Isaiah 34-35
Christian Standard Bible
The Judgment of the Nations
34 You nations, come here and listen;
you peoples, pay attention!(A)
Let the earth and all that fills it hear,
the world and all that comes from it.(B)
2 The Lord is angry with all the nations,
furious with all their armies.(C)
He will set them apart for destruction,(D)
giving them over to slaughter.
3 Their slain will be thrown out,
and the stench of their corpses will rise;(E)
the mountains will flow[a] with their blood.(F)
4 All[b] the stars in the sky(G) will dissolve.
The sky will roll up like a scroll,(H)
and its stars will all wither
as leaves wither on the vine,
and foliage on the fig tree.(I)
The Judgment of Edom
5 When my sword has drunk its fill[c](J) in the heavens,
it will then come down on Edom(K)
and on the people I have set apart for destruction.
6 The Lord’s sword is covered with blood.
It drips with fat,
with the blood of lambs and goats,
with the fat of the kidneys of rams.(L)
For the Lord has a sacrifice in Bozrah,(M)
a great slaughter in the land of Edom.
7 The wild oxen will be struck[d] down with them,
and young bulls with the mighty bulls.
Their land will be soaked with[e] blood,
and their soil will be saturated with fat.
8 For the Lord has a day of vengeance,(N)
a time of paying back Edom
for its hostility against Zion.
9 Edom’s streams will be turned into pitch,
her soil into sulfur;(O)
her land will become burning pitch.
10 It will never go out—day or night.
Its smoke will go up forever.(P)
It will be desolate, from generation to generation;
no one will pass through it forever and ever.(Q)
11 Eagle owls[f] and herons[g] will possess it,
and long-eared owls and ravens will dwell there.(R)
The Lord will stretch out a measuring line
and a plumb line(S) over her
for her destruction and chaos.(T)
12 No nobles will be left to proclaim a king,
and all her princes will come to nothing.
13 Her palaces will be overgrown with thorns;
her fortified cities, with thistles and briers.(U)
She will become a dwelling for jackals,
an abode[h] for ostriches.(V)
14 The desert creatures will meet hyenas,
and one wild goat will call to another.
Indeed, the night birds will stay there
and will find a resting place.
15 Sand partridges[i] will make their nests there;
they will lay and hatch their eggs
and will gather their broods under their shadows.
Indeed, the birds of prey will gather there,
each with its mate.(W)
16 Search and read the scroll of the Lord:(X)
Not one of them will be missing,
none will be lacking its mate,
because he has ordered it by my[j] mouth,
and he will gather them by his Spirit.
17 He has cast the lot for them;
his hand allotted their portion with a measuring line.
They will possess it forever;(Y)
they will dwell in it from generation to generation.
The Ransomed Return to Zion
35 The wilderness and the dry land will be glad;
the desert will rejoice and blossom like a wildflower.[k](Z)
2 It will blossom abundantly
and will also rejoice with joy and singing.
The glory of Lebanon will be given to it,
the splendor of Carmel and Sharon.(AA)
They will see the glory of the Lord,(AB)
the splendor of our God.(AC)
3 Strengthen the weak hands,
steady the shaking knees!(AD)
4 Say to the cowardly:
“Be strong; do not fear!
Here is your God; vengeance is coming.(AE)
God’s retribution is coming; he will save you.”(AF)
5 Then the eyes of the blind will be opened,
and the ears of the deaf unstopped.(AG)
6 Then the lame will leap like a deer,(AH)
and the tongue of the mute will sing for joy,(AI)
for water will gush in the wilderness,
and streams in the desert;(AJ)
7 the parched ground will become a pool,
and the thirsty land, springs.(AK)
In the haunt of jackals,(AL) in their lairs,
there will be grass, reeds, and papyrus.
8 A road will be there and a way;(AM)
it will be called the Holy Way.(AN)
The unclean will not travel on it,(AO)
but it will be for the one who walks the path.(AP)
Fools will not wander on it.
9 There will be no lion there,
and no vicious beast will go up on it;
they will not be found there.
But the redeemed will walk on it,
10 and the ransomed of the Lord will return(AQ)
and come to Zion with singing,
crowned with unending joy.
Joy and gladness will overtake them,
and sorrow and sighing will flee.(AR)
Footnotes
- 34:3 Or melt, or dissolve
- 34:4 DSS read And the valleys will be split, and all
- 34:5 DSS read sword will appear
- 34:7 Or will go
- 34:7 Or will drink its fill of
- 34:11 Or Pelicans
- 34:11 Or hedgehogs
- 34:13 DSS, LXX, Syr, Tg; MT reads jackals, grass
- 34:15 Or Arrow snakes, or Owls
- 34:16 Some Hb mss; other Hb mss, DSS, Syr, Tg read his
- 35:1 Or meadow saffron; traditionally rose
1 Corinthians 13
Christian Standard Bible
Love: The Superior Way
13 If I speak human or angelic tongues[a] but do not have love,(A) I am a noisy gong(B) or a clanging cymbal. 2 If I have the gift of prophecy(C) and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith so that I can move mountains(D) but do not have love, I am nothing. 3 And if I give away all my possessions, and if I give over my body in order to boast[b] but do not have love, I gain nothing.
4 Love is patient,(E) love is kind. Love does not envy,(F) is not boastful, is not arrogant,(G) 5 is not rude, is not self-seeking,(H) is not irritable,(I) and does not keep a record of wrongs. 6 Love finds no joy in unrighteousness but rejoices in the truth.(J) 7 It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures(K) all things.
8 Love never ends.(L) But as for prophecies, they will come to an end; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will come to an end. 9 For we know in part, and we prophesy in part, 10 but when the perfect comes, the partial will come to an end. 11 When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put aside childish things. 12 For now we see only a reflection[c] as in a mirror, but then face to face.(M) Now I know in part, but then I will know fully,(N) as I am fully known.(O) 13 Now these three remain: faith, hope,(P) and love—but the greatest of these is love.
Psalm 105:30-36
Christian Standard Bible
30 Their land was overrun with frogs,
even in their royal chambers.(A)
31 He spoke, and insects came(B)—
gnats throughout their country.(C)
32 He gave them hail for rain,
and lightning throughout their land.(D)
33 He struck their vines and fig trees
and shattered the trees of their territory.(E)
34 He spoke, and locusts came—
young locusts without number.
35 They devoured all the vegetation in their land
and consumed the produce of their land.(F)
36 He struck all the firstborn in their land,
all their first progeny.(G)
Proverbs 22:20-21
Christian Standard Bible
20 Haven’t I written for you thirty sayings[a]
about counsel and knowledge,
21 in order to teach you true and reliable words,
so that you may give a dependable report[b](A)
to those who sent you?(B)
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