The Daily Audio Bible Reading for Thursday October 13, 2022 (NIV)

Jeremiah 22:1-23:20

Judgment against Sinful Kings

22 This is what the Lord says: “Go down to the palace of the king of Judah and announce this word there. ²You are to say, ‘Hear the word of the Lord, king of Judah, you who sit on the throne of David^(A)—you, your officers, and your people who enter these gates. ³This is what the Lord says: Administer justice and righteousness.^(B) Rescue the victim of robbery from his oppressor.^(C) Don’t exploit or brutalize the resident alien, the fatherless, or the widow.^(D) Don’t shed innocent blood in this place. ⁴For if you conscientiously carry out this word, then kings sitting on David’s throne will enter through the gates of this palace^(E) riding on chariots and horses—they, their officers, and their people. ⁵But if you do not obey these words, then I swear by myself^(F)—this is the Lord’s declaration—that this house will become a ruin.’”^(G)

⁶For this is what the Lord says concerning the house of the king of Judah:

“You are like Gilead^(H) to me,
or the summit of Lebanon,
but I will certainly turn you into a wilderness,
uninhabited cities.
⁷I will set apart destroyers^(I) against you,
each with his weapons.
They will cut down the choicest of your cedars
and throw them into the fire.

⁸“Many nations will pass by this city and ask one another, ‘Why did the Lord do such a thing to this great city?’ ⁹They will answer, ‘Because they abandoned the covenant^(J) of the Lord their God and bowed in worship to other gods and served them.’”^(K)

A Message concerning Shallum

¹⁰Do not weep for the dead;
do not mourn for him.
Weep bitterly for the one who has gone away,
for he will never return again
and see his native land.^(L)

¹¹For this is what the Lord says concerning Shallum^(M) son of Josiah, king of Judah, who became king in place of his father Josiah, and who has left this place: “He will never return here again, ¹²but he will die in the place where they deported him, never seeing this land again.”

A Message concerning Jehoiakim

¹³Woe for the one who builds his palace
through unrighteousness,^(N)
his upstairs rooms through injustice,
who makes his neighbor serve without pay
and will not give him his wages,^(O)
¹⁴who says, “I will build myself a massive palace,
with spacious upstairs rooms.”
He will cut windows^[a] in it,
and it will be paneled with cedar^(P)
and painted bright red.
¹⁵Are you a king because you excel in cedar?
Didn’t your father eat and drink
and administer justice and righteousness?^(Q)
Then it went well with him.
¹⁶He took up the case of the poor and needy;^(R)
then it went well.
Is this not what it means to know me?
This is the Lord’s declaration.
¹⁷But you have eyes and a heart for nothing
except your own dishonest profit,
shedding innocent blood
and committing extortion and oppression.^(S)

¹⁸Therefore, this is what the Lord says concerning Jehoiakim^(T) son of Josiah, king of Judah:

They will not mourn for him, saying,
“Woe, my brother!” or “Woe, my sister!”
They will not mourn for him, saying,
“Woe, lord! Woe, his majesty!”
¹⁹He will be buried like a donkey,^(U)
dragged off and thrown
outside Jerusalem’s gates.

²⁰Go up to Lebanon and cry out;
raise your voice in Bashan;
cry out from Abarim,^(V)
for all your lovers^[b] have been crushed.^(W)
²¹I spoke to you when you were secure.
You said, “I will not listen.”
This has been your way since youth;^(X)
indeed, you have never listened to me.
²²The wind will take charge of^[c] all your shepherds,
and your lovers will go into captivity.
Then you will be ashamed and humiliated^(Y)
because of all your evil.
²³You residents of Lebanon,
nestled among the cedars,
how you will groan^[d] when pains come on you,
agony like a woman in labor.^(Z)

A Message concerning Coniah

²⁴“As I live”—this is the Lord’s declaration—“though you, Coniah^[e]^(AA) son of Jehoiakim, the king of Judah, were a signet ring^(AB) on my right hand, I would tear you from it. ²⁵In fact, I will hand you over to those you dread,^(AC) who intend to take your life, to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and the Chaldeans. ²⁶I will hurl you and the mother who gave birth^(AD) to you into another land,^(AE) where neither of you were born, and there you will both die. ²⁷They will never return to the land they long to return to.”

²⁸Is this man Coniah a despised, shattered pot,^(AF)
a jar no one wants?
Why are he and his descendants hurled out
and cast into a land they have not known?
²⁹Earth, earth, earth,
hear the word of the Lord!

³⁰This is what the Lord says:

Record this man as childless,^(AG)
a man who will not be successful in his lifetime.
None of his descendants will succeed
in sitting on the throne of David^(AH)
or ruling again in Judah.

The Lord and His Sheep

23 “Woe to the shepherds who destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture!” ^(AI) This is the Lord’s declaration. ²“Therefore, this is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says about the shepherds who tend my people: You have scattered my flock,^(AJ) banished them, and have not attended to them.^(AK) I am about to attend to you because of your evil acts”—this is the Lord’s declaration. ³“I will gather the remnant of my flock from all the lands where I have banished them,^(AL) and I will return them to their grazing land. They will become fruitful and numerous.^(AM) ⁴I will raise up shepherds over them who will tend them.^(AN) They will no longer be afraid or discouraged, nor will any be missing.”^(AO) This is the Lord’s declaration.

The Righteous Branch of David

⁵“Look, the days are coming”^(AP)—this is the Lord’s declaration—
“when I will raise up a Righteous Branch for David.^(AQ)
He will reign wisely as king
and administer justice and righteousness in the land.^(AR)

⁶In his days Judah will be saved,
and Israel will dwell securely.^(AS)
This is the name he will be called:
The Lord Is Our Righteousness.^[f]^(AT)

⁷“Look, the days are coming”^(AU)—the Lord’s declaration—“when it will no longer be said, ‘As the Lord lives^(AV) who brought the Israelites from the land of Egypt,’ ⁸but, ‘As the Lord lives, who brought and led the descendants of the house of Israel from the land of the north and from all the other countries where I^[g] had banished them.’ They will dwell once more in their own land.”^(AW)

False Prophets Condemned

⁹Concerning the prophets:

My heart is broken within me,^(AX)
and all my bones tremble.
I have become like a drunkard,
like a man overcome by wine,
because of the Lord,
because of his holy words.

¹⁰For the land is full of adulterers;^(AY)
the land mourns^(AZ) because of the curse,^(BA)
and the grazing lands in the wilderness have dried up.
Their way of life^[h] has become evil,
and their power is not rightly used

¹¹because both prophet and priest are ungodly,^(BB)
even in my house^(BC) I have found their evil.
This is the Lord’s declaration.
¹²Therefore, their way will seem
like slippery paths in the gloom.^(BD)
They will be driven away and fall down there,
for I will bring disaster on them,
the year of their punishment.^(BE)
This is the Lord’s declaration.
¹³Among the prophets of Samaria
I saw something disgusting:
They prophesied by Baal
and led my people Israel astray.^(BF)

¹⁴Among the prophets of Jerusalem also
I saw a horrible thing:^(BG)
They commit adultery and walk in lies.
They strengthen the hands of evildoers,
and none turns his back on evil.
They are all like Sodom^(BH) to me;
Jerusalem’s residents are like Gomorrah.

¹⁵Therefore, this is what the Lord of Armies says concerning the prophets:

I am about to feed them wormwood^(BI)
and give them poisoned water to drink,^(BJ)
for from the prophets of Jerusalem
ungodliness^[i] has spread throughout the land.

¹⁶This is what the Lord of Armies says: “Do not listen to the words of the prophets who prophesy to you. They are deluding you. They speak visions from their own minds,^(BK) not from the Lord’s mouth.^(BL) ¹⁷They keep on saying to those who despise me,^(BM) ‘The Lord has spoken: You will have peace.’^(BN) They have said to everyone who follows the stubbornness of his heart, ‘No harm will come to you.’”

¹⁸For who has stood in the council^(BO) of the Lord
to see and hear his word?
Who has paid attention to his word and obeyed?
¹⁹Look, a storm from the Lord!^(BP)
Wrath has gone out,
a whirling storm.
It will whirl about the heads of the wicked.
²⁰The Lord’s anger will not turn away^(BQ)
until he has completely fulfilled the purposes of his heart.
In time to come you will understand it clearly.^(BR)

Footnotes:

22:14 Lit my windows
22:20 Or friends, or allies, also in v. 22
22:22 Lit will shepherd
22:23 LXX, Syr, Vg; MT reads will be pitied
22:24 = Jehoiachin
23:6 = Yahweh-zidkenu
23:8 LXX reads he
23:10 Lit Their manner of running
23:15 Or pollution

Cross references:

Christian Standard Bible (CSB)

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2 Thessalonians 1

Greeting

1 Paul, Silvanus,^[a]^(A) and Timothy:^(B)

To the church of the Thessalonians^(C) in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

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

God’s Judgment and Glory

³We ought to thank God always for you, brothers and sisters, and rightly so, since your faith is flourishing and the love^(D) each one of you has for one another^(E) is increasing.^(F) ⁴Therefore, we ourselves boast^(G) about you among God’s churches—about your perseverance and faith in all the persecutions and afflictions that you are enduring. ⁵It is clear evidence of God’s righteous^(H) judgment^(I) that you will be counted worthy of God’s kingdom, for which you also are suffering,^(J) ⁶since it is just for God to repay with affliction those who afflict you ⁷and to give relief to you who are afflicted, along with us. This will take place at the revelation of the Lord Jesus from heaven with his powerful angels, ⁸when he takes vengeance with flaming fire^(K) on those who don’t know God^(L) and on those who don’t obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.^(M) ⁹They will pay the penalty of eternal destruction^(N) from the Lord’s presence^(O) and from his glorious strength^(P) ¹⁰on that day when he comes^(Q) to be glorified^(R) by his saints^(S) and to be marveled at by all those who have believed, because our testimony among you was believed. ¹¹In view of this, we always pray for you that our God will make you worthy of his calling,^(T) and by his power fulfill your every desire to do good^[b] and your work produced by faith,^(U) ¹²so that the name^(V) of our Lord Jesus will be glorified^(W) by you, and you by him,^(X) according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.

Footnotes:

1:1 Or Silas; Ac 15:22–32; 16:19–40; 17:1–16
1:11 Or power bring to fruition your desire to do good

Cross references:

1:1 : Ac 15:22; 2Co 1:19; 1Th 1:1; 1Pt 5:12
1:1 : Ac 16:1; 1Tm 1:2
1:1 : Ac 17:1
1:3 : 1Co 13:1; 1Jn 4:16
1:3 : Php 2:2
1:3 : 1Th 4:10
1:4 : 2Co 12:5
1:5 : 1Jn 1:9
1:5 : Mt 12:41; Jn 5:22,27,30; 8:16; 16:11; Heb 9:27; Jms 2:13; 2Pt 3:7; Rv 14:7; 16:7; 19:2
1:5 : Php 1:29
1:8 : 1Co 3:13; Heb 10:27; 12:29; 2Pt 3:7; Rv 14:10
1:8 : Ps 79:6; Is 66:15; Jr 10:25
1:8 : 1Pt 4:17
1:9 : 1Tm 6:9
1:9 : Gn 4:14
1:9 : Is 2:10,19,21
1:10 : Mk 8:38
1:10 : Jn 17:10; Rm 8:17
1:10 : Eph 5:3; 6:18
1:11 : Eph 4:1; Col 3:15
1:11 : Gl 2:16; 1Th 1:3
1:12 : Jn 14:13; Ac 3:16; 15:14; Php 2:10
1:12 : Is 24:15; 49:3; 66:5; Mal 1:11; 2Co 8:23
1:12 : Jn 13:31

Christian Standard Bible (CSB)

Psalm 83

Prayer against Enemies

A song. A psalm of Asaph.^(A)

¹God, do not keep silent.
Do not be deaf, God; do not be quiet.^(B)
²See how your enemies make an uproar;
those who hate you have acted arrogantly.^[a]^(C)
³They devise clever schemes against your people;
they conspire against your treasured ones.^(D)
⁴They say, “Come, let’s wipe them out as a nation
so that Israel’s name will no longer be remembered.”^(E)
⁵For they have conspired with one mind;
they form an alliance^[b] against you^(F)—
⁶the tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites,^(G)
Moab and the Hagrites,^(H)
⁷Gebal, Ammon, and Amalek,^(I)
Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre.^(J)
⁸Even Assyria has joined them;
they lend support^[c] to the sons of Lot.^[d]^(K)Selah

⁹Deal with them as you did with Midian,^(L)
as you did with Sisera
and Jabin at the Kishon River.^(M)
¹⁰They were destroyed at En-dor;
they became manure for the ground.^(N)
¹¹Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb,^(O)
and all their tribal leaders like Zebah and Zalmunna,^(P)
¹²who said, “Let’s seize God’s pastures for ourselves.”^(Q)

¹³Make them like tumbleweed, my God,
like straw before the wind.^(R)
¹⁴As fire burns a forest,
as a flame blazes through mountains,^(S)
¹⁵so pursue them with your tempest
and terrify them with your storm.^(T)
¹⁶Cover their faces with shame
so that they will seek your name, Lord.^(U)
¹⁷Let them be put to shame and terrified forever;
let them perish in disgrace.^(V)
¹⁸May they know that you alone—
whose name is the Lord—
are the Most High over the whole earth.^(W)

Footnotes:

83:2 Lit have lifted their head
83:5 Lit they cut a covenant
83:8 Lit they are an arm
83:8 = Moab and Ammon

Cross references:

83:0 : 1Ch 16:5,7
83:1 : Ps 28:1; 39:12; 115:5; 135:16; Is 62:1
83:2 : Ps 2:1; Is 17:12
83:3 : Jb 5:12–13; Ps 37:12; 64:2
83:4 : Ps 41:5; Jr 11:19
83:5 : Ps 2:2
83:6 : Gn 25:12–16; Ps 137:7
83:6 : 1Ch 5:10; 2Ch 20:10
83:7 : Jos 13:5; 1Sm 15:2
83:7 : 1Sm 4:1; Ezk 27:3
83:8 : 2Kg 15:19
83:9 : Nm 31:7; Jdg 7:1–24
83:9 : Jdg 4:7; 5:21
83:10 : Jr 9:22; 16:4; 25:33
83:11 : Jdg 7:25; 8:3
83:11 : Jdg 8:5–21
83:12 : 2Ch 20:11
83:13 : Jb 21:18; Ps 1:4; Is 17:13
83:14 : Is 9:18; 10:16–19
83:15 : Jb 9:17; Ps 58:9
83:16 : Ps 35:26; 109:29; 132:18
83:17 : Ps 35:4; 70:2
83:18 : Ps 97:9

Christian Standard Bible (CSB)

Proverbs 25:11-14

¹¹A word spoken at the right time
is like gold apples in silver settings.^(A)
¹²A wise correction to a receptive ear^(B)
is like a gold ring or an ornament of gold.

¹³To those who send him, a trustworthy envoy
is like the coolness of snow on a harvest day;
he refreshes the life of his masters.^(C)

¹⁴The one who boasts about a gift that does not exist
is like clouds and wind without rain.^(D)

Cross references:

Christian Standard Bible (CSB)

Jeremiah 22:1-23:20

Judgment against Sinful Kings

A Message concerning Shallum

A Message concerning Jehoiakim

A Message concerning Coniah

The Lord and His Sheep

The Righteous Branch of David

False Prophets Condemned

Footnotes:

Cross references:

2 Thessalonians 1

Greeting

God’s Judgment and Glory

Footnotes:

Cross references:

Psalm 83

Psalm 83

Prayer against Enemies

A song. A psalm of Asaph.(A)

Footnotes:

Cross references:

Proverbs 25:11-14

Cross references:

A song. A psalm of Asaph.^(A)