Saturday in Season after Pentecost

2Verse 2. Listen, O heavens, and give ear, O earth, for the LORD has spoken: “I have raised children and brought them up, but they have rebelled against Me. 3Verse 3. The ox knows its owner, and the donkey its master’s manger, but Israel does not know; My people do not understand.” 4Verse 4. Alas, O sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a brood of evildoers, children who act corruptly! They have forsaken the LORD; they have despised the Holy One of Israel and turned their backs on Him. 5Verse 5. Why do you want more beatings? Why do you keep rebelling? Your head has a massive wound, and your whole heart is afflicted. 6Verse 6. From the sole of your foot to the top of your head, there is no soundness— only wounds and welts and festering sores neither cleansed nor bandaged nor soothed with oil. 7Verse 7. Your land is desolate; your cities are burned with fire. Foreigners devour your fields before you — a desolation demolished by strangers. 8Verse 8. And the Daughter of Zion is abandoned like a shelter in a vineyard, like a shack in a cucumber field, like a city besieged. 9Verse 9. Unless the LORD of Hosts had left us a few survivors, we would have become like Sodom, we would have resembled Gomorrah. 21Verse 21. See how the faithful city has become a harlot! She once was full of justice; righteousness resided within her, but now only murderers! 22Verse 22. Your silver has become dross; your fine wine is diluted with water. 23Verse 23. Your rulers are rebels, friends of thieves. They all love bribes and chasing after rewards. They do not defend the fatherless, and the plea of the widow never comes before them.

27Verse 27. This is the account of Terah. Terah became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran. And Haran became the father of Lot. 28Verse 28. During his father Terah’s lifetime, Haran died in his native land, in Ur of the Chaldeans. 29Verse 29. And Abram and Nahor took wives for themselves. Abram’s wife was named Sarai, and Nahor’s wife was named Milcah; she was the daughter of Haran, who was the father of both Milcah and Iscah. 30Verse 30. But Sarai was barren; she had no children. 31Verse 31. And Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot son of Haran, and his daughter-in-law Sarai the wife of Abram, and they set out from Ur of the Chaldeans for the land of Canaan. But when they arrived in Haran, they settled there. 32Verse 32. Terah lived 205 years, and he died in Haran.