October 1  

Daily Bible in a Year

Daily Old and New Testaments, Psalms, and Proverbs

  •   Isaiah 62:6-65:25
    Isaiah 62:6-65:25

    6 
    On your walls, O Jerusalem,
         I have set watchmen;
     all the day and all the night
         they shall never be silent.
     You who put the Lord in remembrance,
         take no rest,

    7 
    and give him no rest
         until he establishes Jerusalem
         and makes it a praise in the earth.

    8 
    The Lord has sworn by his right hand
         and by his mighty arm:
     “I will not again give your grain
         to be food for your enemies,

    and foreigners shall not drink your wine
         for which you have labored;

    9 
    but those who garner it shall eat it
         and praise the Lord,
     and those who gather it shall drink it
         in the courts of my sanctuary.”[a]

    10 
    Go through, go through the gates;
         prepare the way for the people;
     build up, build up the highway;
         clear it of stones;
         lift up a signal over the peoples.
    11 
    Behold, the Lord has proclaimed
         to the end of the earth:
     Say to the daughter of Zion,
         “Behold, your salvation comes;
     behold, his reward is with him,
         and his recompense before him.”

    12 
    And they shall be called The Holy People,
         The Redeemed of the Lord;
     and you shall be called Sought Out,
         A City Not Forsaken.

    The Lord's Day of Vengeance
    63 
    Who is this who comes from Edom,
         in crimsoned garments from Bozrah,
     he who is splendid in his apparel,
         marching in the greatness of his strength?
     “It is I, speaking in righteousness,
         mighty to save.”

    2 
    Why is your apparel red,
         and your garments like his who treads in the winepress?

    3 
    “I have trodden the winepress alone,
         and from the peoples no one was with me;
     I trod them in my anger
         and trampled them in my wrath;
     their lifeblood[b] spattered on my garments,
         and stained all my apparel.

    4 
    For the day of vengeance was in my heart,
         and my year of redemption[c] had come.

    5 
    I looked, but there was no one to help;
         I was appalled, but there was no one to uphold;
     so my own arm brought me salvation,
         and my wrath upheld me.

    6 
    I trampled down the peoples in my anger;
         I made them drunk in my wrath,
         and I poured out their lifeblood on the earth.”

    The Lord's Mercy Remembered
    7 
    I will recount the steadfast love of the Lord,
         the praises of the Lord,
     according to all that the Lord has granted us,
         and the great goodness to the house of Israel
     that he has granted them according to his compassion,
         according to the abundance of his steadfast love.

    8 
    For he said, “Surely they are my people,
         children who will not deal falsely.”
         And he became their Savior.

    9 
    In all their affliction he was afflicted,[d]
         and the angel of his presence saved them;
     in his love and in his pity he redeemed them;
         he lifted them up and carried them all the days of old.

    10 
    But they rebelled
         and grieved his Holy Spirit;
     therefore he turned to be their enemy,
         and himself fought against them.

    11 
    Then he remembered the days of old,
         of Moses and his people.[e]
     Where is he who brought them up out of the sea
         with the shepherds of his flock?
     Where is he who put in the midst of them
         his Holy Spirit,

    12 
    who caused his glorious arm
         to go at the right hand of Moses,
     who divided the waters before them
         to make for himself an everlasting name,

    13 
        who led them through the depths?
     Like a horse in the desert,
         they did not stumble.

    14 
    Like livestock that go down into the valley,
         the Spirit of the Lord gave them rest.
     So you led your people,
         to make for yourself a glorious name.

    Prayer for Mercy
    15 
    Look down from heaven and see,
         from your holy and beautiful[f] habitation.
     Where are your zeal and your might?
         The stirring of your inner parts and your compassion
         are held back from me.

    16 
    For you are our Father,
         though Abraham does not know us,
         and Israel does not acknowledge us;
     you, O Lord, are our Father,
         our Redeemer from of old is your name.

    17 
    O Lord, why do you make us wander from your ways
         and harden our heart, so that we fear you not?
     Return for the sake of your servants,
         the tribes of your heritage.

    18 
    Your holy people held possession for a little while;[g]
         our adversaries have trampled down your sanctuary.

    19 
    We have become like those over whom you have never ruled,
         like those who are not called by your name.

    64 
    Oh that you would rend the heavens and come down,
         that the mountains might quake at your presence—

    2 
    [h] as when fire kindles brushwood
         and the fire causes water to boil—
     to make your name known to your adversaries,
         and that the nations might tremble at your presence!

    3 
    When you did awesome things that we did not look for,
         you came down, the mountains quaked at your presence.

    4 
    From of old no one has heard
         or perceived by the ear,
     no eye has seen a God besides you,
         who acts for those who wait for him.

    5 
    You meet him who joyfully works righteousness,
         those who remember you in your ways.
     Behold, you were angry, and we sinned;
         in our sins we have been a long time, and shall we be saved?[i]

    6 
    We have all become like one who is unclean,
         and all our righteous deeds are like a polluted garment.
     We all fade like a leaf,
         and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.

    7 
    There is no one who calls upon your name,
         who rouses himself to take hold of you;
     for you have hidden your face from us,
         and have made us melt in[j] the hand of our iniquities.

    8 
    But now, O Lord, you are our Father;
         we are the clay, and you are our potter;
         we are all the work of your hand.

    9 
    Be not so terribly angry, O Lord,
         and remember not iniquity forever.
         Behold, please look, we are all your people.

    10 
    Your holy cities have become a wilderness;
         Zion has become a wilderness,
         Jerusalem a desolation.

    11 
    Our holy and beautiful[k] house,
         where our fathers praised you,
     has been burned by fire,
         and all our pleasant places have become ruins.

    12 
    Will you restrain yourself at these things, O Lord?
         Will you keep silent, and afflict us so terribly?

    Judgment and Salvation
    65 
    I was ready to be sought by those who did not ask for me;
         I was ready to be found by those who did not seek me.
     I said, “Here I am, here I am,”
         to a nation that was not called by[l] my name.

    2 
    I spread out my hands all the day
         to a rebellious people,
     who walk in a way that is not good,
         following their own devices;

    3 
    a people who provoke me
         to my face continually,
     sacrificing in gardens
         and making offerings on bricks;

    4 
    who sit in tombs,
         and spend the night in secret places;
     who eat pig's flesh,
         and broth of tainted meat is in their vessels;

    5 
    who say, “Keep to yourself,
         do not come near me, for I am too holy for you.”
     These are a smoke in my nostrils,
         a fire that burns all the day.

    6 
    Behold, it is written before me:
         “I will not keep silent, but I will repay;
     I will indeed repay into their lap

    7 
        both your iniquities and your fathers' iniquities together,
     says the Lord;
     because they made offerings on the mountains
         and insulted me on the hills,
     I will measure into their lap
         payment for their former deeds.”[m]

    8 
    Thus says the Lord:
     “As the new wine is found in the cluster,
         and they say, ‘Do not destroy it,
         for there is a blessing in it,’
     so I will do for my servants' sake,
         and not destroy them all.

    9 
    I will bring forth offspring from Jacob,
         and from Judah possessors of my mountains;
     my chosen shall possess it,
         and my servants shall dwell there.

    10 
    Sharon shall become a pasture for flocks,
         and the Valley of Achor a place for herds to lie down,
         for my people who have sought me.

    11 
    But you who forsake the Lord,
         who forget my holy mountain,
     who set a table for Fortune
         and fill cups of mixed wine for Destiny,

    12 
    I will destine you to the sword,
         and all of you shall bow down to the slaughter,
     because, when I called, you did not answer;
         when I spoke, you did not listen,
     but you did what was evil in my eyes
         and chose what I did not delight in.”

    13 
    Therefore thus says the Lord God:
     “Behold, my servants shall eat,
         but you shall be hungry;
     behold, my servants shall drink,
         but you shall be thirsty;
     behold, my servants shall rejoice,
         but you shall be put to shame;

    14 
    behold, my servants shall sing for gladness of heart,
         but you shall cry out for pain of heart
         and shall wail for breaking of spirit.

    15 
    You shall leave your name to my chosen for a curse,
         and the Lord God will put you to death,
         but his servants he will call by another name,

    16 
    so that he who blesses himself in the land
         shall bless himself by the God of truth,
     and he who takes an oath in the land
         shall swear by the God of truth;
     because the former troubles are forgotten
         and are hidden from my eyes.

    New Heavens and a New Earth
    17 
    “For behold, I create new heavens
         and a new earth,
     and the former things shall not be remembered
         or come into mind.

    18 
    But be glad and rejoice forever
         in that which I create;
     for behold, I create Jerusalem to be a joy,
         and her people to be a gladness.

    19 
    I will rejoice in Jerusalem
         and be glad in my people;
     no more shall be heard in it the sound of weeping
         and the cry of distress.

    20 
    No more shall there be in it
         an infant who lives but a few days,
         or an old man who does not fill out his days,
     for the young man shall die a hundred years old,
         and the sinner a hundred years old shall be accursed.

    21 
    They shall build houses and inhabit them;
         they shall plant vineyards and eat their fruit.

    22 
    They shall not build and another inhabit;
         they shall not plant and another eat;
     for like the days of a tree shall the days of my people be,
         and my chosen shall long enjoy[n] the work of their hands.

    23 
    They shall not labor in vain
         or bear children for calamity,[o]
     for they shall be the offspring of the blessed of the Lord,
         and their descendants with them.

    24 
    Before they call I will answer;
         while they are yet speaking I will hear.

    25 
    The wolf and the lamb shall graze together;
         the lion shall eat straw like the ox,
         and dust shall be the serpent's food.
     They shall not hurt or destroy
         in all my holy mountain,”
     says the Lord.

    Footnotes:
    1. Isaiah 62:9 Or in my holy courts
    2. Isaiah 63:3 Or their juice; also verse 6
    3. Isaiah 63:4 Or the year of my redeemed
    4. Isaiah 63:9 Or he did not afflict
    5. Isaiah 63:11 Or Then his people remembered the days of old, of Moses
    6. Isaiah 63:15 Or holy and glorious
    7. Isaiah 63:18 Or They have dispossessed your holy people for a little while
    8. Isaiah 64:2 Ch 64:1 in Hebrew
    9. Isaiah 64:5 Or in your ways is continuance, that we might be saved
    10. Isaiah 64:7 Masoretic Text; Septuagint, Syriac, Targum have delivered us into
    11. Isaiah 64:11 Or holy and glorious
    12. Isaiah 65:1 Or that did not call upon
    13. Isaiah 65:7 Or I will first measure their payment into their lap
    14. Isaiah 65:22 Hebrew shall wear out
    15. Isaiah 65:23 Or for sudden terror
  •   Philippians 2:19-3:3
    Philippians 2:19-3:3

    Timothy and Epaphroditus
    19 I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy to you soon, so that I too may be cheered by news of you. 20 For I have no one like him, who will be genuinely concerned for your welfare. 21 For they all seek their own interests, not those of Jesus Christ. 22 But you know Timothy's[a] proven worth, how as a son[b] with a father he has served with me in the gospel. 23 I hope therefore to send him just as soon as I see how it will go with me, 24 and I trust in the Lord that shortly I myself will come also.
    25 I have thought it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus my brother and fellow worker and fellow soldier, and your messenger and minister to my need, 26 for he has been longing for you all and has been distressed because you heard that he was ill. 27 Indeed he was ill, near to death. But God had mercy on him, and not only on him but on me also, lest I should have sorrow upon sorrow. 28 I am the more eager to send him, therefore, that you may rejoice at seeing him again, and that I may be less anxious. 29 So receive him in the Lord with all joy, and honor such men, 30 for he nearly died[c] for the work of Christ, risking his life to complete what was lacking in your service to me.
    Righteousness Through Faith in Christ
    3 Finally, my brothers,[d] rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things to you is no trouble to me and is safe for you.
    2 Look out for the dogs, look out for the evildoers, look out for those who mutilate the flesh. 3 For we are the circumcision, who worship by the Spirit of God[e] and glory in Christ Jesus and put no confidence in the flesh—
    Footnotes:
    1. Philippians 2:22 Greek his
    2. Philippians 2:22 Greek child
    3. Philippians 2:30 Or he drew near to the point of death; compare verse 8
    4. Philippians 3:1 Or brothers and sisters; also verses 13, 17
    5. Philippians 3:3 Some manuscripts God in spirit
  •   Psalm 73
    Psalm 73

    Book Three
    God Is My Strength and Portion Forever
    A Psalm of Asaph.
    73 
    Truly God is good to Israel,
         to those who are pure in heart.

    2 
    But as for me, my feet had almost stumbled,
         my steps had nearly slipped.

    3 
    For I was envious of the arrogant
         when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.

    4 
    For they have no pangs until death;
         their bodies are fat and sleek.

    5 
    They are not in trouble as others are;
         they are not stricken like the rest of mankind.

    6 
    Therefore pride is their necklace;
         violence covers them as a garment.

    7 
    Their eyes swell out through fatness;
         their hearts overflow with follies.

    8 
    They scoff and speak with malice;
         loftily they threaten oppression.

    9 
    They set their mouths against the heavens,
         and their tongue struts through the earth.

    10 
    Therefore his people turn back to them,
         and find no fault in them.[a]

    11 
    And they say, “How can God know?
         Is there knowledge in the Most High?”

    12 
    Behold, these are the wicked;
         always at ease, they increase in riches.

    13 
    All in vain have I kept my heart clean
         and washed my hands in innocence.

    14 
    For all the day long I have been stricken
         and rebuked every morning.

    15 
    If I had said, “I will speak thus,”
         I would have betrayed the generation of your children.

    16 
    But when I thought how to understand this,
         it seemed to me a wearisome task,

    17 
    until I went into the sanctuary of God;
         then I discerned their end.

    18 
    Truly you set them in slippery places;
         you make them fall to ruin.

    19 
    How they are destroyed in a moment,
         swept away utterly by terrors!

    20 
    Like a dream when one awakes,
         O Lord, when you rouse yourself, you despise them as phantoms.

    21 
    When my soul was embittered,
         when I was pricked in heart,

    22 
    I was brutish and ignorant;
         I was like a beast toward you.

    23 
    Nevertheless, I am continually with you;
         you hold my right hand.

    24 
    You guide me with your counsel,
         and afterward you will receive me to glory.

    25 
    Whom have I in heaven but you?
         And there is nothing on earth that I desire besides you.

    26 
    My flesh and my heart may fail,
         but God is the strength[b] of my heart and my portion forever.

    27 
    For behold, those who are far from you shall perish;
         you put an end to everyone who is unfaithful to you.

    28 
    But for me it is good to be near God;
         I have made the Lord God my refuge,
         that I may tell of all your works.

    Footnotes:
    1. Psalm 73:10 Probable reading; Hebrew the waters of a full cup are drained by them
    2. Psalm 73:26 Hebrew rock
  •   Proverbs 24:13-14

    Proverbs 24:13-14

    13 
    My son, eat honey, for it is good,

        and the drippings of the honeycomb are sweet to your taste.

    14 
    Know that wisdom is such to your soul;

        if you find it, there will be a future,

        and your hope will not be cut off.


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