THEINC-HIM DAILY BIBLE MEDITATION: June 20

Monday, January 23, 2012

June 20

Genesis 1:1 1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

JUNE 20

PSALMS: 20, 50, 80, 110, 140

PROVERBS: 20

OLD TESTAMENT: ISAIAH 3:1 - 5:30

NEW TESTAMENT: 2 CORINTHIANS 11:1 - 15

PSALMS: 20

For the director of music. A psalm of David.

¹May the LORD answer you when you are in distress;

may the name of the God of Jacob protect you.

²May he send you help from the sanctuary

and grant you support from Zion.

³May he remember all your sacrifices

and accept your burnt offerings.

Selah

⁴May he give you the desire of your heart

and make all your plans succeed.

⁵We will shout for joy when you are victorious

and will lift up our banners in the name of our God.

May the LORD grant all your requests.

⁶Now I know that the LORD saves his anointed;

he answers him from his holy heaven

with the saving power of his right hand.

⁷Some trust in chariots and some in horses,

but we trust in the name of the LORD our God.

⁸They are brought to their knees and fall,

but we rise up and stand firm.

⁹O LORD, save the king!

Answer ^A us when we call! ^{^[1]}

PSALMS: 50

A psalm of Asaph.

¹The Mighty One, God, the LORD,

speaks and summons the earth

from the rising of the sun to the place where it sets.

²From Zion, perfect in beauty,

God shines forth.

³Our God comes and will not be silent;

a fire devours before him,

and around him a tempest rages.

⁴He summons the heavens above,

and the earth, that he may judge his people:

⁵"Gather to me my consecrated ones,

who made a covenant with me by sacrifice."

⁶And the heavens proclaim his righteousness,

for God himself is judge.

Selah

⁷"Hear, O my people, and I will speak,

O Israel, and I will testify against you:

I am God, your God.

⁸I do not rebuke you for your sacrifices

or your burnt offerings, which are ever before me.

⁹I have no need of a bull from your stall

or of goats from your pens,

¹⁰for every animal of the forest is mine,

and the cattle on a thousand hills.

¹¹I know every bird in the mountains,

and the creatures of the field are mine.

¹²If I were hungry I would not tell you, ^{^[2]}

for the world is mine, and all that is in it.

¹³Do I eat the flesh of bulls

or drink the blood of goats?

¹⁴Sacrifice thank offerings to God,

fulfill your vows to the Most High,

¹⁵and call upon me in the day of trouble;

I will deliver you, and you will honor me."

¹⁶But to the wicked, God says:

"What right have you to recite my laws

or take my covenant on your lips?

¹⁷You hate my instruction

and cast my words behind you.

¹⁸When you see a thief, you join with him;

you throw in your lot with adulterers.

¹⁹You use your mouth for evil

and harness your tongue to deceit.

²⁰You speak continually against your brother

and slander your own mother's son.

²¹These things you have done and I kept silent;

you thought I was altogether ^A like you.

But I will rebuke you

and accuse you to your face.

²²"Consider this, you who forget God,

or I will tear you to pieces, with none to rescue:

²³He who sacrifices thank offerings honors me,

and he prepares the way

so that I may show him ^B the salvation of God." ^{^[3]}

PSALMS: 80

For the director of music. To the tune of "The Lilies of the Covenant." Of Asaph. A psalm.

¹Hear us, O Shepherd of Israel,

you who lead Joseph like a flock;

you who sit enthroned between the cherubim, shine forth

²before Ephraim, Benjamin and Manasseh.

Awaken your might;

come and save us.

³Restore us, O God;

make your face shine upon us,

that we may be saved.

⁴O LORD God Almighty,

how long will your anger smolder

against the prayers of your people?

⁵You have fed them with the bread of tears;

you have made them drink tears by the bowlful.

⁶You have made us a source of contention to our neighbors,

and our enemies mock us.

⁷Restore us, O God Almighty;

make your face shine upon us,

that we may be saved.

⁸You brought a vine out of Egypt;

you drove out the nations and planted it.

⁹You cleared the ground for it,

and it took root and filled the land.

¹⁰The mountains were covered with its shade,

the mighty cedars with its branches. ^{^[4]}

¹¹It sent out its boughs to the Sea, ^A

its shoots as far as the River. ^B

¹²Why have you broken down its walls

so that all who pass by pick its grapes?

¹³Boars from the forest ravage it

and the creatures of the field feed on it.

¹⁴Return to us, O God Almighty!

Look down from heaven and see!

Watch over this vine,

¹⁵the root your right hand has planted,

the son ^C you have raised up for yourself.

¹⁶Your vine is cut down, it is burned with fire;

at your rebuke your people perish.

¹⁷Let your hand rest on the man at your right hand,

the son of man you have raised up for yourself.

¹⁸Then we will not turn away from you;

revive us, and we will call on your name.

¹⁹Restore us, O LORD God Almighty;

make your face shine upon us,

that we may be saved. ^{^[5]}

PSALMS: 110

Of David. A psalm.

¹The LORD says to my Lord:

"Sit at my right hand

until I make your enemies

a footstool for your feet."

²The LORD will extend your mighty scepter from Zion;

you will rule in the midst of your enemies.

³Your troops will be willing

on your day of battle.

Arrayed in holy majesty,

from the womb of the dawn

you will receive the dew of your youth. ^A

⁴The LORD has sworn

and will not change his mind:

"You are a priest forever,

in the order of Melchizedek."

⁵The Lord is at your right hand;

he will crush kings on the day of his wrath.

⁶He will judge the nations, heaping up the dead

and crushing the rulers of the whole earth.

⁷He will drink from a brook beside the way ^B;

therefore he will lift up his head. ^{^[6]}

PSALMS: 140

For the director of music. A psalm of David.

¹Rescue me, O LORD, from evil men;

protect me from men of violence,

²who devise evil plans in their hearts

and stir up war every day.

³They make their tongues as sharp as a serpent's;

the poison of vipers is on their lips.

Selah

⁴Keep me, O LORD, from the hands of the wicked;

protect me from men of violence

who plan to trip my feet.

⁵Proud men have hidden a snare for me;

they have spread out the cords of their net

and have set traps for me along my path.

Selah

⁶O LORD, I say to you, "You are my God."

Hear, O LORD, my cry for mercy.

⁷O Sovereign LORD, my strong deliverer,

who shields my head in the day of battle--

⁸do not grant the wicked their desires, O LORD;

do not let their plans succeed,

or they will become proud.

Selah

⁹Let the heads of those who surround me

be covered with the trouble their lips have caused.

¹⁰Let burning coals fall upon them;

may they be thrown into the fire,

into miry pits, never to rise. ^{^[7]}

¹¹Let slanderers not be established in the land;

may disaster hunt down men of violence.

¹²I know that the LORD secures justice for the poor

and upholds the cause of the needy.

¹³Surely the righteous will praise your name

and the upright will live before you. ^{^[8]}

PROVERBS: 20

20 ¹ Wine is a mocker and beer a brawler;

whoever is led astray by them is not wise.

²A king's wrath is like the roar of a lion;

he who angers him forfeits his life.

³It is to a man's honor to avoid strife,

but every fool is quick to quarrel.

⁴A sluggard does not plow in season;

so at harvest time he looks but finds nothing.

⁵The purposes of a man's heart are deep waters,

but a man of understanding draws them out.

⁶Many a man claims to have unfailing love,

but a faithful man who can find?

⁷The righteous man leads a blameless life;

blessed are his children after him.

⁸When a king sits on his throne to judge,

he winnows out all evil with his eyes.

⁹Who can say, "I have kept my heart pure;

I am clean and without sin"?

¹⁰Differing weights and differing measures--

the LORD detests them both.

¹¹Even a child is known by his actions,

by whether his conduct is pure and right. ^{^[9]}

¹²Ears that hear and eyes that see--

the LORD has made them both.

¹³Do not love sleep or you will grow poor;

stay awake and you will have food to spare.

¹⁴"It's no good, it's no good!" says the buyer;

then off he goes and boasts about his purchase.

¹⁵Gold there is, and rubies in abundance,

but lips that speak knowledge are a rare jewel.

¹⁶Take the garment of one who puts up security for a stranger;

hold it in pledge if he does it for a wayward woman.

¹⁷Food gained by fraud tastes sweet to a man,

but he ends up with a mouth full of gravel.

¹⁸Make plans by seeking advice;

if you wage war, obtain guidance.

¹⁹A gossip betrays a confidence;

so avoid a man who talks too much.

²⁰If a man curses his father or mother,

his lamp will be snuffed out in pitch darkness.

²¹An inheritance quickly gained at the beginning

will not be blessed at the end.

²²Do not say, "I'll pay you back for this wrong!"

Wait for the LORD, and he will deliver you. ^{^[10]}

²³The LORD detests differing weights,

and dishonest scales do not please him.

²⁴A man's steps are directed by the LORD.

How then can anyone understand his own way?

²⁵It is a trap for a man to dedicate something rashly

and only later to consider his vows.

²⁶A wise king winnows out the wicked;

he drives the threshing wheel over them.

²⁷The lamp of the LORD searches the spirit of a man ^A;

it searches out his inmost being.

²⁸Love and faithfulness keep a king safe;

through love his throne is made secure.

²⁹The glory of young men is their strength,

gray hair the splendor of the old.

³⁰Blows and wounds cleanse away evil,

and beatings purge the inmost being. ^{^[11]}

OLD TESTAMENT: ISAIAH 3:1 - 5:30

3 ¹ See now, the Lord,

the LORD Almighty,

is about to take from Jerusalem and Judah

both supply and support:

all supplies of food and all supplies of water,

² the hero and warrior,

the judge and prophet,

the soothsayer and elder,

³the captain of fifty and man of rank,

the counselor, skilled craftsman and clever enchanter.

⁴I will make boys their officials;

mere children will govern them.

⁵People will oppress each other--

man against man, neighbor against neighbor.

The young will rise up against the old,

the base against the honorable.

⁶A man will seize one of his brothers

at his father's home, and say,

"You have a cloak, you be our leader;

take charge of this heap of ruins!"

⁷But in that day he will cry out,

"I have no remedy.

I have no food or clothing in my house; ^{^[12]}

do not make me the leader of the people."

⁸Jerusalem staggers,

Judah is falling;

their words and deeds are against the LORD,

defying his glorious presence.

⁹The look on their faces testifies against them;

they parade their sin like Sodom;

they do not hide it.

Woe to them!

They have brought disaster upon themselves.

¹⁰Tell the righteous it will be well with them,

for they will enjoy the fruit of their deeds.

¹¹Woe to the wicked! Disaster is upon them!

They will be paid back for what their hands have done.

¹²Youths oppress my people,

women rule over them.

O my people, your guides lead you astray;

they turn you from the path.

¹³The LORD takes his place in court;

he rises to judge the people.

¹⁴The LORD enters into judgment

against the elders and leaders of his people: ^{^[13]}

"It is you who have ruined my vineyard;

the plunder from the poor is in your houses.

¹⁵ What do you mean by crushing my people

and grinding the faces of the poor?"

declares the Lord, the LORD Almighty.

¹⁶The LORD says,

"The women of Zion are haughty,

walking along with outstretched necks,

flirting with their eyes,

tripping along with mincing steps,

with ornaments jingling on their ankles.

¹⁷ Therefore the Lord will bring sores on the heads of the women of Zion;

the LORD will make their scalps bald."

¹⁸In that day the Lord will snatch away their finery: the bangles and headbands and crescent necklaces, ¹⁹the earrings and bracelets and veils, ²⁰the headdresses and ankle chains and sashes, the perfume bottles and charms, ²¹the signet rings and nose rings, ²²the fine robes and the capes and cloaks, the purses ²³and mirrors, and the linen garments and tiaras and shawls.

²⁴Instead of fragrance there will be a stench;

instead of a sash, a rope;

instead of well-dressed hair, baldness; ^{^[14]}

instead of fine clothing, sackcloth;

instead of beauty, branding.

²⁵Your men will fall by the sword,

your warriors in battle.

²⁶The gates of Zion will lament and mourn;

destitute, she will sit on the ground.

4 ¹ In that day seven women

will take hold of one man

and say, "We will eat our own food

and provide our own clothes;

only let us be called by your name.

Take away our disgrace!"

²In that day the Branch of the LORD will be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the land will be the pride and glory of the survivors in Israel. ³Those who are left in Zion, who remain in Jerusalem, will be called holy, all who are recorded among the living in Jerusalem. ⁴The Lord will wash away the filth of the women of Zion; he will cleanse the bloodstains from Jerusalem by a spirit ^A of judgment and a spirit ^B of fire. ⁵Then the LORD will create over all of Mount Zion and over those who assemble there a cloud of smoke by day and a glow of flaming fire by night; over all the glory will be a canopy. ⁶It will be a shelter and shade from the heat ^{^[15]} of the day, and a refuge and hiding place from the storm and rain.

5 ¹ I will sing for the one I love

a song about his vineyard:

My loved one had a vineyard

on a fertile hillside.

²He dug it up and cleared it of stones

and planted it with the choicest vines.

He built a watchtower in it

and cut out a winepress as well.

Then he looked for a crop of good grapes,

but it yielded only bad fruit.

³"Now you dwellers in Jerusalem and men of Judah,

judge between me and my vineyard.

⁴What more could have been done for my vineyard

than I have done for it?

When I looked for good grapes,

why did it yield only bad?

⁵Now I will tell you

what I am going to do to my vineyard:

I will take away its hedge,

and it will be destroyed; ^{^[16]}

I will break down its wall,

and it will be trampled.

⁶I will make it a wasteland,

neither pruned nor cultivated,

and briers and thorns will grow there.

I will command the clouds

not to rain on it."

⁷The vineyard of the LORD Almighty

is the house of Israel,

and the men of Judah

are the garden of his delight.

And he looked for justice, but saw bloodshed;

for righteousness, but heard cries of distress.

⁸Woe to you who add house to house

and join field to field

till no space is left

and you live alone in the land.

⁹The LORD Almighty has declared in my hearing:

"Surely the great houses will become desolate,

the fine mansions left without occupants.

¹⁰ A ten-acre ^A vineyard will produce only a bath ^B of wine,

a homer ^C of seed only an ephah ^D of grain."

¹¹Woe to those who rise early in the morning ^{^[17]} to run after their drinks,

who stay up late at night

till they are inflamed with wine.

¹²They have harps and lyres at their banquets,

tambourines and flutes and wine,

but they have no regard for the deeds of the LORD,

no respect for the work of his hands.

¹³Therefore my people will go into exile

for lack of understanding;

their men of rank will die of hunger

and their masses will be parched with thirst.

¹⁴Therefore the grave^E enlarges its appetite

and opens its mouth without limit;

into it will descend their nobles and masses

with all their brawlers and revelers.

¹⁵So man will be brought low

and mankind humbled,

the eyes of the arrogant humbled.

¹⁶But the LORD Almighty will be exalted by his justice,

and the holy God will show himself holy by his righteousness.

¹⁷Then sheep will graze as in their own pasture;

lambs will feed^F among the ruins of the rich.

¹⁸Woe to those who draw sin along with cords of deceit,

and wickedness as with cart ropes, ^{^[18]}

¹⁹to those who say, "Let God hurry,

let him hasten his work

so we may see it.

Let it approach,

let the plan of the Holy One of Israel come,

so we may know it."

²⁰Woe to those who call evil good

and good evil,

who put darkness for light

and light for darkness,

who put bitter for sweet

and sweet for bitter.

²¹Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes

and clever in their own sight.

²²Woe to those who are heroes at drinking wine

and champions at mixing drinks,

²³who acquit the guilty for a bribe,

but deny justice to the innocent.

²⁴Therefore, as tongues of fire lick up straw

and as dry grass sinks down in the flames,

so their roots will decay

and their flowers blow away like dust;

for they have rejected the law of the LORD Almighty ^{^[19]}

and spurned the word of the Holy One of Israel.

²⁵Therefore the LORD's anger burns against his people;

his hand is raised and he strikes them down.

The mountains shake,

and the dead bodies are like refuse in the streets.

Yet for all this, his anger is not turned away,

his hand is still upraised.

²⁶He lifts up a banner for the distant nations,

he whistles for those at the ends of the earth.

Here they come,

swiftly and speedily!

²⁷Not one of them grows tired or stumbles,

not one slumbers or sleeps;

not a belt is loosened at the waist,

not a sandal thong is broken.

²⁸Their arrows are sharp,

all their bows are strung;

their horses' hoofs seem like flint,

their chariot wheels like a whirlwind.

²⁹Their roar is like that of the lion,

they roar like young lions;

they growl as they seize their prey

and carry it off with no one to rescue.

³⁰In that day they will roar over it

like the roaring of the sea. ^{^[20]}

And if one looks at the land,

he will see darkness and distress;

even the light will be darkened by the clouds. ^{^[21]}

NEW TESTAMENT: 2 CORINTHIANS 11:1 - 15

11 ¹I hope you will put up with a little of my foolishness; but you are already doing that. ²I am jealous for you with a godly jealousy. I promised you to one husband, to Christ, so that I might present you as a pure virgin to him. ³But I am afraid that just as Eve was deceived by the serpent's cunning, your minds may somehow be led astray from your sincere and pure devotion to Christ. ⁴For if someone comes to you and preaches a Jesus other than the Jesus we preached, or if you receive a different spirit from the one you received, or a different gospel from the one you accepted, you put up with it easily enough. ⁵But I do not think I am in the least inferior to those "super-apostles." ⁶I may not be a trained speaker, but I do have knowledge. We have made this perfectly clear to you in every way.

⁷Was it a sin for me to lower myself in order to elevate you by preaching the gospel of God to you free of charge? ⁸I robbed other churches by receiving support from them so as to serve you. ⁹And when I was with you and needed something, I was not a burden to anyone, for the brothers who came from Macedonia supplied what I needed. I have kept myself from being a burden to you in any way, and will continue to do so. ¹⁰As surely as the truth of Christ is in me, nobody in the regions of Achaia will stop this boasting of mine. ¹¹Why? Because I do not love you? God knows I do! ¹²And I will keep on doing what I am doing in order to cut the ground from under those who want an opportunity to be considered equal with us in the things they boast about.

¹³For such men are false apostles, deceitful workmen, masquerading as apostles of Christ. ¹⁴And no wonder, for Satan ^{^[22]} himself masquerades as an angel of light. ¹⁵It is not surprising, then, if his servants masquerade as servants of righteousness. Their end will be what their actions deserve. ^{^[23]}

John 3:16-21 16 "For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, F that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. 17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. 18 Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God's one and only Son.G 19 This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but men loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil. 20 Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that his deeds will be exposed. 21 But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what he has done has been done through God." H

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