Saturday in Season after Pentecost

13Verse 13. Behold, he advances like the clouds, his chariots like the whirlwind. His horses are swifter than eagles. Woe to us, for we are ruined! 14Verse 14. Wash the evil from your heart, O Jerusalem, so that you may be saved. How long will you harbor wicked thoughts within you? 15Verse 15. For a voice resounds from Dan, proclaiming disaster from the hills of Ephraim. 16Verse 16. Warn the nations now! Proclaim to Jerusalem: “A besieging army comes from a distant land; they raise their voices against the cities of Judah. 17Verse 17. They surround her like men guarding a field, because she has rebelled against Me,” declares the LORD. 18Verse 18. “Your ways and deeds have brought this upon you. This is your punishment; how bitter it is, because it pierces to the heart!” 19Verse 19. My anguish, my anguish! I writhe in pain! Oh, the pain in my chest! My heart pounds within me; I cannot be silent. For I have heard the sound of the horn, the alarm of battle. 20Verse 20. Disaster after disaster is proclaimed, for the whole land is laid waste. My tents are destroyed in an instant, my curtains in a moment. 21Verse 21. How long must I see the signal flag and hear the sound of the horn? 29Verse 29. Every city flees at the sound of the horseman and archer. They enter the thickets and climb among the rocks. Every city is abandoned; no inhabitant is left. 30Verse 30. And you, O devastated one, what will you do, though you dress yourself in scarlet, though you adorn yourself with gold jewelry, though you enlarge your eyes with paint? You adorn yourself in vain; your lovers despise you; they want to take your life. 31Verse 31. For I hear a cry like a woman in labor, a cry of anguish like one bearing her first child — the cry of the Daughter of Zion gasping for breath, stretching out her hands to say, “Woe is me, for my soul faints before the murderers!”

20Verse 20. Then Noah built an altar to the LORD. And taking from every kind of clean animal and clean bird, he offered burnt offerings on the altar. 21Verse 21. When the LORD smelled the pleasing aroma, He said in His heart, “Never again will I curse the ground because of man, even though every inclination of his heart is evil from his youth. And never again will I destroy all living creatures as I have done. 22Verse 22. As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night shall never cease.” 1Verse 1. And God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth. 2Verse 2. The fear and dread of you will fall on every living creature on the earth, every bird of the air, every creature that crawls on the ground, and all the fish of the sea. They are delivered into your hand. 3Verse 3. Everything that lives and moves will be food for you; just as I gave you the green plants, I now give you all things. 4Verse 4. But you must not eat meat with its lifeblood still in it. 5Verse 5. And surely I will require the life of any man or beast by whose hand your lifeblood is shed. I will demand an accounting from anyone who takes the life of his fellow man: 6Verse 6. Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man his blood will be shed; for in His own image God has made mankind. 7Verse 7. But as for you, be fruitful and multiply; spread out across the earth and multiply upon it.”