Genesis 1:1 1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
JULY
17
PSALMS:
17, 47, 77, 107, 137
PROVERBS:
16
OLD
TESTAMENT:
JEREMIAH 6:16 - 8:7
NEW
TESTAMENT:
COLOSSIANS 2:8 - 23
PSALMS:
17
1 Hear,
LORD, my righteous plea;
Give
ear to my prayer, that doesn't go out of deceitful lips.
2 Let
my sentence come forth from your presence;
Let
your eyes look on equity.
3 You
have proved my heart;
you
have visited me in the night;
You
have tried me, and found nothing;
I
have resolved that my mouth shall not disobey.
4 As
for the works of men,
by
the word of your lips I have kept myself from the ways of the
violent.
5 My
steps have held fast to your paths,
My
feet have not slipped.
6 I
have called on you, for you will answer me, God:
Turn
your ear to me.
Hear
my speech.
7 Show
your marvelous loving kindness,
You
who save those who take refuge by
your
right hand from their enemies.
8 Keep
me as the apple of your eye;
Hide
me under the shadow of your wings,
9 From
the wicked who oppress me,
My
deadly enemies, who compass me about.
10 They
close up their callous hearts.
With
their mouth they speak proudly.
11 They
have now surrounded us in our steps.
They
set their eyes to cast us down to the eretz.
12 He
is like a lion that is greedy of his prey,
As
it were a young lion lurking in secret places.
13 Arise,
LORD, Confront him, cast him down.
Deliver
my soul from the wicked by your sword;
14 From
men by your hand, LORD,
From
men of the world, whose portion is in this life,
Whose
belly you fill with your treasure:
They
are satisfied with children,
Leave
the rest of their substance to their babes.
15 As
for me, I shall see your face in righteousness;
I
shall be satisfied, when I awake, with seeing your form.
PSALMS:
47
1 Oh
clap your hands, all you nations.
Shout
to God with the voice of triumph!
The
people of the God of Avraham.
For
the shields of the eretz belong to God.
He
is greatly exalted!
PSALMS:
77
1 My
cry goes to God! Indeed,
I
cry to God for help,
And
for him to listen to me.
My
hand was stretched out in the night, and didn't get tired.
My
soul refused to be comforted.
16 The
waters saw you, God.
The
waters saw you, and they writhed.
The
depths also convulsed.
17 The
clouds poured out water.
The
skies resounded with thunder.
Your
arrows also flashed around.
18 The
voice of your thunder was in the whirlwind.
The
lightnings lit up the world.
The
eretz trembled and shook.
19 Your
way was through the sea;
Your
paths through the great waters.
Your
footsteps were not known.
20 You
led your people like a flock,
By
the hand of Moshe and Aharon.
PSALMS:
107
1 Give
thanks to the LORD,
For
he is good,
For
his loving kindness endures forever.
For
his wonderful works to the children of men!
21 Let
them praise the LORD for his loving kindness,
For
his wonderful works to the children of men!
22 Let
them offer the sacrifices of thanksgiving,
And
declare his works with singing.
23 Those
who go down to the sea in ships,
Who
do business in great waters;
24
These
see the LORD's works,
And
his wonders in the deep.
25 For
he commands, and raises the stormy wind,
Which
lifts up its waves.
26 They
mount up to the sky;
they
go down again to the depths.
Their
soul melts away because of trouble.
27 They
reel back and forth, and stagger like a drunken man,
And
are at their wits' end.
28
Then
they cry to the LORD in their trouble,
He
brings them out of their distress.
29 He
makes the storm a calm,
So
that its waves are still.
30 Then
are they glad because it is calm,
So
he brings them to their desired haven.
31 Let
them praise the LORD for his loving kindness,
For
his wonderful works to the children of men!
32 Let
them exalt him also in the assembly of the people,
And
praise him in the seat of the Zakenim.
33 He
turns rivers into a desert,
Water
springs into a thirsty ground,
34 And
a fruitful land into a salt waste,
For
the wickedness of those who dwell in it.
35 He
turns a desert into a pool of water,
And
a dry land into water springs.
36 There
he makes the hungry to live,
That
they may prepare a city to live in,
37
Sow fields, plant vineyards,
And
reap the fruits of increase.
38 He
blesses them also, so that they are multiplied greatly.
He
doesn't allow their cattle to decrease.
39 Again,
they are diminished and bowed down
Through
oppression, trouble, and sorrow.
40 He
pours contempt on princes,
And
causes them to wander in a trackless waste.
41 Yet
he lifts the needy out of their affliction,
And
increases their families like a flock.
42 The
upright will see it, and be glad.
All
the wicked will shut their mouths.
43 Whoever
is wise will pay attention to these things.
They
will consider the loving
kindnesses
of the LORD.
PSALMS:
137
1 By
the rivers of Bavel, there we sat down.
Yes,
we wept, when we remembered Tziyon.
Those
who tormented us demanded songs of joy:
"Sing
us one of the songs of Tziyon!"
If
I don't remember you;
If
I don't prefer Yerushalayim above my chief joy.
The
day of Yerushalayim;
Who
said, "Raze it! Raze it even to its foundation!"
He
will be happy who rewards you,
As
you have served us.
PROVERBS:
17
1 Better
is a dry morsel with quietness,
Than
a house full of feasting with strife.
And
shall have a part in the inheritance among the brothers.
Therefore
stop contention before quarreling breaks out.
Both
of them alike are an abomination to the LORD.
And
becomes collateral in the presence of his neighbor.
And
one who has a deceitful tongue falls into trouble.
But
the eyes of a fool wander to the ends of the eretz.
When
he shuts his lips, he is thought to be discerning.
OLD
TESTAMENT:
JEREMIAH 6:16 - 8:7
6:16 Thus
says the LORD, Stand you in the ways and see, and ask for the old
paths, where is the good way; and walk therein, and you shall find
rest for your souls: but they said, We will not walk [therein]. 17 I
set watchmen over you, [saying], Listen to the sound of the shofar;
but they said, We will not listen. 18
Therefore
hear, you nations, and know, congregation, what is among
them. 19 Hear,
eretz: behold, I will bring evil on this people, even the fruit of
their thoughts, because they have not listened to my words; and as
for my law, they have rejected it. 20
To
what purpose comes there to me frankincense from Sheva, and the
sweet cane from a far country? your burnt offerings are not
acceptable, nor your sacrifices pleasing to me. 21 Therefore
thus says the LORD, Behold, I will lay stumbling-blocks before this
people; and the fathers and the sons together shall stumble against
them; the neighbor and his friend shall perish. 22 Thus
says the LORD, Behold, a people comes from the north country; and a
great nation shall be stirred up from the uttermost parts of the
eretz. 23 They
lay hold on bow and spear; they are cruel, and have no mercy; their
voice roars like the sea, and they ride on horses, everyone set in
array, as a man to the battle, against you, daughter of
Tziyon. 24 We
have heard the report of it; our hands wax feeble: anguish has taken
hold of us, [and] pangs as of a woman in travail. 25 Don't
go forth into the field, nor walk by the way; for the sword of the
enemy, [and] terror, are on every side. 26
Daughter
of my people, gird you with sackcloth, and wallow yourself in ashes:
make you mourning, as for an only son, most bitter lamentation; for
the destroyer shall suddenly come on us. 27 I
have made you a tester of metals [and] a fortress among my people;
that you may know and try their way. 28
They
are all grievous rebels, going about with slanders; they are brass
and iron: they all of them deal corruptly. 29 The
bellows blow fiercely; the lead is consumed of the fire: in vain do
they go on refining; for the wicked are not plucked away. 30
Refuse
silver shall men them, because the LORD has rejected them.
7:1 The
word that came to Yirmeyahu from the LORD, saying, 2 Stand
in the gate of the LORD's house, and proclaim there this word, and
say, Hear the word of the LORD, all you of Yehudah, who enter in at
these gates to worship the LORD. 3 Thus
says the LORD of Hosts, the God of Yisra'el, Amend your ways and
your doings, and I will cause you to dwell in this place. 4 Don't
you trust in lying words, saying, The temple of the LORD, the temple
of the LORD, the temple of the LORD, are these. 5 For
if you thoroughly amend your ways and your doings; if you thoroughly
execute justice between a man and his neighbor; 6 if
you don't oppress the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow, and
don't shed innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other
gods to your own hurt: 7 then
will I cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to
your fathers, from of old even forevermore. 8 Behold,
you trust in lying words, that can't profit. 9 Will
you steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn
incense to Ba`al, and walk after other gods that you have not
known, 10 and
come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name,
and say, We are delivered; that you may do all these abominations?
11 Is
this house, which is called by my name, become a den of robbers in
your eyes? Behold, I, even I, have seen it, says the LORD. 12 But
go you now to my place which was in Shiloh, where I caused my name
to dwell at the first, and see what I did to it for the wickedness
of my people Yisra'el. 13 Now,
because you have done all these works, says the LORD, and I spoke to
you, rising up early and speaking, but you didn't hear; and I called
you, but you didn't answer: 14 therefore
will I do to the house which is called by my name, in which you
trust, and to the place which I gave to you and to your fathers, as
I did to Shiloh. 15 I
will cast you out of my sight, as I have cast out all your brothers,
even the whole seed of Efrayim. 16 Therefore
don't you pray for this people, neither lift up a cry nor prayer for
them, neither make intercession to me; for I will not hear
you. 17 Don't
you see what they do in the cities of Yehudah and in the streets of
Yerushalayim? 18 The
children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women
knead the dough, to make cakes to the queen of the sky, and to pour
out drink-offerings to other gods, that they may provoke me to
anger. 19 Do
they provoke me to anger? says the LORD; [do they] not [provoke]
themselves, to the confusion of their own faces? 20 Therefore
thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, my anger and my wrath shall be
poured out on this place, on man, and on animal, and on the trees of
the field, and on the fruit of the ground; and it shall burn, and
shall not be quenched. 21 Thus
says the LORD of Hosts, the God of Yisra'el: Add your burnt
offerings to your sacrifices, and eat you flesh. 22 For
I didn't speak to your fathers, nor command them in the day that I
brought them out of the land of Mitzrayim, concerning burnt
offerings or sacrifices: 23 but
this thing I commanded them, saying, Listen to my voice, and I will
be your God, and you shall be my people; and walk you in all the way
that I command you, that it may be well with you. 24
But
they didn't listen nor turn their ear, but walked in [their own]
counsels [and] in the stubbornness of their evil heart, and went
backward, and not forward. 25 Since
the day that your fathers came forth out of the land of Mitzrayim to
this day, I have sent to you all my servants the prophets, daily
rising up early and sending them: 26 yet
they didn't listen to me, nor inclined their ear, but made their
neck stiff: they did worse than their fathers. 27 You
shall speak all these words to them; but they will not listen to
you: you shall also call to them; but they will not answer
you. 28 You
shall tell them, This is the nation that has not listened to the
voice of the LORD their God, nor received instruction: truth is
perished, and is cut off from their mouth. 29 Cut
off your hair, [Yerushalayim], and cast it away, and take up a
lamentation on the bare heights; for the LORD has rejected and
forsaken the generation of his wrath. 30 For
the children of Yehudah have done that which is evil in my sight,
says the LORD: they have set their abominations in the house which
is called by my name, to defile it. 31 They
have built the high places of Tofet, which is in the valley of the
son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire;
which I didn't command, neither came it into my mind. 32 Therefore,
behold, the days come, says the LORD, that it shall no more be
called Tofet, nor The valley of the son of Hinnom, but The valley of
Slaughter: for they shall bury in Tofet, until there be no place [to
bury]. 33 The
dead bodies of this people shall be food for the birds of the sky,
and for the animals of the eretz; and none shall frighten them
away. 34 Then
will I cause to cease from the cities of Yehudah, and from the
streets of Yerushalayim, the voice of mirth and the voice of
gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride;
for the land shall become a waste.
8:1 At
that time, says the LORD, they shall bring out the bones of the
kings of Yehudah, and the bones of his princes, and the bones of the
Kohanim, and the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the
inhabitants of Yerushalayim, out of their graves; 2
and
they shall spread them before the sun, and the moon, and all the
host of the sky, which they have loved, and which they have served,
and after which they have walked, and which they have sought, and
which they have worshiped: they shall not be gathered, nor be
buried, they shall be for dung on the surface of the eretz. 3 Death
shall be chosen rather than life by all the residue that remain of
this evil family, that remain in all the places where I have driven
them, says the LORD of Hosts. 4 Moreover
you shall tell them, Thus says the LORD: Shall men fall, and not
rise up again? Shall one turn away, and not return? 5 Why
then is this people of Yerushalayim slidden back by a perpetual
backsliding? they hold fast deceit, they refuse to return. 6 I
listened and heard, but they didn't speak aright: no man repents him
of his wickedness, saying, What have I done? everyone turns to his
course, as a horse that rushes headlong in the battle. 7
Yes,
the khasidah in the sky knows her appointed times; and the
turtle-dove and the swallow and the crane observe the time of their
coming; but my people don't know the law of the LORD.
NEW
TESTAMENT:
COLOSSIANS 2:8 - 23
2:8 Be
careful that you don't let anyone rob you through his philosophy and
vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the elements of the
world, and not after Messiah.
9 For
in him all the fullness of the Godhead dwells bodily,
10 and
in him you are made full, who is the head of all principality and
power;
11 in
whom you were also circumcised with a circumcision not made with
hands, in the putting off of the body of the sins of the flesh, in
the circumcision of Messiah;
12 having
been buried with him in immersion, in which you were also raised
with him through faith in the working of God, who raised him from
the dead.
13 You
were dead through your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your
flesh. He made you alive together with him, having forgiven us all
our trespasses;
14 having
blotted out the bond written in ordinances that was against us,
which was contrary to us: and he has taken it out that way, nailing
it to the cross;
15 having
stripped the principalities and the powers, he made a show of them
openly, triumphing over them in it.
16 Let
no man therefore judge you in eating, or in drinking, or with
respect to a feast day or a new moon or Shabbat,
17 which
are a shadow of the things to come; but the body is Messiah's.
18 Let
no man rob you of your prize by a voluntary humility and worshipping
of the angels, dwelling in the things which he has not seen, vainly
puffed up by his fleshly mind,
19 and
not holding firmly to the Head, from whom all the body, being
supplied and knit together through the joints and ligaments, grows
with God's growth.
20 If
you died with Messiah from the elements of the world, why, as though
living in the world, do you subject yourselves to ordinances,
21 "Don't
handle, nor taste, nor touch"
22 (all
which things are to perish with the using), after the precepts and
doctrines of men?
23 Which
things indeed appear like wisdom in self-imposed worship, and
humility, and severity to the body; but aren't of any value against
the indulgence of the flesh.
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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