Genesis 1:1 1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
AUGUST
23
PSALMS:
23, 53, 83, 113, 143
PROVERBS:
23
OLD
TESTAMENT:
EZEKIEL 24:1 - 26:21
NEW
TESTAMENT:
HEBREWS 11:1 - 16
PSALMS:
23
1 The
LORD is my shepherd:
I
shall lack nothing.
2 He
makes me to lie down in green pastures.
He
leads me beside still waters.
3
He
restores my soul.
He
guides me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake.
4 Even
though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death,
I
will fear no evil, for you are with me.
Your
rod and your staff, they comfort me
5 You
prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies.
You
have anointed my head with oil.
My
cup runs over.
6 Surely
goodness and loving kindness shall follow me all the days of my
life,
And
I shall dwell in the LORD's house forever.
PSALMS:
53
"There
is no God."
They
are corrupt, and have done abominable iniquity.
There
is no one who does good.
To
see if there are any who understood, Who seek after God.
They
have become filthy together.
There
is no one who does good, no, not one.
Who
eat up my people as they eat bread,
And
don't call on God?
For
God has scattered the bones of him who encamps against you.
You
have put them to shame,
Because
God has rejected them.
When
God brings back the captivity of his people,
Then
shall Ya`akov rejoice.
Yisra'el
shall be glad.
That
the name of Yisra'el may be remembered no more."
7 Geval,
`Ammon, and `Amalek;
Peleshet
with the inhabitants of Tzor;
8
Ashshur
also is joined with them.
They
have helped the children of Lot.
Selah.
9 Do
to them as you did to Midyan,
As
to Sisera, as to Yavin, at the river Kishon;
10 Who
perished at `En-Dor,
Who
became as dung for the eretz.
11 Make
their nobles like `Orev and Ze'ev;
Yes,
all their princes like Zevach and Tzalmunnah;
12 Who
said, "Let us take possession
Of
God's pasturelands."
13 My
God, make them like tumbleweed;
Like
chaff before the wind.
14 As
the fire that burns the forest,
As
the flame that sets the mountains on fire,
15 So
pursue them with your tempest,
Terrify
them with your storm.
16 Fill
their faces with confusion,
That
they may seek your name, LORD.
17 Let
them be put to shame and dismayed forever.
Yes,
let them be confounded and perish;
18 That
they may know that you alone, whose name is the LORD,
Are
Ha`Elyon over all the eretz.
PSALMS:
143
Listen
to my petitions.
In
your faithfulness and righteousness, relieve me.
He
has struck my life down to the ground.
He
has made me live in dark places,
as
those who have been long dead.
My
spirit fails.
Don't
hide your face from me,
So
that I don't become like those who go down into the pit.
For
I trust in you.
Cause
me to know the way in which I should walk,
For
I lift up my soul to you.
For
you are my God.
Your
Spirit is good.
Lead
me in the land of uprightness.
And
destroy all those who afflict my soul,
For
I am your servant.
For
it certainly sprouts wings like an eagle and flies in the sky.
"Eat
and drink!" he says to you,
But
his heart is not with you.
19 Listen,
my son, and be wise,
And
keep your heart on the right path
20 Don't
be among ones drinking too much wine,
Or
those who gorge themselves on meat:
21 For
the drunkard and the glutton shall become poor;
And
drowsiness clothes them in rags
22 Listen
to your father who gave you life,
And
don't despise your mother when she is old.
23 Buy
the truth, and don't sell it:
Get
wisdom, discipline, and understanding.
24 The
father of the righteous has great joy.
Whoever
fathers a wise child delights in him.
25 Let
your father and your mother be glad!
Let
her who bore you rejoice!
26 My
son, give me your heart;
And
let your eyes keep in my ways.
27 For
a prostitute is a deep pit;
And
a wayward wife is a narrow well.
28
Yes,
she lies in wait like a robber,
And
increases the unfaithful among men.
29 Who
has woe?
Who
has sorrow?
Who
has strife?
Who
has complaints?
Who
has needless bruises?
Who
has bloodshot eyes?
30 Those
who stay long at the wine;
Those
who go to seek out mixed wine.
31 Don't
look at the wine when it is red,
When
it sparkles in the cup,
When
it goes down smoothly:
32 At
the last it bites like a snake,
And
poisons like a viper.
33 Your
eyes will see strange things,
And
your mind will imagine confusing things.
34 Yes,
you will be as he who lies down in the midst of the sea,
Or
as he who lies on top of the rigging:
35 "They
hit me, and I was not hurt;
They
beat me, and I don't feel it!
When
will I wake up?
I
can do it again.
I
can find another.
OLD
TESTAMENT:
EZEKIEL 24:1 - 26:21
24:1 Again,
in the ninth year, in the tenth month, in the tenth [day] of the
month, the word of the LORD came to me, saying, 2 Son
of man, write you the name of the day, [even] of this same day: the
king of Bavel drew close to Yerushalayim this same day. 3 Utter
a parable to the rebellious house, and tell them, Thus says the Lord
GOD, Set on the caldron, set it on, and also pour water into
it: 4 gather
the pieces of it into it, even every good piece, the thigh, and the
shoulder; fill it with the choice bones. 5 Take
the choice of the flock, and also a pile [of wood] for the bones
under [the caldron]; make it boil well; yes, let the bones of it be
boiled in the midst of it. 6 Therefore
thus says the Lord GOD: Woe to the bloody city, to the caldron whose
rust is therein, and whose rust is not gone out of it! take out of
it piece after piece; No lot is fallen on it. 7 For
her blood is in the midst of her; she set it on the bare rock; she
didn't pour it on the ground, to cover it with dust. 8 That
it may cause wrath to come up to take vengeance, I have set her
blood on the bare rock, that it should not be covered. 9
Therefore
thus says the Lord GOD: Woe to the bloody city! I also will make the
pile great. 10 Heap
on the wood, make the fire hot, boil well the flesh, and make thick
the broth, and let the bones be burned. 11 Then
set it empty on the coals of it, that it may be hot, and the brass
of it may burn, and that the filthiness of it may be molten in it,
that the rust of it may be consumed. 12 She
has wearied [herself] with toil; yet her great rust doesn't go forth
out of her; her rust doesn't [go forth] by fire. 13 In
your filthiness is lewdness: because I have cleansed you and you
weren't cleansed, you shall not be cleansed from your filthiness any
more, until I have caused my wrath toward you to rest. 14 I,
the LORD, have spoken it: it shall happen, and I will do it: I will
not go back, neither will I spare, neither will I repent; according
to your ways, and according to your doings, shall they judge you,
says the Lord GOD. 15
Also
the word of the LORD came to me, saying, 16
Son
of man, behold, I take away from you the desire of your eyes with a
stroke: yet you shall neither mourn nor weep, neither shall your
tears run down.17 Sigh,
but not aloud, make no mourning for the dead; bind your headdress on
you, and put your shoes on your feet, and don't cover your lips, and
don't eat men's bread. 18 So
I spoke to the people in the morning; and at even my wife died; and
I did in the morning as I was commanded. 19 The
people said to me, Won't you tell us what these things are to us,
that you do so? 20 Then
I said to them, The word of the LORD came to me, saying, 21 Speak
to the house of Yisra'el, Thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I will
profane my sanctuary, the pride of your power, the desire of your
eyes, and that which your soul pities; and your sons and your
daughters whom you have left behind shall fall by the sword. 22 You
shall do as I have done: you shall not cover your lips, nor eat the
bread of men. 23 Your
tires shall be on your heads, and your shoes on your feet: you shall
not mourn nor weep; but you shall pine away in your iniquities, and
moan one toward another. 24 Thus
shall Yechezkel be to you a sign; according to all that he has done
shall you do: when this comes, then shall you know that I am the
Lord GOD. 25 You,
son of man, shall it not be in the day when I take from them their
strength, the joy of their glory, the desire of their eyes, and that
whereupon they set their heart, their sons and their
daughters, 26 that
in that day he who escapes shall come to you, to cause you to hear
it with your ears? 27
In
that day shall your mouth be opened to him who is escaped, and you
shall speak, and be no more mute: so shall you be a sign to them;
and they shall know that I am the LORD.
25:1 The
word of the LORD came to me, saying, 2 Son
of man, set your face toward the children of `Ammon, and prophesy
against them: 3 and
tell the children of `Ammon, Hear the word of the Lord GOD: Thus
says the Lord GOD, Because you said, Aha, against my sanctuary, when
it was profaned; and against Eretz-Yisra'el, when it was made
desolate; and against the house of Yehudah, when they went into
captivity: 4 therefore,
behold, I will deliver you to the children of the east for a
possession, and they shall set their encampments in you, and make
their dwellings in you; they shall eat your fruit, and they shall
drink your milk. 5 I
will make Rabbah a stable for camels, and the children of `Ammon a
couching-place for flocks: and you shall know that I am the
LORD. 6 For
thus says the Lord GOD: Because you have clapped your hands, and
stamped with the feet, and rejoiced with all the despite of your
soul against Eretz-Yisra'el; 7 therefore,
behold, I have stretched out my hand on you, and will deliver you
for a spoil to the nations; and I will cut you off from the peoples,
and I will cause you to perish out of the countries: I will destroy
you; and you shall know that I am the LORD. 8 Thus
says the Lord GOD: Because Mo'av and Se`ir say, Behold, the house of
Yehudah is like all the nations; 9 therefore,
behold, I will open the side of Mo'av from the cities, from his
cities which are on his frontiers, the glory of the country,
Beit-Hayshimot, Ba`al-Me`on, and Kiryatayim, 10 to
the children of the east, [to go] against the children of `Ammon;
and I will give them for a possession, that the children of `Ammon
may not be remembered among the nations. 11 and
I will execute judgments on Mo'av; and they shall know that I am the
LORD. 12 Thus
says the Lord GOD: Because Edom has dealt against the house of
Yehudah by taking vengeance, and has greatly offended, and revenged
himself on them; 13 therefore
thus says the Lord GOD, I will stretch out my hand on Edom, and will
cut off man and animal from it; and I will make it desolate from
Teman; even to Dedan shall they fall by the sword. 14 I
will lay my vengeance on Edom by the hand of my people Yisra'el; and
they shall do in Edom according to my anger and according to my
wrath; and they shall know my vengeance, says the Lord GOD. 15 Thus
says the Lord GOD: Because the Pelishtim have dealt by revenge, and
have taken vengeance with despite of soul to destroy with perpetual
enmity; 16 therefore
thus says the Lord GOD, Behold, I will stretch out my hand on the
Pelishtim, and I will cut off the Kereti, and destroy the remnant of
the sea coast. 17 I
will execute great vengeance on them with wrathful rebukes; and they
shall know that I am the LORD, when I shall lay my vengeance on
them.
26:1 It
happened in the eleventh year, in the first [day] of the month, that
the word of the LORD came to me, saying, 2 Son
of man, because Tzor has said against Yerushalayim, Aha, she is
broken: the gate of the peoples; she is turned to me; I shall be
replenished, now that she is laid waste: 3 therefore
thus says the Lord GOD, Behold, I am against you, Tzor, and will
cause many nations to come up against you, as the sea causes its
waves to come up. 4 They
shall destroy the walls of Tzor, and break down her towers: I will
also scrape her dust from her, and make her a bare rock. 5 She
shall be a place for the spreading of nets in the midst of the sea;
for I have spoken it, says the Lord GOD; and she shall become a
spoil to the nations. 6 Her
daughters who are in the field shall be slain with the sword: and
they shall know that I am the LORD. 7
For thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I will bring on Tzor
Nevukhadretztzar king of Bavel, king of kings, from the north, with
horses, and with chariots, and with horsemen, and a company, and
much people. 8 He
shall kill with the sword your daughters in the field; and he shall
make forts against you, and cast up a mound against you, and raise
up the buckler against you. 9 He
shall set his battering engines against your walls, and with his
axes he shall break down your towers. 10 By
reason of the abundance of his horses their dust shall cover you:
your walls shall shake at the noise of the horsemen, and of the
wagons, and of the chariots, when he shall enter into your gates, as
men enter into a city in which is made a breach. 11 With
the hoofs of his horses shall he tread down all your streets; he
shall kill your people with the sword; and the pillars of your
strength shall go down to the ground. 12 They
shall make a spoil of your riches, and make a prey of your
merchandise; and they shall break down your walls, and destroy your
pleasant houses; and they shall lay your stones and your timber and
your dust in the midst of the waters. 13 I
will cause the noise of your songs to cease; and the sound of your
harps shall be no more heard. 14 I
will make you a bare rock; you shall be a place for the spreading of
nets; you shall be built no more: for I the LORD have spoken it,
says the Lord GOD. 15 Thus
says the Lord GOD to Tzor: shall not the isles shake at the sound of
your fall, when the wounded groan, when the slaughter is made in the
midst of you? 16 Then
all the princes of the sea shall come down from their thrones, and
lay aside their robes, and strip off their embroidered garments:
they shall clothe themselves with trembling; they shall sit on the
ground, and shall tremble every moment, and be astonished at
you. 17
They shall take up a lamentation over you, and tell you, How are you
destroyed, who were inhabited by seafaring men, the renowned city,
who was strong in the sea, she and her inhabitants, who caused their
terror to be on all who lived there! 18 Now
shall the isles tremble in the day of your fall; yes, the isles that
are in the sea shall be dismayed at your departure. 19 For
thus says the Lord GOD: When I shall make you a desolate city, like
the cities that are not inhabited; when I shall bring up the deep on
you, and the great waters shall cover you; 20 then
will I bring you down with those who descend into the pit, to the
people of old time, and will make you to dwell in the lower parts of
the eretz, in the places that are desolate of old, with those who go
down to the pit, that you be not inhabited; and I will set glory in
the land of the living: 21 I
will make you a terror, and you shall no more have any being; though
you are sought for, yet shall you never be found again, says the
Lord GOD.
NEW
TESTAMENT: HEBREWS 11:1 - 16
11:1 Now
faith is assurance of things hoped for, proof of things not seen.
2 For
by this, the Zakenim obtained testimony.
3 By
faith, we understand that the universe has been framed by the word
of God, so that what is seen has not been made out of things which
are visible.
4 By
faith, Hevel offered to God a more excellent sacrifice than Kayin,
through which he had testimony given to him that he was righteous,
God bearing witness with respect to his gifts; and through it he,
being dead, still speaks.
5 By
faith, Hanokh was translated, so that he should not see death, and
he was not found, because God translated him. For he has had
testimony given to him that before his translation he had been well
pleasing to God.
6 Without
faith it is impossible to be well pleasing to him, for he who comes
to God must believe that he exists, and that he is a rewarder of
those who seek him.
7 By
faith, Noach, being warned about things not yet seen, moved with
godly fear, prepared a teivah for the saving of his house, through
which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness
which is according to faith.
8 By
faith, Avraham, when he was called, obeyed to go out to the place
which he was to receive for an inheritance. He went out, not knowing
where he went.
9 By
faith, he lived as an alien in the land of promise, as in a land not
his own, dwelling in tents, with Yitzchak and Ya`akov, the heirs
with him of the same promise.
10 For
he looked for the city which has the foundations, whose builder and
maker is God.
11 By
faith, even Sarah herself received power to conceive, and she bore a
child when she was past age, since she counted him faithful who had
promised.
12 Therefore
they were fathered by one, and him as good as dead, as many as the
stars of the sky in multitude, and as innumerable as the sand which
is by the sea shore.
13 These
all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen
them and embraced them from afar, and having confessed that they
were strangers and pilgrims on the eretz.
14 For
those who say such things make it clear that they are seeking after
a country of their own.
15 If
indeed they had been thinking of that country from which they went
out, they would have had enough time to return.
16 But
now they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore
God is not ashamed of them, to be called their God, for he has
prepared a city for them.
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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