Through My Bible Yr 01 – December 28

Isaiah 30:18 – 32:20

Through My Bible – December 28

Isaiah 30:18 – 32:20 (EHV)

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Isaiah 30

¹⁸But the Lord is eager to be gracious to you.
He waits on high to have mercy on you,
for the Lord is a God of justice.
Blessed are all those who long for him.

¹⁹So people will live in Zion. In Jerusalem you will weep no more. The Lord will be very gracious to you when he hears your cry. When he hears you, he will answer you. ²⁰Though the Lord has given you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, he is your teacher.^[1] He will not be hidden any longer. You will see your teacher with your own eyes. ²¹Whenever you are tempted to turn to the right or to the left, you will hear his voice behind you, saying, “This is the way. Walk in it.” ²²You will defile your idols that are plated with silver and your images overlaid with gold. You will throw them away like a filthy cloth,^[2] saying, “Get away from me!”

²³Then he will give you rain so that you can sow seed in the ground. The bread from your land’s harvest will be excellent and plentiful. On that day your livestock will graze in wide pastures. ²⁴The oxen and the donkeys that work the ground will eat the best feed^[3]—winnowed with a shovel and a winnowing fork. ²⁵On every lofty mountain and on every high hill there will be streams flowing with water.

It will be a day of terrible slaughter, when towers fall. ²⁶The light of the moon will be as bright as the sun, and the light of the sun will be seven times brighter—like the light of seven days—on the day when the Lord will bind up the wounds of his people and heal the injuries he inflicted.

God Will Punish Assyria

²⁷Look! The name of the Lord is coming from far away,
burning with anger, in a column of thick smoke.
His lips are full of anger,
and his tongue is a consuming fire.
²⁸His breath is a stream at flood stage,
surging all the way up to your neck.
He shakes the nations in a sieve to destroy them,
and he puts a bridle in their mouths to lead them to destruction.
²⁹You will sing as you do on the night of a holy festival,
with glad hearts,
as when they go up with flutes to the mountain of the Lord,
to the Rock of Israel.
³⁰The Lord will cause the majestic splendor of his voice to be heard.
He will make them see his arm come crashing down in fierce anger,
like the flames of a consuming fire,
like driving rain, a furious storm with hailstones.
³¹The voice of the Lord will terrify Assyria.
He will strike it with his rod.
³²Every stroke of the punishing rod^[4] which the Lord will lay on them
will be accompanied by the music of drums and lyres.
He himself will fight, battling them, swinging weapons.
³³Topheth has long been made ready.
It is prepared for the king,
a flaming funeral pyre, deep and wide, with plenty of wood.
The breath of the Lord, like a river of liquid fire, sets it ablaze.

Woe to Those Who Rely on Egypt

Isaiah 31

¹Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help,

who put their faith in horses,