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ISAIAH 25

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God Will Swallow Up Death Forever
25:1
O Lord, you are my God;
I will exalt you; I will praise your name,
for you have done wonderful things,
plans formed of old, faithful and sure.
2
For you have made the city a heap,
the fortified city a ruin;
the foreigners’ palace is a city no more;
it will never be rebuilt.
3
Therefore strong peoples will glorify you;
cities of ruthless nations will fear you.
4
For you have been a stronghold to the poor,
a stronghold to the needy in his distress,
a shelter from the storm and a shade from the heat;
for the breath of the ruthless is like a storm against a wall,
5
like heat in a dry place.
You subdue the noise of the foreigners;
as heat by the shade of a cloud,
so the song of the ruthless is put down.

6
On this mountain the Lord of hosts will make for all peoples
a feast of rich food, a feast of well-aged wine,
of rich food full of marrow, of aged wine well refined.
7
And he will swallow up on this mountain
the covering that is cast over all peoples,
the veil that is spread over all nations.
8
He will swallow up death forever;
and the Lord God will wipe away tears from all faces,
and the reproach of his people he will take away from all the earth,
for the Lord has spoken.
9
It will be said on that day,
“Behold, this is our God; we have waited for him, that he might save us.
This is the Lord; we have waited for him;
let us be glad and rejoice in his salvation.”
10
For the hand of the Lord will rest on this mountain,
and Moab shall be trampled down in his place,
as straw is trampled down in a dunghill.
11
And he will spread out his hands in the midst of it
as a swimmer spreads his hands out to swim,
but the Lord will lay low his pompous pride together with the skill of his hands.
12
And the high fortifications of his walls he will bring down,
lay low, and cast to the ground, to the dust.



ISAIAH 26

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You Keep Him in Perfect Peace
  26:1 In that day this song will be sung in the land of Judah:
“We have a strong city;
he sets up salvation
as walls and bulwarks.
2
Open the gates,
that the righteous nation that keeps faith may enter in.
3
You keep him in perfect peace
whose mind is stayed on you,
because he trusts in you.
4
Trust in the Lord forever,
for the Lord God is an everlasting rock.
5
For he has humbled
the inhabitants of the height,
the lofty city.
He lays it low, lays it low to the ground,
casts it to the dust.
6
The foot tramples it,
the feet of the poor,
the steps of the needy.”

7
The path of the righteous is level;
you make level the way of the righteous.
8
In the path of your judgments,
O Lord, we wait for you;
your name and remembrance
are the desire of our soul.
9
My soul yearns for you in the night;
my spirit within me earnestly seeks you.
For when your judgments are in the earth,
the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.
10
If favor is shown to the wicked,
he does not learn righteousness;
in the land of uprightness he deals corruptly
and does not see the majesty of the Lord.
11
O Lord, your hand is lifted up,
but they do not see it.
Let them see your zeal for your people, and be ashamed.
Let the fire for your adversaries consume them.
12
O Lord, you will ordain peace for us,
for you have indeed done for us all our works.
13
O Lord our God,
other lords besides you have ruled over us,
but your name alone we bring to remembrance.
14
They are dead, they will not live;
they are shades, they will not arise;
to that end you have visited them with destruction
and wiped out all remembrance of them.
15
But you have increased the nation, O Lord,
you have increased the nation; you are glorified;
you have enlarged all the borders of the land.

16
O Lord, in distress they sought you;
they poured out a whispered prayer
when your discipline was upon them.
17
Like a pregnant woman
who writhes and cries out in her pangs
when she is near to giving birth,
so were we because of you, O Lord;
18
we were pregnant, we writhed,
but we have given birth to wind.
We have accomplished no deliverance in the earth,
and the inhabitants of the world have not fallen.
19
Your dead shall live; their bodies shall rise.
You who dwell in the dust, awake and sing for joy!
For your dew is a dew of light,
and the earth will give birth to the dead.

20
Come, my people, enter your chambers,
and shut your doors behind you;
hide yourselves for a little while
until the fury has passed by.
21
For behold, the Lord is coming out from his place
to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity,
and the earth will disclose the blood shed on it,
and will no more cover its slain.



PROVERBS 16

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16:1
The plans of the heart belong to man,
but the answer of the tongue is from the Lord.
2
All the ways of a man are pure in his own eyes,
but the Lord weighs the spirit.
3
Commit your work to the Lord,
and your plans will be established.
4
The Lord has made everything for its purpose,
even the wicked for the day of trouble.
5
Everyone who is arrogant in heart is an abomination to the Lord;
be assured, he will not go unpunished.
6
By steadfast love and faithfulness iniquity is atoned for,
and by the fear of the Lord one turns away from evil.
7
When a man’s ways please the Lord,
he makes even his enemies to be at peace with him.
8
Better is a little with righteousness
than great revenues with injustice.
9
The heart of man plans his way,
but the Lord establishes his steps.
10
An oracle is on the lips of a king;
his mouth does not sin in judgment.
11
A just balance and scales are the Lord’s;
all the weights in the bag are his work.
12
It is an abomination to kings to do evil,
for the throne is established by righteousness.
13
Righteous lips are the delight of a king,
and he loves him who speaks what is right.
14
A king’s wrath is a messenger of death,
and a wise man will appease it.
15
In the light of a king’s face there is life,
and his favor is like the clouds that bring the spring rain.
16
How much better to get wisdom than gold!
To get understanding is to be chosen rather than silver.
17
The highway of the upright turns aside from evil;
whoever guards his way preserves his life.
18
Pride goes before destruction,
and a haughty spirit before a fall.
19
It is better to be of a lowly spirit with the poor
than to divide the spoil with the proud.
20
Whoever gives thought to the word will discover good,
and blessed is he who trusts in the Lord.
21
The wise of heart is called discerning,
and sweetness of speech increases persuasiveness.
22
Good sense is a fountain of life to him who has it,
but the instruction of fools is folly.
23
The heart of the wise makes his speech judicious
and adds persuasiveness to his lips.
24
Gracious words are like a honeycomb,
sweetness to the soul and health to the body.
25
There is a way that seems right to a man,
but its end is the way to death.
26
A worker’s appetite works for him;
his mouth urges him on.
27
A worthless man plots evil,
and his speech is like a scorching fire.
28
A dishonest man spreads strife,
and a whisperer separates close friends.
29
A man of violence entices his neighbor
and leads him in a way that is not good.
30
Whoever winks his eyes plans dishonest things;
he who purses his lips brings evil to pass.
31
Gray hair is a crown of glory;
it is gained in a righteous life.
32
Whoever is slow to anger is better than the mighty,
and he who rules his spirit than he who takes a city.
33
The lot is cast into the lap,
but its every decision is from the Lord.



HEBREWS 3

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Jesus Greater Than Moses
  3:1 Therefore, holy brothers, you who share in a heavenly calling, consider Jesus, the apostle and high priest of our confession, 2 who was faithful to him who appointed him, just as Moses also was faithful in all God’s house. 3 For Jesus has been counted worthy of more glory than Moses—as much more glory as the builder of a house has more honor than the house itself. 4 (For every house is built by someone, but the builder of all things is God.) 5 Now Moses was faithful in all God’s house as a servant, to testify to the things that were to be spoken later, 6 but Christ is faithful over God’s house as a son. And we are his house, if indeed we hold fast our confidence and our boasting in our hope. A Rest for the People of God
7 Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says,
“Today, if you hear his voice,
8
do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion,
on the day of testing in the wilderness,
9
where your fathers put me to the test
and saw my works for forty years.
10
Therefore I was provoked with that generation,
and said, ‘They always go astray in their heart;
they have not known my ways.’
11
As I swore in my wrath,
‘They shall not enter my rest.’”
12 Take care, brothers, lest there be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart, leading you to fall away from the living God. 13 But exhort one another every day, as long as it is called “today,” that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin. 14 For we have come to share in Christ, if indeed we hold our original confidence firm to the end. 15 As it is said,
“Today, if you hear his voice,
do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion.”
16 For who were those who heard and yet rebelled? Was it not all those who left Egypt led by Moses? 17 And with whom was he provoked for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness? 18 And to whom did he swear that they would not enter his rest, but to those who were disobedient? 19 So we see that they were unable to enter because of unbelief.

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