DONNIE DAILY GEMS FOR SATURDAY JULY 27:
DAILY BIBLE READING
Isaiah 22-24 New King James Version (NKJV)
Proclamation Against Jerusalem
22 The [a]burden against the Valley of Vision.
What ails you now, that you have all gone up to the housetops,
2
You who are full of noise,
A [b]tumultuous city, a joyous city?
Your slain men are not slain with the sword,
Nor dead in battle.
3
All your rulers have fled together;
They are captured by the archers.
All who are found in you are bound together;
They have fled from afar.
4
Therefore I said, "Look away from me,
I will weep bitterly;
Do not labor to comfort me
Because of the plundering of the daughter of my people."
5
For it is a day of trouble and treading down and perplexity
By the Lord God of hosts
In the Valley of Vision-
Breaking down the walls
And of crying to the mountain.
6
Elam bore the quiver
With chariots of men and horsemen,
And Kir uncovered the shield.
7
It shall come to pass that your choicest valleys
Shall be full of chariots,
And the horsemen shall set themselves in array at the gate.
8
He removed the [c]protection of Judah.
You looked in that day to the armor of the House of the Forest;
9
You also saw the [d]damage to the city of David,
That it was great;
And you gathered together the waters of the lower pool.
10
You numbered the houses of Jerusalem,
And the houses you broke down
To fortify the wall.
11
You also made a reservoir between the two walls
For the water of the old pool.
But you did not look to its Maker,
Nor did you have respect for Him who fashioned it long ago.
12
And in that day the Lord God of hosts
Called for weeping and for mourning,
For baldness and for girding with sackcloth.
13
But instead, joy and gladness,
Slaying oxen and killing sheep,
Eating meat and drinking wine:
"Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die!"
14
Then it was revealed in my hearing by the Lord of hosts,
"Surely for this iniquity there will be no atonement for you,
Even to your death," says the Lord God of hosts.
The Judgment on Shebna
15 Thus says the Lord God of hosts:
"Go, proceed to this steward,
To Shebna, who is over the house, and say:
16
'What have you here, and whom have you here,
That you have hewn a sepulcher here,
As he who hews himself a sepulcher on high,
Who carves a tomb for himself in a rock?
17
Indeed, the Lord will throw you away violently,
O mighty man,
And will surely seize you.
18
He will surely turn violently and toss you like a ball
Into a large country;
There you shall die, and there your glorious chariots
Shall be the shame of your master's house.
19
So I will drive you out of your office,
And from your position [e]he will pull you down.
20
'Then it shall be in that day,
That I will call My servant Eliakim the son of Hilkiah;
21
I will clothe him with your robe
And strengthen him with your belt;
I will commit your responsibility into his hand.
He shall be a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem
And to the house of Judah.
22
The key of the house of David
I will lay on his shoulder;
So he shall open, and no one shall shut;
And he shall shut, and no one shall open.
23
I will fasten him as a peg in a secure place,
And he will become a glorious throne to his father's house.
24 'They will hang on him all the glory of his father's house, the offspring
and the posterity, all vessels of small quantity, from the cups to all the
pitchers. 25 In that day,' says the Lord of hosts, 'the peg that is
fastened in the secure place will be removed and be cut down and fall, and
the burden that was on it will be cut off; for the Lord has spoken.' "
Proclamation Against Tyre
23 The burden[f] against Tyre.
Wail, you ships of Tarshish!
For it is laid waste,
So that there is no house, no harbor;
From the land of [g]Cyprus it is revealed to them.
2
Be still, you inhabitants of the coastland,
You merchants of Sidon,
[h]Whom those who cross the sea have filled.
3
And on great waters the grain of Shihor,
The harvest of [i]the River, is her revenue;
And she is a marketplace for the nations.
4
Be ashamed, O Sidon;
For the sea has spoken,
The strength of the sea, saying,
"I do not labor, nor bring forth children;
Neither do I rear young men,
Nor bring up virgins."
5
When the report reaches Egypt,
They also will be in agony at the report of Tyre.
6
Cross over to Tarshish;
Wail, you inhabitants of the coastland!
7
Is this your joyous city,
Whose antiquity is from ancient days,
Whose feet carried her far off to dwell?
8
Who has taken this counsel against Tyre, the crowning city,
Whose merchants are princes,
Whose traders are the honorable of the earth?
9
The Lord of hosts has purposed it,
To [j]bring to dishonor the pride of all glory,
To bring into contempt all the honorable of the earth.
10
Overflow through your land like [k]the River,
O daughter of Tarshish;
There is no more [l]strength.
11
He stretched out His hand over the sea,
He shook the kingdoms;
The Lord has given a commandment against Canaan
To destroy its strongholds.
12
And He said, "You will rejoice no more,
O you oppressed virgin daughter of Sidon.
Arise, cross over to Cyprus;
There also you will have no rest."
13
Behold, the land of the Chaldeans,
This people which was not;
Assyria founded it for wild beasts of the desert.
They set up its towers,
They raised up its palaces,
And brought it to ruin.
14
Wail, you ships of Tarshish!
For your strength is laid waste.
15 Now it shall come to pass in that day that Tyre will be forgotten seventy
years, according to the days of one king. At the end of seventy years it
will happen to Tyre as in the song of the harlot:
16
"Take a harp, go about the city,
You forgotten harlot;
Make sweet melody, sing many songs,
That you may be remembered."
17 And it shall be, at the end of seventy years, that the Lord will deal
with Tyre. She will return to her hire, and commit fornication with all the
kingdoms of the world on the face of the earth. 18 Her gain and her pay
will be set apart for the Lord; it will not be treasured nor laid up, for
her gain will be for those who dwell before the Lord, to eat sufficiently,
and for [m]fine clothing.
Impending Judgment on the Earth
24 Behold, the Lord makes the earth empty and makes it waste,
Distorts its surface
And scatters abroad its inhabitants.
2
And it shall be:
As with the people, so with the priest;
As with the servant, so with his master;
As with the maid, so with her mistress;
As with the buyer, so with the seller;
As with the lender, so with the borrower;
As with the creditor, so with the debtor.
3
The land shall be entirely emptied and utterly plundered,
For the Lord has spoken this word.
4
The earth mourns and fades away,
The world languishes and fades away;
The haughty[n] people of the earth languish.
5
The earth is also defiled under its inhabitants,
Because they have transgressed the laws,
Changed the ordinance,
Broken the everlasting covenant.
6
Therefore the curse has devoured the earth,
And those who dwell in it are [o]desolate.
Therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned,
And few men are left.
7
The new wine fails, the vine languishes,
All the merry-hearted sigh.
8
The mirth of the tambourine ceases,
The noise of the jubilant ends,
The joy of the harp ceases.
9
They shall not drink wine with a song;
Strong drink is bitter to those who drink it.
10
The city of confusion is broken down;
Every house is shut up, so that none may go in.
11
There is a cry for wine in the streets,
All joy is darkened,
The mirth of the land is gone.
12
In the city desolation is left,
And the gate is stricken with destruction.
13
When it shall be thus in the midst of the land among the people,
It shall be like the shaking of an olive tree,
Like the gleaning of grapes when the vintage is done.
14
They shall lift up their voice, they shall sing;
For the majesty of the Lord
They shall cry aloud from the sea.
15
Therefore glorify the Lord in the dawning light,
The name of the Lord God of Israel in the coastlands of the sea.
16
From the ends of the earth we have heard songs:
"Glory to the righteous!"
But I said, [p]"I am ruined, ruined!
Woe to me!
The treacherous dealers have dealt treacherously,
Indeed, the treacherous dealers have dealt very treacherously."
17
Fear and the pit and the snare
Are upon you, O inhabitant of the earth.
18
And it shall be
That he who flees from the noise of the fear
Shall fall into the pit,
And he who comes up from the midst of the pit
Shall be [q]caught in the snare;
For the windows from on high are open,
And the foundations of the earth are shaken.
19
The earth is violently broken,
The earth is split open,
The earth is shaken exceedingly.
20
The earth shall reel[r] to and fro like a drunkard,
And shall totter like a hut;
Its transgression shall be heavy upon it,
And it will fall, and not rise again.
21
It shall come to pass in that day
That the Lord will punish on high the host of exalted ones,
And on the earth the kings of the earth.
22
They will be gathered together,
As prisoners are gathered in the [s]pit,
And will be shut up in the prison;
After many days they will be punished.
23
Then the moon will be disgraced
And the sun ashamed;
For the Lord of hosts will reign
On Mount Zion and in Jerusalem
And before His elders, gloriously.
Footnotes:
a.Isaiah 22:1 oracle, prophecy
b.Isaiah 22:2 boisterous
c.Isaiah 22:8 Lit. covering
d.Isaiah 22:9 Lit. breaches in the city walls
e.Isaiah 22:19 LXX omits he will pull you down; Syr., Tg., Vg. I will pull
you down
f.Isaiah 23:1 oracle, prophecy
g.Isaiah 23:1 Heb. Kittim, western lands, especially Cyprus
h.Isaiah 23:2 So with MT, Vg.; LXX, Tg. Passing over the water; DSS Your
messengers passing over the sea
i.Isaiah 23:3 The Nile
j.Isaiah 23:9 pollute
k.Isaiah 23:10 The Nile
l.Isaiah 23:10 restraint, lit. belt
m.Isaiah 23:18 choice
n.Isaiah 24:4 proud
o.Isaiah 24:6 Or held guilty
p.Isaiah 24:16 Lit. Leanness to me, leanness to me
q.Isaiah 24:18 Lit. taken
r.Isaiah 24:20 stagger
s.Isaiah 24:22 dungeon
