JULY
10
PSALMS: 10,
40, 70, 100, 130
PROVERBS: 10
OLD
TESTAMENT: ISAIAH 57:15 - 59:21
NEW
TESTAMENT: PHILLIPIANS 1:1 - 26
PSALMS: 10
1
Why, A O LORD, do you stand far off?
Why
do you hide yourself in times of trouble?
2
In his arrogance the wicked man hunts down the weak,
who
are caught in the schemes he devises.
3
He boasts of the cravings of his heart;
he
blesses the greedy and reviles the LORD.
4
In his pride the wicked does not seek him;
in
all his thoughts there is no room for God.
5
His ways are always prosperous;
he
is haughty and your laws are far from him;
he
sneers at all his enemies.
6
He says to himself, "Nothing will shake me;
I'll
always be happy and never have trouble."
7
His mouth is full of curses and lies and threats;
trouble
and evil are under his tongue.
8
He lies in wait near the villages;
from
ambush he murders the innocent,
watching
in secret for his victims.
9
He lies in wait like a lion in cover;
he
lies in wait to catch the helpless;
he
catches the helpless and drags them off in his net.
10
His victims are crushed, they collapse;
they
fall under his strength.
11
He says to himself, "God has forgotten;
he
covers his face and never sees." [1]
12
Arise, LORD! Lift up your hand, O God.
Do
not forget the helpless.
13
Why does the wicked man revile God?
Why
does he say to himself,
"He
won't call me to account"?
14
But you, O God, do see trouble and grief;
you
consider it to take it in hand.
The
victim commits himself to you;
you
are the helper of the fatherless.
15
Break the arm of the wicked and evil man;
call
him to account for his wickedness
that
would not be found out.
16
The LORD is King for ever and ever;
the
nations will perish from his land.
17
You hear, O LORD, the desire of the afflicted;
you
encourage them, and you listen to their cry,
18
defending the fatherless and the oppressed,
in
order that man, who is of the earth, may terrify no more. [2]
PSALMS: 40
For
the director of music. Of David. A psalm.
1
I waited patiently for the LORD;
he
turned to me and heard my cry.
2
He lifted me out of the slimy pit,
out
of the mud and mire;
he
set my feet on a rock
and
gave me a firm place to stand.
3
He put a new song in my mouth,
a
hymn of praise to our God.
Many
will see and fear
and
put their trust in the LORD.
4
Blessed is the man
who
makes the LORD his trust,
who
does not look to the proud,
to
those who turn aside to false gods. A
5
Many, O LORD my God,
are
the wonders you have done.
The
things you planned for us
no
one can recount to you;
were
I to speak and tell of them,
they
would be too many to declare.
6
Sacrifice and offering you did not desire,
but
my ears you have pierced BC;
burnt
offerings and sin offerings
you
did not require.
7
Then I said, "Here I am, I have come--
it
is written about me in the scroll. D [3]
8
I desire to do your will, O my God;
your
law is within my heart."
9
I proclaim righteousness in the great assembly;
I
do not seal my lips,
as
you know, O LORD.
10
I do not hide your righteousness in my heart;
I
speak of your faithfulness and salvation.
I
do not conceal your love and your truth
from
the great assembly.
11
Do not withhold your mercy from me, O LORD;
may
your love and your truth always protect me.
12
For troubles without number surround me;
my
sins have overtaken me, and I cannot see.
They
are more than the hairs of my head,
and
my heart fails within me.
13
Be pleased, O LORD, to save me;
O
LORD, come quickly to help me.
14
May all who seek to take my life
be
put to shame and confusion;
may
all who desire my ruin
be
turned back in disgrace.
15
May those who say to me, "Aha! Aha!"
be
appalled at their own shame.
16
But may all who seek you
rejoice
and be glad in you;
may
those who love your salvation always say,
"The
LORD be exalted!"[4]
17
Yet I am poor and needy;
may
the Lord think of me.
You
are my help and my deliverer;
O
my God, do not delay. [5]
PSALMS: 70
For
the director of music. Of David. A petition.
1
Hasten, O God, to save me;
O
LORD, come quickly to help me.
2
May those who seek my life
be
put to shame and confusion;
may
all who desire my ruin
be
turned back in disgrace.
3
May those who say to me, "Aha! Aha!"
turn
back because of their shame.
4
But may all who seek you
rejoice
and be glad in you;
may
those who love your salvation always say,
"Let
God be exalted!"
5
Yet I am poor and needy;
come
quickly to me, O God.
You
are my help and my deliverer;
O
LORD, do not delay. [6]
PSALMS: 100
A
psalm. For giving thanks.
1
Shout for joy to the LORD, all the earth.
2
Worship the LORD with gladness;
come
before him with joyful songs.
3
Know that the LORD is God.
It
is he who made us, and we are his A;
we
are his people, the sheep of his pasture.
4
Enter his gates with thanksgiving
and
his courts with praise;
give
thanks to him and praise his name.
5
For the LORD is good and his love endures forever;
his
faithfulness continues through all generations. [7]
PSALMS: 130
A
song of ascents.
1
Out of the depths I cry to you, O LORD;
2
O Lord, hear my voice.
Let
your ears be attentive
to
my cry for mercy.
3
If you, O LORD, kept a record of sins,
O
Lord, who could stand?
4
But with you there is forgiveness;
therefore
you are feared.
5
I wait for the LORD, my soul waits,
and
in his word I put my hope.
6
My soul waits for the Lord
more
than watchmen wait for the morning,
more
than watchmen wait for the morning.
7
O Israel, put your hope in the LORD,
for
with the LORD is unfailing love
and
with him is full redemption.
8
He himself will redeem Israel
from
all their sins. [8]
PROVERBS: 10
10
1 The proverbs of Solomon:
A
wise son brings joy to his father,
but
a foolish son grief to his mother.
2
Ill-gotten treasures are of no value,
but
righteousness delivers from death.
3
The LORD does not let the righteous go hungry
but
he thwarts the craving of the wicked.
4
Lazy hands make a man poor,
but
diligent hands bring wealth.
5
He who gathers crops in summer is a wise son,
but
he who sleeps during harvest is a disgraceful son.
6
Blessings crown the head of the righteous,
but
violence overwhelms the mouth of the wicked. A
7
The memory of the righteous will be a blessing,
but
the name of the wicked will rot.
8
The wise in heart accept commands,
but
a chattering fool comes to ruin.
9
The man of integrity walks securely,
but
he who takes crooked paths will be found out.
10
He who winks maliciously causes grief,
and
a chattering fool comes to ruin.
11
The mouth of the righteous is a fountain of life,
but
violence overwhelms the mouth of the wicked. [9]
12
Hatred stirs up dissension,
but
love covers over all wrongs.
13
Wisdom is found on the lips of the discerning,
but
a rod is for the back of him who lacks judgment.
14
Wise men store up knowledge,
but
the mouth of a fool invites ruin.
15
The wealth of the rich is their fortified city,
but
poverty is the ruin of the poor.
16
The wages of the righteous bring them life,
but
the income of the wicked brings them punishment.
17
He who heeds discipline shows the way to life,
but
whoever ignores correction leads others astray.
18
He who conceals his hatred has lying lips,
and
whoever spreads slander is a fool.
19
When words are many, sin is not absent,
but
he who holds his tongue is wise.
20
The tongue of the righteous is choice silver,
but
the heart of the wicked is of little value.
21
The lips of the righteous nourish many,
but
fools die for lack of judgment.
22
The blessing of the LORD brings wealth,
and
he adds no trouble to it. [10]
23
A fool finds pleasure in evil conduct,
but
a man of understanding delights in wisdom.
24
What the wicked dreads will overtake him;
what
the righteous desire will be granted.
25
When the storm has swept by, the wicked are gone,
but
the righteous stand firm forever.
26
As vinegar to the teeth and smoke to the eyes,
so
is a sluggard to those who send him.
27
The fear of the LORD adds length to life,
but
the years of the wicked are cut short.
28
The prospect of the righteous is joy,
but
the hopes of the wicked come to nothing.
29
The way of the LORD is a refuge for the righteous,
but
it is the ruin of those who do evil.
30
The righteous will never be uprooted,
but
the wicked will not remain in the land.
31
The mouth of the righteous brings forth wisdom,
but
a perverse tongue will be cut out.
32
The lips of the righteous know what is fitting,
but
the mouth of the wicked only what is perverse. [11]
OLD TESTAMENT: ISAIAH 57:15 - 59:21
15 For
this is what the high and lofty One says--
he who lives forever,
whose name is holy:
"I live in a high and holy place,
but also with
him who is contrite and lowly in spirit,
to revive the
spirit of the lowly
and to revive
the heart of the contrite.
16 I will not accuse forever,
nor will I
always be angry,
for then the
spirit of man would grow faint before me--
the breath of
man that I have created.
17 I was enraged by his sinful greed;
I punished
him, and hid my face in anger,
yet he kept
on in his willful ways.
18 I have seen his ways, but I will heal him;
I will guide
him and restore comfort to him,
19 creating praise on the lips of the mourners in Israel.
Peace, peace,
to those far and near,"
says the LORD. "And I will heal them."
20 But
the wicked are like the tossing sea,
which cannot rest,
whose waves cast up mire
and mud.
21 "There is no peace," says my God, "for the wicked."
58 1
"Shout it aloud, do not hold back.
Raise your
voice like a trumpet. [12]
Declare to my
people their rebellion
and to the
house of Jacob their sins.
2 For day after day they seek me out;
they seem
eager to know my ways,
as if they
were a nation that does what is right
and has not
forsaken the commands of its God.
They ask me
for just decisions
and seem
eager for God to come near them.
3 `Why have we fasted,' they say,
`and you have
not seen it?
Why have we
humbled ourselves,
and you have
not noticed?'
"Yet on the day of your fasting, you do as you please
and exploit
all your workers.
4 Your fasting ends in quarreling and strife,
and in
striking each other with wicked fists.
You cannot
fast as you do today
and expect
your voice to be heard on high.
5 Is this the kind of fast I have chosen,
only a day
for a man to humble himself?
Is it only
for bowing one's head like a reed
and for lying
on sackcloth and ashes?
Is that what
you call a fast,
a day
acceptable to the LORD? [13]
6 "Is not this the kind of fasting I have chosen:
to loose the
chains of injustice
and untie the
cords of the yoke,
to set the
oppressed free
and break
every yoke?
7 Is it not to share your food with the hungry
and to
provide the poor wanderer with shelter--
when you see
the naked, to clothe him,
and not to
turn away from your own flesh and blood?
8 Then your light will break forth like the dawn,
and your
healing will quickly appear;
then your
righteousness A will go
before you,
and the glory
of the LORD will be your rear guard.
9 Then you will call, and the LORD will answer;
you will cry
for help, and he will say: Here am I.
"If you
do away with the yoke of oppression,
with the
pointing finger and malicious talk,
10 and if you spend yourselves in behalf of the hungry
and satisfy
the needs of the oppressed,
then your
light will rise in the darkness,
and your
night will become like the noonday.
11 The LORD will guide you always;
he will satisfy
your needs in a sun-scorched land
and will
strengthen your frame.
You will be
like a well-watered garden,
like a spring
whose waters never fail. [14]
12 Your people will rebuild the ancient ruins
and will
raise up the age-old foundations;
you will be
called Repairer of Broken Walls,
Restorer of
Streets with Dwellings.
13 "If you keep your feet from breaking the Sabbath
and from
doing as you please on my holy day,
if you call
the Sabbath a delight
and the
LORD's holy day honorable,
and if you honor
it by not going your own way
and not doing
as you please or speaking idle words,
14 then you will find your joy in the LORD,
and I will
cause you to ride on the heights of the land
and to feast
on the inheritance of your father Jacob."
The mouth of the LORD
has spoken.
59 1
Surely the arm of the LORD is not too
short to save,
nor his ear too dull to
hear.
2 But
your iniquities have separated
you from your God;
your sins have hidden
his face from you,
so that he will not
hear.
3 For
your hands are stained with blood,
your fingers with guilt.
Yand your tongue mutters
wicked things.
4 No
one calls for justice;
no one pleads his case
with integrity.
They rely on empty
arguments and speak lies;
they conceive trouble
and give birth to evil.
5 They
hatch the eggs of vipers
and spin a spider's web.
Whoever eats their eggs
will die,
and when one is broken,
an adder is hatched.
6 Their
cobwebs are useless for clothing;
they cannot cover
themselves with what they make.
Their deeds are evil
deeds,
and acts of violence are
in their hands.
7 Their
feet rush into sin;
they are swift to shed
innocent blood.
Their thoughts are evil
thoughts;
ruin and destruction
mark their ways.
8 The
way of peace they do not know;
there is no justice in
their paths.
They have turned them
into crooked roads;
no one who walks in them
will know peace.
9 So
justice is far from us,
and righteousness does
not reach us.
We look for light, but
all is darkness;
for brightness, but we
walk in deep shadows. [15]
our lips have spoken
lies, [16]
10 Like
the blind we grope along the wall,
feeling our way like men
without eyes.
At midday we stumble as
if it were twilight;
among the strong, we are
like the dead.
11 We
all growl like bears;
we moan mournfully like
doves.
We look for justice, but
find none;
for deliverance, but it
is far away.
12 For
our offenses are many in your sight,
and our sins testify
against us.
Our offenses are ever
with us,
and we acknowledge our
iniquities:
13 rebellion
and treachery against the LORD,
turning our backs on our
God,
fomenting oppression and
revolt,
uttering lies our hearts
have conceived.
14 So
justice is driven back,
and righteousness stands
at a distance;
truth has stumbled in
the streets,
honesty cannot enter.
15 Truth
is nowhere to be found,
and whoever shuns evil
becomes a prey.
The LORD looked and was
displeased
that there was no
justice. [17]
16 He
saw that there was no one,
he was appalled that
there was no one to intervene;
so his own arm worked
salvation for him,
and his own
righteousness sustained him.
17 He
put on righteousness as his breastplate,
and the helmet of
salvation on his head;
he put on the garments
of vengeance
and wrapped himself in
zeal as in a cloak.
18 According
to what they have done,
so will he repay
wrath to his enemies
and retribution to his
foes;
he will repay the
islands their due.
19 From
the west, men will fear the name of the LORD,
and from the rising of
the sun, they will revere his glory.
For he will come like a
pent-up flood
that the breath of the
LORD drives along. A
20 "The Redeemer will come to Zion,
to those in
Jacob who repent of their sins,"
declares the LORD.
21 "As for me, this is my covenant with them," says
the LORD. "My Spirit, who is on you, and my words
that I have put in your mouth will not depart from your mouth, or from the
mouths of your children, or from the mouths of their descendants from this time
on and forever," says the LORD. [18]
NEW TESTAMENT: PHILIPIANS 1:1 - 26
1 1
Paul and Timothy,
servants of Christ Jesus,
To all the saints in
Christ Jesus at Philippi, together with the overseers A and deacons:
2 Grace
and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
3 I
thank my God every time I remember you. 4 In all my prayers for all
of you, I always pray with joy 5 because of your partnership in the
gospel from the first day until now,
6 being
confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to
completion until the day of Christ Jesus.
7 It
is right for me to feel this way about all of you, since I have you in my
heart; for whether I am in chains or defending and confirming the gospel, all
of you share in God's grace with me. 8 God can testify how I long
for all of you with the affection of Christ Jesus.
9 And
this is my prayer: that your love may abound more and more in knowledge and
depth of insight, 10 so that you may be able to discern what is best
and may be pure and blameless until the day of Christ, 11 filled
with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ--to the glory
and praise of God.
12 Now
I want you to know, brothers, that what has happened to me has really served to
advance the gospel.
13 As
a result, it has become clear throughout the whole palace guard B
and to everyone else that I am in chains for Christ. 14 Because of
my chains, most of the brothers in the Lord have been encouraged to speak the
word of God more courageously and fearlessly.
15 It
is true that some preach Christ out of envy and rivalry, but others out of
goodwill. 16 The latter do so in love, knowing that I am put here
for the defense of the gospel.
17 The
former preach Christ out of selfish ambition, not sincerely, supposing that
they can stir up trouble for me while I am in chains. C 18 But
what does it matter? The important thing is that in every way, whether from
false motives or true, Christ is preached. And because of this I rejoice.
Yes, and I will continue
to rejoice, 19 for I know that through your prayers and the help
given by the Spirit of Jesus Christ, what has happened to me will turn out for
my deliverance. D 20 I eagerly expect and hope that I
will in no way be ashamed, but will have sufficient courage so that now as
always Christ will be exalted in my body, whether by life or by death. 21 For
to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain. 22 If I am to go on
living in the body, this will mean fruitful labor for me. Yet what shall I
choose? I do not know! 23 I am torn between the two: I desire to
depart [19]
and be with Christ, which is better by far; 24 but it is more
necessary for you that I remain in the body. 25 Convinced of this, I
know that I will remain, and I will continue with all of you for your progress
and joy in the faith, 26 so that through my being with you again
your joy in Christ Jesus will overflow on account of me. [20]
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