Old Testament
Isa 21:1~23:18
Isa 21
1 The burden concerning the wilderness of the sea: Like storm winds / In the Negev passing through, / It comes from the wilderness / From an awesome land.
2 A harsh vision / Has been announced to me; / The unfaithful one deals unfaithfully, / And the destroyer destroys. / Go up, Elam; / Lay siege, Media; / I have put an end / To all her groaning.
3 Therefore my loins / Are full of anguish; / Pangs have taken hold of me / Like the pangs of a woman in labor. / I am bent over at the hearing of it; / I am terrified at the seeing of it.
4 My heart reels; / Shuddering overwhelms me. / The twilight that I love / Has become a source of trembling to me.
5 Setting the table! / Spreading out the rug! / Eating! Drinking! / Rise, princes; / Oil the shields.
6 For thus says / The Lord to me, / Go, set a watchman; / Let him report what he sees.
7 And he saw riders, / A team of horsemen; / Riders of donkeys, / Riders of camels; / And he attends with attention, / With much attention.
8 And he calls out like a lion: / On the watchtower, Lord, / I stand continually by day; / At my guardpost / I am stationed / Every night.
9 And now there come / Riding men, / A team of horsemen. / And one answers and says, / Fallen, fallen is Babylon! / And all the idols of her gods / Has He shattered to the ground.
10 My threshed ones, / And the son of the threshing floor! / What I have heard / From Jehovah of hosts, / The God of Israel, / I have declared to you.
11 The burden concerning Dumah: / Someone is calling to me from Seir: / Guard, what remains of the night? / Guard, what remains of the night?
12 The guard says, / Morning is coming, / But so also is night; / If you will ask, ask; / Return, come.
13 The burden against Arabia: / In the thicket of Arabia you must spend the night, / You nomad clans of the Dedanim.
14 They bring water / To meet the thirsty; / The inhabitants of the land of Tema / Meet with bread those who flee;
15 For they flee from swords — / From the drawn sword, / From the bent bow, / And from the harshness of battle.
16 For thus has the Lord said to me, Within a year, like a wage worker’s year, all the glory of Kedar will end,
17 And the remainder of the number of the archers, the mighty men of the sons of Kedar, will be few; for Jehovah the God of Israel has spoken.
Isa 22
1 The burden concerning the valley of vision: What then troubles you / That all have gone up to the housetops?
2 You who are full of noise, you tumultuous city, / You exultant town, / Your slain were not slain with the sword, / Nor are they dead because of battle.
3 All your rulers have fled together; / Apart from the bow they have been captured. / All of you who were found have been captured together, / Though they had fled far away.
4 Therefore I said, Look away from me! / Let me weep bitterly. / Do not hasten to comfort me / About the destruction of the daughter of my people.
5 For there is a day of turmoil and trampling down and confusion / With the Lord Jehovah of hosts / In the valley of vision, a breaking down of walls / And crying to the mountains.
6 And Elam took up the quiver, / With chariots of men and horsemen; / And Kir uncovered the shield.
7 Then your choicest valleys / Were full of chariots, / And the horsemen firmly fixed themselves at the gate;
8 And he removed the covering of Judah. / And you looked in that day / To the weapons of the Forest House,
9 While the breaches of the city of David / You saw to be many. / So you gathered the water of the lower pool;
10 And the houses of Jerusalem you counted, / And tore down the houses to fortify the wall.
11 Then you made a reservoir between the walls / For the water of the old pool. / But you did not look to its very Maker, / And Him who formed it long ago you did not regard.
12 Therefore the Lord Jehovah of hosts / Called you in that day / To weeping and to mourning, / To head shaving and to wearing sackcloth.
13 But now there is gladness and joy, / The slaying of cattle and the slaughtering of sheep, / The eating of meat and the drinking of wine; / Eating and drinking, for tomorrow we die!
14 But in my ears Jehovah of hosts revealed this: / This iniquity shall by no means be covered for you until you die, / Says the Lord Jehovah of hosts.
15 Thus says the Lord Jehovah of hosts: / Get up, go to this steward, / To Shebna, who is over the king’s house, and say,
16 What are you doing here, and whom do you have here / That you have hewn a tomb for yourself here, / As he who has hewn a tomb on the heights, / As he who has cut out a resting place for himself in the rock?
17 Jehovah soon throws you far away, O mighty one, / And He grasps you firmly;
18 He will wind you up tightly; / Like a ball He will toss you into a wide land. / There you will die; and there the chariots of your glory / Will become the disgrace of the house of your master.
19 And I will drive you from your position, / And from your standing He will pull you down.
20 And in that day / I will call to My servant Eliakim the son of Hilkiah,
21 And I will clothe him with your tunic, / And I will strengthen him with your girding sash, / And I will put your dominion into his hand; / And he will become a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem / And to the house of Judah.
22 And I will set the key of the house of David upon his shoulder — / When he opens, no one will shut; / When he shuts, no one will open.
23 And I will drive him as a peg into a sure place, / And he will become a throne of glory for his father’s house.
24 And they will hang upon him all the glory of his father’s house, the offspring and the issue, all the smallest vessels, from the bowls to all the jars.
25 In that day, declares Jehovah of hosts, the peg driven into the sure place will be removed, even cut away, and it will fall; and the burden that was upon it will be cut down; for Jehovah has spoken.
Isa 23
1 The burden concerning Tyre: / Howl, O ships of Tarshish, / For it is destroyed — lacking house, / Lacking entrance. From as far away as the land of Kittim / It is told to them.
2 Hush, you inhabitants of the coastland, / You, whom the merchants of Sidon, / Who cross the sea, have replenished.
3 And by way of many waters / The grain of Shihor, the harvest of the Nile, was her revenue; / And she was profit to the nations.
4 Be ashamed, O Sidon, for the sea has spoken, / The stronghold of the sea, saying, / I have not been in labor nor given birth; / Neither have I brought up young men, / Nor have I raised virgins.
5 When the report reaches Egypt, / They will writhe in pain at the report concerning Tyre.
6 Cross over to Tarshish; / Howl, you inhabitants of the coastland.
7 Is this your jubilant city, / Whose antiquity is from the days of antiquity, / Whose feet carried her off afar to sojourn?
8 Who has purposed this / Against Tyre, the giver of crowns, / Whose merchants were princes, / Whose traders were the honorable of the earth?
9 Jehovah of hosts has purposed it, / To defile the pride of all beauty, / To bring into contempt all the honorable of the earth.
10 Overflow your land like a river, O daughter of Tarshish; / There is no more restraint.
11 He has stretched out His hand over the sea; / He has shaken kingdoms. / Jehovah has given commandment concerning Canaan / To destroy its strongholds.
12 And He has said, You shall not continue to exult any longer, / O crushed virgin daughter of Sidon. / Arise; cross over to Kittim — / There also you will have no rest.
13 See the land of the Chaldeans, this people! They were not — the Assyrians assigned it to desert animals; they raised their siege towers; they stripped their citadels; they brought it to ruin.
14 Howl, O ships of Tarshish, / For your stronghold is destroyed.
15 In that day Tyre will be forgotten for seventy years, like the days of one king. At the end of the seventy years Tyre will be like her in the harlot’s song:
16 Take a harp; / Compass the city, / Forgotten harlot. / Play well; / Abound in song, / That you may be remembered.
17 And at the end of the seventy years Jehovah will visit Tyre. And she will return to the wages of her harlotry and will be a harlot to all the kingdoms of the earth on land’s surface.
18 And her profit and the wages of her harlotry will be dedicated to Jehovah; it will not be stored up, nor will it be hoarded, for her profit will be for those who dwell before Jehovah, as their sufficient food and their choice clothing.
New Testament
Phil 1:1~18
Phil 1
1 Paul and Timothy, slaves of Christ Jesus, to all the saints in Christ Jesus who are in Philippi, with the overseers and deacons:
2 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
3 I thank my God upon all my remembrance of you,
4 Always in my every petition on behalf of you all, making my petition with joy,
5 For your fellowship unto the furtherance of the gospel from the first day until now,
6 Being confident of this very thing, that He who has begun in you a good work will complete it until the day of Christ Jesus;
7 Even as it is right for me to think this concerning you all because you have me in your heart, since both in my bonds and in the defense and confirmation of the gospel you are all fellow partakers with me of grace.
8 For God is my witness how I long after you all in the inward parts of Christ Jesus.
9 And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in full knowledge and all discernment,
10 So that you may approve by testing the things which differ and are more excellent, that you may be pure and without offense unto the day of Christ,
11 Being filled with the fruit of righteousness, which is through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.
12 Now I want you to know, brothers, that the things concerning me have turned out rather to the advancement of the gospel,
13 So that my bonds have become manifest as being in Christ among the whole Praetorian guard and to all the rest.
14 And most of the brothers, being confident in the Lord because of my bonds, are more exceedingly bold to speak the word of God without fear.
15 Some preach Christ even because of envy and strife, and some also because of good will,
16 These out of love, knowing that I am set for the defense of the gospel.
17 But the others announce Christ out of selfish ambition, not purely, thinking to raise up affliction in my bonds.
18 What then? Only that in every way, whether in pretense or in truthfulness, Christ is announced; and in this I rejoice; yes, and I will rejoice;