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Daily Readings for December 11
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Job 13
1."Behold, my eye has seen all this. My ear has heard and understood it. 2.What you know, I know also. I am not inferior to you.
3."Surely I would speak to the Almighty. I desire to reason with God. 4.But you are forgers of lies. You are all physicians of no value. 5.Oh that you would be completely silent! Then you would be wise. 6.Hear now my reasoning. Listen to the pleadings of my lips. 7.Will you speak unrighteously for God, and talk deceitfully for him? 8.Will you show partiality to him? Will you contend for God? 9.Is it good that he should search you out? Or as one deceives a man, will you deceive him? 10.He will surely reprove you if you secretly show partiality. 11.Shall not his majesty make you afraid, And his dread fall on you? 12.Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes, Your defenses are defenses of clay.
13."Be silent, leave me alone, that I may speak. Let come on me what will. 14.Why should I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in my hand? 15.Behold, he will kill me. I have no hope. Nevertheless, I will maintain my ways before him. 16.This also shall be my salvation, that a godless man shall not come before him. 17.Hear diligently my speech. Let my declaration be in your ears. 18.See now, I have set my cause in order. I know that I am righteous. 19.Who is he who will contend with me? For then would I hold my peace and give up the spirit.
20."Only don't do two things to me; then I will not hide myself from your face: 21.withdraw your hand far from me; and don't let your terror make me afraid. 22.Then call, and I will answer; or let me speak, and you answer me. 23.How many are my iniquities and sins? Make me know my disobedience and my sin. 24.Why hide you your face, and hold me for your enemy? 25.Will you harass a driven leaf? Will you pursue the dry stubble? 26.For you write bitter things against me, and make me inherit the iniquities of my youth: 27.You also put my feet in the stocks, and mark all my paths. You set a bound to the soles of my feet, 28.though I am decaying like a rotten thing, like a garment that is moth-eaten.
Nahum 3
1.Woe to the bloody city! It is all full of lies and robbery. The prey doesn't depart. 2.The noise of the whip, the noise of the rattling of wheels, prancing horses, and bounding chariots, 3.the horseman mounting, and the flashing sword, the glittering spear, and a multitude of slain, and a great heap of corpses, and there is no end of the bodies. They stumble on their bodies, 4.because of the multitude of the prostitution of the alluring prostitute, the mistress of witchcraft, who sells nations through her prostitution, and families through her witchcraft. 5."Behold, I am against you," says Yahweh of Armies, "and I will lift your skirts over your face. I will show the nations your nakedness, and the kingdoms your shame. 6.I will throw abominable filth on you, and make you vile, and will set you a spectacle. 7.It will happen that all those who look at you will flee from you, and say, 'Nineveh is laid waste! Who will mourn for her?' Where will I seek comforters for you?"
8.Are you better than No-Amon,3 who was situated among the rivers, who had the waters around her; whose rampart was the sea, and her wall was of the sea? 9.Cush and Egypt were her boundless strength. Put and Libya were her helpers. 10.Yet was she carried away. She went into captivity. Her young children also were dashed in pieces at the head of all the streets, and they cast lots for her honorable men, and all her great men were bound in chains. 11.You also will be drunken. You will be hidden. You also will seek a stronghold because of the enemy. 12.All your fortresses will be like fig trees with the first-ripe figs: if they are shaken, they fall into the mouth of the eater. 13.Behold, your troops in your midst are women. The gates of your land are set wide open to your enemies. The fire has devoured your bars. 14.Draw water for the siege. Strengthen your fortresses. Go into the clay, and tread the mortar. Make the brick kiln strong. 15.There the fire will devour you. The sword will cut you off. It will devour you like the grasshopper. Multiply like grasshoppers. Multiply like the locust. 16.You have increased your merchants more than the stars of the skies. The grasshopper strips, and flees away. 17.Your guards are like the locusts, and your officials like the swarms of locusts, which settle on the walls on a cold day, but when the sun appears, they flee away, and their place is not known where they are. 18.Your shepherds slumber, king of Assyria. Your nobles lie down. Your people are scattered on the mountains, and there is no one to gather them. 19.There is no healing your wound, for your injury is fatal. All who hear the report of you clap their hands over you; for who hasn't felt your endless cruelty?
1Peter 1
1.Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the chosen ones who are living as foreigners in the Dispersion in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, 2.according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in sanctification of the Spirit, that you may obey Jesus Christ and be sprinkled with his blood: Grace to you and peace be multiplied. 3.Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his great mercy became our father again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, 4.to an incorruptible and undefiled inheritance that doesn't fade away, reserved in Heaven for you, 5.who by the power of God are guarded through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time. 6.Wherein you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, if need be, you have been put to grief in various trials, 7.that the proof of your faith, which is more precious than gold that perishes even though it is tested by fire, may be found to result in praise, glory, and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ-- 8.whom not having known you love; in whom, though now you don't see him, yet believing, you rejoice greatly with joy unspeakable and full of glory-- 9.receiving the result of your faith, the salvation of your souls. 10.Concerning this salvation, the prophets sought and searched diligently, who prophesied of the grace that would come to you, 11.searching for who or what kind of time the Spirit of Christ, which was in them, pointed to, when he predicted the sufferings of Christ, and the glories that would follow them. 12.To them it was revealed, that not to themselves, but to you, they ministered these things, which now have been announced to you through those who preached the Good News to you by the Holy Spirit sent out from heaven; which things angels desire to look into.
13.Therefore, prepare your minds for action,1 be sober and set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ-- 14.as children of obedience, not conforming yourselves according to your former lusts as in your ignorance, 15.but just as he who called you is holy, you yourselves also be holy in all of your behavior; 16.because it is written, "You shall be holy; for I am holy."2 17.If you call on him as Father, who without respect of persons judges according to each man's work, pass the time of your living as foreigners here in reverent fear: 18.knowing that you were redeemed, not with corruptible things, with silver or gold, from the useless way of life handed down from your fathers, 19.but with precious blood, as of a faultless and pure lamb, the blood of Christ; 20.who was foreknown indeed before the foundation of the world, but was revealed at the end of times for your sake, 21.who through him are believers in God, who raised him from the dead, and gave him glory; so that your faith and hope might be in God.
22.Seeing you have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth through the Spirit in sincere brotherly affection, love one another from the heart fervently: 23.having been born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, through the word of God, which lives and remains forever. 24.For, "All flesh is like grass, and all of man's glory like the flower in the grass. The grass withers, and its flower falls; 25.but the Lord's word endures forever."3
This is the word of Good News which was preached to you.