Isaiah 3Isaiah 4Isaiah 5Hebrews 4.1-13Isaiah 3
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For the Lord, the Lord of armies, is about to take away from Jerusalem and from Judah all their support their store of bread and of water
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The strong man and the man of war the judge and the prophet the man who has knowledge of secret arts, and the man who is wise because of his years
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The captain of fifty, and the man of high position, and the wise guide, and the wonder-worker, and he who makes use of secret powers.
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And I will make children their chiefs, and foolish ones will have rule over them.
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And the people will be crushed, every one by his neighbour the young will be full of pride against the old, and those of low position will be lifted up against the noble.
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When one man puts his hand on another in his father's house, and says, You have clothing, be our ruler and be responsible for us in our sad condition:
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Then he will say with an oath, I will not be a helper, for in my house there is no bread or clothing: I will not let you make me a ruler of the people.
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For Jerusalem has become feeble, and destruction has come on Judah, because their words and their acts are against the Lord, moving the eyes of his glory to wrath.
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Their respect for a man's position is a witness against them and their sin is open to the view of all like that of Sodom, it is not covered. A curse on their soul! for the measure of their sin is full.
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Happy is the upright man! for he will have joy of the fruit of his ways.
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Unhappy is the sinner! for the reward of his evil doings will come on him.
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As for my people, their ruler is acting like a child, and those who have authority over them are women. O my people, your guides are the cause of your wandering, turning your footsteps out of the right way.
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The Lord is ready to take up his cause against his people, and is about to come forward as their judge.
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The Lord comes to be the judge of their responsible men and of their rulers: it is you who have made waste the vine-garden, and in your houses is the property of the poor which you have taken by force.
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By what right are you crushing my people, and putting a bitter yoke on the necks of the poor? This is the word of the Lord, the Lord of armies.
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Again, the Lord has said, Because the daughters of Zion are full of pride, and go with outstretched necks and wandering eyes, with their foot-chains sounding when they go:
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The Lord will send disease on the heads of the daughters of Zion, and the Lord will let their secret parts be seen.
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In that day the Lord will take away the glory of their foot-rings, and their sun-jewels, and their moon-ornaments,
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The ear-rings, and the chains, and the delicate clothing,
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The head-bands, and the arm-chains, and the worked bands, and the perfume-boxes, and the jewels with secret powers,
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The rings, and the nose-jewels,
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The feast-day dresses, and the robes, and the wide skirts, and the handbags,
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The looking-glasses, and the fair linen, and the high head-dresses, and the veils.
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And in the place of sweet spices will be an evil smell, and for a fair band a thick cord for a well-dressed head there will be the cutting-off of the hair, and for a beautiful robe there will be the clothing of sorrow the mark of the prisoner in place of the ornaments of the free.
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Your men will be put to the sword, and your men of war will come to destruction in the fight.
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And in the public places of her towns will be sorrow and weeping and she will be seated on the earth, waste and uncovered.
Isaiah 4
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And in that day seven women will put their hands on one man, saying, There will be no need for you to give us food or clothing, only let us go under your name, so that our shame may be taken away.
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In that day will the young growth of the Lord be beautiful in glory, and the fruit of the earth will be the pride of those who are still living in Israel.
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And it will come about that the rest of the living in Zion, and of those who have been kept from destruction in Jerusalem, will be named holy, even everyone who has been recorded for life in Jerusalem:
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When Zion has been washed from her sin by the Lord, and Jerusalem made clean from her blood by a judging and a burning wind.
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And over every living-place on Mount Zion, all over all her meetings, the Lord will make a cloud and smoke by day, and the shining of a flaming fire by night, for over all, the glory of the Lord will be a cover and a tent
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And a shade in the daytime from the heat, and a safe cover from storm and from rain.
Isaiah 5
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Let me make a song about my loved one, a song of love for his vine-garden. My loved one had a vine-garden on a fertile hill:
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And after working the earth of it with a spade, he took away its stones, and put in it a very special vine and he put up a watchtower in the middle of it, hollowing out in the rock a place for the grape-crushing and he was hoping that it would give the best grapes, but it gave common grapes.
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And now, you people of Jerusalem and you men of Judah, be the judges between me and my vine-garden.
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Is there anything which might have been done for my vine-garden which I have not done? why then, when I was hoping for the best grapes did it give me common grapes?
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And now, this is what I will do to my vine-garden: I will take away the circle of thorns round it, and it will be burned up its wall will be broken down and the beasts of the field will go through it
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And I will make it waste its branches will not be touched with the knife, or the earth worked with the spade but blackberries and thorns will come up in it: and I will give orders to the clouds not to send rain on it.
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For the vine-garden of the Lord of armies is the people of Israel, and the men of Judah are the plant of his delight: and he was looking for upright judging, and there was blood for righteousness, and there was a cry for help.
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Cursed are those who are joining house to house, and putting field to field, till there is no more living-space for any but themselves in all the land!
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The Lord of armies has said to me secretly, Truly, numbers of great and fair houses will be waste, with no one living in them.
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For ten fields of vines will only give one measure of wine, and a great amount of seed will only give a small measure of grain.
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Cursed are those who get up early in the morning to give themselves up to strong drink who keep on drinking far into the night till they are heated with wine!
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And corded instruments and wind-instruments and wine are in their feasts: but they give no thought to the work of the Lord, and they are not interested in what his hands are doing.
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For this cause my people are taken away as prisoners into strange countries for need of knowledge: and their rulers are wasted for need of food, and their loud-voiced feasters are dry for need of water.
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For this cause the underworld has made wide its throat, opening its mouth without limit: and her glory, and the noise of her masses, and her loud-voiced feasters, will go down into it.
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And the poor man's head is bent, and the great man goes down on his face, and the eyes of pride are put to shame:
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But the Lord of armies is lifted up as judge, and the Holy God is seen to be holy in righteousness.
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Then the lambs will get food as in their grass-lands, and the fat cattle will be feasting in the waste places.
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Cursed are those who make use of ox-cords for pulling the evil thing, and the bands of a young ox for their sin!
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Who say, Let him do his work quickly, let him make it sudden, so that we may see it: let the design of the Holy One of Israel come near, so that it may be clear to us.
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Cursed are those who give the name of good to evil, and of evil to what is good: who make light dark, and dark light: who make bitter sweet, and sweet bitter!
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Cursed are those who seem wise to themselves, and who take pride in their knowledge!
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Cursed are those who are strong to take wine, and great in making mixed drinks!
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Who for a reward give support to the cause of the sinner, and who take away the righteousness of the upright from him.
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For this cause, as the waste of the grain is burned up by tongues of fire, and as the dry grass goes down before the flame, so their root will be like the dry stems of grain, and their flower will go up in dust: because they have gone against the law of the Lord of armies, and have given no honour to the word of the Holy One of Israel.
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For this reason the wrath of the Lord has been burning against his people, and his hand has been stretched out against them in punishment, and the hills were shaking, and their dead bodies were like waste in the open places of the town.
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And he will let a flag be lifted up as a sign to a far-off nation, whistling to them from the ends of the earth: and they will come quickly and suddenly.
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There is no weariness among them, and no man is feeble-footed: they come without resting or sleeping, and the cord of their shoes is not broken.
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Their arrows are sharp, and every bow is bent: the feet of their horses are like rock, and their wheels are like a rushing storm.
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The sound of their armies will be like the voice of a lion, and their war-cry like the noise of young lions: with loud cries they will come down on their food and will take it away safely, and there will be no one to take it out of their hands.
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And his voice will be loud over him in that day like the sounding of the sea: and if a man's eyes are turned to the earth, it is all dark and full of trouble and the light is made dark by thick clouds.
Hebrews 4
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Let us then, though we still have God's word that we may come into his rest, go in fear that some of you may be unable to do so.
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And, truly, the good news came to us, even as it did to them but the hearing of the word did them no good, because they were not united in faith with the true hearers.
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For those of us who have belief come into his rest even as he has said, As I said in my oath when I was angry, They may not come into my rest: though the works were done from the time of the making of the world.
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For in one place he has said of the seventh day, And God had rest from all his works on the seventh day
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And in the same place he says again, They will not come into my rest.
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So that as it is clear that some have to go in, and that the first hearers of the good news were not able to go in because they went against God's orders,
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After a long time, again naming a certain day, he says in David, Today (as he had said before), Today if you will let his voice come to your ears, be not hard of heart,
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For if Joshua had given them rest, he would not have said anything about another day.
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So that there is still a Sabbath-keeping for the people of God.
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For the man who comes into his rest has had rest from his works, as God did from his.
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Because of this, let us have a strong desire to come into that rest, and let no one go after the example of those who went against God's orders.
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For the word of God is living and full of power, and is sharper than any two-edged sword, cutting through and making a division even of the soul and the spirit, the bones and the muscles, and quick to see the thoughts and purposes of the heart.
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And there is nothing made which is not completely clear to him there is nothing covered, but all things are open to the eyes of him with whom we have to do.
