• “Listening to God” Bible Reading & Devotion: Sep 15, 2025 – Isaiah 023

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    Chapter 23 (ESV)

    1 The oracle concerning Tyre.

    Wail, O ships of Tarshish,
    for Tyre is laid waste, without house or harbor!
    From the land of Cyprus
    it is revealed to them.
    2 Be still, O inhabitants of the coast;
    the merchants of Sidon, who cross the sea, have filled you.
    3 And on many waters
    your revenue was the grain of Shihor,
    the harvest of the Nile;
    you were the merchant of the nations.
    4 Be ashamed, O Sidon, for the sea has spoken,
    the stronghold of the sea, saying:
    “I have neither labored nor given birth,
    I have neither reared young men
    nor brought up young women.”
    5 When the report comes to Egypt,
    they will be in anguish over the report about Tyre.
    6 Cross over to Tarshish;
    wail, O inhabitants of the coast!
    7 Is this your exultant city
    whose origin is from days of old,
    whose feet carried her
    to settle far away?
    8 Who has purposed this
    against Tyre, the bestower of crowns,
    whose merchants were princes,
    whose traders were the honored of the earth?
    9 The Lord of hosts has purposed it,
    to defile the pompous pride of all glory,
    to dishonor all the honored of the earth.

     

    REFLECTION:

    1. Chapters 13-23 reflect upon the foolishness of Judah depending upon alliances with the other nations rather than upon God to protect her from Assyria.
    2. Can you discern, from the past ten or so chapters of Scripture you’ve read, how Judas’s example reflects what your own life is ultimately loyal to? What are you using to fill the void that only God can truly satisfy?

     

    PRAYER:

    Stay with God for a little longer.  Continue to converse with God and listen to what He wants to tell you.  Then write down any thought and/or prayer in your spiritual journal.

     

    HYMN:

    Spirit Of God – www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrUEWIov7uU

     

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