Day 329 of 365

Ezek 39:1–29

1 "You, son of man, prophesy against Gog, and say, 'Thus says the Lord God: "Behold, I am against you, Gog, prince of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal:

2 and I will turn you around, and will lead you on, and will cause you to come up from the uttermost parts of the north; and I will bring you on the mountains of Israel;

3 and I will strike your bow out of your left hand, and will cause your arrows to fall out of your right hand.

4 You shall fall on the mountains of Israel, you, and all your hordes, and the peoples who are with you: I will give you to the ravenous birds of every sort, and to the animals of the field to be devoured.

5 You shall fall on the open field; for I have spoken it," says the Lord God.

6 I will send a fire on Magog, and on those who dwell securely in the islands; and they shall know that I am the Lord.

7 "'My holy name will I make known in the midst of my people Israel; neither will I allow my holy name to be profaned any more: and the nations shall know that I am the Lord, the Holy One in Israel.

8 Behold, it comes, and it shall be done, says the Lord God; this is the day about which I have spoken.

9 "'Those who dwell in the cities of Israel shall go forth, and shall make fires of the weapons and burn them, both the shields and the bucklers, the bows and the arrows, and the war clubs, and the spears, and they shall make fires of them seven years;

10 so that they shall take no wood out of the field, neither cut down any out of the forests; for they shall make fires of the weapons; and they shall plunder those who plundered them, and rob those who robbed them, says the Lord God.

11 "'It shall happen in that day, that I will give to Gog a place for burial in Israel, the valley of those who pass through on the east of the sea; and it shall stop those who pass through: and there shall they bury Gog and all his multitude; and they shall call it The valley of Hamon Gog.

12 Seven months shall the house of Israel be burying them, that they may cleanse the land.

13 Yes, all the people of the land shall bury them; and it shall be to them a renown in the day that I shall be glorified, says the Lord God.

14 They shall set apart men of continual employment, who shall pass through the land, and, with those who pass through, those who bury those who remain on the surface of the land, to cleanse it: after the end of seven months shall they search.

15 Those who pass through the land shall pass through; and when any sees a man's bone, then shall he set up a sign by it, until the undertakers have buried it in the valley of Hamon Gog.

16 Hamonah shall also be the name of a city. Thus shall they cleanse the land.'

17 "You, son of man, thus says the Lord God: Speak to the birds of every sort, and to every animal of the field, 'Assemble yourselves, and come; gather yourselves on every side to my sacrifice that I do sacrifice for you, even a great sacrifice on the mountains of Israel, that you may eat flesh and drink blood.

18 You shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the princes of the earth, of rams, of lambs, and of goats, of bulls, all of them fatlings of Bashan.

19 You shall eat fat until you be full, and drink blood until you are drunk, of my sacrifice which I have sacrificed for you.

20 You shall be filled at my table with horses and chariots, with mighty men, and with all men of war,' says the Lord God.

21 "'I will set my glory among the nations; and all the nations shall see my judgment that I have executed, and my hand that I have laid on them.

22 So the house of Israel shall know that I am the Lord their God, from that day and forward.

23 The nations shall know that the house of Israel went into captivity for their iniquity; because they trespassed against me, and I hid my face from them: so I gave them into the hand of their adversaries, and they fell all of them by the sword.

24 According to their uncleanness and according to their transgressions did I to them; and I hid my face from them.'

25 "Therefore thus says the Lord God: 'Now will I bring back the captivity of Jacob, and have mercy on the whole house of Israel; and I will be jealous for my holy name.

26 They shall bear their shame, and all their trespasses by which they have trespassed against me, when they shall dwell securely in their land, and none shall make them afraid;

27 when I have brought them back from the peoples, and gathered them out of their enemies' lands, and am sanctified in them in the sight of many nations.

28 They shall know that I am the Lord their God, in that I caused them to go into captivity among the nations, and have gathered them to their own land; and I will leave none of them any more there;

29 neither will I hide my face any more from them; for I have poured out my Spirit on the house of Israel,' says the Lord God."

Heb 2:1–3:19

2:1 Therefore we ought to pay greater attention to the things that were heard, so that we will not drift away.

2:2 For if the word spoken through angels proved steadfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompense;

2:3 how will we escape if we neglect so great a salvation-which at the first having been spoken through the Lord, was confirmed to us by those who heard;

2:4 God also testifying with them, both by signs and wonders, by various works of power, and by gifts of the Holy Spirit, according to his own will?

2:5 For he did not subject the world to come, of which we speak, to angels.

2:6 But one has somewhere testified, saying, "What is man, that you think of him? Or the son of man, that you care for him?

2:7 You made him a little lower than the angels. You crowned him with glory and honor.

2:8 [You have put all things in subjection under his feet.]" For in that he subjected all things to him, he left nothing that is not subject to him. But now we do not see all things subjected to him, yet.

2:9 But we see him who has been made a little lower than the angels, Jesus, because of the suffering of death crowned with glory and honor, that by the grace of God he should taste of death for everyone.

2:10 For it became him, for whom are all things, and through whom are all things, in bringing many children to glory, to make the author of their salvation perfect through sufferings.

2:11 For both he who sanctifies and those who are sanctified are all from one, for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brothers,

2:12 saying, "I will declare your name to my brothers. In the midst of the congregation I will sing your praise."

2:13 Again, "I will put my trust in him." Again, "Behold, here I am with the children whom God has given me."

2:14 Since then the children have shared in flesh and blood, he also himself in like manner partook of the same, that through death he might bring to nothing him who had the power of death, that is, the devil,

2:15 and might deliver all of them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.

2:16 For, truly, he did not come to help the angels, but to help the seed of Abraham.

2:17 Therefore he was obligated in all things to be made like his brothers, that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make atonement for the sins of the people.

2:18 For in that he himself has suffered being tempted, he is able to help those who are tempted.

3:1 Therefore, holy brothers, partakers of a heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession, Jesus;

3:2 who was faithful to him who appointed him, as also was Moses in all his house.

3:3 For he has been counted worthy of more glory than Moses, inasmuch as he who built the house has more honor than the house.

3:4 For every house is built by someone; but he who built all things is God.

3:5 Moses indeed was faithful in all his house as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were afterward to be spoken,

3:6 but Christ is faithful as a Son over his house; whose house we are, if we hold fast our confidence and the glorying of our hope firm to the end.

3:7 Therefore, even as the Holy Spirit says, "Today if you will hear his voice,

3:8 do not harden your hearts, as in the provocation, like as in the day of the trial in the wilderness,

3:9 where your fathers tested me and challenged me, and saw my works for forty years.

3:10 Therefore I was displeased with this generation, and said, 'They always err in their heart, but they did not know my ways;'

3:11 as I swore in my wrath, 'They will not enter into my rest.'"

3:12 Beware, brothers, lest perhaps there be in any one of you an evil heart of unbelief, in falling away from the living God;

3:13 but exhort one another day by day, so long as it is called "today;" lest any one of you be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.

3:14 For we have become partakers of Christ, if we hold fast the beginning of our confidence firm to the end:

3:15 while it is said, "Today if you will hear his voice, do not harden your hearts, as in the rebellion."

3:16 For who, when they heard, rebelled? No, did not all those who came out of Egypt by Moses?

3:17 With whom was he displeased forty years? Was not it with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?

3:18 To whom did he swear that they would not enter into his rest, but to those who were disobedient?

3:19 We see that they were not able to enter in because of unbelief.

Job 34:1–13

1 Moreover Elihu answered,

2 "Hear my words, you wise men. Give ear to me, you who have knowledge.

3 For the ear tries words, as the palate tastes food.

4 Let us choose for us that which is right. Let us know among ourselves what is good.

5 For Job has said, 'I am righteous, God has taken away my right:

6 Notwithstanding my right I am considered a liar. My wound is incurable, though I am without disobedience.'

7 What man is like Job, who drinks scorn like water,

8 Who goes in company with the workers of iniquity, and walks with wicked men?

9 For he has said, 'It profits a man nothing that he should delight himself with God.'

10 "Therefore listen to me, you men of understanding: far be it from God, that he should do wickedness, from the Almighty, that he should commit iniquity.

11 For the work of a man he will render to him, and cause every man to find according to his ways.

12 Yes surely, God will not do wickedly, neither will the Almighty pervert justice.

13 Who put him in charge of the earth? or who has appointed him over the whole world?