Psalm 100-102

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Psalm 100

A psalm. For giving grateful praise.

¹Shout for joy^(A) to the Lord, all the earth.
²    Worship the Lord^(B) with gladness;
    come before him^(C) with joyful songs.
³Know that the Lord is God.^(D)
    It is he who made us,^(E) and we are his^[a];
    we are his people,^(F) the sheep of his pasture.^(G)

⁴Enter his gates with thanksgiving^(H)
    and his courts^(I) with praise;
    give thanks to him and praise his name.^(J)
⁵For the Lord is good^(K) and his love endures forever;^(L)
    his faithfulness^(M) continues through all generations.

Psalm 101

Of David. A psalm.

¹I will sing of your love^(N) and justice;
to you, Lord, I will sing praise.
²I will be careful to lead a blameless life^(O)—
when will you come to me?

I will conduct the affairs^(P) of my house
with a blameless heart.
³I will not look with approval
on anything that is vile.^(Q)

I hate what faithless people do;^(R)
I will have no part in it.
⁴The perverse of heart^(S) shall be far from me;
I will have nothing to do with what is evil.

⁵Whoever slanders their neighbor^(T) in secret,
I will put to silence;
whoever has haughty eyes^(U) and a proud heart,
I will not tolerate.

⁶My eyes will be on the faithful in the land,
that they may dwell with me;
the one whose walk is blameless^(V)
will minister to me.

⁷No one who practices deceit
will dwell in my house;
no one who speaks falsely
will stand in my presence.

⁸Every morning^(W) I will put to silence
all the wicked^(X) in the land;
I will cut off every evildoer^(Y)
from the city of the Lord.^(Z)

Psalm 102^[b]

A prayer of an afflicted person who has grown weak and pours out a lament before the Lord.

¹Hear my prayer,^(AA) Lord;
    let my cry for help^(AB) come to you.
²Do not hide your face^(AC) from me
    when I am in distress.
Turn your ear^(AD) to me;
    when I call, answer me quickly.

³For my days vanish like smoke;^(AE)
    my bones^(AF) burn like glowing embers.
⁴My heart is blighted and withered like grass;^(AG)
    I forget to eat my food.^(AH)
⁵In my distress I groan aloud^(AI)
    and am reduced to skin and bones.
⁶I am like a desert owl,^(AJ)
    like an owl among the ruins.
⁷I lie awake;^(AK) I have become
    like a bird alone^(AL) on a roof.
⁸All day long my enemies^(AM) taunt me;^(AN)
    those who rail against me use my name as a curse.^(AO)
⁹For I eat ashes^(AP) as my food
    and mingle my drink with tears^(AQ)
¹⁰because of your great wrath,^(AR)
    for you have taken me up and thrown me aside.
¹¹My days are like the evening shadow;^(AS)
    I wither^(AT) away like grass.

¹²But you, Lord, sit enthroned forever;^(AU)
    your renown endures^(AV) through all generations.^(AW)
¹³You will arise^(AX) and have compassion^(AY) on Zion,
    for it is time^(AZ) to show favor^(BA) to her;
    the appointed time^(BB) has come.
¹⁴For her stones are dear to your servants;
    her very dust moves them to pity.
¹⁵The nations will fear^(BC) the name of the Lord,
    all the kings^(BD) of the earth will revere your glory.
¹⁶For the Lord will rebuild Zion^(BE)
    and appear in his glory.^(BF)
¹⁷He will respond to the prayer^(BG) of the destitute;
    he will not despise their plea.

¹⁸Let this be written^(BH) for a future generation,
    that a people not yet created^(BI) may praise the Lord:
¹⁹“The Lord looked down^(BJ) from his sanctuary on high,
    from heaven he viewed the earth,
²⁰to hear the groans of the prisoners^(BK)
    and release those condemned to death.”
²¹So the name of the Lord will be declared^(BL) in Zion
    and his praise^(BM) in Jerusalem
²²when the peoples and the kingdoms
    assemble to worship^(BN) the Lord.

²³In the course of my life^[c] he broke my strength;
    he cut short my days.^(BO)
²⁴So I said:
“Do not take me away, my God, in the midst of my days;
    your years go on^(BP) through all generations.
²⁵In the beginning^(BQ) you laid the foundations of the earth,
    and the heavens^(BR) are the work of your hands.^(BS)
²⁶They will perish,^(BT) but you remain;
    they will all wear out like a garment.
Like clothing you will change them
    and they will be discarded.
²⁷But you remain the same,^(BU)
    and your years will never end.^(BV)
²⁸The children of your servants^(BW) will live in your presence;
    their descendants^(BX) will be established before you.”

Footnotes

Psalm 100:3 Or and not we ourselves
Psalm 102:1 In Hebrew texts 102:1-28 is numbered 102:2-29.
Psalm 102:23 Or By his power

1 Corinthians 2

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2 And so it was with me, brothers and sisters. When I came to you, I did not come with eloquence or human wisdom^(A) as I proclaimed to you the testimony about God.^[a] ²For I resolved to know nothing while I was with you except Jesus Christ and him crucified.^(B) ³I came to you^(C) in weakness^(D) with great fear and trembling.^(E) ⁴My message and my preaching were not with wise and persuasive words,^(F) but with a demonstration of the Spirit’s power,^(G) ⁵so that your faith might not rest on human wisdom, but on God’s power.^(H)

God’s Wisdom Revealed by the Spirit

⁶We do, however, speak a message of wisdom among the mature,^(I) but not the wisdom of this age^(J) or of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing.^(K) ⁷No, we declare God’s wisdom, a mystery^(L) that has been hidden^(M) and that God destined for our glory before time began. ⁸None of the rulers of this age^(N) understood it, for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.^(O) ⁹However, as it is written:

“What no eye has seen,
what no ear has heard,
and what no human mind has conceived”^[b]—
the things God has prepared for those who love him—^(P)

¹⁰these are the things God has revealed^(Q) to us by his Spirit.^(R)

The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God. ¹¹For who knows a person’s thoughts^(S) except their own spirit^(T) within them? In the same way no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. ¹²What we have received is not the spirit^(U) of the world,^(V) but the Spirit who is from God, so that we may understand what God has freely given us. ¹³This is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom^(W) but in words taught by the Spirit, explaining spiritual realities with Spirit-taught words.^[c] ¹⁴The person without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God^(X) but considers them foolishness,^(Y) and cannot understand them because they are discerned only through the Spirit. ¹⁵The person with the Spirit^(Z) makes judgments about all things, but such a person is not subject to merely human judgments, ¹⁶for,

“Who has known the mind of the Lord
so as to instruct him?”^[d]^(AA)

But we have the mind of Christ.^(AB)

Footnotes

1 Corinthians 2:1 Some manuscripts proclaimed to you God’s mystery
1 Corinthians 2:9 Isaiah 64:4
1 Corinthians 2:13 Or Spirit, interpreting spiritual truths to those who are spiritual
1 Corinthians 2:16 Isaiah 40:13