Isaiah 23Isaiah 24Hebrews 10.1-18Isaiah 23
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The word about Tyre. Let a cry of sorrow go up, O ships of Tarshish, because your strong place is made waste on the way back from the land of Kittim the news is given to them.
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Send out a cry of grief, you men of the sea-land, traders of Zidon, who go over the sea, whose representatives are on great waters
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Who get in the seed of Shihor, whose wealth is the trade of the nations.
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Be shamed, O Zidon: for the sea, the strong place of the sea has said, I have not been with child, or given birth I have not taken care of young men, or kept watch over the growth of virgins.
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When the news comes to Egypt they will be bitterly pained at the fate of Tyre.
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Go over to Tarshish give cries of sorrow, O men of the sea-land.
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Is this the town which was full of joy, whose start goes back to times long past, whose wanderings took her into far-off countries?
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By whom was this purposed against Tyre, the crowning town, whose traders are chiefs, whose business men are honoured in the land?
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It was the purpose of the Lord of armies to put pride to shame, to make sport of the glory of those who are honoured in the earth.
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Let your land be worked with the plough, O daughter of Tarshish there is no longer any harbour.
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His hand is stretched out over the sea, the kingdoms are shaking: the Lord has given orders about Canaan, to make waste its strong places.
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And he said, There is no more joy for you, O crushed virgin daughter of Zidon: up! go over to Kittim even there you will have no rest.
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Let a cry of sorrow go up, O ships of Tarshish: because your strong place is made waste.
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And it will be in that day that Tyre will go out of mind for seventy years, that is, the days of one king: after the end of seventy years it will be for Tyre as in the song of the loose woman.
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Take an instrument of music, go about the town, O loose woman who has gone out from the memory of man make sweet melody with songs, so that you may come back to men's minds.
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And it will be after the end of seventy years, that the Lord will have mercy on Tyre, and she will go back to her trade, acting as a loose woman with all the kingdoms of the world on the face of the earth.
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And her goods and her trade will be holy to the Lord: they will not be kept back or stored up for her produce will be for those living in the Lord's land, to give them food for their needs, and fair clothing.
Isaiah 24
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See, the Lord is making the earth waste and unpeopled, he is turning it upside down, and sending the people in all directions.
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And it will be the same for the people as for the priest for the servant as for his master and for the woman-servant as for her owner the same for the one offering goods for a price as for him who takes them the same for him who gives money at interest and for him who takes it the same for him who lets others have the use of his property as for those who make use of it.
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The earth will be completely waste and without men for this is the word of the Lord.
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The earth is sorrowing and wasting away, the world is full of grief and wasting away, the high ones of the earth come to nothing.
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The earth has been made unclean by those living in it because the laws have not been kept by them, the orders have been changed, and the eternal agreement has been broken.
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For this cause the earth is given up to the curse, and those in it are judged as sinners: for this cause those living on the earth are burned up, and the rest are small in number.
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The new wine is thin, the vine is feeble, and all the glad-hearted make sounds of grief.
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The pleasing sound of all instruments of music has come to an end, and the voices of those who are glad.
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There is no more drinking of wine with a song strong drink will be bitter to those who take it.
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The town is waste and broken down: every house is shut up, so that no man may come in.
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There is a crying in the streets because of the wine there is an end of all delight, the joy of the land is gone.
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In the town all is waste, and in the public place is destruction.
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For it will be in the heart of the earth among the peoples, like the shaking of an olive-tree, as the last of the grapes after the getting-in is done.
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But those will be making sounds of joy they will be crying loudly from the sea for the glory of the Lord.
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Give praise to the Lord in the east, to the name of the Lord, the God of Israel, in the sea-lands.
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From the farthest part of the earth comes the sound of songs, glory to the upright. But I said, I am wasting away, wasting away, the curse is on me! The false ones go on in their false way, yes, they go on acting falsely.
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Fear, and death, and the net, are come on you, O people of the earth.
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And it will be that he who goes in flight from the sound of fear will be overtaken by death and he who gets free from death will be taken in the net: for the windows on high are open, and the bases of the earth are shaking.
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The earth is completely broken, it is parted in two, it is violently moved.
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The earth will be moving uncertainly, like a man overcome by drink it will be shaking like a tent and the weight of its sin will be on it, crushing it down so that it will not get up again.
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And in that day the Lord will send punishment on the army of the high ones on high, and on the kings of the earth on the earth.
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And they will be got together, like prisoners in the prison-house and after a long time they will have their punishment.
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Then the moon will be veiled, and the sun put to shame for the Lord of armies will be ruling in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem, and before his judges he will let his glory be seen.
Hebrews 10
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For the law, being only a poor copy of the future good things, and not the true image of those things, is never able to make the people who come to the altar every year with the same offerings completely clean.
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For if this had been possible, would there not have been an end of those offerings, because the worshippers would have been made completely clean and would have been no longer conscious of sins?
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But year by year there is a memory of sins in those offerings.
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Because it is not possible for the blood of oxen and goats to take away sins.
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So that when he comes into the world, he says, You had no desire for offerings, but you made a body ready for me
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You had no joy in burned offerings or in offerings for sin.
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Then I said, See, I have come to do your pleasure, O God (as it is said of me in the roll of the book).
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After saying, You had no desire for offerings, for burned offerings or offerings for sin (which are made by the law) and you had no pleasure in them,
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Then he said, See, I have come to do your pleasure. He took away the old order, so that he might put the new order in its place.
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By that pleasure we have been made holy, by the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once and for ever.
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And every priest takes his place at the altar day by day, doing what is necessary, and making again and again the same offerings which are never able to take away sins.
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But when Jesus had made one offering for sins for ever, he took his place at the right hand of God
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And has been waiting there from that time, till all who are against him are made a foot-rest for his feet.
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Because by one offering he has made complete for ever those who are made holy.
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And the Holy Spirit is a witness for us: for after he had said,
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This is the agreement which I will make with them after those days, says the Lord I will put my laws in their hearts, writing them in their minds he said,
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And I will keep no more memory of their sins and of their evil-doings.
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Now where there is forgiveness of these, there is no more offering for sin.
