Genesis 1:1 1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
NOVEMBER
30
PSALMS: 30,
60, 90, 120, 150
PROVERBS: 30
OLD
TESTAMENT: LEVITICUS 7:28 - 9:6
NEW
TESTAMENT: MARK 3:31 -
4:25
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: LEVITICUS 7:28 - 9:6
28
The
LORD said to Moses, 29 "Say to the
Israelites: `Anyone who brings a fellowship offering to the LORD is to bring
part of it as his sacrifice to the LORD. 30 With his own hands
he is to bring the offering made to the LORD by fire; he is to bring the fat,
together with the breast, and wave the breast before the LORD as a wave
offering.
31 The
priest shall burn the fat on the altar, but the breast belongs to Aaron and his
sons.
32 You are
to give the right thigh of your fellowship offerings to the priest as a
contribution. 33 The son of Aaron who offers the blood and the fat of the
fellowship offering shall have the right thigh as his share. 34 From the fellowship
offerings of the Israelites, I have taken the breast that is waved and the thigh
that is presented and have given them to Aaron the priest and his sons as their
regular share from the Israelites.'"
35
This
is the portion of the offerings made to the LORD by fire that were allotted to
Aaron and his sons on the day they were presented to serve the LORD as priests.
36 On the day they were anointed, the LORD commanded that the
Israelites give this to them as their regular share for the generations to come.
37
These,
then, are the regulations for the burnt offering, the grain offering, the sin
offering, the guilt offering, the ordination offering and the fellowship
offering, 38 which the LORD gave Moses on Mount Sinai on the day he
commanded the Israelites to bring their offerings to the LORD, in the Desert of
Sinai.
8
1
The
LORD said to Moses, 2 "Bring Aaron and his
sons, their garments, the anointing oil, the bull for the sin offering, the two
rams and the basket containing bread made without yeast, 3 and gather the
entire assembly at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting." 4
Moses did as the LORD commanded him, and the assembly gathered at the
entrance to the Tent of Meeting.
5
Moses
said to the assembly, "This is what the LORD has
commanded to be done."
6
Then
Moses brought Aaron and his sons forward and washed them with water. 7
He put the tunic on Aaron, tied the sash around him, clothed him with the
robe and put the ephod on him. He also tied the ephod to him by its skillfully
woven waistband; so it was fastened on him. 8 He placed the
breastpiece on him and put the Urim and Thummim in the breastpiece. 9
Then he placed the turban on Aaron's head and set the gold plate, the
sacred diadem, on the front of it, as the LORD commanded Moses.
10
Then
Moses took the anointing oil and anointed the tabernacle and everything in it,
and so consecrated them. 11 He sprinkled some of the oil on the altar
seven times, anointing the altar and all its utensils and the basin with its
stand, to consecrate them. 12 He poured some of the anointing oil on
Aaron's head and anointed him to consecrate him. 13 Then he brought
Aaron's sons forward, put tunics on them, tied sashes [11]
around them and put headbands on them, as the LORD commanded Moses.
14
He
then presented the bull for the sin offering, and Aaron and his sons laid their
hands on its head. 15 Moses slaughtered the bull and took some of the
blood, and with his finger he put it on all the horns of the altar to purify the
altar. He poured out the rest of the blood at the base of the altar. So he
consecrated it to make atonement for it.
16
Moses
also took all the fat around the inner parts, the covering of the liver, and
both kidneys and their fat, and burned it on the altar. 17 But the
bull with its hide and its flesh and its offal he burned up outside the camp, as
the LORD commanded Moses.
18He
then presented the ram for the burnt offering, and Aaron and his sons laid their
hands on its head. 19 Then Moses slaughtered the ram and sprinkled
the blood against the altar on all sides. 20 He cut the ram into
pieces and burned the head, the pieces and the fat. 21 He washed the
inner parts and the legs with water and burned the whole ram on the altar as a
burnt offering, a pleasing aroma, an offering made to the LORD by fire, as the
LORD commanded Moses.
22
He
then presented the other ram, the ram for the ordination, and Aaron and his sons
laid their hands on its head. 23 Moses slaughtered the ram and took
some of its blood and put it on the lobe of Aaron's right ear, on the thumb of
his right hand and on the big toe of his right foot. 24 Moses also
brought Aaron's sons forward and put some of the blood on the lobes of their
right ears, on the thumbs of their right hands and on the big toes of their
right feet. Then he sprinkled blood against the altar on all sides. 25
He took the fat, the fat tail, all the fat around the inner parts, the
covering of the liver, both kidneys and their fat and the right thigh. 26
Then from the basket of bread made without yeast, which was before the
LORD, he took a cake of bread, and one made with oil, and a wafer; he put these
on the fat portions and on the right thigh. 27 He put all these in
the hands of Aaron and his sons and waved them before the LORD as a wave
offering. 28 Then Moses took them from their hands and burned them on
the altar on top of the burnt offering as an ordination offering, a pleasing
aroma, an offering made to the LORD by fire. 29 He also took the
breast--Moses' share of the ordination ram--and waved it before the LORD as a
wave offering, as the LORD commanded Moses.
30
Then
Moses took some of the anointing oil and some of the blood from the altar and
sprinkled them on Aaron and his garments and on his sons and their garments. So
he consecrated Aaron and his garments and his sons and their garments.
31
Moses
then said to Aaron and his sons, "Cook the meat at the entrance to the Tent of
Meeting and eat it there with the bread from the basket of ordination offerings,
as I commanded, saying, A `Aaron and his sons are to eat it.' 32
Then burn up the rest of the meat and the bread. 33 Do not
leave the entrance to the Tent of Meeting for seven days, until the days of your
ordination are completed, for your ordination will last seven days. 34
What has been done today was commanded by the LORD to make atonement for
you. 35 You must stay at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting day and
night for seven days and do what the LORD requires, so you will not die; for
that is what I have been commanded." 36 So Aaron and his sons did
everything the LORD commanded through Moses. [12]
9
1
On
the eighth day Moses summoned Aaron and his sons and the elders of Israel.
2
He
said to Aaron, "Take a bull calf for your sin offering and a ram for your burnt
offering, both without defect, and present them before the LORD. 3
Then say to the Israelites: `Take a male goat for a sin offering, a calf
and a lamb--both a year old and without defect--for a burnt offering, 4
and an ox A and a ram for a fellowship offering B to
sacrifice before the LORD, together with a grain offering mixed with oil. For
today the LORD will appear to you.'"
5
They
took the things Moses commanded to the front of the Tent of Meeting, and the
entire assembly came near and stood before the LORD. 6 Then Moses
said, "This is what the LORD has commanded you to do, so that the glory of the
LORD may appear to you." [13]
NEW
TESTAMENT: MARK 3:31 -
4:25
31
Then
Jesus' mother and brothers arrived. Standing outside, they sent someone in to
call him. 32 A crowd was sitting around him, and they told him, "Your
mother and brothers are outside looking for you."
33
"Who are my mother and my brothers?" he asked.
34
Then
he looked at those seated in a circle around him and said, "Here are my mother and my brothers!
35 Whoever does God's will is my brother
and sister and mother."
4
1
Again
Jesus began to teach by the lake. The crowd that gathered around him was so
large that he got into a boat and sat in it out on the lake, while all the
people were along the shore at the water's edge. 2 He taught them
many things by parables, and in his teaching said: 3 "Listen! A farmer went out to sow his seed.
4 As he
was scattering the seed, some fell along the path, and the birds came and ate it
up. 5 Some fell on rocky places, where it did not have much soil.
It sprang up quickly, because the soil was shallow. 6 But when the sun
came up, the plants were scorched, and they withered because they had no
root. 7 Other seed fell among thorns, which grew up and choked the
plants, so that they did not bear grain. 8
Still other seed fell on good soil. It
came up, grew and produced a crop, multiplying thirty, sixty, or even a hundred
times."
9
Then
Jesus said, "He who has ears to hear, let him
hear."
10
When
he was alone, the Twelve and the others around him asked him about the parables.
11 He told them, "The secret of the kingdom
of God has been given to you. But to those on the outside everything is said in
parables 12 so that,
"`they may be ever seeing but never perceiving,
and
ever hearing but never understanding;
otherwise
they might turn and be forgiven!' A"
13
Then
Jesus said to them, "Don't you understand this
parable? How then will you understand any parable? 14 The farmer sows the word. 15 Some people are like
seed along the path, where the word is sown. As soon as they hear it, Satan
comes and takes away the word that was sown in them. 16 Others, like seed
sown on rocky places, hear the word and at once receive it with joy.
17 But
since they have no root, they last only a short time. When trouble or
persecution comes because of the word, they quickly fall away.
18 Still
others, like seed sown among thorns, hear the word; 19 but the worries of
this life, the deceitfulness of wealth and the desires for other things come in
and choke the word, making it unfruitful. 20 Others, like seed
sown on good soil, hear the word, accept it, and produce a crop--thirty, sixty
or even a hundred times what was sown."
21
He
said to them, "Do you bring in a lamp to put it under
a bowl or a bed? Instead, don't you put it on its stand? 22 For whatever is
hidden is [14] meant to be disclosed, and whatever is concealed is meant
to be brought out into the open. 23
If anyone has ears to hear, let him
hear."
24
"Consider carefully what you hear," he continued.
"With the measure you use, it will be measured to
you--and even more.
25
Whoever
has will be given more; whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken
from him."
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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
