JULY
2
PSALMS: 2, 32,
62, 92, 122
PROVERBS: 2
OLD TESTAMENT: ISAIAH 37:1 - 38:22
NEW TESTAMENT: GALATIANS 6:1 - 18
PSALMS: 2
1
Why do the nations conspire A
and
the peoples plot in vain?
2
The kings of the earth take their stand
and
the rulers gather together
against
the LORD
and
against his Anointed One. B
3
"Let us break their chains," they say,
"and
throw off their fetters."
4
The One enthroned in heaven laughs;
the
Lord scoffs at them.
5
Then he rebukes them in his anger
and
terrifies them in his wrath, saying,
6
"I have installed my
King C
on Zion, my holy hill."
7
I will proclaim the decree of the LORD:
He
said to me, "You are my Son D;
today
I have become your Father. E
8
Ask of me,
and
I will make the nations your inheritance,
the
ends of the earth your possession.
9
You will rule them with an iron scepter F;
you
will dash them to pieces like pottery."
10
Therefore, you kings, be wise;
be
warned, you rulers of the earth.
11
Serve the LORD with fear
and
rejoice with trembling.
12
Kiss the Son, lest he be angry
and
you be destroyed in your way,
for
his wrath can flare up in a moment.
Blessed
are all who take refuge in him. [1]
PSALMS: 32
Of
David. A maskil. A
1
Blessed is he
whose
transgressions are forgiven,
whose
sins are covered.
2
Blessed is the man
whose
sin the LORD does not count against him
and
in whose spirit is no deceit.
3
When I kept silent,
my
bones wasted away
through
my groaning all day long.
4
For day and night
your
hand was heavy upon me;
my
strength was sapped
as
in the heat of summer.
Selah
5
Then I acknowledged my sin to you
and
did not cover up my iniquity.
I
said, "I will confess
my
transgressions to the LORD"--
and
you forgave
the
guilt of my sin.
Selah
6
Therefore let everyone who is godly pray to you
while
you may be found;
surely
when the mighty waters rise,
they
will not reach him.
7
You are my hiding place; [2]
you
will protect me from trouble
and
surround me with songs of deliverance.
Selah
8
I will instruct you and teach you in the way you
should go;
I
will counsel you and watch over you.
9
Do not be like the horse or the mule,
which
have no understanding
but
must be controlled by bit and bridle
or
they will not come to you.
10
Many are the woes of the wicked,
but
the LORD's unfailing love
surrounds
the man who trusts in him.
11
Rejoice in the LORD and be glad, you righteous;
sing,
all you who are upright in heart! [3]
PSALMS: 62
For
the director of music. For Jeduthun. A psalm of David.
1
My soul finds rest in God alone;
my
salvation comes from him.
2
He alone is my rock and my salvation;
he
is my fortress, I will never be shaken.
3
How long will you assault a man?
Would
all of you throw him down--
this
leaning wall, this tottering fence?
4
They fully intend to topple him
from
his lofty place;
they
take delight in lies.
With
their mouths they bless,
but
in their hearts they curse.
Selah
5
Find rest, O my soul, in God alone;
my
hope comes from him.
6
He alone is my rock and my salvation;
he
is my fortress, I will not be shaken.
7
My salvation and my honor depend on God A;
he
is my mighty rock, my refuge.
8
Trust in him at all times, O people;
pour
out your hearts to him,
for
God is our refuge.
Selah
9
Lowborn men are but a breath, [4]
the
highborn are but a lie;
if
weighed on a balance, they are nothing;
together
they are only a breath.
10
Do not trust in extortion
or
take pride in stolen goods;
though
your riches increase,
do
not set your heart on them.
11
One thing God has spoken,
two
things have I heard:
that
you, O God, are strong,
12
and that you, O Lord, are loving.
Surely
you will reward each person
according
to what he has done. [5]
PSALMS: 92
A
psalm. A song. For the Sabbath day.
1
It is good to praise the LORD
and
make music to your name, O Most High,
2
to proclaim your love in the morning
and
your faithfulness at night,
3
to the music of the ten-stringed lyre
and
the melody of the harp.
4
For you make me glad by your deeds, O LORD;
I
sing for joy at the works of your hands.
5
How great are your works, O LORD,
how
profound your thoughts!
6
The senseless man does not know,
fools
do not understand,
7
that though the wicked spring up like grass
and
all evildoers flourish,
they
will be forever destroyed.
8
But you, O LORD, are exalted forever.
9
For surely your enemies, O LORD,
surely
your enemies will perish;
all
evildoers will be scattered.
10
You have exalted my horn A like that of a
wild ox;
fine
oils have been poured upon me.
11
My eyes have seen the defeat of my adversaries;
my
ears have heard the rout of my wicked foes.
12
The righteous will flourish like a palm tree,
they
will grow like a cedar of Lebanon;
13
planted in the house of the LORD, [6]they
will flourish in the courts of our God.
14
They will still bear fruit in old age,
they
will stay fresh and green,
15
proclaiming, "The LORD is upright;
he
is my Rock, and there is no wickedness in him." [7]
PSALMS: 122
A
song of ascents. Of David.
1
I rejoiced with those who said to me,
"Let us go to the house of the LORD."
2
Our feet are standing
in
your gates, O Jerusalem.
3
Jerusalem is built like a city
that
is closely compacted together.
4
That is where the tribes go up,
the
tribes of the LORD,
to
praise the name of the LORD
according
to the statute given to Israel.
5
There the thrones for judgment stand,
the
thrones of the house of David.
6
Pray for the peace of Jerusalem:
"May those who love you be secure.
7 May there
be peace within your walls
and security within your citadels."
8 For the sake of my brothers and friends,
I will say, "Peace be within you."
9
For the sake of the house of the LORD our God,
I
will seek your prosperity. [8]
PROVERBS: 2
2
1 My son, if you accept
my words
and
store up my commands within you,
2
turning your ear to wisdom
and
applying your heart to understanding,
3
and if you call out for insight
and
cry aloud for understanding,
4
and if you look for it as for silver
and
search for it as for hidden treasure,
5
then you will understand the fear of the LORD
and
find the knowledge of God.
6
For the LORD gives wisdom,
and
from his mouth come knowledge and understanding.
7
He holds victory in store for the upright,
he
is a shield to those whose walk is blameless,
8
for he guards the course of the just
and
protects the way of his faithful ones.
9
Then you will understand what is right and just
and
fair--every good path.
10
For wisdom will enter your heart,
and
knowledge will be pleasant to your soul.
11
Discretion will protect you,
and
understanding will guard you.
12
Wisdom will save you from the ways of wicked men,
from
men whose words are perverse,
13
who leave the straight paths
to
walk in dark ways,
14
who delight in doing wrong
and
rejoice in the perverseness of evil,
15
whose paths are crooked
and
who are devious in their ways.
16
It will save you also from the adulteress,
from
the wayward wife with her seductive words [9]
17
who has left the partner of her youth
and
ignored the covenant she made before God. A
18
For her house leads down to death
and
her paths to the spirits of the dead.
19None
who go to her return
or
attain the paths of life.
20
Thus you will walk in the ways of good men
and
keep to the paths of the righteous.
21
For the upright will live in the land,
and
the blameless will remain in it;
22
but the wicked will be cut off from the land,
and
the unfaithful will be torn from it. [10]
OLD TESTAMENT: ISAIAH 37:1 - 38:22
37 1
When King Hezekiah heard this, he tore his clothes and
put on sackcloth and went into the temple of the LORD. 2 He sent
Eliakim the palace administrator, Shebna the secretary, and the leading
priests, all wearing sackcloth, to the prophet Isaiah son of Amoz. 3 They
told him, "This is what Hezekiah says: This day is a day of distress and
rebuke and disgrace, as when children come to the point of birth and there is
no strength to deliver them. 4 It may be that the LORD your God will
hear the words of the field commander, whom his master, the king of Assyria,
has sent to ridicule the living God, and that he will rebuke him for the words
the LORD your God has heard. Therefore pray for the remnant that still
survives."
5 When
King Hezekiah's officials came to Isaiah, 6 Isaiah said to them,
"Tell your master, `This is what the LORD
says: Do not be afraid of what you have heard--those words with which the
underlings of the king of Assyria have blasphemed me. 7 Listen! I am going to put a spirit in him so that when he
hears a certain report, he will return to his own country, and there I will have
him cut down with the sword.'"
8 When
the field commander heard that the king of Assyria had left Lachish, he
withdrew and found the king fighting against Libnah.
9 Now
Sennacherib received a report that Tirhakah, the Cushite A king of
Egypt, was marching out to fight against him. When he heard it, he sent
messengers to Hezekiah with this word: 10 "Say to Hezekiah king
of Judah: Do not let the god you depend on deceive you when he says, `Jerusalem
will not be handed over to the king of Assyria.'
11 Surely
you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all the countries,
destroying them completely. And will you be delivered? 12 Did the
gods of the nations that were destroyed by my forefathers deliver them--the
gods of Gozan, Haran, Rezeph and the people of Eden who were in Tel Assar? 13
Where is the king of Hamath, the king of Arpad, the king of the city of
Sepharvaim, or of Hena or Ivvah?"
14 Hezekiah
received the letter from the messengers and read it. Then he went up to the
temple of the LORD and spread it out before the LORD. 15 And
Hezekiah prayed to the LORD: 16 "O LORD Almighty, God of
Israel, enthroned between the cherubim, you alone are God over all the kingdoms
of the earth. You have made heaven and earth.
17 Give
ear, O LORD, and hear; open your eyes, O LORD, and see; listen to all the words
Sennacherib has sent to insult the living God.
18 "It
is true, O LORD, that the Assyrian kings have laid waste all these peoples and
their lands. 19 They have thrown their gods into the fire and
destroyed them, for they were not gods but only wood and stone, fashioned by
human hands. 20 Now, O LORD our God, deliver us from his hand, so
that all kingdoms on earth may know that you alone, O LORD, are God. B"
21 Then
Isaiah son of Amoz sent a message to Hezekiah: "This
is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: Because you have prayed to me
concerning Sennacherib king of Assyria, 22 this is the word the LORD has spoken against him:
"The
Virgin Daughter of Zion [11]
despises and
mocks you.
The Daughter
of Jerusalem
tosses her
head as you flee.
23 Who is it you have insulted and blasphemed?
Against whom
have you raised your voice
and lifted
your eyes in pride?
Against the
Holy One of Israel!
24 By your messengers
you have
heaped insults on the Lord.
And you have
said,
`With my many
chariots
I have
ascended the heights of the mountains,
the utmost
heights of Lebanon.
I have cut
down its tallest cedars,
the choicest
of its pines.
I have
reached its remotest heights,
the finest of
its forests.
25 I have dug wells in foreign lands C
and drunk the
water there.
With the
soles of my feet
I have dried
up all the streams of Egypt.'
26 "Have you not heard?
Long ago I
ordained it.
In days of
old I planned it;
now I have
brought it to pass, [12]
that you have
turned fortified cities
into piles of
stone.
27 Their people, drained of power,
are dismayed
and put to shame.
They are like
plants in the field,
like tender
green shoots,
like grass
sprouting on the roof,
scorched D before it grows up.
28 "But I know where you stay
and when you
come and go
and how you
rage against me.
29 Because you rage against me
and because
your insolence has reached my ears,
I will put my
hook in your nose
and my bit in
your mouth,
and I will
make you return
by the way
you came.
30 "This will be the sign for you, O Hezekiah:
"This
year you will eat what grows by itself,
and the
second year what springs from that.
But in the
third year sow and reap,
plant
vineyards and eat their fruit.
31 Once more a remnant of the house of Judah
will take
root below and bear fruit above.
and out of
Mount Zion a band of survivors.
The zeal of
the LORD Almighty
will
accomplish this.
33 "Therefore this is what the LORD says concerning the king of
Assyria:
"He will
not enter this city
or shoot an
arrow here.
He will not
come before it with shield
or build a
siege ramp against it.
34 By the way that he came he will return;
he will not
enter this city,"
declares the LORD.
35 "I will defend this city and save it,
for my sake
and for the sake of David my servant!"
36 Then
the angel of the LORD went out and put to death a hundred and eighty-five
thousand men in the Assyrian camp. When the people got up the next
morning--there were all the dead bodies! 37 So Sennacherib king of
Assyria broke camp and withdrew. He returned to Nineveh and stayed there.
38 One
day, while he was worshiping in the temple of his god Nisroch, his sons
Adrammelech and Sharezer cut him down with the sword, and they escaped to the
land of Ararat. And Esarhaddon his son succeeded him as king.
38 1
In those days Hezekiah became ill and was at the point
of death. The prophet Isaiah son of Amoz went to him and said, "This is what the LORD
says: Put your house in order, because you are going to die; you will not
recover."
2 Hezekiah
turned his face to the wall and prayed to the LORD, 3 "Remember,
O LORD, how I have walked before you faithfully and with wholehearted devotion
and have done what is good in your eyes." And Hezekiah wept bitterly. [14]
4 Then
the word of the LORD came to Isaiah: 5 "Go and tell Hezekiah, `This is what the LORD, the God of your father
David, says: I have heard your prayer and seen your tears; I will add fifteen
years to your life.
6 And I will deliver you and this city from the hand of the king of
Assyria. I will defend this city.
7 "`This is the LORD's sign to you that the LORD will do what he
has promised: 8 I will make
the shadow cast by the sun go back the ten steps it has gone down on the
stairway of Ahaz.'" So the sunlight went back the ten steps it had
gone down.
9 A
writing of Hezekiah king of Judah after his illness and recovery:
10 I
said, "In the prime of my life
must I go through the
gates of death A
and be robbed of the
rest of my years?"
11 I
said, "I will not again see the LORD,
the LORD, in the land of
the living;
no longer will I look on
mankind,
or be with those who now
dwell in this world. B
12 Like
a shepherd's tent my house
has been pulled down and
taken from me.
Like a weaver I have
rolled up my life,
and he has cut me off
from the loom;
day and night you made
an end of me.
13 I
waited patiently till dawn,
but like a lion he broke
all my bones;
day and night you made
an end of me.
14 I
cried like a swift or thrush,
I moaned like a mourning
dove.
My eyes grew weak as I
looked to the heavens.
I am troubled; O Lord,
come to my aid!" [15]
15 But what can I say?
He has spoken to me, and
he himself has done this.
I will walk humbly all
my years
because of this anguish
of my soul.
16 Lord,
by such things men live;
and my spirit finds life
in them too.
You restored me to
health
and let me live.
17 Surely
it was for my benefit
that I suffered such
anguish.
In your love you kept me
from the pit of
destruction;
you have put all my sins
behind your back.
18 For
the grave C cannot praise you,
death cannot sing your
praise;
those who go down to the
pit
cannot hope for your
faithfulness.
19 The
living, the living--they praise you,
as I am doing today;
fathers tell their
children
about your faithfulness.
20 The
LORD will save me,
and we will sing with
stringed instruments
all the days of our
lives [16]
in the temple of the
LORD.
21 Isaiah
had said, "Prepare a poultice of figs and apply it to the boil, and he
will recover."
22 Hezekiah
had asked, "What will be the sign that I will go up to the temple of the
LORD?" [17]
NEW TESTAMENT: GALATIANS 6:1 - 18
6 1
Brothers, if someone is caught in a sin, you who are
spiritual should restore him gently. But watch yourself, or you also may be
tempted. 2 Carry each other's burdens, and in this way you will
fulfill the law of Christ. 3 If anyone thinks he is something when
he is nothing, he deceives himself. 4 Each one should test his own
actions. Then he can take pride in himself, without comparing himself to
somebody else, 5 for each one should carry his own load.
6 Anyone
who receives instruction in the word must share all good things with his
instructor.
7 Do
not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows. 8 The
one who sows to please his sinful nature, from that nature A will
reap destruction; the one who sows to please the Spirit, from the Spirit will
reap eternal life. 9 Let us not become weary in doing good, for at
the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.
10 Therefore,
as we have opportunity, let us do good to all people, especially to those who
belong to the family of believers.
11 See
what large letters I use as I write to you with my own hand!
12 Those
who want to make a good impression outwardly are trying to compel you to be
circumcised. The only reason they do this is to avoid being persecuted for the
cross of Christ. 13 Not even those who are circumcised obey the law,
yet they want you to be circumcised that they may boast about your flesh. 14
May I never boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through
which B the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world. 15
Neither circumcision nor uncircumcision means anything; what counts is a
new creation. 16 Peace and mercy to all who follow this rule, even
to the Israel of God.
17 Finally,
let no one cause me trouble, for I bear on my body the marks of Jesus.
18 The
grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit, brothers. Amen. [18]
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