¹⁰ ‘Behold, the day! Behold, it is coming! Your doom has gone forth; the ^(A)rod has budded, arrogance has blossomed. ¹¹ Violence ^[a]has grown into a rod of ^(B)wickedness. None of them shall remain, none of their people, none of their ^(C)wealth, nor anything eminent among them. ¹² The ^(D)time has come, the day has arrived. Let not the ^(E)buyer rejoice nor the seller mourn; for ^(F)wrath is against all their multitude. ¹³ Indeed, the seller will not ^[b](G)regain ^[c]what he sold as long as ^[d]they both live; for the vision regarding all their multitude will not ^[e]be averted, nor will any of them maintain his life by his iniquity.

¹⁴ ‘They have ^(H)blown the trumpet and made everything ready, but no one is going to the battle, for My wrath is against all ^[f]their multitude. ¹⁵ The ^(I)sword is outside and the plague and the famine are within. He who is in the field will die by the sword; famine and the plague will also consume those in the city.

²³ ‘^(A)Make the chain, for the land is full of ^[a](B)bloody crimes and the city is ^(C)full of violence. ²⁴ Therefore, I will bring the worst of the ^(D)nations, and they will possess their houses. I will also make the ^(E)pride of the strong ones cease, and their ^(F)holy places will be profaned. ²⁵ When anguish comes, they will seek ^(G)peace, but there will be none. ^26 (H)Disaster will come upon disaster and ^(I)rumor will be added to rumor; then they will seek a ^(J)vision from a prophet, but the ^(K)law will be lost from the priest and ^(L)counsel from the elders. ²⁷ The king will mourn, the prince will be ^(M)clothed with horror, and the hands of the people of the land will ^[b]tremble. According to their conduct I will deal with them, and by their judgments I will judge them. And they will know that I am the Lord.’”

¹³ For ^(A)when God made the promise to Abraham, since He could swear by no one greater, He ^(B)swore by Himself, ¹⁴ saying, “^(C)I will surely bless you and I will surely multiply you.” ¹⁵ And so, ^(D)having patiently waited, he obtained the promise. ^16 (E)For men swear by ^[a]one greater than themselves, and with them ^(F)an oath given as confirmation is an end of every dispute. ^17 [b]In the same way God, desiring even more to show to ^(G)the heirs of the promise ^(H)the unchangeableness of His purpose, ^[c]interposed with an oath, ¹⁸ so that by two unchangeable things in which ^(I)it is impossible for God to lie, we who have ^[d]taken refuge would have strong encouragement to take hold of ^(J)the hope set before us. ^19 [e]This ^(K)hope we have as an anchor of the soul, a hope both sure and steadfast and one which ^(L)enters ^[f]within the veil, ^20 (M)where Jesus has entered as a forerunner for us, having become a ^(N)high priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek.

The Seventy Sent Out

10 Now after this ^(A)the Lord appointed ^[a]seventy ^(B)others, and sent them ^(C)in pairs ahead of Him to every city and place where He Himself was going to come. ² And He was saying to them, “^(D)The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few; therefore beseech the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into His harvest. ³ Go; ^(E)behold, I send you out as lambs in the midst of wolves. ^4 (F)Carry no money belt, no ^[b]bag, no shoes; and greet no one on the way. ⁵ Whatever house you enter, first say, ‘Peace be to this house.’ ⁶ If a ^[c]man of peace is there, your peace will rest on him; but if not, it will return to you. ⁷ Stay in ^[d]that house, eating and drinking ^[e]what they give you; for ^(G)the laborer is worthy of his wages. Do not keep moving from house to house. ⁸ Whatever city you enter and they receive you, ^(H)eat what is set before you; ⁹ and heal those in it who are sick, and say to them, ‘^(I)The kingdom of God has come near to you.’ ¹⁰ But whatever city you enter and they do not receive you, go out into its streets and say, ¹¹ ‘^(J)Even the dust of your city which clings to our feet we wipe off in protest against you; yet ^[f]be sure of this, that ^(K)the kingdom of God has come near.’ ¹² I say to you, ^(L)it will be more tolerable in that day for ^(M)Sodom than for that city.

¹³ “^(N)Woe to you, ^(O)Chorazin! Woe to you, ^(P)Bethsaida! For if the ^[g]miracles had been performed in ^(Q)Tyre and Sidon which occurred in you, they would have repented long ago, sitting in ^[h](R)sackcloth and ashes. ¹⁴ But it will be more tolerable for ^(S)Tyre and Sidon in the judgment than for you. ¹⁵ And you, ^(T)Capernaum, will not be exalted to heaven, will you? You will be brought down to Hades!

¹⁶ “^(U)The one who listens to you listens to Me, and ^(V)the one who rejects you rejects Me; and he who rejects Me rejects the One who sent Me.”

The Happy Results

¹⁷ The ^[i]seventy returned with joy, saying, “Lord, even ^(W)the demons are subject to us in Your name.”