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Bible Reading for July 21

Isaiah 43
[1] But now thus saith the LORD that created thee, O Jacob, and he that
formed thee, O Israel, Fear not: for I have redeemed thee, I have called
thee by thy name; thou art mine.
[2] When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee; and through
the rivers, they shall not overflow thee: when thou walkest through the
fire, thou shalt not be burned; neither shall the flame kindle upon thee.
[3] For I am the LORD thy God, the Holy One of Israel, thy Saviour: I gave
Egypt for thy ransom, Ethiopia and Seba for thee. [4] Since thou wast
precious in my sight, thou hast been honourable, and I have loved thee:
therefore will I give men for thee, and people for thy life.
[5] Fear not: for I am with thee: I will bring thy seed from the east, and
gather thee from the west;
[6] I will say to the north, Give up; and to the south, Keep not back:
bring my sons from far, and my daughters from the ends of the earth; [7]
Even every one that is called by my name: for I have created him for my
glory, I have formed him; yea, I have made him. [8] Bring forth the blind
people that have eyes, and the deaf that have ears.
[9] Let all the nations be gathered together, and let the people be
assembled: who among them can declare this, and shew us former things? let
them bring forth their witnesses, that they may be justified: or let them
hear, and say, It is truth.
[10] Ye are my witnesses, saith the LORD, and my servant whom I have
chosen: that ye may know and believe me, and understand that I am he:
before me there was no God formed, neither shall there be after me. [11] I,
even I, am the LORD; and beside me there is no saviour. [12] I have
declared, and have saved, and I have shewed, when there was no strange god
among you: therefore ye are my witnesses, saith the LORD, that I am God.
[13] Yea, before the day was I am he; and there is none that can deliver
out of my hand: I will work, and who shall let it? [14] Thus saith the
LORD, your redeemer, the Holy One of Israel; For your sake I have sent to
Babylon, and have brought down all their nobles, and the Chaldeans, whose
cry is in the ships. [15] I am the LORD, your Holy One, the creator of
Israel, your King. [16] Thus saith the LORD, which maketh a way in the sea,
and a path in the mighty waters;
[17] Which bringeth forth the chariot and horse, the army and the power;
they shall lie down together, they shall not rise: they are extinct, they
are quenched as tow.
[18] Remember ye not the former things, neither consider the things of old.
[19] Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall ye not
know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the
desert. [20] The beast of the field shall honour me, the dragons and the
owls: because I give waters in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert, to
give drink to my people, my chosen.
[21] This people have I formed for myself; they shall shew forth my praise.
[22] But thou hast not called upon me, O Jacob; but thou hast been weary of
me, O Israel.
[23] Thou hast not brought me the small cattle of thy burnt offerings;
neither hast thou honoured me with thy sacrifices. I have not caused thee
to serve with an offering, nor wearied thee with incense. [24] Thou hast
bought me no sweet cane with money, neither hast thou filled me with the
fat of thy sacrifices: but thou hast made me to serve with thy sins, thou
hast wearied me with thine iniquities. [25] I, even I, am he that blotteth
out thy transgressions for mine own sake, and will not remember thy sins.
[26] Put me in remembrance: let us plead together: declare thou, that thou
mayest be justified.
[27] Thy first father hath sinned, and thy teachers have transgressed against me.
[28] Therefore I have profaned the princes of the sanctuary, and have given
Jacob to the curse, and Israel to reproaches.

Isaiah 44
[1] Yet now hear, O Jacob my servant; and Israel, whom I have chosen: [2]
Thus saith the LORD that made thee, and formed thee from the womb, which
will help thee; Fear not, O Jacob, my servant; and thou, Jesurun, whom I
have chosen.
[3] For I will pour water upon him that is thirsty, and floods upon the dry
ground: I will pour my spirit upon thy seed, and my blessing upon thine
offspring:
[4] And they shall spring up as among the grass, as willows by the water courses.
[5] One shall say, I am the LORD's; and another shall call himself by the
name of Jacob; and another shall subscribe with his hand unto the LORD, and
surname himself by the name of Israel. [6] Thus saith the LORD the King of
Israel, and his redeemer the LORD of hosts; I am the first, and I am the
last; and beside me there is no God. [7] And who, as I, shall call, and
shall declare it, and set it in order for me, since I appointed the ancient
people? and the things that are coming, and shall come, let them shew unto
them. [8] Fear ye not, neither be afraid: have not I told thee from that
time, and have declared it? ye are even my witnesses. Is there a God beside
me? yea, there is no God; I know not any.
[9] They that make a graven image are all of them vanity; and their
delectable things shall not profit; and they are their own witnesses; they
see not, nor know; that they may be ashamed. [10] Who hath formed a god, or
molten a graven image that is profitable for nothing?
[11] Behold, all his fellows shall be ashamed: and the workmen, they are of
men: let them all be gathered together, let them stand up; yet they shall
fear, and they shall be ashamed together. [12] The smith with the tongs
both worketh in the coals, and fashioneth it with hammers, and worketh it
with the strength of his arms: yea, he is hungry, and his strength faileth:
he drinketh no water, and is faint. [13] The carpenter stretcheth out his
rule; he marketh it out with a line; he fitteth it with planes, and he
marketh it out with the compass, and maketh it after the figure of a man,
according to the beauty of a man; that it may remain in the house.
[14] He heweth him down cedars, and taketh the cypress and the oak, which
he strengtheneth for himself among the trees of the forest: he planteth an
ash, and the rain doth nourish it.
[15] Then shall it be for a man to burn: for he will take thereof, and warm
himself; yea, he kindleth it, and baketh bread; yea, he maketh a god, and
worshippeth it; he maketh it a graven image, and falleth down thereto. [16]
He burneth part thereof in the fire; with part thereof he eateth flesh; he
roasteth roast, and is satisfied: yea, he warmeth himself, and saith, Aha,
I am warm, I have seen the fire: [17] And the residue thereof he maketh a
god, even his graven image: he falleth down unto it, and worshippeth it,
and prayeth unto it, and saith, Deliver me; for thou art my god.
[18] They have not known nor understood: for he hath shut their eyes, that
they cannot see; and their hearts, that they cannot understand. [19] And
none considereth in his heart, neither is there knowledge nor understanding
to say, I have burned part of it in the fire; yea, also I have baked bread
upon the coals thereof; I have roasted flesh, and eaten it: and shall I
make the residue thereof an abomination? shall I fall down to the stock of
a tree?
[20] He feedeth on ashes: a deceived heart hath turned him aside, that he
cannot deliver his soul, nor say, Is there not a lie in my right hand? [21]
Remember these, O Jacob and Israel; for thou art my servant: I have formed
thee; thou art my servant: O Israel, thou shalt not be forgotten of me.
[22] I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, thy transgressions, and, as a
cloud, thy sins: return unto me; for I have redeemed thee. [23] Sing, O ye
heavens; for the LORD hath done it: shout, ye lower parts of the earth:
break forth into singing, ye mountains, O forest, and every tree therein:
for the LORD hath redeemed Jacob, and glorified himself in Israel. [24]
Thus saith the LORD, thy redeemer, and he that formed thee from the womb, I
am the LORD that maketh all things; that stretcheth forth the heavens
alone; that spreadeth abroad the earth by myself; [25] That frustrateth the
tokens of the liars, and maketh diviners mad; that turneth wise men
backward, and maketh their knowledge foolish; [26] That confirmeth the word
of his servant, and performeth the counsel of his messengers; that saith to
Jerusalem, Thou shalt be inhabited; and to the cities of Judah, Ye shall be
built, and I will raise up the decayed places thereof:
[27] That saith to the deep, Be dry, and I will dry up thy rivers: [28]
That saith of Cyrus, He is my shepherd, and shall perform all my pleasure:
even saying to Jerusalem, Thou shalt be built; and to the temple, Thy
foundation shall be laid.

Isaiah 45
[1] Thus saith the LORD to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have
holden, to subdue nations before him; and I will loose the loins of kings,
to open before him the two leaved gates; and the gates shall not be shut;
[2] I will go before thee, and make the crooked places straight: I will
break in pieces the gates of brass, and cut in sunder the bars of iron: [3]
And I will give thee the treasures of darkness, and hidden riches of secret
places, that thou mayest know that I, the LORD, which call thee by thy
name, am the God of Israel.
[4] For Jacob my servant's sake, and Israel mine elect, I have even called
thee by thy name: I have surnamed thee, though thou hast not known me. [5]
I am the LORD, and there is none else, there is no God beside me: I girded
thee, though thou hast not known me: [6] That they may know from the rising
of the sun, and from the west, that there is none beside me. I am the LORD,
and there is none else. [7] I form the light, and create darkness: I make
peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.
[8] Drop down, ye heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down
righteousness: let the earth open, and let them bring forth salvation, and
let righteousness spring up together; I the LORD have created it. [9] Woe
unto him that striveth with his Maker! Let the potsherd strive with the
potsherds of the earth. Shall the clay say to him that fashioneth it, What
makest thou? or thy work, He hath no hands? [10] Woe unto him that saith
unto his father, What begettest thou? or to the woman, What hast thou
brought forth? [11] Thus saith the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, and his
Maker, Ask me of things to come concerning my sons, and concerning the work
of my hands command ye me.
[12] I have made the earth, and created man upon it: I, even my hands, have
stretched out the heavens, and all their host have I commanded. [13] I have
raised him up in righteousness, and I will direct all his ways: he shall
build my city, and he shall let go my captives, not for price nor reward,
saith the LORD of hosts.
[14] Thus saith the LORD, The labour of Egypt, and merchandise of Ethiopia
and of the Sabeans, men of stature, shall come over unto thee, and they
shall be thine: they shall come after thee; in chains they shall come over,
and they shall fall down unto thee, they shall make supplication unto thee,
saying, Surely God is in thee; and there is none else, there is no God.
[15] Verily thou art a God that hidest thyself, O God of Israel, the
Saviour.
[16] They shall be ashamed, and also confounded, all of them: they shall go
to confusion together that are makers of idols. [17] But Israel shall be
saved in the LORD with an everlasting salvation: ye shall not be ashamed
nor confounded world without end. [18] For thus saith the LORD that created
the heavens; God himself that formed the earth and made it; he hath
established it, he created it not in vain, he formed it to be inhabited: I
am the LORD; and there is none else. [19] I have not spoken in secret, in a
dark place of the earth: I said not unto the seed of Jacob, Seek ye me in
vain: I the LORD speak righteousness, I declare things that are right.
[20] Assemble yourselves and come; draw near together, ye that are escaped
of the nations: they have no knowledge that set up the wood of their graven
image, and pray unto a god that cannot save. [21] Tell ye, and bring them
near; yea, let them take counsel together: who hath declared this from
ancient time? who hath told it from that time? have not I the LORD? and
there is no God else beside me; a just God and a Saviour; there is none
beside me.
[22] Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth: for I am
God, and there is none else.
[23] I have sworn by myself, the word is gone out of my mouth in
righteousness, and shall not return, That unto me every knee shall bow,
every tongue shall swear.
[24] Surely, shall one say, in the LORD have I righteousness and strength:
even to him shall men come; and all that are incensed against him shall be
ashamed.
[25] In the LORD shall all the seed of Israel be justified, and shall glory.

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