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Bible Reading for July 09

Isaiah 7
[1] And it came to pass in the days of Ahaz the son of Jotham, the son of
Uzziah, king of Judah, that Rezin the king of Syria, and Pekah the son of
Remaliah, king of Israel, went up toward Jerusalem to war against it, but
could not prevail against it.
[2] And it was told the house of David, saying, Syria is confederate with
Ephraim. And his heart was moved, and the heart of his people, as the trees
of the wood are moved with the wind. [3] Then said the LORD unto Isaiah, Go
forth now to meet Ahaz, thou, and Shear-jashub thy son, at the end of the
conduit of the upper pool in the highway of the fuller's field;
[4] And say unto him, Take heed, and be quiet; fear not, neither be
fainthearted for the two tails of these smoking firebrands, for the fierce
anger of Rezin with Syria, and of the son of Remaliah. [5] Because Syria,
Ephraim, and the son of Remaliah, have taken evil counsel against thee,
saying,
[6] Let us go up against Judah, and vex it, and let us make a breach
therein for us, and set a king in the midst of it, even the son of Tabeal:
[7] Thus saith the Lord GOD, It shall not stand, neither shall it come to
pass.
[8] For the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin;
and within threescore and five years shall Ephraim be broken, that it be
not a people.
[9] And the head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is
Remaliah's son. If ye will not believe, surely ye shall not be established.
[10] Moreover the LORD spake again unto Ahaz, saying, [11] Ask thee a sign
of the LORD thy God; ask it either in the depth, or in the height above.
[12] But Ahaz said, I will not ask, neither will I tempt the LORD. [13] And
he said, Hear ye now, O house of David; Is it a small thing for you to
weary men, but will ye weary my God also? [14] Therefore the Lord himself
shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and
shall call his name Immanuel. [15] Butter and honey shall he eat, that he
may know to refuse the evil, and choose the good.
[16] For before the child shall know to refuse the evil, and choose the
good, the land that thou abhorrest shall be forsaken of both her kings.
[17] The LORD shall bring upon thee, and upon thy people, and upon thy
father's house, days that have not come, from the day that Ephraim departed
from Judah; even the king of Assyria. [18] And it shall come to pass in
that day, that the LORD shall hiss for the fly that is in the uttermost
part of the rivers of Egypt, and for the bee that is in the land of
Assyria.
[19] And they shall come, and shall rest all of them in the desolate
valleys, and in the holes of the rocks, and upon all thorns, and upon all
bushes.
[20] In the same day shall the Lord shave with a rasor that is hired,
namely, by them beyond the river, by the king of Assyria, the head, and the
hair of the feet: and it shall also consume the beard. [21] And it shall
come to pass in that day, that a man shall nourish a young cow, and two
sheep;
[22] And it shall come to pass, for the abundance of milk that they shall
give he shall eat butter: for butter and honey shall every one eat that is
left in the land.
[23] And it shall come to pass in that day, that every place shall be,
where there were a thousand vines at a thousand silverlings, it shall even
be for briers and thorns.
[24] With arrows and with bows shall men come thither; because all the land
shall become briers and thorns.
[25] And on all hills that shall be digged with the mattock, there shall
not come thither the fear of briers and thorns: but it shall be for the
sending forth of oxen, and for the treading of lesser cattle.

Isaiah 8
[1] Moreover the LORD said unto me, Take thee a great roll, and write in it
with a man's pen concerning Maher-shalal-hash-baz. [2] And I took unto me
faithful witnesses to record, Uriah the priest, and Zechariah the son of
Jeberechiah.
[3] And I went unto the prophetess; and she conceived, and bare a son. Then
said the LORD to me, Call his name Maher-shalal-hash-baz. [4] For before
the child shall have knowledge to cry, My father, and my mother, the riches
of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria shall be taken away before the king of
Assyria.
[5] The LORD spake also unto me again, saying, [6] Forasmuch as this people
refuseth the waters of Shiloah that go softly, and rejoice in Rezin and
Remaliah's son; [7] Now therefore, behold, the Lord bringeth up upon them
the waters of the river, strong and many, even the king of Assyria, and all
his glory: and he shall come up over all his channels, and go over all his
banks: [8] And he shall pass through Judah; he shall overflow and go over,
he shall reach even to the neck; and the stretching out of his wings shall
fill the breadth of thy land, O Immanuel.
[9] Associate yourselves, O ye people, and ye shall be broken in pieces;
and give ear, all ye of far countries: gird yourselves, and ye shall be
broken in pieces; gird yourselves, and ye shall be broken in pieces. [10]
Take counsel together, and it shall come to nought; speak the word, and it
shall not stand: for God is with us. [11] For the LORD spake thus to me
with a strong hand, and instructed me that I should not walk in the way of
this people, saying, [12] Say ye not, A confederacy, to all them to whom
this people shall say, A confederacy; neither fear ye their fear, nor be
afraid. [13] Sanctify the LORD of hosts himself; and let him be your fear,
and let him be your dread.
[14] And he shall be for a sanctuary; but for a stone of stumbling and for
a rock of offence to both the houses of Israel, for a gin and for a snare
to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
[15] And many among them shall stumble, and fall, and be broken, and be
snared, and be taken.
[16] Bind up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples. [17] And I
will wait upon the LORD, that hideth his face from the house of Jacob, and
I will look for him.
[18] Behold, I and the children whom the LORD hath given me are for signs
and for wonders in Israel from the LORD of hosts, which dwelleth in mount
Zion.
[19] And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that have familiar
spirits, and unto wizards that peep, and that mutter: should not a people
seek unto their God? for the living to the dead? [20] To the law and to the
testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is
no light in them. [21] And they shall pass through it, hardly bestead and
hungry: and it shall come to pass, that when they shall be hungry, they
shall fret themselves, and curse their king and their God, and look upward.
[22] And they shall look unto the earth; and behold trouble and darkness,
dimness of anguish; and they shall be driven to darkness.

Isaiah 9
[1] Nevertheless the dimness shall not be such as was in her vexation, when
at the first he lightly afflicted the land of Zebulun and the land of
Naphtali, and afterward did more grievously afflict her by the way of the
sea, beyond Jordan, in Galilee of the nations. [2] The people that walked
in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the
shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined. [3] Thou hast multiplied
the nation, and not increased the joy: they joy before thee according to
the joy in harvest, and as men rejoice when they divide the spoil.
[4] For thou hast broken the yoke of his burden, and the staff of his
shoulder, the rod of his oppressor, as in the day of Midian. [5] For every
battle of the warrior is with confused noise, and garments rolled in blood;
but this shall be with burning and fuel of fire. [6] For unto us a child is
born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his
shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counseller, The mighty
God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace. [7] Of the increase of
his government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David,
and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and
with justice from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of the LORD of hosts
will perform this. [8] The Lord sent a word into Jacob, and it hath lighted
upon Israel. [9] And all the people shall know, even Ephraim and the
inhabitant of Samaria, that say in the pride and stoutness of heart, [10]
The bricks are fallen down, but we will build with hewn stones: the
sycomores are cut down, but we will change them into cedars. [11] Therefore
the LORD shall set up the adversaries of Rezin against him, and join his
enemies together;
[12] The Syrians before, and the Philistines behind; and they shall devour
Israel with open mouth. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his
hand is stretched out still.
[13] For the people turneth not unto him that smiteth them, neither do they
seek the LORD of hosts.
[14] Therefore the LORD will cut off from Israel head and tail, branch and
rush, in one day.
[15] The ancient and honourable, he is the head; and the prophet that
teacheth lies, he is the tail.
[16] For the leaders of this people cause them to err; and they that are
led of them are destroyed.
[17] Therefore the Lord shall have no joy in their young men, neither shall
have mercy on their fatherless and widows: for every one is an hypocrite
and an evildoer, and every mouth speaketh folly. For all this his anger is
not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still. [18] For wickedness
burneth as the fire: it shall devour the briers and thorns, and shall
kindle in the thickets of the forest, and they shall mount up like the
lifting up of smoke.
[19] Through the wrath of the LORD of hosts is the land darkened, and the
people shall be as the fuel of the fire: no man shall spare his brother.
[20] And he shall snatch on the right hand, and be hungry; and he shall eat
on the left hand, and they shall not be satisfied: they shall eat every man
the flesh of his own arm:
[21] Manasseh, Ephraim; and Ephraim, Manasseh: and they together shall be
against Judah. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is
stretched out still.

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