JUNE
19
PSALMS: 19,
49, 79, 109, 139
PROVERBS: 19
OLD TESTAMENT: ISAIAH 1:1 - 2:22
NEW TESTAMENT: 2 CORINTHIANS 10:1 - 18
PSALMS: 19
For
the director of music. A psalm of David.
1
The heavens declare the glory of God;
the
skies proclaim the work of his hands.
2
Day after day they pour forth speech;
night
after night they display knowledge.
3
There is no speech or language
where
their voice is not heard. A
4
Their voice B goes out into all the earth,
their
words to the ends of the world.
In
the heavens he has pitched a tent for the sun,
5
which is like a bridegroom coming forth from his
pavilion,
like
a champion rejoicing to run his course.
6
It rises at one end of the heavens
and
makes its circuit to the other;
nothing
is hidden from its heat.
7
The law of the LORD is perfect,
reviving
the soul.
The
statutes of the LORD are trustworthy,
making
wise the simple.
8
The precepts of the LORD are right,
giving
joy to the heart.
The
commands of the LORD are radiant,
giving
light to the eyes.
9
The fear of the LORD is pure,
enduring
forever.
The
ordinances of the LORD are sure
and
altogether righteous. [1]
10
They are more precious than gold,
than
much pure gold;
they
are sweeter than honey,
than
honey from the comb.
11
By them is your servant warned;
in
keeping them there is great reward.
12
Who can discern his errors?
Forgive
my hidden faults.
13
Keep your servant also from willful sins;
may
they not rule over me.
Then
will I be blameless,
innocent
of great transgression.
14
May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my
heart
be
pleasing in your sight,
O
LORD, my Rock and my Redeemer. [2]
PSALMS: 49
For
the director of music. Of the Sons of Korah. A psalm.
1
Hear this, all you peoples;
listen,
all who live in this world,
2
both low and high,
rich
and poor alike:
3
My mouth will speak words of wisdom;
the
utterance from my heart will give understanding.
4
I will turn my ear to a proverb;
with
the harp I will expound my riddle:
5
Why should I fear when evil days come,
when
wicked deceivers surround me--
6
those who trust in their wealth
and
boast of their great riches?
7
No man can redeem the life of another
or
give to God a ransom for him--
8
the ransom for a life is costly,
no
payment is ever enough--
9
that he should live on forever
and
not see decay.
10
For all can see that wise men die;
the
foolish and the senseless alike perish
and
leave their wealth to others.
11
Their tombs will remain their houses A
forever,
their
dwellings for endless generations,
though
they had B named lands after themselves. [3]
12
But man, despite his riches, does not endure;
he
is C like the beasts that perish.
13
This is the fate of those who trust in themselves,
and
of their followers, who approve their sayings.
Selah
14
Like sheep they are destined for the grave, D
and
death will feed on them.
The
upright will rule over them in the morning;
their
forms will decay in the grave, E
far
from their princely mansions.
15
But God will redeem my life F from the
grave;
he
will surely take me to himself.
Selah
16
Do not be overawed when a man grows rich,
when
the splendor of his house increases;
17
for he will take nothing with him when he dies,
his
splendor will not descend with him.
18
Though while he lived he counted himself blessed--
and
men praise you when you prosper--
19
he will join the generation of his fathers,
who
will never see the light of life.
20
A man who has riches without understanding
is
like the beasts that perish. [4]
PSALMS: 79
A
psalm of Asaph.
1
O God, the nations have invaded your inheritance;
they
have defiled your holy temple,
they
have reduced Jerusalem to rubble.
2
They have given the dead bodies of your servants
as
food to the birds of the air,
the
flesh of your saints to the beasts of the earth.
3
They have poured out blood like water
all
around Jerusalem,
and
there is no one to bury the dead.
4
We are objects of reproach to our neighbors,
of
scorn and derision to those around us.
5
How long, O LORD? Will you be angry forever?
How
long will your jealousy burn like fire?
6
Pour out your wrath on the nations
that
do not acknowledge you,
on
the kingdoms
that
do not call on your name;
7
for they have devoured Jacob
and
destroyed his homeland.
8
Do not hold against us the sins of the fathers;
may
your mercy come quickly to meet us,
for
we are in desperate need.
9
Help us, O God our Savior,
for
the glory of your name;
deliver
us and forgive our sins
for
your name's sake.
10
Why should the nations say,
"Where
is their God?" [5]
Before
our eyes, make known among the nations
that
you avenge the outpoured blood of your servants.
11
May the groans of the prisoners come before you;
by
the strength of your arm
preserve
those condemned to die.
12
Pay back into the laps of our neighbors seven times
the
reproach they have hurled at you, O Lord.
13
Then we your people, the sheep of your pasture,
will
praise you forever;
from
generation to generation
we
will recount your praise. [6]
PSALMS: 109
For
the director of music. Of David. A psalm.
1
O God, whom I praise,
do
not remain silent,
2
for wicked and deceitful men
have
opened their mouths against me;
they
have spoken against me with lying tongues.
3
With words of hatred they surround me;
they
attack me without cause.
4
In return for my friendship they accuse me,
but
I am a man of prayer.
5
They repay me evil for good,
and
hatred for my friendship.
6
Appoint A an evil man B to
oppose him;
let
an accuser C stand at his right hand.
7
When he is tried, let him be found guilty,
and
may his prayers condemn him.
8
May his days be few;
may
another take his place of leadership.
9
May his children be fatherless
and
his wife a widow.
10
May his children be wandering beggars;
may
they be driven D from their ruined homes.
11
May a creditor seize all he has;
may
strangers plunder the fruits of his labor.
12
May no one extend kindness to him
or
take pity on his fatherless children.
13
May his descendants be cut off, [7]
their
names blotted out from the next generation.
14
May the iniquity of his fathers be remembered before
the LORD;
may
the sin of his mother never be blotted out.
15
May their sins always remain before the LORD,
that
he may cut off the memory of them from the earth.
16
For he never thought of doing a kindness,
but
hounded to death the poor
and
the needy and the brokenhearted.
17
He loved to pronounce a curse--
may
it E come on him;
he
found no pleasure in blessing--
may
it be F far from him.
18
He wore cursing as his garment;
it
entered into his body like water,
into
his bones like oil.
19
May it be like a cloak wrapped about him,
like
a belt tied forever around him.
20
May this be the LORD's payment to my accusers,
to
those who speak evil of me.
21
But you, O Sovereign LORD,
deal
well with me for your name's sake;
out
of the goodness of your love, deliver me.
22
For I am poor and needy,
and
my heart is wounded within me.
23
I fade away like an evening shadow;
I
am shaken off like a locust.
24
My knees give way from fasting;
my
body is thin and gaunt.
25
I am an object of scorn to my accusers;
when
they see me, they shake their heads. [8]
26
Help me, O LORD my God;
save
me in accordance with your love.
27
Let them know that it is your hand,
that
you, O LORD, have done it.
28
They may curse, but you will bless;
when
they attack they will be put to shame,
but
your servant will rejoice.
29
My accusers will be clothed with disgrace
and
wrapped in shame as in a cloak.
30
With my mouth I will greatly extol the LORD;
in
the great throng I will praise him.
31
For he stands at the right hand of the needy one,
to
save his life from those who condemn him. [9]
PSALMS: 139
For
the director of music. Of David. A psalm.
1
O LORD, you have searched me
and
you know me.
2
You know when I sit and when I rise;
you
perceive my thoughts from afar.
3
You discern my going out and my lying down;
you
are familiar with all my ways.
4
Before a word is on my tongue
you
know it completely, O LORD.
5
You hem me in--behind and before;
you
have laid your hand upon me.
6
Such knowledge is too wonderful for me,
too
lofty for me to attain.
7
Where can I go from your Spirit?
Where
can I flee from your presence?
8
If I go up to the heavens, you are there;
if
I make my bed in the depths, A you are there.
9
If I rise on the wings of the dawn,
if
I settle on the far side of the sea,
10
even there your hand will guide me,
your
right hand will hold me fast.
11
If I say, "Surely the darkness will hide me
and
the light become night around me,"
12
even the darkness will not be dark to you;
the
night will shine like the day,
for
darkness is as light to you. [10]
13
For you created my inmost being;
you
knit me together in my mother's womb.
14
I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully
made;
your
works are wonderful,
I
know that full well.
15
My frame was not hidden from you
when
I was made in the secret place.
When
I was woven together in the depths of the earth,
16
your eyes saw my unformed body.
All
the days ordained for me
were
written in your book
before
one of them came to be.
17
How precious to B me are your thoughts, O
God!
How
vast is the sum of them!
18
Were I to count them,
they
would outnumber the grains of sand.
When
I awake,
I
am still with you.
19
If only you would slay the wicked, O God!
Away
from me, you bloodthirsty men!
20
They speak of you with evil intent;
your
adversaries misuse your name.
21
Do I not hate those who hate you, O LORD,
and
abhor those who rise up against you?
22
I have nothing but hatred for them;
I
count them my enemies.
23
Search me, O God, and know my heart;
test
me and know my anxious thoughts.
24
See if there is any offensive way in me,
and
lead me in the way everlasting. [11]
PROVERBS: 19
19
1 Better a poor man whose
walk is blameless
than
a fool whose lips are perverse.
2
It is not good to have zeal without knowledge,
nor
to be hasty and miss the way.
3
A man's own folly ruins his life,
yet
his heart rages against the LORD.
4
Wealth brings many friends,
but
a poor man's friend deserts him.
5
A false witness will not go unpunished,
and
he who pours out lies will not go free.
6
Many curry favor with a ruler,
and
everyone is the friend of a man who gives gifts.
7
A poor man is shunned by all his relatives--
how
much more do his friends avoid him!
Though
he pursues them with pleading,
they
are nowhere to be found. A
8
He who gets wisdom loves his own soul;
he
who cherishes understanding prospers.
9
A false witness will not go unpunished,
and
he who pours out lies will perish.
10
It is not fitting for a fool to live in luxury--
how
much worse for a slave to rule over princes!
11
A man's wisdom gives him patience;
it
is to his glory to overlook an offense. [12]
12
A king's rage is like the roar of a lion,
but
his favor is like dew on the grass.
13
A foolish son is his father's ruin,
and
a quarrelsome wife is like a constant dripping.
14
Houses and wealth are inherited from parents,
but
a prudent wife is from the LORD.
15
Laziness brings on deep sleep,
and
the shiftless man goes hungry.
16
He who obeys instructions guards his life,
but
he who is contemptuous of his ways will die.
17
He who is kind to the poor lends to the LORD,
and
he will reward him for what he has done.
18
Discipline your son, for in that there is hope;
do
not be a willing party to his death.
19
A hot-tempered man must pay the penalty;
if
you rescue him, you will have to do it again.
20
Listen to advice and accept instruction,
and
in the end you will be wise.
21
Many are the plans in a man's heart,
but
it is the LORD's purpose that prevails.
22
What a man desires is unfailing love B;
better
to be poor than a liar. [13]
23
The fear of the LORD leads to life:
Then
one rests content, untouched by trouble.
24
The sluggard buries his hand in the dish;
he
will not even bring it back to his mouth!
25
Flog a mocker, and the simple will learn prudence;
rebuke
a discerning man, and he will gain knowledge.
26
He who robs his father and drives out his mother
is
a son who brings shame and disgrace.
27
Stop listening to instruction, my son,
and
you will stray from the words of knowledge.
28
A corrupt witness mocks at justice,
and
the mouth of the wicked gulps down evil.
29
Penalties are prepared for mockers,
and
beatings for the backs of fools. [14]
OLD TESTAMENT: ISAIAH 1:1 - 2:22
1 1
The vision concerning Judah and Jerusalem that Isaiah
son of Amoz saw during the reigns of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz and Hezekiah, kings
of Judah.
2 Hear,
O heavens! Listen, O earth!
For the LORD has spoken:
"I reared children and brought them up,
but they have
rebelled against me.
3 The ox knows his master,
the donkey
his owner's manger,
but Israel
does not know,
my people do
not understand."
4 Ah,
sinful nation,
a people loaded with
guilt,
a brood of evildoers,
children given to
corruption!
They have forsaken the
LORD;
they have spurned the
Holy One of Israel
and turned their backs
on him.
5 Why
should you be beaten anymore?
Why do you persist in
rebellion?
Your whole head is
injured,
your whole heart
afflicted.
6 From
the sole of your foot to the top of your head
there is no soundness-- [15]
only wounds and welts
and open sores,
not cleansed or bandaged
or soothed with oil.
7 Your
country is desolate,
your cities burned with
fire;
your fields are being
stripped by foreigners
right before you,
laid waste as when
overthrown by strangers.
8 The
Daughter of Zion is left
like a shelter in a
vineyard,
like a hut in a field of
melons,
like a city under siege.
9 Unless
the LORD Almighty
had left us some
survivors,
we would have become
like Sodom,
we would have been like
Gomorrah.
10 Hear
the word of the LORD,
you rulers of Sodom;
listen to the law of our
God,
you people of Gomorrah!
11 "The multitude of your sacrifices--
what are they
to me?" says the LORD.
"I have more than enough of burnt offerings, [16]
of rams and
the fat of fattened animals;
I have no
pleasure
in the blood
of bulls and lambs and goats.
12 When you come to appear before me,
who has asked
this of you,
this
trampling of my courts?
13 Stop bringing meaningless offerings!
Your incense
is detestable to me.
New Moons,
Sabbaths and convocations--
I cannot bear
your evil assemblies.
14 Your New Moon festivals and your appointed feasts
my soul
hates.
They have
become a burden to me;
I am weary of
bearing them.
15 When you spread out your hands in prayer,
I will hide
my eyes from you;
even if you
offer many prayers,
I will not
listen.
Your hands
are full of blood;
16 wash and make yourselves clean.
Take your
evil deeds
out of my
sight!
Stop doing
wrong,
Seek justice,
encourage the
oppressed. A
Defend the
cause of the fatherless,
plead the
case of the widow.
18 "Come now, let us reason together,"
says the LORD.
"Though your sins are like scarlet,
they shall be
as white as snow;
though they
are red as crimson,
they shall be
like wool.
19 If you are willing and obedient,
you will eat
the best from the land;
20 but if you resist and rebel,
you will be
devoured by the sword."
For the mouth
of the LORD has spoken.
21 See how the faithful city
has become a
harlot!
She once was
full of justice;
righteousness
used to dwell in her--
but now
murderers!
22 Your silver has become dross,
your choice
wine is diluted with water. [18]
23 Your rulers are rebels,
companions of
thieves;
they all love
bribes
and chase
after gifts.
They do not
defend the cause of the fatherless;
the widow's
case does not come before them.
24 Therefore the Lord, the LORD Almighty,
the Mighty
One of Israel, declares:
"Ah, I
will get relief from my foes
and avenge
myself on my enemies.
25 I will turn my hand against you;
I will
thoroughly purge away your dross
and remove
all your impurities.
26 I will restore your judges as in days of old,
your
counselors as at the beginning.
Afterward you
will be called
the City of Righteousness,
the Faithful
City."
27 Zion
will be redeemed with justice,
her penitent ones with
righteousness.
28 But
rebels and sinners will both be broken,
and those who forsake
the LORD will perish.
29 "You will be ashamed because of the sacred oaks
in which you
have delighted;
you will be
disgraced because of the gardens [19]
that you have
chosen.
30 You will be like an oak with fading leaves,
like a garden
without water.
31 The mighty man will become tinder
and his work
a spark;
both will
burn together,
with no one
to quench the fire."
2 1
This is what Isaiah son of Amoz saw concerning Judah
and Jerusalem:
2 In
the last days
the mountain of the
LORD's temple will be established
as chief among the
mountains;
it will be raised above
the hills,
and all nations will
stream to it.
3 Many
peoples will come and say,
"Come, let us go up
to the mountain of the LORD,
to the house of the God
of Jacob.
He will teach us his
ways,
so that we may walk in
his paths."
The law will go out from
Zion,
the word of the LORD
from Jerusalem. [20]
4 He
will judge between the nations
and will settle disputes
for many peoples.
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.
5 Come,
O house of Jacob,
let us walk in the light
of the LORD.
6 You
have abandoned your people,
the house of Jacob.
They are full of
superstitions from the East;
they practice divination
like the Philistines
and clasp hands with
pagans.
7 Their
land is full of silver and gold;
there is no end to their
treasures.
Their land is full of
horses;
there is no end to their
chariots.
8 Their
land is full of idols;
they bow down to the
work of their hands,
to what their fingers
have made.
9 So
man will be brought low
and mankind humbled--
do not forgive them. A
[21]
10 Go
into the rocks,
hide in the ground
from dread of the LORD
and the splendor of his
majesty!
11 The
eyes of the arrogant man will be humbled
and the pride of men
brought low;
the LORD alone will be
exalted in that day.
12 The
LORD Almighty has a day in store
for all the proud and
lofty,
for all that is exalted
(and they will be humbled),
13 for
all the cedars of Lebanon, tall and lofty,
and all the oaks of
Bashan,
14 for
all the towering mountains
and all the high hills,
15 for
every lofty tower
and every fortified
wall,
16 for
every trading ship B
and every stately
vessel.
17 The
arrogance of man will be brought low
and the pride of men
humbled;
the LORD alone will be
exalted in that day,
18
and the idols will totally disappear.
19 Men
will flee to caves in the rocks
and to holes in the
ground [22]
from dread of the LORD
and the splendor of his
majesty,
when he rises to shake
the earth.
20 In
that day men will throw away
to the rodents and bats
their idols of silver
and idols of gold,
which they made to
worship.
21 They
will flee to caverns in the rocks
and to the overhanging
crags
from dread of the LORD
and the splendor of his
majesty,
when he rises to shake
the earth.
22 Stop
trusting in man,
who has but a breath in
his nostrils.
Of what account is he? [23]
NEW TESTAMENT: 2 CORINTHIANS 10:1 - 18
10 1
By the meekness and gentleness of Christ, I appeal to
you--I, Paul, who am "timid" when face to face with you, but
"bold" when away! 2 I beg you that when I come I may not
have to be as bold as I expect to be toward some people who think that we live
by the standards of this world. 3 For though we live in the world,
we do not wage war as the world does. 4 The weapons we fight with
are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to
demolish strongholds. 5 We demolish arguments and every pretension
that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every
thought to make it obedient to Christ. 6 And we will be ready to
punish every act of disobedience, once your obedience is complete.
7 You
are looking only on the surface of things. A If anyone is confident
that he belongs to Christ, he should consider again that we belong to Christ
just as much as he. 8 For even if I boast somewhat freely about the
authority the Lord gave us for building you up rather than pulling you down, I
will not be ashamed of it. 9 I do not want to seem to be trying to
frighten you with my letters. 10 For some say, "His letters are
weighty and forceful, but in person he is unimpressive and his speaking amounts
to nothing." 11 Such people should realize that what we are in
our letters when we are absent, we will be in our actions when we are present.
12 We
do not dare to classify or compare ourselves with some who commend themselves.
When they measure themselves by themselves and compare themselves with
themselves, they are not [24]
wise. 13 We, however, will not boast beyond proper limits, but will
confine our boasting to the field God has assigned to us, a field that reaches
even to you. 14 We are not going too far in our boasting, as would
be the case if we had not come to you, for we did get as far as you with the
gospel of Christ. 15 Neither do we go beyond our limits by boasting
of work done by others. B Our hope is that, as your faith continues
to grow, our area of activity among you will greatly expand, 16 so
that we can preach the gospel in the regions beyond you. For we do not want to
boast about work already done in another man's territory. 17 But,
"Let him who boasts boast in the Lord." C 18 For
it is not the one who commends himself who is approved, but the one whom the
Lord commends. [25]
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[22] Excerpted from Compton's
Interactive Bible NIV. Copyright (c) 1994, 1995, 1996 SoftKey Multimedia
Inc. All Rights Reserved
[23] Excerpted from Compton's
Interactive Bible NIV. Copyright (c) 1994, 1995, 1996 SoftKey Multimedia
Inc. All Rights Reserved
[24] Excerpted from Compton's
Interactive Bible NIV. Copyright (c) 1994, 1995, 1996 SoftKey Multimedia
Inc. All Rights Reserved
[25] Excerpted from Compton's
Interactive Bible NIV. Copyright (c) 1994, 1995, 1996 SoftKey Multimedia
Inc. All Rights Reserved
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