AUGUST
27
PSALMS: 27,
57, 87, 117, 147
PROVERBS: 27
OLD TESTAMENT: EZEKIEL 33:1 - 34:31
NEW TESTAMENT: HEBREWS 13:1 - 25
Psalms
27
Of
David.
1
The LORD is my light and my salvation--
whom
shall I fear?
The
LORD is the stronghold of my life--
of
whom shall I be afraid?
2
When evil men advance against me
to
devour my flesh, A
when
my enemies and my foes attack me,
they
will stumble and fall.
3
Though an army besiege me,
my
heart will not fear;
though
war break out against me,
even
then will I be confident.
4
One thing I ask of the LORD,
this
is what I seek:
that
I may dwell in the house of the LORD
all
the days of my life,
to
gaze upon the beauty of the LORD
and
to seek him in his temple.
5
For in the day of trouble
he
will keep me safe in his dwelling;
he
will hide me in the shelter of his tabernacle
and
set me high upon a rock.
6
Then my head will be exalted
above
the enemies who surround me;
at
his tabernacle will I sacrifice with shouts of joy;
I
will sing and make music to the LORD. [1]
7
Hear my voice when I call, O LORD;
be
merciful to me and answer me.
8
My heart says of you, "Seek hisB
face!"
Your
face, LORD, I will seek.
9
Do not hide your face from me,
do
not turn your servant away in anger;
you
have been my helper.
Do
not reject me or forsake me,
O
God my Savior.
10
Though my father and mother forsake me,
the
LORD will receive me.
11
Teach me your way, O LORD;
lead
me in a straight path
because
of my oppressors.
12
Do not turn me over to the desire of my foes,
for
false witnesses rise up against me,
breathing
out violence.
13
I am still confident of this:
I
will see the goodness of the LORD
in
the land of the living.
14
Wait for the LORD;
be
strong and take heart
and
wait for the LORD.
PSALMS: 57
1
Have mercy on me, O God, have mercy on me,
for
in you my soul takes refuge.
I
will take refuge in the shadow of your wings
until
the disaster has passed.
2
I cry out to God Most High,
to
God, who fulfills his purpose for me.
3
He sends from heaven and saves me,
rebuking
those who hotly pursue me;
Selah
God
sends his love and his faithfulness.
4
I am in the midst of lions;
I
lie among ravenous beasts--
men
whose teeth are spears and arrows,
whose
tongues are sharp swords.
5
Be exalted, O God, above the heavens;
let
your glory be over all the earth.
6
They spread a net for my feet--
I
was bowed down in distress.
They
dug a pit in my path--
but
they have fallen into it themselves.
Selah
[2]
7
My heart is steadfast, O God,
my
heart is steadfast;
I
will sing and make music.
8
Awake, my soul!
Awake,
harp and lyre!
I
will awaken the dawn.
9
I will praise you, O Lord, among the nations;
I
will sing of you among the peoples.
10
For great is your love, reaching to the heavens;
your
faithfulness reaches to the skies.
11
Be exalted, O God, above the heavens;
let
your glory be over all the earth. [3]
PSALMS: 87
Of
the Sons of Korah. A psalm. A song.
1
He has set his foundation on the holy mountain;
2
the LORD loves the gates of Zion
more
than all the dwellings of Jacob.
3
Glorious things are said of you,
O
city of God:
Selah
4
"I will record Rahab A and Babylon
among those who acknowledge me--
Philistia too, and Tyre, along with Cush B--
and will say, `This C one was born in Zion.'"
5
Indeed, of Zion it will be said,
"This one and that one were born in her,
and the Most High himself will establish her."
6
The LORD will write in the register of the peoples:
"This one was born in Zion."
Selah
7
As they make music they will sing,
"All my fountains are in you." [4]
PSALMS: 117
1
Praise the LORD, all you nations;
extol
him, all you peoples.
2
For great is his love toward us,
and
the faithfulness of the LORD endures forever.
Praise
the LORD. A [5]
PSALMS: 147
1
Praise the LORD. A
How
good it is to sing praises to our God,
how
pleasant and fitting to praise him!
2
The LORD builds up Jerusalem;
he
gathers the exiles of Israel.
3
He heals the brokenhearted
and
binds up their wounds.
4
He determines the number of the stars
and
calls them each by name.
5
Great is our Lord and mighty in power;
his
understanding has no limit.
6
The LORD sustains the humble
but
casts the wicked to the ground.
7
Sing to the LORD with thanksgiving;
make
music to our God on the harp.
8
He covers the sky with clouds;
he
supplies the earth with rain
and
makes grass grow on the hills.
9
He provides food for the cattle
and
for the young ravens when they call.
10
His pleasure is not in the strength of the horse,
nor
his delight in the legs of a man;
11
the LORD delights in those who fear him,
who
put their hope in his unfailing love. [6]
12
Extol the LORD, O Jerusalem;
praise
your God, O Zion,
13
for he strengthens the bars of your gates
and
blesses your people within you.
14
He grants peace to your borders
and
satisfies you with the finest of wheat.
15
He sends his command to the earth;
his
word runs swiftly.
16
He spreads the snow like wool
and
scatters the frost like ashes.
17
He hurls down his hail like pebbles.
Who
can withstand his icy blast?
18
He sends his word and melts them;
he
stirs up his breezes, and the waters flow.
19
He has revealed his word to Jacob,
his
laws and decrees to Israel.
20
He has done this for no other nation;
they
do not know his laws.
Praise
the LORD. [7]
PROVERBS: 27
27
1 Do not boast about
tomorrow,
for
you do not know what a day may bring forth.
2
Let another praise you, and not your own mouth;
someone
else, and not your own lips.
3
Stone is heavy and sand a burden,
but
provocation by a fool is heavier than both.
4
Anger is cruel and fury overwhelming,
but
who can stand before jealousy?
5
Better is open rebuke
than
hidden love.
6
Wounds from a friend can be trusted,
but
an enemy multiplies kisses.
7
He who is full loathes honey,
but
to the hungry even what is bitter tastes sweet.
8
Like a bird that strays from its nest
is
a man who strays from his home.
9
Perfume and incense bring joy to the heart,
and
the pleasantness of one's friend springs from his earnest counsel.
10
Do not forsake your friend and the friend of your
father,
and
do not go to your brother's house when disaster strikes you--
better
a neighbor nearby than a brother far away.
11
Be wise, my son, and bring joy to my heart;
then
I can answer anyone who treats me with contempt. [8]
12
The prudent see danger and take refuge,
but
the simple keep going and suffer for it.
13
Take the garment of one who puts up security for a
stranger;
hold
it in pledge if he does it for a wayward woman.
14
If a man loudly blesses his neighbor early in the
morning,
it
will be taken as a curse.
15
A quarrelsome wife is like
a
constant dripping on a rainy day;
16
restraining her is like restraining the wind
or
grasping oil with the hand.
17
As iron sharpens iron,
so
one man sharpens another.
18
He who tends a fig tree will eat its fruit,
and
he who looks after his master will be honored.
19
As water reflects a face,
so
a man's heart reflects the man.
20
Death and Destruction A are never
satisfied,
and
neither are the eyes of man.
21
The crucible for silver and the furnace for gold,
but
man is tested by the praise he receives.
22
Though you grind a fool in a mortar,
grinding
him like grain with a pestle,
you
will not remove his folly from him. [9]
23
Be sure you know the condition of your flocks,
give
careful attention to your herds;
24
for riches do not endure forever,
and
a crown is not secure for all generations.
25
When the hay is removed and new growth appears
and
the grass from the hills is gathered in,
26
the lambs will provide you with clothing,
and
the goats with the price of a field.
27
You will have plenty of goats' milk
to
feed you and your family
and
to nourish your servant girls. [10]
OLD TESTAMENT: EZEKIEL 33:1 - 34:31
33 1
The word of the LORD came to me: 2 "Son of man, speak to your countrymen and say to them: `When
I bring the sword against a land, and the people of the land choose one of
their men and make him their watchman, 3 and he sees the sword coming against the land and blows the
trumpet to warn the people, 4 then if anyone hears the trumpet but does not take warning
and the sword comes and takes his life, his blood will be on his own head. 5 Since he heard the
sound of the trumpet but did not take warning, his blood will be on his own
head. If he had taken warning, he would have saved himself.
6 But if the watchman sees the sword coming
and does not blow the trumpet to warn the people and the sword comes and takes
the life of one of them, that man will be taken away because of his sin, but I
will hold the watchman accountable for his blood.'
7 "Son of man, I have made you a
watchman for the house of Israel; so hear the word I speak and give them
warning from me. 8 When I say to the wicked, `O wicked man, you will surely die,' and you
do not speak out to dissuade him from his ways, that wicked man will die for A his sin, and I will hold you accountable for his blood. 9 But if you do
warn the wicked man to turn from his ways and he does not do so, he will die
for his sin, but you will have saved yourself.
10 "Son of
man, say to the house of Israel, `This is what you are saying: "Our
offenses and sins weigh us down, and we are wasting away because of B them. How then can we live?" ' 11
Say to them, `As surely as I live, declares
the Sovereign LORD, I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but rather
that they turn from their ways and live. Turn! Turn from your evil ways! Why
will you die, O house of Israel?'
12 "Therefore,
son of man, say to your countrymen, `The righteousness of the righteous man
will not save him when he disobeys, and the wickedness of the wicked man will
not cause him to fall when he turns from it. The righteous man, if he sins,
will not be allowed to live because of his former righteousness.' 13 If I tell the
righteous man that he will surely live, but then he trusts in his righteousness
and does evil, none of the righteous things he has done will be remembered; he
will die for the evil he has done.
14 And if I say
to the wicked man, `You will surely die,' but he then turns away from his sin
and does what is just and right—15 if he gives
back what he took in pledge for a loan, returns what he has stolen, follows the
decrees that give life, and does no evil, he will surely live; he will not die.
16 None of the sins he has committed will be remembered against him. He
has done what is just and right; he will surely live.
17 "Yet
your countrymen say, `The way of the Lord is not just.' But it is their way
that is not just. 18 If a righteous man turns from his righteousness and does evil, he will
die for it. 19 And if a wicked man turns away from his wickedness and does what is
just and right, he will live by doing so. 20 Yet, O house
of Israel, you say, `The way of the Lord is not just.' But I will judge each of
you according to his own ways." [11]
21 In
the twelfth year of our exile, in the tenth month on the fifth day, a man who
had escaped from Jerusalem came to me and said, "The city has
fallen!" 22 Now the evening before the man arrived, the hand of
the LORD was upon me, and he opened my mouth before the man came to me in the
morning. So my mouth was opened and I was no longer silent.
23 Then
the word of the LORD came to me: 24 "Son
of man, the people living in those ruins in the land of Israel are saying,
`Abraham was only one man, yet he possessed the land. But we are many; surely
the land has been given to us as our possession.'
25 Therefore say
to them, `This is what the Sovereign LORD says: Since you eat meat with the
blood still in it and look to your idols and shed blood, should you then
possess the land? 26 You rely on your sword, you do detestable things, and each of you
defiles his neighbor's wife. Should you then possess the land?'
27 "Say
this to them: `This is what the Sovereign LORD says: As surely as I live, those
who are left in the ruins will fall by the sword, those out in the country I
will give to the wild animals to be devoured, and those in strongholds and
caves will die of a plague.
28 I will make
the land a desolate waste, and her proud strength will come to an end, and the
mountains of Israel will become desolate so that no one will cross them.
29 Then they
will know that I am the LORD, when I have made the land a desolate waste
because of all the detestable things they have done.'
30 "As for
you, son of man, your countrymen are talking together about you by the walls
and at the doors of the houses, saying to each other, `Come and hear the
message that has come from the LORD.' 31 My people
come to you, as they usually do, and sit
before you to listen to your words, but they do not put them into practice.
With their mouths they express devotion, but their hearts are greedy for unjust
gain. 32 Indeed, to them you are nothing more than one who sings love
songs with a beautiful voice and plays an instrument well, for they hear your
words but do not put them into practice.
33 "When all this comes true--and it surely will--then they will
know that a prophet has been among them."
34 1
The word of the LORD came to me: 2 "Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel;
prophesy and say to them: `This is what the Sovereign LORD says: Woe to the
shepherds of Israel who only take care of themselves! Should not shepherds take
care of the flock? 3 You eat the curds, clothe yourselves with the wool and
slaughter the choice animals, but you do not take care of the flock. 4 You have not
strengthened the weak or healed the sick or bound up the injured. You have not
brought back the strays or searched for the lost. You have ruled them harshly
and brutally. 5 So they were scattered because there was no shepherd, and
when they were scattered they became food for all the wild animals. 6 My [12]
sheep wandered over all the mountains and on every
high hill. They were scattered over the whole earth, and no one searched or
looked for them.
7 "`Therefore, you shepherds, hear the
word of the LORD: 8 As surely as I live, declares the Sovereign LORD, because my flock
lacks a shepherd and so has been plundered and has become food for all the wild
animals, and because my shepherds did not search for my flock but cared for
themselves rather than for my flock,
9 therefore, O shepherds, hear the word of the LORD: 10 This
is what the Sovereign LORD says: I am against the shepherds and will hold them
accountable for my flock. I will remove them from tending the flock so that the
shepherds can no longer feed themselves. I will rescue my flock from their
mouths, and it will no longer be food for them.
11 "`For this is what the Sovereign LORD says: I myself will search
for my sheep and look after them. 12 As a shepherd
looks after his scattered flock when he is with them, so will I look after my
sheep. I will rescue them from all the places where they were scattered on a
day of clouds and darkness. 13 I will bring
them out from the nations and gather them from the countries, and I will bring
them into their own land. I will pasture them on the mountains of Israel, in
the ravines and in all the settlements in the land.
14 I will tend
them in a good pasture, and the mountain heights of Israel will be their
grazing land. There they will lie down in good grazing land, and there they
will feed in a rich pasture on the mountains of Israel. 15 I myself will
tend my sheep and have them lie down, declares the Sovereign LORD. 16 I will search
for the lost and bring back the strays. I will bind up the injured and
strengthen the weak, but the sleek and the strong I will destroy. I will
shepherd the flock with justice.
17 "`As for
you, my flock, this is what the Sovereign LORD says: I will judge between one
sheep and another, and between rams and goats. 18 Is it not
enough for you to feed on the good pasture? Must you also trample the rest of
your pasture with your feet? Is it not enough for you to drink clear water?
Must you also muddy the rest with your feet?
19 Must my flock
feed on what you have trampled and drink what you have muddied with your feet?
20 "`Therefore
this is what the Sovereign LORD says to them: See, I myself will judge between
the fat sheep and the lean sheep. 21 Because you
shove with flank and shoulder, butting all the weak sheep with your horns until
you have driven them away, 22 I will save
my flock, and they will no longer be plundered. I will judge between one sheep
and another. 23 I will place over them one shepherd, my servant David, and he will tend
them; he will tend them and be their shepherd. 24 I the LORD
will be their God, and my servant David will be prince among them. I the LORD
have spoken. [13]
25 " I
will make a covenant of peace with them and rid the land of wild beasts so that
they may live in the desert and sleep in the forests in safety. 26 I will bless them and
the places surrounding my hill. A I
will send down showers in season; there will be showers of blessing. 27 The trees of the
field will yield their fruit and the ground will yield its crops; the people
will be secure in their land. They will know that I am the LORD, when I break
the bars of their yoke and rescue them from the hands of those who enslaved
them. 28 They will no longer be plundered by the nations, nor will
wild animals devour them. They will live in safety, and no one will make them
afraid. 29 I will provide for them a land renowned for its crops, and
they will no longer be victims of famine in the land or bear the scorn of the
nations. 30 Then they will know that I, the LORD their God, am with them
and that they, the house of Israel, are my people, declares the Sovereign LORD.
31 You
my sheep, the sheep of my pasture, are people, and I am your God, declares the Sovereign LORD.'" [14]
NEW TESTAMENT: HEBREWS 13:1 - 25
13 1 Keep on loving each other as brothers. 2 Do not forget
to entertain strangers, for by so doing some people have entertained angels
without knowing it. 3 Remember those in prison as if you were their fellow prisoners, and
those who are mistreated as if you yourselves were suffering.
4 Marriage should be honored by all, and the
marriage bed kept pure, for God will judge the adulterer and all the sexually
immoral. 5 Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what
you have, because God has said,
"Never
will I leave you;
never will I
forsake you." A
6 So we say with confidence,
"The
Lord is my helper; I will not be afraid.
What can man
do to me?"B
7 Remember
your leaders, who spoke the word of God to you. Consider the outcome of their
way of life and imitate their faith. 8 Jesus Christ is the same
yesterday and today and forever.
9 Do
not be carried away by all kinds of strange teachings. It is good for our
hearts to be strengthened by grace, not by ceremonial foods, which are of no
value to those who eat them. 10 We have an altar from which those
who minister at the tabernacle have no right to eat.
11 The
high priest carries the blood of animals into the Most Holy Place as a sin
offering, but the bodies are burned outside the camp. 12 And so
Jesus also suffered outside the city gate to make the people holy through his
own blood. 13 Let us, then, go to him outside the camp, bearing the
disgrace he bore. 14 For here we do not have an enduring city, but
we are looking for the city that is to come.
15 Through
Jesus, therefore, let us continually offer to God a sacrifice of praise--the
fruit of lips that confess his name. 16 And do not forget to do good
and to share with others, for with such sacrifices God is pleased.
17 Obey
your leaders and submit to their authority. They keep watch over you as men who
must give an account. Obey them so that their work will be a joy, not a burden,
for that would be of no advantage to you.
18 Pray
for us. We are sure that we have a clear conscience and desire to live
honorably in every way. 19 I particularly urge you to pray so that I
may be restored to you soon. [15]
20 May
the God of peace, who through the blood of the eternal covenant brought back
from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great Shepherd of the sheep, 21 equip
you with everything good for doing his will, and may he work in us what is
pleasing to him, through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory for ever and ever.
Amen.
22 Brothers,
I urge you to bear with my word of exhortation, for I have written you only a
short letter.
23 I
want you to know that our brother Timothy has been released. If he arrives
soon, I will come with him to see you.
24 Greet
all your leaders and all God's people. Those from Italy send you their
greetings.
25 Grace
be with you all. [16]
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