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Ärende: Bible Reading for July 20
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From: "Bob Hoffman" <bhoffman@fmlynet.org>

CHAPTER 40
Isaiah 40:1
1 Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God. Isaiah 40:2
2 Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her warfare is
accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned: for she hath received of the
LORD'S hand double for all her sins. Isaiah 40:3
3 The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the
LORD, make straight in the desert a highway for our God. Isaiah 40:4
4 Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low:
and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plain: Isaiah 40:5
5 And the glory of the LORD shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it
together: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it. Isaiah 40:6
6 The voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and
all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field: Isaiah 40:7
7 The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: because the spirit of the LORD
bloweth upon it: surely the people is grass. Isaiah 40:8
8 The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand
for ever.
Isaiah 40:9
9 O Zion, that bringest good tidings, get thee up into the high mountain; O
Jerusalem, that bringest good tidings, lift up thy voice with strength; lift it
up, be not afraid; say  unto the cities  of Judah,  Behold your God! Isaiah
40:10
10 Behold, the Lord GOD will come with strong hand, and his arm shall rule for
him: behold, his reward is with him, and his work before him. Isaiah 40:11
11 He shall feed his flock like a shepherd: he shall gather the lambs with his
arm, and carry them in his bosom, and shall gently lead those that are with
young.
Isaiah 40:12
12 Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven
with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed
the mountains in scales,  and the hills  in a balance? Isaiah 40:13
13 Who hath directed the Spirit of the LORD, or being his counsellor hath
taught him?
Isaiah 40:14
14 With whom took he counsel, and who instructed him, and taught him in the
path of judgment, and taught him knowledge, and shewed to him the way of
understanding?
Isaiah 40:15
15 Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small
dust of the balance: behold, he taketh up the isles as a very little thing.
Isaiah 40:16
16 And Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, nor the beasts thereof sufficient for
a burnt offering.
Isaiah 40:17
17 All nations before him are as nothing; and they are counted to him less than
nothing, and vanity.
Isaiah 40:18
18 To whom then will ye liken God? or what likeness will ye compare unto him?
Isaiah 40:19
19 The workman melteth a graven image, and the goldsmith spreadeth it over with
gold, and casteth silver chains. Isaiah 40:20
20 He that is so impoverished that he hath no oblation chooseth a tree that
will not rot; he seeketh unto him a cunning workman to prepare a graven image,
that shall not be moved.
Isaiah 40:21
21 Have ye not known? have ye not heard? hath it not been told you from the
beginning? have ye not understood from the foundations of the earth? Isaiah
40:22
22 It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants
thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and
spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in: Isaiah 40:23
23 That bringeth the princes to nothing; he maketh the judges of the earth as
vanity.
Isaiah 40:24
24 Yea, they shall not be planted; yea, they shall not be sown: yea, their
stock shall not take root in the earth: and he shall also blow upon them, and
they shall wither, and the whirlwind shall take them away as stubble. Isaiah
40:25
25 To whom then will ye liken me, or shall I be equal? saith the Holy One.
Isaiah 40:26
26 Lift up your eyes on high, and behold who hath created these things, that
bringeth out their host by number: he calleth them all by names by the
greatness of his might, for that he is strong  in power;  not one  faileth.
Isaiah 40:27
27 Why sayest thou, O Jacob, and speakest, O Israel, My way is hid from the
LORD, and my judgment is passed over from my God? Isaiah 40:28
28 Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the
LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary?
there is no searching of his understanding. Isaiah 40:29
29 He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth
strength.
Isaiah 40:30
30 Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly
fall:
Isaiah 40:31
31 But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall
mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall
walk, and not faint.
CHAPTER 41
Isaiah 41:1
1 Keep silence before me, O islands; and let the people renew their strength:
let them come near; then let them speak: let us come near together to judgment.
Isaiah 41:2
2 Who raised up the righteous man from the east, called him to his foot, gave
the nations before him, and made him rule over kings? he gave them as the dust 
to his sword,  and as driven  stubble  to his bow. Isaiah 41:3
3 He pursued them, and passed safely; even by the way that he had not gone with
his feet.
Isaiah 41:4
4 Who hath wrought and done it, calling the generations from the beginning? I
the LORD, the first, and with the last; I am he. Isaiah 41:5
5 The isles saw it, and feared; the ends of the earth were afraid, drew near,
and came.
Isaiah 41:6
6 They helped every one his neighbour; and every one said to his brother, Be of
good courage.
Isaiah 41:7
7 So the carpenter encouraged the goldsmith, and he that smootheth with the
hammer him that smote the anvil, saying, It is ready for the sodering: and he
fastened it with nails,  that it should not be moved. Isaiah 41:8
8 But thou, Israel, art my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the seed of
Abraham my friend.
Isaiah 41:9
9 Thou whom I have taken from the ends of the earth, and called thee from the
chief men thereof, and said unto thee, Thou art my servant; I have chosen thee,
and not cast thee away. Isaiah 41:10
10 Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will
strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right
hand of my righteousness. Isaiah 41:11
11 Behold, all they that were incensed against thee shall be ashamed and
confounded: they shall be as nothing; and they that strive with thee shall
perish.
Isaiah 41:12
12 Thou shalt seek them, and shalt not find them, even them that contended with
thee: they that war against thee shall be as nothing, and as a thing of nought.
Isaiah 41:13
13 For I the LORD thy God will hold thy right hand, saying unto thee, Fear not;
I will help thee.
Isaiah 41:14
14 Fear not, thou worm Jacob, and ye men of Israel; I will help thee, saith the
LORD, and thy redeemer, the Holy One of Israel. Isaiah 41:15
15 Behold, I will make thee a new sharp threshing instrument having teeth: thou
shalt thresh the mountains, and beat them small, and shalt make the hills as
chaff.
Isaiah 41:16
16 Thou shalt fan them, and the wind shall carry them away, and the whirlwind
shall scatter them: and thou shalt rejoice in the LORD, and shalt glory in the
Holy One of Israel.
Isaiah 41:17
17 When the poor and needy seek water, and there is none, and their tongue
faileth for thirst, I the LORD will hear them, I the God of Israel will not
forsake  them.
Isaiah 41:18
18 I will open rivers in high places, and fountains in the midst of the
valleys: I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs 
of water.
Isaiah 41:19
19 I will plant in the wilderness the cedar, the shittah tree, and the myrtle,
and the oil tree; I will set in the desert the fir tree, and the pine, and the
box tree together:
Isaiah 41:20
20 That they may see, and know, and consider, and understand together, that the
hand of the LORD hath done this, and the Holy One of Israel hath created it.
Isaiah 41:21
21 Produce your cause, saith the LORD; bring forth your strong reasons, saith
the King of Jacob.
Isaiah 41:22
22 Let them bring them forth, and shew us what shall happen: let them shew the
former things, what they be, that we may consider them, and know the latter end
of them; or declare us things for to come. Isaiah 41:23
23 Shew the things that are to come hereafter, that we may know that ye are
gods: yea, do good, or do evil, that we may be dismayed, and behold it
together.
Isaiah 41:24
24 Behold, ye are of nothing, and your work of nought: an abomination is he
that chooseth you.
Isaiah 41:25
25 I have raised up one from the north, and he shall come: from the rising of
the sun shall he call upon my name: and he shall come upon princes as upon
morter, and as the potter treadeth clay. Isaiah 41:26
26 Who hath declared from the beginning, that we may know? and beforetime, that
we may say, He is righteous? yea, there is none that sheweth, yea, there is
none that declareth, yea, there is none that heareth your words. Isaiah 41:27
27 The first shall say to Zion, Behold, behold them: and I will give to
Jerusalem one that bringeth good tidings. Isaiah 41:28
28 For I beheld, and there was no man; even among them, and there was no
counsellor, that, when I asked of them, could answer a word. Isaiah 41:29
29 Behold, they are all vanity; their works are nothing: their molten images
are wind and confusion.
CHAPTER 42
Isaiah 42:1
1 Behold my servant, whom I uphold; mine elect, in whom my soul delighteth; I
have put my spirit upon him: he shall bring forth judgment to the Gentiles.
Isaiah 42:2
2 He shall not cry, nor lift up, nor cause his voice to be heard in the street.
Isaiah 42:3
3 A bruised reed shall he not break, and the smoking flax shall he not quench:
he shall bring forth judgment unto truth. Isaiah 42:4
4 He shall not fail nor be discouraged, till he have set judgment in the earth:
and the isles shall wait for his law. Isaiah 42:5
5 Thus saith God the LORD, he that created the heavens, and stretched them out;
he that spread forth the earth, and that which cometh out of it; he that giveth
breath unto the people upon it, and spirit  to them that walk therein:
Isaiah 42:6
6 I the LORD have called thee in righteousness, and will hold thine hand, and
will keep thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, for a light of the
Gentiles;
Isaiah 42:7
7 To open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the prison, and them
that sit in darkness out of the prison house. Isaiah 42:8
8 I am the LORD: that is my name: and my glory will I not give to another,
neither my praise to graven images. Isaiah 42:9
9 Behold, the former things are come to pass, and new things do I declare:
before they spring forth I tell you of them. Isaiah 42:10
10 Sing unto the LORD a new song, and his praise from the end of the earth, ye
that go down to the sea, and all that is therein; the isles, and the
inhabitants thereof.
Isaiah 42:11
11 Let the wilderness and the cities thereof lift up their voice, the villages
that Kedar doth inhabit: let the inhabitants of the rock sing, let them shout
from the top of the mountains. Isaiah 42:12
12 Let them give glory unto the LORD, and declare his praise in the islands.
Isaiah 42:13
13 The LORD shall go forth as a mighty man, he shall stir up jealousy like a
man of war: he shall cry, yea, roar; he shall prevail against his enemies.
Isaiah 42:14
14 I have long time holden my peace; I have been still, and refrained myself:
now will I cry like a travailing woman; I will destroy and devour at once.
Isaiah 42:15
15 I will make waste mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbs; and I
will make the rivers islands, and I will dry up the pools. Isaiah 42:16
16 And I will bring the blind by a way that they knew not; I will lead them in
paths that they have not known: I will make darkness light before them, and
crooked things straight.  These things  will I do  unto them, and not forsake 
them.
Isaiah 42:17
17 They shall be turned back, they shall be greatly ashamed, that trust in
graven images, that say to the molten images, Ye are our gods. Isaiah 42:18
18 Hear, ye deaf; and look, ye blind, that ye may see. Isaiah 42:19
19 Who is blind, but my servant? or deaf, as my messenger that I sent? who is
blind as he that is perfect, and blind as the LORD'S servant? Isaiah 42:20
20 Seeing many things, but thou observest not; opening the ears, but he heareth
not.
Isaiah 42:21
21 The LORD is well pleased for his righteousness' sake; he will magnify the
law, and make it honourable.
Isaiah 42:22
22 But this is a people robbed and spoiled; they are all of them snared in
holes, and they are hid in prison houses: they are for a prey, and none
delivereth; for a spoil, and none saith, Restore. Isaiah 42:23
23 Who among you will give ear to this? who will hearken and hear for the time
to come?
Isaiah 42:24
24 Who gave Jacob for a spoil, and Israel to the robbers? did not the LORD, he
against whom we have sinned? for they would not walk in his ways, neither were
they obedient unto his law.
Isaiah 42:25
25 Therefore he hath poured upon him the fury of his anger, and the strength of
battle: and it hath set him on fire round about, yet he knew not; and it burned
him, yet he laid it not to heart.


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