MARCH
5
PSALMS: 5
PROVERBS: 5
OLD TESTAMENT: 2 SAMUEL 7:1 - 8:18
NEW TESTAMENT: JOHN 14:15 - 31
PSALMS: 5
For
the director of music. For flutes. A psalm of David.
1
Give ear to my words, O LORD,
consider
my sighing.
2
Listen to my cry for help,
my
King and my God,
for
to you I pray.
3
In the morning, O LORD, you hear my voice;
in
the morning I lay my requests before you
and
wait in expectation.
4
You are not a God who takes pleasure in evil;
with
you the wicked cannot dwell.
5
The arrogant cannot stand in your presence;
you
hate all who do wrong.
6
You destroy those who tell lies;
bloodthirsty
and deceitful men
the
LORD abhors.
7
But I, by your great mercy,
will
come into your house;
in
reverence will I bow down
toward
your holy temple.
8
Lead me, O LORD, in your righteousness
because
of my enemies--
make
straight your way before me. [1]
9
Not a word from their mouth can be trusted;
their
heart is filled with destruction.
Their
throat is an open grave;
with
their tongue they speak deceit.
10
Declare them guilty, O God!
Let
their intrigues be their downfall.
Banish
them for their many sins,
for
they have rebelled against you.
11
But let all who take refuge in you be glad;
let
them ever sing for joy.
Spread
your protection over them,
that
those who love your name may rejoice in you.
12
For surely, O LORD, you bless the righteous;
you
surround them with your favor as with a shield. [2]
PSALMS: 35
Of
David.
1
Contend, O LORD, with those who contend with me;
fight
against those who fight against me.
2
Take up shield and buckler;
arise
and come to my aid.
3
Brandish spear and javelin A
against
those who pursue me.
Say
to my soul,
"I am your salvation."
4
May those who seek my life
be
disgraced and put to shame;
may
those who plot my ruin
be
turned back in dismay.
5
May they be like chaff before the wind,
with
the angel of the LORD driving them away;
6
may their path be dark and slippery,
with
the angel of the LORD pursuing them.
7
Since they hid their net for me without cause
and
without cause dug a pit for me,
8
may ruin overtake them by surprise--
may
the net they hid entangle them,
may
they fall into the pit, to their ruin.
9
Then my soul will rejoice in the LORD
and
delight in his salvation.
10
My whole being will exclaim,
"Who
is like you, O LORD?
You
rescue the poor from those too strong for them,
the
poor and needy from those who rob them." [3]
11
Ruthless witnesses come forward;
they
question me on things I know nothing about.
12
They repay me evil for good
and
leave my soul forlorn.
13
Yet when they were ill, I put on sackcloth
and
humbled myself with fasting.
When
my prayers returned to me unanswered,
14
I went about mourning
as
though for my friend or brother.
I
bowed my head in grief
as
though weeping for my mother.
15
But when I stumbled, they gathered in glee;
attackers
gathered against me when I was unaware.
They
slandered me without ceasing.
16
Like the ungodly they maliciously mocked B;
they
gnashed their teeth at me.
17
O Lord, how long will you look on?
Rescue
my life from their ravages,
my
precious life from these lions.
18
I will give you thanks in the great assembly;
among
throngs of people I will praise you.
19
Let not those gloat over me
who
are my enemies without cause;
let
not those who hate me without reason
maliciously
wink the eye.
20
They do not speak peaceably,
but
devise false accusations
against
those who live quietly in the land.
21
They gape at me and say, "Aha! Aha!
With
our own eyes we have seen it." [4]
22
O LORD, you have seen this; be not silent.
Do
not be far from me, O Lord.
23
Awake, and rise to my defense!
Contend
for me, my God and Lord.
24
Vindicate me in your righteousness, O LORD my God;
do
not let them gloat over me.
25
Do not let them think, "Aha, just what we
wanted!"
or
say, "We have swallowed him up."
26
May all who gloat over my distress
be
put to shame and confusion;
may
all who exalt themselves over me
be
clothed with shame and disgrace.
27
May those who delight in my vindication
shout
for joy and gladness;
may
they always say, "The LORD be exalted,
who
delights in the well-being of his servant."
28
My tongue will speak of your righteousness
and
of your praises all day long. [5]
PSALMS: 65
For
the director of music. A psalm of David. A song.
1
Praise awaits A you, O God, in Zion;
to
you our vows will be fulfilled.
2
O you who hear prayer,
to
you all men will come.
3
When we were overwhelmed by sins,
you
forgave B our transgressions.
4
Blessed are those you choose
and
bring near to live in your courts!
We
are filled with the good things of your house,
of
your holy temple.
5
You answer us with awesome deeds of righteousness,
O
God our Savior,
the
hope of all the ends of the earth
and
of the farthest seas,
6
who formed the mountains by your power,
having
armed yourself with strength,
7
who stilled the roaring of the seas,
the
roaring of their waves,
and
the turmoil of the nations.
8
Those living far away fear your wonders;
where
morning dawns and evening fades
you
call forth songs of joy.
9
You care for the land and water it;
you
enrich it abundantly.
The
streams of God are filled with water
to
provide the people with grain, [6]
for
so you have ordained it. C
10
You drench its furrows
and
level its ridges;
you
soften it with showers
and
bless its crops.
11
You crown the year with your bounty,
and
your carts overflow with abundance.
12
The grasslands of the desert overflow;
the
hills are clothed with gladness.
13
The meadows are covered with flocks
and
the valleys are mantled with grain;
they
shout for joy and sing. [7]
PSALMS: 95
1
Come, let us sing for joy to the LORD;
let
us shout aloud to the Rock of our salvation.
2
Let us come before him with thanksgiving
and
extol him with music and song.
3
For the LORD is the great God,
the
great King above all gods.
4
In his hand are the depths of the earth,
and
the mountain peaks belong to him.
5
The sea is his, for he made it,
and
his hands formed the dry land.
6
Come, let us bow down in worship,
let
us kneel before the LORD our Maker;
7
for he is our God
and
we are the people of his pasture,
the
flock under his care.
Today,
if you hear his voice,
8
do not harden your hearts as you did at Meribah, A
as
you did that day at Massah B in the desert,
9
where your fathers tested and tried me,
though
they had seen what I did.
10
For forty years I was angry with that generation;
I
said, "They are a people whose hearts go
astray,
and they have not known my ways."
11
So I declared on oath in my anger,
"They shall never enter my rest." [8]
PSALMS: 125
A
song of ascents.
1
Those who trust in the LORD are like Mount Zion,
which
cannot be shaken but endures forever.
2
As the mountains surround Jerusalem,
so
the LORD surrounds his people
both
now and forevermore.
3
The scepter of the wicked will not remain
over
the land allotted to the righteous,
for
then the righteous might use
their
hands to do evil.
4
Do good, O LORD, to those who are good,
to
those who are upright in heart.
5
But those who turn to crooked ways
the
LORD will banish with the evildoers.
Peace
be upon Israel. [9]
PROVERBS: 5
5
1 My son, pay attention
to my wisdom,
listen
well to my words of insight,
2
that you may maintain discretion
and
your lips may preserve knowledge.
3
For the lips of an adulteress drip honey,
and
her speech is smoother than oil;
4
but in the end she is bitter as gall,
sharp
as a double-edged sword.
5
Her feet go down to death;
her
steps lead straight to the grave. A
6
She gives no thought to the way of life;
her
paths are crooked, but she knows it not.
7
Now then, my sons, listen to me;
do
not turn aside from what I say.
8
Keep to a path far from her,
do
not go near the door of her house,
9
lest you give your best strength to others
and
your years to one who is cruel,
10
lest strangers feast on your wealth
and
your toil enrich another man's house.
11
At the end of your life you will groan,
when
your flesh and body are spent.
12
You will say, "How I hated discipline!
How
my heart spurned correction!
13
I would not obey my teachers
or
listen to my instructors.
14
I have come to the brink of utter ruin
in
the midst of the whole assembly."
15
Drink water from your own cistern,
running
water from your own well.
16
Should your springs overflow in the streets,
your
streams of water in the public squares?
17
Let them be yours alone, [10]
never
to be shared with strangers.
18
May your fountain be blessed,
and
may you rejoice in the wife of your youth.
19
A loving doe, a graceful deer--
may
her breasts satisfy you always,
may
you ever be captivated by her love.
20
Why be captivated, my son, by an adulteress?
Why
embrace the bosom of another man's wife?
21
For a man's ways are in full view of the LORD,
and
he examines all his paths.
22
The evil deeds of a wicked man ensnare him;
the
cords of his sin hold him fast.
23
He will die for lack of discipline,
led
astray by his own great folly. [11]
OLD TESTAMENT: 2 SAMUEL 7:1 - 8:18
7 1
After the king was settled in his palace and the LORD
had given him rest from all his enemies around him, 2 he said to
Nathan the prophet, "Here I am, living in a
palace of cedar, while the ark of God remains in a tent."
3 Nathan
replied to the king, "Whatever you have in mind, go ahead and do it, for
the LORD is with you."
4 That
night the word of the LORD came to Nathan, saying:
5 "Go and tell my servant David, `This is what the LORD says:
Are you the one to build me a house to dwell in? 6 I have not dwelt in a house from the day I brought the
Israelites up out of Egypt to this day. I have been moving from place to place
with a tent as my dwelling. 7 Wherever
I have moved with all the Israelites, did I ever say to any of their rulers
whom I commanded to shepherd my people Israel, "Why have you not built me
a house of cedar?" '
8 "Now then, tell my servant David, `This is what the LORD Almighty
says: I took you from the pasture and from following the flock to be ruler over
my people Israel. 9 I have been
with you wherever you have gone, and I have cut off all your enemies from
before you. Now I will make your name great, like the names of the greatest men
of the earth. 10 And I will
provide a place for my people Israel and will plant them so that they can have
a home of their own and no longer be disturbed. Wicked people will not oppress
them anymore, as they did at the beginning 11 and have done ever since the time I appointed leaders A over my people Israel. I will also give you rest from all your
enemies. [12] "`The LORD declares to
you that the LORD himself will establish a house for you: 12 When your days are over and you rest with your fathers, I
will raise up your offspring to succeed you, who will come from your own body,
and I will establish his kingdom. 13
He is the one who will build a house for my Name, and I will establish the
throne of his kingdom forever. 14 I
will be his father, and he will be my son. When he does wrong, I will punish
him with the rod of men, with floggings inflicted by men.
15 But my love will never be taken away from him, as I took it away from
Saul, whom I removed from before you. 16 Your house and your kingdom will endure forever before me B; your throne will be established forever.'"
17 Nathan
reported to David all the words of this entire revelation.
18 Then
King David went in and sat before the LORD, and he said:
"Who am I, O
Sovereign LORD, and what is my family, that you have brought me this far? 19
And as if this were not enough in your sight, O Sovereign LORD, you have
also spoken about the future of the house of your servant. Is this your usual
way of dealing with man, O Sovereign LORD?
20 "What
more can David say to you? For you know your servant, O Sovereign LORD.
21 For
the sake of your word and according to your will, you have done this great
thing and made it known to your servant. [13]
22 "How great you are, O Sovereign LORD! There is no one like
you, and there is no God but you, as we have heard with our own ears.
23 And
who is like your people Israel--the one nation on earth that God went out to
redeem as a people for himself, and to make a name for himself, and to perform
great and awesome wonders by driving out nations and their gods from before
your people, whom you redeemed from Egypt? C 24 You have
established your people Israel as your very own forever, and you, O LORD, have
become their God.
25 "And
now, LORD God, keep forever the promise you have made concerning your servant
and his house. Do as you promised, 26 so that your name will be
great forever. Then men will say, `The LORD Almighty is God over Israel!' And
the house of your servant David will be established before you.
27 "O
LORD Almighty, God of Israel, you have revealed this to your servant, saying,
`I will build a house for you.' So your servant has found courage to offer you
this prayer.
28 O Sovereign LORD, you are God!
Your words are trustworthy, and you have promised these good things to your
servant. 29 Now be pleased to bless the house of your servant, that
it may continue forever in your sight; for you, O Sovereign LORD, have spoken,
and with your blessing the house of your servant will be blessed forever."
8 1
In the course of time, David defeated the Philistines
and subdued them, and he took Metheg Ammah from the control of the [14]Philistines.
2 David
also defeated the Moabites. He made them lie down on the ground and measured
them off with a length of cord. Every two lengths of them were put to death,
and the third length was allowed to live. So the Moabites became subject to
David and brought tribute.
3 Moreover,
David fought Hadadezer son of Rehob, king of Zobah, when he went to restore his
control along the Euphrates River. 4 David captured a thousand of
his chariots, seven thousand charioteers A and twenty thousand foot
soldiers. He hamstrung all but a hundred of the chariot horses.
5 When
the Arameans of Damascus came to help Hadadezer king of Zobah, David struck
down twenty-two thousand of them. 6 He put garrisons in the Aramean
kingdom of Damascus, and the Arameans became subject to him and brought tribute.
The LORD gave David victory wherever he went.
7 David
took the gold shields that belonged to the officers of Hadadezer and brought
them to Jerusalem.
8 From
Tebah B and Berothai, towns that belonged to Hadadezer, King David
took a great quantity of bronze.
9 When
Tou C king of Hamath heard that David had defeated the entire army
of Hadadezer, 10 he sent his son Joram D to King David to
greet him and congratulate him on his victory in battle over Hadadezer, who had
been at war with Tou. Joram brought with him [15]
articles of silver and gold and bronze.
11 King
David dedicated these articles to the LORD, as he had done with the silver and
gold from all the nations he had subdued: 12 Edom E and
Moab, the Ammonites and the Philistines, and Amalek. He also dedicated the
plunder taken from Hadadezer son of Rehob, king of Zobah.
13 And
David became famous after he returned from striking down eighteen thousand
Edomites F in the Valley of Salt.
14 He
put garrisons throughout Edom, and all the Edomites became subject to David.
The LORD gave David victory wherever he went.
15 David
reigned over all Israel, doing what was just and right for all his people. 16
Joab son of Zeruiah was over the army; Jehoshaphat son of Ahilud was
recorder; 17 Zadok son of Ahitub and Ahimelech son of Abiathar were
priests; Seraiah was secretary;
18 Benaiah
son of Jehoiada was over the Kerethites and Pelethites; and David's sons were
royal advisers. G [16]
NEW TESTAMENT: JOHN 14:15 - 31
15 "If you love me, you will obey what I command. 16And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another
Counselor to be with you forever—17 the
Spirit of truth. The world cannot accept him, because it neither sees him nor
knows him. But you know him, for he lives with you and will be C in you. 18 I will
not leave you as orphans; I will come to you. 19 Before long, the world will not see me anymore, but you
will see me. Because I live, you also will live. 20 On that day you will realize that I am in my Father, and
you are in me, and I am in you. 21 Whoever
has my commands and obeys them, he is the one who loves me. He who loves me
will be loved by my Father, and I too will love him and show myself to him."
22 Then
Judas (not Judas Iscariot) said, "But, Lord, why do you intend to show
yourself to us and not to the world?"
23 Jesus
replied, "If anyone loves me, he will obey my
teaching. My Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home
with him. 24 He who does not love me
will not obey my teaching. These words you hear are not my own; they belong to
the Father who sent me.
25 "All this I have spoken while still with you. 26 But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my
name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have said
to you. 27 Peace I leave
with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not
let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid.
28 "You heard me say, `I am going away and I am coming back to you.'
If you loved me, you would be glad that I am going to the Father, for the
Father is greater than I. 29 I have told you now before [17] it happens, so that when it does happen you will believe. 30 I will not speak with you much longer, for the prince of this world is
coming. He has no hold on me, 31 but the world must learn that I love the Father and that I do exactly
what my Father has commanded me.
"Come
now; let us leave. [18]
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