Isaiah 47:1-9

New King James Version

The Humiliation of Babylon

47 “Come ^(A)down and ^(B)sit in the dust,
O virgin daughter of ^(C)Babylon;
Sit on the ground without a throne,
O daughter of the Chaldeans!
For you shall no more be called
Tender and ^[a]delicate.
²^(D)Take the millstones and grind meal.
Remove your veil,
Take off the skirt,
Uncover the thigh,
Pass through the rivers.
³^(E)Your nakedness shall be uncovered,
Yes, your shame will be seen;
^(F)I will take vengeance,
And I will not arbitrate with a man.”

⁴As for ^(G)our Redeemer, the Lord of hosts is His name,
The Holy One of Israel.

⁵“Sit in ^(H)silence, and go into darkness,
O daughter of the Chaldeans;
^(I)For you shall no longer be called
The Lady of Kingdoms.
⁶^(J)I was angry with My people;
^(K)I have profaned My inheritance,
And given them into your hand.
You showed them no mercy;
^(L)On the elderly you laid your yoke very heavily.
⁷And you said, ‘I shall be ^(M)a lady forever,’
So that you did not ^(N)take these things to heart,
^(O)Nor remember the latter end of them.

⁸“Therefore hear this now, you who are given to pleasures,
Who dwell securely,
Who say in your heart, ‘I am, and there is no one else besides me;
I shall not sit as a widow,
Nor shall I know the loss of children’;
⁹But these two things shall come to you
^(P)In a moment, in one day:
The loss of children, and widowhood.
They shall come upon you in their fullness
Because of the multitude of your sorceries,
For the great abundance of your enchantments.

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Amos 2:1-5

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Judgment on Israel

2 Thus says the Lord:

^(A)“For three transgressions of Moab, and for four,
I will not turn away its punishment,
Because he ^(B)burned the bones of the king of Edom to lime.
²But I will send a fire upon Moab,
And it shall devour the palaces of ^(C)Kerioth;
Moab shall die with tumult,
With shouting and trumpet sound.
³And I will cut off ^(D)the judge from its midst,
And slay all its princes with him,”
Says the Lord.

Judgment on Judah

⁴Thus says the Lord:

“For three transgressions of ^(E)Judah, and for four,
I will not turn away its punishment,
^(F)Because they have despised the law of the Lord,
And have not kept His commandments.
^(G)Their lies lead them astray,
Lies ^(H)which their fathers followed.
⁵^(I)But I will send a fire upon Judah,
And it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem.”

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1 Corinthians 7:25-40

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To the Unmarried and Widows

²⁵Now concerning virgins: ^(A)I have no commandment from the Lord; yet I give judgment as one ^(B)whom the Lord in His mercy has made ^(C)trustworthy. ²⁶I suppose therefore that this is good because of the present distress—^(D)that it is good for a man to remain as he is: ²⁷Are you bound to a wife? Do not seek to be loosed. Are you loosed from a wife? Do not seek a wife. ²⁸But even if you do marry, you have not sinned; and if a virgin marries, she has not sinned. Nevertheless such will have trouble in the flesh, but I would spare you.

²⁹But ^(E)this I say, brethren, the time is short, so that from now on even those who have wives should be as though they had none, ³⁰those who weep as though they did not weep, those who rejoice as though they did not rejoice, those who buy as though they did not possess, ³¹and those who use this world as not ^(F)misusing it. For ^(G)the form of this world is passing away.

³²But I want you to be without ^[a]care. ^(H)He who is unmarried ^[b]cares for the things of the Lord—how he may please the Lord. ³³But he who is married cares about the things of the world—how he may please his wife. ³⁴There is a difference between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman ^(I)cares about the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit. But she who is married cares about the things of the world—how she may please her husband. ³⁵And this I say for your own profit, not that I may put a leash on you, but for what is proper, and that you may serve the Lord without distraction.

³⁶But if any man thinks he is behaving improperly toward his ^[c]virgin, if she is past the flower of youth, and thus it must be, let him do what he wishes. He does not sin; let them marry. ³⁷Nevertheless he who stands steadfast in his heart, having no necessity, but has power over his own will, and has so determined in his heart that he will keep his ^[d]virgin, does well. ³⁸^(J)So then he who gives ^[e]her in marriage does well, but he who does not give her in marriage does better.

³⁹^(K)A wife is bound by law as long as her husband lives; but if her husband dies, she is at liberty to be married to whom she wishes, ^(L)only in the Lord. ⁴⁰But she is happier if she remains as she is, ^(M)according to my judgment—and ^(N)I think I also have the Spirit of God.