Isaiah 16 - 17 - Legacy Standard Bible

Isaiah 16 - 17

Send the tribute lamb to the ruler of the land,

From Sela by way of the wilderness to the mountain of the daughter of Zion.

Then, like fleeing birds or scattered nestlings,

The daughters of Moab will be at the fords of the Arnon.

“Bring us counsel, make a decision;

Cast your shadow like night at high noon;

Hide those banished, do not reveal the one who flees.

Let the banished of Moab sojourn with you;

Be a hiding place to them from the destroyer.”

For the extortioner has come to an end, destruction has ceased,

Oppressors have completely disappeared from the land.

And a throne will be established in lovingkindness,

And a judge will sit on it in truth in the tent of David;

Moreover, he will seek justice

And be prompt in righteousness.

We have heard of the pride of Moab, an excessive pride;

Even of his lofty pride, pride, and fury;

His idle boasts are false.

Therefore Moab will wail; everyone of Moab will wail.

You will moan for the raisin cakes of Kir‑hareseth

As those who are utterly stricken.

For the fields of Heshbon have languished, the vines of Sibmah as well;

The lords of the nations have trampled down its choice clusters

Which reached as far as Jazer and wandered to the deserts;

Its tendrils spread themselves out and passed over the sea.

Therefore I will weep bitterly for Jazer, for the vine of Sibmah;

I will drench you with my tears, O Heshbon and Elealeh;

For the shouting over your summer fruits and your harvest has fallen away.

Gladness and joy are taken away from the fruitful orchard;

In the vineyards also there will be no cries of joy or shouts of jubilation,

No treader treads out wine in the presses,

For I have made the shouting to cease.

Therefore my inner being moans like a harp for Moab

And my inward feelings for Kir‑hareseth.

So it will be when Moab appears,

When he wearies himself upon his high place

And comes to his sanctuary to pray,

That he will not prevail.

13 This is the word which Yahweh spoke earlier concerning Moab. 14 But now Yahweh speaks, saying, “Within three years, as a hired man would count them, the glory of Moab will be dishonored along with all his great population, and his remnant will be very small and not mighty.”

An Oracle Concerning Damascus

The oracle concerning Damascus.

“Behold, Damascus is about to be removed from being a city

And will become a fallen ruin.

The cities of Aroer are forsaken;

They will be for flocks, and they will lie down in them;

And there will be no one to cause them to tremble.

And the fortified city will cease from Ephraim,

And sovereignty from Damascus

And the remnant of Aram;

They will be like the glory of the sons of Israel,”

Declares Yahweh of hosts.

Now it will be in that day, that the glory of Jacob will wane,

And the fatness of his flesh will become lean.

And it will be even like the reaper gathering the standing grain,

As his arm harvests the ears of grain,

Or it will be like one gleaning ears of grain

In the valley of Rephaim.

Yet gleanings will remain in it like the shaking of an olive tree,

Two or three olives on the topmost branch,

Four or five on the twigs of a fruitful tree,

Declares Yahweh, the God of Israel.

In that day man will have regard for his Maker

And his eyes will look to the Holy One of Israel.

He will not have regard for the altars, the work of his hands,

Nor will he look to that which his fingers have made,

Even the Asherim and incense stands.

In that day their strong cities will be like forsaken places in the forest,

Or like branches which they forsook before the sons of Israel;

And the land will be a desolation.

For you have forgotten the God of your salvation

And have not remembered the rock of your strong defense.

Therefore you plant delightful plants

And set them with vine branches of a strange god.

In the day that you plant it you carefully fence it in,

And in the morning you cause your seed to flourish;

But the harvest will be a heap

In a day of sickliness and incurable pain.

Alas, the uproar of many peoples

Who roar like the roaring of the seas,

And the rumbling of nations

Who rumble on like the rumbling of mighty waters!

The nations rumble on like the rumbling of many waters,

But He will rebuke them, and they will flee far away,

And be pursued like chaff in the mountains before the wind,

Or like whirling dust before a whirlwind.

At evening time, behold, there is terror!

Before morning they are no more.

Such will be the portion of those who pillage us

And the lot of those who plunder us.

Luke 10

The Seventy Sent Out

Now after this the Lord appointed seventy others, and sent them in pairs ahead of Him to every city and place where He Himself was going to come. 2 And He was saying to them, “The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few; therefore pray earnestly to the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into His harvest. 3 Go! Behold, I send you out as lambs in the midst of wolves. 4 Carry no money belt, no bag, no sandals, and greet no one on the way. 5 Whatever house you enter, first say, ‘Peace be to this house.’ 6 And if a man of peace is there, your peace will rest on him, but if not, it will return to you. 7 Stay in that house, eating and drinking what they give you; for the laborer is worthy of his wages. Do not keep moving from house to house. 8 And whatever city you enter and they receive you, eat what is set before you; 9 and heal those in it who are sick, and say to them, ‘The kingdom of God has come near to you.’ 10 But in whatever city you enter and they do not receive you, go out into its streets and say, 11 ‘Even the dust of your city which clings to our feet we wipe off against you; yet know this, that the kingdom of God is at hand.’ 12 I say to you, it will be more tolerable in that day for Sodom than for that city. 13 “Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the miracles had been performed in Tyre and Sidon which occurred in you, they would have repented long ago, sitting in sackcloth and ashes. 14 But it will be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon in the judgment than for you. 15 And you, Capernaum, will you be exalted to heaven? You will be brought down to Hades! 16 “The one who listens to you listens to Me, and the one who rejects you rejects Me. And he who rejects Me rejects the One who sent Me.”

The Joyful Results

17 Now the seventy returned with joy, saying, “Lord, even the demons are subject to us in Your name.” 18 And He said to them, “I was watching Satan fall from heaven like lightning. 19 Behold, I have given you authority to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing will injure you. 20 Nevertheless do not rejoice in this, that the spirits are subject to you, but rejoice that your names are recorded in heaven.” 21 At that very time He rejoiced greatly in the Holy Spirit, and said, “I praise You, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that You have hidden these things from the wise and intelligent and have revealed them to infants. Yes, Father, for this way was well-pleasing in Your sight. 22 All things have been handed over to Me by My Father, and no one knows who the Son is except the Father, and who the Father is except the Son, and anyone to whom the Son wills to reveal Him.” 23 And turning to the disciples, He said privately, “Blessed are the eyes which see the things you see, 24 for I say to you, that many prophets and kings wished to see the things which you see, and did not see them, and to hear the things which you hear, and did not hear them.”

The Good Samaritan

25 And behold, a scholar of the Law stood up and was putting Him to the test, saying, “Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?” 26 And He said to him, “What is written in the Law? How do you read it?” 27 And he answered and said, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself.” 28 And He said to him, “You have answered correctly; do this and you will live.” 29 But wishing to justify himself, he said to Jesus, “And who is my neighbor?” 30 Jesus replied and said, “A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell among robbers, and they stripped him and beat him, and went away leaving him half dead. 31 And a priest happened to be going down on that road, and when he saw him, he passed by on the other side. 32 Likewise a Levite also, when he came to the place and saw him, passed by on the other side. 33 But a Samaritan, who was on a journey, came upon him, and when he saw him, he felt compassion. 34 And he came to him and bandaged up his wounds, pouring oil and wine on them, and he put him on his own animal, and brought him to an inn and took care of him. 35 And on the next day he took out two denarii and gave them to the innkeeper and said, ‘Take care of him, and whatever more you spend, when I return I will repay you.’ 36 Which of these three do you think proved to be a neighbor to the man who fell into the robbers’ hands?” 37 And he said, “The one who showed mercy toward him.” Then Jesus said to him, “Go and do the same.”

Martha and Mary

38 Now as they were traveling along, He entered a village; and a woman named Martha welcomed Him into her home. 39 And she had a sister called Mary, who was also seated at the Lord’s feet, listening to His word. 40 But Martha was distracted with all her preparations; and she came up to Him and said, “Lord, do You not care that my sister has left me to do all the preparations alone? Then tell her to help me.” 41 But the Lord answered and said to her, “Martha, Martha, you are worried and bothered about so many things, 42 but only one thing is necessary, for Mary has chosen the good part, which shall not be taken away from her.”

Psalm 44

Rise Up, Be Our Help

For the choir director. Of the sons of Korah. A Maskil.

O God, we have heard with our ears,

Our fathers have recounted to us

The work that You did in their days,

In the days of old.

You with Your own hand dispossessed the nations;

Then You planted them;

You afflicted the peoples,

Then You cast them out.

For by their own sword they did not possess the land,

And their own arm did not save them,

But Your right hand and Your arm and the light of Your presence,

For You favored them.

You are my King, O God;

Command salvation for Jacob.

Through You we will push back our adversaries;

Through Your name we will tread down those who rise up against us.

For I will not trust in my bow,

And my sword will not save me.

But You have saved us from our adversaries,

And You have put to shame those who hate us.

In God we have boasted all day long,

And we will give thanks to Your name forever. Selah.

Yet You have rejected us and brought us to dishonor,

And do not go out with our armies.

You cause us to turn back from the adversary;

And those who hate us have plundered us for themselves.

You give us as sheep to be eaten

And have scattered us among the nations.

You sell Your people for no amount,

And You have not profited from their price.

You make us a reproach to our neighbors,

A mockery and a derision to those around us.

You make us a byword among the nations,

A laughingstock among the peoples.

All day long my dishonor is before me

And the shame of my face has covered me,

Because of the voice of him who reproaches and reviles,

Because of the presence of the enemy and the avenger.

All this has come upon us, but we have not forgotten You,

And we have not dealt falsely with Your covenant.

Our heart has not turned back,

Nor have our steps deviated from Your path,

Yet You have crushed us in a place of jackals

And covered us with the shadow of death.

If we had forgotten the name of our God

Or spread our hands to a strange god,

Would not God find this out?

For He knows the secrets of the heart.

But for Your sake we are killed all day long;

We are counted as sheep for the slaughter.

Arouse Yourself, why do You sleep, O Lord?

Awake, do not reject us forever.

Why do You hide Your face

And forget our affliction and our oppression?

For our soul has sunk down into the dust;

Our body cleaves to the earth.

Rise up, be our help,

And redeem us for the sake of Your lovingkindness.