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Daily Readings for December 6
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Job 8
1.Then Bildad the Shuhite answered, 2."How long will you speak these things? Shall the words of your mouth be a mighty wind? 3.Does God pervert justice? Or does the Almighty pervert righteousness? 4.If your children have sinned against him, He has delivered them into the hand of their disobedience. 5.If you want to seek God diligently, make your supplication to the Almighty. 6.If you were pure and upright, surely now he would awaken for you, and make the habitation of your righteousness prosperous. 7.Though your beginning was small, yet your latter end would greatly increase.
8."Please inquire of past generations. Find out about the learning of their fathers. 9.(For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days on earth are a shadow.) 10.Shall they not teach you, tell you, and utter words out of their heart?
11."Can the papyrus grow up without mire? Can the rushes grow without water? 12.While it is yet in its greenness, not cut down, it withers before any other reed. 13.So are the paths of all who forget God. The hope of the godless man shall perish, 14.Whose confidence shall break apart, Whose trust is a spider's web. 15.He shall lean on his house, but it shall not stand. He shall cling to it, but it shall not endure. 16.He is green before the sun. His shoots go forth over his garden. 17.His roots are wrapped around the rock pile. He sees the place of stones. 18.If he is destroyed from his place, then it shall deny him, saying, 'I have not seen you.' 19.Behold, this is the joy of his way: out of the earth, others shall spring.
20."Behold, God will not cast away a blameless man, neither will he uphold the evildoers. 21.He will still fill your mouth with laughter, your lips with shouting. 22.Those who hate you shall be clothed with shame. The tent of the wicked shall be no more."
Micah 3
1.I said, "Please listen, you heads of Jacob, and rulers of the house of Israel: Isn't it for you to know justice? 2.You who hate the good, and love the evil; who tear off their skin, and their flesh from off their bones; 3.who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them, and break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as flesh within the caldron. 4.Then they will cry to Yahweh, but he will not answer them. Yes, he will hide his face from them at that time, because they made their deeds evil."
5.Thus says Yahweh concerning the prophets who lead my people astray; for those who feed their teeth, they proclaim, "Peace!" and whoever doesn't provide for their mouths, they prepare war against him: 6."Therefore night is over you, with no vision, and it is dark to you, that you may not divine; and the sun will go down on the prophets, and the day will be black over them. 7.The seers shall be disappointed, and the diviners confounded. Yes, they shall all cover their lips; for there is no answer from God4." 8.But as for me, I am full of power by the Spirit of Yahweh, and of judgment, and of might, to declare to Jacob his disobedience, and to Israel his sin. 9.Please listen to this, you heads of the house of Jacob, and rulers of the house of Israel, who abhor justice, and pervert all equity. 10.They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity. 11.Her leaders judge for bribes, and her priests teach for a price, and her prophets of it tell fortunes for money: yet they lean on Yahweh, and say, "Isn't Yahweh in the midst of us? No disaster will come on us." 12.Therefore Zion for your sake will be plowed like a field, and Jerusalem will become heaps of rubble, and the mountain of the temple like the high places of a forest.
Micah 4
1.But in the latter days, it will happen that the mountain of Yahweh's temple will be established on the top of the mountains, and it will be exalted above the hills; and peoples will stream to it. 2.Many nations will go and say, "Come, and let us go up to the mountain of Yahweh, and to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths." For out of Zion will go forth the law, and the word of Yahweh from Jerusalem; 3.and he will judge between many peoples, and will decide concerning strong nations afar off. They will beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation will not lift up sword against nation, neither will they learn war any more. 4.But they will sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree; and no one will make them afraid: For the mouth of Yahweh of Armies has spoken. 5.Indeed all the nations may walk in the name of their gods; but we will walk in the name of Yahweh our God forever and ever. 6."In that day," says Yahweh, "I will assemble that which is lame, and I will gather that which is driven away, and that which I have afflicted; 7.and I will make that which was lame a remnant, and that which was cast far off a strong nation: and Yahweh will reign over them on Mount Zion from then on, even forever." 8.You, tower of the flock, the hill of the daughter of Zion, to you it will come, yes, the former dominion will come, the kingdom of the daughter of Jerusalem. 9.Now why do you cry out aloud? Is there no king in you? Has your counselor perished, that pains have taken hold of you as of a woman in travail? 10.Be in pain, and labor to bring forth, daughter of Zion, like a woman in travail; for now you will go forth out of the city, and will dwell in the field, and will come even to Babylon. There you will be rescued. There Yahweh will redeem you from the hand of your enemies. 11.Now many nations have assembled against you, that say, "Let her be defiled, and let our eye gloat over Zion." 12.But they don't know the thoughts of Yahweh, neither do they understand his counsel; for he has gathered them like the sheaves to the threshing floor. 13.Arise and thresh, daughter of Zion; for I will make your horn iron, and I will make your hoofs brass; and you will beat in pieces many peoples: and I will devote their gain to Yahweh, and their substance to the Lord of the whole earth.
Hebrews 13
1.Let brotherly love continue. 2.Don't forget to show hospitality to strangers, for in doing so, some have entertained angels without knowing it. 3.Remember those who are in bonds, as bound with them; and those who are ill-treated, since you are also in the body. 4.Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.
5.Be free from the love of money, content with such things as you have, for he has said, "I will in no way leave you, neither will I in any way forsake you."54 6.So that with good courage we say, "The Lord is my helper. I will not fear. What can man do to me?"55
7.Remember your leaders, men who spoke to you the word of God, and considering the results of their conduct, imitate their faith. 8.Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. 9.Don't be carried away by various and strange teachings, for it is good that the heart be established by grace, not by food, through which those who were so occupied were not benefited.
10.We have an altar from which those who serve the holy tabernacle have no right to eat. 11.For the bodies of those animals, whose blood is brought into the holy place by the high priest as an offering for sin, are burned outside of the camp.56 12.Therefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people through his own blood, suffered outside of the gate. 13.Let us therefore go out to him outside of the camp, bearing his reproach. 14.For we don't have here an enduring city, but we seek that which is to come. 15.Through him, then, let us offer up a sacrifice of praise to God57 continually, that is, the fruit of lips which proclaim allegiance to his name. 16.But don't forget to be doing good and sharing, for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.
17.Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they watch on behalf of your souls, as those who will give account, that they may do this with joy, and not with groaning, for that would be unprofitable for you.
18.Pray for us, for we are persuaded that we have a good conscience, desiring to live honorably in all things. 19.I strongly urge you to do this, that I may be restored to you sooner.
20.Now may the God of peace, who brought again from the dead the great shepherd of the sheep with the blood of an eternal covenant, our Lord Jesus, 21.make you complete in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is well pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen.
22.But I exhort you, brothers, endure the word of exhortation, for I have written to you in few words. 23.Know that our brother Timothy has been freed, with whom, if he comes shortly, I will see you. 24.Greet all of your leaders and all the saints. The Italians greet you. 25.Grace be with you all. Amen.