Daily Readings for May 14
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Deuteronomy 31

 

1.Moses went and spoke these words to all Israel. 2.He said to them, "I am one hundred twenty years old this day; I can no more go out and come in: and Yahweh has said to me, 'You shall not go over this Jordan.' 3.Yahweh your God, he will go over before you; he will destroy these nations from before you, and you shall dispossess them. Joshua shall go over before you, as Yahweh has spoken. 4.Yahweh will do to them as he did to Sihon and to Og, the kings of the Amorites, and to their land; whom he destroyed. 5.Yahweh will deliver them up before you, and you shall do to them according to all the commandment which I have commanded you. 6.Be strong and courageous, don't be afraid, nor be scared of them: for Yahweh your God, he it is who does go with you; he will not fail you, nor forsake you."

7.Moses called to Joshua, and said to him in the sight of all Israel, "Be strong and courageous: for you shall go with this people into the land which Yahweh has sworn to their fathers to give them; and you shall cause them to inherit it. 8.Yahweh, he it is who does go before you; he will be with you, he will not fail you, neither forsake you: don't be afraid, neither be dismayed."

9.Moses wrote this law, and delivered it to the priests the sons of Levi, who bore the ark of the covenant of Yahweh, and to all the elders of Israel. 10.Moses commanded them, saying, "At the end of every seven years, in the set time of the year of release, in the feast of tents, 11.when all Israel has come to appear before Yahweh your God in the place which he shall choose, you shall read this law before all Israel in their hearing. 12.Assemble the people, the men and the women and the little ones, and your foreigner who is within your gates, that they may hear, and that they may learn, and fear Yahweh your God, and observe to do all the words of this law; 13.and that their children, who have not known, may hear, and learn to fear Yahweh your God, as long as you live in the land where you go over the Jordan to possess it."

14.Yahweh said to Moses, "Behold, your days approach that you must die: call Joshua, and present yourselves in the Tent of Meeting, that I may commission him." Moses and Joshua went, and presented themselves in the Tent of Meeting.

15.Yahweh appeared in the Tent in a pillar of cloud: and the pillar of cloud stood over the door of the Tent. 16.Yahweh said to Moses, "Behold, you shall sleep with your fathers; and this people will rise up, and play the prostitute after the strange gods of the land, where they go to be among them, and will forsake me, and break my covenant which I have made with them. 17.Then my anger shall be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them, and I will hide my face from them, and they shall be devoured, and many evils and troubles shall come on them; so that they will say in that day, 'Haven't these evils come on us because our God is not among us?' 18.I will surely hide my face in that day for all the evil which they shall have worked, in that they are turned to other gods.

19."Now therefore write this song for yourselves, and teach it to the children of Israel: put it in their mouths, that this song may be a witness for me against the children of Israel. 20.For when I shall have brought them into the land which I swore to their fathers, flowing with milk and honey, and they shall have eaten and filled themselves, and grown fat; then will they turn to other gods, and serve them, and despise me, and break my covenant. 21.It shall happen, when many evils and troubles have come on them, that this song shall testify before them as a witness; for it shall not be forgotten out of the mouths of their seed: for I know their imagination which they frame this day, before I have brought them into the land which I swore." 22.So Moses wrote this song the same day, and taught it the children of Israel.

23.He commissioned Joshua the son of Nun, and said, "Be strong and courageous; for you shall bring the children of Israel into the land which I swore to them: and I will be with you."

24.It happened, when Moses had made an end of writing the words of this law in a book, until they were finished, 25.that Moses commanded the Levites, who bore the ark of the covenant of Yahweh, saying, 26."Take this book of the law, and put it by the side of the ark of the covenant of Yahweh your God, that it may be there for a witness against you. 27.For I know your rebellion, and your stiff neck: behold, while I am yet alive with you this day, you have been rebellious against Yahweh; and how much more after my death? 28.Assemble to me all the elders of your tribes, and your officers, that I may speak these words in their ears, and call heaven and earth to witness against them. 29.For I know that after my death you will utterly corrupt yourselves, and turn aside from the way which I have commanded you; and evil will happen to you in the latter days; because you will do that which is evil in the sight of Yahweh, to provoke him to anger through the work of your hands."

30.Moses spoke in the ears of all the assembly of Israel the words of this song, until they were finished.

 

Isaiah 3

 

1.For, behold, the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, takes away from Jerusalem and from Judah supply and support, the whole supply of bread, and the whole supply of water; 2.the mighty man, the man of war, the judge, the prophet, the diviner, the elder, 3.the captain of fifty, the honorable man, the counselor, the skilled craftsman, and the clever enchanter. 4.I will give boys to be their princes, and children shall rule over them. 5.The people will be oppressed, everyone by another, and everyone by his neighbor. The child will behave himself proudly against the old man, and the base against the honorable. 6.Indeed a man shall take hold of his brother in the house of his father, saying, "You have clothing, you be our ruler, and let this ruin be under your hand." 7.In that day he will cry out, saying, "I will not be a healer; for in my house is neither bread nor clothing. You shall not make me ruler of the people." 8.For Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah is fallen; because their tongue and their doings are against Yahweh, to provoke the eyes of his glory. 9.The look of their faces testify against them. They parade their sin like Sodom. They don't hide it. Woe to their soul! For they have brought disaster upon themselves. 10.Tell the righteous "Good!" For they shall eat the fruit of their deeds. 11.Woe to the wicked! Disaster is upon them; for the deeds of his hands will be paid back to him. 12.As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. My people, those who lead you cause you to err, and destroy the way of your paths. 13.Yahweh stands up to contend, and stands to judge the peoples. 14.Yahweh will enter into judgment with the elders of his people, and their leaders: "It is you who have eaten up the vineyard. The spoil of the poor is in your houses. 15.What do you mean that you crush my people, and grind the face of the poor?" says the Lord, Yahweh of Armies. 16.Moreover Yahweh said, "Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with outstretched necks and flirting eyes, walking to trip as they go, jingling ornaments on their feet; 17.therefore the Lord brings sores on the crown of the head of the women of Zion, and Yahweh will make their scalps bald."

18.In that day the Lord will take away the beauty of their anklets, the headbands, the crescent necklaces, 19.the earrings, the bracelets, the veils, 20.the headdresses, the ankle chains, the sashes, the perfume bottles, the charms, 21.the signet rings, the nose rings, 22.the fine robes, the capes, the cloaks, the purses, 23.the hand mirrors, the fine linen garments, the tiaras, and the shawls. 24.It shall happen that instead of sweet spices, there shall be rottenness; instead of a belt, a rope; instead of well set hair, baldness; instead of a robe, a wearing of sackcloth; and branding instead of beauty. 25.Your men shall fall by the sword, and your mighty in the war. 26.Her gates shall lament and mourn; and she shall be desolate and sit on the ground.

 

Isaiah 4

 

1.Seven women shall take hold of one man in that day, saying, "We will eat our own bread, and wear our own clothing: only let us be called by your name. Take away our reproach."

2.In that day, Yahweh's branch will be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the land will be the beauty and glory of the survivors of Israel. 3.It will happen, that he who is left in Zion, and he who remains in Jerusalem, shall be called holy, even everyone who is written among the living in Jerusalem; 4.when the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and shall have purged the blood of Jerusalem from its midst, by the spirit of justice, and by the spirit of burning. 5.Yahweh will create over the whole habitation of Mount Zion, and over her assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day, and the shining of a flaming fire by night; for over all the glory will be a canopy. 6.There will be a pavilion for a shade in the daytime from the heat, and for a refuge and for a shelter from storm and from rain.

 

Colossians 1

 

1.Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy our brother, 2.to the saints and faithful brothers¹ in Christ at Colossae: Grace to you and peace from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.

3.We give thanks to God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying always for you, 4.having heard of your faith in Christ Jesus, and of the love which you have toward all the saints, 5.because of the hope which is laid up for you in the heavens, of which you heard before in the word of the truth of the Good News, 6.which has come to you; even as it is in all the world and is bearing fruit and growing, as it does in you also, since the day you heard and knew the grace of God in truth; 7.even as you learned of Epaphras our beloved fellow servant, who is a faithful servant of Christ on our behalf, 8.who also declared to us your love in the Spirit. 9.For this cause, we also, since the day we heard this, don't cease praying and making requests for you, that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding, 10.that you may walk worthily of the Lord, to please him in all respects, bearing fruit in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God; 11.strengthened with all power, according to the might of his glory, for all endurance and perseverance with joy; 12.giving thanks to the Father, who made us fit to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light; 13.who delivered us out of the power of darkness, and translated us into the Kingdom of the Son of his love; 14.in whom we have our redemption,² the forgiveness of our sins; 15.who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation. 16.For by him all things were created, in the heavens and on the earth, things visible and things invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers; all things have been created through him, and for him. 17.He is before all things, and in him all things are held together. 18.He is the head of the body, the assembly, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence. 19.For all the fullness was pleased to dwell in him; 20.and through him to reconcile all things to himself, by him, whether things on the earth, or things in the heavens, having made peace through the blood of his cross.

21.You, being in past times alienated and enemies in your mind in your evil works, 22.yet now he has reconciled in the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and without blemish and blameless before him, 23.if it is so that you continue in the faith, grounded and steadfast, and not moved away from the hope of the Good News which you heard, which is being proclaimed in all creation under heaven; of which I, Paul, was made a servant.

24.Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and fill up on my part that which is lacking of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body's sake, which is the assembly; 25.of which I was made a servant, according to the stewardship of God which was given me toward you, to fulfill the word of God, 26.the mystery which has been hidden for ages and generations. But now it has been revealed to his saints, 27.to whom God was pleased to make known what are the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory; 28.whom we proclaim, admonishing every man and teaching every man in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus; 29.for which I also labor, striving according to his working, which works in me mightily.

 

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