Bible in a Year.

On day 209, Isaiah 39-40 presents prophecies and warnings, highlighting God's power and sovereignty. Ezekiel 1 reveals a stunning vision of divine glory, inspiring reverence and awe. Proverbs 11:29-31 provides guidance on responsibility, justice, and the consequences of choices, strengthening our spiritual discernment.

Chapter 39

1. At that time Merodach Baladan, the son of Baladan king of Babylon, sent letters and presents to Ezechias: for he had heard that he had been sick and was recovered.

2. And Ezechias rejoiced at their coming, and he shewed them the storehouses of his aromatical spices, and of the silver, and of the gold, and of the sweet odours, and of the precious ointment, and all the storehouses of his furniture, and all things that were found in his treasures. There was nothing in his house, nor in all his dominion that Ezechias shewed them not.

3. Then Isaias the prophet came to king Ezechias, and said to him: What said these men, and from whence came they to thee? And Ezechias said: From a far country they came to me, from Babylon

4. And he said: What saw they in thy house? And Ezechias said: All things that are in my house have they seen, there was not any thing which I have not shewn them in my treasures.

5. And Isaias said to Ezechias: Rear the word of the Lord of hosts.

6. Behold the days shall come, that all that is in thy house, and that thy fathers have laid up in store until this day, shall be carried away into Babylon: there shall not any thing be left, saith the Lord.

7. And of thy children, that shall issue from thee, whom thou shalt beget, they shall take away, and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.

8. And Ezechias said to Isaias: The word of the Lord, which he hath spoken, is good. And he said: Only let peace and truth be in my days.

Chapter 40

1. Be comforted, be comforted, my people, saith your God.

2. Speak ye to the heart of Jerusalem, and call to her: for her evil is come to an end, her iniquity is forgiven: she hath received of the hand of the Lord double for all her sins.

3. The voice of one crying in the desert: Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make straight in the wilderness the paths of our God.

4. Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low, and the crooked shall become straight, and the rough ways plain.

5. And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh together shall see, that the mouth of the Lord hath spoken.

6. The voice of one, saying: Cry. And I said: What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the glory thereof as the flower of the held.

7. The grass is withered, and the dower is fallen, because the spirit of the Lord hath blown upon it. Indeed the people is grass:

8. The grass is withered, and the flower is fallen: but the word of our Lord endureth for ever.

9. Get thee up upon a high mountain, thou that bringest good tidings to Sion: lift up thy voice with strength, thou that bringest good tidings to Jerusalem: lift it up, fear not. Say to the cities of Juda: Behold your God:

10. Behold the Lord God shall come with strength, and his arm shall rule: Behold his reward is with him and his work is before him.

11. He shall feed his flock like a shepherd: he shall gather together the lambs with his arm, and shall take them up in his bosom, and he himself shall carry them that are with young.

12. Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and weighed the heavens with his palm? who hath poised with three fingers the bulk of the earth, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?

13. Who hath forwarded the spirit of the Lord? or who hath been his counsellor, and hath taught him?

14. With whom hath he consulted, and who hath instructed him, and taught him the path of justice, and taught him knowledge, and shewed him the way of understanding?

15. Behold the Gentiles are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the smallest grain of a balance: behold the islands are as a little dust.

16. And Libanus shall not be enough to burn, nor the beasts thereof sufficient for a burnt offering.

17. All nations are before him as if they had no being at all, and are counted to him as nothing, and vanity.

18. To whom then have you likened God? or what image will you make for him?

19. Hath the workman cast a graven statue? or hath the goldsmith formed it with gold, or the silversmith with plates of silver?

20. He hath chosen strong wood, and that will not rot: the skilful workman seeketh how he may set up an idol that may not be moved.

21. Do you not know? hath it not been heard? hath it not been told you from the beginning? have you not understood the foundations of the earth ?

22. It is he that sitteth upon the globe of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as locusts: he that stretcheth out the heavens as nothing, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in.

23. He that bringeth the searchers of secrets to nothing, that hath made the judges of the earth as vanity.

24. And surely their stock was neither planted, nor sown, nor rooted in the earth: suddenly he hath blown upon them, and they are withered, and a whirlwind shall take them away as stubble.

25. And to whom have ye likened me, or made me equal, saith the Holy One?

26. Lift up your eyes on high, and see who hath created these things: who bringeth out their host by number, and calleth them all by their names: by the greatness of his might, and strength, and power, not one of them was missing.

27. Why sayest thou, O Jacob, and speakest, O Israel: My way is hid from the Lord, and my judgment is passed over from my God?

28. Knowest thou not, or hast thou not heard? the Lord is the everlasting God, who hath created the ends of the earth: he shall not faint, nor labour, neither is there any searching out of his wisdom.

29. It is he that giveth strength to the weary, and increaseth force and might to them that are not.

30. Youths shall faint, and labour, and young men shall fall by infirmity.

31. But they that hope in the Lord shall renew their strength, they shall take wings as eagles, they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and not faint.

1. Now it came to pass in the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, on the fifth day of the month, when I was in the midst of the captives by the river Chobar, the heavens were opened, and I saw the visions of God.

2. On the fifth day of the month, the same was the fifth year of the captivity of king Joachin,

3. The word of the Lord came to Ezechiel the priest the son of Bud in the land of the Chaldeans, by the river Chobar: and the hand of the Lord was there upon him.

4. And I saw, and behold a whirlwind came out of the north: and a great cloud, and a fire infolding it, and brightness was about it: and out of the midst thereof, that is, out of the midst of the fire, as it were the resemblance of amber:

5. And in the midst thereof the likeness of four living creatures: and this was their appearance: there was the likeness of a man in them.

6. Every one had four faces, and every one four wings.

7. Their feet were straight feet, and the sole of their foot was like the sole of a calf's foot, and they sparkled like the appearance of glowing brass.

8. And they had the hands of a man under their wings on their four sides: and they bad faces, and wings on the four sides,

9. And the wings of one were joined to the wings of another. They turned not when they went: but every one went straight forward.

10. And as for the likeness of their faces: there was the face of a man, and the face of a lion on the right side of all the four: and the face of an ox, on the left side of all the four: and the face of an eagle over all the four.

11. And their faces, and their wings were stretched upward: two wings of every one were joined, and two covered their bodies:

12. And every one of them went straight forward: whither the impulse of the spirit was to go, thither they went: and they turned not when they went.

13. And as for the likeness of the living creatures, their appearance was like that of burning coals of fire, and like the appearance of lamps. This was the vision running to and fro in the midst of the living creatures, a bright fire, and lightning going forth from the fire.

14. And the living creatures ran and returned like flashes of lightning.

15. Now as I beheld the living creatures, there appeared upon the earth by the living creatures one wheel with four faces.

16. And the appearance of the wheels, and the work of them was like the appearance of the sea: and the four had all one likeness: and their appearance and their work was as it were a wheel in the midst of a wheel.

17. When they went, they went by their four parts: and they turned not when they went.

18. The wheels had also a size, and a height, and a dreadful appearance: and the whole body was full of eyes round about all the four.

19. And when the living creatures went, the wheels also went together by them: and when the living creatures were lifted up from the earth, the wheels also were lifted up with them.

20. Whithersoever the spirit went, thither as the spirit went the wheels also were lifted up withal, and followed it: for the spirit of life was in the wheels.

21. When those went these went, and when those stood these stood, and when those were lifted up from the earth, the wheels also were lifted up together, and followed them: for the spirit of life was in the wheels.

22. And over the heads of the living creatures was the likeness of the firmament, as the appearance of crystal terrible to behold, and stretched out over their heads above.

23. And under the firmament were their wings straight, the one toward the other, every one with two wings covered his body, and the other was covered in like manner.

24. And I heard the noise of their wings, like the noise of many waters, as it were the voice of the most high God: when they walked, it was like the voice of a multitude, like the noise of an army, and when they stood, their wings were let down.

25. For when a voice came from above the firmament, that was over their heads, they stood, and let down their wings.

26. And above the firmament that was over their heads, was the likeness of a throne, as the appearance of the sapphire stone, and upon the likeness of the throne, was a likeness as of the appearance of a man above upon it.

27. And I saw as it were the resemblance of amber as the appearance of fire within it round about: from his loins and upward, and from his loins downward, I saw as it were the resemblance of fire shining round about.

28. As the appearance of the rainbow when it is in a cloud on a rainy day: this was the appearance of the brightness round about.

29. He that troubleth his own house, shall inherit the winds: and the fool shall serve the wise.

30. The fruit of the just man is a tree of life: and he that gaineth souls, is wise.

31. If the just man receive in the earth, how much more the wicked and the sinner.