Genesis 1:1 1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
AUGUST
9
PSALMS: 9,
39, 69, 99, 129
PROVERBS: 9
OLD
TESTAMENT: LAMENTATIONS 1:1 -
2:22
NEW
TESTAMENT: PHILEMON 1:1 -
25
PSALMS:
9
ForA
the director of music. To the tune of "The Death of the Son." A psalm of
David.
1
I
will praise you, O LORD, with all my heart;
I
will tell of all your wonders.
2
I
will be glad and rejoice in you;
I
will sing praise to your name, O Most High.
3
My
enemies turn back;
they
stumble and perish before you.
4
For
you have upheld my right and my cause;
you
have sat on your throne, judging righteously.
5
You
have rebuked the nations and destroyed the wicked;
you
have blotted out their name for ever and ever.
6
Endless
ruin has overtaken the enemy,
you
have uprooted their cities;
even
the memory of them has perished.
7
The
LORD reigns forever;
he
has established his throne for judgment.
8
He
will judge the world in righteousness;
he
will govern the peoples with justice.
9
The
LORD is a refuge for the oppressed,
a
stronghold in times of trouble.
10
Those
who know your name will trust in you,
for
you, LORD, have never forsaken those who seek you.
11
Sing
praises to the LORD, enthroned in Zion;
proclaim
among the nations what he has done.
12
For
he who avenges blood remembers;
he
does not ignore the cry of the afflicted. [1]
13
O
LORD, see how my enemies persecute me!
Have
mercy and lift me up from the gates of death,
14
that
I may declare your praises
in
the gates of the Daughter of Zion
and
there rejoice in your salvation.
15
The
nations have fallen into the pit they have dug;
their
feet are caught in the net they have hidden.
16
The
LORD is known by his justice;
the
wicked are ensnared by the work of their hands.
Higgaion.
B
Selah
17
The
wicked return to the grave, C
all
the nations that forget God.
18
But
the needy will not always be forgotten,
nor
the hope of the afflicted ever perish.
19
Arise,
O LORD, let not man triumph;
let
the nations be judged in your presence.
20
Strike
them with terror, O LORD;
let
the nations know they are but men.
PSALMS: 39
For
the director of music. For Jeduthun. A psalm of David.
1
I
said, "I will watch my ways
and
keep my tongue from sin;
I
will put a muzzle on my mouth
as
long as the wicked are in my presence."
2
But
when I was silent and still,
not
even saying anything good,
my
anguish increased.
3
My
heart grew hot within me,
and
as I meditated, the fire burned;
then
I spoke with my tongue:
4
"Show
me, O LORD, my life's end
and
the number of my days;
let
me know how fleeting is my life.
5
You
have made my days a mere handbreadth;
the
span of my years is as nothing before you.
Each
man's life is but a breath.
Selah
6
Man
is a mere phantom as he goes to and fro:
He
bustles about, but only in vain;
he
heaps up wealth, not knowing who will get it.
7
"But
now, Lord, what do I look for?
My
hope is in you.
8
Save
me from all my transgressions;
do
not make me the scorn of fools.
9
I
was silent; I would not open my mouth, [3]
for
you are the one who has done this.
10
Remove
your scourge from me;
I
am overcome by the blow of your hand.
11
You
rebuke and discipline men for their sin;
you
consume their wealth like a moth--
each
man is but a breath.
Selah
12
"Hear
my prayer, O LORD,
listen
to my cry for help;
be
not deaf to my weeping.
For
I dwell with you as an alien,
a
stranger, as all my fathers were.
13
Look
away from me, that I may rejoice again
before
I depart and am no more." [4]
PSALMS: 69
For
the director of music. To the tune of "Lilies." Of David.
1
Save
me, O God,
for
the waters have come up to my neck.
2
I
sink in the miry depths,
where
there is no foothold.
I
have come into the deep waters;
the
floods engulf me.
3
I
am worn out calling for help;
my
throat is parched.
My
eyes fail,
looking
for my God.
4
Those
who hate me without reason
outnumber
the hairs of my head;
many
are my enemies without cause,
those
who seek to destroy me.
I
am forced to restore
what
I did not steal.
5
You
know my folly, O God;
my
guilt is not hidden from you.
6
May
those who hope in you
not
be disgraced because of me,
O
Lord, the LORD Almighty;
may
those who seek you
not
be put to shame because of me,
O
God of Israel.
7
For
I endure scorn for your sake,
and
shame covers my face.
8
I
am a stranger to my brothers, [5]
an
alien to my own mother's sons;
9
for
zeal for your house consumes me,
and
the insults of those who insult you fall on me.
10
When
I weep and fast,
I
must endure scorn;
11
when
I put on sackcloth,
people
make sport of me.
12
Those
who sit at the gate mock me,
and
I am the song of the drunkards.
13
But
I pray to you, O LORD,
in
the time of your favor;
in
your great love, O God,
answer
me with your sure salvation.
14
Rescue
me from the mire,
do
not let me sink;
deliver
me from those who hate me,
from
the deep waters.
15
Do
not let the floodwaters engulf me
or
the depths swallow me up
or
the pit close its mouth over me.
16
Answer
me, O LORD, out of the goodness of your love;
in
your great mercy turn to me.
17
Do
not hide your face from your servant;
answer
me quickly, for I am in trouble.
18
Come
near and rescue me;
redeem
me because of my foes.
19
You
know how I am scorned, disgraced and shamed;
all
my enemies are before you.
20
Scorn
has broken my heart [6]
and
has left me helpless;
I
looked for sympathy, but there was none,
for
comforters, but I found none.
21
They
put gall in my food
and
gave me vinegar for my thirst.
22
May
the table set before them become a snare;
may
it become retribution and A a trap.
23
May
their eyes be darkened so they cannot see,
and
their backs be bent forever.
24
Pour
out your wrath on them;
let
your fierce anger overtake them.
25
May
their place be deserted;
let
there be no one to dwell in their tents.
26
For
they persecute those you wound
and
talk about the pain of those you hurt.
27
Charge
them with crime upon crime;
do
not let them share in your salvation.
28
May
they be blotted out of the book of life
and
not be listed with the righteous.
29
I
am in pain and distress;
may
your salvation, O God, protect me.
30
I
will praise God's name in song
and
glorify him with thanksgiving.
31
This
will please the LORD more than an ox,
more
than a bull with its horns and hoofs.
32
The
poor will see and be glad--
you
who seek God, may your hearts live!
33
The
LORD hears the needy
and
does not despise his captive people. [7]
34
Let
heaven and earth praise him,
the
seas and all that move in them,
35
for
God will save Zion
and
rebuild the cities of Judah.
Then
people will settle there and possess it;
36
the
children of his servants will inherit it,
and
those who love his name will dwell there. [8]
PSALMS: 99
1
The
LORD reigns,
let
the nations tremble;
he
sits enthroned between the cherubim,
let
the earth shake.
2
Great
is the LORD in Zion;
he
is exalted over all the nations.
3
Let
them praise your great and awesome name--
he
is holy.
4
The
King is mighty, he loves justice--
you
have established equity;
in
Jacob you have done
what
is just and right.
5
Exalt
the LORD our God
and
worship at his footstool;
he
is holy.
6
Moses
and Aaron were among his priests,
Samuel
was among those who called on his name;
they
called on the LORD
and
he answered them.
7
He
spoke to them from the pillar of cloud;
they
kept his statutes and the decrees he gave them.
8
O
LORD our God,
you
answered them;
you
were to Israel A a forgiving God,
though
you punished their misdeeds. B
9
Exalt
the LORD our God
and
worship at his holy mountain,
for
the LORD our God is holy. [9]
PSALMS: 129
A
song of ascents.
1
They
have greatly oppressed me from my youth--
let
Israel say--
2
they
have greatly oppressed me from my youth,
but
they have not gained the victory over me.
3
Plowmen
have plowed my back
and
made their furrows long.
4
But
the LORD is righteous;
he
has cut me free from the cords of the wicked.
5
May
all who hate Zion
be
turned back in shame.
6
May
they be like grass on the roof,
which
withers before it can grow;
7
with
it the reaper cannot fill his hands,
nor
the one who gathers fill his arms.
8
May
those who pass by not say,
"The
blessing of the LORD be upon you;
we
bless you in the name of the LORD." [10]
PROVERBS: 9
9
1
Wisdom has built her house;
she
has hewn out its seven pillars.
2
She
has prepared her meat and mixed her wine;
she
has also set her table.
3
She
has sent out her maids, and she calls
from
the highest point of the city.
4
"Let all who are simple come in
here!"
she
says to those who lack judgment.
5
"Come, eat my food
and
drink the wine I have mixed.
6 Leave
your simple ways and you will live;
walk
in the way of understanding.
7
"Whoever corrects a mocker invites
insult;
whoever
rebukes a wicked man incurs abuse.
8 Do
not rebuke a mocker or he will hate you;
rebuke
a wise man and he will love you.
9 Instruct
a wise man and he will be wiser still;
teach
a righteous man and he will add to his learning.
10
"The fear of the LORD is the beginning of
wisdom,
and
knowledge of the Holy One is understanding.
11 For
through me your days will be many,
and
years will be added to your life.
12 If
you are wise, your wisdom will reward you;
if
you are a mocker, you alone will suffer."
13
The
woman Folly is loud;
she
is undisciplined and without knowledge.
14
She
sits at the door of her house,
on
a seat at the highest point of the city,
15
calling
out to those who pass by,
who
go straight on their way.
16
"Let all who are simple come in here!" [11]
she
says to those who lack judgment.
17
"Stolen water is sweet;
food
eaten in secret is delicious!"
18
But
little do they know that the dead are there,
that
her guests are in the depths of the grave. A [12]
OLD
TESTAMENT: LAMENTATIONS 1:1 -
2:22
1
1
How
A deserted lies the city,
once
so full of people!
How
like a widow is she,
who
once was great among the nations!
She
who was queen among the provinces
has
now become a slave.
2
Bitterly
she weeps at night,
tears
are upon her cheeks.
Among
all her lovers
there
is none to comfort her.
All
her friends have betrayed her;
they
have become her enemies.
3
After
affliction and harsh labor,
Judah
has gone into exile.
She
dwells among the nations;
she
finds no resting place.
All
who pursue her have overtaken her
in
the midst of her distress.
4
The
roads to Zion mourn,
for
no one comes to her appointed feasts.
All
her gateways are desolate,
her
priests groan, [13]
her
maidens grieve,
and
she is in bitter anguish.
5
Her
foes have become her masters;
her
enemies are at ease.
The
LORD has brought her grief
because
of her many sins.
Her
children have gone into exile,
captive
before the foe.
6
All
the splendor has departed
from
the Daughter of Zion.
Her
princes are like deer
that
find no pasture;
in
weakness they have fled
before
the pursuer.
7
In
the days of her affliction and wandering
Jerusalem
remembers all the treasures
that
were hers in days of old.
When
her people fell into enemy hands,
there
was no one to help her.
Her
enemies looked at her
and
laughed at her destruction.
8
Jerusalem
has sinned greatly [14]
and
so has become unclean.
All
who honored her despise her,
for
they have seen her nakedness;
she
herself groans
and
turns away.
9
Her
filthiness clung to her skirts;
she
did not consider her future.
Her
fall was astounding;
there
was none to comfort her.
"Look,
O LORD, on my affliction,
for
the enemy has triumphed."
10
The
enemy laid hands
on
all her treasures;
she
saw pagan nations
enter
her sanctuary--
those
you had forbidden
to
enter your assembly.
11
All
her people groan
as
they search for bread;
they
barter their treasures for food
to
keep themselves alive. [15]
"Look,
O LORD, and consider,
for
I am despised."
12
"Is
it nothing to you, all you who pass by?
Look
around and see.
Is
any suffering like my suffering
that
was inflicted on me,
that
the LORD brought on me
in
the day of his fierce anger?
13
"From
on high he sent fire,
sent
it down into my bones.
He
spread a net for my feet
and
turned me back.
He
made me desolate,
faint
all the day long.
14
"My
sins have been bound into a yoke B;
by
his hands they were woven together.
They
have come upon my neck
and
the Lord has sapped my strength.
He
has handed me over
to
those I cannot withstand.
15
"The
Lord has rejected
all
the warriors in my midst; [16]
he
has summoned an army against me
toC
crush my young men.
In
his winepress the Lord has trampled
the
Virgin Daughter of Judah.
16
"This
is why I weep
and
my eyes overflow with tears.
No
one is near to comfort me,
no
one to restore my spirit.
My
children are destitute
because
the enemy has prevailed."
17
Zion
stretches out her hands,
but
there is no one to comfort her.
The
LORD has decreed for Jacob
that
his neighbors become his foes;
Jerusalem
has become
an
unclean thing among them.
18
"The
LORD is righteous,
yet
I rebelled against his command.
Listen,
all you peoples;
look
upon my suffering.
My
young men and maidens
have
gone into exile. [17]
19
"I
called to my allies
but
they betrayed me.
My
priests and my elders
perished
in the city
while
they searched for food
to
keep themselves alive.
20
"See,
O LORD, how distressed I am!
I
am in torment within,
and
in my heart I am disturbed,
for
I have been most rebellious.
Outside,
the sword bereaves;
inside,
there is only death.
21
"People
have heard my groaning,
but
there is no one to comfort me.
All
my enemies have heard of my distress;
they
rejoice at what you have done.
May
you bring the day you have announced
so
they may become like me.
22
"Let
all their wickedness come before you;
deal
with them
as
you have dealt with me
because
of all my sins.
My
groans are many
and
my heart is faint." [18]
2
1
How A the Lord has covered the Daughter of Zion
with
the cloud of his anger B!
He
has hurled down the splendor of Israel
from
heaven to earth;
he
has not remembered his footstool
in
the day of his anger.
2
Without
pity the Lord has swallowed up
all
the dwellings of Jacob;
in
his wrath he has torn down
the
strongholds of the Daughter of Judah.
He
has brought her kingdom and its princes
down
to the ground in dishonor.
3
In
fierce anger he has cut off
every
horn C of Israel.
He
has withdrawn his right hand
at
the approach of the enemy.
He
has burned in Jacob like a flaming fire
that
consumes everything around it.
4
Like
an enemy he has strung his bow;
his
right hand is ready.
Like
a foe he has slain
all
who were pleasing to the eye;
he
has poured out his wrath like fire
on
the tent of the Daughter of Zion. [19]
on
the tent of the Daughter of Zion.
5
The
Lord is like an enemy;
he
has swallowed up Israel.
He
has swallowed up all her palaces
and
destroyed her strongholds.
He
has multiplied mourning and lamentation
for
the Daughter of Judah.
6
He
has laid waste his dwelling like a garden;
he
has destroyed his place of meeting.
The
LORD has made Zion forget
her
appointed feasts and her Sabbaths;
in
his fierce anger he has spurned
both
king and priest.
7
The
Lord has rejected his altar
and
abandoned his sanctuary.
He
has handed over to the enemy
the
walls of her palaces;
they
have raised a shout in the house of the LORD
as
on the day of an appointed feast.
8
The
LORD determined to tear down
the
wall around the Daughter of Zion.
He
stretched out a measuring line
and
did not withhold his hand from destroying. [20]
He
made ramparts and walls lament;
together
they wasted away.
9
Her
gates have sunk into the ground;
their
bars he has broken and destroyed.
Her
king and her princes are exiled among the nations,
the
law is no more,
and
her prophets no longer find
visions
from the LORD.
10
The
elders of the Daughter of Zion
sit
on the ground in silence;
they
have sprinkled dust on their heads
and
put on sackcloth.
The
young women of Jerusalem
have
bowed their heads to the ground.
11
My
eyes fail from weeping,
I
am in torment within,
my
heart is poured out on the ground
because
my people are destroyed,
because
children and infants faint
in
the streets of the city. [21]
12
They
say to their mothers,
"Where
is bread and wine?"
as
they faint like wounded men
in
the streets of the city,
as
their lives ebb away
in
their mothers' arms.
13
What
can I say for you?
With
what can I compare you,
O
Daughter of Jerusalem?
To
what can I liken you,
that
I may comfort you,
O
Virgin Daughter of Zion?
Your
wound is as deep as the sea.
Who
can heal you?
14
The
visions of your prophets
were
false and worthless;
they
did not expose your sin
to
ward off your captivity.
The
oracles they gave you
were
false and misleading.
15
All
who pass your way
clap
their hands at you;
they
scoff and shake their heads
at
the Daughter of Jerusalem: [22]
"Is
this the city that was called
the
perfection of beauty,
the
joy of the whole earth?"
16
All
your enemies open their mouths
wide
against you;
they
scoff and gnash their teeth
and
say, "We have swallowed her up.
This
is the day we have waited for;
we
have lived to see it."
17
The
LORD has done what he planned;
he
has fulfilled his word,
which
he decreed long ago.
He
has overthrown you without pity,
he
has let the enemy gloat over you,
he
has exalted the horn D of your foes.
18
The
hearts of the people
cry
out to the Lord.
O
wall of the Daughter of Zion,
let
your tears flow like a river
day
and night;
give
yourself no relief,
your
eyes no rest. [23]
19
Arise,
cry out in the night,
as
the watches of the night begin;
pour
out your heart like water
in
the presence of the Lord.
Lift
up your hands to him
for
the lives of your children,
who
faint from hunger
at
the head of every street.
20
"Look,
O LORD, and consider:
Whom
have you ever treated like this?
Should
women eat their offspring,
the
children they have cared for?
Should
priest and prophet be killed
in
the sanctuary of the Lord?
21
"Young
and old lie together
in
the dust of the streets;
my
young men and maidens
have
fallen by the sword.
You
have slain them in the day of your anger;
you
have slaughtered them without pity.
22
"As
you summon to a feast day,
so
you summoned against me terrors on every side.
In
the day of the LORD's anger
no
one escaped or survived; [24]
those
I cared for and reared,
my
enemy has destroyed." [25]
NEW
TESTAMENT: PHILEMON 1:1 -
25
1
1
Paul,
a prisoner of Christ Jesus, and Timothy our brother,
To
Philemon our dear friend and fellow worker, 2 to Apphia our sister,
to Archippus our fellow soldier and to the church that meets in your home:
3
Grace
to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
4
I
always thank my God as I remember you in my prayers, 5 because I hear
about your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love for all the saints. 6
I pray that you may be active in sharing your faith, so that you will have
a full understanding of every good thing we have in Christ. 7 Your
love has given me great joy and encouragement, because you, brother, have
refreshed the hearts of the saints.
8
Therefore,
although in Christ I could be bold and order you to do what you ought to do,
9 yet I appeal to you on the basis of love. I then, as Paul--an old
man and now also a prisoner of Christ Jesus—10 I appeal to you for my
son Onesimus, A who became my son while I was in chains. 11
Formerly he was useless to you, but now he has become useful both to you
and to me.
12
I
am sending him--who is my very heart--back to you. 13 I would have
liked to keep him with me so that he could take your place in helping me while I
am in chains for the gospel. 14 But I did not want to do anything
without your consent, so that any favor you do will be spontaneous and not
forced. 15 Perhaps the reason he was separated from you for a little
while was that you might have him back for good—16 no longer as a
slave, but better than a slave, as a dear brother. He is very dear to me but
even dearer to you, both as a man and as a brother in the Lord.
17
So
if you consider me a partner, welcome him as you would welcome me. 18
If he has done you any wrong or owes you anything, charge it to me.
19 I, Paul, am writing this with my own hand. I will pay it back--not
to mention that you owe me your very self.
20
I
do wish, brother, that I may have some benefit from you in the Lord; refresh my
heart in Christ. 21 Confident of your obedience, I write to you,
knowing that you will do even more than I ask.
22And
one thing more: Prepare a guest room for me, because I hope to be restored to
you in answer to your prayers.
23
Epaphras,
my fellow prisoner in Christ Jesus, sends you greetings. 24 And so do
Mark, Aristarchus, Demas and Luke, my fellow workers.
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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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