O. Addison Gethers
e-mail address [email protected] [email protected] twitter URL http//:twitter.com/OAddisonGethers Messenger contact window live/msn messenger: [email protected] aim: durangoadd64 skype: cowboys62 yahoo messenger: OADDISONGETHERS rs ----- Original Message ----- From: "Donnie Parrett" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, July 23, 2009 9:53 PM Subject: Daily Bible Reading For Friday July 24 > Day 205 > > > I am going to start posting at the top of each Daily Bible Reading the > number of the day of the year > that it is. Some of you like to read ahead and some of you get a little > behind and need to catch up > from time to time. Below is the link where you can find the Daily Bible > Reading program. The link > is for The Message Bible. You can change the page to whatever version you > prefer. If any of you > have any questions just let me know. The link is: > > http://www.biblegateway.com/resources/readingplans/comprehensive.php > > > > Isaiah 13-15 (The Message) > > Isaiah 13 > Babylon Is Doomed! > 1 The Message on Babylon. Isaiah son of Amoz saw it: 2-3"Run up a flag on > an open hill. Yell loud. > Get their attention. > Wave them into formation. > Direct them to the nerve center of power. > I've taken charge of my special forces, > called up my crack troops. > They're bursting with pride and passion > to carry out my angry judgment." > 4-5Thunder rolls off the mountains > like a mob huge and noisy- > Thunder of kingdoms in an uproar, > nations assembling for war. > God-of-the-Angel-Armies is calling > his army into battle formation. > They come from far-off countries, > they pour in across the horizon. > It's God on the move with the weapons of his wrath, > ready to destroy the whole country. > > 6-8Wail! God's Day of Judgment is near- > an avalanche crashing down from the Strong God! > Everyone paralyzed in the panic, > hysterical and unstrung, > Doubled up in pain > like a woman giving birth to a baby. > Horrified-everyone they see > is like a face out of a nightmare. > > 9-16"Watch now. God's Judgment Day comes. > Cruel it is, a day of wrath and anger, > A day to waste the earth > and clean out all the sinners. > The stars in the sky, the great parade of constellations, > will be nothing but black holes. > The sun will come up as a black disk, > and the moon a blank nothing. > I'll put a full stop to the evil on earth, > terminate the dark acts of the wicked. > I'll gag all braggarts and boasters-not a peep anymore from them- > and trip strutting tyrants, leave them flat on their faces. > Proud humanity will disappear from the earth. > I'll make mortals rarer than hens' teeth. > And yes, I'll even make the sky shake, > and the earth quake to its roots > Under the wrath of God-of-the-Angel-Armies, > the Judgment Day of his raging anger. > Like a hunted white-tailed deer, > like lost sheep with no shepherd, > People will huddle with a few of their own kind, > run off to some makeshift shelter. > But tough luck to stragglers-they'll be killed on the spot, > throats cut, bellies ripped open, > Babies smashed on the rocks > while mothers and fathers watch, > Houses looted, > wives raped. > > 17-22"And now watch this: > Against Babylon, I'm inciting the Medes, > A ruthless bunch indifferent to bribes, > the kind of brutality that no one can blunt. > They massacre the young, > wantonly kick and kill even babies. > And Babylon, most glorious of all kingdoms, > the pride and joy of Chaldeans, > Will end up smoking and stinking like Sodom, > and, yes, like Gomorrah, when God had finished with them. > No one will live there anymore, > generation after generation a ghost town. > Not even Bedouins will pitch tents there. > Shepherds will give it a wide berth. > But strange and wild animals will like it just fine, > filling the vacant houses with eerie night sounds. > Skunks will make it their home, > and unspeakable night hags will haunt it. > Hyenas will curdle your blood with their laughing, > and the howling of coyotes will give you the shivers. > > "Babylon is doomed. > It won't be long now." > > Isaiah 14 > Now You Are Nothing > 1-2 But not so with Jacob. God will have compassion on Jacob. Once again > he'll choose Israel. He'll > establish them in their own country. Outsiders will be attracted and throw > their lot in with Jacob. > The nations among whom they lived will actually escort them back home, and > then Israel will pay them > back by making slaves of them, men and women alike, possessing them as > slaves in God's country, > capturing those who had captured them, ruling over those who had abused > them. > 3-4When God has given you time to recover from the abuse and trouble and > harsh servitude that you > had to endure, you can amuse yourselves by taking up this satire, a taunt > against the king of > Babylon: > > 4-6Can you believe it? The tyrant is gone! > The tyranny is over! > God has broken the rule of the wicked, > the power of the bully-rulers > That crushed many people. > A relentless rain of cruel outrage > Established a violent rule of anger > rife with torture and persecution. > > 7-10And now it's over, the whole earth quietly at rest. > Burst into song! Make the rafters ring! > Ponderosa pine trees are happy, > giant Lebanon cedars are relieved, saying, > "Since you've been cut down, > there's no one around to cut us down." > And the underworld dead are all excited, > preparing to welcome you when you come. > Getting ready to greet you are the ghostly dead, > all the famous names of earth. > All the buried kings of the nations > will stand up on their thrones > With well-prepared speeches, > royal invitations to death: > "Now you are as nothing as we are! > Make yourselves at home with us dead folks!" > > 11This is where your pomp and fine music led you, Babylon, > to your underworld private chambers, > A king-size mattress of maggots for repose > and a quilt of crawling worms for warmth. > > 12What a comedown this, O Babylon! > Daystar! Son of Dawn! > Flat on your face in the underworld mud, > you, famous for flattening nations! > > 13-14You said to yourself, > "I'll climb to heaven. > I'll set my throne > over the stars of God. > I'll run the assembly of angels > that meets on sacred Mount Zaphon. > I'll climb to the top of the clouds. > I'll take over as King of the Universe!" > > 15-17But you didn't make it, did you? > Instead of climbing up, you came down- > Down with the underground dead, > down to the abyss of the Pit. > People will stare and muse: > "Can this be the one > Who terrorized earth and its kingdoms, > turned earth to a moonscape, > Wasted its cities, > shut up his prisoners to a living death?" > > 18-20Other kings get a decent burial, > honored with eulogies and placed in a tomb. > But you're dumped in a ditch unburied, > like a stray dog or cat, > Covered with rotting bodies, > murdered and indigent corpses. > Your dead body desecrated, mutilated- > no state funeral for you! > You've left your land in ruins, > left a legacy of massacre. > The progeny of your evil life > will never be named. Oblivion! > > 21Get a place ready to slaughter the sons of the wicked > and wipe out their father's line. > Unthinkable that they should own a square foot of land > or desecrate the face of the world with their cities! > > 22-23"I will confront them"-Decree of God-of-the-Angel-Armies-"and strip > Babylon of name and > survivors, children and grandchildren." God's Decree. "I'll make it a > worthless swamp and give it as > a prize to the hedgehog. And then I'll bulldoze it out of existence." > Decree of > God-of-the-Angel-Armies. > > Who Could Ever Cancel Such Plans? > 24-27God-of-the-Angel-Armies speaks: > "Exactly as I planned, > it will happen. > Following my blueprints, > it will take shape. > I will shatter the Assyrian who trespasses my land > and stomp him into the dirt on my mountains. > I will ban his taking and making of slaves > and lift the weight of oppression from all shoulders." > This is the plan, > planned for the whole earth, > And this is the hand that will do it, > reaching into every nation. > God-of-the-Angel-Armies has planned it. > Who could ever cancel such plans? > His is the hand that's reached out. > Who could brush it aside? > > 28-31In the year King Ahaz died, this Message came: > > Hold it, Philistines! It's too soon to celebrate > the defeat of your cruel oppressor. > From the death throes of that snake a worse snake will come, > and from that, one even worse. > The poor won't have to worry. > The needy will escape the terror. > But you Philistines will be plunged into famine, > and those who don't starve, God will kill. > Wail and howl, proud city! > Fall prostrate in fear, Philistia! > On the northern horizon, smoke from burned cities, > the wake of a brutal, disciplined destroyer. > > 32What does one say to > outsiders who ask questions? > Tell them, "God has established Zion. > Those in need and in trouble find refuge in her." > > Isaiah 15 > Poignant Cries Reverberate Through Moab > 1-4 A Message concerning Moab: > Village Ar of Moab is in ruins, > destroyed in a night raid. > Village Kir of Moab is in ruins, > destroyed in a night raid. > Village Dibon climbs to its chapel in the hills, > goes up to lament. > Moab weeps and wails > over Nebo and Medba. > Every head is shaved bald, > every beard shaved clean. > They pour into the streets wearing black, > go up on the roofs, take to the town square, > Everyone in tears, > everyone in grief. > Towns Heshbon and Elealeh cry long and loud. > The sound carries as far as Jahaz. > Moab sobs, shaking in grief. > The soul of Moab trembles. > > 5-9Oh, how I grieve for Moab! > Refugees stream to Zoar > and then on to Eglath-shelishiyah. > Up the slopes of Luhith they weep; > on the road to Horonaim they cry their loss. > The springs of Nimrim are dried up- > grass brown, buds stunted, nothing grows. > They leave, carrying all their possessions > on their backs, everything they own, > Making their way as best they can > across Willow Creek to safety. > Poignant cries reverberate > all through Moab, > Gut-wrenching sobs as far as Eglaim, > heart-racking sobs all the way to Beer-elim. > The banks of the Dibon crest with blood, > but God has worse in store for Dibon: > A lion-a lion to finish off the fugitives, > to clean up whoever's left in the land. > > > > Previous Book:Go to Song of SolomonPrevious Chapter : Go to Isaiah 12Show > ChapterNext Chapter : Go > to Isaiah 16Next Book:Go to JeremiahListen to this passageView commentary > related to this passage > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Go to mobile site > Go to the top of the page > Contact us/Feedback > Gospel.com > Privacy policy > Terms of use > > > > Please join us on Skype Monday thru Friday at 8:00 EST for our Morning > Skype Prayer Time. > > > Contact Me At: > Donnie Parrett > 1956 Asa Flat Road > Annville, Kentucky 40402 > Home Phone: 606-364-3321 > Church Phone: 606-364-PRAY > Skype Name: Donnie1261 > Email: [email protected] > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Deaf-Blind Inspirational Life Group" group. 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