NKJV Bible in 365 Days
Oracles Against the Nations — June 28
Isaiah 13-17
Isaiah 13
1 The burden [a] against Babylon which Isaiah the son of Amoz saw. 365N 179.1
2 “Lift up a banner on the high mountain, Raise your voice to them; Wave your hand, that they may enter the gates of the nobles. 365N 179.2
3 I have commanded My [b] sanctified ones; I have also called My mighty ones for My anger— Those who rejoice in My exaltation.” 365N 179.3
4 The noise of a multitude in the mountains, Like that of many people! A tumultuous noise of the kingdoms of nations gathered together! The Lord of hosts musters The army for battle. 365N 179.4
5 They come from a far country, From the end of heaven— The Lord and His [c] weapons of indignation, To destroy the whole land. 365N 179.5
6 Wail, for the day of the Lord is at hand! It will come as destruction from the Almighty. 365N 179.6
7 Therefore all hands will be limp, Every man’s heart will melt, 365N 179.7
8 And they will be afraid. Pangs [d] and sorrows will take hold of them; They will be in pain as a woman in childbirth; They will be amazed at one another; Their faces will be like flames. 365N 179.8
9 Behold, the day of the Lord comes, Cruel, with both wrath and fierce anger, To lay the land desolate; And He will destroy its sinners from it. 365N 179.9
10 For the stars of heaven and their constellations Will not give their light; The sun will be darkened in its going forth, And the moon will not cause its light to shine. 365N 179.10
11 “I will punish the world for its evil, And the wicked for their iniquity; I will halt the arrogance of the proud, And will lay low the haughtiness of the [e] terrible. 365N 179.11
12 I will make a mortal more rare than fine gold, A man more than the golden wedge of Ophir. 365N 179.12
13 Therefore I will shake the heavens, And the earth will move out of her place, In the wrath of the Lord of hosts And in the day of His fierce anger. 365N 179.13
14 It shall be as the hunted gazelle, And as a sheep that no man [f] takes up; Every man will turn to his own people, And everyone will flee to his own land. 365N 179.14
15 Everyone who is found will be thrust through, And everyone who is captured will fall by the sword. 365N 179.15
16 Their children also will be dashed to pieces before their eyes; Their houses will be plundered And their wives ravished. 365N 179.16
17 “Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, Who will not [g] regard silver; And as for gold, they will not delight in it. 365N 179.17
18 Also their bows will dash the young men to pieces, And they will have no pity on the fruit of the womb; Their eye will not spare children. 365N 179.18
19 And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, The beauty of the Chaldeans’ pride, Will be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. 365N 179.19
20 It will never be inhabited, Nor will it be settled from generation to generation; Nor will the Arabian pitch tents there, Nor will the shepherds make their sheepfolds there. 365N 179.20
21 But wild beasts of the desert will lie there, And their houses will be full of [h] owls; Ostriches will dwell there, And wild goats will caper there. 365N 179.21
22 The hyenas will howl in their citadels, And jackals in their pleasant palaces. Her time is near to come, And her days will not be prolonged.” 365N 179.22
Isaiah 14
1 For the Lord will have mercy on Jacob, and will still choose Israel, and settle them in their own land. The strangers will be joined with them, and they will cling to the house of Jacob. 365N 179.23
2 Then people will take them and bring them to their place, and the house of Israel will possess them for servants and maids in the land of the Lord ; they will take them captive whose captives they were, and rule over their oppressors. 365N 179.24
3 It shall come to pass in the day the Lord gives you rest from your sorrow, and from your fear and the hard bondage in which you were made to serve, 365N 179.25
4 that you will take up this proverb against the king of Babylon, and say: “How the oppressor has ceased, The golden [a] city ceased! 365N 179.26
5 The Lord has broken the staff of the wicked, The scepter of the rulers; 365N 179.27
6 He who struck the people in wrath with a continual stroke, He who ruled the nations in anger, Is persecuted and no one hinders. 365N 179.28
7 The whole earth is at rest and quiet; They break forth into singing. 365N 179.29
8 Indeed the cypress trees rejoice over you, And the cedars of Lebanon, Saying, ‘Since you [b] were cut down, No woodsman has come up against us.’ 365N 179.30
9 “Hell [c] from beneath is excited about you, To meet you at your coming; It stirs up the dead for you, All the chief ones of the earth; It has raised up from their thrones All the kings of the nations. 365N 179.31
10 They all shall speak and say to you: ‘Have you also become as weak as we? Have you become like us? 365N 179.32
11 Your pomp is brought down to Sheol, And the sound of your stringed instruments; The maggot is spread under you, And worms cover you.’ 365N 179.33
12 “How you are fallen from heaven, O [d] Lucifer, son of the morning! How you are cut down to the ground, You who weakened the nations! 365N 179.34
13 For you have said in your heart: ‘I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God; I will also sit on the mount of the congregation On the farthest sides of the north; 365N 179.35
14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds, I will be like the Most High.’ 365N 179.36
15 Yet you shall be brought down to Sheol, To the [e] lowest depths of the Pit. 365N 179.37
16 “Those who see you will gaze at you, And consider you, saying: ‘ Is this the man who made the earth tremble, Who shook kingdoms, 365N 179.38
17 Who made the world as a wilderness And destroyed its cities, Who [f] did not open the house of his prisoners?’ 365N 179.39
18 “All the kings of the nations, All of them, sleep in glory, Everyone in his own house; 365N 179.40
19 But you are cast out of your grave Like an [g] abominable branch, Like the garment of those who are slain, [h] Thrust through with a sword, Who go down to the stones of the pit, Like a corpse trodden underfoot. 365N 179.41
20 You will not be joined with them in burial, Because you have destroyed your land And slain your people. The brood of evildoers shall never be named. 365N 179.42
21 Prepare slaughter for his children Because of the iniquity of their fathers, Lest they rise up and possess the land, And fill the face of the world with cities.” 365N 179.43
22 “For I will rise up against them,” says the Lord of hosts, “And cut off from Babylon the name and remnant, And offspring and posterity,” says the Lord . 365N 179.44
23 “I will also make it a possession for the porcupine, And marshes of muddy water; I will sweep it with the broom of destruction,” says the Lord of hosts. 365N 179.45
24 The Lord of hosts has sworn, saying, “Surely, as I have thought, so it shall come to pass, And as I have purposed, so it shall stand: 365N 179.46
25 That I will break the Assyrian in My land, And on My mountains tread him underfoot. Then his yoke shall be removed from them, And his burden removed from their shoulders. 365N 179.47
26 This is the purpose that is purposed against the whole earth, And this is the hand that is stretched out over all the nations. 365N 179.48
27 For the Lord of hosts has purposed, And who will annul it? His hand is stretched out, And who will turn it back?” 365N 179.49
28 This is the [i] burden which came in the year that King Ahaz died. 365N 179.50
29 “Do not rejoice, all you of Philistia, Because the rod that struck you is broken; For out of the serpent’s roots will come forth a viper, And its offspring will be a fiery flying serpent. 365N 179.51
30 The firstborn of the poor will feed, And the needy will lie down in safety; I will kill your roots with famine, And it will slay your remnant. 365N 179.52
31 Wail, O gate! Cry, O city! All you of Philistia are dissolved; For smoke will come from the north, And no one will be alone in his [j] appointed times.” 365N 179.53
32 What will they answer the messengers of the nation? That the Lord has founded Zion, And the poor of His people shall take refuge in it. 365N 179.54
Isaiah 15
1 The burden [a] against Moab. Because in the night Ar of Moab is laid waste And destroyed, Because in the night Kir of Moab is laid waste And destroyed, 365N 179.55
2 He has gone up to the [b] temple and Dibon, To the high places to weep. Moab will wail over Nebo and over Medeba; On all their heads will be baldness, And every beard cut off. 365N 179.56
3 In their streets they will clothe themselves with sackcloth; On the tops of their houses And in their streets Everyone will wail, weeping bitterly. 365N 179.57
4 Heshbon and Elealeh will cry out, Their voice shall be heard as far as Jahaz; Therefore the [c] armed soldiers of Moab will cry out; His life will be burdensome to him. 365N 179.58
5 “My heart will cry out for Moab; His fugitives shall flee to Zoar, Like [d] a three-year-old heifer. For by the Ascent of Luhith They will go up with weeping; For in the way of Horonaim They will raise up a cry of destruction, 365N 179.59
6 For the waters of Nimrim will be desolate, For the green grass has withered away; The grass fails, there is nothing green. 365N 179.60
7 Therefore the abundance they have gained, And what they have laid up, They will carry away to the Brook of the Willows. 365N 179.61
8 For the cry has gone all around the borders of Moab, Its wailing to Eglaim And its wailing to Beer Elim. 365N 179.62
9 For the waters of [e] Dimon will be full of blood; Because I will bring more upon Dimon, Lions upon him who escapes from Moab, And on the remnant of the land.” 365N 179.63
Isaiah 16
1 Send the lamb to the ruler of the land, From [a] Sela to the wilderness, To the mount of the daughter of Zion. 365N 179.64
2 For it shall be as a wandering bird thrown out of the nest; So shall be the daughters of Moab at the fords of the Arnon. 365N 179.65
3 “Take counsel, execute judgment; Make your shadow like the night in the middle of the day; Hide the outcasts, Do not betray him who escapes. 365N 179.66
4 Let My outcasts dwell with you, O Moab; Be a shelter to them from the face of the [b] spoiler. For the extortioner is at an end, Devastation ceases, The oppressors are consumed out of the land. 365N 179.67
5 In mercy the throne will be established; And One will sit on it in truth, in the tabernacle of David, Judging and seeking justice and hastening righteousness.” 365N 179.68
6 We have heard of the pride of Moab— He is very proud— Of his haughtiness and his pride and his wrath; But his [c] lies shall not be so. 365N 179.69
7 Therefore Moab shall wail for Moab; Everyone shall wail. For the foundations of Kir Hareseth you shall mourn; Surely they are stricken. 365N 179.70
8 For the fields of Heshbon languish, And the vine of Sibmah; The lords of the nations have broken down its choice plants, Which have reached to Jazer And wandered through the wilderness. Her branches are stretched out, They are gone over the sea. 365N 179.71
9 Therefore I will bewail the vine of Sibmah, With the weeping of Jazer; I will drench you with my tears, O Heshbon and Elealeh; For [d] battle cries have fallen Over your summer fruits and your harvest. 365N 179.72
10 Gladness is taken away, And joy from the plentiful field; In the vineyards there will be no singing, Nor will there be shouting; No treaders will tread out wine in the presses; I have made their shouting cease. 365N 179.73
11 Therefore my [e] heart shall resound like a harp for Moab, And my inner being for [f] Kir Heres. 365N 179.74
12 And it shall come to pass, When it is seen that Moab is weary on the high place, That he will come to his sanctuary to pray; But he will not prevail. 365N 179.75
13 This is the word which the Lord has spoken concerning Moab since that time. 365N 179.76
14 But now the Lord has spoken, saying, “Within three years, as the years of a hired man, the glory of Moab will be despised with all that great multitude, and the remnant will be very small and feeble.” 365N 179.77
Isaiah 17
1 The burden [a] against Damascus. “Behold, Damascus will cease from being a city, And it will be a ruinous heap. 365N 179.78
2 [b] The cities of Aroer are forsaken; They will be for flocks Which lie down, and no one will make them afraid. 365N 179.79
3 The fortress also will cease from Ephraim, The kingdom from Damascus, And the remnant of Syria; They will be as the glory of the children of Israel,” Says the Lord of hosts. 365N 179.80
4 “In that day it shall come to pass That the glory of Jacob will [c] wane, And the fatness of his flesh grow lean. 365N 179.81
5 It shall be as when the harvester gathers the grain, And reaps the heads with his arm; It shall be as he who gathers heads of grain In the Valley of Rephaim. 365N 179.82
6 Yet gleaning grapes will be left in it, Like the shaking of an olive tree, Two or three olives at the top of the uppermost bough, Four or five in its most fruitful branches,” Says the Lord God of Israel. 365N 179.83
7 In that day a man will look to his Maker, And his eyes will have respect for the Holy One of Israel. 365N 179.84
8 He will not look to the altars, The work of his hands; He will not respect what his fingers have made, Nor the [d] wooden images nor the incense altars. 365N 179.85
9 In that day his strong cities will be as a forsaken [e] bough And [f] an uppermost branch, Which they left because of the children of Israel; And there will be desolation. 365N 179.86
10 Because you have forgotten the God of your salvation, And have not been mindful of the Rock of your [g] stronghold, Therefore you will plant pleasant plants And set out foreign seedlings; 365N 179.87
11 In the day you will make your plant to grow, And in the morning you will make your seed to flourish; But the harvest will be a heap of ruins In the day of grief and desperate sorrow. 365N 179.88
12 Woe to the multitude of many people Who make a noise like the roar of the seas, And to the rushing of nations That make a rushing like the rushing of mighty waters! 365N 179.89
13 The nations will rush like the rushing of many waters; But God will rebuke them and they will flee far away, And be chased like the chaff of the mountains before the wind, Like a rolling thing before the whirlwind. 365N 179.90
14 Then behold, at eventide, trouble! And before the morning, he is no more. This is the portion of those who plunder us, And the lot of those who rob us. 365N 179.91