Isaiah 4-6
English Standard Version
4 (A)And seven women (B)shall take hold of (C)one man in that day, saying, “We will eat our own bread and wear our own clothes, only let us be called by your name; (D)take away our reproach.”
The Branch of the Lord Glorified
2 In that day (E)the branch of the Lord shall be beautiful and glorious, and (F)the fruit of the land shall be the pride and honor of the survivors of Israel. 3 (G)And he who is left in Zion and remains in Jerusalem will be called (H)holy, everyone who has (I)been recorded for life in Jerusalem, 4 when (J)the Lord shall have washed away the filth of (K)the daughters of Zion and cleansed the bloodstains of Jerusalem from its midst by a spirit of judgment and by (L)a spirit of burning.[a] 5 Then the Lord will create over the whole site of Mount Zion and over her assemblies (M)a cloud by day, and smoke and the shining of a flaming fire by night; for over all the glory there will be (N)a canopy. 6 (O)There will be a (P)booth for shade by day from the heat, and (Q)for a refuge and a shelter from the storm and rain.
The Vineyard of the Lord Destroyed
5 Let me sing for my beloved
my love song concerning his vineyard:
My beloved had (R)a vineyard
on a very fertile hill.
2 He dug it and cleared it of stones,
and planted it with (S)choice vines;
he built a watchtower in the midst of it,
and hewed out a wine vat in it;
and (T)he looked for it to yield grapes,
but it yielded wild grapes.
3 And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem
and men of Judah,
judge between me and my vineyard.
4 (U)What more was there to do for my vineyard,
that I have not done in it?
(V)When I looked for it to yield grapes,
why did it yield wild grapes?
5 And now I will tell you
what I will do to my vineyard.
I will remove (W)its hedge,
and it shall be devoured;[b]
(X)I will break down its wall,
and it shall be trampled down.
6 I will make it a waste;
it shall not be pruned or hoed,
and (Y)briers and thorns shall grow up;
(Z)I will also command the clouds
that they rain no rain upon it.
7 (AA)For the vineyard of the Lord of hosts
is the house of Israel,
and the men of Judah
are his pleasant planting;
and he looked for justice,
but behold, bloodshed;[c]
for righteousness,
but behold, an outcry![d]
Woe to the Wicked
8 Woe to those who (AB)join house to house,
who add field to field,
until there is no more room,
and you are made to dwell alone
in the midst of the land.
9 The Lord of hosts has sworn in my hearing:
(AC)“Surely many houses shall be desolate,
large and beautiful houses, without inhabitant.
10 (AD)For ten acres[e] of vineyard shall yield but one bath,
and a (AE)homer of seed shall yield but an ephah.”[f]
11 Woe to those who (AF)rise early in the morning,
that they may run after strong drink,
who tarry late into the evening
as wine inflames them!
12 (AG)They have lyre and harp,
tambourine and flute and wine at their feasts,
(AH)but they do not regard the deeds of the Lord,
or see the work of his hands.
13 Therefore my people go into exile
(AI)for lack of knowledge;[g]
their (AJ)honored men go hungry,[h]
and their multitude is parched with thirst.
14 Therefore Sheol has (AK)enlarged its appetite
and opened (AL)its mouth beyond measure,
and the nobility of Jerusalem[i] and her multitude will go down,
her revelers and he who (AM)exults in her.
15 (AN)Man is humbled, and each one is brought low,
and the eyes of the haughty[j] are brought low.
16 (AO)But the Lord of hosts is exalted[k] in justice,
and the Holy God shows himself holy in righteousness.
17 Then shall the lambs graze (AP)as in their pasture,
and (AQ)nomads shall eat among the ruins of the rich.
18 Woe to those who draw iniquity with (AR)cords of falsehood,
who draw sin as with cart ropes,
19 who say: (AS)“Let him be quick,
let him speed his work
that we may see it;
let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw near,
and let it come, that we may know it!”
20 Woe to (AT)those who call evil good
and good evil,
(AU)who put darkness for light
and light for darkness,
who put bitter for sweet
and sweet for bitter!
21 Woe to those who are (AV)wise in their own eyes,
and shrewd in their own sight!
22 Woe to those who are (AW)heroes at drinking wine,
and valiant men in mixing strong drink,
23 who (AX)acquit the guilty for a bribe,
and deprive the innocent of his right!
24 Therefore, (AY)as the tongue of fire devours the stubble,
and as dry grass sinks down in the flame,
so (AZ)their root will be (BA)as rottenness,
and their blossom go up like dust;
for they have (BB)rejected the law of the Lord of hosts,
and have (BC)despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.
25 Therefore (BD)the anger of the Lord was kindled against his people,
and he stretched out his hand against them and struck them,
and (BE)the mountains quaked;
and their corpses were (BF)as refuse
in the midst of the streets.
(BG)For all this his anger has not turned away,
and his hand is stretched out still.
26 He will (BH)raise a signal for nations far away,
and (BI)whistle for them (BJ)from the ends of the earth;
and behold, quickly, speedily they come!
27 (BK)None is weary, none stumbles,
none slumbers or sleeps,
not a waistband is loose,
not a sandal strap broken;
28 (BL)their arrows are sharp,
all their bows bent,
their horses' hoofs seem like flint,
and their wheels (BM)like the whirlwind.
29 Their roaring is like a lion,
like young lions they roar;
they growl and (BN)seize their prey;
they carry it off, and none can rescue.
30 They will growl over it on that day,
like the growling of the sea.
And if one looks to the land,
behold, (BO)darkness and distress;
and the light is darkened by its clouds.
Isaiah's Vision of the Lord
6 In the year that (BP)King Uzziah died I (BQ)saw the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up; and the train[l] of his robe filled the temple. 2 Above him stood the seraphim. Each had (BR)six wings: with two he covered his face, and with two he covered his feet, and with two he flew. 3 And one called to another and said:
4 And (BU)the foundations of the thresholds shook at the voice of him who called, and (BV)the house was filled with smoke. 5 And I said: “Woe is me! (BW)For I am lost; (BX)for I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips; for my eyes have seen the (BY)King, the Lord of hosts!”
6 Then one of the seraphim flew to me, having in his hand a burning coal that he had taken with tongs from the altar. 7 And he (BZ)touched my mouth and said: “Behold, this has touched your lips; your guilt is taken away, and your sin atoned for.”
Isaiah's Commission from the Lord
8 And I heard the voice of the Lord saying, “Whom shall I send, and who will go for (CA)us?” Then I said, “Here I am! Send me.” 9 And he said, “Go, and say to this people:
(CB)“‘Keep on hearing,[n] but do not understand;
keep on seeing,[o] but do not perceive.’
10 (CC)Make the heart of this people (CD)dull,[p]
and their ears heavy,
and blind their eyes;
(CE)lest they see with their eyes,
and hear with their ears,
and understand with their hearts,
and turn and be healed.”
11 Then I said, (CF)“How long, O Lord?”
And he said:
“Until (CG)cities lie waste
without inhabitant,
and houses without people,
and the land is a desolate waste,
12 and the Lord removes people far away,
and the forsaken places are many in the midst of the land.
13 (CH)And though a tenth remain in it,
it will be burned[q] again,
like a terebinth or an oak,
whose stump (CI)remains
when it is felled.”
(CJ)The holy seed[r] is its stump.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 4:4 Or purging
- Isaiah 5:5 Or grazed over; compare Exodus 22:5
- Isaiah 5:7 The Hebrew words for justice and bloodshed sound alike
- Isaiah 5:7 The Hebrew words for righteous and outcry sound alike
- Isaiah 5:10 Hebrew ten yoke, the area ten yoke of oxen can plow in a day
- Isaiah 5:10 A bath was about 6 gallons or 22 liters; a homer was about 6 bushels or 220 liters; an ephah was about 3/5 bushel or 22 liters
- Isaiah 5:13 Or without their knowledge
- Isaiah 5:13 Or die of hunger
- Isaiah 5:14 Hebrew her nobility
- Isaiah 5:15 Hebrew high
- Isaiah 5:16 Hebrew high
- Isaiah 6:1 Or hem
- Isaiah 6:3 Or may his glory fill the whole earth
- Isaiah 6:9 Or Hear indeed
- Isaiah 6:9 Or see indeed
- Isaiah 6:10 Hebrew fat
- Isaiah 6:13 Or purged
- Isaiah 6:13 Or offspring
Luke 16
English Standard Version
The Parable of the Dishonest Manager
16 He also said to the disciples, “There was a rich man who had (A)a manager, and charges were brought to him that this man was wasting his possessions. 2 And he called him and said to him, ‘What is this that I hear about you? Turn in the account of your (B)management, for you can no longer be manager.’ 3 And the manager said to himself, ‘What shall I do, since my master is taking the management away from me? I am not strong enough to dig, and I am ashamed to beg. 4 I have decided what to do, so that when I am removed from management, people may receive me into their houses.’ 5 So, summoning his master's debtors one by one, he said to the first, ‘How much do you owe my master?’ 6 He said, ‘A hundred measures[a] of oil.’ He said to him, ‘Take your bill, and sit down quickly and write fifty.’ 7 Then he said to another, ‘And how much do you owe?’ He said, ‘A hundred measures[b] of wheat.’ He said to him, ‘Take your bill, and write eighty.’ 8 The master commended the dishonest manager for his (C)shrewdness. For (D)the sons of this world[c] are (E)more shrewd in dealing with their own generation than (F)the sons of light. 9 And I tell you, (G)make friends for yourselves by means of (H)unrighteous wealth,[d] so that when it fails they may receive you into the eternal dwellings.
10 (I)“One who is (J)faithful in a very little is also faithful in much, and one who is dishonest in a very little is also dishonest in much. 11 If then you have not been faithful in the unrighteous wealth, who will entrust to you the true riches? 12 And if you have not been faithful in (K)that which is another's, who will give you that which is your own? 13 (L)No servant can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money.”
The Law and the Kingdom of God
14 (M)The Pharisees, who were (N)lovers of money, heard all these things, and they (O)ridiculed him. 15 And he said to them, “You are those who (P)justify yourselves before men, but (Q)God knows your hearts. For what is exalted among men (R)is an abomination in the sight of God.
16 (S)“The Law and the Prophets were until John; since then (T)the good news of the kingdom of God is preached, and (U)everyone forces his way into it.[e] 17 But (V)it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away than for one dot of the Law to become void.
Divorce and Remarriage
18 (W)“Everyone who divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery, and he who marries a woman divorced from her husband commits adultery.
The Rich Man and Lazarus
19 “There was a rich man who was clothed in (X)purple and fine linen and (Y)who feasted sumptuously every day. 20 And at his gate (Z)was laid a poor man named Lazarus, covered with sores, 21 who desired to be fed with (AA)what fell from the rich man's table. Moreover, even the dogs came and licked his sores. 22 The poor man died and was carried by (AB)the angels (AC)to Abraham's side.[f] The rich man also died and was buried, 23 and in (AD)Hades, being in torment, he lifted up his eyes and (AE)saw Abraham far off and Lazarus (AF)at his side. 24 And he called out, (AG)‘Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus to dip the end of his finger in water and (AH)cool my tongue, for (AI)I am in anguish in this flame.’ 25 But Abraham said, ‘Child, remember that (AJ)you in your lifetime received your good things, and Lazarus in like manner bad things; but now he is comforted here, and you are in anguish. 26 And besides all this, between us and you a great chasm has been fixed, in order that those who would pass from here to you may not be able, and none may cross from there to us.’ 27 And he said, ‘Then I beg you, father, to send him to my father's house— 28 for I have five brothers—so that he may warn them, lest they also come into this place of torment.’ 29 But Abraham said, ‘They have (AK)Moses and the Prophets; (AL)let them hear them.’ 30 And he said, ‘No, (AM)father Abraham, but if someone goes to them from the dead, they will repent.’ 31 He said to him, ‘If they do not hear (AN)Moses and the Prophets, (AO)neither will they be convinced if someone should rise from the dead.’”
Footnotes
- Luke 16:6 About 875 gallons or 3,200 liters
- Luke 16:7 Between 1,000 and 1,200 bushels or 37,000 to 45,000 liters
- Luke 16:8 Greek age
- Luke 16:9 Greek mammon, a Semitic word for money or possessions; also verse 11; rendered money in verse 13
- Luke 16:16 Or everyone is forcefully urged into it
- Luke 16:22 Greek bosom; also verse 23
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