Daily Reading

Isaiah 32:1-35:10

32:1 Behold, a king shall reign in righteousness, and princes shall rule in judgment.
32:2 And a man shall be as an hiding place from the wind, and a
covert from the tempest; as rivers of water in a dry place, as
the shadow of a great rock in a weary land.

32:3 And the eyes of them that see shall not be dim, and the
ears of them that hear shall hearken.

32:4 The heart also of the rash shall understand knowledge, and
the tongue of the stammerers shall be ready to speak plainly.

32:5 The vile person shall be no more called liberal, nor the
churl said to be bountiful.

32:6 For the vile person will speak villany, and his heart will
work iniquity, to practise hypocrisy, and to utter error
against the LORD, to make empty the soul of the hungry, and he
will cause the drink of the thirsty to fail.

32:7 The instruments also of the churl are evil: he deviseth
wicked devices to destroy the poor with lying words, even when
the needy speaketh right.

32:8 But the liberal deviseth liberal things; and by liberal
things shall he stand.

32:9 Rise up, ye women that are at ease; hear my voice, ye
careless daughters; give ear unto my speech.

32:10 Many days and years shall ye be troubled, ye careless
women: for the vintage shall fail, the gathering shall not
come.

32:11 Tremble, ye women that are at ease; be troubled, ye
careless ones: strip you, and make you bare, and gird
sackcloth upon your loins.

32:12 They shall lament for the teats, for the pleasant fields,
for the fruitful vine.

32:13 Upon the land of my people shall come up thorns and
briers; yea, upon all the houses of joy in the joyous city:

32:14 Because the palaces shall be forsaken; the multitude of
the city shall be left; the forts and towers shall be for dens
for ever, a joy of wild asses, a pasture of flocks;

32:15 Until the spirit be poured upon us from on high, and the
wilderness be a fruitful field, and the fruitful field be
counted for a forest.

32:16 Then judgment shall dwell in the wilderness, and
righteousness remain in the fruitful field.

32:17 And the work of righteousness shall be peace; and the
effect of righteousness quietness and assurance for ever.

32:18 And my people shall dwell in a peaceable habitation, and
in sure dwellings, and in quiet resting places;

32:19 When it shall hail, coming down on the forest; and the
city shall be low in a low place.

32:20 Blessed are ye that sow beside all waters, that send
forth thither the feet of the ox and the ass.

33:1 Woe to thee that spoilest, and thou [wast] not spoiled; and dealest treacherously, and they dealt not treacherously with thee! when thou shalt cease to spoil, thou shalt be spoiled; [and] when thou shalt make an end to deal treacherously, they shall deal treacherously with thee.
33:2 O LORD, be gracious unto us; we have waited for thee: be
thou their arm every morning, our salvation also in the time of
trouble.

33:3 At the noise of the tumult the people fled; at the lifting
up of thyself the nations were scattered.

33:4 And your spoil shall be gathered like the gathering of
the caterpiller: as the running to and fro of locusts shall he
run upon them.

33:5 The LORD is exalted; for he dwelleth on high: he hath
filled Zion with judgment and righteousness.

33:6 And wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of thy
times, and strength of salvation: the fear of the LORD is
his treasure.

33:7 Behold, their valiant ones shall cry without: the
ambassadors of peace shall weep bitterly.

33:8 The highways lie waste, the wayfaring man ceaseth: he hath
broken the covenant, he hath despised the cities, he regardeth
no man.

33:9 The earth mourneth and languisheth: Lebanon is ashamed
and hewn down: Sharon is like a wilderness; and Bashan and
Carmel shake off their fruits.

33:10 Now will I rise, saith the LORD; now will I be exalted;
now will I lift up myself.

33:11 Ye shall conceive chaff, ye shall bring forth stubble:
your breath, as fire, shall devour you.

33:12 And the people shall be as the burnings of lime: as
thorns cut up shall they be burned in the fire.

33:13 Hear, ye that are far off, what I have done; and, ye
that are near, acknowledge my might.

33:14 The sinners in Zion are afraid; fearfulness hath surprised
the hypocrites. Who among us shall dwell with the devouring
fire? who among us shall dwell with everlasting burnings?

33:15 He that walketh righteously, and speaketh uprightly; he
that despiseth the gain of oppressions, that shaketh his hands
from holding of bribes, that stoppeth his ears from hearing of
blood, and shutteth his eyes from seeing evil;

33:16 He shall dwell on high: his place of defence shall be
the munitions of rocks: bread shall be given him; his waters
shall be sure.

33:17 Thine eyes shall see the king in his beauty: they shall
behold the land that is very far off.

33:18 Thine heart shall meditate terror. Where is the scribe?
where is the receiver? where is he that counted the towers?

33:19 Thou shalt not see a fierce people, a people of a deeper
speech than thou canst perceive; of a stammering tongue, that
thou canst not understand.

33:20 Look upon Zion, the city of our solemnities: thine eyes
shall see Jerusalem a quiet habitation, a tabernacle that
shall not be taken down; not one of the stakes thereof shall
ever be removed, neither shall any of the cords thereof be
broken.

33:21 But there the glorious LORD will be unto us a place of
broad rivers and streams; wherein shall go no galley with
oars, neither shall gallant ship pass thereby.

33:22 For the LORD is our judge, the LORD is our lawgiver,
the LORD is our king; he will save us.

33:23 Thy tacklings are loosed; they could not well strengthen
their mast, they could not spread the sail: then is the prey of
a great spoil divided; the lame take the prey.

33:24 And the inhabitant shall not say, I am sick: the people
that dwell therein shall be forgiven their iniquity.

34:1 Come near, ye nations, to hear; and hearken, ye people: let the earth hear, and all that is therein; the world, and all things that come forth of it.
34:2 For the indignation of the LORD is upon all nations, and
his fury upon all their armies: he hath utterly destroyed
them, he hath delivered them to the slaughter.

34:3 Their slain also shall be cast out, and their stink shall
come up out of their carcases, and the mountains shall be
melted with their blood.

34:4 And all the host of heaven shall be dissolved, and the
heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll: and all their
host shall fall down, as the leaf falleth off from the vine,
and as a falling fig from the fig tree.

34:5 For my sword shall be bathed in heaven: behold, it shall
come down upon Idumea, and upon the people of my curse, to
judgment.

34:6 The sword of the LORD is filled with blood, it is made fat
with fatness, and with the blood of lambs and goats, with the
fat of the kidneys of rams: for the LORD hath a sacrifice in
Bozrah, and a great slaughter in the land of Idumea.

34:7 And the unicorns shall come down with them, and the
bullocks with the bulls; and their land shall be soaked with
blood, and their dust made fat with fatness.

34:8 For it is the day of the LORD'S vengeance, and the year
of recompences for the controversy of Zion.

34:9 And the streams thereof shall be turned into pitch, and the
dust thereof into brimstone, and the land thereof shall become
burning pitch.

34:10 It shall not be quenched night nor day; the smoke thereof
shall go up for ever: from generation to generation it shall
lie waste; none shall pass through it for ever and ever.

34:11 But the cormorant and the bittern shall possess it; the
owl also and the raven shall dwell in it: and he shall stretch
out upon it the line of confusion, and the stones of emptiness.

34:12 They shall call the nobles thereof to the kingdom, but
none shall be there, and all her princes shall be nothing.

34:13 And thorns shall come up in her palaces, nettles and
brambles in the fortresses thereof: and it shall be an
habitation of dragons, and a court for owls.

34:14 The wild beasts of the desert shall also meet with the
wild beasts of the island, and the satyr shall cry to his
fellow; the screech owl also shall rest there, and find for
herself a place of rest.

34:15 There shall the great owl make her nest, and lay, and
hatch, and gather under her shadow: there shall the vultures
also be gathered, every one with her mate.

34:16 Seek ye out of the book of the LORD, and read: no one of
these shall fail, none shall want her mate: for my mouth it
hath commanded, and his spirit it hath gathered them.

34:17 And he hath cast the lot for them, and his hand hath
divided it unto them by line: they shall possess it for ever,
from generation to generation shall they dwell therein.

35:1 The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them; and the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose.
35:2 It shall blossom abundantly, and rejoice even with joy and
singing: the glory of Lebanon shall be given unto it, the
excellency of Carmel and Sharon, they shall see the glory of
the LORD, and the excellency of our God.

35:3 Strengthen ye the weak hands, and confirm the feeble knees.

35:4 Say to them that are of a fearful heart, Be strong, fear
not: behold, your God will come with vengeance, even God
with a recompence; he will come and save you.

35:5 Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of
the deaf shall be unstopped.

35:6 Then shall the lame man leap as an hart, and the tongue
of the dumb sing: for in the wilderness shall waters break out,
and streams in the desert.

35:7 And the parched ground shall become a pool, and the thirsty
land springs of water: in the habitation of dragons, where each
lay, shall be grass with reeds and rushes.

35:8 And an highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be
called The way of holiness; the unclean shall not pass over it;
but it shall be for those: the wayfaring men, though fools,
shall not err therein.

35:9 No lion shall be there, nor any ravenous beast shall go
up thereon, it shall not be found there; but the redeemed shall
walk there:

35:10 And the ransomed of the LORD shall return, and come to
Zion with songs and everlasting joy upon their heads: they
shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall
flee away.



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