Bible Reading for August 3

Bible Reading for August 3

Isaiah Chapter 28

1 Woe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim, whose glorious 
beauty is a fading flower, which are on the head of the fat valleys of 
them that are overcome with wine!

2 Behold, the Lord hath a mighty and strong one, which as a tempest of 
hail and a destroying storm, as a flood of mighty waters overflowing, 
shall cast down to the earth with the hand.

3 The crown of pride, the drunkards of Ephraim, shall be trodden under feet:

4 And the glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fat valley, shall 
be a fading flower, and as the hasty fruit before the summer; which when 
he that looketh upon it seeth, while it is yet in his hand he eateth it up.

5 In that day shall the LORD of hosts be for a crown of glory, and for a 
diadem of beauty, unto the residue of his people,

6 And for a spirit of judgment to him that sitteth in judgment, and for 
strength to them that turn the battle to the gate.

7 But they also have erred through wine, and through strong drink are 
out of the way; the priest and the prophet have erred through strong 
drink, they are swallowed up of wine, they are out of the way through 
strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble in judgment.

8 For all tables are full of vomit and filthiness, so that there is no 
place clean.

9 Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand 
doctrine? them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts.

10 For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon 
line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little:

11 For with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to this people.

12 To whom he said, This is the rest wherewith ye may cause the weary to 
rest; and this is the refreshing: yet they would not hear.

13 But the word of the LORD was unto them precept upon precept, precept 
upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a 
little; that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and 
snared, and taken.

14 Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, ye scornful men, that rule this 
people which is in Jerusalem.

15 Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with 
hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass 
through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, 
and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:

16 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a 
foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure 
foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste.

17 Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the 
plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the 
waters shall overflow the hiding place.

18 And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement 
with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass 
through, then ye shall be trodden down by it.

19 From the time that it goeth forth it shall take you: for morning by 
morning shall it pass over, by day and by night: and it shall be a 
vexation only to understand the report.

20 For the bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself on it: and 
the covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it.

21 For the LORD shall rise up as in mount Perazim, he shall be wroth as 
in the valley of Gibeon, that he may do his work, his strange work; and 
bring to pass his act, his strange act.

22 Now therefore be ye not mockers, lest your bands be made strong: for 
I have heard from the Lord GOD of hosts a consumption, even determined 
upon the whole earth.

23 Give ye ear, and hear my voice; hearken, and hear my speech.

24 Doth the plowman plow all day to sow? doth he open and break the 
clods of his ground?

25 When he hath made plain the face thereof, doth he not cast abroad the 
fitches, and scatter the cummin, and cast in the principal wheat and the 
appointed barley and the rie in their place?

26 For his God doth instruct him to discretion, and doth teach him.

27 For the fitches are not threshed with a threshing instrument, neither 
is a cart wheel turned about upon the cummin; but the fitches are beaten 
out with a staff, and the cummin with a rod.

28 Bread corn is bruised; because he will not ever be threshing it, nor 
break it with the wheel of his cart, nor bruise it with his horsemen.

29 This also cometh forth from the LORD of hosts, which is wonderful in 
counsel, and excellent in working.

Isaiah Chapter 29

1 Woe to Ariel, to Ariel, the city where David dwelt! add ye year to 
year; let them kill sacrifices.

2 Yet I will distress Ariel, and there shall be heaviness and sorrow: 
and it shall be unto me as Ariel.

3 And I will camp against thee round about, and will lay siege against 
thee with a mount, and I will raise forts against thee.

4 And thou shalt be brought down, and shalt speak out of the ground, and 
thy speech shall be low out of the dust, and thy voice shall be, as of 
one that hath a familiar spirit, out of the ground, and thy speech shall 
whisper out of the dust.

5 Moreover the multitude of thy strangers shall be like small dust, and 
the multitude of the terrible ones shall be as chaff that passeth away: 
yea, it shall be at an instant suddenly.

6 Thou shalt be visited of the LORD of hosts with thunder, and with 
earthquake, and great noise, with storm and tempest, and the flame of 
devouring fire.

7 And the multitude of all the nations that fight against Ariel, even 
all that fight against her and her munition, and that distress her, 
shall be as a dream of a night vision.

8 It shall even be as when an hungry man dreameth, and, behold, he 
eateth; but he awaketh, and his soul is empty: or as when a thirsty man 
dreameth, and, behold, he drinketh; but he awaketh, and, behold, he is 
faint, and his soul hath appetite: so shall the multitude of all the 
nations be, that fight against mount Zion.

9 Stay yourselves, and wonder; cry ye out, and cry: they are drunken, 
but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink.

10 For the LORD hath poured out upon you the spirit of deep sleep, and 
hath closed your eyes: the prophets and your rulers, the seers hath he 
covered.

11 And the vision of all is become unto you as the words of a book that 
is sealed, which men deliver to one that is learned, saying, Read this, 
I pray thee: and he saith, I cannot; for it is sealed:

12 And the book is delivered to him that is not learned, saying, Read 
this, I pray thee: and he saith, I am not learned.

13 Wherefore the Lord said, Forasmuch as this people draw near me with 
their mouth, and with their lips do honour me, but have removed their 
heart far from me, and their fear toward me is taught by the precept of men:

14 Therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a marvellous work among this 
people, even a marvellous work and a wonder: for the wisdom of their 
wise men shall perish, and the understanding of their prudent men shall 
be hid.

15 Woe unto them that seek deep to hide their counsel from the LORD, and 
their works are in the dark, and they say, Who seeth us? and who knoweth us?

16 Surely your turning of things upside down shall be esteemed as the 
potter's clay: for shall the work say of him that made it, He made me 
not? or shall the thing framed say of him that framed it, He had no 
understanding?

17 Is it not yet a very little while, and Lebanon shall be turned into a 
fruitful field, and the fruitful field shall be esteemed as a forest?

18 And in that day shall the deaf hear the words of the book, and the 
eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity, and out of darkness.

19 The meek also shall increase their joy in the LORD, and the poor 
among men shall rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.

20 For the terrible one is brought to nought, and the scorner is 
consumed, and all that watch for iniquity are cut off:

21 That make a man an offender for a word, and lay a snare for him that 
reproveth in the gate, and turn aside the just for a thing of nought.

22 Therefore thus saith the LORD, who redeemed Abraham, concerning the 
house of Jacob, Jacob shall not now be ashamed, neither shall his face 
now wax pale.

23 But when he seeth his children, the work of mine hands, in the midst 
of him, they shall sanctify my name, and sanctify the Holy One of Jacob, 
and shall fear the God of Israel.

24 They also that erred in spirit shall come to understanding, and they 
that murmured shall learn doctrine.

Isaiah Chapter 30

1 Woe to the rebellious children, saith the LORD, that take counsel, but 
not of me; and that cover with a covering, but not of my spirit, that 
they may add sin to sin:

2 That walk to go down into Egypt, and have not asked at my mouth; to 
strengthen themselves in the strength of Pharaoh, and to trust in the 
shadow of Egypt!

3 Therefore shall the strength of Pharaoh be your shame, and the trust 
in the shadow of Egypt your confusion.

4 For his princes were at Zoan, and his ambassadors came to Hanes.

5 They were all ashamed of a people that could not profit them, nor be 
an help nor profit, but a shame, and also a reproach.

6 The burden of the beasts of the south: into the land of trouble and 
anguish, from whence come the young and old lion, the viper and fiery 
flying serpent, they will carry their riches upon the shoulders of young 
asses, and their treasures upon the bunches of camels, to a people that 
shall not profit them.

7 For the Egyptians shall help in vain, and to no purpose: therefore 
have I cried concerning this, Their strength is to sit still.

8 Now go, write it before them in a table, and note it in a book, that 
it may be for the time to come for ever and ever:

9 That this is a rebellious people, lying children, children that will 
not hear the law of the LORD:

10 Which say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Prophesy not 
unto us right things, speak unto us smooth things, prophesy deceits:

11 Get you out of the way, turn aside out of the path, cause the Holy 
One of Israel to cease from before us.

12 Wherefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel, Because ye despise this 
word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and stay thereon:

13 Therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, 
swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking cometh suddenly at an instant.

14 And he shall break it as the breaking of the potters' vessel that is 
broken in pieces; he shall not spare: so that there shall not be found 
in the bursting of it a sherd to take fire from the hearth, or to take 
water withal out of the pit.

15 For thus saith the Lord GOD, the Holy One of Israel; In returning and 
rest shall ye be saved; in quietness and in confidence shall be your 
strength: and ye would not.

16 But ye said, No; for we will flee upon horses; therefore shall ye 
flee: and, We will ride upon the swift; therefore shall they that pursue 
you be swift.

17 One thousand shall flee at the rebuke of one; at the rebuke of five 
shall ye flee: till ye be left as a beacon upon the top of a mountain, 
and as an ensign on an hill.

18 And therefore will the LORD wait, that he may be gracious unto you, 
and therefore will he be exalted, that he may have mercy upon you: for 
the LORD is a God of judgment: blessed are all they that wait for him.

19 For the people shall dwell in Zion at Jerusalem: thou shalt weep no 
more: he will be very gracious unto thee at the voice of thy cry; when 
he shall hear it, he will answer thee.

20 And though the Lord give you the bread of adversity, and the water of 
affliction, yet shall not thy teachers be removed into a corner any 
more, but thine eyes shall see thy teachers:

21 And thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying, This is the 
way, walk ye in it, when ye turn to the right hand, and when ye turn to 
the left.

22 Ye shall defile also the covering of thy graven images of silver, and 
the ornament of thy molten images of gold: thou shalt cast them away as 
a menstruous cloth; thou shalt say unto it, Get thee hence.

23 Then shall he give the rain of thy seed, that thou shalt sow the 
ground withal; and bread of the increase of the earth, and it shall be 
fat and plenteous: in that day shall thy cattle feed in large pastures.

24 The oxen likewise and the young asses that ear the ground shall eat 
clean provender, which hath been winnowed with the shovel and with the fan.

25 And there shall be upon every high mountain, and upon every high 
hill, rivers and streams of waters in the day of the great slaughter, 
when the towers fall.

26 Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and 
the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days, in 
the day that the LORD bindeth up the breach of his people, and healeth 
the stroke of their wound.

27 Behold, the name of the LORD cometh from far, burning with his anger, 
and the burden thereof is heavy: his lips are full of indignation, and 
his tongue as a devouring fire:

28 And his breath, as an overflowing stream, shall reach to the midst of 
the neck, to sift the nations with the sieve of vanity: and there shall 
be a bridle in the jaws of the people, causing them to err.

29 Ye shall have a song, as in the night when a holy solemnity is kept; 
and gladness of heart, as when one goeth with a pipe to come into the 
mountain of the LORD, to the mighty One of Israel.

30 And the LORD shall cause his glorious voice to be heard, and shall 
shew the lighting down of his arm, with the indignation of his anger, 
and with the flame of a devouring fire, with scattering, and tempest, 
and hailstones.

31 For through the voice of the LORD shall the Assyrian be beaten down, 
which smote with a rod.

32 And in every place where the grounded staff shall pass, which the 
LORD shall lay upon him, it shall be with tabrets and harps: and in 
battles of shaking will he fight with it.

33 For Tophet is ordained of old; yea, for the king it is prepared; he 
hath made it deep and large: the pile thereof is fire and much wood; the 
breath of the LORD, like a stream of brimstone, doth kindle it.

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