MARCH
6
PSALMS: 6
PROVERBS: 6
OLD TESTAMENT: 2 SAMUEL 9:1 - 11:21
NEW TESTAMENT: JOHN 15:1 - 27
PSALMS: 6
For
the director of music. With stringed instruments. According to sheminith. A
A psalm of David.
1
O LORD, do not rebuke me in your anger
or
discipline me in your wrath.
2
Be merciful to me, LORD, for I am faint;
O
LORD, heal me, for my bones are in agony.
3
My soul is in anguish.
How
long, O LORD, how long?
4
Turn, O LORD, and deliver me;
save
me because of your unfailing love.
5
No one remembers you when he is dead.
Who
praises you from the grave B?
6
I am worn out from groaning;
all
night long I flood my bed with weeping
and
drench my couch with tears.
7
My eyes grow weak with sorrow;
they
fail because of all my foes.
8
Away from me, all you who do evil,
for
the LORD has heard my weeping.
9
The LORD has heard my cry for mercy;
the
LORD accepts my prayer.
10
All my enemies will be ashamed and dismayed;
they
will turn back in sudden disgrace. [1]
PSALMS: 36
For
the director of music. Of David the servant of the LORD.
1
An oracle is within my heart
concerning
the sinfulness of the wicked: A
There
is no fear of God
before
his eyes.
2
For in his own eyes he flatters himself
too
much to detect or hate his sin.
3
The words of his mouth are wicked and deceitful;
he
has ceased to be wise and to do good.
4
Even on his bed he plots evil;
he
commits himself to a sinful course
and
does not reject what is wrong.
5
Your love, O LORD, reaches to the heavens,
your
faithfulness to the skies.
6
Your righteousness is like the mighty mountains,
your
justice like the great deep.
O
LORD, you preserve both man and beast.
7
How priceless is your unfailing love!
Both
high and low among men
findB
refuge in the shadow of your wings.
8
They feast on the abundance of your house;
you
give them drink from your river of delights.
9
For with you is the fountain of life;
in
your light we see light.
10
Continue your love to those who know you,
your
righteousness to the upright in heart.
11
May the foot of the proud not come against me, [2]
nor
the hand of the wicked drive me away.
12
See how the evildoers lie fallen--
thrown
down, not able to rise! [3]
PSALMS: 66
For
the director of music. A song. A psalm.
1
Shout with joy to God, all the earth!
2
Sing the glory of his name;
make
his praise glorious!
3
Say to God, "How awesome are your deeds!
So
great is your power
that
your enemies cringe before you.
4
All the earth bows down to you;
they
sing praise to you,
they
sing praise to your name."
Selah
5
Come and see what God has done,
how
awesome his works in man's behalf!
6
He turned the sea into dry land,
they
passed through the waters on foot--
come,
let us rejoice in him.
7
He rules forever by his power,
his
eyes watch the nations--
let
not the rebellious rise up against him.
Selah
8
Praise our God, O peoples,
let
the sound of his praise be heard;
9
he has preserved our lives
and
kept our feet from slipping.
10For
you, O God, tested us;
you
refined us like silver.
11
You brought us into prison
and
laid burdens on our backs.
12
You let men ride over our heads; [4]
we
went through fire and water,
but
you brought us to a place of abundance.
13
I will come to your temple with burnt offerings
and
fulfill my vows to you--
14
vows my lips promised and my mouth spoke
when
I was in trouble.
15
I will sacrifice fat animals to you
and
an offering of rams;
I
will offer bulls and goats.
Selah
16
Come and listen, all you who fear God;
let
me tell you what he has done for me.
17
I cried out to him with my mouth;
his
praise was on my tongue.
18
If I had cherished sin in my heart,
the
Lord would not have listened;
19
but God has surely listened
and
heard my voice in prayer.
20
Praise be to God,
who
has not rejected my prayer
or
withheld his love from me! [5]
PSALMS: 96
1
Sing to the LORD a new song;
sing
to the LORD, all the earth.
2
Sing to the LORD, praise his name;
proclaim
his salvation day after day.
3
Declare his glory among the nations,
his
marvelous deeds among all peoples.
4
For great is the LORD and most worthy of praise;
he
is to be feared above all gods.
5
For all the gods of the nations are idols,
but
the LORD made the heavens.
6
Splendor and majesty are before him;
strength
and glory are in his sanctuary.
7
Ascribe to the LORD, O families of nations,
ascribe
to the LORD glory and strength.
8
Ascribe to the LORD the glory due his name;
bring
an offering and come into his courts.
9
Worship the LORD in the splendor of his A
holiness;
tremble
before him, all the earth.
10
Say among the nations, "The
LORD reigns."
The
world is firmly established, it cannot be moved;
he
will judge the peoples with equity.
11
Let the heavens rejoice, let the earth be glad;
let
the sea resound, and all that is in it;
12
let the fields be jubilant, and everything in them.
Then
all the trees of the forest will sing for joy;
13
they will sing before the LORD, for he comes,
he
comes to judge the earth.
He
will judge the world in righteousness
and
the peoples in his truth. [6]
PSALMS: 126
A
song of ascents.
1
When the LORD brought back the captives to A
Zion,
we
were like men who dreamed. B
2
Our mouths were filled with laughter,
our
tongues with songs of joy.
Then
it was said among the nations,
"The LORD has done great things for them."
3
The LORD has done great things for us,
and
we are filled with joy.
4
Restore our fortunes, C O LORD,
like
streams in the Negev.
5
Those who sow in tears
will
reap with songs of joy.
6
He who goes out weeping,
carrying
seed to sow,
will
return with songs of joy,
carrying
sheaves with him. [7]
PROVERBS: 6
6
1 My son, if you have put
up security for your neighbor,
if
you have struck hands in pledge for another,
2
if you have been trapped by what you said,
ensnared
by the words of your mouth,
3
then do this, my son, to free yourself,
since
you have fallen into your neighbor's hands:
Go
and humble yourself;
press
your plea with your neighbor!
4
Allow no sleep to your eyes,
no
slumber to your eyelids.
5
Free yourself, like a gazelle from the hand of the
hunter,
like
a bird from the snare of the fowler.
6
Go to the ant, you sluggard;
consider
its ways and be wise!
7
It has no commander,
no
overseer or ruler,
8
yet it stores its provisions in summer
and
gathers its food at harvest.
9
How long will you lie there, you sluggard?
When
will you get up from your sleep?
10
A little sleep, a little slumber,
a
little folding of the hands to rest--
11
and poverty will come on you like a bandit
and
scarcity like an armed man. A
12
A scoundrel and villain,
who
goes about with a corrupt mouth,
13
who winks with his eye,
signals
with his feet
and
motions with his fingers,
14
who plots evil with deceit in his heart--
he
always stirs up dissension.
15
Therefore disaster will overtake him in an instant; [8]
he
will suddenly be destroyed--without remedy.
16
There are six things the LORD hates,
seven
that are detestable to him:
17
haughty eyes,
a
lying tongue,
hands
that shed innocent blood,
18
a heart that devises wicked schemes,
feet
that are quick to rush into evil,
19
a false witness who pours out lies
and
a man who stirs up dissension among brothers.
20
My son, keep your father's commands
and
do not forsake your mother's teaching.
21
Bind them upon your heart forever;
fasten
them around your neck.
22
When you walk, they will guide you;
when
you sleep, they will watch over you;
when
you awake, they will speak to you.
23
For these commands are a lamp,
this
teaching is a light,
and
the corrections of discipline
are
the way to life,
24
keeping you from the immoral woman,
from
the smooth tongue of the wayward wife.
25
Do not lust in your heart after her beauty
or
let her captivate you with her eyes,
26
for the prostitute reduces you to a loaf of bread,
and
the adulteress preys upon your very life.
27
Can a man scoop fire into his lap
without
his clothes being burned?
28
Can a man walk on hot coals
without
his feet being scorched?
29
So is he who sleeps with another man's wife; [9]
no
one who touches her will go unpunished.
30
Men do not despise a thief if he steals
to
satisfy his hunger when he is starving.
31
Yet if he is caught, he must pay sevenfold,
though
it costs him all the wealth of his house.
32 But a man who commits
adultery lacks judgment;
whoever
does so destroys himself.
33
Blows and disgrace are his lot,
and
his shame will never be wiped away;
34
for jealousy arouses a husband's fury,
and
he will show no mercy when he takes revenge.
35
He will not accept any compensation;
he
will refuse the bribe, however great it is. [10]
OLD TESTAMENT:
2 SAMUEL 9:1 - 11:21
9 1
David asked, "Is there anyone still left of the
house of Saul to whom I can show kindness for Jonathan's sake?"
2 Now
there was a servant of Saul's household named Ziba. They called him to appear
before David, and the king said to him, "Are you Ziba?"
"Your
servant," he replied.
3 The
king asked, "Is there no one still left of the house of Saul to whom I can
show God's kindness?"
Ziba answered the king,
"There is still a son of Jonathan; he is crippled in both feet."
4 "Where
is he?" the king asked.
Ziba answered, "He
is at the house of Makir son of Ammiel in Lo Debar."
5 So
King David had him brought from Lo Debar, from the house of Makir son of
Ammiel.
6 When
Mephibosheth son of Jonathan, the son of Saul, came to David, he bowed down to
pay him honor.
David said,
"Mephibosheth!"
"Your
servant," he replied.
7 "Don't
be afraid," David said to him, "for I will surely show you kindness
for the sake of your father Jonathan. I will restore to you all the land that
belonged to your grandfather Saul, and you will always eat at my table."
8 Mephibosheth
bowed down and said, "What is your servant, that you should notice a dead
dog like me?" 9 Then the king summoned Ziba, Saul's servant,
and said to him, "I have given your master's grandson everything that
belonged to Saul and his family.
10 You
and your sons and your servants are to farm the land for him and bring in the
crops, so that your master's grandson may be provided for. And Mephibosheth,
grandson of your master, will always eat at my table." (Now Ziba had
fifteen sons and twenty servants.)
11 Then
Ziba said to the king, "Your servant will do whatever my lord the king
commands his servant to do." So Mephibosheth ate at David'sA
table like one of the king's sons.
12 Mephibosheth
had a young son named Mica, and all the members of Ziba's household were
servants of Mephibosheth. 13 And Mephibosheth lived in Jerusalem,
because he always ate at the king's table, and he was crippled in both feet.
10 1
In the course of time, the king of the Ammonites died,
and his son Hanun succeeded him as king. 2 David thought, "I
will show kindness to Hanun son of Nahash, just as his father showed kindness
to me." So David sent a delegation to express his sympathy to Hanun
concerning his father.
When David's men came to
the land of the Ammonites, 3 the Ammonite nobles said to Hanun their
lord, "Do you think David is honoring your father by sending men to you to
express sympathy? Hasn't David sent them to you to explore the city and spy it
out and overthrow it?" 4 So Hanun seized David's men, shaved
off half of [11]
[12]
each man's beard, cut off their garments in the middle at the buttocks, and
sent them away.
5 When
David was told about this, he sent messengers to meet the men, for they were
greatly humiliated. The king said, "Stay at Jericho till your beards have
grown, and then come back."
6 When
the Ammonites realized that they had become a stench in David's nostrils, they
hired twenty thousand Aramean foot soldiers from Beth Rehob and Zobah, as well
as the king of Maacah with a thousand men, and also twelve thousand men from
Tob.
7 On
hearing this, David sent Joab out with the entire army of fighting men. 8 The
Ammonites came out and drew up in battle formation at the entrance to their
city gate, while the Arameans of Zobah and Rehob and the men of Tob and Maacah
were by themselves in the open country.
9 Joab
saw that there were battle lines in front of him and behind him; so he selected
some of the best troops in Israel and deployed them against the Arameans. 10
He put the rest of the men under the command of Abishai his brother and
deployed them against the Ammonites. 11 Joab said, "If the
Arameans are too strong for me, then you are to come to my rescue; but if the
Ammonites are too strong for you, then I will come to rescue you. 12 Be
strong and let us fight bravely for our people and the cities of our God. The
LORD will do what is good in his sight."
13 Then
Joab and the troops with him advanced to fight the Arameans, and they fled
before him. 14 When the Ammonites saw that the Arameans were
fleeing, they fled before Abishai and went [13]
inside the city. So Joab returned from fighting the Ammonites and came to
Jerusalem.
15 After
the Arameans saw that they had been routed by Israel, they regrouped.
16 Hadadezer
had Arameans brought from beyond the River A; they went to Helam,
with Shobach the commander of Hadadezer's army leading them.
17 When David was told of
this, he gathered all Israel, crossed the Jordan and went to Helam. The
Arameans formed their battle lines to meet David and fought against him.
18 But
they fled before Israel, and David killed seven hundred of their charioteers
and forty thousand of their foot soldiers. B He also struck down
Shobach the commander of their army, and he died there. 19 When all
the kings who were vassals of Hadadezer saw that they had been defeated by
Israel, they made peace with the Israelites and became subject to them.
So the Arameans were
afraid to help the Ammonites anymore.
11 1
In the spring, at the time when kings go off to war,
David sent Joab out with the king's men and the whole Israelite army. They
destroyed the Ammonites and besieged Rabbah. But David remained in Jerusalem.
2 One
evening David got up from his bed and walked around on the roof of the palace.
From the roof he saw a woman bathing. The woman was very beautiful, 3 and
David sent someone to find out about her. The man said, "Isn't this
Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam [14]
and the wife of Uriah the Hittite?" 4 Then David sent
messengers to get her. She came to him, and he slept with her. (She had
purified herself from her uncleanness.) Then A she went back home. 5
The woman conceived and sent word to David, saying, "I am
pregnant."
6 So
David sent this word to Joab: "Send me Uriah the Hittite." And Joab
sent him to David. 7 When Uriah came to him, David asked him how
Joab was, how the soldiers were and how the war was going. 8 Then
David said to Uriah, "Go down to your house and wash your feet." So
Uriah left the palace, and a gift from the king was sent after him. 9 But
Uriah slept at the entrance to the palace with all his master's servants and
did not go down to his house.
10 When
David was told, "Uriah did not go home," he asked him, "Haven't
you just come from a distance? Why didn't you go home?"
11 Uriah
said to David, "The ark and Israel and Judah are staying in tents, and my
master Joab and my lord's men are camped in the open fields. How could I go to
my house to eat and drink and lie with my wife? As surely as you live, I will
not do such a thing!"
12 Then
David said to him, "Stay here one more day, and tomorrow I will send you
back." So Uriah remained in Jerusalem that day and the next. 13 At
David's invitation, he ate and drank with him, and David made him drunk. But in
the evening Uriah went out to sleep on his mat among his master's servants; he
did not go home.
14 In
the morning David wrote a letter to Joab and sent it with Uriah. 15 In
it he wrote, "Put Uriah in the front line where the fighting [15]is
fiercest. Then withdraw from him so he will be struck down and die."
16 So
while Joab had the city under siege, he put Uriah at a place where he knew the
strongest defenders were. 17 When the men of the city came out and
fought against Joab, some of the men in David's army fell; moreover, Uriah the
Hittite died.
18
Joab sent David a full account of the battle. 19 He
instructed the messenger: "When you have finished giving the king this
account of the battle, 20 the king's anger may flare up, and he may
ask you, `Why did you get so close to the city to fight? Didn't you know they
would shoot arrows from the wall? 21 Who killed Abimelech son of
Jerub-Besheth B? Didn't a woman throw an upper millstone on him from
the wall, so that he died in Thebez? Why did you get so close to the wall?' If
he asks you this, then say to him, `Also, your servant Uriah the Hittite is
dead.'" [16]
22 The messenger set out,
and when he arrived he told David everything Joab had sent him to say. 23 The
messenger said to David, "The men overpowered us and came out against us
in the open, but we drove them back to the entrance to the city gate. 24 Then
the archers shot arrows at your servants from the wall, and some of the king's
men died. Moreover, your servant Uriah the Hittite is dead."
25 David told the
messenger, "Say this to Joab: `Don't let this upset you; the sword devours
one as well as another. Press the attack against the city and destroy it.' Say
this to encourage Joab."
26 When Uriah's wife heard that her husband was
dead, she mourned for him. 27 After the time of mourning was over,
David had her brought to his house, and she became his wife and bore him a son.
But the thing David had done displeased the LORD. [17]
NEW TESTAMENT: JOHN 15:1 - 27
15 1
"I am the true vine, and
my Father is the gardener. 2 He cuts
off every branch in me that bears no fruit, while every branch that does bear
fruit he prunes A so that it will be
even more fruitful. 3 You are
already clean because of the word I have spoken to you.
4 Remain in me, and I will remain in you. No branch can bear fruit by
itself; it must remain in the vine. Neither can you bear fruit unless you
remain in me.
5" I am the vine; you are the branches. If a man remains in me
and I in him, he will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing. 6 If anyone does not remain in me, he is like a branch that
is thrown away and withers; such branches are picked up, thrown into the fire
and burned. 7 If you remain in me
and my words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be given you. 8 This is to my Father's glory, that you bear much fruit,
showing yourselves to be my disciples.
9" As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Now remain
in my love. 10 If you obey my
commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have obeyed my Father's
commands and remain in his love. 11 I
have told you this so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be
complete. 12 My command is this:
Love each other as I have loved you. 13 Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his
life for his friends. 14 You are my
friends if you do what I command. 15
I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master's
business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned
from my Father I have made known to you. 16 You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you to
go and bear fruit--fruit that will last. Then the Father will give you [18] whatever you ask in my name. 17 This is my command: Love each other.
18 "If the world hates you, keep in mind that it hated me first.
19 If you belonged to the world, it
would love you as its own. As it is, you do not belong to the world, but I have
chosen you out of the world. That is why the world hates you. 20 Remember the words I spoke to you: `No servant is greater
than his master.' B If they
persecuted me, they will persecute you also. If they obeyed my teaching, they
will obey yours also. 21 They will
treat you this way because of my name, for they do not know the One who sent
me. 22 If I had not come and spoken
to them, they would not be guilty of sin. Now, however, they have no excuse for
their sin. 23 He who hates me hates
my Father as well. 24 If I had not
done among them what no one else did, they would not be guilty of sin. But now
they have seen these miracles, and yet they have hated both me and my Father.
25 But this is to fulfill what is written in their Law: `They hated me
without reason.' C
26 "When the Counselor comes, whom I will send to you from the
Father, the Spirit of truth who goes out from the Father, he will testify about
me. 27 And you also must testify,
for you have been with me from the beginning. [19]
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