Genesis 1:1 1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
JULY
30
PSALMS: 30,
60, 90, 120, 150
PROVERBS: 30
OLD
TESTAMENT: JEREMIAH 33:1 - 34:22
NEW
TESTAMENT: 1 TIMOTHY 4:1 -
16
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?
10
Is
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.
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,
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: JEREMIAH 33:1 - 34:22
33
1
While
Jeremiah was still confined in the courtyard of the guard, the word of the LORD
came to him a second time: 2 "This is what
the LORD says, he who made the earth, the LORD who formed it and established
it--the LORD is his name: 3
`Call to me and I will answer you and tell you
great and unsearchable things you do not know.' 4 For this is
what the LORD, the God of Israel, says about the houses in this city and the
royal palaces of Judah that have been torn down to be used against the siege
ramps and the sword 5 in the fight with the Babylonians A:
`They will be filled with the dead bodies of the men I
will slay in my anger and wrath. I will hide my face from this city because of
all its wickedness.
6
"`Nevertheless,
I will bring health and healing to it; I will heal my people and will let them
enjoy abundant peace and security. 7
I will bring Judah and Israel back from captivity B
and will rebuild them as they were before. 8
I will cleanse them from all the sin they have committed against me and will
forgive all their sins of rebellion against me. 9
Then this city will bring me renown, joy, praise and honor before all nations on
earth that hear of all the good things I do for it; and they will be in awe and
will tremble at the abundant prosperity and peace I provide for it.'
10
"This is what the LORD says: `You say about this
place, "It is a desolate waste, without men or animals." Yet in the towns
of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem that are deserted, inhabited by neither
men nor animals, there will be heard once more 11 the sounds of joy
and gladness, the voices of bride and bridegroom, and the voices of those who
bring thank offerings to the house of the LORD, saying,
"Give
thanks to the LORD Almighty,
for
the LORD is good;
his
love endures forever."
For
I will restore the fortunes of the land as they were before,' says
the LORD.
12
"This
is what the LORD Almighty says: `In this place,
desolate and without men or animals--in all its towns there will again be
pastures for shepherds to rest their flocks.
13
In the towns of the hill country, of the western foothills and of the Negev, in
the territory of Benjamin, in the villages around Jerusalem and in the towns of
Judah, flocks will again pass under the hand of the one who counts
them,'
says the LORD.
14
"`The days are coming,' declares the LORD, `when I will fulfill the gracious promise I made to the house
of Israel and to the house of Judah.
15
"`In those days and at that time
I
will make a righteous Branch sprout from David's line;
16
In those days Judah will be saved
and
Jerusalem will live in safety.
This
is the name by which it C
will be called:
The
LORD Our Righteousness.'
17 For this is what the LORD says: `David
will never fail to have a man to sit on the throne of the house of Israel,
18 nor will the priests, who are
Levites, ever fail to have a man to stand before me continually to offer burnt
offerings, to burn grain offerings and to present sacrifices.'"
19
The
word of the LORD came to Jeremiah: 20 "This
is what the LORD says: `If you can break my covenant with the day and my
covenant with the night, so that day and night no longer come at their appointed
time, 21 then my covenant with David
my servant--and my covenant with the Levites who are priests ministering before
me--can be broken and David will no longer have a descendant to reign on his
throne. 22 I will make the
descendants of David my servant and the Levites who minister before me as
countless as the stars of the sky and as measureless as the sand on the
seashore.'"
23
The
word of the LORD came to Jeremiah: 24 "Have
you not noticed that these people are saying, `The LORD has rejected the two
kingdoms D he chose'? So they
despise my people and no longer regard them as a nation.
25 This is what the LORD says: `If I
have not established my covenant with day and night and the fixed laws of heaven
and earth, 26 then I will reject the
descendants of Jacob and David my servant and will not choose one of his sons to
rule over the descendants of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. For I will restore their
fortunes E and have compassion on
them.' “
34
1
While
Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and all his army and all the kingdoms and peoples
in the empire he ruled were fighting against Jerusalem and all its surrounding
towns, this word came to Jeremiah from the LORD: 2 "This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: Go to
Zedekiah king of Judah and tell him, `This is what the LORD says: I am about to
hand this city over to the king of Babylon, and he will burn it down.
3 You will not escape from his grasp
but will surely be captured and handed over to him. You will see the king of
Babylon with your own eyes, and he will speak with you face to face. And you
will go to Babylon.
4
"`Yet hear the promise of the LORD, O Zedekiah king of Judah. This is what the
LORD says concerning you: You will not die by the sword; [12]
5
you will die peacefully. As people made a funeral fire in honor of your fathers,
the former kings who preceded you, so they will make a fire in your honor and
lament, "Alas, O master!" I myself make this promise, declares the
LORD.'
"
6
Then
Jeremiah the prophet told all this to Zedekiah king of Judah, in Jerusalem,
7
while
the army of the king of Babylon was fighting against Jerusalem and the other
cities of Judah that were still holding out--Lachish and Azekah. These were the
only fortified cities left in Judah.
8
The
word came to Jeremiah from the LORD after King Zedekiah had made a covenant with
all the people in Jerusalem to proclaim freedom for the slaves. 9
Everyone was to free his Hebrew slaves, both male and female; no one was
to hold a fellow Jew in bondage. 10 So all the officials and people
who entered into this covenant agreed that they would free their male and female
slaves and no longer hold them in bondage. They agreed, and set them free.
11 But afterward they changed their minds and took back the slaves
they had freed and enslaved them again.
12
Then
the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah: 13 "This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: I made a
covenant with your forefathers when I brought them out of Egypt, out of the land
of slavery. I said, 14 `Every
seventh year each of you must free any fellow Hebrew who has sold himself to
you. After he has served you six years, you must let him go free.'
A Your fathers, however, did not listen to
me or pay attention to me. 15
Recently you repented and did what is right in my sight: Each of you proclaimed
freedom to his countrymen. You even made a covenant before me in the house that
bears my Name.
16
But now you have turned around and profaned my name; each of you has taken back
the male and female slaves you had set free to go where they wished. You have
forced them to become your slaves again.
17
"Therefore, this is what the LORD says:
You have not obeyed me; you have not proclaimed
freedom for your fellow countrymen. So I now proclaim `freedom' for you,
declares the LORD--`freedom' to fall by the sword,
plague and famine. I will make you abhorrent to all the kingdoms of the earth.
18 The men who have violated my
covenant and have not fulfilled the terms of the covenant they made before me, I
will treat like the calf they cut in two and then walked between its pieces.
19 The leaders of Judah and
Jerusalem, the court officials, the priests and all the people of the land who
walked between the pieces of the calf, 20 I will hand over to their enemies who seek their lives.
Their dead bodies will become food for the birds of the air and the beasts of
the earth.
21
"I
will hand Zedekiah king of Judah and his officials over to their enemies who
seek their lives, to the army of the king of Babylon, which has withdrawn from
you. 22
I am going to give the order, declares the LORD, and I will bring them back to
this city. They will fight against it, take it and burn it down. And I will lay
waste the towns of Judah so no one can live there."
[13]
NEW
TESTAMENT: 1 TIMOTHY 4:1 -
16
4
1
The
Spirit clearly says that in later times some will abandon the faith and follow
deceiving spirits and things taught by demons. 2 Such teachings come
through hypocritical liars, whose consciences have been seared as with a hot
iron. 3 They forbid people to marry and order them to abstain from
certain foods, which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who
believe and who know the truth. 4 For everything God created is good,
and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving, 5
because it is consecrated by the word of God and prayer.
6
If
you point these things out to the brothers, you will be a good minister of
Christ Jesus, brought up in the truths of the faith and of the good teaching
that you have followed. 7 Have nothing to do with godless myths and
old wives' tales; rather, train yourself to be godly. 8 For physical
training is of some value, but godliness has value for all things, holding
promise for both the present life and the life to come.
9
This
is a trustworthy saying that deserves full acceptance 10 (and for
this we labor and strive), that we have put our hope in the living God, who is
the Savior of all men, and especially of those who believe.
11
Command
and teach these things. 12 Don't let anyone look down on you because
you are young, but set an example for the believers in speech, in life, in love,
in faith and in purity. 13 Until I come, devote yourself to the
public reading of Scripture, to preaching and to teaching. 14 Do not
neglect your gift, which was given you through a prophetic message when the body
of elders laid their hands on you.
15
Be
diligent in these matters; give yourself wholly to them, so that everyone may
see your progress. 16 Watch your life and doctrine closely. Persevere
in them, because if you do, you will save both yourself and your hearers. [14]
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John 3:16-21 16 "For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, F that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. 17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. 18 Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God's one and only Son.G 19 This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but men loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil. 20 Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that his deeds will be exposed. 21 But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what he has done has been done through God." H
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