Isaiah 4-5

English Standard Version

4 ^(A)And seven women ^(B)shall take hold of ^(C)one man in that day, saying, “We will eat our own bread and wear our own clothes, only let us be called by your name; ^(D)take away our reproach.”

The Branch of the Lord Glorified

²In that day ^(E)the branch of the Lord shall be beautiful and glorious, and ^(F)the fruit of the land shall be the pride and honor of the survivors of Israel. ³^(G)And he who is left in Zion and remains in Jerusalem will be called ^(H)holy, everyone who has ^(I)been recorded for life in Jerusalem, ⁴when ^(J)the Lord shall have washed away the filth of ^(K)the daughters of Zion and cleansed the bloodstains of Jerusalem from its midst by a spirit of judgment and by ^(L)a spirit of burning.^[a] ⁵Then the Lord will create over the whole site of Mount Zion and over her assemblies ^(M)a cloud by day, and smoke and the shining of a flaming fire by night; for over all the glory there will be ^(N)a canopy. ⁶^(O)There will be a ^(P)booth for shade by day from the heat, and ^(Q)for a refuge and a shelter from the storm and rain.

The Vineyard of the Lord Destroyed

5 Let me sing for my beloved
    my love song concerning his vineyard:
My beloved had ^(R)a vineyard
    on a very fertile hill.
²He dug it and cleared it of stones,
    and planted it with ^(S)choice vines;
he built a watchtower in the midst of it,
    and hewed out a wine vat in it;
and ^(T)he looked for it to yield grapes,
    but it yielded wild grapes.

³And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem
    and men of Judah,
judge between me and my vineyard.
⁴^(U)What more was there to do for my vineyard,
    that I have not done in it?
^(V)When I looked for it to yield grapes,
    why did it yield wild grapes?

⁵And now I will tell you
    what I will do to my vineyard.
I will remove ^(W)its hedge,
    and it shall be devoured;^[b]
^(X)I will break down its wall,
    and it shall be trampled down.
⁶I will make it a waste;
    it shall not be pruned or hoed,
    and ^(Y)briers and thorns shall grow up;
^(Z)I will also command the clouds
    that they rain no rain upon it.

⁷^(AA)For the vineyard of the Lord of hosts
    is the house of Israel,
and the men of Judah
    are his pleasant planting;
and he looked for justice,
    but behold, bloodshed;^[c]
for righteousness,
    but behold, an outcry!^[d]

Woe to the Wicked

⁸Woe to those who ^(AB)join house to house,
    who add field to field,
until there is no more room,
    and you are made to dwell alone
    in the midst of the land.
⁹The Lord of hosts has sworn in my hearing:
^(AC)“Surely many houses shall be desolate,
    large and beautiful houses, without inhabitant.
¹⁰^(AD)For ten acres^[e] of vineyard shall yield but one bath,
    and a ^(AE)homer of seed shall yield but an ephah.”^[f]

¹¹Woe to those who ^(AF)rise early in the morning,
    that they may run after strong drink,
who tarry late into the evening
    as wine inflames them!
¹²^(AG)They have lyre and harp,
    tambourine and flute and wine at their feasts,
^(AH)but they do not regard the deeds of the Lord,
    or see the work of his hands.

¹³Therefore my people go into exile
    ^(AI)for lack of knowledge;^[g]
their ^(AJ)honored men go hungry,^[h]
    and their multitude is parched with thirst.
¹⁴Therefore Sheol has ^(AK)enlarged its appetite
    and opened ^(AL)its mouth beyond measure,
and the nobility of Jerusalem^[i] and her multitude will go down,
    her revelers and he who ^(AM)exults in her.
¹⁵^(AN)Man is humbled, and each one is brought low,
    and the eyes of the haughty^[j] are brought low.
¹⁶^(AO)But the Lord of hosts is exalted^[k] in justice,
    and the Holy God shows himself holy in righteousness.
¹⁷Then shall the lambs graze ^(AP)as in their pasture,
    and ^(AQ)nomads shall eat among the ruins of the rich.

¹⁸Woe to those who draw iniquity with ^(AR)cords of falsehood,
    who draw sin as with cart ropes,
¹⁹who say: ^(AS)“Let him be quick,
    let him speed his work
    that we may see it;
let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw near,
    and let it come, that we may know it!”
²⁰Woe to ^(AT)those who call evil good
    and good evil,
^(AU)who put darkness for light
    and light for darkness,
who put bitter for sweet
    and sweet for bitter!
²¹Woe to those who are ^(AV)wise in their own eyes,
    and shrewd in their own sight!
²²Woe to those who are ^(AW)heroes at drinking wine,
    and valiant men in mixing strong drink,
²³who ^(AX)acquit the guilty for a bribe,
    and deprive the innocent of his right!

²⁴Therefore, ^(AY)as the tongue of fire devours the stubble,
    and as dry grass sinks down in the flame,
so ^(AZ)their root will be ^(BA)as rottenness,
    and their blossom go up like dust;
for they have ^(BB)rejected the law of the Lord of hosts,
    and have ^(BC)despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.
²⁵Therefore ^(BD)the anger of the Lord was kindled against his people,
    and he stretched out his hand against them and struck them,
    and ^(BE)the mountains quaked;
and their corpses were ^(BF)as refuse
    in the midst of the streets.
^(BG)For all this his anger has not turned away,
    and his hand is stretched out still.

²⁶He will ^(BH)raise a signal for nations far away,
    and ^(BI)whistle for them ^(BJ)from the ends of the earth;
and behold, quickly, speedily they come!
²⁷^(BK)None is weary, none stumbles,
    none slumbers or sleeps,
not a waistband is loose,
    not a sandal strap broken;
²⁸^(BL)their arrows are sharp,
    all their bows bent,
their horses' hoofs seem like flint,
    and their wheels ^(BM)like the whirlwind.
²⁹Their roaring is like a lion,
    like young lions they roar;
they growl and ^(BN)seize their prey;
    they carry it off, and none can rescue.
³⁰They will growl over it on that day,
    like the growling of the sea.
And if one looks to the land,
    behold, ^(BO)darkness and distress;
and the light is darkened by its clouds.

Footnotes

Isaiah 4:4 Or purging
Isaiah 5:5 Or grazed over; compare Exodus 22:5
Isaiah 5:7 The Hebrew words for justice and bloodshed sound alike
Isaiah 5:7 The Hebrew words for righteous and outcry sound alike
Isaiah 5:10 Hebrew ten yoke, the area ten yoke of oxen can plow in a day
Isaiah 5:10 A bath was about 6 gallons or 22 liters; a homer was about 6 bushels or 220 liters; an ephah was about 3/5 bushel or 22 liters
Isaiah 5:13 Or without their knowledge
Isaiah 5:13 Or die of hunger
Isaiah 5:14 Hebrew her nobility
Isaiah 5:15 Hebrew high
Isaiah 5:16 Hebrew high

Psalm 115-116

English Standard Version

To Your Name Give Glory

115 ^(A)Not to us, O Lord, not to us, but to your name give glory,
^(B)for the sake of your steadfast love and your faithfulness!

²Why should the nations say,
^(C)“Where is their God?”
³^(D)Our God is in the heavens;
^(E)he does all that he pleases.

⁴^(F)Their idols are silver and gold,
    ^(G)the work of human hands.
⁵They have mouths, ^(H)but do not speak;
    eyes, but do not see.
⁶They have ears, but do not hear;
    noses, but do not smell.
⁷They have hands, but do not feel;
    feet, but do not walk;
    and they do not make a sound in their throat.
⁸^(I)Those who make them become like them;
    so do all who trust in them.

⁹O ^(J)Israel,^[a] ^(K)trust in the Lord!
    He is their ^(L)help and their shield.
¹⁰O ^(M)house of Aaron, trust in the Lord!
    He is their help and ^(N)their shield.
¹¹You ^(O)who fear the Lord, trust in the Lord!
    He is their help and their shield.

¹²The Lord has remembered us; he will bless us;
    he will bless ^(P)the house of Israel;
    he will bless ^(Q)the house of Aaron;
¹³he will ^(R)bless those who fear the Lord,
    ^(S)both the small and the great.

¹⁴May the Lord ^(T)give you increase,
you and your children!
¹⁵May ^(U)you be blessed by the Lord,
^(V)who made heaven and earth!

¹⁶The heavens are the Lord's heavens,
    but the earth he has given to the children of man.
¹⁷^(W)The dead do not praise the Lord,
    nor do any who go down into ^(X)silence.
¹⁸But ^(Y)we will bless the Lord
    from this time forth and forevermore.
^(Z)Praise the Lord!

I Love the Lord

116 I ^(AA)love the Lord, because he has ^(AB)heard
    my voice and my pleas for mercy.
²Because he ^(AC)inclined his ear to me,
    therefore I will call on him as long as I live.
³^(AD)The snares of death encompassed me;
    the pangs of Sheol laid hold on me;
    I suffered distress and anguish.
⁴Then ^(AE)I called on the name of the Lord:
    “O Lord, I pray, deliver my soul!”

⁵^(AF)Gracious is the Lord, and ^(AG)righteous;
    our God is ^(AH)merciful.
⁶The Lord preserves ^(AI)the simple;
    when ^(AJ)I was brought low, he saved me.
⁷Return, O my soul, to your ^(AK)rest;
    for the Lord has ^(AL)dealt bountifully with you.

⁸For ^(AM)you have delivered my soul from death,
    my eyes from tears,
    my feet from stumbling;
⁹I will walk before the Lord
    ^(AN)in the land of the living.

¹⁰^(AO)I believed, ^(AP)even when^[b] I spoke:
“I am greatly afflicted”;
¹¹^(AQ)I said in my alarm,
^(AR)“All mankind are liars.”

¹²What shall I ^(AS)render to the Lord
    for all his benefits to me?
¹³I will lift up ^(AT)the cup of salvation
    and ^(AU)call on the name of the Lord,
¹⁴I will ^(AV)pay my vows to the Lord
    in the presence of all his people.

¹⁵^(AW)Precious in the sight of the Lord
    is the death of his ^(AX)saints.
¹⁶O Lord, I am your ^(AY)servant;
    I am your servant, ^(AZ)the son of your maidservant.
    You have ^(BA)loosed my bonds.
¹⁷I will ^(BB)offer to you the sacrifice of thanksgiving
    and ^(BC)call on the name of the Lord.
¹⁸I will ^(BD)pay my vows to the Lord
    in the presence of all his people,
¹⁹in ^(BE)the courts of the house of the Lord,
    in your midst, O Jerusalem.
^(BF)Praise the Lord!

Footnotes

Psalm 115:9 Masoretic Text; many Hebrew manuscripts, Septuagint, Syriac O house of Israel
Psalm 116:10 Or believed, indeed; Septuagint believed, therefore

Jude

English Standard Version

Greeting

¹Jude, a servant^[a] of Jesus Christ and brother of James,

^(A)To those who are called, ^(B)beloved in God the Father and ^(C)kept for^[b] Jesus Christ:

²May ^(D)mercy, ^(E)peace, and love be multiplied to you.

Judgment on False Teachers

³Beloved, although I was very eager to write to you about our ^(F)common salvation, I found it necessary to write appealing to you ^(G)to contend for the faith that was once for all delivered to the saints. ⁴For ^(H)certain people ^(I)have crept in unnoticed ^(J)who long ago were designated for this condemnation, ungodly people, who pervert ^(K)the grace of our God into sensuality and ^(L)deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.

⁵Now I want ^(M)to remind you, although you once fully knew it, that ^(N)Jesus, who saved^[c] a people out of the land of Egypt, ^(O)afterward destroyed those who did not believe. ⁶And ^(P)the angels who did not stay within their own position of authority, but left their proper dwelling, he has kept in eternal chains under gloomy darkness until the judgment of the great day— ⁷just as ^(Q)Sodom and Gomorrah and ^(R)the surrounding cities, which likewise indulged in sexual immorality and ^(S)pursued unnatural desire,^[d] serve as an example by undergoing a punishment of eternal fire.

⁸Yet in like manner these people also, relying on their dreams, defile the flesh, reject authority, and ^(T)blaspheme the glorious ones. ⁹But when ^(U)the archangel ^(V)Michael, contending with the devil, was disputing ^(W)about the body of Moses, he did not presume to pronounce a blasphemous judgment, but said, ^(X)“The Lord rebuke you.” ¹⁰^(Y)But these people blaspheme all that they do not understand, and they are destroyed by all that they, like unreasoning animals, understand instinctively. ¹¹Woe to them! For they walked in ^(Z)the way of Cain and abandoned themselves for the sake of gain ^(AA)to Balaam's error and ^(AB)perished in Korah's rebellion. ¹²These are hidden reefs^[e] ^(AC)at your love feasts, as they feast with you without fear, ^(AD)shepherds feeding themselves; ^(AE)waterless clouds, ^(AF)swept along by winds; fruitless trees in late autumn, twice dead, ^(AG)uprooted; ¹³^(AH)wild waves of the sea, casting up the foam of ^(AI)their own shame; ^(AJ)wandering stars, ^(AK)for whom the gloom of utter darkness has been reserved forever.

¹⁴It was also about these that Enoch, ^(AL)the seventh from Adam, prophesied, saying, ^(AM)“Behold, the Lord comes with ten thousands of his holy ones, ¹⁵^(AN)to execute judgment on all and to convict all the ungodly of all their deeds of ungodliness that they have ^(AO)committed in such an ungodly way, and of all ^(AP)the harsh things that ungodly sinners have spoken against him.” ¹⁶These are grumblers, malcontents, ^(AQ)following their own sinful desires; ^(AR)they are loud-mouthed boasters, ^(AS)showing favoritism to gain advantage.

A Call to Persevere

¹⁷But you must ^(AT)remember, beloved, the predictions of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ. ¹⁸They^[f] said to you, ^(AU)“In the last time there will be scoffers, following their own ungodly passions.” ¹⁹It is these who cause divisions, worldly people, ^(AV)devoid of the Spirit. ²⁰But you, beloved, ^(AW)building yourselves up in your most holy faith and ^(AX)praying in the Holy Spirit, ²¹^(AY)keep yourselves in the love of God, ^(AZ)waiting for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ that leads to eternal life. ²²And have mercy on those who doubt; ²³save others by ^(BA)snatching them out of ^(BB)the fire; to others show mercy ^(BC)with fear, hating even ^(BD)the garment^[g] stained by the flesh.

Doxology

²⁴^(BE)Now to him who is able ^(BF)to keep you from stumbling and ^(BG)to present you ^(BH)blameless before the presence of his glory with great joy, ²⁵to ^(BI)the only God, our Savior, through Jesus Christ our Lord, ^(BJ)be glory, majesty, dominion, and authority, before all time^[h] and now and forever. Amen.

Footnotes

Jude 1:1 For the contextual rendering of the Greek word doulos, see Preface
Jude 1:1 Or by
Jude 1:5 Some manuscripts although you fully knew it, that the Lord who once saved
Jude 1:7 Greek different flesh
Jude 1:12 Or are blemishes
Jude 1:18 Or Christ, because they
Jude 1:23 Greek chiton, a long garment worn under the cloak next to the skin
Jude 1:25 Or before any age