Reading Plan
Comprehensive Reading Plan (365 days) New Testament Reading Plan (83 days) Old Testament Plan (282 days) Old/New Testament Plan (365 days) Survey Reading Plan (61 days) Through-the-Bible Reading Plan (365 days)
Bible Version
Apostles' Bible Complete (2004) King James Version (1769) New King James Version (1982) Today's English Version (Good News Bible) (1992) Voice In Wilderness (2006)
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LORD, you are my God; I will honor you and praise your name. You have done amazing things; you have faithfully carried out the plans you made long ago.
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You have turned cities into ruins and destroyed their fortifications. The palaces which our enemies built are gone forever.
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The people of powerful nations will praise you; you will be feared in the cities of cruel nations.
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The poor and the helpless have fled to you and have been safe in times of trouble. You give them shelter from storms and shade from the burning heat. Cruel enemies attack like a winter storm,
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like drought in a dry land. But you, LORD, have silenced our enemies; you silence the shouts of cruel people, as a cloud cools a hot day.
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Here on Mount Zion the LORD Almighty will prepare a banquet for all the nations of the world---a banquet of the richest food and the finest wine.
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Here he will suddenly remove the cloud of sorrow that has been hanging over all the nations.
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The Sovereign LORD will destroy death forever! He will wipe away the tears from everyone's eyes and take away the disgrace his people have suffered throughout the world. The LORD himself has spoken.
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When it happens, everyone will say, "He is our God! We have put our trust in him, and he has rescued us. He is the LORD! We have put our trust in him, and now we are happy and joyful because he has saved us."
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The LORD will protect Mount Zion, but the people of Moab will be trampled down the way straw is trampled in manure.
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They will reach out their hands as if they were trying to swim, but God will humiliate them, and their hands will sink helplessly.
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He will destroy the fortresses of Moab with their high walls and bring them tumbling down into the dust.
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A day is coming when the people will sing this song in the land of Judah: Our city is strong! God himself defends its walls!
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Open the city gates and let the faithful nation enter, the nation whose people do what is right.
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You, LORD, give perfect peace to those who keep their purpose firm and put their trust in you.
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Trust in the LORD forever; he will always protect us.
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He has humbled those who were proud; he destroyed the strong city they lived in, and sent its walls crashing into the dust.
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Those who were oppressed walk over it now and trample it under their feet.
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LORD, you make the path smooth for good people; the road they travel is level.
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We follow your will and put our hope in you; you are all that we desire.
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At night I long for you with all my heart; when you judge the earth and its people, they will all learn what justice is.
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Even though you are kind to the wicked, they never learn to do what is right. Even here in a land of righteous people they still do wrong; they refuse to recognize your greatness.
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Your enemies do not know that you will punish them. LORD, put them to shame and let them suffer; let them suffer the punishment you have prepared. Show them how much you love your people.
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You will give us prosperity, LORD; everything that we achieve is the result of what you do.
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LORD our God, we have been ruled by others, but you alone are our LORD.
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Now they are dead and will not live again; their ghosts will not rise, for you have punished them and destroyed them. No one remembers them any more.
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LORD, you have made our nation grow, enlarging its territory on every side; and this has brought you honor.
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You punished your people, LORD, and in anguish they prayed to you.
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You, LORD, have made us cry out, as a woman in labor cries out in pain.
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We were in pain and agony, but we gave birth to nothing. We have won no victory for our land; we have accomplished nothing.
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Those of our people who have died will live again! Their bodies will come back to life. All those sleeping in their graves will wake up and sing for joy. As the sparkling dew refreshes the earth, so the LORD will revive those who have long been dead.
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Go into your houses, my people, and shut the door behind you. Hide yourselves for a little while until God's anger is over.
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The LORD is coming from his heavenly dwelling place to punish the people of the earth for their sins. The murders that were secretly committed on the earth will be revealed, and the ground will no longer hide those who have been killed.
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On that day the LORD will use his powerful and deadly sword to punish Leviathan, that wriggling, twisting dragon, and to kill the monster that lives in the sea.
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On that day the LORD will say of his pleasant vineyard,
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"I watch over it and water it continually. I guard it night and day so that no one will harm it.
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I am no longer angry with the vineyard. If there were thorns and briers to fight against, I would burn them up completely.
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But if the enemies of my people want my protection, let them make peace with me. Yes, let them make peace with me."
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In the days to come the people of Israel, the descendants of Jacob, will take root like a tree, and they will blossom and bud. The earth will be covered with the fruit they produce.
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Israel has not been punished by the LORD as severely as its enemies nor lost as many people.
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The LORD punished his people by sending them into exile. He took them away with a cruel wind from the east.
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But Israel's sins will be forgiven only when the stones of pagan altars are ground up like chalk, and no more incense altars or symbols of the goddess Asherah are left.
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The fortified city lies in ruins. It is deserted like an empty wilderness. It has become a pasture for cattle, where they can rest and graze.
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The branches of the trees are withered and broken, and women gather them for firewood. Because the people have understood nothing, God their Creator will not pity them or show them any mercy.
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On that day, from the Euphrates to the Egyptian border, the LORD will gather his people one by one, as threshing separates the wheat from the chaff.
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When that day comes, a trumpet will be blown to call back from Assyria and Egypt all the Israelites who are in exile there. They will come and worship the LORD in Jerusalem, on his sacred hill.
