JANUARY
24
PSALMS: 24, 54, 84, 114, 144
PROVERBS: 24
OLD TESTAMENT: JOSHUA 11:1 - 12:24
NEW TESTAMENT: LUKE 17:11 - 37
PSALMS: 24
Of
David. A psalm.
1
The earth is the LORD's, and everything in it,
the
world, and all who live in it;
2
for he founded it upon the seas
and
established it upon the waters.
3
Who may ascend the hill of the LORD?
Who
may stand in his holy place?
4
He who has clean hands and a pure heart,
who
does not lift up his soul to an idol
or
swear by what is false. A
5
He will receive blessing from the LORD
and
vindication from God his Savior.
6
Such is the generation of those who seek him,
who
seek your face, O God of Jacob. B
Selah
7
Lift up your heads, O you gates;
be
lifted up, you ancient doors,
that
the King of glory may come in.
8
Who is this King of glory?
The
LORD strong and mighty,
the
LORD mighty in battle.
9
Lift up your heads, O you gates;
lift
them up, you ancient doors,
that
the King of glory may come in.
10
Who is he, this King of glory?
The
LORD Almighty--
he
is the King of glory. [1]
Selah
[2]
PSALMS: 54
For
the director of music. With stringed instruments. A maskil A
of David. When the Ziphites had gone to Saul and said, "Is not David
hiding among us?"
1
Save me, O God, by your name;
vindicate
me by your might.
2
Hear my prayer, O God;
listen
to the words of my mouth.
3
Strangers are attacking me;
ruthless
men seek my life--
men
without regard for God.
Selah
4
Surely God is my help;
the
Lord is the one who sustains me.
5
Let evil recoil on those who slander me;
in
your faithfulness destroy them.
6
I will sacrifice a freewill offering to you;
I
will praise your name, O LORD,
for
it is good.
7
For he has delivered me from all my troubles,
and
my eyes have looked in triumph on my foes. [3]
PSALMS: 84
For
the director of music. According to gittith. A Of the Sons of
Korah. A psalm.
1
How lovely is your dwelling place,
O
LORD Almighty!
2
My soul yearns, even faints,
for
the courts of the LORD;
my
heart and my flesh cry out
for
the living God.
3
Even the sparrow has found a home,
and
the swallow a nest for herself,
where
she may have her young--
a
place near your altar,
O
LORD Almighty, my King and my God.
4
Blessed are those who dwell in your house;
they
are ever praising you.
Selah
5
Blessed are those whose strength is in you,
who
have set their hearts on pilgrimage.
6
As they pass through the Valley of Baca,
they
make it a place of springs;
the
autumn rains also cover it with pools. B
7
They go from strength to strength,
till
each appears before God in Zion.
8
Hear my prayer, O LORD God Almighty;
listen
to me, O God of Jacob.
Selah
9
Look upon our shield, C O God;
look
with favor on your anointed one. [4]
10
Better is one day in your courts
than
a thousand elsewhere;
I
would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God
than
dwell in the tents of the wicked.
11
For the LORD God is a sun and shield;
the
LORD bestows favor and honor;
no
good thing does he withhold
from
those whose walk is blameless.
12
O LORD Almighty,
blessed
is the man who trusts in you. [5]
PSALMS: 114
1
When Israel came out of Egypt,
the
house of Jacob from a people of foreign tongue,
2
Judah became God's sanctuary,
Israel
his dominion.
3
The sea looked and fled,
the
Jordan turned back;
4
the mountains skipped like rams,
the
hills like lambs.
5
Why was it, O sea, that you fled,
O
Jordan, that you turned back,
6
you mountains, that you skipped like rams,
you
hills, like lambs?
7
Tremble, O earth, at the presence of the Lord,
at
the presence of the God of Jacob,
8
who turned the rock into a pool,
the
hard rock into springs of water. [6]
PSALMS: 144
Of
David.
1
Praise be to the LORD my Rock,
who
trains my hands for war,
my
fingers for battle.
2
He is my loving God and my fortress,
my
stronghold and my deliverer,
my
shield, in whom I take refuge,
who
subdues peoples A under me.
3
O LORD, what is man that you care for him,
the
son of man that you think of him?
4
Man is like a breath;
his
days are like a fleeting shadow.
5
Part your heavens, O LORD, and come down;
touch
the mountains, so that they smoke.
6
Send forth lightning and scatter the enemies;
shoot
your arrows and rout them.
7
Reach down your hand from on high;
deliver
me and rescue me
from
the mighty waters,
from
the hands of foreigners
8
whose mouths are full of lies,
whose
right hands are deceitful.
9
I will sing a new song to you, O God;
on
the ten-stringed lyre I will make music to you,
10
to the One who gives victory to kings,
who
delivers his servant David from the deadly sword. [7]
11
Deliver me and rescue me
from
the hands of foreigners
whose
mouths are full of lies,
whose
right hands are deceitful.
12
Then our sons in their youth
will
be like well-nurtured plants,
and
our daughters will be like pillars
carved
to adorn a palace.
13
Our barns will be filled
with
every kind of provision.
Our
sheep will increase by thousands,
by
tens of thousands in our fields;
14
our oxen will draw heavy loads. B
There
will be no breaching of walls,
no
going into captivity,
no
cry of distress in our streets.
15
Blessed are the people of whom this is true;
blessed
are the people whose God is the LORD. [8]
PROVERBS: 24
24
1 Do not envy wicked men,
do
not desire their company;
2
for their hearts plot violence,
and
their lips talk about making trouble.
3
By wisdom a house is built,
and
through understanding it is established;
4
through knowledge its rooms are filled
with
rare and beautiful treasures.
5
A wise man has great power,
and
a man of knowledge increases strength;
6
for waging war you need guidance,
and
for victory many advisers.
7
Wisdom is too high for a fool;
in
the assembly at the gate he has nothing to say.
8
He who plots evil
will
be known as a schemer.
9
The schemes of folly are sin,
and
men detest a mocker.
10
If you falter in times of trouble,
how
small is your strength!
11
Rescue those being led away to death;
hold
back those staggering toward slaughter.
12
If you say, "But we knew nothing about
this,"
does
not he who weighs the heart perceive it?
Does
not he who guards your life know it?
Will
he not repay each person according to what he has done? [9]
13
Eat honey, my son, for it is good;
honey
from the comb is sweet to your taste.
14
Know also that wisdom is sweet to your soul;
if
you find it, there is a future hope for you,
and
your hope will not be cut off.
15
Do not lie in wait like an outlaw against a righteous
man's house,
do
not raid his dwelling place;
16
for though a righteous man falls seven times, he rises
again,
but
the wicked are brought down by calamity.
17
Do not gloat when your enemy falls;
when
he stumbles, do not let your heart rejoice,
18
or the LORD will see and disapprove
and
turn his wrath away from him.
19
Do not fret because of evil men
or
be envious of the wicked,
20
for the evil man has no future hope,
and
the lamp of the wicked will be snuffed out.
21
Fear the LORD and the king, my son,
and
do not join with the rebellious,
22
for those two will send sudden destruction upon them,
and
who knows what calamities they can bring?
23
These also are sayings of the wise:
To
show partiality in judging is not good:
24
Whoever says to the guilty, "You are
innocent"--
peoples
will curse him and nations denounce him.
25
But it will go well with those who convict the guilty,
and
rich blessing will come upon them. [10]
26
An honest answer
is
like a kiss on the lips.
27
Finish your outdoor work
and
get your fields ready;
after
that, build your house.
28
Do not testify against your neighbor without cause,
or
use your lips to deceive.
29
Do not say, "I'll do to him as he has done to me;
I'll
pay that man back for what he did."
30
I went past the field of the sluggard,
past
the vineyard of the man who lacks judgment;
31
thorns had come up everywhere,
the
ground was covered with weeds,
and
the stone wall was in ruins.
32
I applied my heart to what I observed
and
learned a lesson from what I saw:
33
A little sleep, a little slumber,
a
little folding of the hands to rest--
34
and poverty will come on you like a bandit
and
scarcity like an armed man. A [11]
OLD TESTAMENT: JOSHUA 11:1 - 12:24
11 1
When Jabin king of Hazor heard of this, he sent word
to Jobab king of Madon, to the kings of Shimron and Acshaph, 2 and
to the northern kings who were in the mountains, in the Arabah south of
Kinnereth, in the western foothills and in Naphoth DorA on the west;
3 to the Canaanites in the east and west; to the Amorites, Hittites,
Perizzites and Jebusites in the hill country; and to the Hivites below Hermon
in the region of Mizpah. 4 They came out with all their troops and a
large number of horses and chariots--a huge army, as numerous as the sand on
the seashore. 5 All these kings joined forces and made camp together
at the Waters of Merom, to fight against Israel.
6 The
LORD said to Joshua, "Do not be afraid of them,
because by this time tomorrow I will hand all of them over to Israel, slain.
You are to hamstring their horses and burn their chariots."
7 So
Joshua and his whole army came against them suddenly at the Waters of Merom and
attacked them,
8 and
the LORD gave them into the hand of Israel. They defeated them and pursued them
all the way to Greater Sidon, to Misrephoth Maim, and to the Valley of Mizpah
on the east, until no survivors were left.
9 Joshua
did to them as the LORD had directed: He hamstrung their horses and burned
their chariots.
10 At
that time Joshua turned back and captured Hazor and put its king to the sword.
(Hazor had been the head of all these kingdoms.) 11 Everyone in it
they put to the sword. They totally destroyed B them, not sparing
anything that breathed, and he burned up Hazor itself. [12]
12 Joshua
took all these royal cities and their kings and put them to the sword. He
totally destroyed them, as Moses the servant of the LORD had commanded. 13
Yet Israel did not burn any of the cities built on their mounds--except
Hazor, which Joshua burned. 14 The Israelites carried off for
themselves all the plunder and livestock of these cities, but all the people
they put to the sword until they completely destroyed them, not sparing anyone
that breathed. 15 As the LORD commanded his servant Moses, so Moses
commanded Joshua, and Joshua did it; he left nothing undone of all that the
LORD commanded Moses.
16 So
Joshua took this entire land: the hill country, all the Negev, the whole region
of Goshen, the western foothills, the Arabah and the mountains of Israel with
their foothills, 17 from Mount Halak, which rises toward Seir, to
Baal Gad in the Valley of Lebanon below Mount Hermon. He captured all their
kings and struck them down, putting them to death. 18 Joshua waged
war against all these kings for a long time.
19 Except
for the Hivites living in Gibeon, not one city made a treaty of peace with the
Israelites, who took them all in battle. 20 For it was the LORD
himself who hardened their hearts to wage war against Israel, so that he might
destroy them totally, exterminating them without mercy, as the LORD had
commanded Moses.
21 At
that time Joshua went and destroyed the Anakites from the hill country: from
Hebron, Debir and Anab, from all the hill country of Judah, and from all the
hill country of Israel. Joshua totally [13]
destroyed them and their
towns. 22 No Anakites were left in Israelite territory; only in
Gaza, Gath and Ashdod did any survive. 23 So Joshua took the entire
land, just as the LORD had directed Moses, and he gave it as an inheritance to
Israel according to their tribal divisions.
Then the land had rest
from war.
12 1
These are the kings of the land whom the Israelites
had defeated and whose territory they took over east of the Jordan, from the
Arnon Gorge to Mount Hermon, including all the eastern side of the Arabah:
2 Sihon
king of the Amorites,
who reigned in Heshbon.
He ruled from Aroer on the rim of the Arnon Gorge--from the middle of the
gorge--to the Jabbok River, which is the border of the Ammonites. This included
half of Gilead. 3 He also ruled over the eastern Arabah from the Sea
of Kinnereth A to the Sea of the Arabah (the Salt Sea B),
to Beth Jeshimoth, and then southward below the slopes of Pisgah.
4 And
the territory of Og king of Bashan,
one of the last of the
Rephaites, who reigned in Ashtaroth and Edrei. 5 He ruled over Mount
Hermon, Salecah, all of Bashan to the border of the people of Geshur and
Maacah, and half of Gilead to the border of Sihon king of Heshbon.
6 Moses,
the servant of the LORD, and the Israelites conquered them. And Moses the
servant of the LORD gave their land to the [14]
Reubenites, the Gadites and the half-tribe of Manasseh to be their possession.
7 These
are the kings of the land that Joshua and the Israelites conquered on the west
side of the Jordan, from Baal Gad in the Valley of Lebanon to Mount Halak,
which rises toward Seir (their lands Joshua gave as an inheritance to the
tribes of Israel according to their tribal divisions—8 the hill
country, the western foothills, the Arabah, the mountain slopes, the desert and
the Negev--the lands of the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites
and Jebusites):
9 the
king of Jericho one
the king of Ai (near
Bethel) one
10 the
king of Jerusalem one
the king of Hebron one
11 the
king of Jarmuth one
the king of Lachish one
12 the
king of Eglon one
the king of Gezer one
13 the
king of Debir one
the king of Geder one
14 the
king of Hormah one
the king of Arad one
15 the
king of Libnah one
the king of Adullam one
16 the
king of Makkedah one
the king of Bethel one [15]
17 the
king of Tappuah one
the king of Hepher one
18 the
king of Aphek one
the king of Lasharon one
19 the
king of Madon one
the king of Hazor one
20 the
king of Shimron Meron one
the king of Acshaph one
21 the
king of Taanach one
the king of Megiddo one
22 the
king of Kedesh one
the king of Jokneam in
Carmel one
23 the
king of Dor (in Naphoth Dor C) one
the king of Goyim in
Gilgal one
24 the
king of Tirzah one
thirty-one kings in all.
[16]
NEW TESTAMENT: LUKE 17:11 - 37
11 Now
on his way to Jerusalem, Jesus traveled along the border between Samaria and
Galilee. 12 As he was going into a village, ten men who had leprosy A
met him. They stood at a distance 13 and called out in a loud voice,
"Jesus, Master, have pity on us!"
14 When
he saw them, he said, "Go, show yourselves to the
priests." And as they went, they were cleansed.
15 One
of them, when he saw he was healed, came back, praising God in a loud voice.
16 He
threw himself at Jesus' feet and thanked him--and he was a Samaritan.
17 Jesus
asked, "Were not all ten cleansed? Where are the
other nine? 18 Was no one found to
return and give praise to God except this foreigner?" 19 Then
he said to him, "Rise and go; your faith has made
you well."
20 Once,
having been asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God would come, Jesus
replied, "The kingdom of God does not come with
your careful observation, 21 nor
will people say, `Here it is,' or `There it is,' because the kingdom of God is
within B you."
22 Then
he said to his disciples, "The time is coming
when you will long to see one of the days of the Son of Man, but you will not
see it. 23 Men will tell you, `There
he is!' or `Here he is!' Do not go running off after them. 24 For the Son of Man in his day C will be like the lightning, which flashes and lights up the
sky from one end to the other. 25 But
first he must suffer many things and be rejected by this generation.
26 "Just as it was in the days of Noah, so also will it be in the
days of the Son of Man.
27 People were eating, drinking, marrying and being given in marriage up
to the day Noah entered the ark. [17] Then the flood came and destroyed them all.
28 "It was the same in the days of Lot. People were eating and
drinking, buying and selling, planting and building. 29 But the day Lot left Sodom, fire and sulfur rained down from heaven
and destroyed them all.
30 "It will be just like this on the day the Son of Man is revealed.
31 On that day
no one who is on the roof of his house, with his goods inside, should go down
to get them. Likewise, no one in the field should go back for anything. 32 Remember Lot's wife!
33 Whoever tries to keep his life will lose it, and whoever loses his
life will preserve it.
34 I tell you, on that night two people will be in one bed; one will be
taken and the other left. 35 Two women will be grinding grain together; one will be taken and the
other left. D"
37 "Where,
Lord?" they asked.
He replied, "Where there is a dead body, there the vultures will gather."
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