JANUARY
30
PSALMS: 30, 60, 90, 120, 150
PROVERBS: 30
OLD
TESTAMENT: JOSHUA 22:21 - 23:16
NEW
TESTAMENT: LUKE 20:27 - 47
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?
10Is
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 span A 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: JOSHUA 22:21 - 23:16
21 Then
Reuben, Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh replied to the heads of the clans of
Israel: 22 "The Mighty One, God, the LORD! The Mighty One, God,
the LORD! He knows! And let Israel know! If this has been in rebellion or
disobedience to the LORD, do not spare us this day. 23 If we have
built our own altar to turn away from the LORD and to offer burnt offerings and
grain offerings, or to sacrifice fellowship offerings B on it, may
the LORD himself call us to account.
24 "No!
We did it for fear that some day your descendants might say to ours, `What do
you have to do with the LORD, the God of Israel?
25 The
LORD has made the Jordan a boundary between us and you--you Reubenites and
Gadites! You have no share in the LORD.' So your descendants might cause ours
to stop fearing the LORD.
26 "That
is why we said, `Let us get ready and build an altar--but not for burnt
offerings or sacrifices.' 27 On the contrary, it is to be a witness
between us and you and the generations that follow, that we will worship the
LORD at his sanctuary with our burnt offerings, sacrifices and fellowship offerings.
Then in the future your descendants will not be able to say to ours, `You have
no share in the LORD.'
28 "And
we said, `If they ever say this to us, or to our descendants, we will answer:
Look at the replica of the LORD's altar, which our fathers built, not for burnt
offerings and sacrifices, but as a witness between us and you.'
29 "Far
be it from us to rebel against the LORD and turn away from him today by
building an altar for burnt offerings, grain offerings and sacrifices, other
than the altar of the LORD our God that stands before his tabernacle." [11]
30 When Phinehas the priest and the leaders of the community--the
heads of the clans of the Israelites--heard what Reuben, Gad and Manasseh had
to say, they were pleased. 31 And Phinehas son of Eleazar, the
priest, said to Reuben, Gad and Manasseh, "Today we know that the LORD is
with us, because you have not acted unfaithfully toward the LORD in this
matter. Now you have rescued the Israelites from the LORD's hand."
32 Then
Phinehas son of Eleazar, the priest, and the leaders returned to Canaan from
their meeting with the Reubenites and Gadites in Gilead and reported to the
Israelites. 33 They were glad to hear the report and praised God.
And they talked no more about going to war against them to devastate the
country where the Reubenites and the Gadites lived.
34 And
the Reubenites and the Gadites gave the altar this name: A Witness Between Us
that the LORD is God.
23 1
After a long time had passed and the LORD had given
Israel rest from all their enemies around them, Joshua, by then old and well
advanced in years, 2 summoned all Israel--their elders, leaders,
judges and officials--and said to them: "I am old and well advanced in
years. 3 You yourselves have seen everything the LORD your God has
done to all these nations for your sake; it was the LORD your God who fought
for you.
4 Remember
how I have allotted as an inheritance for your tribes all the land of the
nations that remain--the nations I conquered--between the Jordan and the Great
Sea A in the west. 5 The LORD your God himself will drive
them out of your way. [12]
He will push them out before you, and you will take possession of their land,
as the LORD your God promised you.
6 "Be very strong; be careful to obey all that is written in
the Book of the Law of Moses, without turning aside to the right or to the left.
7 Do not associate with these nations that remain among you; do not
invoke the names of their gods or swear by them. You must not serve them or bow
down to them. 8 But you are
to hold fast to the LORD your God, as you have until now.
9 "The LORD has driven out before you great and powerful
nations; to this day no one has been able to withstand you. 10 One of you routs a thousand, because the LORD your God
fights for you, just as he promised. 11 So be very careful to love the LORD your God.
12 "But if you turn away and ally yourselves with the
survivors of these nations that remain among you and if you intermarry with
them and associate with them, 13 then
you may be sure that the LORD your God will no longer drive out these nations
before you. Instead, they will become snares and traps for you, whips on your
backs and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from this good land, which the
LORD your God has given you.
14 "Now I am about to go the way of all the earth. You know
with all your heart and soul that not one of all the good promises the LORD
your God gave you has failed. Every promise has been fulfilled; not one has
failed. 15 But just as every good
promise of the LORD your God has come true, so the LORD will bring on you all
the evil he has threatened, until he has destroyed you from this good land he
has given you. 16 If you violate
the covenant of the LORD your God, which he commanded you, and go and serve
other gods and [13]
bow down to them, the LORD's anger will burn
against you, and you will quickly perish from the good land he has given you."
[14]
NEW TESTAMENT: LUKE 20:27 - 47
27 Some of the Sadducees,
who say there is no resurrection, came to Jesus with a question. 28 "Teacher,"
they said, "Moses wrote for us that if a man's brother dies and leaves a
wife but no children, the man must marry the widow and have children for his
brother. 29 Now there were seven brothers. The first one married a
woman and died childless. 30 The second 31 and then the
third married her, and in the same way the seven died, leaving no children. 32
Finally, the woman died too. 33 Now then, at the resurrection
whose wife will she be, since the seven were married to her?"
34 Jesus replied, "The people of this age marry and are given in marriage. 35 But those who are considered worthy of taking part in that
age and in the resurrection from the dead will neither marry nor be given in
marriage, 36 and they can no longer
die; for they are like the angels. They are God's children, since they are
children of the resurrection. 37 But
in the account of the bush, even Moses showed that the dead rise, for he calls
the Lord 'the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.' C
38 He is not the God of the dead, but of
the living, for to him all are alive."
39 Some of the teachers of
the law responded, "Well said, teacher!" 40 And no one
dared to ask him any more questions.
41 Then Jesus said to them, "How is it that they say the Christ D is the Son of David?
"`The
Lord said to my Lord:
"Sit at
my right hand
43 until I make
your enemies
a footstool
for your feet."' E
44 David calls him `Lord.' How then
can he be his son?"
45 While all the people were listening, Jesus said
to his disciples, 46 "Beware of the
teachers of the law. They like to walk around in flowing robes and love to be
greeted in the marketplaces and have the most important seats in the synagogues
and the places of honor at banquets. 47 They devour widows' houses and for a show make lengthy
prayers. Such men will be punished most severely." [16]
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