September 27  

Daily Bible in a Year

Daily Old and New Testaments, Psalms, and Proverbs

  •   Isaiah 51-53
    Isaiah 51-53

    The Lord's Comfort for Zion
    51 
    “Listen to me, you who pursue righteousness,
         you who seek the Lord:
     look to the rock from which you were hewn,
         and to the quarry from which you were dug.

    2 
    Look to Abraham your father
         and to Sarah who bore you;
     for he was but one when I called him,
         that I might bless him and multiply him.

    3 
    For the Lord comforts Zion;
         he comforts all her waste places
     and makes her wilderness like Eden,

        her desert like the garden of the Lord;
     joy and gladness will be found in her,
         thanksgiving and the voice of song.

    4 
    “Give attention to me, my people,
         and give ear to me, my nation;
     for a law[a] will go out from me,
         and I will set my justice for a light to the peoples.

    5 
    My righteousness draws near,
         my salvation has gone out,
         and my arms will judge the peoples;
     the coastlands hope for me,
         and for my arm they wait.

    6 
    Lift up your eyes to the heavens,
         and look at the earth beneath;
     for the heavens vanish like smoke,
         the earth will wear out like a garment,
         and they who dwell in it will die in like manner;[b]
     but my salvation will be forever,
         and my righteousness will never be dismayed.

    7 
    “Listen to me, you who know righteousness,
         the people in whose heart is my law;
     fear not the reproach of man,
         nor be dismayed at their revilings.

    8 
    For the moth will eat them up like a garment,
         and the worm will eat them like wool,
     but my righteousness will be forever,
         and my salvation to all generations.”

    9 
    Awake, awake, put on strength,
         O arm of the Lord;
     awake, as in days of old,
         the generations of long ago.
     Was it not you who cut Rahab in pieces,
         who pierced the dragon?

    10 
    Was it not you who dried up the sea,
         the waters of the great deep,
     who made the depths of the sea a way
         for the redeemed to pass over?

    11 
    And the ransomed of the Lord shall return
         and come to Zion with singing;
     everlasting joy shall be upon their heads;
         they shall obtain gladness and joy,
         and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.

    12 
    “I, I am he who comforts you;
         who are you that you are afraid of man who dies,
         of the son of man who is made like grass,

    13 
    and have forgotten the Lord, your Maker,
         who stretched out the heavens
         and laid the foundations of the earth,
     and you fear continually all the day
         because of the wrath of the oppressor,
     when he sets himself to destroy?
         And where is the wrath of the oppressor?

    14 
    He who is bowed down shall speedily be released;
         he shall not die and go down to the pit,
         neither shall his bread be lacking.

    15 
    I am the Lord your God,
         who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar—
         the Lord of hosts is his name.

    16 
    And I have put my words in your mouth
         and covered you in the shadow of my hand,
     establishing[c] the heavens
         and laying the foundations of the earth,
         and saying to Zion, ‘You are my people.’”

    17 
    Wake yourself, wake yourself,
         stand up, O Jerusalem,
     you who have drunk from the hand of the Lord
         the cup of his wrath,
     who have drunk to the dregs
         the bowl, the cup of staggering.

    18 
    There is none to guide her
         among all the sons she has borne;
     there is none to take her by the hand
         among all the sons she has brought up.

    19 
    These two things have happened to you—
         who will console you?—
     devastation and destruction, famine and sword;
         who will comfort you?[d]

    20 
    Your sons have fainted;
         they lie at the head of every street
         like an antelope in a net;
     they are full of the wrath of the Lord,

        the rebuke of your God.

    21 
    Therefore hear this, you who are afflicted,
         who are drunk, but not with wine:

    22 
    Thus says your Lord, the Lord,
         your God who pleads the cause of his people:
     “Behold, I have taken from your hand the cup of staggering;
     the bowl of my wrath you shall drink no more;

    23 
    and I will put it into the hand of your tormentors,
         who have said to you,
         ‘Bow down, that we may pass over’;
     and you have made your back like the ground
         and like the street for them to pass over.”

    The Lord's Coming Salvation
    52 
    Awake, awake,
         put on your strength, O Zion;
     put on your beautiful garments,
         O Jerusalem, the holy city;
     for there shall no more come into you
         the uncircumcised and the unclean.

    2 
    Shake yourself from the dust and arise;
         be seated, O Jerusalem;
     loose the bonds from your neck,
         O captive daughter of Zion.

    3 For thus says the Lord: “You were sold for nothing, and you shall be redeemed without money.” 4 For thus says the Lord God: “My people went down at the first into Egypt to sojourn there, and the Assyrian oppressed them for nothing.[e] 5 Now therefore what have I here,” declares the Lord, “seeing that my people are taken away for nothing? Their rulers wail,” declares the Lord, “and continually all the day my name is despised. 6 Therefore my people shall know my name. Therefore in that day they shall know that it is I who speak; here I am.”
    7 
    How beautiful upon the mountains
         are the feet of him who brings good news,
     who publishes peace, who brings good news of happiness,
         who publishes salvation,
         who says to Zion, “Your God reigns.”

    8 
    The voice of your watchmen—they lift up their voice;
         together they sing for joy;
     for eye to eye they see
         the return of the Lord to Zion.

    9 
    Break forth together into singing,
         you waste places of Jerusalem,
     for the Lord has comforted his people;
         he has redeemed Jerusalem.
    10 
    The Lord has bared his holy arm
         before the eyes of all the nations,
     and all the ends of the earth shall see
         the salvation of our God.

    11 
    Depart, depart, go out from there;
         touch no unclean thing;
     go out from the midst of her; purify yourselves,
         you who bear the vessels of the Lord.

    12 
    For you shall not go out in haste,
         and you shall not go in flight,
     for the Lord will go before you,
         and the God of Israel will be your rear guard.

    He Was Pierced for Our Transgressions
    13 
    Behold, my servant shall act wisely;[f]
         he shall be high and lifted up,
         and shall be exalted.

    14 
    As many were astonished at you—
         his appearance was so marred, beyond human semblance,
         and his form beyond that of the children of mankind—

    15 
    so shall he sprinkle[g] many nations.
         Kings shall shut their mouths because of him,
     for that which has not been told them they see,
         and that which they have not heard they understand.

    53 
    Who has believed what he has heard from us?[h]
         And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?

    2 
    For he grew up before him like a young plant,
         and like a root out of dry ground;
     he had no form or majesty that we should look at him,
         and no beauty that we should desire him.

    3 
    He was despised and rejected[i] by men,
         a man of sorrows[j] and acquainted with[k] grief;[l]
     and as one from whom men hide their faces[m]
         he was despised, and we esteemed him not.

    4 
    Surely he has borne our griefs
         and carried our sorrows;
     yet we esteemed him stricken,
         smitten by God, and afflicted.

    5 
    But he was pierced for our transgressions;
         he was crushed for our iniquities;
     upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace,
         and with his wounds we are healed.

    6 
    All we like sheep have gone astray;
         we have turned—every one—to his own way;
     and the Lord has laid on him
         the iniquity of us all.

    7 
    He was oppressed, and he was afflicted,
         yet he opened not his mouth;
     like a lamb that is led to the slaughter,
         and like a sheep that before its shearers is silent,
         so he opened not his mouth.

    8 
    By oppression and judgment he was taken away;
         and as for his generation, who considered
     that he was cut off out of the land of the living,
         stricken for the transgression of my people?

    9 
    And they made his grave with the wicked
         and with a rich man in his death,
     although he had done no violence,
         and there was no deceit in his mouth.

    10 
    Yet it was the will of the Lord to crush him;
         he has put him to grief;[n]
     when his soul makes[o] an offering for guilt,
         he shall see his offspring; he shall prolong his days;
     the will of the Lord shall prosper in his hand.

    11 
    Out of the anguish of his soul he shall see[p] and be satisfied;
     by his knowledge shall the righteous one, my servant,
         make many to be accounted righteous,
         and he shall bear their iniquities.

    12 
    Therefore I will divide him a portion with the many,[q]
         and he shall divide the spoil with the strong,[r]
     because he poured out his soul to death
         and was numbered with the transgressors;
     yet he bore the sin of many,
         and makes intercession for the transgressors.

    Footnotes:
    1. Isaiah 51:4 Or for teaching; also verse 7
    2. Isaiah 51:6 Or will die like gnats
    3. Isaiah 51:16 Or planting
    4. Isaiah 51:19 Dead Sea Scroll, Septuagint, Syriac, Vulgate; Masoretic Text how shall I comfort you
    5. Isaiah 52:4 Or the Assyrian has oppressed them of late
    6. Isaiah 52:13 Or shall prosper
    7. Isaiah 52:15 Or startle
    8. Isaiah 53:1 Or Who has believed what we have heard?
    9. Isaiah 53:3 Or forsaken
    10. Isaiah 53:3 Or pains; also verse 4
    11. Isaiah 53:3 Or and knowing
    12. Isaiah 53:3 Or sickness; also verse 4
    13. Isaiah 53:3 Or as one who hides his face from us
    14. Isaiah 53:10 Or he has made him sick
    15. Isaiah 53:10 Or when you make his soul
    16. Isaiah 53:11 Masoretic Text; Dead Sea Scroll he shall see light
    17. Isaiah 53:12 Or with the great
    18. Isaiah 53:12 Or with the numerous
  •   Ephesians 5
    Ephesians 5

    Walk in Love
    5 Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children. 2 And walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.
    3 But sexual immorality and all impurity or covetousness must not even be named among you, as is proper among saints. 4 Let there be no filthiness nor foolish talk nor crude joking, which are out of place, but instead let there be thanksgiving.5 For you may be sure of this, that everyone who is sexually immoral or impure, or who is covetous (that is, an idolater), has no inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God. 6 Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience. 7 Therefore do not become partners with them; 8 for at one time you were darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light 9 (for the fruit of light is found in all that is good and right and true), 10 and try to discern what is pleasing to the Lord. 11 Take no part in the unfruitful works of darkness, but instead expose them. 12 For it is shameful even to speak of the things that they do in secret. 13 But when anything is exposed by the light, it becomes visible, 14 for anything that becomes visible is light. Therefore it says,

    “Awake, O sleeper,
         and arise from the dead,
     and Christ will shine on you.”

    15 Look carefully then how you walk, not as unwise but as wise, 16 making the best use of the time, because the days are evil. 17 Therefore do not be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is. 18 And do not get drunk with wine, for that is debauchery, but be filled with the Spirit, 19 addressing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody to the Lord with your heart, 20 giving thanks always and for everything to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, 21 submitting to one another out of reverence for Christ.

    Wives and Husbands
    22 Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. 23 For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior. 24 Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit in everything to their husbands.
    25 Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, 26 that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, 27 so that he might present the church to himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and without blemish.[a]28 In the same way husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. 29 For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ does the church, 30 because we are members of his body. 31 “Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.” 32 This mystery is profound, and I am saying that it refers to Christ and the church. 33 However, let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband.

    Footnotes:
    1. Ephesians 5:27 Or holy and blameless
  •   Psalm 69:19-36
    Psalm 69:19-36

    19 
    You know my reproach,
         and my shame and my dishonor;
         my foes are all known to you.

    20 
    Reproaches have broken my heart,
         so that I am in despair.
     I looked for pity, but there was none,
         and for comforters, but I found none.

    21 
    They gave me poison for food,
         and for my thirst they gave me sour wine to drink.

    22 
    Let their own table before them become a snare;
         and when they are at peace, let it become a trap.[a]

    23 
    Let their eyes be darkened, so that they cannot see,
         and make their loins tremble continually.

    24 
    Pour out your indignation upon them,
         and let your burning anger overtake them.

    25 
    May their camp be a desolation;
         let no one dwell in their tents.

    26 
    For they persecute him whom you have struck down,
         and they recount the pain of those you have wounded.

    27 
    Add to them punishment upon punishment;
         may they have no acquittal from you.[b]

    28 
    Let them be blotted out of the book of the living;
         let them not be enrolled among the righteous.

    29 
    But I am afflicted and in pain;
         let your salvation, O God, set me on high!

    30 
    I will praise the name of God with a song;
         I will magnify him with thanksgiving.

    31 
    This will please the Lord more than an ox
         or a bull with horns and hoofs.

    32 
    When the humble see it they will be glad;
         you who seek God, let your hearts revive.

    33 
    For the Lord hears the needy
         and does not despise his own people who are prisoners.

    34 
    Let heaven and earth praise him,
         the seas and everything that moves in them.

    35 
    For God will save Zion
         and build up the cities of Judah,
     and people shall dwell there and possess it;

    36 
        the offspring of his servants shall inherit it,
         and those who love his name shall dwell in it.

    Footnotes:
    1. Psalm 69:22 Hebrew; a slight revocalization yields (compare Septuagint, Syriac, Jerome) a snare, and retribution and a trap
    2. Psalm 69:27 Hebrew may they not come into your righteousness
  •   Proverbs 24:7

    Proverbs 24:7

    7 
    Wisdom is too high for a fool;

        in the gate he does not open his mouth.



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