Month: September 2022

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The Daily Audio Bible Reading for Monday September 19, 2022 (NIV)

Isaiah 30:12-33:9

12 Therefore the Holy One of Israel says:
“Because you have rejected this message
and have trusted in oppression and deceit,
and have depended on them,
13 this iniquity(A) of yours will be
like a crumbling gap,
a bulge in a high wall
whose collapse will come in an instant—suddenly!
14 Its collapse will be like the shattering
of a potter’s jar,(B) crushed to pieces,
so that not even a fragment of pottery
will be found among its shattered remains—
no fragment large enough to take fire from a hearth
or scoop water from a cistern.”
15 For the Lord God, the Holy One of Israel, has said:
“You will be delivered by returning and resting;
your strength will lie in quiet confidence.
But you are not willing.”
16 You say, “No!
We will escape on horses”—
therefore you will escape!—
and, “We will ride on fast horses”—
but those who pursue you will be faster.(C)
17 One thousand will flee at the threat of one,(D)
at the threat of five you will flee,
until you remain
like a solitary pole on a mountaintop
or a banner on a hill.

The Lord’s Mercy to Israel

18 Therefore the Lord is waiting to show you mercy,
and is rising up to show you compassion,(E)
for the Lord is a just God.
All who wait patiently for him are happy.

19 For people will live on Zion in Jerusalem. You will never weep again; he will show favor to you at the sound of your outcry; as soon as he hears, he will answer you. 20 The Lord will give you meager bread and water during oppression,(F) but your Teacher[a] will not hide any longer. Your eyes will see your Teacher, 21 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.”(G) 22 Then you will defile your silver-plated idols and your gold-plated images. You will throw them away like menstrual cloths, and call them filth.

23 Then he will send rain for your seed that you have sown in the ground, and the food, the produce of the ground, will be rich and plentiful. On that day your cattle will graze in open pastures.(H) 24 The oxen and donkeys that work the ground will eat salted fodder scattered with winnowing shovel(I) and fork. 25 Streams flowing with water will be on every high mountain and every raised hill on the day of great slaughter when the towers fall. 26 The moonlight will be as bright as the sunlight, and the sunlight will be seven times brighter(J)—like the light of seven days—on the day(K) that the Lord bandages his people’s injuries and heals the wounds he inflicted.(L)

Annihilation of the Assyrians

27 Look! The name of the Lord is coming from far away,
his anger burning and heavy with smoke.[b]
His lips are full of fury,
and his tongue is like a consuming fire.
28 His breath is like an overflowing torrent(M)
that rises to the neck.(N)
He comes to sift the nations in a sieve of destruction
and to put a bridle on the jaws of the peoples
to lead them astray.(O)
29 Your singing will be like that
on the night of a holy festival,
and your heart will rejoice
like one who walks to the music of a flute,
going up to the mountain of the Lord,
to the Rock of Israel.(P)
30 And the Lord will make the splendor of his voice heard
and reveal his arm(Q) striking in angry wrath
and a flame of consuming fire,
in driving rain, a torrent, and hailstones.
31 Assyria will be shattered by the voice of the Lord.
He will strike with a rod.
32 And every stroke of the appointed[c] staff
that the Lord brings down on him
will be to the sound of tambourines and lyres;
he will fight against him with brandished weapons.
33 Indeed! Topheth has been ready(R)
for the king for a long time.
Its funeral pyre is deep and wide,
with plenty of fire and wood.
The breath of the Lord,(S) like a torrent of burning sulfur,
kindles it.

The Lord, the Only Help

31 Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help(T)
and who depend on horses!
They trust in the abundance of chariots
and in the large number of horsemen.(U)
They do not look(V) to the Holy One of Israel,
and they do not seek the Lord.
2 But he also is wise and brings disaster.(W)
He does not go back on what he says;(X)
he will rise up against the house of the wicked
and against the allies of evildoers.
3 Egyptians are men, not God;
their horses are flesh, not spirit.
When the Lord raises his hand to strike,
the helper will stumble
and the one who is helped will fall;
both will perish together.

4 For this is what the Lord said to me:

As a lion or young lion growls over its prey(Y)
when a band of shepherds is called out against it,
and it is not terrified by their shouting
or subdued by their noise,
so the Lord of Armies will come down
to fight on Mount Zion
and on its hill.(Z)

5 Like hovering birds,
so the Lord of Armies will protect Jerusalem;(AA)
by protecting it, he will rescue it;
by passing over it, he will deliver it.

6 Return to the one the Israelites have greatly rebelled against.(AB) 7 For on that day, every one of you will reject the worthless idols of silver and gold that your own hands have sinfully made.(AC)

8 Then Assyria will fall,
but not by human sword;
a sword will devour him,
but not one made by man.(AD)
He will flee from the sword;
his young men will be put to forced labor.(AE)

9 His rock[d] will pass away because of fear,(AF)
and his officers will be afraid because of the signal flag.(AG)

This is the Lord’s declaration—whose fire is in Zion and whose furnace is in Jerusalem.(AH)

The Righteous Kingdom Announced

32 Indeed, a king will reign righteously,
and rulers will rule justly.(AI)

2 Each will be like a shelter from the wind,
a refuge from the rain,(AJ)
like flowing streams(AK) in a dry land
and the shade of a massive rock in an arid land.
3 Then the eyes of those who see will not be closed,
and the ears of those who hear will listen.(AL)
4 The reckless mind will gain knowledge,
and the stammering tongue(AM) will speak clearly and fluently.
5 A fool will no longer be called a noble,(AN)
nor a scoundrel said to be important.
6 For a fool speaks foolishness
and his mind plots iniquity.
He lives in a godless way
and speaks falsely about the Lord.
He leaves the hungry empty
and deprives the thirsty of drink.(AO)

7 The scoundrel’s weapons are destructive;
he hatches plots to destroy the needy with lies,
even when the poor person says what is right.
8 But a noble person plans noble things;
he stands up for noble causes.
9 Stand up, you complacent women;(AP)
listen to me.
Pay attention to what I say,
you overconfident daughters.
10 In a little more than a year
you overconfident ones will shudder,
for the grapes will fail
and the harvest will not come.
11 Shudder, you complacent ones;
tremble, you overconfident ones!
Strip yourselves bare(AQ)
and put sackcloth around your waists.
12 Beat your breasts in mourning(AR)
for the delightful fields and the fruitful vines,(AS)
13 for the ground of my people
growing thorns and briers,(AT)
indeed, for every joyous house in the jubilant city.

14 For the palace will be deserted,
the busy city abandoned.
The hill and the watchtower will become
barren places forever,
the joy of wild donkeys,
and a pasture for flocks,
15 until the Spirit[e] from on high is poured out on us.(AU)
Then the desert will become an orchard,
and the orchard will seem like a forest.(AV)
16 Then justice will inhabit the wilderness,
and righteousness will dwell in the orchard.

17 The result of righteousness will be peace;(AW)
the effect of righteousness
will be quiet confidence forever.
18 Then my people will dwell in a peaceful place,
in safe and secure dwellings.
19 But hail will level the forest,[f](AX)
and the city will sink into the depths.(AY)
20 You will be happy as you sow seed
beside abundant water,(AZ)
and as you let oxen and donkeys range freely.(BA)

The Lord Rises Up

33 Woe, you destroyer never destroyed,
you traitor never betrayed!
When you have finished destroying,
you will be destroyed.
When you have finished betraying,
they will betray you.(BB)
2 Lord, be gracious to us! We wait for you.(BC)
Be our strength every morning
and our salvation in time of trouble.(BD)
3 The peoples flee at the thunderous noise;(BE)
the nations scatter when you rise in your majesty.
4 Your spoil will be gathered as locusts are gathered;
people will swarm over it like an infestation of locusts.
5 The Lord is exalted, for he dwells on high;
he has filled Zion with justice and righteousness.
6 There will be times of security for you—
a storehouse of salvation, wisdom, and knowledge.
The fear of the Lord is Zion’s treasure.(BF)
7 Listen! Their warriors cry loudly in the streets;
the messengers of peace weep bitterly.(BG)

8 The highways are deserted;
travel has ceased.
An agreement has been broken,(BH)
cities[g] despised,
and human life disregarded.
9 The land mourns and withers;(BI)
Lebanon is ashamed and wilted.
Sharon is like a desert;
Bashan and Carmel shake off their leaves.

Footnotes:

  1. 30:20 Or teachers
  2. 30:27 Hb obscure
  3. 30:32 Some Hb mss read punishing
  4. 31:9 Perhaps the Assyrian king
  5. 32:15 Or a wind
  6. 32:19 Hb obscure
  7. 33:8 DSS read witnesses

Cross references:

  1. 30:13 : Is 13:11
  2. 30:14 : Ps 2:9; Jr 19:10–11
  3. 30:16 : Is 31:1,3
  4. 30:17 : Lv 26:36; Dt 28:25; 32:30; Jos 23:10; Pr 28:1
  5. 30:18 : 2Pt 3:9
  6. 30:20 : 1Kg 22:27; Ps 80:5
  7. 30:21 : Is 35:8–9
  8. 30:23 : Ps 144:13; Is 32:20; Hs 4:16
  9. 30:24 : Mt 3:12
  10. 30:26 : Is 24:23; 60:19–20; Rv 21:23; 22:5
  11. 30:26 : Mt 25:13
  12. 30:26 : Is 33:24; Jr 33:6; Hs 6:1–2
  13. 30:28 : Is 11:4; 30:33; 2Th 2:8
  14. 30:28 : Is 8:8
  15. 30:28 : 2Kg 19:28; Is 37:29
  16. 30:29 : Is 8:14; 26:4
  17. 30:30 : Ex 6:6; Dt 4:34; Jb 40:9; Is 53:1; Jr 32:17; Ezk 20:33
  18. 30:33 : 2Kg 23:10; Jr 7:31; 19:6
  19. 30:33 : Is 40:7
  20. 31:1 : Is 30:2,7; 36:6
  21. 31:1 : Dt 17:16; Ps 20:7; 33:17; Is 2:7; 30:16; 36:9
  22. 31:1 : Is 9:13; 17:7–8; Dn 9:13; Am 5:4–8
  23. 31:2 : Is 45:7
  24. 31:2 : Nm 23:19; Is 22:14; Jr 44:29
  25. 31:4 : Nm 24:9; Hs 11:10; Am 3:8
  26. 31:4 : Is 42:13; Zch 12:8
  27. 31:5 : Dt 32:11; Ps 91:4
  28. 31:6 : Is 1:5; 59:13
  29. 31:7 : Is 2:20; 30:22
  30. 31:8 : Is 37:7,36–38
  31. 31:8 : Gn 49:15; Is 14:2
  32. 31:9 : Dt 32:31,37
  33. 31:9 : Is 5:26; 13:2; Jr 4:6,21; 51:12,27
  34. 31:9 : Lv 10:2; Is 10:17; 30:33
  35. 32:1 : Ps 72:1–4; Is 9:6–7; 11:4–5; Jr 23:5; Zch 9:9; 14:9
  36. 32:2 : Is 4:6; 25:4
  37. 32:2 : Is 30:25
  38. 32:3 : Is 6:10; 29:18
  39. 32:4 : Is 33:19
  40. 32:5 : Ps 107:40; 118:9; 146:3
  41. 32:6 : Is 3:15; 10:2
  42. 32:9 : Is 47:8; Am 6:1; Zph 2:15
  43. 32:11 : Is 47:2–3
  44. 32:12 : Nah 2:7
  45. 32:12 : Mk 14:25
  46. 32:13 : Is 5:6; 7:23–25; 9:18; 27:4
  47. 32:15 : Is 11:2; 44:3; 59:21; Ezk 39:29; Jl 2:28
  48. 32:15 : Is 29:17; 35:1–2
  49. 32:17 : Ps 72:2–3; 85:8; 119:165; Is 2:4; Rm 14:17; Jms 3:18
  50. 32:19 : Is 28:2,17; 30:30
  51. 32:19 : Is 24:10,12; 26:5; 27:10; 29:4
  52. 32:20 : Nm 24:7; Ec 11:1; Is 30:23–24
  53. 32:20 : Is 30:24
  54. 33:1 : 2Kg 18:14–36; Is 17:14; 21:2
  55. 33:2 : Is 25:9; 26:8
  56. 33:2 : Ex 15:2; Ps 28:8; Is 12:2; 17:10; 51:5
  57. 33:3 : Is 17:13; 21:15
  58. 33:6 : Is 11:2–3; Ac 9:31
  59. 33:7 : 2Kg 18:18,37; Is 36:3,22
  60. 33:8 : 2Kg 18:14–17; Is 24:5
  61. 33:9 : Is 3:26; 24:4; 29:2
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Galatians 5:1-12

Freedom of the Christian

5 For freedom, Christ set us free. Stand firm,(A) then, and don’t submit again to a yoke of slavery.(B) 2 Take note! I, Paul, am telling you that if you get yourselves circumcised, Christ will not benefit you at all. 3 Again I testify to every man who gets himself circumcised that he is obligated to do the entire law. 4 You who are trying to be justified by the law are alienated from Christ; you have fallen from grace.(C) 5 For we eagerly await(D) through the Spirit, by faith, the hope(E) of righteousness. 6 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision accomplishes anything; what matters is faith(F) working through love.(G)

7 You were running well. Who prevented you from being persuaded regarding the truth?[a](H) 8 This persuasion does not come from the one who calls you.(I) 9 A little leaven[b] leavens the whole batch of dough. 10 I myself am persuaded in the Lord you will not accept any other view. But whoever it is that is confusing you will pay the penalty.(J) 11 Now brothers and sisters, if I still preach circumcision, why am I still persecuted? In that case the offense of the cross(K) has been abolished. 12 I wish those who are disturbing you might also let themselves be mutilated!

Footnotes:

  1. 5:7 Or obeying the truth
  2. 5:9 Or yeast

Cross references:

  1. 5:1 : Rm 14:4; Php 1:27
  2. 5:1 : Gl 4:22
  3. 5:4 : 2Pt 3:18
  4. 5:5 : Jd 21
  5. 5:5 : Rm 8:23–25; 1Th 1:3
  6. 5:6 : 1Th 1:3
  7. 5:6 : 1Co 13:1; Jms 2:18–22
  8. 5:7 : Jn 8:14; 1Jn 5:20
  9. 5:8 : Col 3:15; 1Pt 1:15
  10. 5:10 : Mk 12:40
  11. 5:11 : Lk 9:23
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Psalm 63

Psalm 63

Praise God Who Satisfies

A psalm of David. When he was in the Wilderness of Judah.(A)

1 God, you are my God; I eagerly seek you.
I thirst for you;
my body faints for you
in a land that is dry, desolate, and without water.(B)
2 So I gaze on you in the sanctuary
to see your strength and your glory.(C)

3 My lips will glorify you
because your faithful love is better than life.(D)
4 So I will bless you as long as I live;
at your name, I will lift up my hands.(E)
5 You satisfy me as with rich food;[a](F)
my mouth will praise you with joyful lips.(G)

6 When I think of you as I lie on my bed,
I meditate on you during the night watches(H)
7 because you are my helper;(I)
I will rejoice in the shadow of your wings.(J)
8 I follow close to you;
your right hand holds on to me.(K)

9 But those who intend to destroy my life
will go into the depths of the earth.(L)
10 They will be given over to the power of the sword;(M)
they will become a meal for jackals.
11 But the king will rejoice in God;(N)
all who swear by him will boast,
for the mouths of liars will be shut.(O)

Footnotes:

  1. 63:5 Lit with fat and fatness

Cross references:

  1. 63:0 : 2Sm 16:14; 17:2,29
  2. 63:1 : Ps 42:2; Is 26:9
  3. 63:2 : Jb 19:26–27; Ps 17:15; 27:4
  4. 63:3 : Ps 69:16
  5. 63:4 : Ps 28:2; 143:6; Lm 3:41
  6. 63:5 : Ps 36:8
  7. 63:5 : Ps 71:23
  8. 63:6 : Ps 77:6; 119:148
  9. 63:7 : Ps 27:9; 40:17
  10. 63:7 : Ps 17:8; 36:7; 57:1
  11. 63:8 : Ps 18:35
  12. 63:9 : Ps 55:15; Ezk 26:20; 31:14–18
  13. 63:10 : Jr 18:21; Ezk 35:5
  14. 63:11 : Ps 21:1
  15. 63:11 : Ps 107:42; Rm 3:19
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Proverbs 23:22

22 Listen to your father who gave you life,
and don’t despise your mother when[a] she is old.(A)

Footnotes:

  1. 23:22 Or because

Cross references:

  1. 23:22 : Pr 1:8; 15:20; Eph 6:1
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9/18/2022 DAB Transcript

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

Today is the 18th day of September, welcome to the Daily Audio Bible. I am Brian, it is wonderful to be here with you today, as we gather around the Global Campfire and greet a brand-new, shiny, sparkly week together. And I guess, probably 50/52 times, I recognize that we get to a new week and remind us, it’s out in front of us. This is that reset, it’s out in front of us. Many things may carry over from the previous week but how we deal with them in this week, is up to us. We get to make all the choices, we get to say all the words, we get to think all the thoughts. Thankfully we have the Scriptures here each and every day around this Global Campfire to inform those things and to lead and guide and direct and transform and shape us. So, brand-new week, throwing open the door, walking through it together and diving in. This week, we will read from the Christian Standard Bible. And picking up where we left off yesterday, will lead us back into the book of Isaiah, today, chapter 28 verse 14 through 30 verse 11.

Prayer:

Thank You, Father, for the Scriptures. Thank You, Father, for each other. Thank You, Lord, for allowing the Scriptures to wash over each and every one of us, into our stories, into our lives, into our plans. We are deeply grateful. Thank You for bringing us into this brand-new, shiny week. Father, we consecrate this week to You, we are here to be a living sacrifices available to You. So often, we are inviting You into our story and our agenda, asking You to make things happen for us that we are planning and we rarely come to You and say, what is Your plan for me for the day. May we live this week available to You. What is your plan for us this week? Rather than, what is our plan for You this week. Help us make that shift of orientation, which changes everything. We pray in the name of Jesus. Amen.

Prayer and Encouragements:

Lisa the Encourager, this is God’s Life Speaker. You are an encourager and, there were so many times I wanted to call in and just ask how you were but I didn’t want to hear the news that you gave us. I’m sure there were others like me that just recognized the void of your voice, but knew why you weren’t on this podcast and what a gift God gave you to be there, with your mom during this past time of her last days and to be there when she finally was in the arms of Jesus. So, thank you for encouraging us with hearing that your mom is now in the presence of Jesus. And thought that is wonderful for her, it kind of is wonderful for us to know but we just are such greedy people. We want our loved ones here with us. So, Lord, would You just be the encourager to our Encourager, Lisa. Lift her up, may her eyes look up to the mountains where her help can come from me. May she just praise You and recognize that when she is praising You and singing and worshiping You, that she’s right there with her mom, who gets to do it all the time. That we get to enter into that time of worship with those who are doing it full-time. So, Lord just surround her with other strong believers, surround her with the time of reflection and just knowing that in Your presence all is good. And we ask it in the name of Jesus. Amen.

Hi, this Pure Heart, from Tennessee. And I was just calling to pray for Lisa the Encourager. Hearing your message, knowing that you just lost your mom and still grieving, you still took the time out to encourage. So, yeah that’s an amazing gift from God, I’m sure. But I just wanted to do a little quick prayer for you. Father God, I just thank You for Lisa this morning. And I thank You that as she goes through her grief process, that she’ll know that You’re there with her. That You’re there to comfort her, keep her, to love her in the midnight hours. Father God, I just pray that you’ll continue to use that gift of encouragement to bless others through her and people may see the love of God in her and just be blessed. In Jesus name.

Hello, everybody. It’s God’s Smile here, I’m Peter. The nights are drawing aren’t they Peter? They are yes, middle of September, we don’t like this do we. October is coming and the clocks change, oh dear, dear, dear. But hey, be encouraged because Christmas is coming. Peter, go away with you, shu. I got a letter from Clarence Daniels and he wants to be remembered and he’s sends his love to the DAB family. And Bridge to Bride, I’d like to say hello to you too and I hope you got my little coloring I sent via Clarence’s letter. You should have it by now. If not, you’ve got something coming for you, lad. So, we’d like to pray for them all, wouldn’t we. We’d like to pray for the boys and we hope that Ellis is back in the fold very soon. And they can resume their studies all together and be a blessing to one another. Go on Peter, you take the prayer. Father, we do thank You that these guys, albeit in prison, incarcerated, do have the opportunity to be able to listen to the DAB by whatever means they’ve been given. And we thank You for that, we bless You Lord. And we pray that You would keep it going, keep them encouraged, build them up Lord. Give them strength for each new day. We thank You for their lives, Lord, and their contributions to the DAB. Father, would You anoint them, would you anoint them to reach out and touch the other men they’re sharing lives with. Would You give a wedding season, would You still hearts and minds, would You break down divisions. And times ticking away again, it goes to quick for us Peter. It does, well you speak too much. Ha ha. So, it’s kiss kiss from me and kiss kiss from me. Bye Bye, say goodbye Peter. Bye bye Peter. We have just done that, haven’t we.

Good morning, my daily DABers. This is Cecile from beautiful South Florida. I’m calling to answer a prayer request from a brother who called yesterday on the 12th, his name is Isaac from Sichuan, Canada. I think I got that right. Brother, another beautiful day and another blessed opportunity to be a vessel, to serve God, love God, to be Christ-like and to be filled with the Holy Spirit. Acknowledging that we do have the Spirit of God inside of us and that we’re not put in this world to dwell on pain or sorrows or to rejoice. Rejoice according or regarding to any circumstance. Rejoice in the house of the Lord. The house of the Lord is in your heart. And I’m here to pray for you today. I to once passed through that. Brother, you asked to pray for whatever it is that is in our heart or whatever it is that you have prayed for in your request. And I wanted to pray for the whole you, brother. God, Holy Spirit, Heavenly Father, Savior, Lord Jesus Christ, angels of heaven will take these prayers unto God’s presence. I’m calling today to pray for a brother who’s name is Isaac, he’s from Sichuan, Canada. You know his heart Lord. He needs your direction, he needs your wisdom. Holy Spirit, I pray that this moment You activate Yourself for our brother Isaac life. I ask for direction on his heart. I ask for discernment which is what David asked You, Lord. Discernment and understanding, Father. That he will know when it’s You. But to acknowledge that even those situations that it may seem like our trials, lets not give credit to the enemy but instead let’s ask God what He wants to teach us on the situations that we stand. Father, I ask that You give Isaac ….

Hello Daily Audio Bible family, this is People on the Water from Indiana. Calling in for two reasons, 1) to say that I love you still. Second, to call in for Isaac from Sichuan. Father God, I come to You in the day of Your son, Jesus Christ, through the power of Your Holy Spirit. I pray for Your son, my brother, Isaac. Give him confidence that he needs to speak his mind clearly. Whether that is through his sessions with a counselor, whether that is in a journal, or in a conversation with his friends. Which is what prayer is. I pray against any nerves, anything of the enemy, and right now for my brother I keep only the bond of peace. Father, I believe in You and I believe You will do wonderous works in Your sons life. Bless him abundantly but may he not bless himself. Watered down blessings with money. May he blessed in Your presence. In Your name, and the confirmation of Your son, by the power of the Holy Spirit and the innerworkings of his mind. Amen.

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9/18/2022 DAB Transcript

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

Today is the 18th day of September, welcome to the Daily Audio Bible. I am Brian, it is wonderful to be here with you today, as we gather around the Global Campfire and greet a brand-new, shiny, sparkly week together. And I guess, probably 50/52 times, I recognize that we get to a new week and remind us, it’s out in front of us. This is that reset, it’s out in front of us. Many things may carry over from the previous week but how we deal with them in this week, is up to us. We get to make all the choices, we get to say all the words, we get to think all the thoughts. Thankfully we have the Scriptures here each and every day around this Global Campfire to inform those things and to lead and guide and direct and transform and shape us. So, brand-new week, throwing open the door, walking through it together and diving in. This week, we will read from the Christian Standard Bible. And picking up where we left off yesterday, will lead us back into the book of Isaiah, today, chapter 28 verse 14 through 30 verse 11.

Prayer:

Thank You, Father, for the Scriptures. Thank You, Father, for each other. Thank You, Lord, for allowing the Scriptures to wash over each and every one of us, into our stories, into our lives, into our plans. We are deeply grateful. Thank You for bringing us into this brand-new, shiny week. Father, we consecrate this week to You, we are here to be a living sacrifices available to You. So often, we are inviting You into our story and our agenda, asking You to make things happen for us that we are planning and we rarely come to You and say, what is Your plan for me for the day. May we live this week available to You. What is your plan for us this week? Rather than, what is our plan for You this week. Help us make that shift of orientation, which changes everything. We pray in the name of Jesus. Amen.

Prayer and Encouragements:

Lisa the Encourager, this is God’s Life Speaker. You are an encourager and, there were so many times I wanted to call in and just ask how you were but I didn’t want to hear the news that you gave us. I’m sure there were others like me that just recognized the void of your voice, but knew why you weren’t on this podcast and what a gift God gave you to be there, with your mom during this past time of her last days and to be there when she finally was in the arms of Jesus. So, thank you for encouraging us with hearing that your mom is now in the presence of Jesus. And thought that is wonderful for her, it kind of is wonderful for us to know but we just are such greedy people. We want our loved ones here with us. So, Lord, would You just be the encourager to our Encourager, Lisa. Lift her up, may her eyes look up to the mountains where her help can come from me. May she just praise You and recognize that when she is praising You and singing and worshiping You, that she’s right there with her mom, who gets to do it all the time. That we get to enter into that time of worship with those who are doing it full-time. So, Lord just surround her with other strong believers, surround her with the time of reflection and just knowing that in Your presence all is good. And we ask it in the name of Jesus. Amen.

Hi, this Pure Heart, from Tennessee. And I was just calling to pray for Lisa the Encourager. Hearing your message, knowing that you just lost your mom and still grieving, you still took the time out to encourage. So, yeah that’s an amazing gift from God, I’m sure. But I just wanted to do a little quick prayer for you. Father God, I just thank You for Lisa this morning. And I thank You that as she goes through her grief process, that she’ll know that You’re there with her. That You’re there to comfort her, keep her, to love her in the midnight hours. Father God, I just pray that you’ll continue to use that gift of encouragement to bless others through her and people may see the love of God in her and just be blessed. In Jesus name.

Hello, everybody. It’s God’s Smile here, I’m Peter. The nights are drawing aren’t they Peter? They are yes, middle of September, we don’t like this do we. October is coming and the clocks change, oh dear, dear, dear. But hey, be encouraged because Christmas is coming. Peter, go away with you, shu. I got a letter from Clarence Daniels and he wants to be remembered and he’s sends his love to the DAB family. And Bridge to Bride, I’d like to say hello to you too and I hope you got my little coloring I sent via Clarence’s letter. You should have it by now. If not, you’ve got something coming for you, lad. So, we’d like to pray for them all, wouldn’t we. We’d like to pray for the boys and we hope that Ellis is back in the fold very soon. And they can resume their studies all together and be a blessing to one another. Go on Peter, you take the prayer. Father, we do thank You that these guys, albeit in prison, incarcerated, do have the opportunity to be able to listen to the DAB by whatever means they’ve been given. And we thank You for that, we bless You Lord. And we pray that You would keep it going, keep them encouraged, build them up Lord. Give them strength for each new day. We thank You for their lives, Lord, and their contributions to the DAB. Father, would You anoint them, would you anoint them to reach out and touch the other men they’re sharing lives with. Would You give a wedding season, would You still hearts and minds, would You break down divisions. And times ticking away again, it goes to quick for us Peter. It does, well you speak too much. Ha ha. So, it’s kiss kiss from me and kiss kiss from me. Bye Bye, say goodbye Peter. Bye bye Peter. We have just done that, haven’t we.

Good morning, my daily DABers. This is Cecile from beautiful South Florida. I’m calling to answer a prayer request from a brother who called yesterday on the 12th, his name is Isaac from Sichuan, Canada. I think I got that right. Brother, another beautiful day and another blessed opportunity to be a vessel, to serve God, love God, to be Christ-like and to be filled with the Holy Spirit. Acknowledging that we do have the Spirit of God inside of us and that we’re not put in this world to dwell on pain or sorrows or to rejoice. Rejoice according or regarding to any circumstance. Rejoice in the house of the Lord. The house of the Lord is in your heart. And I’m here to pray for you today. I to once passed through that. Brother, you asked to pray for whatever it is that is in our heart or whatever it is that you have prayed for in your request. And I wanted to pray for the whole you, brother. God, Holy Spirit, Heavenly Father, Savior, Lord Jesus Christ, angels of heaven will take these prayers unto God’s presence. I’m calling today to pray for a brother who’s name is Isaac, he’s from Sichuan, Canada. You know his heart Lord. He needs your direction, he needs your wisdom. Holy Spirit, I pray that this moment You activate Yourself for our brother Isaac life. I ask for direction on his heart. I ask for discernment which is what David asked You, Lord. Discernment and understanding, Father. That he will know when it’s You. But to acknowledge that even those situations that it may seem like our trials, lets not give credit to the enemy but instead let’s ask God what He wants to teach us on the situations that we stand. Father, I ask that You give Isaac ….

Hello Daily Audio Bible family, this is People on the Water from Indiana. Calling in for two reasons, 1) to say that I love you still. Second, to call in for Isaac from Sichuan. Father God, I come to You in the day of Your son, Jesus Christ, through the power of Your Holy Spirit. I pray for Your son, my brother, Isaac. Give him confidence that he needs to speak his mind clearly. Whether that is through his sessions with a counselor, whether that is in a journal, or in a conversation with his friends. Which is what prayer is. I pray against any nerves, anything of the enemy, and right now for my brother I keep only the bond of peace. Father, I believe in You and I believe You will do wonderous works in Your sons life. Bless him abundantly but may he not bless himself. Watered down blessings with money. May he blessed in Your presence. In Your name, and the confirmation of Your son, by the power of the Holy Spirit and the innerworkings of his mind. Amen.

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The Daily Audio Bible Reading for Sunday September 18, 2022 (NIV)

Isaiah 28:14-30:11

A Deal with Death

14 Therefore hear the word of the Lord,(A) you scoffers(B)
who rule this people in Jerusalem.
15 For you said, “We have made a covenant with Death,
and we have an agreement with Sheol;
when the overwhelming catastrophe[a] passes through,(C)
it will not touch us,
because we have made falsehood our refuge
and have hidden behind treachery.”
16 Therefore the Lord God said:
“Look, I have laid a stone(D) in Zion,
a tested stone,
a precious cornerstone, a sure foundation;(E)
the one who believes will be unshakable.[b](F)
17 And I will make justice the measuring line
and righteousness the mason’s level.”(G)
Hail will sweep away the false refuge,
and water will flood your hiding place.
18 Your covenant with Death will be dissolved,
and your agreement with Sheol will not last.
When the overwhelming catastrophe passes through,
you will be trampled.
19 Every time it passes through,
it will carry you away;
it will pass through every morning—
every day and every night.
Only terror(H) will cause you
to understand the message.[c]
20 Indeed, the bed is too short to stretch out on,
and its cover too small to wrap up in.
21 For the Lord will rise up as he did at Mount Perazim.(I)
He will rise in wrath, as at the Valley of Gibeon,(J)
to do his work, his unexpected work,
and to perform his task, his unfamiliar task.
22 So now, do not scoff,
or your shackles will become stronger.
Indeed, I have heard from the Lord God of Armies
a decree of destruction for the whole land.(K)

God’s Wonderful Advice

23 Listen and hear my voice.
Pay attention and hear what I say.
24 Does the plowman plow every day to plant seed?
Does he continuously break up and cultivate the soil?
25 When he has leveled its surface,
does he not then scatter black cumin and sow cumin?
He plants wheat in rows and barley in plots,
with spelt as their border.
26 His God teaches him order;
he instructs him.
27 Certainly black cumin is not threshed
with a threshing board,
and a cart wheel is not rolled over the cumin.
But black cumin is beaten out with a stick,
and cumin with a rod.
28 Bread grain is crushed,
but is not threshed endlessly.
Though the wheel of the farmer’s cart rumbles,
his horses do not crush it.
29 This also comes from the Lord of Armies.
He gives wondrous advice;
he gives great wisdom.(L)

Woe to Jerusalem

29 Woe to Ariel,[d] Ariel,
the city where David camped!(M)
Continue year after year;
let the festivals recur.
2 I will oppress Ariel,
and there will be mourning and crying,
and she will be to me like an Ariel.
3 I will camp in a circle around you;
I will besiege you with earth ramps,
and I will set up my siege towers against you.
4 You will be brought down;
you will speak from the ground,
and your words will come from low in the dust.
Your voice will be like that of a spirit from the ground;(N)
your speech will whisper from the dust.

5 Your many foes[e] will be like fine dust,(O)
and many of the ruthless, like blowing chaff.
Then suddenly, in an instant,(P)
6 you will be punished by the Lord of Armies
with thunder, earthquake, and loud noise,
storm, tempest, and a flame of consuming fire.(Q)
7 All the many nations(R)
going out to battle against Ariel—
all the attackers, the siege works against her,
and those who oppress her—
will then be like a dream, a vision in the night.(S)
8 It will be like a hungry one who dreams he is eating,
then wakes and is still hungry;
and like a thirsty one who dreams he is drinking,
then wakes and is still thirsty, longing for water.
So it will be for all the many nations
who go to battle against Mount Zion.

9 Stop and be astonished;
blind yourselves and be blind!
They are drunk,[f] but not with wine;
they stagger,[g] but not with beer.(T)
10 For the Lord has poured out on you
an overwhelming urge to[h] sleep;(U)
he has shut your eyes (the prophets)
and covered your heads (the seers).(V)

11 For you the entire vision will be like the words of a sealed document.(W) If it is given to one who can read and he is asked to read it,[i] he will say, “I can’t read it, because it is sealed.” 12 And if the document is given to one who cannot read and he is asked to read it,[j] he will say, “I can’t read.”

13 The Lord said:

These people approach me with their speeches(X)
to honor me with lip-service,[k]
yet their hearts are far from me,
and human rules direct their worship of me.[l]
14 Therefore, I will again confound these people
with wonder after wonder.(Y)
The wisdom of their wise will vanish,(Z)
and the perception of their perceptive will be hidden.

15 Woe to those who go to great lengths
to hide their plans from the Lord.(AA)
They do their works in the dark,
and say, “Who sees us? Who knows us?” (AB)
16 You have turned things around,
as if the potter were the same as the clay.
How can what is made say about its maker,
“He didn’t make me”?(AC)
How can what is formed
say about the one who formed it,
“He doesn’t understand what he’s doing”?

17 Isn’t it true that in just a little while
Lebanon will become an orchard,
and the orchard will seem like a forest?(AD)
18 On that day the deaf will hear(AE)
the words of a document,
and out of a deep darkness
the eyes of the blind will see.
19 The humble will have joy
after joy in the Lord,
and the poor people will rejoice(AF)
in the Holy One of Israel.(AG)
20 For the ruthless one will vanish,
the scorner will disappear,(AH)
and all those who lie in wait with evil intent
will be killed—
21 those who, with their speech,
accuse a person of wrongdoing,
who set a trap for the one mediating at the city gate
and without cause deprive the righteous of justice.(AI)

22 Therefore, the Lord who redeemed Abraham(AJ) says this about the house of Jacob:

Jacob will no longer be ashamed,
and his face will no longer be pale.
23 For when he sees his children,
the work of my hands within his nation,
they will honor my name,
they will honor the Holy One of Jacob(AK)
and stand in awe of the God of Israel.(AL)
24 Those who are confused will gain understanding,
and those who grumble will accept instruction.

Condemnation of the Egyptian Alliance

30 Woe to the rebellious children!(AM)
This is the Lord’s declaration.
They carry out a plan,(AN) but not mine;
they make an alliance,
but against my will,
piling sin on top of sin.
2 Without asking my advice
they set out to go down to Egypt(AO)
in order to seek shelter under Pharaoh’s protection
and take refuge in Egypt’s shadow.(AP)
3 But Pharaoh’s protection will become your shame,
and refuge in Egypt’s shadow your humiliation.(AQ)
4 For though his[m] princes are at Zoan(AR)
and his messengers reach as far as Hanes,
5 everyone will be ashamed
because of a people who can’t help.
They are of no benefit, they are no help;
they are good for nothing but shame and disgrace.(AS)

6 A pronouncement(AT) concerning the animals of the Negev:[n]

Through a land of trouble and distress,
of lioness and lion,
of viper and flying serpent,(AU)
they carry their wealth on the backs of donkeys
and their treasures on the humps of camels,
to a people who will not help them.
7 Egypt’s help is completely worthless;
therefore, I call her:
Rahab Who Just Sits.(AV)

8 Go now, write it on a tablet in their presence
and inscribe it on a scroll;
it will be for the future,
forever and ever.
9 They are a rebellious people,
deceptive children,(AW)
children who do not want to listen to the Lord’s instruction.
10 They say to the seers, “Do not see,”
and to the prophets,
“Do not prophesy the truth to us.
Tell us flattering things.(AX)
Prophesy illusions.
11 Get out of the way!
Leave the pathway.
Rid us of the Holy One of Israel.”(AY)

Footnotes:

  1. 28:15 Or whip; Hb obscure, also in v. 18
  2. 28:16 Lit will not hurry
  3. 28:19 Or The understanding of the message will cause sheer terror
  4. 29:1 Or Altar Hearth, or Lion of God; Hb obscure, also in v. 2
  5. 29:5 Lit foreigners
  6. 29:9 LXX, Tg, Vg read Be drunk
  7. 29:9 Tg, Vg read wine; stagger
  8. 29:10 Lit you a spirit of
  9. 29:11 Lit If one gives it to one who knows the document, saying, “Read this, please”
  10. 29:12 Lit who does not know the document, saying, “Read this, please”
  11. 29:13 Lit their mouth and honor me with its lips
  12. 29:13 Lit their fearing of me is a taught command of men
  13. 30:4 Or Judah’s
  14. 30:6 Or Southland

Cross references:

  1. 28:14 : Is 1:10; 39:5,8; 66:5
  2. 28:14 : Is 29:20
  3. 28:15 : Is 8:7–8
  4. 28:16 : Is 8:14; 26:4
  5. 28:16 : Mt 21:42; Mk 12:10; Lk 20:17; Ac 4:11; 1Co 3:11; Eph 2:20
  6. 28:16 : Rm 9:33; 1Pt 2:6
  7. 28:17 : 2Kg 21:13; Is 5:16; 30:18; 61:8; Am 7:7–9
  8. 28:19 : 2Ch 29:8; Jr 15:4; 24:9; 29:18
  9. 28:21 : 2Sm 5:20; 1Ch 14:11
  10. 28:21 : Jos 10:10,12; 2Sm 5:25; 1Ch 14:16
  11. 28:22 : Is 10:22–23; Rm 9:27–28
  12. 28:29 : Is 9:6; Jr 32:19
  13. 29:1 : 2Sm 5:9
  14. 29:4 : Is 8:19
  15. 29:5 : Is 17:13; 41:15–16
  16. 29:5 : Is 17:14; 30:13; 47:11; 1Th 5:3
  17. 29:6 : Ex 9:23; 19:16,19; 20:18; 1Sm 2:10; 12:18; Jb 40:9; Ps 77:18; Zch 14:5; Rv 4:5; 11:13
  18. 29:7 : Mc 4:11–12; Zch 12:9
  19. 29:7 : Jb 20:8; Ps 73:20; Is 17:14
  20. 29:9 : Lk 1:15
  21. 29:10 : Ps 69:23; Is 6:9–10; Mc 3:6
  22. 29:10 : Rm 11:8
  23. 29:11 : Is 8:16; Dn 12:4,9; Mt 13:11; Rv 5:1
  24. 29:13 : Ezk 33:31; Mt 15:8–9; Mk 7:6–7
  25. 29:14 : Is 6:9–10; 28:21; 65:7; Hab 1:5
  26. 29:14 : Is 44:25; Jr 8:9; 49:7; 1Co 1:19
  27. 29:15 : Ps 10:11,13; Is 28:15; 30:1
  28. 29:15 : Jb 22:13; Is 57:12; Ezk 8:12
  29. 29:16 : Rm 9:20
  30. 29:17 : Ps 84:6; 107:33,35; Is 32:15
  31. 29:18 : Is 35:5; 42:18–19; 43:8; Mt 11:5; Mk 7:37
  32. 29:19 : Ps 69:32; Is 49:13
  33. 29:19 : Is 1:4
  34. 29:20 : Is 28:14
  35. 29:21 : Is 32:7; Am 5:10,12
  36. 29:22 : Is 41:8; 51:2; 63:16
  37. 29:23 : 2Sm 23:1; Ps 24:6; 76:6; 114:7; Is 2:3
  38. 29:23 : Is 5:16; 8:13
  39. 30:1 : Dt 21:18–21; Is 1:2,23; 30:9; 65:2
  40. 30:1 : Is 29:15
  41. 30:2 : Is 31:1; Jr 43:7
  42. 30:2 : Is 36:9
  43. 30:3 : Is 20:5–6; 36:6; Jr 42:18,22
  44. 30:4 : Is 19:11
  45. 30:5 : Jr 2:36
  46. 30:6 : Is 13:1
  47. 30:6 : Dt 8:15
  48. 30:7 : Ps 87:4; 89:10; Is 51:9; Ezk 29:3,7
  49. 30:9 : Is 30:1
  50. 30:10 : 1Kg 22:8,13; Jr 6:14; 23:17,26; Ezk 13:8–16; Rm 16:18; 2Tm 4:3–4
  51. 30:11 : Is 1:4; 41:14–20; 43:14; 45:11; 48:17; 49:7; 54:5; 55:5; 60:9,14
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Galatians 3:23-4:31

23 Before this faith(A) came, we were confined under the law, imprisoned until the coming faith was revealed.(B) 24 The law, then, was our guardian until Christ,(C) so that we could be justified by faith. 25 But since that faith(D) has come, we are no longer under a guardian, 26 for through faith you are all sons of God in Christ Jesus.

Sons and Heirs

27 For those of you who were baptized into Christ have been clothed with Christ.(E) 28 There is no Jew or Greek, slave or free,(F) male and female;(G) since you are all one(H) in Christ Jesus. 29 And if you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham’s seed, heirs(I) according to the promise.(J)

4 Now I say that as long as the heir(K) is a child, he differs in no way from a slave, though he is the owner(L) of everything. 2 Instead, he is under guardians and trustees until the time set by his father. 3 In the same way we also, when we were children, were in slavery under the elements[a] of the world.(M) 4 When the time came to completion, God sent his Son,(N) born of a woman,(O) born under the law, 5 to redeem those under the law, so that we might receive adoption as sons.(P) 6 And because you are sons, God sent the Spirit of his Son(Q) into our[b] hearts, crying, “Abba,[c] Father!” (R) 7 So you are no longer a slave(S) but a son,(T) and if a son, then God has made you an heir.(U)

Paul’s Concern for the Galatians

8 But in the past, since you didn’t know God,(V) you were enslaved to things[d] that by nature are not gods. 9 But now, since you know God,(W) or rather have become known by God, how can you turn back again to the weak and worthless(X) elements?(Y) Do you want to be enslaved to them all over again? 10 You are observing special days, months, seasons, and years.(Z) 11 I am fearful for you, that perhaps my labor for you has been wasted.

12 I beg you, brothers and sisters: Become as I am, for I also have become as you are. You have not wronged me; 13 you know[e] that previously I preached the gospel to you because of a weakness of the flesh. 14 You did not despise or reject me though my physical condition was a trial for you.[f] On the contrary, you received me as an angel of God, as Christ Jesus himself.

15 Where, then, is your blessing? For I testify to you that, if possible, you would have torn out your eyes and given them to me. 16 So then, have I become your enemy because I told you the truth?(AA) 17 They court you eagerly, but not for good. They want to exclude you from me, so that you would pursue them. 18 But it is always good to be pursued[g] in a good manner—and not just when I am with you. 19 My children,(AB) I am again suffering labor pains(AC) for you until Christ is formed in you. 20 I would like to be with you right now and change my tone of voice, because I don’t know what to do about you.

Sarah and Hagar: Two Covenants

21 Tell me, you who want to be under the law, don’t you hear the law? 22 For it is written that Abraham(AD) had two sons, one by a slave(AE) and the other by a free woman. 23 But the one by the slave was born as a result of the flesh, while the one by the free woman was born through promise. 24 These things are being taken figuratively, for the women represent two covenants. One is from Mount Sinai(AF) and bears children into slavery—this is Hagar.(AG) 25 Now Hagar represents Mount Sinai in Arabia(AH) and corresponds to the present Jerusalem,(AI) for she is in slavery with her children. 26 But the Jerusalem above(AJ) is free, and she is our mother. 27 For it is written,(AK)

Rejoice, childless woman,(AL)
unable to give birth.
Burst into song and shout,
you who are not in labor,
for the children of the desolate woman will be many,
more numerous than those
of the woman who has a husband.[h](AM)

28 Now you too, brothers and sisters, like Isaac,(AN) are children of promise.(AO) 29 But just as then the child born as a result of the flesh persecuted the one born as a result of the Spirit,(AP) so also now.(AQ) 30 But what does the Scripture say? “Drive out the slave and her son, for the son of the slave will never be a coheir with the son of the free woman.”[i](AR) 31 Therefore, brothers and sisters, we are not children of a slave but of the free woman.(AS)

Footnotes:

  1. 4:3 Or spirits, or principles
  2. 4:6 Other mss read your
  3. 4:6 Aramaic for father
  4. 4:8 Or beings
  5. 4:12–13 Or 12 Become like I am, because I—inasmuch as you are brothers and sisters—am not requesting anything of you. You wronged me. 13 You know
  6. 4:14 Other mss read me
  7. 4:18 Lit zealously courted
  8. 4:27 Is 54:1
  9. 4:30 Gn 21:10

Cross references:

  1. 3:23 : Jd 3
  2. 3:23 : Lk 10:21
  3. 3:24 : Mt 5:17; Col 2:17; Heb 9:10
  4. 3:25 : Jd 3
  5. 3:27 : Pr 31:25
  6. 3:28 : Jn 8:33
  7. 3:28 : Rm 10:12; 1Co 12:13; Gl 5:6
  8. 3:28 : Jn 17:11
  9. 3:29 : Rm 4:14; 8:17
  10. 3:29 : Rm 4:13
  11. 4:1 : Nm 26:52–62
  12. 4:1 : Col 3:22
  13. 4:3 : Rm 7:6; 2Pt 2:20
  14. 4:4 : Jn 5:19; Heb 1:2
  15. 4:4 : Gn 3:15; Lk 2:7; Php 2:7
  16. 4:5 : Dt 14:1; Mt 5:9
  17. 4:6 : Ac 16:7; Rm 5:5,20; 8:9,16; 2Co 3:17
  18. 4:6 : Mk 14:36; Rm 8:15
  19. 4:7 : Mt 10:24; Rv 1:1
  20. 4:7 : Dt 14:1; Mt 5:9
  21. 4:7 : Nm 26:52–62; Rm 4:14; 8:17
  22. 4:8 : Jn 7:28; Php 3:8
  23. 4:9 : Pr 2:6; Php 3:8
  24. 4:9 : Mk 14:17; Rm 15:26
  25. 4:9 : Col 2:8
  26. 4:10 : Rm 14:5; Col 2:16
  27. 4:16 : Eph 4:15
  28. 4:19 : 1Th 2:11
  29. 4:19 : 1Co 4:15; Jms 1:18
  30. 4:22 : Gn 16:15; Jn 8:37; Heb 2:16
  31. 4:22 : Rm 8:15,21; Heb 2:15
  32. 4:24 : Ex 16:1
  33. 4:24 : Gn 16:1
  34. 4:25 : Is 21:13; Jr 25:24; Ezk 27:21; Gl 1:17
  35. 4:25 : Mt 23:37; Ac 8:1
  36. 4:26 : Heb 12:22; Rv 3:12; 21:2,10
  37. 4:27 : Ac 15:15
  38. 4:27 : Gn 11:30; Lk 1:7
  39. 4:27 : Is 54:1
  40. 4:28 : Ps 105:9; Jms 2:21
  41. 4:28 : Gn 12:7; Rm 9:8; Gl 3:29
  42. 4:29 : Ps 51:11; Jn 1:33; Ac 2:4; Rm 8:9; Gl 5:25; Ti 3:5; Rv 3:22
  43. 4:29 : Gn 21:9
  44. 4:30 : Gn 21:10
  45. 4:31 : 1Pt 3:6
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Psalm 62

Psalm 62

Trust in God Alone

For the choir director: according to Jeduthun.(A) A psalm of David.

1 I am at rest in God alone;
my salvation comes from him.(B)
2 He alone is my rock and my salvation,(C)
my stronghold; I will never be shaken.(D)

3 How long will you threaten a man?
Will all of you attack[a]
as if he were a leaning wall
or a tottering fence?(E)
4 They only plan to bring him down
from his high position.
They take pleasure in lying;
they bless with their mouths,
but they curse inwardly.(F)Selah

5 Rest in God alone, my soul,
for my hope comes from him.(G)
6 He alone is my rock and my salvation,(H)
my stronghold; I will not be shaken.(I)
7 My salvation and glory depend on God, my strong rock.
My refuge is in God.(J)
8 Trust in him at all times, you people;
pour out your hearts before him.
God is our refuge.(K)Selah

9 Common people are only a vapor;
important people, an illusion.
Together on a scale,
they weigh less than[b] a vapor.(L)
10 Place no trust in oppression
or false hope in robbery.(M)
If wealth increases,
don’t set your heart on it.(N)

11 God has spoken once;
I have heard this twice:
strength belongs to God,(O)
12 and faithful love belongs to you, Lord.
For you repay each according to his works.(P)

Footnotes:

  1. 62:3 Some Hb mss read you be struck down
  2. 62:9 Lit they go up more than

Cross references:

  1. 62:0 : Ps 39
  2. 62:1 : Ps 33:20; 37:39
  3. 62:1–2 : Dt 32:15; 2Sm 22:47
  4. 62:2 : Ps 37:24; 55:22
  5. 62:3 : Is 30:13
  6. 62:4 : Ps 4:2; 55:21
  7. 62:5 : Ps 71:5
  8. 62:6 : Ps 89:26; 95:1
  9. 62:6 : Ps 16:8; 21:7
  10. 62:7 : Ps 18:2
  11. 62:8 : Ps 91:2; 118:8–9
  12. 62:9 : Ps 39:5–6,11; Ec 1:2; Is 40:17
  13. 62:10 : Pr 22:16
  14. 62:10 : Jb 31:24–25; Pr 11:28; Mk 4:19; 1Tm 6:10,17–19
  15. 62:11 : Jb 40:5
  16. 62:12 : Mt 16:27; Rm 2:6; Rv 22:12
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Proverbs 23:19-21

19 Listen, my son, and be wise;
keep your mind on the right course.
20 Don’t associate with those who drink too much wine(A)
or with those who gorge themselves on meat.(B)
21 For the drunkard and the glutton will become poor,
and grogginess will clothe them in rags.(C)

Cross references:

  1. 23:20 : Pr 20:1; 23:29–30; Is 5:22; Mt 24:49; Lk 21:34; Rm 13:13; Eph 5:18
  2. 23:20 : Pr 28:7
  3. 23:21 : Pr 6:10–11
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09/17/2022 DAB Transcript

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

Today is the 17th day of September welcome to the Daily Audio Bible I’m Brian and it is wonderful to be here with you today as we gather and come in out of whatever is going on and set it aside and focus our attention on the Scriptures, focus our affections upon the Lord, and let it all go as we bring to a close another one of our weeks together. What a journey we have been on this year. It’s been incredible and we’ve got plenty out in front of us that’s incredible. And, so, let’s take the next step forward. We’ve been reading from the New International Version this week. We’ll do that today. And we are working our way through the book of Isaiah in the Old Testament. Today, Isaiah chapter 25 verse 1 through 28 verse 13.

Prayer:

Father, we thank You for Your word. We thank You for bringing us through another one of the weeks that we get to spend in this year each and every day step-by-step moving through the Scriptures together and we thank You for this opportunity to go from the very first word to the very last word of the Bible together and to wrestle with and reflect upon and allow it to transform and shift us as Your Holy Spirit leads us into all truth which we ask for and will continue to ask for regularly, because there isn’t a moment we don’t need to be led into all truth. And we realize that we can fall for any kinds of deceptions at any point in time if we are not paying attention. So, lead us we pray. And we thank You for what we find in the Proverbs today. Surely there is a future hope for You and Your hope will not be cut off. You are that hope Lord. You are the future hope that will not be cut off. You are the present hope that we live in in this moment. Our hope is in You. We are utterly dependent upon You. So, some Holy Spirit, lead us and guide us, direct us as we humble ourselves before You and submit ourselves, every thought, word and deed to Your will. We pray this in the name of Jesus. Amen.

Announcements:

dailyaudiobible.com, that is home, that is the website, it’s where you can find out what’s happening. So, definitely check it out. The Daily Audio Bible app is available for that and more. And the Daily Audio Bible app can be downloaded from the App Store that is connected to your device. And, so, yeah, check that out. It’s free. It's…there are tools there for kinda keeping us up with where we are in the journey kind of checking off each day knowing if we missed a day, knowing where we are, having some graphs just to sort of show us where we are on the journey, like how much of the Bible we have moved through. And every time we have moved through a different section and complete a section a little kind of pop-up comes up, a little badge that shows up and says, hey you’ve finished this section and they just kind of accumulate. Gives us a sense of the progress that we are making day by day step-by-step. So, certainly check out the Daily Audio Bible app.

If you want to partner with the Daily Audio Bible, thank you. Without…without our partners we wouldn’t be here. We would’ve folded up a long, long time ago, but we’ve been in this together. And, so, thank you deeply for your partnership. There is a link on the homepage at dailyaudiobible.com. If you’re using the app, you can press the Give button in the upper right-hand corner, or the mailing address is 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, that’s the little red button up at the top 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:

My dear brothers and sisters I wish you good morning from the UK. It’s Mike from Buckinghamshire. I was listening to the Daily Audio Bible for the 13th, and I heard Isaac’s call from Saskatchewan in Canada and I just wanted to say Isaac I do feel for you my dear friend my brother in Christ but you need to start looking after yourself as well and you need to take some time out from your daily routine and go and have some fun. Take your family, your brothers and sisters, all, whoever you’ve got in your life and just get away for a few days. Go and do something completely different. Spend some time in the wild. Take some long prayer walks. Have some nice food. Spend time with people you love. And remember we’re all praying for you here. We’re all human beings we all get tired. It’s not easy but God is on your side and your brothers and sisters many many miles away are praying and thinking of you. So, my dear friend Isaac be good to yourself be good to your family. Take some time out, spend some time with the Lord, listen to some Christian music. Have a break have some rest have some days off. Come back refreshed. Thinking of you Isaac and praying for you in Jesus’ name. All my brothers and sisters God bless you all. Pray for you today in Jesus’ name. Amen.

Hello family my name is Steven I just want to call in quickly. Was recently invited to a healthcare roundtable from an organization that wanted to know what additional healthcare services we needed in our community. And as we went around the table the majority of the people there were much younger than I am, and I was struck by how many people requested that there be more mental health services available for children from three or four years old up to eighteen. All sorts of problems – pornography, drugs, social media, rebellion in the home. And I was just amazed by how many people were facing these problems with young people. And I just wanted to call in and ask for everyone to pray especially for our young people. So many are growing up without any spiritual training or education at all and it’s so deeply concerning to know that soon I’ll be leaving this world of the dying and I’ll be going to the world of living but when I leave, I fear for those coming up behind me and what is their training going to be? What is there live going to be? So, pray for our young people our children and the parents that are dealing with this very relevant issue. Thank you all and…and praise the Lord. Thank you.

Hi this is Paul from Wales. I’m out running and I’m listening to the prayers after Daily Audio Bible I think it’s the 13th it’s late here in Wales it’s dark and I’m doing it ‘cause I’m fighting my addictions. And a lady joined in another lady about alcohol. Mine is smoking and vaping and I’m trying to fight my way back to fitness and all that kind of stuff. But I just want to put a quick prayer out. Lord reveal too the eyes of fathers and mothers the impact they have on their children, the responsibility they have being gifted by you to raise children in the Christian home and if You _ Father __ be it for You that you will open their eyes to their addictions and their problems and fill it and replace it with something else in your service in Jesus’ heavenly name. Paul from Wales. Why Follow Jesus 365. Take care all.

This message is for the sweet Mama of the two little kids that called in on September 13th on the prayer…at the end of the message she left…was the last prayer but she didn’t leave her name. Oh my dear. It’s Eyes of a Dove. I am a mom of three kids. For the last decade having joined a construction company and provide for my children and get up really early and sometimes we had to move locations, three times. Finally bought our own house. God provided a house for us after all this time bless the Lord. But man, I know your struggle. Oh, you have my heart young lady and your children. And God is providing and opening doors for you and it’s going to be OK. If this job is gonna have more income for you and you feel the Lord pushing you that way, don’t fear it’s not more traumatic because they have you, you’re their home. No matter where they go to school or what location they have you and if this is going to provide for them better financially then that’s the right move momma. Father God, I ask that You would do for her what You did for me. Surround this momma and help her not feel fear or anxiety or brokenness over the baby’s father making the bad choices and not being there for them. And she’s having to be the sole breadwinner and provider for these children. And You didn’t design her to do that You designed her to be the care provider but yet she’s standing up and she’s doing both roles. Be there for her Lord God. Provide resources and family and friends to hold her arms up in this battle. I love you friend. Call back again. Let us know how you’re doing.

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09/17/2022 DAB Transcript

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

Today is the 17th day of September welcome to the Daily Audio Bible I’m Brian and it is wonderful to be here with you today as we gather and come in out of whatever is going on and set it aside and focus our attention on the Scriptures, focus our affections upon the Lord, and let it all go as we bring to a close another one of our weeks together. What a journey we have been on this year. It’s been incredible and we’ve got plenty out in front of us that’s incredible. And, so, let’s take the next step forward. We’ve been reading from the New International Version this week. We’ll do that today. And we are working our way through the book of Isaiah in the Old Testament. Today, Isaiah chapter 25 verse 1 through 28 verse 13.

Prayer:

Father, we thank You for Your word. We thank You for bringing us through another one of the weeks that we get to spend in this year each and every day step-by-step moving through the Scriptures together and we thank You for this opportunity to go from the very first word to the very last word of the Bible together and to wrestle with and reflect upon and allow it to transform and shift us as Your Holy Spirit leads us into all truth which we ask for and will continue to ask for regularly, because there isn’t a moment we don’t need to be led into all truth. And we realize that we can fall for any kinds of deceptions at any point in time if we are not paying attention. So, lead us we pray. And we thank You for what we find in the Proverbs today. Surely there is a future hope for You and Your hope will not be cut off. You are that hope Lord. You are the future hope that will not be cut off. You are the present hope that we live in in this moment. Our hope is in You. We are utterly dependent upon You. So, some Holy Spirit, lead us and guide us, direct us as we humble ourselves before You and submit ourselves, every thought, word and deed to Your will. We pray this in the name of Jesus. Amen.

Announcements:

dailyaudiobible.com, that is home, that is the website, it’s where you can find out what’s happening. So, definitely check it out. The Daily Audio Bible app is available for that and more. And the Daily Audio Bible app can be downloaded from the App Store that is connected to your device. And, so, yeah, check that out. It’s free. It's…there are tools there for kinda keeping us up with where we are in the journey kind of checking off each day knowing if we missed a day, knowing where we are, having some graphs just to sort of show us where we are on the journey, like how much of the Bible we have moved through. And every time we have moved through a different section and complete a section a little kind of pop-up comes up, a little badge that shows up and says, hey you’ve finished this section and they just kind of accumulate. Gives us a sense of the progress that we are making day by day step-by-step. So, certainly check out the Daily Audio Bible app.

If you want to partner with the Daily Audio Bible, thank you. Without…without our partners we wouldn’t be here. We would’ve folded up a long, long time ago, but we’ve been in this together. And, so, thank you deeply for your partnership. There is a link on the homepage at dailyaudiobible.com. If you’re using the app, you can press the Give button in the upper right-hand corner, or the mailing address is 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, that’s the little red button up at the top 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:

Will post soon…

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The Daily Audio Bible Reading for Saturday September 17, 2022 (NIV)

Isaiah 25:1-28:13

Praise to the Lord

25 Lord, you are my God;(A)
I will exalt you and praise your name,(B)
for in perfect faithfulness(C)
you have done wonderful things,(D)
things planned(E) long ago.
2 You have made the city a heap of rubble,(F)
the fortified(G) town a ruin,(H)
the foreigners’ stronghold(I) a city no more;
it will never be rebuilt.(J)
3 Therefore strong peoples will honor you;(K)
cities of ruthless(L) nations will revere you.
4 You have been a refuge(M) for the poor,(N)
a refuge for the needy(O) in their distress,
a shelter from the storm(P)
and a shade from the heat.
For the breath of the ruthless(Q)
is like a storm driving against a wall
5 and like the heat of the desert.
You silence(R) the uproar of foreigners;(S)
as heat is reduced by the shadow of a cloud,
so the song of the ruthless(T) is stilled.

6 On this mountain(U) the Lord Almighty will prepare
a feast(V) of rich food for all peoples,
a banquet of aged wine—
the best of meats and the finest of wines.(W)
7 On this mountain he will destroy
the shroud(X) that enfolds all peoples,(Y)
the sheet that covers all nations;
8 he will swallow up death(Z) forever.
The Sovereign Lord will wipe away the tears(AA)
from all faces;
he will remove his people’s disgrace(AB)
from all the earth.
The Lord has spoken.(AC)

9 In that day(AD) they will say,

“Surely this is our God;(AE)
we trusted(AF) in him, and he saved(AG) us.
This is the Lord, we trusted in him;
let us rejoice(AH) and be glad in his salvation.”(AI)

10 The hand of the Lord will rest on this mountain;(AJ)
but Moab(AK) will be trampled in their land
as straw is trampled down in the manure.
11 They will stretch out their hands in it,
as swimmers stretch out their hands to swim.
God will bring down(AL) their pride(AM)
despite the cleverness[a] of their hands.
12 He will bring down your high fortified walls(AN)
and lay them low;(AO)
he will bring them down to the ground,
to the very dust.

A Song of Praise

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

We have a strong city;(AR)
God makes salvation
its walls(AS) and ramparts.(AT)
2 Open the gates(AU)
that the righteous(AV) nation may enter,
the nation that keeps faith.
3 You will keep in perfect peace(AW)
those whose minds are steadfast,
because they trust(AX) in you.
4 Trust(AY) in the Lord forever,(AZ)
for the Lord, the Lord himself, is the Rock(BA) eternal.
5 He humbles those who dwell on high,
he lays the lofty city low;
he levels it to the ground(BB)
and casts it down to the dust.(BC)
6 Feet trample(BD) it down—
the feet of the oppressed,(BE)
the footsteps of the poor.(BF)

7 The path of the righteous is level;(BG)
you, the Upright One,(BH) make the way of the righteous smooth.(BI)
8 Yes, Lord, walking in the way of your laws,[b](BJ)
we wait(BK) for you;
your name(BL) and renown
are the desire of our hearts.
9 My soul yearns for you in the night;(BM)
in the morning my spirit longs(BN) for you.
When your judgments(BO) come upon the earth,
the people of the world learn righteousness.(BP)
10 But when grace is shown to the wicked,(BQ)
they do not learn righteousness;
even in a land of uprightness they go on doing evil(BR)
and do not regard(BS) the majesty of the Lord.
11 Lord, your hand is lifted high,(BT)
but they do not see(BU) it.
Let them see your zeal(BV) for your people and be put to shame;(BW)
let the fire(BX) reserved for your enemies consume them.

12 Lord, you establish peace(BY) for us;
all that we have accomplished you have done(BZ) for us.
13 Lord our God, other lords(CA) besides you have ruled over us,
but your name(CB) alone do we honor.(CC)
14 They are now dead,(CD) they live no more;
their spirits(CE) do not rise.
You punished them and brought them to ruin;(CF)
you wiped out all memory of them.(CG)
15 You have enlarged the nation, Lord;
you have enlarged the nation.(CH)
You have gained glory for yourself;
you have extended all the borders(CI) of the land.

16 Lord, they came to you in their distress;(CJ)
when you disciplined(CK) them,
they could barely whisper(CL) a prayer.[c]
17 As a pregnant woman about to give birth(CM)
writhes and cries out in her pain,
so were we in your presence, Lord.
18 We were with child, we writhed in labor,
but we gave birth(CN) to wind.
We have not brought salvation(CO) to the earth,
and the people of the world have not come to life.(CP)

19 But your dead(CQ) will live, Lord;
their bodies will rise—
let those who dwell in the dust(CR)
wake up and shout for joy—
your dew(CS) is like the dew of the morning;
the earth will give birth to her dead.(CT)

20 Go, my people, enter your rooms
and shut the doors(CU) behind you;
hide(CV) yourselves for a little while
until his wrath(CW) has passed by.(CX)
21 See, the Lord is coming(CY) out of his dwelling(CZ)
to punish(DA) the people of the earth for their sins.
The earth will disclose the blood(DB) shed on it;
the earth will conceal its slain no longer.

Deliverance of Israel

27 In that day,(DC)

the Lord will punish with his sword(DD)—
his fierce, great and powerful sword—
Leviathan(DE) the gliding serpent,(DF)
Leviathan the coiling serpent;
he will slay the monster(DG) of the sea.

2 In that day(DH)—

“Sing(DI) about a fruitful vineyard:(DJ)
3 I, the Lord, watch over it;
I water(DK) it continually.
I guard(DL) it day and night
so that no one may harm(DM) it.
4 I am not angry.
If only there were briers and thorns confronting me!
I would march against them in battle;
I would set them all on fire.(DN)
5 Or else let them come to me for refuge;(DO)
let them make peace(DP) with me,
yes, let them make peace with me.”

6 In days to come Jacob will take root,(DQ)
Israel will bud and blossom(DR)
and fill all the world with fruit.(DS)

7 Has the Lord struck her
as he struck(DT) down those who struck her?
Has she been killed
as those were killed who killed her?
8 By warfare[d] and exile(DU) you contend with her—
with his fierce blast he drives her out,
as on a day the east wind(DV) blows.
9 By this, then, will Jacob’s guilt be atoned(DW) for,
and this will be the full fruit of the removal of his sin:(DX)
When he makes all the altar stones(DY)
to be like limestone crushed to pieces,
no Asherah poles[e](DZ) or incense altars(EA)
will be left standing.
10 The fortified city stands desolate,(EB)
an abandoned settlement, forsaken(EC) like the wilderness;
there the calves graze,(ED)
there they lie down;(EE)
they strip its branches bare.
11 When its twigs are dry, they are broken off(EF)
and women come and make fires(EG) with them.
For this is a people without understanding;(EH)
so their Maker has no compassion on them,
and their Creator(EI) shows them no favor.(EJ)

12 In that day the Lord will thresh(EK) from the flowing Euphrates to the Wadi of Egypt,(EL) and you, Israel, will be gathered(EM) up one by one. 13 And in that day(EN) a great trumpet(EO) will sound. Those who were perishing in Assyria and those who were exiled(EP) in Egypt(EQ) will come and worship(ER) the Lord on the holy mountain(ES) in Jerusalem.

Woe to the Leaders of Ephraim and Judah

28 Woe(ET) to that wreath, the pride of Ephraim’s(EU) drunkards,
to the fading flower, his glorious beauty,
set on the head of a fertile valley(EV)—
to that city, the pride of those laid low by wine!(EW)
2 See, the Lord has one who is powerful(EX) and strong.
Like a hailstorm(EY) and a destructive wind,(EZ)
like a driving rain and a flooding(FA) downpour,
he will throw it forcefully to the ground.
3 That wreath, the pride of Ephraim’s(FB) drunkards,
will be trampled(FC) underfoot.
4 That fading flower, his glorious beauty,
set on the head of a fertile valley,(FD)
will be like figs(FE) ripe before harvest—
as soon as people see them and take them in hand,
they swallow them.

5 In that day(FF) the Lord Almighty
will be a glorious(FG) crown,(FH)
a beautiful wreath
for the remnant(FI) of his people.
6 He will be a spirit of justice(FJ)
to the one who sits in judgment,(FK)
a source of strength
to those who turn back the battle(FL) at the gate.

7 And these also stagger(FM) from wine(FN)
and reel(FO) from beer:
Priests(FP) and prophets(FQ) stagger from beer
and are befuddled with wine;
they reel from beer,
they stagger when seeing visions,(FR)
they stumble when rendering decisions.
8 All the tables are covered with vomit(FS)
and there is not a spot without filth.

9 “Who is it he is trying to teach?(FT)
To whom is he explaining his message?(FU)
To children weaned(FV) from their milk,(FW)
to those just taken from the breast?
10 For it is:
Do this, do that,
a rule for this, a rule for that[f];
a little here, a little there.(FX)”

11 Very well then, with foreign lips and strange tongues(FY)
God will speak to this people,(FZ)
12 to whom he said,
“This is the resting place, let the weary rest”;(GA)
and, “This is the place of repose”—
but they would not listen.
13 So then, the word of the Lord to them will become:
Do this, do that,
a rule for this, a rule for that;
a little here, a little there(GB)—
so that as they go they will fall backward;
they will be injured(GC) and snared and captured.(GD)

Footnotes:

  1. Isaiah 25:11 The meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain.
  2. Isaiah 26:8 Or judgments
  3. Isaiah 26:16 The meaning of the Hebrew for this clause is uncertain.
  4. Isaiah 27:8 See Septuagint; the meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain.
  5. Isaiah 27:9 That is, wooden symbols of the goddess Asherah
  6. Isaiah 28:10 Hebrew / sav lasav sav lasav / kav lakav kav lakav (probably meaningless sounds mimicking the prophet’s words); also in verse 13

Cross references:

  1. Isaiah 25:1 : S Isa 7:13
  2. Isaiah 25:1 : S Ps 145:2; S Isa 12:1, 4
  3. Isaiah 25:1 : Isa 11:5
  4. Isaiah 25:1 : Ps 40:5; 98:1; Joel 2:21, 26
  5. Isaiah 25:1 : Nu 23:19; S Isa 14:24; 37:26; 46:11; Eph 1:11
  6. Isaiah 25:2 : Isa 17:1; 26:5; 37:26
  7. Isaiah 25:2 : S Isa 17:3
  8. Isaiah 25:2 : S Dt 13:16
  9. Isaiah 25:2 : S Isa 13:22
  10. Isaiah 25:2 : S Job 12:14
  11. Isaiah 25:3 : S Ex 6:2; S Ps 22:23; S Isa 11:14
  12. Isaiah 25:3 : S Isa 13:11
  13. Isaiah 25:4 : S 2Sa 22:3; S Ps 118:8; S Isa 4:6; 17:10; 27:5; 33:16; Joel 3:16
  14. Isaiah 25:4 : S Isa 3:14
  15. Isaiah 25:4 : S Isa 14:30; 29:19
  16. Isaiah 25:4 : S Ps 55:8
  17. Isaiah 25:4 : Isa 29:5; 49:25
  18. Isaiah 25:5 : Jer 51:55
  19. Isaiah 25:5 : S Ps 18:44
  20. Isaiah 25:5 : S Isa 13:11
  21. Isaiah 25:6 : S Isa 2:2
  22. Isaiah 25:6 : S Ge 29:22; 1Ki 1:25; Isa 1:19; 55:1-2; 66:11; Joel 3:18; Mt 8:11; 22:4; Rev 19:9
  23. Isaiah 25:6 : S Ps 36:8; S Pr 9:2
  24. Isaiah 25:7 : 2Co 3:15-16; Eph 4:18
  25. Isaiah 25:7 : S Job 4:9
  26. Isaiah 25:8 : Isa 26:19; Hos 13:14; 1Co 15:54-55*
  27. Isaiah 25:8 : Isa 15:3; 30:19; 35:10; 51:11; 65:19; Jer 31:16; Rev 7:17; 21:4
  28. Isaiah 25:8 : S Ge 30:23; S Ps 119:39; Mt 5:11; 1Pe 4:14; Rev 7:14
  29. Isaiah 25:8 : S Isa 7:7
  30. Isaiah 25:9 : S Isa 2:11; S 10:20
  31. Isaiah 25:9 : Isa 40:9
  32. Isaiah 25:9 : S Ps 22:5; S Isa 12:2
  33. Isaiah 25:9 : Ps 145:19; Isa 19:20; 33:22; 35:4; 43:3, 11; 45:15, 21; 49:25-26; 60:16; 63:8; Jer 14:8
  34. Isaiah 25:9 : S Dt 32:43; S Ps 9:2; Isa 9:3; 35:2, 10; 41:16; 51:3; 61:7, 10; 66:14
  35. Isaiah 25:9 : S Ps 13:5; S Isa 12:2
  36. Isaiah 25:10 : S Isa 2:2
  37. Isaiah 25:10 : S Ge 19:37; S Nu 21:29; S Dt 23:6; S Isa 11:14; Am 2:1-3
  38. Isaiah 25:11 : Isa 5:25; 14:26; 16:14
  39. Isaiah 25:11 : S Lev 26:19; S Job 40:12
  40. Isaiah 25:12 : S Isa 2:15
  41. Isaiah 25:12 : S Job 40:11; S Isa 15:1; S Jer 51:44
  42. Isaiah 26:1 : S Isa 10:20
  43. Isaiah 26:1 : Isa 30:29
  44. Isaiah 26:1 : S Isa 14:32
  45. Isaiah 26:1 : Isa 32:18; 60:18; Zec 2:5; 9:8
  46. Isaiah 26:1 : S Ps 48:13
  47. Isaiah 26:2 : S Ps 24:7
  48. Isaiah 26:2 : Ps 24:3-4; 85:13; S Isa 1:26; S 4:3; 9:7; 50:8; 53:11; 54:14; 58:8; 62:2
  49. Isaiah 26:3 : S Job 22:21; S Isa 9:6, 7; Php 4:7
  50. Isaiah 26:3 : S 1Ch 5:20; S Ps 22:5; S 28:7; S Isa 12:2
  51. Isaiah 26:4 : S Isa 12:2; 50:10
  52. Isaiah 26:4 : S Ps 62:8
  53. Isaiah 26:4 : S Ge 49:24
  54. Isaiah 26:5 : S Isa 25:12; Eze 26:11
  55. Isaiah 26:5 : S Isa 25:2
  56. Isaiah 26:6 : S Isa 5:5
  57. Isaiah 26:6 : Isa 49:26
  58. Isaiah 26:6 : S Isa 3:15; S 14:30
  59. Isaiah 26:7 : S Ps 26:12
  60. Isaiah 26:7 : S Ps 25:8
  61. Isaiah 26:7 : S Ex 14:19; Isa 40:4; 42:16
  62. Isaiah 26:8 : S Dt 18:18; Ps 1:2; Isa 56:1; 64:5
  63. Isaiah 26:8 : S Ps 37:9; S 130:5
  64. Isaiah 26:8 : S Ps 145:2; S Isa 12:4
  65. Isaiah 26:9 : S Ps 119:55
  66. Isaiah 26:9 : Ps 42:1-3; 63:1; 78:34; Isa 55:6
  67. Isaiah 26:9 : S 1Ch 16:14
  68. Isaiah 26:9 : Mt 6:33
  69. Isaiah 26:10 : Mt 5:45
  70. Isaiah 26:10 : Isa 32:6; 59:7, 13
  71. Isaiah 26:10 : S 1Sa 12:24; Isa 22:12-13; Jer 2:19; Hos 11:7; Jn 5:37-38; Ro 2:4
  72. Isaiah 26:11 : S Ps 10:12
  73. Isaiah 26:11 : Isa 18:3; 44:9, 18
  74. Isaiah 26:11 : S Isa 9:7; Joel 2:18; Zec 1:14
  75. Isaiah 26:11 : Mic 7:16
  76. Isaiah 26:11 : S Isa 1:31; Heb 10:27
  77. Isaiah 26:12 : S Ps 119:165; S Isa 9:6
  78. Isaiah 26:12 : S Ps 68:28
  79. Isaiah 26:13 : Isa 2:8; 10:5, 11
  80. Isaiah 26:13 : S Isa 12:4
  81. Isaiah 26:13 : Isa 42:8; 63:7
  82. Isaiah 26:14 : S Dt 4:28
  83. Isaiah 26:14 : S Job 26:5
  84. Isaiah 26:14 : S Ps 9:5; S Isa 10:3
  85. Isaiah 26:14 : S Ps 9:6
  86. Isaiah 26:15 : S Job 12:23; S Isa 14:2
  87. Isaiah 26:15 : Isa 33:17
  88. Isaiah 26:16 : S Jdg 6:2; S Isa 5:30
  89. Isaiah 26:16 : S Ps 39:11
  90. Isaiah 26:16 : Isa 29:4
  91. Isaiah 26:17 : S Isa 21:3; S Jn 16:21; Rev 12:2
  92. Isaiah 26:18 : Isa 33:11; 59:4
  93. Isaiah 26:18 : S Ge 49:10; Ps 17:14
  94. Isaiah 26:18 : Isa 42:6; 49:6; 51:4; Jer 12:16
  95. Isaiah 26:19 : S Isa 25:8; Eph 5:14
  96. Isaiah 26:19 : Ps 22:29
  97. Isaiah 26:19 : S Ge 27:28; S Isa 18:4
  98. Isaiah 26:19 : Isa 66:24; Eze 37:1-14; Da 12:2
  99. Isaiah 26:20 : Ex 12:23
  100. Isaiah 26:20 : Ps 91:1, 4
  101. Isaiah 26:20 : S Isa 10:25; S 30:27
  102. Isaiah 26:20 : S Job 14:13
  103. Isaiah 26:21 : Isa 29:6; Jude 1:14
  104. Isaiah 26:21 : S Isa 18:4
  105. Isaiah 26:21 : S Isa 13:9, 11; 30:12-14
  106. Isaiah 26:21 : S Job 16:18; Lk 11:50-51
  107. Isaiah 27:1 : ver 13; S Isa 2:11; 28:5
  108. Isaiah 27:1 : S Ge 3:24; S Dt 32:41; Isa 31:8; 34:6; 65:12; 66:16; Eze 21:3; Na 3:15
  109. Isaiah 27:1 : S Job 3:8
  110. Isaiah 27:1 : Job 26:13
  111. Isaiah 27:1 : S Ps 68:30; S 74:13; Rev 12:9
  112. Isaiah 27:2 : Isa 24:21
  113. Isaiah 27:2 : S Isa 5:1
  114. Isaiah 27:2 : Jer 2:21
  115. Isaiah 27:3 : Isa 58:11
  116. Isaiah 27:3 : S Ps 91:4; S Isa 5:2
  117. Isaiah 27:3 : S Jn 6:39
  118. Isaiah 27:4 : S ver 11; S Isa 10:17; Mt 3:12; Heb 6:8
  119. Isaiah 27:5 : S Isa 25:4
  120. Isaiah 27:5 : S Job 22:21; S Ps 119:165; Ro 5:1; 2Co 5:20
  121. Isaiah 27:6 : S 2Ki 19:30; Isa 11:10
  122. Isaiah 27:6 : S Ge 40:10
  123. Isaiah 27:6 : S Ps 72:16; Isa 11:1; 37:31; Eze 17:23; 36:8; Hos 14:8
  124. Isaiah 27:7 : Isa 10:26; S 11:4; 37:36-38
  125. Isaiah 27:8 : Isa 49:14; 50:1; 54:7
  126. Isaiah 27:8 : S Ge 41:6
  127. Isaiah 27:9 : S Ps 78:38
  128. Isaiah 27:9 : Ro 11:27*
  129. Isaiah 27:9 : S Ex 23:24
  130. Isaiah 27:9 : S Ex 34:13
  131. Isaiah 27:9 : S Lev 26:30; S 2Ch 14:5
  132. Isaiah 27:10 : S Ge 1:2; S Dt 13:16; Isa 5:6; 32:14; Jer 10:22; 26:6; La 1:4; 5:18
  133. Isaiah 27:10 : S Isa 5:5
  134. Isaiah 27:10 : S Isa 5:17
  135. Isaiah 27:10 : Isa 17:2
  136. Isaiah 27:11 : S Isa 10:33
  137. Isaiah 27:11 : S ver 4; Isa 33:12
  138. Isaiah 27:11 : S Dt 32:28; S Isa 1:3
  139. Isaiah 27:11 : Dt 32:18; Isa 41:8; 43:1, 7, 15; 44:1-2, 21, 24
  140. Isaiah 27:11 : S Isa 9:17; Jer 11:16
  141. Isaiah 27:12 : S Isa 21:10; Mt 3:12
  142. Isaiah 27:12 : S Ge 15:18
  143. Isaiah 27:12 : S Dt 30:4; S Isa 1:9; S 11:12; S 17:6
  144. Isaiah 27:13 : S ver 1
  145. Isaiah 27:13 : S Lev 25:9; S Jdg 3:27; S Mt 24:31
  146. Isaiah 27:13 : S Ps 106:47
  147. Isaiah 27:13 : S Isa 10:19; 19:21, 25
  148. Isaiah 27:13 : S Ge 27:29; S Ps 22:29; S 86:9
  149. Isaiah 27:13 : S Isa 2:2
  150. Isaiah 28:1 : Isa 10:5; 29:1; 30:1; 31:1; 33:1
  151. Isaiah 28:1 : ver 3; Isa 7:2; 9:9
  152. Isaiah 28:1 : ver 4
  153. Isaiah 28:1 : S Lev 10:9; Isa 5:11; Hos 7:5; Am 6:6
  154. Isaiah 28:2 : Isa 40:10
  155. Isaiah 28:2 : S Jos 10:11
  156. Isaiah 28:2 : Isa 29:6
  157. Isaiah 28:2 : S Isa 8:7; S Da 9:26
  158. Isaiah 28:3 : S ver 1
  159. Isaiah 28:3 : S Job 40:12; S Isa 5:5
  160. Isaiah 28:4 : ver 1
  161. Isaiah 28:4 : S SS 2:13; Hos 9:10; Na 3:12
  162. Isaiah 28:5 : S Isa 10:20; S 27:1; 29:18; 30:23
  163. Isaiah 28:5 : S Isa 24:16, 23
  164. Isaiah 28:5 : Isa 62:3; Jer 13:18; Eze 16:12; 21:26; Zec 9:16
  165. Isaiah 28:5 : S Isa 1:9
  166. Isaiah 28:6 : S 2Sa 14:20; Isa 11:2-4; 32:1, 16; 33:5
  167. Isaiah 28:6 : Isa 4:4; Jn 5:30
  168. Isaiah 28:6 : Jdg 9:44-45; S 2Ch 32:8
  169. Isaiah 28:7 : S Isa 3:12
  170. Isaiah 28:7 : S Lev 10:9; S Isa 22:13; S Eph 5:18
  171. Isaiah 28:7 : S Ps 107:27
  172. Isaiah 28:7 : Isa 24:2
  173. Isaiah 28:7 : S Isa 9:15
  174. Isaiah 28:7 : S Isa 1:1; 29:11
  175. Isaiah 28:8 : Jer 48:26
  176. Isaiah 28:9 : ver 26; Ps 32:8; Isa 2:3; 30:20; 48:17; 50:4; 54:13; Jer 31:34; 32:33
  177. Isaiah 28:9 : Isa 52:7; 53:1
  178. Isaiah 28:9 : Ps 131:2
  179. Isaiah 28:9 : Heb 5:12-13; 1Pe 2:2
  180. Isaiah 28:10 : ver 13
  181. Isaiah 28:11 : S Ge 11:7; Isa 33:19; Jer 5:15
  182. Isaiah 28:11 : Eze 3:5; 1Co 14:21*
  183. Isaiah 28:12 : S Ex 14:14; S Jos 1:13; S Job 11:18; S Isa 11:10; Mt 11:28-29
  184. Isaiah 28:13 : ver 10
  185. Isaiah 28:13 : Mt 21:44
  186. Isaiah 28:13 : S Isa 8:15
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Galatians 3:10-22

10 For all who rely on the works of the law(A) are under a curse,(B) as it is written: “Cursed is everyone who does not continue to do everything written in the Book of the Law.”[a](C) 11 Clearly no one who relies on the law is justified before God,(D) because “the righteous will live by faith.”[b](E) 12 The law is not based on faith; on the contrary, it says, “The person who does these things will live by them.”[c](F) 13 Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law(G) by becoming a curse for us, for it is written: “Cursed is everyone who is hung on a pole.”[d](H) 14 He redeemed us in order that the blessing given to Abraham might come to the Gentiles through Christ Jesus,(I) so that by faith we might receive the promise of the Spirit.(J)

The Law and the Promise

15 Brothers and sisters,(K) let me take an example from everyday life. Just as no one can set aside or add to a human covenant that has been duly established, so it is in this case. 16 The promises were spoken to Abraham and to his seed.(L) Scripture does not say “and to seeds,” meaning many people, but “and to your seed,”[e](M) meaning one person, who is Christ. 17 What I mean is this: The law, introduced 430 years(N) later, does not set aside the covenant previously established by God and thus do away with the promise. 18 For if the inheritance depends on the law, then it no longer depends on the promise;(O) but God in his grace gave it to Abraham through a promise.

19 Why, then, was the law given at all? It was added because of transgressions(P) until the Seed(Q) to whom the promise referred had come. The law was given through angels(R) and entrusted to a mediator.(S) 20 A mediator,(T) however, implies more than one party; but God is one.

21 Is the law, therefore, opposed to the promises of God? Absolutely not!(U) For if a law had been given that could impart life, then righteousness would certainly have come by the law.(V) 22 But Scripture has locked up everything under the control of sin,(W) so that what was promised, being given through faith in Jesus Christ, might be given to those who believe.

Footnotes:

  1. Galatians 3:10 Deut. 27:26
  2. Galatians 3:11 Hab. 2:4
  3. Galatians 3:12 Lev. 18:5
  4. Galatians 3:13 Deut. 21:23
  5. Galatians 3:16 Gen. 12:7; 13:15; 24:7

Cross references:

  1. Galatians 3:10 : ver 2, 5; Gal 2:16
  2. Galatians 3:10 : ver 13; S Ro 4:15
  3. Galatians 3:10 : Dt 27:26; Jer 11:3
  4. Galatians 3:11 : S Ro 3:28
  5. Galatians 3:11 : Hab 2:4; S Ro 9:30; Heb 10:38
  6. Galatians 3:12 : Lev 18:5; S Ro 10:5
  7. Galatians 3:13 : Gal 4:5
  8. Galatians 3:13 : Dt 21:23; S Ac 5:30
  9. Galatians 3:14 : Ro 4:9, 16
  10. Galatians 3:14 : ver 2; Joel 2:28; S Jn 20:22; S Ac 2:33
  11. Galatians 3:15 : S Ro 7:1
  12. Galatians 3:16 : Ge 17:19; Ps 132:11; Mic 7:20; Lk 1:55; Ro 4:13, 16; 9:4, 8; Gal 3:29; 4:28
  13. Galatians 3:16 : Ge 12:7; 13:15; 17:7, 8, 10; 24:7
  14. Galatians 3:17 : Ge 15:13, 14; Ex 12:40; Ac 7:6
  15. Galatians 3:18 : Ro 4:14
  16. Galatians 3:19 : Ro 5:20
  17. Galatians 3:19 : ver 16
  18. Galatians 3:19 : Dt 33:2; Ac 7:53
  19. Galatians 3:19 : Ex 20:19; Dt 5:5
  20. Galatians 3:20 : 1Ti 2:5; Heb 8:6; 9:15; 12:24
  21. Galatians 3:21 : Gal 2:17; S Ro 7:12
  22. Galatians 3:21 : Gal 2:21
  23. Galatians 3:22 : Ro 3:9-19; 11:32
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Psalm 61

Psalm 61[a]

For the director of music. With stringed instruments. Of David.

1 Hear my cry, O God;(A)
listen to my prayer.(B)

2 From the ends of the earth I call to you,
I call as my heart grows faint;(C)
lead me to the rock(D) that is higher than I.
3 For you have been my refuge,(E)
a strong tower against the foe.(F)

4 I long to dwell(G) in your tent forever
and take refuge in the shelter of your wings.[b](H)
5 For you, God, have heard my vows;(I)
you have given me the heritage of those who fear your name.(J)

6 Increase the days of the king’s life,(K)
his years for many generations.(L)
7 May he be enthroned in God’s presence forever;(M)
appoint your love and faithfulness to protect him.(N)

8 Then I will ever sing in praise of your name(O)
and fulfill my vows day after day.(P)

Footnotes:

  1. Psalm 61:1 In Hebrew texts 61:1-8 is numbered 61:2-9.
  2. Psalm 61:4 The Hebrew has Selah (a word of uncertain meaning) here.

Cross references:

  1. Psalm 61:1 : Ps 64:1
  2. Psalm 61:1 : Ps 4:1; 86:6
  3. Psalm 61:2 : S Ps 6:2
  4. Psalm 61:2 : Ps 18:2; 31:2; 94:22
  5. Psalm 61:3 : Ps 9:9; S 46:1; 62:7
  6. Psalm 61:3 : Ps 59:9; Pr 18:10
  7. Psalm 61:4 : S Ps 15:1
  8. Psalm 61:4 : S Dt 32:11; S Mt 23:37
  9. Psalm 61:5 : S Nu 30:2; Ps 56:12
  10. Psalm 61:5 : S Ex 6:3; S Dt 33:9; Ne 1:11; Ps 102:15; Isa 59:19; Mt 6:9
  11. Psalm 61:6 : 1Ki 3:14
  12. Psalm 61:6 : S Ps 21:4
  13. Psalm 61:7 : S Ps 41:12; Lk 22:69; Eph 1:20; Col 3:1
  14. Psalm 61:7 : Ps 40:11
  15. Psalm 61:8 : S Ex 15:1; Ps 7:17; 30:4
  16. Psalm 61:8 : S Nu 30:2; S Dt 23:21
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Proverbs 23:17-18

Saying 15

17 Do not let your heart envy(A) sinners,
but always be zealous for the fear of the Lord.
18 There is surely a future hope for you,
and your hope will not be cut off.(B)

Cross references:

  1. Proverbs 23:17 : S Ps 37:1; S 73:3
  2. Proverbs 23:18 : S Ps 9:18; 37:1-4; Pr 24:14, 19-20
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9/16/2022 DAB Transcript

Isaiah 22:1-24:23, Galatians 2:17-3:9, Psalm 60:1-12, Proverbs 23:15-16

Today is the 16th day of September, welcome to the Daily Audio Bible. I am Brian and here we are, in the middle of another one of our months, seems like we get to a brand-new, shiny, sparkly month, we step into it, we take a few days to move into it and all the sudden we’re halfway through it. And so, here we are, crossing through the center of another month. I guess we’re a little bit past the center of another month. But here we are. And it is fantastic to be around the Global Campfire together with you today. Our next step forward leads us back into the book of Isaiah, we’re reading from the New International Version this week, and today, Isaiah chapters 22, 23 and 24.

Commentary:

Okay so, in the letter to the Galatians today, Paul is laying out what has become foundational doctrine in the Christian faith. And a lot of what we read today, should at least echo familiar, like, we kind of heard this before, even if we haven’t read the Bible before, because so much of this is in the letter to the Romans. But as we continue the Jew, Gentile controversy that existed in the early church and what Paul is saying to Jewish people, which is that you believe in Jesus the law has been fulfilled, you don’t have anything to live up to, your faith, you are justified by your faith. And an unpacking that, we find one of the most famous New Testament passages in the Bible. I have been crucified with Christ, it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives within me. And it’s no wonder that that is one of the most famous passages in the New Testament, because in one sentence it encapsulates our reality. This is a sentence that Paul uses to describe how the law is not a way to be justified before God. Rather faith is a way to be justified before God. If you’ve been crucified and you no longer live, you’re dead. And as Paul unpacked in the letter to the Romans, a person who’s dead, is not bound by any laws anymore and he used marriage as…as the illustration in the letter to the Romans. If a woman is married and she is bound by covenant by the law to her husband, if her husband dies, she is no longer bound by that covenant or law because her husband is no longer living. She is free from the law and her freedom allows her to fall in love and remarry if that’s what she should chooses to do and there will be nothing wrong with that, that wouldn’t be adultery in any sort of way. She is no longer bound to the law, her husband’s died. Paul is saying, I have been crucified with Christ, it is no longer I who live, it’s Christ who lives in me, right. So, Paul can’t live up to the law, but Paul died and is no longer bound by the law, Paul has been resurrected in a spiritual sense, and it is no longer Paul who is alive, it is Christ animating that life, and Christ has fulfilled the law. And so, that is a theological understanding, but the implications are astounding. Like, we could really spend the day or the rest of our lives thinking about the fact that, who we were, actually ended and who we are is a new creature, Christ animates our lives. So, Paul concludes that he died to the law so that he could actually live for God. Or to put it back in Paul’s own words in its context “for through the law I died to the law so that I might live for God, I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. I do not set aside the grace of God for if righteousness could be gained through the law, Christ died for nothing.” 2000 years later with believers in Jesus all over the world, this doesn’t seem controversy or subversive or anything like that. But when Paul is saying these things, they are definitely provocative at minimum and in the view of many of Paul’s fellow Pharisees heretical and worthy of death because Paul isn’t saying that the law has no purpose, and it should be burned and done away with. But he is saying that the law will not get you justified before God. This is fundamental and foundational in the Hebrew context. So, Paul is saying provocative things, at minimum, Paul invites the Galatians just to think this through. Think about it, and I quote Paul here, “I’d like to learn just one thing from you, did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law, or by believing what you heard.” Right, so, Paul’s saying like, here’s the theological framework, but let me just ask you about your experience. He’s trying to tell them like, look, the Holy Spirit is upon you, did that that happen because you perfectly obeyed the law, or because you believed in Jesus? And this becomes important to us, actually, because even though we have freedom in Christ, and that would be understood throughout the church. We have all kinds of rules, all kinds of things that we’re trying to adhere to, and we think that if we do it well, we set ourselves up for blessing from God. That maybe our good efforts can’t save us, but there’s all kinds of stuff we should do to do this right and that’s true, like there’s nothing wrong with obeying what the Bible tells us the posture of our heart should be. But if we look into our own heart and if we just take a gander scrolling through social media, we have a lot of opinions about who’s doing it wrong, and we attach all kinds of labels to that sort of thing. When in fact we have nothing to say about anyone else. We don’t have any authority over that person’s soul, only Jesus can save them and only Jesus can save us and only the Holy Spirit can lead us into all truth. Our job is to remember who we are. We have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer we who live, it is Christ who lives with us, and we submit and humble ourselves to that reality by recognizing that we live each day as a living sacrifice to God, holy and acceptable. So, in many ways, as we read through Galatians, we’re covering territory that Paul has covered in Romans but we’re gonna continue through the letters of Paul and many of these things can be review, but there is no harm in us reviewing the fundamentals of the reality that we believe in, because if we examine our lives, we can know this to be true theologically or even intellectually, but are we living this truth? Is this how we live because it’s our reality or is it a bit of information that we agree with, but we live a totally different way? Some good things to think about today.

Prayer:

And so, Holy Spirit, we invite You into that, are we trying to obey an unwritten law, are we trying to create a law that will govern our culture, are we trying to live up to something that we could never live up to in the first place, or are we recognizing that every day we live is a day of faith and the reality that we have been made new? Are we really living like we’ve been made new? Or like the ancient Hebrew people, are we living on the law that we can never live up to? So, we will never be made new, and we will never be righteous, because really the way that we view we are, changes everything about how we live. May this sink deep, deep into our hearts, may this sink down right to where our identity lives. We are Your people. We have faith in what You are telling us. This changes our identity; may we live like it. We ask in the name of Jesus. Amen.

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Prayer and Encouragements:

Good morning, DAB family. This is Joyous Janice here. It’s been a long while since I’ve called in. Thank you all who have prayed for me over the last two years since I lost my husband. I had asked prayers, that the Lord would restore my joy. And I have a praise report. He is doing it as I speak. I was praying Jeremiah 31:3-4 over myself. I have loved you with an everlasting love. Crowned you with unfailing kindness. I will build you up again and you will be rebuilt. Again, you will take up your tambourines and go out and dance with the joyful. Most recently He has restored my joy indeed and He did stick by me the whole, through all of this time. I can feel the joy of the Lord bursting from my heart. And I am finally able to pick up my ukulele and not my timbrels and sing joyful songs. I just love all of you who prayed for you, for me and I just praise the Lord for the work He continues to do in my life. And I pray for those of you out there who are going through that valley. That he will rebuild you and help you to go out and dance with the joyful. Praise God.

Hey beautiful DAB family, this is Coffee Bean. I used to call in as Missy from the Midwest but I’m now adopting the name Coffee Bean. And the reason for that is a dear prayer warrior friend of mine, sent me something that I just fell in love with, via text, last week. She said, we have three responses that we can have when difficulties come, and if we liken that to boiling water our response can be like that of a carrot where we become soft, and the world affects us and gets inside. The other is we can be like an egg, become hard, hard towards other in the world, others in the world. And our response is just hardness. Or we can be like a Coffee Bean when hot water, boiling water is poured over it, where we make everything better. We enhance that around us. We bring flavor, we bring life, we bring energy. So, I love that, so I’m Coffee Bean and I also love coffee, so it’s very fitting. The reason, the main reason for my call today is to lift up my dear friend Heather. Heather has a 23-year-old son, Henry, who just discovered purely, kind of by accident, that he has testicular cancer. He had surgery and their waiting on pathology reports and what treatment will be from there. But tumor markers look high so, she’s extremely concerned. Please lift up this wonderful Christian family. And that the correct procedures would be done, and they would be directed to the correct doctors. Thanks, love you all.

Hi family, this is Maurice from Florida. And I’m calling to request prayers from each and every one of you, if possible. I have recently taken myself to the Lord cause it seems as if everything is just, I’m in and out of the hospital with high blood pressure. On top of flu, influenza, this COVID, it’s one thing after the other and I can’t get the Lord’s help. Pray, I’m living in society and just need prayers. I’m praying every day that I could show you all the prayers I can get. Thank you, family, I bless each and every one of you and I pray for all of you all the time. God bless, each and every one of you.

Dear DAB family, this is your sister Ashley from California. And I am so grateful for this community. When others call in reaching out for help, there are times when it fits right for my heart too. And I am so grateful for the fact that the word is the lamp unto my feet and that God promises to lead the way. And I’m calling today because like Paul, in Romans 7 said, the other day I did something I hate towards my sister. And I didn’t do what I wanted to. And right now, I need the Holy Spirit, I’m in desperate need for the Lord to super naturally step in and help. Because it’s only through Him that things can be made right. Please pray for that reconciliation but I would be put to apologize and that there would be forgiveness but also like, understanding of wisdom to rebuild trust and that we could, we could work on that. And I could just use some encouragement family. Alright, I hope you guys have a great day. Thank you, this is your sister Ashley from California. Thank you, guys, bye.

Hello DAB family, this is Bubba D back in Tennessee, praying today, August 13th for the lady who shared about her ex-husband and two kids. Lord God, we ask that You would bless this woman, give her wisdom, give her strength to see what’s the best decision, how to do right by her kids. Give her your revelation Father. We pray that the enemy would not have dominion over her mind and the blame that it’s all her fault or the kids taking the blame that it’s their fault. We know that’s not the truth. And yet Lord, that’s what the enemy does with our heart and our soul, and they conflict with any separation, there’s this guilt and shame and hopelessness that the enemy’s trying to get set in to distort God’s image. Father, I pray for this lady and the kids, her ex-husband. Lord God, would you deal with that? Would you give them Your encouragement? For all the prayers on this podcast and all the friends that she has in her life, Father. Bless them, help them see that they’re loved, that they’re cherished by You and that You’re right there with them. Thank You Abbah, in Your precious son Jesus’ name we pray. Amen. God bless everyone and thanks Brian for the podcast. I’ve been listening for about three years now. It’s been an amazing blessing in my life. Peace.

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9/16/2022 DAB Transcript

Isaiah 22:1-24:23, Galatians 2:17-3:9, Psalm 60:1-12, Proverbs 23:15-16

Today is the 16th day of September, welcome to the Daily Audio Bible. I am Brian and here we are, in the middle of another one of our months, seems like we get to a brand-new, shiny, sparkly month, we step into it, we take a few days to move into it and all the sudden we’re halfway through it. And so, here we are, crossing through the center of another month. I guess we’re a little bit past the center of another month. But here we are. And it is fantastic to be around the Global Campfire together with you today. Our next step forward leads us back into the book of Isaiah, we’re reading from the New International Version this week, and today, Isaiah chapters 22, 23 and 24.

Commentary:

Okay so, in the letter to the Galatians today, Paul is laying out what has become foundational doctrine in the Christian faith. And a lot of what we read today, should at least echo familiar, like, we kind of heard this before, even if we haven’t read the Bible before, because so much of this is in the letter to the Romans. But as we continue the Jew, Gentile controversy that existed in the early church and what Paul is saying to Jewish people, which is that you believe in Jesus the law has been fulfilled, you don’t have anything to live up to, your faith, you are justified by your faith. And an unpacking that, we find one of the most famous New Testament passages in the Bible. I have been crucified with Christ, it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives within me. And it’s no wonder that that is one of the most famous passages in the New Testament, because in one sentence it encapsulates our reality. This is a sentence that Paul uses to describe how the law is not a way to be justified before God. Rather faith is a way to be justified before God. If you’ve been crucified and you no longer live, you’re dead. And as Paul unpacked in the letter to the Romans, a person who’s dead, is not bound by any laws anymore and he used marriage as…as the illustration in the letter to the Romans. If a woman is married and she is bound by covenant by the law to her husband, if her husband dies, she is no longer bound by that covenant or law because her husband is no longer living. She is free from the law and her freedom allows her to fall in love and remarry if that’s what she should chooses to do and there will be nothing wrong with that, that wouldn’t be adultery in any sort of way. She is no longer bound to the law, her husband’s died. Paul is saying, I have been crucified with Christ, it is no longer I who live, it’s Christ who lives in me, right. So, Paul can’t live up to the law, but Paul died and is no longer bound by the law, Paul has been resurrected in a spiritual sense, and it is no longer Paul who is alive, it is Christ animating that life, and Christ has fulfilled the law. And so, that is a theological understanding, but the implications are astounding. Like, we could really spend the day or the rest of our lives thinking about the fact that, who we were, actually ended and who we are is a new creature, Christ animates our lives. So, Paul concludes that he died to the law so that he could actually live for God. Or to put it back in Paul’s own words in its context “for through the law I died to the law so that I might live for God, I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. I do not set aside the grace of God for if righteousness could be gained through the law, Christ died for nothing.” 2000 years later with believers in Jesus all over the world, this doesn’t seem controversy or subversive or anything like that. But when Paul is saying these things, they are definitely provocative at minimum and in the view of many of Paul’s fellow Pharisees heretical and worthy of death because Paul isn’t saying that the law has no purpose, and it should be burned and done away with. But he is saying that the law will not get you justified before God. This is fundamental and foundational in the Hebrew context. So, Paul is saying provocative things, at minimum, Paul invites the Galatians just to think this through. Think about it, and I quote Paul here, “I’d like to learn just one thing from you, did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law, or by believing what you heard.” Right, so, Paul’s saying like, here’s the theological framework, but let me just ask you about your experience. He’s trying to tell them like, look, the Holy Spirit is upon you, did that that happen because you perfectly obeyed the law, or because you believed in Jesus? And this becomes important to us, actually, because even though we have freedom in Christ, and that would be understood throughout the church. We have all kinds of rules, all kinds of things that we’re trying to adhere to, and we think that if we do it well, we set ourselves up for blessing from God. That maybe our good efforts can’t save us, but there’s all kinds of stuff we should do to do this right and that’s true, like there’s nothing wrong with obeying what the Bible tells us the posture of our heart should be. But if we look into our own heart and if we just take a gander scrolling through social media, we have a lot of opinions about who’s doing it wrong, and we attach all kinds of labels to that sort of thing. When in fact we have nothing to say about anyone else. We don’t have any authority over that person’s soul, only Jesus can save them and only Jesus can save us and only the Holy Spirit can lead us into all truth. Our job is to remember who we are. We have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer we who live, it is Christ who lives with us, and we submit and humble ourselves to that reality by recognizing that we live each day as a living sacrifice to God, holy and acceptable. So, in many ways, as we read through Galatians, we’re covering territory that Paul has covered in Romans but we’re gonna continue through the letters of Paul and many of these things can be review, but there is no harm in us reviewing the fundamentals of the reality that we believe in, because if we examine our lives, we can know this to be true theologically or even intellectually, but are we living this truth? Is this how we live because it’s our reality or is it a bit of information that we agree with, but we live a totally different way? Some good things to think about today.

Prayer:

And so, Holy Spirit, we invite You into that, are we trying to obey an unwritten law, are we trying to create a law that will govern our culture, are we trying to live up to something that we could never live up to in the first place, or are we recognizing that every day we live is a day of faith and the reality that we have been made new? Are we really living like we’ve been made new? Or like the ancient Hebrew people, are we living on the law that we can never live up to? So, we will never be made new, and we will never be righteous, because really the way that we view we are, changes everything about how we live. May this sink deep, deep into our hearts, may this sink down right to where our identity lives. We are Your people. We have faith in what You are telling us. This changes our identity; may we live like it. We ask in the name of Jesus. Amen.

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Prayer and Encouragements:

Good morning, DAB family. This is Joyous Janice here. It’s been a long while since I’ve called in. Thank you all who have prayed for me over the last two years since I lost my husband. I had asked prayers, that the Lord would restore my joy. And I have a praise report. He is doing it as I speak. I was praying Jeremiah 31:3-4 over myself. I have loved you with an everlasting love. Crowned you with unfailing kindness. I will build you up again and you will be rebuilt. Again, you will take up your tambourines and go out and dance with the joyful. Most recently He has restored my joy indeed and He did stick by me the whole, through all of this time. I can feel the joy of the Lord bursting from my heart. And I am finally able to pick up my ukulele and not my timbrels and sing joyful songs. I just love all of you who prayed for you, for me and I just praise the Lord for the work He continues to do in my life. And I pray for those of you out there who are going through that valley. That he will rebuild you and help you to go out and dance with the joyful. Praise God.

Hey beautiful DAB family, this is Coffee Bean. I used to call in as Missy from the Midwest but I’m now adopting the name Coffee Bean. And the reason for that is a dear prayer warrior friend of mine, sent me something that I just fell in love with, via text, last week. She said, we have three responses that we can have when difficulties come, and if we liken that to boiling water our response can be like that of a carrot where we become soft, and the world affects us and gets inside. The other is we can be like an egg, become hard, hard towards other in the world, others in the world. And our response is just hardness. Or we can be like a Coffee Bean when hot water, boiling water is poured over it, where we make everything better. We enhance that around us. We bring flavor, we bring life, we bring energy. So, I love that, so I’m Coffee Bean and I also love coffee, so it’s very fitting. The reason, the main reason for my call today is to lift up my dear friend Heather. Heather has a 23-year-old son, Henry, who just discovered purely, kind of by accident, that he has testicular cancer. He had surgery and their waiting on pathology reports and what treatment will be from there. But tumor markers look high so, she’s extremely concerned. Please lift up this wonderful Christian family. And that the correct procedures would be done, and they would be directed to the correct doctors. Thanks, love you all.

Hi family, this is Maurice from Florida. And I’m calling to request prayers from each and every one of you, if possible. I have recently taken myself to the Lord cause it seems as if everything is just, I’m in and out of the hospital with high blood pressure. On top of flu, influenza, this COVID, it’s one thing after the other and I can’t get the Lord’s help. Pray, I’m living in society and just need prayers. I’m praying every day that I could show you all the prayers I can get. Thank you, family, I bless each and every one of you and I pray for all of you all the time. God bless, each and every one of you.

Dear DAB family, this is your sister Ashley from California. And I am so grateful for this community. When others call in reaching out for help, there are times when it fits right for my heart too. And I am so grateful for the fact that the word is the lamp unto my feet and that God promises to lead the way. And I’m calling today because like Paul, in Romans 7 said, the other day I did something I hate towards my sister. And I didn’t do what I wanted to. And right now, I need the Holy Spirit, I’m in desperate need for the Lord to super naturally step in and help. Because it’s only through Him that things can be made right. Please pray for that reconciliation but I would be put to apologize and that there would be forgiveness but also like, understanding of wisdom to rebuild trust and that we could, we could work on that. And I could just use some encouragement family. Alright, I hope you guys have a great day. Thank you, this is your sister Ashley from California. Thank you, guys, bye.

Hello DAB family, this is Bubba D back in Tennessee, praying today, August 13th for the lady who shared about her ex-husband and two kids. Lord God, we ask that You would bless this woman, give her wisdom, give her strength to see what’s the best decision, how to do right by her kids. Give her your revelation Father. We pray that the enemy would not have dominion over her mind and the blame that it’s all her fault or the kids taking the blame that it’s their fault. We know that’s not the truth. And yet Lord, that’s what the enemy does with our heart and our soul, and they conflict with any separation, there’s this guilt and shame and hopelessness that the enemy’s trying to get set in to distort God’s image. Father, I pray for this lady and the kids, her ex-husband. Lord God, would you deal with that? Would you give them Your encouragement? For all the prayers on this podcast and all the friends that she has in her life, Father. Bless them, help them see that they’re loved, that they’re cherished by You and that You’re right there with them. Thank You Abbah, in Your precious son Jesus’ name we pray. Amen. God bless everyone and thanks Brian for the podcast. I’ve been listening for about three years now. It’s been an amazing blessing in my life. Peace.

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The Daily Audio Bible Reading for Friday September 16, 2022 (NIV)

Isaiah 22-24

A Prophecy About Jerusalem

22 A prophecy(A) against the Valley(B) of Vision:(C)

What troubles you now,
that you have all gone up on the roofs,(D)
2 you town so full of commotion,
you city of tumult(E) and revelry?(F)
Your slain(G) were not killed by the sword,(H)
nor did they die in battle.
3 All your leaders have fled(I) together;
they have been captured(J) without using the bow.
All you who were caught were taken prisoner together,
having fled while the enemy was still far away.
4 Therefore I said, “Turn away from me;
let me weep(K) bitterly.
Do not try to console me
over the destruction of my people.”(L)

5 The Lord, the Lord Almighty, has a day(M)
of tumult and trampling(N) and terror(O)
in the Valley of Vision,(P)
a day of battering down walls(Q)
and of crying out to the mountains.
6 Elam(R) takes up the quiver,(S)
with her charioteers and horses;
Kir(T) uncovers the shield.
7 Your choicest valleys(U) are full of chariots,
and horsemen are posted at the city gates.(V)

8 The Lord stripped away the defenses of Judah,
and you looked in that day(W)
to the weapons(X) in the Palace of the Forest.(Y)
9 You saw that the walls of the City of David
were broken through(Z) in many places;
you stored up water
in the Lower Pool.(AA)
10 You counted the buildings in Jerusalem
and tore down houses(AB) to strengthen the wall.(AC)
11 You built a reservoir between the two walls(AD)
for the water of the Old Pool,(AE)
but you did not look to the One who made it,
or have regard(AF) for the One who planned(AG) it long ago.

12 The Lord, the Lord Almighty,
called you on that day(AH)
to weep(AI) and to wail,
to tear out your hair(AJ) and put on sackcloth.(AK)
13 But see, there is joy and revelry,(AL)
slaughtering of cattle and killing of sheep,
eating of meat and drinking of wine!(AM)
“Let us eat and drink,” you say,
“for tomorrow we die!”(AN)

14 The Lord Almighty has revealed this in my hearing:(AO) “Till your dying day this sin will not be atoned(AP) for,” says the Lord, the Lord Almighty.

15 This is what the Lord, the Lord Almighty, says:

“Go, say to this steward,
to Shebna(AQ) the palace(AR) administrator:(AS)
16 What are you doing here and who gave you permission
to cut out a grave(AT) for yourself(AU) here,
hewing your grave on the height
and chiseling your resting place in the rock?

17 “Beware, the Lord is about to take firm hold of you
and hurl(AV) you away, you mighty man.
18 He will roll you up tightly like a ball
and throw(AW) you into a large country.
There you will die
and there the chariots(AX) you were so proud of
will become a disgrace to your master’s house.
19 I will depose you from your office,
and you will be ousted(AY) from your position.(AZ)

20 “In that day(BA) I will summon my servant,(BB) Eliakim(BC) son of Hilkiah. 21 I will clothe him with your robe and fasten your sash(BD) around him and hand your authority(BE) over to him. He will be a father to those who live in Jerusalem and to the people of Judah. 22 I will place on his shoulder(BF) the key(BG) to the house of David;(BH) what he opens no one can shut, and what he shuts no one can open.(BI) 23 I will drive him like a peg(BJ) into a firm place;(BK) he will become a seat[a] of honor(BL) for the house of his father. 24 All the glory of his family will hang on him: its offspring and offshoots—all its lesser vessels, from the bowls to all the jars.

25 “In that day,(BM)” declares the Lord Almighty, “the peg(BN) driven into the firm place will give way; it will be sheared off and will fall, and the load hanging on it will be cut down.” The Lord has spoken.(BO)

A Prophecy Against Tyre

23 A prophecy against Tyre:(BP)

Wail,(BQ) you ships(BR) of Tarshish!(BS)
For Tyre is destroyed(BT)
and left without house or harbor.
From the land of Cyprus
word has come to them.

2 Be silent,(BU) you people of the island
and you merchants(BV) of Sidon,(BW)
whom the seafarers have enriched.
3 On the great waters
came the grain of the Shihor;(BX)
the harvest of the Nile[b](BY) was the revenue of Tyre,(BZ)
and she became the marketplace of the nations.

4 Be ashamed, Sidon,(CA) and you fortress of the sea,
for the sea has spoken:
“I have neither been in labor nor given birth;(CB)
I have neither reared sons nor brought up daughters.”
5 When word comes to Egypt,
they will be in anguish(CC) at the report from Tyre.(CD)

6 Cross over to Tarshish;(CE)
wail, you people of the island.
7 Is this your city of revelry,(CF)
the old, old city,
whose feet have taken her
to settle in far-off lands?
8 Who planned this against Tyre,
the bestower of crowns,
whose merchants(CG) are princes,
whose traders(CH) are renowned in the earth?
9 The Lord Almighty planned(CI) it,
to bring down(CJ) her pride in all her splendor
and to humble(CK) all who are renowned(CL) on the earth.

10 Till[c] your land as they do along the Nile,
Daughter Tarshish,
for you no longer have a harbor.
11 The Lord has stretched out his hand(CM) over the sea
and made its kingdoms tremble.(CN)
He has given an order concerning Phoenicia
that her fortresses be destroyed.(CO)
12 He said, “No more of your reveling,(CP)
Virgin Daughter(CQ) Sidon, now crushed!

“Up, cross over to Cyprus;(CR)
even there you will find no rest.”
13 Look at the land of the Babylonians,[d](CS)
this people that is now of no account!
The Assyrians(CT) have made it
a place for desert creatures;(CU)
they raised up their siege towers,(CV)
they stripped its fortresses bare
and turned it into a ruin.(CW)

14 Wail, you ships(CX) of Tarshish;(CY)
your fortress is destroyed!(CZ)

15 At that time Tyre(DA) will be forgotten for seventy years,(DB) the span of a king’s life. But at the end of these seventy years, it will happen to Tyre as in the song of the prostitute:

16 “Take up a harp, walk through the city,
you forgotten prostitute;(DC)
play the harp well, sing many a song,
so that you will be remembered.”

17 At the end of seventy years,(DD) the Lord will deal with Tyre. She will return to her lucrative prostitution(DE) and will ply her trade with all the kingdoms on the face of the earth.(DF) 18 Yet her profit and her earnings will be set apart for the Lord;(DG) they will not be stored up or hoarded. Her profits will go to those who live before the Lord,(DH) for abundant food and fine clothes.(DI)

The Lord’s Devastation of the Earth

24 See, the Lord is going to lay waste the earth(DJ)
and devastate(DK) it;
he will ruin its face
and scatter(DL) its inhabitants—
2 it will be the same
for priest as for people,(DM)
for the master as for his servant,
for the mistress as for her servant,
for seller as for buyer,(DN)
for borrower as for lender,
for debtor as for creditor.(DO)
3 The earth will be completely laid waste(DP)
and totally plundered.(DQ)
The Lord has spoken(DR) this word.

4 The earth dries up(DS) and withers,(DT)
the world languishes and withers,
the heavens(DU) languish with the earth.(DV)
5 The earth is defiled(DW) by its people;
they have disobeyed(DX) the laws,
violated the statutes
and broken the everlasting covenant.(DY)
6 Therefore a curse(DZ) consumes the earth;
its people must bear their guilt.
Therefore earth’s inhabitants are burned up,(EA)
and very few are left.
7 The new wine dries up(EB) and the vine withers;(EC)
all the merrymakers groan.(ED)
8 The joyful timbrels(EE) are stilled,
the noise(EF) of the revelers(EG) has stopped,
the joyful harp(EH) is silent.(EI)
9 No longer do they drink wine(EJ) with a song;
the beer is bitter(EK) to its drinkers.
10 The ruined city(EL) lies desolate;(EM)
the entrance to every house is barred.
11 In the streets they cry out(EN) for wine;(EO)
all joy turns to gloom,(EP)
all joyful sounds are banished from the earth.
12 The city is left in ruins,(EQ)
its gate(ER) is battered to pieces.
13 So will it be on the earth
and among the nations,
as when an olive tree is beaten,(ES)
or as when gleanings are left after the grape harvest.(ET)

14 They raise their voices, they shout for joy;(EU)
from the west(EV) they acclaim the Lord’s majesty.
15 Therefore in the east(EW) give glory(EX) to the Lord;
exalt(EY) the name(EZ) of the Lord, the God of Israel,
in the islands(FA) of the sea.
16 From the ends of the earth(FB) we hear singing:(FC)
“Glory(FD) to the Righteous One.”(FE)

But I said, “I waste away, I waste away!(FF)
Woe(FG) to me!
The treacherous(FH) betray!
With treachery the treacherous betray!(FI)”
17 Terror(FJ) and pit and snare(FK) await you,
people of the earth.(FL)
18 Whoever flees(FM) at the sound of terror
will fall into a pit;(FN)
whoever climbs out of the pit
will be caught in a snare.(FO)

The floodgates of the heavens(FP) are opened,
the foundations of the earth shake.(FQ)
19 The earth is broken up,(FR)
the earth is split asunder,(FS)
the earth is violently shaken.
20 The earth reels like a drunkard,(FT)
it sways like a hut(FU) in the wind;
so heavy upon it is the guilt of its rebellion(FV)
that it falls(FW)—never to rise again.(FX)

21 In that day(FY) the Lord will punish(FZ)
the powers(GA) in the heavens above
and the kings(GB) on the earth below.
22 They will be herded together
like prisoners(GC) bound in a dungeon;(GD)
they will be shut up in prison
and be punished[e] after many days.(GE)
23 The moon will be dismayed,
the sun(GF) ashamed;
for the Lord Almighty will reign(GG)
on Mount Zion(GH) and in Jerusalem,
and before its elders—with great glory.(GI)

Footnotes:

  1. Isaiah 22:23 Or throne
  2. Isaiah 23:3 Masoretic Text; Dead Sea Scrolls Sidon, / who cross over the sea; / your envoys 3 are on the great waters. / The grain of the Shihor, / the harvest of the Nile,
  3. Isaiah 23:10 Dead Sea Scrolls and some Septuagint manuscripts; Masoretic Text Go through
  4. Isaiah 23:13 Or Chaldeans
  5. Isaiah 24:22 Or released

Cross references:

  1. Isaiah 22:1 : Isa 13:1
  2. Isaiah 22:1 : Ps 125:2; Jer 21:13; Joel 3:2, 12, 14
  3. Isaiah 22:1 : S Isa 1:1
  4. Isaiah 22:1 : S Jos 2:8; Jer 48:38
  5. Isaiah 22:2 : Eze 22:5
  6. Isaiah 22:2 : S Isa 5:14; S 21:5
  7. Isaiah 22:2 : S Isa 10:4
  8. Isaiah 22:2 : S 2Ki 25:3
  9. Isaiah 22:3 : S Isa 13:14
  10. Isaiah 22:3 : S 2Ki 25:6
  11. Isaiah 22:4 : S Isa 15:3; S La 1:16; Eze 21:6; Lk 19:41
  12. Isaiah 22:4 : Jer 9:1
  13. Isaiah 22:5 : S Isa 2:12
  14. Isaiah 22:5 : S Job 40:12; S Ps 108:13
  15. Isaiah 22:5 : S 2Sa 22:43; Isa 13:3; Jer 30:7; La 1:5; Eze 8:17-18; 9:9-10; Joel 2:31; Am 5:18-20; Zep 1:15
  16. Isaiah 22:5 : S Isa 1:1
  17. Isaiah 22:5 : Ne 6:15; S Ps 89:40; Isa 5:5; Jer 39:8; Eze 13:14
  18. Isaiah 22:6 : S Isa 21:2
  19. Isaiah 22:6 : Ps 46:9; Jer 49:35; 51:56
  20. Isaiah 22:6 : S 2Ki 16:9
  21. Isaiah 22:7 : Jos 15:8
  22. Isaiah 22:7 : S 2Ch 32:1-2
  23. Isaiah 22:8 : S Isa 2:12
  24. Isaiah 22:8 : S 2Ch 32:5
  25. Isaiah 22:8 : S 1Ki 7:2
  26. Isaiah 22:9 : S Ne 1:3
  27. Isaiah 22:9 : S 2Ki 18:17; S 2Ch 32:4
  28. Isaiah 22:10 : Jer 33:4
  29. Isaiah 22:10 : S 2Ch 32:5
  30. Isaiah 22:11 : 2Ki 25:4; 2Ch 32:5; Jer 39:4
  31. Isaiah 22:11 : S 2Ch 32:4
  32. Isaiah 22:11 : S 1Sa 12:24
  33. Isaiah 22:11 : 2Ki 19:25
  34. Isaiah 22:12 : S Isa 2:12
  35. Isaiah 22:12 : Joel 1:9; 2:17
  36. Isaiah 22:12 : S Lev 13:40; Mic 1:16
  37. Isaiah 22:12 : S Isa 3:24
  38. Isaiah 22:13 : S Isa 21:5
  39. Isaiah 22:13 : S 1Sa 25:36; Ecc 8:15; Isa 5:22; 28:7-8; 56:12; Lk 17:26-29
  40. Isaiah 22:13 : 1Co 15:32*
  41. Isaiah 22:14 : Isa 5:9
  42. Isaiah 22:14 : S 1Sa 2:25; Isa 13:11; 26:21; 30:13-14; Eze 24:13
  43. Isaiah 22:15 : S 2Ki 6:30; S 18:18
  44. Isaiah 22:15 : S Ge 41:40
  45. Isaiah 22:15 : ver 21
  46. Isaiah 22:16 : Mt 27:60
  47. Isaiah 22:16 : S Ge 50:5; S Nu 32:42
  48. Isaiah 22:17 : Jer 10:18; 13:18; 22:26
  49. Isaiah 22:18 : S Job 18:11; Isa 14:19; 17:13
  50. Isaiah 22:18 : S Ge 41:43
  51. Isaiah 22:19 : S 1Sa 2:7; S Ps 52:5
  52. Isaiah 22:19 : Lk 16:3
  53. Isaiah 22:20 : ver 25
  54. Isaiah 22:20 : S Isa 20:3
  55. Isaiah 22:20 : S 2Ki 18:18; S Isa 36:3
  56. Isaiah 22:21 : S Isa 5:27
  57. Isaiah 22:21 : ver 15
  58. Isaiah 22:22 : Isa 9:6
  59. Isaiah 22:22 : 1Ch 9:27; Mt 16:19; Rev 3:7
  60. Isaiah 22:22 : S Isa 7:2
  61. Isaiah 22:22 : S Job 12:14
  62. Isaiah 22:23 : ver 25; Eze 15:3; Zec 10:4
  63. Isaiah 22:23 : S Ezr 9:8; S Job 6:25
  64. Isaiah 22:23 : S 1Sa 2:7-8; S Job 36:7
  65. Isaiah 22:25 : ver 20
  66. Isaiah 22:25 : S ver 23
  67. Isaiah 22:25 : Isa 46:11; Mic 4:4
  68. Isaiah 23:1 : Jos 19:29; 1Ki 5:1; Jer 47:4; Joel 3:4-8; Am 1:9-10
  69. Isaiah 23:1 : S Isa 13:6
  70. Isaiah 23:1 : S 1Ki 10:22
  71. Isaiah 23:1 : S Ge 10:4; Isa 2:16 fn
  72. Isaiah 23:1 : S Ge 1:2; Eze 26:4
  73. Isaiah 23:2 : S Job 2:13
  74. Isaiah 23:2 : Eze 27:5-24
  75. Isaiah 23:2 : Jdg 1:31
  76. Isaiah 23:3 : S Ge 41:5
  77. Isaiah 23:3 : S Isa 19:7
  78. Isaiah 23:3 : S Ps 83:7
  79. Isaiah 23:4 : S Ge 10:15, 19
  80. Isaiah 23:4 : Isa 54:1
  81. Isaiah 23:5 : Eze 30:9
  82. Isaiah 23:5 : Eze 26:17-18
  83. Isaiah 23:6 : S Ge 10:4
  84. Isaiah 23:7 : ver 12; S Isa 5:14; S 21:5; 32:13; Eze 26:13
  85. Isaiah 23:8 : Na 3:16
  86. Isaiah 23:8 : Eze 28:5; Rev 18:23
  87. Isaiah 23:9 : S Isa 14:24
  88. Isaiah 23:9 : S Job 40:11
  89. Isaiah 23:9 : S Isa 13:11
  90. Isaiah 23:9 : Isa 5:13; 9:15; Eze 27:3
  91. Isaiah 23:11 : S Ex 14:21
  92. Isaiah 23:11 : S Ps 46:6
  93. Isaiah 23:11 : ver 14; Isa 25:2; Eze 26:4; Zec 9:3-4
  94. Isaiah 23:12 : S ver 7; Rev 18:22
  95. Isaiah 23:12 : Isa 37:22; 47:1; Jer 14:17; 46:11; La 2:13; Zep 3:14; Zec 2:10
  96. Isaiah 23:12 : S Ge 10:4
  97. Isaiah 23:13 : Isa 43:14; Jer 51:12
  98. Isaiah 23:13 : Isa 10:5
  99. Isaiah 23:13 : S Ps 74:14; Isa 18:6
  100. Isaiah 23:13 : S 2Ki 25:1
  101. Isaiah 23:13 : Isa 10:7
  102. Isaiah 23:14 : S 1Ki 10:22
  103. Isaiah 23:14 : S Ge 10:4; Isa 2:16 fn
  104. Isaiah 23:14 : S ver 11
  105. Isaiah 23:15 : Jer 25:22
  106. Isaiah 23:15 : S Ps 90:10
  107. Isaiah 23:16 : Pr 7:10
  108. Isaiah 23:17 : S Ps 90:10
  109. Isaiah 23:17 : Dt 23:17-18; Eze 16:26; Na 3:4; Rev 17:1; 18:3, 9
  110. Isaiah 23:17 : Jer 25:26
  111. Isaiah 23:18 : Ex 28:36; S 39:30; Jos 6:17-19; Ps 72:10
  112. Isaiah 23:18 : Isa 18:7; 60:5-9; 61:6; Mic 4:13
  113. Isaiah 23:18 : Am 1:9-10; Zec 14:1, 14
  114. Isaiah 24:1 : ver 20; Isa 2:19-21; 33:9; Jer 25:29
  115. Isaiah 24:1 : S Jos 6:17; S Isa 13:5
  116. Isaiah 24:1 : S Ge 11:9
  117. Isaiah 24:2 : Hos 4:9
  118. Isaiah 24:2 : Eze 7:12; 1Co 7:29-31
  119. Isaiah 24:2 : S Lev 25:35-37; Dt 23:19-20; Isa 3:1-7
  120. Isaiah 24:3 : S Ge 6:13
  121. Isaiah 24:3 : Isa 6:11-12; 10:6
  122. Isaiah 24:3 : S Isa 7:7
  123. Isaiah 24:4 : Jer 12:11; 14:4; Joel 1:10
  124. Isaiah 24:4 : S Isa 15:6
  125. Isaiah 24:4 : S Isa 2:12
  126. Isaiah 24:4 : S Isa 3:26
  127. Isaiah 24:5 : S Ge 3:17
  128. Isaiah 24:5 : S Isa 1:2; 9:17; 10:6; 59:12; Jer 7:28
  129. Isaiah 24:5 : S Ge 9:11; S Jer 11:10
  130. Isaiah 24:6 : S Jos 23:15
  131. Isaiah 24:6 : S Isa 1:31
  132. Isaiah 24:7 : Jer 48:33; Joel 1:5
  133. Isaiah 24:7 : Isa 7:23; S 15:6; 32:10
  134. Isaiah 24:7 : S Isa 3:26; 16:8-10
  135. Isaiah 24:8 : S Ge 31:27; S Isa 5:12
  136. Isaiah 24:8 : Jer 7:34; 16:9; 25:10; 33:11; Hos 2:11
  137. Isaiah 24:8 : S Isa 5:14; S 21:5
  138. Isaiah 24:8 : S Ps 137:2; Rev 18:22
  139. Isaiah 24:8 : La 5:14; Eze 26:13
  140. Isaiah 24:9 : Isa 5:11, 22
  141. Isaiah 24:9 : Isa 5:20
  142. Isaiah 24:10 : Isa 25:2; 26:5
  143. Isaiah 24:10 : S Ge 1:2; S Isa 6:11
  144. Isaiah 24:11 : S Ps 144:14
  145. Isaiah 24:11 : La 2:12
  146. Isaiah 24:11 : S Isa 15:6; 16:10; 32:13; Jer 14:3
  147. Isaiah 24:12 : S Isa 19:18
  148. Isaiah 24:12 : S Isa 3:26; S 13:2
  149. Isaiah 24:13 : S Dt 30:4; S Isa 17:6
  150. Isaiah 24:13 : Ob 1:5; Mic 7:1
  151. Isaiah 24:14 : S Isa 12:6
  152. Isaiah 24:14 : Isa 43:5; 49:12
  153. Isaiah 24:15 : S Ps 113:3
  154. Isaiah 24:15 : Isa 42:12; 66:19; 2Th 1:12
  155. Isaiah 24:15 : S Ex 15:2; Isa 25:3; 59:19; Mal 1:11
  156. Isaiah 24:15 : S Isa 12:4
  157. Isaiah 24:15 : S Isa 11:11
  158. Isaiah 24:16 : S Ps 48:10
  159. Isaiah 24:16 : S Ps 65:8
  160. Isaiah 24:16 : Isa 28:5; 60:1, 19
  161. Isaiah 24:16 : S Ezr 9:15
  162. Isaiah 24:16 : S Lev 26:39
  163. Isaiah 24:16 : 1Sa 4:8; S Isa 5:8; Jer 10:19; 45:3
  164. Isaiah 24:16 : S Ps 25:3
  165. Isaiah 24:16 : Isa 21:2; 33:1; Jer 3:6, 20; 5:11; 9:2; Hos 5:7; 9:1
  166. Isaiah 24:17 : Dt 32:23-25
  167. Isaiah 24:17 : Isa 8:14; Jer 48:43
  168. Isaiah 24:17 : Lk 21:35
  169. Isaiah 24:18 : S Job 20:24
  170. Isaiah 24:18 : Isa 42:22
  171. Isaiah 24:18 : S Job 18:9; S Isa 8:14; La 3:47; Eze 12:13
  172. Isaiah 24:18 : S Ge 7:11
  173. Isaiah 24:18 : S Jdg 5:4; S Job 9:6; S Ps 11:3; S Eze 38:19
  174. Isaiah 24:19 : S Ps 46:2
  175. Isaiah 24:19 : S Dt 11:6
  176. Isaiah 24:20 : S Job 12:25
  177. Isaiah 24:20 : S Job 27:18
  178. Isaiah 24:20 : S Isa 1:2, 28; 43:27; 58:1
  179. Isaiah 24:20 : S Ps 46:2
  180. Isaiah 24:20 : S Job 12:14
  181. Isaiah 24:21 : S Isa 2:11; S 10:20; Rev 16:14
  182. Isaiah 24:21 : Isa 10:12; 13:11; Jer 25:29
  183. Isaiah 24:21 : 1Co 6:3; Eph 6:11-12
  184. Isaiah 24:21 : S Isa 2:12
  185. Isaiah 24:22 : S Isa 10:4
  186. Isaiah 24:22 : Isa 42:7, 22; Lk 8:31; Rev 20:7-10
  187. Isaiah 24:22 : Eze 38:8
  188. Isaiah 24:23 : S Isa 13:10
  189. Isaiah 24:23 : S Ps 97:1; Rev 22:5
  190. Isaiah 24:23 : S Isa 2:2; Heb 12:22
  191. Isaiah 24:23 : Isa 28:5; 41:16; 45:25; 60:19; Eze 48:35; Zec 2:5; Rev 21:23
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Galatians 2:17-3:9

17 “But if, in seeking to be justified in Christ, we Jews find ourselves also among the sinners,(A) doesn’t that mean that Christ promotes sin? Absolutely not!(B) 18 If I rebuild what I destroyed, then I really would be a lawbreaker.

19 “For through the law I died to the law(C) so that I might live for God.(D) 20 I have been crucified with Christ(E) and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me.(F) The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God,(G) who loved me(H) and gave himself for me.(I) 21 I do not set aside the grace of God, for if righteousness could be gained through the law,(J) Christ died for nothing!”[a]

Faith or Works of the Law

3 You foolish(K) Galatians!(L) Who has bewitched you?(M) Before your very eyes Jesus Christ was clearly portrayed as crucified.(N) 2 I would like to learn just one thing from you: Did you receive the Spirit(O) by the works of the law,(P) or by believing what you heard?(Q) 3 Are you so foolish? After beginning by means of the Spirit, are you now trying to finish by means of the flesh?[b] 4 Have you experienced[c] so much in vain—if it really was in vain? 5 So again I ask, does God give you his Spirit and work miracles(R) among you by the works of the law, or by your believing what you heard?(S) 6 So also Abraham “believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness.”[d](T)

7 Understand, then, that those who have faith(U) are children of Abraham.(V) 8 Scripture foresaw that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, and announced the gospel in advance to Abraham: “All nations will be blessed through you.”[e](W) 9 So those who rely on faith(X) are blessed along with Abraham, the man of faith.(Y)

Footnotes:

  1. Galatians 2:21 Some interpreters end the quotation after verse 14.
  2. Galatians 3:3 In contexts like this, the Greek word for flesh (sarx) refers to the sinful state of human beings, often presented as a power in opposition to the Spirit.
  3. Galatians 3:4 Or suffered
  4. Galatians 3:6 Gen. 15:6
  5. Galatians 3:8 Gen. 12:3; 18:18; 22:18

Cross references:

  1. Galatians 2:17 : ver 15
  2. Galatians 2:17 : Gal 3:21
  3. Galatians 2:19 : S Ro 7:4
  4. Galatians 2:19 : Ro 6:10, 11, 14; 2Co 5:15
  5. Galatians 2:20 : S Ro 6:6
  6. Galatians 2:20 : S Ro 8:10; 1Pe 4:2
  7. Galatians 2:20 : S Mt 4:3
  8. Galatians 2:20 : S Ro 8:37
  9. Galatians 2:20 : S Gal 1:4
  10. Galatians 2:21 : Gal 3:21
  11. Galatians 3:1 : Lk 24:25
  12. Galatians 3:1 : S Ac 16:6
  13. Galatians 3:1 : Gal 5:7
  14. Galatians 3:1 : 1Co 1:23
  15. Galatians 3:2 : S Jn 20:22
  16. Galatians 3:2 : ver 5, 10; Gal 2:16
  17. Galatians 3:2 : Ro 10:17; Heb 4:2
  18. Galatians 3:5 : 1Co 12:10
  19. Galatians 3:5 : ver 2, 10; Gal 2:16
  20. Galatians 3:6 : Ge 15:6; S Ro 4:3
  21. Galatians 3:7 : ver 9
  22. Galatians 3:7 : S Lk 3:8
  23. Galatians 3:8 : Ge 12:3; 18:18; 22:18; 26:4; Ac 3:25
  24. Galatians 3:9 : ver 7; Ro 4:16
  25. Galatians 3:9 : Ro 4:18-22
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Psalm 60

Psalm 60[a](A)

For the director of music. To the tune of “The Lily of the Covenant.” A miktam[b] of David. For teaching. When he fought Aram Naharaim[c] and Aram Zobah,[d] and when Joab returned and struck down twelve thousand Edomites in the Valley of Salt.(B)

1 You have rejected us,(C) God, and burst upon us;
you have been angry(D)—now restore us!(E)
2 You have shaken the land(F) and torn it open;
mend its fractures,(G) for it is quaking.
3 You have shown your people desperate times;(H)
you have given us wine that makes us stagger.(I)
4 But for those who fear you, you have raised a banner(J)
to be unfurled against the bow.[e]

5 Save us and help us with your right hand,(K)
that those you love(L) may be delivered.
6 God has spoken from his sanctuary:
“In triumph I will parcel out Shechem(M)
and measure off the Valley of Sukkoth.(N)
7 Gilead(O) is mine, and Manasseh is mine;
Ephraim(P) is my helmet,
Judah(Q) is my scepter.(R)
8 Moab is my washbasin,
on Edom I toss my sandal;
over Philistia I shout in triumph.(S)”

9 Who will bring me to the fortified city?
Who will lead me to Edom?
10 Is it not you, God, you who have now rejected us
and no longer go out with our armies?(T)
11 Give us aid against the enemy,
for human help is worthless.(U)
12 With God we will gain the victory,
and he will trample down our enemies.(V)

Footnotes:

  1. Psalm 60:1 In Hebrew texts 60:1-12 is numbered 60:3-14.
  2. Psalm 60:1 Title: Probably a literary or musical term
  3. Psalm 60:1 Title: That is, Arameans of Northwest Mesopotamia
  4. Psalm 60:1 Title: That is, Arameans of central Syria
  5. Psalm 60:4 The Hebrew has Selah (a word of uncertain meaning) here.

Cross references:

  1. Psalm 60:1 : 60:5-12pp — Ps 108:6-13
  2. Psalm 60:1 : 2Sa 8:13
  3. Psalm 60:1 : 2Sa 5:20; Ps 44:9
  4. Psalm 60:1 : Ps 79:5
  5. Psalm 60:1 : Ps 80:3
  6. Psalm 60:2 : Ps 18:7
  7. Psalm 60:2 : S 2Ch 7:14
  8. Psalm 60:3 : Ps 71:20
  9. Psalm 60:3 : Ps 75:8; Isa 29:9; 51:17; 63:6; Jer 25:16; Zec 12:2; Rev 14:10
  10. Psalm 60:4 : Isa 5:26; 11:10, 12; 18:3
  11. Psalm 60:5 : S Job 40:14
  12. Psalm 60:5 : S Dt 33:12
  13. Psalm 60:6 : S Ge 12:6
  14. Psalm 60:6 : S Ge 33:17
  15. Psalm 60:7 : Jos 13:31
  16. Psalm 60:7 : S Ge 41:52
  17. Psalm 60:7 : S Nu 34:19
  18. Psalm 60:7 : S Ge 49:10
  19. Psalm 60:8 : S 2Sa 8:1
  20. Psalm 60:10 : S Jos 7:12
  21. Psalm 60:11 : Ps 146:3; Pr 3:5
  22. Psalm 60:12 : S Job 40:12; Ps 44:5
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Proverbs 23:15-16

Saying 14

15 My son, if your heart is wise,
then my heart will be glad indeed;
16 my inmost being will rejoice
when your lips speak what is right.(A)

Cross references:

  1. Proverbs 23:16 : ver 24; Pr 27:11; 29:3
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