Isaiah 9

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Birth and Reign of the Prince of Peace

9 ^[a]But there will be no more ^(A)gloom for her who was in anguish. In earlier times He ^(B)treated the ^(C)land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali with contempt, but later on He will make it glorious, by the way of the sea, on the other side of the Jordan, Galilee of the ^[b]Gentiles.

²^[c]^(D)The people who walk in darkness
Will see a great light;
Those who live in a dark land,
The light will shine on them.
³^(E)You will multiply the nation,
You ^(F)will ^[d]increase ^[e]their joy;
They will rejoice in Your presence
As with the joy ^[f]of harvest,
As people ^(G)rejoice when they divide the spoils.
⁴For ^(H)You will break the yoke of their burden and the staff on their shoulders,
The rod of their ^(I)oppressor, as ^[g]at the battle of ^(J)Midian.
⁵For every boot of the marching warrior in the roar of battle,
And cloak rolled in blood, will be for burning, fuel for the fire.
⁶For a ^(K)Child will be born to us, a ^(L)Son will be given to us;
And the ^(M)government will ^[h]rest ^(N)on His shoulders;
And His name will be called ^(O)Wonderful Counselor, ^(P)Mighty God,
Eternal ^(Q)Father, Prince of ^(R)Peace.
⁷There will be ^(S)no end to the increase of His government or of peace
On the ^(T)throne of David and over ^[i]his kingdom,
To establish it and to uphold it with ^(U)justice and righteousness
From then on and forevermore.
^(V)The zeal of the Lord of armies will accomplish this.

God’s Anger with Israel’s Arrogance

⁸The Lord sends a ^[j]message against Jacob,
And it falls on Israel.
⁹And all the people know it,
That is, ^(W)Ephraim and the inhabitants of Samaria,
Asserting in pride and in ^(X)arrogance of heart:
¹⁰“The bricks have fallen down,
But we will ^(Y)rebuild with smooth stones;
The sycamores have been cut down,
But we will replace them with cedars.”
¹¹Therefore the Lord raises superior adversaries against them from ^(Z)Rezin
And provokes their enemies,
¹²The Arameans from the east and the ^(AA)Philistines from the west;
And they ^(AB)devour Israel with ^[k]gaping jaws.
^(AC)In spite of all this, His anger does not turn away,
And His hand is still stretched out.

¹³Yet the people ^(AD)do not turn back to Him who struck them,
Nor do they ^(AE)seek the Lord of armies.
¹⁴So the Lord cuts off ^(AF)head and tail from Israel,
Both palm branch and bulrush ^(AG)in a single day.
¹⁵The head is ^(AH)the elder and esteemed man,
And the prophet who teaches ^(AI)falsehood is the tail.
¹⁶^(AJ)For those who guide this people are leading them astray;
And those who are guided by them are ^[l]confused.
¹⁷Therefore the Lord does ^(AK)not rejoice over their young men,
^(AL)Nor does He have compassion on their ^[m]orphans or their widows;
For every one of them is ^(AM)godless and an ^(AN)evildoer,
And every ^(AO)mouth is speaking foolishness.
^(AP)In spite of all this, His anger does not turn away,
And His hand is still stretched out.

¹⁸^(AQ)For wickedness burns like a fire;
It consumes briars and thorns;
It also sets the thickets of the forest aflame
And they roll upward in a column of smoke.
¹⁹By the ^(AR)wrath of the Lord of armies the ^(AS)land is burned,
And the ^(AT)people are like fuel for the fire;
No ^(AU)one spares his brother.
²⁰^[n]They devour what is on the right hand but are still ^(AV)hungry,
And ^[o]they eat what is on the left hand, but they are not satisfied;
Each of them eats the ^(AW)flesh of his own arm.
²¹Manasseh devours Ephraim, and Ephraim Manasseh,
^(AX)And together they are against Judah.
^(AY)In spite of all this, His anger does not turn away
And His hand is still stretched out.

Footnotes

Isaiah 9:1 Ch 8:23 in Heb
Isaiah 9:1 Or nations
Isaiah 9:2 Ch 9:1 in Heb
Isaiah 9:3 Another reading is not increase
Isaiah 9:3 Lit the
Isaiah 9:3 Lit in
Isaiah 9:4 Lit in the day of Midian
Isaiah 9:6 Lit be
Isaiah 9:7 I.e., David’s
Isaiah 9:8 Lit word
Isaiah 9:12 Lit the whole mouth
Isaiah 9:16 Or swallowed up
Isaiah 9:17 Or fatherless
Isaiah 9:20 Lit And he slices
Isaiah 9:20 Lit he eats

Psalm 38

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Prayer of a Suffering Penitent.

A Psalm of David, for a memorial.

38 Lord, ^(A)do not rebuke me in Your wrath,
And do not punish me in Your burning anger.
²For Your ^(B)arrows have sunk deep into me,
And ^(C)Your hand has pressed down on me.
³There is ^(D)no healthy part in my flesh ^(E)because of Your indignation;
There is no health ^(F)in my bones because of my sin.
⁴For my ^(G)guilty deeds have gone over my head;
Like a heavy burden they weigh too much for me.
⁵My ^[a]wounds grow foul and fester
Because of ^(H)my foolishness.
⁶I am bent over and ^(I)greatly bowed down;
I ^(J)go in mourning all day long.
⁷For my ^[b]sides are filled with ^(K)burning,
And there is ^(L)no healthy part in my flesh.
⁸I feel ^(M)faint and ^[c]badly crushed;
I ^[d]^(N)groan because of the ^[e]agitation of my heart.

⁹Lord, all ^(O)my desire is ^[f]before You;
And my ^(P)sighing is not hidden from You.
¹⁰My heart throbs, ^(Q)my strength fails me;
And the ^(R)light of my eyes, even ^[g]that ^[h]has gone from me.
¹¹My ^[i]^(S)loved ones and my friends stand aloof from my plague;
And my kinsmen ^(T)stand far away.
¹²Those who ^(U)seek my life ^(V)lay snares for me;
And those who ^(W)seek to injure me have ^[j]threatened destruction,
And they ^(X)plot deception all day long.

¹³But I, like a person who is deaf, do not hear;
And I am like a ^(Y)person who cannot speak, who does not open his mouth.
¹⁴Yes, I am like a person who does not hear,
And in whose mouth are no arguments.
¹⁵For ^(Z)I wait for You, Lord;
You ^(AA)will answer, Lord my God.
¹⁶For I said, “May they not rejoice over me,
Who, when my foot slips, ^(AB)would exalt themselves over me.”
¹⁷For I am ^(AC)ready to fall,
And ^(AD)my ^[k]sorrow is continually before me.
¹⁸For I ^(AE)admit my guilt;
I am full of ^(AF)anxiety because of my sin.
¹⁹But my ^(AG)enemies are vigorous and ^[l]strong,
And those who wrongfully ^(AH)hate me are many.
²⁰And those who ^(AI)repay evil for good,
They ^(AJ)become my enemies, because I follow what is good.
²¹Do not abandon me, Lord;
My God, ^(AK)do not be far from me!
²²^(AL)Hurry to help me,
Lord, ^(AM)my salvation!

Footnotes

Psalm 38:5 Or stripes
Psalm 38:7 Lit loins
Psalm 38:8 Or greatly
Psalm 38:8 Lit roar
Psalm 38:8 Lit growling
Psalm 38:9 Or known to You
Psalm 38:10 Lit they have
Psalm 38:10 Lit is not with me
Psalm 38:11 Or lovers
Psalm 38:12 Lit spoken
Psalm 38:17 Lit pain
Psalm 38:19 Or numerous

John 7:1-24

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Jesus Teaches at the Feast

7 After these things Jesus ^(A)was walking in Galilee, for He was unwilling to walk in Judea because ^(B)the Jews ^(C)were seeking to kill Him. ²Now the feast of the Jews, ^(D)the Feast of Booths, was near. ³So His ^(E)brothers said to Him, “Move on from here and go into Judea, so that Your ^(F)disciples also may see Your works which You are doing. ⁴For no one does anything in secret ^[a]when he himself is striving to be known publicly. If You are doing these things, show Yourself to the world.” ⁵For not even His ^(G)brothers believed in Him. ⁶So Jesus *said to them, “^(H)My time is not yet here, but your time is always ready. ⁷^(I)The world cannot hate you, but it hates Me because I testify about it, that ^(J)its deeds are evil. ⁸Go up to the feast yourselves; I am not going up to this feast, because ^(K)My time has not yet fully arrived.” ⁹Now having said these things to them, He stayed in Galilee.

¹⁰But when His ^(L)brothers had gone up to the feast, then He Himself also went up, not publicly, but as though in secret. ¹¹^(M)So the Jews ^(N)were looking for Him at the feast and saying, “Where is He?” ¹²And there was a great deal of talk about Him in secret among the crowds: ^(O)some were saying, “He is a good man”; others were saying, “No, on the contrary, He is misleading the people.” ¹³However, no one was speaking openly about Him, for ^(P)fear of ^[b]the Jews.

¹⁴But when it was now the middle of the feast, Jesus went up into the temple area, and began to ^(Q)teach. ¹⁵^(R)The Jews then were astonished, saying, “How has this man ^(S)become learned, not having been educated?” ¹⁶So Jesus answered them and said, “^(T)My teaching is not My own, but His who sent Me. ¹⁷^(U)If anyone is willing to do His will, he will know about the teaching, whether it is of God, or I am speaking from Myself. ¹⁸The one who speaks from himself ^(V)seeks his own glory; but He who is seeking the glory of the One who sent Him, He is true, and there is no unrighteousness in Him.

¹⁹“^(W)Did Moses not give you the Law, and yet none of you carries out the Law? Why are you ^(X)seeking to kill Me?” ²⁰The crowd answered, “^(Y)You have a demon! Who is seeking to kill You?” ²¹Jesus answered them, “I did ^(Z)one ^[c]deed, and you all are astonished. ²²For this reason ^(AA)Moses has given you circumcision (not that it is from Moses, but from ^(AB)the fathers), and even on a Sabbath you circumcise a man. ²³^(AC)If a man receives circumcision on a Sabbath so that the Law of Moses will not be broken, are you angry at Me because I made an entire man well on a Sabbath? ²⁴Do not ^(AD)judge by the outward appearance, but judge ^[d]with righteous judgment.”