The reading for Year of the Bible, Day 198, is Isaiah 9-11: Isaiah 9:2 gives us the prophecy quoted in Matthew, “The people walking in darkness have seen a great light…”
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The reading for Year of the Bible, Day 197, is Isaiah 4-8: The New Testament draws extensively on Isaiah, such as Isaiah 4:7 (“the virgin will conceive and give birth to a son, and will call him Immanuel”).
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The reading for Year of the Bible, Day 196, is Isaiah 1-3: Chapters 1-12 of Isaiah contain messages about Judah and Jerusalem, and predict God’s judgment of them.
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A complete animated overview from the Bible Project of the Book of the prophet Isaiah.
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The reading for Year of the Bible, Day 195, is Song of Songs 5-8: One of the last books to be added to the Hebrew scriptures, allegorical interpretations over the millennia have tended to identify God with the lover and God’s people as the beloved, emphasizing the intimacy between the two and God’s intense desire for relationship with those whom he loves.
Online text: Song of Songs 5-8
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The reading for Year of the Bible, Day 194, is Song of Songs 1-4: Song of Songs, traditionally ascribed to King Solomon, is a collection of love poems between a lover and his beloved.
Online text: Song of Songs 1-4
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A complete animated overview from the Bible Project of the Song of Songs.
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The reading for Year of the Bible, Day 193, is Ecclesiastes 9-12: Ecclesiastes ends with the Teacher’s final maxim: “Fear God and keep his commandments, for this is the duty of all mankind.”
Online text: Ecclesiastes 9-12
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The reading for Year of the Bible, Day 192, is Ecclesiastes 5-8: The Teacher reflects on human life, the sources of joy, and the better things in life. St. Paul quotes Ecc. 7:20 in the epistle to the Romans (“There is no one who is righteous, no not one.”)
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The reading for Year of the Bible, Day 191, is Ecclesiastes 1-4: Ecclesiastes is a book of wisdom sayings that examines the meaning of life, the value of common wisdom, and the problem of injustice, written by an author who is having a midlife crisis.
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