Tuesday, March 16, 2027

¹⁹And if ye be willing, and hearken to me, ye shall eat the good of the land: ²⁰but if ye be not willing, nor hearken to me, a sword shall devour you: for the mouth of the Lord has spoken this.

²¹How has the faithful city Sion, once full of judgment, become a harlot! wherein righteousness lodged, but now murderers. ²²Your silver is worthless, thy wine merchants mix the wine with water. ²³Thy princes are rebellious, companions of thieves, loving bribes, seeking after rewards; not pleading for orphans, and not heeding the cause of widows.

²⁴Therefore thus saith the Lord, the Lord of hosts, Woe to the mighty men of Israel; for my wrath shall not cease against mine adversaries, and I will execute judgment on mine enemies. ²⁵And I will bring my hand upon thee, and purge thee completely, and I will destroy the rebellious, and will take away from thee all transgressors. ²⁶And I will establish thy judges as before, and thy counsellors as at the beginning: and afterward thou shalt be called the city of righteousness, the faithful mother-city Sion. ²⁷For her captives shall be saved with judgment, and with mercy. ²⁸And the transgressors and the sinners shall be crushed together, and they that forsake the Lord shall be utterly consumed. ²⁹For they shall be ashamed of their idols, which they delighted in, and they are made ashamed of the gardens which they coveted. ³⁰For they shall be as a turpentine tree that has cast its leaves, and as a garden that has no water. ³¹And their strength shall be as a thread of tow, and their works as sparks, and the transgressors and the sinners shall be burnt up together, and there shall be none to quench them.

¹The word which came to Esaias the son of Amos concerning Judea, and concerning Jerusalem.

²For in the last days the mountain of the Lord shall be glorious, and the house of God shall be on the top of the mountains, and it shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall come to it. ³And many nations shall go and say, Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, and to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will tell us his way, and we will walk in it: for out of Sion shall go forth the law, and the word of the Lord out of Jerusalem.

¹⁴And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth, to divide between day and night, and let them be for signs and for seasons and for days and for years. ¹⁵And let them be for light in the firmament of the heaven, so as to shine upon the earth, and it was so. ¹⁶And God made the two great lights, the greater light for regulating the day and the lesser light for regulating the night, the stars also. ¹⁷And God placed them in the firmament of the heaven, so as to shine upon the earth, ¹⁸and to regulate day and night, and to divide between the light and the darkness. And God saw that it was good. ¹⁹And there was evening and there was morning, the fourth day.

²⁰And God said, Let the waters bring forth reptiles having life, and winged creatures flying above the earth in the firmament of heaven, and it was so. ²¹And God made great whales, and every living reptile, which the waters brought forth according to their kinds, and every creature that flies with wings according to its kind, and God saw that they were good. ²²And God blessed them, saying, Increase and multiply and fill the waters in the seas, and let the creatures that fly be multiplied on the earth. ²³And there was evening and there was morning, the fifth day.

²⁰Wisdom sings aloud in passages, and in the broad places speaks boldly. ²¹And she makes proclamation on the top of the walls, and sits by the gates of princes; and at the gates of the city boldly says, ²²So long as the simple cleave to justice, they shall not be ashamed: but the foolish being lovers of haughtiness, having become ungodly have hated knowledge, and are become subject to reproofs. ²³Behold, I will bring forth to you the utterance of my breath, and I will instruct you in my speech.

²⁴Since I called, and ye did not hearken; and I spoke at length, and ye gave no heed; ²⁵but ye set at nought my counsels, and disregarded my reproofs; ²⁶therefore I also will laugh at your destruction; and I will rejoice against you when ruin comes upon you: ²⁷yea when dismay suddenly comes upon you, and your overthrow shall arrive like a tempest; and when tribulation and distress shall come upon you, or when ruin shall come upon you. ²⁸For it shall be that when ye call upon me, I will not hearken to you: wicked men shall seek me, but shall not find me. ²⁹For they hated wisdom, and did not choose the word of the Lord: ³⁰neither would they attend to my counsels, but derided my reproofs. ³¹Therefore shall they eat the fruits of their own way, and shall be filled with their own ungodliness. ³²For because they wronged the simple, they shall be slain; and an inquisition shall ruin the ungodly. ³³But he that hearkens to me shall dwell in confidence, and shall rest securely from all evil.