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Through the ESV Bible in a Year with Jackie Hill Perry
November 29 (Ezekiel 27–28; Psalm 119:169–176; 2 Thessalonians 1)
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A reading from the Book of Ezekiel. The word of the Lord came to me. Now, you son of man, raise a lamentation over Tyre and say to Tyre, who dwells at the entrances to the sea? Merchant of the peoples to many coastlands. Thus says the Lord God, O Tyre, you have said I am perfect in beauty. Your borders are in the heart of the seas. Your builders made perfect your beauty. They made all your planks of fir trees from Senor. They took a cedar from Lebanon to make a mast for you. Of oaks of Bashan they made your oars. They made your deck of pines from the coast of Cyprus and laid with ivory of fine embroidered linen from Egypt was your sail serving as your banner. Blue and purple from the coasts of Elisha was your awning. The inhabitants of Sidon and Arvid were your rowers. Your skilled men, O Tyre, were in you. They were your pilots. The elders of Gebal and her skilled men were in you caulking your seams. All the ships of the sea with their mariners were in you to barter for your wares. Persia and Lud and Put were in your army. As your men of war, they hung the shield and helmet in you they gave you splendor. Men of Arvid and Helig were on your walls all around. And men of Gameh were in your towers. They hung their shields on your walls all around they made perfect your beauty. Tarshish did business with you because of your great wealth of every kind. See, silver, iron, tin and lead, they exchanged for your wares. Javin, Tubal and Meshech traded with you. They exchanged human beings in vessels of bronze for your merchandise. From Beth Torgama they exchanged horses, war horses and mules for your wares. The men of Dedan traded with you. Many coastlands were your own special markets. They brought you in payment ivory, tusks and ebony. Syria did business with you because of your abundant goods. They. They exchanged for your wares Emeralds, purple, embroidered work, fine linen, coral and ruby. Judah in the land of Israel traded with you. They exchanged for your merchandise wheat of Minn meal, honey, oil and balm. Damascus did business with you for your abundant goods because of your great wealth of every kind. Wine of Helben and wool of Sahar and casks of wine from Uzel. They exchanged for your wares wrought iron. Cassia and Calamus were bartered for your merchandise. Dedan traded with you in saddle cloths for riding Arabia. And all the princes of Kedar were your favorite dealers in lambs, rams and goats. In these they did Business with you. The traders of Sheba and Ramah traded with you. They exchanged for your wares the best of all kinds of spices and all precious stones and gold. Haran, Cana, Eden. Traders of Sheba, Asher, and Kilmed traded with you in your market. These traded with you in choice garments, in clothes of blue and embroidered work and and in carpets of colored material bound with cords and made secure. The ships of Tarshish traveled for you with your merchandise, so you were filled and heavily laden in the heart of the seas. Your rowers have brought you out into the high seas. The east wind has wrecked you in the heart of the seas. Your riches, your rares, your merchandise, your mariners and your pilots, your caulkers, your dealers and merchandise, and all your men of war who are in you with all your crew and that is in your midst. Sink into the heart of the seas on the day of your fall. At the sound of the cry of your pilots the countryside shakes, and down from their ships come all who handle the ore. The mariners and all the pilots of the sea stand on the land and shout aloud over you and cry out bitterly. They cast dust on their heads and wallow in ashes. They make themselves bald for you and put sackcloth on their waist. And they weep over you in bitterness of soul, with bitter mourning, in their wailing they raise a lamentation for you and lament over you, who was like Tyre, like one destroyed in the midst of the sea. When your wares came from the seas, you satisfied many peoples with your abundant wealth and merchandise. You enriched the kings of the earth. Now you are wrecked by the seas in the depths of the waters your merchandise and all your crew in your midst have sunk with you. All the inhabitants of the coastlands are appalled at you, and the hair of their kings bristles with horror. Their faces are convulsed. The merchants among the peoples hiss at you. You have come to a dreadful end and shall be no more forever. The word of the Lord came to me. Son of man, say to the Prince of Tyre, thus says the Lord God, because your heart is proud. And you have said, I am a God. I sit in the seat of the gods in the heart of the seas. Yet you are but a man and no God. Though you make your heart like the heart of a God, you are indeed wiser than Daniel. No secret is hidden from you by your wisdom. In your understanding you have made wealth for yourself and have gathered gold and silver into your treasuries. By your great wisdom in your trade you have increased your wealth and Your heart has become proud in your wealth. Therefore thus says the Lord God, because you make your heart like the heart of a God. That therefore, behold, I will bring foreigners upon you, the most ruthless of the nations, and they shall draw their swords against the beauty of your wisdom and defile your splendor. They shall thrust you down into the pit and you shall die the death of the slain in the heart of the seas. Will you still say I am a God in the presence of those who kill you? Though you are but a man and no God in the hands of those who slay you, you shall die the death of the uncircumcised by the hand of foreigners. For I have spoken, declares the Lord God. Moreover, the word of the Lord came to me. Son of man, raise a lamentation over the King of Tyre and say to him, thus says the Lord God. You were the signet of perfection, full of wisdom and perfect in beauty. You were in Eden, the garden of God. Every precious stone was your covering. Sardius, topaz and diamond, beryl, onyx and Jasper, sapphire, emerald and carbuncle, and crafted in gold, were your settings and your engravings. On the day that you were created, they were prepared. You were an anointed guardian cherub. I placed you. You were on the holy mountain of God. In the midst of the stones of fire you walked. You were blameless in your ways from the day you were created till unrighteousness was found in you in the abundance of your trade. You were filled with violence in your midst, and you sinned. So I cast you as a profane thing from the mountain of God, and I destroyed you, O guardian cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire your heart was proud. Because of your beauty. You corrupted your wisdom for the sake of your splendor. I cast you to the ground. I exposed you before kings to feast their eyes on you. By the multitude of your iniquities, in the unrighteousness of your trade you profane your sanctuaries. So I brought fire out from your midst. It consumed you, and I turned you to ashes on the earth in the sight of all who saw you. All who know you among the peoples are appalled at you. You have come to a dreadful end and shall be no more forever. The word of the Lord came to me. Son of man, set your face toward Sidon and prophesy against her and say, thus says the Lord God. Behold, I am against you, O Sidon. And I will manifest my glory in your midst. And they shall know that I am the Lord. When I execute judgment in her and manifest my holiness in her, for I will send pestilence into her and blood into her streets, and the slain shall fall in her midst by the sword that is against her on every side, then they will know that I am the Lord, and for the house of Israel there shall be no more a brier to prick or a thorn to hurt them among all their neighbors who have treated them with contempt, Then they will know that I am the Lord God. Thus says the Lord God. When I gather the house of Israel from the peoples among whom they are scattered and and manifest my holiness in them in the sight of the nations, then they shall dwell in their own land that I gave to my servant Jacob, and they shall dwell securely in it, and they shall build houses and plant vineyards. They shall dwell securely when I execute judgments upon all their neighbors who have treated them with contempt. Then they will know that I am the Lord, their God. A reading from the Book of Psalms Let my cry come before you, O Lord. Give me understanding according to your word. Let my plea come before you deliver me according to your word. My lips will pour forth praise for you. Teach me your statutes. My tongue will sing of your word, for all your commandments are right. Let your hand be ready to help me, for I have chosen your precepts. I long for your salvation, O Lord, and your law is my delight. Let my soul live and praise you, and let your rules help me. I have gone astray like a lost sheep. Seek your servant, for I do not forget your commandments. A reading from The Book of 2 Thessalonians Paul, Sylvanus, and Timothy to the Church of the Thessalonians In God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. We ought always to give thanks to God for you, brothers, as is right, because your faith is growing abundantly, and the love of every one of you for one another is increasing. Therefore we ourselves boast about you in the churches of God for your steadfastness and faith in all your persecutions and in the afflictions that you are enduring. This is evidence of the righteous judgment of God that you may be considered worthy of the kingdom of God for which you are also suffering, since indeed God considers it just to repay with affliction those who afflict you, and to grant relief to you who are afflicted, as well as to us. When the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with his mighty angels in flaming fire, inflicting vengeance on those who do not know God and on those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus, they will suffer the punishment of eternal destruction away from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his might when he comes on that day to be glorified in His Saints and to be marveled at among all who have believed because our testimony to you was believed to this end. We always pray for you, that our God may make you worthy of his calling and may fulfill every resolve for good and every work of faith by his power, so that the name of our Lord Jesus may be glorified in you and you in him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.