[DailyReading] The city of our solemnities

[Daily Bible Readings]

Lesson: Beautiful Zion
Reading: The city of our solemnities  2012-03-17
Reference: Isa. 33:17-24 

Isa 33:17: Thine eyes shall see the king in his beauty: they shall behold the land that is very far off.
Isa 33:18: Thine heart shall meditate terror. Where is the scribe? where is the receiver? where is he that counted the towers?
Isa 33:19: Thou shalt not see a fierce people, a people of a deeper speech than thou canst perceive; of a stammering tongue, that thou canst not understand.
Isa 33:20: Look upon Zion, the city of our solemnities: thine eyes shall see Jerusalem a quiet habitation, a tabernacle that shall not be taken down; not one of the stakes thereof shall ever be removed, neither shall any of the cords thereof be broken.
Isa 33:21: But there the glorious Lord will be unto us a place of broad rivers and streams; wherein shall go no galley with oars, neither shall gallant ship pass thereby.
Isa 33:22: For the Lord is our judge, the Lord is our lawgiver, the Lord is our king; he will save us.
Isa 33:23: Thy tacklings are loosed; they could not well strengthen their mast, they could not spread the sail: then is the prey of a great spoil divided; the lame take the prey.
Isa 33:24: And the inhabitant shall not say, I am sick: the people that dwell therein shall be forgiven their iniquity.
(KJV)