Isaiah 28

New American Standard Bible

Ephraim’s Captivity Predicted

28 Woe to the proud crown of the ^(A)habitually drunk of ^(B)Ephraim,
And to the fading flower of its glorious beauty,
Which is at the head of the ^[a]fertile valley
Of those who are ^[b]overcome with wine!
²Behold, the Lord has a strong and ^(C)mighty agent;
As a storm of ^(D)hail, a tempest of destruction,
Like a storm of ^(E)mighty overflowing waters,
He has thrown it down to the earth with His hand.
³The splendid crown of the habitually drunk of Ephraim is ^(F)trampled underfoot.
⁴And the fading flower of its glorious beauty,
Which is at the head of the ^[c]fertile valley,
Will be like the ^(G)first-ripe fig prior to the summer,
Which ^[d]one sees,
And ^[e]as soon as it is in his ^[f]hand,
He swallows it.
⁵On that day the ^(H)Lord of armies will become a beautiful ^(I)crown
And a glorious wreath to the remnant of His people;
⁶A ^(J)spirit of justice for him who sits in judgment,
A ^(K)strength to those who repel the ^[g]onslaught at the gate.
⁷And these also ^(L)reel with wine and stagger from intoxicating drink:
^(M)The priest and ^(N)the prophet reel with intoxicating drink,
They are confused by wine, they stagger from ^(O)intoxicating drink;
They reel while ^[h]having ^(P)visions,
They stagger when rendering a verdict.
⁸For all the tables are full of filthy ^(Q)vomit, without a single clean place.

⁹“To ^(R)whom would He teach knowledge,
And to whom would He interpret the message?
Those just ^(S)weaned from milk?
Those just taken from the breast?
¹⁰For He says,
‘^[i]^(T)Order on order, order on order,
Line on line, line on line,
A little here, a little there.’”
¹¹Indeed, He will speak to this people
Through ^(U)stammering lips and a foreign tongue,
¹²He who said to them, “This is the ^(V)place of quiet, give rest to the weary,”
And, “This is the resting place,” but they would not listen.
¹³So the word of the Lord to them will be,
“^[j]Order on order, order on order,
Line on line, line on line,
A little here, a little there,”
That they may go and ^(W)stumble backward, be broken, snared, and taken captive.

Judah Is Warned

¹⁴Therefore, ^(X)hear the word of the Lord, you ^(Y)scoffers,
Who rule this people who are in Jerusalem,
¹⁵Because you have said, “We have made a ^(Z)covenant with death,
And with ^[k]Sheol we have made a ^[l]pact.
^(AA)The ^[m]gushing flood will not reach us when it passes by,
Because we have made ^(AB)falsehood our refuge and we have ^(AC)concealed ourselves with deception.”

¹⁶Therefore this is what the Lord ^[n]God says:

“^(AD)Behold, I am laying a stone in Zion, a tested ^(AE)stone,
A precious cornerstone for the foundation, ^[o]firmly placed.
The one who believes in it will not be ^[p]disturbed.
¹⁷I will make ^(AF)justice the measuring line
And righteousness the level;
Then ^(AG)hail will sweep away the refuge of lies,
And the waters will overflow the secret place.
¹⁸Your ^(AH)covenant with death will be ^[q]^(AI)canceled,
And your pact with Sheol will not stand;
When the ^(AJ)^[r]gushing flood passes through,
Then you will become its ^(AK)trampling ground.
¹⁹As ^(AL)often as it passes through, it will ^[s]seize you;
For ^(AM)morning after morning it will pass through, anytime during the day or night,
And it will be ^[t]sheer ^(AN)terror to understand ^[u]what it means.”
²⁰The bed is too short on which to stretch out,
And the ^(AO)blanket is too ^[v]small to wrap oneself in.
²¹For the Lord will rise up as at Mount ^(AP)Perazim,
He will be stirred up as in the Valley of ^(AQ)Gibeon,
To do His ^(AR)task, His ^[w]^(AS)unusual task,
And to work His work, His ^[x]extraordinary work.
²²And now do not carry on as ^(AT)scoffers,
Or your shackles will be made stronger;
For I have heard from the Lord ^[y]God of armies
Of decisive ^(AU)destruction on all the earth.

²³Listen and hear my voice,
Pay attention and hear my words.
²⁴Does the ^[z]farmer plow ^[aa]continually to plant seed?
Does he continually ^[ab]turn and break up his ground?
²⁵Does he not level its surface
And sow dill and scatter ^(AV)cumin
And ^[ac]plant ^(AW)wheat in rows,
Barley in its place and rye within its ^[ad]area?
²⁶For his God instructs and teaches him properly.
²⁷For dill is not threshed with a ^(AX)threshing sledge,
Nor is the cartwheel ^[ae]driven over cumin;
But dill is beaten out with a rod, and cumin with a club.
²⁸Grain for bread is crushed,
Indeed, he does not continue to thresh it forever.
Because the wheel of his cart and his horses eventually ^[af]damage it,
He does not thresh it longer.
²⁹This also comes from the Lord of armies,
Who has made His counsel ^(AY)wonderful and His wisdom ^(AZ)great.

Notas al pie

Isaiah 28:1 Lit valley of fatness
Isaiah 28:1 Lit stricken
Isaiah 28:4 Lit valley of fatness
Isaiah 28:4 Lit the one seeing sees
Isaiah 28:4 Lit while it is yet
Isaiah 28:4 Lit palm
Isaiah 28:6 Lit battle
Isaiah 28:7 Lit seeing
Isaiah 28:10 Heb Sav lasav, sav lasav, Kav lakav, kav lakav, Zeer sham, zeer sham. These Hebrew fragments, imitating the babbling of a child, mock the prophet’s preaching.
Isaiah 28:13 See note v 10. The Lord responds to their scoffing by imitating their mockery, to represent the unintelligible language of a conqueror.
Isaiah 28:15 I.e., the netherworld
Isaiah 28:15 As in some ancient versions; MT seer
Isaiah 28:15 Or overwhelming scourge
Isaiah 28:16 Heb YHWH, usually rendered Lord
Isaiah 28:16 Lit well-laid
Isaiah 28:16 Lit in a hurry
Isaiah 28:18 Lit covered over
Isaiah 28:18 Or overwhelming scourge
Isaiah 28:19 Lit take
Isaiah 28:19 Lit only
Isaiah 28:19 Lit the report; or the message
Isaiah 28:20 Lit narrow
Isaiah 28:21 Lit task is strange
Isaiah 28:21 Lit work is foreign
Isaiah 28:22 Heb YHWH, usually rendered Lord
Isaiah 28:24 Lit plowman
Isaiah 28:24 Lit all day
Isaiah 28:24 Lit open
Isaiah 28:25 Lit put
Isaiah 28:25 Lit region
Isaiah 28:27 Lit rolled
Isaiah 28:28 Lit discomfit

1 Corinthians 7-8

New American Standard Bible

Teaching on Marriage

7 Now concerning the things about which you wrote, it is ^(A)good for a man ^[a]not to touch a woman. ²But because of sexual immoralities, each man is to have his own wife, and each woman is to have her own husband. ³The husband must fulfill his duty to his wife, and likewise the wife also to her husband. ⁴The wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does; and likewise the husband also does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does. ⁵^[b]^(B)Stop depriving one another, except by agreement for a time so that you may devote yourselves to prayer, and ^[c]come together again so that ^(C)Satan will not tempt you because of your lack of self-control. ⁶But this I say by way of concession, ^(D)not of command. ⁷^[d]Yet I wish that all ^[e]men were ^(E)even as I myself am. However, ^(F)each has his own gift from God, one in this way, and another in that.

⁸But I say to the unmarried and to widows that it is ^(G)good for them if they remain ^(H)even as I. ⁹But if they do not have self-control, ^(I)let them marry; for it is better to marry than to burn with passion.

¹⁰But to the married I give instructions, ^(J)not I, but the Lord, that the wife is not to leave her husband ¹¹(but if she does leave, she must remain unmarried, or else be reconciled to her husband), and that the husband is not to ^[f]divorce his wife.

¹²But to the rest ^(K)I say, not the Lord, that if any brother has an unbelieving wife, and she consents to live with him, he must not ^[g]divorce her. ¹³And ^[h]if any woman has an unbelieving husband, and he consents to live with her, she must not ^[i]divorce her husband. ¹⁴For the unbelieving husband is sanctified through his wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified through ^[j]her believing husband; for otherwise your children are unclean, but now they are ^(L)holy. ¹⁵Yet if the unbelieving one is leaving, ^[k]let him leave; the brother or the sister is not under bondage in such cases, but God has called ^[l]us ^(M)in peace. ¹⁶For how do you know, wife, whether you will ^(N)save your husband? Or how do you know, husband, whether you will save your wife?

¹⁷Only, ^(O)as the Lord has assigned to each one, as God has called each, in this way let him walk. And ^(P)so I direct in ^(Q)all the churches. ¹⁸Was any man called when he was already circumcised? He is not to become uncircumcised. Has anyone been called in uncircumcision? ^(R)He is not to be circumcised. ¹⁹^(S)Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but what matters is ^(T)the keeping of the commandments of God. ²⁰^(U)Each person is to remain in that ^[m]state in which he was called.

²¹Were you called as a slave? Do not let it concern you. But if you are also able to become free, take advantage of that. ²²For the one who was called in the Lord as a slave, is ^(V)the Lord’s freed person; likewise the one who was called as free, is ^(W)Christ’s slave. ²³^(X)You were bought for a price; do not become slaves of people. ²⁴Brothers and sisters, ^(Y)each one is to remain with God in that condition in which he was called.

²⁵Now concerning virgins, I have ^(Z)no command of the Lord, but I am offering direction as one who ^[n]^(AA)by the mercy of the Lord is trustworthy. ²⁶I think, then, that this is good in view of the ^[o]present ^(AB)distress, that ^(AC)it is good for a man ^[p]to remain as he is. ²⁷Are you bound to a wife? Do not seek to be released. Are you released from a wife? Do not seek a wife. ²⁸But if you marry, you have not sinned; and if a virgin marries, she has not sinned. Yet such people as yourselves will have ^[q]trouble in this life, and I am trying to spare you. ²⁹But this I say, brothers, ^(AD)the time has been shortened, so that from now on those who have wives should be as though they had none; ³⁰and those who weep, as though they did not weep; and those who rejoice, as though they did not rejoice; and those who buy, as though they did not possess; ³¹and those who use the world, as though they did not ^(AE)make full use of it; for ^(AF)the present form of this world is passing away.

³²But I want you to be free from concern. One who is ^(AG)unmarried is concerned about the things of the Lord, how he may please the Lord; ³³but one who is married is concerned about the things of the world, how he may please his wife, ³⁴and his interests are divided. The woman who is unmarried, and the virgin, is concerned about the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and spirit; but one who is married is concerned about the things of the world, how she may please her husband. ³⁵I say this for your own benefit, not to put a restraint on you, but ^[r]to promote what is appropriate and to secure undistracted devotion to the Lord.

³⁶But if anyone thinks that he is acting dishonorably toward his virgin, if she is ^[s]past her youth and it ought to be so, let him do what he wishes, he is not sinning; let ^[t]them marry. ³⁷But the one who stands firm in his heart, ^[u]if he is not under constraint, but has authority ^[v]over his own will, and has decided this in his own heart, to keep his own virgin, he will do well. ³⁸So then, both the one who gives his own virgin in marriage does well, and the one who does not give her in marriage will do better.

³⁹^(AH)A wife is bound as long as her husband lives; but if her husband ^[w]dies, she is free to be married to whom she wishes, only ^(AI)in the Lord. ⁴⁰But ^(AJ)in my opinion she is ^[x]happier if she remains as she is; and I think that I also have the Spirit of God.

Take Care with Your Liberty

8 Now concerning ^(AK)food sacrificed to idols, we know that we all have ^(AL)knowledge. Knowledge ^[y]^(AM)makes one conceited, but love ^(AN)edifies people. ²^(AO)If anyone thinks that he knows anything, he has not yet ^(AP)known as he ought to know; ³but if anyone loves God, he ^(AQ)is known by Him.

⁴Therefore, concerning the eating of ^(AR)food sacrificed to idols, we know that an ^(AS)idol is ^[z]nothing at all in the world, and that ^(AT)there is no God but one. ⁵For even if ^(AU)there are so-called gods whether in heaven or on earth, as indeed there are many gods and many lords, ⁶yet for us ^(AV)there is only one God, ^(AW)the Father, ^(AX)from whom are all things, and we exist for Him; and ^(AY)one Lord, Jesus Christ, ^(AZ)by whom are all things, and we exist through Him.

⁷However, not all people ^(BA)have this knowledge; but ^(BB)some, being accustomed to the idol until now, eat food as if it were sacrificed to an idol; and their conscience, being weak, is defiled. ⁸Now ^(BC)food will not bring us ^[aa]close to God; we are neither ^[ab]the worse if we do not eat, nor ^[ac]the better if we do eat. ⁹But ^(BD)take care that this ^[ad]freedom of yours does not somehow become a stumbling block to the ^(BE)weak. ¹⁰For if someone sees you, the one who has ^(BF)knowledge, dining in an idol’s temple, will his conscience, if he is weak, not be strengthened to eat ^(BG)things sacrificed to idols? ¹¹For through ^(BH)your knowledge the one who is weak ^(BI)is ruined, the brother or sister for whose sake Christ died. ¹²^(BJ)And so, by sinning against the brothers and sisters and wounding their conscience when it is weak, you sin ^(BK)against Christ. ¹³Therefore, ^(BL)if food causes my brother to sin, I will never eat meat again, so that I will not cause my brother to sin.

Notas al pie

1 Corinthians 7:1 Prob. referring to abstinence
1 Corinthians 7:5 Or do not deprive
1 Corinthians 7:5 Lit be
1 Corinthians 7:7 One early ms For
1 Corinthians 7:7 Or people
1 Corinthians 7:11 Or leave his wife
1 Corinthians 7:12 Or leave her
1 Corinthians 7:13 One early ms any woman who has
1 Corinthians 7:13 Or leave her husband
1 Corinthians 7:14 Lit the brother
1 Corinthians 7:15 Or then he must leave
1 Corinthians 7:15 One early ms you
1 Corinthians 7:20 Lit calling
1 Corinthians 7:25 Lit has been shown mercy by the Lord to be trustworthy
1 Corinthians 7:26 Or impending
1 Corinthians 7:26 Lit so to be
1 Corinthians 7:28 Lit tribulation in the flesh
1 Corinthians 7:35 Lit for what is seemly
1 Corinthians 7:36 Or past puberty
1 Corinthians 7:36 I.e., the woman and her betrothed or fiancé
1 Corinthians 7:37 Lit having no necessity
1 Corinthians 7:37 Lit pertaining to
1 Corinthians 7:39 Lit falls asleep
1 Corinthians 7:40 Or more fortunate
1 Corinthians 8:1 Lit puffs up
1 Corinthians 8:4 I.e., what it represents does not exist
1 Corinthians 8:8 Or before God
1 Corinthians 8:8 Lit lacking
1 Corinthians 8:8 Lit abounding
1 Corinthians 8:9 Lit right

Psalm 69:1-18

New American Standard Bible

A Cry of Distress and a Curse on Adversaries.

For the music director; according to ^[a]Shoshannim. A Psalm of David.

69 Save me, God,
For the ^(A)waters have ^[b]threatened my life.
²I have sunk in deep ^(B)mud, and there is no foothold;
I have come into deep waters, and a ^[c]^(C)flood overflows me.
³I am ^(D)weary with my crying; my throat is parched;
My ^(E)eyes fail while I wait for my God.
⁴Those ^(F)who hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head;
Those who would ^[d]destroy me ^(G)are powerful, those who oppose me with lies;
^(H)What I did not steal, I then have to restore.

⁵God, You know ^(I)my foolishness,
And ^(J)my guilt is not hidden from You.
⁶May those who wait for You not ^(K)be ashamed because of me, Lord ^[e]God of armies;
May those who seek You not be dishonored because of me, God of Israel,
⁷Because ^(L)for Your sake I have endured disgrace;
^(M)Dishonor has covered my face.
⁸I have become ^(N)estranged ^[f]from my brothers,
And a stranger to my mother’s sons.
⁹For ^(O)zeal for Your house has consumed me,
And ^(P)the taunts of those who taunt You have fallen on me.
¹⁰When I wept ^(Q)in my soul with fasting,
It became my ^(R)disgrace.
¹¹When I made ^(S)sackcloth my clothing,
I became ^(T)a proverb to them.
¹²Those who ^(U)sit in the gate talk about me,
And ^(V)songs of mockery by those habitually drunk are about me.

¹³But as for me, my prayer is to You, Lord, ^(W)at an acceptable time;
God, in the ^(X)greatness of Your mercy,
Answer me with ^[g]Your saving truth.
¹⁴Rescue me from the ^(Y)mud and do not let me sink;
May I be ^(Z)rescued from those who hate me, and from the ^(AA)depths of water.
¹⁵May the ^[h]^(AB)flood of water not overflow me
Nor the deep swallow me up,
Nor the ^(AC)pit close its mouth on me.

¹⁶Answer me, Lord, for ^(AD)Your mercy is good;
^(AE)According to the greatness of Your compassion, ^(AF)turn to me,
¹⁷And ^(AG)do not hide Your face from Your servant,
For I am ^(AH)in distress; answer me quickly.
¹⁸Come near to my soul and ^(AI)redeem it;
^(AJ)Ransom me because of my enemies!