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Bible Reading for July 15

Isaiah 25
[1] O LORD, thou art my God; I will exalt thee, I will praise thy name; for
thou hast done wonderful things; thy counsels of old are faithfulness and
truth.
[2] For thou hast made of a city an heap; of a defenced city a ruin: a
palace of strangers to be no city; it shall never be built. [3] Therefore
shall the strong people glorify thee, the city of the terrible nations
shall fear thee.
[4] For thou hast been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in
his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shadow from the heat, when the
blast of the terrible ones is as a storm against the wall. [5] Thou shalt
bring down the noise of strangers, as the heat in a dry place; even the
heat with the shadow of a cloud: the branch of the terrible ones shall be
brought low.
[6] And in this mountain shall the LORD of hosts make unto all people a
feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the lees, of fat things full of
marrow, of wines on the lees well refined. [7] And he will destroy in this
mountain the face of the covering cast over all people, and the vail that
is spread over all nations. [8] He will swallow up death in victory; and
the Lord GOD will wipe away tears from off all faces; and the rebuke of his
people shall he take away from off all the earth: for the LORD hath spoken
it. [9] And it shall be said in that day, Lo, this is our God; we have
waited for him, and he will save us: this is the LORD; we have waited for
him, we will be glad and rejoice in his salvation. [10] For in this
mountain shall the hand of the LORD rest, and Moab shall be trodden down
under him, even as straw is trodden down for the dunghill. [11] And he
shall spread forth his hands in the midst of them, as he that swimmeth
spreadeth forth his hands to swim: and he shall bring down their pride
together with the spoils of their hands. [12] And the fortress of the high
fort of thy walls shall he bring down, lay low, and bring to the ground,
even to the dust.

Isaiah 26
[1] In that day shall this song be sung in the land of Judah; We have a
strong city; salvation will God appoint for walls and bulwarks. [2] Open ye
the gates, that the righteous nation which keepeth the truth may enter in.
[3] Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee:
because he trusteth in thee.
[4] Trust ye in the LORD for ever: for in the LORD JEHOVAH is everlasting strength:
[5] For he bringeth down them that dwell on high; the lofty city, he layeth
it low; he layeth it low, even to the ground; he bringeth it even to the
dust.
[6] The foot shall tread it down, even the feet of the poor, and the steps
of the needy.
[7] The way of the just is uprightness: thou, most upright, dost weigh the
path of the just.
[8] Yea, in the way of thy judgments, O LORD, have we waited for thee; the
desire of our soul is to thy name, and to the remembrance of thee. [9] With
my soul have I desired thee in the night; yea, with my spirit within me
will I seek thee early: for when thy judgments are in the earth, the
inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness. [10] Let favour be
shewed to the wicked, yet will he not learn righteousness: in the land of
uprightness will he deal unjustly, and will not behold the majesty of the
LORD. [11] LORD, when thy hand is lifted up, they will not see: but they
shall see, and be ashamed for their envy at the people; yea, the fire of
thine enemies shall devour them.
[12] LORD, thou wilt ordain peace for us: for thou also hast wrought all
our works in us.
[13] O LORD our God, other lords beside thee have had dominion over us: but
by thee only will we make mention of thy name. [14] They are dead, they
shall not live; they are deceased, they shall not rise: therefore hast thou
visited and destroyed them, and made all their memory to perish.
[15] Thou hast increased the nation, O LORD, thou hast increased the
nation: thou art glorified: thou hadst removed it far unto all the ends of
the earth.
[16] LORD, in trouble have they visited thee, they poured out a prayer when
thy chastening was upon them.
[17] Like as a woman with child, that draweth near the time of her
delivery, is in pain, and crieth out in her pangs; so have we been in thy
sight, O LORD.
[18] We have been with child, we have been in pain, we have as it were
brought forth wind; we have not wrought any deliverance in the earth;
neither have the inhabitants of the world fallen. [19] Thy dead men shall
live, together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye that
dwell in dust: for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast
out the dead. [20] Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut
thy doors about thee: hide thyself as it were for a little moment, until
the indignation be overpast.
[21] For, behold, the LORD cometh out of his place to punish the
inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose
her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.

Isaiah 27
[1] In that day the LORD with his sore and great and strong sword shall
punish leviathan the piercing serpent, even leviathan that crooked serpent;
and he shall slay the dragon that is in the sea. [2] In that day sing ye
unto her, A vineyard of red wine. [3] I the LORD do keep it; I will water
it every moment: lest any hurt it, I will keep it night and day.
[4] Fury is not in me: who would set the briers and thorns against me in
battle? I would go through them, I would burn them together. [5] Or let him
take hold of my strength, that he may make peace with me; and he shall make
peace with me.
[6] He shall cause them that come of Jacob to take root: Israel shall
blossom and bud, and fill the face of the world with fruit. [7] Hath he
smitten him, as he smote those that smote him? or is he slain according to
the slaughter of them that are slain by him? [8] In measure, when it
shooteth forth, thou wilt debate with it: he stayeth his rough wind in the
day of the east wind. [9] By this therefore shall the iniquity of Jacob be
purged; and this is all the fruit to take away his sin; when he maketh all
the stones of the altar as chalkstones that are beaten in sunder, the
groves and images shall not stand up.
[10] Yet the defenced city shall be desolate, and the habitation forsaken,
and left like a wilderness: there shall the calf feed, and there shall he
lie down, and consume the branches thereof. [11] When the boughs thereof
are withered, they shall be broken off: the women come, and set them on
fire: for it is a people of no understanding: therefore he that made them
will not have mercy on them, and he that formed them will shew them no
favour.
[12] And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall beat off
from the channel of the river unto the stream of Egypt, and ye shall be
gathered one by one, O ye children of Israel. [13] And it shall come to
pass in that day, that the great trumpet shall be blown, and they shall
come which were ready to perish in the land of Assyria, and the outcasts in
the land of Egypt, and shall worship the LORD in the holy mount at
Jerusalem.

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