The Daily Audio Bible Reading for Tuesday October 11, 2022 (NIV)

Punishment of Exile

¹⁶ “I am about to send for many fishermen”^(A)—this is the Lord’s declaration—“and they will fish for them. Then I will send for many hunters, and they will hunt them down on every mountain and hill and out of the clefts of the rocks, ¹⁷ for my gaze takes in all their ways.^(B) They are not concealed from me, and their iniquity is not hidden from my sight. ¹⁸ I will first repay them double for their iniquity^(C) and sin because they have polluted my land. They have filled my inheritance with the carcasses of their abhorrent and detestable idols.”

The Persistent Sin of Judah

Curse and Blessing

⁵ This is what the Lord says:

The Deceitful Heart

Jeremiah’s Plea

Observing the Sabbath

¹⁹ This is what the Lord said to me, “Go and stand at the People’s Gate, through which the kings of Judah enter and leave, as well as at all the gates of Jerusalem. ²⁰ Announce to them, ‘Hear the word of the Lord, kings of Judah, all Judah, and all the residents of Jerusalem who enter through these gates. ²¹ This is what the Lord says: Watch yourselves; do not pick up a load and bring it in through Jerusalem’s gates on the Sabbath day.^{(AK) 22} Do not carry a load out of your houses on the Sabbath day or do any work,^(AL) but keep the Sabbath day holy, just as I commanded your ancestors.^{(AM) 23} They wouldn’t listen or pay attention but became obstinate,^(AN) not listening or accepting discipline.

²⁴ “‘However, if you listen to me—this is the Lord’s declaration—and do not bring loads through the gates of this city on the Sabbath day, but keep the Sabbath day holy and do no work on it, ²⁵ kings and princes will enter through the gates of this city. They will sit on the throne of David;^(AO) they will ride in chariots and on horses^(AP) with their officials, the men of Judah, and the residents of Jerusalem. This city will be inhabited forever. ²⁶ Then people will come from the cities of Judah and from the area around Jerusalem, from the land of Benjamin and from the Judean foothills, from the hill country and from the Negev^(AQ) bringing burnt offerings and sacrifices, grain offerings and frankincense, and thanksgiving sacrifices to the house of the Lord. ²⁷ But if you do not listen to me to keep the Sabbath day holy by not carrying a load while entering the gates of Jerusalem on the Sabbath day, I will set fire to its gates,^(AR) and it will consume the citadels^(AS) of Jerusalem^(AT) and not be extinguished.’”^(AU)

Parable of the Potter

18 This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord: ² “Go down at once to the potter’s house;^(AV) there I will reveal my words to you.” ³ So I went down to the potter’s house, and there he was, working away at the wheel.^{[e] 4} But the jar that he was making from the clay became flawed in the potter’s hand, so he made it into another jar, as it seemed right for him to do.^(AW)

⁵ The word of the Lord came to me: ⁶ “House of Israel, can I not treat you as this potter treats his clay?”—this is the Lord’s declaration. “Just like clay in the potter’s hand, so are you in my hand, house of Israel.^{(AX) 7} At one moment I might announce concerning a nation or a kingdom that I will uproot, tear down, and destroy it.^{(AY) 8} However, if that nation about which I have made the announcement turns from its evil, I will relent concerning the disaster I had planned to do to it.^{(AZ) 9} At another time I might announce concerning a nation or a kingdom that I will build and plant it.^{(BA) 10} However, if it does what is evil in my sight by not listening to me, I will relent concerning the good I had said I would do to it.^{(BB) 11} So now, say to the men of Judah and to the residents of Jerusalem, ‘This is what the Lord says: Look, I am about to bring harm to you and make plans against you. Turn now, each from your evil way, and correct your ways and your deeds.’^{(BC) 12} But they will say, ‘It’s hopeless.^(BD) We will continue to follow our plans, and each of us will continue to act according to the stubbornness of his evil heart.’”

Deluded Israel

¹³ Therefore, this is what the Lord says:

Plot against Jeremiah

¹⁸ Then certain ones said, “Come, let’s make plans against Jeremiah,^(BO) for instruction will never be lost from the priest,^(BP) or counsel from the wise, or a word from the prophet.^(BQ) Come, let’s denounce him^[h] and pay no attention to all his words.”

The Call to Sanctification

4 Additionally then, brothers and sisters, we ask and encourage you in the Lord Jesus, that as you have received instruction from us on how you should live and please God—as you are doing^[a]—do this even more. ² For you know what commands we gave you through the Lord Jesus.

³ For this is God’s will,^(A) your sanctification:^(B) that you keep away^(C) from sexual immorality, ⁴ that each of you knows how to control his own body^[b] in holiness and honor, ⁵ not with lustful passions,^(D) like the Gentiles, who don’t know God. ⁶ This means one must not transgress against and take advantage^(E) of a brother or sister in this manner, because the Lord is an avenger of all these offenses, as we also previously told and warned you. ⁷ For God has not called us to impurity^(F) but to live in holiness. ⁸ Consequently, anyone who rejects this does not reject man, but God, who gives you his Holy Spirit.^(G)

Loving and Working

⁹ About brotherly love: You don’t need me to write you because you yourselves are taught by God^(H) to love one another.^{(I) 10} In fact, you are doing this toward all the brothers and sisters in the entire region of Macedonia.^(J) But we encourage you, brothers and sisters, to do this even more, ¹¹ to seek to lead a quiet life,^(K) to mind your own business,^[c] and to work^(L) with your own hands, as we commanded you, ¹² so that you may behave properly^(M) in the presence of outsiders and not be dependent on anyone.^[d](N)

The Comfort of Christ’s Coming

¹³ We do not want you to be uninformed, brothers and sisters, concerning those who are asleep, so that you will not grieve like the rest, who have no hope.^{(O) 14} For if we believe that Jesus died and rose^(P) again,^(Q) in the same way, through Jesus,^(R) God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep. ¹⁵ For we say this to you by a word from the Lord:^(S) We who are still alive at the Lord’s coming^(T) will certainly not precede those who have fallen asleep.^{(U) 16} For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a shout,^[e](V) with the archangel’s^(W) voice, and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ^(X) will rise first. ¹⁷ Then^(Y) we who are still alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds^(Z) to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will always be with the Lord. ¹⁸ Therefore encourage^[f] one another with these words.

The Day of the Lord

5 About the times and the seasons:^(AA) Brothers and sisters, you do not need anything to be written to you. ² For you yourselves know very well that the day of the Lord^(AB) will come just like a thief^(AC) in the night. ³ When they say, “Peace and security,” then sudden destruction^(AD) will come upon them, like labor pains on a pregnant woman, and they will not escape.

Psalm 81

A Call to Obedience

For the choir director: on the Gittith. Of Asaph.^(A)