JUNE
22
PSALMS: 22,
52, 82, 112, 142
PROVERBS: 22
OLD TESTAMENT: ISAIAH 8:1 - 9:21
NEW TESTAMENT: 2 CORINTHIANS 12:1 - 10
PSALMS: 22
For
the director of music. To the tune of "The Doe of the Morning." A
psalm of David.
1
My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?
Why
are you so far from saving me,
so
far from the words of my groaning?
2
O my God, I cry out by day, but you do not answer,
by
night, and am not silent.
3
Yet you are enthroned as the Holy One;
you
are the praise of Israel. A
4
In you our fathers put their trust;
they
trusted and you delivered them.
5
They cried to you and were saved;
in
you they trusted and were not disappointed.
6
But I am a worm and not a man,
scorned
by men and despised by the people.
7
All who see me mock me;
they
hurl insults, shaking their heads:
8
"He trusts in the LORD;
let
the LORD rescue him.
Let
him deliver him,
since
he delights in him."
9
Yet you brought me out of the womb;
you
made me trust in you
even
at my mother's breast.
10
From birth I was cast upon you;
from
my mother's womb you have been my God. [1]
11
Do not be far from me,
for
trouble is near
and
there is no one to help.
12
Many bulls surround me;
strong
bulls of Bashan encircle me.
13
Roaring lions tearing their prey
open
their mouths wide against me.
14
I am poured out like water,
and
all my bones are out of joint.
My
heart has turned to wax;
it
has melted away within me.
15
My strength is dried up like a potsherd,
and
my tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth;
you
lay me B in the dust of death.
16
Dogs have surrounded me;
a
band of evil men has encircled me,
they
have pierced C my hands and my feet.
17
I can count all my bones;
people
stare and gloat over me.
18
They divide my garments among them
and
cast lots for my clothing.
19
But you, O LORD, be not far off;
O
my Strength, come quickly to help me.
20
Deliver my life from the sword,
my
precious life from the power of the dogs.
21
Rescue me from the mouth of the lions;
Save
D me from the horns of the wild oxen.
22
I will declare your name to my brothers;
in
the congregation I will praise you.
23
You who fear the LORD, praise him!
All
you descendants of Jacob, honor him! [2]
Revere
him, all you descendants of Israel!
24
For he has not despised or disdained
the
suffering of the afflicted one;
he
has not hidden his face from him
but
has listened to his cry for help.
25
From you comes the theme of my praise in the great
assembly;
before
those who fear you E will I fulfill my vows.
26
The poor will eat and be satisfied;
they
who seek the LORD will praise him--
may
your hearts live forever!
27
All the ends of the earth
will
remember and turn to the LORD,
and
all the families of the nations
will
bow down before him,
28
for dominion belongs to the LORD
and
he rules over the nations.
29
All the rich of the earth will feast and worship;
all
who go down to the dust will kneel before him--
those
who cannot keep themselves alive.
30
Posterity will serve him;
future
generations will be told about the Lord.
31
They will proclaim his righteousness
to
a people yet unborn--
for
he has done it. [3]
PSALMS: 52
For
the director of music. A maskil A of David. When Doeg the
Edomite had gone to Saul and told him: "David has gone to the house of
Ahimelech."
1
Why do you boast of evil, you mighty man?
Why
do you boast all day long,
you
who are a disgrace in the eyes of God?
2
Your tongue plots destruction;
it
is like a sharpened razor,
you
who practice deceit.
3 You
love evil rather than good,
falsehood
rather than speaking the truth.
Selah
4
You love every harmful word,
O
you deceitful tongue!
5
Surely God will bring you down to everlasting ruin:
He
will snatch you up and tear you from your tent;
he
will uproot you from the land of the living.
Selah
6
The righteous will see and fear;
they
will laugh at him, saying,
7
"Here now is the man
who
did not make God his stronghold
but
trusted in his great wealth
and
grew strong by destroying others!"
8
But I am like an olive tree
flourishing
in the house of God;
I
trust in God's unfailing love
for
ever and ever.
9
I will praise you forever for what you have done; [4]
in
your name I will hope, for your name is good.
I
will praise you in the presence of your saints. [5]
PSALMS: 82
A
psalm of Asaph.
1
God presides in the great assembly;
he
gives judgment among the "gods":
2
"How long will you A defend the unjust
and show partiality to the wicked?
Selah
3
Defend the cause of the weak and
fatherless;
maintain the rights of the poor and oppressed.
4 Rescue the
weak and needy;
deliver them from the hand of the wicked.
5
"They know nothing,
they understand nothing.
They walk about in darkness;
all the foundations of the earth are shaken.
6
"I said, `You are
"gods";
you are all sons of the Most High.'
7 But you
will die like mere men;
you will fall like every other ruler."
8 Rise up, O
God, judge the earth,
for all the nations are your inheritance. [6]
PSALMS: 112
1
Praise A the LORD. B
Blessed
is the man who fears the LORD,
who
finds great delight in his commands.
2
His children will be mighty in the land;
the
generation of the upright will be blessed.
3
Wealth and riches are in his house,
and
his righteousness endures forever.
4
Even in darkness light dawns for the upright,
for
the gracious and compassionate and righteous man. C
5
Good will come to him who is generous and lends
freely,
who
conducts his affairs with justice.
6
Surely he will never be shaken;
a
righteous man will be remembered forever.
7
He will have no fear of bad news;
his
heart is steadfast, trusting in the LORD.
8
His heart is secure, he will have no fear;
in
the end he will look in triumph on his foes.
9
He has scattered abroad his gifts to the poor,
his
righteousness endures forever;
his
horn D will be lifted high in honor.
10
The wicked man will see and be vexed,
he
will gnash his teeth and waste away;
the
longings of the wicked will come to nothing. [7]
PSALMS: 142
A
maskil A of David. When he was in the cave. A prayer.
1
I cry aloud to the LORD;
I
lift up my voice to the LORD for mercy.
2
I pour out my complaint before him;
before
him I tell my trouble.
3
When my spirit grows faint within me,
it
is you who know my way.
In
the path where I walk
men
have hidden a snare for me.
4
Look to my right and see;
no
one is concerned for me.
I
have no refuge;
no
one cares for my life.
5
I cry to you, O LORD;
I
say, "You are my refuge,
my
portion in the land of the living."
6
Listen to my cry,
for
I am in desperate need;
rescue
me from those who pursue me,
for
they are too strong for me.
7
Set me free from my prison,
that
I may praise your name.
Then
the righteous will gather about me
because
of your goodness to me. [8]
PROVERBS: 22
22
1 A good name is more
desirable than great riches;
to
be esteemed is better than silver or gold.
2
Rich and poor have this in common:
The
LORD is the Maker of them all.
3
A prudent man sees danger and takes refuge,
but
the simple keep going and suffer for it.
4
Humility and the fear of the LORD
bring
wealth and honor and life.
5
In the paths of the wicked lie thorns and snares,
but
he who guards his soul stays far from them.
6
Train A a child in the way he should go,
and
when he is old he will not turn from it.
7
The rich rule over the poor,
and
the borrower is servant to the lender.
8
He who sows wickedness reaps trouble,
and
the rod of his fury will be destroyed.
9
A generous man will himself be blessed,
for
he shares his food with the poor.
10
Drive out the mocker, and out goes strife;
quarrels
and insults are ended.
11
He who loves a pure heart and whose speech is gracious
will
have the king for his friend. [9]
12
The eyes of the LORD keep watch over knowledge,
but
he frustrates the words of the unfaithful.
13
The sluggard says, "There is a lion
outside!"
or,
"I will be murdered in the streets!"
14
The mouth of an adulteress is a deep pit;
he
who is under the LORD's wrath will fall into it.
15
Folly is bound up in the heart of a child,
but
the rod of discipline will drive it far from him.
16
He who oppresses the poor to increase his wealth
and
he who gives gifts to the rich--both come to poverty.
17
Pay attention and listen to the sayings of the wise;
apply
your heart to what I teach,
18
for it is pleasing when you keep them in your heart
and
have all of them ready on your lips.
19
So that your trust may be in the LORD,
I
teach you today, even you.
20
Have I not written thirty B sayings for
you,
sayings
of counsel and knowledge,
21
teaching you true and reliable words,
so
that you can give sound answers
to
him who sent you?
22
Do not exploit the poor because they are poor
and
do not crush the needy in court,
23
for the LORD will take up their case
and
will plunder those who plunder them. [10]
24
Do not make friends with a hot-tempered man,
do
not associate with one easily angered,
25
or you may learn his ways
and
get yourself ensnared.
26
Do not be a man who strikes hands in pledge
or
puts up security for debts;
27
if you lack the means to pay,
your
very bed will be snatched from under you.
28
Do not move an ancient boundary stone
set
up by your forefathers.
29
Do you see a man skilled in his work?
He
will serve before kings;
he
will not serve before obscure men. [11]
OLD TESTAMENT: ISAIAH 8:1 - 9:21
8 1
The LORD said to me, "Take
a large scroll and write on it with an ordinary pen: Maher-Shalal-Hash-Baz. A
2 And I will call in Uriah the priest and
Zechariah son of Jeberekiah as reliable witnesses for me."
3 Then I went to the prophetess, and she conceived and gave birth to a
son. And the LORD said to me, "Name him Maher-Shalal-Hash-Baz. 4 Before the boy knows how to say `My father' or `My mother,' the wealth
of Damascus and the plunder of Samaria will be carried off by the king of
Assyria."
5 The
LORD spoke to me again:
6 "Because this people has rejected
the gently
flowing waters of Shiloah
and rejoices
over Rezin
and the son
of Remaliah,
7 therefore the Lord is about to bring against them
the mighty
floodwaters of the River B--
the king of
Assyria with all his pomp.
It will
overflow all its channels,
run over all
its banks
8 and sweep on into Judah, swirling over it,
passing
through it and reaching up to the neck.
Its outspread
wings will cover the breadth of your land,
O Immanuel C!"
9 Raise
the war cry, D you nations, and be shattered!
Listen, all you distant
lands. [12]
Prepare for battle, and
be shattered!
Prepare for battle, and
be shattered!
10 Devise
your strategy, but it will be thwarted;
propose your plan, but
it will not stand,
for God is with us. E
11 The
LORD spoke to me with his strong hand upon me, warning me not to follow the way
of this people. He said:
12 "Do not call conspiracy
everything
that these people call conspiracy F;
do not fear
what they fear,
and do not
dread it.
13 The LORD Almighty is the one you are to regard as holy,
he is the one
you are to fear,
he is the one
you are to dread,
14 and he will be a sanctuary;
but for both
houses of Israel he will be
a stone that
causes men to stumble
and a rock
that makes them fall.
And for the
people of Jerusalem he will be
a trap and a
snare.
15 Many of them will stumble;
they will
fall and be broken,
they will be
snared and captured." [13]
16 Bind
up the testimony
and seal up the law
among my disciples.
17 I
will wait for the LORD,
who is hiding his face
from the house of Jacob.
I will put my trust in
him.
18 Here
am I, and the children the LORD has given me. We are signs and symbols in
Israel from the LORD Almighty, who dwells on Mount Zion.
19 When
men tell you to consult mediums and spiritists, who whisper and mutter, should
not a people inquire of their God? Why consult the dead on behalf of the
living? 20 To the law and to the testimony! If they do not speak
according to this word, they have no light of dawn. 21 Distressed
and hungry, they will roam through the land; when they are famished, they will
become enraged and, looking upward, will curse their king and their God. 22
Then they will look toward the earth and see only distress and darkness
and fearful gloom, and they will be thrust into utter darkness.
9 1
Nevertheless, there will be no more gloom for those
who were in distress. In the past he humbled the land of Zebulun and the land
of Naphtali, but in the future he will honor Galilee of the Gentiles, by the
way of the sea, along the Jordan--
2 The
people walking in darkness [14]
have seen a great light;
on those living in the
land of the shadow of death A
a light has dawned.
3 You
have enlarged the nation
and increased their joy;
they rejoice before you
as people rejoice at the
harvest,
as men rejoice
when dividing the
plunder.
4 For
as in the day of Midian's defeat,
you have shattered
the yoke that burdens
them,
the bar across their
shoulders,
the rod of their
oppressor.
5 Every
warrior's boot used in battle
and every garment rolled
in blood
will be destined for
burning,
will be fuel for the
fire.
6 For
to us a child is born,
to us a son is given,
and the government will
be on his shoulders.
And he will be called
Wonderful Counselor, B
Mighty God, [15]
Everlasting Father,
Prince of Peace.
7 Of
the increase of his government and peace
there will be no end.
He will reign on David's
throne
and over his kingdom,
establishing and
upholding it
with justice and
righteousness
from that time on and
forever.
The zeal of the LORD
Almighty
will accomplish this.
8 The
Lord has sent a message against Jacob;
it will fall on Israel.
9 All
the people will know it--
Ephraim and the
inhabitants of Samaria--
who say with pride
and arrogance of heart,
10 "The
bricks have fallen down,
but we will rebuild with
dressed stone;
the fig trees have been
felled,
but we will replace them
with cedars."
11 But
the LORD has strengthened Rezin's foes against them
and has spurred their
enemies on.
12 Arameans
from the east and Philistines from the west
have devoured Israel
with open mouth. [16]
Yet for all this, his
anger is not turned away,
his hand is still
upraised.
13 But
the people have not returned to him who struck them,
nor have they sought the
LORD Almighty.
14 So
the LORD will cut off from Israel both head and tail,
both palm branch and
reed in a single day;
15 the
elders and prominent men are the head,
the prophets who teach
lies are the tail.
16 Those
who guide this people mislead them,
and those who are guided
are led astray.
17 Therefore
the Lord will take no pleasure in the young men,
nor will he pity the
fatherless and widows,
for everyone is ungodly
and wicked,
every mouth speaks
vileness.
Yet for all this, his
anger is not turned away,
his hand is still
upraised.
18 Surely
wickedness burns like a fire;
it consumes briers and
thorns,
it sets the forest
thickets ablaze,
so that it rolls upward
in a column of smoke.
19 By
the wrath of the LORD Almighty
the land will be
scorched
and the people will be
fuel for the fire; [17]
20 On
the right they will devour,
but still be hungry;
on the left they will
eat,
but not be satisfied.
Each will feed on the
flesh of his own offspring C:
21
Manasseh will feed on Ephraim, and Ephraim on Manasseh;
together they will turn
against Judah. [18]
NEW TESTAMENT: 2 CORINTHIANS 12:1 - 10
12 1
I must go on boasting. Although there is nothing to be
gained, I will go on to visions and revelations from the Lord. 2 I
know a man in Christ who fourteen years ago was caught up to the third heaven.
Whether it was in the body or out of the body I do not know--God knows. 3 And
I know that this man--whether in the body or apart from the body I do not know,
but God knows—4 was caught up to paradise. He heard inexpressible
things, things that man is not permitted to tell. 5 I will boast
about a man like that, but I will not boast about myself, except about my
weaknesses. 6 Even if I should choose to boast, I would not be a
fool, because I would be speaking the truth. But I refrain, so no one will
think more of me than is warranted by what I do or say.
7 To
keep me from becoming conceited because of these surpassingly great
revelations, there was given me a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of Satan, to
torment me. 8 Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away
from me. 9 But he said to me, "My
grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness."
Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that
Christ's power may rest on me. 10 That is why, for Christ's sake, I
delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in
difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong. [19]
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