Friday in Season after Pentecost

1Verse 1. “If you will return, O Israel, return to Me,” declares the LORD. “If you will remove your detestable idols from My sight and no longer waver, 2Verse 2. and if you can swear, ‘As surely as the LORD lives,’ in truth, in justice, and in righteousness, then the nations will be blessed by Him, and in Him they will glory.” 3Verse 3. For this is what the LORD says to the men of Judah and Jerusalem: “Break up your unplowed ground, and do not sow among the thorns. 4Verse 4. Circumcise yourselves to the LORD, and remove the foreskins of your hearts, O men of Judah and people of Jerusalem. Otherwise, My wrath will break out like fire and burn with no one to extinguish it, because of your evil deeds.” 5Verse 5. Announce in Judah, proclaim in Jerusalem, and say: “Blow the ram’s horn throughout the land. Cry aloud and say, ‘Assemble yourselves and let us flee to the fortified cities.’ 6Verse 6. Raise a signal flag toward Zion. Seek refuge! Do not delay! For I am bringing disaster from the north, and terrible destruction. 7Verse 7. A lion has gone up from his thicket, and a destroyer of nations has set out. He has left his lair to lay waste your land. Your cities will be reduced to ruins and lie uninhabited. 8Verse 8. So put on sackcloth, mourn and wail, for the fierce anger of the LORD has not turned away from us.” 9Verse 9. “In that day,” declares the LORD, “the king and officials will lose their courage. The priests will tremble in fear, and the prophets will be astounded.” 10Verse 10. Then I said, “Ah, Lord GOD, how completely You have deceived this people and Jerusalem by saying, ‘You will have peace,’ while a sword is at our throats.”

6Verse 6. Now Noah was 600 years old when the floodwaters came upon the earth. 7Verse 7. And Noah and his wife, with his sons and their wives, entered the ark to escape the waters of the flood. 8Verse 8. The clean and unclean animals, the birds, and everything that crawls along the ground 9Verse 9. came to Noah to enter the ark, two by two, male and female, as God had commanded Noah. 10Verse 10. And after seven days the floodwaters came upon the earth. 1Verse 1. But God remembered Noah and all the animals and livestock that were with him in the ark. And God sent a wind over the earth, and the waters began to subside. 2Verse 2. The springs of the deep and the floodgates of the heavens were closed, and the rain from the sky was restrained. 3Verse 3. The waters receded steadily from the earth, and after 150 days the waters had gone down. 4Verse 4. On the seventeenth day of the seventh month, the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat. 5Verse 5. And the waters continued to recede until the tenth month, and on the first day of the tenth month the tops of the mountains became visible.