Bible in a Year.

On day 203, Isaiah 25-27 speaks of God's final victory, the restoration of Jerusalem, and judgment on enemies, offering hope for the future. Habakkuk 3 presents a poetic prayer of trust, recognizing God's greatness even in difficult times. Proverbs 11:5-8 reinforces the value of righteousness and the consequences of wickedness, guiding us in the pursuit of a righteous life.

Chapter 25

1. For the hand of the Lord shall rest in this mountain: and Moab shall be trodden down under him, as straw is broken in pieces with the wain.

11. And he shall stretch forth his hands under him, as he that swimmeth stretcheth forth his hands to swim: and he shall bring down his glory with the dashing of his hands.

12. And the bulwarks of thy high walls shall fall, and be brought low, and shall be pulled down to the ground, even to the dust.

Chapter 26

1. In that day shall this canticle be sung the land of Juda. Sion the city of our strength a saviour, a wall and a bulwark shall be set therein.

2. Open ye the gates, and let the just nation, that keepeth the truth, enter in.

3. The old error is passed away: thou wilt keep peace: peace, because we have hoped in thee.

4. You have hoped in the Lord for evermore, in the Lord God mighty for ever.

5. For he shall bring down them that dwell on high, the high city he shall lay low. He shall bring it down even to the ground, he shall pull it down even to the dust.

6. The foot shall tread it down, the feet of the poor, the steps of the needy.

7. The way of the just is right, the path of the just is right to walk in.

8. And in the way of thy judgments, O Lord, we have patiently waited for thee: thy name, and thy remembrance are the desire of the soul.

9. My soul hath desired thee in the night: yea, and with my spirit within me in the morning early I will watch to thee. When thou shalt do thy judgments on the earth, the inhabitants of the world shall learn justice.

10. Let us have pity on the wicked, but he will not learn justice: in the land of the saints he hath done wicked things, and he shall not see the glory of the Lord.

11. Lord, let thy hand be exalted, and let them not see: let the envious people see, and be confounded: and let fire devour thy enemies.

12. Lord, thou wilt give us peace: for thou hast wrought all our works for us.

13. O Lord our God, other lords besides thee have had dominion over us, only in thee let us remember thy name.

14. Let not the dead live, let not the giants rise again: therefore hast thou visited and destroyed them, and best destroyed all their memory.

15. Thou hast been favourable to the nation, O Lord, thou hast been favourable to the nation: art thou glorified? thou hast removed all the ends of the earth far off.

16. Lord, they have sought after thee in distress, in the tribulation of murmuring thy instruction was with them.

17. As a woman with child, when she draweth near the time of her delivery, is in pain, and crieth out in her pangs: so are we become in thy presence, O Lord.

18. We have conceived, and been as it were in labour, and have brought forth wind: we have not wrought salvation on the earth, therefore the inhabitants of the earth have not fallen.

19. Thy dead men shall live, my slain shall rise again: awake, and give praise, ye that dwell in the dust: for thy dew is the dew of the light: and the land of the giants thou shalt pull down into ruin.

20. Go, my people, enter into thy chambers, shut thy doors upon thee, hide thyself a little for a moment, until the indignation pass away.

21. For behold the Lord will come out of his place, to visit the iniquity of the inhabitant of the earth against him: and the earth shall disclose her blood, and shall cover her slain no more.

Chapter 27

1. In that day the Lord with his hard, and great, and strong sword shall visit leviathan the bar serpent, and leviathan the crooked serpent, and shall slay the whale that is in the see.

2. In that day there shall be singing to the vineyard of pure wine.

3. I am the Lord that keep it, I will suddenly give it drink: lest any hurt come to it, I keep it night and day.

4. There is no indignation in m: who shall make me a thorn and a brier in battle: shall march against it, shall I set it on fire together?

5. Or rather shall it take hold of my strength, shall it make peace with me, shall it make peace with me?

6. When they shall rush in unto Jacob, Israel shall blossom and bud, and they shall fill the face of the world with seed.

7. Hath he struck him according to the stroke of him that struck him? or is he slain, as he killed them that were slain by him?

8. In measure against measure, when it shall be cast off, thou shalt judge it. He hath meditated with his severe spirit in the day of heat.

9. Therefore upon this shall the iniquity of the house of Jacob be forgiven: and this is all the fruit, that the sin thereof should be taken away, when he shall have made all the stones of the altar, as burnt stones broken in pieces, the groves and temples shall not stand.

10. For the strong city shall be desolate, the beautiful city shall be forsaken, and shall be left as a wilderness : there the calf shall feed, and there shall he lie down, and shall consume its branches.

11. Its harvest shall be destroyed with drought, women shall come and teach it: for it is not a wise people, therefore he that made it, shall not have mercy on it: and he that formed it, shall not spare it.

12. And it shall come to pass, that in that day the Lord will strike from the channel of the river even to the torrent of Egypt, and you shall be gathered together one by one, O ye children of Israel.

13. And it shall come to pass, that in that day a noise shall be made with a great trumpet, and they that were lost, shall come from the land of the Assyrians, and they that were outcasts in the land of Egypt, and they shall adore the Lord in the holy mount in Jerusalem.

1. A PRAYER OF HABACUC THE PROPHET FOR IGNORANCES.

2. O Lord, I have heard thy hearing, and was afraid. O Lord, thy work, in the midst of the years bring it to life: In the midst of the years thou shalt make it known: when thou art angry, thou wilt remember mercy.

3. God will come from the south, and the holy one from mount Pharan: His glory covered the heavens, and the earth is full of his praise.

4. His brightness shall be as the light; horns are in his hands: There is his strength hid:

5. Death shall go before his face. And the devil shall go forth before his feet.

6. He stood and measured the earth. He beheld, and melted the nations: and the ancient mountains were crushed to pieces. The hills of the world were bowed down by the journeys of his eternity.

7. I saw the tents of Ethiopia for their iniquity, the curtains of the land of Madian shall be troubled.

8. Wast thou angry, O Lord, with the rivers? or was thy wrath upon the rivers? or thy indignation in the sea? Who will ride upon thy horses: and thy chariots are salvation.

9. Thou wilt surely take up thy bow: according to the oaths which thou hast spoken to the tribes. Thou wilt divide the rivers of the earth.

10. The mountains saw thee, and were grieved: the great body of waters passed away. The deep put forth its voice: the deep lifted up its hands.

11. The sun and the moon stood still in their habitation, in the light of thy arrows, they shall go in the brightness of thy glittering spear.

12. In thy anger thou wilt tread the earth under foot: in thy wrath thou wilt astonish the nations.

13. Thou wentest forth for the salvation of thy people: for salvation with thy Christ. Thou struckest the head of the house of the wicked: thou hast laid bare his foundation even to the neck.

14. Thou hast cursed his sceptres, the head of his warriors, them that came out as a whirlwind to scatter me. Their joy was like that of him that devoureth the poor man in secret.

15. Thou madest a way in the sea for thy horses, in the mud of many waters.

16. I have heard and my bowels were troubled: my lips trembled at the voice. Let rottenness enter into my bones, and swarm under me. That I may rest in the day of tribulation: that I may go up to our people that are girded.

17. For the fig tree shall not blossom: and there shall be no spring in the vines. The labour of the olive tree shall fail: and the fields shall yield no food: the flock shall be cut off from the fold, and there shall be no herd in the stalls.

18. But I will rejoice in the Lord: and I will joy in God my Jesus.

19. The Lord God is my strength: and he will make my feet like the feet of harts: and he the conqueror will lead me upon my high places singing psalms.

5. The justice of the upright shall make his way prosperous: and the wicked man shall fall by his own wickedness.

6. The justice of the righteous shall deliver them: and the unjust shall be caught in their own snares.

7. When the wicked man is dead, there shall be no hope any more: and the expectation of the solicitous shall perish.

8. The just is delivered out of distress: and the wicked shall be given up for him.