Genesis 1:1 1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
AUGUST
27
PSALMS:
27, 57, 87, 117, 147
PROVERBS:
27
OLD
TESTAMENT:
EZEKIEL 33:1 - 34:31
NEW
TESTAMENT:
HEBREWS 13:1 - 25
Psalms
27
1 The
LORD is my light and my salvation.
Whom
shall I fear?
The
LORD is the strength of my life.
Of
whom shall I be afraid?
2
When
evil-doers came at me to eat up my flesh,
Even
my adversaries and my foes, they stumbled and fell.
3 Though
a host should encamp against me,
My
heart shall not fear.
Though
war should rise against me,
Even
then I will be confident.
4 One
thing have I asked of the LORD, that will I seek after,
That
I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life,
To
see the beauty of the LORD,
And
to inquire in his temple.
5 For
in the day of trouble he will keep me secretly in his pavilion.
In
the covert of his tent will he hide me.
He
will lift me up on a rock.
6 Now
shall my head be lifted up above my enemies around me.
I
will offer sacrifices of joy in his tent.
I
will sing, yes, I will sing praises to the LORD.
7 Hear,
LORD, when I cry with my voice.
Have
mercy also on me, and answer me.
8 When
you said, "Seek my face,"
My
heart said to you,
"I
will seek your face, LORD."
9 Don't
hide your face from me.
Don't
put your servant away in anger.
You
have been my help.
Don't
abandon me, neither forsake me,
God
of my salvation.
10 When
my father and my mother forsake me,
Then
the LORD will take me up.
11 Teach
me your way, LORD.
Lead
me in a straight path, because of my enemies.
12 Don't
deliver me over to the desire of my adversaries,
For
false witnesses have risen up against me,
Such
as breathe out cruelty.
13
I
am still confident of this:
I
will see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living.
14 Wait
for the LORD.
Be
strong, and let your heart take courage.
Yes,
wait for the LORD.
PSALMS:
57
1 Be
merciful to me, God, be merciful to me,
For
my soul takes refuge in you.
Yes,
in the shadow of your wings,
I
will take refuge,
Until
disaster has passed.
He
rebukes the one who is pursuing me.
Selah.
God
will send out his loving kindness and his truth.
I
lie among those who are set on fire,
Even
the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows,
And
their tongue a sharp sword.
My
soul is bowed down.
They
dig a pit before me.
They
fall into the midst of it themselves.
Selah.
Behold,
Peleshet, Tzor, and also Kush:
"This
one was born there."
"This
one and that one was born in her;"
The
Elyon himself will establish her.
PSALMS:
117
1 Praise
the LORD, all you nations!
Extol
him, all you peoples!
The
LORD's faithfulness endures forever.
Praise
the LORD!
PSALMS:
147
1 Praise
the LORD,
For
it is good to sing praises to our God;
For
it is pleasant and fitting to praise him.
Who
prepares rain for the eretz,
Who
makes grass grow on the mountains.
15 He
sends out his mitzvah on eretz.
His
word runs very swiftly.
16 He
gives snow like wool,
And
scatters frost like ashes.
17
He hurls down his hail like pebbles.
Who
can stand before his cold?
18 He
sends out his word, and melts them.
He
causes his wind to blow, and the waters flow.
19 He
shows his word to Ya`akov;
His
statutes and his ordinances to Yisra'el.
20 He
has not done this for any nation;
They
don't know his ordinances.
Praise
the LORD!
PROVERBS:
27
1 Don't
boast about tomorrow;
For
you don't know what a day may bring forth.
Don't
go to your brother's house in the day of your disaster:
Better
is a neighbor who is near than a distant brother.
It
will be taken as a curse by him.
21 The
crucible is for silver,
And
the furnace for gold;
But
man is refined by his praise.
22 Though
you grind a fool in a mortar with a pestle along with grain,
Yet
his foolishness will not be removed from him.
23 Know
well the state of your flocks,
And
pay attention to your herds:
24 For
riches are not forever,
Nor
does even the crown endure to all generations.
25 The
hay is removed, and the new growth appears,
The
grasses of the hills are gathered in.
26 The
lambs are for your clothing,
And
the goats are the price of a field.
27
There
will be plenty of goats' milk for your food,
For
your family's food,
And
for the nourishment of your servant girls.
OLD
TESTAMENT:
EZEKIEL 33:1 - 34:31
33:1 The
word of the LORD came to me, saying, 2 Son
of man, speak to the children of your people, and tell them, When I
bring the sword on a land, and the people of the land take a man
from among them, and set him for their watchman; 3 if,
when he sees the sword come on the land, he blow the shofar, and
warn the people; 4 then
whoever hears the sound of the shofar, and doesn't take warning, if
the sword come, and take him away, his blood shall be on his own
head. 5 He
heard the sound of the shofar, and didn't take warning; his blood
shall be on him; whereas if he had taken warning, he would have
delivered his soul. 6 But
if the watchman sees the sword come, and doesn't blow the shofar,
and the people aren't warned, and the sword comes, and take any
person from among them; he is taken away in his iniquity, but his
blood will I require at the watchman's hand. 7
So you, son of man, I have set you a watchman to the house of
Yisra'el; therefore hear the word at my mouth, and give them warning
from me. 8 When
I tell the wicked, O wicked man, you shall surely die, and you don't
speak to warn the wicked from his way; that wicked man shall die in
his iniquity, but his blood will I require at your hand. 9
Nevertheless,
if you warn the wicked of his way to turn from it, and he doesn't
turn from his way; he shall die in his iniquity, but you have
delivered your soul. 10 You,
son of man, tell the house of Yisra'el: Thus you speak, saying, Our
transgressions and our sins are on us, and we pine away in them; how
then can we live? 11 Tell
them, As I live, says the Lord GOD, I have no pleasure in the death
of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live: turn
you, turn you from your evil ways; for why will you die, house of
Yisra'el? 12 You,
son of man, tell the children of your people, The righteousness of
the righteous shall not deliver him in the day of his disobedience;
and as for the wickedness of the wicked, he shall not fall thereby
in the day that he turns from his wickedness; neither shall he who
is righteous be able to live thereby in the day that he
sins. 13 When
I tell the righteous, that he shall surely live; if he trust to his
righteousness, and commit iniquity, none of his righteous deeds
shall be remembered; but in his iniquity that he has committed,
therein shall he die. 14 Again,
when I say to the wicked, You shall surely die; if he turn from his
sin, and do that which is lawful and right; 15 if
the wicked restore the pledge, give again that which he had taken by
robbery, walk in the statutes of life, committing no iniquity; he
shall surely live, he shall not die. 16 None
of his sins that he has committed shall be remembered against him:
he has done that which is lawful and right; he shall surely
live. 17 Yet
the children of your people say, The way of the Lord is not equal:
but as for them, their way is not equal. 18 When
the righteous turns from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, he
shall even die therein. 19 When
the wicked turns from his wickedness, and does that which is lawful
and right, he shall live thereby. 20 Yet
you say, The way of the Lord is not equal. House of Yisra'el, I will
judge you everyone after his ways. 21 It
happened in the twelfth year of our captivity, in the tenth [month],
in the fifth [day] of the month, that one who had escaped out of
Yerushalayim came to me, saying, The city has been struck. 22 Now
the hand of the LORD had been on me in the evening, before he who
was escaped came; and he had opened my mouth, until he came to me in
the morning; and my mouth was opened, and I was no more mute. 23 The
word of the LORD came to me, saying, 24 Son
of man, they who inhabit those waste places in Eretz-Yisra'el speak,
saying, Avraham was one, and he inherited the land: but we are many;
the land is given us for inheritance. 25 Therefore
tell them, Thus says the Lord GOD: You eat with the blood, and lift
up your eyes to your idols, and shed blood: and shall you possess
the land? 26 You
stand on your sword, you work abomination, and you defile everyone
his neighbor's wife: and shall you possess the land? 27
Thus
shall you tell them, Thus says the Lord GOD: As I live, surely those
who are in the waste places shall fall by the sword; and him who is
in the open field will I give to the animals to be devoured; and
those who are in the strongholds and in the caves shall die of the
pestilence. 28 I
will make the land a desolation and an astonishment; and the pride
of her power shall cease; and the mountains of Yisra'el shall be
desolate, so that none shall pass through. 29 Then
shall they know that I am the LORD, when I have made the land a
desolation and an astonishment, because of all their abominations
which they have committed. 30 As
for you, son of man, the children of your people talk of you by the
walls and in the doors of the houses, and speak one to another,
everyone to his brother, saying, Please come and hear what is the
word that comes forth from the LORD. 31 They
come to you as the people comes, and they sit before you as my
people, and they hear your words, but don't do them; for with their
mouth they show much love, but their heart goes after their
gain. 32 Behold,
you are to them as a very lovely song of one who has a pleasant
voice, and can play well on an instrument; for they hear your words,
but they don't do them. 33 When
this comes to pass, (behold, it comes,) then shall they know that a
prophet has been among them.
34:1 The
word of the LORD came to me, saying, 2 Son
of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Yisra'el, prophesy, and
tell them, even to the shepherds, Thus says the Lord GOD: Woe to the
shepherds of Yisra'el who feed themselves! Shouldn't the shepherds
feed the sheep? 3 You
eat the fat, and you clothe you with the wool, you kill the
fatlings; but you don't feed the sheep. 4 You
haven't strengthened the diseased, neither have you healed that
which was sick, neither have you bound up that which was broken,
neither have you brought back that which was driven away, neither
have you sought that which was lost; but with force and with rigor
have you ruled over them.
5
They
were scattered, because there was no shepherd; and they became food
to all the animals of the field, and were scattered. 6 My
sheep wandered through all the mountains, and on every high hill:
yes, my sheep were scattered on all the surface of the eretz; and
there was none who searched or sought. 7 Therefore,
you shepherds, hear the word of the LORD: 8 As
I live, says the Lord GOD, surely because my sheep became a prey,
and my sheep became food to all the animals of the field, because
there was no shepherd, neither did my shepherds search for my sheep,
but the shepherds fed themselves, and didn't fed my sheep; 9
therefore,
you shepherds, hear the word of the LORD: 10 Thus
says the Lord GOD: Behold, I am against the shepherds; and I will
require my sheep at their hand, and cause them to cease from feeding
the sheep; neither shall the shepherds feed themselves any more; and
I will deliver my sheep from their mouth, that they may not be food
for them. 11 For
thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I myself, even I, will search for my
sheep, and will seek them out. 12 As
a shepherd seeks out his flock in the day that he is among his sheep
that are scattered abroad, so will I seek out my sheep; and I will
deliver them out of all places where they have been scattered in the
cloudy and dark day. 13 I
will bring them out from the peoples, and gather them from the
countries, and will bring them into their own land; and I will feed
them on the mountains of Yisra'el, by the watercourses, and in all
the inhabited places of the country. 14 I
will feed them with good pasture; and on the mountains of the height
of Yisra'el shall their fold be: there shall they lie down in a good
fold; and on fat pasture shall they feed on the mountains of
Yisra'el. 15 I
myself will be the shepherd of my sheep, and I will cause them to
lie down, says the Lord GOD. 16 I
will seek that which was lost, and will bring back that which was
driven away, and will bind up that which was broken, and will
strengthen that which was sick: but the fat and the strong I will
destroy; I will feed them in justice. 17
As for you, O my flock, thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I judge
between sheep and sheep, the rams and the male goats. 18 Seems
it a small thing to you to have fed on the good pasture, but you
must tread down with your feet the residue of your pasture? and to
have drunk of the clear waters, but you must foul the residue with
your feet? 19 As
for my sheep, they eat that which you have trodden with your feet,
and they drink that which you have fouled with your feet.
20
Therefore
thus says the Lord GOD to them: Behold, I, even I, will judge
between the fat sheep and the lean sheep. 21 Because
you thrust with side and with shoulder, and push all the diseased
with your horns, until you have scattered them abroad; 22 therefore
will I save my flock, and they shall no more be a prey; and I will
judge between sheep and sheep. 23 I
will set up one shepherd over them, and he shall feed them, even my
servant David; he shall feed them, and he shall be their
shepherd. 24 I,
the LORD, will be their God, and my servant David prince among them;
I, the LORD, have spoken it. 25 I
will make with them a covenant of shalom, and will cause evil
animals to cease out of the land; and they shall dwell securely in
the wilderness, and sleep in the woods. 26 I
will make them and the places round about my hill a blessing; and I
will cause the shower to come down in its season; there shall be
showers of blessing. 27
The
tree of the field shall yield its fruit, and the eretz shall yield
its increase, and they shall be secure in their land; and they shall
know that I am the LORD, when I have broken the bars of their yoke,
and have delivered them out of the hand of those who made slaves of
them. 28 They
shall no more be a prey to the nations, neither shall the animals of
the eretz devour them; but they shall dwell securely, and none shall
make them afraid. 29 I
will raise up to them a plantation for renown, and they shall be no
more consumed with famine in the land, neither bear the shame of the
nations any more. 30 They
shall know that I, the LORD, their God am with them, and that they,
the house of Yisra'el, are my people, says the Lord GOD. 31 You
my sheep, the sheep of my pasture, are men, and I am your God, says
the Lord GOD.
NEW
TESTAMENT:
HEBREWS 13:1 - 25
13:1 Let
brotherly love continue.
2 Don't
forget to show hospitality to strangers, for in doing so, some have
entertained angels without knowing it.
3 Remember
those who are in bonds, as bound with them; and those who are
ill-treated, since you are also in the body.
4 Let
marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled:
but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.
5
Be
free from the love of money, content with such things as you have,
for he has said, "I will in no way leave you, neither will I in
any way forsake you."
6 So
that with good courage we say, "The Lord is my helper. I will
not fear. What will man do to me?"
7 Remember
your leaders, men who spoke to you the word of God, and considering
the results of their conduct, imitate their faith.
8 Yeshua
the Messiah is the same yesterday, today, and forever.
9 Don't
be carried away by various and strange teachings, for it is good
that the heart be established by grace, not by food, through which
those who were so occupied were not benefited.
10 We
have an altar from which those who serve the holy tent have no right
to eat.
11 For
the bodies of those animals, whose blood is brought into the holy
place by the Kohen Gadol as an offering for sin, are burned outside
of the camp.
12 Therefore
Yeshua also, that he might sanctify the people through his own
blood, suffered outside of the gate.
13 Let
us therefore go forth to him outside of the camp, bearing his
reproach.
14 For
we don't have here an enduring city, but we seek that which is to
come.
15 Through
him, then, let us offer up a sacrifice of praise to God continually,
that is, the fruit of lips which make confession to his name.
16 But
don't forget to be doing good and sharing, for with such sacrifices
God is well pleased.
17 Obey
those who have the rule over you, and submit to them, for they watch
on behalf of your souls, as those who will give account, that they
may do this with joy, and not with groaning, for that would be
unprofitable for you.
18 Pray
for us, for we are persuaded that we have a good conscience,
desiring to live honorably in all things.
19 I
strongly urge you to do this, that I may be restored to you sooner.
20 Now
may the God of shalom, who brought again from the dead the great
shepherd of the sheep with the blood of an eternal covenant, our
Lord Yeshua,
21 make
you complete in every good work to do his will, working in you that
which is well pleasing in his sight, through Yeshua the Messiah, to
whom be the glory forever and ever. Amein.
22 But
I exhort you, brothers, endure the word of exhortation, for I have
written to you in few words.
23 Know
that our brother Timothy has been freed, with whom, if he comes
shortly, I will see you.
24 Greet
all of your leaders and all the holy ones. The Italians greet you.
25 Grace
be with you all. Amein.
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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