Daily Bible GNT October 4 Verses

¹²The LORD says,

"I am the one who strengthens you.

Why should you fear mortals,

who are no more enduring than grass?

¹³Have you forgotten the LORD who made you,

who stretched out the heavens

and laid the earth's foundations?

Why should you live in constant fear

of the fury of those who oppress you,

of those who are ready to destroy you?

Their fury can no longer touch you.

¹⁴Those who are prisoners will soon be set free;

they will live a long life

and have all the food they need.

¹⁵"I am the LORD your God;

I stir up the sea

and make its waves roar.

My name is the LORD Almighty!

¹⁶I stretched out the heavens

and laid the earth's foundations;

I say to Jerusalem, 'You are my people!

I have given you my teaching,

and I protect you with my hand.'"

The End of Jerusalem's Suffering

¹⁷Jerusalem, wake up!

Rouse yourself and get up!

You have drunk the cup of punishment

that the LORD in his anger gave you to drink;

you drank it down, and it made you stagger.

¹⁸There is no one to lead you,

no one among your people

to take you by the hand.

¹⁹A double disaster has fallen on you:

your land has been devastated by war,

and your people have starved.

There is no one to show you sympathy.

²⁰At the corner of every street

your people collapse from weakness;

they are like deer caught in a hunter's net.

They have felt the force of God's anger.

²¹You suffering people of Jerusalem,

you that stagger as though you were drunk,

²²the LORD your God defends you and says,

"I am taking away the cup

that I gave you in my anger.

You will no longer have to drink

the wine that makes you stagger.

²³I will give it to those who oppressed you,

to those who made you lie down in the streets

and trampled on you as if you were dirt."

This reading is from The Holy Bible, Today's English Version, Second Edition copyright © American Bible Society, 1992;
Old Testament copyright © American Bible Society, 1976, 1992; New Testament © American Bible Society, 1966, 1971, 1976, 1992.

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