The Daily Audio Bible Reading for Thursday September 17, 2020 (NIV)

^6 (J)On this mountain the Lord of hosts will make for all peoples
a feast of rich food, a feast of well-aged wine,
^(K)of rich food full of marrow, of aged wine well refined.
⁷ And he will swallow up ^(L)on this mountain
the covering that is cast over all peoples,
^(M)the veil that is spread over all nations.
^8 (N)He will swallow up death forever;
and ^(O)the Lord God will wipe away tears from all faces,
and ^(P)the reproach of his people he will take away from all the earth,
^(Q)for the Lord has spoken.
⁹ It will be said on that day,
“Behold, this is our God; ^(R)we have waited for him, that he might save us.
This is the Lord; we have waited for him;
^(S)let us be glad and rejoice in his salvation.”
¹⁰ For the hand of the Lord will rest ^(T)on this mountain,
and ^(U)Moab shall be trampled down in his place,
as straw is trampled down in a dunghill.^[a]
11 (V)And he will spread out his hands in the midst of it
as a swimmer spreads his hands out to swim,
but the Lord ^(W)will lay low his pompous pride together with the skill^[b] of his hands.
¹² And the high fortifications of his walls he will bring down,
lay low, and cast to the ground, to the dust.

“We have a strong city;
he sets up ^(Y)salvation
as walls and bulwarks.
^2 (Z)Open the gates,
that the righteous nation that keeps faith may enter in.
^3 (AA)You keep him in perfect peace
whose mind is stayed on you,
because he trusts in you.
⁴ Trust in the Lord forever,
for the Lord God is an everlasting rock.
^5 (AB)For he has humbled
the inhabitants of the height,
the lofty city.
He lays it low, lays it low to the ground,
casts it to the dust.
⁶ The foot tramples it,
the feet of ^(AC)the poor,
the steps of ^(AD)the needy.”

⁷ The path of the righteous is level;
^(AE)you make level the way of the righteous.
⁸ In the path of your judgments,
O Lord, we wait for you;
^(AF)your name and ^(AG)remembrance
are the desire of our soul.
⁹ My soul yearns for you in the night;
my spirit within me earnestly seeks you.
^(AH)For when your judgments are in the earth,
the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.
^10 (AI)If favor is shown to the wicked,
he does not learn righteousness;
in the land of uprightness he deals corruptly
and does not see the majesty of the Lord.
¹¹ O Lord, ^(AJ)your hand is lifted up,
but ^(AK)they do not see it.
Let them see your zeal for your people, and be ashamed.
Let ^(AL)the fire for your adversaries consume them.
¹² O Lord, you will ordain ^(AM)peace for us,
for you have indeed done for us all our works.
¹³ O Lord our God,
^(AN)other lords besides you have ruled over us,
^(AO)but your name alone we bring to remembrance.
¹⁴ They are dead, they will not live;
they are shades, they will not arise;
to that end you have visited them with destruction
and wiped out all remembrance of them.
^15 (AP)But you have increased the nation, O Lord,
you have increased the nation; you are glorified;
^(AQ)you have enlarged all the borders of the land.

¹⁶ O Lord, ^(AR)in distress they sought you;
they poured out a whispered prayer
when your discipline was upon them.
^17 (AS)Like a pregnant woman
who writhes and cries out in her pangs
when she is near to giving birth,
so were we because of you, O Lord;
^18 (AT)we were pregnant, we writhed,
but we have given birth to wind.
We have accomplished no deliverance in the earth,
and the inhabitants of the world have not fallen.
^19 (AU)Your dead shall live; their bodies shall rise.
You who dwell in the dust, awake and sing for joy!
For ^(AV)your dew is a dew of light,
and the earth will give birth to the dead.

²⁰ Come, my people, enter your chambers,
and shut your doors behind you;
hide yourselves ^(AW)for a little while
until the fury has passed by.
^21 (AX)For behold, the Lord is coming out from his place
to punish the inhabitants of ^(AY)the earth for their iniquity,
and the earth will disclose the blood shed on it,
and will no more cover its slain.

² In that day,
^(BD)“A pleasant vineyard,^{[c] (BE)}sing of it!
³ I, the Lord, am its keeper;
every moment I water it.
Lest anyone punish it,
I keep it night and day;
⁴ I have no wrath.
^(BF)Would that I had thorns and briers to battle!
I would march against them,
I would burn them up together.
⁵ Or let them lay hold of my protection,
let them make peace with me,
let them make peace with me.”

^6 (BG)In days to come^[d] Jacob shall take root,
Israel shall blossom and put forth shoots
and fill the whole world with fruit.

^7 (BH)Has he struck them ^(BI)as he struck those who struck them?
Or have they been slain ^(BJ)as their slayers were slain?
^8 (BK)Measure by measure,^[e] by exile you contended with them;
^(BL)he removed them with his fierce breath^[f] in the day of the east wind.
⁹ Therefore by this ^(BM)the guilt of Jacob will be atoned for,
and this will be the full fruit of the removal of his sin:^[g]
(BN)when he makes all the stones of the altars
like chalkstones crushed to pieces,
no ^(BO)Asherim or incense altars will remain standing.
^10 (BP)For the fortified city is solitary,
a habitation deserted and forsaken, like the wilderness;
there the calf grazes;
there it lies down and strips its branches.
¹¹ When its boughs are dry, they are broken;
women come and make a fire of them.
^(BQ)For this is a people without discernment;
therefore he who made them will not have compassion on them;
he who formed them will show them no favor.

^5 (CB)In that day the Lord of hosts will be a crown of glory,^[j]
and a diadem of beauty, to the remnant of his people,
⁶ and ^(CC)a spirit of justice to him who sits in judgment,
and ^(CD)strength to those who turn back the battle at the gate.

^7 (CE)These also reel with wine
and ^(CF)stagger with strong drink;
the priest and ^(CG)the prophet reel with strong drink,
they are swallowed by^[k] wine,
they stagger with strong drink,
they reel in vision,
they stumble in giving judgment.
⁸ For all tables are full of filthy vomit,
with no space left.

^9 (CH)“To whom will he teach knowledge,
and to whom will he explain the message?
Those who are weaned from the milk,
those taken from the breast?
¹⁰ For it is precept upon precept, precept upon precept,
line upon line, line upon line,
here a little, there a little.”

^11 (CI)For by people of strange lips
and with a foreign tongue
the Lord will speak to this people,
¹² to whom he has said,
^(CJ)“This is rest;
give rest to the weary;
and this is repose”;
yet they would not hear.
¹³ And the word of the Lord will be to them
precept upon precept, precept upon precept,
line upon line, line upon line,
here a little, there a little,
^(CK)that they may go, and fall backward,
and be broken, and snared, and taken.

⁴ Let me ^(G)dwell in your tent forever!
Let me take refuge under ^(H)the shelter of your wings! Selah
⁵ For you, O God, have heard my vows;
you have given me the heritage of those who fear your name.

^6 (I)Prolong ^(J)the life of the king;
may his years endure to all generations!
⁷ May he be enthroned forever before God;
appoint ^(K)steadfast love and faithfulness to watch over him!

⁸ So will I ever sing praises to your name,
as I ^(L)perform my vows day after day.