Bible in a Year - Day 247 - Friday 4th September 2026

0:00The Bible in a year, bringing the Word to life. Father God, may the eyes of our hearts be enlightened in order that we might know the hope to which you have called us. Amen. Psalm 105 verses 23 to 36. Then Israel entered Egypt. Jacob resided as a foreigner in the land of Ham. The Lord made these people very fruitful. He made them too numerous for their foes. Whose hearts he turned to hit his people to conspire against his servants. He sent Moses his servant, an errand whom he had chosen. They performed his signs among them, his wonders in the land of Ham.

1:01He sent darkness and made the land dark for had they not rebelled against his words. He turned their waters into blood, causing their fish to die. Their land teamed with frogs which went up into the bedrooms of their rulers. He spoke and their came swarms of flies and nuts throughout the country. He turned their rain into hail, with lightning throughout the land. He struck down their vines and fig trees and shattered the trees of their country. He spoke and the locust came, grasshoppers without number. Their ate up every green thing in their land. They took the produce of their soil. Then he struck down all the first born in their land, the first fruits of all their manhood. Duke Corinthians chapter 7 verse 2 to 16.

2:04Make room for us in your hearts. We have wronged no one. We have corrupted no one. We have exploited no one. I do not say this to condemn you. I have said before that you have such a place in our hearts that we would live or die with you. I have spoken to you with great frankness. I take great pride in you. I am greatly encouraged. In all our troubles my joy knows no bounds. For when we came into Macedonia we had no rest, but we were harassed at every turn. We were so blessed with the glory of our beloved. We were so blessed with the glory of our beloved. But God who comforts the downcast comforted us by the coming of Titus and not only by his coming, but also by the comfort you had given him. He told us about your longing for me, your deep sorrow, your ardent concern for me, so that my joy was greater than ever. Even if I caused you sorrow by my letter, I do not regret it, though I did regret it.

3:09I see that my letter hurt you, but only for a little while. Yet now I am happy not because you were made sorry, but because your sorrow led you to repentance. For you became sorrowful as God intended, and so were not harmed in any way by us. Surely sorrow brings repentance that leads to salvation and leaves no regret, but worldly sorrow brings death. See what this Godly sorrow has produced in you. What earnestness, what eagerness to clear yourselves, what indignation, what alarm, what longing, what concern, what readiness to see just as done, at every point you have proved yourselves to be innocent in this matter. So even though I wrote to you, it was neither on account of the one who did the wrong, nor on account of the injured party, but rather that before God you could see for yourselves how devoted to us you are.

4:10By all this we are encouraged. In addition to our own encouragement, we were especially delighted to see how happy Titus was, because his spirit has been refreshed by all of you. I had boasted to him about you, and you have not embarrassed me, but just as everything we said to you was true, so our boasting about you to Titus has proved to be true as well. And his affection for you is all the greater when he remembers that you are all obedient, receiving him with fear and trembling. I am glad I can have complete confidence in you. Isaiah chapter 5 verse 8 through 2 Isaiah chapter 8 verse 10. War to you who add house to house, and join field to field, till no space is left, and you live alone in the land. The Lord Almighty has declared in my hearing, surely the great houses will become desolate,

5:16to find mansions left without occupants. A ten acre vineyard will produce only a bath of wine. A homer of seed will yield only an effaf of grain. War to those who rise early in the morning, to run after their drinks, who stay up late at night till they are inflamed with wine. They have harps and liars at their banquets, pipes and tambourines and wine, but they have no regard for the deeds of the Lord, no respect for the work of His hands. Therefore, my people will go into exile for lack of understanding. Those of high rank will die of hunger, and the common people will be parched with thirst. Therefore death expands its jaws, opening wide its mouth, into it will descend their

6:19nobles and masses with all their brawlers and revelers. So people will be brought law, and everyone humbled, the eyes of the arrogant humbled, but the Lord Almighty will be exalted by His justice, and the Holy God will be proved wholly by His righteous acts. Then sheep will graze as in their own pasture. Lamas will feed among the ruins of the rich. War to those who draw sin along with cords of deceit, and wickedness as with cart ropes. To those who say, let God hurry, let Him hasten His work so that we may see it. The plan of the Holy One of Israel let it approach, let it come into view, so that we may know it. War to those who call evil good and good evil.

7:23Who put darkness for light and light for darkness. Who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter. To those who are wise in their own eyes, and clever in their own sight. War to those who are heroes at drinking wine, and champions at mixing drinks. Who equate the guilty for a bribe, and deny justice to the innocent. Therefore, as tongues of fire lick up straw, and as dry grass sinks down in the flames, so their roots will decay, and their flowers blow away like dust. For they have rejected the law of the Lord Almighty, and spurned the word of the Holy One of Israel. Therefore, the Lord's anger burns against His people. His hand is raised, and He strikes them down. The mountains shake, and the dead bodies are like refuse in the streets.

8:29Yes, for all this, His anger is not turned away. His hand is still upraised. He lift up a banner for the distant nations. He whistles for those at the ends of the earth. Here they come swiftly and speedily. But one of them grows tired or stumbles. No one slumbers or sleeps. Not a belt is loosened at the waist. Not a sandal strap is broken. Their arrows are sharp. All their bows are strong. Their horses who have seemed like flint. Their chariot wheels like a whirlwind. Their roar is like that of the lion. Their roar like young lions. They growl as they seize their prey and carry it off with no one to rescue. In that day they will roar over it like the roaring of the sea.

9:32And if one looks at the land, there is only darkness and distress. Even the sun will be darkened by clouds. Isaiah chapter 6 In the year the king of Isaiah died, I saw the Lord, high and exalted, seated on a throne, and the train of his robe filled the temple. Above him were Seraphim, each with six wings. With two wings they covered their faces, with two they covered their feet, and with two they were flying. And they were calling to one another. Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty. The whole earth is full of his glory. At the sound of their voices the doorposts and thresholds shook and the temple was filled with smoke. What do me I cried?

10:35I am ruined for I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips. And my eyes have seen the king, the Lord Almighty. Then one of the Seraphim flew to me with a live call in his hand, which he had taken with tongues from the altar. With it he touched my mouth and said, see, this has touched your lips, your guilt is taken away, and your sin are torn for. Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, whom shall I send, and who will go for us? And I said, here I am, send me. He said, go and tell this people. Be ever-hearing, but never-understanding. Be ever-seeing, but never-perceiving.

11:37Make the heart of this people calloused. Make their ears dull and close their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts, and turn and be healed. Then I said, for how long, Lord, and he answered, until the cities lie ruined and without inhabitant, until the houses are left deserted, and the fields ruined and ravaged, until the Lord has sent everyone far away, and the land is utterly forsaken. And though a tenth remains in the land, it will again be laid waste. But as the terabunth and orclieve stumps when they are cut down, so the holy seed will be the stump in the land. Isaiah 7

12:39When he has, son of Jotham, son of Uzair, was king of Judah, king raisin of Aram and pecan son of Rimalaya, king of Israel, marched up to fight against Jerusalem, but they could not overpower it. Now the house of David was told. Aram has allied himself with Ephraim, so the hearts of Ahaz and his people were shaken as the trees of the forest are shaken by the wind. When the Lord said to Isaiah, go out, you and your son, Shairajazab, to meet Ahaz at the end of the aqueduct of the upper pool, on the road to the launderers' field. Say to him, be careful, keep calm and don't be afraid. Do not lose heart because of these two smoldering stubs of firewood. Most of the fierce anger of resin and Aram and the son of Rimalaya.

13:43Aram, Ephraim and Rimalaya's son have plotted your ruin, saying, let us invade Judah, let us chair it apart, and divide it among ourselves, and make the son of Tabiel king over it. Yet this is what the sovereign Lord says. It will not take place. It will not happen, for the head of Aram is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is only resin. Within 65 years, Ephraim will be too shattered to be a people. The head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is only Rimalaya's son. If you do not stand firm in your faith, you will not stand at all. Again, the Lord spoke to Ahaz. Ask the Lord your God for a sign, whether in the deepest depths or in the highest heights,

14:48but Ahaz said, I will not ask, I will not put the Lord to the test. Then Ahazaya said, here now you house of David, is it not enough to try the patience of humans? Will you try the patience of my God also? Therefore, the Lord Himself will give you a sign. The Virgin will conceive and give birth to a son, and will call him Emmanuel. He will be eating curds and honey when he knows enough to reject the wrong and choose the right. For before the boy knows enough to reject the wrong and choose the right, the land of the two kings you dread will be laid waste. The Lord will bring on you and on your people, and on the house of your father, a time unlike any since Ephraim broke away from Judah.

15:49He will bring the King of Assyria. In that day the Lord will whistle for flies from the Nile Delta in Egypt and for bees from the land of Assyria. They will all come and settle in the steep ravines and in the crevices in the rocks on all the thorn bushes and at all the water holes. In that day the Lord will use a razor hired from beyond the river Euphrates, the King of Assyria to shave your heads and private parts and to cut off your beards also. In that day a person will keep alive a young cow and two goats. And because of the abundance of the milk they give there will be curds to eat, all who remain in the land will eat curds and honey.

16:50In that day in every place where there were a thousand vines worth a thousand silver shackles there will be only briars and thorns. Hunters will go there with boar and arrow for the land will be covered with briars and thorns. As for all the hills once cultivated by the whore you will no longer go there for fear of the briars and thorns. They will be complases where cattle are turned loose and where sheep run. Isaiah chapter 8 The Lord said to me, take a large scroll and write on it with an ordinary pen, Meha Shalla Hashbaz. So I called in Euryah the priest and Zechariah, son of Joberakaya, as reliable witnesses for me. Then I made love to the Prophetess and she conceived and gave birth to a son.

17:56And the Lord said to me, name him Meha Shalla Hashbaz. For before the boy knows how to say, my father or my mother, the wealth of Damascus and a plunder of Samaria will be carried off by the king of Assyria. The Lord spoke to me again. Because this people has rejected the gentle flowing waters of Shailua and rejoices over resin and the son of Remalaya, therefore the Lord is about to bring against them the mighty floodwaters of the Euphrates, the king of Assyria with all his pomp. It will overflow all its channels, run over all its banks, and sweep on into Judah, swirling over it, passing through it and reaching up to the neck. Its outspread wings will cover the breadth of your land Emmanuel.

18:59Is the war cryunations and be shattered? Listen all you distant lands. Prepare for battle and be shattered. Prepare for battle and be shattered. Devise your strategy. But it will be thwarted. Propose your plan, but it will not stand. For God is with us. Today, may the God of Hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in Him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit. Amen.