The Daily Audio Bible Reading for Tuesday September 10, 2024 (NIV)

Isaiah 6-7

Isaiah’s Commission

In the year that King Uzziah(A) died,(B) I saw the Lord,(C) high and exalted,(D) seated on a throne;(E) and the train of his robe(F) filled the temple. Above him were seraphim,(G) each with six wings: With two wings they covered their faces, with two they covered their feet,(H) and with two they were flying. And they were calling to one another:

“Holy, holy(I), holy is the Lord Almighty;(J)
the whole earth(K) is full of his glory.”(L)

At the sound of their voices the doorposts and thresholds shook and the temple was filled with smoke.(M)

“Woe(N) to me!” I cried. “I am ruined!(O) For I am a man of unclean lips,(P) and I live among a people of unclean lips,(Q) and my eyes have seen(R) the King,(S) the Lord Almighty.”(T)

Then one of the seraphim flew to me with a live coal(U) in his hand, which he had taken with tongs from the altar. With it he touched my mouth and said, “See, this has touched your lips;(V) your guilt is taken away and your sin atoned for.(W)

Then I heard the voice(X) of the Lord saying, “Whom shall I send?(Y) And who will go for us?(Z)

And I said, “Here am I.(AA) Send me!”

He said, “Go(AB) and tell this people:

“‘Be ever hearing, but never understanding;
be ever seeing, but never perceiving.’(AC)
10 Make the heart of this people calloused;(AD)
make their ears dull
and close their eyes.[a](AE)
Otherwise they might see with their eyes,
hear with their ears,(AF)
understand with their hearts,
and turn and be healed.”(AG)

11 Then I said, “For how long, Lord?”(AH)

And he answered:

“Until the cities lie ruined(AI)
and without inhabitant,
until the houses are left deserted(AJ)
and the fields ruined and ravaged,(AK)
12 until the Lord has sent everyone far away(AL)
and the land is utterly forsaken.(AM)
13 And though a tenth remains(AN) in the land,
it will again be laid waste.(AO)
But as the terebinth and oak
leave stumps(AP) when they are cut down,
so the holy(AQ) seed will be the stump in the land.”(AR)

The Sign of Immanuel

When Ahaz(AS) son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, was king of Judah, King Rezin(AT) of Aram(AU) and Pekah(AV) son of Remaliah(AW) king of Israel marched up to fight against Jerusalem, but they could not overpower it.

Now the house of David(AX) was told, “Aram has allied itself with[b] Ephraim(AY)”; so the hearts of Ahaz and his people were shaken,(AZ) as the trees of the forest are shaken by the wind.

Then the Lord said to Isaiah, “Go out, you and your son Shear-Jashub,[c](BA) to meet Ahaz at the end of the aqueduct of the Upper Pool, on the road to the Launderer’s Field.(BB) Say to him, ‘Be careful, keep calm(BC) and don’t be afraid.(BD) Do not lose heart(BE) because of these two smoldering stubs(BF) of firewood—because of the fierce anger(BG) of Rezin and Aram and of the son of Remaliah.(BH) Aram, Ephraim and Remaliah’s(BI) son have plotted(BJ) your ruin, saying, “Let us invade Judah; let us tear it apart and divide it among ourselves, and make the son of Tabeel king over it.” Yet this is what the Sovereign Lord says:(BK)

“‘It will not take place,
it will not happen,(BL)
for the head of Aram is Damascus,(BM)
and the head of Damascus is only Rezin.(BN)
Within sixty-five years
Ephraim will be too shattered(BO) to be a people.
The head of Ephraim is Samaria,(BP)
and the head of Samaria is only Remaliah’s son.
If you do not stand(BQ) firm in your faith,(BR)
you will not stand at all.’”(BS)

10 Again the Lord spoke to Ahaz, 11 “Ask the Lord your God for a sign,(BT) whether in the deepest depths or in the highest heights.(BU)

12 But Ahaz said, “I will not ask; I will not put the Lord to the test.(BV)

13 Then Isaiah said, “Hear now, you house of David!(BW) Is it not enough(BX) to try the patience of humans? Will you try the patience(BY) of my God(BZ) also? 14 Therefore the Lord himself will give you[d] a sign:(CA) The virgin[e](CB) will conceive and give birth to a son,(CC) and[f] will call him Immanuel.[g](CD) 15 He will be eating curds(CE) and honey(CF) when he knows enough to reject the wrong and choose the right, 16 for before the boy knows(CG) enough to reject the wrong and choose the right,(CH) the land of the two kings you dread will be laid waste.(CI) 17 The Lord will bring on you and on your people and on the house of your father a time unlike any since Ephraim broke away(CJ) from Judah—he will bring the king of Assyria.(CK)

Assyria, the Lord’s Instrument

18 In that day(CL) the Lord will whistle(CM) for flies from the Nile delta in Egypt and for bees from the land of Assyria.(CN) 19 They will all come and settle in the steep ravines and in the crevices(CO) in the rocks, on all the thornbushes(CP) and at all the water holes. 20 In that day(CQ) the Lord will use(CR) a razor hired from beyond the Euphrates River(CS)—the king of Assyria(CT)—to shave your head and private parts, and to cut off your beard(CU) also.(CV) 21 In that day,(CW) a person will keep alive a young cow and two goats.(CX) 22 And because of the abundance of the milk they give, there will be curds to eat. All who remain in the land will eat curds(CY) and honey.(CZ) 23 In that day,(DA) in every place where there were a thousand vines worth a thousand silver shekels,[h](DB) there will be only briers and thorns.(DC) 24 Hunters will go there with bow and arrow, for the land will be covered with briers(DD) and thorns. 25 As for all the hills(DE) once cultivated by the hoe, you will no longer go there for fear of the briers and thorns;(DF) they will become places where cattle are turned loose and where sheep run.(DG)

Footnotes:

  1. Isaiah 6:10 Hebrew; Septuagint ‘You will be ever hearing, but never understanding; / you will be ever seeing, but never perceiving.’ / 10 This people’s heart has become calloused; / they hardly hear with their ears, / and they have closed their eyes
  2. Isaiah 7:2 Or has set up camp in
  3. Isaiah 7:3 Shear-Jashub means a remnant will return.
  4. Isaiah 7:14 The Hebrew is plural.
  5. Isaiah 7:14 Or young woman
  6. Isaiah 7:14 Masoretic Text; Dead Sea Scrolls son, and he or son, and they
  7. Isaiah 7:14 Immanuel means God with us.
  8. Isaiah 7:23 That is, about 25 pounds or about 12 kilograms

Cross references:

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

Paul Boasts About His Sufferings

16 I repeat: Let no one take me for a fool.(A) But if you do, then tolerate me just as you would a fool, so that I may do a little boasting. 17 In this self-confident boasting I am not talking as the Lord would,(B) but as a fool.(C) 18 Since many are boasting in the way the world does,(D) I too will boast.(E) 19 You gladly put up with(F) fools since you are so wise!(G) 20 In fact, you even put up with(H) anyone who enslaves you(I) or exploits you or takes advantage of you or puts on airs or slaps you in the face. 21 To my shame I admit that we were too weak(J) for that!

Whatever anyone else dares to boast about—I am speaking as a fool—I also dare to boast about.(K) 22 Are they Hebrews? So am I.(L) Are they Israelites? So am I.(M) Are they Abraham’s descendants? So am I.(N) 23 Are they servants of Christ?(O) (I am out of my mind to talk like this.) I am more. I have worked much harder,(P) been in prison more frequently,(Q) been flogged more severely,(R) and been exposed to death again and again.(S) 24 Five times I received from the Jews the forty lashes(T) minus one. 25 Three times I was beaten with rods,(U) once I was pelted with stones,(V) three times I was shipwrecked,(W) I spent a night and a day in the open sea, 26 I have been constantly on the move. I have been in danger from rivers, in danger from bandits, in danger from my fellow Jews,(X) in danger from Gentiles; in danger in the city,(Y) in danger in the country, in danger at sea; and in danger from false believers.(Z) 27 I have labored and toiled(AA) and have often gone without sleep; I have known hunger and thirst and have often gone without food;(AB) I have been cold and naked. 28 Besides everything else, I face daily the pressure of my concern for all the churches.(AC) 29 Who is weak, and I do not feel weak?(AD) Who is led into sin,(AE) and I do not inwardly burn?

30 If I must boast, I will boast(AF) of the things that show my weakness.(AG) 31 The God and Father of the Lord Jesus, who is to be praised forever,(AH) knows(AI) that I am not lying. 32 In Damascus the governor under King Aretas had the city of the Damascenes guarded in order to arrest me.(AJ) 33 But I was lowered in a basket from a window in the wall and slipped through his hands.(AK)

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Psalm 54

Psalm 54[a]

For the director of music. With stringed instruments. A maskil[b] of David. When the Ziphites(A) had gone to Saul and said, “Is not David hiding among us?”

Save me(B), O God, by your name;(C)
vindicate me by your might.(D)
Hear my prayer, O God;(E)
listen to the words of my mouth.

Arrogant foes are attacking me;(F)
ruthless people(G) are trying to kill me(H)
people without regard for God.[c](I)

Surely God is my help;(J)
the Lord is the one who sustains me.(K)

Let evil recoil(L) on those who slander me;
in your faithfulness(M) destroy them.

I will sacrifice a freewill offering(N) to you;
I will praise(O) your name, Lord, for it is good.(P)
You have delivered me(Q) from all my troubles,
and my eyes have looked in triumph on my foes.(R)

Footnotes:

  1. Psalm 54:1 In Hebrew texts 54:1-7 is numbered 54:3-9.
  2. Psalm 54:1 Title: Probably a literary or musical term
  3. Psalm 54:3 The Hebrew has Selah (a word of uncertain meaning) here.
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Proverbs 23:1-3

Saying 7

23 When you sit to dine with a ruler,
note well what[a] is before you,
and put a knife to your throat
if you are given to gluttony.
Do not crave his delicacies,(A)
for that food is deceptive.

Footnotes:

  1. Proverbs 23:1 Or who

Cross references:

  1. Proverbs 23:3 : ver 6-8; Ps 141:4
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