Daily Readings for June 7

Daily Readings for June 7
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Judges 2

1.The angel of Yahweh came up from Gilgal to Bochim. He said, "I made you to go up out of Egypt, and have brought you to the land which I swore to your fathers; and I said, 'I will never break my covenant with you: 2.and you shall make no covenant with the inhabitants of this land; you shall break down their altars.' But you have not listened to my voice: why have you done this? 3.Therefore I also said, I will not drive them out from before you; but they shall be in your sides, and their gods shall be a snare to you."

4.It happened, when the angel of Yahweh spoke these words to all the children of Israel, that the people lifted up their voice, and wept. 5.They called the name of that place Bochim: and they sacrificed there to Yahweh. 6.Now when Joshua had sent the people away, the children of Israel went every man to his inheritance to possess the land. 7.The people served Yahweh all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders who outlived Joshua, who had seen all the great work of Yahweh that he had worked for Israel. 8.Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of Yahweh, died, being one hundred ten years old. 9.They buried him in the border of his inheritance in Timnath Heres, in the hill country of Ephraim, on the north of the mountain of Gaash. 10.Also all that generation were gathered to their fathers: and there arose another generation after them, who didn't know Yahweh, nor yet the work which he had worked for Israel. 11.The children of Israel did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, and served the Baals; 12.and they forsook Yahweh, the God of their fathers, who brought them out of the land of Egypt, and followed other gods, of the gods of the peoples who were around them, and bowed themselves down to them: and they provoked Yahweh to anger. 13.They forsook Yahweh, and served Baal and the Ashtaroth. 14.The anger of Yahweh was kindled against Israel, and he delivered them into the hands of spoilers who despoiled them; and he sold them into the hands of their enemies all around, so that they could not any longer stand before their enemies. 15.Wherever they went out, the hand of Yahweh was against them for evil, as Yahweh had spoken, and as Yahweh had sworn to them: and they were very distressed. 16.Yahweh raised up judges, who saved them out of the hand of those who despoiled them. 17.Yet they didn't listen to their judges; for they played the prostitute after other gods, and bowed themselves down to them: they turned aside quickly out of the way in which their fathers walked, obeying the commandments of Yahweh. They didn't do so. 18.When Yahweh raised them up judges, then Yahweh was with the judge, and saved them out of the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge: for it grieved Yahweh because of their groaning by reason of those who oppressed them and troubled them. 19.But it happened, when the judge was dead, that they turned back, and dealt more corruptly than their fathers, in following other gods to serve them, and to bow down to them; they didn't cease from their doings, nor from their stubborn way. 20.The anger of Yahweh was kindled against Israel; and he said, "Because this nation have transgressed my covenant which I commanded their fathers, and have not listened to my voice; 21.I also will not henceforth drive out any from before them of the nations that Joshua left when he died; 22.that by them I may prove Israel, whether they will keep the way of Yahweh to walk therein, as their fathers kept it, or not." 23.So Yahweh left those nations, without driving them out hastily; neither delivered he them into the hand of Joshua.

Judges 3

1.Now these are the nations which Yahweh left, to prove Israel by them, even as many as had not known all the wars of Canaan; 2.only that the generations of the children of Israel might know, to teach them war, at the least such as before knew nothing of it: 3.the five lords of the Philistines, and all the Canaanites, and the Sidonians, and the Hivites who lived on Mount Lebanon, from Mount Baal Hermon to the entrance of Hamath. 4.They were left to test Israel by them, to know whether they would listen to the commandments of Yahweh, which he commanded their fathers by Moses. 5.The children of Israel lived among the Canaanites, the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites: 6.and they took their daughters to be their wives, and gave their own daughters to their sons and served their gods. 7.The children of Israel did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, and forgot Yahweh their God, and served the Baals and the Asheroth. 8.Therefore the anger of Yahweh was kindled against Israel, and he sold them into the hand of Cushan Rishathaim king of Mesopotamia: and the children of Israel served Cushan Rishathaim eight years. 9.When the children of Israel cried to Yahweh, Yahweh raised up a savior to the children of Israel, who saved them, even Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb's younger brother. 10.The Spirit of Yahweh came on him, and he judged Israel; and he went out to war, and Yahweh delivered Cushan Rishathaim king of Mesopotamia into his hand: and his hand prevailed against Cushan Rishathaim. 11.The land had rest forty years. Othniel the son of Kenaz died. 12.The children of Israel again did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh: and Yahweh strengthened Eglon the king of Moab against Israel, because they had done that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh. 13.He gathered to him the children of Ammon and Amalek; and he went and struck Israel, and they possessed the city of palm trees. 14.The children of Israel served Eglon the king of Moab eighteen years. 15.But when the children of Israel cried to Yahweh, Yahweh raised them up a savior, Ehud the son of Gera, the Benjamite, a man left-handed. The children of Israel sent tribute by him to Eglon the king of Moab. 16.Ehud made him a sword which had two edges, a cubit in length; and he wore it under his clothing on his right thigh. 17.He offered the tribute to Eglon king of Moab: now Eglon was a very fat man. 18.When he had made an end of offering the tribute, he sent away the people who bore the tribute. 19.But he himself turned back from the quarries that were by Gilgal, and said, "I have a secret errand to you, king."

The king said, "Keep silence!" All who stood by him went out from him.

20.Ehud came to him; and he was sitting by himself alone in the cool upper room. Ehud said, "I have a message from God to you." He arose out of his seat. 21.Ehud put forth his left hand, and took the sword from his right thigh, and thrust it into his body: 22.and the handle also went in after the blade; and the fat closed on the blade, for he didn't draw the sword out of his body; and it came out behind. 23.Then Ehud went forth into the porch, and shut the doors of the upper room on him, and locked them.

24.Now when he was gone out, his servants came; and they saw, and behold, the doors of the upper room were locked; and they said, "Surely he is covering his feet in the upper room." 25.They waited until they were ashamed; and behold, he didn't open the doors of the upper room: therefore they took the key, and opened them, and behold, their lord was fallen down dead on the earth.

26.Ehud escaped while they waited, and passed beyond the quarries, and escaped to Seirah. 27.It happened, when he had come, that he blew a trumpet in the hill country of Ephraim; and the children of Israel went down with him from the hill country, and he before them.

28.He said to them, "Follow me; for Yahweh has delivered your enemies the Moabites into your hand." They followed him, and took the fords of the Jordan against the Moabites, and didn't allow any man to pass over. 29.They struck of Moab at that time about ten thousand men, every lusty man, and every man of valor; and there escaped not a man. 30.So Moab was subdued that day under the hand of Israel. The land had rest eighty years.

31.After him was Shamgar the son of Anath, who struck of the Philistines six hundred men with an oxgoad: and he also saved Israel.

Isaiah 31

1.Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help, and rely on horses, and trust in chariots because they are many, and in horsemen because they are very strong, but they don't look to the Holy One of Israel, and they don't seek Yahweh! 2.Yet he also is wise, and will bring disaster, and will not call back his words, but will arise against the house of the evildoers, and against the help of those who work iniquity. 3.Now the Egyptians are men, and not God; and their horses flesh, and not spirit. When Yahweh stretches out his hand, both he who helps shall stumble, and he who is helped shall fall, and they all shall be consumed together. 4.For thus says Yahweh to me, "As the lion and the young lion growling over his prey, if a multitude of shepherds is called together against him, will not be dismayed at their voice, nor abase himself for their noise, so Yahweh of Armies will come down to fight on Mount Zion and on its heights. 5.As birds hovering, so Yahweh of Armies will protect Jerusalem. He will protect and deliver it. He will pass over and preserve it." 6.Return to him from whom you have deeply revolted, children of Israel. 7.For in that day everyone shall cast away his idols of silver and his idols of gold--sin which your own hands have made for you.

8."The Assyrian will fall by the sword, not of man; and the sword, not of mankind, shall devour him. He will flee from the sword, and his young men will become subject to forced labor. 9.His rock will pass away by reason of terror, and his princes will be afraid of the banner," says Yahweh, whose fire is in Zion, and his furnace in Jerusalem.

James 1

1.James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are in the Dispersion: Greetings. 2.Count it all joy, my brothers¹, when you fall into various temptations, 3.knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance. 4.Let endurance have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing. 5.But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach; and it will be given to him. 6.But let him ask in faith, without any doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea, driven by the wind and tossed. 7.For let that man not think that he will receive anything from the Lord. 8.He is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.

9.But let the brother in humble circumstances glory in his high position; 10.and the rich, in that he is made humble, because like the flower in the grass, he will pass away. 11.For the sun arises with the scorching wind, and withers the grass, and the flower in it falls, and the beauty of its appearance perishes. So also will the rich man fade away in his pursuits.

12.Blessed is the man who endures temptation, for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to those who love him. 13.Let no man say when he is tempted, "I am tempted by God," for God can't be tempted by evil, and he himself tempts no one. 14.But each one is tempted, when he is drawn away by his own lust, and enticed. 15.Then the lust, when it has conceived, bears sin; and the sin, when it is full grown, brings forth death. 16.Don't be deceived, my beloved brothers. 17.Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation, nor turning shadow. 18.Of his own will he brought us forth by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first fruits of his creatures.

19.So, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger; 20.for the anger of man doesn't produce the righteousness of God. 21.Therefore, putting away all filthiness and overflowing of wickedness, receive with humility the implanted word, which is able to save your souls². 22.But be doers of the word, and not only hearers, deluding your own selves. 23.For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man looking at his natural face in a mirror; 24.for he sees himself, and goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was. 25.But he who looks into the perfect law of freedom, and continues, not being a hearer who forgets, but a doer of the work, this man will be blessed in what he does.

26.If anyone among you thinks himself to be religious while he doesn't bridle his tongue, but deceives his heart, this man's religion is worthless. 27.Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.