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Isaiah 20

A Prophecy Against Egypt and Cush

 ³ Then the LORD said, "Just as my servant Isaiah has gone stripped and barefoot for three years, as a sign and portent against Egypt and Cush, ^{[a] 4} so the king of Assyria will lead away stripped and barefoot the Egyptian captives and Cushite exiles, young and old, with buttocks bared—to Egypt's shame. ⁵ Those who trusted in Cush and boasted in Egypt will be afraid and put to shame. ⁶ In that day the people who live on this coast will say, 'See what has happened to those we relied on, those we fled to for help and deliverance from the king of Assyria! How then can we escape?' "

Isaiah 21

A Prophecy Against Babylon

 ² A dire vision has been shown to me:
       The traitor betrays, the looter takes loot.
       Elam, attack! Media, lay siege!
       I will bring to an end all the groaning she caused.

 ³ At this my body is racked with pain,
       pangs seize me, like those of a woman in labor;
       I am staggered by what I hear,
       I am bewildered by what I see.

 ⁴ My heart falters,
       fear makes me tremble;
       the twilight I longed for
       has become a horror to me.

 ⁵ They set the tables,
       they spread the rugs,
       they eat, they drink!
       Get up, you officers,
       oil the shields!

 ⁶ This is what the Lord says to me:
       "Go, post a lookout
       and have him report what he sees.

 ⁷ When he sees chariots
       with teams of horses,
       riders on donkeys
       or riders on camels,
       let him be alert,
       fully alert."

 ⁸ And the lookout ^[b] shouted,
       "Day after day, my lord, I stand on the watchtower;
       every night I stay at my post.

 ⁹ Look, here comes a man in a chariot
       with a team of horses.
       And he gives back the answer:
       'Babylon has fallen, has fallen!
       All the images of its gods
       lie shattered on the ground!' "

 ¹⁰ O my people, crushed on the threshing floor,
       I tell you what I have heard
       from the LORD Almighty,
       from the God of Israel.

A Prophecy Against Edom

 ¹² The watchman replies,
       "Morning is coming, but also the night.
       If you would ask, then ask;
       and come back yet again."

A Prophecy Against Arabia

 ¹⁴ bring water for the thirsty;
       you who live in Tema,
       bring food for the fugitives.

 ¹⁵ They flee from the sword,
       from the drawn sword,
       from the bent bow
       and from the heat of battle.

 ¹⁶ This is what the Lord says to me: "Within one year, as a servant bound by contract would count it, all the pomp of Kedar will come to an end. ¹⁷ The survivors of the bowmen, the warriors of Kedar, will be few." The LORD, the God of Israel, has spoken.

Isaiah 22

A Prophecy About Jerusalem

 ² O town full of commotion,
       O city of tumult and revelry?
       Your slain were not killed by the sword,
       nor did they die in battle.

 ³ All your leaders have fled together;
       they have been captured without using the bow.
       All you who were caught were taken prisoner together,
       having fled while the enemy was still far away.

 ⁴ Therefore I said, "Turn away from me;
       let me weep bitterly.
       Do not try to console me
       over the destruction of my people."

 ⁵ The Lord, the LORD Almighty, has a day
       of tumult and trampling and terror
       in the Valley of Vision,
       a day of battering down walls
       and of crying out to the mountains.

 ⁶ Elam takes up the quiver,
       with her charioteers and horses;
       Kir uncovers the shield.

 ⁷ Your choicest valleys are full of chariots,
       and horsemen are posted at the city gates;

 ⁸ the defenses of Judah are stripped away.
       And you looked in that day
       to the weapons in the Palace of the Forest;

 ⁹ you saw that the City of David
       had many breaches in its defenses;
       you stored up water
       in the Lower Pool.

 ¹⁰ You counted the buildings in Jerusalem
       and tore down houses to strengthen the wall.

 ¹¹ You built a reservoir between the two walls
       for the water of the Old Pool,
       but you did not look to the One who made it,
       or have regard for the One who planned it long ago.

 ¹² The Lord, the LORD Almighty,
       called you on that day
       to weep and to wail,
       to tear out your hair and put on sackcloth.

 ¹³ But see, there is joy and revelry,
       slaughtering of cattle and killing of sheep,
       eating of meat and drinking of wine!
       "Let us eat and drink," you say,
       "for tomorrow we die!"

 ¹⁴ The LORD Almighty has revealed this in my hearing: "Till your dying day this sin will not be atoned for," says the Lord, the LORD Almighty.

 ¹⁵ This is what the Lord, the LORD Almighty, says:
       "Go, say to this steward,
       to Shebna, who is in charge of the palace:

 ¹⁶ What are you doing here and who gave you permission
       to cut out a grave for yourself here,
       hewing your grave on the height
       and chiseling your resting place in the rock?

 ¹⁷ "Beware, the LORD is about to take firm hold of you
       and hurl you away, O you mighty man.

 ¹⁸ He will roll you up tightly like a ball
       and throw you into a large country.
       There you will die
       and there your splendid chariots will remain—
       you disgrace to your master's house!

 ¹⁹ I will depose you from your office,
       and you will be ousted from your position.

 ²⁰ "In that day I will summon my servant, Eliakim son of Hilkiah. ²¹ I will clothe him with your robe and fasten your sash around him and hand your authority over to him. He will be a father to those who live in Jerusalem and to the house of Judah. ²² I will place on his shoulder the key to the house of David; what he opens no one can shut, and what he shuts no one can open. ²³ I will drive him like a peg into a firm place; he will be a seat ^[d] of honor for the house of his father. ²⁴ All the glory of his family will hang on him: its offspring and offshoots—all its lesser vessels, from the bowls to all the jars.

 ²⁵ "In that day," declares the LORD Almighty, "the peg driven into the firm place will give way; it will be sheared off and will fall, and the load hanging on it will be cut down." The LORD has spoken.

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Ephesians 6

Children and Parents

Slaves and Masters

 ⁹And masters, treat your slaves in the same way. Do not threaten them, since you know that he who is both their Master and yours is in heaven, and there is no favoritism with him.

The Armor of God

 ¹⁹Pray also for me, that whenever I open my mouth, words may be given me so that I will fearlessly make known the mystery of the gospel, ²⁰for which I am an ambassador in chains. Pray that I may declare it fearlessly, as I should.

Final Greetings

 ²³Peace to the brothers, and love with faith from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. ²⁴Grace to all who love our Lord Jesus Christ with an undying love.