Daily Lectionary

Isaiah 24:14-25:12

¹⁴ They lift up their voices, they sing for joy; over the majesty of the LORD they shout from the west.
¹⁵ Therefore in the east give glory to the LORD; in the coastlands of the sea, give glory to the name of the LORD, the God of Israel.
¹⁶ From the ends of the earth we hear songs of praise, of glory to the Righteous One. But I say, “I waste away, I waste away. Woe is me! For the traitors have betrayed, with betrayal the traitors have betrayed.”
¹⁷ Terror and the pit and the snare are upon you, O inhabitant of the earth!
¹⁸ He who flees at the sound of the terror shall fall into the pit, and he who climbs out of the pit shall be caught in the snare. For the windows of heaven are opened, and the foundations of the earth tremble.
¹⁹ The earth is utterly broken, the earth is split apart, the earth is violently shaken.
²⁰ The earth staggers like a drunken man; it sways like a hut; its transgression lies heavy upon it, and it falls, and will not rise again.
²¹ On that day the LORD will punish the host of heaven, in heaven, and the kings of the earth, on the earth.
²² They will be gathered together as prisoners in a pit; they will be shut up in a prison, and after many days they will be punished.
²³ Then the moon will be confounded and the sun ashamed, for the LORD of hosts reigns on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem, and his glory will be before his elders.
¹ O LORD, you are my God; I will exalt you; I will praise your name, for you have done wonderful things, plans formed of old, faithful and sure.
² For you have made the city a heap, the fortified city a ruin; the foreigners’ palace is a city no more; it will never be rebuilt.
³ Therefore strong peoples will glorify you; cities of ruthless nations will fear you.
⁴ For you have been a stronghold to the poor, a stronghold to the needy in his distress, a shelter from the storm and a shade from the heat; for the breath of the ruthless is like a storm against a wall,
⁵ like heat in a dry place. You subdue the noise of the foreigners; as heat by the shade of a cloud, so the song of the ruthless is put down.
⁶ On this mountain the LORD of hosts will make for all peoples a feast of rich food, a feast of well-aged wine, of rich food full of marrow, of aged wine well refined.
⁷ And he will swallow up on this mountain the covering that is cast over all peoples, the veil that is spread over all nations.
⁸ He will swallow up death forever; and the Lord GOD will wipe away tears from all faces, and the reproach of his people he will take away from all the earth, for the LORD has spoken.
⁹ It will be said on that day, “Behold, this is our God; we have waited for him, that he might save us. This is the LORD; we have waited for him; let us be glad and rejoice in his salvation.”
¹⁰ For the hand of the LORD will rest on this mountain, and Moab shall be trampled down in his place, as straw is trampled down in a dunghill.
¹¹ And he will spread out his hands in the midst of it as a swimmer spreads his hands out to swim, but the LORD will lay low his pompous pride together with the skill of his hands.
¹² And the high fortifications of his walls he will bring down, lay low, and cast to the ground, to the dust. (ESV)

1 John 2:15-29

¹⁵ Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
¹⁶ For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and pride of life—is not from the Father but is from the world.
¹⁷ And the world is passing away along with its desires, but whoever does the will of God abides forever.
¹⁸ Children, it is the last hour, and as you have heard that antichrist is coming, so now many antichrists have come. Therefore we know that it is the last hour.
¹⁹ They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have continued with us. But they went out, that it might become plain that they all are not of us.
²⁰ But you have been anointed by the Holy One, and you all have knowledge.
²¹ I write to you, not because you do not know the truth, but because you know it, and because no lie is of the truth.
²² Who is the liar but he who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is the antichrist, he who denies the Father and the Son.
²³ No one who denies the Son has the Father. Whoever confesses the Son has the Father also.
²⁴ Let what you heard from the beginning abide in you. If what you heard from the beginning abides in you, then you too will abide in the Son and in the Father.
²⁵ And this is the promise that he made to us—eternal life.
²⁶ I write these things to you about those who are trying to deceive you.
²⁷ But the anointing that you received from him abides in you, and you have no need that anyone should teach you. But as his anointing teaches you about everything, and is true, and is no lie—just as it has taught you, abide in him.
²⁸ And now, little children, abide in him, so that when he appears we may have confidence and not shrink from him in shame at his coming.
²⁹ If you know that he is righteous, you may be sure that everyone who practices righteousness has been born of him. (ESV)