JULY 2
PSALMS: 2, 32, 62, 92, 122
PROVERBS: 2
OLD TESTAMENT: ISAIAH 37:1 - 38:22
NEW TESTAMENT: GALATIANS 6:1 - 18
PSALMS: 2
1 Why are the nations in an uproar,
the peoples grumbling in vain?
2 The earth's kings are taking positions,
leaders conspiring together,
against ADONAI and his anointed.
3 They cry, "Let's break their fetters!
Let's throw off their chains!"
4 He who sits in heaven laughs;
Adonai looks at them in derision.
5 Then in his anger he rebukes them,
terrifies them in his fury.
6 "I myself have installed my king on Tziyon,
my holy mountain."
7 "I will proclaim the decree:
ADONAI said to me,
'You are my son;
today I became your father.
8 Ask of me, and I will make the nations your inheritance;
the whole wide world will be your possession.
9 You will break them with an iron rod,
shatter them like a clay pot.'"
10 Therefore, kings, be wise;
be warned, you judges of the earth.
11 Serve ADONAI with fear;
rejoice, but with trembling.
12 Kiss the son, lest he be angry,
and you perish along the way,
when suddenly his anger blazes.
How blessed are all who take refuge in him.
PSALMS: 32
1 By David.
A maskil:
How blessed are those whose offense is forgiven,
those whose sin is covered!
2 How blessed those to whom ADONAI imputes no guilt,
in whose spirit is no deceit!
3 When I kept silent,
my bones wasted away because of my groaning all day long;
4 day and night your hand was heavy on me;
the sap in me dried up as in a summer drought.
(Selah)
5 When I acknowledged my sin to you,
when I stopped concealing my guilt,
and said, "I will confess my offenses to ADONAI";
then you, you forgave the guilt of my sin. (Selah)
6 This is what everyone faithful should pray at a time when you can be found.
Then, when the floodwaters are raging, they will not reach to him.
7 You are a hiding-place for me, you will keep me from distress;
you will surround me with songs of deliverance. (Selah)
8 "I will instruct and teach you in this way that you are to go;
I will give you counsel;
my eyes will be watching you."
9 Don't be like a horse or mule that has no understanding,
that has to be curbed with bit and bridle,
or else it won't come near you.
10 Many are the torments of the wicked,
but grace surrounds those who trust in ADONAI.
11 Be glad in ADONAI;
rejoice, you righteous!
Shout for joy, all you upright in heart!
PSALMS: 62
1 For the leader.
Set in the style of Y'dutun.
A psalm of David:
My soul waits in silence for God alone;
my salvation comes from him.
2 He alone is my rock and salvation, my stronghold;
I won't be greatly moved.
3 How long will you assail a person in order to murder him, all of you,
as if he were a sagging wall or a shaky fence?
4 They only want to shake him from his height,
they take delight in lying with their mouths they bless, but inwardly they curse.
(Selah)
5 My soul, wait in silence for God alone,
because my hope comes from him.
6 He alone is my rock and salvation, my stronghold;
I won't be moved.
7 My safety and honor rest on God.
My strong rock and refuge are in God.
8 Trust in him, people, at all times;
pour out your heart before him;
God is a refuge for us. (Selah)
9 Ordinary folks are merely a breath and important people a sham;
if you lay them on a balance-scale, they go up both together are lighter than nothing.
10 Don't put your trust in extortion, don't put false hopes in robbery;
even if wealth increases, don't set your heart on it.
11 God has spoken once, I have heard it twice:
strength belongs to God.
12 Also to you, Adonai, belongs grace;
for you reward all as their deeds deserve.
PSALMS: 92
1 A psalm.
A song for Shabbat:
It is good to give thanks to ADONAI and sing praises to your name, 'Elyon,
2 to tell in the morning about your grace and at night about your faithfulness,
3 to the music of a ten-stringed [harp] and a lute,
with the melody sounding on a lyre.
4 For, ADONAI, what you do makes me happy;
I take joy in what your hands have made.
5 How great are your deeds, ADONAI!
How very deep your thoughts!
6 Stupid people can't know, fools don't understand,
7 that when the wicked sprout like grass, and all who do evil prosper,
it is so that they can be eternally destroyed,
8 while you, ADONAI, are exalted forever.
9 For your enemies, ADONAI, your enemies will perish;
all evildoers will be scattered.
10 But you have given me the strength of a wild bull;
you anoint me with fresh olive oil.
11 My eyes have gazed with pleasure on my enemies' ruin,
my ears have delighted in the fall of my foes.
12 The righteous will flourish like a palm tree,
they will grow like a cedar in the L'vanon.
13 Planted in the house of ADONAI,
they will flourish in the courtyards of our God.
14 Even in old age they will be vigorous,
still full of sap, still bearing fruit,
15 proclaiming that ADONAI is upright, my Rock,
in whom there is no wrong.
PSALMS: 122
1 A song of ascents.
By David: I was glad when they said to me,
"The house of ADONAI! Let's go!"
2 Our feet were already standing at your gates, Yerushalayim.
3 Yerushalayim, built as a city fostering friendship and unity.
4 The tribes have gone up there, the tribes of ADONAI,
as a witness to Isra'el, to give thanks to the name of ADONAI.
5 For there the thrones of justice were set up,
the thrones of the house of David.
6 Pray for shalom in Yerushalayim;
may those who love you prosper.
7 May shalom be within your ramparts,
prosperity in your palaces.
8 For the sake of my family and friends,
I say, "Shalom be within you!"
9 For the sake of the house of ADONAI our God,
I will seek your well-being.
PROVERBS: 2
1 My son, if you will receive my words and
store my commands inside you,
2 paying attention to wisdom inclining
your mind toward understanding
3 yes, if you will call for insight and
raise your voice for discernment,
4 if you seek it as you would silver and
search for it as for hidden treasure -
5 then you will understand the fear of ADONAI and find knowledge of God.
6 For ADONAI gives wisdom;
from his mouth comes knowledge and understanding.
7 He stores up common sense for the upright,
is a shield to those whose conduct is blameless,
8 in order to guard the courses of justice and preserve
the way of those faithful to him.
9 Then you will understand righteousness,
justice, fairness and every good path.
10 For wisdom will enter your heart,
knowledge will be enjoyable for you,
11 discretion will watch over you,
and discernment will guard you.
12 They will save you from the way of evil and
from those who speak deceitfully,
13 who leave the paths of honesty
to walk the ways of darkness,
14 who delight in doing evil and
take joy in being stubbornly deceitful,
15 from those whose tracks are twisted and
whose paths are perverse.
16 They will save you from a woman who is a stranger,
from a loose woman with smooth talk,
17 who abandons the ruler she had in her youth and
forgets the covenant of her God.
18 Her house is sinking toward death,
her paths lead to the dead.
19 None who go to her return;
they never regain the path to life.
20 Thus you will walk on the way of good people
and keep to the paths of the righteous.
21 For the upright will live in the land,
the pure-hearted will remain there;
22 but the wicked will be cut off from the land,
the unfaithful rooted out of it.
OLD TESTAMENT: ISAIAH 37:1 - 38:22
37:1 It happened, when king Hizkiyahu heard it, that he tore his clothes, and covered himself with sackcloth, and went into the house of the LORD. 2 He sent Elyakim, who was over the household, and Shevna the Sofer, and the Zakenim of the Kohanim, covered with sackcloth, to Yesha`yahu the prophet the son of Amotz. 3 They said to him, Thus says Hizkiyahu, This day is a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and of rejection; for the children have come to the birth, and there is no strength to bring forth. 4 It may be the LORD your God will hear the words of Ravshakeh, whom the king of Ashshur his master has sent to defy the living God, and will rebuke the words which the LORD your God has heard. Therefore lift up your prayer for the remnant that is left. 5 So the servants of king Hizkiyahu came to Yesha`yahu. 6 Yesha`yahu said to them, Thus shall you tell your master, Thus says the LORD, Don't be afraid of the words that you have heard, with which the servants of the king of Ashshur have blasphemed me. 7Behold, I will put a spirit in him, and he shall hear news, and shall return to his own land; and I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land. 8 So Ravshakeh returned, and found the king of Ashshur warring against Livna; for he had heard that he was departed from Lakhish. 9 He heard say concerning Tirhakah king of Kush, He is come out to fight against you. When he heard it, he sent messengers to Hizkiyahu, saying, 10 Thus shall you speak to Hizkiyahu king of Yehudah, saying, Don't let your God in whom you trust deceive you, saying, Yerushalayim shall not be given into the hand of the king of Ashshur. 11 Behold, you have heard what the kings of Ashshur have done to all lands, by destroying them utterly: and shall you be delivered? 12 Have the gods of the nations delivered them, which my fathers have destroyed, Gozan, and Haran, and Retzef, and the children of `Eden who were in Telassar? 13 Where is the king of Hamat, and the king of Arpad, and the king of the city of Sefarvayim, of Hena, and `Ivvah? 14 Hizkiyahu received the letter from the hand of the messengers, and read it; and Hizkiyahu went up to the house of the LORD, and spread it before the LORD. 15 Hizkiyahu prayed to the LORD, saying, 16 LORD of hosts, the God of Yisra'el, who sits [above] the Keruvim, you are the God, even you alone, of all the kingdoms of the eretz; you have made heaven and eretz. 17 Turn your ear, LORD, and hear; open your eyes, LORD, and behold; and hear all the words of Sancheriv, who has sent to defy the living God. 18 Of a truth, LORD, the kings of Ashshur have laid waste all the countries, and their land, 19 and have cast their gods into the fire: for they were no gods, but the work of men's hands, wood and stone; therefore they have destroyed them. 20 Now therefore, LORD our God, save us from his hand, that all the kingdoms of the eretz may know that you are the LORD, even you only. 21 Then Yesha`yahu the son of Amotz sent to Hizkiyahu, saying, Thus says the LORD, the God of Yisra'el, Whereas you have prayed to me against Sancheriv king of Ashshur, 22 this is the word which the LORD has spoken concerning him: The virgin daughter of Tziyon has despised you and laughed you to scorn; the daughter of Yerushalayim has shaken her head at you. 23 Whom have you defied and blasphemed? and against whom have you exalted your voice and lifted up your eyes on high? [even] against the Holy One of Yisra'el. 24 By your servants have you defied the Lord, and have said, With the multitude of my chariots am I come up to the height of the mountains, to the innermost parts of Levanon; and I will cut down the tall cedars of it, and the choice fir trees of it; and I will enter into its farthest height, the forest of its fruitful field; 25 I have dug and drunk water, and with the sole of my feet will I dry up all the rivers of Mitzrayim. 26 Have you not heard how I have done it long ago, and formed it of ancient times? now have I brought it to pass, that it should be your to lay waste fortified cities into ruinous heaps. 27 Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were dismayed and confounded; they were as the grass of the field, and as the green herb, as the grass on the housetops, and as a field [of grain] before it is grown up. 28 But I know your sitting down, and your going out, and your coming in, and your raging against me. 29 Because of your raging against me, and because your arrogance is come up into my ears, therefore will I put my hook in your nose, and my bridle in your lips, and I will turn you back by the way by which you came. 30 This shall be the sign to you: you shall eat this year that which grows of itself, and in the second year that which springs of the same; and in the third year sow you, and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat the fruit of it. 31 The remnant that is escaped of the house of Yehudah shall again take root downward, and bear fruit upward. 32 For out of Yerushalayim shall go forth a remnant, and out of Mount Tziyon those who shall escape. The zeal of the LORD of Hosts will perform this. 33 Therefore thus says the LORD concerning the king of Ashshur, He shall not come to this city, nor shoot an arrow there, neither shall he come before it with shield, nor cast up a mound against it. 34 By the way that he came, by the same shall he return, and he shall not come to this city, says the LORD. 35 For I will defend this city to save it, for my own sake, and for my servant David's sake.36 The angel of the LORD went forth, and struck in the camp of the Ashshur one hundred and eighty-five thousand; and when men arose early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies. 37 So Sancheriv king of Ashshur departed, and went and returned, and lived at Nineveh. 38 It happened, as he was worshipping in the house of Nisrokh his god, that Adrammelekh and Sar'etzer his sons struck him with the sword; and they escaped into the land of Ararat. Esar-Haddon his son reigned in his place.
angel of the LORD went forth, and struck in the camp of the Ashshur one hundred and eighty-five thousand; and when men arose early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies. 37 So Sancheriv king of Ashshur departed, and went and returned, and lived at Nineveh. 38 It happened, as he was worshipping in the house of Nisrokh his god, that Adrammelekh and Sar'etzer his sons struck him with the sword; and they escaped into the land of Ararat. Esar-Haddon his son reigned in his place.
38:1 In those days was Hizkiyahu sick to death. Yesha`yahu the prophet the son of Amotz came to him, and said to him, Thus says the LORD, Set your house in order; for you shall die, and not live. 2 Then Hizkiyahu turned his face to the wall, and prayed to the LORD, 3 and said, Remember now, the LORD, I beg you, how I have walked before you in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in your sight. Hizkiyahu wept sore. 4 Then came the word of the LORD to Yesha`yahu, saying, 5Go, and tell Hizkiyahu, Thus says the LORD, the God of David your father, I have heard your prayer, I have seen your tears: behold, I will add to your days fifteen years. 6 I will deliver you and this city out of the hand of the king of Ashshur; and I will defend this city. 7 This shall be the sign to you from the LORD, that the LORD will do this thing that he has spoken: 8 behold, I will cause the shadow on the steps, which is gone down on the dial of Achaz with the sun, to return backward ten steps. So the sun returned ten steps on the dial whereon it was gone down. 9 The writing of Hizkiyahu king of Yehudah, when he had been sick, and was recovered of his sickness. 10 I said, In the noontide of my days I shall go into the gates of She'ol: I am deprived of the residue of my years. 11 I said, I shall not see the LORD, the LORD in the land of the living: I shall see man no more with the inhabitants of the world. 12 My dwelling is removed, and is carried away from me as a shepherd's tent: I have rolled up, like a weaver, my life; he will cut me off from the loom: From day even to night will you make an end of me. 13 I quieted [myself] until morning; as a lion, so he breaks all my bones: From day even to night will you make an end of me. 14 Like a swallow [or] a crane, so did I chatter; I did moan as a dove; my eyes fail [with looking] upward: Lord, I am oppressed, be my collateral. 15 What shall I say? he has both spoken to me, and himself has done it: I shall go softly all my years because of the bitterness of my soul. 16 Lord, by these things men live; Wholly therein is the life of my spirit: You restore me, and cause me to live. 17 Behold, [it was] for [my] shalom [that] I had great bitterness: But you have in love to my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption; For you have cast all my sins behind your back. 18 For She'ol can't praise you, death can't celebrate you: Those who go down into the pit can't hope for your truth. 19 The living, the living, he shall praise you, as I do this day: The father to the children shall make known your truth. 20 The LORD is [ready] to save me: Therefore we will sing my songs with stringed instruments All the days of our life in the house of the LORD. 21 Now Yesha`yahu had said, Let them take a cake of figs, and lay it for a plaster on the boil, and he shall recover. 22 Hizkiyahu also had said, What is the sign that I shall go up to the house of the LORD?
NEW TESTAMENT: GALATIANS 6:1 - 18
6:1 Brothers, even if a man is caught in some fault, you who are spiritual must restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness; looking to yourself so that you also aren't tempted.
2 Bear one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Messiah.
3 For if a man thinks himself to be something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.
4 But let each man test his own work, and then he will take pride in himself and not in his neighbor.
5 For each man will bear his own burden.
6 But let him who is taught in the word share all good things with him who teaches.
7 Don't be deceived. God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that will he also reap.
8 For he who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption. But he who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.
9 Let us not be weary in doing good, for we will reap in due season, if we don't give up.
10So then, as we have opportunity, let us work that which is good toward all men, and especially toward those who are of the household of the faith.
11 See with what large letters I write to you with my own hand.
12 As many as desire to look good in the flesh, they compel you to be circumcised; only that they may not be persecuted for the cross of Messiah.
13 For even they who receive circumcision don't keep the law themselves, but they desire to have you circumcised, that they may boast in your flesh.
14 But far be it from me to boast, except in the cross of our Lord Yeshua the Messiah, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.
15 For in Messiah Yeshua neither is circumcision anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new creation.
16 As many as will walk by this rule, shalom and mercy be on them, and on God's Yisra'el.
17 From now on, let no one cause me any trouble, for I bear the marks of the Lord Yeshua branded on my body.
18 The grace of our Lord Yeshua the Messiah be with your spirit, brothers. 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
