Bible Reading for August 7

Bible Reading for August 7

Isaiah Chapter 45

1 Thus saith the LORD to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have 
holden, to subdue nations before him; and I will loose the loins of 
kings, to open before him the two leaved gates; and the gates shall not 
be shut;

2 I will go before thee, and make the crooked places straight: I will 
break in pieces the gates of brass, and cut in sunder the bars of iron:

3 And I will give thee the treasures of darkness, and hidden riches of 
secret places, that thou mayest know that I, the LORD, which call thee 
by thy name, am the God of Israel.

4 For Jacob my servant's sake, and Israel mine elect, I have even called 
thee by thy name: I have surnamed thee, though thou hast not known me.

5 I am the LORD, and there is none else, there is no God beside me: I 
girded thee, though thou hast not known me:

6 That they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west, that 
there is none beside me. I am the LORD, and there is none else.

7 I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: 
I the LORD do all these things.

8 Drop down, ye heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down 
righteousness: let the earth open, and let them bring forth salvation, 
and let righteousness spring up together; I the LORD have created it.

9 Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker! Let the potsherd strive 
with the potsherds of the earth. Shall the clay say to him that 
fashioneth it, What makest thou? or thy work, He hath no hands?

10 Woe unto him that saith unto his father, What begettest thou? or to 
the woman, What hast thou brought forth?

11 Thus saith the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, and his Maker, Ask me of 
things to come concerning my sons, and concerning the work of my hands 
command ye me.

12 I have made the earth, and created man upon it: I, even my hands, 
have stretched out the heavens, and all their host have I commanded.

13 I have raised him up in righteousness, and I will direct all his 
ways: he shall build my city, and he shall let go my captives, not for 
price nor reward, saith the LORD of hosts.

14 Thus saith the LORD, The labour of Egypt, and merchandise of Ethiopia 
and of the Sabeans, men of stature, shall come over unto thee, and they 
shall be thine: they shall come after thee; in chains they shall come 
over, and they shall fall down unto thee, they shall make supplication 
unto thee, saying, Surely God is in thee; and there is none else, there 
is no God.

15 Verily thou art a God that hidest thyself, O God of Israel, the Saviour.

16 They shall be ashamed, and also confounded, all of them: they shall 
go to confusion together that are makers of idols.

17 But Israel shall be saved in the LORD with an everlasting salvation: 
ye shall not be ashamed nor confounded world without end.

18 For thus saith the LORD that created the heavens; God himself that 
formed the earth and made it; he hath established it, he created it not 
in vain, he formed it to be inhabited: I am the LORD; and there is none 
else.

19 I have not spoken in secret, in a dark place of the earth: I said not 
unto the seed of Jacob, Seek ye me in vain: I the LORD speak 
righteousness, I declare things that are right.

20 Assemble yourselves and come; draw near together, ye that are escaped 
of the nations: they have no knowledge that set up the wood of their 
graven image, and pray unto a god that cannot save.

21 Tell ye, and bring them near; yea, let them take counsel together: 
who hath declared this from ancient time? who hath told it from that 
time? have not I the LORD? and there is no God else beside me; a just 
God and a Saviour; there is none beside me.

22 Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth: for I am 
God, and there is none else.

23 I have sworn by myself, the word is gone out of my mouth in 
righteousness, and shall not return, That unto me every knee shall bow, 
every tongue shall swear.

24 Surely, shall one say, in the LORD have I righteousness and strength: 
even to him shall men come; and all that are incensed against him shall 
be ashamed.

25 In the LORD shall all the seed of Israel be justified, and shall glory.

Isaiah Chapter 46

1 Bel boweth down, Nebo stoopeth, their idols were upon the beasts, and 
upon the cattle: your carriages were heavy loaden; they are a burden to 
the weary beast.

2 They stoop, they bow down together; they could not deliver the burden, 
but themselves are gone into captivity.

3 Hearken unto me, O house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house of 
Israel, which are borne by me from the belly, which are carried from the 
womb:

4 And even to your old age I am he; and even to hoar hairs will I carry 
you: I have made, and I will bear; even I will carry, and will deliver you.

5 To whom will ye liken me, and make me equal, and compare me, that we 
may be like?

6 They lavish gold out of the bag, and weigh silver in the balance, and 
hire a goldsmith; and he maketh it a god: they fall down, yea, they worship.

7 They bear him upon the shoulder, they carry him, and set him in his 
place, and he standeth; from his place shall he not remove: yea, one 
shall cry unto him, yet can he not answer, nor save him out of his trouble.

8 Remember this, and shew yourselves men: bring it again to mind, O ye 
transgressors.

9 Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is none 
else; I am God, and there is none like me,

10 Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the 
things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will 
do all my pleasure:

11 Calling a ravenous bird from the east, the man that executeth my 
counsel from a far country: yea, I have spoken it, I will also bring it 
to pass; I have purposed it, I will also do it.

12 Hearken unto me, ye stouthearted, that are far from righteousness:

13 I bring near my righteousness; it shall not be far off, and my 
salvation shall not tarry: and I will place salvation in Zion for Israel 
my glory.

Isaiah Chapter 47

1 Come down, and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon, sit on 
the ground: there is no throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans: for thou 
shalt no more be called tender and delicate.

2 Take the millstones, and grind meal: uncover thy locks, make bare the 
leg, uncover the thigh, pass over the rivers.

3 Thy nakedness shall be uncovered, yea, thy shame shall be seen: I will 
take vengeance, and I will not meet thee as a man.

4 As for our redeemer, the LORD of hosts is his name, the Holy One of 
Israel.

5 Sit thou silent, and get thee into darkness, O daughter of the 
Chaldeans: for thou shalt no more be called, The lady of kingdoms.

6 I was wroth with my people, I have polluted mine inheritance, and 
given them into thine hand: thou didst shew them no mercy; upon the 
ancient hast thou very heavily laid thy yoke.

7 And thou saidst, I shall be a lady for ever: so that thou didst not 
lay these things to thy heart, neither didst remember the latter end of it.

8 Therefore hear now this, thou that art given to pleasures, that 
dwellest carelessly, that sayest in thine heart, I am, and none else 
beside me; I shall not sit as a widow, neither shall I know the loss of 
children:

9 But these two things shall come to thee in a moment in one day, the 
loss of children, and widowhood: they shall come upon thee in their 
perfection for the multitude of thy sorceries, and for the great 
abundance of thine enchantments.

10 For thou hast trusted in thy wickedness: thou hast said, None seeth 
me. Thy wisdom and thy knowledge, it hath perverted thee; and thou hast 
said in thine heart, I am, and none else beside me.

11 Therefore shall evil come upon thee; thou shalt not know from whence 
it riseth: and mischief shall fall upon thee; thou shalt not be able to 
put it off: and desolation shall come upon thee suddenly, which thou 
shalt not know.

12 Stand now with thine enchantments, and with the multitude of thy 
sorceries, wherein thou hast laboured from thy youth; if so be thou 
shalt be able to profit, if so be thou mayest prevail.

13 Thou art wearied in the multitude of thy counsels. Let now the 
astrologers, the stargazers, the monthly prognosticators, stand up, and 
save thee from these things that shall come upon thee.

14 Behold, they shall be as stubble; the fire shall burn them; they 
shall not deliver themselves from the power of the flame: there shall 
not be a coal to warm at, nor fire to sit before it.

15 Thus shall they be unto thee with whom thou hast laboured, even thy 
merchants, from thy youth: they shall wander every one to his quarter; 
none shall save thee.

Isaiah Chapter 48

1 Hear ye this, O house of Jacob, which are called by the name of 
Israel, and are come forth out of the waters of Judah, which swear by 
the name of the LORD, and make mention of the God of Israel, but not in 
truth, nor in righteousness.

2 For they call themselves of the holy city, and stay themselves upon 
the God of Israel; The LORD of hosts is his name.

3 I have declared the former things from the beginning; and they went 
forth out of my mouth, and I shewed them; I did them suddenly, and they 
came to pass.

4 Because I knew that thou art obstinate, and thy neck is an iron sinew, 
and thy brow brass;

5 I have even from the beginning declared it to thee; before it came to 
pass I shewed it thee: lest thou shouldest say, Mine idol hath done 
them, and my graven image, and my molten image, hath commanded them.

6 Thou hast heard, see all this; and will not ye declare it? I have 
shewed thee new things from this time, even hidden things, and thou 
didst not know them.

7 They are created now, and not from the beginning; even before the day 
when thou heardest them not; lest thou shouldest say, Behold, I knew them.

8 Yea, thou heardest not; yea, thou knewest not; yea, from that time 
that thine ear was not opened: for I knew that thou wouldest deal very 
treacherously, and wast called a transgressor from the womb.

9 For my name's sake will I defer mine anger, and for my praise will I 
refrain for thee, that I cut thee not off.

10 Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee 
in the furnace of affliction.

11 For mine own sake, even for mine own sake, will I do it: for how 
should my name be polluted? and I will not give my glory unto another.

12 Hearken unto me, O Jacob and Israel, my called; I am he; I am the 
first, I also am the last.

13 Mine hand also hath laid the foundation of the earth, and my right 
hand hath spanned the heavens: when I call unto them, they stand up 
together.

14 All ye, assemble yourselves, and hear; which among them hath declared 
these things? The LORD hath loved him: he will do his pleasure on 
Babylon, and his arm shall be on the Chaldeans.

15 I, even I, have spoken; yea, I have called him: I have brought him, 
and he shall make his way prosperous.

16 Come ye near unto me, hear ye this; I have not spoken in secret from 
the beginning; from the time that it was, there am I: and now the Lord 
GOD, and his Spirit, hath sent me.

17 Thus saith the LORD, thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel; I am the 
LORD thy God which teacheth thee to profit, which leadeth thee by the 
way that thou shouldest go.

18 O that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments! then had thy peace 
been as a river, and thy righteousness as the waves of the sea:

19 Thy seed also had been as the sand, and the offspring of thy bowels 
like the gravel thereof; his name should not have been cut off nor 
destroyed from before me.

20 Go ye forth of Babylon, flee ye from the Chaldeans, with a voice of 
singing declare ye, tell this, utter it even to the end of the earth; 
say ye, The LORD hath redeemed his servant Jacob.

21 And they thirsted not when he led them through the deserts: he caused 
the waters to flow out of the rock for them: he clave the rock also, and 
the waters gushed out.

22 There is no peace, saith the LORD, unto the wicked.

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