December 22, 2024

Through My Bible Yr 01 – December 22

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Through My Bible Yr 01 – December 22Isaiah 20:1 – 22:14

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Through My Bible – December 22

Isaiah 20:1 – 22:14 (EHV)

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A Prophecy Against Egypt and Cush

Isaiah 20

1 In the year that the field commander [1] sent by Sargon king of Assyria came to Ashdod and attacked and captured it— 2 at that time the Lord delivered a message through Isaiah son of Amoz. The Lord said, “Take off the sackcloth around your waist and remove the sandals from your feet.” Isaiah did this and went naked and barefoot. 3 The Lord said, “Just as my servant Isaiah has gone naked and barefoot for three years as a sign and an omen concerning Egypt and Cush, [2] 4 so the king of Assyria will lead away the captives of Egypt and the exiles of Cush, young and old, naked and barefoot, with bare buttocks, to Egypt’s shame. 5 They will be overwhelmed and ashamed because of Cush, their hope, and Egypt, their source of confidence. 6 On that day those who live on this coast will say, “Look what happened to our hope, to whom we fled for help and deliverance from the king of Assyria! How can we escape?”

The Fall of Babylon

Isaiah 21

1 An oracle about the Wilderness by the Sea.

Like windstorms that sweep through the Negev,

it comes from the wilderness,

from a terrifying place.

2 An ominous vision has been shown to me.

The betrayer betrays; the destroyer destroys.

Elam, attack! Media, lay siege! [3]

I will bring all her groaning to an end.

3 That is why I am full of anguish.

Pain has taken hold of me,

like the pain of a woman in labor.

I am stunned by what I hear,

terrified by what I see.

4 My heart pounds!

I am shaking with fear.

The twilight that I longed for is making me quake with terror.

5 They prepare the table.

They spread out the luxurious carpets.

They eat. They drink.

“Officers! Get up and oil your shields!”

6 Yes, this is what the Lord said to me:

Go, post a watchman.

Have him declare what he sees.

7 When he sees chariots pulled by teams of horses,

riders on donkeys, and riders on camels,

have him listen carefully—very carefully.

8 The lookout [4] cried out:

Lord, [5] I stand on the watchtower day after day,

and every night I stay at my post.

9 Now, look! Here come men in chariots pulled by teams of horses.

Then he announced:

Fallen, fallen is Babylon!

All the images of her gods lie broken on the ground.

10 O my people, you who have been threshed like grain on my threshing floor, everything I have heard from the Lord of Armies, the God of Israel, I have proclaimed to you.

A Prophecy Against Edom

11 The oracle against Dumah. [6]

Someone calls out to me from Seir,

Watchman, how much of the night remains?

12 The watchman said:

Morning is coming, but night is coming again.

If you want to ask, go ahead and ask.

Then return! Come back again.

A Prophecy Against Arabia

13 An oracle against Arabia.

You spend the night among the thickets of Arabia,

you caravans of Dedanites.

14 Bring water for the thirsty,

you who live in Tema.

Bring bread for the refugees.

15 They fled from the sword,

from the drawn sword,

from the bent bow,

and from the heat of battle.

16 This is what the Lord said to me: “Within a year, as a worker bound by contract would count it, all the glory of Kedar will come to an end, 17 and the archers who survive, the strong warriors of Kedar, will be few.” The Lord, the God of Israel, has spoken.

A Prophecy About Jerusalem

Isaiah 22

1 An oracle about the Valley of Vision.

What is troubling you now?

Why have all of you gone up to the rooftops?

2 Why is the town full of shouting?

Why is the joyful city full of turmoil?

Your fallen were not run through with the sword.

Your dead did not fall in battle.

3 All your rulers fled together,

captured by archers without bows.

All your refugees were caught together.

They had fled far away.

4 That is why I said,

“Look away from me.

I will weep bitterly.

Do not try to comfort me over the destruction of the daughter

of my people.” [7]

5 For it is a day of turmoil, trampling, and terror.

This has come from the Lord, the God of Armies,

in the Valley of Vision.

It is a day for breaking down walls

and crying out to the mountains.

6 Elam picks up the quiver, with chariots and charioteers,

and Kir removes the covering from their shields.

7 Your fertile [8] valleys are full of chariots,

and charioteers [9] are posted by the gate.

8 He removed the cover that was protecting Judah.

On that day you looked for the weapons in the House of the Forest.

9 You saw all the breaches through the walls of the City of David—

and there were many.

You collected water from the Lower Pool.

10 You counted the houses of Jerusalem.

You planned to tear them down to strengthen the wall.

11 You built a reservoir between the two walls

for the water from the Old Pool.

But you did not look to the one who had made it.

You did not consider the one who shaped this long ago.

12 On that day the Lord, the God of Armies,

called for weeping and loud mourning.

He called for shaved heads and for dressing in sackcloth.

13 But take a look and see:

joy and gladness,

butchering cattle, killing sheep,

eating meat, and drinking wine.

“Let’s eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.”

14 The Lord of Armies has revealed this in my hearing: “I swear, your guilt will not be atoned for until your dying day, says the Lord, the God of Armies.”

Footnotes

Isaiah 20:1 Literally the Tartan

Isaiah 20:3 That is, the upper Nile region, roughly corresponding to present-day Sudan

Isaiah 21:2 These countries are in present-day Iran.

Isaiah 21:8 The translation follows the Dead Sea Scroll of Isaiah and the Syriac. The Hebrew reads a lion.

Isaiah 21:8 The divine name Adonai

Isaiah 21:11 Dumah is a pun on the name Edom. In Hebrew dumah means silence.

Isaiah 22:4 Or my dear people. The term the daughter of my people is an affectionate way of referring to the people of Israel.

Isaiah 22:7 Or strategic

Isaiah 22:7 Or horsemen

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