Genesis 1:1 1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
AUGUST
30
PSALMS:
30, 60, 90, 120, 150
PROVERBS:
30
OLD
TESTAMENT:
EZEKIEL 39:1 - 40:27
NEW
TESTAMENT:
JAMES 2:18 - 3:18
PSALMS:
30
1 I
will extol you, LORD, for you have raised me up,
And
have not made my foes to rejoice over me.
2 LORD
my God, I cried to you, and you have healed me.
3 LORD,
you have brought up my soul from She'ol.
You
have kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.
4 Sing
praise to the LORD, you holy ones of his.
Give
thanks to his holy name.
5 For
his anger is but for a moment;
His
favor is for a lifetime.
Weeping
may stay for the night,
But
joy comes in the morning.
6 As
for me, I said in my prosperity, "I shall never be moved."
7 You,
LORD, when you favored me, made my mountain to stand strong.
But
when you hid your face, I was troubled.
8 I
cried to you, LORD.
To
the LORD I made supplication:
9 "What
profit is there in my destruction, if I go down to the pit?
Shall
the dust praise you?
Shall
it declare your truth?
10 Hear,
LORD, and have mercy on me. LORD, be my helper."
11 You
have turned my mourning into dancing for me.
You
have removed my sackcloth, and clothed me with gladness,
12 To
the end that my heart may sing praise to you, and not be silent.
LORD
my God, I will give thanks to you forever.
PSALMS:
60
1 God,
you have rejected us.
You
have broken us down.
You
have been angry.
Restore
us to you, again.
That
it may be displayed because of the truth.
Selah.
"I
will triumph.
I
will divide Shekhem,
And
measure out the valley of Sukkot.
Efrayim
also is the defense of my head.
Yehudah
is my scepter.
PSALMS:
90
1 Lord,
you have been our dwelling place In all generations.
Or
ever you had formed the eretz and the world,
Even
from everlasting to everlasting, you are God.
Or
even by reason of strength eighty years;
Yet
their pride is but labor and sorrow,
For
it passes quickly, and we fly away.
13 Relent,
LORD! How long?
Have
compassion on your servants.
14 Satisfy
us in the morning with your loving kindness,
That
we may rejoice and be glad all our days.
15 Make
us glad for as many days as you have afflicted us,
For
as many years as we have seen evil.
16 Let
your work appear to your servants;
Your
glory to their children.
17 Let
the favor of the Lord our God be on us;
Establish
the work of our hands for us;
Yes,
establish the work of our hands.
PSALMS:
120
1 The
LORD says to my Lord, "Sit at my right hand,
Until
I make your enemies your footstool for your feet."
Rule
in the midst of your enemies.
In
holy array.
Out
of the womb of the morning,
you
have the dew of your youth.
"You
are a Kohen forever in the order of Malki-Tzedek."
He
will heap up dead bodies.
He
will crush the ruler of the whole eretz.
PSALMS:
150
1 Deliver
me, LORD, from the evil man.
Preserve
me from the violent man;
Preserve
me from the violent men:
Who
have determined to trip my feet.
They
have spread the cords of a net by the path.
They
have set traps for me. Selah.
Don't
let their evil plans succeed,
or
they will become proud.
Selah.
Let
them be thrown into the fire,
Into
miry pits, from where they never rise.
Evil
will hunt the violent man to overthrow him.
PROVERBS:
30
1 The
words of Agur the son of Yakeh, the oracle:
The
man says to 'Iti'el, To 'Iti'el and Ucal:
Who
has gathered the wind in his fists?
Who
has bound the waters in his garment?
Who
has established all the ends of the eretz? ‘
What
is his name, and what is his son's name, if you know?
Give
me neither poverty nor riches.
Feed
me with the food that is needful for me;
'Who
is the LORD?'
Or
lest I be poor, and steal,
And
so dishonor the name of my God.
And
their jaws like knives,
To
devour the poor from the eretz,
and
the needy from among men.
'Give,
give.'
"There
are three things that are never satisfied;
Four
that don't say, 'Enough:'
The
eretz that is not satisfied with water;
The
fire that doesn't say, 'Enough;'
And
scorns obedience to his mother:
The
ravens of the valley shall pick it out,
The
young eagles shall eat it.
18 "There
are three things which are too amazing for me,
Four
which I don't understand:
19 The
way of an eagle in the air;
The
way of a serpent on a rock;
The
way of a ship in the midst of the sea;
And
the way of a man with a maiden.
20 So
is the way of an adulterous woman:
She
eats and wipes her mouth,
And
says, 'I have done nothing wrong.'
21 "For
three things the eretz tremble,
And
under four, it can't bear up:
22 For
a servant when he is king;
A
fool when he is filled with food;
23 For
an unloved woman when she is married;
And
a handmaid who is heir to her mistress.
24 "There
are four things which are little on the eretz,
But
they are exceeding wise:
25 The
ants are not a strong people,
Yet
they provide their food in the summer;
26 The
conies are but a feeble folk,
Yet
make they their houses in the rocks;
27 The
locusts have no king,
Yet
they advance in ranks;
28 You
can catch a lizard with your hands,
Yet
she is in kings' palaces.
29 "There
are three things which are stately in their march,
Four
which are stately in going:
30
The
lion, which is mightiest among animals,
And
doesn't turn away for any;
31 The
greyhound, the male goat also;
And
the king against whom there is no rising up.
32 "If
you have done foolishly in lifting up yourself,
Or
if you have thought evil,
Put
your hand over your mouth.
33 For
as the churning of milk brings forth butter,
And
the wringing of the nose brings forth blood;
OLD
TESTAMENT:
EZEKIEL 39:1 - 40:27
39:1 You,
son of man, prophesy against Gog, and say, Thus says the Lord GOD:
Behold, I am against you, Gog, prince of Rosh, Meshekh, and
Tuval: 2 and
I will turn you about, and will lead you on, and will cause you to
come up from the uttermost parts of the north; and I will bring you
on the mountains of Yisra'el; 3 and
I will strike your bow out of your left hand, and will cause your
arrows to fall out of your right hand. 4 You
shall fall on the mountains of Yisra'el, you, and all your hordes,
and the peoples who are with you: I will give you to the ravenous
birds of every sort, and to the animals of the field to be
devoured. 5 You
shall fall on the open field; for I have spoken it, says the Lord
GOD. 6 I
will send a fire on Magog, and on those who dwell securely in the
isles; and they shall know that I am the LORD. 7
My
holy name will I make known in the midst of my people Yisra'el;
neither will I allow my holy name to be profaned any more: and the
nations shall know that I am the LORD, the Holy One in Yisra'el. 8
Behold,
it comes, and it shall be done, says the Lord GOD; this is the day
whereof I have spoken. 9 Those
who dwell in the cities of Yisra'el shall go forth, and shall make
fires of the weapons and burn them, both the shields and the
bucklers, the bows and the arrows, and the war clubs, and the spears,
and they shall make fires of them seven years; 10 so
that they shall take no wood out of the field, neither cut down any
out of the forests; for they shall make fires of the weapons; and
they shall plunder those who plundered them, and rob those who robbed
them, says the Lord GOD. 11 It
shall happen in that day, that I will give to Gog a place for burial
in Yisra'el, the valley of those who pass through on the east of the
sea; and it shall stop those who pass through: and there shall they
bury Gog and all his multitude; and they shall call it The valley of
Hamon-Gog. 12 Seven
months shall the house of Yisra'el be burying them, that they may
cleanse the land. 13 Yes,
all the people of the land shall bury them; and it shall be to them a
renown in the day that I shall be glorified, says the Lord
GOD. 14 They
shall set apart men of continual employment, who shall pass through
the land, and, with those who pass through, those who bury those who
remain on the surface of the land, to cleanse it: after the end of
seven months shall they search. 15 Those
who pass through the land shall pass through; and when any sees a
man's bone, then shall he set up a sign by it, until the undertakers
have buried it in the valley of Hamon-Gog. 16 Hamonah
shall also be the name of a city. Thus shall they cleanse the
land. 17
You, son of man, thus says the Lord GOD: Speak to the birds of every
sort, and to every animal of the field, Assemble yourselves, and
come; gather yourselves on every side to my sacrifice that I do
sacrifice for you, even a great sacrifice on the mountains of
Yisra'el, that you may eat flesh and drink blood. 18 You
shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the princes
of the eretz, of rams, of lambs, and of goats, of bulls, all of them
fatlings of Bashan. 19 You
shall eat fat until you be full, and drink blood until you be
drunken, of my sacrifice which I have sacrificed for you. 20 You
shall be filled at my table with horses and chariots, with mighty
men, and with all men of war, says the Lord GOD. 21 I
will set my glory among the nations; and all the nations shall see my
judgment that I have executed, and my hand that I have laid on
them. 22
So
the house of Yisra'el shall know that I am the LORD their God, from
that day and forward. 23 The
nations shall know that the house of Yisra'el went into captivity for
their iniquity; because they trespassed against me, and I hid my face
from them: so I gave them into the hand of their adversaries, and
they fell all of them by the sword. 24 According
to their uncleanness and according to their transgressions did I to
them; and I hid my face from them. 25 Therefore
thus says the Lord GOD: Now will I bring back the captivity of
Ya`akov, and have mercy on the whole house of Yisra'el; and I will be
jealous for my holy name. 26 They
shall bear their shame, and all their trespasses whereby they have
trespassed against me, when they shall dwell securely in their land,
and none shall make them afraid; 27 when
I have brought them back from the peoples, and gathered them out of
their enemies' lands, and am sanctified in them in the sight of many
nations. 28 They
shall know that I am the LORD their God, in that I caused them to go
into captivity among the nations, and have gathered them to their own
land; and I will leave none of them any more there; 29 neither
will I hide my face any more from them; for I have poured out my
Spirit on the house of Yisra'el, says the Lord GOD.
40:1 In
the five and twentieth year of our captivity, in the beginning of the
year, in the tenth [day] of the month, in the fourteenth year after
that the city was struck, in the same day, the hand of the LORD was
on me, and he brought me there. 2 In
the visions of God brought he me into Eretz-Yisra'el, and set me down
on a very high mountain, whereon was as it were the frame of a city
on the south. 3 He
brought me there; and, behold, there was a man, whose appearance was
like the appearance of brass, with a line of flax in his hand, and a
measuring reed; and he stood in the gate. 4 The
man said to me, Son of man, see with your eyes, and hear with your
ears, and set your heart on all that I shall show you; for, to the
intent that I may show them to you, are you brought here: declare all
that you see to the house of Yisra'el. 5 Behold,
a wall on the outside of the house round about, and in the man's hand
a measuring reed six cubits long, of a cubit and a handbreadth each:
so he measured the thickness of the building, one reed; and the
height, one reed. 6 Then
came he to the gate which looks toward the east, and went up the
steps of it: and he measured the threshold of the gate, one reed
broad; and the other threshold, one reed broad. 7
Every lodge was one reed long, and one reed broad; and [the space]
between the lodges was five cubits; and the threshold of the gate by
the porch of the gate toward the house was one reed. 8
He
measured also the porch of the gate toward the house, one
reed. 9 Then
measured he the porch of the gate, eight cubits; and the posts of it,
two cubits; and the porch of the gate was toward the house. 10
The
lodges of the gate eastward were three on this side, and three on
that side; they three were of one measure: and the posts had one
measure on this side and on that side. 11 He
measured the breadth of the opening of the gate, ten cubits; and the
length of the gate, thirteen cubits; 12 and
a border before the lodges, one cubit [on this side], and a border,
one cubit on that side; and the lodges, six cubits on this side, and
six cubits on that side. 13 He
measured the gate from the roof of the one lodge to the roof of the
other, a breadth of twenty-five cubits; door against door. 14 He
made also posts, sixty cubits; and the court [reached] to the posts,
round about the gate. 15
[From]
the forefront of the gate at the entrance to the forefront of the
inner porch of the gate were fifty cubits. 16 There
were closed windows to the lodges, and to their posts within the gate
round about, and likewise to the arches; and windows were round about
inward; and on [each] post were palm trees. 17
Then brought he me into the outer court; and, behold, there were
chambers and a pavement, made for the court round about: thirty
chambers were on the pavement. 18 The
pavement was by the side of the gates, answerable to the length of
the gates, even the lower pavement. 19 Then
he measured the breadth from the forefront of the lower gate to the
forefront of the inner court outside, one hundred cubits, [both] on
the east and on the north. 20 The
gate of the outer court whose prospect is toward the north, he
measured the length of it and the breadth of it. 21
The
lodges of it were three on this side and three on that side; and the
posts of it and the arches of it were after the measure of the first
gate: the length of it was fifty cubits, and the breadth twenty-five
cubits. 22 The
windows of it, and the arches of it, and the palm trees of it, were
after the measure of the gate whose prospect is toward the east; and
they went up to it by seven steps; and the arches of it were before
them. 23 There
was a gate to the inner court over against the [other] gate, [both]
on the north and on the east; and he measured from gate to gate one
hundred cubits. 24 He
led me toward the south; and, behold, a gate toward the south: and he
measured the posts of it and the arches of it according to these
measures. 25 There
were windows in it and in the arches of it round about, like those
windows: the length was fifty cubits, and the breadth twenty-five
cubits. 26 There
were seven steps to go up to it, and the arches of it were before
them; and it had palm trees, one on this side, and another on that
side, on the posts of it. 27 There
was a gate to the inner court toward the south: and he measured from
gate to gate toward the south a hundred cubits.
NEW
TESTAMENT:
JAMES 2:18 - 3:18
2:18 Yes,
a man will say, "You have faith, and I have works." Show me
your faith from your works, and I by my works will show you my
faith. 19 You
believe that God is one. You do well. The demons also believe, and
shudder. 20 But
do you want to know, vain man, that faith apart from works is
dead? 21
Wasn't
Avraham, our father, justified by works, in that he offered up
Yitzchak his son on the altar? 22 You
see that faith worked with his works, and by works faith was
perfected; 23 and
the Scripture was fulfilled which says, "Avraham believed God,
and it was accounted to him as righteousness;" and he was called
the friend of God. 24 You
see then that by works, a man is justified, and not only by faith.
25 In
like manner wasn't Rachav the prostitute also justified by works, in
that she received the messengers, and sent them out another way? 26
For
as the body apart from the spirit is dead, even so faith apart from
works is dead.
3:1 Let
not many of you be teachers, my brothers, knowing that we will
receive heavier judgment. 2
For
in many things we all stumble. If anyone doesn't stumble in word, the
same is a perfect man, able to bridle the whole body also. 3 Indeed,
we put bits into the horses' mouths so that they may obey us, and we
turn about their whole body. 4 Behold,
the ships also, though they are so big and are driven by fierce
winds, are yet turned about by a very small rudder, wherever the
pilot desires. 5 So
the tongue is also a little member, and boasts great things. Behold,
how much wood is kindled by how small a fire! 6 And
the tongue is a fire. The world of iniquity among our members is the
tongue, which defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of
nature, and is set on fire by Gehinnom. 7 For
every kind of animal, bird, creeping thing, and thing in the sea, is
tamed, and has been tamed by mankind. 8 But
nobody can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly
poison. 9 With
it we bless our God and Father, and with it we curse men, who are
made in the image of God. 10 Out
of the same mouth comes forth blessing and cursing. My brothers,
these things ought not to be so. 11 Does
a spring send forth from the same opening fresh and bitter
water? 12 Can
a fig tree, my brothers, yield olives, or a vine figs? Thus no spring
yields both salt water and fresh water. 13 Who
is wise and understanding among you? Let him show his deeds done in
gentleness of wisdom by his good life. 14 But
if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your heart, don't
boast and don't lie against the truth. 15
This
wisdom is not that which comes down from above, but is earthly,
sensual, and demonic. 16 For
where jealousy and selfish ambition are, there is confusion and every
evil deed. 17 But
the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceful, gentle,
reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and
without hypocrisy. 18 Now
the fruit of righteousness is sown in shalom by those who make
shalom.
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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