Isaiah 39-40

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The Babylonian Envoys^(A)

39 At ^(B)that time ^[a]Merodach-Baladan the son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters and a present to Hezekiah, for he heard that he had been sick and had recovered. ²^(C)And Hezekiah was pleased with them, and showed them the house of his treasures—the silver and gold, the spices and precious ointment, and all his armory—all that was found among his treasures. There was nothing in his house or in all his dominion that Hezekiah did not show them.

³Then Isaiah the prophet went to King Hezekiah, and said to him, “What did these men say, and from where did they come to you?”

So Hezekiah said, “They came to me from a ^(D)far country, from Babylon.”

⁴And he said, “What have they seen in your house?”

So Hezekiah answered, “They have seen all that is in my house; there is nothing among my treasures that I have not shown them.”

⁵Then Isaiah said to Hezekiah, “Hear the word of the Lord of hosts: ⁶‘Behold, the days are coming ^(E)when all that is in your house, and what your fathers have accumulated until this day, shall be carried to Babylon; nothing shall be left,’ says the Lord. ⁷‘And they shall take away some of your ^(F)sons who will descend from you, whom you will beget; and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.’ ”

⁸So Hezekiah said to Isaiah, ^(G)“The word of the Lord which you have spoken is good!” For he said, “At least there will be peace and truth in my days.”

God’s People Are Comforted^(H)

40 “Comfort, yes, comfort My people!”
Says your God.
²“Speak ^[b]comfort to Jerusalem, and cry out to her,
That her warfare is ended,
That her iniquity is pardoned;
^(I)For she has received from the Lord’s hand
Double for all her sins.”

³^(J)The voice of one crying in the wilderness:
^(K)“Prepare the way of the Lord;
^(L)Make straight ^[c]in the desert
A highway for our God.
⁴Every valley shall be exalted
And every mountain and hill brought low;
^(M)The crooked places shall be made ^[d]straight
And the rough places smooth;
⁵The ^(N)glory of the Lord shall be revealed,
And all flesh shall see it together;
For the mouth of the Lord has spoken.”

⁶The voice said, “Cry out!”
And ^[e]he said, “What shall I cry?”

^(O)“All flesh is grass,
And all its loveliness is like the flower of the field.
⁷The grass withers, the flower fades,
Because the breath of the Lord blows upon it;
Surely the people are grass.
⁸The grass withers, the flower fades,
But ^(P)the word of our God stands forever.”

⁹O Zion,
You who bring good tidings,
Get up into the high mountain;
O Jerusalem,
You who bring good tidings,
Lift up your voice with strength,
Lift it up, be not afraid;
Say to the cities of Judah, “Behold your God!”

¹⁰Behold, the Lord God shall come ^[f]with a strong hand,
And ^(Q)His arm shall rule for Him;
Behold, ^(R)His reward is with Him,
And His ^[g]work before Him.
¹¹He will ^(S)feed His flock like a shepherd;
He will gather the lambs with His arm,
And carry them in His bosom,
And gently lead those who are with young.

¹²^(T)Who has measured the ^[h]waters in the hollow of His hand,
Measured heaven with a ^[i]span
And calculated the dust of the earth in a measure?
Weighed the mountains in scales
And the hills in a balance?
¹³^(U)Who has directed the Spirit of the Lord,
Or as His counselor has taught Him?
¹⁴With whom did He take counsel, and who instructed Him,
And ^(V)taught Him in the path of justice?
Who taught Him knowledge,
And showed Him the way of understanding?

¹⁵Behold, the nations are as a drop in a bucket,
And are counted as the small dust on the scales;
Look, He lifts up the isles as a very little thing.
¹⁶And Lebanon is not sufficient to burn,
Nor its beasts sufficient for a burnt offering.
¹⁷All nations before Him are as ^(W)nothing,
And ^(X)they are counted by Him less than nothing and worthless.

¹⁸To whom then will you ^(Y)liken God?
Or what likeness will you compare to Him?
¹⁹^(Z)The workman molds an image,
The goldsmith overspreads it with gold,
And the silversmith casts silver chains.
²⁰Whoever is too impoverished for such ^[j]a contribution
Chooses a tree that will not rot;
He seeks for himself a skillful workman
^(AA)To prepare a carved image that will not totter.

²¹^(AB)Have you not known?
Have you not heard?
Has it not been told you from the beginning?
Have you not understood from the foundations of the earth?
²²It is He who sits above the circle of the earth,
And its inhabitants are like grasshoppers,
Who ^(AC)stretches out the heavens like a curtain,
And spreads them out like a ^(AD)tent to dwell in.
²³He ^[k]brings the ^(AE)princes to nothing;
He makes the judges of the earth useless.

²⁴Scarcely shall they be planted,
Scarcely shall they be sown,
Scarcely shall their stock take root in the earth,
When He will also blow on them,
And they will wither,
And the whirlwind will take them away like stubble.

²⁵“To^(AF) whom then will you liken Me,
Or to whom shall I be equal?” says the Holy One.
²⁶Lift up your eyes on high,
And see who has created these things,
Who brings out their host by number;
^(AG)He calls them all by name,
By the greatness of His might
And the strength of His power;
Not one is missing.

²⁷^(AH)Why do you say, O Jacob,
And speak, O Israel:
“My way is hidden from the Lord,
And my just claim is passed over by my God”?
²⁸Have you not known?
Have you not heard?
The everlasting God, the Lord,
The Creator of the ends of the earth,
Neither faints nor is weary.
^(AI)His understanding is unsearchable.
²⁹He gives power to the weak,
And to those who have no might He increases strength.
³⁰Even the youths shall faint and be weary,
And the young men shall utterly fall,
³¹But those who ^(AJ)wait on the Lord
^(AK)Shall renew their strength;
They shall mount up with wings like eagles,
They shall run and not be weary,
They shall walk and not faint.

Notas al pie

Isaiah 39:1 Berodach-Baladan, 2 Kin. 20:12
Isaiah 40:2 Lit. to the heart of
Isaiah 40:3 So with MT, Tg., Vg.; LXX omits in the desert
Isaiah 40:4 Or a plain
Isaiah 40:6 So with MT, Tg.; DSS, LXX, Vg. I
Isaiah 40:10 in strength
Isaiah 40:10 recompense
Isaiah 40:12 So with MT, LXX, Vg.; DSS adds of the sea; Tg. adds of the world
Isaiah 40:12 A span .5 cubit, 9 inches; or the width of His hand
Isaiah 40:20 an offering
Isaiah 40:23 reduces

Psalm 109:25

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²⁵I also have become ^(A)a reproach to them;
When they look at me, ^(B)they shake their heads.

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Psalm 109:25 En todas las Inglés

Proverbs 26:2

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²Like a flitting sparrow, like a flying swallow,
So ^(A)a curse without cause shall not alight.

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Proverbs 26:2 En todas las Inglés

Galatians 2

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Defending the Gospel^(A)

2 Then after fourteen years ^(B)I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, and also took Titus with me. ²And I went up ^[a]by revelation, and communicated to them that gospel which I preach among the Gentiles, but ^(C)privately to those who were of reputation, lest by any means ^(D)I might run, or had run, in vain. ³Yet not even Titus who was with me, being a Greek, was compelled to be circumcised. ⁴And this occurred because of ^(E)false brethren secretly brought in (who came in by stealth to spy out our ^(F)liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, ^(G)that they might bring us into bondage), ⁵to whom we did not yield submission even for an hour, that ^(H)the truth of the gospel might continue with you.

⁶But from those ^(I)who seemed to be something—whatever they were, it makes no difference to me; ^(J)God ^[b]shows personal favoritism to no man—for those who seemed to be something ^(K)added nothing to me. ⁷But on the contrary, ^(L)when they saw that the gospel for the uncircumcised ^(M)had been committed to me, as the gospel for the circumcised was to Peter ⁸(for He who worked effectively in Peter for the apostleship to the ^(N)circumcised ^(O)also ^(P)worked effectively in me toward the Gentiles), ⁹and when James, ^[c]Cephas, and John, who seemed to be ^(Q)pillars, perceived ^(R)the grace that had been given to me, they gave me and Barnabas the right hand of fellowship, ^(S)that we should go to the Gentiles and they to the circumcised. ¹⁰They desired only that we should remember the poor, ^(T)the very thing which I also was eager to do.

No Return to the Law

¹¹^(U)Now when ^[d]Peter had come to Antioch, I ^[e]withstood him to his face, because he was to be blamed; ¹²for before certain men came from James, ^(V)he would eat with the Gentiles; but when they came, he withdrew and separated himself, fearing ^[f]those who were of the circumcision. ¹³And the rest of the Jews also played the hypocrite with him, so that even Barnabas was carried away with their hypocrisy.

¹⁴But when I saw that they were not straightforward about ^(W)the truth of the gospel, I said to Peter ^(X)before them all, ^(Y)“If you, being a Jew, live in the manner of Gentiles and not as the Jews, ^[g]why do you compel Gentiles to live as ^[h]Jews? ¹⁵^(Z)We who are Jews by nature, and not ^(AA)sinners of the Gentiles, ¹⁶^(AB)knowing that a man is not ^[i]justified by the works of the law but ^(AC)by faith in Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ and not ^(AD)by the works of the law; for by the works of the law no flesh shall be justified.

¹⁷“But if, while we seek to be justified by Christ, we ourselves also are found ^(AE)sinners, is Christ therefore a minister of sin? Certainly not! ¹⁸For if I build again those things which I destroyed, I make myself a transgressor. ¹⁹For I ^(AF)through the law ^(AG)died to the law that I might ^(AH)live to God. ²⁰I have been ^(AI)crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh ^(AJ)I live by faith in the Son of God, ^(AK)who loved me and gave Himself for me. ²¹I do not set aside the grace of God; for ^(AL)if righteousness comes through the law, then Christ died ^[j]in vain.”