Psalm 105

English Standard Version

Tell of All His Wondrous Works

105 ^(A)Oh give thanks to the Lord; ^(B)call upon his name;
    ^(C)make known his deeds among the peoples!
²Sing to him, sing praises to him;
    ^(D)tell of all his wondrous works!
³Glory in his holy name;
    let the hearts of those who seek the Lord rejoice!
⁴Seek the Lord and his ^(E)strength;
    ^(F)seek his presence continually!
⁵Remember the ^(G)wondrous works that he has done,
    his miracles, and ^(H)the judgments he uttered,
⁶O offspring of ^(I)Abraham, his servant,
    children of Jacob, his ^(J)chosen ones!

⁷He is the Lord our God;
    his ^(K)judgments are in all the earth.
⁸He ^(L)remembers his covenant forever,
    the word that he commanded, for ^(M)a thousand generations,
⁹^(N)the covenant that he made with Abraham,
    his ^(O)sworn promise to Isaac,
¹⁰which he confirmed to ^(P)Jacob as a statute,
    to Israel as an everlasting covenant,
¹¹saying, ^(Q)“To you I will give the land of Canaan
    as ^(R)your portion for an inheritance.”

¹²When they were ^(S)few in number,
    of little account, and ^(T)sojourners in it,
¹³wandering from nation to nation,
    from one kingdom to another people,
¹⁴he ^(U)allowed no one to oppress them;
    he ^(V)rebuked kings on their account,
¹⁵saying, ^(W)“Touch not my anointed ones,
    do my prophets no harm!”

¹⁶When he ^(X)summoned a famine on the land
    and ^(Y)broke all supply^[a] of bread,
¹⁷he had ^(Z)sent a man ahead of them,
    Joseph, who was ^(AA)sold as a slave.
¹⁸His ^(AB)feet were hurt with fetters;
    his neck was put in a collar of iron;
¹⁹until ^(AC)what he had said came to pass,
    the word of the Lord ^(AD)tested him.
²⁰^(AE)The king sent and ^(AF)released him;
    the ruler of the peoples set him free;
²¹he ^(AG)made him lord of his house
    and ruler of all his possessions,
²²to bind^[b] his princes at his pleasure
    and to teach his elders wisdom.

²³Then ^(AH)Israel came to Egypt;
    Jacob ^(AI)sojourned in ^(AJ)the land of Ham.
²⁴And the Lord ^(AK)made his people very fruitful
    and made them stronger than their foes.
²⁵He ^(AL)turned their hearts to hate his people,
    to ^(AM)deal craftily with his servants.

²⁶He ^(AN)sent Moses, his servant,
    and Aaron, ^(AO)whom he had chosen.
²⁷^(AP)They performed his signs among them
    and miracles in ^(AQ)the land of Ham.
²⁸He ^(AR)sent darkness, and made the land dark;
    they ^(AS)did not rebel^[c] against his words.
²⁹He turned their waters into blood
    and ^(AT)caused their fish to die.
³⁰Their land swarmed with frogs,
    even in ^(AU)the chambers of their kings.
³¹He spoke, and there came ^(AV)swarms of flies,
    ^(AW)and gnats throughout their country.
³²He gave them hail for rain,
    and fiery ^(AX)lightning bolts through their land.
³³He struck down their vines and fig trees,
    and ^(AY)shattered the trees of their country.
³⁴He spoke, and the ^(AZ)locusts came,
    young locusts without number,
³⁵which devoured all the vegetation in their land
    and ate up the fruit of their ground.
³⁶He ^(BA)struck down all the firstborn in their land,
    ^(BB)the firstfruits of all their strength.

³⁷Then he brought out Israel with ^(BC)silver and gold,
and there was none among his tribes who stumbled.
³⁸^(BD)Egypt was glad when they departed,
for ^(BE)dread of them had fallen upon it.

³⁹He ^(BF)spread a cloud for a covering,
    and fire to give light by night.
⁴⁰^(BG)They asked, and he ^(BH)brought quail,
    and gave them ^(BI)bread from heaven in abundance.
⁴¹He opened the rock, and ^(BJ)water gushed out;
    it flowed through ^(BK)the desert like a river.
⁴²For he ^(BL)remembered his holy promise,
    and ^(BM)Abraham, his servant.

⁴³So he brought his people out with joy,
    his ^(BN)chosen ones with ^(BO)singing.
⁴⁴And he ^(BP)gave them the lands of the nations,
    and they took possession of the fruit of the peoples' toil,
⁴⁵that they might ^(BQ)keep his statutes
    and ^(BR)observe his laws.
^(BS)Praise the Lord!

Footnotes

Psalm 105:16 Hebrew staff
Psalm 105:22 Septuagint, Syriac, Jerome instruct
Psalm 105:28 Septuagint, Syriac omit not

Ezekiel 32

English Standard Version

A Lament over Pharaoh and Egypt

32 ^(A)In the twelfth year, in the twelfth month, on the first day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me: ²^(B)“Son of man, ^(C)raise a lamentation over ^(D)Pharaoh king of Egypt and say to him:

“You consider yourself ^(E)a lion of the nations,
    but you are like ^(F)a dragon ^(G)in the seas;
^(H)you burst forth in your rivers,
    trouble the waters with your feet,
    and foul their rivers.
³Thus says the Lord God:
    ^(I)I will throw my net over you
    with a host of ^(J)many peoples,
    and ^(K)they will haul you up in my dragnet.
⁴And ^(L)I will cast you on the ground;
    on the open field I will fling you,
and will cause all the birds of the heavens to settle on you,
    and I will gorge the beasts of the whole earth with you.
⁵I will strew your flesh ^(M)upon the mountains
    and fill the valleys with your carcass.^[a]
⁶I will drench the land even to the mountains
    with your flowing blood,
    and the ravines will be full of you.
⁷^(N)When I blot you out, ^(O)I will cover the heavens
    and make their stars dark;
I will cover the sun with a cloud,
    and the moon shall not give its light.
⁸All the bright lights of heaven
    will I make dark over you,
    and ^(P)put darkness on your land,
declares the Lord God.

⁹“I will trouble the hearts of many peoples, when I bring your destruction among the nations, into the countries that you have not known. ¹⁰^(Q)I will make many peoples appalled at you, and the hair of their kings shall bristle with horror because of you, when ^(R)I brandish my sword before them. ^(S)They shall tremble every moment, every one for his own life, on the day of your downfall.

¹¹“For thus says the Lord God: ^(T)The sword of the king of Babylon shall come upon you. ¹²I will cause ^(U)your multitude to fall by the swords of mighty ones, all of them ^(V)most ruthless of nations.

^(W)“They shall bring to ruin the pride of Egypt,
    and all its multitude^[b] shall perish.
¹³I will destroy all its beasts
    from beside many waters;
^(X)and no foot of man shall trouble them anymore,
    nor shall the hoofs of beasts trouble them.
¹⁴Then ^(Y)I will make their waters clear,
    and cause their rivers to run like oil,
declares the Lord God.
¹⁵When I make the land of Egypt desolate,
    and when the land ^(Z)is desolate of all that fills it,
when I strike down all who dwell in it,
    then ^(AA)they will know that I am the Lord.

¹⁶^(AB)This is a lamentation that shall be chanted; the daughters of the nations shall chant it; over Egypt, and over ^(AC)all her multitude, shall they chant it, declares the Lord God.”

¹⁷^(AD)In the twelfth year, in the twelfth month,^[c] on the fifteenth day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me: ¹⁸^(AE)“Son of man, ^(AF)wail over ^(AG)the multitude of Egypt, and ^(AH)send them down, her and the daughters of majestic nations, ^(AI)to the world below, to those who have gone down to the pit:

¹⁹^(AJ)‘Whom do you surpass in beauty?
Go down and ^(AK)be laid to rest with the uncircumcised.’

²⁰They shall fall amid those ^(AL)who are slain by the sword. Egypt^[d] is delivered to the sword; drag her away, and ^(AM)all her multitudes. ²¹The mighty chiefs ^(AN)shall speak of them, ^(AO)with their helpers, out of the midst of Sheol: ‘They have come down, they lie still, ^(AP)the uncircumcised, ^(AQ)slain by the sword.’

²²^(AR)“Assyria is there, and all her company, ^(AS)its graves all around it, all of them slain, fallen by the sword, ²³whose graves are set in ^(AT)the uttermost parts of the pit; and her company is all around her grave, all of them slain, fallen by the sword, ^(AU)who spread terror ^(AV)in the land of the living.

²⁴^(AW)“Elam is ^(AX)there, and all her multitude around her grave; all of them ^(AY)slain, fallen by the sword, who went down uncircumcised into ^(AZ)the world below, who spread their terror in the land of the living; and ^(BA)they bear their shame ^(BB)with those who go down to the pit. ²⁵^(BC)They have made her a bed among the slain with all her multitude, ^(BD)her graves all around it, all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword; for terror of them was spread in the land of the living, and they bear their shame with those who go down to the pit; they are placed among the slain.

²⁶^(BE)“Meshech-Tubal is ^(BF)there, and all her multitude, ^(BG)her graves all around it, all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword; for they spread their terror in the land of the living. ²⁷And ^(BH)they do not lie with the mighty, the fallen from among the uncircumcised, who went down to Sheol with their weapons of war, whose swords were laid under their heads, and whose iniquities are upon their bones; for the terror of the mighty men was in the land of the living. ²⁸But as for you, you shall be broken ^(BI)and lie among the uncircumcised, with those who are slain by the sword.

²⁹^(BJ)“Edom is ^(BK)there, her kings and all her princes, who for all their might are laid with those who are killed by the sword; they lie with the uncircumcised, with those who go down to the pit.

³⁰“The princes ^(BL)of the north are there, all of them, and all the ^(BM)Sidonians, who have gone down in shame with the slain, ^(BN)for all the terror that they caused by their might; they lie uncircumcised with those who are slain by the sword, and ^(BO)bear their shame with those who go down to the pit.

³¹“When Pharaoh sees them, he ^(BP)will be comforted for ^(BQ)all his multitude, Pharaoh and all his army, slain by the sword, declares the Lord God. ³²^(BR)For I spread terror ^(BS)in the land of the living; and he shall be laid to rest among ^(BT)the uncircumcised, with those who are slain by the sword, Pharaoh and all his multitude, declares the Lord God.”

Footnotes

Ezekiel 32:5 Hebrew your height
Ezekiel 32:12 Or wealth
Ezekiel 32:17 Hebrew lacks in the twelfth month
Ezekiel 32:20 Hebrew She

Titus 2-3

English Standard Version

Teach Sound Doctrine

2 But as for you, teach what accords with ^(A)sound^[a] doctrine. ²Older men are to be sober-minded, dignified, self-controlled, ^(B)sound in faith, in love, and in steadfastness. ³^(C)Older women likewise are to be reverent in behavior, ^(D)not slanderers ^(E)or slaves to much wine. They are to teach what is good, ⁴and so train the young women to love their husbands and children, ⁵to be self-controlled, ^(F)pure, ^(G)working at home, kind, and ^(H)submissive to their own husbands, ^(I)that the word of God may not be reviled. ⁶Likewise, urge ^(J)the younger men to be self-controlled. ⁷Show yourself in all respects to be ^(K)a model of good works, and in your teaching ^(L)show integrity, ^(M)dignity, ⁸and ^(N)sound speech that cannot be condemned, ^(O)so that an opponent may be put to shame, having nothing evil to say about us. ⁹^(P)Bondservants^[b] are to be submissive to their own masters ^(Q)in everything; they are to be well-pleasing, not argumentative, ¹⁰not pilfering, ^(R)but showing all good faith, ^(S)so that in everything they may adorn the doctrine of God our Savior.

¹¹For ^(T)the grace of God ^(U)has appeared, bringing salvation ^(V)for all people, ¹²training us to renounce ungodliness and ^(W)worldly passions, and ^(X)to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives in ^(Y)the present age, ¹³^(Z)waiting for our blessed ^(AA)hope, the ^(AB)appearing of the glory of our great ^(AC)God and Savior Jesus Christ, ¹⁴^(AD)who gave himself for us to ^(AE)redeem us from all lawlessness and ^(AF)to purify for himself ^(AG)a people for his own possession who are ^(AH)zealous for good works.

¹⁵Declare these things; exhort and ^(AI)rebuke with all authority. ^(AJ)Let no one disregard you.

Be Ready for Every Good Work

3 Remind them ^(AK)to be submissive to rulers and authorities, ^(AL)to be obedient, to be ready for every good work, ²^(AM)to speak evil of no one, ^(AN)to avoid quarreling, to be gentle, and ^(AO)to show perfect courtesy toward all people. ³For ^(AP)we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, led astray, slaves to various passions and pleasures, passing our days in malice and envy, hated by others and hating one another. ⁴But when ^(AQ)the goodness and loving kindness of God our Savior appeared, ⁵he saved us, ^(AR)not because of works done by us in righteousness, but ^(AS)according to his own mercy, by ^(AT)the washing of regeneration and ^(AU)renewal of the Holy Spirit, ⁶whom he ^(AV)poured out on us richly through Jesus Christ our Savior, ⁷so that ^(AW)being justified by his grace we might become ^(AX)heirs ^(AY)according to the hope of eternal life. ⁸The saying is ^(AZ)trustworthy, and I want you to insist on these things, so that those who have believed in God may be careful ^(BA)to devote themselves to good works. These things are excellent and profitable for people. ⁹But ^(BB)avoid foolish ^(BC)controversies, ^(BD)genealogies, dissensions, and quarrels about the law, for ^(BE)they are unprofitable and worthless. ¹⁰As for a person who stirs up division, ^(BF)after warning him once and then twice, ^(BG)have nothing more to do with him, ¹¹knowing that such a person is warped and sinful; he is self-condemned.

Final Instructions and Greetings

¹²When I send Artemas or ^(BH)Tychicus to you, do your best to come to me ^(BI)at Nicopolis, for I have decided to spend the winter there. ¹³Do your best to speed Zenas the lawyer and ^(BJ)Apollos on their way; see that they lack nothing. ¹⁴And let our people learn ^(BK)to devote themselves to good works, so as to help cases of urgent need, and not ^(BL)be unfruitful.