Isaiah 16 - 17, Luke 10, Psalm 44 — Legacy Standard Bible

16^aSend the tribute lamb to the ruler of the land,From ¹^,^bSela by way of the wilderness to the ^cmountain of the daughter of Zion.²Then, like ¹^,^afleeing birds or scattered ²nestlings,The daughters of ^bMoab will be at the fords of the ^cArnon.³“Bring us counsel, make a decision;¹Cast your ^ashadow like night ²at high noon;^bHide those banished, do not reveal the one who flees.⁴“Let the ¹banished 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,^aOppressors have completely disappeared from the land.⁵And a ^athrone will be established in lovingkindness,And a judge will sit on it in truth in the tent of ^bDavid;Moreover, he will seek justiceAnd be prompt in righteousness.⁶^aWe have heard of the pride of Moab, an excessive pride;Even of his lofty pride, pride, and fury;^bHis idle boasts are ¹false.⁷Therefore Moab will wail; everyone of Moab will wail.You will moan for the ^araisin cakes of ^bKir-haresethAs those who are utterly stricken.⁸For the fields of ^aHeshbon have languished, the vines of ^bSibmah as well;The lords of the nations have trampled down its choice clustersWhich reached as far as Jazer and wandered to the deserts;^cIts tendrils spread themselves out and passed over the sea.⁹Therefore I will ^aweep bitterly for Jazer, for the vine of Sibmah;I will drench you with my tears, O ^bHeshbon and Elealeh;For the shouting over your ^csummer fruits and your harvest has fallen away.¹⁰^aGladness and joy are taken away from the fruitful orchard;In the ^bvineyards also there will be no cries of joy or shouts of jubilation,No ^ctreader treads out wine in the presses,For I have made the shouting to cease.¹¹Therefore my ¹^,^ainner being moans like a harp for MoabAnd my ²inward feelings for Kir-hareseth.¹²So it will be when Moab ^aappears,When he ^bwearies himself upon his ^chigh placeAnd comes to his sanctuary to pray,That he will not prevail.

¹³This is the word which Yahweh spoke earlier concerning Moab. ¹⁴But now Yahweh speaks, saying, “Within three years, as ¹^,^aa hired man would count them, the glory of ^bMoab will be dishonored along with all his great population, and his remnant will be very small and not mighty.”

An Oracle Concerning Damascus

17The ¹^,^aoracle concerning ^bDamascus. “Behold, Damascus is about to be ^cremoved from being a cityAnd will become a ^dfallen ruin.

²“The cities ¹of ^aAroer are forsaken;They will be for ^bflocks, and they will lie down in them;And there will be ^cno one to cause them to tremble.³“And the ¹^,^afortified city will cease from Ephraim,And ²sovereignty from DamascusAnd the remnant of Aram;They will be like the ^bglory of the sons of Israel,”Declares Yahweh of hosts.⁴Now it will be in that day, that the ^aglory of Jacob will ¹wane,And ^bthe fatness of his flesh will become lean.⁵And it will be ^aeven like the ¹reaper gathering the standing grain,As his arm harvests the ears of grain,Or it will be like one gleaning ears of grainIn the ^bvalley of Rephaim.⁶Yet ^agleanings will remain in it like the ¹shaking 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.⁷In that day man will ^ahave regard for his MakerAnd his eyes will look to the Holy One of Israel.⁸He will not have regard for the ^aaltars, the work of his hands,Nor will he look to that which his ^bfingers have made,Even the ¹^,^cAsherim and ²incense stands.⁹In that day ¹their strong cities will be like ²forsaken places in the forest,Or like ³branches which they forsook before the sons of Israel;And ⁴the land will be a desolation.¹⁰For ^ayou have forgotten the ^bGod of your salvationAnd have not remembered the ^crock of your strong defense.Therefore you plant delightful plantsAnd set them with vine branches of a strange god.¹¹In the day that you plant it you carefully fence it in,And in the ^amorning you cause your seed to flourish;But the harvest will ^bbe a heapIn a day of sickliness and incurable pain.¹²Alas, the uproar of many peoples^aWho roar like the roaring of the seas,And the rumbling of nationsWho rumble on like the ^brumbling of mighty waters!¹³The ^anations rumble on like the rumbling of many waters,But He will ^brebuke them, and they will flee far away,And be pursued ^clike chaff in the mountains before the wind,Or like whirling dust before a whirlwind.¹⁴At evening time, behold, there is terror!Before morning ^athey are no more.¹Such will be the portion of those who pillage usAnd the lot of those who plunder us.

The Seventy Sent Out

10Now after this ^athe Lord appointed ¹seventy ^bothers, and sent them ^cin pairs ahead of Him to every city and place where He Himself was going to come. ²And He was saying to them, “^aThe 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! ^aBehold, I send you out as lambs in the midst of wolves. ⁴“^aCarry 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 ¹man of peace is there, your peace will rest on him, but if not, it will return to you. ⁷“Stay in ¹that house, eating and drinking ²what they give you; for ^athe laborer is worthy of his wages. Do not keep moving from house to house. ⁸“And whatever city you enter and they receive you, ^aeat what is set before you; ⁹and heal those in it who are sick, and say to them, ‘^aThe 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‘^aEven the dust of your city which clings to our feet we wipe off against you; yet know this, that ^bthe kingdom of God is at hand.’ ¹²“I say to you, ^ait will be more tolerable in that day for ^bSodom than for that city.

¹³“^aWoe to you, ^bChorazin! Woe to you, ^cBethsaida! For if the ¹miracles had been performed in ^dTyre and Sidon which occurred in you, they would have repented long ago, sitting in ²^,^esackcloth and ashes. ¹⁴“But it will be more tolerable for ^aTyre and Sidon in the judgment than for you. ¹⁵“And you, ^aCapernaum, will you be exalted to heaven? You will be brought down to Hades!

¹⁶“^aThe one who listens to you listens to Me, and ^bthe one who rejects you rejects Me. And he who rejects Me rejects the One who sent Me.”

The Joyful Results

¹⁷Now the ¹seventy returned with joy, saying, “Lord, even ^athe demons are subject to us in Your name.” ¹⁸And He said to them, “I was watching ^aSatan fall from heaven like lightning. ¹⁹“Behold, I have given you authority to ^atread 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 ^ayour names are recorded in heaven.”

²¹^aAt that very ¹time He rejoiced greatly in the Holy Spirit, and said, “I ²praise 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“^aAll things have been handed over to Me by My Father, and ^bno 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^aAnd turning to the disciples, He said privately, “Blessed are the eyes which see the things you see, ²⁴for 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^aAnd behold, a ^bscholar of the Law stood up and was putting Him to the test, saying, “Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?” ²⁶And He said to him, “What is written in the Law? How do you read it?” ²⁷And he answered and said, “^aYou shall love the ¹Lord 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.” ²⁸And He said to him, “You have answered correctly; ^ado this and you will live.” ²⁹But wishing ^ato justify himself, he said to Jesus, “And who is my neighbor?” ³⁰Jesus replied and said, “A man was ^agoing down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell among robbers, and they stripped him and ¹beat 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 ^aSamaritan, 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 ¹denarii 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?” ³⁷And he said, “The one who showed mercy toward him.” Then Jesus said to him, “Go and do ¹the same.”

Martha and Mary

³⁸Now as they were traveling along, He entered a village; and a woman named ^aMartha welcomed Him into her home. ³⁹And she had a sister called ^aMary, who was also ^bseated at the Lord’s feet, listening to His word. ⁴⁰But ^aMartha was distracted with ¹all 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 ²preparations alone? Then tell her to help me.” ⁴¹But the Lord answered and said to her, “^aMartha, Martha, you are ^bworried and bothered about so many things, ⁴²^abut only one thing is necessary, for ^bMary has chosen the good part, which shall not be taken away from her.”

Rise Up, Be Our Help

For the choir director. Of the sons of Korah. A ¹Maskil.

O God, we have heard with our ears,Our ^afathers have recounted to usThe ^bwork that You did in their days,In the ^cdays of old.²You with Your own hand ^adispossessed the nations;Then You ^bplanted them;You ^cafflicted the peoples,Then You ^dcast them out.³For by their own sword they ^adid not possess the land,And their own arm did not save them,But Your right hand and Your ^barm and the ^clight of Your presence,For You ^dfavored them.⁴You are ^amy King, O God;^bCommand ¹salvation for Jacob.⁵Through You we will ^apush back our adversaries;Through Your name we will ^btread down those who rise up against us.⁶For I will ^anot trust in my bow,And my sword will not save me.⁷But You ^ahave saved us from our adversaries,And You have ^bput to shame those who hate us.⁸In God we have ^aboasted all day long,And we will ^bgive thanks to Your name forever. ¹ Selah.⁹Yet You ^ahave rejected us and brought us to ^bdishonor,And ^cdo not go out with our armies.¹⁰You cause us to ^aturn back from the adversary;And those who hate us ^bhave plundered us for themselves.¹¹You give us as ^asheep ¹to be eatenAnd have ^bscattered us among the nations.¹²You ^asell Your people ¹for no amount,And You have not ²profited from their price.¹³You make us a ^areproach to our neighbors,A mockery and a ^bderision to those around us.¹⁴You make us ^aa byword among the nations,A ¹^,^blaughingstock among the peoples.¹⁵All day long my dishonor is before meAnd ¹the ^ashame of my face has covered me,¹⁶Because of the voice of him who ^areproaches and reviles,Because of the presence of the ^benemy and the avenger.¹⁷All this has come upon us, but we have ^anot forgotten You,And we have not ^bdealt falsely with Your covenant.¹⁸Our heart has not ^aturned back,Nor have our steps ^bdeviated from Your path,¹⁹Yet You have ^acrushed us in a place of ^bjackalsAnd covered us with ^cthe shadow of death.²⁰If we had ^aforgotten the name of our GodOr spread our ¹hands to ^ba strange god,²¹Would not God ^afind this out?For He knows the secrets of the heart.²²But ^afor Your sake we are killed all day long;We are counted as ^bsheep for the slaughter.²³^aArouse Yourself, why ^bdo You sleep, O Lord?Awake, ^cdo not reject us forever.²⁴Why do You ^ahide Your faceAnd ^bforget our affliction and our oppression?²⁵For our ^asoul has sunk down into the dust;Our ¹body cleaves to the earth.²⁶^aRise up, be our help,And ^bredeem us for the sake of Your lovingkindness.