Isaiah 26-27

English Standard Version

You Keep Him in Perfect Peace

26 In that day ^(A)this song will be sung in the land of Judah:

“We have a strong city;
    he sets up ^(B)salvation
    as walls and bulwarks.
²^(C)Open the gates,
    that the righteous nation that keeps faith may enter in.
³^(D)You keep him in perfect peace
    whose mind is stayed on you,
    because he trusts in you.
⁴Trust in the Lord forever,
    for the Lord God is an everlasting rock.
⁵^(E)For he has humbled
    the inhabitants of the height,
    the lofty city.
He lays it low, lays it low to the ground,
    casts it to the dust.
⁶The foot tramples it,
    the feet of ^(F)the poor,
    the steps of ^(G)the needy.”

⁷The path of the righteous is level;
    ^(H)you make level the way of the righteous.
⁸In the path of your judgments,
    O Lord, we wait for you;
^(I)your name and ^(J)remembrance
    are the desire of our soul.
⁹My soul yearns for you in the night;
    my spirit within me earnestly seeks you.
^(K)For when your judgments are in the earth,
    the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.
¹⁰^(L)If favor is shown to the wicked,
    he does not learn righteousness;
in the land of uprightness he deals corruptly
    and does not see the majesty of the Lord.
¹¹O Lord, ^(M)your hand is lifted up,
    but ^(N)they do not see it.
Let them see your zeal for your people, and be ashamed.
    Let ^(O)the fire for your adversaries consume them.
¹²O Lord, you will ordain ^(P)peace for us,
    for you have indeed done for us all our works.
¹³O Lord our God,
    ^(Q)other lords besides you have ruled over us,
    ^(R)but your name alone we bring to remembrance.
¹⁴They are dead, they will not live;
    they are shades, they will not arise;
to that end you have visited them with destruction
    and wiped out all remembrance of them.
¹⁵^(S)But you have increased the nation, O Lord,
    you have increased the nation; you are glorified;
    ^(T)you have enlarged all the borders of the land.

¹⁶O Lord, ^(U)in distress they sought you;
    they poured out a whispered prayer
    when your discipline was upon them.
¹⁷^(V)Like a pregnant woman
    who writhes and cries out in her pangs
    when she is near to giving birth,
so were we because of you, O Lord;
¹⁸    ^(W)we were pregnant, we writhed,
    but we have given birth to wind.
We have accomplished no deliverance in the earth,
    and the inhabitants of the world have not fallen.
¹⁹^(X)Your dead shall live; their bodies shall rise.
    You who dwell in the dust, awake and sing for joy!
For ^(Y)your dew is a dew of light,
    and the earth will give birth to the dead.

²⁰Come, my people, enter your chambers,
    and shut your doors behind you;
hide yourselves ^(Z)for a little while
    until the fury has passed by.
²¹^(AA)For behold, the Lord is coming out from his place
    to punish the inhabitants of ^(AB)the earth for their iniquity,
and the earth will disclose the blood shed on it,
    and will no more cover its slain.

The Redemption of Israel

27 In that day the Lord with his hard and great and strong ^(AC)sword will punish ^(AD)Leviathan the fleeing serpent, ^(AE)Leviathan the twisting serpent, and he will slay ^(AF)the dragon that is in the sea.

²In that day,
^(AG)“A pleasant vineyard,^[a] ^(AH)sing of it!
³    I, the Lord, am its keeper;
    every moment I water it.
    Lest anyone punish it,
I keep it night and day;
⁴    I have no wrath.
^(AI)Would that I had thorns and briers to battle!
    I would march against them,
    I would burn them up together.
⁵Or let them lay hold of my protection,
    let them make peace with me,
    let them make peace with me.”

⁶^(AJ)In days to come^[b] Jacob shall take root,
Israel shall blossom and put forth shoots
and fill the whole world with fruit.

⁷^(AK)Has he struck them ^(AL)as he struck those who struck them?
    Or have they been slain ^(AM)as their slayers were slain?
⁸^(AN)Measure by measure,^[c] by exile you contended with them;
    ^(AO)he removed them with his fierce breath^[d] in the day of the east wind.
⁹Therefore by this ^(AP)the guilt of Jacob will be atoned for,
    and this will be the full fruit of the removal of his sin:^[e]
^(AQ)when he makes all the stones of the altars
    like chalkstones crushed to pieces,
    no ^(AR)Asherim or incense altars will remain standing.
¹⁰^(AS)For the fortified city is solitary,
    a habitation deserted and forsaken, like the wilderness;
there the calf grazes;
    there it lies down and strips its branches.
¹¹When its boughs are dry, they are broken;
    women come and make a fire of them.
^(AT)For this is a people without discernment;
    therefore he who made them will not have compassion on them;
    he who formed them will show them no favor.

¹²In that day ^(AU)from the river Euphrates^[f] to the Brook of Egypt the Lord will thresh out the grain, and you will be gleaned one by one, O people of Israel. ¹³And in that day ^(AV)a great trumpet will be blown, ^(AW)and those who were lost in the land of Assyria and those who were driven out to the land of Egypt ^(AX)will come and worship the Lord on the holy mountain at Jerusalem.

Footnotes

Isaiah 27:2 Many Hebrew manuscripts A vineyard of wine
Isaiah 27:6 Hebrew In those to come
Isaiah 27:8 Or By driving her away; the meaning of the Hebrew word is uncertain
Isaiah 27:8 Or wind
Isaiah 27:9 Septuagint and this is the blessing when I take away his sin
Isaiah 27:12 Hebrew from the River

Mark 6:30-56

English Standard Version

Jesus Feeds the Five Thousand

³⁰^(A)^(B)The apostles returned to Jesus and told him all that they had done and taught. ³¹And he said to them, “Come away by yourselves to a desolate place and rest a while.” For many were coming and going, and ^(C)they had no leisure even to eat. ³²^(D)And they went away in ^(E)the boat to a desolate place by themselves. ³³Now many saw them going and ^(F)recognized them, and they ran there on foot from all the towns and got there ahead of them. ³⁴When he went ashore he ^(G)saw a great crowd, and ^(H)he had compassion on them, because they were like sheep without a shepherd. And he began to teach them many things. ³⁵And when it grew late, his disciples came to him and said, “This is a desolate place, and the hour is now late. ³⁶^(I)Send them away to go into the surrounding countryside and villages and buy themselves something to eat.” ³⁷But he answered them, ^(J)“You give them something to eat.” And ^(K)they said to him, ^(L)“Shall we go and buy two hundred denarii^[a] worth of bread and give it to them to eat?” ³⁸And he said to them, “How many loaves do you have? Go and see.” And when they had found out, they said, ^(M)“Five, and two fish.” ³⁹Then he commanded them all to sit down in groups on the green grass. ⁴⁰So they sat down in groups, by hundreds and by fifties. ⁴¹And taking the five loaves and the two fish, he ^(N)looked up to heaven and ^(O)said a blessing and broke the loaves and gave them to the disciples to set before the people. And he divided the two fish among them all. ⁴²And they all ate and were satisfied. ⁴³And they took up twelve baskets full of broken pieces and of the fish. ⁴⁴And those who ate the loaves were five thousand men.

Jesus Walks on the Water

⁴⁵^(P)Immediately he ^(Q)made his disciples get into ^(R)the boat and go before him to the other side, ^(S)to Bethsaida, while he dismissed the crowd. ⁴⁶And after he had taken leave of them, ^(T)he went up on the mountain to pray. ⁴⁷And when ^(U)evening came, the boat was out on the sea, and he was alone on the land. ⁴⁸And he saw that they were making headway painfully, for the wind was against them. And about ^(V)the fourth watch of the night^[b] he came to them, walking on the sea. ^(W)He meant to pass by them, ⁴⁹but when they saw him walking on the sea they thought it was a ghost, and cried out, ⁵⁰for they all saw him and ^(X)were terrified. But immediately he spoke to them and said, ^(Y)“Take heart; it is I. ^(Z)Do not be afraid.” ⁵¹And he got into the boat with them, and the wind ceased. And they were utterly astounded, ⁵²for ^(AA)they did not understand about the loaves, but their hearts ^(AB)were hardened.

Jesus Heals the Sick in Gennesaret

⁵³^(AC)When they had crossed over, they came to land at ^(AD)Gennesaret and moored to the shore. ⁵⁴And when they got out of the boat, the people immediately ^(AE)recognized him ⁵⁵and ran about the whole region and began to bring ^(AF)the sick people ^(AG)on their beds to wherever they heard he was. ⁵⁶And wherever he came, in villages, cities, or countryside, ^(AH)they laid the sick in the marketplaces and implored him that they might touch even ^(AI)the fringe of his garment. And ^(AJ)as many as touched it were made well.