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Jeremiah 44:24-47:7

24 Jeremiah said to all the people and all the women, “Hear the word of the Lord, (A)all you of Judah who are in the land of Egypt. 25 Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: (B)You and your wives have declared with your mouths, and have fulfilled it with your hands, saying, ‘We will surely perform our vows that we have made, (C)to make offerings to the queen of heaven and to pour out drink offerings to her.’ Then confirm your vows and perform your vows! 26 Therefore hear the word of the Lord, (D)all you of Judah who dwell in the land of Egypt: (E)Behold, I have sworn by my great name, says the Lord, (F)that my name shall no more be invoked by the mouth of any man of Judah in all the land of Egypt, (G)saying, ‘As the Lord God lives.’ 27 (H)Behold, I am watching over them for disaster and not for good. (I)All the men of Judah who are in the land of Egypt shall be consumed by the sword and by famine, until there is an end of them. 28 (J)And those who escape the sword shall return from the land of Egypt to the land of Judah, (K)few in number; and all the remnant of Judah, who came to the land of Egypt to live, (L)shall know whose word will stand, mine or theirs. 29 This shall be the sign to you, declares the Lord, that I will punish you in this place, in order that you may know that (M)my words will surely stand against you for harm: 30 Thus says the Lord, Behold, I will give (N)Pharaoh Hophra king of Egypt into the hand of his enemies (O)and into the hand of those who seek his life, as I gave (P)Zedekiah king of Judah into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, who was his enemy and sought his life.”

Message to Baruch

45 The word that Jeremiah the prophet spoke to (Q)Baruch the son of Neriah, (R)when he wrote these words in a book at the dictation of Jeremiah, (S)in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah: “Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, to you, O Baruch: You said, (T)‘Woe is me! For the Lord has added sorrow to my pain. (U)I am weary with my groaning, (V)and I find no rest.’ Thus shall you say to him, Thus says the Lord: (W)Behold, what I have built I am breaking down, and what I have planted I am plucking up—that is, the whole land. And (X)do you seek great things for yourself? Seek them not, for behold, (Y)I am bringing disaster upon all flesh, declares the Lord. But I will give you (Z)your life as a prize of war in all places to which you may go.”

Judgment on Egypt

46 The word of the Lord that came to Jeremiah the prophet (AA)concerning the nations.

About Egypt. (AB)Concerning the army of Pharaoh Neco, king of Egypt, which was by the river Euphrates at Carchemish and which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon defeated in (AC)the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah:

(AD)“Prepare buckler and shield,
    and advance for battle!
(AE)Harness the horses;
    mount, O horsemen!
Take your stations with your helmets,
    (AF)polish your spears,
    put on your armor!
Why have I seen it?
They are dismayed
    and have turned backward.
Their (AG)warriors are beaten down
    and have fled in haste;
(AH)they look not back—
    (AI)terror on every side!
declares the Lord.

“The swift cannot flee away,
    nor the warrior escape;
(AJ)in the north by the river Euphrates
    (AK)they have stumbled and fallen.

“Who is this, (AL)rising like the Nile,
    like rivers (AM)whose waters surge?
Egypt rises like the Nile,
    like rivers (AN)whose waters surge.
He said, ‘I will rise, I will cover the earth,
    I will destroy cities and their inhabitants.’
(AO)Advance, O horses,
    and rage, O chariots!
Let the warriors go out:
    men of Cush and (AP)Put who handle the shield,
    (AQ)men of Lud, skilled in handling the bow.
10 (AR)That day is the day of the Lord God of hosts,
    (AS)a day of vengeance,
    (AT)to avenge himself on his foes.
(AU)The sword shall devour and be sated
    and drink its fill of their blood.
For the Lord God of hosts holds (AV)a sacrifice
    (AW)in the north country (AX)by the river Euphrates.
11 (AY)Go up to Gilead, and take (AZ)balm,
    O virgin daughter of Egypt!
In vain you have used many medicines;
    (BA)there is no healing for you.
12 The nations have heard of your shame,
    and the earth is full of your cry;
(BB)for warrior has stumbled against warrior;
    they have both fallen together.”

13 The word that the Lord spoke to Jeremiah the prophet about the coming of (BC)Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon to strike the land of Egypt:

14 “Declare in Egypt, and proclaim in (BD)Migdol;
    proclaim in (BE)Memphis and (BF)Tahpanhes;
say, (BG)‘Stand ready and be prepared,
    for (BH)the sword shall devour around you.’
15 Why are your mighty ones face down?
    They do not stand[a]
    because the Lord thrust them down.
16 He made many stumble, (BI)and they fell,
    and they said one to another,
‘Arise, and let us go back to our own people
    and to the land of our birth,
    (BJ)because of the sword of the oppressor.’
17 Call the name of (BK)Pharaoh, king of Egypt,
    ‘Noisy one who lets the hour go by.’

18 (BL)“As I live, declares the King,
    (BM)whose name is the Lord of hosts,
like (BN)Tabor among the mountains
    and like (BO)Carmel by the sea, shall one come.
19 (BP)Prepare yourselves baggage for exile,
    O (BQ)inhabitants of Egypt!
For (BR)Memphis shall become a waste,
    a ruin, (BS)without inhabitant.

20 “A beautiful (BT)heifer is Egypt,
    but a biting fly (BU)from the north has come upon her.
21 Even her hired soldiers in her midst
    are like (BV)fattened calves;
yes, they have turned and fled together;
    they did not stand,
for the day of their calamity has come upon them,
    (BW)the time of their punishment.

22 “She makes (BX)a sound like a serpent gliding away;
    for her enemies march in force
and come against her with axes
    (BY)like those who fell trees.
23 (BZ)They shall cut down her forest,
declares the Lord,
    though it is impenetrable,
because (CA)they are more numerous than locusts;
    they are without number.
24 The daughter of Egypt shall be put to shame;
    she shall be delivered into the hand of (CB)a people from the north.”

25 The Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, said: “Behold, I am bringing punishment upon (CC)Amon of (CD)Thebes, and Pharaoh and Egypt (CE)and her gods and her kings, upon Pharaoh and those who trust in him. 26 (CF)I will deliver them into the hand of those who seek their life, into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and his officers. (CG)Afterward Egypt shall be inhabited (CH)as in the days of old, declares the Lord.

27 (CI)“But fear not, O Jacob my servant,
    nor be dismayed, O Israel,
for behold, I will save you from far away,
    and your offspring from the land of their captivity.
Jacob shall return and have quiet and ease,
    and none shall make him afraid.
28 (CJ)Fear not, O Jacob my servant,
declares the Lord,
    for I am with you.
I will make a full end of all the nations
    to which I have driven you,
    but of you I will not make a full end.
(CK)I will discipline you in just measure,
    and I will by no means leave you unpunished.”

Judgment on the Philistines

47 The word of the Lord that came to Jeremiah the prophet (CL)concerning the Philistines, before Pharaoh struck down (CM)Gaza.

“Thus says the Lord:
(CN)Behold, waters are rising (CO)out of the north,
    (CP)and shall become an overflowing torrent;
they shall overflow (CQ)the land and all that fills it,
    the city and those who dwell in it.
Men shall cry out,
    and every inhabitant of the land shall wail.
At the noise of the stamping of the hoofs of his stallions,
    (CR)at the rushing of his chariots, at the rumbling of their wheels,
the fathers (CS)look not back to their children,
    so feeble are their hands,
because of the day that is coming to destroy
    all (CT)the Philistines,
to cut off from (CU)Tyre and Sidon
    every helper that remains.
For the Lord is destroying the Philistines,
    (CV)the remnant of the coastland of (CW)Caphtor.
(CX)Baldness has come upon Gaza;
    (CY)Ashkelon has perished.
O remnant of their valley,
    (CZ)how long will you gash yourselves?
(DA)Ah, sword of the Lord!
    How long till you are quiet?
Put yourself into your scabbard;
    rest and be still!
How can it[b] be quiet
    (DB)when the Lord has given it a charge?
Against (DC)Ashkelon and against the seashore
    (DD)he has appointed it.”

2 Timothy 2:22-3:17

22 So (A)flee (B)youthful passions and pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, along with (C)those who call on the Lord (D)from a pure heart. 23 Have nothing to do with foolish, ignorant (E)controversies; you know that they breed quarrels. 24 And (F)the Lord's servant[a] must not be quarrelsome but (G)kind to everyone, (H)able to teach, patiently enduring evil, 25 correcting his opponents (I)with gentleness. God (J)may perhaps grant them repentance (K)leading to a knowledge of the truth, 26 and they may come to their senses and escape from (L)the snare of the devil, after being captured by him to do his will.

Godlessness in the Last Days

But understand this, that (M)in the last days there will come times of difficulty. For people will be (N)lovers of self, (O)lovers of money, (P)proud, (Q)arrogant, abusive, (R)disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, (S)heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, (T)not loving good, treacherous, reckless, (U)swollen with conceit, (V)lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having the appearance of godliness, but (W)denying its power. (X)Avoid such people. For among them are (Y)those who creep into households and capture weak women, burdened with sins and led astray by various passions, always learning and never able to (Z)arrive at a knowledge of the truth. Just as (AA)Jannes and Jambres (AB)opposed Moses, so these men also oppose the truth, (AC)men corrupted in mind and (AD)disqualified regarding the faith. But they will not get very far, for their folly will be plain to all, (AE)as was that of those two men.

All Scripture Is Breathed Out by God

10 (AF)You, however, have followed my teaching, my conduct, my aim in life, my faith, my patience, my love, my steadfastness, 11 my persecutions and sufferings that happened to me (AG)at Antioch, (AH)at Iconium, and (AI)at Lystra—which persecutions I endured; yet (AJ)from them all (AK)the Lord rescued me. 12 Indeed, all who desire to (AL)live a godly life in Christ Jesus (AM)will be persecuted, 13 while (AN)evil people and impostors will go on from bad to worse, deceiving and (AO)being deceived. 14 But as for you, (AP)continue in what you have learned and have firmly believed, knowing from whom[b] you learned it 15 and how (AQ)from childhood you have been acquainted with (AR)the sacred writings, (AS)which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. 16 (AT)All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, 17 that (AU)the man of God[c] may be complete, (AV)equipped (AW)for every good work.

Psalm 94

The Lord Will Not Forsake His People

94 O Lord, God of (A)vengeance,
    O God of vengeance, (B)shine forth!
(C)Rise up, O (D)judge of the earth;
    repay to the (E)proud what they deserve!
O Lord, (F)how long shall the wicked,
    how long shall (G)the wicked exult?
They pour out their (H)arrogant words;
    all (I)the evildoers boast.
They (J)crush your people, O Lord,
    and afflict your heritage.
They kill (K)the widow and the sojourner,
    and murder (L)the fatherless;
(M)and they say, “The Lord does not see;
    the God of Jacob does not perceive.”

(N)Understand, O dullest of the people!
    Fools, when will you be wise?
(O)He who planted the ear, does he not hear?
He who formed the eye, does he not see?
10 He who (P)disciplines the nations, does he not rebuke?
He who (Q)teaches man knowledge—
11     (R)the Lord—knows the thoughts of man,
    that they are (S)but a breath.[a]

12 (T)Blessed is the man whom you (U)discipline, O Lord,
    and whom you teach out of your law,
13 to give him (V)rest from (W)days of trouble,
    until (X)a pit is dug for the wicked.
14 (Y)For the Lord will not forsake his (Z)people;
    he will not abandon his (AA)heritage;
15 for (AB)justice will return to the righteous,
    and all the upright in heart will (AC)follow it.

16 (AD)Who rises up for me against the wicked?
    Who stands up for me against evildoers?
17 (AE)If the Lord had not been my help,
    my soul would soon have lived in the land of (AF)silence.
18 When I thought, (AG)“My foot slips,”
    your steadfast love, O Lord, (AH)held me up.
19 When the cares of my heart are many,
    your consolations cheer my soul.
20 Can (AI)wicked rulers be allied with you,
    those who frame[b] injustice by (AJ)statute?
21 They (AK)band together against the life of the righteous
    and condemn (AL)the innocent to death.[c]
22 But the Lord has become my (AM)stronghold,
    and my God (AN)the rock of my (AO)refuge.
23 He will bring back on them (AP)their iniquity
    and (AQ)wipe them out for their wickedness;
    the Lord our God will wipe them out.

Proverbs 26:6-8

Whoever sends a message by the hand of a fool
    cuts off his own feet and (A)drinks violence.
Like a lame man's legs, which hang useless,
    is a proverb in the mouth of fools.
Like one who binds the stone in the sling
    is (B)one who gives honor to a fool.

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