Daily Readings for August 29

Daily Readings for August 29
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2Kings 3

1.Now Jehoram the son of Ahab began to reign over Israel in Samaria in the eighteenth year of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, and reigned twelve years. 2.He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, but not like his father, and like his mother; for he put away the pillar of Baal that his father had made. 3.Nevertheless he held to the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, with which he made Israel to sin; he didn't depart from it. 4.Now Mesha king of Moab was a sheep breeder; and he rendered to the king of Israel the wool of one hundred thousand lambs, and of one hundred thousand rams. 5.But it happened, when Ahab was dead, that the king of Moab rebelled against the king of Israel. 6.King Jehoram went out of Samaria at that time, and mustered all Israel. 7.He went and sent to Jehoshaphat the king of Judah, saying, "The king of Moab has rebelled against me. Will you go with me against Moab to battle?"

He said, "I will go up. I am as you are, my people as your people, my horses as your horses." 8.He said, "Which way shall we go up?"

He answered, "The way of the wilderness of Edom." 9.So the king of Israel went, and the king of Judah, and the king of Edom; and they made a circuit of seven days' journey. There was no water for the army, nor for the animals that followed them. 10.The king of Israel said, "Alas! For Yahweh has called these three kings together to deliver them into the hand of Moab."

11.But Jehoshaphat said, "Isn't there here a prophet of Yahweh, that we may inquire of Yahweh by him?"

One of the king of Israel's servants answered, "Elisha the son of Shaphat is here, who poured water on the hands of Elijah."

12.Jehoshaphat said, "The word of Yahweh is with him." So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat and the king of Edom went down to him.

13.Elisha said to the king of Israel, "What have I to do with you? Go to the prophets of your father, and to the prophets of your mother."

The king of Israel said to him, "No; for Yahweh has called these three kings together to deliver them into the hand of Moab." 14.Elisha said, "As Yahweh of Armies lives, before whom I stand, surely, were it not that I respect the presence of Jehoshaphat the king of Judah, I would not look toward you, nor see you. 15.But now bring me a minstrel." It happened, when the minstrel played, that the hand of Yahweh came on him. 16.He said, "Thus says Yahweh, 'Make this valley full of trenches.' 17.For thus says Yahweh, 'You will not see wind, neither will you see rain; yet that valley shall be filled with water, and you will drink, both you and your livestock and your animals. 18.This is but a light thing in the sight of Yahweh. He will also deliver the Moabites into your hand. 19.You shall strike every fortified city, and every choice city, and shall fell every good tree, and stop all springs of water, and mar every good piece of land with stones.'"

20.It happened in the morning, about the time of offering the offering, that behold, water came by the way of Edom, and the country was filled with water.

21.Now when all the Moabites heard that the kings had come up to fight against them, they gathered themselves together, all who were able to put on armor, and upward, and stood on the border. 22.They rose up early in the morning, and the sun shone on the water, and the Moabites saw the water over against them as red as blood. 23.They said, "This is blood. The kings are surely destroyed, and they have struck each other. Now therefore, Moab, to the spoil!"

24.When they came to the camp of Israel, the Israelites rose up and struck the Moabites, so that they fled before them; and they went forward into the land smiting the Moabites. 25.They beat down the cities; and on every good piece of land they cast every man his stone, and filled it; and they stopped all the springs of water, and felled all the good trees, until in Kir Hareseth only they left its stones; however the men armed with slings went about it, and struck it. 26.When the king of Moab saw that the battle was too severe for him, he took with him seven hundred men who drew sword, to break through to the king of Edom; but they could not. 27.Then he took his eldest son who would have reigned in his place, and offered him for a burnt offering on the wall. There was great wrath against Israel: and they departed from him, and returned to their own land.

Jeremiah 51

1.Thus says Yahweh: Behold, I will raise up against Babylon, and against those who dwell in Lebkamai, a destroying wind. 2.I will send to Babylon strangers, who shall winnow her; and they shall empty her land: for in the day of trouble they shall be against her around. 3.Against [him who] bends let the archer bend his bow, and against [him who] lifts himself up in his coat of mail: and don't spare her young men; utterly destroy all her army. 4.They shall fall down slain in the land of the Chaldeans, and thrust through in her streets. 5.For Israel is not forsaken, nor Judah, of his God, of Yahweh of Armies; though their land is full of guilt against the Holy One of Israel. 6.Flee out of the midst of Babylon, and save every man his life; don't be cut off in her iniquity: for it is the time of Yahweh's vengeance; he will render to her a recompense. 7.Babylon has been a golden cup in Yahweh's hand, who made all the earth drunken: the nations have drunk of her wine; therefore the nations are mad. 8.Babylon is suddenly fallen and destroyed: wail for her; take balm for her pain, if so be she may be healed. 9.We would have healed Babylon, but she is not healed: forsake her, and let us go everyone into his own country; for her judgment reaches to heaven, and is lifted up even to the skies. 10.Yahweh has brought forth our righteousness: come, and let us declare in Zion the work of Yahweh our God. 11.Make sharp the arrows; hold firm the shields: Yahweh has stirred up the spirit of the kings of the Medes; because his purpose is against Babylon, to destroy it: for it is the vengeance of Yahweh, the vengeance of his temple. 12.Set up a standard against the walls of Babylon, make the watch strong, set the watchmen, prepare the ambushes; for Yahweh has both purposed and done that which he spoke concerning the inhabitants of Babylon. 13.You who dwell on many waters, abundant in treasures, your end has come, the measure of your covetousness. 14.Yahweh of Armies has sworn by himself, [saying], Surely I will fill you with men, as with the canker worm; and they shall lift up a shout against you. 15.He has made the earth by his power, he has established the world by his wisdom, and by his understanding has he stretched out the heavens: 16.when he utters his voice, there is a tumult of waters in the heavens, and he causes the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth; he makes lightning for the rain, and brings forth the wind out of his treasuries. 17.Every man has become brutish [and is] without knowledge; every goldsmith is disappointed by his image; for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them. 18.They are vanity, a work of delusion: in the time of their visitation they shall perish. 19.The portion of Jacob is not like these; for he is the former of all things; and [Israel] is the tribe of his inheritance: Yahweh of Armies is his name. 20.You are my battle axe and weapons of war: and with you will I break in pieces the nations; and with you will I destroy kingdoms; 21.and with you will I break in pieces the horse and his rider; 22.and with you will I break in pieces the chariot and him who rides therein; and with you will I break in pieces man and woman; and with you will I break in pieces the old man and the youth; and with you will I break in pieces the young man and the virgin; 23.and with you will I break in pieces the shepherd and his flock; and with you will I break in pieces the farmer and his yoke [of oxen]; and with you will I break in pieces governors and deputies. 24.I will render to Babylon and to all the inhabitants of Chaldea all their evil that they have done in Zion in your sight, says Yahweh. 25.Behold, I am against you, destroying mountain, says Yahweh, which destroys all the earth; and I will stretch out my hand on you, and roll you down from the rocks, and will make you a burnt mountain. 26.They shall not take of you a stone for a corner, nor a stone for foundations; but you shall be desolate for ever, says Yahweh. 27.Set up a standard in the land, blow the trumpet among the nations, prepare the nations against her, call together against her the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz: appoint a marshal against her; cause the horses to come up as the rough canker worm. 28.Prepare against her the nations, the kings of the Medes, its governors, and all its deputies, and all the land of their dominion. 29.The land trembles and is in pain; for the purposes of Yahweh against Babylon do stand, to make the land of Babylon a desolation, without inhabitant. 30.The mighty men of Babylon have forborne to fight, they remain in their strongholds; their might has failed; they are become as women: her dwelling places are set on fire; her bars are broken. 31.One runner will run to meet another, and one messenger to meet another, to show the king of Babylon that his city is taken on every quarter: 32.and the passages are seized, and the reeds they have burned with fire, and the men of war are frightened. 33.For thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel: The daughter of Babylon is like a threshing floor at the time when it is trodden; yet a little while, and the time of harvest shall come for her. 34.Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon has devoured me, he has crushed me, he has made me an empty vessel, he has, like a monster, swallowed me up, he has filled his maw with my delicacies; he has cast me out. 35.The violence done to me and to my flesh be on Babylon, shall the inhabitant of Zion say; and, My blood be on the inhabitants of Chaldea, shall Jerusalem say. 36.Therefore thus says Yahweh: Behold, I will plead your cause, and take vengeance for you; and I will dry up her sea, and make her fountain dry. 37.Babylon shall become heaps, a dwelling place for jackals, an astonishment, and a hissing, without inhabitant. 38.They shall roar together like young lions; they shall growl as lions' cubs. 39.When they are heated, I will make their feast, and I will make them drunken, that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, says Yahweh. 40.I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with male goats. 41.How is Sheshach taken! and the praise of the whole earth seized! how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations! 42.The sea has come up on Babylon; she is covered with the multitude of its waves. 43.Her cities are become a desolation, a dry land, and a desert, a land in which no man dwells, neither does any son of man pass thereby. 44.I will execute judgment on Bel in Babylon, and I will bring forth out of his mouth that which he has swallowed up; and the nations shall not flow any more to him: yes, the wall of Babylon shall fall. 45.My people, go away from the midst of her, and save yourselves every man from the fierce anger of Yahweh. 46.Don't let your heart faint, neither fear for the news that shall be heard in the land; for news shall come one year, and after that in another year [shall come] news, and violence in the land, ruler against ruler. 47.Therefore, behold, the days come, that I will execute judgment on the engraved images of Babylon; and her whole land shall be confounded; and all her slain shall fall in the midst of her. 48.Then the heavens and the earth, and all that is therein, shall sing for joy over Babylon; for the destroyers shall come to her from the north, says Yahweh. 49.As Babylon has caused the slain of Israel to fall, so at Babylon shall fall the slain of all the land. 50.You who have escaped the sword, go, don't stand still; remember Yahweh from afar, and let Jerusalem come into your mind. 51.We are confounded, because we have heard reproach; confusion has covered our faces: for strangers have come into the sanctuaries of Yahweh's house. 52.Therefore, behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that I will execute judgment on her engraved images; and through all her land the wounded shall groan. 53.Though Babylon should mount up to the sky, and though she should fortify the height of her strength, yet from me shall destroyers come to her, says Yahweh. 54.The sound of a cry from Babylon, and of great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans! 55.For Yahweh lays Babylon waste, and destroys out of her the great voice; and their waves roar like many waters; the noise of their voice is uttered: 56.for the destroyer has come on her, even on Babylon, and her mighty men are taken, their bows are broken in pieces; for Yahweh is a God of recompenses, he will surely requite. 57.I will make drunk her princes and her wise men, her governors and her deputies, and her mighty men; and they shall sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake up, says the King, whose name is Yahweh of Armies. 58.Thus says Yahweh of Armies: The broad walls of Babylon shall be utterly overthrown, and her high gates shall be burned with fire; and the peoples shall labor for vanity, and the nations for the fire; and they shall be weary. 59.The word which Jeremiah the prophet commanded Seraiah the son of Neriah, the son of Mahseiah, when he went with Zedekiah the king of Judah to Babylon in the fourth year of his reign. Now Seraiah was chief quartermaster. 60.Jeremiah wrote in a book all the evil that should come on Babylon, even all these words that are written concerning Babylon. 61.Jeremiah said to Seraiah, When you come to Babylon, then see that you read all these words, 62.and say, Yahweh, you have spoken concerning this place, to cut it off, that none shall dwell therein, neither man nor animal, but that it shall be desolate forever. 63.It shall be, when you have made an end of reading this book, that you shall bind a stone to it, and cast it into the midst of the Euphrates: 64.and you shall say, Thus shall Babylon sink, and shall not rise again because of the evil that I will bring on her; and they shall be weary. Thus far are the words of Jeremiah.

1Corinthians 11

1.Be imitators of me, even as I also am of Christ. 2.Now I praise you, brothers, that you remember me in all things, and hold firm the traditions, even as I delivered them to you. 3.But I would have you know that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman is the man, and the head of Christ is God. 4.Every man praying or prophesying, having his head covered, dishonors his head. 5.But every woman praying or prophesying with her head unveiled dishonors her head. For it is one and the same thing as if she were shaved. 6.For if a woman is not covered, let her also be shorn. But if it is shameful for a woman to be shorn or shaved, let her be covered. 7.For a man indeed ought not to have his head covered, because he is the image and glory of God, but the woman is the glory of the man. 8.For man is not from woman, but woman from man; 9.for neither was man created for the woman, but woman for the man. 10.For this cause the woman ought to have authority on her head, because of the angels.

11.Nevertheless, neither is the woman independent of the man, nor the man independent of the woman, in the Lord. 12.For as woman came from man, so a man also comes through a woman; but all things are from God. 13.Judge for yourselves. Is it appropriate that a woman pray to God unveiled? 14.Doesn't even nature itself teach you that if a man has long hair, it is a dishonor to him? 15.But if a woman has long hair, it is a glory to her, for her hair is given to her for a covering. 16.But if any man seems to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither do God's assemblies.

17.But in giving you this command, I don't praise you, that you come together not for the better but for the worse. 18.For first of all, when you come together in the assembly, I hear that divisions exist among you, and I partly believe it. 19.For there also must be factions among you, that those who are approved may be revealed among you. 20.When therefore you assemble yourselves together, it is not the Lord's supper that you eat. 21.For in your eating each one takes his own supper first. One is hungry, and another is drunken. 22.What, don't you have houses to eat and to drink in? Or do you despise God's assembly, and put them to shame who don't have? What shall I tell you? Shall I praise you? In this I don't praise you.

23.For I received from the Lord that which also I delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus on the night in which he was betrayed took bread. 24.When he had given thanks, he broke it, and said, "Take, eat. This is my body, which is broken for you. Do this in memory of me." 25.In the same way he also took the cup, after supper, saying, "This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this, as often as you drink, in memory of me." 26.For as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord's death until he comes. 27.Therefore whoever eats this bread or drinks the Lord's cup in a way unworthy of the Lord will be guilty of the body and the blood of the Lord. 28.But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of the bread, and drink of the cup. 29.For he who eats and drinks in an unworthy way eats and drinks judgment to himself, if he doesn't discern the Lord's body. 30.For this cause many among you are weak and sickly, and not a few sleep. 31.For if we discerned ourselves, we wouldn't be judged. 32.But when we are judged, we are punished by the Lord, that we may not be condemned with the world. 33.Therefore, my brothers, when you come together to eat, wait for one another. 34.But if anyone is hungry, let him eat at home, lest your coming together be for judgment. The rest I will set in order whenever I come.