Isaiah 4-5

New American Standard Bible

A Remnant Prepared

4 For seven women will take hold of ^(A)one man on that day, saying, “We will eat our own bread and wear our own clothes, only let us be called by your name; ^(B)take away our disgrace!”

²On that day the ^(C)Branch of the Lord will be beautiful and glorious, and the ^(D)fruit of the earth will be the pride and the beauty of the ^(E)survivors of Israel. ³And it will come about that the one who is ^(F)left in Zion and remains behind in Jerusalem will be called ^(G)holy—everyone who is ^(H)recorded for life in Jerusalem. ⁴When the Lord has washed away the filth of the ^(I)daughters of Zion and ^[a]purged the ^(J)bloodshed of Jerusalem from her midst, by the ^(K)spirit of judgment and the ^(L)spirit of ^[b]burning, ⁵then the Lord will create over the entire area of Mount Zion and over her assemblies ^(M)a cloud by day, and smoke, and the brightness of a flaming fire by night; for over all the ^(N)glory will be a canopy. ⁶And there will be a ^(O)shelter to give shade from the heat by day, and refuge and ^[c]protection from the storm and the rain.

Parable of the Vineyard

5 Let me sing now for my beloved
A song of my beloved about His vineyard.
My beloved had a ^(P)vineyard on ^[d]a fertile hill.
²He dug it all around, cleared it of stones,
And planted it with ^[e]the ^(Q)choicest vine.
And He built a tower in the middle of it,
And also carved out a ^[f]wine vat in it;
Then He ^(R)expected it to produce good grapes,
But it produced only ^[g]worthless ones.

³“And now, you inhabitants of Jerusalem and people of Judah,
^(S)Judge between Me and My vineyard.
⁴^(T)What more was there to do for My vineyard ^[h]that I have not done in it?
Why, when I expected it to produce good grapes did it produce ^[i]worthless ones?
⁵So now let Me tell you what I am going to do to My vineyard:
I will ^(U)remove its hedge and it will be consumed;
I will ^(V)break down its wall and it will become ^(W)trampled ground.
⁶I will ^(X)lay it waste;
It will not be pruned nor hoed,
But briars and thorns will come up.
I will also command the clouds not to ^(Y)rain on it.”

⁷For the ^(Z)vineyard of the Lord of armies is the house of Israel,
And the people of Judah are His delightful plant.
So He waited for justice, but behold, there was ^(AA)bloodshed;
For righteousness, but behold, a cry for help.

Woes for the Wicked

⁸Woe to those who ^(AB)attach house to house and join field to field,
Until there is no more room,
And you alone are a landowner in the midst of the land!
⁹In my ears the Lord of armies has sworn, “^(AC)Many houses shall certainly become ^(AD)desolate,
Even great and fine ones, without occupants.
¹⁰For ^(AE)ten acres of vineyard will yield only one ^[j]bath of wine,
And a ^[k]^(AF)homer of seed will yield only an ^[l]ephah of grain.”
¹¹Woe to those who rise early in the morning so that they may pursue ^(AG)intoxicating drink,
Who stay up late in the evening so that wine may inflame them!
¹²Their banquets are accompanied by lyre and ^(AH)harp, by tambourine and flute, and by wine;
But they ^(AI)do not pay attention to the deeds of the Lord,
Nor do they consider the work of His hands.

¹³Therefore My people go into exile for their ^(AJ)lack of knowledge;
And their ^[m]^(AK)nobles are famished,
And their multitude is parched with thirst.
¹⁴Therefore ^(AL)Sheol has enlarged its ^[n]throat and opened its mouth beyond measure;
And ^[o]Jerusalem’s splendor, her multitude, her noise of revelry, and the jubilant within her, descend into it.
¹⁵So the common people will be humbled and the person of importance brought low,
^(AM)The eyes of the haughty also will be brought low.
¹⁶But the ^(AN)Lord of armies will be ^(AO)exalted in judgment,
And the holy God will show Himself ^(AP)holy in righteousness.
¹⁷^(AQ)Then the lambs will graze as in their pasture,
And strangers will eat in the ruins of the ^[p]wealthy.

¹⁸Woe to those who drag ^(AR)wrongdoing with the cords of ^[q]deceit,
And sin as if with cart ropes;
¹⁹^(AS)Who say, “Let Him hurry, let Him do His work quickly, so that we may see it;
And let the plan of the Holy One of Israel approach
And come to pass, so that we may know it!”
²⁰Woe to those who ^(AT)call evil good, and good evil;
Who ^[r]^(AU)substitute darkness for light and light for darkness;
Who ^[s]substitute bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!
²¹Woe to those who are ^(AV)wise in their own eyes
And ^[t]clever in their own sight!
²²^(AW)Woe to those who are heroes in drinking wine,
And valiant men in mixing intoxicating drink,
²³^(AX)Who declare the wicked innocent for a bribe,
And ^(AY)take away the ^[u]rights of the ones who are in the right!

²⁴Therefore, ^(AZ)as a tongue of fire consumes stubble,
And dry grass collapses in the flame,
So their ^(BA)root will become ^(BB)like rot, and their blossom ^[v]blow away like dust;
For they have ^(BC)rejected the Law of the Lord of armies,
And discarded the word of the Holy One of Israel.
²⁵For this reason the ^(BD)anger of the Lord has burned against His people,
And He has stretched out His hand against them and struck them.
And the ^(BE)mountains quaked, and their ^(BF)corpses ^[w]lay like refuse in the middle of the streets.
^(BG)Despite all this, His anger ^[x]is not spent,
But His ^(BH)hand is still stretched out.

²⁶He will also lift up a ^(BI)flag to the distant ^[y]nation,
And ^(BJ)whistle for it ^(BK)from the ends of the earth;
And behold, it will ^(BL)come with speed swiftly.
²⁷^(BM)No one in it is tired or stumbles,
No one slumbers or sleeps;
Nor is the ^(BN)undergarment at his waist loosened,
Nor his sandal strap broken.
²⁸^[z]^(BO)Its arrows are sharp and all its bows are bent;
The hoofs of its horses ^[aa]seem like flint, and its chariot ^(BP)wheels like a storm wind.
²⁹Its ^(BQ)roaring is like a lioness, and it roars like young lions;
It growls as it ^(BR)seizes the prey
And carries it off with ^(BS)no one to save it.
³⁰And it will ^(BT)roar against it on that day like the roaring of the sea.
If one ^(BU)looks across to the land, behold, there is darkness and distress;
Even the light is darkened by its clouds.

Footnotes

Isaiah 4:4 Lit rinsed away
Isaiah 4:4 Or destruction
Isaiah 4:6 Lit a hiding place
Isaiah 5:1 Lit horn, a son of fatness
Isaiah 5:2 Lit a bright red grape
Isaiah 5:2 Or wine press
Isaiah 5:2 Or unripe
Isaiah 5:4 Lit and I have not done
Isaiah 5:4 Or unripe
Isaiah 5:10 About 6 gallons or 23 liters
Isaiah 5:10 About 7.7 cubic feet or 0.22 cubit meters or more
Isaiah 5:10 About 1 cubic foot or 0.03 cubic meters
Isaiah 5:13 Lit glory is men of famine
Isaiah 5:14 Or appetite
Isaiah 5:14 Lit her
Isaiah 5:17 Lit fat
Isaiah 5:18 Or worthlessness
Isaiah 5:20 Lit set
Isaiah 5:20 Lit set
Isaiah 5:21 Lit discerning
Isaiah 5:23 Lit justice
Isaiah 5:24 Lit ascend
Isaiah 5:25 Lit were
Isaiah 5:25 Lit has not turned away
Isaiah 5:26 Lit nations; prob. Assyria
Isaiah 5:28 Lit Which, its arrows
Isaiah 5:28 Lit are regarded as

Psalm 115-116

New American Standard Bible

Heathen Idols Contrasted with the Lord.

115 ^(A)Not to us, Lord, not to us,
But ^(B)to Your name give glory,
Because of Your mercy, because of Your ^[a]truth.
²^(C)Why should the nations say,
“^(D)Where, then, is their God?”
³But our ^(E)God is in the heavens;
He ^(F)does whatever He pleases.
⁴Their ^(G)idols are silver and gold,
The ^(H)work of human hands.
⁵They have mouths, but they ^(I)cannot speak;
They have eyes, but they cannot see;
⁶They have ears, but they cannot hear;
They have noses, but they cannot smell;
⁷^[b]They have hands, but they cannot feel;
^[c]They have feet, but they cannot walk;
They cannot make a sound with their throat.
⁸^(J)Those who make them ^[d]will become like them,
Everyone who trusts in them.

⁹^(K)Israel, ^(L)trust in the Lord;
He is their ^(M)help and their shield.
¹⁰House of ^(N)Aaron, trust in the Lord;
He is their help and their shield.
¹¹You who ^[e]^(O)fear the Lord, trust in the Lord;
He is their help and their shield.
¹²The Lord ^(P)has been mindful of us; He will bless us.
He will bless the house of Israel;
He will bless the house of Aaron.
¹³He will ^(Q)bless those who ^[f]fear the Lord,
^(R)The small together with the great.
¹⁴May the Lord ^(S)increase you,
You and your children.
¹⁵May you be blessed of the Lord,
^(T)Maker of heaven and earth.

¹⁶The heavens are ^(U)the heavens of the Lord,
But ^(V)the earth He has given to the sons of mankind.
¹⁷The ^(W)dead do not praise ^[g]the Lord,
Nor do any who go down into ^(X)silence;
¹⁸But as for us, we will ^(Y)bless ^[h]the Lord
From this time and forever.
^[i]Praise ^[j]the Lord!

Thanksgiving for Rescue from Death.

116 ^(Z)I love the Lord, because He ^(AA)hears
My voice and my pleas.
²Because He has ^(AB)inclined His ear to me,
Therefore I will call upon Him as long as I live.
³The ^(AC)snares of death encompassed me
And the ^[k]terrors of ^[l]Sheol ^[m]came upon me;
I found distress and sorrow.
⁴Then ^(AD)I called upon the name of the Lord:
“Please, Lord, ^(AE)save my ^[n]life!”

⁵^(AF)Gracious is the Lord, and ^(AG)righteous;
Yes, our God is ^(AH)compassionate.
⁶The Lord watches over ^(AI)the simple;
I was ^(AJ)brought low, and He saved me.
⁷Return to your ^(AK)rest, my soul,
For the Lord has ^(AL)dealt generously with you.
⁸For You have ^(AM)rescued my soul from death,
My eyes from tears,
And my feet from stumbling.
⁹I shall walk before the Lord
In the ^[o]^(AN)land of the living.
¹⁰I ^(AO)believed when I said,
“I am ^(AP)greatly afflicted.”
¹¹I ^(AQ)said in my alarm,
“^(AR)All people are liars.”

¹²What shall I ^(AS)repay to the Lord
For all His ^(AT)benefits ^[p]to me?
¹³I will lift up the ^(AU)cup of salvation,
And ^(AV)call upon the name of the Lord.
¹⁴I will ^(AW)pay my vows to the Lord;
May it be ^(AX)in the presence of all His people!
¹⁵^(AY)Precious in the sight of the Lord
Is the death of His godly ones.
¹⁶O Lord, ^[q]I surely am ^(AZ)Your slave,
I am Your slave, the ^(BA)son of Your female slave,
You have ^(BB)unfastened my restraints.
¹⁷I will offer You ^(BC)a sacrifice of thanksgiving,
And ^(BD)call upon the name of the Lord.
¹⁸I will ^(BE)pay my vows to the Lord,
May it be in the presence of all His people,
¹⁹In the ^(BF)courtyards of the Lord’s house,
In the midst of you, ^(BG)Jerusalem!
^[r]Praise ^[s]the Lord!

Footnotes

Psalm 115:1 Or faithfulness
Psalm 115:7 Lit Their hands
Psalm 115:7 Lit Their feet
Psalm 115:8 Or are like them
Psalm 115:11 Or revere
Psalm 115:13 Or revere
Psalm 115:17 Heb Yah
Psalm 115:18 Heb Yah
Psalm 115:18 Or Hallelujah!
Psalm 115:18 Heb Yah
Psalm 116:3 Lit straits
Psalm 116:3 I.e., the netherworld
Psalm 116:3 Lit found me
Psalm 116:4 Or soul
Psalm 116:9 Lit lands
Psalm 116:12 Lit upon
Psalm 116:16 Or because I am
Psalm 116:19 Or Hallelujah!
Psalm 116:19 Heb Yah

Jude

New American Standard Bible

The Warnings of History to the Ungodly

¹^[a]^(A)Jude, a ^(B)bond-servant of Jesus Christ and brother of ^[b]James,

To ^(C)those who are the called, beloved in God the Father, and ^(D)kept for Jesus Christ: ²^(E)May mercy, peace, and love ^(F)be multiplied to you.

³^(G)Beloved, while I was making every effort to write you about our ^(H)common salvation, I felt the necessity to write to you appealing that you ^(I)contend earnestly for ^(J)the faith that was once for all time ^(K)handed down to ^(L)the ^[c]saints. ⁴For certain people have ^(M)crept in unnoticed, those who were long beforehand ^[d]^(N)marked out for this condemnation, ungodly persons who turn ^(O)the grace of our God into ^(P)indecent behavior and ^(Q)deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.

⁵Now I want to ^(R)remind you, though ^(S)you know everything once and for all, that ^[e]the Lord, ^(T)after saving a people out of the land of Egypt, ^[f]subsequently destroyed those who did not believe. ⁶And ^(U)angels who did not keep their own domain but abandoned their proper dwelling place, these He has ^(V)kept in eternal restraints under darkness for the judgment of the great day, ⁷just as ^(W)Sodom and Gomorrah and the ^(X)cities around them, since they in the same way as these angels indulged in sexual perversion and ^(Y)went after ^[g]strange flesh, are exhibited as an ^[h]^(Z)example in undergoing the ^(AA)punishment of eternal fire.

⁸Yet in the same way these people also, dreaming, ^(AB)defile the flesh, reject authority, and speak abusively of angelic ^[i]majesties. ⁹But ^(AC)Michael ^(AD)the archangel, when he disputed with the devil and argued about ^(AE)the body of Moses, did not dare pronounce against him an abusive judgment, but said, “^(AF)The Lord rebuke you!” ¹⁰But ^(AG)these people disparage all the things that they do not understand; and ^(AH)all the things that they know by instinct, ^(AI)like unreasoning animals, by these things they are destroyed. ¹¹Woe to them! For they have gone ^(AJ)the way of Cain, and for pay ^[j]they have given themselves up to ^(AK)the error of Balaam, and ^(AL)perished in the rebellion of Korah. ¹²These are the ones who are ^[k]hidden reefs ^(AM)in your love feasts when they feast with you ^(AN)without fear, like shepherds caring only for themselves; ^(AO)clouds without water, ^(AP)carried along by winds; autumn trees without fruit, ^[l]doubly dead, ^(AQ)uprooted; ¹³^(AR)wild waves of the sea, churning up ^(AS)their own shameful deeds like dirty foam; wandering stars, ^(AT)for whom the ^[m]gloom of darkness has been reserved forever.

¹⁴It was also about these people that ^(AU)Enoch, in the seventh generation from Adam, prophesied, saying, “^(AV)Behold, the Lord has come with ^[n]many thousands of His holy ones, ¹⁵^(AW)to execute judgment upon all, and to convict all the ungodly of all their ungodly deeds which they have done in an ungodly way, and of all the harsh things which ^(AX)ungodly sinners have spoken against Him.” ¹⁶These are ^(AY)grumblers, finding fault, ^(AZ)following after their own lusts; ^[o]they speak ^(BA)arrogantly, flattering people ^(BB)for the sake of gaining an advantage.

Keep Yourselves in the Love of God

¹⁷But you, ^(BC)beloved, ^(BD)ought to remember the words that were spoken beforehand by ^(BE)the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ, ¹⁸that they were saying to you, “^(BF)In the last time there will be mockers, ^(BG)following after their own ungodly lusts.” ¹⁹These are the ones who cause divisions, ^[p]^(BH)worldly-minded, ^[q]devoid of the Spirit. ²⁰But you, ^(BI)beloved, ^(BJ)building yourselves up on your most holy ^(BK)faith, ^(BL)praying in the Holy Spirit, ²¹keep yourselves in the love of God, ^(BM)looking forward to the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to eternal life. ²²And have mercy on some, who are doubting; ²³save others, ^(BN)snatching them out of the fire; and on some have mercy with fear, ^(BO)hating even the garment polluted by the flesh.

²⁴^(BP)Now to Him who is able to protect you from stumbling, and to ^(BQ)make you stand in the presence of His glory, blameless with ^(BR)great joy, ²⁵to the ^(BS)only ^(BT)God our Savior, through Jesus Christ our Lord, ^(BU)be glory, majesty, dominion, and authority ^(BV)before all time and now and ^[r]forever. Amen.