JUNE
27
PSALMS: 27,
57, 87, 117, 147
PROVERBS: 27
OLD TESTAMENT: ISAIAH 22:1 - 24:23
NEW TESTAMENT: GALATIANS 2:17 - 3:9
Psalms
27
Of
David.
1
The LORD is my light and my salvation--
whom
shall I fear?
The
LORD is the stronghold of my life--
of
whom shall I be afraid?
2
When evil men advance against me
to
devour my flesh, A
when
my enemies and my foes attack me,
they
will stumble and fall.
3
Though an army besiege me,
my
heart will not fear;
though
war break out against me,
even
then will I be confident.
4
One thing I ask of the LORD,
this
is what I seek:
that
I may dwell in the house of the LORD
all
the days of my life,
to
gaze upon the beauty of the LORD
and
to seek him in his temple.
5
For in the day of trouble
he
will keep me safe in his dwelling;
he
will hide me in the shelter of his tabernacle
and
set me high upon a rock.
6
Then my head will be exalted
above
the enemies who surround me;
at
his tabernacle will I sacrifice with shouts of joy;
I
will sing and make music to the LORD. [1]
7
Hear my voice when I call, O LORD;
be
merciful to me and answer me.
8
My heart says of you, "Seek hisB
face!"
Your
face, LORD, I will seek.
9
Do not hide your face from me,
do
not turn your servant away in anger;
you
have been my helper.
Do
not reject me or forsake me,
O
God my Savior.
10
Though my father and mother forsake me,
the
LORD will receive me.
11
Teach me your way, O LORD;
lead
me in a straight path
because
of my oppressors.
12
Do not turn me over to the desire of my foes,
for
false witnesses rise up against me,
breathing
out violence.
13
I am still confident of this:
I
will see the goodness of the LORD
in
the land of the living.
14
Wait for the LORD;
be
strong and take heart
and
wait for the LORD.
PSALMS: 57
1
Have mercy on me, O God, have mercy on me,
for
in you my soul takes refuge.
I
will take refuge in the shadow of your wings
until
the disaster has passed.
2
I cry out to God Most High,
to
God, who fulfills his purpose for me.
3
He sends from heaven and saves me,
rebuking
those who hotly pursue me;
Selah
God
sends his love and his faithfulness.
4
I am in the midst of lions;
I
lie among ravenous beasts--
men
whose teeth are spears and arrows,
whose
tongues are sharp swords.
5
Be exalted, O God, above the heavens;
let
your glory be over all the earth.
6
They spread a net for my feet--
I
was bowed down in distress.
They
dug a pit in my path--
but
they have fallen into it themselves.
Selah [2]
7
My heart is steadfast, O God,
my
heart is steadfast;
I
will sing and make music.
8
Awake, my soul!
Awake,
harp and lyre!
I
will awaken the dawn.
9
I will praise you, O Lord, among the nations;
I
will sing of you among the peoples.
10
For great is your love, reaching to the heavens;
your
faithfulness reaches to the skies.
11
Be exalted, O God, above the heavens;
let
your glory be over all the earth. [3]
PSALMS: 87
Of
the Sons of Korah. A psalm. A song.
1
He has set his foundation on the holy mountain;
2
the LORD loves the gates of Zion
more
than all the dwellings of Jacob.
3
Glorious things are said of you,
O
city of God:
Selah
4
"I will record Rahab A and Babylon
among those who acknowledge me--
Philistia too, and Tyre, along with Cush B--
and will say, `This C one was born in Zion.'"
5
Indeed, of Zion it will be said,
"This one and that one were born in her,
and the Most High himself will establish her."
6
The LORD will write in the register of the peoples:
"This one was born in Zion."
Selah
7
As they make music they will sing,
"All my fountains are in you." [4]
PSALMS: 117
1
Praise the LORD, all you nations;
extol
him, all you peoples.
2
For great is his love toward us,
and
the faithfulness of the LORD endures forever.
Praise
the LORD. A [5]
PSALMS: 147
1
Praise the LORD. A
How
good it is to sing praises to our God,
how
pleasant and fitting to praise him!
2
The LORD builds up Jerusalem;
he
gathers the exiles of Israel.
3
He heals the brokenhearted
and
binds up their wounds.
4
He determines the number of the stars
and
calls them each by name.
5
Great is our Lord and mighty in power;
his
understanding has no limit.
6
The LORD sustains the humble
but
casts the wicked to the ground.
7
Sing to the LORD with thanksgiving;
make
music to our God on the harp.
8
He covers the sky with clouds;
he
supplies the earth with rain
and
makes grass grow on the hills.
9
He provides food for the cattle
and
for the young ravens when they call.
10
His pleasure is not in the strength of the horse,
nor
his delight in the legs of a man;
11
the LORD delights in those who fear him,
who
put their hope in his unfailing love. [6]
12
Extol the LORD, O Jerusalem;
praise
your God, O Zion,
13
for he strengthens the bars of your gates
and
blesses your people within you.
14
He grants peace to your borders
and
satisfies you with the finest of wheat.
15
He sends his command to the earth;
his
word runs swiftly.
16
He spreads the snow like wool
and
scatters the frost like ashes.
17
He hurls down his hail like pebbles.
Who
can withstand his icy blast?
18
He sends his word and melts them;
he
stirs up his breezes, and the waters flow.
19
He has revealed his word to Jacob,
his
laws and decrees to Israel.
20
He has done this for no other nation;
they
do not know his laws.
Praise
the LORD. [7]
PROVERBS: 27
27
1 Do not boast about
tomorrow,
for
you do not know what a day may bring forth.
2
Let another praise you, and not your own mouth;
someone
else, and not your own lips.
3
Stone is heavy and sand a burden,
but
provocation by a fool is heavier than both.
4
Anger is cruel and fury overwhelming,
but
who can stand before jealousy?
5
Better is open rebuke
than
hidden love.
6
Wounds from a friend can be trusted,
but
an enemy multiplies kisses.
7
He who is full loathes honey,
but
to the hungry even what is bitter tastes sweet.
8
Like a bird that strays from its nest
is
a man who strays from his home.
9
Perfume and incense bring joy to the heart,
and
the pleasantness of one's friend springs from his earnest counsel.
10
Do not forsake your friend and the friend of your
father,
and
do not go to your brother's house when disaster strikes you--
better
a neighbor nearby than a brother far away.
11
Be wise, my son, and bring joy to my heart;
then
I can answer anyone who treats me with contempt. [8]
12
The prudent see danger and take refuge,
but
the simple keep going and suffer for it.
13
Take the garment of one who puts up security for a
stranger;
hold
it in pledge if he does it for a wayward woman.
14
If a man loudly blesses his neighbor early in the
morning,
it
will be taken as a curse.
15
A quarrelsome wife is like
a
constant dripping on a rainy day;
16
restraining her is like restraining the wind
or
grasping oil with the hand.
17
As iron sharpens iron,
so
one man sharpens another.
18
He who tends a fig tree will eat its fruit,
and
he who looks after his master will be honored.
19
As water reflects a face,
so
a man's heart reflects the man.
20
Death and Destruction A are never
satisfied,
and
neither are the eyes of man.
21
The crucible for silver and the furnace for gold,
but
man is tested by the praise he receives.
22
Though you grind a fool in a mortar,
grinding
him like grain with a pestle,
you
will not remove his folly from him. [9]
23
Be sure you know the condition of your flocks,
give
careful attention to your herds;
24
for riches do not endure forever,
and
a crown is not secure for all generations.
25
When the hay is removed and new growth appears
and
the grass from the hills is gathered in,
26
the lambs will provide you with clothing,
and
the goats with the price of a field.
27
You will have plenty of goats' milk
to
feed you and your family
and
to nourish your servant girls. [10]
OLD TESTAMENT: ISAIAH 22:1 - 24:23
22 1
An oracle concerning the Valley of Vision:
What troubles you now,
that you have all gone
up on the roofs,
2 O
town full of commotion,
O city of tumult and
revelry?
Your slain were not
killed by the sword,
nor did they die in
battle.
3 All
your leaders have fled together;
they have been captured
without using the bow.
All you who were caught
were taken prisoner together,
having fled while the
enemy was still far away.
4 Therefore
I said, "Turn away from me;
let me
weep bitterly.
Do not try
to console me
over the
destruction of my people."
5 The
Lord, the LORD Almighty, has a day
of tumult and trampling
and terror
in the Valley of Vision,
a day of battering down
walls
and of crying out to the
mountains.
6 Elam
takes up the quiver,
with her charioteers and
horses;
Kir uncovers the shield.
7 Your
choicest valleys are full of chariots,
and horsemen are posted
at the city gates; [11]
8
the defenses of Judah are stripped away.
And you looked in that
day
to the weapons in the
Palace of the Forest;
9 you
saw that the City of David
had many breaches in its
defenses;
you stored up water
in the Lower Pool.
10 You
counted the buildings in Jerusalem
and tore down houses to
strengthen the wall.
11 You
built a reservoir between the two walls
for the water of the Old
Pool,
but you did not look to
the One who made it,
or have regard for the
One who planned it long ago.
12 The
Lord, the LORD Almighty,
called you on that day
to weep and to wail,
to tear out your hair
and put on sackcloth.
13 But
see, there is joy and revelry,
slaughtering of cattle
and killing of sheep,
eating of meat and
drinking of wine!
"Let us eat and
drink," you say,
"for tomorrow we
die!" [12]
14 The
LORD Almighty has revealed this in my hearing: "Till
your dying day this sin will not be atoned for," says the Lord, the
LORD Almighty.
15 This
is what the Lord, the LORD Almighty, says:
"Go, say to this steward,
to Shebna,
who is in charge of the palace:
16 What are you doing here and who gave you permission
to cut out a
grave for yourself here,
hewing your
grave on the height
and chiseling
your resting place in the rock?
17 "Beware, the LORD is about to take firm hold of you
and hurl you
away, O you mighty man.
18 He will roll you up tightly like a ball
and throw you
into a large country.
There you
will die
and there
your splendid chariots will remain--
you disgrace
to your master's house!
19 I will depose you from your office,
and you will
be ousted from your position.
20 "In that day I will summon my servant, Eliakim son of
Hilkiah. 21 I will clothe him with
your robe and fasten your sash around him [13] and hand your authority over to him. He will be a father to
those who live in Jerusalem and to the house of Judah. 22 I will place on his shoulder the key to the house of David;
what he opens no one can shut, and what he shuts no one can open. 23 I will drive him like a peg into a firm place; he will be a
seatA of honor for the house of his father. 24 All the glory of his family will hang on him: its offspring
and offshoots--all its lesser vessels, from the bowls to all the jars.
25 "In that day," declares the LORD Almighty,
"the peg driven into the firm place will give
way; it will be sheared off and will fall, and the load hanging on it will be
cut down." The LORD has spoken.
23 1
An oracle concerning Tyre:
Wail, O ships of
Tarshish!
For Tyre is destroyed
and left without house
or harbor.
From the land of Cyprus A
word has come to them.
2 Be
silent, you people of the island
and you merchants of
Sidon,
whom the seafarers have
enriched.
3 On
the great waters
came the grain of the
Shihor; [14]
the harvest of the Nile B
was the revenue of Tyre,
and she became the
marketplace of the nations.
4 Be
ashamed, O Sidon, and you, O fortress of the sea,
for the sea has spoken:
"I have neither
been in labor nor given birth;
I have neither reared
sons nor brought up daughters."
5 When
word comes to Egypt,
they will be in anguish
at the report from Tyre.
6 Cross
over to Tarshish;
wail, you people of the
island.
7 Is
this your city of revelry,
the old, old city,
whose feet have taken
her
to settle in far-off
lands?
8 Who
planned this against Tyre,
the bestower of crowns,
whose merchants are
princes,
whose traders are
renowned in the earth?
9 The
LORD Almighty planned it,
to bring low the pride
of all glory
and to humble all who
are renowned on the earth.
10 Till
C your land as along the Nile,
O Daughter of Tarshish, [15]
for you no longer have a
harbor.
11 The
LORD has stretched out his hand over the sea
and made its kingdoms
tremble.
He has given an order
concerning Phoenicia D
that her fortresses be
destroyed.
12 He
said, "No more of your reveling,
O Virgin
Daughter of Sidon, now crushed!
"Up,
cross over to Cyprus E;
even there
you will find no rest."
13 Look
at the land of the Babylonians, F
this people that is now
of no account!
The Assyrians have made
it
a place for desert
creatures;
they raised up their
siege towers,
they stripped its
fortresses bare
and turned it into a ruin.
14 Wail,
you ships of Tarshish;
your fortress is
destroyed!
15 At
that time Tyre will be forgotten for seventy years, the span of a king's life.
But at the end of these seventy years, it will happen to Tyre as in the song of
the prostitute:
16 "Take
up a harp, walk through the city,
O prostitute forgotten; [16]
play the harp well, sing
many a song,
so that you will be
remembered."
17 At
the end of seventy years, the LORD will deal with Tyre. She will return to her
hire as a prostitute and will ply her trade with all the kingdoms on the face
of the earth.
18 Yet
her profit and her earnings will be set apart for the LORD; they will not be
stored up or hoarded. Her profits will go to those who live before the LORD,
for abundant food and fine clothes.
24 1
See, the LORD is going to lay waste the earth
and devastate it;
he will ruin its face
and scatter its
inhabitants--
2 it
will be the same
for priest as for
people,
for master as for
servant,
for mistress as for
maid,
for seller as for buyer,
for borrower as for
lender,
for debtor as for
creditor.
3 The
earth will be completely laid waste
and totally plundered.
The LORD has spoken this
word.
4 The
earth dries up and withers,
the world languishes and
withers, [17]
the exalted of the earth
languish.
5 The
earth is defiled by its people;
they have disobeyed the
laws,
violated the statutes
and broken the
everlasting covenant.
6 Therefore
a curse consumes the earth;
its people must bear
their guilt.
Therefore earth's inhabitants
are burned up,
and very few are left.
7 The
new wine dries up and the vine withers;
all the merrymakers
groan.
8 The
gaiety of the tambourines is stilled,
the noise of the
revelers has stopped,
the joyful harp is
silent.
9 No
longer do they drink wine with a song;
the beer is bitter to
its drinkers.
10 The
ruined city lies desolate;
the entrance to every
house is barred.
11 In
the streets they cry out for wine;
all joy turns to gloom,
all gaiety is banished
from the earth.
12 The
city is left in ruins,
its gate is battered to
pieces.
13 So
will it be on the earth
and among the nations,
as when an olive tree is
beaten, [18]
or as when gleanings are
left after the grape harvest.
14 They
raise their voices, they shout for joy;
from the west they
acclaim the LORD's majesty.
15 Therefore
in the east give glory to the LORD;
exalt the name of the
LORD, the God of Israel,
in the islands of the
sea.
16 From
the ends of the earth we hear singing:
"Glory to the
Righteous One."
But I said, "I
waste away, I waste away!
Woe to me!
The treacherous betray!
With treachery the
treacherous betray!"
17 Terror
and pit and snare await you,
O people of the earth.
18 Whoever
flees at the sound of terror
will fall into a pit;
whoever climbs out of
the pit
will be caught in a
snare.
The floodgates of the
heavens are opened,
the foundations of the
earth shake.
19The
earth is broken up,
the earth is split
asunder,
the earth is thoroughly
shaken. [19]
20The
earth reels like a drunkard,
it sways like a hut in
the wind;
so heavy upon it is the
guilt of its rebellion
that it falls--never to
rise again.
21 In
that day the LORD will punish
the powers in the
heavens above
and the kings on the
earth below.
22 They
will be herded together
like prisoners bound in
a dungeon;
they will be shut up in
prison
and be punished A
after many days.
23 The
moon will be abashed, the sun ashamed;
for the LORD Almighty
will reign
on Mount Zion and in
Jerusalem,
and before its elders,
gloriously. [20]
NEW TESTAMENT: GALATIANS 2:17 - 3:9
17 "If,
while we seek to be justified in Christ, it becomes evident that we ourselves
are sinners, does that mean that Christ promotes sin? Absolutely not! 18 If
I rebuild what I destroyed, I prove that I am a lawbreaker.
19 For
through the law I died to the law so that I might live for God. 20 I
have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me.
The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me
and gave himself for me. 21 I do not set aside the grace of God, for
if righteousness could be gained through the law, Christ died for
nothing!" D
3 1
You foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you? Before
your very eyes Jesus Christ was clearly portrayed as crucified. 2 I
would like to learn just one thing from you: Did you receive the Spirit by
observing the law, or by believing what you heard? 3 Are you so
foolish? After beginning with the Spirit, are you now trying to attain your
goal by human effort? 4 Have you suffered so much for nothing--if it
really was for nothing?
5 Does
God give you his Spirit and work miracles among you because you observe the
law, or because you believe what you heard?
6 Consider
Abraham: "He believed God, and it was credited
to him as righteousness." A 7Understand,
then, that those who believe are children of Abraham. 8 The
Scripture foresaw that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, and announced
the gospel in advance to Abraham: "All nations
will be blessed through you." B 9 So those [21]who
have faith are blessed along with Abraham, the man of faith. [22]
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