Bible Reading for August 2

Bible Reading for August 2

Isaiah Chapter 23

1 The burden of Tyre. Howl, ye ships of Tarshish; for it is laid waste, 
so that there is no house, no entering in: from the land of Chittim it 
is revealed to them.

2 Be still, ye inhabitants of the isle; thou whom the merchants of 
Zidon, that pass over the sea, have replenished.

3 And by great waters the seed of Sihor, the harvest of the river, is 
her revenue; and she is a mart of nations.

4 Be thou ashamed, O Zidon: for the sea hath spoken, even the strength 
of the sea, saying, I travail not, nor bring forth children, neither do 
I nourish up young men, nor bring up virgins.

5 As at the report concerning Egypt, so shall they be sorely pained at 
the report of Tyre.

6 Pass ye over to Tarshish; howl, ye inhabitants of the isle.

7 Is this your joyous city, whose antiquity is of ancient days? her own 
feet shall carry her afar off to sojourn.

8 Who hath taken this counsel against Tyre, the crowning city, whose 
merchants are princes, whose traffickers are the honourable of the earth?

9 The LORD of hosts hath purposed it, to stain the pride of all glory, 
and to bring into contempt all the honourable of the earth.

10 Pass through thy land as a river, O daughter of Tarshish: there is no 
more strength.

11 He stretched out his hand over the sea, he shook the kingdoms: the 
LORD hath given a commandment against the merchant city, to destroy the 
strong holds thereof.

12 And he said, Thou shalt no more rejoice, O thou oppressed virgin, 
daughter of Zidon: arise, pass over to Chittim; there also shalt thou 
have no rest.

13 Behold the land of the Chaldeans; this people was not, till the 
Assyrian founded it for them that dwell in the wilderness: they set up 
the towers thereof, they raised up the palaces thereof; and he brought 
it to ruin.

14 Howl, ye ships of Tarshish: for your strength is laid waste.

15 And it shall come to pass in that day, that Tyre shall be forgotten 
seventy years, according to the days of one king: after the end of 
seventy years shall Tyre sing as an harlot.

16 Take an harp, go about the city, thou harlot that hast been 
forgotten; make sweet melody, sing many songs, that thou mayest be 
remembered.

17 And it shall come to pass after the end of seventy years, that the 
LORD will visit Tyre, and she shall turn to her hire, and shall commit 
fornication with all the kingdoms of the world upon the face of the earth.

18 And her merchandise and her hire shall be holiness to the LORD: it 
shall not be treasured nor laid up; for her merchandise shall be for 
them that dwell before the LORD, to eat sufficiently, and for durable 
clothing.

Isaiah Chapter 24

1 Behold, the LORD maketh the earth empty, and maketh it waste, and 
turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad the inhabitants thereof.

2 And it shall be, as with the people, so with the priest; as with the 
servant, so with his master; as with the maid, so with her mistress; as 
with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the lender, so with the 
borrower; as with the taker of usury, so with the giver of usury to him.

3 The land shall be utterly emptied, and utterly spoiled: for the LORD 
hath spoken this word.

4 The earth mourneth and fadeth away, the world languisheth and fadeth 
away, the haughty people of the earth do languish.

5 The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because they 
have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the 
everlasting covenant.

6 Therefore hath the curse devoured the earth, and they that dwell 
therein are desolate: therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, 
and few men left.

7 The new wine mourneth, the vine languisheth, all the merryhearted do sigh.

8 The mirth of tabrets ceaseth, the noise of them that rejoice endeth, 
the joy of the harp ceaseth.

9 They shall not drink wine with a song; strong drink shall be bitter to 
them that drink it.

10 The city of confusion is broken down: every house is shut up, that no 
man may come in.

11 There is a crying for wine in the streets; all joy is darkened, the 
mirth of the land is gone.

12 In the city is left desolation, and the gate is smitten with destruction.

13 When thus it shall be in the midst of the land among the people, 
there shall be as the shaking of an olive tree, and as the gleaning 
grapes when the vintage is done.

14 They shall lift up their voice, they shall sing for the majesty of 
the LORD, they shall cry aloud from the sea.

15 Wherefore glorify ye the LORD in the fires, even the name of the LORD 
God of Israel in the isles of the sea.

16 From the uttermost part of the earth have we heard songs, even glory 
to the righteous. But I said, My leanness, my leanness, woe unto me! the 
treacherous dealers have dealt treacherously; yea, the treacherous 
dealers have dealt very treacherously.

17 Fear, and the pit, and the snare, are upon thee, O inhabitant of the 
earth.

18 And it shall come to pass, that he who fleeth from the noise of the 
fear shall fall into the pit; and he that cometh up out of the midst of 
the pit shall be taken in the snare: for the windows from on high are 
open, and the foundations of the earth do shake.

19 The earth is utterly broken down, the earth is clean dissolved, the 
earth is moved exceedingly.

20 The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, and shall be removed 
like a cottage; and the transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it; 
and it shall fall, and not rise again.

21 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall punish the 
host of the high ones that are on high, and the kings of the earth upon 
the earth.

22 And they shall be gathered together, as prisoners are gathered in the 
pit, and shall be shut up in the prison, and after many days shall they 
be visited.

23 Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed, when the LORD 
of hosts shall reign in mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, and before his 
ancients gloriously.

Isaiah Chapter 25

1 O LORD, thou art my God; I will exalt thee, I will praise thy name; 
for thou hast done wonderful things; thy counsels of old are 
faithfulness and truth.

2 For thou hast made of a city an heap; of a defenced city a ruin: a 
palace of strangers to be no city; it shall never be built.

3 Therefore shall the strong people glorify thee, the city of the 
terrible nations shall fear thee.

4 For thou hast been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in 
his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shadow from the heat, when the 
blast of the terrible ones is as a storm against the wall.

5 Thou shalt bring down the noise of strangers, as the heat in a dry 
place; even the heat with the shadow of a cloud: the branch of the 
terrible ones shall be brought low.

6 And in this mountain shall the LORD of hosts make unto all people a 
feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the lees, of fat things full of 
marrow, of wines on the lees well refined.

7 And he will destroy in this mountain the face of the covering cast 
over all people, and the vail that is spread over all nations.

8 He will swallow up death in victory; and the Lord GOD will wipe away 
tears from off all faces; and the rebuke of his people shall he take 
away from off all the earth: for the LORD hath spoken it.

9 And it shall be said in that day, Lo, this is our God; we have waited 
for him, and he will save us: this is the LORD; we have waited for him, 
we will be glad and rejoice in his salvation.

10 For in this mountain shall the hand of the LORD rest, and Moab shall 
be trodden down under him, even as straw is trodden down for the dunghill.

11 And he shall spread forth his hands in the midst of them, as he that 
swimmeth spreadeth forth his hands to swim: and he shall bring down 
their pride together with the spoils of their hands.

12 And the fortress of the high fort of thy walls shall he bring down, 
lay low, and bring to the ground, even to the dust.

Isaiah Chapter 26

1 In that day shall this song be sung in the land of Judah; We have a 
strong city; salvation will God appoint for walls and bulwarks.

2 Open ye the gates, that the righteous nation which keepeth the truth 
may enter in.

3 Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: 
because he trusteth in thee.

4 Trust ye in the LORD for ever: for in the LORD JEHOVAH is everlasting 
strength:

5 For he bringeth down them that dwell on high; the lofty city, he 
layeth it low; he layeth it low, even to the ground; he bringeth it even 
to the dust.

6 The foot shall tread it down, even the feet of the poor, and the steps 
of the needy.

7 The way of the just is uprightness: thou, most upright, dost weigh the 
path of the just.

8 Yea, in the way of thy judgments, O LORD, have we waited for thee; the 
desire of our soul is to thy name, and to the remembrance of thee.

9 With my soul have I desired thee in the night; yea, with my spirit 
within me will I seek thee early: for when thy judgments are in the 
earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness.

10 Let favour be shewed to the wicked, yet will he not learn 
righteousness: in the land of uprightness will he deal unjustly, and 
will not behold the majesty of the LORD.

11 LORD, when thy hand is lifted up, they will not see: but they shall 
see, and be ashamed for their envy at the people; yea, the fire of thine 
enemies shall devour them.

12 LORD, thou wilt ordain peace for us: for thou also hast wrought all 
our works in us.

13 O LORD our God, other lords beside thee have had dominion over us: 
but by thee only will we make mention of thy name.

14 They are dead, they shall not live; they are deceased, they shall not 
rise: therefore hast thou visited and destroyed them, and made all their 
memory to perish.

15 Thou hast increased the nation, O LORD, thou hast increased the 
nation: thou art glorified: thou hadst removed it far unto all the ends 
of the earth.

16 LORD, in trouble have they visited thee, they poured out a prayer 
when thy chastening was upon them.

17 Like as a woman with child, that draweth near the time of her 
delivery, is in pain, and crieth out in her pangs; so have we been in 
thy sight, O LORD.

18 We have been with child, we have been in pain, we have as it were 
brought forth wind; we have not wrought any deliverance in the earth; 
neither have the inhabitants of the world fallen.

19 Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. 
Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust: for thy dew is as the dew of 
herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead.

20 Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doors 
about thee: hide thyself as it were for a little moment, until the 
indignation be overpast.

21 For, behold, the LORD cometh out of his place to punish the 
inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall 
disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.

Isaiah Chapter 27

1 In that day the LORD with his sore and great and strong sword shall 
punish leviathan the piercing serpent, even leviathan that crooked 
serpent; and he shall slay the dragon that is in the sea.

2 In that day sing ye unto her, A vineyard of red wine.

3 I the LORD do keep it; I will water it every moment: lest any hurt it, 
I will keep it night and day.

4 Fury is not in me: who would set the briers and thorns against me in 
battle? I would go through them, I would burn them together.

5 Or let him take hold of my strength, that he may make peace with me; 
and he shall make peace with me.

6 He shall cause them that come of Jacob to take root: Israel shall 
blossom and bud, and fill the face of the world with fruit.

7 Hath he smitten him, as he smote those that smote him? or is he slain 
according to the slaughter of them that are slain by him?

8 In measure, when it shooteth forth, thou wilt debate with it: he 
stayeth his rough wind in the day of the east wind.

9 By this therefore shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged; and this is 
all the fruit to take away his sin; when he maketh all the stones of the 
altar as chalkstones that are beaten in sunder, the groves and images 
shall not stand up.

10 Yet the defenced city shall be desolate, and the habitation forsaken, 
and left like a wilderness: there shall the calf feed, and there shall 
he lie down, and consume the branches thereof.

11 When the boughs thereof are withered, they shall be broken off: the 
women come, and set them on fire: for it is a people of no 
understanding: therefore he that made them will not have mercy on them, 
and he that formed them will shew them no favour.

12 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall beat off 
from the channel of the river unto the stream of Egypt, and ye shall be 
gathered one by one, O ye children of Israel.

13 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the great trumpet shall 
be blown, and they shall come which were ready to perish in the land of 
Assyria, and the outcasts in the land of Egypt, and shall worship the 
LORD in the holy mount at Jerusalem.

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