John 10:1-10

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Jesus the True Shepherd

10 “Most assuredly, I say to you, he who does not enter the sheepfold by the door, but climbs up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber. ²But he who enters by the door is the shepherd of the sheep. ³To him the doorkeeper opens, and the sheep hear his voice; and he calls his own sheep by ^(A)name and leads them out. ⁴And when he brings out his own sheep, he goes before them; and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice. ⁵Yet they will by no means follow a ^(B)stranger, but will flee from him, for they do not know the voice of strangers.” ⁶Jesus used this illustration, but they did not understand the things which He spoke to them.

Jesus the Good Shepherd

⁷Then Jesus said to them again, “Most assuredly, I say to you, I am the door of the sheep. ⁸All who ever came ^[a]before Me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not hear them. ⁹^(C)I am the door. If anyone enters by Me, he will be saved, and will go in and out and find pasture. ¹⁰The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.

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Footnotes

John 10:8 M omits before Me

1 John 2:12-17

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Their Spiritual State

¹²I write to you, little children,
Because ^(A)your sins are forgiven you for His name’s sake.
¹³I write to you, fathers,
Because you have known Him who is ^(B)from the beginning.
I write to you, young men,
Because you have overcome the wicked one.
I write to you, little children,
Because you have ^(C)known the Father.
¹⁴I have written to you, fathers,
Because you have known Him who is from the beginning.
I have written to you, young men,
Because ^(D)you are strong, and the word of God abides in you,
And you have overcome the wicked one.

Do Not Love the World

¹⁵^(E)Do not love the world or the things in the world. ^(F)If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. ¹⁶For all that is in the world—the lust of the flesh, ^(G)the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life—is not of the Father but is of the world. ¹⁷And ^(H)the world is passing away, and the lust of it; but he who does the will of God abides forever.

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Job 10

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Job: I Would Plead with God

10 “My ^(A)soul loathes my life;
I will ^[a]give free course to my complaint,
^(B)I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
²I will say to God, ‘Do not condemn me;
Show me why You contend with me.
³Does it seem good to You that You should oppress,
That You should despise the work of Your hands,
And smile on the counsel of the wicked?
⁴Do You have eyes of flesh?
Or ^(C)do You see as man sees?
⁵Are Your days like the days of a mortal man?
Are Your years like the days of a mighty man,
⁶That You should seek for my iniquity
And search out my sin,
⁷Although You know that I am not wicked,
And there is no one who can deliver from Your hand?

⁸‘Your^(D) hands have made me and fashioned me,
An intricate unity;
Yet You would ^(E)destroy me.
⁹Remember, I pray, ^(F)that You have made me like clay.
And will You turn me into dust again?
¹⁰^(G)Did You not pour me out like milk,
And curdle me like cheese,
¹¹Clothe me with skin and flesh,
And knit me together with bones and sinews?
¹²You have granted me life and favor,
And Your care has preserved my spirit.

¹³‘And these things You have hidden in Your heart;
I know that this was with You:
¹⁴If I sin, then ^(H)You mark me,
And will not acquit me of my iniquity.
¹⁵If I am wicked, ^(I)woe to me;
^(J)Even if I am righteous, I ^[b]cannot lift up my head.
I am full of disgrace;
^(K)See my misery!
¹⁶If my head is exalted,
^(L)You hunt me like a fierce lion,
And again You show Yourself awesome against me.
¹⁷You renew Your witnesses against me,
And increase Your indignation toward me;
Changes and war are ever with me.

¹⁸‘Why^(M) then have You brought me out of the womb?
Oh, that I had perished and no eye had seen me!
¹⁹I would have been as though I had not been.
I would have been carried from the womb to the grave.
²⁰^(N)Are not my days few?
Cease! ^(O)Leave me alone, that I may take a little comfort,
²¹Before I go to the place from which I shall not return,
^(P)To the land of darkness ^(Q)and the shadow of death,
²²A land as dark as darkness itself,
As the shadow of death, without any order,
Where even the light is like darkness.’ ”

Footnotes

Job 10:1 Lit. leave on myself
Job 10:15 Lit. will not

Ezekiel 29-30

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Proclamation Against Egypt

29 In the tenth year, in the tenth month, on the twelfth day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me, saying, ²“Son of man, ^(A)set your face against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and prophesy against him, and ^(B)against all Egypt. ³Speak, and say, ‘Thus says the Lord God:

^(C)“Behold, I am against you,
O Pharaoh king of Egypt,
O great ^(D)monster who lies in the midst of his rivers,
^(E)Who has said, ‘My ^[a]River is my own;
I have made it for myself.’
⁴But ^(F)I will put hooks in your jaws,
And cause the fish of your rivers to stick to your scales;
I will bring you up out of the midst of your rivers,
And all the fish in your rivers will stick to your scales.
⁵I will leave you in the wilderness,
You and all the fish of your rivers;
You shall fall on the ^[b]open ^(G)field;
^(H)You shall not be picked up or ^[c]gathered.
^(I)I have given you as food
To the beasts of the field
And to the birds of the heavens.

⁶“Then all the inhabitants of Egypt
Shall know that I am the Lord,
Because they have been a ^(J)staff of reed to the house of Israel.
⁷^(K)When they took hold of you with the hand,
You broke and tore all their ^[d]shoulders;
When they leaned on you,
You broke and made all their backs quiver.”

⁸‘Therefore thus says the Lord God: “Surely I will bring ^(L)a sword upon you and cut off from you man and beast. ⁹And the land of Egypt shall become ^(M)desolate and waste; then they will know that I am the Lord, because he said, ‘The River is mine, and I have made it.’ ¹⁰Indeed, therefore, I am against you and against your rivers, ^(N)and I will make the land of Egypt utterly waste and desolate, ^(O)from ^[e]Migdol to Syene, as far as the border of Ethiopia. ¹¹^(P)Neither foot of man shall pass through it nor foot of beast pass through it, and it shall be uninhabited forty years. ¹²^(Q)I will make the land of Egypt desolate in the midst of the countries that are desolate; and among the cities that are laid waste, her cities shall be desolate forty years; and I will ^(R)scatter the Egyptians among the nations and disperse them throughout the countries.”

¹³‘Yet, thus says the Lord God: “At the ^(S)end of forty years I will gather the Egyptians from the peoples among whom they were scattered. ¹⁴I will bring back the captives of Egypt and cause them to return to the land of Pathros, to the land of their origin, and there they shall be a ^(T)lowly kingdom. ¹⁵It shall be the lowliest of kingdoms; it shall never again exalt itself above the nations, for I will diminish them so that they will not rule over the nations anymore. ¹⁶No longer shall it be ^(U)the confidence of the house of Israel, but will remind them of their iniquity when they turned to follow them. Then they shall know that I am the Lord God.” ’ ”

Babylonia Will Plunder Egypt

¹⁷And it came to pass in the twenty-seventh year, in the first month, on the first day of the month, that the word of the Lord came to me, saying, ¹⁸“Son of man, ^(V)Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon caused his army to labor strenuously against Tyre; every head was made ^(W)bald, and every shoulder rubbed raw; yet neither he nor his army received wages from Tyre, for the labor which they expended on it. ¹⁹Therefore thus says the Lord God: ‘Surely I will give the land of Egypt to ^(X)Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon; he shall take away her wealth, carry off her spoil, and remove her pillage; and that will be the wages for his army. ²⁰I have given him the land of Egypt for his labor, because they ^(Y)worked for Me,’ says the Lord God.

²¹‘In that day ^(Z)I will cause the ^[f]horn of the house of Israel to spring forth, and I will ^(AA)open your mouth to speak in their midst. Then they shall know that I am the Lord.’ ”

Egypt and Her Allies Will Fall

30 The word of the Lord came to me again, saying, ²“Son of man, prophesy and say, ‘Thus says the Lord God:

^(AB)“Wail, ‘Woe to the day!’
³For ^(AC)the day is near,
Even the day of the Lord is near;
It will be a day of clouds, the time of the Gentiles.
⁴The sword shall come upon Egypt,
And great anguish shall be in ^[g]Ethiopia,
When the slain fall in Egypt,
And they ^(AD)take away her wealth,
And ^(AE)her foundations are broken down.

⁵“Ethiopia, ^[h]Libya, ^[i]Lydia, ^(AF)all the mingled people, Chub, and the men of the lands who are allied, shall fall with them by the sword.”

⁶‘Thus says the Lord:

“Those who uphold Egypt shall fall,
And the pride of her power shall come down.
^(AG)From ^[j]Migdol to Syene
Those within her shall fall by the sword,”
Says the Lord God.

⁷“They^(AH) shall be desolate in the midst of the desolate countries,
And her cities shall be in the midst of the cities that are laid waste.
⁸Then they will know that I am the Lord,
When I have set a fire in Egypt
And all her helpers are destroyed.
⁹On that day ^(AI)messengers shall go forth from Me in ships
To make the ^[k]careless Ethiopians afraid,
And great anguish shall come upon them,
As on the day of Egypt;
For indeed it is coming!”

¹⁰‘Thus says the Lord God:

^(AJ)“I will also make a multitude of Egypt to cease
By the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon.
¹¹He and his people with him, ^(AK)the most terrible of the nations,
Shall be brought to destroy the land;
They shall draw their swords against Egypt,
And fill the land with the slain.
¹²^(AL)I will make the rivers dry,
And ^(AM)sell the land into the hand of the wicked;
I will make the land waste, and all that is in it,
By the hand of aliens.
I, the Lord, have spoken.”

¹³‘Thus says the Lord God:

“I will also ^(AN)destroy the idols,
And cause the images to cease from ^[l]Noph;
^(AO)There shall no longer be princes from the land of Egypt;
^(AP)I will put fear in the land of Egypt.
¹⁴I will make ^(AQ)Pathros desolate,
Set fire to ^(AR)Zoan,
^(AS)And execute judgments in ^[m]No.
¹⁵I will pour My fury on ^[n]Sin, the strength of Egypt;
^(AT)I will cut off the multitude of ^[o]No,
¹⁶And ^(AU)set a fire in Egypt;
Sin shall have great pain,
No shall be split open,
And Noph shall be in distress daily.
¹⁷The young men of ^[p]Aven and Pi Beseth shall fall by the sword,
And these cities shall go into captivity.
¹⁸^(AV)At ^[q]Tehaphnehes the day shall also be ^[r]darkened,
When I break the yokes of Egypt there.
And her arrogant strength shall cease in her;
As for her, a cloud shall cover her,
And her daughters shall go into captivity.
¹⁹Thus I will ^(AW)execute judgments on Egypt,
Then they shall know that I am the Lord.” ’ ”

Proclamation Against Pharaoh

²⁰And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the first month, on the seventh day of the month, that the word of the Lord came to me, saying, ²¹“Son of man, I have ^(AX)broken the arm of Pharaoh king of Egypt; and see, ^(AY)it has not been bandaged for healing, nor a ^[s]splint put on to bind it, to make it strong enough to hold a sword. ²²Therefore thus says the Lord God: ‘Surely I am ^(AZ)against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and will ^(BA)break his arms, both the strong one and the one that was broken; and I will make the sword fall out of his hand. ²³^(BB)I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and disperse them throughout the countries. ²⁴I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon and put My sword in his hand; but I will break Pharaoh’s arms, and he will groan before him with the groanings of a mortally wounded man. ²⁵Thus I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, but the arms of Pharaoh shall fall down; ^(BC)they shall know that I am the Lord, when I put My sword into the hand of the king of Babylon and he stretches it out against the land of Egypt. ²⁶^(BD)I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations and disperse them throughout the countries. Then they shall know that I am the Lord.’ ”