Genesis 1:1 1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
AUGUST
30
PSALMS: 30,
60, 90, 120, 150
PROVERBS: 30
OLD
TESTAMENT: EZEKIEL 39:1 - 40:27
NEW
TESTAMENT: JAMES 2:18 -
3:18
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: EZEKIEL 39:1 - 40:27
39
1
"Son of man, prophesy against Gog and say: `This is what the
Sovereign LORD says: I am against you, O Gog, chief prince of
A Meshech and Tubal.
2 I
will turn you around and drag you along. I will bring you from the far north and
send you against the mountains of Israel. 3 Then I will strike
your bow from your left hand and make your arrows drop from your right hand.
4 On the mountains of Israel you will fall, you and all your
troops and the nations with you. I will give you as food to all kinds of carrion
birds and to the wild animals. 5
You will fall in the open field, for I
have spoken, declares the Sovereign LORD. 6 I will send fire on
Magog and on those who live in safety in the coastlands, and they will know that
I am the LORD.
7 "`I
will make known my holy name among my people Israel. I will no longer let my
holy name be profaned, and the nations will know that I the LORD am the Holy One
in Israel. 8 It
is coming! It will surely take place, declares the Sovereign LORD. This is the
day I have spoken of.
9 "`Then
those who live in the towns of Israel will go out and use the weapons for fuel
and burn them up--the small and large shields, the bows and arrows, the war
clubs and spears. For seven years they will use them for fuel. 10 They
will not need to gather wood from the fields or cut it from the forests, because
they will use the weapons for fuel. And they will plunder those who plundered
them and loot those who looted them, declares the Sovereign LORD.
11 "`On
that day I will give Gog a burial place in Israel, in the valley of those who
travel east toward B
the Sea.C
It will block the way of travelers, because Gog and all his hordes will be
buried there. So it will be called the Valley of Hamon Gog.D
12 "`For
seven months the house of Israel will be burying them in order to cleanse the
land. 13 All
the people of the land will bury them, and the day I am glorified will be a
memorable day for them, declares the Sovereign LORD.
14 "`Men
will be regularly employed to cleanse the land. Some will go throughout the land
and, in addition to them, others will bury those that remain on the ground. At
the end of the seven months they will begin their search. 15 As
they go through the land and one of them sees a human bone, he will set up a
marker beside it until the gravediggers have buried it in the Valley of Hamon
Gog. 16 (Also
a town called Hamonah E
will be there.) And so they will cleanse the land.'
17 "Son
of man, this is what the Sovereign LORD says: Call out to every kind of bird and
all the wild animals: `Assemble and come together from all around to the
sacrifice I am preparing for you, the great sacrifice on the mountains of
Israel. There you will eat flesh and drink blood. 18 You
will eat the flesh of mighty men and drink the blood of the princes of the earth
as if they were rams and lambs, goats and bulls--all of them fattened animals
from Bashan. 19 At
the sacrifice I am preparing for you, you will eat fat till you are glutted and
drink blood till you are drunk. 20 At
my table you will eat your fill of horses and riders, mighty men and soldiers of
every kind,' declares the Sovereign LORD.
21 "I
will display my glory among the nations, and all the nations will see the
punishment I inflict and the hand I lay upon them. 22 From
that day forward the house of Israel will know that I am the LORD their God.
23 And
the nations will know that the people of Israel went into exile for [11]
their sin, because they were unfaithful to me. So I hid my face from them and
handed them over to their enemies, and they all fell by the sword.
24 I
dealt with them according to their uncleanness and their offenses, and I hid my
face from them.
25 "Therefore
this is what the Sovereign LORD says: I will now bring Jacob back from captivity
F
and will have compassion on all the people of Israel, and I will be zealous for
my holy name. 26 They
will forget their shame and all the unfaithfulness they showed toward me when
they lived in safety in their land with no one to make them afraid.
27 When
I have brought them back from the nations and have gathered them from the
countries of their enemies, I will show myself holy through them in the sight of
many nations. 28 Then
they will know that I am the LORD their God, for though I sent them into exile
among the nations, I will gather them to their own land, not leaving any behind.
29 I
will no longer hide my face from them, for I will pour out my Spirit on the
house of Israel, declares the Sovereign LORD."
40
1
In
the twenty-fifth year of our exile, at the beginning of the year, on the tenth
of the month, in the fourteenth year after the fall of the city--on that very
day the hand of the LORD was upon me and he took me there. 2 In
visions of God he took me to the land of Israel and set me on a very high
mountain, on whose south side were some buildings that looked like a city.
3 He took me there, and I saw a man whose appearance was like bronze;
he was standing in the gateway with a linen cord and a measuring rod in his
hand. 4 The man said to me, "Son of man,
look with your eyes and hear with your ears and pay attention to everything I am
going to show you, for that is why you have been brought here. Tell the house of
Israel everything you see."
5
I
saw a wall completely surrounding the temple area. The length of the measuring
rod in the man's hand was six long cubits, each of which was a cubit
A and a handbreadth. B He measured the wall; it was one
measuring rod thick and one rod high.
6
Then
he went to the gate facing east. He climbed its steps and measured the threshold
of the gate; it was one rod deep. C 7 The alcoves for the
guards were one rod long and one rod wide, and the projecting walls between the
alcoves were five cubits thick. And the threshold of the gate next to the
portico facing the temple was one rod deep.
8Then
he measured the portico of the gateway; 9 it D was eight
cubits deep and its jambs were two cubits thick. The portico of the gateway
faced the temple.
10
Inside
the east gate were three alcoves on each side; the three had the same
measurements, and the faces of the projecting walls on each [12]side
had the same measurements. 11 Then he measured the width of the
entrance to the gateway; it was ten cubits and its length was thirteen cubits.
12 In front of each alcove was a wall one cubit high, and the alcoves
were six cubits square. 13 Then he measured the gateway from the top
of the rear wall of one alcove to the top of the opposite one; the distance was
twenty-five cubits from one parapet opening to the opposite one. 14
He measured along the faces of the projecting walls all around the inside
of the gateway--sixty cubits. The measurement was up to the portico E
facing the courtyard. F 15 The distance from the entrance
of the gateway to the far end of its portico was fifty cubits. 16The
alcoves and the projecting walls inside the gateway were surmounted by narrow
parapet openings all around, as was the portico; the openings all around faced
inward. The faces of the projecting walls were decorated with palm trees.
17
Then
he brought me into the outer court. There I saw some rooms and a pavement that
had been constructed all around the court; there were thirty rooms along the
pavement. 18 It abutted the sides of the gateways and was as wide as
they were long; this was the lower pavement. 19 Then he measured the
distance from the inside of the lower gateway to the outside of the inner court;
it was a hundred cubits on the east side as well as on the north.
20
Then
he measured the length and width of the gate facing north, leading into the
outer court. 21 Its alcoves--three on each side--its projecting walls
and its portico had the same measurements as those of the first gateway. It was
fifty cubits long and twenty-five cubits wide. 22 Its openings, its
portico and its palm tree decorations had the same measurements as those of the
gate facing east. Seven steps led up to it, with its portico opposite them.
23 There was a gate to the inner court facing the north gate, just as
there was on the east. He measured from one gate to the opposite one; it was a
hundred cubits.
24
Then
he led me to the south side and I saw a gate facing south. He measured its jambs
and its portico, and they had the same measurements as the others. 25
The gateway and its portico had narrow openings all around, like the
openings of the others. It was fifty cubits long and twenty-five cubits wide.
26 Seven steps led up to it, with its portico opposite them; it had
palm tree decorations on the faces of the projecting walls on each side. [13]
27 The inner court also had a gate facing south, and he measured from
this gate to the outer gate on the south side; it was a hundred cubits. [14]
NEW
TESTAMENT: JAMES 2:18 -
3:18
18
But
someone will say, "You have faith; I have deeds."
Show
me your faith without deeds, and I will show you my faith by what I do. 19
You believe that there is one God. Good! Even the demons believe that--and
shudder.
20
You
foolish man, do you want evidence that faith without deeds is
uselessD? 21 Was not our ancestor Abraham considered
righteous for what he did when he offered his son Isaac on the altar? 22
You see that his faith and his actions were working together, and his
faith was made complete by what he did. 23 And the scripture was
fulfilled that says, "Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as
righteousness,"E and he was called God's friend. 24 You
see that a person is justified by what he does and not by faith alone.
25
In
the same way, was not even Rahab the prostitute considered righteous for what
she did when she gave lodging to the spies and sent them off in a different
direction?
26
As
the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without deeds is
dead.
3
1
Not
many of you should presume to be teachers, my brothers, because you know that we
who teach will be judged more strictly. 2 We all stumble in many
ways. If anyone is never at fault in what he says, he is a perfect man, able to
keep his whole body in check.
3
When
we put bits into the mouths of horses to make them obey us, we can turn the
whole animal. 4 Or take ships as an example. Although they are so
large and are driven by strong winds, they are steered by a very small rudder
wherever the pilot wants to go. 5 Likewise the tongue is a small part
of the body, but it makes great boasts. Consider what a great forest is set on
fire by a small spark. 6 The tongue also is a fire, a world of evil
among the parts of the body. It corrupts the whole person, sets the whole course
of his life on fire, and is itself set on fire by hell.
7
All
kinds of animals, birds, reptiles and creatures of the sea are being tamed and
have been tamed by man, 8 but no man can tame the tongue. It is a
restless evil, full of deadly poison.
9
With
the tongue we praise our Lord and Father, and with it we curse men, who have
been made in God's likeness. 10 Out of the same mouth come praise and
cursing. My brothers, this should not be. 11 Can both fresh water and
salt A water flow from the same spring? 12 My brothers,
can a fig tree bear olives, or a grapevine bear figs? Neither can a salt spring
produce fresh water.
13
Who
is wise and understanding among you? Let him show it by his good life, by deeds
done in the humility that comes from wisdom. 14 But if you harbor
bitter envy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast about it or deny
the truth. 15 Such "wisdom" does not come down from heaven but is
earthly, unspiritual, of the devil.
16
For
where you have envy and selfish ambition, there you find disorder and every evil
practice.
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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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