September 27: Isaiah 10–12; Galatians 5

Morning: Isaiah 10–12 Isaiah 10–12 (Listen) 10   Woe to those who decree iniquitous decrees,<br />    and the writers who keep writing oppression,<br />2   to turn aside the needy from justice<br />    and to rob the poor of my people of their right,<br />  that widows may be their spoil,<br />    and that they may make the fatherless their prey!<br />3   What will you do on the day of punishment,<br />    in the ruin that will come from afar?<br />  To whom will you flee for help,<br />    and where will you leave your wealth?<br />4   Nothing remains but to crouch among the prisoners<br />    or fall among the slain.<br />  For all this his anger has not turned away,<br />    and his hand is stretched out still.<br /> Judgment on Arrogant Assyria 5   Woe to Assyria, the rod of my anger;<br />    the staff in their hands is my fury!<br />6   Against a godless nation I send him,<br />    and against the people of my wrath I command him,<br />  to take spoil and seize plunder,<br />    and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.<br />7   But he does not so int