August 15

Today’s Reading is from Isaiah Chapters 45 to 48.

Isaiah 45

1 Thus says the Lord to his anointed, to Cyrus,

    whose right hand I have grasped,

to subdue nations before him

    and to loose the belts of kings,

to open doors before him

    that gates may not be closed:

2 “I will go before you

    and level the exalted places,

I will break in pieces the doors of bronze

    and cut through the bars of iron,

3 I will give you the treasures of darkness

    and the hoards in secret places,

that you may know that it is I, the Lord,

    the God of Israel, who call you by your name.

August 14

Today’s Reading is from Isaiah Chapters 42 to 44.

Isaiah 42

1 Behold my servant, whom I uphold,

    my chosen, in whom my soul delights;

I have put my Spirit upon him;

    he will bring forth justice to the nations.

August 13

Today’s Reading is from Isaiah Chapters 38 to 41.

Isaiah 38

1 In those days Hezekiah became sick and was at the point of death. And Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz came to him, and said to him, “Thus says the Lord: Set your house in order, for you shall die, you shall not recover.”

August 12

Today’s Reading is from Isaiah Chapters 34 to 37.

Isaiah 34

1 Draw near, O nations, to hear,

    and give attention, O peoples!

Let the earth hear, and all that fills it;

    the world, and all that comes from it.

August 11

Today’s Reading is from Isaiah Chapters 30 to 33.

Isaiah 30

1 “Ah, stubborn children,” declares the Lord,

“who carry out a plan, but not mine,

and who make an alliance, but not of my Spirit,

    that they may add sin to sin;

2 who set out to go down to Egypt,

    without asking for my direction,

to take refuge in the protection of Pharaoh

    and to seek shelter in the shadow of Egypt!

August 10

Today’s Reading is from Isaiah Chapters 26 to 29.

Isaiah 26

1 In that day this song will be sung in the land of Judah:

“We have a strong city;

    he sets up salvation

    as walls and bulwarks.

August 9

Today’s Reading is from Isaiah Chapters 20 to 25.

Isaiah 20

1 In the year that the commander in chief, who was sent by Sargon the king of Assyria, came to Ashdod and fought against it and captured it— 2 at that time the Lord spoke by Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, “Go, and loose the sackcloth from your waist and take off your sandals from your feet,” and he did so, walking naked and barefoot.

August 8

Today’s Reading is from Isaiah Chapters 14 to 19.

Isaiah 14

1 For the Lord will have compassion on Jacob and will again choose Israel, and will set them in their own land, and sojourners will join them and will attach themselves to the house of Jacob.

August 7

Today’s Reading is from Isaiah Chapters 9 to 13.

Isaiah 9

1 But there will be no gloom for her who was in anguish. In the former time he brought into contempt the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, but in the latter time he has made glorious the way of the sea, the land beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the nations.

August 6

Today’s Reading is from Isaiah Chapters 5 to 8.

Isaiah 5

1 Let me sing for my beloved

    my love song concerning his vineyard:

My beloved had a vineyard

    on a very fertile hill.

2 He dug it and cleared it of stones,

    and planted it with choice vines;

he built a watchtower in the midst of it,

    and hewed out a wine vat in it;

and he looked for it to yield grapes,

    but it yielded wild grapes.