Scripture Passage for the Day

Woe betide those who add house to house
and join field to field,
until everyone else is displaced,
and you are left as sole inhabitants of the countryside.

In my hearing the LORD of Hosts made this solemn oath:
'Great houses will be brought to ruin,
fine mansions left uninhabited.'

Is. 5:8-9 Revised English Bible

Scripture Passage for the Day

Ah, you who join house to house,
who add field to field,
until there is room for no one but you,
and you are left to live alone
in the midst of the land!

The Lord of hosts has sworn in my hearing:
Surely many houses shall be desolate,
large and beautiful houses, without inhabitant.

Is 5:8-9 New Revised Standard Version

Quote for the Day

If we were to wake up some morning and find that everyone was the same race, creed, and color, we would find some other causes for prejudice by noon.

-- George Aiken, U.S. senator (1892-1984)

Scripture Passage for the Day

Woe to you who add house to house
and join field to field
till no space is left
and you live alone in the land.

The LORD Almighty has declared in my hearing:
“Surely the great houses will become desolate,
the fine mansions left without occupants.

Is 5:8-9 New International Version

Looking for Jesus

Thanks to James L. Evans for posting about this great song writer. And how come my Hawaii friends who were at the BWA meeting in Honolulu never mentioned her? Shish!

Feast for the Ears

Quote for the Day

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.

-- Pablo Picasso

Scripture Passage for the Day

He will decide disputes of many races,
and arbitrate between strong foreign powers,
till swords are beaten into ploughshares,
spears into pruning-hooks;
no nation draws the sword against another,
no longer shall men learn to fight,
but live each underneath his vine
and underneath his fig-tree,
in terror of no one:
for so the lips of the Lord of hosts decree.

Micah 4:3-4 Moffatt Translation

Quote for the Day

Verba movent, exempla trahunt.

(Words move people, examples lead them.)

--Latin proverb

Scripture Passage for the Day

He shall judge among many peoples and decide for mighty nations afar off. Then they shall beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning shears; nation shall lift up no sword against nation, and they shall not learn war any more. A man shall dwell beneath his vine and fig tree and no one shall make him afraid; for the mouth of the LORD of hosts has spoken it.

Micah 4:3-4 Berkeley Version

Scripture Passage for the Day

He will be judge between many peoples
and arbiter among great and distant nations.
They will hammer their swords into mattocks
and their spears into pruning-knives.
Nation will not take up sword against nation;
they will never again be trained for war.
Each man will sit under his own vine
or his own fig tree, with none to cause alarm.
The LORD of Hosts himself has spoken.

Micah 4:3-4 Revised English Bible

U.S. Senator's Top 10 List of Corporate Tax Avoiders

U.S. Senator's Top 10 List of Corporate Tax Avoiders

Here's why we have a budget deficit. Rather than cut services to the poor (who provided the big business profits by receiving low wages and benefits), shouldn't we get the big boys to pay their share? After all, they get plenty of benefits from the taxes WE pay.

Scripture Passage for the Day

He shall judge between many peoples,
and shall arbitrate between strong nations far away;
they shall beat their swords into plowshares,
and their spears into pruning hooks;
nation shall not lift up sword against nation,
neither shall they learn war any more;
but they shall all sit under their own vines and under their own fig trees,
and no one shall make them afraid;
for the mouth of the Lord of hosts has spoken.

Micah 4:3-4 New Revised Standard Version

Scripture Passage for the Day

He will judge between many peoples
and will settle disputes for strong nations far and wide.
They will beat their swords into plowshares
and their spears into pruning hooks.
Nation will not take up sword against nation,
nor will they train for war anymore.

Every man will sit under his own vine
and under his own fig tree,
and no one will make them afraid,
for the LORD Almighty has spoken.

Micah 4:3-4 New International Version

Scripture Passage for the Day

Woe to those who call good evil,
and call evil good,
who make out darkness to be
light,light to be darkness,
who make out bitter to be sweet,
sweet to be bitter!

Woe to those who think themselves
so wise,
fancy themselves shrewd!

Is. 5:20-21 Moffatt Translation

Scripture Passage for the Day

Woe to those who call evil good and good evil; who place darkness as light and light as darkness; who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!

Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes and shrewd in their own sight!

Is. 5:20-21 Berkeley Version

Scripture Passage for the Day

Woe betide those who call evil good
and good evil,
who make karkness light and light
darkness,
who make biter sweet and sweet
bitter.
Woe betide those who are wise in
their own sight
and prudent in their own esteem.

Is. 5:20-21 Revised English Bible

Scripture Passage for the Day

Ah, you who call evil good
and good evil,
who put darkness for light
and light for darkness,
who put bitter for sweet
and sweet for bitter!
Ah, you who are wise in your own eyes,
and shrewd in your own sight!

Is. 5:20-21 New Revised Standard Version

Quote for the Day

Those who say they give the public what it wants begin by underestimating public taste and end by debauching it.

-- T. S. Eliot

Scripture Passage for the Day

Woe to those who call evil good
and good evil,
who put darkness for light
and light for darkness,
who put bitter for sweet
and sweet for bitter.

Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes
and clever in their own sight.

Is. 5:20-21 New International Version