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The Daily Audio Bible Reading for Tuesday September 29, 2020 (NIV)

Isaiah 57:15-59:21

15 For thus says the high and lofty one who resides forever, and whose name is holy:

“I reside in a high and holy place,
and with the contrite[a] and humble of spirit,
to revive the spirit of the humble,
and to revive the heart of the contrite.[b]
16 For I will not attack forever,
and I will not be angry forever,
for the spirit will grow faint before me,
and the breaths that I myself I have made.
17 I was angry because of his sin of gain, and I struck him;
I hid and I was angry, but[c] he walked apostate, in the ways[d] of his heart.
18 I have seen his ways, but[e] I will heal him;
and I will lead him and give him and his mourners comfort as a recompense,
19 creating fruit of lips.
Peace, peace to the far and near,” says Yahweh, “and I will heal him.
20 But[f] the wicked are like the churning sea,
that is not able to keep quiet,
and its waters toss up mire and mud.
21 There is no peace,” says my God, “for the wicked.”

True Fasts and Sabbaths

58 “Call with the throat; you must not keep back!
lift up your voice like a trumpet,
and declare[g] to my people their rebellion,
and to the house of Jacob their sins.
2 Yet[h] they seek me day by day,
and they desire the knowledge of my ways
like a nation that practiced[i] righteousness,
and had not forsaken the judgment of its God;
they ask me for righteous judgments,[j]
they desire the closeness of God.
3 ‘Why do we fast, and you do not see it?
We humiliate our soul, and you do not notice it?’
Look! You find delight on the day of your fast,
and you oppress all your workers!
4 Look! You fast to quarrel and strife,
and to strike with a wicked fist.[k]
You shall not fast as you do today,[l]
to make your voice heard[m] on the height.
5 Is the fast I choose like this,
a day for humankind to humiliate himself[n]?
To bow his head like a reed,
and make[o] his bed on sackcloth and ashes;
you call this a fast
and a day of pleasure to Yahweh?
6 Is this not the fast I choose: to release the bonds of injustice,
to untie the ropes of the yoke,
and to let the oppressed go free,
and tear[p] every yoke to pieces?
7 Is it not to break your bread for the hungry?
You must bring home[q] the poor, the homeless.
When you see the naked, you must cover him,
and you must not hide yourself from your relatives.[r]
8 Then your light shall break forth like the dawn,
and your healing shall grow quickly.
And your salvation shall go before you;
the glory of Yahweh will be your rear guard.
9 Then you shall call, and Yahweh himself will answer.
You shall cry for help, and he will say, ‘Here I am!’
If you remove from among you the yoke,
the finger-pointing[s] and evil speech,[t]
10 if[u] you offer your soul to the hungry,
and you satisfy the appetite of the afflicted,
then[v] your light shall rise in the darkness,
and your darkness will be like noon.
11 And Yahweh will lead you continually, and satisfy your soul in a barren land,
and he will strengthen your bones,
and you shall be like a well-watered garden,
and like a spring of water whose water does not fail.
12 And they shall rebuild ancient ruins from you;
you shall erect the foundations of many generations,[w]
and you shall be called[x] the bricklayer of the breach,
the restorer of paths to live in.
13 If you hold your foot back from the Sabbath,
from doing your affairs on my holy day,[y]
if[z] you call the Sabbath a pleasure,
the holy day of Yahweh honorable,
if[aa] you honor him more than[ab] doing your ways,
than finding your affairs[ac] and speaking a word,
14 then you shall take your pleasure in[ad] Yahweh,
and I will make you ride upon the heights of the earth,
and I will feed you the heritage of Jacob your ancestor,[ae]

for the mouth of Yahweh has spoken.”

Rampant Transgression

59 Look! The hand of Yahweh is not too short to save,[af]
and his ear is not too dull to hear.[ag]
2 Rather, your iniquities have been barriers[ah] between you and your God,
and your sins have hidden his face from you, from hearing.
3 For your hands are defiled with blood,
and your fingers with iniquity.
Your lips have spoken lies,
your tongue speaks wickedness.
4 There is nobody who pleads with[ai] justice,
and there is nobody who judges with honesty.
They rely on nothing
and speak vanity.
They conceive trouble
and beget iniquity;
5 they hatch viper eggs,
and they weave a spider web.
One who eats their eggs dies,
and that which is pressed is hatched as a serpent.
6 Their webs cannot become clothing,
and they cannot cover themselves with their works.
Their works are works of iniquity,
and deeds[aj] of violence are in their hands.
7 Their feet run to evil,
and they hasten to shed innocent blood.
Their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity;
devastation and destruction are in their highways.
8 They do not know the way of peace,
and there is no justice in their firm paths.
They have made their paths crooked for themselves;
everyone who walks[ak] in it knows no peace.
9 Therefore justice is far from us,
and righteousness does not reach us.
We wait for light, but[al] look! there is darkness;
for brightness, but we walk in darkness.
10 We grope like the blind along a wall,
and we grope as without[am] eyes.
We stumble at noon as in the twilight;
among the strong we are like the dead.
11 We all groan like bears,
and we coo mutteringly like doves.
We wait for justice, but[an] there is none;
for salvation, but it is far from us.
12 For our transgressions are numerous before you,
and our sins testify[ao] against us.
Indeed, our transgressions are with us,
and we know our iniquities:
13 transgressing and denying Yahweh,
and turning away from following[ap] our God;
speaking oppression and falsehood,
conceiving and uttering words of deception from the heart.
14 And justice is pushed back,
and righteousness stands afar;
for truth stumbles in the public square,
and straightforwardness is unable to enter,
15 and truth is missing,
and he who turns aside from evil is plundered.
And Yahweh saw,
and it was displeasing in his eyes that there was no justice
16 And he saw that there was no man,
and he was appalled that there was no one who intercedes,
so[aq] his arm came to assist him,
and his righteousness was what[ar] sustained him.
17 And he put on righteousness like a breastplate,
and a helmet of salvation on his head,
and he put on garments of vengeance for clothing,
and he wrapped himself in zeal as in a robe.
18 According to deeds, so he will repay;
wrath to his enemies, requital to those who are his enemies.[as]
He will repay requital to the coastlands.
19 So[at] they shall fear the name of Yahweh from the west,
and his glory from the sunrise,
for he will come like a narrow stream;
the wind of Yahweh drives it on.
20 “And a redeemer will come to Zion,
to those in Jacob who turn away from transgression,”

declares[au] Yahweh.

21 “And as for me, this is my covenant with them, says Yahweh:

my spirit that is upon you,
and my words that I have placed in your mouth
shall not depart from your mouth,
or[av] from the mouths[aw] of your children,[ax]
or[ay] from the mouths[az] of your children’s children,”[ba]
says Yahweh, “from now on and forever.”

Footnotes:

  1. Isaiah 57:15 Literally “crushed”
  2. Isaiah 57:15 Literally “crushed”
  3. Isaiah 57:17 Or “and”
  4. Isaiah 57:17 Hebrew “way”
  5. Isaiah 57:18 Or “and”
  6. Isaiah 57:20 Or “And”
  7. Isaiah 58:1 Or “announce”
  8. Isaiah 58:2 Or “And”
  9. Isaiah 58:2 Literally “did”
  10. Isaiah 58:2 Literally “judgments of righteousness”
  11. Isaiah 58:4 Literally “fist of wickedness”
  12. Isaiah 58:4 Literally “the day”
  13. Isaiah 58:4 Literally “cause to hear your voice”
  14. Isaiah 58:5 Literally “his soul”
  15. Isaiah 58:5 Literally “he makes”
  16. Isaiah 58:6 Literally “you must tear”
  17. Isaiah 58:7 Literally “a house”
  18. Isaiah 58:7 Literally “flesh”
  19. Isaiah 58:9 Literally “stretching out of the finger”
  20. Isaiah 58:9 Literally “the speaking of evil”
  21. Isaiah 58:10 Or “and”
  22. Isaiah 58:10 Or “and”
  23. Isaiah 58:12 Literally “generation and generation”
  24. Isaiah 58:12 Literally “shall be called to you”
  25. Isaiah 58:13 Literally “the day of my holiness”
  26. Isaiah 58:13 Or “and”
  27. Isaiah 58:13 Literally “and”
  28. Isaiah 58:13 Literally “from”
  29. Isaiah 58:13 Hebrew “affair”
  30. Isaiah 58:14 Or “on”
  31. Isaiah 58:14 Or “father”
  32. Isaiah 59:1 Literally “from saving”
  33. Isaiah 59:1 Literally “from hearing”
  34. Isaiah 59:2 Literally “dividers”
  35. Isaiah 59:4 Literally “calling in”
  36. Isaiah 59:6 Hebrew “deed”
  37. Isaiah 59:8 Literally “walking”
  38. Isaiah 59:9 Or “and”
  39. Isaiah 59:10 Literally “like there are no”
  40. Isaiah 59:11 Or “and”
  41. Isaiah 59:12 Or “answers”
  42. Isaiah 59:13 Literally “back from behind”
  43. Isaiah 59:16 Or “and”
  44. Isaiah 59:16 Literally “it”
  45. Isaiah 59:18 Literally “hostile”
  46. Isaiah 59:19 Or “And”
  47. Isaiah 59:20 Literally “declaration of”
  48. Isaiah 59:21 Or “and”
  49. Isaiah 59:21 Hebrew “mouth”
  50. Isaiah 59:21 Literally “offspring”
  51. Isaiah 59:21 Or “and”
  52. Isaiah 59:21 Hebrew “mouth”
  53. Isaiah 59:21 Literally “the offspring of your offspring”
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Philippians 1:1-26

Greeting

1 Paul and Timothy, slaves of Christ Jesus, to all the saints in Christ Jesus who are in Philippi, together with the overseers and deacons. 2 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

Thanksgiving

3 I give thanks to my God upon my every remembrance of you,[a] 4 always in my every prayer for all of you, making the prayer with joy, 5 because of your participation in the gospel from the first day until now, 6 convinced of this same thing, that the one who began a good work in you will finish it[b] until the day of Christ Jesus, 7 just as it is right for me to think this about all of you, because I have you in my heart, since[c] both in my imprisonment and in the defense and confirmation of the gospel all of you are sharers of grace with me. 8 For God is my witness, that I long for all of you with the affection of Christ Jesus.

Prayer for Spiritual Maturity

9 And this I pray: that your love may abound still more and more in knowledge and all discernment, 10 so that you may approve what is superior, in order that you may be sincere and blameless in[d] the day of Christ, 11 having been filled with the fruit of righteousness which comes through Jesus Christ to the glory and praise of God.

The Progress of the Gospel

12 Now I want you to know, brothers, that my circumstances[e] have happened instead for the progress of the gospel, 13 so that my imprisonment in Christ has become known in the whole praetorium[f] and to all the rest, 14 and most of the brothers, trusting in the Lord because of my imprisonment, dare even more to speak the word without fear. 15 Some even because of envy and strife preach Christ, but some also because of good will. 16 The latter do so from love, knowing that I am appointed for the defense of the gospel. 17 The former proclaim Christ from selfish ambition, not sincerely, thinking to raise up affliction in my imprisonment. 18 What is the result?[g] Only that in every way, whether in pretense or in truth, Christ is proclaimed, and in this I rejoice. But also I will rejoice, 19 for I know that this will turn out to me for deliverance through your prayer and the support of the Spirit of Jesus Christ, 20 according to my eager expectation and hope, that I will be put to shame in nothing, but with all boldness, even now as always Christ will be exalted in my body, whether through life or through death. 21 For to me to live is Christ and to die is gain. 22 But if it is to live in the flesh, this is fruitful work for me, and which I will prefer I do not know. 23 But I am hard pressed between the two options[h], having the desire to depart and to be with Christ, for this is very much better[i]. 24 But to stay on in the flesh is more necessary for your sake. 25 And because I am[j] convinced of this, I know that I will remain and continue with all of you for your progress and joy in the faith, 26 so that what you can be proud of may increase in Christ Jesus because of me through my return again to you.

Footnotes:

  1. Philippians 1:3 Or “upon your every remembrance of me”
  2. Philippians 1:6 Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
  3. Philippians 1:7 Here “since” is supplied as a component of the participle (“are”) which is understood as causal
  4. Philippians 1:10 Or “for,” or “until”
  5. Philippians 1:12 Literally “the things with me”
  6. Philippians 1:13 Or “praetorian guard,” or “imperial guard”
  7. Philippians 1:18 Literally “for what”
  8. Philippians 1:23 Literally “by the two”
  9. Philippians 1:23 Literally “for this is more better by much”
  10. Philippians 1:25 Here “because” is supplied as a component of the participle (“convinced”) which is understood as causal
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Psalm 71

A Prayer to God the Rock of Refuge

71 In you, O Yahweh, I have taken refuge;
let me never be put to shame.
2 In your righteousness deliver me and rescue me;
incline your ear to me and save me.
3 Be for me a rock of refuge to resort to always;
you have ordained[a] to save me,
because you are my rock and my fortress.
4 My God, rescue me from the hand of the wicked,
from the grasp[b] of the evildoer and the oppressor,
5 because you are my hope,
O Lord Yahweh, my confidence from my youth.
6 Upon you I have leaned from birth.[c]
It was you who took[d] me from the womb of my mother.
My praise is of you continually.
7 I have become a wonder to many,
but you are my strong refuge.
8 My mouth is filled with your praise,
with your glory all the day.
9 Do not cast me away in the time of old age;
when my strength fails do not abandon me.
10 For my enemies talk concerning me,
and those who watch for my life conspire together,
11 saying, “His God has abandoned him.
Pursue and seize him, because there is no deliverer.”
12 O God, do not be far from me.
My God, hurry to help me.
13 Let them be ashamed; let them perish
who are my adversaries.[e]
Let them wrap themselves with scorn and disgrace
who seek my harm.
14 But as for me, I will hope continually
and increase your praise.
15 My mouth will tell of your righteousness,
your salvation all day long,[f]
though I do not know the full sum of them.
16 I will come in to tell the mighty deeds of Lord Yahweh.
I will make known[g] your righteousness, yours only.
17 O God, you have taught me from my youth,
and up to now I have proclaimed your wonderful deeds.
18 And even when I am old and gray,
O God, do not abandon me
until I proclaim your strength[h] to this generation,
your power to every one that comes after.
19 And your righteousness, O God, is to the height of heaven.
You who have done great things,
O God, who is like you?
20 You who have caused me[i] to see many troubles and evils,
you will again revive me.[j]
And from the depths of the earth
you will again bring me up.
21 You will increase my greatness,
and you will comfort me all around.[k]
22 On my part, I will praise you with a stringed instrument,
and your faithfulness, O my God.
I will sing praises to you with a lyre,
O Holy One of Israel.
23 My lips will sing for joy when I sing praises to you,
and my soul, which you have redeemed.
24 My tongue also
will speak of your righteousness all the day,
because they have been put to shame, because they have been humiliated
who seek my harm.

Footnotes:

  1. Psalm 71:3 Or “commanded”
  2. Psalm 71:4 Literally “palm”
  3. Psalm 71:6 Literally “from the belly”
  4. Psalm 71:6 Literally “cut,” that is, the umbilical cord
  5. Psalm 71:13 Literally “adversaries of my soul”
  6. Psalm 71:15 Literally “all the day”
  7. Psalm 71:16 Literally “bring to remembrance”
  8. Psalm 71:18 Literally “arm”
  9. Psalm 71:20 According to the reading tradition (Qere)
  10. Psalm 71:20 According to the reading tradition (Qere)
  11. Psalm 71:21 A slightly different vocalization yields, “… comfort me again”; compare the LXX.
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Proverbs 24:9-10

9 Devising folly is a sin,
and an abomination to humankind is a scoffer.
10 If you faint on the day of adversity,
little is your strength.

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