and the peoples are assembled.(BN)
Who among them can declare this,(BO)
and tell us the former things?
Let them present their witnesses
to vindicate themselves,
so that people may hear and say, “It is true.”
10 “You are my witnesses”(BP)—
this is the Lord’s declaration—
“and my servant whom I have chosen,(BQ)
so that you may know and believe me
and understand that I am he.(BR)
No god was formed before me,
and there will be none after me.(BS)
11 I—I am the Lord.
Besides me, there is no Savior.(BT)
12 I alone declared, saved, and proclaimed—
and not some foreign god[k] among you.
So you are my witnesses”—
this is the Lord’s declaration—
“and[l] I am God.(BU)
13 Also, from today on I am he alone,
and none can rescue from my power.(BV)
I act, and who can reverse it?” (BW)

Footnotes:

  1. 41:23 DSS read we may hear
  2. 41:25 DSS read his
  3. 41:27 Lit First to Zion
  4. 41:29 DSS, Syr read are nothing
  5. 42:1 DSS read his justice
  6. 42:6 Or you by my righteousness; lit you in righteousness
  7. 42:10 Lit their
  8. 42:19 Hb obscure
  9. 42:20 Alt Hb tradition reads You see many things;
  10. 42:24 Lit to loot
  11. 43:12 Lit not a foreigner
  12. 43:12 Or that

Cross references:

  1. 41:17 : Is 43:20; 44:3; 49:10; 55:1
  2. 41:18 : Is 30:25
  3. 41:18 : Ps 107:35; Is 35:6–7; 43:19
  4. 41:19 : Is 35:1; 55:13; 60:13
  5. 41:20 : Jb 12:9; Is 66:14
  6. 41:20 : Is 4:5
  7. 41:22 : Is 44:7–8; 45:21; 46:10
  8. 41:23 : Is 42:9; 45:3; Jn 13:19
  9. 41:24 : Ps 115:8; Is 44:9; 1Co 8:4
  10. 41:25 : Jr 50:3
  11. 41:25 : Is 41:2; 46:11
  12. 41:25 : Ezr 1:2–4
  13. 41:27 : Is 40:9; 44:28; 52:7; Nah 1:15
  14. 41:28 : Is 46:7
  15. 42:1–4 : Mt 12:18–21
  16. 42:1 : Is 49:3–7; 50:10
  17. 42:1 : Is 41:8–9; Lk 9:35; 23:35; 1Pt 2:4,6
  18. 42:1 : Mt 3:17; 17:5; Mk 1:11; Lk 3:22; 2Pt 1:17
  19. 42:1 : Nm 11:16–17; 1Sm 16:13; Ps 33:6; 139:7; Is 11:2; 40:7; 59:21; Lk 4:18–21
  20. 42:1 : Is 2:4; 51:4–5
  21. 42:4 : Is 11:11; 24:15; 42:10,12; 49:1; 51:5; 60:9; 66:19
  22. 42:5 : Ps 104:2; Is 40:22
  23. 42:5 : Ps 136:6; Is 34:1
  24. 42:5 : Jb 12:10; 33:4; Is 57:16; Dn 5:23; Ac 17:25
  25. 42:6 : Is 5:7,16; 9:7; 11:4–5; 32:1; 41:2; 45:8,13; 51:5–8; 56:1; 60:21; Jr 23:5–6
  26. 42:6 : Is 41:10,13
  27. 42:6 : Is 49:8
  28. 42:6 : Is 49:6
  29. 42:7 : Ac 26:17–18
  30. 42:7 : Is 35:5; 49:9; 61:1; Heb 2:14–15
  31. 42:8 : Ex 20:3–5; Is 48:11
  32. 42:9 : Is 43:19; 48:3,6; Rv 21:4
  33. 42:10 : Ps 33:3; 96:1; 98:1; 144:9
  34. 42:10 : Ps 96:11; 98:7
  35. 42:11 : Is 21:16; 60:7
  36. 42:11 : Is 16:1
  37. 42:13 : Is 9:7; 26:11; 37:32; 59:17
  38. 42:14 : Ps 50:21; Is 57:11; 62:1; 64:12; 65:6
  39. 42:14 : Is 13:8
  40. 42:15 : Is 44:27; 50:2; Nah 1:4–6
  41. 42:16 : Is 29:18; 30:21; 32:3; Jr 31:8–9; Lk 1:78–79
  42. 42:16 : Eph 5:8
  43. 42:16 : Is 40:4; Lk 3:5
  44. 42:16 : Jos 1:5; Ps 94:14; Is 41:17; Heb 13:5
  45. 42:17 : Ps 97:7; Is 1:29; 44:9,11; 45:16
  46. 42:18 : Is 35:5
  47. 42:19 : Is 41:8–9; 43:10; 44:1–2,21; 45:4; 48:20; 49:3; 54:17; Ezk 28:25; 37:25; Lk 1:54
  48. 42:20 : Rm 2:21–23
  49. 42:22 : Dt 1:39; Jr 2:14; Ezk 34:8; 36:4
  50. 42:25 : Is 29:13; 47:7; 57:1; Jr 12:11; Hs 7:9
  51. 43:1 : Is 43:7,15,21; 44:2,21,24
  52. 43:1 : Is 44:22–23; 48:20
  53. 43:1 : Gn 32:28; Is 45:3–4
  54. 43:2 : Ps 66:12; Is 8:7–8
  55. 43:2 : Dt 31:6,8,23; Jos 1:5; 3:7; Jr 1:8; 30:11; 46:28
  56. 43:2 : Is 29:6; 30:27–29; Dn 3:25,27
  57. 43:3 : Ex 20:2; Is 41:13
  58. 43:3 : Is 19:20; 43:11; 45:15,21; 49:26; 60:16; 63:8
  59. 43:4 : 2Kg 1:13–14; Ps 36:7; 72:14; Pr 3:15; Is 28:16
  60. 43:4 : Is 63:9
  61. 43:5 : Is 41:8; 61:9
  62. 43:5 : Is 49:12
  63. 43:6 : 2Co 6:18
  64. 43:6 : Is 45:22
  65. 43:8 : Is 6:9; 42:19; Ezk 12:2
  66. 43:9 : Is 34:1; 41:1
  67. 43:9 : Is 41:22–23,26
  68. 43:10 : Is 44:8; Ac 1:8
  69. 43:10 : Is 41:8
  70. 43:10 : Is 41:4
  71. 43:10 : Is 44:6,8; 45:5–6
  72. 43:11 : Is 43:3; 45:21; Hs 13:4
  73. 43:12 : Ps 46:10; 50:7; Is 45:22; 46:9
  74. 43:13 : Dt 32:39; Jn 10:28–29
  75. 43:13 : Jb 9:12; Is 14:27
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Ephesians 2

From Death to Life

2 And you were dead(A) in your trespasses and sins 2 in which you previously walked according to the ways of this world,(B) according to the ruler of the power of the air,(C) the spirit(D) now working in the disobedient.[a] 3 We too all previously lived among them in our fleshly(E) desires, carrying out the inclinations(F) of our flesh and thoughts, and we were by nature children under wrath(G) as the others were also. 4 But God, who is rich in mercy,(H) because of his great love(I) that he had for us,[b] 5 made us alive(J) with Christ even though we were dead(K) in trespasses. You are saved by grace! 6 He also raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavens in Christ Jesus,(L) 7 so that in the coming ages(M) he might display the immeasurable riches(N) of his grace through his kindness(O) to us in Christ Jesus. 8 For you are saved by grace(P) through faith, and this is not from yourselves; it is God’s gift— 9 not from works, so that no one can boast. 10 For we are his workmanship, created(Q) in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared ahead of time(R) for us to do.

Unity in Christ

11 So, then, remember that at one time you were Gentiles in the flesh—called “the uncircumcised” by those called “the circumcised,”(S) which is done in the flesh by human hands.(T) 12 At that time you were without Christ, excluded from the citizenship of Israel, and foreigners to the covenants of promise,(U) without hope(V) and without God in the world. 13 But now in Christ Jesus, you who were far away have been brought near by the blood(W) of Christ. 14 For he is our peace, who made both groups one(X) and tore down the dividing wall of hostility. In his flesh, 15 he made of no effect the law consisting of commands and expressed in regulations, so that he might create(Y) in himself one(Z) new man from the two, resulting in peace. 16 He did this so that he might reconcile both to God in one body(AA) through the cross by which he put the hostility to death.[c] 17 He came and proclaimed the good news(AB) of peace to you who were far away and peace to those who were near.(AC) 18 For through him we both have access(AD) in one Spirit to the Father.(AE) 19 So, then, you are no longer foreigners and strangers, but fellow citizens with the saints, and members of God’s household, 20 built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets,(AF) with Christ Jesus himself as the cornerstone. 21 In him the whole building, being put together,(AG) grows into a holy temple in the Lord.(AH) 22 In him you are also being built together(AI) for God’s dwelling(AJ) in the Spirit.

Footnotes:

  1. 2:2 Lit sons of disobedience
  2. 2:4 Lit love with which he loved us
  3. 2:16 Or death in himself

Cross references:

  1. 2:1 : Jn 5:25
  2. 2:2 : 2Pt 2:20
  3. 2:2 : 2Pt 2:10; Jd 8
  4. 2:2 : 1Co 2:12; 1Tm 4:1
  5. 2:3 : Php 3:3
  6. 2:3 : Mt 21:31; Lk 12:47; 23:25; Jn 1:13; 1Co 7:37; 2Pt 1:21
  7. 2:3 : Rm 2:5; Rv 6:16
  8. 2:4 : Lk 1:50
  9. 2:4 : 1Co 13:1; 1Jn 4:16
  10. 2:5 : Col 2:13; 1Tm 5:6
  11. 2:5 : Jn 5:25
  12. 2:6 : Eph 1:3,20; 3:10; 6:12; Php 2:10; 1Pt 3:22
  13. 2:7 : Mk 10:30
  14. 2:7 : Lk 8:14; 2Co 8:9
  15. 2:7 : Ps 25:6
  16. 2:8 : Rm 3:24; 6:14; 11:6; Gl 2:21; 2Tm 1:9
  17. 2:10 : Jn 1:3; Rv 3:14
  18. 2:10 : Rm 9:23
  19. 2:11 : Gl 6:15
  20. 2:11 : Php 3:3
  21. 2:12 : Gn 12:7
  22. 2:12 : 1Th 1:3; 4:13
  23. 2:13 : Heb 9:12
  24. 2:14 : Rm 10:12; Gl 3:28
  25. 2:15 : Rv 3:14
  26. 2:15 : Jn 11:52
  27. 2:16 : Eph 4:4
  28. 2:17 : Lk 4:18; 1Pt 1:12
  29. 2:17 : Is 57:19
  30. 2:18 : Jn 10:7–9; Rm 5:2; Eph 3:12
  31. 2:18 : Jn 4:23; 1Co 12:13; Eph 4:4; Col 1:12
  32. 2:20 : 1Co 12:28; Eph 3:5
  33. 2:21 : Eph 4:16
  34. 2:21 : 1Pt 2:5
  35. 2:22 : Rm 11:18
  36. 2:22 : 1Pt 2:5
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Psalm 67

Psalm 67

All Will Praise God

For the choir director: with stringed instruments. A psalm. A song.

1 May God be gracious to us and bless us;
may he make his face shine upon us(A)Selah
2 so that your way may be known on earth,
your salvation among all nations.(B)

3 Let the peoples praise you, God;
let all the peoples praise you.(C)
4 Let the nations rejoice and shout for joy,
for you judge the peoples with fairness
and lead the nations on earth.(D)Selah
5 Let the peoples praise you, God,
let all the peoples praise you.(E)

6 The earth has produced its harvest;
God, our God, blesses us.(F)
7 God will bless us,
and all the ends of the earth will fear him.(G)

Cross references:

  1. 67:1 : Nm 6:25; Ps 4:6; 80:3,7,19
  2. 67:2 : Ps 98:2; Is 52:10; Ti 2:11
  3. 67:3 : Ps 45:17; 66:4; 117:1
  4. 67:4 : Ps 96:10,13; 100:1–2; Is 11:4
  5. 67:5 : Ps 45:17; 66:8; 117:1
  6. 67:6 : Lv 26:4; Ps 85:12; Ezk 34:27; Hs 2:22
  7. 67:7 : 1Kg 8:43; 2Ch 6:33; Ps 33:8
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Proverbs 23:29-35

29 Who has woe? Who has sorrow?
Who has conflicts? Who has complaints?
Who has wounds for no reason?(A)
Who has red eyes?
30 Those who linger over wine;
those who go looking for mixed wine.(B)
31 Don’t gaze at wine because it is red,(C)
because it gleams in the cup
and goes down smoothly.(D)
32 In the end it bites like a snake
and stings like a viper.
33 Your eyes will see strange things,
and you will say absurd things.[a](E)
34 You’ll be like someone sleeping out at sea
or lying down on the top of a ship’s mast.
35 “They struck me, but[b] I feel no pain!
They beat me, but I didn’t know it!(F)
When will I wake up?
I’ll look for another drink.”(G)

Footnotes:

  1. 23:33 Or will speak perversities, or inverted things
  2. 23:35 LXX, Syr, Tg, Vg read me,” you will say, “but

Cross references:

  1. 23:29 : Pr 23:35
  2. 23:30 : Is 5:11,22
  3. 23:31 : Eph 5:18
  4. 23:31 : Sg 7:9
  5. 23:33 : Is 28:7
  6. 23:35 : Pr 23:29; Jr 5:3
  7. 23:35 : Is 56:12
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09/23/2022 DAB Transcript

Isaiah 41:17-43:13, Ephesians 2:1-22, Psalms 67:1-7, Proverbs 23:29-35

Today is the 23rd day of September welcome to the Daily Audio Bible I’m Brian it is a joy like it is every day to be here with you around the Global Campfire as we dive in and take the next step forward. That next step will lead us back into the book of Isaiah in the Old Testament and into the letter to the Ephesians in the New Testament which we began yesterday. So, let’s dive in. Isaiah chapter 41 verse 17 through 43 verse 13 today.

Commentary:

Okay. We began the book of…or the letter to the Ephesians yesterday and as we were talking about it I was mentioning it’s kinda like this winding path where there are all these views, these vistas, kinda like if you’ve ever been on a mountain road, not like a highway but like a mountain road, a two lane mountain road and you’re driving through the mountains and you’re climbing up and you’re climbing up and there can be these turnouts where you can turn off the road and see this vista and just drink it in. And then you get back in your car and you keep going and you keep climbing you keep climbing and you find another vista and you keep finding these vistas and we’re gonna kind of move through Ephesians like that. There are all of these things to look at and the view is so good. There have been times that I’ve read Ephesians, thinking it’s too good to be true. Not that I was doubting that it is true. It’s just like such undeserved goodness has been bestowed upon God’s people. And we are so often paying attention to anything else. But as we move through Ephesians, we have the opportunity to pull off the road and get out of the car and look at the implications. So, we’ll try to do that as we move through Ephesians. For example, let’s pull off the road right now and get out of the car and look at the vista that we read today. And I quote from Ephesians. “You are saved by grace through faith, and this is not from yourselves, it is God’s gift. Not from works, so that no one can boast. For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared ahead of time for us to do.” I realize we could listen to that and say, yeah. I’ve heard that before. That’s kind of fundamental right? Like is that really a Vista? It is a Vista. If what Paul is saying is the truth and we believe it to be the truth than our salvation isn’t something that has anything to do with our behavior. Our salvation isn’t something that we can earn. It is a gift, we receive the gift through faith, which basically means we receive the gift by believing we have received the gift. The gift we’re talking about here, though, is the salvation of our souls forever. There is no other gift like that gift at all. Nothing even comes close. We all have the story of the moment when we believed, when God drew near, and we recognized it. And in that moment, it made sense, it was true, and we believed and then this gift was bestowed upon us. We can certainly walk away from the gift. We can hand it back and say, we don’t want salvation. We can do anything that we want to do but this gift can’t be stolen. We can discard it, disregard it, hand it back, but it can’t be taken from us. And since we didn’t do anything to earn it, we can’t lay claim to it as if this belongs to me rightfully. It was a gift. Nobody has anything to brag about. And what we’re fundamentally being told here is that it’s we got something we didn’t earn. We got something we didn’t deserve. I don’t believe in a cosmic lottery, but if there were one, we won. God knows who we are and intentionally came to rescue us. God the most-high God, the Creator of everything we see and all that we don’t, we are this God’s workmanship. We are being made into His masterpiece. I mean it’s at this point that somebody needs to go get the cooler out of the car. We need to sit here a while, have a cold ice water, look at this vista. We are being made into God’s masterpiece. He knows who we are. But it’s more than just an awareness that we exist. He loves us and planned good for us long ago, and bestowed salvation on us as a gift that we didn’t earn or deserve. This was given to us as a gift. God didn’t give us a gift and then snatch it back and say I was just kidding. Here are the parameters that you can…you can follow to earn this gift. Our efforts, our works, if you want to call them that aren’t earning our salvation or being in good graces with God. Our works are the overflow and outflow of this vista actually sinking in. Just as this gift cannot be stolen from us neither can God’s love. We have been given power over plenty of things in our lives, but we have no control over God’s love. There’s nothing that we can do to stop it. If these things from this one vista point in this letter in the New Testament can sink beyond the surface of our lives down into the depths of our identity, this changes everything. And, so, maybe just having a picnic here at this vista, just kind of staying here for a while and just watching out over the beauty that’s being presented to us maybe it would sink in. Maybe if we could realize God loves you and there’s nothing you can do about it. Ahhh…let’s lay back and rest in that today.

Prayer:

Father, we love You and we confess, and You know full well our capacity to even understand what we’re talking about is tremendously limited. We’re contrasted with who You are. You are limitless. We are not. But we love You. And yes, we confess we have no way to love You the way that You love us, but we can love You the way that we love You and we love You with all our hearts. May we rest in the fact that You love us with all Your heart and that seems almost too good to be true. It is mind blowing and we are humbled, and we are grateful and we pray this in the name of Jesus. Amen.

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

Community Prayer and Praise:

Good morning DAB fam this is a Girl After God’s Heart checking in asking for prayer. As many of you know last year a little bit before now at this time both of my parents passed from COVID two weeks apart. So, that anniversary has been difficult and a couple days after my dad’s anniversary my best friend’s son who I love and adore and is like my own decided to take his own life. And, so, I have struggled this last week. He took his own life last Monday night. So, it’s been a week. Today’s the 19th but I have just been overcome with grief and sorrow and depression and just praying my way out of it and leaning on the Lord and I’m leaning on you guys and asking for prayer for my bestie to be able to get through this and rely on God. And just praying that somehow, I could be there for her and sit with her in this time and be a blessing to her on this journey of grief without her son. I pray that you guys will pray for her especially and tag me on to that if you can. And just pray for our family. It seems like everything is happening at once. It is…I don’t know that this has ever happened to me in my life. Lots of dramatic circumstances and relationship stuff that I usually don’t struggle with, just dramas. But I know that God is…

Good morning my name is Sandy from Lancaster CA and I listened to the prayer from September the 19th and I want to pray for the young lady that came on. She didn’t give her name or anything, but she says she was being abused from her husband and that he cheated on her. I want you to know sister that you are worth so much more then what you are being dealt with. It’s a spiritual warfare that we’re up against and God can fight that spiritual warfare for you. You just have to have faith in your heart and your mind and in your spirit to know that God is in control of all things and that when you give it to Him, He’ll move the way you need to be moved. Just trust in Him. Call on the name of Jesus. And when you call on that name of Jesus it’ll take your mind away from the things that you think that you deserve. No one deserves to be treated without love and respect and you deserve that more than anything my sister. I also want to pray for Zach. Zach Jesus loves you and He’s there for you and your family. Just take hold of Him. Through Christ all things are possible, and He loves you and your family and your mom so much. So, believe and trust and let God set your goals.

Hi DAB family this is Testimony in Progress calling from Northern Kings in the UK. I called in for my son and I just wanted to call in and say a massive thank you for everyone who called in and prayed for me and I just felt very supercharged and…and just…I just…I love this community and…and I know just these prayers work. And I just wanted to quickly share as well that after I called in I was just feeling so low but I kept listening to my podcasts because I drive a lot and on the next podcast after my call I heard this scripture like came…stood out and it was Philippians 4:13 - I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. And that’s why I wrote it down and I stuck it in front of me so wherever I drive I read it every time I feel discouraged and like all these bad thoughts come to me and I just…I just read this and try to just get it inside like so it just gets into me that I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. And I just wanted to share with everyone and every mom who’s struggling with their kids every parent in general who is struggling with their kids like we can do it, we can do it. And I’m very grateful for this community and yeah, I really didn’t call in because talking is not my gift. My gift is listening and I just feel very nervous when I have like I need like to call in but I love you all and thank you very much. Bye.

Hi this is Neat as May calling, first-time caller. I’ve been listening to the DAB for a little over two years and recently heard two messages on two different occasions about people asking if the women behind prison wall listen to the DAB. We do. We’re strong believers and we’re listening. We’re standing in the word of God. We just want to ask to continue to uplift us. We’re listening. We’re here and we’re fighting to change the ways within us. Help us be slow to anger and bridle our tongues, change out thoughts. Help us to be…discover the blessings of prayer through this ministry to transform many of us women here in prison and being able to participate in His word by the fruit of the Spirit is changing us day by day and transforming us. Help us to avoid sinful habits. And we just want you to know that we’re listening here in Arizona State prison in Perryville, and we continue to listen and thank you for everything that you do. And we also have a few prayers requests. I’d like to pray for my friend Carmen and her family and ask the Lord to continue to put a shield of protection around each and every one of them. And Lord I’d like to pray for my mother Valentina. She has kidney failure, that someday soon she finds a kidney. And for my son, he has so much anger built up and we could find ways to…to love him from here. But we are listening, family and, you know, we love you Brian and Jill and we thank you for this ministry and we’re so happy and grateful to be part of it. So, with that being said you guys have a great night.

Good morning Daily Audio Bible family it’s Don of a New Day. I so enjoy being in this family and I often, since 2007, try to call in and help new family members know what will make your journey with us the DABber family so strong. Number one, when you fall behind in you’re listening to your daily readings don’t try to catch up on everything. Take the word and bite size chunks. It will enrich you, encourage you, train you. Imagine that you went out of town, and you left a bunch of food in the refrigerator, and you come home and try to eat everything. No. It’ll take you three meals a day. And with that take it one day at a time it’ll change you. Number two. Make sure you support the DAB family. We want this ministry to stay here and stay strong and keep changing lives training up disciples around the world. Number three. Make sure you call in one time and let the family hear your voice, know your heart, fall in love with you, support you, and pray for you and with you. And number four. Finish the year strong. I have an Alexa that I listen to the Daily Audio Bible on and if you get one, any kind of one, you can get a $40 one, and tell it to play the one-year Daily Audio Bible and it’ll play the latest recording every day. It’s a way to wake up, roll over and hear it or go to bed and lay down in peace with it. I love you DABbers. Finish this year strong. Love you Brian, love you Jill, love you family. God bless you.

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9/22/2022 DAB Transcript

Isaiah 39:1-41:16, Ephesians 1:1-23, Psalm 66:1-20, Proverbs 23:25-28

Today is the 22nd day of September, welcome to the Daily Audio Bible. I’m Brian and it is wonderful to be with you today, around the Global Campfire. My campfire is here in the rolling hills of Tennessee and yours is wherever you are, and we are gathered together for the next step forward. Our next step leads us back into the book of Isaiah, in the Old Testament. When we reach the New Testament today, we have a brand-new territory to move into, Paul’s letter to the Ephesians. And we’ll talk about that when we get there. But first, reading from the Christian Standard Bible this week, Isaiah chapter 39 verse 1, through 41 verse 16.

Introduction to the Book of Ephesians:

Okay so, as I was saying at the beginning, we are now at the New Testament portion of our reading and that leads us to the threshold of the letter to the Ephesians. And we’re working through all of these different letters that are found in the New Testament, this letter of Ephesians is quite a bit different than Paul’s other letters. Even including the letter that we just read, which is Galatians, and that has sparked enormous amounts of biblical, scholarly debates over very, very long periods of time. Some propose that this letter is so different in tone from Paul’s other letters that it’s probably written by somebody else, written in Paul’s name. Other scholars would argue no, that’s not how it is, this is a letter of Paul’s, the circumstances around the letter to the Ephesians are simply different and we have to remember that when these letters were written, they weren’t, like they weren’t the New Testament, they were letters that were sent to churches, that were then copied and sent to other churches so that, a collection of letters was collected along the way. So, some of those circumstances have more to do with the tone, than the actual writer. These kinds of things are not uncommon in biblical scholarship or literary scholarship or historical scholarship. What we know is that Paul spent about three years in Ephesus, among the Ephesians, among the church in Ephesus that he had established. And at that time, the city of Ephesus was one of the most important cities in the Roman Empire. So, it’s a cosmopolitan city, it’s a port city and because of that, many people from many places are moving in and out of Ephesus. So, there’s definitely a melting pot or mixture of ideas and culture. This letter is a little different though, because Paul’s not writing to set things straight or to have to defend himself with bragging or any of that kind of stuff, or even to try to correct behavior that’s in the church. Paul knew the readers, he’d spent a lot of time with them, and they knew Paul, and that makes Ephesians incredibly compelling because Ephesians gives us this big picture, like we’ve reached the mountain top, and we can see, can see the whole world. This letter to the Ephesians, kind of takes us on that trail, we see all these vistas, we can stop, and we can look out at the view and it’s unbelievable. It’s almost like that’s, that can’t be real. I have stood in places on this earth, looking at a view that my mind cannot quite drink in. It’s like this can’t be real. And like, living in a postcard somehow and some of the things that are said in Ephesians, feel like that way. This is so good. This is such good news it’s hard to believe this, these are the implications because that’s what Paul is going into in so much of Ephesians is, is the implications of what God is doing among us. And what’s even maybe more compelling, is that Paul had been arrested, as we know from Acts. Paul was arrested in Jerusalem, and many people were trying to assassinate him. He was eventually carried away to Caesarea, where he appealed to Caesar and then eventually through shipwreck and all kinds of trial ended up in Rome. It’s likely that Paul wrote the letter to the Ephesians from Rome, from prison. And so, knowing Paul was in prison when he wrote this letter, when he speaks of these vistas and these implications of our faith, knowing that he’s in prison makes a really poignant. Paul being in prison at all, as one of the major forces in leadership in this emerging thing, the church of Jesus, would have definitely, at least brought a little bit it out into the people’s minds who we’re considering Jesus because the leader, Paul, he’s in prison over this. So, that doesn’t make people sign up because they don’t want to end up in prison like Paul. Paul is right, writing way beyond his imprisonment and way beyond his personal circumstance and offering us a glimpse, a spiritual awareness that imprisonment or hardship or trial can’t touch. And if we’ll just really, just really lock in, really pay attention as we move through Ephesians and listen to what Paul is saying, there are things that we may have to pause and consider and should consider. Not necessarily the kinds of things that we should stop and look inside of our heart and see where we are getting off track, but rather no matter where we are right now, we should look at what Paul is describing, that is going on inside of us and where this is all leading. And so, with that, we begin Ephesians chapter 1.

Prayer:

Father, we thank You for Your word. Thank You for bringing us this far, as we are now in the letter to the Ephesians. As we move through the New Testament, Holy Spirit, come give us eyes to see and ears to hear, may we be deeply encouraged the words written in this letter and the implications for us. We love You, we adore You, we worship You, we pour our hearts out before You. There is none like You. There is no other hope, besides You. You are our God and we trust in You. Lead us in the ways that we should go, we pray, in the name of Jesus. Amen.

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

Prayer and Encouragements:

Hey Daily Audio Bible family, this is Travis from Alberta, Canada. I’m just calling in again for my friend Lindsey. She lost her mom a month or two back in a really bad car accident that her whole family was in. And she’s just having a really, really hard time coping. And she’s having a really hard time dealing with PTSD from the crash itself. It was a pretty traumatic thing.  And yeah, she just needs your prayers. And yeah, thank you so much for your prayers in the past, not just for me but for my friends. And yeah, God Bless you family.

Good morning, September 19th 533am. Hey, my name’s Big Dog. I’m out here in Corpus Christi, Texas. And I’m kind of going through some I mean just everything’s attacking me in different directions. I got a job, everything alright. Financially, I’m stuck, I’ll get out of it, of course. My wife left me, she chose somebody else after years and years and it’s kind of hard to kinda let go. I am and that’s fine but regardless, I was recently told that being from South Texas close to the other side of our neighbors down to the south that there are entities that are against us, and I’ve been put in a situation that, well, they’ve hexed me. You know, they have some voodoo on me. I don’t believe it but it’s like saying you don’t believe in the Holy Spirit, but it still exists. I’m lost, I pray, I listen to the Bible, I read, I say my prayers as much as I can for what I know. Not that I’m extently knowledged in what I’m supposed to be doing. But I have a communication, I have constant communication with God, with Jesus. I’m just tired of crying, I’m hurting, I’m lost. I have no idea what I have to do here. But whatever I have to do, I’m gonna do it with God, of course. And I would greatly appreciate it if, you know, if anybody can come back its dawg1637@gmail.com. Thank you, God Bless.

Hi all, my name is Kevin, probably my second time putting in my prayer. But I’d just like to have some prayer for me. I was quote/unquote born again a little, about maybe a year to about 15 months now. I’ve been struggling with an ex-marriage; I got a divorce earlier in the year. It seemed everything in my life has reset. I’ve prayed for it, I prayed for it in the beginning when I prayed for my life to just restart. And it’s reset and I have a daughter from the marriage. Beautiful, looking after her. I’m in a different country because of it. I’m originally from America and I’m in England. I’m just struggling with the fact that; I just feel lonely. You know, it’s just me and the Lord. I just feel like, some parts of me feels like that He’s forgotten me. And I pray to Him every day and hope that He hears my prayers and that He would renew me, so I can be married again, the right way biblically. And I hope that the people who do see me, you know, day-to-day people who stare at me, I hope that they see me, the light of God rather than a broken person. So, I pray, I ask for prayer for all those out there that hear this, pray for me. Thanks.

Hi this is Victorious Soldier, just calling to pray for some of the DABers. I wanna pray for Rob the one on the mission trip in Peru. I wanna pray for their heath. I also wanna pray for Mitchell, the gentleman who son Mitchell needs a really serious with the courts and with the judges. His mental health and the drug addiction. I also want to pray for the lady who wants to adopt the precious baby. And I also want to pray for the lady whose husband is got a drinking problem and I’ve had those in my family and my father was a miraculous one and he gave up drinking and for his family. And we’ve had generations of drinking problems. And I’m just praying that God works a way. Father, in the name of Jesus I ask You to call, I ask You to knight on those who called. Those who called on this line and needed Your help.  That precious Mitchell Lord, that needs some help Father, in the name of Jesus. We just ask that You have Your way. You give them everything they need, that Mitchell will be able to break that stronghold. Father, we ask You to break that father, with a drinking problem. Break that stronghold. We ask You Lord for direction for my sister who wants to adopt that precious baby. Oh Father, in the name of Jesus, instead of giving them to another foster parent. Father, we just ask You to have Your way, in the name of Jesus. We ask you to let Your children find, will be done. Your kingdom come, Your will be done. And Lord, we just ask You to work that miracle, Father, in the lives of these precious souls. You have Your way Father, in the name of Jesus. I give You glory and give You the honor and the praise. In Jesus name. Have a good day. Love you all.

Hello Daily Audio Bible family. This is People on the Water from Indiana. And I’m calling in today to say that I love you. In secondly, to echo a prayer request that was called in on the 16th of today. Being the 16th of September, actually. There was a fellow who called in, his name was Steven and he was invited to a health, social health, wealth table. And he echoed the prayers of what his heart was pondering as he heard that this generation, those born after the cutoff date of 2000 are dealing with addiction, depression, loneliness, isolation. For those born in 2003 and 2002 and 2004, those kids, they are young adults. And I identify as one of those. I think we call them Gen Z nowadays. But we do have foundational people in our lives, who are around our age, who have a good faith, a solid faith. So, please continue to pray for Rhenzo, for I. And for all the other young adults now on the Daily Audio Bible and around the world. That we might be readily equipped with the Gospel, to change the world. To restore the world back to its order, not in our power but in Gods. It’s gonna be good. You guys have done well. And as you grow a child up in righteousness, he and she …

Hello, my name is Monica. I’m calling to request prayer because I have third reoccurrence of cancer. And I wake up every day feeling sick, and I wonder why I’m still here if I’m gonna be feeling sick every day. I wonder why the good Lord hasn’t taken me home yet. Instead of having me here suffering. So, I’m requesting prayer for healing.  

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The Daily Audio Bible Reading for Thursday September 22, 2022 (NIV)

Isaiah 39:1-41:16

Hezekiah’s Folly

39 At that time(A) Merodach-baladan son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters and a gift to Hezekiah since he heard that he had been sick and had recovered. 2 Hezekiah was pleased with the letters, and he showed the envoys his treasure house—the silver, the gold, the spices, and the precious oil—and all his armory, and everything that was found in his treasuries.(B) There was nothing in his palace and in all his realm that Hezekiah did not show them.(C)

3 Then the prophet Isaiah came to King Hezekiah and asked him, “What did these men say, and where did they come to you from?”

Hezekiah replied, “They came to me from a distant country, from Babylon.”

4 Isaiah asked, “What have they seen in your palace?”

Hezekiah answered, “They have seen everything in my palace. There isn’t anything in my treasuries that I didn’t show them.”

5 Then Isaiah said to Hezekiah, “Hear the word of the Lord of Armies:(D) 6 ‘Look, the days are coming when everything in your palace and all that your predecessors have stored up until today will be carried off to Babylon; nothing will be left,’ says the Lord.(E) 7 ‘Some of your descendants—who come from you, whom you father—will be taken away, and they will become eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.’”

8 Then Hezekiah said to Isaiah, “The word of the Lord that you have spoken is good,” for he thought: There will be peace and security during my lifetime.(F)

God’s People Comforted

40 “Comfort, comfort my people,”(G)
says your God.
2 “Speak tenderly to[a] Jerusalem,
and announce to her
that her time of hard service is over,
her iniquity(H) has been pardoned,(I)
and she has received from the Lord’s hand
double for all her sins.”(J)

3 A voice of one crying out:

Prepare the way of the Lord in the wilderness;(K)
make a straight highway for our God in the desert.(L)
4 Every valley will be lifted up,
and every mountain and hill will be leveled;
the uneven ground will become smooth
and the rough places, a plain.(M)
5 And the glory of the Lord will appear,(N)
and all humanity[b] together will see it,(O)
for the mouth of the Lord has spoken.(P)

6 A voice was saying, “Cry out!”
Another said,[c] “What should I cry out?”
“All humanity is grass,(Q)
and all its goodness is like the flower of the field.(R)
7 The grass withers, the flowers fade
when the breath[d] of the Lord blows on them;[e]
indeed, the people are grass.
8 The grass withers, the flowers fade,(S)
but the word of our God remains forever.”(T)

9 Zion, herald of good news,
go up on a high mountain.(U)
Jerusalem, herald of good news,(V)
raise your voice loudly.
Raise it, do not be afraid!
Say to the cities of Judah,
“Here is your God!” (W)
10 See, the Lord God comes with strength,
and his power establishes his rule.(X)
His wages are with him,(Y)
and his reward accompanies him.
11 He protects his flock like a shepherd;(Z)
he gathers the lambs in his arms
and carries them in the fold of his garment.
He gently leads those that are nursing.

12 Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand
or marked off the heavens with the span of his hand?(AA)
Who has gathered the dust of the earth in a measure
or weighed the mountains on a balance
and the hills on the scales?
13 Who has directed[f] the Spirit of the Lord,
or who gave him counsel?(AB)
14 Who did he consult?
Who gave him understanding(AC)
and taught him the paths of justice?
Who taught him knowledge
and showed him the way of understanding?
15 Look, the nations are like a drop in a bucket;
they are considered as a speck of dust on the scales;
he lifts up the islands like fine dust.
16 Lebanon’s cedars are not enough for fuel,
or its animals enough for a burnt offering.(AD)
17 All the nations are as nothing before him;
they are considered by him
as empty nothingness.(AE)

18 With whom will you compare God?
What likeness will you set up for comparison with him?(AF)
19 An idol?—something that a smelter casts
and a metalworker plates with gold
and makes silver chains for?(AG)
20 A poor person contributes wood for a pedestal
that will not rot.[g]
He looks for a skilled craftsman
to set up an idol that will not fall over.(AH)

21 Do you not know?(AI)
Have you not heard?
Has it not been declared to you
from the beginning?
Have you not considered
the foundations of the earth?(AJ)
22 God is enthroned above the circle of the earth;
its inhabitants are like grasshoppers.(AK)
He stretches out the heavens like thin cloth(AL)
and spreads them out like a tent to live in.(AM)
23 He reduces princes to nothing(AN)
and makes judges of the earth like a wasteland.
24 They are barely planted, barely sown,
their stem hardly takes root in the ground
when he blows on them and they wither,
and a whirlwind carries them away like stubble.(AO)

25 “To whom will you compare me,(AP)
or who is my equal?” asks the Holy One.
26 Look up and see!
Who created(AQ) these?
He brings out the stars by number;
he calls all of them by name.(AR)
Because of his great power and strength,
not one of them is missing.

27 Jacob, why do you say,
and Israel, why do you assert,
“My way is hidden from the Lord,
and my claim is ignored by my God”?(AS)
28 Do you not know?
Have you not heard?
The Lord is the everlasting God,(AT)
the Creator of the whole earth.
He never becomes faint or weary;
there is no limit to his understanding.(AU)
29 He gives strength to the faint
and strengthens the powerless.
30 Youths may become faint and weary,
and young men stumble and fall,
31 but those who trust in the Lord
will renew their strength;(AV)
they will soar on wings like eagles;(AW)
they will run and not become weary,
they will walk and not faint.

The Lord versus the Nations’ Gods

41 “Be silent before me, coasts and islands!(AX)
And let peoples renew their strength.
Let them approach; let them testify;
let’s come together for the trial.
2 Who has stirred up someone from the east?(AY)
In righteousness he calls him to serve.[h][i](AZ)
The Lord hands nations over to him,(BA)
and he subdues kings.
He makes them like dust with his sword,
like wind-driven stubble with his bow.
3 He pursues them, going on safely,
hardly touching the path with his feet.
4 Who has performed and done this,
calling the generations from the beginning?
I am the Lord, the first
and with the last(BB)—I am he.”(BC)

5 The coasts and islands see and are afraid,
the whole earth trembles.(BD)
They approach and arrive.
6 Each one helps the other,
and says to another, “Take courage!”
7 The craftsman encourages the metalworker;(BE)
the one who flattens with the hammer
encourages the one who strikes the anvil,
saying of the soldering, “It is good.”
He fastens it with nails so that it will not fall over.(BF)

8 But you, Israel, my servant,(BG)
Jacob, whom I have chosen,(BH)
descendant of Abraham, my friend(BI)—
9 I brought[j] you from the ends of the earth
and called you from its farthest corners.
I said to you: You are my servant;
I have chosen you; I haven’t rejected you.(BJ)
10 Do not fear, for I am with you;(BK)
do not be afraid, for I am your God.(BL)
I will strengthen you; I will help you;
I will hold on to you with my righteous right hand.(BM)

11 Be sure that all who are enraged against you
will be ashamed and disgraced;(BN)
those who contend with you
will become as nothing and will perish.
12 You will look for those who contend with you,
but you will not find them.
Those who war against you
will become absolutely nothing.
13 For I am the Lord your God,(BO)
who holds your right hand,
who says to you, “Do not fear,
I will help you.
14 Do not fear, you worm Jacob,(BP)
you men[k] of Israel.
I will help you”—
this is the Lord’s declaration.
Your Redeemer(BQ) is the Holy One of Israel.(BR)
15 See, I will make you into a sharp threshing board,
new, with many teeth.
You will thresh mountains and pulverize them
and make hills into chaff.(BS)
16 You will winnow them(BT)
and a wind will carry them away,
a whirlwind will scatter them.
But you will rejoice in the Lord;
you will boast in the Holy One of Israel.

Footnotes:

  1. 40:2 Lit Speak to the heart of
  2. 40:5 Lit flesh
  3. 40:6 DSS, LXX, Vg read I said
  4. 40:7 Or wind, or Spirit
  5. 40:7 Lit it
  6. 40:13 Or measured, or comprehended
  7. 40:20 Or who is too poor for such an offering, or who chooses mulberry wood as a votive gift; Hb obscure
  8. 41:2 Or Righteousness calls him to serve
  9. 41:2 Lit to his foot
  10. 41:9 Or seized
  11. 41:14 LXX reads small number; DSS read dead ones

Cross references:

  1. 39:1–8 : 2Kg 20:12–19; 2Ch 32:31
  2. 39:2 : 2Kg 18:15–16
  3. 39:2 : 2Ch 32:25
  4. 39:5 : Is 28:14; Zch 7:4; 8:1,18
  5. 39:6 : 2Kg 24:13; 25:13–15; Jr 20:5
  6. 39:8 : 2Ch 32:26
  7. 40:1 : Is 12:1; 49:13; 51:3,12; 52:9; 61:2; 66:13; Jr 31:10–14; Zph 3:14–17; 2Co 1:4
  8. 40:2 : Is 13:11
  9. 40:2 : Lv 26:41,43; Is 27:9
  10. 40:2 : Ex 22:7–8; Jr 16:18; Zch 9:12; Rv 18:6
  11. 40:3 : Mal 3:1; 4:5–6
  12. 40:3 : Mt 3:3; Mk 1:3; Lk 3:4; Jn 1:23
  13. 40:4–5 : Lk 3:5–6
  14. 40:5 : Is 35:2
  15. 40:5 : Is 52:10; Jl 2:28
  16. 40:5 : Is 1:20; 34:16; 58:14
  17. 40:6–8 : 1Pt 1:24–25
  18. 40:6 : Jb 14:2; Ps 102:11; 103:15
  19. 40:8 : Jms 1:11
  20. 40:8 : Is 55:11; 59:21; Mk 13:31; Lk 21:33
  21. 40:9 : Is 52:7
  22. 40:9 : Is 61:1
  23. 40:9 : Is 25:9; 35:2
  24. 40:10 : Is 59:16–18
  25. 40:10 : Is 62:11; Rv 22:12
  26. 40:11 : Jr 31:10; Ezk 34:12–14,23,31; Mc 5:4; Jn 10:11,14–16
  27. 40:12 : Is 48:13; Heb 1:10–12
  28. 40:13 : Rm 11:34; 1Co 2:16
  29. 40:14 : Jb 21:22; Col 2:3
  30. 40:16 : Ps 50:9–11; Mc 6:6–7; Heb 10:5–9
  31. 40:17 : Is 29:7
  32. 40:18 : Ex 8:10; 15:11; 1Sm 2:2; Is 40:25; 46:5; Mc 7:18; Ac 17:29
  33. 40:19 : Is 2:20; 30:22; 41:7; 44:10
  34. 40:20 : 1Sm 5:3; Is 44:9–15; 46:6–7; Jr 10:3–5
  35. 40:21 : Ps 19:1; 50:6; Is 37:26; Ac 14:17; Rm 1:19–20
  36. 40:21 : Is 48:13; 51:13
  37. 40:22 : Nm 13:33
  38. 40:22 : Jb 9:8; Is 37:16; 42:5; 44:24
  39. 40:22 : Jb 36:29; Ps 18:11; 19:4; 104:2
  40. 40:23 : Jb 12:21; Ps 107:40; Is 34:12
  41. 40:24 : Ps 1:4; Is 41:2,16; 64:6; Ezk 17:10,24; Nah 1:4
  42. 40:25 : Is 46:5; Ac 17:29
  43. 40:26 : Is 42:5; 48:12–13
  44. 40:26 : Ps 147:4–5
  45. 40:27 : Is 7:13; 49:4,14
  46. 40:28 : Gn 21:33; Ps 90:2
  47. 40:28 : Ps 147:5; Rm 11:33
  48. 40:31 : Jb 17:9; Ps 103:5; 2Co 4:8–10,16; 12:9
  49. 40:31 : Ex 19:4; Dt 32:11; Lk 18:1; 2Co 4:1,16; Gl 6:9; Heb 12:3
  50. 41:1 : Is 11:11; Hab 2:20; Zch 2:13
  51. 41:2 : Is 41:25; 45:1–3; 46:11; Rv 16:12
  52. 41:2 : Is 42:6
  53. 41:2 : 2Ch 36:23; Ezr 1:2
  54. 41:4 : Is 43:10; 44:6; Rv 1:8,17; 22:13
  55. 41:4 : Is 43:13; 46:4; 48:12
  56. 41:5 : Ps 67:7
  57. 41:7 : Is 40:19
  58. 41:7 : Is 40:20; 46:7
  59. 41:8 : Is 42:19; 43:10; 44:1–2,21; 45:4; 48:20; 49:3; 54:17; Ezk 28:25; 37:25; Lk 1:54
  60. 41:8 : Is 42:1; 43:10,20; 44:1–2; 45:4; 49:7; 65:9,15,22
  61. 41:8 : 2Ch 20:7; Jms 2:23
  62. 41:9 : Is 43:5–7
  63. 41:10 : Gn 26:24; 28:15; Is 43:5; Jr 1:19; 15:20; 42:11
  64. 41:10 : Ezk 34:31
  65. 41:10 : Ex 15:6,12; Ps 18:35; 48:10; 63:8; 138:7; 139:10
  66. 41:11 : Is 45:24
  67. 41:13 : Is 43:3
  68. 41:14 : Jb 25:6; Ps 22:6
  69. 41:14 : Is 43:14; 44:6,24; 47:4; 48:17; 49:7,26; 54:5,8; 59:20; 60:16; 63:16
  70. 41:14 : Is 1:4
  71. 41:15 : Mc 4:13; Hab 3:12
  72. 41:16 : Jr 51:2
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Ephesians 1

Greeting

1 Paul,(A) an apostle of Christ Jesus by God’s will:(B)

To the faithful saints(C) in Christ Jesus[a] at Ephesus.[b](D)

2 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

God’s Rich Blessings

3 Blessed is the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavens in Christ.(E) 4 For he chose us in him, before the foundation of the world, to be holy and blameless in love before him.[c](F) 5 He predestined us to be adopted as sons through Jesus Christ for himself, according to the good pleasure of his will, 6 to the praise of his glorious grace(G) that he lavished on us in the Beloved One.(H)

7 In him we have redemption(I) through his blood, the forgiveness(J) of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace 8 that he richly poured out on us with all wisdom and understanding.[d] 9 He made known to us the mystery of his will,(K) according to his good pleasure that he purposed in Christ(L) 10 as a plan for the right time[e]—to bring everything together in Christ,(M) both things in heaven and things on earth(N) in him.(O)

11 In him we have also received an inheritance,[f] because we were predestined(P) according to the plan of the one who works out everything in agreement with the purpose of his will, 12 so that we who had already put our hope(Q) in Christ might bring praise to his glory.(R)

13 In him you also were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit(S) when you heard the word of truth,(T) the gospel of your salvation, and when you believed. 14 The Holy Spirit is the down payment(U) of our inheritance, until the redemption of the possession, to the praise of his glory.

Prayer for Spiritual Insight

15 This is why, since I heard about your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love for all the saints, 16 I never stop giving thanks for you as I remember you in my prayers. 17 I pray that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father,[g] would give you the Spirit[h](V) of wisdom and revelation(W) in the knowledge of him. 18 I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened so that you may know what is the hope(X) of his calling,(Y) what is the wealth of his glorious inheritance in the saints, 19 and what is the immeasurable greatness of his power(Z) toward us who believe, according to the mighty working of his strength.

God’s Power in Christ

20 He exercised this power in Christ by raising him from the dead and seating him at his right hand(AA) in the heavens(AB)— 21 far above every ruler and authority, power and dominion, and every title given,[i](AC) not only in this age but also in the one to come.(AD) 22 And he subjected everything under his feet[j](AE) and appointed him[k] as head(AF) over everything for the church, 23 which is his body,(AG) the fullness(AH) of the one who fills all things(AI) in every way.

Footnotes:

  1. 1:1 Or to the saints, the believers in Christ Jesus
  2. 1:1 Other mss omit at Ephesus
  3. 1:4 Or in his sight. In love
  4. 1:8 Or on us. With all wisdom and understanding
  5. 1:10 Or the fulfillment of times
  6. 1:11 Or In him we are also an inheritance,
  7. 1:17 Or the Father of glory
  8. 1:17 Or a spirit
  9. 1:21 Lit every name named
  10. 1:22 Ps 8:6
  11. 1:22 Lit gave him

Cross references:

  1. 1:1 : Ac 13:9
  2. 1:1 : Eph 1:9
  3. 1:1 : Eph 5:2
  4. 1:1 : Ac 18:19–21; 19:9–10; 20:3,17; 1Co 15:32; Rv 2:1
  5. 1:3 : Eph 1:20; 2:6; 3:10; 6:12
  6. 1:4 : Jd 24
  7. 1:6 : Jn 1:14; Rm 5:2; 2Co 4:15
  8. 1:6 : Mt 3:17; Jn 3:35; 10:17; Col 1:13
  9. 1:7 : Heb 9:12
  10. 1:7 : Ps 25:11; Mt 9:2; Mk 2:5; Lk 24:47
  11. 1:9 : Rm 11:25; 16:25; Eph 3:3; Col 1:27
  12. 1:9 : Rm 9:11
  13. 1:10 : Mt 1:17; Eph 5:2
  14. 1:10 : Php 2:10
  15. 1:10 : Col 1:16
  16. 1:11 : Pr 19:21
  17. 1:12 : 1Th 1:3
  18. 1:12 : Mk 10:37
  19. 1:13 : Ps 51:11; Jn 1:33; Ac 2:4; Rm 8:9; Gl 5:25; Ti 3:5; Rv 3:22
  20. 1:13 : Col 1:5; 2Th 2:10
  21. 1:14 : Gn 38:17–18,20; 2Co 1:22; 5:5
  22. 1:17 : Ps 51:12
  23. 1:17 : 1Pt 4:13
  24. 1:18 : 1Th 1:3
  25. 1:18 : Col 3:15
  26. 1:19 : Ac 4:33
  27. 1:20 : Php 2:9
  28. 1:20 : Jn 20:17; Eph 1:3; 2:6; 3:10; 6:12; Php 2:10; 1Pt 3:22
  29. 1:21 : 2Tm 2:19
  30. 1:21 : Mk 10:30
  31. 1:22 : Ps 8:6; Rm 13:1; 1Co 15:27; 1Pt 3:22
  32. 1:22 : Col 2:10
  33. 1:23 : Eph 4:4
  34. 1:23 : Jn 1:16
  35. 1:23 : Col 3:11
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Psalm 66

Psalm 66

Praise for God’s Mighty Acts

For the choir director. A song. A psalm.

1 Let the whole earth shout joyfully to God!(A)
2 Sing about the glory of his name;
make his praise glorious.(B)
3 Say to God, “How awe-inspiring are your works!
Your enemies will cringe before you
because of your great strength.(C)
4 The whole earth will worship you
and sing praise to you.
They will sing praise to your name.”(D)Selah

5 Come and see the wonders of God;(E)
his acts for humanity[a] are awe-inspiring.
6 He turned the sea into dry land,
and they crossed the river on foot.(F)
There we rejoiced in him.(G)
7 He rules forever by his might;
he keeps his eye on the nations.(H)
The rebellious should not exalt themselves.(I)Selah
8 Bless our God, you peoples;
let the sound of his praise be heard.(J)
9 He keeps us alive[b]
and does not allow our feet to slip.(K)

10 For you, God, tested us;
you refined us as silver is refined.(L)
11 You lured us into a trap;
you placed burdens on our backs.(M)
12 You let men ride over our heads;
we went through fire and water,
but you brought us out to abundance.[c](N)

13 I will enter your house with burnt offerings;
I will pay you my vows(O)
14 that my lips promised
and my mouth spoke during my distress.(P)
15 I will offer you fattened sheep as burnt offerings,
with the fragrant smoke of rams;
I will sacrifice bulls with goats.(Q)Selah

16 Come and listen, all who fear God,
and I will tell what he has done for me.(R)
17 I cried out to him with my mouth,
and praise was on my tongue.(S)
18 If I had been aware of malice in my heart,
the Lord would not have listened.(T)
19 However, God has listened;
he has paid attention to the sound of my prayer.(U)
20 Blessed be God!
He has not turned away my prayer
or turned his faithful love from me.(V)

Footnotes:

  1. 66:5 Or for the descendants of Adam
  2. 66:9 Lit He sets our soul in life
  3. 66:12 Or a place of satisfaction

Cross references:

  1. 66:1 : Ps 98:4; 100:1
  2. 66:1–2 : 1Ch 16:29; Ps 48:10
  3. 66:3 : Ps 18:44; 47:2; 145:6
  4. 66:4 : Ps 72:11; Is 66:23; Zph 2:11
  5. 66:5 : Ps 46:8
  6. 66:6 : Ex 14:21; Ps 106:9
  7. 66:6 : Ex 15:1–21
  8. 66:7 : Ps 14:2; 33:13–14; Pr 15:3
  9. 66:7 : Ps 140:8
  10. 66:8 : Ps 98:4
  11. 66:9 : Ps 94:18; 121:3
  12. 66:10 : Jb 23:10; Ps 17:3; Is 48:10
  13. 66:11 : Lm 1:13; Ezk 12:13; 17:20
  14. 66:12 : Ps 18:19; Is 43:2
  15. 66:13 : Nm 30:2; Dt 23:21–23; Ps 22:25; 116:14; Ec 5:4
  16. 66:14 : Ps 18:6; Jnh 2:9
  17. 66:15 : Nm 6:14; Ps 51:19
  18. 66:16 : Ps 9:1; 34:11; 71:15,24
  19. 66:17 : Ps 35:28
  20. 66:18 : Jb 36:21; Jn 9:31
  21. 66:19 : Ps 116:1–2
  22. 66:20 : Ps 22:24; 68:35
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Proverbs 23:25-28

25 Let your father and mother have joy,(A)
and let her who gave birth to you rejoice.

26 My son, give me your heart,
and let your eyes observe my ways.
27 For a prostitute is a deep pit,(B)
and a wayward woman is a narrow well;
28 indeed, she sets an ambush like a robber(C)
and increases the number of unfaithful people.

Cross references:

  1. 23:25 : Pr 27:11
  2. 23:27 : Pr 22:14
  3. 23:28 : Pr 6:26; 7:12,22–23; Ec 7:26
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The Daily Audio Bible Reading for Wednesday September 21, 2022 (NIV)

Isaiah 37-38

Hezekiah Seeks Isaiah’s Counsel

37 When King Hezekiah heard their report,(A) he tore his clothes, covered himself with sackcloth,(B) and went to the Lord’s temple. 2 He sent Eliakim, who was in charge of the palace, Shebna the court secretary, and the leading priests, who were covered with sackcloth, to the prophet Isaiah son of Amoz. 3 They said to him, “This is what Hezekiah says: ‘Today is a day of distress, rebuke, and disgrace.(C) It is as if children have come to the point of birth, and there is no strength to deliver them.(D) 4 Perhaps the Lord your God will hear all the words of the royal spokesman, whom his master the king of Assyria sent to mock the living God,(E) and will rebuke him for the words that the Lord your God has heard. Therefore offer a prayer for the surviving remnant.’”(F)

5 So the servants of King Hezekiah went to Isaiah, 6 who said to them, “Tell your master, ‘The Lord says this: Don’t be afraid(G) because of the words you have heard, with which the king of Assyria’s attendants have blasphemed me.(H) 7 I am about to put a spirit(I) in him and he will hear a rumor and return to his own land, where I will cause him to fall by the sword.’”(J)

Sennacherib’s Letter

8 When the royal spokesman heard that the king of Assyria had pulled out of Lachish,(K) he left and found him fighting against Libnah.(L) 9 The king had heard concerning King Tirhakah of Cush,(M) “He has set out to fight against you.” So when he heard this, he sent messengers to Hezekiah, saying, 10 “Say this to King Hezekiah of Judah: ‘Don’t let your God, on whom you rely, deceive you(N) by promising that Jerusalem won’t be handed over to the king of Assyria. 11 Look, you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all the countries: they completely destroyed them. Will you be rescued? 12 Did the gods of the nations(O) that my predecessors destroyed rescue them—Gozan,(P) Haran,(Q) Rezeph, and the Edenites in Telassar? 13 Where is the king of Hamath, the king of Arpad, the king of the city of[a] Sepharvaim, Hena, or Ivvah?’”

Hezekiah’s Prayer

14 Hezekiah took the letter from the messengers’ hands, read it, then went up to the Lord’s temple and spread it out before the Lord.(R) 15 Then Hezekiah prayed(S) to the Lord:

16 Lord of Armies, God of Israel, enthroned between the cherubim,(T) you are God(U)—you alone(V)—of all the kingdoms of the earth.(W) You made the heavens and the earth.(X) 17 Listen closely, Lord, and hear;(Y) open your eyes, Lord, and see.(Z) Hear all the words that Sennacherib has sent to mock the living God.(AA) 18 Lord, it is true that the kings of Assyria have devastated all these countries and their lands. 19 They have thrown their gods into the fire, for they were not gods(AB) but made from wood and stone(AC) by human hands.(AD) So they have destroyed them. 20 Now, Lord our God, save us from his power so that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that you, Lord, are God[b](AE)—you alone.(AF)

God’s Answer through Isaiah

21 Then Isaiah son of Amoz sent a message to Hezekiah: “The Lord, the God of Israel, says, ‘Because you prayed to me about King Sennacherib of Assyria, 22 this is the word the Lord has spoken against him:

Virgin Daughter Zion(AG)
despises you and scorns you;
Daughter Jerusalem shakes her head(AH)
behind your back.
23 Who is it you have mocked(AI) and blasphemed?
Against whom have you raised your voice
and lifted your eyes in pride?(AJ)
Against the Holy One of Israel!(AK)
24 You have mocked the Lord through your servants.
You have said, “With my many chariots(AL)
I have gone up to the heights of the mountains,
to the far recesses of Lebanon.
I cut down its tallest cedars,
its choice cypress trees.
I came to its distant heights,
its densest forest.
25 I dug wells and drank water in foreign lands.[c]
I dried up all the streams of Egypt
with the soles of my feet.”(AM)

26 Have you not heard?(AN)
I designed it long ago;
I planned it in days gone by.(AO)
I have now brought it to pass,
and you have crushed fortified cities(AP)
into piles of rubble.
27 Their inhabitants have become powerless,
dismayed, and ashamed.
They are plants of the field,
tender grass,
grass on the rooftops,
blasted by the east wind.[d]

28 But I know your sitting down,
your going out and your coming in,(AQ)
and your raging against me.
29 Because your raging against me
and your arrogance have reached my ears,(AR)
I will put my hook in your nose(AS)
and my bit in your mouth;(AT)
I will make you go back
the way you came.

30 “‘This will be the sign for you:(AU) This year you will eat what grows on its own, and in the second year what grows from that. But in the third year sow and reap, plant vineyards and eat their fruit. 31 The surviving remnant of the house of Judah will again take root(AV) downward and bear fruit upward. 32 For a remnant(AW) will go out from Jerusalem, and survivors from Mount Zion. The zeal of the Lord of Armies will accomplish this.’(AX)

33 “Therefore, this is what the Lord says about the king of Assyria:

He will not enter this city,
shoot an arrow here,
come before it with a shield,
or build up a siege ramp against it.
34 He will go back
the way he came,
and he will not enter this city.

This is the Lord’s declaration.

35 I will defend this city and rescue it
for my sake(AY)
and for the sake of my servant David.”(AZ)

Defeat and Death of Sennacherib

36 Then(BA) the angel of the Lord(BB) went out and struck down one hundred eighty-five thousand in the camp of the Assyrians. When the people got up the next morning, there were all the dead bodies! 37 So King Sennacherib of Assyria broke camp and left. He returned home and lived in Nineveh.(BC)

38 One day, while he was worshiping in the temple of his god Nisroch, his sons Adrammelech and Sharezer struck him down with the sword and escaped to the land of Ararat.(BD) Then his son Esar-haddon(BE) became king in his place.

Hezekiah’s Illness and Recovery

38 In those days Hezekiah became terminally ill.(BF) The prophet Isaiah son of Amoz came and said to him, “This is what the Lord says: ‘Set your house in order,(BG) for you are about to die; you will not recover.’”[e]

2 Then Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and prayed to the Lord. 3 He said, “Please, Lord, remember how I have walked before you faithfully and wholeheartedly,(BH) and have done what pleases you.”(BI) And Hezekiah wept bitterly.

4 Then the word of the Lord came to Isaiah: 5 “Go and tell Hezekiah, ‘This is what the Lord God of your ancestor David says: I have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears. Look, I am going to add fifteen years to your life.[f](BJ) 6 And I will rescue you and this city from the grasp of the king of Assyria; I will defend this city.(BK) 7 This is the sign to you(BL) from the Lord that he will do what he has promised: 8 I am going to make the sun’s shadow that goes down on the stairway of Ahaz go back by ten steps.’”(BM) So the sun’s shadow[g] went back the ten steps it had descended.

9 A poem by King Hezekiah of Judah after he had been sick and had recovered from his illness:

10 I said: In the prime[h] of my life(BN)
I must go to the gates of Sheol;(BO)
I am deprived of the rest of my years.
11 I said: I will never see the Lord,
the Lord in the land of the living;(BP)
I will not look on humanity any longer
with the inhabitants of what is passing away.[i]
12 My dwelling is plucked up and removed from me
like a shepherd’s tent.(BQ)
I have rolled up my life like a weaver;(BR)
he cuts me off from the loom.(BS)
By nightfall[j] you make an end of me.(BT)
13 I thought until the morning:
He will break all my bones like a lion.
By nightfall you make an end of me.
14 I chirp like a swallow or a crane;
I moan like a dove.(BU)
My eyes grow weak looking upward.
Lord, I am oppressed; support me.(BV)

15 What can I say?
He has spoken to me,
and he himself has done it.
I walk along slowly all my years(BW)
because of the bitterness of my soul.(BX)
16 Lord, by such things people live,(BY)
and in every one of them my spirit finds life;
you have restored me to health(BZ)
and let me live.(CA)
17 Indeed, it was for my own well-being
that I had such intense bitterness;(CB)
but your love has delivered me
from the Pit of destruction,(CC)
for you have thrown all my sins behind your back.(CD)
18 For Sheol cannot thank you;
Death cannot praise you.(CE)
Those who go down to the Pit
cannot hope for your faithfulness.
19 The living, only the living can thank you,
as I do today;
a father will make your faithfulness known to children.(CF)
20 The Lord is ready to save me;
we will play stringed instruments
all the days of our lives
at the house of the Lord.(CG)

21 Now Isaiah(CH) had said, “Let them take a lump of pressed figs and apply it to his infected skin, so that he may recover.” 22 And Hezekiah had asked, “What is the sign that I will go up to the Lord’s temple?”

Footnotes:

  1. 37:13 Or king of Lair,
  2. 37:20 are God supplied for clarity; see v. 16
  3. 37:25 DSS, 2Kg 19:24; MT omits in foreign lands
  4. 37:27 DSS; MT reads rooftops, field before standing grain
  5. 38:1 Lit live
  6. 38:5 Lit days, also in v. 10
  7. 38:8 Lit And the sun
  8. 38:10 Lit quiet
  9. 38:11 Some Hb mss, Tg read of the world
  10. 38:12 Lit From day until night, also in v. 13

Cross references:

  1. 37:1–35 : 2Kg 19:1–34
  2. 37:1 : Gn 37:34; 2Sm 3:31; 1Kg 21:27; Is 3:24
  3. 37:3 : Is 22:5; 26:16; 33:2; Nah 1:7; Hab 3:16
  4. 37:3 : Is 26:17–18; 66:9; Hs 13:13
  5. 37:4 : Dt 5:26; 1Sm 17:26,36; Jr 10:10
  6. 37:4 : Is 1:9; 46:3
  7. 37:6 : Is 7:4; 35:4
  8. 37:6 : Ps 44:7,13–16; Is 52:5; Rm 2:24
  9. 37:7 : Nm 5:14; Is 19:14; Hs 4:12; Zch 13:2; 2Tm 1:7
  10. 37:7 : Is 37:36–38
  11. 37:8 : Jos 10:31–32
  12. 37:8 : Nm 33:20; Jos 10:29
  13. 37:9 : Is 18:1; 20:5
  14. 37:10 : Is 36:14–15
  15. 37:12 : Is 36:18
  16. 37:12 : 2Kg 17:6; 18:11
  17. 37:12 : Gn 11:31; 12:1–4; Ac 7:2
  18. 37:14 : Dt 22:17; 1Kg 8:22; Ezk 2:10
  19. 37:15 : 2Ch 32:20
  20. 37:16 : Ex 25:22; Nm 7:89; 1Sm 4:4; 2Sm 6:2; Ps 80:1; 99:1
  21. 37:16 : Dt 10:17; 2Sm 7:28; Ps 86:10; 90:2; 136:2–3
  22. 37:16 : 1Kg 8:39; Neh 9:6; Ps 4:8; 83:18; 86:10; Rv 15:4
  23. 37:16 : 2Ch 36:20; Ps 68:32; Rv 11:15
  24. 37:16 : Ex 20:11; Neh 9:6; Ps 146:6; Ac 4:24
  25. 37:17 : 2Ch 6:40; Ps 17:6; Dn 9:18
  26. 37:17 : Is 42:5; 45:12; Jr 10:12
  27. 37:17 : Is 37:4
  28. 37:19 : Dt 32:17; 2Ch 13:9; Jr 2:11; 5:7; 16:20; Hs 8:6; Ac 19:26; Gl 4:8
  29. 37:19 : Dt 4:28; 28:36,64; 29:17; Ezk 20:32
  30. 37:19 : Is 2:8,20; 17:8; 31:7; 41:24,29; 44:9–20; 46:6
  31. 37:20 : Jos 4:24; 1Kg 8:60; 20:13; Is 45:3,6
  32. 37:20 : Is 37:16
  33. 37:22 : Lm 2:13; Is 1:8; 3:16–17; 4:4; 52:2; 62:11
  34. 37:22 : Jb 16:4; Ps 22:7; 109:25; Jr 18:16; Lm 2:15
  35. 37:23 : Ps 74:10,18; Is 37:4; Gl 6:7
  36. 37:23 : Is 2:11; 5:15,21
  37. 37:23 : Gn 12:3; Ex 23:22
  38. 37:24 : Ex 14:26–28; 15:4,19; Dt 20:1; Jos 11:4–9; 2Ch 16:8; Ps 68:17
  39. 37:25 : Dt 11:10; 1Kg 20:10
  40. 37:26 : Is 40:21,28
  41. 37:26 : Is 5:19; 10:5–6; 14:24–26; 22:11; 46:11; Jr 18:11; Ac 2:23; 4:27–28; 1Pt 2:8
  42. 37:26 : Is 34:13
  43. 37:28 : Ps 139:1
  44. 37:29 : Is 10:12
  45. 37:29 : Ezk 19:9; 29:4; 38:4
  46. 37:29 : Is 30:28
  47. 37:30 : Ex 3:12; 1Sm 2:34; 1Kg 13:3; Is 7:14; 38:7; Jr 44:29; Lk 2:12
  48. 37:31 : Is 27:6
  49. 37:32 : Ezr 9:14; Is 10:20–22
  50. 37:32 : 2Kg 19:31; Is 9:7; 59:17; Jl 2:18; Zch 1:14
  51. 37:35 : Is 43:25; 48:9,11
  52. 37:35 : 1Kg 11:13,32–38; 2Kg 20:6; Ezk 34:23
  53. 37:36–38 : 2Kg 19:35–37; 2Ch 32:21
  54. 37:36 : Gn 16:7–11; Ex 3:2; Nm 22:22–35; Jdg 6:11–12; 2Sm 24:16; Ps 34:7
  55. 37:37 : Gn 10:11; Jnh 1:2; 3:3; 4:11; Zph 2:13
  56. 37:38 : Gn 8:4; Jr 51:27
  57. 37:38 : Ezr 4:2
  58. 38:1–8 : 2Kg 20:1–6,9–11; 2Ch 32:24
  59. 38:1 : 2Sm 17:23
  60. 38:3 : Gn 17:1; 1Kg 2:4; 3:6; 8:23; 2Kg 18:5–6; Ps 26:3
  61. 38:3 : Dt 6:18
  62. 38:5 : 2Kg 18:2,13
  63. 38:6 : Is 31:5; 37:35
  64. 38:7 : Is 37:30
  65. 38:8 : Jos 10:12–14
  66. 38:10 : Ps 102:24
  67. 38:10 : Ps 107:18
  68. 38:11 : Ps 27:13; 116:9
  69. 38:12 : 2Co 5:1,4; 2Pt 1:13–14
  70. 38:12 : Jb 7:6; Heb 1:12
  71. 38:12 : Jb 6:9
  72. 38:12 : Jb 4:20; Ps 73:14
  73. 38:14 : Is 59:11; Ezk 7:16; Nah 2:7
  74. 38:14 : Jb 17:3; Ps 119:122
  75. 38:15 : 1Kg 21:27
  76. 38:15 : 1Sm 1:10; Ezk 27:31; Jb 3:20; 7:11; 10:1
  77. 38:16 : Ps 119:71,75
  78. 38:16 : Ps 39:13
  79. 38:16 : Ps 119:25
  80. 38:17 : Heb 12:11
  81. 38:17 : Jb 33:18,30; Ps 103:4; 106:23; Ezk 20:17; Jnh 2:6
  82. 38:17 : Is 43:25; Jr 31:34; Mc 7:19
  83. 38:18 : Ps 6:5; 30:9; 88:10–12; 115:17
  84. 38:19 : Dt 6:7; 11:19; Ps 78:5–7
  85. 38:20 : Ps 23:6; 116:17–19
  86. 38:21–22 : 2Kg 20:7–8
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Galatians 6

Carry One Another’s Burdens

6 Brothers and sisters, if someone is overtaken in any wrongdoing, you who are spiritual, restore such a person with a gentle(A) spirit,[a](B) watching out for yourselves so that you also won’t be tempted.(C) 2 Carry one another’s burdens; in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ.(D) 3 For if anyone considers himself to be something when he is nothing,(E) he deceives himself. 4 Let each person examine his own work,(F) and then he can take pride in himself alone, and not compare himself with someone else. 5 For each person will have to carry his own load.

6 Let the one who is taught the word share(G) all his good things with the teacher. 7 Don’t be deceived: God is not mocked. For whatever a person sows he will also reap, 8 because the one who sows to his flesh will reap destruction from the flesh, but the one who sows to the Spirit(H) will reap eternal life(I) from the Spirit. 9 Let us not get tired(J) of doing good,(K) for we will reap at the proper time if we don’t give up. 10 Therefore, as we have opportunity, let us work(L) for the good(M) of all, especially for those who belong to the household(N) of faith.(O)

Concluding Exhortation

11 Look at what large letters I use as I write to you in my own handwriting. 12 Those who want to make a good impression in the flesh(P) are the ones who would compel you to be circumcised(Q)—but only to avoid being persecuted(R) for the cross(S) of Christ. 13 For even the circumcised don’t keep(T) the law themselves, and yet they want you to be circumcised in order to boast about your flesh. 14 But as for me, I will never boast about anything except the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ. The world has been crucified to me through the cross, and I to the world. 15 For[b] both circumcision and uncircumcision(U) mean nothing; what matters instead is a new creation.(V) 16 May peace come to all those who follow this standard, and mercy even to the Israel(W) of God![c]

17 From now on, let no one cause me trouble, because I bear on my body the marks of Jesus.(X) 18 Brothers and sisters, the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit.(Y) Amen.

Footnotes:

  1. 6:1 Or with the Spirit of gentleness
  2. 6:15 Other mss add in Christ Jesus
  3. 6:16 Or And for those who follow this standard, may peace and mercy be upon them, even upon the Israel of God, or And as many who will follow this standard, peace be upon them and mercy even upon the Israel of God.

Cross references:

  1. 6:1 : Jms 3:13
  2. 6:1 : Ps 51:12
  3. 6:1 : Jms 1:13
  4. 6:2 : 1Co 9:21
  5. 6:3 : 1Co 3:18; 2Co 12:11; Gl 2:6
  6. 6:4 : Mk 14:6; Gl 3:10; Jms 2:14–26
  7. 6:6 : Rm 15:27; 1Pt 5:2
  8. 6:8 : Ps 51:11; Jn 1:33; Ac 2:4; Rm 8:9; Gl 5:25; Ti 3:5; Rv 3:22
  9. 6:8 : Jn 12:25; Ac 13:48
  10. 6:9 : 2Th 3:13
  11. 6:9 : Lk 18:18; Jms 4:17
  12. 6:10 : 2Jn 8
  13. 6:10 : Gn 1:31; 3Jn 11
  14. 6:10 : 1Tm 5:8
  15. 6:10 : Jd 3
  16. 6:12 : Php 3:3
  17. 6:12 : Ac 15:1
  18. 6:12 : 2Tm 3:12
  19. 6:12 : Php 3:18
  20. 6:13 : Lk 11:28
  21. 6:15 : Col 3:11
  22. 6:15 : Jn 1:3; Rv 3:14
  23. 6:16 : Lk 3:8
  24. 6:17 : Php 3:10
  25. 6:18 : Ps 51:12
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Psalm 65

Psalm 65

God’s Care for the Earth

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

1 Praise is rightfully yours,[a]
God, in Zion;
vows to you will be fulfilled.(A)
2 All humanity will come to you,
the one who hears prayer.(B)
3 Iniquities overwhelm me;
only you can atone for our rebellions.(C)
4 How happy is the one you choose
and bring near to live in your courts!
We will be satisfied with the goodness of your house,(D)
the holiness of your temple.[b](E)

5 You answer us in righteousness,
with awe-inspiring works,
God of our salvation,
the hope of all the ends of the earth
and of the distant seas.(F)
6 You establish the mountains by your power;
you are robed with strength.(G)
7 You silence the roar of the seas,
the roar of their waves,
and the tumult of the nations.(H)
8 Those who live far away are awed by your signs;
you make east and west shout for joy.(I)

9 You visit the earth and water it abundantly,
enriching it greatly.
God’s stream is filled with water,
for you prepare the earth in this way,
providing people with grain.(J)
10 You soften it with showers and bless its growth,
soaking its furrows and leveling its ridges.(K)
11 You crown the year with your goodness;
your carts overflow with plenty.[c](L)
12 The wilderness pastures overflow,
and the hills are robed with joy.(M)
13 The pastures are clothed with flocks
and the valleys covered with grain.(N)
They shout in triumph; indeed, they sing.(O)

Footnotes:

  1. 65:1 Or Praise is silence to you, or Praise awaits you
  2. 65:4 Or house, your holy temple
  3. 65:11 Lit your paths drip with fat

Cross references:

  1. 65:1 : Ps 50:14; 116:18
  2. 65:2 : Ps 86:9; Is 2:2–4; 66:23
  3. 65:3 : Ps 38:14; 40:12; 79:9
  4. 65:4 : Ps 17:15; Jr 31:14
  5. 65:4 : Ps 27:4; 84:4
  6. 65:5 : Dt 10:21; 2Sm 7:23; Ps 46:8
  7. 65:6 : Ps 93:1; Am 4:13
  8. 65:7 : Ps 107:29; Is 17:13; Mt 8:26
  9. 65:8 : Ps 2:8; 139:9; Is 24:16
  10. 65:9 : Ps 104:13; 147:8; Is 45:8
  11. 65:10 : Dt 3:22; Ps 72:6; 147:8
  12. 65:11 : Ps 104:28; 147:14
  13. 65:12 : Jb 38:26–27; Is 55:12; Jl 2:22
  14. 65:13 : Ps 72:16; 144:13; Is 30:23
  15. 65:13 : Is 44:23
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Proverbs 23:24

24 The father of a righteous son will rejoice greatly,
and one who fathers a wise son will delight in him.(A)

Cross references:

  1. 23:24 : Pr 10:1; 23:15; 29:3
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09/21/2022 DAB Transcript

Isaiah 37:1-38:22, Galatians 6:1-18, Psalms 65:1-13, Proverbs 23:24

Today is the 21st day of September welcome to the Daily Audio Bible I’m Brian it’s wonderful to be around the Global Campfire together with you today as we gather from all of the different regions of the world and come and find our place, move forward together in the Scriptures. And our next step forward in the Scriptures will lead us back into the book of Isaiah. We’re reading from the Christian Standard Bible this week. And today Isaiah chapters 37 and 38.

Commentary:

Okay. So, we concluded Paul’s letter to the Galatians today, which will have us moving into new territory tomorrow. But as we finished Galatians today, we kind of got another list. And Paul’s writings allow us to kind of frame things in lists, although I don’t know that the life of faith can be put on a laundry list or a grocery shopping list per se, but we were talking about different paths yesterday - the path of the flesh or the sinful nature and the path of the Spirit and the fruit of the Apirit. And, so, as Paul brings this to a close Paul has like five closing statements that describe for us what living in the Spirit looks like, the posture of it all. So, I’m gonna go back and allow Paul to just speak for himself, and reread those postures, but as we do, let’s go ahead and examine ourselves. Are these postures our postures? Because if these are postures of life in the Spirit following Jesus then certainly, we need and want those postures. So, let’s take a look. Paul says, “let each person examine his own work and then he can take pride in himself alone and not compare himself with someone else. For each person will have to carry his own load.” What Paul seems to be instructing us is that we keep our eyes on our own lives understanding that our own lives matter and that us, fulfilling our life’s mission is important. We’re not going to get an identity comparing ourselves to somebody else. We’re not going to get anywhere by wishing we had somebody else’s life. This life is a gift from God. And Paul says, “let the one who is taught the word share all his good things with the teacher.” In other words, be generous with those who lead you on the path. They have needs too. And then Paul says, “don’t be deceived, God is not mocked, for whatever a person sows he will also reap.” Super famous passage, super famous concept, right? You reap what you sow. And Paul fleshes this out. “Because the one who sows to his flesh”, right, the sinful nature path, the path we don’t want to be on, “the one who sows to his flesh will reap destruction from the flesh, but the one who sows to the Spirit will reap eternal life from the Spirit.” This is what we were talking about yesterday because it was the same letter and Paul was bringing it to a close and it took until today to close the letter. But there are two paths, the path of the sinful nature and the path of the Spirit. And Paul tells us, look if we’re going to invest in and sow into the path of the flesh then we will reap destruction from the flesh because we will reap what we sow. But if we so to the Spirit, then the harvest is eternal life from the Spirit. Again, stark contrast, easy choice. May we follow the path of the Spirit because that is the path that is going where we want to go. And then Paul says, “let us not get tired of doing good, for we will reap at the proper time if we don’t give up. If we don’t give up brothers and sisters, we will reap at the proper time if we don’t give up. Therefore, Paul says, “as we have opportunity, let us work for the good of all, especially for those who belong to the household of faith.” The reality is that we cannot perform or be involved in the postures of the Spirit, unless it is being cultivated from within us. We can pretend externally to be whatever we want to pretend to be. The fruit of the Spirit comes from being cultivated with in us. And this begins by simply paying attention, but it’s paying attention to the things that matter within us. The things…I mean like if we walk this path and invest in sow into the Spirit and reap the fruit of the Spirit, then we are going to be transformed. It is going to change so much about us. And all the sudden that fruit begins to spill out of our lives and changes people’s awareness of us all around us. And although there’s plenty of theology to talk about in the book of Galatians, the way that this ends is so encouraging. There is a way to do this. There are postures that we can examine ourselves with to see if we are walking that path. There are paths that will lead us where we don’t want to go and there are characteristics that denote what path we’re on. We just have to pay attention. And if we’re being honest, we know right from wrong. If we’ve been walking with Jesus at all we know what is going to lead us toward and away from him. Paul has given us some language for that, language for us to process, wrestle through, consider. But we know right from wrong. May ee do what is right.

Prayer:

Father, thank You for this letter to the Galatians. And as we leave it for this year and move forward tomorrow, we pray that You would plant it in our lives because it is telling us to plant the fruit of the Spirit in our lives. Holy Spirit we can’t plant Your fruit without You. We can just be willing vessels and we can weed this garden so that the soil is good. Help us pay attention to what we are doing we pray. In the name of Jesus, we ask. Amen.

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9/20/2022 DAB Transcript

Isaiah 33:10-36:22, Gal 5:13-26, Ps 64:1-10, Pr 23:23

Today is the 20th day of September, welcome to the Daily Audio Bible. I am Brian and it is wonderful to be here with you today, as we do what we do, gather around the Global Campfire and take the next step forward together. Our next step forward is continuing to lead us through the book of Isaiah. I guess we are pretty much in the center of the book of Isaiah. So, we will continue forward there before jumping into the letter to the Galatians in the New Testament. So today, Isaiah chapter 33 verse 10 through 36 verse 22.

Commentary:

Okay, so, yesterday as we were moving through our territory in the book of Isaiah we observed a crossroads, sort of a little fork in the road. Not like there aren’t a million forks in the road every day. But a fork in the road, that had two paths: one that would lead to a quiet flagpole, all alone on a hill somewhere abandoned or a path that would lead us in quietness and trust, inviting us to calm down and trust in the Lord. Today in Paul’s letter to the Galatians, we have another crossroads, another set of divergent paths and an understanding where those paths go. And so, on one hand we have a path of the sinful nature, but conversely we have the path of following the spirit into all truth, into union with God. So let me just read or quote from Paul the description of these paths. So I quote Paul, “walk by this Spirit and you will certainly not carry out the desire of the flesh, for the flesh desires what is against the spirit and the spirit desires what is against the flesh. These are opposed to each other so that you don’t do what you want, but if you are led by this Spirit you’re not under the law. The works of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, moral impurity, promiscuity, idolatry, sorcery, hatred, strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, selfish ambitions, dissensions, factions, envy, drunkenness, carousing and anything similar.” And Paul goes on to say, those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God. So, something we should pay attention to, and we can read a list like this, Paul has all kinds of different sorts of lists in his different letters, we can read a list like this and go okay, I don’t practice idolatry, I don’t practice sorcery. But what about outbursts of anger, what about envy, what about selfish ambition and there’s a whole laundry list here of things that are on a path that’s not going anywhere good. Conversely, Paul talks about the pathway of this Spirit and I quote, “the fruit of this Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control.” And out of those two lists, we should be pretty clear on where we should be going and what we should want. I mean, just comparing the lists should tell us what our deep soul desire wants right, do we want love and do we want sexual immorality. Do we want joy or do we want moral impurity. Do we want peace or do we want promiscuity. Do we want patients or idolatry, kindness or sorcery, goodness or hatred, faithfulness or strife, gentleness or jealousy, self-control or outbursts of anger. Like, it should be obvious what our soul craves and the way that we were made and what we need. And we could be like true. It’s obvious what we need. But how do we know when were beginning, like how do we know before it’s too late, that we’re about to step onto the wrong path. Paul answers that succinctly, the works of the flesh are obvious. So, unless we are absolutely, completely unaware of ourselves, we would know when we’re moving toward sexual immorality, we would know when we’re moving toward envy or drunkenness, we would know when we’re headed towards jealousy or an outburst of anger. And according to Paul, when we are pulled or moving in that direction, then we are moving in the direction of sin and a sinful nature. If we’re going to move in that direction than we are going to be dominated by it. I mean, if we just take a step back and think about it for second, we know this, we already know this from experience. Thankfully, what Paul’s not saying is that anyone who falls in any of these sins and walked that path is doomed and cannot inherit the kingdom of God. Paul’s saying like, if this is the path you’re going to walk, if this is the way that you’re going to go and commit yourself to that path then it’s not going to end up at the kingdom of God. That’s not where that path goes. There are roadways all over the world. And I understand the roadways of the country that I live in and how that all works and I know that if I want to go to California, I need to go west of where I am, here in the rolling hills of Tennessee. But if I just decide no, I want to walk a different path, I’m going to go North, then I’m going to end up in Minnesota or Wisconsin or Michigan or somewhere up north. If that’s the path I’m going to go on, even though I want to be in a different place, I’m going to end up where the road goes. If we’re going to walk the path of the sinful nature habitually and commit ourselves to that path. Even though we want to end up at the kingdom of God, that’s not where that path goes. The path that goes there, is the path of the Spirit. And according to Paul, the fruit of the Spirit, so, the outgrowth, the harvest, of what’s been planted in our lives from the spirit yields love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control and there is no law against any of those things. Two paths that go two divergent places, where do we want to end up? Paul concludes in our reading today saying, now those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. In other words died to those things. If we live by the Spirit, let us also keep in step with the spirit. Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another.

And so, Father, we invite You into this. We have these lists that Paul has laid out, lists describing pathways and outcomes. And if we honestly look at these lists, we realize how much energy we spend trying to make it all work so that we can have the sinful desires as well as the fruit of the spirit all intermingled into some kind of nice smoothie. It’s ironic though, because we would never grab some strawberries and blueberries and bananas and put them into a blender and get ready to make a nice smoothie and also poor in a ½ a box of rat poison because we want it all and it explains a lot me think about it that way. For some reason spiritually, we want to mix our poison with what is good for us and call it good. And then be mad at You when it doesn’t work. There are somethings we have to turn away from because they will never lead us on a healthy path and they will never get us to where we want to go. Help us, Holy Spirit, one of the fruits of the Spirit that was described today is self control. We need that, show us what that looks like in our lives. We pray in the name of Jesus, we ask. Amen.

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The Daily Audio Bible Reading for Tuesday September 20, 2022 (NIV)

Isaiah 33:10-36:22

10 “Now I will rise up,”(A) says the Lord.
“Now I will lift myself up.
Now I will be exalted.
11 You will conceive chaff;(B)
you will give birth to stubble.
Your breath is fire that will consume you.
12 The peoples will be burned to ashes,
like thorns cut down and burned in a fire.
13 You who are far off, hear what I have done;
you who are near,(C) know my strength.”
14 The sinners in Zion are afraid;
trembling seizes the ungodly:
“Who among us can dwell with a consuming fire?(D)
Who among us can dwell with ever-burning flames?”(E)
15 The one who lives righteously
and speaks rightly,(F)
who refuses profit from extortion,
whose hand never takes a bribe,
who stops his ears from listening to murderous plots
and shuts his eyes against evil schemes(G)—
16 he will dwell on the heights;
his refuge will be the rocky fortresses,
his food provided, his water assured.
17 Your eyes will see the King in his beauty;(H)
you will see a vast land.(I)
18 Your mind will meditate on the past terror:
“Where is the accountant?[a]
Where is the tribute collector?[b]
Where is the one who spied out our defenses?” [c]
19 You will no longer see the barbarians,
a people whose speech is difficult to comprehend—
who stammer in a language that is not understood.(J)
20 Look at Zion, the city of our festival times.
Your eyes will see Jerusalem,
a peaceful pasture,(K) a tent that does not wander;
its tent pegs will not be pulled up
nor will any of its cords be loosened.(L)
21 For the majestic one, our Lord, will be there,(M)
a place of rivers and broad streams
where ships that are rowed will not go,
and majestic vessels will not pass.(N)
22 For the Lord is our Judge,
the Lord is our Lawgiver,(O)
the Lord is our King.
He will save us.(P)
23 Your ropes are slack;
they cannot hold the base of the mast
or spread out the flag.
Then abundant spoil will be divided,
the lame will plunder it,
24 and none there will say, “I am sick.”
The people who dwell there
will be forgiven(Q) their iniquity.(R)

The Judgment of the Nations

34 You nations, come here and listen;
you peoples, pay attention!(S)
Let the earth and all that fills it hear,
the world and all that comes from it.(T)
2 The Lord is angry with all the nations,
furious with all their armies.(U)
He will set them apart for destruction,(V)
giving them over to slaughter.
3 Their slain will be thrown out,
and the stench of their corpses will rise;(W)
the mountains will flow[d] with their blood.(X)
4 All[e] the stars in the sky(Y) will dissolve.
The sky will roll up like a scroll,(Z)
and its stars will all wither
as leaves wither on the vine,
and foliage on the fig tree.(AA)

The Judgment of Edom

5 When my sword has drunk its fill[f](AB) in the heavens,
it will then come down on Edom(AC)
and on the people I have set apart for destruction.
6 The Lord’s sword is covered with blood.
It drips with fat,
with the blood of lambs and goats,
with the fat of the kidneys of rams.(AD)
For the Lord has a sacrifice in Bozrah,(AE)
a great slaughter in the land of Edom.
7 The wild oxen will be struck[g] down with them,
and young bulls with the mighty bulls.
Their land will be soaked with[h] blood,
and their soil will be saturated with fat.
8 For the Lord has a day of vengeance,(AF)
a time of paying back Edom
for its hostility against Zion.
9 Edom’s streams will be turned into pitch,
her soil into sulfur;(AG)
her land will become burning pitch.
10 It will never go out—day or night.
Its smoke will go up forever.(AH)
It will be desolate, from generation to generation;
no one will pass through it forever and ever.(AI)
11 Eagle owls[i] and herons[j] will possess it,
and long-eared owls and ravens will dwell there.(AJ)
The Lord will stretch out a measuring line
and a plumb line(AK) over her
for her destruction and chaos.(AL)
12 No nobles will be left to proclaim a king,
and all her princes will come to nothing.
13 Her palaces will be overgrown with thorns;
her fortified cities, with thistles and briers.(AM)
She will become a dwelling for jackals,
an abode[k] for ostriches.(AN)
14 The desert creatures will meet hyenas,
and one wild goat will call to another.
Indeed, the night birds will stay there
and will find a resting place.
15 Sand partridges[l] will make their nests there;
they will lay and hatch their eggs
and will gather their broods under their shadows.
Indeed, the birds of prey will gather there,
each with its mate.(AO)
16 Search and read the scroll of the Lord:(AP)
Not one of them will be missing,
none will be lacking its mate,
because he has ordered it by my[m] mouth,
and he will gather them by his Spirit.
17 He has cast the lot for them;
his hand allotted their portion with a measuring line.
They will possess it forever;(AQ)
they will dwell in it from generation to generation.

The Ransomed Return to Zion

35 The wilderness and the dry land will be glad;
the desert will rejoice and blossom like a wildflower.[n](AR)
2 It will blossom abundantly
and will also rejoice with joy and singing.
The glory of Lebanon will be given to it,
the splendor of Carmel and Sharon.(AS)
They will see the glory of the Lord,(AT)
the splendor of our God.(AU)
3 Strengthen the weak hands,
steady the shaking knees!(AV)
4 Say to the cowardly:
“Be strong; do not fear!
Here is your God; vengeance is coming.(AW)
God’s retribution is coming; he will save you.”(AX)
5 Then the eyes of the blind will be opened,
and the ears of the deaf unstopped.(AY)
6 Then the lame will leap like a deer,(AZ)
and the tongue of the mute will sing for joy,(BA)
for water will gush in the wilderness,
and streams in the desert;(BB)
7 the parched ground will become a pool,
and the thirsty land, springs.(BC)
In the haunt of jackals,(BD) in their lairs,
there will be grass, reeds, and papyrus.
8 A road will be there and a way;(BE)
it will be called the Holy Way.(BF)
The unclean will not travel on it,(BG)
but it will be for the one who walks the path.(BH)
Fools will not wander on it.
9 There will be no lion there,
and no vicious beast will go up on it;
they will not be found there.
But the redeemed will walk on it,
10 and the ransomed of the Lord will return(BI)
and come to Zion with singing,
crowned with unending joy.
Joy and gladness will overtake them,
and sorrow and sighing will flee.(BJ)

Sennacherib’s Invasion

36 In the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah,(BK) King Sennacherib of Assyria attacked all the fortified cities of Judah and captured them. 2 Then the king of Assyria sent his royal spokesman, along with a massive army, from Lachish(BL) to King Hezekiah at Jerusalem. The Assyrian stood near the conduit of the upper pool, by the road to Launderer’s Field.(BM) 3 Eliakim son of Hilkiah, who was in charge of the palace, Shebna the court secretary,(BN) and Joah son of Asaph, the court historian, came out to him.

4 The royal spokesman said to them, “Tell Hezekiah:

The great king, the king of Assyria, says this: What are you relying on? 5 You[o] think mere words are strategy and strength for war. Who are you now relying on that you have rebelled against me?(BO) 6 Look, you are relying on Egypt, that splintered reed of a staff(BP) that will pierce the hand of anyone who grabs it and leans on it. This is how Pharaoh king of Egypt is to all who rely on him.(BQ) 7 Suppose you say to me, ‘We rely on the Lord our God.’ Isn’t he the one whose high places and altars Hezekiah has removed, saying to Judah and Jerusalem, ‘You are to worship at this altar’?(BR)

8 “Now make a deal with my master, the king of Assyria. I’ll give you two thousand horses if you’re able to supply riders for them! 9 How then can you drive back a single officer among the least of my master’s servants? How can you rely on Egypt for chariots and horsemen?(BS) 10 Have I attacked this land to destroy it without the Lord’s approval? The Lord said to me, ‘Attack this land and destroy it.’”

11 Then Eliakim, Shebna, and Joah said to the royal spokesman, “Please speak to your servants in Aramaic,(BT) since we understand it. Don’t speak to us in Hebrew[p] within earshot of the people who are on the wall.”

12 But the royal spokesman replied, “Has my master sent me to speak these words to your master and to you, and not to the men who are sitting on the wall, who are destined with you to eat their own excrement and drink their own urine?”

13 Then the royal spokesman stood and called out loudly in Hebrew:

Listen to the words of the great king, the king of Assyria! 14 This is what the king says: “Don’t let Hezekiah deceive you,(BU) for he cannot rescue you. 15 Don’t let Hezekiah persuade you to rely on the Lord, saying, ‘The Lord will certainly rescue us! This city will not be handed over to the king of Assyria.’”

16 Don’t listen to Hezekiah, for this is what the king of Assyria says: “Make peace[q] with me and surrender to me. Then every one of you may eat from his own vine and his own fig tree(BV) and drink water from his own cistern 17 until I come and take you away to a land like your own land—a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards. 18 Beware that Hezekiah does not mislead you by saying, ‘The Lord will rescue us.’(BW) Has any one of the gods of the nations(BX) rescued his land from the power of the king of Assyria? 19 Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad?(BY) Where are the gods of Sepharvaim? Have they rescued Samaria from my power?(BZ) 20 Who among all the gods of these lands ever rescued his land from my power? So will the Lord rescue Jerusalem from my power?”

21 But they kept silent; they didn’t say anything, for the king’s command was, “Don’t answer him.”(CA) 22 Then Eliakim son of Hilkiah, who was in charge of the palace, Shebna the court secretary, and Joah son of Asaph, the court historian, came to Hezekiah with their clothes torn and reported to him the words of the royal spokesman.

Footnotes:

  1. 33:18 Lit counter
  2. 33:18 Lit weigher
  3. 33:18 Lit who counts towers
  4. 34:3 Or melt, or dissolve
  5. 34:4 DSS read And the valleys will be split, and all
  6. 34:5 DSS read sword will appear
  7. 34:7 Or will go
  8. 34:7 Or will drink its fill of
  9. 34:11 Or Pelicans
  10. 34:11 Or hedgehogs
  11. 34:13 DSS, LXX, Syr, Tg; MT reads jackals, grass
  12. 34:15 Or Arrow snakes, or Owls
  13. 34:16 Some Hb mss; other Hb mss, DSS, Syr, Tg read his
  14. 35:1 Or meadow saffron; traditionally rose
  15. 36:5 Many Hb mss, DSS, 2Kg 18:20; MT reads I
  16. 36:11 Lit Judahite, also in v. 13
  17. 36:16 Lit a blessing

Cross references:

  1. 33:10 : Ps 12:5; Is 2:19,21
  2. 33:11 : Ps 7:14; Is 26:18; 59:4; Jms 1:15
  3. 33:13 : Is 18:2; Eph 2:17
  4. 33:14 : Is 30:27,30; 66:15; Heb 12:29
  5. 33:14 : Is 66:24
  6. 33:15 : Ps 15:2; 24:4; Is 58:6–11
  7. 33:15 : Ps 119:37
  8. 33:17 : Is 6:5; 24:23; 33:21–22; Zch 9:9
  9. 33:17 : Is 54:2–3
  10. 33:19 : Dt 28:49–50; Is 28:11; Jr 5:15
  11. 33:20 : Ps 46:5; 125:1–2; Is 32:18
  12. 33:20 : Is 54:2
  13. 33:21 : Rm 8:31
  14. 33:21 : Is 41:18; 43:19–20; 48:18; 66:12
  15. 33:22 : Is 1:10; 51:4,7; Jms 4:12
  16. 33:22 : 2Sm 22:3; 23:5; 2Kg 19:19,34; Is 25:9; 35:4; 38:20
  17. 33:24 : Is 40:2; 44:22; Jr 50:20; Mc 7:18–19; 1Jn 1:7–9
  18. 33:24 : Is 13:11
  19. 34:1 : Ps 49:1; Is 1:2; 41:1; 43:9; 45:20
  20. 34:1 : Ps 24:1; Is 6:3; 42:5
  21. 34:2 : Is 13:5; Jr 10:10; 50:13
  22. 34:2 : Jos 6:21; 1Sm 15:3; Is 11:5; 24:1,6; 43:28
  23. 34:3 : Is 14:21; 18:6; Ezk 39:17; Jl 2:10; Am 4:10; Rv 19:17–19
  24. 34:3 : Ps 46:2–3
  25. 34:4 : 2Kg 17:16; 21:3,5; 23:4–5
  26. 34:4 : Rv 6:12–14
  27. 34:4 : Ps 102:25–27; Is 13:10; 51:6; Ezk 32:7–8; Jl 3:15; Mt 24:29; Mk 13:24–25; 2Pt 3:10,12
  28. 34:5 : Dt 32:41–43; Jr 46:10; Ezk 21:3–5
  29. 34:5 : Nm 20:14–21; Is 63:1; Jr 49:7–8,20; Ezk 25:12–14; 35:1–15; Jl 3:19; Am 1:11–12; Ob 1–14; Mal 1:4
  30. 34:6 : Is 25:6; 30:32; Jr 46:10; 51:40; Ezk 39:17; Zph 1:7–9
  31. 34:6 : Gn 36:33; Is 63:1; Jr 49:13,22
  32. 34:8 : Is 13:6; 35:4; 47:3; 61:2; 63:4
  33. 34:9 : Gn 19:24; Dt 29:23; Ps 11:6; Is 30:33; Ezk 38:22
  34. 34:10 : Is 1:31; 66:24; Rv 14:11; 19:3
  35. 34:10 : Is 13:20–22; Ezk 29:11; Mal 1:3–4
  36. 34:11 : Is 13:21–22; 14:23; Zph 2:14
  37. 34:11 : Am 7:7–9
  38. 34:11 : 2Kg 21:13; Is 24:10; Lm 2:8
  39. 34:13 : Is 32:13
  40. 34:13 : Ps 44:19; Is 13:22; Jr 9:11; 10:22; Mal 1:3
  41. 34:15 : Dt 14:13
  42. 34:16 : Ps 40:7; 139:16; Is 8:16; 30:8; Dn 7:10; Mal 3:16; Rv 20:12
  43. 34:17 : Nm 24:18
  44. 35:1 : Ps 65:12; Is 6:11; 7:21–25; 27:10; 32:15; 41:18–19; 51:3; 55:12–13
  45. 35:2 : Sg 2:1; 5:15; 7:5; Is 33:9
  46. 35:2 : Ex 16:7,10; Lv 9:6,23; Nm 29:6; Is 40:5; Ezk 1:28; 3:23
  47. 35:2 : Ps 45:3–4; 96:6; 104:1; 145:5,12; Is 2:10,19,21; 53:2; 63:1; Ezk 16:14
  48. 35:3 : Heb 12:12
  49. 35:4 : Is 1:24; 34:8; 47:3; 59:17; 61:2; 63:4
  50. 35:4 : Is 33:22
  51. 35:5 : Is 29:18; 32:3–4; 42:7,16,18; 50:4; Mt 11:5; Lk 7:22; Jn 9:6–7
  52. 35:6 : Zph 3:19; Mt 11:5; 15:30–31; 21:14; Ac 3:1–8; 8:7; 14:8–10
  53. 35:6 : Ex 4:11; Mk 7:32; 9:25
  54. 35:6 : Is 41:18; 43:19; Jn 7:38–39
  55. 35:7 : Is 49:10
  56. 35:7 : Is 13:22; 34:13
  57. 35:8 : Is 40:3; 42:16; 43:16,19; 49:11; 51:10; 57:14; 62:10
  58. 35:8 : Is 4:3; 52:1; Mt 7:13–14; 1Pt 1:15–16
  59. 35:8 : Is 52:1; Rv 21:27
  60. 35:8 : Ps 139:24; Is 2:3; 8:11; 30:21; 42:24; 48:17; 58:13
  61. 35:10 : Is 51:11
  62. 35:10 : Is 65:19; Rm 9:2; Rv 21:4
  63. 36:1–22 : 2Kg 18:13,17–37; 2Ch 32:1–16,18
  64. 36:2 : Jos 15:20,39
  65. 36:2 : Is 7:3
  66. 36:3 : Is 22:15,20–21
  67. 36:5 : 2Kg 18:7
  68. 36:6 : Ezk 29:6–7
  69. 36:6 : Is 30:3–7
  70. 36:7 : Dt 12:2–5; 2Kg 18:4–5
  71. 36:9 : Is 20:5; 30:2–5,7; 31:3
  72. 36:11 : Ezr 4:7; Dn 2:4
  73. 36:14 : Is 37:10
  74. 36:16 : 1Kg 4:25; Mc 4:4; Zch 3:10
  75. 36:18 : Is 37:10
  76. 36:18 : 1Ch 5:25; Is 37:12
  77. 36:19 : Is 10:9–11; 37:11–13; Jr 49:23
  78. 36:19 : 2Kg 17:6
  79. 36:21 : Pr 26:4
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Galatians 5:13-26

13 For you were called(A) to be free, brothers and sisters; only don’t use this freedom as an opportunity[a] for the flesh, but serve one another through love. 14 For the whole law is fulfilled(B) in one statement: Love your neighbor as yourself.[b](C) 15 But if you bite and devour(D) one another, watch out, or you will be consumed by one another.

The Spirit versus the Flesh

16 I say, then, walk by the Spirit(E) and you will certainly not carry out the desire of the flesh. 17 For the flesh desires(F) what is against the Spirit, and the Spirit desires what is against the flesh; these are opposed to each other, so that you don’t do what you want.(G) 18 But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.

19 Now the works of the flesh are obvious:[c] sexual immorality,(H) moral impurity,(I) promiscuity,(J) 20 idolatry,(K) sorcery,(L) hatreds,(M) strife,(N) jealousy,(O) outbursts of anger,(P) selfish ambitions,(Q) dissensions,(R) factions,(S) 21 envy,[d](T) drunkenness, carousing,(U) and anything similar. I am warning you about these things—as I warned you before—that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.(V)

22 But the fruit of the Spirit(W) is love,(X) joy,(Y) peace, patience,(Z) kindness,(AA) goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness,(AB) and self-control.(AC) The law is not against such things.[e] 24 Now those who belong to Christ Jesus(AD) have crucified the flesh(AE) with its passions and desires.(AF) 25 If we live(AG) by the Spirit, let us also keep in step with the Spirit. 26 Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another.(AH)

Footnotes:

  1. 5:13 Lit a pretext; a military term for abuse of position
  2. 5:14 Lv 19:18
  3. 5:19 Other mss add adultery,
  4. 5:21 Other mss add murders,
  5. 5:23 Or Against such things there is no law

Cross references:

  1. 5:13 : Col 3:15
  2. 5:14 : Mt 1:22
  3. 5:14 : Lv 19:18; Mt 7:12; 19:19; 22:37–40; Jn 13:34
  4. 5:15 : Gl 5:20; Php 3:2,20
  5. 5:16 : Rm 8:4; 1Tm 3:16; 2Pt 1:4; 2:10
  6. 5:17 : 1Pt 2:11
  7. 5:17 : Rm 7:15,23; Php 2:13
  8. 5:19 : Mk 7:21; 1Th 4:3
  9. 5:19 : 1Th 4:7
  10. 5:19 : Mk 7:22
  11. 5:20 : Col 3:5; 1Pt 4:3
  12. 5:20 : Rv 18:23
  13. 5:20 : Rm 8:7
  14. 5:20 : Ti 3:9
  15. 5:20 : Jms 3:4
  16. 5:20 : Rv 14:19
  17. 5:20 : Rm 2:8
  18. 5:20 : Rm 16:17
  19. 5:20 : 2Pt 2:1
  20. 5:21 : Rm 1:29
  21. 5:21 : Rm 13:13; 1Pt 4:3
  22. 5:21 : 1Co 6:10; 15:50
  23. 5:22 : Mt 7:16–20; Rm 6:21; 7:4; 8:5; Eph 5:9
  24. 5:22 : 1Co 13:1; Phm 5
  25. 5:22 : Jn 15:11; 2Co 6:10
  26. 5:22 : Ex 34:6; 2Tm 3:10
  27. 5:22 : Ps 25:6; 2Co 6:6
  28. 5:23 : Jms 3:13
  29. 5:23 : 2Pt 1:6
  30. 5:24 : Nm 3:12
  31. 5:24 : Rm 8:12
  32. 5:24 : 2Pt 1:4; 2:10
  33. 5:25 : Php 1:21; 3:16
  34. 5:26 : Php 2:3
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Psalm 64

Psalm 64

Protection from Evildoers

For the choir director. A psalm of David.

1 God, hear my voice when I am in anguish.(A)
Protect my life from the terror of the enemy.(B)
2 Hide me from the scheming of wicked people,(C)
from the mob of evildoers,(D)
3 who sharpen their tongues like swords
and aim bitter words like arrows,(E)
4 shooting from concealed places at the blameless.
They shoot at him suddenly and are not afraid.(F)
5 They adopt[a] an evil plan;
they talk about hiding traps and say,
“Who will see them?” [b](G)
6 They devise crimes and say,
“We have perfected a secret plan.”(H)
The inner man and the heart are mysterious.(I)

7 But God will shoot them with arrows;
suddenly, they will be wounded.(J)
8 They will be made to stumble;
their own tongues work against them.
All who see them will shake their heads.(K)
9 Then everyone will fear
and will tell about God’s work,
for they will understand what he has done.(L)

10 The righteous one rejoices in the Lord
and takes refuge in him;
all those who are upright in heart
will offer praise.(M)

Footnotes:

  1. 64:5 Or They strengthen themselves with
  2. 64:5 Or it

Cross references:

  1. 64:1 : Ps 55:2
  2. 64:1 : Ps 140:1
  3. 64:2 : Ps 35:20; 37:12
  4. 64:2 : Ps 22:16; 26:5
  5. 64:3 : Ps 52:2; 57:4; Pr 25:18
  6. 64:4 : Ps 10:8; 11:2
  7. 64:5 : Ps 35:7; 140:5; 141:9; Is 29:15
  8. 64:6 : Ps 21:11; 83:3
  9. 64:6 : Ps 94:11; Pr 20:5; Jr 17:9–10
  10. 64:7 : Ps 7:13; 45:5; 144:6
  11. 64:8 : Jr 18:16; 48:27; Lm 2:15
  12. 64:9 : Ps 40:3
  13. 64:10 : Ps 32:11; 68:3; 97:11–12
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Proverbs 23:23

23 Buy—and do not sell—truth,
wisdom, instruction, and understanding.(A)

Cross references:

  1. 23:23 : Pr 4:5,7; 16:16; 18:15; Mt 13:44
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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’m Brian it’s wonderful to be here with you today as we find our places around the Global Campfire together and relax for a few minutes, just tune our attention to the Scriptures allow them to speak to us and then move back into our day. And, so, it’s wonderful that we have this little place every day. And I am profoundly grateful to be here with you today for the next step forward. And that next step leads us back into the book of Isaiah…Isaiah…to Isaiah, and that today we’ll read chapters chapter…maybe I should just start this whole thing over. Maybe I’m gonna make all kinds of mistakes in the reading today. I don’t know. Seems like my tongue is tied. Isaiah chapter 30 verse 12 through 33 verse 9 today. Maybe I just need to slow down and pay attention to what I’m saying. So, here we go. Isaiah.

Commentary:

Okay. Let’s think about it for a second. Would you prefer to walk a path that leads to quiet confidence and strength, or would you prefer to be running and chased and hunted down? Because that is the crossroads sort of the paths that we are presented in the book of Isaiah today. And again, we’re moving through a prophetic book, the book of Isaiah. And many scholars believe there are multiple voices in the book of Isaiah, and that this is a collection. Other people think it’s, you know, from one person named Isaiah. Nevertheless, it’s not linear narrative form its utterances spoken on behalf of God at different times through this time period. And, so, without really exhaustively going into it and really connecting the time period to this particular Oracle from God, etc. etc. it’s really easy for us to get lost just trying to read it in a narrative form because it feels like it’s jumping all over the place because it is. And even though it is jumping all over the place there’s still an arc. There’s this kind of woe and doom and then the ark shifts to hope, and restoration and we got to experience some of that shift today. And, so, in Isaiah we read, “you will be delivered by returning and resting. Your strength will lie in quiet confidence.” So, that is a path we can walk and choose, but there is an alternative path to that. And we continue on in Isaiah. “You say no. We will escape on horses, we will ride on fast horses, but those who pursue you will be faster.” So, we have two paths here. If we want to walk the path of quiet strength then we are told, basically look return to God, calm down from being overwhelmed and find rest and in that rest we will find our strength. That sounds awesome. That sounds like the life we are wanting to live. And here’s the recipe. Calm down, return to God, find rest, and in that rest find your strength. The other chaotic path that is put before us today leaves us running and running and running while we’re being chased down by something that is faster than we are. That may sound awfully familiar. That’s how it feels a lot of the time. We’re running and running to outpace whatever is going to catch up to us, but it's…it’s gaining. If we want to stay on that path we’re allowed to stay on that path and we’re allowed to feel overwhelmed as if we’re doing nothing but falling further and further behind. In fact, Isaiah describes that feeling. “1000 will flee at the threat of one. At the threat of five you will flee until you remain like a solitary pole on a mountaintop or a banner on a hill.” That’s a lonely picture. Up on arise there’s a flagpole stuck in the ground with a torn banner waving in the wind. The only evidence of anyone ever being there. Solitary. Alone. That’s where the path leads when we try to do things in our own strength by our own effort. This is where the road leads; however, we’re also given a vivid picture of what it might look like to be on the path that seeks quiet confidence and strength in God. And I quote from Isaiah. “And whenever you turn to the right or to the left your ears will hear this command behind you, this is the way, walk in it. Then you will defile your silver-plated idols in your gold-plated images. You will throw them away like menstrual cloths and call them filth”, right? So, it’s like our eyes open up, and we realize that we have been chasing after idols. We have put our trust and faith in ourselves and in things that we believe will either bring us life or security only to find out that we’re just running and running and running trying to accomplish security and arrange for life and its fleeting and we end up feeling like we’re running as fast as we can, and everything is catching up with us. Isaiah’s says when we look at that scenario, and our eyes are opened to the alternative path of quiet strength our eyes will be opened and we will see things for what they are and will consider our own way of doing things, like used menstrual objects. The apostle Paul uses the same kind of analogy of his awakening and that all of the effort that he had put into his religious upbringing he considered as filthy rags as well. So, we’ve been given two different pictures of two different paths. Which path do we want to walk? Are we on the path that we want to walk? And assuming that we would like to walk the path of quiet strength and confidence, if we’re not on that path, then we need to return to God and calm down. Some things to give attention to today as we move through.

Prayer:

Father, we invite You into that. What path in these examples today from Isaiah, what are…what path are we walking on? Where is this road going? Is…are we on the path that leads us to quiet confidence and strength or are we on the path that leads us to a lonely flagpole all by itself on a forgotten Hill. Holy Spirit reveal this to us and show us the way that we should go. And as the book of Isaiah says, may we hear You behind us saying, “this is the way walk in it.” And may we obey You, we pray in the name of Jesus. Amen.

Announcements:

dailyaudiobible.com is a home base, it’s the website, it’s where you find out what’s going on around here. So, certainly check it out.

Check out the different sections like the Community section. This is where you can get connected on social media, different links of the social media channels that we participate in are, but it is also the home of the Prayer Wall which is one of the most beautiful things. That’s just a resource that is there and it’s always there and always available. And, so, there’s never a time then, there’s never a time that we can’t reach out for prayer. There’s never a time that we can’t reach out and share what’s going on. But that also means there’s never a time that we can’t go and pray. So, like sleepless nights, early mornings, lunch breaks, the times that we’re feeling really really low, and we need to turn our focus and our attention outward and on to somebody else instead of like kind of swirling in the…the vortex that is our problems…are our problems. It helps to turn outward. It helps to understand that everybody’s going through something and sometimes we can’t go through it alone and sometimes we need each other to kind of lift one another up, carry each other for the little space in front of us and help…help each other get down the road together. That’s the Prayer Wall, praying for each other and letting each other know that were praying. And, so, certainly check that out. That’s in the Community section at dailyaudiobible.com. It’s in the Community section in the Daily Audio Bible app as well. Just push the Drawer icon in the upper left-hand corner of the app and that’ll open it up and you’ll see Community and you’ll find Prayer Wall in there. So, check that out.

If you want to partner with the Daily Audio Bible, thank you. Thank you for your partnership. We wouldn’t be here if we weren’t in this together. So, thank you. 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 PO Box 1996 Spring Hill Tennessee 37174.

And, as always, if you have a prayer request or encouragement, you can hit the Hotline button in the app no matter where 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 I love you and I’ll be waiting for you here tomorrow.

Community Prayer and Praise:

Hi Daily Audio Bible family I just want to get on here and say I really just need some prayers. Pray for C. My husband has cheated on me and abused me to where I think that it’s normal. Like my brain is thinking that it’s normal and I keep going back to him. I fear that I’m stuck in a spiritual bondage with him, and I just need Jesus to set me free. I just…he has cheated on me and hurt me in ways that I can’t describe and I just…I really need God to help me financially and I don’t know what my future holds ahead of…but I just need to get out of this this…this…this marriage where it’s just hurting me so bad inside. Also, I pray for my children. Please because they need me and I’m going through a court battle and there are some people that are not nice and I’m also praying for them so that I may be able to spend more time with my children. Please and thank you.

Hey DAB fam, Chris in the Bay Area here just wanted to lift up the NICU nurse and the abandoned baby girl. Dear father we lift up this family, this family that loves you very much, this…this family that desires to honor you Jesus. We just lift up this process of them adopting this…this baby girl. We just ask that all…that You would banish all forces of darkness working against this girl, that your favor would be bestowed on them, that they would just…everything would just work out where they could adopt this girl Jesus. We thank you for being able to petition this in your name. In your precious name Jesus Christ we pray. Amen.

Good morning DAB family this is Zach from Phoenix reaching out today to ask you to pray for me. I’ve been feeling overwhelmed and beat down and hopeless and helpless these past few months. I’m going to ask you to pray for a situation with my mom. She’s not doing well physically, mentally and it’s requiring me and my brother and family to make some hard decisions and we know that she’s not going to be open or she’s not…she may fight what is best for her. So please pray that He can give me wisdom and guidance on how to address the situation with my mom this next week. Also just pray for me because I feel lonely and just broken hearted over my life situations, over being alone. And, so, I would also ask you to pray for that because I feel like…well I know the truth…I feel like the father who comes to Jesus and says Lord I believe but help me with my unbelief. And that’s where I’m living right now because I know the truth, but I don’t believe the truth. So, I ask that you would ask God to encourage me and to walk alongside me and to give me the faith that is needed to trust Him in these circumstances and situations. Have a good day. Bye.

Hello DAB family this is Brian and Chris from __ Pennsylvania. I’d like to lift up my brother in the Lord Scott who’s having surgery tomorrow and for his family and for his wife Kathy as they have many decisions to make regarding property. I also would like to pray for my son Jarod as he is trying to fix up a house, a second apartment to rent out and it’s just getting to be crunch time. Also lift up my lovely wife Kris who is almost totally recovered from COVID. And if you keep me in your prayers, please. I am struggling with breathing four weeks after contacting COVID and it’s not getting any easier, but I am back to work. I’m still testing positive but one day at a time as my lovely wife would say. Thank you, Brian and your family this is my first time I’ve called in. I do pray often for people that have left prayers and I just want to thank God for this wonderful ministry. Blessings to all.

Hey there DAB family I’ve been listening for a long time this is Holly Hot Mess from Washington. Paul your prayer for anxiety, people that struggle with anxiety, I felt like you were calling out to me. Today was really hard. I just had such a hard time getting my mind so stop racing and to calm down and to not be so nervous and upset for multiple different reasons. I’m almost 30, I work full time, I am in ministry beside my business and dealing with conflicts and I have my own health and my husband’s health and this weight, and I felt like I was gonna break, snap and this is not the first time I deal with heavy anxiety and panic. So, Paul thank you. So thankful the Lord put that in front of me. I needed that. So, shout out today and I was reading Psalm 91 and I just really felt His peace and I’m just so thankful. And just lifting up all those that deal with anxiety. You’re not alone. And you can get through this, and you’ve got a big guard with big shoulders. Thank you this is Holly Hot Mess from Washington. Love you guys.

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09/19/2022 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’m Brian it’s wonderful to be here with you today as we find our places around the Global Campfire together and relax for a few minutes, just tune our attention to the Scriptures allow them to speak to us and then move back into our day. And, so, it’s wonderful that we have this little place every day. And I am profoundly grateful to be here with you today for the next step forward. And that next step leads us back into the book of Isaiah…Isaiah…to Isaiah, and that today we’ll read chapters chapter…maybe I should just start this whole thing over. Maybe I’m gonna make all kinds of mistakes in the reading today. I don’t know. Seems like my tongue is tied. Isaiah chapter 30 verse 12 through 33 verse 9 today. Maybe I just need to slow down and pay attention to what I’m saying. So, here we go. Isaiah.

Commentary:

Okay. Let’s think about it for a second. Would you prefer to walk a path that leads to quiet confidence and strength, or would you prefer to be running and chased and hunted down? Because that is the crossroads sort of the paths that we are presented in the book of Isaiah today. And again, we’re moving through a prophetic book, the book of Isaiah. And many scholars believe there are multiple voices in the book of Isaiah, and that this is a collection. Other people think it’s, you know, from one person named Isaiah. Nevertheless, it’s not linear narrative form its utterances spoken on behalf of God at different times through this time period. And, so, without really exhaustively going into it and really connecting the time period to this particular Oracle from God, etc. etc. it’s really easy for us to get lost just trying to read it in a narrative form because it feels like it’s jumping all over the place because it is. And even though it is jumping all over the place there’s still an arc. There’s this kind of woe and doom and then the ark shifts to hope, and restoration and we got to experience some of that shift today. And, so, in Isaiah we read, “you will be delivered by returning and resting. Your strength will lie in quiet confidence.” So, that is a path we can walk and choose, but there is an alternative path to that. And we continue on in Isaiah. “You say no. We will escape on horses, we will ride on fast horses, but those who pursue you will be faster.” So, we have two paths here. If we want to walk the path of quiet strength then we are told, basically look return to God, calm down from being overwhelmed and find rest and in that rest we will find our strength. That sounds awesome. That sounds like the life we are wanting to live. And here’s the recipe. Calm down, return to God, find rest, and in that rest find your strength. The other chaotic path that is put before us today leaves us running and running and running while we’re being chased down by something that is faster than we are. That may sound awfully familiar. That’s how it feels a lot of the time. We’re running and running to outpace whatever is going to catch up to us, but it's…it’s gaining. If we want to stay on that path we’re allowed to stay on that path and we’re allowed to feel overwhelmed as if we’re doing nothing but falling further and further behind. In fact, Isaiah describes that feeling. “1000 will flee at the threat of one. At the threat of five you will flee until you remain like a solitary pole on a mountaintop or a banner on a hill.” That’s a lonely picture. Up on arise there’s a flagpole stuck in the ground with a torn banner waving in the wind. The only evidence of anyone ever being there. Solitary. Alone. That’s where the path leads when we try to do things in our own strength by our own effort. This is where the road leads; however, we’re also given a vivid picture of what it might look like to be on the path that seeks quiet confidence and strength in God. And I quote from Isaiah. “And whenever you turn to the right or to the left your ears will hear this command behind you, this is the way, walk in it. Then you will defile your silver-plated idols in your gold-plated images. You will throw them away like menstrual cloths and call them filth”, right? So, it’s like our eyes open up, and we realize that we have been chasing after idols. We have put our trust and faith in ourselves and in things that we believe will either bring us life or security only to find out that we’re just running and running and running trying to accomplish security and arrange for life and its fleeting and we end up feeling like we’re running as fast as we can, and everything is catching up with us. Isaiah’s says when we look at that scenario, and our eyes are opened to the alternative path of quiet strength our eyes will be opened and we will see things for what they are and will consider our own way of doing things, like used menstrual objects. The apostle Paul uses the same kind of analogy of his awakening and that all of the effort that he had put into his religious upbringing he considered as filthy rags as well. So, we’ve been given two different pictures of two different paths. Which path do we want to walk? Are we on the path that we want to walk? And assuming that we would like to walk the path of quiet strength and confidence, if we’re not on that path, then we need to return to God and calm down. Some things to give attention to today as we move through.

Prayer:

Father, we invite You into that. What path in these examples today from Isaiah, what are…what path are we walking on? Where is this road going? Is…are we on the path that leads us to quiet confidence and strength or are we on the path that leads us to a lonely flagpole all by itself on a forgotten Hill. Holy Spirit reveal this to us and show us the way that we should go. And as the book of Isaiah says, may we hear You behind us saying, “this is the way walk in it.” And may we obey You, we pray in the name of Jesus. Amen.

Announcements:

dailyaudiobible.com is a home base, it’s the website, it’s where you find out what’s going on around here. So, certainly check it out.

Check out the different sections like the Community section. This is where you can get connected on social media, different links of the social media channels that we participate in are, but it is also the home of the Prayer Wall which is one of the most beautiful things. That’s just a resource that is there and it’s always there and always available. And, so, there’s never a time then, there’s never a time that we can’t reach out for prayer. There’s never a time that we can’t reach out and share what’s going on. But that also means there’s never a time that we can’t go and pray. So, like sleepless nights, early mornings, lunch breaks, the times that we’re feeling really really low, and we need to turn our focus and our attention outward and on to somebody else instead of like kind of swirling in the…the vortex that is our problems…are our problems. It helps to turn outward. It helps to understand that everybody’s going through something and sometimes we can’t go through it alone and sometimes we need each other to kind of lift one another up, carry each other for the little space in front of us and help…help each other get down the road together. That’s the Prayer Wall, praying for each other and letting each other know that were praying. And, so, certainly check that out. That’s in the Community section at dailyaudiobible.com. It’s in the Community section in the Daily Audio Bible app as well. Just push the Drawer icon in the upper left-hand corner of the app and that’ll open it up and you’ll see Community and you’ll find Prayer Wall in there. So, check that out.

If you want to partner with the Daily Audio Bible, thank you. Thank you for your partnership. We wouldn’t be here if we weren’t in this together. So, thank you. 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 PO Box 1996 Spring Hill Tennessee 37174.

And, as always, if you have a prayer request or encouragement, you can hit the Hotline button in the app no matter where 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 I love you and I’ll be waiting for you here tomorrow.

Community Prayer and Praise:

Love you DAB family, traveling and on the road. I’ll post community prayer and praise later today when I’m settled in…