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The Daily Audio Bible Reading for Friday December 17, 2021 (NIV)

Nahum 1-3

1 A prophecy(A) concerning Nineveh.(B) The book of the vision(C) of Nahum the Elkoshite.

The Lord’s Anger Against Nineveh

2 The Lord is a jealous(D) and avenging God;
the Lord takes vengeance(E) and is filled with wrath.
The Lord takes vengeance on his foes
and vents his wrath against his enemies.(F)
3 The Lord is slow to anger(G) but great in power;
the Lord will not leave the guilty unpunished.(H)
His way is in the whirlwind(I) and the storm,(J)
and clouds(K) are the dust of his feet.
4 He rebukes(L) the sea and dries it up;(M)
he makes all the rivers run dry.
Bashan and Carmel(N) wither
and the blossoms of Lebanon fade.
5 The mountains quake(O) before him
and the hills melt away.(P)
The earth trembles(Q) at his presence,
the world and all who live in it.(R)
6 Who can withstand(S) his indignation?
Who can endure(T) his fierce anger?(U)
His wrath is poured out like fire;(V)
the rocks are shattered(W) before him.

7 The Lord is good,(X)
a refuge in times of trouble.(Y)
He cares for(Z) those who trust in him,(AA)
8 but with an overwhelming flood(AB)
he will make an end of Nineveh;
he will pursue his foes into the realm of darkness.

9 Whatever they plot(AC) against the Lord
he will bring[a] to an end;
trouble will not come a second time.
10 They will be entangled among thorns(AD)
and drunk(AE) from their wine;
they will be consumed like dry stubble.[b](AF)
11 From you, Nineveh, has one come forth
who plots evil against the Lord
and devises wicked plans.

12 This is what the Lord says:

“Although they have allies and are numerous,
they will be destroyed(AG) and pass away.
Although I have afflicted you, Judah,
I will afflict you no more.(AH)
13 Now I will break their yoke(AI) from your neck
and tear your shackles away.”(AJ)

14 The Lord has given a command concerning you, Nineveh:
“You will have no descendants to bear your name.(AK)
I will destroy the images(AL) and idols
that are in the temple of your gods.
I will prepare your grave,(AM)
for you are vile.”

15 Look, there on the mountains,
the feet of one who brings good news,(AN)
who proclaims peace!(AO)
Celebrate your festivals,(AP) Judah,
and fulfill your vows.
No more will the wicked invade you;(AQ)
they will be completely destroyed.[c]

Nineveh to Fall

2 [d]An attacker(AR) advances against you, Nineveh.
Guard the fortress,
watch the road,
brace yourselves,
marshal all your strength!

2 The Lord will restore(AS) the splendor(AT) of Jacob
like the splendor of Israel,
though destroyers have laid them waste
and have ruined their vines.

3 The shields of the soldiers are red;
the warriors are clad in scarlet.(AU)
The metal on the chariots flashes
on the day they are made ready;
the spears of juniper are brandished.[e]
4 The chariots(AV) storm through the streets,
rushing back and forth through the squares.
They look like flaming torches;
they dart about like lightning.

5 Nineveh summons her picked troops,
yet they stumble(AW) on their way.
They dash to the city wall;
the protective shield is put in place.
6 The river gates(AX) are thrown open
and the palace collapses.
7 It is decreed[f] that Nineveh
be exiled and carried away.
Her female slaves moan(AY) like doves
and beat on their breasts.(AZ)
8 Nineveh is like a pool
whose water is draining away.
“Stop! Stop!” they cry,
but no one turns back.
9 Plunder the silver!
Plunder the gold!
The supply is endless,
the wealth from all its treasures!
10 She is pillaged, plundered, stripped!
Hearts melt,(BA) knees give way,
bodies tremble, every face grows pale.(BB)

11 Where now is the lions’ den,(BC)
the place where they fed their young,
where the lion and lioness went,
and the cubs, with nothing to fear?
12 The lion killed(BD) enough for his cubs
and strangled the prey for his mate,
filling his lairs(BE) with the kill
and his dens with the prey.(BF)

13 “I am against(BG) you,”
declares the Lord Almighty.
“I will burn up your chariots in smoke,(BH)
and the sword(BI) will devour your young lions.
I will leave you no prey on the earth.
The voices of your messengers
will no longer be heard.”(BJ)

Woe to Nineveh

3 Woe to the city of blood,(BK)
full of lies,(BL)
full of plunder,
never without victims!
2 The crack of whips,
the clatter of wheels,
galloping horses
and jolting chariots!
3 Charging cavalry,
flashing swords
and glittering spears!
Many casualties,
piles of dead,
bodies without number,
people stumbling over the corpses(BM)—
4 all because of the wanton lust of a prostitute,
alluring, the mistress of sorceries,(BN)
who enslaved nations by her prostitution(BO)
and peoples by her witchcraft.

5 “I am against(BP) you,” declares the Lord Almighty.
“I will lift your skirts(BQ) over your face.
I will show the nations your nakedness(BR)
and the kingdoms your shame.
6 I will pelt you with filth,(BS)
I will treat you with contempt(BT)
and make you a spectacle.(BU)
7 All who see you will flee(BV) from you and say,
‘Nineveh(BW) is in ruins(BX)—who will mourn for her?’(BY)
Where can I find anyone to comfort(BZ) you?”

8 Are you better than(CA) Thebes,(CB)
situated on the Nile,(CC)
with water around her?
The river was her defense,
the waters her wall.
9 Cush[g](CD) and Egypt were her boundless strength;
Put(CE) and Libya(CF) were among her allies.
10 Yet she was taken captive(CG)
and went into exile.
Her infants were dashed(CH) to pieces
at every street corner.
Lots(CI) were cast for her nobles,
and all her great men were put in chains.(CJ)
11 You too will become drunk;(CK)
you will go into hiding(CL)
and seek refuge from the enemy.

12 All your fortresses are like fig trees
with their first ripe fruit;(CM)
when they are shaken,
the figs(CN) fall into the mouth of the eater.
13 Look at your troops—
they are all weaklings.(CO)
The gates(CP) of your land
are wide open to your enemies;
fire has consumed the bars of your gates.(CQ)

14 Draw water for the siege,(CR)
strengthen your defenses!(CS)
Work the clay,
tread the mortar,
repair the brickwork!
15 There the fire(CT) will consume you;
the sword(CU) will cut you down—
they will devour you like a swarm of locusts.
Multiply like grasshoppers,
multiply like locusts!(CV)
16 You have increased the number of your merchants
till they are more numerous than the stars in the sky,
but like locusts(CW) they strip the land
and then fly away.
17 Your guards are like locusts,(CX)
your officials like swarms of locusts
that settle in the walls on a cold day—
but when the sun appears they fly away,
and no one knows where.

18 King of Assyria, your shepherds[h] slumber;(CY)
your nobles lie down to rest.(CZ)
Your people are scattered(DA) on the mountains
with no one to gather them.
19 Nothing can heal you;(DB)
your wound is fatal.
All who hear the news about you
clap their hands(DC) at your fall,
for who has not felt
your endless cruelty?(DD)

Footnotes:

  1. Nahum 1:9 Or What do you foes plot against the Lord? / He will bring it
  2. Nahum 1:10 The meaning of the Hebrew for this verse is uncertain.
  3. Nahum 1:15 In Hebrew texts this verse (1:15) is numbered 2:1.
  4. Nahum 2:1 In Hebrew texts 2:1-13 is numbered 2:2-14.
  5. Nahum 2:3 Hebrew; Septuagint and Syriac ready; / the horsemen rush to and fro.
  6. Nahum 2:7 The meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain.
  7. Nahum 3:9 That is, the upper Nile region
  8. Nahum 3:18 That is, rulers

Cross references:

  1. Nahum 1:1 : S Isa 13:1; 19:1; Jer 23:33-34
  2. Nahum 1:1 : S Ge 10:11; S Jer 50:18; Na 2:8; 3:7
  3. Nahum 1:1 : S Isa 1:1
  4. Nahum 1:2 : S Ex 20:5
  5. Nahum 1:2 : S Ge 4:24; S Dt 32:41; Ps 94:1
  6. Nahum 1:2 : S Dt 7:10
  7. Nahum 1:3 : S Ne 9:17
  8. Nahum 1:3 : S Ex 34:7
  9. Nahum 1:3 : S Ex 14:21; S 2Ki 2:1
  10. Nahum 1:3 : S Ps 50:3
  11. Nahum 1:3 : S 2Sa 22:10; S Ps 104:3
  12. Nahum 1:4 : S 2Sa 22:16
  13. Nahum 1:4 : S Ex 14:22
  14. Nahum 1:4 : S Isa 33:9
  15. Nahum 1:5 : S Ex 19:18; S Job 9:6
  16. Nahum 1:5 : S Mic 1:4
  17. Nahum 1:5 : S Joel 2:10
  18. Nahum 1:5 : S Eze 38:20
  19. Nahum 1:6 : S Ps 130:3
  20. Nahum 1:6 : S Eze 22:14
  21. Nahum 1:6 : S Ps 76:7
  22. Nahum 1:6 : S Isa 5:24-25; S 42:25; S Jer 10:10
  23. Nahum 1:6 : 1Ki 19:11
  24. Nahum 1:7 : S Jer 33:11
  25. Nahum 1:7 : S Jer 17:17
  26. Nahum 1:7 : S Ps 1:6
  27. Nahum 1:7 : S Ps 22:9
  28. Nahum 1:8 : S Isa 8:7; S Da 9:26
  29. Nahum 1:9 : S Hos 7:15
  30. Nahum 1:10 : S 2Sa 23:6
  31. Nahum 1:10 : S Isa 49:26
  32. Nahum 1:10 : S Isa 5:24; Mal 4:1
  33. Nahum 1:12 : S Isa 10:34
  34. Nahum 1:12 : Isa 54:6-8; S La 3:31-32
  35. Nahum 1:13 : S Isa 9:4
  36. Nahum 1:13 : S Job 12:18; S Ps 107:14
  37. Nahum 1:14 : S Isa 14:22
  38. Nahum 1:14 : Mic 5:13
  39. Nahum 1:14 : S Jer 28:8; Eze 32:22-23
  40. Nahum 1:15 : Isa 40:9; Ro 10:15
  41. Nahum 1:15 : S Isa 52:7; Ac 10:36
  42. Nahum 1:15 : Lev 23:2-4
  43. Nahum 1:15 : S Isa 52:1
  44. Nahum 2:1 : Jer 51:20
  45. Nahum 2:2 : S Eze 37:23
  46. Nahum 2:2 : Isa 60:15
  47. Nahum 2:3 : S Eze 23:14-15
  48. Nahum 2:4 : S Jer 4:13; S Eze 23:24
  49. Nahum 2:5 : Jer 46:12
  50. Nahum 2:6 : Isa 45:1; Na 3:13
  51. Nahum 2:7 : S Ge 8:8; S Isa 59:11
  52. Nahum 2:7 : Isa 32:12
  53. Nahum 2:10 : S Jos 2:11; S 7:5
  54. Nahum 2:10 : S Isa 29:22
  55. Nahum 2:11 : Isa 5:29
  56. Nahum 2:12 : S Jer 51:34
  57. Nahum 2:12 : S Jer 4:7
  58. Nahum 2:12 : S Isa 37:18
  59. Nahum 2:13 : Isa 10:5-13; S Jer 21:13; Na 3:5
  60. Nahum 2:13 : Ps 46:9
  61. Nahum 2:13 : S 2Sa 2:26
  62. Nahum 2:13 : S Mic 5:6
  63. Nahum 3:1 : S Eze 22:2; S Mic 3:10
  64. Nahum 3:1 : Ps 12:2
  65. Nahum 3:3 : 2Ki 19:35; Isa 34:3; Jer 47:3
  66. Nahum 3:4 : S Isa 47:9
  67. Nahum 3:4 : S Isa 23:17; Eze 16:25-29
  68. Nahum 3:5 : S Na 2:13
  69. Nahum 3:5 : S Isa 20:4; Jer 13:22
  70. Nahum 3:5 : S Isa 47:3
  71. Nahum 3:6 : S Ex 29:14; S Job 9:31
  72. Nahum 3:6 : S 1Sa 2:30; S Jer 51:37
  73. Nahum 3:6 : Isa 14:16
  74. Nahum 3:7 : S Isa 13:14; S 31:9
  75. Nahum 3:7 : S Na 1:1
  76. Nahum 3:7 : S Job 3:14
  77. Nahum 3:7 : S Jer 15:5
  78. Nahum 3:7 : S Isa 51:19
  79. Nahum 3:8 : Am 6:2
  80. Nahum 3:8 : S Jer 46:25
  81. Nahum 3:8 : Isa 19:6-9
  82. Nahum 3:9 : S Ge 10:6; S 2Ch 12:3
  83. Nahum 3:9 : S Eze 27:10
  84. Nahum 3:9 : Eze 30:5
  85. Nahum 3:10 : S Isa 20:4
  86. Nahum 3:10 : S 2Ki 8:12; S Isa 13:16; Hos 13:16
  87. Nahum 3:10 : S Job 6:27; S Eze 24:6
  88. Nahum 3:10 : S Jer 40:1
  89. Nahum 3:11 : S Isa 49:26
  90. Nahum 3:11 : S Isa 2:10
  91. Nahum 3:12 : S SS 2:13
  92. Nahum 3:12 : S Isa 28:4
  93. Nahum 3:13 : S Isa 19:16
  94. Nahum 3:13 : S Na 2:6
  95. Nahum 3:13 : S Isa 45:2
  96. Nahum 3:14 : S 2Ch 32:4
  97. Nahum 3:14 : Na 2:1
  98. Nahum 3:15 : S Isa 27:1
  99. Nahum 3:15 : S 2Sa 2:26
  100. Nahum 3:15 : S Jer 51:14; S Joel 1:4
  101. Nahum 3:16 : S Ex 10:13
  102. Nahum 3:17 : Jer 51:27
  103. Nahum 3:18 : Ps 76:5-6; S Jer 25:27
  104. Nahum 3:18 : Isa 56:10
  105. Nahum 3:18 : S 1Ki 22:17
  106. Nahum 3:19 : S Jer 30:13; S Mic 1:9
  107. Nahum 3:19 : S Job 27:23; S La 2:15; Zep 2:15
  108. Nahum 3:19 : Isa 37:18
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Revelation 8

The Seventh Seal and the Golden Censer

8 When he opened the seventh seal,(A) there was silence in heaven for about half an hour.

2 And I saw the seven angels(B) who stand before God, and seven trumpets were given to them.(C)

3 Another angel,(D) who had a golden censer, came and stood at the altar. He was given much incense to offer, with the prayers of all God’s people,(E) on the golden altar(F) in front of the throne. 4 The smoke of the incense, together with the prayers of God’s people, went up before God(G) from the angel’s hand. 5 Then the angel took the censer, filled it with fire from the altar,(H) and hurled it on the earth; and there came peals of thunder,(I) rumblings, flashes of lightning and an earthquake.(J)

The Trumpets

6 Then the seven angels who had the seven trumpets(K) prepared to sound them.

7 The first angel(L) sounded his trumpet, and there came hail and fire(M) mixed with blood, and it was hurled down on the earth. A third(N) of the earth was burned up, a third of the trees were burned up, and all the green grass was burned up.(O)

8 The second angel sounded his trumpet, and something like a huge mountain,(P) all ablaze, was thrown into the sea. A third(Q) of the sea turned into blood,(R) 9 a third(S) of the living creatures in the sea died, and a third of the ships were destroyed.

10 The third angel sounded his trumpet, and a great star, blazing like a torch, fell from the sky(T) on a third of the rivers and on the springs of water(U)— 11 the name of the star is Wormwood.[a] A third(V) of the waters turned bitter, and many people died from the waters that had become bitter.(W)

12 The fourth angel sounded his trumpet, and a third of the sun was struck, a third of the moon, and a third of the stars, so that a third(X) of them turned dark.(Y) A third of the day was without light, and also a third of the night.(Z)

13 As I watched, I heard an eagle that was flying in midair(AA) call out in a loud voice: “Woe! Woe! Woe(AB) to the inhabitants of the earth,(AC) because of the trumpet blasts about to be sounded by the other three angels!”

Footnotes:

  1. Revelation 8:11 Wormwood is a bitter substance.

Cross references:

  1. Revelation 8:1 : Rev 6:1
  2. Revelation 8:2 : ver 6-13; Rev 9:1, 13; 11:15
  3. Revelation 8:2 : S Mt 24:31
  4. Revelation 8:3 : Rev 7:2
  5. Revelation 8:3 : Rev 5:8
  6. Revelation 8:3 : ver 5; Ex 30:1-6; Heb 9:4; Rev 9:13
  7. Revelation 8:4 : Ps 141:2
  8. Revelation 8:5 : Lev 16:12, 13
  9. Revelation 8:5 : S Rev 4:5
  10. Revelation 8:5 : S Rev 6:12
  11. Revelation 8:6 : S ver 2
  12. Revelation 8:7 : S ver 2
  13. Revelation 8:7 : Eze 38:22
  14. Revelation 8:7 : ver 7-12; Rev 9:15, 18; 12:4
  15. Revelation 8:7 : Rev 9:4
  16. Revelation 8:8 : Jer 51:25
  17. Revelation 8:8 : S ver 7
  18. Revelation 8:8 : Rev 16:3
  19. Revelation 8:9 : S ver 7
  20. Revelation 8:10 : Isa 14:12; Rev 6:13; 9:1
  21. Revelation 8:10 : Rev 14:7; 16:4
  22. Revelation 8:11 : S ver 7
  23. Revelation 8:11 : Jer 9:15; 23:15
  24. Revelation 8:12 : S ver 7
  25. Revelation 8:12 : Ex 10:21-23; Rev 6:12, 13
  26. Revelation 8:12 : Eze 32:7
  27. Revelation 8:13 : Rev 14:6; 19:17
  28. Revelation 8:13 : Rev 9:12; 11:14; 12:12
  29. Revelation 8:13 : S Rev 3:10
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Psalm 136

Psalm 136

1 Give thanks(A) to the Lord, for he is good.(B)
His love endures forever.(C)
2 Give thanks(D) to the God of gods.(E)
His love endures forever.
3 Give thanks(F) to the Lord of lords:(G)
His love endures forever.

4 to him who alone does great wonders,(H)
His love endures forever.
5 who by his understanding(I) made the heavens,(J)
His love endures forever.
6 who spread out the earth(K) upon the waters,(L)
His love endures forever.
7 who made the great lights(M)—
His love endures forever.
8 the sun to govern(N) the day,
His love endures forever.
9 the moon and stars to govern the night;
His love endures forever.

10 to him who struck down the firstborn(O) of Egypt
His love endures forever.
11 and brought Israel out(P) from among them
His love endures forever.
12 with a mighty hand(Q) and outstretched arm;(R)
His love endures forever.

13 to him who divided the Red Sea[a](S) asunder
His love endures forever.
14 and brought Israel through(T) the midst of it,
His love endures forever.
15 but swept Pharaoh and his army into the Red Sea;(U)
His love endures forever.

16 to him who led his people through the wilderness;(V)
His love endures forever.

17 to him who struck down great kings,(W)
His love endures forever.
18 and killed mighty kings(X)—
His love endures forever.
19 Sihon king of the Amorites(Y)
His love endures forever.
20 and Og king of Bashan(Z)—
His love endures forever.
21 and gave their land(AA) as an inheritance,(AB)
His love endures forever.
22 an inheritance(AC) to his servant Israel.(AD)
His love endures forever.

23 He remembered us(AE) in our low estate
His love endures forever.
24 and freed us(AF) from our enemies.(AG)
His love endures forever.
25 He gives food(AH) to every creature.
His love endures forever.

26 Give thanks(AI) to the God of heaven.(AJ)
His love endures forever.(AK)

Footnotes:

  1. Psalm 136:13 Or the Sea of Reeds; also in verse 15

Cross references:

  1. Psalm 136:1 : Ps 105:1
  2. Psalm 136:1 : Ps 100:5; 106:1; 145:9; Jer 33:11; Na 1:7
  3. Psalm 136:1 : ver 2-26; S 2Ch 5:13; S Ezr 3:11; Ps 118:1-4
  4. Psalm 136:2 : Ps 105:1
  5. Psalm 136:2 : S Dt 10:17
  6. Psalm 136:3 : Ps 105:1
  7. Psalm 136:3 : S Dt 10:17; S 1Ti 6:15
  8. Psalm 136:4 : S Ex 3:20; S Job 9:10
  9. Psalm 136:5 : Pr 3:19; Jer 51:15
  10. Psalm 136:5 : S Ge 1:1
  11. Psalm 136:6 : S Ge 1:1; Isa 42:5; Jer 10:12; 33:2
  12. Psalm 136:6 : S Ge 1:6
  13. Psalm 136:7 : Ge 1:14, 16; Ps 74:16; Jas 1:17
  14. Psalm 136:8 : S Ge 1:16
  15. Psalm 136:10 : S Ex 4:23; S 12:12
  16. Psalm 136:11 : S Ex 6:6; 13:3; Ps 105:43
  17. Psalm 136:12 : S Ex 3:20; S Dt 5:15
  18. Psalm 136:12 : S Dt 9:29
  19. Psalm 136:13 : S Ps 78:13
  20. Psalm 136:14 : Ex 14:22; Ps 106:9
  21. Psalm 136:15 : S Ex 14:27
  22. Psalm 136:16 : S Ex 13:18; Ps 78:52
  23. Psalm 136:17 : Nu 21:23-25; Jos 24:8-11; Ps 78:55; 135:9-12
  24. Psalm 136:18 : Dt 29:7; S Jos 12:7-24
  25. Psalm 136:19 : Nu 21:21-25
  26. Psalm 136:20 : Nu 21:33-35
  27. Psalm 136:21 : Jos 12:1
  28. Psalm 136:21 : S Dt 1:38; S Jos 14:1
  29. Psalm 136:22 : S Dt 29:8; Ps 78:55
  30. Psalm 136:22 : Isa 20:3; 41:8; 42:19; 43:10; 44:1, 21; 45:4; 49:5-7
  31. Psalm 136:23 : Ps 78:39; 103:14; 115:12
  32. Psalm 136:24 : S Jos 10:14; S Ne 9:28
  33. Psalm 136:24 : S Dt 6:19
  34. Psalm 136:25 : S Ge 1:30; S Mt 6:26
  35. Psalm 136:26 : Ps 105:1
  36. Psalm 136:26 : S Ps 115:3
  37. Psalm 136:26 : S Ezr 3:11
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Proverbs 30:7-9

7 “Two things I ask of you, Lord;
do not refuse me before I die:
8 Keep falsehood and lies far from me;
give me neither poverty nor riches,
but give me only my daily bread.(A)
9 Otherwise, I may have too much and disown(B) you
and say, ‘Who is the Lord?’(C)
Or I may become poor and steal,
and so dishonor the name of my God.(D)

Cross references:

  1. Proverbs 30:8 : Mt 6:11
  2. Proverbs 30:9 : Jos 24:27; Isa 1:4; 59:13
  3. Proverbs 30:9 : Dt 6:12; 8:10-14; Hos 13:6
  4. Proverbs 30:9 : S Dt 8:12
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The Daily Audio Bible Reading for Thursday December 16, 2021 (NIV)

Micah 5-7

A Promised Ruler From Bethlehem

5 [a]Marshal your troops now, city of troops,
for a siege is laid against us.
They will strike Israel’s ruler
on the cheek(A) with a rod.

2 “But you, Bethlehem(B) Ephrathah,(C)
though you are small among the clans[b] of Judah,
out of you will come for me
one who will be ruler(D) over Israel,
whose origins are from of old,(E)
from ancient times.”(F)

3 Therefore Israel will be abandoned(G)
until the time when she who is in labor bears a son,
and the rest of his brothers return
to join the Israelites.

4 He will stand and shepherd his flock(H)
in the strength of the Lord,
in the majesty of the name of the Lord his God.
And they will live securely, for then his greatness(I)
will reach to the ends of the earth.

5 And he will be our peace(J)
when the Assyrians invade(K) our land
and march through our fortresses.
We will raise against them seven shepherds,
even eight commanders,(L)
6 who will rule[c] the land of Assyria with the sword,
the land of Nimrod(M) with drawn sword.[d](N)
He will deliver us from the Assyrians
when they invade our land
and march across our borders.(O)

7 The remnant(P) of Jacob will be
in the midst of many peoples
like dew(Q) from the Lord,
like showers on the grass,(R)
which do not wait for anyone
or depend on man.
8 The remnant of Jacob will be among the nations,
in the midst of many peoples,
like a lion among the beasts of the forest,(S)
like a young lion among flocks of sheep,
which mauls and mangles(T) as it goes,
and no one can rescue.(U)
9 Your hand will be lifted up(V) in triumph over your enemies,
and all your foes will be destroyed.

10 “In that day,” declares the Lord,

“I will destroy your horses from among you
and demolish your chariots.(W)
11 I will destroy the cities(X) of your land
and tear down all your strongholds.(Y)
12 I will destroy your witchcraft
and you will no longer cast spells.(Z)
13 I will destroy your idols(AA)
and your sacred stones from among you;(AB)
you will no longer bow down
to the work of your hands.(AC)
14 I will uproot from among you your Asherah poles[e](AD)
when I demolish your cities.
15 I will take vengeance(AE) in anger and wrath
on the nations that have not obeyed me.”

The Lord’s Case Against Israel

6 Listen to what the Lord says:

“Stand up, plead my case before the mountains;(AF)
let the hills hear what you have to say.

2 “Hear,(AG) you mountains, the Lord’s accusation;(AH)
listen, you everlasting foundations of the earth.
For the Lord has a case(AI) against his people;
he is lodging a charge(AJ) against Israel.

3 “My people, what have I done to you?
How have I burdened(AK) you?(AL) Answer me.
4 I brought you up out of Egypt(AM)
and redeemed you from the land of slavery.(AN)
I sent Moses(AO) to lead you,
also Aaron(AP) and Miriam.(AQ)
5 My people, remember
what Balak(AR) king of Moab plotted
and what Balaam son of Beor answered.
Remember your journey from Shittim(AS) to Gilgal,(AT)
that you may know the righteous acts(AU) of the Lord.”

6 With what shall I come before(AV) the Lord
and bow down before the exalted God?
Shall I come before him with burnt offerings,
with calves a year old?(AW)
7 Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams,(AX)
with ten thousand rivers of olive oil?(AY)
Shall I offer my firstborn(AZ) for my transgression,
the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?(BA)
8 He has shown you, O mortal, what is good.
And what does the Lord require of you?
To act justly(BB) and to love mercy
and to walk humbly[f](BC) with your God.(BD)

Israel’s Guilt and Punishment

9 Listen! The Lord is calling to the city—
and to fear your name is wisdom—
“Heed the rod(BE) and the One who appointed it.[g]
10 Am I still to forget your ill-gotten treasures, you wicked house,
and the short ephah,[h] which is accursed?(BF)
11 Shall I acquit someone with dishonest scales,(BG)
with a bag of false weights?(BH)
12 Your rich people are violent;(BI)
your inhabitants are liars(BJ)
and their tongues speak deceitfully.(BK)
13 Therefore, I have begun to destroy(BL) you,
to ruin[i] you because of your sins.
14 You will eat but not be satisfied;(BM)
your stomach will still be empty.[j]
You will store up but save nothing,(BN)
because what you save[k] I will give to the sword.
15 You will plant but not harvest;(BO)
you will press olives but not use the oil,
you will crush grapes but not drink the wine.(BP)
16 You have observed the statutes of Omri(BQ)
and all the practices of Ahab’s(BR) house;
you have followed their traditions.(BS)
Therefore I will give you over to ruin(BT)
and your people to derision;
you will bear the scorn(BU) of the nations.[l]”

Israel’s Misery

7 What misery is mine!
I am like one who gathers summer fruit
at the gleaning of the vineyard;
there is no cluster of grapes to eat,
none of the early figs(BV) that I crave.
2 The faithful have been swept from the land;(BW)
not one(BX) upright person remains.
Everyone lies in wait(BY) to shed blood;(BZ)
they hunt each other(CA) with nets.(CB)
3 Both hands are skilled in doing evil;(CC)
the ruler demands gifts,
the judge accepts bribes,(CD)
the powerful dictate what they desire—
they all conspire together.
4 The best of them is like a brier,(CE)
the most upright worse than a thorn(CF) hedge.
The day God visits you has come,
the day your watchmen sound the alarm.
Now is the time of your confusion.(CG)
5 Do not trust a neighbor;
put no confidence in a friend.(CH)
Even with the woman who lies in your embrace
guard the words of your lips.
6 For a son dishonors his father,
a daughter rises up against her mother,(CI)
a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law—
a man’s enemies are the members of his own household.(CJ)

7 But as for me, I watch(CK) in hope(CL) for the Lord,
I wait for God my Savior;
my God will hear(CM) me.

Israel Will Rise

8 Do not gloat over me,(CN) my enemy!
Though I have fallen, I will rise.(CO)
Though I sit in darkness,
the Lord will be my light.(CP)
9 Because I have sinned against him,
I will bear the Lord’s wrath,(CQ)
until he pleads my case(CR)
and upholds my cause.
He will bring me out into the light;(CS)
I will see his righteousness.(CT)
10 Then my enemy will see it
and will be covered with shame,(CU)
she who said to me,
“Where is the Lord your God?”(CV)
My eyes will see her downfall;(CW)
even now she will be trampled(CX) underfoot
like mire in the streets.

11 The day for building your walls(CY) will come,
the day for extending your boundaries.
12 In that day people will come to you
from Assyria(CZ) and the cities of Egypt,
even from Egypt to the Euphrates
and from sea to sea
and from mountain to mountain.(DA)
13 The earth will become desolate because of its inhabitants,
as the result of their deeds.(DB)

Prayer and Praise

14 Shepherd(DC) your people with your staff,(DD)
the flock of your inheritance,
which lives by itself in a forest,
in fertile pasturelands.[m](DE)
Let them feed in Bashan(DF) and Gilead(DG)
as in days long ago.(DH)

15 “As in the days when you came out of Egypt,
I will show them my wonders.(DI)”

16 Nations will see and be ashamed,(DJ)
deprived of all their power.
They will put their hands over their mouths(DK)
and their ears will become deaf.
17 They will lick dust(DL) like a snake,
like creatures that crawl on the ground.
They will come trembling(DM) out of their dens;
they will turn in fear(DN) to the Lord our God
and will be afraid of you.
18 Who is a God(DO) like you,
who pardons sin(DP) and forgives(DQ) the transgression
of the remnant(DR) of his inheritance?(DS)
You do not stay angry(DT) forever
but delight to show mercy.(DU)
19 You will again have compassion on us;
you will tread our sins underfoot
and hurl all our iniquities(DV) into the depths of the sea.(DW)
20 You will be faithful to Jacob,
and show love to Abraham,(DX)
as you pledged on oath to our ancestors(DY)
in days long ago.(DZ)

Footnotes:

  1. Micah 5:1 In Hebrew texts 5:1 is numbered 4:14, and 5:2-15 is numbered 5:1-14.
  2. Micah 5:2 Or rulers
  3. Micah 5:6 Or crush
  4. Micah 5:6 Or Nimrod in its gates
  5. Micah 5:14 That is, wooden symbols of the goddess Asherah
  6. Micah 6:8 Or prudently
  7. Micah 6:9 The meaning of the Hebrew for this line is uncertain.
  8. Micah 6:10 An ephah was a dry measure.
  9. Micah 6:13 Or Therefore, I will make you ill and destroy you; / I will ruin
  10. Micah 6:14 The meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain.
  11. Micah 6:14 Or You will press toward birth but not give birth, / and what you bring to birth
  12. Micah 6:16 Septuagint; Hebrew scorn due my people
  13. Micah 7:14 Or in the middle of Carmel

Cross references:

  1. Micah 5:1 : La 3:30
  2. Micah 5:2 : S Jn 7:42
  3. Micah 5:2 : S Ge 35:16; S 48:7
  4. Micah 5:2 : S Nu 24:19; S 1Sa 13:14; S 2Sa 6:21; S 2Ch 7:18
  5. Micah 5:2 : Ps 102:25
  6. Micah 5:2 : Mt 2:6*
  7. Micah 5:3 : S Jer 7:29
  8. Micah 5:4 : Isa 40:11; 49:9; S Eze 34:11-15, 23; Mic 7:14
  9. Micah 5:4 : Isa 52:13; Lk 1:32
  10. Micah 5:5 : S Isa 9:6; S Lk 2:14; Col 1:19-20
  11. Micah 5:5 : Isa 8:7
  12. Micah 5:5 : Isa 10:24-27
  13. Micah 5:6 : Ge 10:8
  14. Micah 5:6 : Zep 2:13
  15. Micah 5:6 : Na 2:11-13
  16. Micah 5:7 : S Am 5:15; S Mic 2:12
  17. Micah 5:7 : S Ps 133:3
  18. Micah 5:7 : Isa 44:4
  19. Micah 5:8 : S Ge 49:9
  20. Micah 5:8 : Mic 4:13; Zec 10:5
  21. Micah 5:8 : S Ps 50:22; S Isa 5:29; S Hos 5:14
  22. Micah 5:9 : S Ps 10:12
  23. Micah 5:10 : Ex 15:4, 19; S Hos 14:3; Hag 2:22; Zec 9:10
  24. Micah 5:11 : S Dt 29:23; Isa 6:11
  25. Micah 5:11 : S La 2:2; S Hos 10:14; Am 5:9
  26. Micah 5:12 : Dt 18:10-12; Isa 2:6; 8:19
  27. Micah 5:13 : Na 1:14
  28. Micah 5:13 : Hos 10:2
  29. Micah 5:13 : S Isa 2:18; S Eze 6:9; Zec 13:2
  30. Micah 5:14 : S Ex 34:13; S Jdg 3:7; S 2Ki 17:10
  31. Micah 5:15 : S Isa 65:12
  32. Micah 6:1 : S Ps 50:1; S Eze 6:2
  33. Micah 6:2 : Dt 32:1
  34. Micah 6:2 : S Hos 12:2
  35. Micah 6:2 : S Isa 3:13
  36. Micah 6:2 : Ps 50:7; S Jer 2:9
  37. Micah 6:3 : Jer 2:5
  38. Micah 6:3 : Jer 2:5
  39. Micah 6:4 : S Ex 3:10; S 6:6
  40. Micah 6:4 : Dt 7:8
  41. Micah 6:4 : S Ex 4:16
  42. Micah 6:4 : S Nu 33:1; Ps 77:20
  43. Micah 6:4 : S Ex 15:20
  44. Micah 6:5 : S Nu 22:2
  45. Micah 6:5 : S Nu 25:1
  46. Micah 6:5 : S Dt 11:30; Jos 5:9-10
  47. Micah 6:5 : Jdg 5:11; 1Sa 12:7
  48. Micah 6:6 : S Ps 95:2
  49. Micah 6:6 : Ps 40:6-8; 51:16-17
  50. Micah 6:7 : S Isa 1:11; S 40:16
  51. Micah 6:7 : Ps 50:8-10
  52. Micah 6:7 : S Lev 18:21; S 2Ki 3:27
  53. Micah 6:7 : Hos 5:6; S Am 5:22
  54. Micah 6:8 : S Isa 1:17; S Jer 22:3
  55. Micah 6:8 : S 2Ki 22:19; S Isa 57:15
  56. Micah 6:8 : S Ge 5:22; Dt 10:12-13; 1Sa 15:22; Hos 6:6; Zec 7:9-10; Mt 9:13; 23:23; Mk 12:33; Lk 11:42
  57. Micah 6:9 : S Ge 17:1; Isa 11:4
  58. Micah 6:10 : Eze 45:9-10; S Am 3:10; 8:4-6
  59. Micah 6:11 : S Lev 19:36
  60. Micah 6:11 : S Dt 25:13
  61. Micah 6:12 : S Isa 1:23
  62. Micah 6:12 : S Ps 116:11; Isa 3:8
  63. Micah 6:12 : S Ps 35:20; S Jer 9:3
  64. Micah 6:13 : Isa 1:7; 6:11
  65. Micah 6:14 : S Isa 9:20; S Hos 4:10
  66. Micah 6:14 : Isa 30:6
  67. Micah 6:15 : S Dt 28:38; Jer 12:13
  68. Micah 6:15 : Job 24:11; S Am 5:11; Zep 1:13
  69. Micah 6:16 : S 1Ki 16:25
  70. Micah 6:16 : 1Ki 16:29-33
  71. Micah 6:16 : Jer 7:24
  72. Micah 6:16 : S Jer 25:9
  73. Micah 6:16 : S Dt 28:37; S Jer 51:51; S Mic 2:6
  74. Micah 7:1 : S SS 2:13
  75. Micah 7:2 : S Ps 12:1
  76. Micah 7:2 : S Jer 2:29; 8:6
  77. Micah 7:2 : Ps 10:8
  78. Micah 7:2 : S Pr 6:17; S Mic 3:10
  79. Micah 7:2 : S Isa 3:5
  80. Micah 7:2 : S Jer 5:26
  81. Micah 7:3 : S Pr 4:16
  82. Micah 7:3 : S Ex 23:8; S Eze 22:12
  83. Micah 7:4 : S Nu 33:55; S Eze 2:6
  84. Micah 7:4 : S 2Sa 23:6
  85. Micah 7:4 : S Job 31:14; Isa 22:5; S Hos 9:7
  86. Micah 7:5 : Jer 9:4
  87. Micah 7:6 : S Eze 22:7
  88. Micah 7:6 : Mt 10:35-36*; S Mk 13:12
  89. Micah 7:7 : S Isa 21:8
  90. Micah 7:7 : Ps 130:5; Isa 25:9
  91. Micah 7:7 : S Ps 4:3
  92. Micah 7:8 : S Ps 22:17; S Pr 24:17; S Mic 4:11
  93. Micah 7:8 : Ps 20:8; 37:24; S Am 9:11
  94. Micah 7:8 : S 2Sa 22:29; Isa 9:2
  95. Micah 7:9 : La 3:39-40
  96. Micah 7:9 : S Ps 119:154
  97. Micah 7:9 : S Ps 107:10
  98. Micah 7:9 : Isa 46:13
  99. Micah 7:10 : S Ps 35:26
  100. Micah 7:10 : S Ps 42:3
  101. Micah 7:10 : S Isa 51:23
  102. Micah 7:10 : S 2Sa 22:43; S Job 40:12; S Isa 5:5; Zec 10:5
  103. Micah 7:11 : Isa 54:11; S Am 9:11
  104. Micah 7:12 : S Isa 11:11
  105. Micah 7:12 : Isa 19:23-25; 60:4
  106. Micah 7:13 : Isa 3:10-11; S Eze 12:19; S 33:28-29
  107. Micah 7:14 : S Ps 28:9; S Mic 5:4
  108. Micah 7:14 : Ps 23:4
  109. Micah 7:14 : Ps 95:7
  110. Micah 7:14 : S Isa 33:9
  111. Micah 7:14 : S SS 4:1; S Jer 50:19
  112. Micah 7:14 : Eze 36:11
  113. Micah 7:15 : S Ex 3:20; Ps 78:12
  114. Micah 7:16 : Isa 26:11
  115. Micah 7:16 : S Jdg 18:19
  116. Micah 7:17 : S Ge 3:14
  117. Micah 7:17 : 2Sa 22:46
  118. Micah 7:17 : Isa 25:3; 59:19
  119. Micah 7:18 : S Ex 8:10; S 1Sa 2:2
  120. Micah 7:18 : S Isa 43:25; S Jer 50:20; Zec 3:4
  121. Micah 7:18 : S 2Ch 6:21; Ps 103:8-13
  122. Micah 7:18 : S Joel 2:32; S Am 5:15; S Mic 2:12
  123. Micah 7:18 : S Ex 34:9
  124. Micah 7:18 : S Ps 103:9; S Isa 54:9
  125. Micah 7:18 : S 2Ch 30:9; S Jer 31:20; 32:41; S Eze 18:23
  126. Micah 7:19 : S Isa 43:25
  127. Micah 7:19 : S Jer 31:34
  128. Micah 7:20 : Gal 3:16
  129. Micah 7:20 : Dt 7:8; Lk 1:72
  130. Micah 7:20 : Ps 108:4
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Revelation 7

144,000 Sealed

7 After this I saw four angels standing at the four corners(A) of the earth, holding back the four winds(B) of the earth to prevent(C) any wind from blowing on the land or on the sea or on any tree. 2 Then I saw another angel coming up from the east, having the seal(D) of the living God.(E) He called out in a loud voice to the four angels who had been given power to harm the land and the sea:(F) 3 “Do not harm(G) the land or the sea or the trees until we put a seal on the foreheads(H) of the servants of our God.” 4 Then I heard the number(I) of those who were sealed: 144,000(J) from all the tribes of Israel.

5 From the tribe of Judah 12,000 were sealed,

from the tribe of Reuben 12,000,

from the tribe of Gad 12,000,

6 from the tribe of Asher 12,000,

from the tribe of Naphtali 12,000,

from the tribe of Manasseh 12,000,

7 from the tribe of Simeon 12,000,

from the tribe of Levi 12,000,

from the tribe of Issachar 12,000,

8 from the tribe of Zebulun 12,000,

from the tribe of Joseph 12,000,

from the tribe of Benjamin 12,000.

The Great Multitude in White Robes

9 After this I looked, and there before me was a great multitude that no one could count, from every nation, tribe, people and language,(K) standing before the throne(L) and before the Lamb. They were wearing white robes(M) and were holding palm branches in their hands. 10 And they cried out in a loud voice:

“Salvation belongs to our God,(N)
who sits on the throne,(O)
and to the Lamb.”

11 All the angels were standing around the throne and around the elders(P) and the four living creatures.(Q) They fell down on their faces(R) before the throne and worshiped God, 12 saying:

“Amen!
Praise and glory
and wisdom and thanks and honor
and power and strength
be to our God for ever and ever.
Amen!”(S)

13 Then one of the elders asked me, “These in white robes(T)—who are they, and where did they come from?”

14 I answered, “Sir, you know.”

And he said, “These are they who have come out of the great tribulation; they have washed their robes(U) and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.(V) 15 Therefore,

“they are before the throne of God(W)
and serve him(X) day and night in his temple;(Y)
and he who sits on the throne(Z)
will shelter them with his presence.(AA)
16 ‘Never again will they hunger;
never again will they thirst.(AB)
The sun will not beat down on them,’[a]
nor any scorching heat.(AC)
17 For the Lamb at the center of the throne
will be their shepherd;(AD)
‘he will lead them to springs of living water.’[b](AE)
‘And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.’[c]”(AF)

Footnotes:

  1. Revelation 7:16 Isaiah 49:10
  2. Revelation 7:17 Isaiah 49:10
  3. Revelation 7:17 Isaiah 25:8

Cross references:

  1. Revelation 7:1 : Isa 11:12
  2. Revelation 7:1 : Jer 49:36; Eze 37:9; Da 7:2; Zec 6:5; Mt 24:31
  3. Revelation 7:1 : S Rev 6:6
  4. Revelation 7:2 : Rev 9:4
  5. Revelation 7:2 : S Mt 16:16
  6. Revelation 7:2 : ver 1
  7. Revelation 7:3 : S Rev 6:6
  8. Revelation 7:3 : Eze 9:4; Rev 9:4; 14:1; 22:4
  9. Revelation 7:4 : Rev 9:16
  10. Revelation 7:4 : Rev 14:1, 3
  11. Revelation 7:9 : S Rev 13:7
  12. Revelation 7:9 : ver 15
  13. Revelation 7:9 : S Rev 3:4
  14. Revelation 7:10 : Ps 3:8; Rev 12:10; 19:1
  15. Revelation 7:10 : S Rev 5:1
  16. Revelation 7:11 : S Rev 4:4
  17. Revelation 7:11 : S Rev 4:6
  18. Revelation 7:11 : S Rev 4:10
  19. Revelation 7:12 : S Ro 11:36; Rev 5:12-14
  20. Revelation 7:13 : S Rev 3:4
  21. Revelation 7:14 : Rev 22:14
  22. Revelation 7:14 : Heb 9:14; 1Jn 1:7; Rev 12:11
  23. Revelation 7:15 : ver 9
  24. Revelation 7:15 : Rev 22:3
  25. Revelation 7:15 : Rev 11:19
  26. Revelation 7:15 : S Rev 5:1
  27. Revelation 7:15 : Isa 4:5, 6; Rev 21:3
  28. Revelation 7:16 : Jn 6:35
  29. Revelation 7:16 : Isa 49:10
  30. Revelation 7:17 : S Jn 10:11
  31. Revelation 7:17 : S Jn 4:10
  32. Revelation 7:17 : Isa 25:8; 35:10; 51:11; 65:19; Rev 21:4
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Psalm 135

Psalm 135(A)

1 Praise the Lord.[a]

Praise the name of the Lord;
praise him, you servants(B) of the Lord,
2 you who minister in the house(C) of the Lord,
in the courts(D) of the house of our God.

3 Praise the Lord, for the Lord is good;(E)
sing praise to his name,(F) for that is pleasant.(G)
4 For the Lord has chosen Jacob(H) to be his own,
Israel to be his treasured possession.(I)

5 I know that the Lord is great,(J)
that our Lord is greater than all gods.(K)
6 The Lord does whatever pleases him,(L)
in the heavens and on the earth,(M)
in the seas and all their depths.
7 He makes clouds rise from the ends of the earth;
he sends lightning with the rain(N)
and brings out the wind(O) from his storehouses.(P)

8 He struck down the firstborn(Q) of Egypt,
the firstborn of people and animals.
9 He sent his signs(R) and wonders into your midst, Egypt,
against Pharaoh and all his servants.(S)
10 He struck down many(T) nations
and killed mighty kings—
11 Sihon(U) king of the Amorites,(V)
Og king of Bashan,(W)
and all the kings of Canaan(X)—
12 and he gave their land as an inheritance,(Y)
an inheritance to his people Israel.

13 Your name, Lord, endures forever,(Z)
your renown,(AA) Lord, through all generations.
14 For the Lord will vindicate his people(AB)
and have compassion on his servants.(AC)

15 The idols of the nations(AD) are silver and gold,
made by human hands.(AE)
16 They have mouths, but cannot speak,(AF)
eyes, but cannot see.
17 They have ears, but cannot hear,
nor is there breath(AG) in their mouths.
18 Those who make them will be like them,
and so will all who trust in them.

19 All you Israelites, praise the Lord;(AH)
house of Aaron, praise the Lord;
20 house of Levi, praise the Lord;
you who fear him, praise the Lord.
21 Praise be to the Lord from Zion,(AI)
to him who dwells in Jerusalem.(AJ)

Praise the Lord.

Footnotes:

  1. Psalm 135:1 Hebrew Hallelu Yah; also in verses 3 and 21

Cross references:

  1. Psalm 135:1 : 135:15-20pp — Ps 115:4-11
  2. Psalm 135:1 : Ne 7:73
  3. Psalm 135:2 : S 1Ch 15:2; Lk 2:37
  4. Psalm 135:2 : S Ps 116:19
  5. Psalm 135:3 : S 1Ch 16:34; S Ps 119:68
  6. Psalm 135:3 : S Ps 68:4
  7. Psalm 135:3 : S Ps 92:1; 147:1
  8. Psalm 135:4 : S Dt 10:15
  9. Psalm 135:4 : Ex 19:5; Dt 7:6; Mal 3:17; S Tit 2:14
  10. Psalm 135:5 : S Ps 48:1; 145:3
  11. Psalm 135:5 : S Ex 12:12; S 1Ch 16:25; S Job 21:22
  12. Psalm 135:6 : Ps 115:3; Da 4:35
  13. Psalm 135:6 : Mt 6:10
  14. Psalm 135:7 : S Job 5:10; Ps 68:9; Isa 30:23; Jer 10:13; 51:16; Joel 2:23; Zec 10:1
  15. Psalm 135:7 : Am 4:13
  16. Psalm 135:7 : S Dt 28:12
  17. Psalm 135:8 : S Ex 4:23; S 12:12
  18. Psalm 135:9 : S Ex 7:9
  19. Psalm 135:9 : Ps 136:10-15
  20. Psalm 135:10 : Nu 21:21-25; Jos 24:8-11; Ps 44:2; 78:55; 136:17-21
  21. Psalm 135:11 : S Nu 21:21
  22. Psalm 135:11 : S Nu 21:26
  23. Psalm 135:11 : S Nu 21:33
  24. Psalm 135:11 : S Jos 12:7-24; 24:12
  25. Psalm 135:12 : S Dt 29:8
  26. Psalm 135:13 : S Ex 3:15
  27. Psalm 135:13 : S Ps 102:12
  28. Psalm 135:14 : S 1Sa 24:15; Heb 10:30*
  29. Psalm 135:14 : S Dt 32:36
  30. Psalm 135:15 : Ps 96:5; Rev 9:20
  31. Psalm 135:15 : Isa 2:8; 31:7; 37:19; 40:19; Jer 1:16; 10:5
  32. Psalm 135:16 : S 1Ki 18:26
  33. Psalm 135:17 : Jer 10:14; Hab 2:19
  34. Psalm 135:19 : S Ps 22:23
  35. Psalm 135:21 : Ps 128:5; 134:3
  36. Psalm 135:21 : S 1Ki 8:13; S 2Ch 6:2
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Proverbs 30:5-6

5 “Every word of God is flawless;(A)
he is a shield(B) to those who take refuge in him.
6 Do not add(C) to his words,
or he will rebuke you and prove you a liar.

Cross references:

  1. Proverbs 30:5 : S Ps 12:6; S 18:30
  2. Proverbs 30:5 : S Ge 15:1
  3. Proverbs 30:6 : S Dt 4:2
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12/15/2021 DAB Transcript

Micah 1:1-4:13, Revelation 6:1-17, Psalm 134:1-3, Proverbs 30:1-4

Today is the 15th day of December, welcome to the Daily Audio Bible. I am Brian and it’s, like always, a joy to be here around the Global Campfire together with you as we move forward to take the next step into and through the Scriptures. And in the Old Testament we have been moving rapidly through some of the shorter books in the Bible, known as the minor prophets, which we’ll continue to do today and just by way of reminder the minor prophets aren’t because they’re less important it’s because there shorter. And so, on the number of days now, we have read books in their entirety in one, in one day.

Introduction to the Book of Micah:

Today we will be capping out for two days in our next book in the Old Testament and it is known as the book of Micah and this is the sixth of the 12 minor prophets and there is very little known about who Micah was, outside of the book but the book gives plenty of clues for scholarship to be done. Micah, the name Micah, means who is like God and we’re told in the book that he’s from the town of Moresheth which can be somewhat confusing but many scholars associate Moresheth with Moresheth-Gat and this would place Micah in the low lands,  what’s known as the Shefalah, the low lands in the southern kingdom of Judah, which would be southwest of the city of Jerusalem, so that gives us a sense of location. The book tells us that God gave Micah the message during the years that Jothem, Ahaz and Hezekiah were kings of Judah and that the visions that God gave him concern both Samaria and Jerusalem. And that gives us a lot of clues. Samaria was the capital city of the northern kingdom of Israel, Jerusalem was the capital city of the southern kingdom of Judah. So, we know that what Micah is prophesying is to the entire people that came out of slavery in Egypt, the Israelites, even though they have separated themselves and their allegiances into two different kingdoms or two different countries, nations. Because the names of the kings are mentioned that would date Micah somewhere in the early decades of the eighth century BC and there’s another clue that is outside of the book of Micah because Micah is mentioned in the prophecy of Jeremiah and Jeremiah would be like a century later than Micah and so if Jeremiah is mentioning Micah a hundred years later than the prophecies of Micah were preserved and carried forward and held in high regard. And so, we know that Micah, as a prophet, had some authority as he spoke and had some trusted credibility. The prophecies in Micah aren’t unlike other prophetic messages that we have heard as we’ve been moving through the major and minor prophets, right. The prophecies often start with words of caution and then judgment, followed by words of hope and restoration, that is true of Micah. It’s just that this happens three times in a short amount of time because Micah is not that long. So, this kind of three times judgment and restoration pattern has been noticed and it seems like this is an intentional thing about the book of Micah and within the book of Micah we see promises of a coming deliverer, a Messiah, an expected anointed one. This would be one of the passages than that are referenced in the New Testament to reveal to the readers in the first century, about Jesus that this was expected which is one of the main things about the early church among the Jewish population. This was expected, this was supposed to happen, we were waiting for this to happen. That resonated with many people, of course, many people rejected that because the Messiah doesn’t get crucified, the Messiah takes over at least in their way of thinking and we spent plenty of time talking about that through the journey that we’ve been on, but Micah is quoted in Matthew referencing Jesus but…but you O Bethlehem are only a small village among all the people of Judah, yet a ruler of Israel, whose origins are in the distant past will come from you on my behalf, and even Jesus himself during his ministry quoted from Micah when he said don’t think that I came to bring peace on the earth, I came to bring a sword. So, that tells us Jesus of course knew of the writings of Micah, understood them, quoted them during his ministry and we’ll see what God is displeased with as he speaks through Micah is the corruption and idolatry and rebellion and those who exploit the less fortunate, which brings social justice back into the mix, which was one of the major themes of the book of Obadiah which we read just a few days ago. And it’s not as if we had never heard that God is displeased with this kind of activity but this is one more iteration where he is displeased with this activity because it leads to destruction but because of the re-repeated pattern of hope and restoration following judgment we see that God hates the corruption but he’s very passionate about the restoration for those who keep his covenant. And so, with that we begin our journey through the book of Micah. We’re reading from the New International Version this week, Micah chapter 1 through chapter 4 today.

Prayer:

Father, we thank You for Your word. Thank You for another day as we continue step-by-step day by day forward, and we thank You for bringing us into the book of Micah and once again through the prophets, we see that the crossroads is before us always and it’s basically that we can choose life or death. We can choose destruction or redemption and so often the words come to warn us, You’re going in a direction that will lead You to destruction, come back, return, repent, don’t go that way and we see this pattern repeated over and over, over many generations in the Bible. We see that this is a common and constant message that You kept before Your people and we take to heart the fact that this has been given to us as a tangible gift in the Bible. And so, we too are continually reminded and warned and when our spirit bears witness to the fact that we are going in the wrong direction, we know that, we just don’t always count the cost and understand that this leads to destruction, and that we can turn around and go in a different direction and so we’re praying for that, Holy Spirit that You would convict, that You would make us aware, that we would pay attention to You, we would see the regions and portions of our heart and lives that are not gonna work, that are leading us down a path that is only going to hurt us, help us to see this so that we don’t have to experience it, so that we can heed Your counsel and retreat and return to You, we ask this in the name of Jesus. Amen.

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Prayer and Encouragements:

Good morning family this is Hope in Nebraska. And I just felt lend to call and and just share with you, you know, God of Hope. How mighty, how mighty God is. You know, I became a believer when I was a teenager. You know, I grew up in a house believing in perfectionism. You know, being in the church and I just felt like having to do everything a certain way. And mental illness took a grip of me, I battled that for many years and had strayed away from God. But he never left, he never does, he just always there. And I just, in many ways, you know, He had been working on me to bring me back and I had just woke up one morning and didn’t want to die without seeing the face of God without having his arms around me. Without feeling his love and to know that ….

Hi, this is Jon Rising in Michigan. And this prayer goes to Eyes of a Dove for your son, I’m just broken to hear that he is going through this struggle. I rebuke any evil that comes against him and is tormenting him. Satan is just wreaking havoc in our kids and schools and I just rebuke all of that. So, I ask protection around your son. I stand in agreement with you on this prayer and I will be praying for your son as well. Take care and know that you’re being lifted up and people are standing in the gap for you and praying and holding your family up.

Dear Jesus, I lift up to you Braden. I ask speak prayers of life over his body. He is a son of a one true God, the bride of Christ. He is wanted and not rejected. He is loved and not hated. Satan, you have no authority over Braden’s life in Jesus name. I plea the blood of Jesus over his life. I speak against the spirit of suicide. Flee back to the pit of hell where you belong. Braden, you were created for purpose, you were bought for, with a price and your name has been written in the book of life. You will live and not die. We, your brothers and sisters in Christ, love you so much. In Jesus name. Amen.  

Good morning, everyone, it’s Susan from Canada, God’s Yellow Flower calling and I want to lift up Eyes of a Dove today. Dear Sweetheart, you have so much going on right now, it’s unbelievable. And my prayer for you is that God, you will clearly see God’s plan as you fast and pray, I know it’s so hard to fast with a house full of people but I pray that God will strengthen you and walk alongside you and give you insight and give you courage to face each and every day, and that His name be praised through all this that’s going on in your life. Trust in him my Lord, sorry trust in Him my sweety and He will direct your path. In Jesus name I pray. Amen.

Hi DAB family just want to call in and ask for prayer for all those out there who are struggling during this holiday season. I know it’s so difficult for so many people while others find so much joy in this season and so it’s hard. I have a nephew, a daughter-in-law, an employee, a brother-in-law, so many people I personally know that just really struggle during this time and I just ask the DAB family to lift these people up. I know you, so many of you probably already are because that’s what we are is prayer warriors. I just ask that these things drive people into the arms of Jesus where they can find that peace that is available. Thank you. This is Child of God.

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The Daily Audio Bible Reading for Wednesday December 15, 2021 (NIV)

Micah 1-4

1 The word of the Lord that came to Micah of Moresheth(A) during the reigns of Jotham,(B) Ahaz(C) and Hezekiah,(D) kings of Judah(E)—the vision(F) he saw concerning Samaria and Jerusalem.

2 Hear,(G) you peoples, all of you,(H)
listen, earth(I) and all who live in it,
that the Sovereign Lord may bear witness(J) against you,
the Lord from his holy temple.(K)

Judgment Against Samaria and Jerusalem

3 Look! The Lord is coming from his dwelling(L) place;
he comes down(M) and treads on the heights of the earth.(N)
4 The mountains melt(O) beneath him(P)
and the valleys split apart,(Q)
like wax before the fire,
like water rushing down a slope.
5 All this is because of Jacob’s transgression,
because of the sins of the people of Israel.
What is Jacob’s transgression?
Is it not Samaria?(R)
What is Judah’s high place?
Is it not Jerusalem?

6 “Therefore I will make Samaria a heap of rubble,
a place for planting vineyards.(S)
I will pour her stones(T) into the valley
and lay bare her foundations.(U)
7 All her idols(V) will be broken to pieces;(W)
all her temple gifts will be burned with fire;
I will destroy all her images.(X)
Since she gathered her gifts from the wages of prostitutes,(Y)
as the wages of prostitutes they will again be used.”

Weeping and Mourning

8 Because of this I will weep(Z) and wail;
I will go about barefoot(AA) and naked.
I will howl like a jackal
and moan like an owl.
9 For Samaria’s plague(AB) is incurable;(AC)
it has spread to Judah.(AD)
It has reached the very gate(AE) of my people,
even to Jerusalem itself.
10 Tell it not in Gath[a];
weep not at all.
In Beth Ophrah[b]
roll in the dust.
11 Pass by naked(AF) and in shame,
you who live in Shaphir.[c]
Those who live in Zaanan[d]
will not come out.
Beth Ezel is in mourning;
it no longer protects you.
12 Those who live in Maroth[e] writhe in pain,
waiting for relief,(AG)
because disaster(AH) has come from the Lord,
even to the gate of Jerusalem.
13 You who live in Lachish,(AI)
harness fast horses to the chariot.
You are where the sin of Daughter Zion(AJ) began,
for the transgressions of Israel were found in you.
14 Therefore you will give parting gifts(AK)
to Moresheth(AL) Gath.
The town of Akzib[f](AM) will prove deceptive(AN)
to the kings of Israel.
15 I will bring a conqueror against you
who live in Mareshah.[g](AO)
The nobles of Israel
will flee to Adullam.(AP)
16 Shave(AQ) your head in mourning
for the children in whom you delight;
make yourself as bald as the vulture,
for they will go from you into exile.(AR)

Human Plans and God’s Plans

2 Woe to those who plan iniquity,
to those who plot evil(AS) on their beds!(AT)
At morning’s light they carry it out
because it is in their power to do it.
2 They covet fields(AU) and seize them,(AV)
and houses, and take them.
They defraud(AW) people of their homes,
they rob them of their inheritance.(AX)

3 Therefore, the Lord says:

“I am planning disaster(AY) against this people,
from which you cannot save yourselves.
You will no longer walk proudly,(AZ)
for it will be a time of calamity.
4 In that day people will ridicule you;
they will taunt you with this mournful song:
‘We are utterly ruined;(BA)
my people’s possession is divided up.(BB)
He takes it from me!
He assigns our fields to traitors.’”

5 Therefore you will have no one in the assembly of the Lord
to divide the land(BC) by lot.(BD)

False Prophets

6 “Do not prophesy,” their prophets say.
“Do not prophesy about these things;
disgrace(BE) will not overtake us.(BF)”
7 You descendants of Jacob, should it be said,
“Does the Lord become[h] impatient?
Does he do such things?”

“Do not my words do good(BG)
to the one whose ways are upright?(BH)
8 Lately my people have risen up
like an enemy.
You strip off the rich robe
from those who pass by without a care,
like men returning from battle.
9 You drive the women of my people
from their pleasant homes.(BI)
You take away my blessing
from their children forever.
10 Get up, go away!
For this is not your resting place,(BJ)
because it is defiled,(BK)
it is ruined, beyond all remedy.
11 If a liar and deceiver(BL) comes and says,
‘I will prophesy for you plenty of wine and beer,’(BM)
that would be just the prophet for this people!(BN)

Deliverance Promised

12 “I will surely gather all of you, Jacob;
I will surely bring together the remnant(BO) of Israel.
I will bring them together like sheep in a pen,
like a flock in its pasture;
the place will throng with people.(BP)
13 The One who breaks open the way will go up before(BQ) them;
they will break through the gate(BR) and go out.
Their King will pass through before them,
the Lord at their head.”

Leaders and Prophets Rebuked

3 Then I said,

“Listen, you leaders(BS) of Jacob,
you rulers of Israel.
Should you not embrace justice,
2 you who hate good and love evil;
who tear the skin from my people
and the flesh from their bones;(BT)
3 who eat my people’s flesh,(BU)
strip off their skin
and break their bones in pieces;(BV)
who chop(BW) them up like meat for the pan,
like flesh for the pot?(BX)”

4 Then they will cry out to the Lord,
but he will not answer them.(BY)
At that time he will hide his face(BZ) from them
because of the evil they have done.(CA)

5 This is what the Lord says:

“As for the prophets
who lead my people astray,(CB)
they proclaim ‘peace’(CC)
if they have something to eat,
but prepare to wage war against anyone
who refuses to feed them.
6 Therefore night will come over you, without visions,
and darkness, without divination.(CD)
The sun will set for the prophets,(CE)
and the day will go dark for them.(CF)
7 The seers will be ashamed(CG)
and the diviners disgraced.(CH)
They will all cover(CI) their faces(CJ)
because there is no answer from God.(CK)”
8 But as for me, I am filled with power,
with the Spirit of the Lord,
and with justice and might,
to declare to Jacob his transgression,
to Israel his sin.(CL)

9 Hear this, you leaders of Jacob,
you rulers of Israel,
who despise justice
and distort all that is right;(CM)
10 who build(CN) Zion with bloodshed,(CO)
and Jerusalem with wickedness.(CP)
11 Her leaders judge for a bribe,(CQ)
her priests teach for a price,(CR)
and her prophets tell fortunes for money.(CS)
Yet they look(CT) for the Lord’s support and say,
“Is not the Lord among us?
No disaster will come upon us.”(CU)
12 Therefore because of you,
Zion will be plowed like a field,
Jerusalem will become a heap of rubble,(CV)
the temple(CW) hill a mound overgrown with thickets.(CX)

The Mountain of the Lord(CY)

4 In the last days

the mountain(CZ) of the Lord’s temple will be established
as the highest of the mountains;
it will be exalted above the hills,(DA)
and peoples will stream to it.(DB)

2 Many nations will come and say,

“Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord,(DC)
to the temple of the God of Jacob.(DD)
He will teach us(DE) his ways,(DF)
so that we may walk in his paths.”
The law(DG) will go out from Zion,
the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.
3 He will judge between many peoples
and will settle disputes for strong nations far and wide.(DH)
They will beat their swords into plowshares
and their spears into pruning hooks.(DI)
Nation will not take up sword against nation,
nor will they train for war(DJ) anymore.(DK)
4 Everyone will sit under their own vine
and under their own fig tree,(DL)
and no one will make them afraid,(DM)
for the Lord Almighty has spoken.(DN)
5 All the nations may walk
in the name of their gods,(DO)
but we will walk in the name of the Lord
our God for ever and ever.(DP)

The Lord’s Plan

6 “In that day,” declares the Lord,

“I will gather the lame;(DQ)
I will assemble the exiles(DR)
and those I have brought to grief.(DS)
7 I will make the lame my remnant,(DT)
those driven away a strong nation.(DU)
The Lord will rule over them in Mount Zion(DV)
from that day and forever.(DW)
8 As for you, watchtower of the flock,
stronghold[i] of Daughter Zion,
the former dominion will be restored(DX) to you;
kingship will come to Daughter Jerusalem.(DY)”

9 Why do you now cry aloud—
have you no king[j](DZ)?
Has your ruler[k] perished,
that pain seizes you like that of a woman in labor?(EA)
10 Writhe in agony, Daughter Zion,
like a woman in labor,
for now you must leave the city
to camp in the open field.
You will go to Babylon;(EB)
there you will be rescued.
There the Lord will redeem(EC) you
out of the hand of your enemies.

11 But now many nations
are gathered against you.
They say, “Let her be defiled,
let our eyes gloat(ED) over Zion!”
12 But they do not know
the thoughts of the Lord;
they do not understand his plan,(EE)
that he has gathered them like sheaves to the threshing floor.
13 “Rise and thresh,(EF) Daughter Zion,
for I will give you horns of iron;
I will give you hooves of bronze,
and you will break to pieces many nations.”(EG)
You will devote their ill-gotten gains to the Lord,(EH)
their wealth to the Lord of all the earth.

Footnotes:

  1. Micah 1:10 Gath sounds like the Hebrew for tell.
  2. Micah 1:10 Beth Ophrah means house of dust.
  3. Micah 1:11 Shaphir means pleasant.
  4. Micah 1:11 Zaanan sounds like the Hebrew for come out.
  5. Micah 1:12 Maroth sounds like the Hebrew for bitter.
  6. Micah 1:14 Akzib means deception.
  7. Micah 1:15 Mareshah sounds like the Hebrew for conqueror.
  8. Micah 2:7 Or Is the Spirit of the Lord
  9. Micah 4:8 Or hill
  10. Micah 4:9 Or King
  11. Micah 4:9 Or Ruler

Cross references:

  1. Micah 1:1 : ver 14; Jer 26:18
  2. Micah 1:1 : S 1Ch 3:12
  3. Micah 1:1 : S 1Ch 3:13
  4. Micah 1:1 : S 1Ch 3:13
  5. Micah 1:1 : Hos 1:1
  6. Micah 1:1 : Isa 1:1
  7. Micah 1:2 : S Dt 32:1
  8. Micah 1:2 : Ps 50:7
  9. Micah 1:2 : S Jer 6:19
  10. Micah 1:2 : S Ge 31:50; S Dt 4:26; S Isa 1:2
  11. Micah 1:2 : S Ps 11:4
  12. Micah 1:3 : S Isa 18:4
  13. Micah 1:3 : S Isa 64:1
  14. Micah 1:3 : S Am 4:13
  15. Micah 1:4 : S Ps 46:2, 6
  16. Micah 1:4 : S Job 9:5
  17. Micah 1:4 : S Nu 16:31; Na 1:5
  18. Micah 1:5 : Am 8:14
  19. Micah 1:6 : S Dt 20:6
  20. Micah 1:6 : S Am 5:11
  21. Micah 1:6 : Eze 13:14
  22. Micah 1:7 : S Eze 6:6
  23. Micah 1:7 : S Ex 32:20
  24. Micah 1:7 : S Dt 9:21
  25. Micah 1:7 : Dt 23:17-18
  26. Micah 1:8 : S Isa 15:3
  27. Micah 1:8 : S Isa 20:2
  28. Micah 1:9 : Jer 46:11
  29. Micah 1:9 : S Jer 10:19
  30. Micah 1:9 : S 2Ki 18:13
  31. Micah 1:9 : Isa 3:26
  32. Micah 1:11 : Eze 23:29
  33. Micah 1:12 : Jer 14:19
  34. Micah 1:12 : Jer 40:2
  35. Micah 1:13 : S Jos 10:3
  36. Micah 1:13 : S Ps 9:14
  37. Micah 1:14 : 2Ki 16:8
  38. Micah 1:14 : S ver 1
  39. Micah 1:14 : S Jos 15:44
  40. Micah 1:14 : Jer 15:18
  41. Micah 1:15 : Jos 15:44
  42. Micah 1:15 : S Jos 12:15
  43. Micah 1:16 : S Lev 13:40; S Job 1:20
  44. Micah 1:16 : S Dt 4:27; S Am 5:27
  45. Micah 2:1 : S Isa 29:20
  46. Micah 2:1 : Ps 36:4
  47. Micah 2:2 : Isa 5:8
  48. Micah 2:2 : S Pr 30:14
  49. Micah 2:2 : S Jer 22:17
  50. Micah 2:2 : S 1Sa 8:14; S Isa 1:23; S Eze 46:18
  51. Micah 2:3 : Jer 18:11; S Am 3:1-2
  52. Micah 2:3 : Isa 2:12
  53. Micah 2:4 : S Lev 26:31; S Jer 4:13
  54. Micah 2:4 : S Jer 6:12
  55. Micah 2:5 : Dt 32:13; Jos 18:4
  56. Micah 2:5 : S Nu 34:13
  57. Micah 2:6 : Ps 44:13; Jer 18:16; 19:8; 25:18; 29:18; Mic 6:16
  58. Micah 2:6 : S Am 2:12
  59. Micah 2:7 : S Ps 119:65
  60. Micah 2:7 : Ps 15:2; 84:11
  61. Micah 2:9 : Jer 10:20
  62. Micah 2:10 : S Dt 12:9
  63. Micah 2:10 : Lev 18:25-29; Ps 106:38-39; S La 4:15
  64. Micah 2:11 : S 2Ch 36:16; Jer 5:31
  65. Micah 2:11 : S Lev 10:9
  66. Micah 2:11 : Isa 30:10
  67. Micah 2:12 : Mic 4:7; 5:7; 7:18
  68. Micah 2:12 : S Ne 1:9
  69. Micah 2:13 : S Isa 52:12
  70. Micah 2:13 : S Isa 60:11
  71. Micah 3:1 : S Jer 5:5
  72. Micah 3:2 : Ps 53:4; S Eze 22:27
  73. Micah 3:3 : S Ps 14:4
  74. Micah 3:3 : S Eze 34:4; Zep 3:3
  75. Micah 3:3 : S Job 24:14
  76. Micah 3:3 : S Eze 11:7; S 24:4-5
  77. Micah 3:4 : S Dt 1:45; S 1Sa 8:18; S Isa 58:4; S Jer 11:11
  78. Micah 3:4 : S Dt 31:17
  79. Micah 3:4 : S Job 15:31; S Eze 8:18
  80. Micah 3:5 : S Isa 3:12; S 9:16; S 53:6
  81. Micah 3:5 : S Jer 4:10
  82. Micah 3:6 : Isa 8:19-22; S Eze 12:24
  83. Micah 3:6 : Isa 29:10
  84. Micah 3:6 : S Eze 7:26; S Am 8:11
  85. Micah 3:7 : S Jer 6:15; Mic 7:16
  86. Micah 3:7 : S Isa 44:25
  87. Micah 3:7 : S Est 6:12
  88. Micah 3:7 : S Lev 13:45
  89. Micah 3:7 : S Eze 20:3
  90. Micah 3:8 : S Isa 57:12; 61:2
  91. Micah 3:9 : Ps 58:1-2; S Isa 1:23
  92. Micah 3:10 : S Jer 22:13
  93. Micah 3:10 : Isa 59:7; Mic 7:2; Na 3:1; Hab 2:12
  94. Micah 3:10 : Jer 22:17; S Eze 22:27
  95. Micah 3:11 : S Ex 23:8; S Lev 19:15; Mal 2:9
  96. Micah 3:11 : S Eze 13:19
  97. Micah 3:11 : Isa 1:23; S 56:11; Jer 6:13; S La 4:13; S Hos 4:8, 18
  98. Micah 3:11 : S Isa 10:20
  99. Micah 3:11 : Jer 7:4; S Eze 34:2
  100. Micah 3:12 : S 2Ki 25:9; S Isa 6:11
  101. Micah 3:12 : S Jer 52:13
  102. Micah 3:12 : S Lev 26:31; S Jer 17:3; S 22:6; S La 5:18; S Eze 5:14
  103. Micah 4:1 : 4:1-3pp — Isa 2:1-4
  104. Micah 4:1 : S Ps 48:1; Zec 8:3
  105. Micah 4:1 : S Eze 17:22
  106. Micah 4:1 : S Ps 22:27; 86:9; S Jer 3:17; S 31:12; S Da 2:35
  107. Micah 4:2 : S Jer 31:6; S Eze 20:40
  108. Micah 4:2 : Zec 2:11; 14:16
  109. Micah 4:2 : S Ps 119:171
  110. Micah 4:2 : Ps 25:8-9; S Isa 54:13
  111. Micah 4:2 : S Dt 18:18
  112. Micah 4:3 : S Isa 11:4
  113. Micah 4:3 : Joel 3:10; Zec 9:10
  114. Micah 4:3 : S Ps 46:9
  115. Micah 4:3 : Zec 8:20-22
  116. Micah 4:4 : S 1Ki 4:25
  117. Micah 4:4 : S Lev 26:6; S Eze 39:26
  118. Micah 4:4 : S Isa 1:20
  119. Micah 4:5 : 2Ki 17:29; Ac 14:16
  120. Micah 4:5 : Jos 24:14-15; Isa 26:8; Zec 10:12
  121. Micah 4:6 : S Jer 31:8
  122. Micah 4:6 : S Ps 106:47
  123. Micah 4:6 : S Eze 34:13, 16; S 37:21; Zep 3:19
  124. Micah 4:7 : S Joel 2:32; S Mic 2:12
  125. Micah 4:7 : S Ge 12:2
  126. Micah 4:7 : S Isa 2:2
  127. Micah 4:7 : S Da 2:44; S 7:14; S Lk 1:33; Rev 11:15
  128. Micah 4:8 : S Isa 1:26
  129. Micah 4:8 : Zec 9:9
  130. Micah 4:9 : Jer 8:19
  131. Micah 4:9 : S Ge 3:16; Jer 30:6; 48:41
  132. Micah 4:10 : S Dt 21:10; 2Ki 20:18; Isa 43:14
  133. Micah 4:10 : S Isa 48:20
  134. Micah 4:11 : S La 2:16; S Ob 1:12; Mic 7:8
  135. Micah 4:12 : S Ge 50:20; S Isa 55:8; Ro 11:33-34
  136. Micah 4:13 : S Isa 21:10
  137. Micah 4:13 : S Isa 45:1; S Da 2:44
  138. Micah 4:13 : S Isa 23:18
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Revelation 6

The Seals

6 I watched as the Lamb(A) opened the first of the seven seals.(B) Then I heard one of the four living creatures(C) say in a voice like thunder,(D) “Come!” 2 I looked, and there before me was a white horse!(E) Its rider held a bow, and he was given a crown,(F) and he rode out as a conqueror bent on conquest.(G)

3 When the Lamb opened the second seal, I heard the second living creature(H) say, “Come!” 4 Then another horse came out, a fiery red one.(I) Its rider was given power to take peace from the earth(J) and to make people kill each other. To him was given a large sword.

5 When the Lamb opened the third seal, I heard the third living creature(K) say, “Come!” I looked, and there before me was a black horse!(L) Its rider was holding a pair of scales in his hand. 6 Then I heard what sounded like a voice among the four living creatures,(M) saying, “Two pounds[a] of wheat for a day’s wages,[b] and six pounds[c] of barley for a day’s wages,[d](N) and do not damage(O) the oil and the wine!”

7 When the Lamb opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth living creature(P) say, “Come!” 8 I looked, and there before me was a pale horse!(Q) Its rider was named Death, and Hades(R) was following close behind him. They were given power over a fourth of the earth to kill by sword, famine and plague, and by the wild beasts of the earth.(S)

9 When he opened the fifth seal, I saw under(T) the altar(U) the souls of those who had been slain(V) because of the word of God(W) and the testimony they had maintained. 10 They called out in a loud voice, “How long,(X) Sovereign Lord,(Y) holy and true,(Z) until you judge the inhabitants of the earth(AA) and avenge our blood?”(AB) 11 Then each of them was given a white robe,(AC) and they were told to wait a little longer, until the full number of their fellow servants, their brothers and sisters,[e] were killed just as they had been.(AD)

12 I watched as he opened the sixth seal. There was a great earthquake.(AE) The sun turned black(AF) like sackcloth(AG) made of goat hair, the whole moon turned blood red, 13 and the stars in the sky fell to earth,(AH) as figs drop from a fig tree(AI) when shaken by a strong wind. 14 The heavens receded like a scroll being rolled up,(AJ) and every mountain and island was removed from its place.(AK)

15 Then the kings of the earth, the princes, the generals, the rich, the mighty, and everyone else, both slave and free,(AL) hid in caves and among the rocks of the mountains.(AM) 16 They called to the mountains and the rocks, “Fall on us(AN) and hide us[f] from the face of him who sits on the throne(AO) and from the wrath of the Lamb! 17 For the great day(AP) of their[g] wrath has come, and who can withstand it?”(AQ)

Footnotes:

  1. Revelation 6:6 Or about 1 kilogram
  2. Revelation 6:6 Greek a denarius
  3. Revelation 6:6 Or about 3 kilograms
  4. Revelation 6:6 Greek a denarius
  5. Revelation 6:11 The Greek word for brothers and sisters (adelphoi) refers here to believers, both men and women, as part of God’s family; also in 12:10; 19:10.
  6. Revelation 6:16 See Hosea 10:8.
  7. Revelation 6:17 Some manuscripts his

Cross references:

  1. Revelation 6:1 : S Rev 5:6
  2. Revelation 6:1 : Rev 5:1
  3. Revelation 6:1 : S Rev 4:6, 7
  4. Revelation 6:1 : Rev 14:2; 19:6
  5. Revelation 6:2 : Zec 1:8; 6:3; Rev 19:11
  6. Revelation 6:2 : Zec 6:11; Rev 14:14; 19:12
  7. Revelation 6:2 : Ps 45:4
  8. Revelation 6:3 : Rev 4:7
  9. Revelation 6:4 : Zec 1:8; 6:2
  10. Revelation 6:4 : Mt 10:34
  11. Revelation 6:5 : Rev 4:7
  12. Revelation 6:5 : Zec 6:2
  13. Revelation 6:6 : S Rev 4:6, 7
  14. Revelation 6:6 : Eze 4:16
  15. Revelation 6:6 : Rev 7:1, 3; 9:4
  16. Revelation 6:7 : Rev 4:7
  17. Revelation 6:8 : Zec 6:3
  18. Revelation 6:8 : Hos 13:14; Rev 1:18; 20:13, 14
  19. Revelation 6:8 : Jer 15:2, 3; 24:10; Eze 5:12, 17
  20. Revelation 6:9 : Ex 29:12; Lev 4:7
  21. Revelation 6:9 : Rev 14:18; 16:7
  22. Revelation 6:9 : Rev 20:4
  23. Revelation 6:9 : Ro 1:2; S Heb 4:12
  24. Revelation 6:10 : Ps 119:84; Zec 1:12
  25. Revelation 6:10 : Lk 2:29; 2Pe 2:1
  26. Revelation 6:10 : S Rev 3:7
  27. Revelation 6:10 : S Rev 3:10
  28. Revelation 6:10 : Dt 32:43; 2Ki 9:7; Ps 79:10; Rev 16:6; 18:20; 19:2
  29. Revelation 6:11 : S Rev 3:4
  30. Revelation 6:11 : Heb 11:40
  31. Revelation 6:12 : Ps 97:4; Isa 29:6; Eze 38:19; Rev 8:5; 11:13; 16:18
  32. Revelation 6:12 : S Mt 24:29
  33. Revelation 6:12 : Isa 50:3
  34. Revelation 6:13 : S Mt 24:29; Rev 8:10; 9:1
  35. Revelation 6:13 : Isa 34:4
  36. Revelation 6:14 : S 2Pe 3:10; Rev 20:11; 21:1
  37. Revelation 6:14 : Ps 46:2; Isa 54:10; Jer 4:24; Eze 38:20; Na 1:5; Rev 16:20; 21:1
  38. Revelation 6:15 : Rev 19:18
  39. Revelation 6:15 : Isa 2:10, 19, 21
  40. Revelation 6:16 : Hos 10:8; Lk 23:30
  41. Revelation 6:16 : S Rev 5:1
  42. Revelation 6:17 : Joel 1:15; 2:1, 2, 11, 31; Zep 1:14, 15; Rev 16:14
  43. Revelation 6:17 : Ps 76:7; Na 1:6; Mal 3:2
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Psalm 134

Psalm 134

A song of ascents.

1 Praise the Lord, all you servants(A) of the Lord
who minister(B) by night(C) in the house of the Lord.
2 Lift up your hands(D) in the sanctuary(E)
and praise the Lord.(F)

3 May the Lord bless you from Zion,(G)
he who is the Maker of heaven(H) and earth.

Cross references:

  1. Psalm 134:1 : S Ps 113:1; 135:1-2; Rev 19:5
  2. Psalm 134:1 : S Nu 16:9; S 1Ch 15:2
  3. Psalm 134:1 : S 1Ch 23:30
  4. Psalm 134:2 : S Ps 28:2; 1Ti 2:8
  5. Psalm 134:2 : Ps 15:1
  6. Psalm 134:2 : Ps 33:2; 103:1
  7. Psalm 134:3 : S Lev 25:21; S Ps 20:2
  8. Psalm 134:3 : S Ps 124:8
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Proverbs 30:1-4

Sayings of Agur

30 The sayings(A) of Agur son of Jakeh—an inspired utterance.

This man’s utterance to Ithiel:

“I am weary, God,
but I can prevail.[a]
2 Surely I am only a brute, not a man;
I do not have human understanding.
3 I have not learned wisdom,
nor have I attained to the knowledge of the Holy One.(B)
4 Who has gone up(C) to heaven and come down?
Whose hands(D) have gathered up the wind?
Who has wrapped up the waters(E) in a cloak?(F)
Who has established all the ends of the earth?
What is his name,(G) and what is the name of his son?
Surely you know!

Footnotes:

  1. Proverbs 30:1 With a different word division of the Hebrew; Masoretic Text utterance to Ithiel, / to Ithiel and Ukal:

Cross references:

  1. Proverbs 30:1 : S Pr 22:17
  2. Proverbs 30:3 : S Pr 9:10
  3. Proverbs 30:4 : Dt 30:12; Ps 24:1-2; S Pr 8:22-31; Jn 3:13; Eph 4:7-10
  4. Proverbs 30:4 : Isa 40:12
  5. Proverbs 30:4 : Job 26:8
  6. Proverbs 30:4 : S Ge 1:2
  7. Proverbs 30:4 : Rev 19:12
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12/14/2021 DAB Transcript

Jonah 1:1-4:11, Revelation 5:1-14, Psalms 133:1-3, Proverbs 29:26-27

Today is the 14th day of December welcome to the Daily Audio Bible I am Brian it’s awesome to be here with you today around the Global Campfire that is burning hot and warming us and giving a nice firelight glow onto each of our faces as we warm ourselves together and come into our oasis, our place of peace for the day where we let everything else go. It’s all there. It will still be there in a few minutes. But we need this time to exhale and give ourselves permission to just relax and allow the word of God to wash over us and inform our day and the next choices and conversations that we need to have. So, it is lovely to be here with you today around the Global Campfire. And as we take this next step forward, we are encountering yet another one of the minor prophets. We will read it in its entirety today and it is a super famous story that we probably have all heard before. Maybe we didn’t know it was book of the Bible. But if you’ve ever heard the story of Jonah and the whale then that is the territory we are heading into as we read in its entirety….

Introduction to the book of Jonah:

…the book of Jonah, which is a supremely interesting story in and of itself, but a very very immediate story when we apply it to our lives. Jonah was a prophet and he lived in the northern kingdom of Israel. We remember the northern kingdom of Israel and the southern kingdom of Judah. Jonah was in the northern kingdom just…just west of the southern part of the Sea of Galilee is where he…he came from, and he lived during the reign of King Jeroboam the second. Where things start to shift as far as the story goes that most of the prophets that we read of in the Bible were called to their own people and they were called with a message from God that was ultimately a message of repentance - return come back, repent, change your mind, turn around, come home. Jonah was a prophet, but he…he was not invited by God to speak a message similar to that to his own people. He was asked to go to the city…the city of Nineveh. And Nineveh is like one of the largest cities at that time. So, we think of Mexico City or New York City or Los Angeles or Sydney or London or any of the large metropolitan areas in the world. So, this is a small-town man, a prophet, but a small town person who’s invited to a major city with a message for the whole city and it so happens that those people are not friends of Israel. They are the enemies of Israel. Therefore, they are considered the enemies of God. Why is God telling this small-town Galilean prophet to go to a major metropolitan area that is an enemy of Israel and an enemy of God to tell them to repent and return to the Lord? He does not want to do it. What if God has mercy upon His own enemies? What if He has mercy if they do repent and He has mercy upon Israel’s enemies? What’s it gonna look like when he gets back home? And…it's…it’s not like he had a little hike through the mountains to get to the nearby village. He had to go a thousand miles and there are no airplanes or cars. The ruins of Nineveh still exist today. They’re near the city of Mosul in Iraq and a lot of the ruins of Nineveh have been destroyed during kind of the reign of ISIS in that territory. So, Jo…Jo…Jonah does not want to do this and he decides he’s not going to do this. And, so, he actually goes in the opposite direction. He goes toward the Mediterranean Sea to catch a ship. He’s literally going in the opposite direction of where God has told him to go. He’s running from God in the opposite direction. And we know how the story goes. We will read the whole story in just a second. He ends up in a fish. He ends up alive. He ends up obeying. And we’ll see that all play out. But we might just need to consider this even before we read Jonah so that as we read Jonah we can apply this to our lives. There are times in our lives where we feel as if the Lord is instructing us to move in a certain direction for a certain purpose or to behave in a certain way or to say certain things, to take on a certain posture that we don’t want to do. And sometimes He wants us to be loving to our enemies. Imagine that since it’s commanded over and over and over throughout the Scriptures. Sometimes He actually asks us to do that. And for all kinds of reasons, we decide He didn’t say that or for all kinds of reasons we decide we can’t do that or for other reasons we decide we’re not going to do that. And then we find ourselves on the run going in the opposite direction. And I don’t know. I can’t speak for everyone. I can speak from my own life. If I have ever found myself in that position, running in the opposite direction from what I truly believe supposed to do it feels like life begins to swallow me alive. And it usually isn’t until I cry out to God for mercy and repentance that that…that that ever really lets up. Maybe that’s just me. I doubt it. But maybe that’s just me. So, I can really relate in different seasons of my life as I look back to the story of Jonah. We probably all can. And, so, with that in mind, we’re reading from the New International Version this week and we will read the four chapters of the book of Jonah in their entirety today.

Prayer:

Father we thank you for your word. We thank you for the book of Jonah. Again, a story, an entire book that we were able to read in one sitting and apply it to our lives. And we confess Lord, we have run in the opposite direction on many occasions in many different kinds of ways and we have borne what that…that brings. We have reaped what we have sown. And in the end as we move through Jonah. We find you have pity and compassion regardless of our prejudices against people that we consider our enemies. You love them and that is stark because it’s easy for us to think that you love us and that you put up with us and that you can handle our sin and those that we love. They’re all in, but once we get further and further…further out to people who maybe don’t believe the way we that we do or don’t function or live in the same kind of culture that we do it’s so easy for us to treat them as our enemies, especially if they’re treating us as their enemies. And yet we read the book of Jonah and we see clearly a posture that emerges from the Scripture that is not the same. And, so, Holy Spirit come as we consider our own thoughts, words and deeds, the things that we do, the things that we leave undone. Help us to remember this is not about our rights and this is not about our wrongs. This is about us, humbling ourselves under your sovereignty and working in collaboration with you in this world. Holy Spirit help us to understand that this is the way to peace, this is the way to actual life, this is a way to be true. We ask this in the name of Jesus. Amen.

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Community Prayer and Praise:

Hello good morning family this is Hope in Nebraska and I just want to thank you guys so much for your prayers. Been listening to all of your encouragements. I just want to say, you know, it’s just amazing how God puts people in your path, you know, when you're…you’re struggling, you’re having a hard moment, hard time. And there was a woman today, she…she approached me with such kindness, and I was just, you know, almost in tears, you know, it was so beautiful. And I just wanna say I pray that for all of you, that the Lord will put somebody in your path that will show you some kindness. And I hope you guys all have a great day. And I love you all.

Greetings Daily Audio Bible family I’ve called in a few times and posted on the Prayer Wall about being a caregiver for my mom with dementia and transitioning her into a memory care facility. Today is December 9th and I moved my mom in earlier this week over the course of Sunday and Monday. And after giving her just a few days to get acclimated and adjusted in the new place I went and visited her to spend some time with her today. And I’m calling in with a bit of a praise report. You know, despite how hard a decision this is and, you know, how sad I’ve been, you know, not having my mom at home with me and, you know, even despite some of her confusion about what was going on during her move I’m happy to share that she seems happy. She’s still a little confused about why she’s there but I feel really comfortable with the caregivers at the facility. When I went to see her today she was very happy and chipper and telling me stories about friends that she met, how she’s been playing the piano for her, you know, neighbors in the building and just meeting people. And, so, it just made things a lot lighter for me. I’m still, you know, missing her very much and, you know, still, you know, obviously just worried and want her to be happy but I’m going to see her today and seeing her, you know, not afraid and not sad and, you know, not confining herself to her apartment just really made me feel that much better about the decision. So, I think…

Good morning DAB family today is December 8th 2021. Family I had craniotomy surgery February 27th 2018 to remove a brain tumor that had swollen and caused my brain to swell and damaged my optic nerve. And you guys, that being said we have not put a Christmas tree up since then. We haven’t put a Christmas tree up since 2017. And you guys, I was just in a deep depression. I was like why should I put a tree up if I can’t see it because I have boys and they…they wouldn’t, you know, they wouldn’t appreciate it like I did…they wouldn’t have wanted perfect like I would want it. And I was just depressed because I couldn’t __ bit. But as the time go by you guys, I’m thankful for what I do have. I’m thankful for the __ who has never left my side. I’m thankful for the family who have, the family and friends who have left me because God was just making room for my new family, which is my DAB family. That being said, you guys, we put our Christmas tree up last night and it is beautiful and I’m so thankful. Thank you to Brian and Jill for this podcast. Thank you for everybody who continues to pray for each other. And I hope everybody have a Merry Christmas. I love you guys.

Hello this is Donna northern…His Northern California Warrior Princess and calling for a praise report. A…months ago…over the summer I called in with some prayer requests about a…business dealings that were going on that were really really negative and I needed courage. And I wanted to thank you my prayer warriors because I was able to send in the legal paperwork that was needed and now it’s just going through the process. So, continue please, I…for prayers of covering, that really the people that are involved in this lack of integrity and unethical business dealings need God, need please to be saved. So, I’m praying for that. At the same time, I also, if they’re not willing to do that is just, you know, just that they’re…this be used in a way that helps them get to that place or that shows them that get’s to that place that tears down ego and pride. And I pray, pray, pray that I stay steadfast during this process. Most importantly though I was convicted. Hearing Brian’s message at the beginning here where it says well done you don’t have to carry everything by yourself. I’ve been listening for six years, and I was journaling yesterday, and the Lord just really cleared…clarified for me that problems are never too small, that He cares about every single solitary hair on my head. But I grew up in a household where they said don’t tell anyone your secrets and there’s a lot of shame and pride and ego from that upbringing. And, so, I thank you Brian, I thank you all of my family here on DAB and listening every day as I’m __ self. I’m literally…

__ again. I’ve called in once before. My name is Crystal. I’m from Texas and I’m just asking for prayers for…for myself and my family. Anybody out there. I’ve been standing for my marriage for a couple years now. My husband for restoration of my husband soul, that he would turn back to God and away from his sinful lifestyle, that a restoration for our marriage and a love from God and for unity in my family we have in our children, that they would be restored and healed as well. Holidays are always difficult for us all as a family when he comes around. And I pray that God would give me the glory and the…and the joy to include everybody and that we would enjoy this holiday season and just focus on…on Jesus. And I…I just pray for a miracle turn around and…and love God. I’m so thankful. Even through my own trials and pain, I’m thankful for His love and I know that He’s with me and God is in control. Thank you guys. And I love listening to everybody. And I thank you for all your prayers.

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The Daily Audio Bible Reading for Tuesday December 14, 2021 (NIV)

Jonah 1-4

Jonah Flees From the Lord

1 The word of the Lord came to Jonah(A) son of Amittai:(B) 2 “Go to the great city of Nineveh(C) and preach against it, because its wickedness has come up before me.”

3 But Jonah ran(D) away from the Lord and headed for Tarshish(E). He went down to Joppa,(F) where he found a ship bound for that port. After paying the fare, he went aboard and sailed for Tarshish to flee from the Lord.(G)

4 Then the Lord sent a great wind on the sea, and such a violent storm arose that the ship threatened to break up.(H) 5 All the sailors were afraid and each cried out to his own god. And they threw the cargo into the sea to lighten the ship.(I)

But Jonah had gone below deck, where he lay down and fell into a deep sleep. 6 The captain went to him and said, “How can you sleep? Get up and call(J) on your god! Maybe he will take notice of us so that we will not perish.”(K)

7 Then the sailors said to each other, “Come, let us cast lots to find out who is responsible for this calamity.”(L) They cast lots and the lot fell on Jonah.(M) 8 So they asked him, “Tell us, who is responsible for making all this trouble for us? What kind of work do you do? Where do you come from? What is your country? From what people are you?”

9 He answered, “I am a Hebrew and I worship the Lord,(N) the God of heaven,(O) who made the sea(P) and the dry land.(Q)”

10 This terrified them and they asked, “What have you done?” (They knew he was running away from the Lord, because he had already told them so.)

11 The sea was getting rougher and rougher. So they asked him, “What should we do to you to make the sea calm down for us?”

12 “Pick me up and throw me into the sea,” he replied, “and it will become calm. I know that it is my fault that this great storm has come upon you.”(R)

13 Instead, the men did their best to row back to land. But they could not, for the sea grew even wilder than before.(S) 14 Then they cried out to the Lord, “Please, Lord, do not let us die for taking this man’s life. Do not hold us accountable for killing an innocent man,(T) for you, Lord, have done as you pleased.”(U) 15 Then they took Jonah and threw him overboard, and the raging sea grew calm.(V) 16 At this the men greatly feared(W) the Lord, and they offered a sacrifice to the Lord and made vows(X) to him.

Jonah’s Prayer

17 Now the Lord provided(Y) a huge fish to swallow Jonah,(Z) and Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights. 2 1 [a]From inside the fish Jonah prayed to the Lord his God. 2 He said:

“In my distress I called(AA) to the Lord,(AB)
and he answered me.
From deep in the realm of the dead(AC) I called for help,
and you listened to my cry.
3 You hurled me into the depths,(AD)
into the very heart of the seas,
and the currents swirled about me;
all your waves(AE) and breakers
swept over me.(AF)
4 I said, ‘I have been banished
from your sight;(AG)
yet I will look again
toward your holy temple.’(AH)
5 The engulfing waters threatened me,[b]
the deep surrounded me;
seaweed was wrapped around my head.(AI)
6 To the roots of the mountains(AJ) I sank down;
the earth beneath barred me in forever.
But you, Lord my God,
brought my life up from the pit.(AK)

7 “When my life was ebbing away,
I remembered(AL) you, Lord,
and my prayer(AM) rose to you,
to your holy temple.(AN)

8 “Those who cling to worthless idols(AO)
turn away from God’s love for them.
9 But I, with shouts of grateful praise,(AP)
will sacrifice(AQ) to you.
What I have vowed(AR) I will make good.
I will say, ‘Salvation(AS) comes from the Lord.’”

10 And the Lord commanded the fish, and it vomited Jonah onto dry land.

Jonah Goes to Nineveh

3 Then the word of the Lord came to Jonah(AT) a second time: 2 “Go to the great city of Nineveh and proclaim to it the message I give you.”

3 Jonah obeyed the word of the Lord and went to Nineveh. Now Nineveh was a very large city; it took three days to go through it. 4 Jonah began by going a day’s journey into the city, proclaiming,(AU) “Forty more days and Nineveh will be overthrown.” 5 The Ninevites believed God. A fast was proclaimed, and all of them, from the greatest to the least, put on sackcloth.(AV)

6 When Jonah’s warning reached the king of Nineveh, he rose from his throne, took off his royal robes, covered himself with sackcloth and sat down in the dust.(AW) 7 This is the proclamation he issued in Nineveh:

“By the decree of the king and his nobles:

Do not let people or animals, herds or flocks, taste anything; do not let them eat or drink.(AX) 8 But let people and animals be covered with sackcloth. Let everyone call(AY) urgently on God. Let them give up(AZ) their evil ways(BA) and their violence.(BB) 9 Who knows?(BC) God may yet relent(BD) and with compassion turn(BE) from his fierce anger(BF) so that we will not perish.”

10 When God saw what they did and how they turned from their evil ways, he relented(BG) and did not bring on them the destruction(BH) he had threatened.(BI)

Jonah’s Anger at the Lord’s Compassion

4 But to Jonah this seemed very wrong, and he became angry.(BJ) 2 He prayed to the Lord, “Isn’t this what I said, Lord, when I was still at home? That is what I tried to forestall by fleeing to Tarshish. I knew(BK) that you are a gracious(BL) and compassionate God, slow to anger and abounding in love,(BM) a God who relents(BN) from sending calamity.(BO) 3 Now, Lord, take away my life,(BP) for it is better for me to die(BQ) than to live.”(BR)

4 But the Lord replied, “Is it right for you to be angry?”(BS)

5 Jonah had gone out and sat down at a place east of the city. There he made himself a shelter, sat in its shade and waited to see what would happen to the city. 6 Then the Lord God provided(BT) a leafy plant[c] and made it grow up over Jonah to give shade for his head to ease his discomfort, and Jonah was very happy about the plant. 7 But at dawn the next day God provided a worm, which chewed the plant so that it withered.(BU) 8 When the sun rose, God provided a scorching east wind, and the sun blazed on Jonah’s head so that he grew faint. He wanted to die,(BV) and said, “It would be better for me to die than to live.”

9 But God said to Jonah, “Is it right for you to be angry about the plant?”(BW)

“It is,” he said. “And I’m so angry I wish I were dead.”

10 But the Lord said, “You have been concerned about this plant, though you did not tend it or make it grow. It sprang up overnight and died overnight. 11 And should I not have concern(BX) for the great city of Nineveh,(BY) in which there are more than a hundred and twenty thousand people who cannot tell their right hand from their left—and also many animals?”

Footnotes:

  1. Jonah 2:1 In Hebrew texts 2:1 is numbered 1:17, and 2:1-10 is numbered 2:2-11.
  2. Jonah 2:5 Or waters were at my throat
  3. Jonah 4:6 The precise identification of this plant is uncertain; also in verses 7, 9 and 10.

Cross references:

  1. Jonah 1:1 : Mt 12:39-41; 16:4; Lk 11:29-32
  2. Jonah 1:1 : 2Ki 14:25
  3. Jonah 1:2 : S Ge 10:11; S Na 1:1
  4. Jonah 1:3 : Ps 139:7
  5. Jonah 1:3 : S Ge 10:4
  6. Jonah 1:3 : S Jos 19:46; Ac 9:36, 43
  7. Jonah 1:3 : Ex 4:13; S Jer 20:9; S Am 3:8
  8. Jonah 1:4 : Ps 107:23-26
  9. Jonah 1:5 : Ac 27:18-19
  10. Jonah 1:6 : Jnh 3:8
  11. Jonah 1:6 : S Ps 107:28
  12. Jonah 1:7 : Nu 32:23; Jos 7:10-18; S 1Sa 14:42
  13. Jonah 1:7 : S Pr 16:33
  14. Jonah 1:9 : S Ps 96:9
  15. Jonah 1:9 : S Da 2:18; Ac 17:24
  16. Jonah 1:9 : S Ne 9:6
  17. Jonah 1:9 : S Ge 1:9
  18. Jonah 1:12 : 2Sa 24:17; 1Ch 21:17
  19. Jonah 1:13 : S Pr 21:30
  20. Jonah 1:14 : Dt 21:8
  21. Jonah 1:14 : S Da 4:35
  22. Jonah 1:15 : S Ps 107:29; Lk 8:24
  23. Jonah 1:16 : Mk 4:41
  24. Jonah 1:16 : S Nu 30:2; Ps 66:13-14
  25. Jonah 1:17 : Jnh 4:6, 7
  26. Jonah 1:17 : Mt 12:40; 16:4; Lk 11:30
  27. Jonah 2:2 : La 3:55
  28. Jonah 2:2 : Ps 18:6; 120:1
  29. Jonah 2:2 : Ps 86:13
  30. Jonah 2:3 : S Ps 88:6
  31. Jonah 2:3 : S 2Sa 22:5
  32. Jonah 2:3 : S Ps 42:7
  33. Jonah 2:4 : Ps 31:22; Jer 7:15
  34. Jonah 2:4 : S 1Ki 8:48
  35. Jonah 2:5 : Ps 69:1-2
  36. Jonah 2:6 : Job 28:9
  37. Jonah 2:6 : S Job 17:16; S 33:18; S Ps 30:3
  38. Jonah 2:7 : Ps 77:11-12
  39. Jonah 2:7 : 2Ch 30:27
  40. Jonah 2:7 : S Ps 11:4; 18:6
  41. Jonah 2:8 : S Dt 32:21; S 1Sa 12:21
  42. Jonah 2:9 : S Ps 42:4
  43. Jonah 2:9 : Ps 50:14, 23; Heb 13:15
  44. Jonah 2:9 : S Nu 30:2; Ps 116:14; S Ecc 5:4-5
  45. Jonah 2:9 : S Ex 15:2; S Ps 3:8
  46. Jonah 3:1 : Jnh 1:1
  47. Jonah 3:4 : S Jer 18:7-10
  48. Jonah 3:5 : Da 9:3; Mt 11:21; 12:41; Lk 11:32
  49. Jonah 3:6 : Est 4:1-3; S Job 2:8, 13; S Eze 27:30-31
  50. Jonah 3:7 : S 2Ch 20:3; S Ezr 10:6
  51. Jonah 3:8 : Ps 130:1; Jnh 1:6
  52. Jonah 3:8 : Jer 25:5
  53. Jonah 3:8 : Jer 7:3
  54. Jonah 3:8 : S Job 16:17
  55. Jonah 3:9 : 2Sa 12:22
  56. Jonah 3:9 : S Jer 18:8
  57. Jonah 3:9 : S Joel 2:14
  58. Jonah 3:9 : S Ps 85:3
  59. Jonah 3:10 : S Am 7:6
  60. Jonah 3:10 : S Jer 18:8
  61. Jonah 3:10 : S Ex 32:14
  62. Jonah 4:1 : ver 4; Mt 20:11; Lk 15:28
  63. Jonah 4:2 : Jer 20:7-8
  64. Jonah 4:2 : S Dt 4:31; Ps 103:8
  65. Jonah 4:2 : S Ex 22:27; Ps 86:5, 15
  66. Jonah 4:2 : S Nu 14:18
  67. Jonah 4:2 : S Joel 2:13
  68. Jonah 4:3 : S Nu 11:15
  69. Jonah 4:3 : S Job 7:15
  70. Jonah 4:3 : Jer 8:3
  71. Jonah 4:4 : Ge 4:6; Mt 20:11-15
  72. Jonah 4:6 : S Jnh 1:17
  73. Jonah 4:7 : Joel 1:12
  74. Jonah 4:8 : S 1Ki 19:4
  75. Jonah 4:9 : ver 4
  76. Jonah 4:11 : Jnh 3:10
  77. Jonah 4:11 : Jnh 1:2; 3:2
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Revelation 5

The Scroll and the Lamb

5 Then I saw in the right hand of him who sat on the throne(A) a scroll with writing on both sides(B) and sealed(C) with seven seals. 2 And I saw a mighty angel(D) proclaiming in a loud voice, “Who is worthy to break the seals and open the scroll?” 3 But no one in heaven or on earth or under the earth could open the scroll or even look inside it. 4 I wept and wept because no one was found who was worthy to open the scroll or look inside. 5 Then one of the elders said to me, “Do not weep! See, the Lion(E) of the tribe of Judah,(F) the Root of David,(G) has triumphed. He is able to open the scroll and its seven seals.”

6 Then I saw a Lamb,(H) looking as if it had been slain, standing at the center of the throne, encircled by the four living creatures(I) and the elders.(J) The Lamb had seven horns and seven eyes,(K) which are the seven spirits[a](L) of God sent out into all the earth. 7 He went and took the scroll from the right hand of him who sat on the throne.(M) 8 And when he had taken it, the four living creatures(N) and the twenty-four elders(O) fell down before the Lamb. Each one had a harp(P) and they were holding golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers(Q) of God’s people. 9 And they sang a new song, saying:(R)

“You are worthy(S) to take the scroll
and to open its seals,
because you were slain,
and with your blood(T) you purchased(U) for God
persons from every tribe and language and people and nation.(V)
10 You have made them to be a kingdom and priests(W) to serve our God,
and they will reign[b] on the earth.”(X)

11 Then I looked and heard the voice of many angels, numbering thousands upon thousands, and ten thousand times ten thousand.(Y) They encircled the throne and the living creatures(Z) and the elders.(AA) 12 In a loud voice they were saying:

“Worthy is the Lamb,(AB) who was slain,(AC)
to receive power and wealth and wisdom and strength
and honor and glory and praise!”(AD)

13 Then I heard every creature in heaven and on earth and under the earth(AE) and on the sea, and all that is in them, saying:

“To him who sits on the throne(AF) and to the Lamb(AG)
be praise and honor and glory and power,
for ever and ever!”(AH)

14 The four living creatures(AI) said, “Amen,”(AJ) and the elders(AK) fell down and worshiped.(AL)

Footnotes:

  1. Revelation 5:6 That is, the sevenfold Spirit
  2. Revelation 5:10 Some manuscripts they reign

Cross references:

  1. Revelation 5:1 : ver 7, 13; Rev 4:2, 9; 6:16
  2. Revelation 5:1 : Eze 2:9, 10
  3. Revelation 5:1 : Isa 29:11; Da 12:4
  4. Revelation 5:2 : Rev 10:1
  5. Revelation 5:5 : Ge 49:9
  6. Revelation 5:5 : S Heb 7:14
  7. Revelation 5:5 : Isa 11:1, 10; Ro 15:12; Rev 22:16
  8. Revelation 5:6 : ver 8, 9, 12, 13; S Jn 1:29
  9. Revelation 5:6 : S Rev 4:6
  10. Revelation 5:6 : S Rev 4:4
  11. Revelation 5:6 : Zec 4:10
  12. Revelation 5:6 : S Rev 1:4
  13. Revelation 5:7 : S ver 1
  14. Revelation 5:8 : S Rev 4:6
  15. Revelation 5:8 : S Rev 4:4
  16. Revelation 5:8 : Rev 14:2; 15:2
  17. Revelation 5:8 : Ps 141:2; Rev 8:3, 4
  18. Revelation 5:9 : Ps 40:3; 98:1; 149:1; Isa 42:10; Rev 14:3, 4
  19. Revelation 5:9 : Rev 4:11
  20. Revelation 5:9 : Heb 9:12
  21. Revelation 5:9 : S 1Co 6:20
  22. Revelation 5:9 : S Rev 13:7
  23. Revelation 5:10 : S 1Pe 2:5
  24. Revelation 5:10 : Rev 3:21; 20:4
  25. Revelation 5:11 : Da 7:10; Heb 12:22; Jude 14
  26. Revelation 5:11 : S Rev 4:6
  27. Revelation 5:11 : S Rev 4:4
  28. Revelation 5:12 : ver 13
  29. Revelation 5:12 : ver 9
  30. Revelation 5:12 : Rev 1:6; 4:11
  31. Revelation 5:13 : ver 3; Php 2:10
  32. Revelation 5:13 : S ver 1, 7
  33. Revelation 5:13 : ver 6; Rev 6:16; 7:10
  34. Revelation 5:13 : 1Ch 29:11; Mal 1:6; 2:2; S Ro 11:36
  35. Revelation 5:14 : S Rev 4:6
  36. Revelation 5:14 : Rev 4:9
  37. Revelation 5:14 : S Rev 4:4
  38. Revelation 5:14 : Rev 4:10
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Psalm 133

Psalm 133

A song of ascents. Of David.

1 How good and pleasant it is
when God’s people live together(A) in unity!(B)

2 It is like precious oil poured on the head,(C)
running down on the beard,
running down on Aaron’s beard,
down on the collar of his robe.
3 It is as if the dew(D) of Hermon(E)
were falling on Mount Zion.(F)
For there the Lord bestows his blessing,(G)
even life forevermore.(H)

Cross references:

  1. Psalm 133:1 : S Ge 13:8; S Ro 12:10
  2. Psalm 133:1 : Jn 17:11
  3. Psalm 133:2 : S Ex 29:7
  4. Psalm 133:3 : Job 29:19; Pr 19:12; Isa 18:4; 26:19; 45:8; Hos 14:5; Mic 5:7
  5. Psalm 133:3 : S Dt 3:8; S 4:48
  6. Psalm 133:3 : S Ex 15:17; S Ps 2:6; 74:2
  7. Psalm 133:3 : S Lev 25:21
  8. Psalm 133:3 : S Ps 21:4
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Proverbs 29:26-27

26 Many seek an audience with a ruler,(A)
but it is from the Lord that one gets justice.(B)

27 The righteous detest the dishonest;
the wicked detest the upright.(C)

Cross references:

  1. Proverbs 29:26 : Pr 19:6
  2. Proverbs 29:26 : S Pr 16:33
  3. Proverbs 29:27 : S ver 10
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12/13/2021 DAB Transcript

Obadiah 1:1-21, Revelation 4:1-11, Psalm 132:1-18, Proverbs 29:24-25

Today is the 13th day of December, welcome to the Daily Audio Bible. I’m Brian, it is wonderful to be here with you today as we continue the journey forward.

Introduction to the Book of Obadiah:

We have a brand-new book that we are encountering today in the Old Testament another of the grouping known as the minor prophets. This book is known as Obadiah and it is the shortest book in the Old Testament. So, we will read the entire book of Obadiah today and it’s probably hard to notice that we aren’t moving rapidly because we’re moving through shorter passages of Scripture. So, it’s easy enough because we’re doing this all-in-one day to just, ah, just kind of glance across it, just glaze over it, because we can get in the mindset, these are just ancient prophecies there…there things that were important, there things that God did, there things we should pay attention to but they happened a long time ago. And that would be true about Obadiah, but the theme, what’s being talked about in Obadiah is very current, very relevant to us today and also gives us a chance to, look back at some of the territory that we will remember moving through earlier in the year. So, the book is called Obadiah. Obadiah identifies himself as the author of this work but nobody knows hardly anything about who Obadiah was, his name means servant of Yahweh, but it seems that Obadiah wasn’t an uncommon name and so trying to date this prophecy has its challenges. Most scholars, kind of come to the conclusion that Obadiah was a prophet and probably contemporary with Jeremiah and that he’s prophesying using the conquest of Jerusalem by the Babylonians as his context and if that is a…a correct assumption, then that would date Obadiah to the late 500s BC when Babylon did conquer Judah and destroyed Jerusalem. That is some territory that we have been looking at for a while now and so we’re…we’re fairly familiar with the exiles and the Assyrian and Babylonian conquests. But what Obadiah is dealing with is much, much longer running problem, a much deeper issue, actually, it’s a family issue. And there’s only 21 versus and Obadiah and so he gets right to the point because Obadiah is essentially a prophecy against the Edomites. And so, let’s remember our journey, let’s go back to Genesis, let’s remember the people, Jacob and Esau, the brother’s. Remember Jacob steals the birthright. Jacob steals the blessing and has to flee from Esau and they are reunited decades later, and in the process, Jacob’s name was changed to Israel and that’s how his children became to be known as the children of Israel. But Esau also had descendants and they also prospered and flourished and they became known as the Edomites. So, we have the descendants of the two brothers, family. And as we know eventually the children of Israel ended up in slavery in Egypt and then God freed them from their slavery in Egypt through the plagues and then they began to wander around waiting for God to send them into the promised land, the land that had been promised so long ago. And so, they had to move around in the wilderness, but at times tried to navigate around other nations and many times the nations would not allow them to pass, even though they’re like we will stay on the road, we will pay for the water, we will pay for anything, we just we only need to get through we don’t have any plans. Well, the Edomites were one of those nations, their brothers and the Edomites would not let their relatives pass through their land as they went on toward their own land. And there are other points when Israel is in the promised land, but they’re being attacked and they’re at war and the Edomites would not come to the rescue of their brothers. They stood by and allowed them to be attacked, passively. But they weren’t always just passive. The Edomites, brothers to the children of Israel were…were willing to pillage their own family while they were suffering. And so, we’ll see that Obadiah is prophesying the destruction of Edom. Where this becomes really immediate to us is that as believers in Jesus, as Christians we believe we have been redeemed through Jesus and that redemption, of no merit of our own, has made us children of God. And so, all of us who have been accepted into the family of God, we are family. We are brothers and sisters and it…it’s part of our church history that this has been going on all along, but it is very evident today. It’s very easy because of technology to see the family at war with itself, to be violent toward each other with our words. And often enough, we see this stuff going on and people being hurt and we stand by silently, just let it happen. Just bear witness to it or we might pillage or we might even cross our arms and shake our heads at the people who are suffering and say they’re getting God’s judgment, they’re getting what they deserve, as if we would now and as if we would have any say what so ever. The way that this plays out in the Bible, especially in this book that we are about to read is that God rejects that posture and hates that posture enough to send a prophet to tell the Edomites that they’re gonna fall apart. God takes no pleasure at all in that kind of behavior, that should be a little bit of an “ouch” and an opportunity for reflection and repentance. So, let’s read together in its entirety Obadiah.

Prayer:

Father, we thank You for Your word and we thank You for what we encountered today in the book of Obadiah and the things that it causes us to consider because we remember those stories as we went through them earlier in the year, the Edomites. Now, as we approach the end of the year, we see in Obadiah how you feel about family, on family hatred and we confess because it’s obvious we are still dealing with some of these issues. So, we invite Your Holy Spirit into our space, into our hearts, where is this lingering in us. Because this is where the change begins when we take ownership and responsibility for ourselves and our own actions. And as we approach the holidays we need this message, we need to remember this and so Holy Spirit would You plant this in the soil of our lives that it can linger, that we can continue to meditate upon it through the remainder of this year. And we thank You for what we read today in Revelation and so this is what our prayer is, this is what we say as we conclude today Holy, Holy, Holy is the Lord God Almighty who was and is and is to come. There is none like You God, which is a silly understatement to say the least. But there is none like You and that You have grafted us into Your family and adopted us as children. What do we say besides Holy, Holy, Holy is the Lord God Almighty who was and is and is to come? We worship You. We pray these things in the name of Jesus. Amen.

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Prayer and Encouragements:

I’ll call myself WWW that’s Western Wyoming Warrior. I’ve been listening for about the last four years, off and on. And until about October it’s been steady. All the trauma and tragedy I’ve heard, it’s so sad. There’s also the triumphs, praise our Blessed Father in heaven. I just praise Him. I just came from the doctor yesterday with the devastating news that my injury from my break in my hand is not healing. The bone is said to look like Swiss cheese and it’s very painful. I’m gonna have to have major surgery but it’s gonna take a year of recovery. And I just can’t afford to that I live by myself and don’t have the insurance that I need. I’m a medical assistant and mainly a phlebotomist and I really need my hand. And I’m just asking for God’s favor. God’s will be done. I praise my God in heaven for an answer and a head of this request. And I just pray for healing. Thank you all DABers for your prayers and I praise God for all you out there, I pray for you every day. Blessings everyone.

Hello DAB family, this is Cassie from Arizona. I’d like to request prayers for myself and my household, also as well as my best-friends household. Shealynn and Vinnie, her husband has a pre-existing condition and we’ve all come down with COVID19. If you guys could just pray for us that we all make it through this okay. And we get through this together. I thank you and I love you all. Thank you for your prayers.

Good morning Daily Audio Bible family this is New Eyes in Tennessee and I have really continued to enjoy you all calling in and lifting each other up. And so today, I have a prayer request that I would ask that you would lift me and my family up. My daughters are struggling and they have been believing lies and my husband and I are desperately trying to just affirm them, love them in the love that Jesus. We are walking in the truth no matter what our daughters believes as teenagers, about themselves or about the world or about us, even as their parents. We are believing Jesus and the Bible and the truth that it speaks. And we are just asking for wisdom, I could really use wisdom. I feel like, I have said a lot of things that I regret and I’ve confessed to the Lord and I believe that He is able to redeem, even the things that I’ve said that I regret but I would ask that you guys would lift up our family and speak against the lies of the enemy that confuse and entangle our young people and that we would have peace in our home. And that God would be glorified and that my children will be made whole. Thank you, guys. I love you.

Good morning Daily Audio Bible family I want to just come in, this is Willa. I just want to come in and thank God’s Chosen for her prayer. I heard her prayer this morning, it’s Thursday, December the 9th. And I want to thank you for praying for all of us intercessors and I praise God that you were obedient in saying your prayer. And I ask God, in the name of Jesus, to continue to bless you and to continue to give you those things that you need and encouraging you along your journey. And for those who I have not prayed for on the line, I whisper Daily Audio Bible on a daily basis. And Brian I want to thank you and your family for your faithfulness and I have thoroughly enjoyed all the Christmas music from your son and from your wife and I just thank you for continually being faithful to what God is telling you to do because it is very encouraging and this is Willa from Marietta signing off, have a great day everyone.  

Good morning DAB family this is Paula, the Child Advocate from the LA area calling. I’m calling in today specifically to pray for those who are incarcerated. Last weekend my husband and I took a trip to Colorado to a small town and every day on our way to the place that we stayed we passed a correctional facility, it was a regional correctional facility. And it just broke my heart to see all that barb wire and the towers. And then on our way to church, on Saturday, we went through another town called Florence and we passed a federal penitentiary. We came to find out that there are seven prisons in this small region. And seeing all that barbed wire and the towers and all the walls it made me so sad for all the inmates. They were not able to go to the Christmas tree lighting that we went to in this small town, they weren’t able to see the Christmas parade with the fire engines and the bands and the cement trucks and I just really had an impact on me and so I wanna pray that Lord Jesus, please come to those who are incarcerated. Please send someone to them to bring in the light of Christ. Please send someone to bring the joy of the Christmas season to them and please Lord help them come to you so that when they’re released, they could start a new life in you. I pray this in the name of Jesus. Thank you DAB family, I love you all, I listen every day, I’m a long-time listener and I’m gonna keep listening into 2022. Love to all, bye for now.

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The Daily Audio Bible Reading for Monday December 13, 2021 (NIV)

Obadiah

Obadiah’s Vision(A)(B)

1 The vision(C) of Obadiah.

This is what the Sovereign Lord says about Edom(D)—

We have heard a message from the Lord:
An envoy(E) was sent to the nations to say,
“Rise, let us go against her for battle”(F)—

2 “See, I will make you small(G) among the nations;
you will be utterly despised.
3 The pride(H) of your heart has deceived you,
you who live in the clefts of the rocks[a](I)
and make your home on the heights,
you who say to yourself,
‘Who can bring me down to the ground?’(J)
4 Though you soar like the eagle
and make your nest(K) among the stars,
from there I will bring you down,”(L)
declares the Lord.(M)
5 “If thieves came to you,
if robbers in the night—
oh, what a disaster awaits you!—
would they not steal only as much as they wanted?
If grape pickers came to you,
would they not leave a few grapes?(N)
6 But how Esau will be ransacked,
his hidden treasures pillaged!
7 All your allies(O) will force you to the border;
your friends will deceive and overpower you;
those who eat your bread(P) will set a trap for you,[b]
but you will not detect it.

8 “In that day,” declares the Lord,
“will I not destroy(Q) the wise men of Edom,
those of understanding in the mountains of Esau?
9 Your warriors, Teman,(R) will be terrified,
and everyone in Esau’s mountains
will be cut down in the slaughter.
10 Because of the violence(S) against your brother Jacob,(T)
you will be covered with shame;
you will be destroyed forever.(U)
11 On the day you stood aloof
while strangers carried off his wealth
and foreigners entered his gates
and cast lots(V) for Jerusalem,
you were like one of them.(W)
12 You should not gloat(X) over your brother
in the day of his misfortune,(Y)
nor rejoice(Z) over the people of Judah
in the day of their destruction,(AA)
nor boast(AB) so much
in the day of their trouble.(AC)
13 You should not march through the gates of my people
in the day of their disaster,
nor gloat over them in their calamity(AD)
in the day of their disaster,
nor seize their wealth
in the day of their disaster.
14 You should not wait at the crossroads
to cut down their fugitives,(AE)
nor hand over their survivors
in the day of their trouble.

15 “The day of the Lord is near(AF)
for all nations.
As you have done, it will be done to you;
your deeds(AG) will return upon your own head.
16 Just as you drank(AH) on my holy hill,(AI)
so all the nations will drink(AJ) continually;
they will drink and drink
and be as if they had never been.(AK)
17 But on Mount Zion will be deliverance;(AL)
it will be holy,(AM)
and Jacob will possess his inheritance.(AN)
18 Jacob will be a fire
and Joseph a flame;
Esau will be stubble,
and they will set him on fire(AO) and destroy(AP) him.
There will be no survivors(AQ)
from Esau.”
The Lord has spoken.

19 People from the Negev will occupy
the mountains of Esau,
and people from the foothills will possess
the land of the Philistines.(AR)
They will occupy the fields of Ephraim and Samaria,(AS)
and Benjamin(AT) will possess Gilead.
20 This company of Israelite exiles who are in Canaan
will possess the land as far as Zarephath;(AU)
the exiles from Jerusalem who are in Sepharad
will possess the towns of the Negev.(AV)
21 Deliverers(AW) will go up on[c] Mount Zion
to govern the mountains of Esau.
And the kingdom will be the Lord’s.(AX)

Footnotes:

  1. Obadiah 1:3 Or of Sela
  2. Obadiah 1:7 The meaning of the Hebrew for this clause is uncertain.
  3. Obadiah 1:21 Or from

Cross references:

  1. Obadiah 1:1 : 1-4pp — Jer 49:14-16
  2. Obadiah 1:1 : 5-6pp — Jer 49:9-10
  3. Obadiah 1:1 : S Isa 1:1
  4. Obadiah 1:1 : S Ge 25:14; S Isa 11:14; S 34:11; 63:1-6; Jer 49:7-22; S Eze 25:12-14; S 32:29; S Am 1:11-12
  5. Obadiah 1:1 : Isa 18:2
  6. Obadiah 1:1 : Jer 6:4-5
  7. Obadiah 1:2 : Nu 24:18
  8. Obadiah 1:3 : S Isa 16:6
  9. Obadiah 1:3 : fn Isa 16:1
  10. Obadiah 1:3 : S 2Ch 25:11-12
  11. Obadiah 1:4 : S Isa 10:14
  12. Obadiah 1:4 : S Isa 14:13
  13. Obadiah 1:4 : S Job 20:6
  14. Obadiah 1:5 : S Dt 4:27; 24:21; S Isa 24:13
  15. Obadiah 1:7 : Jer 30:14
  16. Obadiah 1:7 : S Ps 41:9
  17. Obadiah 1:8 : Job 5:12; Isa 29:14
  18. Obadiah 1:9 : S Ge 36:11, 34
  19. Obadiah 1:10 : S Joel 3:19
  20. Obadiah 1:10 : Ps 137:7; Am 1:11-12
  21. Obadiah 1:10 : S Ps 137:7; S Eze 25:12-14; 35:9
  22. Obadiah 1:11 : S Job 6:27; S Eze 24:6
  23. Obadiah 1:11 : S Am 1:6
  24. Obadiah 1:12 : Pr 24:17
  25. Obadiah 1:12 : S Job 31:29
  26. Obadiah 1:12 : S Eze 35:15
  27. Obadiah 1:12 : S Pr 17:5
  28. Obadiah 1:12 : Ps 137:7
  29. Obadiah 1:12 : S Eze 25:6; Mic 4:11; 7:8
  30. Obadiah 1:13 : S Eze 35:5
  31. Obadiah 1:14 : S 1Ki 18:4
  32. Obadiah 1:15 : S Jer 46:10; S Eze 30:3; S Joel 2:31; S Am 5:18
  33. Obadiah 1:15 : S Jer 50:29; Hab 2:8
  34. Obadiah 1:16 : Isa 51:17
  35. Obadiah 1:16 : S Ex 15:17
  36. Obadiah 1:16 : Jer 25:15; 49:12; S La 4:21-22
  37. Obadiah 1:16 : S La 4:21; S Eze 25:12-14
  38. Obadiah 1:17 : S Ps 69:35; S Isa 14:1-2; Joel 2:32; S Am 9:11-15
  39. Obadiah 1:17 : S Ps 74:2; S Isa 4:3
  40. Obadiah 1:17 : Zec 8:12
  41. Obadiah 1:18 : S Isa 1:31
  42. Obadiah 1:18 : Zec 12:6
  43. Obadiah 1:18 : S Jer 49:10
  44. Obadiah 1:19 : Isa 11:14
  45. Obadiah 1:19 : S Jer 31:5
  46. Obadiah 1:19 : S Nu 1:36
  47. Obadiah 1:20 : 1Ki 17:9-10; Lk 4:26
  48. Obadiah 1:20 : S Jer 33:13
  49. Obadiah 1:21 : S Dt 28:29; S Jdg 3:9
  50. Obadiah 1:21 : S Ps 22:28; 47:9; 66:4; S Da 2:44; Zec 14:9, 16; Mal 1:14; Rev 11:15
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Revelation 4

The Throne in Heaven

4 After this I looked, and there before me was a door standing open(A) in heaven. And the voice I had first heard speaking to me like a trumpet(B) said, “Come up here,(C) and I will show you what must take place after this.”(D) 2 At once I was in the Spirit,(E) and there before me was a throne in heaven(F) with someone sitting on it. 3 And the one who sat there had the appearance of jasper(G) and ruby.(H) A rainbow(I) that shone like an emerald(J) encircled the throne. 4 Surrounding the throne were twenty-four other thrones, and seated on them were twenty-four elders.(K) They were dressed in white(L) and had crowns of gold on their heads. 5 From the throne came flashes of lightning, rumblings and peals of thunder.(M) In front of the throne, seven lamps(N) were blazing. These are the seven spirits[a](O) of God. 6 Also in front of the throne there was what looked like a sea of glass,(P) clear as crystal.

In the center, around the throne, were four living creatures,(Q) and they were covered with eyes, in front and in back.(R) 7 The first living creature was like a lion, the second was like an ox, the third had a face like a man, the fourth was like a flying eagle.(S) 8 Each of the four living creatures(T) had six wings(U) and was covered with eyes all around,(V) even under its wings. Day and night(W) they never stop saying:

“‘Holy, holy, holy

is the Lord God Almighty,’[b](X)

who was, and is, and is to come.”(Y)

9 Whenever the living creatures give glory, honor and thanks to him who sits on the throne(Z) and who lives for ever and ever,(AA) 10 the twenty-four elders(AB) fall down before him(AC) who sits on the throne(AD) and worship him who lives for ever and ever. They lay their crowns before the throne and say:

11 “You are worthy, our Lord and God,
to receive glory and honor and power,(AE)
for you created all things,
and by your will they were created
and have their being.”(AF)

Footnotes:

  1. Revelation 4:5 That is, the sevenfold Spirit
  2. Revelation 4:8 Isaiah 6:3

Cross references:

  1. Revelation 4:1 : S Mt 3:16
  2. Revelation 4:1 : Rev 1:10
  3. Revelation 4:1 : Rev 11:12
  4. Revelation 4:1 : Rev 1:19; 22:6
  5. Revelation 4:2 : S Rev 1:10
  6. Revelation 4:2 : ver 9, 10; 1Ki 22:19; Isa 6:1; Eze 1:26-28; Da 7:9; Rev 20:11
  7. Revelation 4:3 : Rev 21:11
  8. Revelation 4:3 : Rev 21:20
  9. Revelation 4:3 : Eze 1:28; Rev 10:1
  10. Revelation 4:3 : Rev 21:19
  11. Revelation 4:4 : ver 10; Rev 5:6, 8, 14; 11:16; 19:4
  12. Revelation 4:4 : S Rev 3:4, 5
  13. Revelation 4:5 : Ex 19:16; Rev 8:5; 11:19; 16:18
  14. Revelation 4:5 : Zec 4:2
  15. Revelation 4:5 : S Rev 1:4
  16. Revelation 4:6 : Rev 15:2
  17. Revelation 4:6 : ver 8, 9; Eze 1:5; Rev 5:6; 6:1; 7:11; 14:3; 15:7; 19:4
  18. Revelation 4:6 : Eze 1:18; 10:12
  19. Revelation 4:7 : Eze 1:10; 10:14
  20. Revelation 4:8 : S ver 6
  21. Revelation 4:8 : Isa 6:2
  22. Revelation 4:8 : Eze 1:18
  23. Revelation 4:8 : Rev 14:11
  24. Revelation 4:8 : Isa 6:3; S Rev 1:8
  25. Revelation 4:8 : S Rev 1:4
  26. Revelation 4:9 : ver 2; Ps 47:8; S Rev 5:1
  27. Revelation 4:9 : S Rev 1:18
  28. Revelation 4:10 : S ver 4
  29. Revelation 4:10 : Dt 33:3; Rev 5:8, 14; 7:11; 11:16
  30. Revelation 4:10 : S ver 2
  31. Revelation 4:11 : Rev 1:6; 5:12
  32. Revelation 4:11 : Ac 14:15; Rev 10:6
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Psalm 132

Psalm 132(A)

A song of ascents.

1 Lord, remember David
and all his self-denial.(B)

2 He swore an oath to the Lord,
he made a vow to the Mighty One of Jacob:(C)
3 “I will not enter my house(D)
or go to my bed,
4 I will allow no sleep to my eyes
or slumber to my eyelids,
5 till I find a place(E) for the Lord,
a dwelling for the Mighty One of Jacob.”

6 We heard it in Ephrathah,(F)
we came upon it in the fields of Jaar:[a](G)
7 “Let us go to his dwelling place,(H)
let us worship at his footstool,(I) saying,
8 ‘Arise, Lord,(J) and come to your resting place,
you and the ark of your might.
9 May your priests be clothed with your righteousness;(K)
may your faithful people(L) sing for joy.’”

10 For the sake of your servant David,
do not reject your anointed one.

11 The Lord swore an oath to David,(M)
a sure oath he will not revoke:
“One of your own descendants(N)
I will place on your throne.
12 If your sons keep my covenant(O)
and the statutes I teach them,
then their sons will sit
on your throne(P) for ever and ever.”

13 For the Lord has chosen Zion,(Q)
he has desired it for his dwelling,(R) saying,
14 “This is my resting place for ever and ever;(S)
here I will sit enthroned,(T) for I have desired it.
15 I will bless her with abundant provisions;
her poor I will satisfy with food.(U)
16 I will clothe her priests(V) with salvation,
and her faithful people will ever sing for joy.(W)

17 “Here I will make a horn[b] grow(X) for David
and set up a lamp(Y) for my anointed one.(Z)
18 I will clothe his enemies with shame,(AA)
but his head will be adorned with a radiant crown.”(AB)

Footnotes:

  1. Psalm 132:6 Or heard of it in Ephrathah, / we found it in the fields of Jearim. (See 1 Chron. 13:5,6) (And no quotation marks around verses 7-9)
  2. Psalm 132:17 Horn here symbolizes strong one, that is, king.

Cross references:

  1. Psalm 132:1 : 132:8-10pp — 2Ch 6:41-42
  2. Psalm 132:1 : 1Sa 18:11; S 2Sa 15:14
  3. Psalm 132:2 : S Ge 49:24; Isa 49:26; 60:16
  4. Psalm 132:3 : S 2Sa 7:2, 27
  5. Psalm 132:5 : S 1Ki 8:17; Ac 7:46
  6. Psalm 132:6 : S 1Sa 17:12
  7. Psalm 132:6 : S Jos 9:17; S 1Sa 7:2
  8. Psalm 132:7 : S 2Sa 15:25; Ps 5:7; 122:1
  9. Psalm 132:7 : S 1Ch 28:2
  10. Psalm 132:8 : S Nu 10:35
  11. Psalm 132:9 : S Job 27:6; Isa 61:3, 10; Zec 3:4; Mal 3:3; Eph 6:14
  12. Psalm 132:9 : Ps 16:3; 30:4; 149:5
  13. Psalm 132:11 : S Ps 89:3-4, 35
  14. Psalm 132:11 : S 1Ch 17:11-14; S Mt 1:1; Lk 3:31
  15. Psalm 132:12 : 2Ch 6:16; S Ps 25:10
  16. Psalm 132:12 : Lk 1:32; Ac 2:30
  17. Psalm 132:13 : S Ex 15:17; Ps 48:1-2; S 68:16
  18. Psalm 132:13 : S 1Ki 8:13
  19. Psalm 132:14 : ver 8; Ps 68:16
  20. Psalm 132:14 : S 2Sa 6:2; Ps 80:1
  21. Psalm 132:15 : Ps 107:9; 147:14
  22. Psalm 132:16 : S 2Ch 6:41
  23. Psalm 132:16 : S Job 8:21; Ps 149:5
  24. Psalm 132:17 : S 1Sa 2:10; Ps 92:10; Eze 29:21; S Lk 1:69
  25. Psalm 132:17 : 1Ki 11:36; 2Ki 8:19; 2Ch 21:7; Ps 18:28
  26. Psalm 132:17 : S Ps 84:9
  27. Psalm 132:18 : S Job 8:22
  28. Psalm 132:18 : S 2Sa 12:30
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Proverbs 29:24-25

24 The accomplices of thieves are their own enemies;
they are put under oath and dare not testify.(A)

25 Fear(B) of man will prove to be a snare,
but whoever trusts in the Lord(C) is kept safe.(D)

Cross references:

  1. Proverbs 29:24 : S Lev 5:1
  2. Proverbs 29:25 : S 1Sa 15:24
  3. Proverbs 29:25 : Pr 28:25
  4. Proverbs 29:25 : S Pr 16:20
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12/12/2021 DAB Transcript

Amos 7:1-9:15, Revelation 3:7-22, Psalms 131:1-3, Proverbs 29:23

Today is the 12th day of December welcome to the Daily Audio Bible I’m Brian it is a joy to be here with you today as we greet another week together. We get to…we get to greet a new week two more times before this year reaches its conclusion and then like the great reset we get to start all over into 52 new week beginnings. But I guess that means this is the 50th time we’ve greeted a new week together this year and I am profoundly grateful that we get to come to the beginning of a new week and consider it a fresh start. This is also the third Sunday of the season of Advent. It’s no secret that the end of next week brings us Christmas day. And, so, next week is the fourth Sunday in the season of Advent, a season that leads us and leads our hearts toward Christmas. Whether you’ve ever had an Advent calendar or observed that or been involved in anything around Advent before that’s entirely up to you but it is a long-running Christian tradition, a season and its intention is to set our hearts correctly toward Christmas, allow us to experience a season of longing, knowing that so long ago many were longing for a rescue, for a Messiah, for a Savior. And he came with great rejoicing. There was joy to the world. And, so,  we put ourselves in that position as we anticipate Christmas, but we also realize that that longing that never really quite goes away that’s so deep inside of us is a longing for all things to be made new again, is a longing for the second Advent, which means arrival. So, the first advent of Jesus we read about in the Gospels. Jesus is born, He arrives, He came. The wait is over. Now we, much later, find ourselves celebrating that fact, but also longing for His return. And this is essentially what Advent is about. And, so, as these themes kind of come up or as you see them around, then you just can embrace that. Think about it, meditate on it, put your heart in that position, allow yourself to feel that longing even as we step forward together. And our first step forward into this new week will, at least in the Scriptures, will lead us back into the book of Amos. We’ve spent the last couple of days reading from the book of Amos. We will reach the conclusion of Amos today. We’ll read from the New International Version this week. Amos, chapters 7, 8, and 9.

Prayer:

Father, we thank you for your word and we thank you for this shiny sparkly new beginning to a brand-new week, a week that will take us through the midpoint of this final month of the year. We are grateful for your kindness and the gifts that you have bestowed upon us and the ways that you have transformed us from within and continue to reprioritize and realign our thinking, which eventually transforms our actions. We are so grateful. Thank you, Jesus for the many gifts that we have been able to experience together this year. And we look forward with anticipation into this brand-new week for all that you have to speak to us through your word. And, so, Holy Spirit, we invite you to come into all of this. Continue to make us aware of your guidance and presence in all things. We pray this in the name of Jesus. Amen.

Community Prayer and Praise:

Good morning DAB family this is Steve from Alabama, Albertville AL. I just wanted to call in a praise report. A couple months ago I called in for prayer for my cousin and his wife. Her name is Donna. Her prayer was to be able to stay alive while going through cancer to see her granddaughter be born. She’s still alive, she’s still fighting. She believes in God and now her prayer is to see her granddaughter’s first Christmas. She’s struggling and our family is with her, and I just want you all to lift Brian and Donna up for this season and give her strength, give her encouragement. And I just thank you for the praise report that she has made it this far. I love you guys. I’ve listened to the DAB every day for the past 13 years and I just am encouraged myself through every prayer request, every praise report, and I just thank you. I thank everybody in this podcast for what you do, and I pray that you will continue to pray, continue to do your work because it does matter. I love you guys.

Hi DAB family this is Robert P from Tennessee reaching out for help. My wife of 31 years is struggling with in stage liver disease. Her name is Bonnie, and I would appreciate any prayers that anyone would direct in our direction. I’m watching her suffer and slowly dwindle and numerous trips to the hospital, numerous stays in the hospital and it tears my heart out. I’ve posted a couple of prayers on the prayer wall under wife of 31 years, and I do feel…I do feel prayers, but I need my family. This is difficult and I’m at a loss to know what to do. I know God has me. I know I belong to him, and I know she belongs to him but please pray for direction because I don’t want to see her suffer. It hurts. I feel like I’m alone in this. I know I’m not. I’ve got two wonderful daughters and they come alongside and help what they can but this is a burden I feel I must carry. So, please family. Please pray. Robert P from Tennessee subaruman.rp@gmail.com.

Hello DAB family this Thankful and Still and I wanted to share my thanks, my gratitude with those of you that have shared your testimonies. You have no idea how much they’ve encouraged me. And, so, I’m so thankful for you opening up and sharing. In particular the ones that come to mind are Royal, are Quora the Contrite Spirit. I have Sparky in mind, Trent, Jessica and California. So many of you have shared just the intimate details of God’s work in your life and the things that you’ve overcome. So, I’m so thankful that you’ve followed the guiding of the Holy Spirit. And I just want to say that every now and then God, He pauses, I read this this morning and I’ve seen it. He pauses, the God of the universe pauses, and He looks down upon us, each one of us, you. I’ve seen that happen over the past few days with me being, you know, just coping with growing pains, you know, my eldest son leaving home and it not being expected and not really knowing where he was. But then, you know, things come together and God has just looked down upon us in this time and me and my son and…and I can see Him at work. And, so, remembering that He’s faithful, He will complete the work that He’s begun in each of us for His glory. And if you feel the nudge of the Holy Spirit to do something kind, to do something out of love, to do something for someone, please follow His guidance. Please follow His leading knowing that He will give you the strength, He will give you the words and the courage to do whatever it is that He's…He’s wanting you to do. You're…you’re a part of something so much greater, so much greater than we can imagine, this master plan that he orchestrates. So, I thank you for sharing, those of you that shared. I thank you for your prayers. God bless each of you.

Hey guys it’s Beloved and Boston, Amanda over here. Haven’t called in in a couple of weeks but of course following along and praying daily. Thank you again DAB family and Brian and his family for all you do for me in particular. But I just wanted to share a quick prayer request for an am man named Robert. He is the husband of a cousin of mine who I have not seen in over 12 years. And yesterday I had posted poem on my Facebook that had to do with Christ and an explanation as to why. And after 10 plus years of him not contacting me over Facebook…he used to harass me a lot, kind of bully me a bit about God online…he surfaced and started up again. And this time around I’ve grown so much closer to the Lord that all I had was sadness and love for him instead of anger. And, so, my responses were filled with Christ’s love. So, I praise Jesus for that first off. But I just pray that something must be going on that has made him reemerge, that has made him want to attack and justify his own choices. And, so, to me that opens up the opportunity for my seeds, Christ’s seeds to be planted and to flourish and to come to harvest. So, that’s what I pray for. I pray for his salvation. I pray a plentiful harvest in Christ’s name in his life and that it will have a trickle effect down his entire family. Please just pray for Robert’s salvation. Thank you.

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The Daily Audio Bible Reading for Sunday December 12, 2021 (NIV)

Amos 7-9

Locusts, Fire and a Plumb Line

7 This is what the Sovereign Lord showed me:(A) He was preparing swarms of locusts(B) after the king’s share had been harvested and just as the late crops were coming up. 2 When they had stripped the land clean,(C) I cried out, “Sovereign Lord, forgive! How can Jacob survive?(D) He is so small!(E)”

3 So the Lord relented.(F)

“This will not happen,” the Lord said.(G)

4 This is what the Sovereign Lord showed me: The Sovereign Lord was calling for judgment by fire;(H) it dried up the great deep and devoured(I) the land. 5 Then I cried out, “Sovereign Lord, I beg you, stop! How can Jacob survive? He is so small!(J)”

6 So the Lord relented.(K)

“This will not happen either,” the Sovereign Lord said.(L)

7 This is what he showed me: The Lord was standing by a wall that had been built true to plumb,[a] with a plumb line[b] in his hand. 8 And the Lord asked me, “What do you see,(M) Amos?(N)”

“A plumb line,(O)” I replied.

Then the Lord said, “Look, I am setting a plumb line among my people Israel; I will spare them no longer.(P)

9 “The high places(Q) of Isaac will be destroyed
and the sanctuaries(R) of Israel will be ruined;
with my sword I will rise against the house of Jeroboam.(S)”

Amos and Amaziah

10 Then Amaziah the priest of Bethel(T) sent a message to Jeroboam(U) king of Israel: “Amos is raising a conspiracy(V) against you in the very heart of Israel. The land cannot bear all his words.(W) 11 For this is what Amos is saying:

“‘Jeroboam will die by the sword,
and Israel will surely go into exile,(X)
away from their native land.’”(Y)

12 Then Amaziah said to Amos, “Get out, you seer!(Z) Go back to the land of Judah. Earn your bread there and do your prophesying there.(AA) 13 Don’t prophesy anymore at Bethel,(AB) because this is the king’s sanctuary and the temple(AC) of the kingdom.(AD)”

14 Amos answered Amaziah, “I was neither a prophet(AE) nor the son of a prophet, but I was a shepherd, and I also took care of sycamore-fig trees.(AF) 15 But the Lord took me from tending the flock(AG) and said to me, ‘Go,(AH) prophesy(AI) to my people Israel.’(AJ) 16 Now then, hear(AK) the word of the Lord. You say,

“‘Do not prophesy against(AL) Israel,
and stop preaching against the descendants of Isaac.’

17 “Therefore this is what the Lord says:

“‘Your wife will become a prostitute(AM) in the city,
and your sons and daughters will fall by the sword.
Your land will be measured and divided up,
and you yourself will die in a pagan[c] country.
And Israel will surely go into exile,(AN)
away from their native land.(AO)’”

A Basket of Ripe Fruit

8 This is what the Sovereign Lord showed me:(AP) a basket of ripe fruit. 2 “What do you see,(AQ) Amos?(AR)” he asked.

“A basket(AS) of ripe fruit,” I answered.

Then the Lord said to me, “The time is ripe for my people Israel; I will spare them no longer.(AT)

3 “In that day,” declares the Sovereign Lord, “the songs in the temple will turn to wailing.[d](AU) Many, many bodies—flung everywhere! Silence!(AV)”

4 Hear this, you who trample the needy
and do away with the poor(AW) of the land,(AX)

5 saying,

“When will the New Moon(AY) be over
that we may sell grain,
and the Sabbath be ended
that we may market(AZ) wheat?”(BA)—
skimping on the measure,
boosting the price
and cheating(BB) with dishonest scales,(BC)
6 buying the poor(BD) with silver
and the needy for a pair of sandals,
selling even the sweepings with the wheat.(BE)

7 The Lord has sworn by himself, the Pride of Jacob:(BF) “I will never forget(BG) anything they have done.(BH)

8 “Will not the land tremble(BI) for this,
and all who live in it mourn?
The whole land will rise like the Nile;
it will be stirred up and then sink
like the river of Egypt.(BJ)

9 “In that day,” declares the Sovereign Lord,

“I will make the sun go down at noon
and darken the earth in broad daylight.(BK)
10 I will turn your religious festivals(BL) into mourning
and all your singing into weeping.(BM)
I will make all of you wear sackcloth(BN)
and shave(BO) your heads.
I will make that time like mourning for an only son(BP)
and the end of it like a bitter day.(BQ)

11 “The days are coming,”(BR) declares the Sovereign Lord,
“when I will send a famine through the land—
not a famine of food or a thirst for water,
but a famine(BS) of hearing the words of the Lord.(BT)
12 People will stagger from sea to sea
and wander from north to east,
searching for the word of the Lord,
but they will not find it.(BU)

13 “In that day

“the lovely young women and strong young men(BV)
will faint because of thirst.(BW)
14 Those who swear by the sin of Samaria(BX)—
who say, ‘As surely as your god lives, Dan,’(BY)
or, ‘As surely as the god[e] of Beersheba(BZ) lives’—
they will fall,(CA) never to rise again.(CB)”

Israel to Be Destroyed

9 I saw the Lord standing by the altar, and he said:

“Strike the tops of the pillars
so that the thresholds shake.
Bring them down on the heads(CC) of all the people;
those who are left I will kill with the sword.
Not one will get away,
none will escape.(CD)
2 Though they dig down to the depths below,(CE)
from there my hand will take them.
Though they climb up to the heavens above,(CF)
from there I will bring them down.(CG)
3 Though they hide themselves on the top of Carmel,(CH)
there I will hunt them down and seize them.(CI)
Though they hide from my eyes at the bottom of the sea,(CJ)
there I will command the serpent(CK) to bite them.(CL)
4 Though they are driven into exile by their enemies,
there I will command the sword(CM) to slay them.

“I will keep my eye on them
for harm(CN) and not for good.(CO)”(CP)

5 The Lord, the Lord Almighty—
he touches the earth and it melts,(CQ)
and all who live in it mourn;
the whole land rises like the Nile,
then sinks like the river of Egypt;(CR)
6 he builds his lofty palace[f](CS) in the heavens
and sets its foundation[g] on the earth;
he calls for the waters of the sea
and pours them out over the face of the land—
the Lord is his name.(CT)

7 “Are not you Israelites
the same to me as the Cushites[h]?”(CU)
declares the Lord.
“Did I not bring Israel up from Egypt,
the Philistines(CV) from Caphtor[i](CW)
and the Arameans from Kir?(CX)

8 “Surely the eyes of the Sovereign Lord
are on the sinful kingdom.
I will destroy(CY) it
from the face of the earth.
Yet I will not totally destroy
the descendants of Jacob,”
declares the Lord.(CZ)
9 “For I will give the command,
and I will shake the people of Israel
among all the nations
as grain(DA) is shaken in a sieve,(DB)
and not a pebble will reach the ground.(DC)
10 All the sinners among my people
will die by the sword,(DD)
all those who say,
‘Disaster will not overtake or meet us.’(DE)

Israel’s Restoration

11 “In that day

“I will restore David’s(DF) fallen shelter(DG)—
I will repair its broken walls
and restore its ruins(DH)—
and will rebuild it as it used to be,(DI)
12 so that they may possess the remnant of Edom(DJ)
and all the nations that bear my name,[j](DK)”
declares the Lord, who will do these things.(DL)

13 “The days are coming,”(DM) declares the Lord,

“when the reaper(DN) will be overtaken by the plowman(DO)
and the planter by the one treading(DP) grapes.
New wine(DQ) will drip from the mountains
and flow from all the hills,(DR)
14 and I will bring(DS) my people Israel back from exile.[k](DT)

“They will rebuild the ruined cities(DU) and live in them.
They will plant vineyards(DV) and drink their wine;
they will make gardens and eat their fruit.(DW)
15 I will plant(DX) Israel in their own land,(DY)
never again to be uprooted(DZ)
from the land I have given them,”(EA)

says the Lord your God.(EB)

Footnotes:

  1. Amos 7:7 The meaning of the Hebrew for this phrase is uncertain.
  2. Amos 7:7 The meaning of the Hebrew for this phrase is uncertain; also in verse 8.
  3. Amos 7:17 Hebrew an unclean
  4. Amos 8:3 Or “the temple singers will wail
  5. Amos 8:14 Hebrew the way
  6. Amos 9:6 The meaning of the Hebrew for this phrase is uncertain.
  7. Amos 9:6 The meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain.
  8. Amos 9:7 That is, people from the upper Nile region
  9. Amos 9:7 That is, Crete
  10. Amos 9:12 Hebrew; Septuagint so that the remnant of people / and all the nations that bear my name may seek me
  11. Amos 9:14 Or will restore the fortunes of my people Israel

Cross references:

  1. Amos 7:1 : ver 7; Am 8:1
  2. Amos 7:1 : Ps 78:46; S Jer 51:14; S Joel 1:4
  3. Amos 7:2 : S Ex 10:15
  4. Amos 7:2 : S Isa 37:4
  5. Amos 7:2 : S Eze 11:13; S Am 4:9
  6. Amos 7:3 : S Ex 32:14; Dt 32:36; S Jer 18:8; 26:19
  7. Amos 7:3 : S Hos 11:8
  8. Amos 7:4 : S Isa 66:16; S Joel 1:19
  9. Amos 7:4 : Dt 32:22
  10. Amos 7:5 : S ver 1-2; Joel 2:17
  11. Amos 7:6 : S Ex 32:14; S Jer 18:8; Jnh 3:10
  12. Amos 7:6 : Jer 42:10; S Eze 9:8
  13. Amos 7:8 : Jer 1:11, 13
  14. Amos 7:8 : Am 8:2
  15. Amos 7:8 : S 2Ki 21:13
  16. Amos 7:8 : S Jer 15:6; Eze 7:2-9
  17. Amos 7:9 : S Lev 26:30
  18. Amos 7:9 : S Lev 26:31
  19. Amos 7:9 : S 1Ki 13:34; 2Ki 15:9; Isa 63:18; S Hos 10:8
  20. Amos 7:10 : S Jos 7:2
  21. Amos 7:10 : S 2Ki 14:23
  22. Amos 7:10 : Jer 38:4
  23. Amos 7:10 : 2Ki 14:24; Jer 26:8-11
  24. Amos 7:11 : S Am 5:27
  25. Amos 7:11 : Jer 36:16
  26. Amos 7:12 : S 1Sa 9:9
  27. Amos 7:12 : Mt 8:34
  28. Amos 7:13 : S Jos 7:2; S 1Ki 12:29
  29. Amos 7:13 : Jer 36:5
  30. Amos 7:13 : S Jer 20:2; S Am 2:12; Ac 4:18
  31. Amos 7:14 : S 1Sa 10:5; 2Ki 2:5; 4:38; Zec 13:5
  32. Amos 7:14 : S 1Ki 10:27; S Isa 9:10
  33. Amos 7:15 : S Ge 37:2; S 2Sa 7:8
  34. Amos 7:15 : S Isa 6:9
  35. Amos 7:15 : S Jer 26:12
  36. Amos 7:15 : Jer 7:1-2; S Eze 2:3-4
  37. Amos 7:16 : Jer 22:2
  38. Amos 7:16 : S Eze 20:46; Mic 2:6
  39. Amos 7:17 : S Hos 4:13
  40. Amos 7:17 : S Am 5:27
  41. Amos 7:17 : S 2Ki 17:6; S Eze 4:13; S Hos 9:3; Am 2:12-13
  42. Amos 8:1 : S Am 7:1
  43. Amos 8:2 : Jer 1:13; 24:3
  44. Amos 8:2 : Am 7:8
  45. Amos 8:2 : S Ge 40:16
  46. Amos 8:2 : S La 4:18; Eze 7:2-9
  47. Amos 8:3 : S Am 5:16
  48. Amos 8:3 : Am 6:10
  49. Amos 8:4 : S Pr 30:14
  50. Amos 8:4 : S Job 20:19; S Ps 14:4; S Am 2:7
  51. Amos 8:5 : S Nu 10:10
  52. Amos 8:5 : Isa 58:13
  53. Amos 8:5 : S Ne 10:31
  54. Amos 8:5 : S Ge 31:7
  55. Amos 8:5 : Dt 25:15; 2Ki 4:23; Ne 13:15-16; Eze 45:10-12; S Hos 12:7; Mic 6:10-11; Zec 5:6
  56. Amos 8:6 : Am 5:11
  57. Amos 8:6 : S Am 2:6; S 4:1
  58. Amos 8:7 : S Ps 47:4
  59. Amos 8:7 : S Hos 8:13
  60. Amos 8:7 : S Job 35:15
  61. Amos 8:8 : S Job 9:6; Jer 51:29
  62. Amos 8:8 : Ps 18:7; S Jer 46:8; Am 9:5
  63. Amos 8:9 : S Job 5:14; Isa 59:9-10; Jer 13:16; 15:9; S Eze 32:7; S Am 5:8; Mic 3:6; Mt 27:45; Mk 15:33; Lk 23:44-45
  64. Amos 8:10 : S Lev 26:31
  65. Amos 8:10 : S La 5:15; S Hos 2:11
  66. Amos 8:10 : S Joel 1:8
  67. Amos 8:10 : S Lev 13:40; S Isa 3:17
  68. Amos 8:10 : S Ge 21:16
  69. Amos 8:10 : S Jer 2:19; S Eze 7:18
  70. Amos 8:11 : Jer 30:3; 31:27
  71. Amos 8:11 : S Isa 30:20
  72. Amos 8:11 : S 1Sa 3:1; S 28:6; S 2Ch 15:3
  73. Amos 8:12 : S Eze 20:3, 31
  74. Amos 8:13 : S Isa 9:17
  75. Amos 8:13 : Isa 41:17; Hos 2:3
  76. Amos 8:14 : Mic 1:5
  77. Amos 8:14 : S 1Ki 12:29
  78. Amos 8:14 : S Am 5:5
  79. Amos 8:14 : S Ps 46:2
  80. Amos 8:14 : S Am 5:2
  81. Amos 9:1 : Ps 68:21
  82. Amos 9:1 : Jer 11:11
  83. Amos 9:2 : S Job 7:9; S Eze 26:20
  84. Amos 9:2 : Jer 51:53
  85. Amos 9:2 : Ob 1:4
  86. Amos 9:3 : Am 1:2
  87. Amos 9:3 : Ps 139:8-10
  88. Amos 9:3 : Ps 68:22
  89. Amos 9:3 : Isa 27:1
  90. Amos 9:3 : S Ge 49:17; S Job 11:20; Jer 16:16-17
  91. Amos 9:4 : S Lev 26:33; S Eze 5:12
  92. Amos 9:4 : S Jer 21:10
  93. Amos 9:4 : Jer 39:16; S Eze 15:7
  94. Amos 9:4 : S Jer 44:11
  95. Amos 9:5 : S Ps 46:2
  96. Amos 9:5 : S Am 8:8
  97. Amos 9:6 : Jer 43:9
  98. Amos 9:6 : Ps 104:1-3, 5-6, 13; S Am 5:8
  99. Amos 9:7 : S 2Ch 12:3; Isa 20:4; 43:3
  100. Amos 9:7 : S Ge 10:14
  101. Amos 9:7 : S Dt 2:23
  102. Amos 9:7 : S 2Ki 16:9; S Isa 22:6; S Am 2:10
  103. Amos 9:8 : S Jer 4:27
  104. Amos 9:8 : S Jer 44:27
  105. Amos 9:9 : Lk 22:31
  106. Amos 9:9 : Isa 30:28
  107. Amos 9:9 : S Jer 31:36; S Da 9:7
  108. Amos 9:10 : Jer 49:37
  109. Amos 9:10 : Jer 5:12; S 23:17; S Eze 20:38; S Am 6:3
  110. Amos 9:11 : S Isa 7:2
  111. Amos 9:11 : S Ge 26:22
  112. Amos 9:11 : Ps 53:6; S Isa 49:8
  113. Amos 9:11 : Ps 80:12; S Eze 17:24; Mic 7:8, 11; Zec 12:7; 14:10
  114. Amos 9:12 : S Nu 24:18
  115. Amos 9:12 : Isa 43:7; Jer 25:29
  116. Amos 9:12 : Ac 15:16-17*
  117. Amos 9:13 : Jer 31:38; 33:14
  118. Amos 9:13 : S Ru 2:3
  119. Amos 9:13 : Lev 26:5
  120. Amos 9:13 : S Jdg 9:27
  121. Amos 9:13 : S Joel 2:24
  122. Amos 9:13 : S Joel 3:18
  123. Amos 9:14 : S Jer 29:14
  124. Amos 9:14 : S Jer 33:7
  125. Amos 9:14 : S Isa 32:18; S 49:8; S 61:4
  126. Amos 9:14 : S 2Ki 19:29
  127. Amos 9:14 : S Isa 62:9; S Jer 30:18; S 31:28; Eze 28:25-26; S 34:13-14; S Am 5:11
  128. Amos 9:15 : S Ex 15:17; S Isa 60:21
  129. Amos 9:15 : S Jer 23:8
  130. Amos 9:15 : S Joel 3:20
  131. Amos 9:15 : S Isa 65:9; S Jer 3:18; Ob 1:17
  132. Amos 9:15 : S Jer 18:9; S 24:6; S 32:15; S Eze 28:26; S 34:25-28; S 37:12, 25
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Revelation 3:7-22

To the Church in Philadelphia

7 “To the angel of the church in Philadelphia(A) write:

These are the words of him who is holy(B) and true,(C) who holds the key of David.(D) What he opens no one can shut, and what he shuts no one can open. 8 I know your deeds.(E) See, I have placed before you an open door(F) that no one can shut. I know that you have little strength, yet you have kept my word and have not denied my name.(G) 9 I will make those who are of the synagogue of Satan,(H) who claim to be Jews though they are not,(I) but are liars—I will make them come and fall down at your feet(J) and acknowledge that I have loved you.(K) 10 Since you have kept my command to endure patiently, I will also keep you(L) from the hour of trial that is going to come on the whole world(M) to test(N) the inhabitants of the earth.(O)

11 I am coming soon.(P) Hold on to what you have,(Q) so that no one will take your crown.(R) 12 The one who is victorious(S) I will make a pillar(T) in the temple of my God. Never again will they leave it. I will write on them the name of my God(U) and the name of the city of my God,(V) the new Jerusalem,(W) which is coming down out of heaven from my God; and I will also write on them my new name. 13 Whoever has ears, let them hear(X) what the Spirit says to the churches.

To the Church in Laodicea

14 “To the angel of the church in Laodicea(Y) write:

These are the words of the Amen, the faithful and true witness,(Z) the ruler of God’s creation.(AA) 15 I know your deeds,(AB) that you are neither cold nor hot.(AC) I wish you were either one or the other! 16 So, because you are lukewarm—neither hot nor cold—I am about to spit you out of my mouth. 17 You say, ‘I am rich; I have acquired wealth and do not need a thing.’(AD) But you do not realize that you are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind and naked.(AE) 18 I counsel you to buy from me gold refined in the fire,(AF) so you can become rich; and white clothes(AG) to wear, so you can cover your shameful nakedness;(AH) and salve to put on your eyes, so you can see.

19 Those whom I love I rebuke and discipline.(AI) So be earnest and repent.(AJ) 20 Here I am! I stand at the door(AK) and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door,(AL) I will come in(AM) and eat with that person, and they with me.

21 To the one who is victorious,(AN) I will give the right to sit with me on my throne,(AO) just as I was victorious(AP) and sat down with my Father on his throne. 22 Whoever has ears, let them hear(AQ) what the Spirit says to the churches.”

Cross references:

  1. Revelation 3:7 : Rev 1:11
  2. Revelation 3:7 : S Mk 1:24
  3. Revelation 3:7 : 1Jn 5:20; Rev 6:10; 19:11
  4. Revelation 3:7 : Isa 22:22; Mt 16:19
  5. Revelation 3:8 : S Rev 2:2
  6. Revelation 3:8 : S Ac 14:27
  7. Revelation 3:8 : Rev 2:13
  8. Revelation 3:9 : Rev 2:9
  9. Revelation 3:9 : Rev 2:9
  10. Revelation 3:9 : Isa 49:23
  11. Revelation 3:9 : Isa 43:4; S Ro 8:37
  12. Revelation 3:10 : 2Pe 2:9
  13. Revelation 3:10 : S Mt 24:14
  14. Revelation 3:10 : Rev 2:10
  15. Revelation 3:10 : Rev 6:10; 8:13; 11:10; 13:8, 14; 17:8
  16. Revelation 3:11 : S Mt 16:27
  17. Revelation 3:11 : Rev 2:25
  18. Revelation 3:11 : S 1Co 9:25
  19. Revelation 3:12 : S Jn 16:33
  20. Revelation 3:12 : Gal 2:9
  21. Revelation 3:12 : Rev 14:1; 22:4
  22. Revelation 3:12 : Eze 48:35
  23. Revelation 3:12 : Gal 4:26; Rev 21:2, 10
  24. Revelation 3:13 : S Rev 2:7
  25. Revelation 3:14 : S Col 2:1; Rev 1:11
  26. Revelation 3:14 : Jn 18:37; Rev 1:5
  27. Revelation 3:14 : Pr 8:22; Jn 1:3; Col 1:16, 18
  28. Revelation 3:15 : S Rev 2:2
  29. Revelation 3:15 : Ro 12:11
  30. Revelation 3:17 : Hos 12:8; 1Co 4:8
  31. Revelation 3:17 : Pr 13:7
  32. Revelation 3:18 : S 1Pe 1:7
  33. Revelation 3:18 : S ver 4
  34. Revelation 3:18 : Rev 16:15
  35. Revelation 3:19 : Dt 8:5; Pr 3:12; 1Co 11:32; Heb 12:5, 6
  36. Revelation 3:19 : S Rev 2:5
  37. Revelation 3:20 : Mt 24:33; Jas 5:9
  38. Revelation 3:20 : Lk 12:36
  39. Revelation 3:20 : S Ro 8:10
  40. Revelation 3:21 : S Jn 16:33
  41. Revelation 3:21 : S Mt 19:28
  42. Revelation 3:21 : Rev 5:5
  43. Revelation 3:22 : S Rev 2:7
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Psalm 131

Psalm 131

A song of ascents. Of David.

1 My heart is not proud,(A) Lord,
my eyes are not haughty;(B)
I do not concern myself with great matters(C)
or things too wonderful for me.(D)
2 But I have calmed and quieted myself,(E)
I am like a weaned child with its mother;
like a weaned child I am content.(F)

3 Israel, put your hope(G) in the Lord
both now and forevermore.(H)

Cross references:

  1. Psalm 131:1 : Ps 101:5; Isa 2:12; Ro 12:16
  2. Psalm 131:1 : S 2Sa 22:28; S Job 41:34
  3. Psalm 131:1 : Jer 45:5
  4. Psalm 131:1 : S Job 5:9; Ps 139:6
  5. Psalm 131:2 : S Ps 116:7
  6. Psalm 131:2 : Mt 18:3; 1Co 13:11; 14:20
  7. Psalm 131:3 : S Ps 25:5; 119:43; 130:7
  8. Psalm 131:3 : S Ps 113:2
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Proverbs 29:23

23 Pride brings a person low,(A)
but the lowly in spirit gain honor.(B)

Cross references:

  1. Proverbs 29:23 : S Est 5:12
  2. Proverbs 29:23 : S Pr 11:2; S 15:33; S 16:18
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