Isaiah 10:24-34

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²⁴Therefore this is what the Lord ^[a]God of armies says: “My people, you who dwell in ^(A)Zion, ^(B)do not fear the Assyrian ^[b]who ^(C)strikes you with the rod, and lifts up his staff against you the way Egypt did. ²⁵For in a very ^(D)little while ^(E)My indignation against you will be ended and My anger will be directed toward their destruction.” ²⁶The Lord of armies will ^(F)wield a whip against him like the defeat of ^(G)Midian at the rock of Oreb; and His ^(H)staff will be over the sea, and He will lift it up ^(I)the way He did in Egypt. ²⁷So it will be on that day, that ^[c]his ^(J)burden will be removed from your shoulders, and his yoke from your neck; and the yoke will be broken because ^(K)of fatness.

²⁸He has come against Aiath,
He has passed through ^(L)Migron;
At ^(M)Michmash he deposited his ^(N)baggage.
²⁹They have gone through ^(O)the pass, saying,
“^(P)Geba will be our encampment for the night.”
^(Q)Ramah is terrified, and ^(R)Gibeah of Saul has fled.
³⁰Cry aloud with your voice, daughter of ^(S)Gallim!
Pay attention, Laishah and ^[d]wretched ^(T)Anathoth!
³¹Madmenah has fled.
The inhabitants of Gebim have sought refuge.
³²Yet today he will halt at ^(U)Nob;
He ^(V)shakes his fist at the mountain of the ^[e]^(W)daughter of Zion, the hill of Jerusalem.

³³Behold, the Lord, the ^[f]God of armies, will lop off the branches with terrifying power;
Those also who are ^(X)tall in stature will be cut down,
And those who are lofty will be brought low.
³⁴He will cut down the thickets of the forest with an iron axe,
And ^(Y)Lebanon will fall by the Mighty One.

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Footnotes

Isaiah 10:24 Heb YHWH, usually rendered Lord
Isaiah 10:24 Lit he
Isaiah 10:27 I.e., the Assyrian
Isaiah 10:30 An ancient version reads Answer her, O Anathoth
Isaiah 10:32 Another reading is house of
Isaiah 10:33 Heb YHWH, usually rendered Lord

Mark 2:23-3:12

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Question of the Sabbath

²³^(A)And it happened that He was passing through the grainfields on the Sabbath, and His disciples began to make their way along while ^(B)picking the heads of grain. ²⁴The Pharisees were saying to Him, “Look, ^(C)why are they doing what is not lawful on the Sabbath?” ²⁵And He *said to them, “Have you never read what David did when he was in need and he and his companions became hungry; ²⁶how he entered the house of God in the ^[a]time of ^(D)Abiathar the high priest, and ate the ^[b]consecrated bread, which ^(E)is not lawful for anyone to eat except the priests, and he also gave it to those who were with him?” ²⁷Jesus said to them, “^(F)The Sabbath ^[c]was made ^[d]for man, and ^(G)not man ^[e]for the Sabbath. ²⁸So the Son of Man is Lord, even of the Sabbath.”

Jesus Heals on the Sabbath

3 ^(H)He ^(I)entered a synagogue again; and a man was there whose hand was withered. ²And ^(J)they were watching Him ^[f]closely to see if He would heal him on the Sabbath, ^(K)so that they might accuse Him. ³He *said to the man with the withered hand, “^[g]Get up and come forward!” ⁴And He *said to them, “Is it lawful to do good on the Sabbath or to do harm, to save a life or to kill?” But they kept silent. ⁵After ^(L)looking around at them with anger, grieved at their hardness of heart, He *said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” And he stretched it out, and his hand was restored. ⁶The Pharisees went out and immediately began ^[h]conspiring with the ^(M)Herodians against Him, as to how they might put Him to death.

⁷^(N)Jesus withdrew to the sea with His disciples; and ^(O)a large multitude from Galilee followed, and also from Judea, ⁸and from Jerusalem, and from ^(P)Idumea, and beyond the Jordan, and the vicinity of ^(Q)Tyre and Sidon, a great number of people heard about everything that He was doing and came to Him. ⁹^(R)And He told His disciples to see that a boat would be ready for Him because of the ^[i]masses, so that they would not crowd Him; ¹⁰for He had ^(S)healed many, with the result that all those who had ^(T)diseases pushed in around Him in order to ^(U)touch Him. ¹¹And whenever the unclean spirits saw Him, they would fall down before Him and shout, “You are ^(V)the Son of God!” ¹²And He ^(W)strongly warned them not to ^[j]reveal who He was.

Footnotes

Mark 2:26 Or passage about
Mark 2:26 Lit loaves of presentation
Mark 2:27 Or came into being
Mark 2:27 Lit because of; or for the sake of
Mark 2:27 Lit because of; or for the sake of
Mark 3:2 Or maliciously
Mark 3:3 Lit Arise into the midst
Mark 3:6 Lit giving counsel
Mark 3:9 Lit crowd
Mark 3:12 Lit make Him known

Isaiah 13:1-14:2

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Prophecies about Babylon

13 The ^(A)pronouncement concerning ^(B)Babylon which ^(C)Isaiah the son of Amoz saw:

²^(D)Lift up a flag on the ^[a]^(E)bare hill,
Raise your voice to them,
^(F)Wave the hand that they may ^(G)enter the doors of the nobles.
³I have commanded My consecrated ones,
I have also called for My ^(H)warriors
Who boast in My eminence,
To execute My anger.
⁴A ^(I)sound of a roar on the mountains,
Like that of many people!
A sound of an uproar of kingdoms,
Of nations gathered together!
The Lord of armies is mustering the army for battle.
⁵They are coming from a distant country,
From the ^[b]^(J)farthest horizons,
The Lord and the weapons of His ^(K)indignation,
To ^(L)destroy the whole land.

Judgment on the Day of the Lord

⁶Wail, for the ^(M)day of the Lord is near!
It will come as ^(N)destruction from ^[c]the Almighty.
⁷Therefore ^(O)all hands will fall limp,
And every human ^(P)heart will melt.
⁸They will be ^(Q)terrified,
Pains and anguish will take hold of them;
They will ^(R)writhe like a woman in labor,
They will look at one another in astonishment,
Their faces aflame.
⁹Behold, ^(S)the day of the Lord is coming,
Cruel, with fury and burning anger,
To make the land a desolation;
And He will exterminate its sinners from it.
¹⁰For the ^(T)stars of heaven and their constellations
Will not flash their light;
The ^(U)sun will be dark when it rises
And the moon will not shed its light.
¹¹So I will ^(V)punish the world for its evil
And the ^(W)wicked for their wrongdoing;
I will also put an end to the ^(X)audacity of the proud
And humiliate the ^(Y)arrogance of the ^[d]^(Z)tyrants.
¹²I will make mortal man ^(AA)scarcer than pure gold
And mankind than the ^(AB)gold of Ophir.
¹³Therefore I will make the ^(AC)heavens tremble,
And ^(AD)the earth will be shaken from its place
At the fury of the Lord of armies
In ^(AE)the day of His burning anger.
¹⁴And it will be that, like a hunted gazelle,
Or like ^(AF)sheep with no one to gather them,
Each of them will turn to his own people,
And each of them will flee to his own land.
¹⁵Anyone who is found will be ^(AG)thrust through,
And anyone who is captured will fall by the sword.
¹⁶Their ^(AH)little ones also will be dashed to pieces
Before their eyes;
Their houses will be plundered
And their wives raped.

Babylon Will Fall to the Medes

¹⁷Behold, I am going to ^(AI)stir up the Medes against them,
Who will not value silver or ^(AJ)take pleasure in gold.
¹⁸And their bows will ^[e]mow down the ^(AK)young men,
They will not even have compassion on the fruit of the womb,
Nor will their ^(AL)eye pity ^[f]children.
¹⁹And ^(AM)Babylon, the ^(AN)beauty of kingdoms, the glory of the Chaldeans’ pride,
Will be as when God ^(AO)overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.
²⁰It will ^(AP)never be inhabited or lived in from generation to generation;
Nor will the ^(AQ)Arab pitch his tent there,
Nor will shepherds allow their flocks to lie down there.
²¹But ^(AR)desert creatures will lie down there,
And their houses will be full of ^[g]owls;
Ostriches also will live there, and ^[h]shaggy goats will frolic there.
²²^[i]Hyenas will howl in their fortified towers
And jackals in their luxurious ^(AS)palaces.
Her fateful time also ^[j]will soon come,
And her days will not be prolonged.

Israel’s Taunt against Babylon

14 When the Lord ^(AT)has compassion on Jacob and again ^(AU)chooses Israel, and settles them on their own land, then ^(AV)strangers will join them and attach themselves to the house of Jacob. ²The peoples will take them along and bring them to their place, and the ^(AW)house of Israel will make them their own possession in the land of the Lord ^(AX)as male and female servants; and ^[k]they will take their captors captive and will rule over their oppressors.

Footnotes

Isaiah 13:2 Or wind-swept mountain
Isaiah 13:5 Lit end of heaven
Isaiah 13:6 Heb Shaddai
Isaiah 13:11 Or violent
Isaiah 13:18 Lit dash in pieces
Isaiah 13:18 Lit sons
Isaiah 13:21 Or howling creatures
Isaiah 13:21 Or goat demons
Isaiah 13:22 Or howling creatures
Isaiah 13:22 Lit is near to come
Isaiah 14:2 Lit the captors will become their captives

Revelation 9

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The Fifth Trumpet: Shaft of the Abyss

9 Then the ^(A)fifth angel sounded, and I saw a ^(B)star from heaven which had fallen to the earth; and the ^(C)key to the ^(D)shaft of the abyss was given to him. ²He opened the shaft of the abyss, and ^(E)smoke ascended out of the shaft like the smoke of a great furnace; and ^(F)the sun and the air were darkened from the smoke of the shaft. ³Then out of the smoke came ^(G)locusts ^[a]upon the earth, and power was given them, as the ^(H)scorpions of the earth have power. ⁴They were told not to ^(I)hurt the ^(J)grass of the earth, nor any green thing, nor any tree, but only the people who do not have the ^(K)seal of God on their foreheads. ⁵And ^[b]they were not permitted to kill ^[c]anyone, but to torment for ^(L)five months; and their torment was like the torment of a ^(M)scorpion when it ^[d]stings a person. ⁶And in those days ^(N)people will seek death and will not find it; they will long to die, and death ^[e]will flee from them!

⁷The ^[f]^(O)appearance of the locusts was like horses prepared for battle; and on their heads appeared to be crowns like gold, and their faces were like human faces. ⁸They had hair like the hair of women, and their ^(P)teeth were like the teeth of lions. ⁹They had breastplates like breastplates of iron; and the ^(Q)sound of their wings was like the sound of chariots, of many horses rushing to battle. ¹⁰They have tails like ^(R)scorpions, and stings; and in their ^(S)tails is their power to hurt people for ^(T)five months. ¹¹They have as king over them, the angel of the ^(U)abyss; his name in ^(V)Hebrew is ^[g]^(W)Abaddon, and in the Greek he has the name ^[h]Apollyon.

¹²^(X)The first woe has passed; behold, two woes are still coming after these things.

The Sixth Trumpet: Army from the East

¹³Then the sixth angel sounded, and I heard ^[i]a voice from the ^[j]four ^(Y)horns of the ^(Z)golden altar which is before God, ¹⁴saying to the sixth angel who had the trumpet, “Release the ^(AA)four angels who are bound at the ^(AB)great river Euphrates.” ¹⁵And the four angels, who had been prepared for the hour and day and month and year, were ^(AC)released, so that they would kill a ^(AD)third of mankind. ¹⁶The number of the armies of the horsemen was ^(AE)two hundred million; ^(AF)I heard the number of them. ¹⁷And this is how I saw ^(AG)in my vision the horses and those who sat on them: the riders had breastplates the color of fire, of hyacinth, and of ^[k]^(AH)brimstone; and the heads of the horses are like the heads of lions; and ^(AI)out of their mouths *came fire and smoke and ^[l]^(AJ)brimstone. ¹⁸A ^(AK)third of mankind was killed by these three plagues, by the ^(AL)fire, the smoke, and the ^[m]brimstone which came out of their mouths. ¹⁹For the power of the horses is in their mouths and in their tails; for their tails are like serpents and have heads, and with them they do harm.

²⁰The rest of mankind, who were not killed by these plagues, ^(AM)did not repent of ^(AN)the works of their hands so as not to ^(AO)worship demons and ^(AP)the idols of gold, silver, brass, stone, and wood, which can neither see nor hear nor walk; ²¹and they ^(AQ)did not repent of their murders, nor of their ^(AR)witchcraft, nor of their ^(AS)sexual immorality, nor of their thefts.