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Skriven 2005-07-22 03:43:16 av Bob Hoffman (8:8/2)
Ärende: Bible Reading for July 23
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From: "Bob Hoffman" <bhoffman@fmlynet.org>

CHAPTER 49
Isaiah 49:1
1 Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The LORD hath
called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of
my name.
Isaiah 49:2
2 And he hath made my mouth like a sharp sword; in the shadow of his hand hath
he hid me, and made me a polished shaft; in his quiver hath he hid me; Isaiah
49:3
3 And said unto me, Thou art my servant, O Israel, in whom I will be glorified.
Isaiah 49:4
4 Then I said, I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for nought,
and in vain: yet surely my judgment is with the LORD, and my work with my God.
Isaiah 49:5
5 And now, saith the LORD that formed me from the womb to be his servant, to
bring Jacob again to him, Though Israel be not gathered, yet shall I be
glorious in the eyes of the LORD,  and my God  shall be my strength. Isaiah
49:6
6 And he said, It is a light thing that thou shouldest be my servant to raise
up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel: I will also
give thee for a light to the Gentiles, that thou mayest be my salvation unto
the end  of the earth.
Isaiah 49:7
7 Thus saith the LORD, the Redeemer of Israel, and his Holy One, to him whom
man despiseth, to him whom the nation abhorreth, to a servant of rulers, Kings
shall see  and arise,  princes  also shall worship,  because of the LORD  that
is faithful,  and the Holy One  of Israel,  and he shall choose thee.
Isaiah 49:8
8 Thus saith the LORD, In an acceptable time have I heard thee, and in a day of
salvation have I helped thee: and I will preserve thee, and give thee for a
covenant of the people, to establish  the earth,  to cause to inherit  the
desolate  heritages;
Isaiah 49:9
9 That thou mayest say to the prisoners, Go forth; to them that are in
darkness, Shew yourselves. They shall feed in the ways, and their pastures
shall be in all high places.
Isaiah 49:10
10 They shall not hunger nor thirst; neither shall the heat nor sun smite them:
for he that hath mercy on them shall lead them, even by the springs of water
shall he guide them.
Isaiah 49:11
11 And I will make all my mountains a way, and my highways shall be exalted.
Isaiah 49:12
12 Behold, these shall come from far: and, lo, these from the north and from
the west; and these from the land of Sinim. Isaiah 49:13
13 Sing, O heavens; and be joyful, O earth; and break forth into singing, O
mountains: for the LORD hath comforted his people, and will have mercy upon his
afflicted.
Isaiah 49:14
14 But Zion said, The LORD hath forsaken me, and my Lord hath forgotten me.
Isaiah 49:15
15 Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on
the son of her womb? yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee. Isaiah
49:16
16 Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands; thy walls are
continually before me.
Isaiah 49:17
17 Thy children shall make haste; thy destroyers and they that made thee waste
shall go forth of thee.
Isaiah 49:18
18 Lift up thine eyes round about, and behold: all these gather themselves
together, and come to thee. As I live, saith the LORD, thou shalt surely clothe
thee with them all, as with an ornament, and bind them on thee, as a bride 
doeth.
Isaiah 49:19
19 For thy waste and thy desolate places, and the land of thy destruction,
shall even now be too narrow by reason of the inhabitants, and they that
swallowed thee up shall be far away. Isaiah 49:20
20 The children which thou shalt have, after thou hast lost the other, shall
say again in thine ears, The place is too strait for me: give place to me that
I may dwell.
Isaiah 49:21
21 Then shalt thou say in thine heart, Who hath begotten me these, seeing I
have lost my children, and am desolate, a captive, and removing to and fro? and
who hath brought up these? Behold, I was left alone; these, where had they
been?
Isaiah 49:22
22 Thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I will lift up mine hand to the Gentiles,
and set up my standard to the people: and they shall bring thy sons in their
arms, and thy daughters  shall be carried  upon their shoulders.
Isaiah 49:23
23 And kings shall be thy nursing fathers, and their queens thy nursing
mothers: they shall bow down to thee with their face toward the earth, and lick
up the dust of thy feet; and thou shalt know that I am the LORD: for they shall
not be ashamed  that wait  for me. Isaiah 49:24
24 Shall the prey be taken from the mighty, or the lawful captive delivered?
Isaiah 49:25
25 But thus saith the LORD, Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken
away, and the prey of the terrible shall be delivered: for I will contend with
him that contendeth with thee, and I will save thy children. Isaiah 49:26
26 And I will feed them that oppress thee with their own flesh; and they shall
be drunken with their own blood, as with sweet wine: and all flesh shall know
that I the LORD am thy Saviour and thy Redeemer, the mighty One of Jacob.
CHAPTER 50
Isaiah 50:1
1 Thus saith the LORD, Where is the bill of your mother's divorcement, whom I
have put away? or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Behold,
for your iniquities have ye sold yourselves, and for your transgressions is
your mother put away. Isaiah 50:2
2 Wherefore, when I came, was there no man? when I called, was there none to
answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it cannot redeem? or have I no power
to deliver? behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea,  I make  the rivers a
wilderness:  their fish  stinketh,  because there is no water,  and dieth for
thirst.
Isaiah 50:3
3 I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering.
Isaiah 50:4
4 The Lord GOD hath given me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how
to speak a word in season to him that is weary: he wakeneth morning by morning,
he wakeneth  mine ear  to hear  as the learned. Isaiah 50:5
5 The Lord GOD hath opened mine ear, and I was not rebellious, neither turned
away back.
Isaiah 50:6
6 I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the
hair: I hid not my face from shame and spitting. Isaiah 50:7
7 For the Lord GOD will help me; therefore shall I not be confounded: therefore
have I set my face like a flint, and I know that I shall not be ashamed.
Isaiah 50:8
8 He is near that justifieth me; who will contend with me? let us stand
together: who is mine adversary? let him come near to me. Isaiah 50:9
9 Behold, the Lord GOD will help me; who is he that shall condemn me? lo, they
all shall wax old as a garment; the moth shall eat them up. Isaiah 50:10
10 Who is among you that feareth the LORD, that obeyeth the voice of his
servant, that walketh in darkness, and hath no light? let him trust in the name
of the LORD, and stay upon his God. Isaiah 50:11
11 Behold, all ye that kindle a fire, that compass yourselves about with
sparks: walk in the light of your fire, and in the sparks that ye have kindled.
This shall ye have of mine hand; ye shall lie down in sorrow. CHAPTER 51
Isaiah 51:1
1 Hearken to me, ye that follow after righteousness, ye that seek the LORD:
look unto the rock whence ye are hewn, and to the hole of the pit whence ye are
digged.
Isaiah 51:2
2 Look unto Abraham your father, and unto Sarah that bare you: for I called him
alone, and blessed him, and increased him. Isaiah 51:3
3 For the LORD shall comfort Zion: he will comfort all her waste places; and he
will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the LORD;
joy and gladness  shall be found  therein, thanksgiving,  and the voice  of
melody.
Isaiah 51:4
4 Hearken unto me, my people; and give ear unto me, O my nation: for a law
shall proceed from me, and I will make my judgment to rest for a light of the
people.
Isaiah 51:5
5 My righteousness is near; my salvation is gone forth, and mine arms shall
judge the people; the isles shall wait upon me, and on mine arm shall they
trust.
Isaiah 51:6
6 Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look upon the earth beneath: for the
heavens shall vanish away like smoke, and the earth shall wax old like a
garment, and they that dwell therein shall die  in like  manner:  but my
salvation  shall be for ever,  and my righteousness  shall not be abolished.
Isaiah 51:7
7 Hearken unto me, ye that know righteousness, the people in whose heart is my
law; fear ye not the reproach of men, neither be ye afraid of their revilings.
Isaiah 51:8
8 For the moth shall eat them up like a garment, and the worm shall eat them
like wool: but my righteousness shall be for ever, and my salvation from
generation to generation.
Isaiah 51:9
9 Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the LORD; awake, as in the ancient
days, in the generations of old. Art thou not it that hath cut Rahab,  and
wounded  the dragon?
Isaiah 51:10
10 Art thou not it which hath dried the sea, the waters of the great deep; that
hath made the depths of the sea a way for the ransomed to pass over? Isaiah
51:11
11 Therefore the redeemed of the LORD shall return, and come with singing unto
Zion; and everlasting joy shall be upon their head: they shall obtain gladness
and joy; and sorrow  and mourning  shall flee away. Isaiah 51:12
12 I, even I, am he that comforteth you: who art thou, that thou shouldest be
afraid of a man that shall die, and of the son of man which shall be made as
grass;
Isaiah 51:13
13 And forgettest the LORD thy maker, that hath stretched forth the heavens,
and laid the foundations of the earth; and hast feared continually every day
because of the fury of the oppressor,  as if  he were ready  to destroy? and
where is the fury  of the oppressor? Isaiah 51:14
14 The captive exile hasteneth that he may be loosed, and that he should not
die in the pit, nor that his bread should fail. Isaiah 51:15
15 But I am the LORD thy God, that divided the sea, whose waves roared: The
LORD of hosts is his name.
Isaiah 51:16
16 And I have put my words in thy mouth, and I have covered thee in the shadow
of mine hand, that I may plant the heavens, and lay the foundations of the
earth, and say unto Zion, Thou art my people. Isaiah 51:17
17 Awake, awake, stand up, O Jerusalem, which hast drunk at the hand of the
LORD the cup of his fury; thou hast drunken the dregs of the cup of trembling, 
and wrung them out.
Isaiah 51:18
18 There is none to guide her among all the sons whom she hath brought forth;
neither is there any that taketh her by the hand of all the sons that she hath
brought up.
Isaiah 51:19
19 These two things are come unto thee; who shall be sorry for thee?
desolation, and destruction, and the famine, and the sword: by whom shall I
comfort thee?
Isaiah 51:20
20 Thy sons have fainted, they lie at the head of all the streets, as a wild
bull in a net: they are full of the fury of the LORD, the rebuke of thy God.
Isaiah 51:21
21 Therefore hear now this, thou afflicted, and drunken, but not with wine:
Isaiah 51:22
22 Thus saith thy Lord the LORD, and thy God that pleadeth the cause of his
people, Behold, I have taken out of thine hand the cup of trembling, even the
dregs of the cup of my fury;  thou shalt no more  drink it again: Isaiah 51:23
23 But I will put it into the hand of them that afflict thee; which have said
to thy soul, Bow down, that we may go over: and thou hast laid thy body as the
ground, and as the street, to them that went over.


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