JUNE
30
PSALMS: 30,
60, 90, 120, 150
PROVERBS: 30
OLD TESTAMENT: ISAIAH 30:12 - 33:9
NEW TESTAMENT: GALATIANS 5:1 - 12
PSALMS: 30
A
psalm. A song. For the dedication of the temple. A Of David.
1
I will exalt you, O LORD,
for
you lifted me out of the depths
and
did not let my enemies gloat over me.
2
O LORD my God, I called to you for help
and
you healed me.
3
O LORD, you brought me up from the grave B;
you
spared me from going down into the pit.
4
Sing to the LORD, you saints of his;
praise
his holy name.
5
For his anger lasts only a moment,
but
his favor lasts a lifetime;
weeping
may remain for a night,
but
rejoicing comes in the morning.
6
When I felt secure, I said,
"I
will never be shaken."
7
O LORD, when you favored me,
you
made my mountain C stand firm;
but
when you hid your face,
I
was dismayed.
8
To you, O LORD, I called;
to
the Lord I cried for mercy:
9
"What gain is there in my destruction, D
in
my going down into the pit?
Will
the dust praise you?
Will
it proclaim your faithfulness? [1]
10
Hear, O LORD, and be merciful to me;
O
LORD, be my help."
11
You turned my wailing into dancing;
you
removed my sackcloth and clothed me with joy,
12
that my heart may sing to you and not be silent.
O
LORD my God, I will give you thanks forever. [2]
PSALMS: 60
For
the director of music. To the tune of "The Lily of the Covenant." A miktam
A of David. For teaching. When he fought Aram Naharaim B
and Aram Zobah, C and when Joab returned and struck down twelve
thousand Edomites in the Valley of Salt.
1
You have rejected us, O God, and burst forth upon us;
you
have been angry--now restore us!
2
You have shaken the land and torn it open;
mend
its fractures, for it is quaking.
3
You have shown your people desperate times;
you
have given us wine that makes us stagger.
4
But for those who fear you, you have raised a banner
to
be unfurled against the bow.
Selah
5
Save us and help us with your right hand,
that
those you love may be delivered.
6
God has spoken from his sanctuary:
"In triumph I will parcel out Shechem
and measure off the Valley of Succoth.
7 Gilead is
mine, and Manasseh is mine;
Ephraim is my helmet,
Judah my scepter.
8 Moab is my
washbasin,
upon Edom I toss my sandal;
over Philistia I shout in triumph."
9
Who will bring me to the fortified city?
Who
will lead me to Edom?
10
Is it not you, O God, you who have rejected us
and
no longer go out with our armies?
11
Give us aid against the enemy, [3]
for
the help of man is worthless.
12
With God we will gain the victory,
and
he will trample down our enemies. [4]
PSALMS: 90
A
prayer of Moses the man of God.
1
Lord, you have been our dwelling place
throughout
all generations.
2
Before the mountains were born
or
you brought forth the earth and the world,
from
everlasting to everlasting you are God.
3
You turn men back to dust,
saying,
"Return to dust, O sons of men."
4
For a thousand years in your sight
are
like a day that has just gone by,
or
like a watch in the night.
5
You sweep men away in the sleep of death;
they
are like the new grass of the morning--
6
though in the morning it springs up new,
by
evening it is dry and withered.
7
We are consumed by your anger
and
terrified by your indignation.
8
You have set our iniquities before you,
our
secret sins in the light of your presence.
9
All our days pass away under your wrath;
we
finish our years with a moan.
10
The length of our days is seventy years--
or
eighty, if we have the strength;
yet
their spanA is but trouble and sorrow,
for
they quickly pass, and we fly away.
11
Who knows the power of your anger?
For
your wrath is as great as the fear that is due you.
12
Teach us to number our days aright, [5]
PSALMS: 120
A
song of ascents.
A
song of ascents.
1
I
call on the LORD in my distress,
and
he answers me.
2
Save
me, O LORD, from lying lips
and
from deceitful tongues.
3
What
will he do to you,
and
what more besides, O deceitful tongue?
4
He
will punish you with a warrior's sharp arrows,
with
burning coals of the broom tree.
5
Woe
to me that I dwell in Meshech,
that
I live among the tents of Kedar!
6
Too
long have I lived
among
those who hate peace.
7
I am
a man of peace;
but when I speak, they
are for war. [6]
PSALMS: 150
1
Praise the LORD. A
Praise
God in his sanctuary;
praise
him in his mighty heavens.
2
Praise him for his acts of power;
praise
him for his surpassing greatness.
3
Praise him with the sounding of the trumpet,
praise
him with the harp and lyre,
4
praise him with tambourine and dancing,
praise
him with the strings and flute,
5
praise him with the clash of cymbals,
praise
him with resounding cymbals.
6
Let everything that has breath praise the LORD.
Praise
the LORD. [7]
PROVERBS: 30
30
1 The sayings of Agur son
of Jakeh--an oracle A:
This
man declared to Ithiel,
to
Ithiel and to Ucal: B
2
"I am the most ignorant of men;
I
do not have a man's understanding.
3
I have not learned wisdom,
nor
have I knowledge of the Holy One.
4
Who has gone up to heaven and come down?
Who
has gathered up the wind in the hollow of his hands?
Who
has wrapped up the waters in his cloak?
Who
has established all the ends of the earth?
What
is his name, and the name of his son?
Tell
me if you know!
5
"Every word of God is
flawless;
he is a shield to those who take refuge in him.
6 Do not add
to his words,
or he will rebuke you and prove you a liar.
7
"Two things I ask of you, O LORD;
do
not refuse me before I die:
8
Keep falsehood and lies far from me;
give
me neither poverty nor riches,
but
give me only my daily bread.
9
Otherwise, I may have too much and disown you
and
say, `Who is the LORD?'
Or
I may become poor and steal,
and
so dishonor the name of my God.
10
"Do not slander a
servant to his master,
or he will curse you, and you will pay for it. [8]
11 "There
are those who curse their fathers
and do not bless their mothers;
12 those who
are pure in their own eyes
and yet are not cleansed of their filth;
13 those
whose eyes are ever so haughty,
whose glances are so disdainful;
14 those
whose teeth are swords
and whose jaws are set with knives
to devour the poor from the earth,
the needy from among mankind.
15
"The leech has two daughters.
`Give!
Give!' they cry.
"There are three things that are never satisfied,
four that never say, `Enough!':
16 the grave,
C the
barren womb,
land, which is never satisfied with water,
and fire, which never says, `Enough!'
17
"The eye that mocks a
father,
that scorns obedience to a mother,
will be pecked out by the ravens of the valley,
will be eaten by the vultures.
18
"There are three things
that are too amazing for me,
four that I do not understand:
19 the way of
an eagle in the sky,
the way of a snake on a rock,
20 the way of a ship on the high seas,
and the way of a man with a maiden. [9]
21 "Under
three things the earth trembles,
under four it cannot bear up:
22 a servant
who becomes king,
a fool who is full of food,
23 an unloved
woman who is married,
and a maidservant who displaces her mistress.
24
"Four things on earth
are small,
yet they are extremely wise:
25 Ants are
creatures of little strength,
yet they store up their food in the summer;
26 coneys D are creatures of little power,
yet they make their home in the crags;
27 locusts
have no king,
yet they advance together in ranks;
28 a lizard
can be caught with the hand,
yet it is found in kings' palaces.
29
"There are three
things that are stately in their stride,
four that move with stately bearing:
30 a lion,
mighty among beasts,
who retreats before nothing;
31 a
strutting rooster, a he-goat,
and a king with his army around him. E
32
"If you have played
the fool and exalted yourself,
or if you have planned evil,
clap your hand over your mouth! [10]
OLD TESTAMENT: ISAIAH 30:12 - 33:9
12 Therefore,
this is what the Holy One of Israel says:
"Because you have rejected this message,
relied on
oppression
and depended
on deceit,
13 this sin will become for you
like a high
wall, cracked and bulging,
that
collapses suddenly, in an instant.
14 It will break in pieces like pottery,
shattered so
mercilessly
that among
its pieces not a fragment will be found
for taking
coals from a hearth
or scooping
water out of a cistern."
15 This is what the Sovereign LORD, the Holy One of Israel, says:
"In
repentance and rest is your salvation,
in quietness
and trust is your strength,
but you would
have none of it.
16 You said, `No, we will flee on horses.'
Therefore you
will flee!
You said, `We
will ride off on swift horses.'
Therefore
your pursuers will be swift!
17 A thousand will flee
at the threat
of one;
at the threat
of five
you will all
flee away,
till you are
left
like a
flagstaff on a mountaintop, [11]
like a banner
on a hill."
18 Yet
the LORD longs to be gracious to you;
he rises to show you
compassion.
For the LORD is a God of
justice.
Blessed are all who wait
for him!
19 O
people of Zion, who live in Jerusalem, you will weep no more. How gracious he
will be when you cry for help! As soon as he hears, he will answer you. 20
Although the Lord gives you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction,
your teachers will be hidden no more; with your own eyes you will see them. 21
Whether you turn to the right or to the left, your ears will hear a voice
behind you, saying, "This is the way; walk in
it."
22 Then
you will defile your idols overlaid with silver and your images covered with
gold; you will throw them away like a menstrual cloth and say to them,
"Away with you!"
23 He
will also send you rain for the seed you sow in the ground, and the food that
comes from the land will be rich and plentiful. In that day your cattle will
graze in broad meadows. 24 The oxen and donkeys that work the soil
will eat fodder and mash, spread out with fork and shovel. 25 In the
day of great slaughter, when the towers fall, streams of water will flow on
every high mountain and every lofty hill. 26 The moon will shine
like the sun, and the sunlight will be seven times brighter, like the light of
seven full days, when the LORD binds up the bruises of his people and heals the
wounds he inflicted.
27 See,
the Name of the LORD comes from afar,
with burning anger and
dense clouds of smoke;
his lips are full of
wrath,
and his tongue is a
consuming fire.
28 His
breath is like a rushing torrent, [12]
rising up to the neck.
He shakes the nations in
the sieve of destruction;
he places in the jaws of
the peoples
a bit that leads them
astray.
29 And
you will sing
as on the night you
celebrate a holy festival;
your hearts will rejoice
as when people go up
with flutes
to the mountain of the
LORD,
to the Rock of Israel.
30 The
LORD will cause men to hear his majestic voice
and will make them see
his arm coming down
with raging anger and
consuming fire,
with cloudburst,
thunderstorm and hail.
31 The
voice of the LORD will shatter Assyria;
with his scepter he will
strike them down.
32 Every
stroke the LORD lays on them
with his punishing rod
will be to the music of
tambourines and harps,
as he fights them in
battle with the blows of his arm.
33 Topheth
has long been prepared;
it has been made ready for
the king.
Its fire pit has been
made deep and wide,
with an abundance of
fire and wood;
the breath of the LORD,
like a stream of burning
sulfur, [13]
sets it ablaze.
311
Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help,
who rely on horses,
who trust in the
multitude of their chariots
and in the great
strength of their horsemen,
but do not look to the
Holy One of Israel,
or seek help from the
LORD.
2 Yet
he too is wise and can bring disaster;
he does not take back his
words.
He will rise up against
the house of the wicked,
against those who help
evildoers.
3 But
the Egyptians are men and not God;
their horses are flesh
and not spirit.
When the LORD stretches
out his hand,
he who helps will
stumble,
he who is helped will
fall;
both will perish
together.
4 This
is what the LORD says to me:
"As a lion growls,
a great lion
over his prey-- [14]
and though a
whole band of shepherds
is called
together against him,
he is not
frightened by their shouts
or disturbed
by their clamor--
so the LORD
Almighty will come down
to do battle
on Mount Zion and on its heights.
5 Like birds hovering overhead,
the LORD
Almighty will shield Jerusalem;
he will
shield it and deliver it,
he will `pass
over' it and will rescue it."
6 Return
to him you have so greatly revolted against, O Israelites. 7 For in
that day every one of you will reject the idols of silver and gold your sinful
hands have made.
8 "Assyria will fall by a sword that is not of man;
a sword, not
of mortals, will devour them.
They will
flee before the sword
and their
young men will be put to forced labor.
9 Their stronghold will fall because of terror;
at sight of
the battle standard their commanders will panic,"
declares the LORD,
whose fire is in Zion,
whose furnace is in
Jerusalem. [15]
32 1
See, a king will reign in righteousness
and rulers will rule
with justice.
2 Each
man will be like a shelter from the wind
and a refuge from the
storm,
like streams of water in
the desert
and the shadow of a
great rock in a thirsty land.
3 Then
the eyes of those who see will no longer be closed,
and the ears of those
who hear will listen.
4 The
mind of the rash will know and understand,
and the stammering
tongue will be fluent and clear.
5 No
longer will the fool be called noble
nor the scoundrel be
highly respected.
6 For
the fool speaks folly,
his mind is busy with
evil:
He practices ungodliness
and spreads error
concerning the LORD;
the hungry he leaves
empty
and from the thirsty he
withholds water.
7 The
scoundrel's methods are wicked,
he makes up evil schemes
to destroy the poor with
lies,
even when the plea of
the needy is just.
8 But
the noble man makes noble plans,
and by noble deeds he
stands.
9 You
women who are so complacent, [16]
rise up and listen to
me;
you daughters who feel
secure,
hear what I have to say!
10 In
little more than a year
you who feel secure will
tremble;
the grape harvest will
fail,
and the harvest of fruit
will not come.
11 Tremble,
you complacent women;
shudder, you daughters
who feel secure!
Strip off your clothes,
put sackcloth around
your waists.
12 Beat
your breasts for the pleasant fields,
for the fruitful vines
13 and
for the land of my people,
a land overgrown with
thorns and briers--
yes, mourn for all
houses of merriment
and for this city of
revelry.
14 The
fortress will be abandoned,
the noisy city deserted;
citadel and watchtower
will become a wasteland forever,
the delight of donkeys, a
pasture for flocks,
15 till
the Spirit is poured upon us from on high,
and the desert becomes a
fertile field,
and the fertile field
seems like a forest.
16 Justice
will dwell in the desert
and righteousness live
in the fertile field. [17]
17 The
fruit of righteousness will be peace;
the effect of
righteousness will be quietness and confidence forever.
18 My
people will live in peaceful dwelling places,
in secure homes,
in undisturbed places of
rest.
19 Though
hail flattens the forest
and the city is leveled
completely,
20 how
blessed you will be,
sowing your seed by
every stream,
and letting your cattle
and donkeys range free.
33 1
Woe to you, O destroyer,
you who have not been
destroyed!
Woe to you, O traitor,
you who have not been
betrayed!
When you stop
destroying,
you will be destroyed;
when you stop betraying,
you will be betrayed.
2 O
LORD, be gracious to us;
we long for you.
Be our strength every
morning,
our salvation in time of
distress. [18]
3 At
the thunder of your voice, the peoples flee;
when you rise up, the
nations scatter.
4 Your
plunder, O nations, is harvested as by young locusts;
like a swarm of locusts
men pounce on it.
5 The
LORD is exalted, for he dwells on high;
he will fill Zion with
justice and righteousness.
6 He
will be the sure foundation for your times,
a rich store of
salvation and wisdom and knowledge;
the fear of the LORD is
the key to this treasure. A
7 Look,
their brave men cry aloud in the streets;
the envoys of peace weep
bitterly.
8 The
highways are deserted,
no travelers are on the
roads.
The treaty is broken,
its witnesses B
are despised,
no one is respected.
9 The
land mourns C and wastes away,
Lebanon is ashamed and
withers;
Sharon is like the
Arabah,
and Bashan and Carmel
drop their leaves. [19]
NEW TESTAMENT: GALATIANS 5:1 - 12
5 1
It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand
firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery.
2 Mark
my words! I, Paul, tell you that if you let yourselves be circumcised, Christ
will be of no value to you at all. 3 Again I declare to every man
who lets himself be circumcised that he is obligated to obey the whole law. 4
You who are trying to be justified by law have been alienated from
Christ; you have fallen away from grace.
5 But
by faith we eagerly await through the Spirit the righteousness for which we
hope. 6 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision
has any value. The only thing that counts is faith expressing itself through
love.
7 You
were running a good race. Who cut in on you and kept you from obeying the
truth? 8 That kind of persuasion does not come from the one who
calls you. 9 "A little yeast works
through the whole batch of dough." 10 I am confident in
the Lord that you will take no other view. The one who is throwing you into
confusion will pay the penalty, whoever he may be. 11 Brothers, if I
am still preaching circumcision, why am I still being persecuted? In that case
the offense of the cross has been abolished. 12 As for those
agitators, I wish they would go the whole way and emasculate themselves! [20]
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