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Bible Reading for July 11

Isaiah 13
[1] The burden of Babylon, which Isaiah the son of Amoz did see. [2] Lift
ye up a banner upon the high mountain, exalt the voice unto them, shake the
hand, that they may go into the gates of the nobles. [3] I have commanded
my sanctified ones, I have also called my mighty ones for mine anger, even
them that rejoice in my highness. [4] The noise of a multitude in the
mountains, like as of a great people; a tumultuous noise of the kingdoms of
nations gathered together: the LORD of hosts mustereth the host of the
battle. [5] They come from a far country, from the end of heaven, even the
LORD, and the weapons of his indignation, to destroy the whole land. [6]
Howl ye; for the day of the LORD is at hand; it shall come as a destruction
from the Almighty.
[7] Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every man's heart shall melt:
[8] And they shall be afraid: pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them;
they shall be in pain as a woman that travaileth: they shall be amazed one
at another; their faces shall be as flames. [9] Behold, the day of the LORD
cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate:
and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it.
[10] For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give
their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon
shall not cause her light to shine. [11] And I will punish the world for
their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the
arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the
terrible. [12] I will make a man more precious than fine gold; even a man
than the golden wedge of Ophir.
[13] Therefore I will shake the heavens, and the earth shall remove out of
her place, in the wrath of the LORD of hosts, and in the day of his fierce
anger.
[14] And it shall be as the chased roe, and as a sheep that no man taketh
up: they shall every man turn to his own people, and flee every one into
his own land.
[15] Every one that is found shall be thrust through; and every one that is
joined unto them shall fall by the sword. [16] Their children also shall be
dashed to pieces before their eyes; their houses shall be spoiled, and
their wives ravished. [17] Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them,
which shall not regard silver; and as for gold, they shall not delight in
it. [18] Their bows also shall dash the young men to pieces; and they shall
have no pity on the fruit of the womb; their eye shall not spare children.
[19] And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldees'
excellency, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. [20] It
shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to
generation: neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there; neither shall the
shepherds make their fold there. [21] But wild beasts of the desert shall
lie there; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and owls
shall dwell there, and satyrs shall dance there.
[22] And the wild beasts of the islands shall cry in their desolate houses,
and dragons in their pleasant palaces: and her time is near to come, and
her days shall not be prolonged.

Isaiah 14
[1] For the LORD will have mercy on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and
set them in their own land: and the strangers shall be joined with them,
and they shall cleave to the house of Jacob. [2] And the people shall take
them, and bring them to their place: and the house of Israel shall possess
them in the land of the LORD for servants and handmaids: and they shall
take them captives, whose captives they were; and they shall rule over
their oppressors. [3] And it shall come to pass in the day that the LORD
shall give thee rest from thy sorrow, and from thy fear, and from the hard
bondage wherein thou wast made to serve,
[4] That thou shalt take up this proverb against the king of Babylon, and
say, How hath the oppressor ceased! the golden city ceased! [5] The LORD
hath broken the staff of the wicked, and the sceptre of the rulers.
[6] He who smote the people in wrath with a continual stroke, he that ruled
the nations in anger, is persecuted, and none hindereth. [7] The whole
earth is at rest, and is quiet: they break forth into singing. [8] Yea, the
fir trees rejoice at thee, and the cedars of Lebanon, saying, Since thou
art laid down, no feller is come up against us. [9] Hell from beneath is
moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming: it stirreth up the dead for
thee, even all the chief ones of the earth; it hath raised up from their
thrones all the kings of the nations. [10] All they shall speak and say
unto thee, Art thou also become weak as we? art thou become like unto us?
[11] Thy pomp is brought down to the grave, and the noise of thy viols: the
worm is spread under thee, and the worms cover thee. [12] How art thou
fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to
the ground, which didst weaken the nations! [13] For thou hast said in
thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the
stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the
sides of the north: [14] I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I
will be like the most High.
[15] Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit. [16]
They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee, and consider thee,
saying, Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake
kingdoms;
[17] That made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof;
that opened not the house of his prisoners? [18] All the kings of the
nations, even all of them, lie in glory, every one in his own house.
[19] But thou art cast out of thy grave like an abominable branch, and as
the raiment of those that are slain, thrust through with a sword, that go
down to the stones of the pit; as a carcase trodden under feet. [20] Thou
shalt not be joined with them in burial, because thou hast destroyed thy
land, and slain thy people: the seed of evildoers shall never be renowned.
[21] Prepare slaughter for his children for the iniquity of their fathers;
that they do not rise, nor possess the land, nor fill the face of the world
with cities.
[22] For I will rise up against them, saith the LORD of hosts, and cut off
from Babylon the name, and remnant, and son, and nephew, saith the LORD.
[23] I will also make it a possession for the bittern, and pools of water:
and I will sweep it with the besom of destruction, saith the LORD of hosts.
[24] The LORD of hosts hath sworn, saying, Surely as I have thought, so
shall it come to pass; and as I have purposed, so shall it stand: [25] That
I will break the Assyrian in my land, and upon my mountains tread him under
foot: then shall his yoke depart from off them, and his burden depart from
off their shoulders.
[26] This is the purpose that is purposed upon the whole earth: and this is
the hand that is stretched out upon all the nations. [27] For the LORD of
hosts hath purposed, and who shall disannul it? and his hand is stretched
out, and who shall turn it back? [28] In the year that king Ahaz died was
this burden. [29] Rejoice not thou, whole Palestina, because the rod of him
that smote thee is broken: for out of the serpent's root shall come forth a
cockatrice, and his fruit shall be a fiery flying serpent. [30] And the
firstborn of the poor shall feed, and the needy shall lie down in safety:
and I will kill thy root with famine, and he shall slay thy remnant.
[31] Howl, O gate; cry, O city; thou, whole Palestina, art dissolved: for
there shall come from the north a smoke, and none shall be alone in his
appointed times.
[32] What shall one then answer the messengers of the nation? That the LORD
hath founded Zion, and the poor of his people shall trust in it.

Isaiah 15
[1] The burden of Moab. Because in the night Ar of Moab is laid waste, and
brought to silence; because in the night Kir of Moab is laid waste, and
brought to silence;
[2] He is gone up to Bajith, and to Dibon, the high places, to weep: Moab
shall howl over Nebo, and over Medeba: on all their heads shall be
baldness, and every beard cut off.
[3] In their streets they shall gird themselves with sackcloth: on the tops
of their houses, and in their streets, every one shall howl, weeping
abundantly.
[4] And Heshbon shall cry, and Elealeh: their voice shall be heard even
unto Jahaz: therefore the armed soldiers of Moab shall cry out; his life
shall be grievous unto him.
[5] My heart shall cry out for Moab; his fugitives shall flee unto Zoar, an
heifer of three years old: for by the mounting up of Luhith with weeping
shall they go it up; for in the way of Horonaim they shall raise up a cry
of destruction.
[6] For the waters of Nimrim shall be desolate: for the hay is withered
away, the grass faileth, there is no green thing. [7] Therefore the
abundance they have gotten, and that which they have laid up, shall they
carry away to the brook of the willows. [8] For the cry is gone round about
the borders of Moab; the howling thereof unto Eglaim, and the howling
thereof unto Beer-elim. [9] For the waters of Dimon shall be full of blood:
for I will bring more upon Dimon, lions upon him that escapeth of Moab, and
upon the remnant of the land.

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