Monday 29 July 2030

1The Lord said to me,“Go, and buy yourself a linen belt,and put it on your waist,and don’t put it in water.”

2So I bought a belt according to the Lord’s word,and put it on my waist.

3The Lord’s word came to me the second time, saying,4“Take the belt that you have bought,which is on your waist,and arise, go to the Euphrates,and hide it there in a cleft of the rock.”

5So I went and hid it by the Euphrates,as the Lord commanded me.

6After many days, the Lord said to me,“Arise, go to the Euphrates,and take the belt from there,which I commanded you to hide there.”

7Then I went to the Euphrates,and dug, and took the belt from the place where I had hidden it;and behold, the belt was ruined.It was profitable for nothing.

8Then the Lord’s word came to me, saying,9“The Lord says, ‘In this way I will ruin the pride of Judah,and the great pride of Jerusalem.10This evil people, who refuse to hear my words,who walk in the stubbornness of their heart,and have gone after other gods to serve themand to worship them,will even be as this belt,which is profitable for nothing.11For as the belt clings to the waist of a man,so I have caused the whole house of Israeland the whole house of Judah to cling to me,’ says the Lord;‘that they may be to me for a people,for a name, for praise, and for glory;but they would not hear.’

18Of the Rock who became your father, you are unmindful,and have forgotten God who gave you birth.19The Lord saw and abhorred,because of the provocation of his sons and his daughters.

20He said, “I will hide my face from them.I will see what their end will be;for they are a very perverse generation,children in whom is no faithfulness.

21They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God.They have provoked me to anger with their vanities.I will move them to jealousy with those who are not a people.I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.

19Many of the Jews had joined the women around Martha and Mary,to console them concerning their brother.20Then when Martha heard that Jesus was coming,she went and met him,but Mary stayed in the house.21Therefore Martha said to Jesus,“Lord, if you would have been here,my brother wouldn’t have died.22Even now I know that whatever you ask of God,God will give you.”

23Jesus said to her, “Your brother will rise again.”

24Martha said to him,“I know that he will rise again in the resurrection at the last day.”

25Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life.He who believes in me will still live, even if he dies.26Whoever lives and believes in me will never die.Do you believe this?”

27She said to him, “Yes, Lord.I have come to believe that you are the Christ,God’s Son, he who comes into the world.”