NOVEMBER 5
PSALMS: 5
PROVERBS: 5, 35, 65, 95, 125
OLD TESTAMENT: GENESIS 50:1 - EXODUS 2:10
NEW TESTAMENT: MATTHEW 16:13 - 17:9
PSALMS: 5
1 For the leader.
On wind instruments.
A psalm of David:
Give ear to my words,
ADONAI, consider my inmost thoughts.
2 Listen to my cry for help,
my king and my God, for I pray to you.
3 ADONAI, in the morning you will hear my voice;
in the morning I lay my needs before you and wait expectantly.
4 For you are not a God who takes pleasure in wickedness;
evil cannot remain with you.
5 Those who brag cannot stand before your eyes,
you hate all who do evil,
6 you destroy those who tell lies,
ADONAI detests men of blood and deceivers.
7 But I can enter your house because of your great grace and love;
I will bow down toward your holy temple in reverence for you.
8 Lead me, ADONAI, in your righteousness
because of those lying in wait for me;
make your way straight before me.
9 For in their mouths there is nothing sincere,
within them are calamities, their throats are open tombs,
they flatter with their tongues.
10 God, declare them guilty!
Let them fall through their own intrigues,
For their many crimes, throw them down;
since they have rebelled against you.
11 But let all who take refuge in you rejoice,
let them forever shout for joy!
Shelter them;
and they will be glad,
those who love your name.
12 For you, ADONAI, bless the righteous;
you surround them with favor like a shield.
PSALMS: 35
1 By David: ADONAI, oppose those who oppose me;
fight against those who fight against me.
2 Grasp your shield and protective gear,
and rise to my defense.
3 Brandish spear and battle-axe against my pursuers;
let me hear you say, "I am your salvation."
4 May those who seek my life be disgraced and put to confusion;
may those who are plotting harm for me be repulsed and put to shame.
5 May they be like chaff before the wind,
with the angel of ADONAI to drive them on.
6 May their way be dark and slippery,
with the angel of ADONAI to pursue them.
7 For unprovoked, they hid their net over a pit;
unprovoked, they dug it for me.
8 May destruction come over him unawares.
May the net he concealed catch himself;
may he fall into it and be destroyed.
9 Then I will be joyful in ADONAI,
I will rejoice in his salvation.
10 All my bones will say, "Who is like you?
Who can rescue the weak from those stronger than they,
the poor and needy from those who exploit them?"
11 Malicious witnesses come forward,
asking me things about which I know nothing.
12 They repay me evil for good;
it makes me feel desolate as a parent bereaved.
13 But I, when they were ill, wore sackcloth;
I put myself out and fasted;
I can pray that what I prayed for them might also happen to me.
14 I behaved as I would for my friend or my brother;
I bent down in sorrow as if mourning my mother.
15 But when I stumble, they gather in glee;
they gather against me and strike me unawares;
they tear me apart unceasingly.
16 With ungodly mocking and grimacing,
they grind their teeth at me.
17 Adonai, how much longer will you look on?
Rescue me from their assaults, save the one life I have from the lions!
18 I will give you thanks in the great assembly,
I will give you praise among huge crowds of people.
19 Don't let those who are wrongfully my enemies gloat over me;
and those who hate me unprovoked -don't let them smirk at me.
20 For they don't speak words of peace but devise ways
to deceive the peaceful of the land.
21 They shout to accuse me,
"Aha! Aha! we saw you with our own eyes!"
22 You saw them, ADONAI;
don't stay silent.
Adonai, don't stay far away from me.
23 Wake up! Get up, my God, my Lord!
Defend me and my cause!
24 Give judgment for me, ADONAI, my God,
as your righteousness demands.
Don't let them gloat over me.
25 Don't let them say to themselves,
"Aha! We got what we wanted!"
or say, "We swallowed them up!"
26 May those who gloat over my distress be disgraced and humiliated.
May those who aggrandize themselves at my expense be covered
with shame and confusion.
27 But may those who delight in my righteousness
shout for joy and be glad!
Let them say always, "How great is ADONAI,
who delights in the peace of his servant!
"Then my tongue will tell of your righteousness
and praise you all day long.
PSALMS: 65
1 For the leader. A psalm of David.
A song: To you, God, in Tziyon, silence is praise;
and vows to you are to be fulfilled.
2 You who listen to prayer,
to you all living creatures come.
3 When deeds of wickedness overwhelm me,
you will atone for our crimes.
4 How blessed are those you choose and bring near,
so that they can remain in your courtyards!
We will be satisfied with the goodness of your house,
the Holy Place of your temple.
5 It is just that you answer us with awesome deeds,
God of our salvation, you in whom all put their trust,
to the ends of the earth and on distant seas.
6 By your strength you set up the mountains.
You are clothed with power.
7 You still the roaring of the seas,
their crashing waves, and the peoples' turmoil.
8 This is why those living at the ends of the earth stand in awe of your signs.
The places where the sun rises and sets you cause to sing for joy.
9 You care for the earth and water it, you enrich it greatly;
with the river of God, full of water,
you provide them grain and prepare the ground.
10 Soaking its furrows and settling its soil,
you soften it with showers and bless its growth.
11 You crown the year with your goodness,
your tracks overflow with richness.
12The desert pastures drip water,
the hills are wrapped with joy,
13 the meadows are clothed with flocks and the valleys blanketed with grain,
so they shout for joy and break into song.
PSALMS: 95
1 Come, let's sing to ADONAI!
Let's shout for joy to the Rock of our salvation!
2 Let's come into his presence with thanksgiving;
let's shout for joy to him with songs of praise.
3 For ADONAI is a great God,
a great king greater than all gods.
4 He holds the depths of the earth in his hands;
the mountain peaks too belong to him.
5 The sea is his - he made it -and
his hands shaped the dry land.
6 Come, let's bow down and worship;
let's kneel before ADONAI who made us.
7 For he is our God, and we are the people in his pasture, the sheep in his care.
If only today you would listen to his voice:
8 "Don't harden your hearts, as you did at M'rivah,
as you did on that day at Massah in the desert,
9 when your fathers put me to the test;
they challenged me, even though they saw my work.
10 For forty years I loathed that generation;
I said, 'This is a people whose hearts go astray,
they don't understand how I do things.'
11 Therefore I swore in my anger
that they would not enter my rest."
PSALMS: 125
1 A song of ascents:
Those who trust in ADONAI are like Mount Tziyon,
which cannot be moved but remains forever.
2 Yerushalayim!
Mountains all around it!
Thus ADONAI is around his people henceforth and forever.
3 For the scepter of wickedness will not rule the inheritance of the righteous,
so that the righteous will not themselves turn their hands to evil.
4 Do good, ADONAI, to the good, to those upright in their hearts.
5 But as for those who turn aside to their own crooked ways,
may ADONAI turn them away, along with those who do evil.
Shalom on Isra'el!
PROVERBS: 5
1 My son, pay attention to my wisdom;
incline your ear to my understanding;
2 so that you will preserve discretion
and your lips keep watch over knowledge.
3 For the lips of a woman who is a stranger drop honey,
her mouth is smoother than oil;
4 but in the end she is as bitter as wormwood,
sharp as a double-edged sword.
5 Her feet go down to death, her steps lead straight to Sh'ol;
6she doesn't walk the level path of life -her course wanders all over,
but she doesn't know it.
7 So now, children, listen to me;
don't turn away from what I am saying:
8 distance your way from her,
stay far from the door of her house;
9 so that you won't give your vigor to others
and your years to someone who is cruel,
10 so strangers won't be filled with your strength
and what you worked for go to a foreign house.
11 Then, when your flesh and bones have shrunk,
at the end of your life, you would moan,
12 "How I hated discipline!
My whole being despised reproof,
13 I ignored what my teachers said,
I didn't listen to my instructors.
14 I took part in almost every kind of evil,
and the whole community knew it."
15 Drink the water from your own cistern,
fresh water from your own well.
16 Let what your springs produce be dispersed outside,
streams of water flowing in the streets;
17 but let them be for you alone
and not for strangers with you.
18 Let your fountain, the wife of your youth, be blessed;
find joy in her
19 a lovely deer, a graceful fawn;
let her breasts satisfy you at all times,
always be infatuated with her love.
20 My son, why be infatuated with an unknown woman?
Why embrace the body of a loose woman?
21 For ADONAI is watching a man's ways;
he surveys all his paths.
22 A wicked person's own crimes will trap him,
he will be held fast by the ropes of his sin.
23 He will die from lack of discipline;
the magnitude of his folly will make him totter and fall.
OLD TESTAMENT: GENESIS 50:1 - EXODUS 2:10
50:1 Yosef fell on his father's face, wept on him, and kissed him.
2 Yosef commanded his servants, the physicians, to embalm his father; and the physicians embalmed Yisra'el.
3 Forty days were fulfilled for him, for that is how many the days it takes to embalm. The Mitzrim wept for him for seventy days.
4 When the days of weeping for him were past, Yosef spoke to the house of Par`oh, saying, "If now I have found favor in your eyes, please speak in the ears of Par`oh, saying,
5 'My father made me swear, saying, "Behold, I am dying. Bury me in my grave which I have dug for myself in the land of Kana`an." Now therefore, please let me go up and bury my father, and I will come again.'"
6 Par`oh said, "Go up, and bury your father, just like he made you swear."
7 Yosef went up to bury his father; and with him went up all the servants of Par`oh, the Zakenim of his house, all the Zakenim of the land of Mitzrayim,
8 all the house of Yosef, his brothers, and his father's house. Only their little ones, their flocks, and their herds, they left in the land of Goshen.
9 There went up with him both chariots and horsemen. It was a very great company.
10 They came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond the Yarden, and there they lamented with a very great and sore lamentation. He mourned for his father seven days.
11 When the inhabitants of the land, the Kana`anim, saw the mourning in the floor of Atad, they said, "This is a grievous mourning by the Mitzrim." Therefore, the name of it was called Avel-Mitzrayim, which is beyond the Yarden.
12 His sons did to him just as he commanded them,
13 for his sons carried him into the land of Kana`an, and buried him in the cave of the field of Makhpelah, which Avraham bought with the field, for a possession of a burying-place, from `Efron the Hittite, before Mamre.
14 Yosef returned into Mitzrayim - he, and his brothers, and all that went up with him to bury his father, after he had buried his father.
15 When Yosef's brothers saw that their father was dead, they said, "It may be that Yosef will hate us, and will fully pay us back for all of the evil which we did to him.
16 They sent a message to Yosef, saying, "Your father commanded before he died, saying,
17 "So will you tell Yosef, 'Now please forgive the disobedience of your brothers, and their sin, because they did evil to you.' Now, please forgive the disobedience of the servants of the God of your father." Yosef wept when they spoke to him.
18 His brothers also went and fell down before his face; and they said, "Behold, we are your servants."
19 Yosef said to them, "Don't be afraid, for am I in the place of God?
20As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save many people alive.
21 Now therefore don't be afraid. I will nourish you and your little ones." He comforted them, and spoke kindly to them.
22 Yosef lived in Mitzrayim, he, and his father's house. Yosef lived one hundred ten years.
23 Yosef saw Efrayim's children to the third generation. The children also of Makhir, the son of Menashsheh, were born on Yosef's knees.
24 Yosef said to his brothers, "I am dying, but God will surely visit you, and bring you up out of this land to the land which he swore to Avraham, to Yitzchak, and to Ya`akov."
25 Yosef took an oath of the children of Yisra'el, saying, "God will surely visit you, and you shall carry up my bones from here."
26 So Yosef died, being one hundred ten years old, and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Mitzrayim.
1:1 Now these are the names of the sons of Yisra'el, who came into Mitzrayim (every man and his household came with Ya`akov): 2 Re'uven, Shim`on, Levi, and Yehudah, 3 Yissakhar, Zevulun, and Binyamin, 4 Dan and Naftali, Gad and Asher. 5 All the souls who came out of the Ya`akov's body were seventy souls, and Yosef was in Mitzrayim already. 6 Yosef died, as did all his brothers, and all that generation. 7 The children of Yisra'el were fruitful, and increased abundantly, and multiplied, and grew exceedingly mighty; and the land was filled with them. 8 Now there arose a new king over Mitzrayim, who didn't know Yosef. 9 He said to his people, "Behold, the people of the children of Yisra'el are more and mightier than we. 10 Come, let us deal wisely with them, lest they multiply, and it happen that when any war breaks out, they also join themselves to our enemies, and fight against us, and escape out of the land." 11 Therefore they set taskmasters over them to afflict them with their burdens. They built storage cities for Par`oh: Pitom and Ra`meses. 12 But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and the more they spread out. They were grieved because of the children of Yisra'el. 13 The Mitzrim ruthlessly made the children of Yisra'el serve, 14 and they made their lives bitter with hard service, in mortar and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field, all their service, in which they ruthlessly made them serve. 15 The king of Mitzrayim spoke to the Hebrew midwives, of whom the name of the one was Shifrah, and the name of the other Pu`ah, 16 and he said, "When you perform the duty of a midwife to the Hebrew women, and see them on the birth stool; if it is a son, then you shall kill him; but if it is a daughter, then she shall live." 17 But the midwives feared God, and didn't do what the king of Mitzrayim commanded them, but saved the baby boys alive. 18 The king of Mitzrayim called for the midwives, and said to them, "Why have you done this thing, and have saved the men-children alive?" 19 The midwives said to Par`oh, "Because the Hebrew women aren't like the Mitzrian women; for they are vigorous, and give birth before the midwife comes to them." 20 God dealt well with the midwives, and the people multiplied, and grew very mighty. 21 It happened, because the midwives feared God, that he gave them families. 22 Par`oh charged all his people, saying, "You shall cast every son who is born into the river, and every daughter you shall save alive."
2:1 A man of the house of Levi went and took a daughter of Levi as his wife. 2 The woman conceived, and bore a son. When she saw that he was a fine child, she hid him three months. 3 When she could no longer hide him, she took a papyrus basket for him, and coated it with tar and with kofer. She put the child in it, and laid it in the reeds by the river's bank. 4 His sister stood far off, to see what would be done to him. 5 Par`oh's daughter came down to bathe at the river. Her maidens walked along by the riverside. She saw the basket among the reeds, and sent her handmaid to get it. 6 She opened it, and saw the child, and, behold, the baby cried. She had compassion on him, and said, "This is one of the Hebrews' children." 7 Then his sister said to Par`oh's daughter, "Should I go and call a nurse for you from the Hebrew women, that she may nurse the child for you?" 8 Par`oh's daughter said to her, "Go." The almah went and called the child's mother. 9 Par`oh's daughter said to her, "Take this child away, and nurse him for me, and I will give you your wages." The woman took the child, and nursed it. 10 The child grew, and she brought him to Par`oh's daughter, and he became her son. She named him Moshe, and said, "Because I drew him out of the water."
NEW TESTAMENT: MATTHEW 16:13 - 17:9
16:13 Now when Yeshua came into the parts of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his talmidim, saying, "Who do men say that I, the Son of Man, am?" 14 They said, "Some say Yochanan the immerser, some, Eliyah, and others, Yirmeyahu, or one of the prophets." 15 He said to them, "But who do you say that I am?" 16 Shim`on Kefa answered, "You are the Messiah, the Son of the living God." 17 Yeshua answered him, "Blessed are you, Shim`on Bar-Yonah, for flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father who is in heaven. 18 I also tell you that you are Kefa, and on this rock I will build my assembly, and the gates of She'ol will not prevail against it. 19 I will give to you the keys of the Kingdom of Heaven, and whatever you will bind on eretz will be bound in heaven; and whatever you will loose on eretz will be loosed in heaven." 20 Then he charged the talmidim that they should tell no man that he is Yeshua the Messiah. 21 From that time, Yeshua began to show to his talmidim that he must go to Yerushalayim and suffer many things from the Zakenim, chief Kohanim, and Sofrim, and be killed, and the third day be raised up. 22 Kefa took him aside, and began to rebuke him, saying, "Far be it from you, Lord! This will never be done to you." 23 But he turned, and said to Kefa, "Get behind me, Hasatan! You are a stumbling-block to me, for you are not setting your mind on the things of God, but the things of men." 24 Then Yeshua said to his talmidim, "If any man desires to come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me. 25 For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, and whoever will lose his life for my sake will find it. 26 For what will it profit a man, if he gains the whole world, and forfeits his life? Or what will a man give in exchange for his life? 27 For the Son of Man will come in the glory of his Father with his angels, and then he will render to everyone according to his deeds. 28 Most assuredly I tell you, there are some standing here who will in no way taste of death, until they see the Son of Man coming in his kingdom."
17:1 After six days, Yeshua took with him Kefa, Ya`akov, and Yochanan, his brother, and brought them up into a high mountain by themselves. 2 He was transfigured before them. His face shone like the sun, and his garments became as white as the light. 3 Behold, there appeared to them Moshe and Eliyah talking with him. 4 Kefa answered, and said to Yeshua, "Lord, it is good for us to be here. If you want, let's make three tents here: one for you, one for Moshe, and one for Eliyah." 5 While he was still speaking, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them. Behold, a voice came out of the cloud, saying, "This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. Listen to him." 6 When the talmidim heard it, they fell on their faces, and were very afraid. 7 Yeshua came and touched them and said, "Get up, and don't be afraid." 8 Lifting up their eyes, they saw no one, except Yeshua alone. 9 As they were coming down from the mountain, Yeshua commanded them, saying, "Don't tell anyone what you saw, until the Son of Man has risen from the dead."
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