FEBRUARY
2
PSALMS: 2, 32,
62, 92, 122
PROVERBS: 2
OLD TESTAMENT: JUDGES 2:10 - 3:31
NEW TESTAMENT: LUKE 22:14 - 34
PSALMS: 2
1
Why do the nations conspire A
and
the peoples plot in vain?
2
The kings of the earth take their stand
and
the rulers gather together
against
the LORD
and
against his Anointed One. B
3
"Let us break their chains," they say,
"and
throw off their fetters."
4
The One enthroned in heaven laughs;
the
Lord scoffs at them.
5
Then he rebukes them in his anger
and
terrifies them in his wrath, saying,
6
"I have installed my
King C
on Zion, my holy hill."
7
I will proclaim the decree of the LORD:
He
said to me, "You are my Son D;
today
I have become your Father. E
8
Ask of me,
and
I will make the nations your inheritance,
the
ends of the earth your possession.
9
You will rule them with an iron scepter F;
you
will dash them to pieces like pottery."
10
Therefore, you kings, be wise;
be
warned, you rulers of the earth.
11
Serve the LORD with fear
and
rejoice with trembling.
12
Kiss the Son, lest he be angry
and
you be destroyed in your way,
for
his wrath can flare up in a moment.
Blessed
are all who take refuge in him. [1]
PSALMS: 32
Of
David. A maskil. A
1
Blessed is he
whose
transgressions are forgiven,
whose
sins are covered.
2
Blessed is the man
whose
sin the LORD does not count against him
and
in whose spirit is no deceit.
3
When I kept silent,
my
bones wasted away
through
my groaning all day long.
4
For day and night
your
hand was heavy upon me;
my
strength was sapped
as
in the heat of summer.
Selah
5
Then I acknowledged my sin to you
and
did not cover up my iniquity.
I
said, "I will confess
my
transgressions to the LORD"--
and
you forgave
the
guilt of my sin.
Selah
6
Therefore let everyone who is godly pray to you
while
you may be found;
surely
when the mighty waters rise,
they
will not reach him.
7
You are my hiding place; [2]
you
will protect me from trouble
and
surround me with songs of deliverance.
Selah
8
I will instruct you and teach you in the way you
should go;
I
will counsel you and watch over you.
9
Do not be like the horse or the mule,
which
have no understanding
but
must be controlled by bit and bridle
or
they will not come to you.
10
Many are the woes of the wicked,
but
the LORD's unfailing love
surrounds
the man who trusts in him.
11
Rejoice in the LORD and be glad, you righteous;
sing,
all you who are upright in heart! [3]
PSALMS: 62
For
the director of music. For Jeduthun. A psalm of David.
1
My soul finds rest in God alone;
my
salvation comes from him.
2
He alone is my rock and my salvation;
he
is my fortress, I will never be shaken.
3
How long will you assault a man?
Would
all of you throw him down--
this
leaning wall, this tottering fence?
4
They fully intend to topple him
from
his lofty place;
they
take delight in lies.
With
their mouths they bless,
but
in their hearts they curse.
Selah
5
Find rest, O my soul, in God alone;
my
hope comes from him.
6
He alone is my rock and my salvation;
he
is my fortress, I will not be shaken.
7
My salvation and my honor depend on God A;
he
is my mighty rock, my refuge.
8
Trust in him at all times, O people;
pour
out your hearts to him,
for
God is our refuge.
Selah
9
Lowborn men are but a breath, [4]
the
highborn are but a lie;
if
weighed on a balance, they are nothing;
together
they are only a breath.
10
Do not trust in extortion
or
take pride in stolen goods;
though
your riches increase,
do
not set your heart on them.
11
One thing God has spoken,
two
things have I heard:
that
you, O God, are strong,
12
and that you, O Lord, are loving.
Surely
you will reward each person
according
to what he has done. [5]
PSALMS: 92
A
psalm. A song. For the Sabbath day.
1
It is good to praise the LORD
and
make music to your name, O Most High,
2
to proclaim your love in the morning
and
your faithfulness at night,
3
to the music of the ten-stringed lyre
and
the melody of the harp.
4
For you make me glad by your deeds, O LORD;
I
sing for joy at the works of your hands.
5
How great are your works, O LORD,
how
profound your thoughts!
6
The senseless man does not know,
fools
do not understand,
7
that though the wicked spring up like grass
and
all evildoers flourish,
they
will be forever destroyed.
8
But you, O LORD, are exalted forever.
9
For surely your enemies, O LORD,
surely
your enemies will perish;
all
evildoers will be scattered.
10
You have exalted my horn A like that of a
wild ox;
fine
oils have been poured upon me.
11
My eyes have seen the defeat of my adversaries;
my
ears have heard the rout of my wicked foes.
12
The righteous will flourish like a palm tree,
they
will grow like a cedar of Lebanon;
13
planted in the house of the LORD, [6]
they will flourish in the courts of our God.
14
They will still bear fruit in old age,
they
will stay fresh and green,
15
proclaiming, "The LORD is upright;
he
is my Rock, and there is no wickedness in him." [7]
PSALMS: 122
A
song of ascents. Of David.
1
I rejoiced with those who said to me,
"Let us go to the house of the LORD."
2
Our feet are standing
in
your gates, O Jerusalem.
3
Jerusalem is built like a city
that
is closely compacted together.
4
That is where the tribes go up,
the
tribes of the LORD,
to
praise the name of the LORD
according
to the statute given to Israel.
5
There the thrones for judgment stand,
the
thrones of the house of David.
6
Pray for the peace of Jerusalem:
"May those who love you be secure.
7 May there
be peace within your walls
and security within your citadels."
8 For the
sake of my brothers and friends,
I will say, "Peace be within you."
9
For the sake of the house of the LORD our God,
I
will seek your prosperity. [8]
PROVERBS: 2
2
1 My son, if you accept
my words
and
store up my commands within you,
2
turning your ear to wisdom
and
applying your heart to understanding,
3
and if you call out for insight
and
cry aloud for understanding,
4
and if you look for it as for silver
and
search for it as for hidden treasure,
5
then you will understand the fear of the LORD
and
find the knowledge of God.
6
For the LORD gives wisdom,
and
from his mouth come knowledge and understanding.
7
He holds victory in store for the upright,
he
is a shield to those whose walk is blameless,
8
for he guards the course of the just
and
protects the way of his faithful ones.
9
Then you will understand what is right and just
and
fair--every good path.
10
For wisdom will enter your heart,
and
knowledge will be pleasant to your soul.
11
Discretion will protect you,
and
understanding will guard you.
12
Wisdom will save you from the ways of wicked men,
from
men whose words are perverse,
13
who leave the straight paths
to
walk in dark ways,
14
who delight in doing wrong
and
rejoice in the perverseness of evil,
15
whose paths are crooked
and
who are devious in their ways.
16
It will save you also from the adulteress,
from
the wayward wife with her seductive words [9]
17
who has left the partner of her youth
and
ignored the covenant she made before God. A
18
For her house leads down to death
and
her paths to the spirits of the dead.
19
None who go to her return
or
attain the paths of life.
20
Thus you will walk in the ways of good men
and
keep to the paths of the righteous.
21
For the upright will live in the land,
and
the blameless will remain in it;
22
but the wicked will be cut off from the land,
and
the unfaithful will be torn from it. [10]
OLD TESTAMENT: JUDGES 2:10 - 3:31
10 After
that whole generation had been gathered to their fathers, another generation
grew up, who knew neither the LORD nor what he had done for Israel. 11 Then
the Israelites did evil in the eyes of the LORD and served the Baals. 12 They
forsook the LORD, the God of their fathers, who had brought them out of Egypt.
They followed and worshiped various gods of the peoples around them. They
provoked the LORD to anger
13 because
they forsook him and served Baal and the Ashtoreths. 14 In his anger
against Israel the LORD handed them over to raiders who plundered them. He sold
them to their enemies all around, whom they were no longer able to resist. 15
Whenever Israel went out to fight, the hand of the LORD was against them
to defeat them, just as he had sworn to them. They were in great distress.
16 Then
the LORD raised up judges, C who saved them out of the hands of
these raiders. 17 Yet they would not listen to their judges but
prostituted themselves to other gods and worshiped them. Unlike their fathers,
they quickly turned from the way in which their fathers had walked, the way of
obedience to the LORD's commands. 18 Whenever the LORD raised up a
judge for them, he was with the judge and saved them out of the hands of their
enemies as long as the judge lived; for the LORD had compassion on them as they
groaned under those who oppressed and afflicted them. 19 But when
the judge died, the people returned to ways even more corrupt than those of
their fathers, following other gods and serving and worshiping them. They
refused to give up their evil practices and stubborn ways.
20 Therefore
the LORD was very angry with Israel and said, [11]
"Because this nation has violated the covenant
that I laid down for their forefathers and has not listened to me,
21 I will no longer drive out before them any of the nations Joshua left
when he died.
22 I will use them to test Israel and see whether they will keep the way
of the LORD and walk in it as their forefathers did."
23 The LORD had allowed those nations to remain; he did not drive
them out at once by giving them into the hands of Joshua.
3 1
These are the nations the LORD left to test all those
Israelites who had not experienced any of the wars in Canaan 2 (he
did this only to teach warfare to the descendants of the Israelites who had not
had previous battle experience): 3 the five rulers of the
Philistines, all the Canaanites, the Sidonians, and the Hivites living in the
Lebanon mountains from Mount Baal Hermon to Lebo A Hamath. 4 They
were left to test the Israelites to see whether they would obey the LORD's
commands, which he had given their forefathers through Moses.
5 The
Israelites lived among the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites
and Jebusites. 6 They took their daughters in marriage and gave
their own daughters to their sons, and served their gods.
7 The
Israelites did evil in the eyes of the LORD; they forgot the LORD their God and
served the Baals and the Asherahs.
8 The
anger of the LORD burned against Israel so that he sold them into the hands of
Cushan-Rishathaim king of Aram Naharaim, B to whom the [12]
Israelites were subject for eight years. 9 But when they cried out
to the LORD, he raised up for them a deliverer, Othniel son of Kenaz, Caleb's
younger brother, who saved them. 10 The Spirit of the LORD came upon
him, so that he became Israel's judge C and went to war. The LORD
gave Cushan-Rishathaim king of Aram into the hands of Othniel, who overpowered
him. 11 So the land had peace for forty years, until Othniel son of
Kenaz died.
12 Once
again the Israelites did evil in the eyes of the LORD, and because they did
this evil the LORD gave Eglon king of Moab power over Israel. 13 Getting
the Ammonites and Amalekites to join him, Eglon came and attacked Israel, and
they took possession of the City of Palms. D 14 The
Israelites were subject to Eglon king of Moab for eighteen years.
15 Again
the Israelites cried out to the LORD, and he gave them a deliverer--Ehud, a
left-handed man, the son of Gera the Benjamite. The Israelites sent him with
tribute to Eglon king of Moab. 16 Now Ehud had made a double-edged
sword about a foot and a half E long, which he strapped to his right
thigh under his clothing.
17 He
presented the tribute to Eglon king of Moab, who was a very fat man. 18 After
Ehud had presented the tribute, he sent on their way the men who had carried
it. 19 At the idols F near Gilgal he himself turned back
and said, "I have a secret message for you, O king."
The king said,
"Quiet!" And all his attendants left him.
20 Ehud
then approached him while he was sitting alone in the upper room of his summer
palace G and said, "I have a message from God for you." As
the king rose from his seat, 21 Ehud reached with his left hand,
drew the sword from his right thigh and plunged it into [13]
the king's belly. 22 Even the handle sank in after the blade, which
came out his back. Ehud did not pull the sword out, and the fat closed in over
it. 23 Then Ehud went out to the porch H; he shut the
doors of the upper room behind him and locked them.
24 After
he had gone, the servants came and found the doors of the upper room locked.
They said, "He must be relieving himself in the inner room of the
house." 25 They waited to the point of embarrassment, but when
he did not open the doors of the room, they took a key and unlocked them. There
they saw their lord fallen to the floor, dead.
26 While
they waited, Ehud got away. He passed by the idols and escaped to Seirah.
27 When
he arrived there, he blew a trumpet in the hill country of Ephraim, and the
Israelites went down with him from the hills, with him leading them.
28 "Follow
me," he ordered, "for the LORD has given Moab, your enemy, into your
hands." So they followed him down and, taking possession of the fords of
the Jordan that led to Moab, they allowed no one to cross over. 29 At
that time they struck down about ten thousand Moabites, all vigorous and
strong; not a man escaped. 30 That day Moab was made subject to
Israel, and the land had peace for eighty years.
31 After
Ehud came Shamgar son of Anath, who struck down six hundred Philistines with an
oxgoad. He too saved Israel. [14]
NEW TESTAMENT: LUKE 22:14 - 34
14 When
the hour came, Jesus and his apostles reclined at the table. 15 And
he said to them, "I have eagerly desired to eat
this Passover with you before I suffer. 16 For I tell you, I will not eat it again until it finds
fulfillment in the kingdom of God."
17 After
taking the cup, he gave thanks and said, "Take
this and divide it among you.
18 For I tell you I will not drink again of the fruit of the vine until
the kingdom of God comes."
19 And
he took bread, gave thanks and broke it, and gave it to them, saying, "This is my body given for you; do this in remembrance of me."
20 In
the same way, after the supper he took the cup, saying, "This cup is the new covenant in my blood, which is poured
out for you. 21 But the hand of him
who is going to betray me is with mine on the table. 22 The Son of Man will go as it has been decreed, but woe to
that man who betrays him." 23 They began to question
among themselves which of them it might be who would do this.
24 Also
a dispute arose among them as to which of them was considered to be greatest. 25
Jesus said to them, "The kings of the
Gentiles lord it over them; and those who exercise authority over them call
themselves Benefactors. 26 But you
are not to be like that. Instead, the greatest among you should be like the
youngest, and the one who rules like the one who serves. 27 For who is greater, the one who is at the table or the one
who serves? Is it not the one who is at the table? But I am among you as one
who serves.
28 You are those who have stood by me in my trials. 29 And I confer on you a [15] kingdom, just as my Father conferred one on me, 30
so that you may eat and drink at my table
in my kingdom and sit on thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.
31 "Simon, Simon, Satan has asked to sift you A as wheat. 32
But I have
prayed for you, Simon, that your faith may not fail. And when you have turned
back, strengthen your brothers."
33 But
he replied, "Lord, I am ready to go with you to prison and to death."
34 Jesus
answered, "I tell you, Peter, before the rooster
crows today, you will deny three times that you know me." [16]
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