Daily Bible Reading Plan

• Isaiah 47 (1:45)

Isaiah 47 1 "Come down and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon ; Sit on the ground without a throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans ! For you shall no longer be called tender and delicate. 2 "Take the millstones and grind meal. Remove your veil, strip off the skirt, Uncover the leg, cross the rivers. 3 "Your nakedness will be uncovered, Your shame also will be exposed ; I will take vengeance and will not spare a man." 4 Our Redeemer, the LORD of hosts is His name, The Holy One of Israel. 5 "Sit silently, and go into darkness, O daughter of the Chaldeans, For you will no longer be called The queen of kingdoms. 6 "I was angry with My people, I profaned My heritage And gave them into your hand. You did not show mercy to them, On the aged you made your yoke very heavy. 7 "Yet you said, 'I will be a queen forever .' These things you did not consider Nor remember the outcome of them. 8 "Now, then, hear this, you sensual one, Who dwells securely, Who says in your heart, 'I am, and there is no one besides me. I will not sit as a widow, Nor know loss of children.' 9 "But these two things will come on you suddenly in one day : Loss of children and widowhood. They will come on you in full measure In spite of your many sorceries, In spite of the great power of your spells. 10 "You felt secure in your wickedness and said, 'No one sees me,' Your wisdom and your knowledge, they have deluded you; For you have said in your heart, 'I am, and there is no one besides me.' 11 "But evil will come on you Which you will not know how to charm away ; And disaster will fall on you For which you cannot atone ; And destruction about which you do not know Will come on you suddenly. 12 "Stand fast now in your spells And in your many sorceries With which you have labored from your youth ; Perhaps you will be able to profit, Perhaps you may cause trembling. 13 "You are wearied with your many counsels ; Let now the astrologers , Those who prophesy by the stars, Those who predict by the new moons, Stand up and save you from what will come upon you. 14 "Behold, they have become like stubble, Fire burns them; They cannot deliver themselves from the power of the flame ; There will be no coal to warm by Nor a fire to sit before ! 15 "So have those become to you with whom you have labored, Who have trafficked with you from your youth ; Each has wandered in his own way ; There is none to save you. [[slnc 10000]]

• Isaiah 48 (2:21)

Isaiah 48 1 "Hear this, O house of Jacob, who are named Israel And who came forth from the loins of Judah, Who swear by the name of the LORD And invoke the God of Israel, But not in truth nor in righteousness. 2 "For they call themselves after the holy city And lean on the God of Israel ; The LORD of hosts is His name. 3 "I declared the former things long ago And they went forth from My mouth, and I proclaimed them. Suddenly I acted, and they came to pass. 4 "Because I know that you are obstinate, And your neck is an iron sinew And your forehead bronze, 5 Therefore I declared them to you long ago, Before they took place I proclaimed them to you, So that you would not say, 'My idol has done them, And my graven image and my molten image have commanded them.' 6 "You have heard ; look at all this. And you, will you not declare it? I proclaim to you new things from this time, Even hidden things which you have not known. 7 "They are created now and not long ago ; And before today you have not heard them, So that you will not say, 'Behold, I knew them.' 8 "You have not heard, you have not known. Even from long ago your ear has not been open, Because I knew that you would deal very treacherously ; And you have been called a rebel from birth. 9 "For the sake of My name I delay My wrath, And for My praise I restrain it for you, In order not to cut you off. 10 "Behold, I have refined you, but not as silver ; I have tested you in the furnace of affliction. 11 "For My own sake, for My own sake, I will act ; For how can My name be profaned ? And My glory I will not give to another. Deliverance Promised 12 "Listen to Me, O Jacob, even Israel whom I called ; I am He, I am the first, I am also the last. 13 "Surely My hand founded the earth, And My right hand spread out the heavens ; When I call to them, they stand together. 14 "Assemble, all of you, and listen ! Who among them has declared these things ? The LORD loves him; he will carry out His good pleasure on Babylon, And His arm will be against the Chaldeans. 15 "I, even I, have spoken ; indeed I have called him, I have brought him, and He will make his ways successful. 16 "Come near to Me, listen to this : From the first I have not spoken in secret, From the time it took place, I was there. And now the Lord GOD has sent Me, and His Spirit." 17 Thus says the LORD, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel, "I am the LORD your God, who teaches you to profit, Who leads you in the way you should go. 18 "If only you had paid attention to My commandments ! Then your well-being would have been like a river, And your righteousness like the waves of the sea. 19 "Your descendants would have been like the sand, And your offspring like its grains ; Their name would never be cut off or destroyed from My presence." 20 Go forth from Babylon ! Flee from the Chaldeans ! Declare with the sound of joyful shouting, proclaim this, Send it out to the end of the earth ; Say, "The LORD has redeemed His servant Jacob." 21 They did not thirst when He led them through the deserts. He made the water flow out of the rock for them; He split the rock and the water gushed forth. 22 "There is no peace for the wicked," says the LORD. [[slnc 10000]]

• 2 Corinthians 9 (1:25)

2 Corinthians 9 1 For it is superfluous for me to write to you about this ministry to the saints ; 2 for I know your readiness, of which I boast about you to the Macedonians, namely, that Achaia has been prepared since last year, and your zeal has stirred up most of them. 3 But I have sent the brethren, in order that our boasting about you may not be made empty in this case, so that, as I was saying, you may be prepared ; 4 otherwise if any Macedonians come with me and find you unprepared, we-not to speak of you-will be put to shame by this confidence. 5 So I thought it necessary to urge the brethren that they would go on ahead to you and arrange beforehand your previously promised bountiful gift, so that the same would be ready as a bountiful gift and not affected by covetousness. 6 Now this I say, he who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and he who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully. 7 Each one must do just as he has purposed in his heart, not grudgingly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver. 8 And God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that always having all sufficiency in everything, you may have an abundance for every good deed ; 9 as it is written, "HE SCATTERED ABROAD, HE GAVE TO THE POOR, HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS ENDURES FOREVER." 10 Now He who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will supply and multiply your seed for sowing and increase the harvest of your righteousness ; 11 you will be enriched in everything for all liberality, which through us is producing thanksgiving to God. 12 For the ministry of this service is not only fully supplying the needs of the saints, but is also overflowing through many thanksgivings to God. 13 Because of the proof given by this ministry, they will glorify God for your obedience to your confession of the gospel of Christ and for the liberality of your contribution to them and to all, 14 while they also, by prayer on your behalf, yearn for you because of the surpassing grace of God in you. 15 Thanks be to God for His indescribable gift ! [[slnc 10000]]