AUGUST 5
PSALMS: 5
PROVERBS: 5, 35, 65, 95, 125
OLD TESTAMENT: JEREMIAH 48:1 - 49:22
NEW TESTAMENT: 2 TIMOTHY 4:1 - 22
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: JEREMIAH 48:1 - 49:22
48:1 Of Mo'av. Thus says the LORD of Hosts, the God of Yisra'el: Woe to Nevo! for it is laid waste; Kiryatayim is put to shame, it is taken; Misgav is put to shame and broken down. 2 The praise of Mo'av is no more; in Heshbon they have devised evil against her: Come, and let us cut her off from being a nation. You also, Madmen, shall be brought to silence: the sword shall pursue you. 3 The sound of a cry from Horonayim, desolation and great destruction! 4 Mo'av is destroyed; her little ones have caused a cry to be heard. 5 For by the ascent of Luchit with continual weeping shall they go up; for at the descent of Horonayim they have heard the distress of the cry of destruction. 6 Flee, save your lives, and be like the heath in the wilderness. 7 For, because you have trusted in your works and in your treasures, you also shall be taken: and Kemosh shall go forth into captivity, his Kohanim and his princes together. 8 The destroyer shall come on every city, and no city shall escape; the valley also shall perish, and the plain shall be destroyed; as the LORD has spoken. 9 Give wings to Mo'av, that she may fly and get her away: and her cities shall become a desolation, without any to dwell therein. 10 Cursed be he who does the work of the LORD negligently; and cursed be he who keeps back his sword from blood. 11 Mo'av has been at ease from his youth, and he has settled on his lees, and has not been emptied from vessel to vessel, neither has he gone into captivity: therefore his taste remains in him, and his scent is not changed. 12 Therefore, behold, the days come, says the LORD, that I will send to him those who pour off, and they shall pour him off; and they shall empty his vessels, and break their bottles in pieces.
13 Mo'av shall be ashamed of Kemosh, as the house of Yisra'el was ashamed of Beit-El their confidence. 14 How say you, We are mighty men, and valiant men for the war? 15 Mo'av is laid waste, and they are gone up into his cities, and his chosen young men are gone down to the slaughter, says the King, whose name is the LORD of Hosts. 16 The calamity of Mo'av is near to come, and his affliction hurries fast. 17 All you who are round about him, bemoan him, and all you who know his name; say, How is the strong staff broken, the beautiful rod! 18 You daughter who dwells in Divon, come down from your glory, and sit in thirst; for the destroyer of Mo'av is come up against you, he has destroyed your strongholds. 19 Inhabitant of `Aro`er, stand by the way, and watch: ask him who flees, and her who escapes; say, What has been done? 20 Mo'av is put to shame; for it is broken down: wail and cry; tell you it by the Arnon, that Mo'av is laid waste. 21 Judgment is come on the plain country, on Holon, and on Yahtzah, and on Mefa`at, 22 and on Divon, and on Nevo, and on Beit-Divlatayim, 23 and on Kiryatayim, and on Beit-Gamul, and on Beit-Me`on, 24 and on Keriyot, and on Botzrah, and on all the cities of the land of Mo'av, far or near. 25 The horn of Mo'av is cut off, and his arm is broken, says the LORD. 26 Make you him drunken; for he magnified himself against the LORD: and Mo'av shall wallow in his vomit, and he also shall be in derision. 27 For wasn't Yisra'el a derision to you? was he found among thieves? for as often as you speak of him, you wag the head. 28 You inhabitants of Mo'av, leave the cities, and dwell in the rock; and be like the dove that makes her nest over the mouth of the abyss. 29 We have heard of the pride of Mo'av, [that] he is very proud; his loftiness, and his pride, and his arrogance, and the haughtiness of his heart. 30 I know his wrath, says the LORD, that it is nothing; his boastings have worked nothing. 31 Therefore will I wail for Mo'av; yes, I will cry out for all Mo'av: for the men of Kir-Heres shall they mourn. 32 With more than the weeping of Ya`zer will I weep for you, vine of Sivmah: your branches passed over the sea, they reached even to the sea of Ya`zer: on your summer fruits and on your vintage the destroyer is fallen. 33 Gladness and joy is taken away from the fruitful field and from the land of Mo'av; and I have caused wine to cease from the wine presses: none shall tread with shouting; the shouting shall be no shouting. 34 From the cry of Heshbon even to El`aleh, even to Yahatz have they uttered their voice, from Tzo`ar even to Horonayim, to `Eglat, Shelishiyah: for the waters of Nimrim also shall become desolate. 35 Moreover I will cause to cease in Mo'av, says the LORD, him who offers in the high place, and him who burns incense to his gods. 36 Therefore my heart sounds for Mo'av like pipes, and my heart sounds like pipes for the men of Kir-Heres: therefore the abundance that he has gotten is perished. 37 For every head is bald, and every beard clipped: on all the hands are cuttings, and on the loins sackcloth. 38 On all the housetops of Mo'av and in the streets of it there is lamentation every where; for I have broken Mo'av like a vessel in which none delights, says the LORD. 39 How is it broken down! [how] do they wail! how has Mo'av turned the back with shame! so shall Mo'av become a derision and a terror to all who are round about him. 40 For thus says the LORD: Behold, he shall fly as an eagle, and shall spread out his wings against Mo'av. 41 Keriyot is taken, and the strongholds are seized, and the heart of the mighty men of Mo'av at that day shall be as the heart of a woman in her pangs. 42 Mo'av shall be destroyed from being a people, because he has magnified himself against the LORD. 43 Fear, and the pit, and the snare, are on you, inhabitant of Mo'av, says the LORD. 44 He who flees from the fear shall fall into the pit; and he who gets up out of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for I will bring on him, even on Mo'av, the year of their visitation, says the LORD. 45 Those who fled stand without strength under the shadow of Heshbon; for a fire is gone forth out of Heshbon, and a flame from the midst of Sichon, and has devoured the corner of Mo'av, and the crown of the head of the tumultuous ones. 46Woe to you, O Mo'av! the people of Kemosh is undone; for your sons are taken away captive, and your daughters into captivity. 47 Yet will I bring back the captivity of Mo'av in the latter days, says the LORD. Thus far is the judgment of Mo'av.
49:1 Of the children of `Ammon. Thus says the LORD: Has Yisra'el no sons? has he no heir? why then does Malkam possess Gad, and his people well in the cities of it? 2 Therefore, behold, the days come, says the LORD, that I will cause an alarm of war to be heard against Rabbah of the children of `Ammon; and it shall become a desolate heap, and her daughters shall be burned with fire: then shall Yisra'el possess those who did possess him, says the LORD. 3 Wail, Heshbon, for `Ai is laid waste; cry, you daughters of Rabbah, gird you with sackcloth: lament, and run back and forth among the fences; for Malkam shall go into captivity, his Kohanim and his princes together. 4 Why glory you in the valleys, your flowing valley, backsliding daughter? who trusted in her treasures, [saying], Who shall come to me? 5 Behold, I will bring a fear on you, says the Lord, the LORD of Hosts, from all who are round about you; and you shall be driven out every man right forth, and there shall be none to gather together the fugitives. 6 But afterward I will bring back the captivity of the children of `Ammon, says the LORD. 7 Of Edom. Thus says the LORD of Hosts: Is wisdom no more in Teman? is counsel perished from the prudent? is their wisdom vanished? 8 Flee you, turn back, dwell in the depths, inhabitants of Dedan; for I will bring the calamity of Esav on him, the time that I shall visit him. 9 If grape-gatherers came to you, would they not leave some gleaning grapes? if thieves by night, wouldn't they destroy until they had enough? 10 But I have made Esav bare, I have uncovered his secret places, and he shall not be able to hide himself: his seed is destroyed, and his brothers, and his neighbors; and he is no more. 11 Leave your fatherless children, I will preserve them alive; and let your widows trust in me. 12 For thus says the LORD: Behold, they to whom it didn't pertain to drink of the cup shall assuredly drink; and are you he who shall altogether go unpunished? you shall not go unpunished, but you shall surely drink. 13 For I have sworn by myself, says the LORD, that Botzrah shall become an astonishment, a reproach, a waste, and a curse; and all the cities of it shall be perpetual wastes. 14 I have heard news from the LORD, and an ambassador is sent among the nations, [saying], Gather yourselves together, and come against her, and rise up to the battle. 15 For, behold, I have made you small among the nations, and despised among men. 16 As for your terror, the pride of your heart has deceived you, O you who dwell in the clefts of the rock, who hold the height of the hill: though you should make your nest as high as the eagle, I will bring you down from there, says the LORD. 17 Edom shall become an astonishment: everyone who passes by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss at all the plagues of it. 18 As in the overthrow of Sedom and `Amorah and the neighbor cities of it, says the LORD, no man shall dwell there, neither shall any son of man sojourn therein. 19 Behold, he shall come up like a lion from the pride of the Yarden against the strong habitation: for I will suddenly make them run away from it; and whoever is chosen, him will I appoint over it: for who is like me? and who will appoint me a time? and who is the shepherd who will stand before me? 20 Therefore hear the counsel of the LORD, that he has taken against Edom; and his purposes, that he has purposed against the inhabitants of Teman: Surely they shall drag them away, [even] the little ones of the flock; surely he shall make their habitation desolate over them. 21 The eretz trembles at the noise of their fall; there is a cry, the noise whereof is heard in the Sea of Suf.
22 Behold, he shall come up and fly as the eagle, and spread out his wings against Botzrah: and the heart of the mighty men of Edom at that day shall be as the heart of a woman in her pangs.
NEW TESTAMENT: 2 TIMOTHY 4:1 - 22
4:1 I charge you therefore before God and the Lord, Yeshua the Messiah, who will judge the living and the dead at His appearing and His kingdom:
2 preach the word; be urgent in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with all patience and teaching.
3 For the time will come when they will not listen to the sound doctrine, but, having itching ears, will heap up for themselves teachers after their own lusts;
4 and will turn away their ears from the truth, and turn aside to fables.
5 But you be sober in all things, suffer hardship, do the work of an evangelist, and fulfill your ministry.
6 For I am already being offered, and the time of my departure has come.
7 I have fought the good fight. I have finished the course. I have kept the faith.
8 From now on, there is stored up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will give to me at that day; and not to me only, but also to all those who have loved his appearing.
9 Be diligent to come to me soon,
10 for Demas left me, having loved this present world, and went to Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia, and Titus to Dalmatia.
11 Only Luke is with me. Take Mark, and bring him with you, for he is useful to me for ministering.
12 But I sent Tychicus to Ephesus.
13 Bring the cloak that I left at Troas with Carpus, when you come, and the books, especially the parchments.
14 Alexander, the coppersmith, did much evil to me. The Lord will repay him according to his works,
15 of whom you also must beware; for he greatly opposed our words.
16 At my first defense, no one took my part, but all left me. May it not be held against them.
17 But the Lord stood by me, and strengthened me, that through me the message might be fully proclaimed, and that all the Goyim might hear; and I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion.
18 And the Lord will deliver me from every evil work, and will save me to his heavenly kingdom; to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amein.
19 Greet Prisca and Aquila, and the house of Onesiphorus.
20 Erastus remained at Corinth, but I left Trophimus at Miletus sick.
21 Be diligent to come before winter. Eubulus salutes you, as do Pudens, Linus, Claudia, and all the brothers.
22 The Lord, Yeshua the Messiah, be with your spirit. Grace be with you. 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
