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Bible Reading for July 16

Isaiah 28
[1] Woe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim, whose glorious
beauty is a fading flower, which are on the head of the fat valleys of them
that are overcome with wine!
[2] Behold, the Lord hath a mighty and strong one, which as a tempest of
hail and a destroying storm, as a flood of mighty waters overflowing, shall
cast down to the earth with the hand. [3] The crown of pride, the drunkards
of Ephraim, shall be trodden under feet:
[4] And the glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fat valley, shall
be a fading flower, and as the hasty fruit before the summer; which when he
that looketh upon it seeth, while it is yet in his hand he eateth it up.
[5] In that day shall the LORD of hosts be for a crown of glory, and for a
diadem of beauty, unto the residue of his people, [6] And for a spirit of
judgment to him that sitteth in judgment, and for strength to them that
turn the battle to the gate. [7] But they also have erred through wine, and
through strong drink are out of the way; the priest and the prophet have
erred through strong drink, they are swallowed up of wine, they are out of
the way through strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble in judgment.
[8] For all tables are full of vomit and filthiness, so that there is no
place clean.
[9] Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand
doctrine? them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts.
[10] For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon
line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little: [11] For with
stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to this people.
[12] To whom he said, This is the rest wherewith ye may cause the weary to
rest; and this is the refreshing: yet they would not hear. [13] But the
word of the LORD was unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept;
line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little; that
they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.
[14] Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, ye scornful men, that rule this
people which is in Jerusalem.
[15] Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with
hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through,
it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under
falsehood have we hid ourselves:
[16] Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a
foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure
foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste. [17] Judgment also will
I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall
sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding
place.
[18] And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement
with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through,
then ye shall be trodden down by it. [19] From the time that it goeth forth
it shall take you: for morning by morning shall it pass over, by day and by
night: and it shall be a vexation only to understand the report.
[20] For the bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself on it: and
the covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it. [21] For the
LORD shall rise up as in mount Perazim, he shall be wroth as in the valley
of Gibeon, that he may do his work, his strange work; and bring to pass his
act, his strange act.
[22] Now therefore be ye not mockers, lest your bands be made strong: for I
have heard from the Lord GOD of hosts a consumption, even determined upon
the whole earth.
[23] Give ye ear, and hear my voice; hearken, and hear my speech. [24] Doth
the plowman plow all day to sow? doth he open and break the clods of his
ground?
[25] When he hath made plain the face thereof, doth he not cast abroad the
fitches, and scatter the cummin, and cast in the principal wheat and the
appointed barley and rie in their place? [26] For his God doth instruct him
to discretion, and doth teach him. [27] For the fitches are not threshed
with a threshing instrument, neither is a cart wheel turned about upon the
cummin; but the fitches are beaten out with a staff, and the cummin with a
rod. [28] Bread corn is bruised; because he will not ever be threshing it,
nor break it with the wheel of his cart, nor bruise it with his horsemen.
[29] This also cometh forth from the LORD of hosts, which is wonderful in
counsel, and excellent in working.

Isaiah 29
[1] Woe to Ariel, to Ariel, the city where David dwelt! add ye year to
year; let them kill sacrifices.
[2] Yet I will distress Ariel, and there shall be heaviness and sorrow: and
it shall be unto me as Ariel.
[3] And I will camp against thee round about, and will lay siege against
thee with a mount, and I will raise forts against thee. [4] And thou shalt
be brought down, and shalt speak out of the ground, and thy speech shall be
low out of the dust, and thy voice shall be, as of one that hath a familiar
spirit, out of the ground, and thy speech shall whisper out of the dust.
[5] Moreover the multitude of thy strangers shall be like small dust, and
the multitude of the terrible ones shall be as chaff that passeth away:
yea, it shall be at an instant suddenly. [6] Thou shalt be visited of the
LORD of hosts with thunder, and with earthquake, and great noise, with
storm and tempest, and the flame of devouring fire.
[7] And the multitude of all the nations that fight against Ariel, even all
that fight against her and her munition, and that distress her, shall be as
a dream of a night vision.
[8] It shall even be as when an hungry man dreameth, and, behold, he
eateth; but he awaketh, and his soul is empty: or as when a thirsty man
dreameth, and, behold, he drinketh; but he awaketh, and, behold, he is
faint, and his soul hath appetite: so shall the multitude of all the
nations be, that fight against mount Zion.
[9] Stay yourselves, and wonder; cry ye out, and cry: they are drunken, but
not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink. [10] For the LORD
hath poured out upon you the spirit of deep sleep, and hath closed your
eyes: the prophets and your rulers, the seers hath he covered.
[11] And the vision of all is become unto you as the words of a book that
is sealed, which men deliver to one that is learned, saying, Read this, I
pray thee: and he saith, I cannot; for it is sealed: [12] And the book is
delivered to him that is not learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and
he saith, I am not learned. [13] Wherefore the Lord said, Forasmuch as this
people draw near me with their mouth, and with their lips do honour me, but
have removed their heart far from me, and their fear toward me is taught by
the precept of men: [14] Therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a
marvellous work among this people, even a marvellous work and a wonder: for
the wisdom of their wise men shall perish, and the understanding of their
prudent men shall be hid. [15] Woe unto them that seek deep to hide their
counsel from the LORD, and their works are in the dark, and they say, Who
seeth us? and who knoweth us? [16] Surely your turning of things upside
down shall be esteemed as the potter's clay: for shall the work say of him
that made it, He made me not? or shall the thing framed say of him that
framed it, He had no understanding?
[17] Is it not yet a very little while, and Lebanon shall be turned into a
fruitful field, and the fruitful field shall be esteemed as a forest? [18]
And in that day shall the deaf hear the words of the book, and the eyes of
the blind shall see out of obscurity, and out of darkness. [19] The meek
also shall increase their joy in the LORD, and the poor among men shall
rejoice in the Holy One of Israel. [20] For the terrible one is brought to
nought, and the scorner is consumed, and all that watch for iniquity are
cut off: [21] That make a man an offender for a word, and lay a snare for
him that reproveth in the gate, and turn aside the just for a thing of
nought. [22] Therefore thus saith the LORD, who redeemed Abraham,
concerning the house of Jacob, Jacob shall not now be ashamed, neither
shall his face now wax pale.
[23] But when he seeth his children, the work of mine hands, in the midst
of him, they shall sanctify my name, and sanctify the Holy One of Jacob,
and shall fear the God of Israel.
[24] They also that erred in spirit shall come to understanding, and they
that murmured shall learn doctrine.

Isaiah 30
[1] Woe to the rebellious children, saith the LORD, that take counsel, but
not of me; and that cover with a covering, but not of my spirit, that they
may add sin to sin:
[2] That walk to go down into Egypt, and have not asked at my mouth; to
strengthen themselves in the strength of Pharaoh, and to trust in the
shadow of Egypt!
[3] Therefore shall the strength of Pharaoh be your shame, and the trust in
the shadow of Egypt your confusion. [4] For his princes were at Zoan, and
his ambassadors came to Hanes. [5] They were all ashamed of a people that
could not profit them, nor be an help nor profit, but a shame, and also a
reproach. [6] The burden of the beasts of the south: into the land of
trouble and anguish, from whence come the young and old lion, the viper and
fiery flying serpent, they will carry their riches upon the shoulders of
young asses, and their treasures upon the bunches of camels, to a people
that shall not profit them.
[7] For the Egyptians shall help in vain, and to no purpose: therefore have
I cried concerning this, Their strength is to sit still. [8] Now go, write
it before them in a table, and note it in a book, that it may be for the
time to come for ever and ever: [9] That this is a rebellious people, lying
children, children that will not hear the law of the LORD:
[10] Which say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Prophesy not
unto us right things, speak unto us smooth things, prophesy deceits: [11]
Get you out of the way, turn aside out of the path, cause the Holy One of
Israel to cease from before us.
[12] Wherefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel, Because ye despise this
word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and stay thereon: [13]
Therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling
out in a high wall, whose breaking cometh suddenly at an instant. [14] And
he shall break it as the breaking of the potters' vessel that is broken in
pieces; he shall not spare: so that there shall not be found in the
bursting of it a sherd to take fire from the hearth, or to take water
withal out of the pit.
[15] For thus saith the Lord GOD, the Holy One of Israel; In returning and
rest shall ye be saved; in quietness and in confidence shall be your
strength: and ye would not.
[16] But ye said, No; for we will flee upon horses; therefore shall ye
flee: and, We will ride upon the swift; therefore shall they that pursue
you be swift.
[17] One thousand shall flee at the rebuke of one; at the rebuke of five
shall ye flee: till ye be left as a beacon upon the top of a mountain, and
as an ensign on an hill.
[18] And therefore will the LORD wait, that he may be gracious unto you,
and therefore will he be exalted, that he may have mercy upon you: for the
LORD is a God of judgment: blessed are all they that wait for him. [19] For
the people shall dwell in Zion at Jerusalem: thou shalt weep no more: he
will be very gracious unto thee at the voice of thy cry; when he shall hear
it, he will answer thee. [20] And though the Lord give you the bread of
adversity, and the water of affliction, yet shall not thy teachers be
removed into a corner any more, but thine eyes shall see thy teachers: [21]
And thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying, This is the way, walk
ye in it, when ye turn to the right hand, and when ye turn to the left.
[22] Ye shall defile also the covering of thy graven images of silver, and
the ornament of thy molten images of gold: thou shalt cast them away as a
menstruous cloth; thou shalt say unto it, Get thee hence. [23] Then shall
he give the rain of thy seed, that thou shalt sow the ground withal; and
bread of the increase of the earth, and it shall be fat and plenteous: in
that day shall thy cattle feed in large pastures. [24] The oxen likewise
and the young asses that ear the ground shall eat clean provender, which
hath been winnowed with the shovel and with the fan. [25] And there shall
be upon every high mountain, and upon every high hill, rivers and streams
of waters in the day of the great slaughter, when the towers fall.
[26] Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and
the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days, in the
day that the LORD bindeth up the breach of his people, and healeth the
stroke of their wound.
[27] Behold, the name of the LORD cometh from far, burning with his anger,
and the burden thereof is heavy: his lips are full of indignation, and his
tongue as a devouring fire:
[28] And his breath, as an overflowing stream, shall reach to the midst of
the neck, to sift the nations with the sieve of vanity: and there shall be
a bridle in the jaws of the people, causing them to err. [29] Ye shall have
a song, as in the night when a holy solemnity is kept; and gladness of
heart, as when one goeth with a pipe to come into the mountain of the LORD,
to the mighty One of Israel. [30] And the LORD shall cause his glorious
voice to be heard, and shall shew the lighting down of his arm, with the
indignation of his anger, and with the flame of a devouring fire, with
scattering, and tempest, and hailstones. [31] For through the voice of the
LORD shall the Assyrian be beaten down, which smote with a rod.
[32] And in every place where the grounded staff shall pass, which the LORD
shall lay upon him, it shall be with tabrets and harps: and in battles of
shaking will he fight with it.
[33] For Tophet is ordained of old; yea, for the king it is prepared; he
hath made it deep and large: the pile thereof is fire and much wood; the
breath of the LORD, like a stream of brimstone, doth kindle it.

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