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Isaiah 23

A Prophecy About Tyre

 ² Be silent, you people of the island
       and you merchants of Sidon,
       whom the seafarers have enriched.

 ³ On the great waters
       came the grain of the Shihor;
       the harvest of the Nile ^[b] was the revenue of Tyre,
       and she became the marketplace of the nations.

 ⁴ Be ashamed, O Sidon, and you, O fortress of the sea,
       for the sea has spoken:
       "I have neither been in labor nor given birth;
       I have neither reared sons nor brought up daughters."

 ⁵ When word comes to Egypt,
       they will be in anguish at the report from Tyre.

 ⁶ Cross over to Tarshish;
       wail, you people of the island.

 ⁷ Is this your city of revelry,
       the old, old city,
       whose feet have taken her
       to settle in far-off lands?

 ⁸ Who planned this against Tyre,
       the bestower of crowns,
       whose merchants are princes,
       whose traders are renowned in the earth?

 ⁹ The LORD Almighty planned it,
       to bring low the pride of all glory
       and to humble all who are renowned on the earth.

 ¹⁰ Till ^[c] your land as along the Nile,
       O Daughter of Tarshish,
       for you no longer have a harbor.

 ¹¹ The LORD has stretched out his hand over the sea
       and made its kingdoms tremble.
       He has given an order concerning Phoenicia ^[d]
       that her fortresses be destroyed.

 ¹² He said, "No more of your reveling,
       O Virgin Daughter of Sidon, now crushed!
       "Up, cross over to Cyprus ^[e] ;
       even there you will find no rest."

 ¹³ Look at the land of the Babylonians, ^[f]
       this people that is now of no account!
       The Assyrians have made it
       a place for desert creatures;
       they raised up their siege towers,
       they stripped its fortresses bare
       and turned it into a ruin.

 ¹⁴ Wail, you ships of Tarshish;
       your fortress is destroyed!

 ¹⁵ At that time Tyre will be forgotten for seventy years, the span of a king's life. But at the end of these seventy years, it will happen to Tyre as in the song of the prostitute:

 ¹⁶ "Take up a harp, walk through the city,
       O prostitute forgotten;
       play the harp well, sing many a song,
       so that you will be remembered."

 ¹⁷ At the end of seventy years, the LORD will deal with Tyre. She will return to her hire as a prostitute and will ply her trade with all the kingdoms on the face of the earth. ¹⁸ Yet her profit and her earnings will be set apart for the LORD; they will not be stored up or hoarded. Her profits will go to those who live before the LORD, for abundant food and fine clothes.

Isaiah 24

The LORD's Devastation of the Earth

 ² it will be the same
       for priest as for people,
       for master as for servant,
       for mistress as for maid,
       for seller as for buyer,
       for borrower as for lender,
       for debtor as for creditor.

 ³ The earth will be completely laid waste
       and totally plundered.
       The LORD has spoken this word.

 ⁴ The earth dries up and withers,
       the world languishes and withers,
       the exalted of the earth languish.

 ⁵ The earth is defiled by its people;
       they have disobeyed the laws,
       violated the statutes
       and broken the everlasting covenant.

 ⁶ Therefore a curse consumes the earth;
       its people must bear their guilt.
       Therefore earth's inhabitants are burned up,
       and very few are left.

 ⁷ The new wine dries up and the vine withers;
       all the merrymakers groan.

 ⁸ The gaiety of the tambourines is stilled,
       the noise of the revelers has stopped,
       the joyful harp is silent.

 ⁹ No longer do they drink wine with a song;
       the beer is bitter to its drinkers.

 ¹⁰ The ruined city lies desolate;
       the entrance to every house is barred.

 ¹¹ In the streets they cry out for wine;
       all joy turns to gloom,
       all gaiety is banished from the earth.

 ¹² The city is left in ruins,
       its gate is battered to pieces.

 ¹³ So will it be on the earth
       and among the nations,
       as when an olive tree is beaten,
       or as when gleanings are left after the grape harvest.

 ¹⁴ They raise their voices, they shout for joy;
       from the west they acclaim the LORD's majesty.

 ¹⁵ Therefore in the east give glory to the LORD;
       exalt the name of the LORD, the God of Israel,
       in the islands of the sea.

 ¹⁶ From the ends of the earth we hear singing:
       "Glory to the Righteous One."
       But I said, "I waste away, I waste away!
       Woe to me!
       The treacherous betray!
       With treachery the treacherous betray!"

 ¹⁷ Terror and pit and snare await you,
       O people of the earth.

 ¹⁸ Whoever flees at the sound of terror
       will fall into a pit;
       whoever climbs out of the pit
       will be caught in a snare.
       The floodgates of the heavens are opened,
       the foundations of the earth shake.

 ¹⁹ The earth is broken up,
       the earth is split asunder,
       the earth is thoroughly shaken.

 ²⁰ The earth reels like a drunkard,
       it sways like a hut in the wind;
       so heavy upon it is the guilt of its rebellion
       that it falls—never to rise again.

 ²¹ In that day the LORD will punish
       the powers in the heavens above
       and the kings on the earth below.

 ²² They will be herded together
       like prisoners bound in a dungeon;
       they will be shut up in prison
       and be punished ^[g] after many days.

 ²³ The moon will be abashed, the sun ashamed;
       for the LORD Almighty will reign
       on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem,
       and before its elders, gloriously.

Isaiah 25

Praise to the LORD

 ² You have made the city a heap of rubble,
       the fortified town a ruin,
       the foreigners' stronghold a city no more;
       it will never be rebuilt.

 ³ Therefore strong peoples will honor you;
       cities of ruthless nations will revere you.

 ⁴ You have been a refuge for the poor,
       a refuge for the needy in his distress,
       a shelter from the storm
       and a shade from the heat.
       For the breath of the ruthless
       is like a storm driving against a wall

 ⁵ and like the heat of the desert.
       You silence the uproar of foreigners;
       as heat is reduced by the shadow of a cloud,
       so the song of the ruthless is stilled.

 ⁶ On this mountain the LORD Almighty will prepare
       a feast of rich food for all peoples,
       a banquet of aged wine—
       the best of meats and the finest of wines.

 ⁷ On this mountain he will destroy
       the shroud that enfolds all peoples,
       the sheet that covers all nations;

 ⁸ he will swallow up death forever.
       The Sovereign LORD will wipe away the tears
       from all faces;
       he will remove the disgrace of his people
       from all the earth.
       The LORD has spoken.

 ⁹ In that day they will say,
       "Surely this is our God;
       we trusted in him, and he saved us.
       This is the LORD, we trusted in him;
       let us rejoice and be glad in his salvation."

 ¹⁰ The hand of the LORD will rest on this mountain;
       but Moab will be trampled under him
       as straw is trampled down in the manure.

 ¹¹ They will spread out their hands in it,
       as a swimmer spreads out his hands to swim.
       God will bring down their pride
       despite the cleverness ^[h] of their hands.

 ¹² He will bring down your high fortified walls
       and lay them low;
       he will bring them down to the ground,
       to the very dust.

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Philippians 1

 ¹Paul and Timothy, servants of Christ Jesus,
      To all the saints in Christ Jesus at Philippi, together with the overseers^[a] and deacons:

 ²Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

Thanksgiving and Prayer

 ⁷It is right for me to feel this way about all of you, since I have you in my heart; for whether I am in chains or defending and confirming the gospel, all of you share in God's grace with me. ⁸God can testify how I long for all of you with the affection of Christ Jesus.

 ⁹And this is my prayer: that your love may abound more and more in knowledge and depth of insight, ¹⁰so that you may be able to discern what is best and may be pure and blameless until the day of Christ, ¹¹filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ—to the glory and praise of God.

Paul's Chains Advance the Gospel

 ¹⁵It is true that some preach Christ out of envy and rivalry, but others out of goodwill. ¹⁶The latter do so in love, knowing that I am put here for the defense of the gospel. ¹⁷The former preach Christ out of selfish ambition, not sincerely, supposing that they can stir up trouble for me while I am in chains.^{[c] 18}But what does it matter? The important thing is that in every way, whether from false motives or true, Christ is preached. And because of this I rejoice.

   Yes, and I will continue to rejoice, ¹⁹for I know that through your prayers and the help given by the Spirit of Jesus Christ, what has happened to me will turn out for my deliverance.^{[d] 20}I eagerly expect and hope that I will in no way be ashamed, but will have sufficient courage so that now as always Christ will be exalted in my body, whether by life or by death. ²¹For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain. ²²If I am to go on living in the body, this will mean fruitful labor for me. Yet what shall I choose? I do not know! ²³I am torn between the two: I desire to depart and be with Christ, which is better by far; ²⁴but it is more necessary for you that I remain in the body. ²⁵Convinced of this, I know that I will remain, and I will continue with all of you for your progress and joy in the faith, ²⁶so that through my being with you again your joy in Christ Jesus will overflow on account of me.

 ²⁷Whatever happens, conduct yourselves in a manner worthy of the gospel of Christ. Then, whether I come and see you or only hear about you in my absence, I will know that you stand firm in one spirit, contending as one man for the faith of the gospel ²⁸without being frightened in any way by those who oppose you. This is a sign to them that they will be destroyed, but that you will be saved—and that by God. ²⁹For it has been granted to you on behalf of Christ not only to believe on him, but also to suffer for him, ³⁰since you are going through the same struggle you saw I had, and now hear that I still have.