Day 262 of 365

Isa 25:1–27:13

25:1 The Lord, you are my God. I will exalt you! I will praise your name, for you have done wonderful things, things planned long ago, in complete faithfulness and truth.

25:2 For you have made a city into a heap, a fortified city into a ruin, a palace of strangers to be no city. It will never be built.

25:3 Therefore a strong people will glorify you. A city of awesome nations will fear you.

25:4 For you have been a stronghold to the poor, a stronghold to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shade from the heat, when the blast of the dreaded ones is like a storm against the wall.

25:5 As the heat in a dry place will you bring down the noise of strangers; as the heat by the shade of a cloud, the song of the dreaded ones will be brought low.

25:6 In this mountain, the Lord of hosts will make all peoples a feast of fat things, a feast of choice wines, of fat things full of marrow, of well refined choice wines.

25:7 He will destroy in this mountain the surface of the covering that covers all peoples, and the veil that is spread over all nations.

25:8 He has swallowed up death forever! The Lord God will wipe away tears from off all faces. He will take the reproach of his people away from off all the earth, for the Lord has spoken it.

25:9 It shall be said in that day, "Behold, this is our God! We have waited for him, and he will save us! This is the Lord! We have waited for him. We will be glad and rejoice in his salvation!"

25:10 For in this mountain the hand of the Lord will rest. Moab will be trodden down in his place, even like straw is trodden down in the water of the dunghill.

25:11 He will spread out his hands in its midst, like one who swims spreads out hands to swim, but his pride will be humbled together with the craft of his hands.

25:12 He has brought the high fortress of your walls down, laid low, and brought to the ground, even to the dust.

26:1 In that day, this song will be sung in the land of Judah: "We have a strong city. He appoints salvation for walls and ramparts.

26:2 Open the gates, that the righteous nation may enter: the one which keeps faith.

26:3 You will keep whoever's mind is steadfast in perfect peace, because he trusts in you.

26:4 Trust in the Lord forever; for in Yah, the Lord, is an everlasting Rock.

26:5 For he has brought down those who dwell on high, the lofty city. He lays it low. He lays it low even to the ground. He brings it even to the dust.

26:6 The foot shall tread it down; Even the feet of the poor, and the steps of the needy."

26:7 The way of the just is uprightness. You who are upright make the path of the righteous level.

26:8 Yes, in the way of your judgments, the Lord, have we waited for you. Your name and your renown are the desire of our soul.

26:9 With my soul have I desired you in the night. Yes, with my spirit within me will I seek you earnestly; for when your judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.

26:10 Let favor be shown to the wicked, yet he will not learn righteousness. In the land of uprightness he will deal wrongfully, and will not see the Lord's majesty.

26:11 The Lord, your hand is lifted up, yet they do not see; but they will see your zeal for the people, and be disappointed. Yes, fire will consume your adversaries.

26:12 The Lord, you will ordain peace for us, for you have also worked all our works for us.

26:13 The Lord our God, other lords besides you have had dominion over us, but by you only will we make mention of your name.

26:14 The dead shall not live. The deceased shall not rise. Therefore have you visited and destroyed them, and caused all memory of them to perish.

26:15 You have increased the nation, O Lord. You have increased the nation! You are glorified! You have enlarged all the borders of the land.

26:16 Lord, in trouble they have visited you. They poured out a prayer when your chastening was on them.

26:17 Like as a woman with child, who draws near the time of her delivery, is in pain and cries out in her pangs; so we have been before you, Lord.

26:18 We have been with child. We have been in pain. We gave birth, it seems, only to wind. We have not worked any deliverance in the earth; neither have the inhabitants of the world fallen.

26:19 Your dead shall live. My dead bodies shall arise. Awake and sing, you who dwell in the dust; for your dew is like the dew of herbs, and the earth will cast forth the dead.

26:20 Come, my people, enter into your chambers, and shut your doors behind you. Hide yourself for a little moment, until the indignation is past.

26:21 For, behold, the Lord comes forth out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity. The earth also will disclose her blood, and will no longer cover her slain.

27:1 In that day, the Lord with his hard and great and strong sword will punish leviathan, the fleeing serpent, and leviathan the twisted serpent; and he will kill the dragon that is in the sea.

27:2 In that day, sing to her, "A pleasant vineyard!

27:3 I, the Lord, am its keeper. I will water it every moment. Lest anyone damage it, I will keep it night and day.

27:4 Wrath is not in me, but if I should find briers and thorns, I would do battle! I would march on them and I would burn them together.

27:5 Or else let him take hold of my strength, that he may make peace with me. Let him make peace with me."

27:6 In days to come, Jacob will take root. Israel will blossom and bud. They will fill the surface of the world with fruit.

27:7 Has he struck them as he struck those who struck them? Or are they killed like those who killed them were killed?

27:8 In measure, when you send them away, you contend with them. He has removed them with his rough blast in the day of the east wind.

27:9 Therefore, by this the iniquity of Jacob will be forgiven, and this is all the fruit of taking away his sin: that he makes all the stones of the altar as chalk stones that are beaten in pieces, so that the Asherim and the incense altars shall rise no more.

27:10 For the fortified city is solitary, a habitation deserted and forsaken, like the wilderness. The calf will feed there, and there he will lie down, and consume its branches.

27:11 When its boughs are withered, they will be broken off. The women will come and set them on fire, for they are a people of no understanding. Therefore he who made them will not have compassion on them, and he who formed them will show them no favor.

27:12 It will happen in that day, that the Lord will thresh from the flowing stream of the Euphrates to the brook of Egypt; and you will be gathered one by one, children of Israel.

27:13 It will happen in that day that a great trumpet will be blown; and those who were ready to perish in the land of Assyria, and those who were outcasts in the land of Egypt, shall come; and they will worship the Lord in the holy mountain at Jerusalem.

1 Cor 6:1–20

1 Dare any of you, having a matter against his neighbor, go to law before the unrighteous, and not before the saints?

2 Do you not know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world is judged by you, are you unworthy to judge the smallest matters?

3 Do you not know that we will judge angels? How much more, things that pertain to this life?

4 If then, you have to judge things pertaining to this life, do you set them to judge who are of no account in the church?

5 I say this to move you to shame. Is not there even one wise man among you who would be able to decide between his brothers?

6 But brother goes to law with brother, and that before unbelievers!

7 Therefore it is already altogether a defect in you, that you have lawsuits one with another. Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be defrauded?

8 No, but you yourselves do wrong, and defraud, and that against your brothers.

9 Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the Kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor men who practice sexual relations with men,

10 nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor slanderers, nor extortioners, will inherit the Kingdom of God.

11 Such were some of you, but you were washed. But you were sanctified. But you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and in the Spirit of our God.

12 "All things are lawful for me," but not all things are expedient. "All things are lawful for me," but I will not be brought under the power of anything.

13 "Foods for the belly, and the belly for foods," but God will bring to nothing both it and them. But the body is not for sexual immorality, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.

14 Now God raised up the Lord, and will also raise us up by his power.

15 Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them members of a prostitute? May it never be!

16 Or do you not know that he who is joined to a prostitute is one body? For, "The two," says he, "will become one flesh."

17 But he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit.

18 Flee sexual immorality! "Every sin that a man does is outside the body," but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.

19 Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which you have from God? You are not your own,

20 for you were bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body.

Job 14:15–22

15 You would call, and I would answer you. You would have a desire to the work of your hands.

16 But now you number my steps. Do you not watch over my sin?

17 My disobedience is sealed up in a bag. You fasten up my iniquity.

18 "But the mountain falling comes to nothing. The rock is removed out of its place;

19 The waters wear the stones. The torrents of it wash away the dust of the earth. So you destroy the hope of man.

20 You forever prevail against him, and he departs. You change his face, and send him away.

21 His sons come to honor, and he doesn't know it. They are brought low, but he doesn't perceive it of them.

22 But his flesh on him has pain, and his soul within him mourns."