JUNE
23
PSALMS: 23,
53, 83, 113, 143
PROVERBS: 23
OLD TESTAMENT: ISAIAH 10:1 - 11:16
NEW TESTAMENT: 2 CORINTHIANS 12:11 - 21
PSALMS: 23
A
psalm of David.
1
The LORD is my shepherd, I shall not be in want.
2
He makes me lie down in green pastures,
he
leads me beside quiet waters,
3
he restores my soul.
He
guides me in paths of righteousness
for
his name's sake.
4
Even though I walk
through
the valley of the shadow of death, A
I
will fear no evil,
for
you are with me;
your
rod and your staff,
they
comfort me.
5
You prepare a table before me
in
the presence of my enemies.
You
anoint my head with oil;
my
cup overflows.
6
Surely goodness and love will follow me
all
the days of my life,
and
I will dwell in the house of the LORD
forever.
[1]
PSALMS: 53
For
the director of music. According to mahalath. A A maskil B
of David.
1
The fool says in his heart,
"There
is no God."
They
are corrupt, and their ways are vile;
there
is no one who does good.
2
God looks down from heaven
on
the sons of men
to
see if there are any who understand,
any
who seek God.
3
Everyone has turned away,
they
have together become corrupt;
there
is no one who does good,
not
even one.
4
Will the evildoers never learn--
those
who devour my people as men eat bread
and
who do not call on God?
5
There they were, overwhelmed with dread,
where
there was nothing to dread.
God
scattered the bones of those who attacked you;
you
put them to shame, for God despised them.
6
Oh, that salvation for Israel would come out of Zion!
When
God restores the fortunes of his people,
let
Jacob rejoice and Israel be glad! [2]
PSALMS: 83
A
song. A psalm of Asaph.
1
O God, do not keep silent;
be
not quiet, O God, be not still.
2
See how your enemies are astir,
how
your foes rear their heads.
3
With cunning they conspire against your people;
they
plot against those you cherish.
4
"Come," they say, "let us destroy them
as a nation,
that
the name of Israel be remembered no more."
5
With one mind they plot together;
they
form an alliance against you--
6
the tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites,
of
Moab and the Hagrites,
7
Gebal, A Ammon and Amalek,
Philistia,
with the people of Tyre.
8
Even Assyria has joined them
to
lend strength to the descendants of Lot.
Selah
9
Do to them as you did to Midian,
as
you did to Sisera and Jabin at the river Kishon,
10
who perished at Endor
and
became like refuse on the ground.
11
Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb,
all
their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna,
12
who said, "Let us take possession
of
the pasturelands of God." [3]
13
Make them like tumbleweed, O my God,
like
chaff before the wind.
14
As fire consumes the forest
or
a flame sets the mountains ablaze,
15
so pursue them with your tempest
and
terrify them with your storm.
16
Cover their faces with shame
so
that men will seek your name, O LORD.
17
May they ever be ashamed and dismayed;
may
they perish in disgrace.
18
Let them know that you, whose name is the LORD--
that
you alone are the Most High over all the earth. [4]
PSALMS: 113
1
Praise the LORD. A
Praise,
O servants of the LORD,
praise
the name of the LORD.
2
Let the name of the LORD be praised,
both
now and forevermore.
3
From the rising of the sun to the place where it sets,
the
name of the LORD is to be praised.
4
The LORD is exalted over all the nations,
his
glory above the heavens.
5
Who is like the LORD our God,
the
One who sits enthroned on high,
6
who stoops down to look
on
the heavens and the earth?
7
He raises the poor from the dust
and
lifts the needy from the ash heap;
8
he seats them with princes,
with
the princes of their people.
9
He settles the barren woman in her home
as
a happy mother of children.
Praise
the LORD. [5]
PSALMS: 143
A
psalm of David.
1
O LORD, hear my prayer,
listen
to my cry for mercy;
in
your faithfulness and righteousness
come
to my relief.
2
Do not bring your servant into judgment,
for
no one living is righteous before you.
3
The enemy pursues me,
he
crushes me to the ground;
he
makes me dwell in darkness
like
those long dead.
4
So my spirit grows faint within me;
my
heart within me is dismayed.
5
I remember the days of long ago;
I
meditate on all your works
and
consider what your hands have done.
6
I spread out my hands to you;
my
soul thirsts for you like a parched land.
Selah
7
Answer me quickly, O LORD;
my
spirit fails.
Do
not hide your face from me
or
I will be like those who go down to the pit.
8
Let the morning bring me word of your unfailing love,
for
I have put my trust in you.
Show
me the way I should go,
for
to you I lift up my soul.
9
Rescue me from my enemies, O LORD, [6]
for
I hide myself in you.
10
Teach me to do your will,
for
you are my God;
may
your good Spirit
lead
me on level ground.
11
For your name's sake, O LORD, preserve my life;
in
your righteousness, bring me out of trouble.
12
In your unfailing love, silence my enemies;
destroy
all my foes,
for
I am your servant. [7]
PROVERBS: 23
23
1 When you sit to dine
with a ruler,
note
well what A is before you,
2
and put a knife to your throat
if
you are given to gluttony.
3
Do not crave his delicacies,
for
that food is deceptive.
4
Do not wear yourself out to get rich;
have
the wisdom to show restraint.
5
Cast but a glance at riches, and they are gone,
for
they will surely sprout wings
and
fly off to the sky like an eagle.
6
Do not eat the food of a stingy man,
do
not crave his delicacies;
7
for he is the kind of man
who
is always thinking about the cost. B
"Eat
and drink," he says to you,
but
his heart is not with you.
8
You will vomit up the little you have eaten
and
will have wasted your compliments.
9
Do not speak to a fool,
for
he will scorn the wisdom of your words.
10
Do not move an ancient boundary stone
or
encroach on the fields of the fatherless,
11
for their Defender is strong;
he
will take up their case against you.
12
Apply your heart to instruction
and
your ears to words of knowledge. [8]
13
Do not withhold discipline from a child;
if
you punish him with the rod, he will not die.
14
Punish him with the rod
and
save his soul from death. C
15
My son, if your heart is wise,
then
my heart will be glad;
16
my inmost being will rejoice
when
your lips speak what is right.
17
Do not let your heart envy sinners,
but
always be zealous for the fear of the LORD.
18
There is surely a future hope for you,
and
your hope will not be cut off.
19
Listen, my son, and be wise,
and
keep your heart on the right path.
20
Do not join those who drink too much wine
or
gorge themselves on meat,
21
for drunkards and gluttons become poor,
and
drowsiness clothes them in rags.
22
Listen to your father, who gave you life,
and
do not despise your mother when she is old.
23
Buy the truth and do not sell it;
get
wisdom, discipline and understanding.
24
The father of a righteous man has great joy;
he
who has a wise son delights in him.
25
May your father and mother be glad;
may
she who gave you birth rejoice! [9]
26
My son, give me your heart
and
let your eyes keep to my ways,
27
for a prostitute is a deep pit
and
a wayward wife is a narrow well.
28
Like a bandit she lies in wait,
and
multiplies the unfaithful among men.
29
Who has woe? Who has sorrow?
Who
has strife? Who has complaints?
Who
has needless bruises? Who has bloodshot eyes?
30
Those who linger over wine,
who
go to sample bowls of mixed wine.
31
Do not gaze at wine when it is red,
when
it sparkles in the cup,
when
it goes down smoothly!
32
In the end it bites like a snake
and
poisons like a viper.
33
Your eyes will see strange sights
and
your mind imagine confusing things.
34
You will be like one sleeping on the high seas,
lying
on top of the rigging. [10]
OLD TESTAMENT: ISAIAH 10:1 - 11:16
10 1
Woe to those who make unjust laws,
to those who issue
oppressive decrees,
2 to
deprive the poor of their rights
and withhold justice
from the oppressed of my people,
making widows their prey
and robbing the
fatherless.
3 What
will you do on the day of reckoning,
when disaster comes from
afar?
To whom will you run for
help?
Where will you leave
your riches?
4 Nothing
will remain but to cringe among the captives
or fall among the slain.
Yet for all this, his
anger is not turned away,
his hand is still
upraised.
5 "Woe to the Assyrian, the rod of my anger,
in whose
hand is the club of my wrath!
6 I send him against a godless nation,
I dispatch
him against a people who anger me,
to seize
loot and snatch plunder,
and to
trample them down like mud in the streets.
7 But this is not what he intends,
this is
not what he has in mind;
his
purpose is to destroy, [11]
to put an
end to many nations.
8 `Are not my commanders all kings?' he says.
9
`Has not Calno fared like Carchemish?
Is not
Hamath like Arpad,
and
Samaria like Damascus?
10 As my hand seized the kingdoms of the idols,
kingdoms
whose images excelled those of Jerusalem and Samaria--
11 shall I not deal with Jerusalem and her images
as I dealt
with Samaria and her idols?'"
12When
the Lord has finished all his work against Mount Zion and Jerusalem, he will
say, "I will punish the king of Assyria for the
willful pride of his heart and the haughty look in his eyes. 13 For he says:
"`By the
strength of my hand I have done this,
and by my
wisdom, because I have understanding.
I removed the
boundaries of nations,
I plundered
their treasures;
like a mighty
one I subdued A their kings.
14 As one reaches into a nest,
so my hand
reached for the wealth of the nations;
as men gather
abandoned eggs,
so I gathered
all the countries;
not one
flapped a wing,
or opened its
mouth to chirp.'" [12]
15 Does
the ax raise itself above him who swings it,
or the saw boast against
him who uses it?
As if a rod were to
wield him who lifts it up,
or a club brandish him
who is not wood!
16 Therefore,
the Lord, the LORD Almighty,
will send a wasting
disease upon his sturdy warriors;
under his pomp a fire
will be kindled
like a blazing flame.
17 The
Light of Israel will become a fire,
their Holy One a flame;
in a single day it will burn
and consume
his thorns and his
briers.
18 The
splendor of his forests and fertile fields
it will completely
destroy,
as when a sick man
wastes away.
19 And
the remaining trees of his forests will be so few
that a child could write
them down.
20 In
that day the remnant of Israel,
the survivors of the
house of Jacob,
will no longer rely on
him
who struck them down
but will truly rely on
the LORD,
the Holy One of Israel.
21 A
remnant will return, B a remnant of Jacob [13]
will return to the Mighty
God.
22 Though
your people, O Israel, be like the sand by the sea,
only a remnant will
return.
Destruction has been
decreed,
overwhelming and
righteous.
23 The
Lord, the LORD Almighty, will carry out
the destruction decreed
upon the whole land.
24 Therefore,
this is what the Lord, the LORD Almighty, says:
"O my people who live in Zion,
do not be
afraid of the Assyrians,
who beat you
with a rod
and lift up a
club against you, as Egypt did.
25 Very soon my anger against you will end
and my wrath
will be directed to their destruction."
26 The
LORD Almighty will lash them with a whip,
as when he struck down
Midian at the rock of Oreb;
and he will raise his
staff over the waters,
as he did in Egypt.
27 In
that day their burden will be lifted from your shoulders,
their yoke from your
neck;
the yoke will be broken
because you have grown
so fat. C [14]
28 They
enter Aiath;
they pass through
Migron;
they store supplies at
Micmash.
29 They
go over the pass, and say,
"We will camp overnight
at Geba."
Ramah trembles;
Gibeah of Saul flees.
30 Cry
out, O Daughter of Gallim!
Listen, O Laishah!
Poor Anathoth!
31 Madmenah
is in flight;
the people of Gebim take
cover.
32 This
day they will halt at Nob;
they will shake their
fist
at the mount of the
Daughter of Zion,
at the hill of
Jerusalem.
33 See,
the Lord, the LORD Almighty,
will lop off the boughs
with great power.
The lofty trees will be
felled,
the tall ones will be
brought low.
34 He
will cut down the forest thickets with an ax;
Lebanon will fall before
the Mighty One. [15]
11 1
A shoot will come up from the stump of Jesse;
from his roots a Branch
will bear fruit.
2 The
Spirit of the LORD will rest on him--
the Spirit of wisdom and
of understanding,
the Spirit of counsel
and of power,
the Spirit of knowledge
and of the fear of the LORD--
3 and
he will delight in the fear of the LORD.
He will not judge by
what he sees with his eyes,
or decide by what he
hears with his ears;
4 but
with righteousness he will judge the needy,
with justice he will
give decisions for the poor of the earth.
He will strike the earth
with the rod of his mouth;
with the breath of his
lips he will slay the wicked.
5 Righteousness
will be his belt
and faithfulness the
sash around his waist.
6 The
wolf will live with the lamb,
the leopard will lie
down with the goat,
the calf and the lion
and the yearling A together;
and a little child will
lead them.
7 The
cow will feed with the bear,
their young will lie
down together,
and the lion will eat
straw like the ox.
8 The
infant will play near the hole of the cobra,
and the young child put
his hand into the viper's nest.
9 They
will neither harm nor destroy [16]
on all my holy mountain,
for the earth will be
full of the knowledge of the LORD
as the waters cover the
sea.
10 In
that day the Root of Jesse will stand as a banner for the peoples; the nations
will rally to him, and his place of rest will be glorious. 11 In
that day the Lord will reach out his hand a second time to reclaim the remnant
that is left of his people from Assyria, from Lower Egypt, from Upper Egypt, B
from Cush, C from Elam, from Babylonia, D from Hamath and
from the islands of the sea.
12 He
will raise a banner for the nations
and gather the exiles of
Israel;
he will assemble the
scattered people of Judah
from the four quarters
of the earth.
13 Ephraim's
jealousy will vanish,
and Judah's enemies E
will be cut off;
Ephraim will not be
jealous of Judah,
nor Judah hostile toward
Ephraim.
14 They
will swoop down on the slopes of Philistia to the west;
together they will
plunder the people to the east.
They will lay hands on
Edom and Moab,
and the Ammonites will
be subject to them.
15 The
LORD will dry up
the gulf of the Egyptian
sea;
with a scorching wind he
will sweep his hand [17]
over the Euphrates
River. F
He will break it up into
seven streams
so that men can cross
over in sandals.
16 There
will be a highway for the remnant of his people
that is left from
Assyria,
as there was for Israel
when they came up from
Egypt. [18]
NEW TESTAMENT: 2 CORINTHIANS 12:11 - 21
11 I
have made a fool of myself, but you drove me to it. I ought to have been
commended by you, for I am not in the least inferior to the
"super-apostles," even though I am nothing. 12 The things
that mark an apostle--signs, wonders and miracles--were done among you with
great perseverance. 13 How were you inferior to the other churches,
except that I was never a burden to you? Forgive me this wrong!
14 Now
I am ready to visit you for the third time, and I will not be a burden to you,
because what I want is not your possessions but you. After all, children should
not have to save up for their parents, but parents for their children. 15 So
I will very gladly spend for you everything I have and expend myself as well.
If I love you more, will you love me less? 16 Be that as it may, I
have not been a burden to you. Yet, crafty fellow that I am, I caught you by
trickery! 17 Did I exploit you through any of the men I sent you? 18
I urged Titus to go to you and I sent our brother with him. Titus did not
exploit you, did he? Did we not act in the same spirit and follow the same
course?
19 Have
you been thinking all along that we have been defending ourselves to you? We
have been speaking in the sight of God as those in Christ; and everything we
do, dear friends, is for your strengthening. 20 For I am afraid that
when I come I may not find you as I want you to be, and you may not find me as
you want me to be. I fear that there may be quarreling, jealousy, outbursts of
anger, factions, slander, gossip, arrogance and disorder. 21 I am
afraid that when I come again my God will humble me before you, and I will be
grieved over many who have sinned earlier and have not repented of the
impurity, sexual sin and debauchery in which they [19]
have indulged. [20]
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