JULY
24
PSALMS: 24,
54, 84, 114, 144
PROVERBS: 24
OLD TESTAMENT: JEREMIAH 22:1 - 23:30
NEW TESTAMENT: 2 THESSALONIANS 1:1 - 12
PSALMS: 24
Of
David. A psalm.
1
The earth is the LORD's, and everything in it,
the
world, and all who live in it;
2
for he founded it upon the seas
and
established it upon the waters.
3
Who may ascend the hill of the LORD?
Who
may stand in his holy place?
4
He who has clean hands and a pure heart,
who
does not lift up his soul to an idol
or
swear by what is false. A
5
He will receive blessing from the LORD
and
vindication from God his Savior.
6
Such is the generation of those who seek him,
who
seek your face, O God of Jacob. B
Selah
7
Lift up your heads, O you gates;
be
lifted up, you ancient doors,
that
the King of glory may come in.
8
Who is this King of glory?
The
LORD strong and mighty,
the
LORD mighty in battle.
9
Lift up your heads, O you gates;
lift
them up, you ancient doors,
that
the King of glory may come in.
10
Who is he, this King of glory?
The
LORD Almighty--
he
is the King of glory. [1]
Selah
[2]
PSALMS: 54
For
the director of music. With stringed instruments. A maskil A
of David. When the Ziphites had gone to Saul and said, "Is not David
hiding among us?"
1
Save me, O God, by your name;
vindicate
me by your might.
2
Hear my prayer, O God;
listen
to the words of my mouth.
3
Strangers are attacking me;
ruthless
men seek my life--
men
without regard for God.
Selah
4
Surely God is my help;
the
Lord is the one who sustains me.
5
Let evil recoil on those who slander me;
in
your faithfulness destroy them.
6
I will sacrifice a freewill offering to you;
I
will praise your name, O LORD,
for
it is good.
7
For he has delivered me from all my troubles,
and
my eyes have looked in triumph on my foes. [3]
PSALMS: 84
For
the director of music. According to gittith. A Of the Sons of
Korah. A psalm.
1
How lovely is your dwelling place,
O
LORD Almighty!
2
My soul yearns, even faints,
for
the courts of the LORD;
my
heart and my flesh cry out
for
the living God.
3
Even the sparrow has found a home,
and
the swallow a nest for herself,
where
she may have her young--
a
place near your altar,
O
LORD Almighty, my King and my God.
4
Blessed are those who dwell in your house;
they
are ever praising you.
Selah
5
Blessed are those whose strength is in you,
who
have set their hearts on pilgrimage.
6
As they pass through the Valley of Baca,
they
make it a place of springs;
the
autumn rains also cover it with pools. B
7
They go from strength to strength,
till
each appears before God in Zion.
8
Hear my prayer, O LORD God Almighty;
listen
to me, O God of Jacob.
Selah
9
Look upon our shield,C O God;
look
with favor on your anointed one. [4]
10
Better is one day in your courts
than
a thousand elsewhere;
I
would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God
than
dwell in the tents of the wicked.
11
For the LORD God is a sun and shield;
the
LORD bestows favor and honor;
no
good thing does he withhold
from
those whose walk is blameless.
12
O LORD Almighty,
blessed
is the man who trusts in you. [5]
PSALMS: 114
1
When Israel came out of Egypt,
the
house of Jacob from a people of foreign tongue,
2
Judah became God's sanctuary,
Israel
his dominion.
3
The sea looked and fled,
the
Jordan turned back;
4
the mountains skipped like rams,
the
hills like lambs.
5
Why was it, O sea, that you fled,
O
Jordan, that you turned back,
6
you mountains, that you skipped like rams,
you
hills, like lambs?
7
Tremble, O earth, at the presence of the Lord,
at
the presence of the God of Jacob,
8
who turned the rock into a pool,
the
hard rock into springs of water. [6]
PSALMS: 144
Of
David.
1
Praise be to the LORD my Rock,
who
trains my hands for war,
my
fingers for battle.
2
He is my loving God and my fortress,
my
stronghold and my deliverer,
my
shield, in whom I take refuge,
who
subdues peoples A under me.
3
O LORD, what is man that you care for him,
the
son of man that you think of him?
4
Man is like a breath;
his
days are like a fleeting shadow.
5
Part your heavens, O LORD, and come down;
touch
the mountains, so that they smoke.
6
Send forth lightning and scatter the enemies;
shoot
your arrows and rout them.
7
Reach down your hand from on high;
deliver
me and rescue me
from
the mighty waters,
from
the hands of foreigners
8
whose mouths are full of lies,
whose
right hands are deceitful.
9
I will sing a new song to you, O God;
on
the ten-stringed lyre I will make music to you,
10
to the One who gives victory to kings,
who
delivers his servant David from the deadly sword. [7]
11
Deliver me and rescue me
from
the hands of foreigners
whose
mouths are full of lies,
whose
right hands are deceitful.
12
Then our sons in their youth
will
be like well-nurtured plants,
and
our daughters will be like pillars
carved
to adorn a palace.
13
Our barns will be filled
with
every kind of provision.
Our
sheep will increase by thousands,
by
tens of thousands in our fields;
14
our oxen will draw heavy loads. B
There
will be no breaching of walls,
no
going into captivity,
no
cry of distress in our streets.
15
Blessed are the people of whom this is true;
blessed
are the people whose God is the LORD. [8]
PROVERBS: 24
24
1 Do not envy wicked men,
do
not desire their company;
2
for their hearts plot violence,
and
their lips talk about making trouble.
3
By wisdom a house is built,
and
through understanding it is established;
4
through knowledge its rooms are filled
with
rare and beautiful treasures.
5
A wise man has great power,
and
a man of knowledge increases strength;
6
for waging war you need guidance,
and
for victory many advisers.
7
Wisdom is too high for a fool;
in
the assembly at the gate he has nothing to say.
8
He who plots evil
will
be known as a schemer.
9
The schemes of folly are sin,
and
men detest a mocker.
10
If you falter in times of trouble,
how
small is your strength!
11
Rescue those being led away to death;
hold
back those staggering toward slaughter.
12
If you say, "But we knew nothing about
this,"
does
not he who weighs the heart perceive it?
Does
not he who guards your life know it?
Will
he not repay each person according to what he has done? [9]
13
Eat honey, my son, for it is good;
honey
from the comb is sweet to your taste.
14
Know also that wisdom is sweet to your soul;
if
you find it, there is a future hope for you,
and
your hope will not be cut off.
15
Do not lie in wait like an outlaw against a righteous
man's house,
do
not raid his dwelling place;
16
for though a righteous man falls seven times, he rises
again,
but
the wicked are brought down by calamity.
17
Do not gloat when your enemy falls;
when
he stumbles, do not let your heart rejoice,
18
or the LORD will see and disapprove
and
turn his wrath away from him.
19
Do not fret because of evil men
or
be envious of the wicked,
20
for the evil man has no future hope,
and
the lamp of the wicked will be snuffed out.
21
Fear the LORD and the king, my son,
and
do not join with the rebellious,
22
for those two will send sudden destruction upon them,
and
who knows what calamities they can bring?
23
These also are sayings of the wise:
To
show partiality in judging is not good:
24
Whoever says to the guilty, "You are
innocent"--
peoples
will curse him and nations denounce him.
25
But it will go well with those who convict the guilty,
and
rich blessing will come upon them. [10]
26
An honest answer
is
like a kiss on the lips.
27
Finish your outdoor work
and
get your fields ready;
after
that, build your house.
28
Do not testify against your neighbor without cause,
or
use your lips to deceive.
29
Do not say, "I'll do to him as he has done to me;
I'll
pay that man back for what he did."
30
I went past the field of the sluggard,
past
the vineyard of the man who lacks judgment;
31
thorns had come up everywhere,
the
ground was covered with weeds,
and
the stone wall was in ruins.
32
I applied my heart to what I observed
and
learned a lesson from what I saw:
33
A little sleep, a little slumber,
a
little folding of the hands to rest--
34
and poverty will come on you like a bandit
and
scarcity like an armed man. A [11]
OLD TESTAMENT: JEREMIAH 22:1 - 23:30
22 1
This is what the LORD says: "Go down to the palace of the king of Judah and proclaim this
message there: 2 `Hear the word of
the LORD, O king of Judah, you who sit on David's throne--you, your officials
and your people who come through these gates. 3 This is what the LORD says: Do what is just and right.
Rescue from the hand of his oppressor the one who has been robbed. Do no wrong
or violence to the alien, the fatherless or the widow, and do not shed innocent
blood in this place. 4 For if you
are careful to carry out these commands, then kings who sit on David's throne
will come through the gates of this palace, riding in chariots and on horses,
accompanied by their officials and their people. 5 But if you do not obey these commands, declares the LORD, I
swear by myself that this palace will become a ruin.'"
6 For
this is what the LORD says about the palace of the king of Judah:
"Though you are like Gilead to me,
like the
summit of Lebanon,
I will surely
make you like a desert,
like towns
not inhabited.
7 I will send destroyers against you,
each man with
his weapons,
and they will
cut up your fine cedar beams
and throw
them into the fire.
8 "People from many nations will pass by this city and will ask one
another, `Why has the LORD done such a thing to this great city?' 9
And the answer will be: `Because they have
forsaken the covenant of the LORD their God and have worshiped and served other
gods.'"
10 Do
not weep for the dead king or mourn his loss;
rather, weep bitterly
for him who is exiled,
because he will never
return
nor see his native land
again.
11 For this is what the LORD says
about Shallum A son of Josiah, who succeeded his father as king of
Judah but has gone from this place: "He will
never return. 12 He will die in the
place where they have led him captive; he will not see this land again."
[12]
13
"Woe to him who builds his palace by
unrighteousness,
his upper
rooms by injustice,
making his
countrymen work for nothing,
not paying
them for their labor.
14 He says, `I will build myself a great palace
with spacious
upper rooms.'
So he makes
large windows in it,
panels it
with cedar
and decorates
it in red.
15 "Does it make you a king
to have more
and more cedar?
Did not your
father have food and drink?
He did what
was right and just,
so all went
well with him.
16 He defended the cause of the poor and needy,
and so all
went well.
Is that not
what it means to know me?"
declares the LORD.
17 "But your eyes and your heart
are set only
on dishonest gain,
on shedding
innocent blood
and on
oppression and extortion."
18 Therefore this is what the LORD
says about Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah:
"They will not mourn for him: [13]
`Alas, my
brother! Alas, my sister!'
They will not
mourn for him:
`Alas, my
master! Alas, his splendor!'
19 He will have the burial of a donkey--
dragged away
and thrown
outside the
gates of Jerusalem."
20 "Go up to Lebanon and cry out,
let your
voice be heard in Bashan,
cry out from
Abarim,
for all your
allies are crushed.
21 I warned you
when you felt secure,
but you said,
`I will not listen!'
This has been
your way from your youth;
you have not
obeyed me.
22 The wind will
drive all your shepherds away,
and your
allies will go into exile.
Then you will
be ashamed and disgraced
because of
all your wickedness.
23 You who live in `Lebanon, B'
who are nestled
in cedar buildings,
how you will
groan when pangs come upon you,
pain like
that of a woman in labor!
24 "As surely as I live," declares the
LORD, "even if you, Jehoiachin C son of Jehoiakim king of Judah, were a signet ring on my
right hand, I would still pull you off. 25 I will hand you over to those who seek your life, those you
fear--to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and to the Babylonians. D
26 I will hurl you and the mother who gave
you birth into another country, where neither of you was born, and there you
both will [14] die.
27 You will never come back to the land you long to return to."
28 Is
this man Jehoiachin a despised, broken pot,
an object no one wants?
Why will he and his
children be hurled out,
cast into a land they do
not know?
29 O
land, land, land,
hear the word of the
LORD!
30 This
is what the LORD says:
"Record this man as if childless,
a man who
will not prosper in his lifetime,
for none of
his offspring will prosper,
none will sit
on the throne of David
or rule
anymore in Judah."
23 1
"Woe to the shepherds
who are destroying and scattering the sheep of my pasture!"
declares the LORD.
2 Therefore
this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says to the shepherds who tend my
people: "Because you have scattered my flock and
driven them away and have not bestowed care on them, I will bestow punishment
on you for the evil you have done," declares the LORD. 3 "I myself will gather the remnant of my flock out of all the
countries where I have driven them and will bring them back to their pasture,
where they will be fruitful and increase in number. 4 I will place shepherds over them who will tend them, and
they will no longer be afraid or terrified, nor will any be missing,"
declares the LORD.
5
"The days are coming," declares the
LORD,
"when I will raise up to David A a righteous Branch,
6 In his days Judah will be saved
and Israel
will live in safety.
This is the name by
which he will be called:
The LORD Our
Righteousness.
7 "So
then, the days are coming," declares the LORD, "when people will no longer say, `As surely as the LORD
lives, who brought the Israelites up out of Egypt,' 8 but they will say, `As surely as the LORD lives, who brought
the descendants of Israel up out of the land of the north and out of all the
countries where he had banished them.' Then they will live in their own land."
9 Concerning
the prophets:
My heart is broken
within me;
all my bones tremble.
I am like a drunken man,
like a man overcome by
wine,
because of the LORD
and his holy words.
10 The
land is full of adulterers;
because of the curse B
the land lies parched C
and the pastures in the
desert are withered.
The prophets follow an
evil course
and use their power
unjustly.
11 "Both prophet and priest are godless; [16]
even in my
temple I find their wickedness,"
declares the LORD.
12 "Therefore their path will become slippery;
they will be
banished to darkness
and there
they will fall.
I will bring
disaster on them
in the year
they are punished,"
declares the LORD.
13 "Among the prophets of Samaria
I saw this
repulsive thing:
They
prophesied by Baal
and led my
people Israel astray.
14 And among the prophets of Jerusalem
I have seen
something horrible:
They commit
adultery and live a lie.
They
strengthen the hands of evildoers,
so that no
one turns from his wickedness.
They are all
like Sodom to me;
the people of
Jerusalem are like Gomorrah."
15 Therefore,
this is what the LORD Almighty says concerning the prophets:
"I will make them eat bitter food
and drink
poisoned water,
because from
the prophets of Jerusalem [17]
ungodliness
has spread throughout the land."
16 This
is what the LORD Almighty says:
"Do not listen to what the prophets are prophesying to you;
they fill you
with false hopes.
They speak
visions from their own minds,
not from the
mouth of the LORD.
17 They keep saying to those who despise me,
`The LORD
says: You will have peace.'
And to all
who follow the stubbornness of their hearts
they say, `No
harm will come to you.'
18 But which of them has stood in the council of the LORD
to see or to
hear his word?
Who has
listened and heard his word?
19 See, the storm of the LORD
will burst
out in wrath,
a whirlwind
swirling down
on the heads
of the wicked.
20 The anger of the LORD will not turn back
until he
fully accomplishes
the purposes
of his heart.
In days to
come
you will
understand it clearly.
yet they have
prophesied.
NEW TESTAMENT: 2 THESSALONIANS 1:1 - 12
1 1
Paul, Silas A and Timothy,
To the church of the
Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ:
2 Grace
and peace to you from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
3 We
ought always to thank God for you, brothers, and rightly so, because your faith
is growing more and more, and the love every one of you has for each other is
increasing.
4 Therefore,
among God's churches we boast about your perseverance and faith in all the
persecutions and trials you are enduring.
5 All
this is evidence that God's judgment is right, and as a result you will be
counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which you are suffering. 6 God
is just: He will pay back trouble to those who trouble you 7 and
give relief to you who are troubled, and to us as well. This will happen when
the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven in blazing fire with his powerful
angels. 8 He will punish those who do not know God and do not obey
the gospel of our Lord Jesus. 9 They will be punished with
everlasting destruction and shut out from the presence of the Lord and from the
majesty of his power 10 on the day he comes to be glorified in his
holy people and to be marveled at among all those who have believed. This
includes you, because you believed our testimony to you.
11
With this in mind, we constantly pray for you, that
our God may count you worthy of his calling, and that by his power he may
fulfill every good purpose of yours and every act prompted by your faith. 12
We pray this so that the name of our Lord Jesus may be glorified in you,
and you in him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ. B
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