Daily Readings for June 21

Daily Readings for June 21
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Ruth 3

1.Naomi her mother-in-law said to her, "My daughter, shall I not seek rest for you, that it may be well with you? 2.Now isn't Boaz our kinsman, with whose maidens you were? Behold, he winnows barley tonight in the threshing floor. 3.Therefore wash yourself, anoint yourself, get dressed, and go down to the threshing floor, but don't make yourself known to the man until he has finished eating and drinking. 4.It shall be, when he lies down, that you shall mark the place where he shall lie, and you shall go in, and uncover his feet, and lay down; then he will tell you what you shall do."

5.She said to her, "All that you say I will do." 6.She went down to the threshing floor, and did according to all that her mother-in-law told her. 7.When Boaz had eaten and drunk, and his heart was merry, he went to lie down at the end of the heap of grain. She came softly, uncovered his feet, and laid her down. 8.It happened at midnight, that the man was startled and turned himself; and behold, a woman lay at his feet. 9.He said, "Who are you?"

She answered, "I am Ruth your handmaid. Therefore spread your skirt over your handmaid; for you are a near kinsman."

10.He said, "Blessed are you by Yahweh, my daughter. You have shown more kindness in the latter end than at the beginning, inasmuch as you didn't follow young men, whether poor or rich. 11.Now, my daughter, don't be afraid; I will do to you all that you say; for all the city of my people does know that you are a worthy woman. 12.Now it is true that I am a near kinsman; however there is a kinsman nearer than I. 13.Stay this night, and it shall be in the morning, that if he will perform for you the part of a kinsman, well; let him do the kinsman's part. But if he will not do the part of a kinsman for you, then will I do the part of a kinsman for you, as Yahweh lives. Lie down until the morning."

14.She lay at his feet until the morning. She rose up before one could discern another. For he said, "Let it not be known that the woman came to the threshing floor." 15.He said, "Bring the mantle that is on you, and hold it." She held it; and he measured six measures of barley, and laid it on her; and he went into the city.

16.When she came to her mother-in-law, she said, "How did it go, my daughter?"

She told her all that the man had done to her. 17.She said, "He gave me these six measures of barley; for he said, 'Don't go empty to your mother-in-law.'"

18.Then she said, "Sit still, my daughter, until you know how the matter will fall; for the man will not rest, until he has finished the thing this day."

Ruth 4

1.Now Boaz went up to the gate, and sat down there. Behold, the near kinsman of whom Boaz spoke came by; to whom he said, "Come over here, friend, and sit down!" He turned aside, and sat down. 2.He took ten men of the elders of the city, and said, "Sit down here." They sat down. 3.He said to the near kinsman, "Naomi, who has come back out of the country of Moab, is selling the parcel of land, which was our brother Elimelech's. 4.I thought to disclose it to you, saying, 'Buy it before those who sit here, and before the elders of my people.' If you will redeem it, redeem it; but if you will not redeem it, then tell me, that I may know. For there is no one to redeem it besides you; and I am after you."

He said, "I will redeem it."

5.Then Boaz said, "On the day you buy the field from the hand of Naomi, you must buy it also from Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of the dead, to raise up the name of the dead on his inheritance."

6.The near kinsman said, "I can't redeem it for myself, lest I mar my own inheritance. Take my right of redemption for yourself; for I can't redeem it."

7.Now this was the custom in former time in Israel concerning redeeming and concerning exchanging, to confirm all things: a man took off his shoe, and gave it to his neighbor; and this was the way of attestation in Israel. 8.So the near kinsman said to Boaz, "Buy it for yourself." He took off his shoe.

9.Boaz said to the elders, and to all the people, "You are witnesses this day, that I have bought all that was Elimelech's, and all that was Chilion's and Mahlon's, from the hand of Naomi. 10.Moreover Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of Mahlon, I have purchased to be my wife, to raise up the name of the dead on his inheritance, that the name of the dead not be cut off from among his brothers, and from the gate of his place. You are witnesses this day."

11.All the people who were in the gate, and the elders, said, "We are witnesses. May Yahweh make the woman who has come into your house like Rachel and like Leah, which two built the house of Israel; and treat you worthily in Ephrathah, and be famous in Bethlehem. 12.Let your house be like the house of Perez, whom Tamar bore to Judah, of the seed which Yahweh shall give you of this young woman."

13.So Boaz took Ruth, and she became his wife; and he went in to her, and Yahweh gave her conception, and she bore a son. 14.The women said to Naomi, "Blessed be Yahweh, who has not left you this day without a near kinsman; and let his name be famous in Israel. 15.He shall be to you a restorer of life, and sustain you in your old age, for your daughter-in-law, who loves you, who is better to you than seven sons, has borne him." 16.Naomi took the child, and laid it in her bosom, and became nurse to it. 17.The women, her neighbors, gave him a name, saying, "There is a son born to Naomi;" and they named him Obed. He is the father of Jesse, the father of David.

18.Now this is the history of the generations of Perez: Perez became the father of Hezron, 19.and Hezron became the father of Ram, and Ram became the father of Amminadab, 20.and Amminadab became the father of Nahshon, and Nahshon became the father of Salmon, 21.and Salmon became the father of Boaz, and Boaz became the father of Obed, 22.and Obed became the father of Jesse, and Jesse became the father of David.

Isaiah 45

1.Thus says Yahweh to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have held, to subdue nations before him, and strip kings of their armor; to open the doors before him, and the gates shall not be shut: 2."I will go before you, and make the rough places smooth. I will break the doors of brass in pieces, and cut apart the bars of iron. 3.I will give you the treasures of darkness, and hidden riches of secret places, that you may know that it is I, Yahweh, who call you by your name, even the God of Israel. 4.For Jacob my servant's sake, and Israel my chosen, I have called you by your name. I have surnamed you, though you have not known me. 5.I am Yahweh, and there is none else. Besides me, there is no God. I will strengthen²⁰ you, though you have not known me; 6.that they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west, that there is none besides me. I am Yahweh, and there is no one else. 7.I form the light, and create darkness. I make peace, and create calamity. I am Yahweh, who does all these things. 8.Distil, you heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down righteousness. Let the earth open, that it may bring forth salvation, and let it cause righteousness to spring up with it. I, Yahweh, have created it. 9.Woe to him who strives with his Maker-- a clay pot among the clay pots of the earth! Shall the clay ask him who fashions it, 'What are you making?' or your work, 'He has no hands?' 10.Woe to him who says to a father, 'What have you become the father of?' or to a mother, 'To what have you given birth?'" 11.Thus says Yahweh, the Holy One of Israel, and his Maker: "You ask me about the things that are to come, concerning my sons, and you command me concerning the work of my hands! 12.I have made the earth, and created man on it. I, even my hands, have stretched out the heavens; and I have commanded all their army. 13.I have raised him up in righteousness, and I will make straight all his ways. He shall build my city, and he shall let my exiles go free, not for price nor reward," says Yahweh of Armies. 14.Thus says Yahweh: "The labor of Egypt, and the merchandise of Ethiopia, and the Sabeans, men of stature, shall come over to you, and they shall be yours. They will go after you. They shall come over in chains; and they will bow down to you. They will make supplication to you: 'Surely God is in you; and there is none else. There is no other god. 15.Most certainly you are a God who hidden yourself, God of Israel, the Savior.'" 16.They will be disappointed, yes, confounded, all of them. Those who are makers of idols will go into confusion together. 17.Israel will be saved by Yahweh with an everlasting salvation. You will not be disappointed nor confounded to ages everlasting. 18.For thus says Yahweh who created the heavens, the God who formed the earth and made it, who established it and didn't create it a waste, who formed it to be inhabited: "I am Yahweh; and there is no other. 19.I have not spoken in secret, in a place of the land of darkness. I didn't say to the seed of Jacob, 'Seek me in vain.' I, Yahweh, speak righteousness. I declare things that are right.

20."Assemble yourselves and come. Draw near together, you who have escaped from the nations. Those have no knowledge who carry the wood of their engraved image, and pray to a god that can't save. 21.Declare and present it. Yes, let them take counsel together. Who has shown this from ancient time? Who has declared it of old? Haven't I, Yahweh? There is no other God besides me, a just God and a Savior; There is no one besides me.

22."Look to me, and be saved, all the ends of the earth; for I am God, and there is no other. 23.I have sworn by myself, the word has gone out of my mouth in righteousness, and will not return, that to me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall take an oath. 24.They will say of me, 'There is righteousness and strength only in Yahweh.'" Even to him shall men come; and all those who were incensed against him shall be disappointed. 25.In Yahweh shall all the seed of Israel be justified, and shall glory.

Revelation 1

1.This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel¹ to his servant, John, 2.who testified to God's word, and of the testimony of Jesus Christ, about everything that he saw.

3.Blessed is he who reads and those who hear the words of the prophecy, and keep the things that are written in it, for the time is at hand.

4.John, to the seven assemblies that are in Asia: Grace to you and peace, from God, who is and who was and who is to come; and from the seven Spirits who are before his throne; 5.and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To him who loves us, and washed us from our sins by his blood; 6.and he made us to be a Kingdom, priests² to his God and Father; to him be the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen.

7.Behold, he is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see him, including those who pierced him. All the tribes of the earth will mourn over him. Even so, Amen.

8."I am the Alpha and the Omega,³" says the Lord God,⁴ "who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty."

9.I John, your brother and partner with you in oppression, Kingdom, and perseverance in Christ Jesus, was on the isle that is called Patmos because of God's Word and the testimony of Jesus Christ. 10.I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day, and I heard behind me a loud voice, like a trumpet 11.saying, "⁵What you see, write in a book and send to the seven assemblies⁶: to Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, and to Laodicea."

12.I turned to see the voice that spoke with me. Having turned, I saw seven golden lampstands. 13.And among the lampstands was one like a son of man,⁷ clothed with a robe reaching down to his feet, and with a golden sash around his chest. 14.His head and his hair were white as white wool, like snow. His eyes were like a flame of fire. 15.His feet were like burnished brass, as if it had been refined in a furnace. His voice was like the voice of many waters. 16.He had seven stars in his right hand. Out of his mouth proceeded a sharp two-edged sword. His face was like the sun shining at its brightest. 17.When I saw him, I fell at his feet like a dead man.

He laid his right hand on me, saying, "Don't be afraid. I am the first and the last, 18.and the Living one. I was dead, and behold, I am alive forevermore. Amen. I have the keys of Death and of Hades⁸. 19.Write therefore the things which you have seen, and the things which are, and the things which will happen hereafter; 20.the mystery of the seven stars which you saw in my right hand, and the seven golden lampstands. The seven stars are the angels⁹ of the seven assemblies. The seven lampstands are seven assemblies.

Revelation 2

1."To the angel of the assembly in Ephesus write:

"He who holds the seven stars in his right hand, he who walks among the seven golden lampstands says these things:

2."I know your works, and your toil and perseverance, and that you can't tolerate evil men, and have tested those who call themselves apostles, and they are not, and found them false. 3.You have perseverance and have endured for my name's sake, and have¹⁰ not grown weary. 4.But I have this against you, that you left your first love. 5.Remember therefore from where you have fallen, and repent and do the first works; or else I am coming to you swiftly, and will move your lampstand out of its place, unless you repent. 6.But this you have, that you hate the works of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate. 7.He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies. To him who overcomes I will give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the Paradise of my God.

8."To the angel of the assembly in Smyrna write:

"The first and the last, who was dead, and has come to life says these things:

9."I know your works, oppression, and your poverty (but you are rich), and the blasphemy of those who say they are Jews, and they are not, but are a synagogue of Satan. 10.Don't be afraid of the things which you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested; and you will have oppression for ten days. Be faithful to death, and I will give you the crown of life. 11.He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies. He who overcomes won't be harmed by the second death.

12."To the angel of the assembly in Pergamum write:

"He who has the sharp two-edged sword says these things:

13."I know your works and where you dwell, where Satan's throne is. You hold firmly to my name, and didn't deny my faith in the days of Antipas my witness, my faithful one, who was killed among you, where Satan dwells. 14.But I have a few things against you, because you have there some who hold the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to throw a stumbling block before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed to idols, and to commit sexual immorality. 15.So you also have some who hold to the teaching of the Nicolaitans likewise¹¹. 16.Repent therefore, or else I am coming to you quickly, and I will make war against them with the sword of my mouth. 17.He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies. To him who overcomes, to him I will give of the hidden manna,¹² and I will give him a white stone, and on the stone a new name written, which no one knows but he who receives it.

18."To the angel of the assembly in Thyatira write:

"The Son of God, who has his eyes like a flame of fire, and his feet are like burnished brass, says these things:

19."I know your works, your love, faith, service, patient endurance, and that your last works are more than the first. 20.But I have this against you, that you tolerate your¹³ woman, Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess. She teaches and seduces my servants to commit sexual immorality, and to eat things sacrificed to idols. 21.I gave her time to repent, but she refuses to repent of her sexual immorality. 22.Behold, I will throw her into a bed, and those who commit adultery with her into great oppression, unless they repent of her works. 23.I will kill her children with Death, and all the assemblies will know that I am he who searches the minds and hearts. I will give to each one of you according to your deeds. 24.But to you I say, to the rest who are in Thyatira, as many as don't have this teaching, who don't know what some call 'the deep things of Satan,' to you I say, I am not putting any other burden on you. 25.Nevertheless, hold that which you have firmly until I come. 26.He who overcomes, and he who keeps my works to the end, to him I will give authority over the nations. 27.He will rule them with a rod of iron, shattering them like clay pots;¹⁴ as I also have received of my Father: 28.and I will give him the morning star. 29.He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies.