Amshir 14, 1739

19If you are willing and obedient, You shall eat the good of the land;

20But if you refuse and rebel, You shall be devoured by the sword"; For the mouth of the LORD has spoken.

21How the faithful city has become a harlot! It was full of justice; Righteousness lodged in it, But now murderers.

22Your silver has become dross, Your wine mixed with water.

23Your princes are rebellious, And companions of thieves; Everyone loves bribes, And follows after rewards. They do not defend the fatherless, Nor does the cause of the widow come before them.

24Therefore the Lord says, The LORD of hosts, the Mighty One of Israel, "Ah, I will rid Myself of My adversaries, And take vengeance on My enemies.

25I will turn My hand against you, And thoroughly purge away your dross, And take away all your alloy.

26I will restore your judges as at the first, And your counselors as at the beginning. Afterward you shall be called the city of righteousness, the faithful city."

27Zion shall be redeemed with justice, And her penitents with righteousness.

28The destruction of transgressors and of sinners shall be together, And those who forsake the LORD shall be consumed.

29For they shall be ashamed of the terebinth trees Which you have desired; And you shall be embarrassed because of the gardens Which you have chosen.

30For you shall be as a terebinth whose leaf fades, And as a garden that has no water.

31The strong shall be as tinder, And the work of it as a spark; Both will burn together, And no one shall quench them.

1The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem.

2Now it shall come to pass in the latter days That the mountain of the LORD's house Shall be established on the top of the mountains, And shall be exalted above the hills; And all nations shall flow to it.

3Many people shall come and say, "Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, To the house of the God of Jacob; He will teach us His ways, And we shall walk in His paths." For out of Zion shall go forth the law, And the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.

7"Thus says the LORD of hosts: "Behold, I will save My people from the land of the east And from the land of the west;

8I will bring them back, And they shall dwell in the midst of Jerusalem. They shall be My people And I will be their God, In truth and righteousness.'

9"Thus says the LORD of hosts: "Let your hands be strong, You who have been hearing in these days These words by the mouth of the prophets, Who spoke in the day the foundation was laid For the house of the LORD of hosts, That the temple might be built.

10For before these days There were no wages for man nor any hire for beast; There was no peace from the enemy for whoever went out or came in; For I set all men, everyone, against his neighbor.

11But now I will not treat the remnant of this people as in the former days,' says the LORD of hosts.

12"For the seed shall be prosperous, The vine shall give its fruit, The ground shall give her increase, And the heavens shall give their dew-- I will cause the remnant of this people To possess all these.

13And it shall come to pass That just as you were a curse among the nations, O house of Judah and house of Israel, So I will save you, and you shall be a blessing. Do not fear, Let your hands be strong.'

1My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me? Why are You so far from helping Me, And from the words of My groaning?

2O My God, I cry in the daytime, but You do not hear; And in the night season, and am not silent.

3But You are holy, Enthroned in the praises of Israel.

4Our fathers trusted in You; They trusted, and You delivered them.

5They cried to You, and were delivered; They trusted in You, and were not ashamed.

6But I am a worm, and no man; A reproach of men, and despised by the people.

7All those who see Me ridicule Me; They shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying,

8"He trusted in the LORD, let Him rescue Him; Let Him deliver Him, since He delights in Him!"

9But You are He who took Me out of the womb; You made Me trust while on My mother's breasts.

10I was cast upon You from birth. From My mother's womb You have been My God.

11Be not far from Me, For trouble is near; For there is none to help.

12Many bulls have surrounded Me; Strong bulls of Bashan have encircled Me.

13They gape at Me with their mouths, Like a raging and roaring lion.

14I am poured out like water, And all My bones are out of joint; My heart is like wax; It has melted within Me.

15My strength is dried up like a potsherd, And My tongue clings to My jaws; You have brought Me to the dust of death.

16For dogs have surrounded Me; The congregation of the wicked has enclosed Me. They pierced My hands and My feet;

17I can count all My bones. They look and stare at Me.

18They divide My garments among them, And for My clothing they cast lots.

19But You, O LORD, do not be far from Me; O My Strength, hasten to help Me!

20Deliver Me from the sword, My precious life from the power of the dog.

21Save Me from the lion's mouth And from the horns of the wild oxen! You have answered Me.

22I will declare Your name to My brethren; In the midst of the assembly I will praise You.

23You who fear the LORD, praise Him! All you descendants of Jacob, glorify Him, And fear Him, all you offspring of Israel!

24For He has not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted; Nor has He hidden His face from Him; But when He cried to Him, He heard.

25My praise shall be of You in the great assembly; I will pay My vows before those who fear Him.

26The poor shall eat and be satisfied; Those who seek Him will praise the LORD. Let your heart live forever!

27All the ends of the world Shall remember and turn to the LORD, And all the families of the nations Shall worship before You.

28For the kingdom is the LORD's, And He rules over the nations.

29All the prosperous of the earth Shall eat and worship; All those who go down to the dust Shall bow before Him, Even he who cannot keep himself alive.

30A posterity shall serve Him. It will be recounted of the Lord to the next generation,

31They will come and declare His righteousness to a people who will be born, That He has done this.

10Now it happened, as Jesus sat at the table in the house, that behold, many tax collectors and sinners came and sat down with Him and His disciples.

11And when the Pharisees saw it, they said to His disciples, "Why does your Teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?"

12When Jesus heard that, He said to them, "Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick.

13But go and learn what this means: "I desire mercy and not sacrifice.' For I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners, to repentance."

14Then the disciples of John came to Him, saying, "Why do we and the Pharisees fast often, but Your disciples do not fast?"

15And Jesus said to them, "Can the friends of the bridegroom mourn as long as the bridegroom is with them? But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them, and then they will fast.

14What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? Certainly not!

15For He says to Moses, "I will have mercy on whomever I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whomever I will have compassion."

16So then it is not of him who wills, nor of him who runs, but of God who shows mercy.

17For the Scripture says to the Pharaoh, "For this very purpose I have raised you up, that I may show My power in you, and that My name may be declared in all the earth."

18Therefore He has mercy on whom He wills, and whom He wills He hardens.

19You will say to me then, "Why does He still find fault? For who has resisted His will?"

20But indeed, O man, who are you to reply against God? Will the thing formed say to him who formed it, "Why have you made me like this?"

21Does not the potter have power over the clay, from the same lump to make one vessel for honor and another for dishonor?

22What if God, wanting to show His wrath and to make His power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath prepared for destruction,

23and that He might make known the riches of His glory on the vessels of mercy, which He had prepared beforehand for glory,

24even us whom He called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles?

25As He says also in Hosea: "I will call them My people, who were not My people, And her beloved, who was not beloved."

26"And it shall come to pass in the place where it was said to them, "You are not My people,' There they shall be called sons of the living God."

27Isaiah also cries out concerning Israel: "Though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, The remnant will be saved.

28For He will finish the work and cut it short in righteousness, Because the LORD will make a short work upon the earth."

29And as Isaiah said before: "Unless the LORD of Sabaoth had left us a seed, We would have become like Sodom, And we would have been made like Gomorrah."

3For we have spent enough of our past lifetime in doing the will of the Gentiles--when we walked in lewdness, lusts, drunkenness, revelries, drinking parties, and abominable idolatries.

4In regard to these, they think it strange that you do not run with them in the same flood of dissipation, speaking evil of you.

5They will give an account to Him who is ready to judge the living and the dead.

6For this reason the gospel was preached also to those who are dead, that they might be judged according to men in the flesh, but live according to God in the spirit.

7But the end of all things is at hand; therefore be serious and watchful in your prayers.

8And above all things have fervent love for one another, for "love will cover a multitude of sins."

9Be hospitable to one another without grumbling.

10As each one has received a gift, minister it to one another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.

11If anyone speaks, let him speak as the oracles of God. If anyone ministers, let him do it as with the ability which God supplies, that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom belong the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen.