Bible in a Year.

On day 201, we delve into the messages of Isaiah 21-22, which announce judgments and warnings concerning nations and kings. Nahum 3 recounts the impending destruction of Nineveh, demonstrating God's justice against oppression. Proverbs 10:29-32 offers reflections on trust in God, righteousness, and integrity, guiding our daily walk with wisdom.

Chapter 21

1. The burden of the desert of the sea. As whirlwinds come from the south, it cometh from the desert from a terrible land.

2. A grievous vision is told me: he that is unfaithful dealeth unfaithfully : and he that is a spoiler, spoileth. Go up, O Elam, besiege, O Mede: I have made all the mourning thereof to cease.

3. Therefore are my loins filled with pain, anguish hath taken hold of me, as the anguish of a woman in labour: I fell down at the hearing of it, I was troubled at the seeing of it.

4. My heart failed, darkness amazed me: Babylon my beloved is become a wonder to me.

5. Prepare the table, behold in the watchtower them that eat and drink: arise, ye princes, take up the shield.

6. For thus hath the Lord said to me: Go, and set a watchman: and whatsoever he shall see, let him tell.

7. And he saw a chariot with two horsemen, a rider upon an ass, and a rider upon a camel: and he beheld them diligently with much heed.

8. And a lion cried out: I am upon the watchtower of the Lord, standing continually by day: and I am upon my ward, standing whole nights.

9. Behold this man cometh, the rider upon the chariot with two horsemen, and he answered, and said: Babylon is fallen, she is fallen, and all the graven gods thereof are broken unto the ground.

10. O my thrashing and the children of my door, that which I have heard of the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, I have declared unto you.

11. The burden of Duma calleth to me out of Seir: Watchman, what of the eight? watchman, what of the night?

12. The watchman said: The morning cometh, also the night: if you seek, seek: return, come.

13. The burden in Arabia. In the forest at evening you shall sleep, in the paths of Dedanim.

14. Meeting the thirsty bring him water, you that inhabit the land of the south, meet with bread him that fleeth.

15. For they are fled from before the swords, from the sword that hung over them, from the bent bow, from the face of a grievous battle.

16. For thus saith the Lord to me: Within a year, according to the years of a hireling, all the glory of Cedar shall be taken away.

17. And the residue of the number of strong archers of the children of Cedar shall be diminished: for the Lord the God of Israel hath spoken it.

Chapter 22

1. The burden of the valley of vision. What aileth thee also, that thou too art wholly gone up to the housetops?

2. Full of clamour, a populous city, a joyous city: thy slain are not slain by the sword, nor dead in battle.

3. All the princes are fled together, and are bound hard: all that were found, are bound together, they are fled far off.

4. Therefore have I said: Depart from me, I will weep bitterly: labour not to comfort me, for the devastation of the daughter of my people.

5. For it is a day of slaughter and of treading down, and of weeping to the Lord the God of hosts in the valley of vision, searching the wall, and magnificent upon the mountain.

6. And Elam took the quiver, the chariot of the horseman, and the shield was taken down from the wall.

7. And thy choice valleys shall be full of chariots, and the horseman shall place themselves in the gate.

8. And the covering of Juda shall be discovered, and thou shalt see in that day the armoury of the house of the forest.

9. And you shall see the breaches of the city of David, that they are many: and you have gathered together the waters of the lower pool,

10. And have numbered the houses of Jerusalem, and broken down houses to fortify the wall.

11. And you made a ditch between the two walls for the water of the old pool: and you have not looked up to the maker thereof, nor regarded him even at a distance, that wrought it long ago.

12. And the Lord, the God of hosts, in that day shall call to weeping, and to mourning, to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth:

13. And behold joy and gladness, killing calves, and slaying rams, eating flesh, and drinking wine: Let us eat and drink; for to morrow we shall die.

14. And the voice of the Lord of hosts was revealed in my ears: Surely this iniquity shall not be forgiven you till you die, saith the Lord God of hosts.

15. Thus saith the Lord God of hosts: Go, get thee in to him that dwelleth in the tabernacle, to Sobna who is over the temple: and thou shalt say to him:

16. What dost thou here, or as if thou wert somebody here? for thou hast hewed thee out a sepulchre here, thou hast hewed out a monument carefully in a high place, a dwelling for thyself in a rock.

17. Behold the Lord will cause thee to be carried away, as a cock is carried away, and he will lift thee up as a garment.

18. He will crown thee with a crown of tribulation, he will toss thee like a ball into a large and spacious country: there shalt thou die, and there shall the chariot of thy glory be, the shame of the house of thy Lord.

19. And I will drive thee out From thy station, and depose thee from thy ministry.

20. And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will call my servant Eliacim the son of Helcias,

21. And I will clothe him with thy robe, and will strengthen him with thy girdle, and will give thy power into his hand: and he shall be as a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to the house of Juda.

22. And I will lay the key of the house of David upon his shoulder: and he shall open, and none shall shut: and he shall shut, and none shall open.

23. And I will fasten him as a peg in a sure place, and he shall be for a throne of glory to the house of his father.

24. And they shall hang upon him all the glory of his father's house, divers kinds of vessels, every little vessel, from the vessels of cups even to every instrument of music.

26. In that day, saith the Lord of hosts, shall the peg be removed, that was fastened in the sure place: and it shall be broken and shall fall: and that which hung thereon, shall perish, because the Lord hath spoken it.

1. Woe to thee, O city of blood, all full of lies and violence: rapine shall not depart from thee.

2. The noise of the whip, and the noise of the rattling of the wheels, and of the neighing horse, and of the running chariot, and of the horsemen coming up,

3. And of the shining sword, and of the glittering spear, and of a multitude slain, and of a grievous destruction: and there is no end of carcasses, and they shall fall down on their dead bodies.

4. Because of the multitude of the fornications of the harlot that was beautiful and agreeable, and that made use of witchcraft, that sold nations through her fornications, and families through her witchcrafts.

5. Behold I come against thee, saith the Lord of hosts: and I will discover thy shame to thy face, and will shew thy nakedness to the nations, and thy shame to kingdoms.

6. And I will cast abominations upon thee, and will disgrace thee, and will make an example of thee.

7. And it shall come to pass that every one that shall see thee, shall flee from thee, and shall say: Ninive is laid waste: who shall bemoan thee? whence shall I seek a comforter for thee?

8. Art thou better than the populous Alexandria, that dwelleth among the rivers? waters are round about it: the sea is its riches, the waters are its walls.

9. Ethiopia and Egypt were the strength thereof, and there is no end: Africa and the Libyans were thy helpers.

10. Yet she also was removed and carried into captivity: her young children were dashed in pieces at the top of every street, and they cast lots upon her nobles, and all her great men were bound in fetters.

11. Therefore thou also shalt be made drunk, and shalt be despised: and thou shalt seek help from the enemy.

12. All thy strong holds shall be like fig trees with their green figs: if they be shaken, they shall fall into the mouth of the eater.

13. Behold thy people in the midst of thee are women: the gates of thy land shall be set wide open to thy enemies, the fire shall devour thy bars.

14. Draw thee water for the siege, build up thy bulwarks: go into the clay, and tread, work it and make brick.

15. There shall the fire devour thee: thou shalt perish by the sword, it shall devour thee like the bruchus: assemble together like the bruchus, make thyself many like the locust.

16. Thou hast multiplied thy merchandises above the stars of heaven: the bruchus hath spread himself and flown away.

17. Thy guards are like the locusts: and thy little ones like the locusts of locusts which swarm on the hedges in the day of cold: the sun arose, and they flew away, and their place was not known where they were.

18. Thy shepherds have slumbered, O king of Assyria, thy princes shall be buried: thy people are hid in the mountains, and there is none to gather them together.

19. Thy destruction is not hidden, thy wound is grievous: all that have heard the fame of thee, have clapped their hands over thee: for upon whom hath not thy wickedness passed continually?

29. The strength of the upright is the way of the Lord: and fear to them that work evil.

30. The just shall never be moved: but the wicked shall not dwell on the earth.

31. The mouth of the just shall bring forth wisdom: the tongue of the perverse shall perish.

32. The lips of the just consider what is acceptable: and the mouth of the wicked uttereth perverse things.