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
Psalm 105
English Standard Version
Tell of All His Wondrous Works
105 (A)Oh give thanks to the Lord; (B)call upon his name;
(C)make known his deeds among the peoples!
2 Sing to him, sing praises to him;
(D)tell of all his wondrous works!
3 Glory in his holy name;
let the hearts of those who seek the Lord rejoice!
4 Seek the Lord and his (E)strength;
(F)seek his presence continually!
5 Remember the (G)wondrous works that he has done,
his miracles, and (H)the judgments he uttered,
6 O offspring of (I)Abraham, his servant,
children of Jacob, his (J)chosen ones!
7 He is the Lord our God;
his (K)judgments are in all the earth.
8 He (L)remembers his covenant forever,
the word that he commanded, for (M)a thousand generations,
9 (N)the covenant that he made with Abraham,
his (O)sworn promise to Isaac,
10 which he confirmed to (P)Jacob as a statute,
to Israel as an everlasting covenant,
11 saying, (Q)“To you I will give the land of Canaan
as (R)your portion for an inheritance.”
12 When they were (S)few in number,
of little account, and (T)sojourners in it,
13 wandering from nation to nation,
from one kingdom to another people,
14 he (U)allowed no one to oppress them;
he (V)rebuked kings on their account,
15 saying, (W)“Touch not my anointed ones,
do my prophets no harm!”
16 When he (X)summoned a famine on the land
and (Y)broke all supply[a] of bread,
17 he had (Z)sent a man ahead of them,
Joseph, who was (AA)sold as a slave.
18 His (AB)feet were hurt with fetters;
his neck was put in a collar of iron;
19 until (AC)what he had said came to pass,
the word of the Lord (AD)tested him.
20 (AE)The king sent and (AF)released him;
the ruler of the peoples set him free;
21 he (AG)made him lord of his house
and ruler of all his possessions,
22 to bind[b] his princes at his pleasure
and to teach his elders wisdom.
23 Then (AH)Israel came to Egypt;
Jacob (AI)sojourned in (AJ)the land of Ham.
24 And the Lord (AK)made his people very fruitful
and made them stronger than their foes.
25 He (AL)turned their hearts to hate his people,
to (AM)deal craftily with his servants.
26 He (AN)sent Moses, his servant,
and Aaron, (AO)whom he had chosen.
27 (AP)They performed his signs among them
and miracles in (AQ)the land of Ham.
28 He (AR)sent darkness, and made the land dark;
they (AS)did not rebel[c] against his words.
29 He turned their waters into blood
and (AT)caused their fish to die.
30 Their land swarmed with frogs,
even in (AU)the chambers of their kings.
31 He spoke, and there came (AV)swarms of flies,
(AW)and gnats throughout their country.
32 He gave them hail for rain,
and fiery (AX)lightning bolts through their land.
33 He struck down their vines and fig trees,
and (AY)shattered the trees of their country.
34 He spoke, and the (AZ)locusts came,
young locusts without number,
35 which devoured all the vegetation in their land
and ate up the fruit of their ground.
36 He (BA)struck down all the firstborn in their land,
(BB)the firstfruits of all their strength.
37 Then he brought out Israel with (BC)silver and gold,
and there was none among his tribes who stumbled.
38 (BD)Egypt was glad when they departed,
for (BE)dread of them had fallen upon it.
39 He (BF)spread a cloud for a covering,
and fire to give light by night.
40 (BG)They asked, and he (BH)brought quail,
and gave them (BI)bread from heaven in abundance.
41 He opened the rock, and (BJ)water gushed out;
it flowed through (BK)the desert like a river.
42 For he (BL)remembered his holy promise,
and (BM)Abraham, his servant.
43 So he brought his people out with joy,
his (BN)chosen ones with (BO)singing.
44 And he (BP)gave them the lands of the nations,
and they took possession of the fruit of the peoples' toil,
45 that they might (BQ)keep his statutes
and (BR)observe his laws.
(BS)Praise the Lord!
Footnotes
- Psalm 105:16 Hebrew staff
- Psalm 105:22 Septuagint, Syriac, Jerome instruct
- Psalm 105:28 Septuagint, Syriac omit not
1 Thessalonians 3
English Standard Version
3 Therefore when we could bear it no longer, we were willing (A)to be left behind at Athens alone, 2 and we (B)sent Timothy, (C)our brother and God's coworker[a] in the gospel of Christ, to establish and exhort you in your faith, 3 that no one be moved by these afflictions. For you yourselves know that (D)we are destined for this. 4 For when we were with you, we kept telling you beforehand that we were to suffer affliction, (E)just as it has come to pass, and just as you know. 5 For this reason, (F)when I could bear it no longer, (G)I sent to learn about your faith, (H)for fear that somehow (I)the tempter had tempted you and (J)our labor would be in vain.
Timothy's Encouraging Report
6 But (K)now that Timothy has come to us from you, and has brought us the good news of (L)your faith and love and reported (M)that you always remember us kindly and (N)long to see us, as we long to see you— 7 for this reason, brothers,[b] in all our distress and affliction (O)we have been comforted about you through your faith. 8 For now we live, if you (P)are standing fast in the Lord. 9 For (Q)what thanksgiving can we return to God for you, for all the joy that we feel for your sake before our God, 10 as we pray most earnestly (R)night and day (S)that we may see you face to face and (T)supply what is lacking in your faith?
11 Now may (U)our God and Father himself, and our Lord Jesus, (V)direct our way to you, 12 and may the Lord (W)make you increase and abound in love (X)for one another and for all, as we do for you, 13 so that he may (Y)establish your hearts blameless in holiness before (Z)our God and Father, at (AA)the coming of our Lord Jesus (AB)with all his saints.
Footnotes
- 1 Thessalonians 3:2 Some manuscripts servant
- 1 Thessalonians 3:7 Or brothers and sisters
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